"It was a wonderful experience interacting with you and appreciate the way you have planned and executed the whole publication process within the agreed timelines.”
Subrat SaurabhAuthor of Kuch Woh Pal
The Sunday Times: What impact will it have on the peace process? Does this mean the end of the Ceasefire Agreement?
Mr. Anton Balasingham: The European Union proscription will certainly have a negative impact on the peace process. The LTTE and the Government of Sri Lanka entered into the Ceasefire Agreement on the basis of strategic equilibrium and the peace negotiations resumed between the parties on the basis of parity and equal status. These symmetrical relations between negotiating parties (between a state and a liberation movement) will be seriously impaired when international governments who are active supporters and custodians of the peace process, decide to penalise one party as a terrorist outfit. This one-sided state biased action will certainly deepen asymmetrical relations between the protagonists to the advantage of the state actor, creating a serious obstacle to productive engagement.
The European ban will encourage the hard-line nationalist elements aligned to Rajapaksa Government to adopt a hard-line position on the Tamil question and embolden them to seek the military option to crush the LTTE. This situation might create conditions for the current conflict to escalate into an all-out war.
Kappiya Reading
KAPPIYA READING
Have a non-running day to save lives
83 - At a time when genocide was preceded by a series of armed struggles and armed struggles, everyone ordered themselves to prepare for a life of secrecy. The arrival of the LTTE, which exemplifies the best quality control and the war of life for all the movements fighting for the liberation of the world, mixed with the people in Growth 83 and aroused the masses to say that the LTTE is the people and that most of the people * will die for the soil. Having lost everything, I also vowed to die with my friends at the age of 11. None of my closest friends from preschool to university are alive. In military parlance, they disappeared. For the past 33 years the life of a displaced nomadic - migrant life has been a constant color behind me. I got used to living face to face with everything on the long path of life. Accustomed to disappearing, living lost, living dead,
I am in a position today where I have no strength or fear to lurk or live upright in this despicable life. The time when the boat came in the bloody tone of optimism that the Tamil community can do something to live in hope even if the body and mind are weak is dissolving. Many poems and essays were lost in the life that ran from 85 to today. Searching for magazines is also not possible. Magazine runners and collectors search only if they are alive. Wandering in search of what is in human beings struggling to survive. If the library and writings I have collected have dissolved in the heat and the funnel over time, on the one hand, the freedom of the press and the banning of writers and the burning of books by the chauvinist state continue to this day, how can I and my poetry escape? The only hope is that everything can be memorized and written down. I have told the people of Tamil Nadu about the life of the Eelam War and the daily oppression of the people by the chauvinist government in a hundred poems and stories.
I have recorded the Tamil perspective on diaspora life as a textual style, love poems, folklore collections, columns, grammatical lexicon epic, drama, fine art copies, nomadic travels, art road instructor, and progressive learner guest and public domain books. My wife Iniya also sows words in English about senior cultural travels and academic field transcendental technology. Imayakappiyan (6), the gifted son from Pukar Kandam to Madurai Kandam, has been a great help to us in the creative process.
-Tamizhdesan Imayakappiyan
