“What is the limit of IC’s appeasement with Colombo and what is the limit of IC in cheating Tamils,” asks Sri Navaratnam, on the 8th day of his hunger strike in Oslo, furious at the news of Colombo’s all out attack on Tamil civilians Monday night. “To facilitate the international community to deceive Tamils, Sri Lanka’s president Mahinda Rajapaksa on Monday announced the halt of the use of heavy weapons in the safety zone of more than 165,000 civilians. Everybody welcomed it as though killing the civilians by small weapons is acceptable. It was a joke, the UN begging ‘Sri Lanka must respect heavy weapons pledge’, as though they are prepared to act if Sri Lanka breaches it. Colombo, which was already aerial bombing the civilians started with intense barrage of heavy weapons Monday night”, he cited.
Last Friday, when the two Indian mandarins discussed war with Colombo, four days time was set to finish the war to an end, reliable sources in Colombo said.
Colombo wants to materialize it at whatever cost of Tamil civilians and whatever way of duping the international community, Tamil circles said.
However, Tamil circles are not convinced that it is exclusively an Indian agenda but they suspect an international agenda of every one included, behind the smokescreen of statement diplomacy.
The much-publicised visit of the Foreign Ministers of Britain France and Sweden being scheduled to Wednesday is cited as an evidence for the agenda – visit to participate in the ‘victory’ celebrations and to discuss ‘post-conflict’ manoeuvres.
John Holmes stay in Colombo is part of the game they say.
“UN and the IC, which were all this time accusing the LTTE for the human shield and for preventing the freedom of movement of the civilians were not there last Monday, to receive the civilians, take care of them, ask for their wish of the so-called freedom and to facilitate them with the freedom,” Sri Navaratnam said.
“The worst part of the IC’s deceit or perhaps IC’s revenge on Tamils for refusing to surrender their dignity is leaving the captured civilians, their dignity, security and freedom entirely in the hands of Colombo, like how they left the war entirely in the hands of the genocidal Colombo”, he added.
“Even at present there is no international arrangement to protect the civilians at the ‘capturing point’ while everyone in the IC ultimately wants the civilians to be captured by Colombo”, Navaratnam said.
The civilians captured last Monday and Tuesday were not fully registered in the camps. Only 16,000 in Vavuniyaa and 5,000 in Jaffna have so far been accounted for. Others are still suffering in the military zone, north of Oamanthai, according to civil officials who divulged the figures with much reluctance and on conditions on anonymity.
Many had to get into Vavuniyaa by stealth, sources in Vavuniyaa said.
The fate of the civilians who will be captured in the on going onslaught is going to be many times worse, they said.
The LTTE in the past proved itself much efficient in handling the same IDPs. But, the UN, IC and the Sinhala civil servants handling it now show only their pathetic incompetence, the Tamil officials in Vavuniyaa said.
The eagerness of Colombo, UN and IC is only to see the civilians separated from the LTTE. Their mind is not set for caring them with feeling, Tamil diaspora circles lamented.
If genocide of Tamils is what everybody wants and if the ‘victory’ has to be achieved at whatever cost of Tamil lives and dignity, better to tell it openly so that the Tamils will know where they stand, was the outburst of 51 years old Sri Navaratnam, father of two children, on hunger strike, demanding action from Norway and international community to save Tamils.
Deceiving will not make anyone free from being answerable one day, he said.
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