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  நந்திவர்மன் பொதுச்செயலாளர் திராவிடப்பேரவை

திராவிட மொழிகள் பற்றிப் பிற நாட்டார் ஆய்வுகள் செய்யத் தொடங்கி நூற்றாண்டுக்கு மேல் ஆகிவிட்டது. இந்த இடைப்பட்ட காலத்தில் நடந்தவவைகளைச் சற்றுத் திரும்பிப் பார்ப்போமாக!

 A Comparative Grammar of the Korean Language and the Dravidian Language of India என்ற நூல் 1905 ல் சியோல் நகரில் தி மெதடிசுடு பப்ளிசிங் அவுசு வெளியிட்ட நூலாகும். பி.ஒமர் அல்பர்ட்டு இந்நூலெழுதி நூற்றாண்டு ஆகிறது. திராவிட மொழிகளின் ஒப்பிலக்கணம் பற்றி மட்டுமே நாம் பேசிக்கொண்டிருக்கிறோம். கொரிய மொழிகளுக்கும் திராவிட மொழிகளுக்கும் ஒப்பிலக்கணம் உண்டு என உணர நூறாண்டு ஆகி விட்டது.

 The Genealogy of the Japanese Language: Tamil and Japanese என்ற தலைப்பில் “சப்பானிய மொழியின் மரபியல்: தமிழும் சப்பானியமும்” என்ற நூலெழுதிய சுசுமோ ஓனோ பற்றி நமது ஊடகங்களில் செய்தி வந்ததுண்டா? “சப்பானிய மொழி திராவிட மொழியே” என்று டாக்டர் பொற்கோ, நந்தன் (1998 சூலை) இதழில்தான் எழுத முடிந்தது. இதுபற்றி ஆங்கில ஏடுகள் ஏன் வெளியிடுவதில்லை? வெளியிடாத அந்த ஏடுகள் ஏன் தமிழின் பெருமைமிகு வரலாற்றை மறைக்கப் பார்க்கின்றன என நாம் எண்ணிப் பார்த்தோமா? அவற்றின் உள்நோக்கம் உணர்ந்த பிறகாவது நம்மிடமுள்ள தொலைக்காட்சி ஊடகங்களை உண்மையை வெளிக்கொணர நாம் பயன்படுத்தினோமா?

 திராவிட மொழிகள் பேசுவோர் 20 கோடியாகும். ஊரல் இன மொழிகளான அங்கேரியன் 1.40, ஃபின்னிசு 0.50, எசுதோனியன் 0.10, மார்த்வின் 0.30 என சுமார் 2 கோடி முப்பது லட்சம் பேராவர். அல்டாய்க் மொழிகளைப் பேசுவோர் பட்டியலில் துருக்கி 4.50, பிற துருக்கிய இன மொழிகள் 5.50, மங்கோலியன் 0.50, எனச் சுமார் 10 கோடியே ஐம்பது இலட்சம் பேருள்ளனர். சப்பானிய மொழி பேசுவோர் 12 கோடியும் கொரிய மொழி பேசுவோர் 6 கோடியும் உள்ளனர். பெருநாட்டில் கொசுவா மொழி பேசுவோர் 1.20 கோடியாவர். ஆக மிக நெருங்கிய ஒற்றுமை கொண்ட ஒட்டுநிலை மொழிகளை (Agglutinative Languages) பேசுவோர் 50 கோடிக்கும் மேலாவர். இம்மொழிகள் பற்றி வெளிவந்துள்ள நூற்களைச் சற்று எண்ணிப் பாருங்கள்.

 1. A Comparitive Grammar of the Dravidian: Languages: A Robert Caldwell (1856)2. Attinites Des Langues Dravidianness et des langues oural – Altaiques: C. Schoebel: 1873 3. Dravidisch and Uralisch in Zeitschrift fur Indologies and Iranistik: Oho Schrader (1925) 4. Dravidian studies IV : The body in Dravidian and Uralian: T. Burrow (1943-46) 5. Dravidian and Uralian: A Peep into the Prehistory of Language Families: Two lectures on the Historicity of Language Families: M Andronay (1968) அண்ணாமலைப் பல்கலைக்கழக வெளியீடு.6. Dravidian and Uralian : The Lexical Evidence (1968)7. The Dravido – Altaic Relationship: Some Views and Future Prospects (1987) (செக்கோசுலாவியா)8. Dravidian Linguistics an Introduction: V. Kamil Zvelebil (1990) புதுவை மொழியியல் பண்பாட்டு ஆராய்ச்சி நிறுவன வெளியீடு.9. 1000 Duraljan Etyma : An Extended study in the lexical similarities in the Major Agglunitative Languages (2000) பின்லாந்து10. Migration and Diffusion (வியன்னாவிலிருந்து வெளியான தொகுதி 1-3, சூலை செப்டம்பர் 2000) இதழில் பக்கங்கள் 62க்கம் 80க்கும் மிடையே பின்லாந்தின் உக்ரோ மொழி பேசுவோருக்கும் பாசுக்கு மொழி பேசுவோருக்கும் இடையே உள்ள ஒற்றுமைக் கூறுகள், கி.மு. 7000 அளவில் திராவிட மொழிகளுக்கும் சப்பானிய மொழிகளுக்கும் இடையே நிலவிய ஒற்றுமைப் பண்புகள் பற்றி பேராசிரியர் Bemon Zoigniew, Szalek எழுதியுள்ளனர்.

தமிழ்ச் சொற்கள்’ என்ற நூலில் இவை பதிவு செய்யப்பட்டுள்ளன. தமிழில் எழுதப்பட்ட இந்த நூலை எத்தனைத் தமிழாசிரியர்கள் வாங்கிப் படித்திருப்பர்? எத்தனை பேர் படித்ததை வகுப்பறைகளில் மாணாக்கர்களுக்குப் போதித்திருப்பர்? மாலை வேளைகளில் ஒலிப்பெருக்கி பிடிக்க வாய்ப்பு கிட்டும் போதெல்லாம் அரைத்த மாவை மீண்டும் அரைப்பது போல இளவயதில் மனப்பாடம் செய்த சில பாடல்களையே திரும்பத் திரும்பக் கூறுவதால்விளைந்த பயனென்னா? அதற்குப் பதில் தமிழில் உள்ள இதுபோன்ற நூலில் சொல்லப்பட்ட சில செய்திகளையாவது வெளியில் பரப்புரை செய்ய முன்வருவாராயின் உலக முதன்மொழி தமிழென்ற உண்மை ஒவ்வொரு தமிழனுள்ளத்திலும் பதியாதா? தமிழின் பெருமையை நிலைநாட்ட உலகெங்கிலும் எடுத்து வைக்கப்படும் வாதங்களை விடாமல் கூர்ந்து கவனித்துக் குறித்து வைத்துக் கொண்டு உரிய முறையில் பதிவு செய்பவர்கள் சிலர் உளர். அவர்களுள் பி. இராமநாதன் க.மு.ச.மு.தனியிடம் பெறுகிறார். ‘சிந்துவெளித் தொல் தமிழ் நாகரிகம்’ பற்றி தமிழிலும் A New Account of the History and Culture of the Tamils” என ஆங்கிலத்திலும் அவரெழுதிய நூல்களை திருநெல்வேலி தென்னிந்திய சைவ சித்தாந்த நூற்பதிப்புக் கழகம் வெளியிட்டுள்ளது. அவரை எத்தனை மேடைகளில் தமிழறிஞர்கள் ஏற்றி இருப்பார்கள்? நம்மால் முடியாத பணியை நம்மில் ஒருவன் ஆற்றுங்கால் உவந்து அவன் அறிவுழைப்பைப் போற்றும் அறவுணர்ச்சியும் தமிழார்வலர்களிடையே அற்றுப் போய்விட்டதா?

நம்மவர் சோம்பலை நன்குணர்ந்து பெருந்தமிழ் அறிஞர் இரா. மதிவாணன் நூல்களைப் படிக்காத சோம்பேறிகளும் உரித்த வாழைப்பழத்தை உண்பதுபோல எளிதாக எடுத்தாளட்டும் என தமிழைப் என தமிழைப் பற்றியும் தமிழ்ப்பண்பாடு பற்றியும் தகைசால் அறிஞர்கள் கூறியதை திரட்டி ஆங்கிலத்தில் Quotations on Tamil and Tamil Culture” என நூலாக்கியுள்ளார். இருமொழி அறிந்தோர் அதைத் தமிழாக்கலாமே! அன்றி புதுப்புது மேற்கொள்களைத் திரட்டி புது நூலியற்றலாமே! அதுவும் இயலாததாயின் மேற்கோளாகவாவது பயன்படுத்தி தமிழின் பெருமையை நிலை நாட்டலாமே! ‘கல்தோன்றி மண்«£ன்றாக் காலத்தே’ என்ற ஒரு வரியை மட்டும் ஆயிரமாண்டுகள் சொல்லிச் சொல்லித் தமிழின் பெருமையை விளக்கிக் கொண்டிருக்கப்போகிறோமா? புதிய அறிவியல் செய்திகள், ஆய்வுகள், அறிஞர் முடிவுகள் துணையோடு நம் தொன்மையை நிறுவத் துடிப்புடன் பாடாற்றாமல், சோம்பிக் கிடக்கும் தமிழறிஞர் தமிழின் அக புறப்பகைவர்களின் தமிழழிப்பு பணி தொடர்வதை வேடிக்கை பார்க்கப் போகிறார்களா?

செய்தித்தாள்களைப் படிக்கும் தமிழறிஞர்கள் தாங்கள் எழுதிய கட்டுரை வெளிவருமாயின் அதை மடுமே படிக்கும் இயல்பினராக உள்ளனர். தமிழுக்கு ஏற்றம் தரும் செய்திகளைப் படிப்பதுமில்லை. பரப்புவது மில்லை என்பது என் குற்றச்சாட்டு. எடுத்துக்காட்டாக ஒரு செய்தி.

பூம்புகார் அருகே 9500 ஆண்டுகளுக்கு முன் கடலில் மூழ்கிய நகரம்: விஞ்ஞானி தகவல்: – தினமணி டிசம்பர் 4 2002.

‘பெங்களூர் மிதிக் சொசைடியில் நடைபெற்ற 9500 ஆண்டுகளுக்கு முன்னர் கடலில் மூழ்கிய நகரம் என்ற கண்காட்சியில் கடலில் மூழ்கிய நகரங்கள் பற்றிய வீடியோ படம் காண்பிக்கப்பட்டது. இது தொடர்பான வீடியோ படத்தை எடுத்த கிரகாம் குக் கூறியதாவது:- கிறித்து பிறப்பதற்கு 7500 ஆண்டு முந்தைய நகரம் இதுவாகும். அதாவது 9500 ஆண்டுகளுக்கு முன்னர் ஏற்பட்ட கடல் கொந்தளிப்பில் இந்த நகரங்கள் மூழ்கின. பூம்புகாரும் குசராத்தின் காம்பேவும் அரப்பா, மொகஞ்சதரோ நாகரிகங்களை விடப் பழமையானவை ஆகும். கண்காட்சியில் ஒரு மணிநேரத்துக்கும் மேலாக பூம்புகார், காம்பே நகரங்கள் பற்றிய வீடியோ காட்சிகள் காண்பிக்கப்பட்டது. கடலுக்கடியில் சென்று எடுக்கப்பட்ட முக்கியமான வீடியோ படங்கள் அவை. இந்திய நிலவியல் விஞ்ஞானிகள் மீனவர்கள் உதவியுடன் எடுக்கப்பட்டது. கடலுக்கடியில் நகரங்களின் சுவடுகள் ஆங்காங்கே உள்ளது. ஏறக்குறைய பூம்புகார், காம்பே நகரங்கள் ஒரே காலத்தவை. இரண்டும் ஒரே காலத்தில் தான் கடலில் மூழ்கி இருக்க வேண்டும் என்று கிரகாம் குக் கருதுகிறார். வீடியோ படத்தில் மண் கல்லான கருவிகள், மனித எலும்புகள், வீட்டுச் சுவர்கள், பாத்திரங்கள், ஆபரணங்கள், வீட்டு முற்றங்கள் ஆகியவை காணப்படுகின்றன. பூம்புகார் அருகே மூழ்கிய நகரம் பற்றி எடுக்கப்பட்ட வீடியோ படத்தில் பெரிய குதிரை வடிவ பொம்மைகள் காணப்படுகின்றன. இதைப் பற்றி அறிய வந்ததும் விஞ்ஞானிகள் வியப்பில் மூழ்கிப் போயுள்ளனர். இதைப் பற்றி மேலும் ஆராய்ச்சி செய்தால் கூடுதல் விவரங்கள் கிடைக்கலாம் என்று விஞ்ஞானிகள் கூறுகின்றனர்”

இதை படித்தவர்கள் என்ன செய்தீர்கள்? கிரகாம் குக் பற்றி நமது மேடைகளில் பள்ளி வகுப்புகளில் நீங்கள் பேசினீர்களா? அறிவியல் அடிப்படையில் பூம்புகார் 9500 ஆண்டு பழமை வாய்ந்தது என்று மெய்ப்பிக்கப்பட்ட பின்னராவது ஈராயிரம் ஆண்டுக ள் ஈராயிரம் ஆண்டுகள் என அடிக்கடி நமது பழமை பற்றிப் பேசுவதை நிறுத்திவிட்டு பத்தாயிரமாண்டு நாகரிகம் படைத்தவர்கள் என்று பேசத் துவங்கினீர்களா? உங்கள் மூளை ஈராயிரமாண்டுகள் வரை மட்டுமே சிந்திக்கமா? உறைந்து போய் விட்டதா? புதிய உண்மை மெய்பிக்கப்பட்டவுடன் நமது பாட நூற்களில் எற்றப்பட்டிருக்க வேண்டாமா? காம்பே நகரம் கண்டுபிடிக்கவுடன் இந்தியாடுடே அட்டைப்படக்கட்டுரை வெளியிட்டது? பூம்புகார் பற்றிய உண்மைகள் வெளிவந்ததும் ஊடகங்கள் அதைப் பெரிதாக வெளியிடவில்லை. தமிழினம் பற்றிய அக்கறையுள்ள தொலைக்காட்சிகளுமில்லை.

தமிழறிஞர்கள் நடத்தும் சிற்றிதழ்களாவது பதிவு செய்ய வேண்டாமா? பூம்புகார் பற்றி மேலும் ஆய்வு தேவை என்று தமிழறிஞர்கள் குரல் எழுப்பியதுண்டா? சென்னையில் உள்ள தேசிய கடற்பொறியியல் ஆய்வு நிறுவனம் தானே இந்த ஆய்வில் ஈடுபட்டது? தமிழகத்தில் உள்ள அரசு அமைப்பு கடலில் மூழ்கிய தமிழக நகரங்களை, தமிழனின் பிறந்தகமாம் குமரிக் கண்டத்தை ஆய்வு செய்ய வேண்டும் என ஏன் எந்த அரசியல் கட்சியும் குரல் கொடுக்கவில்லை? நமது 40 நாடாளுமன்ற உறுப்பினர்கள் நடுவணரசை வற்புறுத்திப் பாராளுமன்றத்தில் கவன ஈர்ப்புத் தீர்மானங்கள் கொண்டு வந்திருக்க வேண்டாமா? அறிவியல் அடிப்படையில் நம் நாகரிகச் சிறப்பு அவனியில் மெய்ப்பிக்கப்பட மாற்றார் முன் மறுக்க வொண்ணாச்சான்றுகளை நிறுத்த ஏன் நாம் துடிப்பதில்லை?

கடற்கரை ஓரங்களில் மாறுதல் ஏற்படுவது இயற்கை இடையறாது நடத்தும் அழிவுச் செயல்களில் ஒன்றாகும்.

‘சோழர்களின் புகழ்பெற்ற பூம்புகார் துறைமுகம் தற்போது கடலுக்கடியில் உள்ளது. அதே சமயத்தில் முன்னொரு காலத்தில் கடற்கரையோரம் இருந்த சீர்காழி நகரம் தற்போது கடற்கரையிலிருந்து உள்ளடங்கி பல கி.மீ. துரத்தில் உள்ளது. இவை தமிழகக் கடற்கரையோரத்தில் ஏற்பட்ட கடல் மட்ட மாறுதல்களைப் பற்றிய வரலாற்று ஆதாரங்களாகும். தவிர இது தொடர்பாக பாரதிதாசன் பல்கலைக்கழகத்தில் உள்ள புவி அறிவியல் பள்ளியில் மேற்கொள்ளப்பட்ட ஆய்வும் பல புதிய தகவல்களைக் கொணர்ந்துள்ளது”

1) சென்னையிலிருந்து சத்தியவேடு வரை காணப்படும் கடலால் உருவாக்கப்பட்ட மணல் திட்டுக்கள்

2) நேராகப் பாயும் பாலாறு நதியில் செங்கல்பட்டுக்கு அருகில் காணப்படும் திடீர் வளைவு

3) கடலைச் சந்திக்காமல் திருவெண்ணை நல்லூர் அருகில் புதையுறம் மலட்டாறு

4) வேதாரணியம் பகுதியில் திருத்துரைப்பூண்டி வரை காணப்படும் கடலால் ஏற்படுத்தப்பட்ட மணல் திட்டுகள்

5) வைகை நதியில் காணப்படும் மூன்று கழிமுகங்கள்.

இத்தகவல்கள் பல ஆயிரம் ஆண்டுகளுக்கு முன்பு கடலானது சென்னை செங்கல்பட்டு, திருச்சி, மதுரை வரை பரவி இருந்தது என்பதைத் தௌ¤வாக விளக்குகிறது. தவிர தமிழகக் கடற்கரையோரம் காணப்படும் கோண்டுவானா பாறைகளும் (290 மில்லியன் வருடங்கள்), கிரிடேசியஸ் (Cretaceous) பாறைகளும் (70 மில்லியன் வருடங்கள்), டெர்சியரி (Tertiary) பாறைகளும் (7 மில்லியன் வருடங்கள்) மேற்கூறிய தகவல்களை உறுதி செய்வதோடு பல ஆண்டுகட்கு முன்பிருந்தே கடல் மட்டம் இப்பகுதியில் உயர்ந்தும் தாழ்ந்தும் இருந்து வந்துள்ளது. உறுதியாகிறது” என கடல்மட்ட மாறுதல்களும் தமிழகக் கடல் ஓரத்தின் எதிர்கால நிலையும் என்ற கட்டுரையில் திருச்சி பாரதிதாசன் பல்கலைக்கழக தொலையுணர்வு மைய இயக்குநர் பதிவு செய்துள்ளார். (தமிழக அறிவியல் பேரவை 3-வது கூட்டம் 1994 மலர்)

1) சுமார் 1.4 மில்லியன் ஆண்டுகளுக்கு முன்பு கடல் மதுரை வரை பரவி இருந்தது.

2) சுமார் 90,000 ஆண்டுகளுக்கு முன்பு சென்னை, புதுச்சேரி, வேதாரண்யம் பகுதிகள் கடலால் சூழப்பட்டிருந்தன.

3) சுமார் 65000 ஆண்டுகளுக்கு முன்பு கடல் மட்டம் தாழ்ந்தால் இந்தியாவும் இலங்கையும் சேர்ந்தன.

4) சுமார் 27000 ஆண்டுகளுக்கு முன் கடல் மட்டம் உயர்ந்ததால் இலங்கையும் இந்தியாவும் பிரிந்தன.

5) சுமார் 17000 ஆண்டுகளுக்கு முன்பு கடல் மட்டம் தாழ்ந்ததால் இலங்கையும் இந்தியாவும் சேர்ந்து பின் கடல் மட்டம் உயர்ந்ததால் மீண்டும் பிரிந்தன”

என்று சொல்லும் முனைவர் சோம. இராமசாமி கூற்றுப்படி “புவியமைப்பியல் வல்லுநர்களின் கூற்றுப்படி அண்டார்டிகா, கிரீன்லாந்து ஆசிய பகுதிகளில் உள்ள பனிப்பாறைகள் உருகி அதன்மூலம் கடல் உயர்ந்ததால் தாழ்வான கடற்கரையைக் கொண்டிருக்கும் தமிழகத்தின் பல கடலோரப் பகுதிகள் மூழ்கடிக்கப்படும்” என எச்சரிக்கிறார். இதுபற்றி ஆய்வுகளும் தேவை.

தமிழகக் கடற்கரையோரப் பாறைகள்-கோண்டுவானாய் பாறைகள் 290 மில்லியன் வருடம் பழைமை வாய்ந்தவை. இது அறிஞர் முடிவு. நம் கைவசமுள்ள மறுக்க முடியாத ஆதாரம். கல்தோன்றி மண்தோன்றாக் காலத்தே முன்தோன்றி மூத்தகுடி எனப்புறப்பொருள் வெண்பாப் பாடலை இலக்கியச் சான்றாகச் சொல்லும்போது உலகம் ஏற்க மறுக்கும். அறிவியல் சான்றாக நமது பாறைகளை அவர்கள் முன் நிறுத்துங்கள். வாயடைத்துப் போகும் ஆரியம்! நம் வரலாறு உலகில் நிலை நாட்டப்படும். கல்தோன்றி மண்தோன்றாக் காலத்தில் உதித்த தமிழர்களிடம் கல்லைப் பற்றிய கலைக்களஞ்சியம் இல்லை. ஆயின் என்சைக்ளோ பீடியா அப் ராக்சு அண்டு மினரல்சு என ஆங்கில மொழயில் கலைக்களஞ்சியம் உள்ளது. தமிழன் கல்லைப் பற்றிய கலைக்களஞ்சியத்தை உருவாக்க வேண்டாமா? அன்றி ஆங்கிலக் கலைக்களஞ்சியத்திலாவது பழமைமிகு தமிழகப் பாறைகள் பற்றிய உண்மைச் செய்திகளைச் சேர்க்க உழைக்க வேண்டாமா? தமிழ்க்குடியின் தொன்மை உலக அளவில் நிலைநாட்ட ஒரு சிறு துரும்பும் யார் ஆண்டாலும் தமிழகத்தில் அசைக்கப்படுவதில்லையே ஏன்?

 பசுமைக்குடில் தாக்கம், பனிப்பாறை உருகுதல் இவற்றால் கடல் மட்டம் உயர்வது மட்டுமல்ல கடல் அலைகள் கொந்தளிப்பு எழுந்து பேரலையாகி நகரங்களை விழுங்கும் செயலை Tsunami என ஆங்கிலத்தில் சொல்கிறார்கள். சப்பானிய தீவுக்கூட்டங்களிலும் ஆசுதிரேலியத் தீவுக்கூட்டங்களிலும் ‘சுநாமி கண்காணிப்பு மையங்கள்’ ஏற்படுத்தப்பட்டு கடல் கண்காணிப்படுகிறது. இதுபற்றி நேஷனல் ஜியாக்கிரபிக் சேனல் பல செய்திகளை வெளிக்கொணர்கிறது. தமிழகக் கடற்கரைகள் ஆய்வுக்கு உட்படுத்தப்படுவதில்லை. பிறநாடுகளில் நடக்கும் அறிவியல் செய்திகளை தமிழ் மக்களுக்குச் சொல்ல, தமிழில் சொல்ல ஒரு தொலைக்காட்சி அலைவரிசை வேண்டாமா? வரலாற்றுணர்வில்லாத தமிழர்களுக்கு உணர்வு ஊட்ட வரலாற்று அலைவரிசை தொடங்க உலகத் தமிழர் ஒருவர்கூட முன் வராதது ஏன்? தமிழக, புதுவை அரசுகளாவது முனைய வேண்டாமா?

 இலங்கையும் தமிழகமும் அடிக்கடி இணைந்து பிரிந்ததால் பாக் நீரிணைப்பகுதியில் கடலடியில் மணல்திட்டுகள் காணப்படுகின்றன. அதை அனுமன் கட்டிய பாலமென நம்மை முட்டாளாக்க நடந்த முயற்சியை முறியடிக்க அறிவியல் உண்மைகளை முன்நிறுத்தும் ஆற்றலை தமிழ்ச்சமுதாயம் பெற வேண்டாமா?

  புதுவை கடலால் சூழப்பட்டிருந்தது மெய்ப்பிக்கப்பட்ட நிலையில் புதுவையை ஓட்டியுள்ள கடலடியில் National Institute of Oceano-Graphy மூலமும் பூம்புகாரை கண்டெடுத்த கிரகாம் குக் மூலமும் ஆய்வு நடத்த வேண்டியது புதுவை அரசின் கடமையாகும். தமிழகமாளும் அரசுகளையும் அவற்றின் குரலை மதிக்காத, நடுவணரசையும், குமரிக்கண்ட ஆய்வு நிகழ்த்துமாறு செய்விக்க வேண்டியது நம் அனைவரின் கடமையாகும்.

 

PLEA TO HILLARY CLINTON TO SUPPORT TAMIL EELAM

Ms. Hillary Clinton

Secretary of State, Government of USA

2201 C Street NW Washington DC 20520

Respected Secretary of State Ms. Hillary Rodham Clinton

We, Indian Tamils are thankful for your and your Government’s sympathies to the plight of the Internally Displaced Persons in Srilanka. But we are sad that Governments of the World are not comparing the Tamil genocide with the Jewish Genocide of last century. The irony is Jews who were persecuted in last century are not expressing solidarity with Tamils in this century, may be present generation had forgotten their past.

We all know the genocide of Jews during Second World War. Scholars opine that “The murder of the European Jews in the Second World War was unique. Never before did a state decide to kill a specific group of humans — including old people, women, and children — without any reservation or examination of the individual case, and enact this murder with the means of State power.” — Eberhard Jäckel, German Historian and Director of the Institute for Contemporary History, University of Stuttgart.

But the irony is before our eyes, in our own times, while leaders like you are in seats of power, not a dictator like Adolf Hitler with a massive war machine, but a tiny island’s sadistic President Rajapakshe, who could come to his senses if strong signals are sent remains determined to carry out his genocidal civil war to the finish. We thank you for talking to him, but the speed with which USA acted in Pakistan recently is unfortunately missing with regards to your Governments initiatives to stall the civil war and stop the Genocide of Tamils in Srilanka.

We read that the Srilankan President assured you of some all party conference as panacea not to end civil war, but to offer some power to Tamils of Eelam. We wish to bring to your kind attention on how many initiatives of past, how many pacts, how many packages, how many conferences were offered but ultimately none was fulfilled, because it had been the mindset of all Sinhalese parties in power, not to grant any power or autonomy or peaceful coexistence formula to Tamil population.

We want USA and the Nations of the World to offer Tamils the same panacea offered to Jews in last century. The modern state of Israel has its roots in the Biblical Land of Israel and the heartland of the ancient kingdoms of Israel and Judah. The only living classical language on Earth still spoken by millions and millions of Tamil people living across continents has in its Literature evidences in plenty about the Tamil rule and Tamil habitation of current Srilanka much before the so called Sinhalese set their foot there. If Biblical Land could be freed, why not Tamils land is freed?

This question haunts every Tamil heart which pleads silently to leaders like you to understand the similarities.

The birth of Zionism in 1897, its acceptance by the British Balfour Declaration followed by the League of Nations adopting the British Mandate of Palestine after World War I, which was “in favor of the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, it being clearly understood that nothing should be done which might prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine…

The birth of Tamilism dates back to 2500 years when Tamil grammarian enunciated a rule to keep pure Tamil letters only among Tamil alphabets. Since then various struggles to preserve Tamil language, culture, and religion had been waged. In Independent India when Hindi was to be imposed as sole official language Tamilnadu, an Indian State waged a fierce battle to stop making India uniform in the name of ushering unity. India realized its folly after Tamil martyrs committed self immolations, thus yielded to democratic protests and made English continue as official language.

Much before Tamilnadu, the Tamils of Eelam fought for Tamil language. Until 1956 Tamil and Sinhalese enjoyed equal rights, which was deprived by the Official Languages Act of 1956. We all know that in Latin America many official languages are there, not one language is imposed. In Europe too many nations have multiple official languages. In Singapore and Malaysia that progressed well in post colonial era, Tamil is one of the official languages. Thus the main reason for conflict remains solved in all these nations. But Srilanka with whatever amendments brought till date had not accorded equal status to Tamils. UNESCO recognized worlds endangered languages and assists the preservation or revival of languages under threat. Tamil is the only living classical language in the world spoken by millions of people, and to preserve this language demanding equal official language status in whole of Srilanka is not an unpardonable crime. We in India too are fighting for such status, and our states with truncated powers under our Constitution have yet to succeed in obtaining this right from Indian Union. This only reason could be enough to declare that any Indian model of devolution of powers will not meet the demands of Eelam Tamils. India has 14 languages and may find it difficult to resolve the issue, but with only 2 languages Srilanka could resolve but never wants to solve the thorny language issue.

In 1947, following years of communal strife, the United Nations voted to partition Palestine into two states, one Jewish and one Arab; partition was accepted by Zionist leaders but rejected by Arab leaders. We Indian Tamils and Tamils forced by genocide in Srilanka who had to become global citizens living in many countries, want the United Nations Security Council to follow the same precedent and vote for partitioning of Srilanka.

In the telephonic talk you had with war mongering President of Srilanka, media reported that he had assured you that through all party conference, Tamil conflict will be resolved.

1. You may not be aware that before militancy reared its head Tamils were peacefully demanding their rights under the leadership of Gandhi of Eelam S.J.V.Selvanayagam.

In July 1957 a pact to resolve the grievances of Tamils was signed between Srilankan Prime Minister Mr.S.W.R.D.Bandaranaike and Leader of the Federal Party Mr.S.J.V.Selvanayagam. Please note that the Tamils party was called Federal Party. If only Srilanka had agreed for a federal set up in 1957, fifty two years ago, current civil war or the militant movement would not have had their inception. But to force Tamils accept such a federal set up now will be historical blunder. Changed circumstances warrant granting of independence to Tamils and partitioning of Srilanka. This pact, due to opposition of Sinhalese parties was abrogated in 1958.

2. In March 1965 then Prime Minister of Srilanka Mr.Dudley Senanaike entered into a pact with Federal Party Leader Mr.S.J.V.Selvanayagam. Though the United National Party of the Prime Minister had coalition with Federal Party, the Government did not implement the pact. In law there is a doctrine of estoppels, which means though not, given in writing promises made by governments are implementable. Numerous judgments in Indian Courts are based on this doctrine.

3. You, and other leaders of the nations, believe that through democratic maneuvers all demands of Tamils could be met now, but conveniently forget how the Federal Party of Tamils presented a model Federal Constitution to the Constituent Assembly in 1972. This model draft was rejected by the Steering Committee of the Constituent Assembly. The demands of Tamils presented through democratic process had always been rejected. America remains champion for the cause of democracy in letter and not in spirit, which should undergo radical transformation under President Barrack H.Obama’s administration, we all hope. In Myanmar, the democratically elected Ms.Aung San Suu Kyi gets lip-service in support and noble awards but military rule thrives, where have the democrats of the world gone? In Srilanka a dictator subverts democracy by offering cabinet posts to 118 members of the 224 members supporting him, and world does not eyen raise their eyelid at this perverted democracy? Buy everybody and call democracy a purchasable product, Mr.Mahinda Rajapakshe shamelessly will declare, and how can the world be hoodwinked by such acts? How can nations that swear by democracy say we will protect the unitary structure of Srilanka, when over the catacomb of democracy a tin pot dictator carries out his genocide of Tamils and builds his castle of lies?

4. If the historical lesson of successive Srilankan Governments going back on promises made and pacts reached with Tamils is not enough to tell you not to expect any panacea from Srilanka to heal the wounds of Tamils, then our party had to remind Democratic Party and its Government about the fate of Annexure C proposals mooted by Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1983. This peace proposal drafted by Indira Gandhi’s special emissary Mr.G.Parthsarathy was to be the basis of deliberations in All Party Conference. Then Srilankan President Mr.J.R.Jayawardene disclaimed obligation to abide by it. Current Srilankan President Mr.Mahinda Rajapakshe offers you to place Tamils demand before all party conference, and media reports suggest that he had convinced your administration. The Tamil cause and the bravery of the freedom fighters falsely branded as terrorists had not been explained properly in international arena; hence these historical facts about aborted pacts remain hidden from all of your minds.

5. There are numerous papers from which line by line and word by word we can puncture the arguments in favor of another All Party Conference, a futile exercise to hoodwink USA  was mooted in talks with you. The Report of the Working Group of Officials and Experts to the Committee of the All party Conference in August 1984, The Presidents Report to the Plenary session of the All Party Conference in September 1984 and the Statement by the then Srilankan President and Chairman of the All Party Conference in its plenary session of December 1984 could be examined by USA State Department on what all had been offered and what was withdrawn. Current President of Srilanka Mr.Mahinda Rajapakshe only offers old wine in new bottle. Though literally speaking old wine will be tasty, here new poison in new bottle with old sticker of all party conference is proposed to be offered by Mr.Rajapakshe, we Indian Tamils caution your administration. The District and Provincial Council Bill, a draft bill was adopted at the 1984 All Party Conference. But President J.R.Jayawardene ended the deliberations inconclusively.

6. India once again made an abortive attempt to resolve the crisis. In July 1985, Government of India convened Thimpu Talks in Bhutan. Government of Srilanka, Tamil United Liberation Front, Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization, PLOTE, EROS and EPRLF participated in the talks. The Srilankan document of 1984 regarding District and Provincial Councils was tabled. All Tamil groups rejected this offer on 13^th July 1985. Tamils said “We have demanded and struggled for an independent Tamil State as answer to the problem of denial of basis and fundamental rights to our people. We urge that a] Tamils of Srilanka should be recognized as distinct nationality. b] The guarantee to our territorial integrity of our Tamil homeland c] the inalienable right of self determination of Tamils is recognized d] the full citizenship rights, democratic rights, fundamental rights of Tamils should be recognized. Based on these cardinal principles if a conflict resolution formula is envisaged, Tamil parties expressed willingness to consider it. Srilanka was adamant, Thimpu talks mediated by India failed. But both India and Srilanka discussed and discussed, without involving aggrieved party namely Tamils and a Draft Framework of Terms of Accord and Understanding was submitted to Srilankan President J.R.Jayawardene by India. The Srilankan President should have placed this document for Cabinet approval, which he failed to do wantonly, therefore resulting in it becoming lapsed.

7. TULF, the Tamil moderate party presented a memorandum to Indian Prime Minister Mr.Rajiv Gandhi in December 1985. Srilankan Government submitted its response to these proposals in January 1986. Herein comes the Chidambaram proposals mooted by current Indian Minister of Home Affairs. A delegation of Indian Government led by Mr.P.Chidambaram discussed with Srilankan Government and Tamil parties, and based on these discussions Srilankan Government sent its proposals to Government of India. The Draft Amendment to the Constitution of Srilanka based on Chidambaram proposals emerged in September 1986. Then Indian Prime Minister Mr.Rajiv Gandhi and Srilankan President Mr.J.R.Jayawardane met in Indian city of Bangalore on 18^th November 1986, and a working paper based on their discussions emerged. Srilankan Government submitted its response to this working paper on 26^th November 1986.All these discussions led to the Indo-Srilanka Agreement for peace and normalcy in Srilanka of July 1987. India pursued two pronged strategy. It provided military support and training to Tamil militant organizations, while bringing pressure through international community. Government of India sent Indian Peace Keeping Force to implement this accord.  As per this accord the North and Eastern Provinces, traditional Tamil homeland colonized by Sinhalese, was to be merged into single province and a referendum to confirm merger should take place before 1988 December. The much dreaded monster, a phobia created by Srilanka and Osama Bin Laden obsessed Western countries, LTTE agreed to hand over arms and started handing over arms to Indian Peace Keeping Force. As per the accord Government of Srilanka should grant general amnesty to “political prisoners and others now held in custody under the Prevention of Terrorism Act and other Emergency Laws, and to combatants as well as accused, charged or convicted under these laws.” If only Srilanka had granted this general amnesty without putting spokes in the wheel, the LTTE would have become a democratic political party. Srilanka withheld amnesty to 1250 Tamil political prisoners, and LTTE suspended the surrender of arms.

8. Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of Srilanka brought out in November 1987 resulted in setting up of Provincial Councils for first time. Then also the grievances remained. Tamil political parties ACTC, DPLF, ENDLF and TELO submitted proposals to the Drafting Committee of the All Party Conference in 1990. Then the Thondaman proposals formulated by CWC, proposals by Liberal Party were all presented but these exercises before Constitutional Reform Committee ended without serving any purpose. The Up Country People’s Front submitted its proposals to the Parliamentary Select Committee on Constitutional Reforms. So you and your Government must take note of the various initiatives not only by Tamil political parties but Sinhalese also were derailed in these exercises in futility. Then Respected Secretary of State, we cannot hope for any result through the All Party Conference idea mooted to you by current Srilankan President Mr.Mahinda Rajapakshe. His predecessors in past were buying time to tire out Tamils and ultimately to eliminate Tamils from their soil, hence these conferences to hoodwink the world. Only a nincompoop will accept the offers made by Mr.Rajapakshe, who thinks he can fool the whole world with verbal gymnastics.

9. Presidential candidate Mr.Gamini Dissanayake announced Peace Proposals but he was assassinated, and his party abandoned the proposals in 1996. Your Government must ask the CIA or FBI to refresh your memory on the political assassinations in Srilanka, assassinations of media men in Srilanka, in all such compiled facts the accusing finger will not point towards LTTE but towards Sinhalese leaders themselves. Are these leaders peace loving people, they alone are terrorists, and as tit for tat if someone  had got a hit from Tamil side, that should be viewed in the overall political arena and the players in that area, who are no paragons of virtue. To blame freedom fighters of all sins under the sun, the rest of the world with conscience should not hide the criminality of people in power.

10. The story is not over yet. Srilankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga’s devolution proposals of 1995.The first round of talks between Prime Minister of Srilanka’s delegation and Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam held on 13^th October 1995. But Prime Minister Chandrika Kumaratunga who was for peace won the Presidential election in November, made her mindset change from solving the issue to appeasing the Sinhalese majaority.

These are in short the past initiatives of Indian Prime Ministers, Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi which failed to yield peace in Srilanka. The Indo Srilankan Accord of 1897 and Basics Ideas of Chandrika Kumaratunga which resulted in 13^th Amendment to the Srilankan constitution were two initiatives which offered few sops, but other initiatives were total disasters. In the light of these historical facts, we would urge the US Administration not to buy the suggestion of All Party Conference mooted by Srilankan President Mr.Mahinda Rajapakshe.

United States must take up the initiative in the Security Council to send UN Peace Keeping Force. United States of America must exert diplomatic pressure on China which is constructing a harbor in Southern tip of Srilanka in Hampantotta in order to control the sea lanes of Indian Ocean, not to be blinded by geo political interests and forget the noble goals of United Nations and Universal Laws to stop the Genocide.

Dravida Peravai, a political party from India, who is in the mailing list of Democratic Party even before who the winner is in the candidature of Presidency, urges you and the winner President Barrack H.Obama to exert strong pressure on Srilanka to stop genocide or force economic blockade on Srilanka.

 

With Regards

Yours fraternally

N.Nandhivarman

General Secretary

www.dravidaperavai.org.in

 

 

 

PRESIDENT OBAMA URGED TO DECLARE SRILANKA AS TERRORIST STATE

President Mr.Barack H.Obama                                                              19^th Feb.2009

The White House

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW

Washington DC 20520

Copy to : Secretary of State Ms.Hillary Rodham Clinton

Respected President

Respected Secretary of State

KARAIKAL UNION TERRITORY STRUGGLE GROUP, from India urges the President of United States of America Mr.Barack.H.Obama to declare Srilanka as terrorist state. Srilankan state sponsors terrorism against its own Tamil civilian population, which they claim as fight against freedom fighters and its own journalists, opposition leaders and even their kinsmen with conscience for human dignity.

But in no way Srilanka can justify its terrorist attacks on Indian Tamil fishermen. Our fishermen over centuries have been pursuing their professional pursuits like free birds, and these Indian Tamils are at the receiving end of Srilankan State sponsored terrorism in mid-seas pursuing their genocide beyond borders. This is cross border terrorism.

We all know that “State Sponsors of Terrorism” is a designation applied by the United States Department of State to nations who are designated by the Secretary of State “to have repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism.

The list began on December 29, 1979 with Libya, Iraq, South Yemen, Syria and Pakistan and now only first 4 are in current list, excluding Pakistan.

The sanctions which the US imposes on countries on the list are: State Sponsors of Terrorism Countries determined by the Secretary of State to have repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism are designated pursuant to three laws: section 6(j) of the Export Administration Act, section 40 of the Arms Export Control Act, and section 620A of the Foreign Assistance Act. Taken together, the four main categories of sanctions resulting from designation under these authorities include restrictions on U.S. foreign assistance; a ban on defense exports and sales; certain controls over exports of dual use items; and miscellaneous financial and other restrictions.

Designation under the above-referenced authorities also implicates other sanctions laws that penalize persons and countries engaging in certain trade with state sponsors.

Currently there are four countries designated under these authorities: Cuba, Iran, Sudan and Syria. The dates of declaration given in the list. Cuba March 1, 1982, Iran  January 19, 1984, Sudan,  August 12, 1993, Syria  December 29, 1979.

On Feb 7 of 2009 : The spokesman for India’s ruling Congress party  Mr.Manish Tiwari  called on the international community to consider declaring Pakistan a terrorist state in the wake of the release of Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan. “The world should now think whether to declare Pakistan a terrorist state,” Manish Tewari, the party’s spokesman, said in New Delhi. By linking his call to the release of Dr A. Q. Khan, the spokesman ensured that his words were not missed during next week’s visit to the region by US special representative Richard Holbrooke.“Pakistan is not only exporting terrorism, but also posing danger by allowing nuclear weapons to fall into the hands of terrorists,” Mr Tewari told journalists. In separate comments, Gen Deepak Kapoor, the chief of the Indian Army, said the “terror infrastructure in Pakistan is existing and active”.

Braving chilly winter, agitated Indian Americans gathered in front of the UN headquarters in mid-town Manhattan recently to demand the world body declare Pakistan a terrorist state. Raising anti-Pakistan slogans and displaying banners and placards denouncing the Mumbai terror outrage, Indian Americans alleged that almost all the major terrorists attacks of the world in recent years have their bases in Pakistan. As such it was high time the United Nations, the powerful Security Council in particular, take measure to declare it as a terrorist state. The peaceful demonstration, which lasted for about two hours, was organized by Overseas Friends of BJP (OFBJP). “Pakistan should immediately be declared as a terrorist State,” said Rajesh Shukla of the OFBJP. In a memorandum submitted to the Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, the OFBJP urged him to take necessary action to ensure that terrorists from Pakistan do not strike again. “We urge the Security Council to immediately pass a resolution in this regard,” the memorandum said.

Taking cue from the initiatives of both the ruling party and opposition party of India, we are now raising the demand to declare Srilankan state as terrorist state by USA  and UN and urge the leadership of USA to use its clout in Security Council to impose sanctions on Srilankan Government. The public interview of Srilankan President Mahinda Rajapakshe that he will defy UN and UN has no locus standi to intervene in Srilanka, while it executes Tamils, annihilates Tamils, engage number plate-less white van attacks on its adversaries and media men in broad daylight amidst high security zones, proves that Srilanka is a Terrorist State and need to be branded so by USA and UN with imposition of sanctions.

We urge The USA President Mr.Barack H.Obama, whom 21^st century sees not only a leader of a biggest democracy but a new hope, a redeemer, a savior of all oppressed, racially discriminated people in the world, where Tamils are the target of this century like Jews were the targets in 20^th century, to declare Srilanka as terrorist state and impose sanction like the ones relevant in USA.

1. A ban on arms-related exports and sales.

2. Controls over exports of dual-use items, requiring 30-day Congressional notification for goods or services that could significantly enhance the terrorist-list country’s military capability or ability to support terrorism.

3. Prohibitions on economic assistance.

4. Imposition of miscellaneous financial and other restrictions, including:

Requiring the United States to oppose loans by the World Bank and other international financial institutions; Lifting diplomatic immunity to allow families of terrorist victims to file civil lawsuits in U.S. courts; Denying companies and individuals tax credits for income earned in terrorist-listed countries; Denial of duty-free treatment of goods exported to the United States; Authority to prohibit any U.S. citizen from engaging in a financial transaction with a terrorist-list government without a Treasury Department license; and Prohibition of Defense Department contracts above $100,000 with companies controlled by terrorist-list states are actions, which in whole or anyone appropriate should be imposed on Srilanka, particularly USA must stop Israel and Pakistan supplying arms to Srilankan army and through UN urge other nations including China to stop arms supply to the killer squads called army of Srilanka.

We have been urging Indian Government to sue the Srilankan Government in the International Court of Justice.  Only States are eligible to appear before the Court in contentious cases.  At present, this basically means the 192 United Nations Member States.  We are aware that  The Court has no jurisdiction to deal with applications from individuals, non-governmental organizations, corporations or any other private entity. However, a State may take up the case of one of its nationals and invoke against another State the wrongs which its national claims to have suffered at the hands of the latter; the dispute then becomes one between States. We are urging India to take the Katcha Theevu maritime boundary dispute to International Court of Justice.

Judgments delivered by the Court (or by one of its Chambers) in disputes between States are binding upon the parties concerned.  Article 94 of the United Nations Charter lays down that “each Member of the United Nations undertakes to comply with the decision of [the Court] in any case to which it is a party”. Judgments are final and without appeal.  If either of the parties challenges their scope or meaning, it has the option to request an interpretation.  In the event of the discovery of a fact hitherto unknown to the Court which might be a decisive factor, either party may apply for revision of the judgment. As regards advisory opinions, it is usually for the United Nations organs and specialized agencies requesting them to give effect to them or not by whatever means are appropriate for them.

Only States are eligible to appear before the Court in contentious cases.  At present, this basically means the 192 United Nations Member States. The Court has no jurisdiction to deal with applications from individuals, non-governmental organizations, corporations or any other private entity.  It cannot provide them with legal counseling or help them in their dealings with the authorities of any State whatever.

However, a State may take up the case of one of its nationals and invoke against another State the wrongs which its national claims to have suffered at the hands of the latter;  the dispute then becomes one between States.

Judgments delivered by the Court (or by one of its Chambers) in disputes between States are binding upon the parties concerned.  Article 94 of the United Nations Charter lays down that “each Member of the United Nations undertakes to comply with the decision of [the Court] in any case to which it is a party”. Judgments are final and without appeal.  If either of the parties challenges their scope or meaning, it has the option to request an interpretation.  In the event of the discovery of a fact hitherto unknown to the Court which might be a decisive factor, either party may apply for revision of the judgment. As regards advisory opinions, it is usually for the United Nations organs and specialized agencies requesting them to give effect to them or not by whatever means are appropriate for them.

 We bring to the notice of Indian Government about some of the recent cases before the International Court of Justice such as Maritime Delimitation in the Black Sea (Romania v. Ukraine) – Judgment of 3 February 2009. 18/12/2008 – Territorial and Maritime Dispute (Nicaragua v. Colombia)

Though with regards to maritime dispute we can urge Indian Government, for the Srilankan State sponsored attacks on Indian Tamils in international waters, we have to urge only the Members of the Security Council and UNO to brand Srilanka as terrorist state and to impose sanctions on it for violating UN directives.

Indian political parties in power in the State of Tamilnadu again and again raised the issue of Indian Tamils right to living and fishing. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi  asked  then Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, to take up with the Sri Lankan authorities the issue of hardships faced by Indian fishermen in enjoying their traditional fishing rights in the waters around Katcha Theevu Island, The Hindu, newspaper report said. In his meeting with the Prime Minister Mr.Karunanidhi said Indian fishermen had the right to fish in the waters around Katcha Theevu Island as per the Indira Gandhi-Srimavo Bandaranaiake settlement of 1974. 

Monday, 21 July 2008  Inaugurating a fast against killing of Tamil fishermen by the Sri Lankan Navy, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi said on Saturday that Katchatheevu was ceded to Sri Lanka, brushing aside the objection raised by the DMK government in 1974, as reported by The Hindu. Mr. Karunanidhi said though the 1974 agreement between India and Sri Lanka included the rights of the Tamil fishermen to fish in and around Katcha theevu, to pray in the church and to dry the nets, they were taken away when the Emergency was declared in the country. After the DMK government was dismissed, correspondence between Sri Lanka and India led to the rights of Tamil fishermen being deprived in 1976. 

In Indian State of Tamilnadu Opposition leader and AIADMK General Secretary J Jayalalithaa had  moved the Supreme Court to retrieve the Katchatheevu Islet from Sri Lanka. The killing of Tamil fishermen, allegedly by the Lankan Navy, on July 9 and 12 had set off a wave of protests in the coastal districts coupled with the demand to retrieve the islet which witnessed a number of shootings at fishermen from the state as well. According to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, territorial waters means the area from the baseline on the coast to 12 nautical miles into the sea, Jayalalithaa said, adding that as per this definition, the 285-acre, uninhabited Katchatheevu islet, lying at a distance of 11 nautical miles from Ramanathapuram, fell within Indian waters.

Sept 12 2008 Sri Lankan Foreign Affairs Minister Rohitha Bogollagama has said “Katchatheevu is a matter settled. As settled as much as Matara in the south of Sri Lanka to Sri Lanka. That’s how Sri Lanka views Katchatheevu. There is no issue. The fact that Katchatheevu is there in the northern part of Sri Lanka doesn’t mean anything. It is as much as a part of Sri Lanka in every sense of the word, so there is no further discussion needed on that.”

The ruling party of Tamilnadu and Opposition leader of Tamilnadu, a state in Indian Union have voiced concern and are trying to secure the fishing rights of Indian Tamils through representations to Indian Government and Supreme Court of India. These actions apart a reply given by the Indian Government to Indian Member of Parliament Mr. D.Raja National Secretary Communist Party of India, as told by him on January 8^th January of 2008 reveals that Indian Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar had written to him stating that as per the agreement the Indian fishermen can only dry their nets and offer prayers at the St Antony’s church in the island. “This position is not acceptable,” he said and wanted the Centre to renegotiate the issue and arrive at a settlement to restore the rights of Indian fishermen.

Sri Lankan government resorts  to unprovoked firing upon the Indian fishermen, resulting in the loss of lives of fishermen once in few days repeatedly for years together, the Indian government, being a party to the aforesaid agreement, was duty bound to enforce the traditional fishing right of Indian fishermen off the Katchatheevu island.

The Supreme Court of India, in a case relating to the Indo-Pakistan agreement on Berubary Union and exchange of enclaves, ruled that any ceding of Indian territory to another country resulted in “diminution of the Territory of Indian Union,” and therefore must be endorsed by Parliament through a constitutional amendment as laid down by Article 368. Since no such step was taken by the Indira Gandhi Government or any subsequent Government of India, Dr Manmohan Singh should seriously consider moving the Supreme Court to test the validity of conceding Kacha Theevu to Sri Lanka, the Opposition Leader of Tamilnadu Miss J.Jalalalitha had voiced demand and gone to Supreme Court of India. We are not debating the merits or demerits of a case pending in Indian Courts. We are just narrating the stand of various political parties of India in this regard.

Our prayers to The President is that already Former Attorney General of USA had filed 1000 page charge sheet against two American citizens for committing genocide against Tamils of Eelam who are fighting for a separate homeland.

Bruce Fein, counsel for US-based group Tamils Against Genocide (TAG), recently submitted to United States Attorney General, Mr Eric Holder, the Model Indictment charging U.S. citizen and Sri Lanka’s Defense Secretary, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, and U.S. green card holder and Sri Lanka’s Army Commander, Sarath Fonseka, for genocide, war crimes and torture against Tamils in Sri Lanka. The Counsel urged the Department to open a grand jury investigation into the crimes, based on evidence amassed in the three volume 1000-page document which the Counsel said “amply satisfies the Department’s threshold for commencing a criminal investigation.”

 But Indian Tamil fishermen, more than 1000 people have been killed in mid seas, just because they are Tamils, and this will prove beyond an iota of doubt that Srilanka pursues genocide as its goal. One of the constituents of KUTSG, Dravida Peravai is collecting facts and figures to submit in the same case, to get justice for Indian Tamil lives.

Hence we the the Karaikal Union Territory Struggle Group, a non-political peoples movement demanding separate Union Territory status for Karaikal within Unitary Indian state, in view of the economic neglect of the enclave of former French colony Pondicherry ever since its merger with India, are urging you to step in decisively. It is needless to recall that after African Negroes were liberated from the clutches of slavery, British India only supplied plantation labour to all countries to replace African slaves. When in British Parliament there were protests, the practice ceased in British India. Instead our Tamil brethren from the then French colony of Pondicherry only slaves were shipped to all Caribbean nations. That curse for Tamils continues even in this century. By genocide Srilankan Government wants to subjugate whole Tamils as slaves in their own homeland. We hope you will redeem Srilankan Tamils from slavery and write a new Profiles in Courage engraving your name in every Tamil heart and history. We only want you to follow the precedent of Franklin D. Roosevelt who brought together other nations to defeat Nazis, who wanted ethnic cleansing of Jews. It is time you take all steps to stop the genocide of Tamils and save Indian Tamil lives too lost almost once in few days for years together in the mid sea of Bay of Bengal.

With Regards

Yours sincerely

N.Nandhivarman, Hon.President

A.S.T.Ansari Babu, General Secretary.

Ki.Subramanian, Chairman,

V.S.Nallusamy Vice Chairman,

Deputy Secretary Sundarraj.

 

 

INDIAN PANECEA WILL NOT CURE THE BLEEDING OF EELAM

The Government of India and its bureaucrats are focusing their attention towards the Indo-Srilankan Pact of July 1987, and hoping its revival will bring relief to Eelam Tamils. They conveniently forget the past and are indulging in chasing the mirage. Let us remember and also refresh the think tanks of India on the failure of that accord and events that led to its failure.
The Indian Government must have known that Srilanka is always bent upon a military solution and is never for conflict resolution. The negotiations between 30th August 1985 to 19th December 1986 were going on, but during that period also Srilankan army was continuing its barbarian assaults on Eelam Tamils. India could not do anything. To teach Srilanka a lesson Government of India provided arms to Tamil militants and simultaneously lobbied among international community pinpointing the human rights violation and genocidal designs of Srilankan Government. In the middle of 1987 India intervened to provide humanitarian assistance and air lifted food supplies to Jaffna peninsula. This is the Rajiv Gandhi approach which unfortunately his widow Madam Sonia Gandhi had totally forgotten. Apart from lip services of Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee towards the starving internally displaced persons of Eelam, India is not repeating history by air lifting food supplies to the Tamils encircled in Mullaitheevu. Also the donations collected In Tamilnadu could not cool the starving stomachs of Eelam Tamils. We condemn this inhuman inaction of the Indian government in this grave hour while Eelam Tamils are bleeding and starving.
The airlift coupled with international pressure forced Srilanka to stop the hostilities in 1987. This time Srilanka is not stopping the hostilities because it is sure of Indian backing and hence ignores the concerns expressed by other nations.
Unless India arm twists Srilanka will not heed, 1987 Indo-Srilankan accord is a product of Indian coercion otherwise Srilanka would never have climbed down from its arrogant pursuit of war.
Indo-Srilanka accord paved the way for temporarily merging the Northern and Eastern provinces. To implement the accord then Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi sent the Indian Peace Keeping Force. Simultaneously the now hated LTTE agreed for cessation of hostilities and began handing over of arms to IPKF. Then who broke the pact ? Who triggered the unrest again ? Who is responsible ? Let us all impartially look back. General Amnesty was granted under the accord by the Srilankan Government “to political and other prisoners then held in custody under the Prevention of Terrorism Act and other emergency laws, and to combatants, as well as to those persons accused, charged or convicted under these laws.” If only Srilankan Government had adhered to this general amnesty, the conflict could have been resolved. But Srilankan Government suddenly withheld amnesty to 1250 political prisoners, saying amnesty does not apply towards offences committed in areas other than North-East provinces.This culminated in LTTE suspending surrender of arms and led to LTTE and IPKF clashes.
Srilanka is known for its double speak. India never learnt lessons. After bartering away of Kacha Theevu islands to please and placate Srilanka, India dreamt that goodwill will prevail between both countries. The Kacha Theevu agreement foolishly drafted admits the rights of Indian fishermen to dry their nets in Kacha Theevu, but that does not mean Indians can fish near Kacha Theevu interpreted Srilanka in sadistic manner. By twisting the real intention of an agreement between two countries Srilanka till date goes on killing spree . It is national shame for India that it fails to protect the lives of Indian Tamil fishermen. India that seeks the handing over of Pakistani citizens who perpetuated terrorist attacks in Mumbai should have and must have sought the handing over of the Srilankan navy men to try them in Indian courts for their killings. Neither India sought compensation for the more than 1000 Indian Tamil fishermen killed by Srilankan navy. Srilanka cannot claim that it is killing terrorists. India cannot remain blind towards the killing of its own citizens.
The Srilankan Government is charged with genocide. It cannot justify the killings of Indian Tamil fishermen, who are not terrorists. Any Government with self respect and patriotism would have sued Srilanka in International Court of Justice to regain the Kacha Theevu Island. Or India could have taken the killings of Indian Tamils to United Nations. India that proclaims it handed over dossiers to more than 100 countries, must have sent dossiers about the excesses and brutality of Srilankan navy, which kills almost once in every few days just because they are Tamils. Without an iota of doubt the genocide of Srilankan Government could be proven in American courts or before International Court of Criminal Justice, if those who file cases against the genocide of Eelam Tamils could also add a chapter on Tamil fishermen killings. Sinhalese hate Tamils like Nazis hatred for Jews, hence the Indian Tamil too is killed, one could argue.
As Indian citizens we have another moral responsibility. While in USA, the largest democracy people voice their concern against excesses of American army in the occupied Iraq, we in India had remained deaf, dumb and blind over the excesses committed by the IPKF. The only bold gesture of protest in those days was the refusal of the then Tamilnadu Chief Minister Dr.Kalaignar M.Karunanithi to receive the Innocent People Killing Force on its arrival. Now evidences are surfacing with books speaking about those excesses. India should try those who committed offences in Martial Courts, if it wants to uphold its goodwill among the comity of nations about its moral high and Gandhian values nurtured since independence. Prof Daya Somasundaram`s book Scarred Minds :The Psychological Impact of War on Sri Lankan Tamils brings out details of the IPKF excesses. Prof Daya Somasundaram is the Professor of Psychiatry in the University of Jaffna and concurrently Consultant Psychiatrist, General (Teaching Hospital) Jaffna. He was one of the four authors of the book, Broken Palmyrah, which was critical of the LTTE, a co-author of Mental Health in Cambodia, where he served as a Consultant Psychiatrist .
The resolutions passed by Tamilnadu assembly on the plight of Eelam Tamils did not evoke any response in the Union Government. This necessitates the revival of the State Autonomy demand for which the Justice P.V.Rajamannar Commission gave its report in seventies to Tamilnadu Government. The State Autonomy Conference at Annanagar in 1970 where Punjab Chief Minister Gurnam Singh participated has been forgotten. We gave the state autonomy torch brought from Puducherry DMK in the hands of Dr.Kalaignar. The Maran-Chezhian Committee Report remains in archives. DMK must reconsider its strategies. Indian Constitution paves way for Kashmir alone enjoying superiority status over other states by way of Article 370. Tamilnadu is not secondary state. All states in India should enjoy equal powers. There cannot be different layers or class divisions. If in future Tamilnadu assembly resolutions had to be respected and responded without eroding the self respect of Tamil population in India, it is high time Tamilnadu demand extension of article 370 of Indian constitution to all states, more particularly to Tamilnadu.
The Indian Government which is neither clear in its mind nor has the political will to force Srilanka to arrive at the right solution, is building castes in air. Let me recall the Framework for Constitutional restructuring to end the ethnic conflict in India circulated in 1995 during the regime of Chandrika Kumaratunga. The key components are :
• Assuring the Unity of Srilanka through the powers of Executive President
• There should be two councils under the President, one for safeguarding the Constitution and other for minority interests.
• There shall be two parliaments, one for Sinhalese and one for Tamil eelam each with a Prime Minister and a cabinet assuring the rights of self determination of the two principle nationalities of Srilankan Tamils and Sinhalese .
• Srilankan armed forces shall comprise of three wings, namely Sinhala Ratta, Tamil Eelam army and a national coordinating army
• After constitutional restructuring people’s wish to resettle in place of their choice shall be supported by the state.
• The North and East shall be permanently merged. If necessary the areas of Padavil kulam, Thambankadavai East and Wilpattu be exchanged for District of Amparai.
• Abolition of Provincial Councils
These are matters that were discussed in those days. India even in its dreams will not be considering these. India wants Kashmir type elections and Varadaraja Permal type of Chief Ministers. The Island newspaper of Srilanka dated 6th March 1995 mentions the readiness of LTTE to abandon the demand for separate homeland and listed four cardinal principles for conflict resolution.
• The problems of Tamils should be accepted as national issue
• The Tamil people must be accepted as national entity
• The traditional homelands of Tamil should be accepted
• The rights and sovereignty of Tamils should be accepted.
None of these will be even debated now. The victors will offer the vanquished slavery on platter. India is pushing Tamils to become slaves to Sinhalese. India has no solution in its kitty that will not infringe the self respect of Eelam Tamils.
Indian Government or other Nations that show adamancy to accept the separate state demand of Tamils, have now started to get shocked by the genocidal war unleashed by Srilanka aimed at ethnic cleansing. This ethnic cleansing had been the single goal pursued by various Srilankan governments and political parties for nearly half a century.
Let me challenge the civilized democracies of this earth to touch their conscience and say whether they have forgotten the Nazi persecution of the Jews. Now let them read what Sinhalese Members of Parliament had spoken in their country’s Parliament. Can any Parliamentarian speak openly with impunity in any of the Parliaments or Senates of this Earth, in the manner in which Sinhalese Members of Parliament had spoken in past ?
Sinhalese Buddhist Member of Parliament from Kundasale Mr.D.M.Chandrapala, spoke in July 1981 in Srilankan Parliament : Quote “ Now Sir…. What should we do to this so called leader of Tamils ? If I were given powers, I would tie him to the nearest concrete post in this building and horse whip him till I raise him to his wits. Thereafter let anybody do anything he likes, throw him into the Biere[lake] or into the sea, because he will be so mutilated that I do not think there will be life in him “
This is the Srilankan Parliament under which India wants Eelam Tamils to elect members to hear on how they should be killed if they demand anything legitimate. Is it not subjugating Eelam Tamils to slavery in an Earth where Negroes were emancipated from slavery ?
Mr.G.V.Punchinilame, Sinhalese Buddhist Member of Parliament from Ratnapura to explain in Parliament on how cruelly Tamils should be tortured. Quote : “ Since yesterday morning, we have heard in this honorable house about the various types of punishment that should be meted out to them.[ Tamil Parliamentary leaders ]. The M.P for Panadura, Dr.Neville Fernando said that there was a punishment during the regime of Sinhalese kings, namely two areca nut posts are erected , the two posts are then drawn towards each other with a rope, then tie the each feet of the offender to each post and then cut the rope which will result in tearing apart the body. These people [Tamil M.P’s] should be punished that way.
Some members suggested that they should be put to death on the stake, some other members said their passports should be confiscated, still other members said they should be made to stand at Galle Face and shot. The people of this country want and the government is prepared to inflict these punishments on these people.
Before violence erupted or militarist movements took inception, when purely Tamils were pursuing democratic path demanding state autonomy through peaceful means, Srilankan Parliament had debated on how Tamil Members of Parliament should be killed and tortured. Such hatred possessed only by their predecessors, the Aryan Nazis, is inbuilt in the minds of Aryan Sinhalese. Cruelty is their creed. Barbarianism is their gospel. India which is now clandestinely crushing whatever little shield Tamils had is forcing them to go to an open air concentration camp. President Barrack Hussein Obama who felt ashamed of the inhuman behavior of American forces in Iraq is closing such dens of torture, whereas India wants entire Northern Province of Srilanka to be made an open garrison. The talk of political solution is the cruel joke of this century. To teach cannibals to behave in civilized manner if efforts are put, it will yield results. But the Sinhalese who inscribed their language letter Sri with hot irons in the forcibly exposed bare chests of Tamil women in fifties, Sinhalese who could pluck the eyes of freedom fighters within their prison and to crush it with their boots in sadistic arrogance, will torture the entire Tamil race. World watches helplessly when civilians are killed in so called safe zones. World watches while international agencies could not reach Tamils with medicines and food for internally displaced peoples. If under unitary Srilanka, Tamils are forced to live it will only be a life worse than a slave, and whoever moots that idea for whatever geo-political compulsion, will be placed as abettors of genocide before future generations and in history.
Before concluding, it is my duty to recall the words of then Srilankan President as published in Daily Telegraph of Srilanka on 11th July 1983. Mr.J.R.Jayawardane with whom innocent political novice Mr. Rajiv Gandhi inked an accord in 1987 had spoken in 1983, as follows :
“ I am not worried about the opinion of the Tamil people, now we cannot think of them, not about their lives or opinion. The more you put pressure in the North, the happier will the Sinhalese people be here. Really if I starve the Tamils out, the Sinhalese people will be happy.”
This is Mr.Rajiv Gandhi’s favorite President Jayawardane. Now Manmohan Singh’s favorite President Mr.Mahinda Rajapakshe is implementing the mass starvation of Tamils and further finds glee in killings of internally displaced persons.
If India could succeed to bring together Pakistan occupied Kashmir and Jammu and Kashmir as one single unitary state, then they have the moral right to force Eelam Tamils to accept unitary state concept in Srilanka. If India’s diplomats like Mr.M.K.Narayanan and Mr.Shivshankar Menon could bring Israelites and Palestinians under single governance, single unitary Government, then India has the political proven will to preach Tamils to live with Sinhalese. If India could recall its own Father of Nation Mr.Mahatma Gandhi’s desire for a Unified India and Pakistan without a divide on religious lines, and if the current leaders with Gandhi tag preach unity of Akanda Bharat, which will please the BJP too, then they can force Eelam Tamils to live under one roof with Sinhalese. If India that helped the formation of Bangladesh could unite Bangladesh with West Bengal and recognize the legitimate right of Bengalis to be united as one entity to protect and promote their culture, then for which India’s External Affairs Minister could devote whole time to fulfill a demand that will elevate him to a highest pedestal in history. The concept of divorce is legally accepted if couples could not remain united. But Indian diplomats want killers and their victims to shake hands as if they played cricket match. The saying Nero fiddled while Rome was burning is outdated and need to be relegated to archives. The modern saying is Indians played cricket while Eelam Tamils are killed in genocide.
Let world powers with maturity ponder the imponderable solution India has in its sleeves. Indian Parliament will meet shortly. Speaking in one of the rallies Union Minister A. Raja of DMK had said that Eelam Tamil issue will echo in Parliament. We hope our Tamil Parliament members will seek ghost writers to prepare speeches since extempore orators like Aringnar Anna, Nanjil Manoharan, Era.Sezhian, S.S.Mariswamy, G.Viswanathan, K.Rajaram and people who can articulate are kept out of electoral contests and will keep their lungpower to use like Bihar members when they protested the assaults of their kinsmen in Maharastra.
42 political activists of Myanmar landed in the Windfall Island of India’s Andaman Islands in 1998, allegedly lured by a promise of getting a base for them there. On arrival, 6 of them were killed and 36 arrested reportedly by an Indian intelligence officer LT. Col. Grewal. Two of the arrested have gone missing. A book titled ‘Rouge Agent’ authored by Nandita Haksar and published by Penguin India is released in Delhi, Wednesday 11th February 2009, along with a protest demonstration demanding the release of the 34, languishing in the Indian prison for 11 years and requesting the UNHCR to grant them refugee status, Burma Centre in Delhi said.
Nandita Haksar, the author of the book, is an international human rights lawyer. The book is released by Dr Tint Swe of the exile government of the Union of Burma, headquartered in USA. “The people of Burma was also in negotiation with the Government of India through Lt Col V.J.S Grewal for a base in India in 1995 and after two years of negotiations they were invited to come to Landfall Island in Andaman. However on their arrival to Landfall Island on 10 Feb 1998, 36 of the Burmese freedom fighters were arrested while six were killed the same day. Out of the 36 arrested two have gone missing from Andaman Jail. The others were kept for 9 years in Port Blair and later transferred to Presidency Jail, Kolkata and continue to be imprisoned there”, a memorandum addressed to the Prime Minister of India, from civil groups supporting Aung San Suu Kyi and requesting the release of the prisoners said.
This news once again demonstrates that bureaucrats still nourish colonial mentality and are never loyal to their political masters who keep a tab on the pulse of the people. We in India should feel ashamed of imprisoning freedom fighters for 11 years and India must tender public apology to the civilized democracies on earth for its sin to toeing the army rulers in Burma and perpetuators of genocide in Srilanka.

N.Nandhivarman :
www.dravidaperavai.org.in

INDIAN PANECEA WILL NOT CURE THE BLEEDING OF EELAM

The Government of India and its bureaucrats are focusing their attention towards the Indo-Srilankan Pact of July 1987, and hoping its revival will bring relief to Eelam Tamils. They conveniently forget the past and are indulging in chasing the mirage. Let us remember and also refresh the think tanks of India on the failure of that accord and events that led to its failure.
The Indian Government must have known that Srilanka is always bent upon a military solution and is never for conflict resolution. The negotiations between 30th August 1985 to 19th December 1986 were going on, but during that period also Srilankan army was continuing its barbarian assaults on Eelam Tamils. India could not do anything. To teach Srilanka a lesson Government of India provided arms to Tamil militants and simultaneously lobbied among international community pinpointing the human rights violation and genocidal designs of Srilankan Government. In the middle of 1987 India intervened to provide humanitarian assistance and air lifted food supplies to Jaffna peninsula. This is the Rajiv Gandhi approach which unfortunately his widow Madam Sonia Gandhi had totally forgotten. Apart from lip services of Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee towards the starving internally displaced persons of Eelam, India is not repeating history by air lifting food supplies to the Tamils encircled in Mullaitheevu. Also the donations collected In Tamilnadu could not cool the starving stomachs of Eelam Tamils. We condemn this inhuman inaction of the Indian government in this grave hour while Eelam Tamils are bleeding and starving.
The airlift coupled with international pressure forced Srilanka to stop the hostilities in 1987. This time Srilanka is not stopping the hostilities because it is sure of Indian backing and hence ignores the concerns expressed by other nations.
Unless India arm twists Srilanka will not heed, 1987 Indo-Srilankan accord is a product of Indian coercion otherwise Srilanka would never have climbed down from its arrogant pursuit of war.
Indo-Srilanka accord paved the way for temporarily merging the Northern and Eastern provinces. To implement the accord then Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi sent the Indian Peace Keeping Force. Simultaneously the now hated LTTE agreed for cessation of hostilities and began handing over of arms to IPKF. Then who broke the pact ? Who triggered the unrest again ? Who is responsible ? Let us all impartially look back. General Amnesty was granted under the accord by the Srilankan Government “to political and other prisoners then held in custody under the Prevention of Terrorism Act and other emergency laws, and to combatants, as well as to those persons accused, charged or convicted under these laws.” If only Srilankan Government had adhered to this general amnesty, the conflict could have been resolved. But Srilankan Government suddenly withheld amnesty to 1250 political prisoners, saying amnesty does not apply towards offences committed in areas other than North-East provinces.This culminated in LTTE suspending surrender of arms and led to LTTE and IPKF clashes.
Srilanka is known for its double speak. India never learnt lessons. After bartering away of Kacha Theevu islands to please and placate Srilanka, India dreamt that goodwill will prevail between both countries. The Kacha Theevu agreement foolishly drafted admits the rights of Indian fishermen to dry their nets in Kacha Theevu, but that does not mean Indians can fish near Kacha Theevu interpreted Srilanka in sadistic manner. By twisting the real intention of an agreement between two countries Srilanka till date goes on killing spree . It is national shame for India that it fails to protect the lives of Indian Tamil fishermen. India that seeks the handing over of Pakistani citizens who perpetuated terrorist attacks in Mumbai should have and must have sought the handing over of the Srilankan navy men to try them in Indian courts for their killings. Neither India sought compensation for the more than 1000 Indian Tamil fishermen killed by Srilankan navy. Srilanka cannot claim that it is killing terrorists. India cannot remain blind towards the killing of its own citizens.
The Srilankan Government is charged with genocide. It cannot justify the killings of Indian Tamil fishermen, who are not terrorists. Any Government with self respect and patriotism would have sued Srilanka in International Court of Justice to regain the Kacha Theevu Island. Or India could have taken the killings of Indian Tamils to United Nations. India that proclaims it handed over dossiers to more than 100 countries, must have sent dossiers about the excesses and brutality of Srilankan navy, which kills almost once in every few days just because they are Tamils. Without an iota of doubt the genocide of Srilankan Government could be proven in American courts or before International Court of Criminal Justice, if those who file cases against the genocide of Eelam Tamils could also add a chapter on Tamil fishermen killings. Sinhalese hate Tamils like Nazis hatred for Jews, hence the Indian Tamil too is killed, one could argue.
As Indian citizens we have another moral responsibility. While in USA, the largest democracy people voice their concern against excesses of American army in the occupied Iraq, we in India had remained deaf, dumb and blind over the excesses committed by the IPKF. The only bold gesture of protest in those days was the refusal of the then Tamilnadu Chief Minister Dr.Kalaignar M.Karunanithi to receive the Innocent People Killing Force on its arrival. Now evidences are surfacing with books speaking about those excesses. India should try those who committed offences in Martial Courts, if it wants to uphold its goodwill among the comity of nations about its moral high and Gandhian values nurtured since independence. Prof Daya Somasundaram`s book Scarred Minds :The Psychological Impact of War on Sri Lankan Tamils brings out details of the IPKF excesses. Prof Daya Somasundaram is the Professor of Psychiatry in the University of Jaffna and concurrently Consultant Psychiatrist, General (Teaching Hospital) Jaffna. He was one of the four authors of the book, Broken Palmyrah, which was critical of the LTTE, a co-author of Mental Health in Cambodia, where he served as a Consultant Psychiatrist .
The resolutions passed by Tamilnadu assembly on the plight of Eelam Tamils did not evoke any response in the Union Government. This necessitates the revival of the State Autonomy demand for which the Justice P.V.Rajamannar Commission gave its report in seventies to Tamilnadu Government. The State Autonomy Conference at Annanagar in 1970 where Punjab Chief Minister Gurnam Singh participated has been forgotten. We gave the state autonomy torch brought from Puducherry DMK in the hands of Dr.Kalaignar. The Maran-Chezhian Committee Report remains in archives. DMK must reconsider its strategies. Indian Constitution paves way for Kashmir alone enjoying superiority status over other states by way of Article 370. Tamilnadu is not secondary state. All states in India should enjoy equal powers. There cannot be different layers or class divisions. If in future Tamilnadu assembly resolutions had to be respected and responded without eroding the self respect of Tamil population in India, it is high time Tamilnadu demand extension of article 370 of Indian constitution to all states, more particularly to Tamilnadu.
The Indian Government which is neither clear in its mind nor has the political will to force Srilanka to arrive at the right solution, is building castes in air. Let me recall the Framework for Constitutional restructuring to end the ethnic conflict in India circulated in 1995 during the regime of Chandrika Kumaratunga. The key components are :
• Assuring the Unity of Srilanka through the powers of Executive President
• There should be two councils under the President, one for safeguarding the Constitution and other for minority interests.
• There shall be two parliaments, one for Sinhalese and one for Tamil eelam each with a Prime Minister and a cabinet assuring the rights of self determination of the two principle nationalities of Srilankan Tamils and Sinhalese .
• Srilankan armed forces shall comprise of three wings, namely Sinhala Ratta, Tamil Eelam army and a national coordinating army
• After constitutional restructuring people’s wish to resettle in place of their choice shall be supported by the state.
• The North and East shall be permanently merged. If necessary the areas of Padavil kulam, Thambankadavai East and Wilpattu be exchanged for District of Amparai.
• Abolition of Provincial Councils
These are matters that were discussed in those days. India even in its dreams will not be considering these. India wants Kashmir type elections and Varadaraja Permal type of Chief Ministers. The Island newspaper of Srilanka dated 6th March 1995 mentions the readiness of LTTE to abandon the demand for separate homeland and listed four cardinal principles for conflict resolution.
• The problems of Tamils should be accepted as national issue
• The Tamil people must be accepted as national entity
• The traditional homelands of Tamil should be accepted
• The rights and sovereignty of Tamils should be accepted.
None of these will be even debated now. The victors will offer the vanquished slavery on platter. India is pushing Tamils to become slaves to Sinhalese. India has no solution in its kitty that will not infringe the self respect of Eelam Tamils.
Indian Government or other Nations that show adamancy to accept the separate state demand of Tamils, have now started to get shocked by the genocidal war unleashed by Srilanka aimed at ethnic cleansing. This ethnic cleansing had been the single goal pursued by various Srilankan governments and political parties for nearly half a century.
Let me challenge the civilized democracies of this earth to touch their conscience and say whether they have forgotten the Nazi persecution of the Jews. Now let them read what Sinhalese Members of Parliament had spoken in their country’s Parliament. Can any Parliamentarian speak openly with impunity in any of the Parliaments or Senates of this Earth, in the manner in which Sinhalese Members of Parliament had spoken in past ?
Sinhalese Buddhist Member of Parliament from Kundasale Mr.D.M.Chandrapala, spoke in July 1981 in Srilankan Parliament : Quote “ Now Sir…. What should we do to this so called leader of Tamils ? If I were given powers, I would tie him to the nearest concrete post in this building and horse whip him till I raise him to his wits. Thereafter let anybody do anything he likes, throw him into the Biere[lake] or into the sea, because he will be so mutilated that I do not think there will be life in him “
This is the Srilankan Parliament under which India wants Eelam Tamils to elect members to hear on how they should be killed if they demand anything legitimate. Is it not subjugating Eelam Tamils to slavery in an Earth where Negroes were emancipated from slavery ?
Mr.G.V.Punchinilame, Sinhalese Buddhist Member of Parliament from Ratnapura to explain in Parliament on how cruelly Tamils should be tortured. Quote : “ Since yesterday morning, we have heard in this honorable house about the various types of punishment that should be meted out to them.[ Tamil Parliamentary leaders ]. The M.P for Panadura, Dr.Neville Fernando said that there was a punishment during the regime of Sinhalese kings, namely two areca nut posts are erected , the two posts are then drawn towards each other with a rope, then tie the each feet of the offender to each post and then cut the rope which will result in tearing apart the body. These people [Tamil M.P’s] should be punished that way.
Some members suggested that they should be put to death on the stake, some other members said their passports should be confiscated, still other members said they should be made to stand at Galle Face and shot. The people of this country want and the government is prepared to inflict these punishments on these people.
Before violence erupted or militarist movements took inception, when purely Tamils were pursuing democratic path demanding state autonomy through peaceful means, Srilankan Parliament had debated on how Tamil Members of Parliament should be killed and tortured. Such hatred possessed only by their predecessors, the Aryan Nazis, is inbuilt in the minds of Aryan Sinhalese. Cruelty is their creed. Barbarianism is their gospel. India which is now clandestinely crushing whatever little shield Tamils had is forcing them to go to an open air concentration camp. President Barrack Hussein Obama who felt ashamed of the inhuman behavior of American forces in Iraq is closing such dens of torture, whereas India wants entire Northern Province of Srilanka to be made an open garrison. The talk of political solution is the cruel joke of this century. To teach cannibals to behave in civilized manner if efforts are put, it will yield results. But the Sinhalese who inscribed their language letter Sri with hot irons in the forcibly exposed bare chests of Tamil women in fifties, Sinhalese who could pluck the eyes of freedom fighters within their prison and to crush it with their boots in sadistic arrogance, will torture the entire Tamil race. World watches helplessly when civilians are killed in so called safe zones. World watches while international agencies could not reach Tamils with medicines and food for internally displaced peoples. If under unitary Srilanka, Tamils are forced to live it will only be a life worse than a slave, and whoever moots that idea for whatever geo-political compulsion, will be placed as abettors of genocide before future generations and in history.
Before concluding, it is my duty to recall the words of then Srilankan President as published in Daily Telegraph of Srilanka on 11th July 1983. Mr.J.R.Jayawardane with whom innocent political novice Mr. Rajiv Gandhi inked an accord in 1987 had spoken in 1983, as follows :
“ I am not worried about the opinion of the Tamil people, now we cannot think of them, not about their lives or opinion. The more you put pressure in the North, the happier will the Sinhalese people be here. Really if I starve the Tamils out, the Sinhalese people will be happy.”
This is Mr.Rajiv Gandhi’s favorite President Jayawardane. Now Manmohan Singh’s favorite President Mr.Mahinda Rajapakshe is implementing the mass starvation of Tamils and further finds glee in killings of internally displaced persons.
If India could succeed to bring together Pakistan occupied Kashmir and Jammu and Kashmir as one single unitary state, then they have the moral right to force Eelam Tamils to accept unitary state concept in Srilanka. If India’s diplomats like Mr.M.K.Narayanan and Mr.Shivshankar Menon could bring Israelites and Palestinians under single governance, single unitary Government, then India has the political proven will to preach Tamils to live with Sinhalese. If India could recall its own Father of Nation Mr.Mahatma Gandhi’s desire for a Unified India and Pakistan without a divide on religious lines, and if the current leaders with Gandhi tag preach unity of Akanda Bharat, which will please the BJP too, then they can force Eelam Tamils to live under one roof with Sinhalese. If India that helped the formation of Bangladesh could unite Bangladesh with West Bengal and recognize the legitimate right of Bengalis to be united as one entity to protect and promote their culture, then for which India’s External Affairs Minister could devote whole time to fulfill a demand that will elevate him to a highest pedestal in history. The concept of divorce is legally accepted if couples could not remain united. But Indian diplomats want killers and their victims to shake hands as if they played cricket match. The saying Nero fiddled while Rome was burning is outdated and need to be relegated to archives. The modern saying is Indians played cricket while Eelam Tamils are killed in genocide.
Let world powers with maturity ponder the imponderable solution India has in its sleeves. Indian Parliament will meet shortly. Speaking in one of the rallies Union Minister A. Raja of DMK had said that Eelam Tamil issue will echo in Parliament. We hope our Tamil Parliament members will seek ghost writers to prepare speeches since extempore orators like Aringnar Anna, Nanjil Manoharan, Era.Sezhian, S.S.Mariswamy, G.Viswanathan, K.Rajaram and people who can articulate are kept out of electoral contests and will keep their lungpower to use like Bihar members when they protested the assaults of their kinsmen in Maharastra.
42 political activists of Myanmar landed in the Windfall Island of India’s Andaman Islands in 1998, allegedly lured by a promise of getting a base for them there. On arrival, 6 of them were killed and 36 arrested reportedly by an Indian intelligence officer LT. Col. Grewal. Two of the arrested have gone missing. A book titled ‘Rouge Agent’ authored by Nandita Haksar and published by Penguin India is released in Delhi, Wednesday 11th February 2009, along with a protest demonstration demanding the release of the 34, languishing in the Indian prison for 11 years and requesting the UNHCR to grant them refugee status, Burma Centre in Delhi said.
Nandita Haksar, the author of the book, is an international human rights lawyer. The book is released by Dr Tint Swe of the exile government of the Union of Burma, headquartered in USA. “The people of Burma was also in negotiation with the Government of India through Lt Col V.J.S Grewal for a base in India in 1995 and after two years of negotiations they were invited to come to Landfall Island in Andaman. However on their arrival to Landfall Island on 10 Feb 1998, 36 of the Burmese freedom fighters were arrested while six were killed the same day. Out of the 36 arrested two have gone missing from Andaman Jail. The others were kept for 9 years in Port Blair and later transferred to Presidency Jail, Kolkata and continue to be imprisoned there”, a memorandum addressed to the Prime Minister of India, from civil groups supporting Aung San Suu Kyi and requesting the release of the prisoners said.
This news once again demonstrates that bureaucrats still nourish colonial mentality and are never loyal to their political masters who keep a tab on the pulse of the people. We in India should feel ashamed of imprisoning freedom fighters for 11 years and India must tender public apology to the civilized democracies on earth for its sin to toeing the army rulers in Burma and perpetuators of genocide in Srilanka.

N.Nandhivarman :General Secretary Dravida Peravai

www.dravidaperavai.org.in

மொழிகளும் மதங்களும் மனிதகுலமும் ஒன்றிலிருந்து ஒன்று பிரிந்தவையே

- நா.நந்திவர்மன் பொதுச்செயலர், திராவிடப்பேரவை

பிரித்தானிய ஒலிபரப்புச் சேவை (பிபிசி) அறிவியல் | இயற்கை பகுதியில் 14.8.2002 ல் ஒரு செய்திவெளியாயிற்று “முதன்மொழி மரபணு கண்டுபிடிக்கப்பட்டது” என்று அந்தச் செய்தி அறிவித்தது. மாந்தன் பேசும் திறன் பெறக் கரணியான பல மரபு அணுக்களில் முதன்மயான மரபணுவை கண்டுபிடிதது் விட்டதாக அறிவியல் அறிஞர்கள் நம்புகின்றனர்.

இந்த மரபணு இல்லாவிட்டால் மொழியும் மாந்தகுலப் பண்பாடும் மலர்ந்திருக்க முடியாது. ஈறிலக்கம் ஆண்டுகள் கடந்து மனிதன் கண்டு வரும் ( பரிணாம) கூர்தலற வளர்ச்சியின் உந்தாற்றலாக இம்மரபணுவில் தோன்றும் தலையாய மாறுதல்கள் கரணியமாகின்றன. மாந்தன் பேசும் மொழியோடு உறுதியாகத் தொடர்புடைய அந்த மரபணுவுக்கு ‘Fox P 2’ என்று குறியீட்டுப் பெயர் சூட்டியுள்ளனர்.

“பலமொழி மரபணுக்கள் கண்டுபிடிப்பதற்கு முன்னோட்டமாகக் கண்டுபிடிக்கப்பட்ட முதன்மயான மரபணு” என வால்ப் காங்கு ஈனார்டு கூறுகிறார். செருமனியில் உள்ள இலீப்ழிக் நகரில் உள்ள Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anrthropology’ எனும் நிறுவனப் பேராசிரியர் அவர். 10 முதல் 1000 வரை இது போன்ற மரபணுக்கள் இருக்கலாம் என்கிறார் அவர்.

உலகெங்கும் மரபணு பற்றி பல்வேறு ஆய்வுகள் நடக்கின்றன. அதில் சுவையான செய்திகள் வெளிவந்த வண்ணமுள்ளன. மனிதனும் எலியும் ஒன்றுவிட்ட சகோதரர்களாம். டனோசரசு என்ற விலங்கினம் உலகினினின்று அழிந்த இறுதிக் கட்டத்தில் ஒரு சிறிய உயிரியிலிருந்து மனிதனும் எலியும் வேறு வேறாகப் பிரிந்தனவாம். இரண்டும் பிரிந்து தனித்தனி உயிர்களாகி 75 மில்லியன் ஆண்டுகளாகி விட்டன. எலிக்குள்ள 30000 மரபணுக்களில் சுமார் 1% விழுக்காடு அதாவது சுமார் 300 மரபணுக்கள் மனிதனிடம் இல்லை.

அரிசியின் மரபணுக்களை படமாக்குதல் என்று ஒரு அனைதது்லகத்திட்டம் உண்டு. ஒவ்வொரு Molecule அரிசியினுள்ளும் 12 இணை Chromosome உள்ளன. இவைகள் கட்டமைக்கப்படுவதற்கு காரணமான குறியீட்டு மொழிகள கண்டறிய 400 மில்லியன் கட்டளை எழுத்க்களை படமாக்குதல் இத்திட்டத்தின் நோக்கமாகும். International Rice Genome Project II முடித்து II வது கட்ட ஆய்வுக்கு இந்தியா முற்பட்டுள்ளது.

ஒரு மனிதனின் உடலில் 30,000 முதல் 40,000 மரபணுக்கள் இருந்தால் இந்திகா அரிசியில் 45,000 முதல் 56,000 வரை மரபணுக்கள் உள்ளன. சப்பானியர் அரிசியில் 63,000 மரபணுக்கள் மனிதனைக் காட்டிலும் அரிசியில் கூடுதலாக உள்ளன. அரிசியில் உள்ள மரபணுக்கள் வேறு சில செடி கொடிகளிலும் பொதுவாகக் காணப்படுகின்றன. அறிவியல் பல புதிர்களுக்கு இவ்வாறு விடைதேடிய வண்ணமுள்ளது. முடிவு உடனே கட்டத் தேவையில்லை, இத் தேடல்களுக்கு முழு உண்மை புலப்படும் வரை! ஆனால் கடவுளை கற்பித்து அந்தக் கற்பனையை வைத்துப் பிழைக்க மதங்களை உருவாக்கிக் கொண்டவர்கள் உண்மைகள் வெளிப்பட்டு விடக்கூடாது என்று அஞ்சுகின்றனர். உண்மைகள் வெளி வந்தால் தங்கள் பிழைப்பு பறி போய்விடும் என்று அஞ்சுகின்றனர். உலக முதன் மாந்தன் – உலக முதன்மொழி உலக முதல் வழிபாடு உலகின் முதல் பண்பாடு என்று உலகில் உண்மையான வரலாறு கட்டமைக்க ஓயாமல் உழத்தாக வேண்டும் உண்மைகள் ஊர்வலம் வரும் வரை!

நம் ஊர் அறிஞர்களையே முழுமையாக அறிந்து கொள்ளாதவர்கள் நாம். நம்நாட்டு பல மாநிலங்களையே நன்கறியாதவர்கள் நாம். நம நாட்டை ஒட்டியுள்ள அண்டை நாடுகளைப் பற்றி ஒன்றுமே தெரியாதவர்கள் நாம். நம்மைச் சுற்றி என்ன நடக்கிறது என்று கூடத் தெரியாதவர்களுக்கு உலகில் பல்துறை அறிஞர்கள் ஈடுபட்டுள்ள தேடல் தெரியவா போகிறது.

ஜேம்சு ஏ. மதிசாப் மொழியியல் அறிஞர். திபேத்திய பர்மிய மொழி பற்றிய ஆய்வில் ஈடுபட்டுள்ளவர். 1968ல் சீன-திபேத்திய மொழிகளுக்கான அனைத்துலக மாநாட்டை முன்னின்று நடத்தியவருள் ஒருவர். சீன-திபேத்திய மொழிகளின் சொற்பிறப்பியல் அகர முதலி மற்றும் நிகண்டு தொடர்பான பணிகளில் 1987 முதல் உழைப்பவர். அவர மின்னஞ்சல் முகவரி matisoff@socrates.berkeley.edu. தமிழ் உலக முதன்மொழி என நிறுவ தமிழுக்கும் சீன-திபேத்திய மொழிகளுக்குமுள்ள உறவை ஆய்வு செய்ய சீன-திபேத்திய சொற்பிறப்பியல் அகராதி உதவக்கூடும். அந்த அறிஞருடன் தமிழ்ச் சொற்பிறப்பியல் ஆய்வில் தோய்ந்த அறிஞர்கள் இணைந்தால் இருதரப்பு ஆய்வும் மேம்பாடடையும். உலக மக்கட் தொகயில் கால்பங்கினர் சீன-திபேத்திய மொழிக்குடும்ப மொழிகறைப் பேசுகின்றனர். சுமார் 250 முதல் 300 மொழிகள் இம்மொழிக்குடும்பத்தச் சார்ந்தவையாக உள்ளன. சீனம், திபேத்தியம், பர்மியம் தவிர்த்த ஏனைய மொழிகள் இந்நூற்றாண்டு வரை எழுதப்படாத மொழிகள்.

மொழியியல் அறிஞர் சோசப் கிரீன்பர்கு ஆப்ரிக்காவின் பன்னூறு மொழிகளை ஆய்வு செய்தார். ஆப்ரோ-ஏசியாடிக், நகர்-காங்கோ, கோசான் என்ற மூன்று பகுப்புகளாக ஆப்ரிக்க மொழிகளைப் பிரிப்பார்கள். சோசப் கிரீன்பர்கு நரோ-சகாரன் என்பதைக் கண்டுபிடித்தார். அதன்பிறகு ஆப்ரிக்க மொழிகளை ஒவ்வொன்றுக்குமுள்ள உறவு, மக்கள் பரவல் பற்றிய புதிய உண்மைகள் கண்டறியப்பட்டன. ஆப்ரிக்காவுக்கும் குமரிக்கண்டத்துக்கும் நிலவியல் தொடர்புகள் இருந்தன எனக்கூறி வருகிறோம். உலகின் முதல் மனிதன் கறுப்பிரினத்தவன் (நீக்கிராய்டு) என்றும் ஆய்வுகள் கூறிவருகின்றன. நாமும் நீக்கிராய்டுகளே! நம் மொழிகளுக்கும் ஆப்ரிக்க மொழிகளுக்கு முள்ள உறவு பற்றி ஆய சோசப் கிரின்பர்கின் ஆய்வுகள் பெரிதும் துணைபுரியக்கூடும்.

அண்னையில் மறைந்த இவ்வறிஞரே அமெரிக்காவின் பழங்குடிகள் பேசும் பன்னூறு மொழிகளையும் முப்பதாண்டுகள் ஆய்ந்து மூன்றே குடும்பங்களாகப் பிரித்தார். ஏசுகிமோ (Eskimo-Aleut) நா-தெனே (Na-dane) அமரிந்து (Amerind) என்று பிரித்தார். இந்த ஆய்வுகள் தமிழாய்வுகளுடன் இணைத்து பார்க்கப்பட வேண்டும். ஒப்பீட்டு ஆய்வுக்கு உட்படுத்தப்பட வேண்டும்.

பிரான்சில் ஒரு கிராமப்புறம், சரக் என்ற கிராமம். அங்கே ஒரு புதிர் உள்ளது. அக்கிராம மக்கள் பேசும் பாசக்கு (Basque) மொழியே அப்புதிராகும். பிரான்சுக்கும் இசுபெயின் நாட்டு எல்லைக்கருகில் உள்ள பாசக்கு மக்கள் பேசும் யுசுகரா மொழி (Euskara) அதன் தனித் தன்மையை காத்துவந்துள்ளது. அயலவர் படையெடுப்பை உறுதியுடன் அம்மக்கள் எதிர்த்து வந்துள்ளனர். அண்மையில் இருக்கும் பிரெஞ்சு மொழியோ ஸ்பானிசு மொழியோ யுசுகரா மொழியில் ஊடுருவாமல் தங்கள் மொழியைக் காத்து நிற்கும் அம்மக்களுக்கு தமிழர்கள் பாராட்டு கூறுதல் வேண்டும். அவர்களால் இயன்ற சாதனை நாம் நிகழ்த்தத் தவறியது ஏன் என்றும் சிந்தித்துப் பார்க்க வேண்டும். அவர்களின் பாறை ஓவியங்கள் ஈராயிரமாண்டு பழமை வாய்ந்தவை என்கின்றனர் அறிஞர்கள். அவர்களின் பாறை ஓவியங்களைப் படித்தறிந்து நம் தமிழ்நாட்டு பாறை ஓவியங்களுடன் ஒப்பாய்வு செய்ய முன்னாள் பிரெஞ்சுப் பகுதியான புச்சேரியின் மொழியியல் பண்பாட்டு ஆய்வு நிறுவனம் முயலலாம்.

ஒரு பழம்பெரும் மொழிக்குடும்பத்திலிருந்தே இன்றைய உலக மொழிகள் இணைந்தன என்பது நாசுதிராதிக் கோட்பாடு. அதில் நம்பிக்கை வைத்தவர் வித்தாலி செடிவோரோசுசின் Vitalg shvoroshkm’ ஆறாயிரமாண்டு பழமை வாய்ந்த மொழிகளை கட்டமைத்து முந்து-நாசுதிராவிக்கு மொழியை கண்டுபிடிக்கலாம் என விளாதிசுலாங் இலியிச் சுவிச்சு நம்புகிறார்.

உலகின் பழமையான அகர முதலிகளையும் இலக்கணங்களையும் துணைக்கு வைத்துக் கொண்டு முந்து-நாசுதிராதிக்கு மொழியைக் கண்டறிய அகரோன் தொல்கோபோலுசுகி (Ahrarom Dolgoplsky) ஈடுபட்டுள்ளார்.

மொழிக் கட்டமைப்பு வரலாறு பத்தாயிரமாண்டு பழமையானது என பெரும்பான்மை மொழியியலறிஞர்கள் நம்புகிறார்கள். ஆயின் பத்திலக்கம் ஆண்டுகள் தாண்டுமளவு பழமை வாய்ந்தது. மாந்த இனம் என்று மொழி தோன்றியது என்று இதனிடையே கண்டுபிடிக்க எவ்வளவு இடர்பட நேரும் என்று நீங்கள் உணர முடியும். நாற்பதாயிரமாண்டு முன்பே மாந்தன் மொழி பேசும் திறன் பெற்றிருந்தான் என கிரிசு இசுடிரிங்கர் கருகிறார். பூம்புகார் 9500 ஆண்டு பழமையானது எனக் கடலடி ஆய்வு கூறுவதால் தமிழரின் சங்க நூல் உள்ளிட்ட நூற்களுக்கு இதுகாறும் கூறிவந்த காலவரையறை மீள் ஆய்வுக்கு உட்படுத்தப்பட்டாக வேண்டும். ஆய்வுக்கு ஓய்வில்ல. அறிஞர்கள் அறிவாராக!

மொழிகள மட்டுமல்ல நதிகளையும் அறிஞர்கள் ஆய்வு செய்கிறார்கள். நதிக்கரையில் மலர்ந்த நாகரிகங்களையும் ஆய்வு செய்கிறார்கள். காவிரியாற்றை ஆய்ந்த அறிஞர்கள் தற்போது தருமபுரி மாவட்டத்தில் உள்ள காவிரிபட்டினம் என்ற இடத்தில் முன்னொரு காலத்தில் காவிரி நதி இல்லை என்கிறார்கள். ‘காவிரி நதி முன் காலத்தில் சிவசமுத்திரம் நீர்வீழ்ச்சியை அடுத்து நேர் கிழக்காக காவிரிப்பட்டினம் வாணியம்பாடி வேலூர் வழியாக சென்னைக்கு வடக்காக வங்கக் கடலில் சங்கமம் ஆனதற்கான அதிகாரப்பூர்வ எடுத்க்காட்டுகள் கிடைக்கின்றன. கால ஓட்டத்தில் ஆற்று ஒட்டத்திலும் பல மாற்றங்கள் ஏற்பட்டன என்பதற்குத் தமிழிலக்கியங்களும் சான்றாக உள்ளன. அப்பர் காலத்தில் காவிரி நடுவிலிருந்த திருத்துருத்தி சுந்தரர் காலத்தில் காவிரிக்கரையிலிருக்கும் கோவில் ஆயிற்று. பாடல் பெற்ற பழைய திருக்கழிப்பாலைக் கோயிலை கொள்ளிட வெள்ளம் கொண்டு போய்விட்டது. வடமுல்லை வாயிலுக்கு அருகில் பெரிய மணல்வெளி காணப்படுகிறது. பழங்காலத்தில் பாலாற்றின் கிளை ஒன்று இவ்வழியே சென்று வறண்டது. சுந்தரர் காலத்தில் துறையூர் பெண்ணையாற்றின் வடக்கிலிருந்தது. இப்போது பெண்ணை ஆறு துறையூர்க்கு வடக்காக ஓடுகின்றது. எனவே தற்போதைய பாலாறு பண்டைக் காலத்தில் காவிரி ஆறாக ஓடியது என்ற உண்மையை தளிவாக உணர முடிகின்றது. காவிரி சென்னைக்கு வடக்கில்தான் கடலில் சங்கமம் ஆயிற்று” என அய்தராபத்தில் உள்ள தேசிய தொலை உணர்வு நிறுவன விஞ்ஞானி செயற்கைக்கோள் மூலம் எடுக்கப்பட்ட படங்கள் கொண்டு ஆய்ந்து சொல்லியுள்ளனர்.

கடவுள்களும் கடவுட் கதைகளும் நம்பிக்கைகளும் ஒவ்வொரு நாட்டிலும் எப்படி வந்தன என ஒப்புநோக்குவோர் எல்லாமதமும் ஒன்றே! எல்லா தொன்மங்களும் ஒன்றே! நாடுவிட்டு நாடு நம்பிக்கைகள் ஒரே அடிப்படையில் உருவாகியுள்ளன எனவும் அறிவார்கள்.

ஆப்ரிக்கத் தொன்மங்களில் நிலமும் வானமும் நெடுங்கால முன்பிருந்தே நிலவி வந்ள்ளன என நம்புகிறார்கள். நிலம் மிருதுவாகவும் நீரற்று வறண்டு கிடந்ததாம். யாரோ ஒரு கிழவி நீரைத் திருடிப் பதுக்கி வைத்து விட்டதாக ஒரு கதை உள்ளது. வேறொரு கதை விலங்கு ஒன்று நீரைத் திருடி மறைத்து வைத்தாக உள்ளது இரண்டு கதைகளிலும் மக்கள் தலைவன் (அ) தொன்மத்தலைவன் நீரைத் திருடியவரிடமிருந்து மீட்டு மக்கள் பயன்பாட்டுக்கு அளித்தாகச் சொல்லப்பட்டுள்ளது. அகத்தியர் கமண்டலத்தில் அடைபட்ட காவிரியை காகம் ஒன்று விடுவித்த நம் கதையுடன் இணைத்துப்பாருங்கள்.

வட ஆசியாவின் சபீரியாவ எடுத்துக் கொள்ளுங்கள் கிறித்துவமும் இசுலாமியம் புத்த மதமும் அங்கு நுழையுமுன் பதினாறுக்கும் பதினெட்டாம் நூற்றாண்டுக்குமிடையே சபீரிய மக்களின் மதம் Shamanism ஆகும். Shaman என்ற சொல் துங்குசிக் மொழியில் தீவிர உணர்ச்சி பெருக்கெடுத்து ஆடும் ஒருவனைக் குறிப்பதாகும். உருசியி மொழியிலிருந்து சபீரியா முழுக்க பரவியது. மேற்கு ஐரோப்பிய மொழிகளில் பரவி இன்று வெறியாட்டுக்கு உலகளாவிய அறிவியல் சொல்லாக மாறிவிட்டது. ஆவிகள் பிடித்துக் கொண்ட மனிதன் வெறியாட்டாடி மக்களை மருளச் செய்தான். ஆம் நம் நாட்டு சாமி வந்து ஆடுதலுக்குச் சற்றொப்ப இணையான சபீரிய மதம். சாமி ஆடுபவன் சபீரியாவில் மட்டுமா? இங்கும் போதயில் ஆடுபவனும் சாமியாக வழிபடப்படுவதில் இருந்து உலகெங்கும் மக்கள் நம்பிக்கைகள் ஒரே தன்மையாக உள்ளதை உணரலாம்.

தீ வழிபாடும் சபீரிய மக்களிடம் நிலவியது. அடுப்பை கடவுளாக வழிபட்டனர். சபீரியர்கள். தீயை முதியபெண் வடிவிலும் வழிபட்டார்கள். தீ கிலக்கி என்ற வழிபடு தெய்வமாயிற்று. நெருப்பின் தாய் நானானியன்ச என அழைக்கப்பட்டாள். தீயின் பாட்டி எவென்கி எனப்பட்டாள். எரியும் தீயில் உணவுப்பொருட்களை தூக்கி எறிந்து இதை தீயே நீ உண்டு எமக்கு நல்ல விலங்குகள் வேட்டையில் சிக்கி உணவாக வாழ்த்துவாயாக என சபீரியர்கள் கோருவாராம். தீ வழிபாடு தமிழரிடயே உண்டு என்பதற்கு தமிழில் உள்ள தெய்வம் என்ற சொல்லே சாட்சியாகும். தீயை மூட்டக்கூடிய மரத்தாலான ஞெலிபுகோல் தமிழரிடமிருந்த தொன்முது கருவிகளில் ஒன்று. அதன் திரிபே கல்லால் வடிக்கப்பட்ட சிவலிங்கமாகும். தீயின் நிறம் பற்றியே சிவந்த வடிவினன் எனச் சிவன் உருவகிக்கப்பட்டான். சிவன் படைக்கப்பட்டபோதே தமிழனுக்கு சிகப்புத் தோல் மீது இருந்த மயக்கம் வெளிப்பட்டது. சிவன் முதல் சினிமா நடிகைகள் வரை கருநிறத் தமிழன் சிகப்பு நிறத்திடம் மயங்கி நிற்பது மாறவில்லை. சபீரிய இனக்குழுக்களான சூக்சி, கொரயாக் ஆகியவர்களும் நம ஞெலிபுகோல் போல் மரத்தாலான தீ கட கோலை வைத்து வழிபட்டனர்.

கௌகாசசு பகுதிகளிலும் வீட்டில் உள்ள அடுப்பு கடவுளாக வழிபடப்பட்டது. மலை வாழ் மக்களான இங்குசசு, ஓசசட்டுசு, சியார்சியன்கள் நெருப்பையும் சாம்பலையும் வழிபட்டனர். தீய ஆராதனை காட்டுவதும் சாம்பலை திருநீறெனப் பூசுவதும் நம்மவர் கையாளும் பழக்க வழக்கம். கௌகாசசு பகுதியிலும் அதேபழக்கவழக்கம்! இவை மனித மனம் ஒரே தன்மையில் சிந்தித் வந்துள்ளதை உங்களுக்கு உணர்த்த வில்லயா?

வேளாண்மை தொடர்புடைய வழிபாடுகள், முன்னோர் தொடர்புடைய வழிபாடுகள் என்றுதான் உலகின் பல சமுதாய மக்கள் கடைபிடித்தொழுகியுள்ளனர். வோல்கா பகுதியிலும் மேற்கு ஊரல் பகுதிகளிலும்வசந்த கால விடுமுறைகள் நிலத்தில் உழுவதற்கு தொடங்குவதையும் விதை தூவுவதை ஒட்டியுமே அமைந்தன. சிறப்பான உணவு தயாரிக்கப்பட்டு மண்ணுக்கு படையலிட்டு அம்மக்கள் உண்டுள்ளார். தமிழர் கொண்டாடும் பொங்கலும் உழவர் திருநாளே! வோல்கா பகுதி மக்கள் ரஷ்யாவில் கொண்டாடியதும் உழவர் திருநாளே! உலக சமுதாயங்கள் பலவற்றில் உழவர் திருநாள் கொண்டாடப்பட்டு வந்துள்ளது.

ஸ்லாவ் மக்களும் வேளாண் பணி துவங்கும்போதும் முடிவுறும் போதும் விழாக் கொண்டாடி வந்துள்ளனர். கதிரவனை வழிபட்டுள்ளனர். உதயசூரியன் வழிபாடு உலகெங்கும் காணக்கிடப்பதாகும். பல்வேறு சமுதாயங்களும் உதயசூரியன் எங்கள் இதய சூரியனே என்று வழிபட்டு வந்துள்ளனர். Svarog, Dazhdbog, Khors ஆகிய மூவரும் சூரியக்கடவுளரே! பெருண் என்ற இடிக்கடவுளும் ஆடுமாடுகளைப் பாதுகாக்கும் கடவுளாக Veles (volos) இருந்தார். வேலசு வேலவனாகியதா? வேலவன் வேலசு ஆகியதா? முருகனை வழிபடுவோர் மூளையை பிய்த்துக் கொள்ளட்டும். 

ஸ்காண்டிநேவியப் பகுதிகளில் மக்கள் வழிபாட்டுமுறை பற்றி அறிய யயயய என்ற பாடல் தொகுப்பு நமக்குப் பயன்படுகிறது. 11(அ) 12ம் நூற்றாண்டில் Saemund Sigfussion என்பவரால் தொகுக்கப்பெற்ற பாத்தொகுப்பு நூல்மூலம் பல செய்திகளை நாமறியலாம். கடவுள்கள் உலகை ஆளம் முன்பு இயற்கைக்கு மாறான சக்திகள் மண்ணுலக ஆண்டதாக நம்பினர். Jotnars எனப்படும் அத்தகு மனித ஆற்றலிலும்மேம்பட்ட சக்திகளை கடவுள்கள் கொன்றனராம். YMIR என்ற பூதத்தைக் கொன்று வானத்தையும் பூமியையும் கடவுள் படைத்தாராம். மரங்களில் இருந்து மனிதர்களை கடவுள் படைத்தாராம்.

இயற்கையின் ஆற்றல் ஒவ்வொன்றையும் பேரழிவு ஒவ்வொன்றையும் கடவுள்களாக உருவகித்து மெக்சிகோவில் வழிபட்டனர். முக்கியமாக மூன்று கடவுள்களில் ஒன்று Quetzalcoatl. பச்சைத்தோலுடைய பாம்பே மெக்சிகோவில் வழிபட்ட கடவுள். பாம்பு வணக்கம் பாரெங்கும் பரவி இருந்தது. திராவிடர்கள தஸ்யூக்கள் என்றார்கள் ஆரியர்கள். நாகர்கள் எனவும் திராவிடர்கள் குறிப்பிடப்பட்டனர். நாகவழிபாடு இங்கு நிலவி வந்துள்ளதற்ககு நாக்பூர், நாகப்பட்டினம் முதலிய ஊர்ப்பெயர்களோடு ஒவ்வொரு பாம்புப்புற்றுக்கும் துணிசுற்றி மஞ்சள்நீர் தெளித்து வழிபட்டு வருவதே உணர்த்தும். கடவுள்கள் பலவாக இருந்து கடவுள்களை ஒருங்கிணைக்க முற்பட்ட போது சிவன் கழுத்தில் பாம்பும் தலைமுடியில் பிறையும் ஏறிக்கொண்டன. காளை மீது சிவன் ஏறிக்கொண்டார். நாகமும் திங்களும் தீயும், தீ வடிவினனான சிவனும், காளமாடும் தனித்தனிக் கடவுளாக இருந்து ஒருங்கிணக்கப்பட்டவர்கள். கதிரவன் வழிபாடு போன்றே திங்கள் வழிபாடும் இருந்ள்ளது. இதில் வியப்புக்குரிய ஒற்றுமை சிவன் தலைமீதுள்ள பிறைக்கும் பிறை தொழும் இசுலாமிய மரபுக்கும் இடை நிலவும் ஒற்றுமைக் கூறுகளே ஆகும்.

சீனாவில் Sheng-Nong எனும் பெரிய தெய்வீக உழவனை வழிபட்டனர். முதல் உழவுப் பணி தொடங்கும் போது அக்கடவுள் வழிபடப் பட்டது நமது பொங்கல் திருநாளுடன் ஒப்புக் நோக்கத்தக்க.

ரஷ்ய அறிஞர் Sergei Tokarov மதங்களின் வரலாறு பற்றி எழுதுகையில் வந்தேறு குடிகளாம் ஆரியர்கள குறிப்பிட்டு ஈரானிய மேட்டு நிலப்பகுதிகளிலிருந் இந்தியாவுக்கு வந்தவர்கள் என்கிறார். மொகஞ்சரரோ நாகரிகத்தை உருவாக்கிய இந்தியாவின் பூர்வீகக் குடிகளுடன் பண்பாட்டு தொடர்பு அற்றவர்கள் என்கிறார். அவர் ஆரியர்கள் முதலில் சிந்துச் சமவெளியையும் வடமேற்கு இந்தியாவையும் கைப்பற்றியபின் கங்கைப் பாசனப்பகுதிகளையும் கைப்பற்றினார்கள் என்கிறார். 33 கடவுள்களை ஆரியர்கள் வழிபட்டதாகச் சொல்லும் அந்த ரஷ்ய அறிஞர் இருக்கு வேதத்தில் 3399 கடவுள்கள் ஓரிடத்தில் சொல்லப்படுவதயும் சுட்டிக் காட்டியுள்ளார். எழுத்தில் வடிக்காத வாய்மொழியாக மட்டுமே பேசப்பட்ட மொழியை கொண்டிருந்த ஆரியர்களிடம் தோற்ற திராவிடர்களில் அறிஞர்கள் தம்மொழியின் மாண்ப என்றென்றும் நிலைநாட்ட எண்ணங் கொண்டு தமிழ் எழுத்க்கள் 33 ஐ ஆரியக் கடவுளாக்கி அமைதியான முறையில் பழி தீர்த்க் கொண்டதாக எம். சுந்தரராசு எனும் அறிஞர் அழகுற ஆய்ந்து எழுதியுள்ளார். 12 உயிர், 18 மெய், 1 குற்றியலுகரம், 1 குற்றியலிகரம் என்னும் 33 தமிழ் எழுத்க்களை ஆரிய வந்தேறிகள் தலைமீது கடவுளாக ஏற்றிச் சுமக்கச் செய்த பெயர் தெரியாத அந்தத் திராவிடவியல் அறிஞர்கள தமிழுலகம் நினைத்து நினைத்து போற்ற வேண்டும்.

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ஒன்றே குலம்! ஒருவனே தேவன் என்பதுபோல் ஒருவரே அண்ணன்! அவர் உலகத் தமிழரின் பொதுச் சொத்து! தனக்கெனத் தனிச்சொத்துச் சேர்க்காமல் தமிழர்க்காக வாழ்ந்த அரிய கருவூலம்! அறிவுப் பெட்டகம்! அண்ணாவை உள்வாங்கிக் கொண்ட உள்ளங்கள் பல கோடி! அவர் உருவாக்கிய அறிவியக்கம் அரசியல் பதவி தேடி வரும் பறவைகள் இடம் சாரும் ஆலமரம் அல்ல! எழுதத் தெரியாத ஏழைக்கும் எழுத்தும் பேச்சும் ஊற்றெனப் பெருக்கெடுக்க உள்ளிருந்து நல்லறிவு புகட்டிய ஆசான்! எவரும் எப்போதும் அவரிடம இரவல் கேட்காமலே எல்லார்க்கும் எல்லாமும் அளித்த அறிவுப் புதையல் அண்ணா!

சிலையாக வழிபட அல்ல அவர் நம்மை சிந்திக்க வைத்தது! அம்பேத்கர் பிறந்த மண் அவரின் நூல்களை மலிவுப் பதிப்பாக்கி பன் மொழிகளில் பெயர்த்து கருத்துப் பரப்புதலே கடமையெனச் செயல்படுகிறது. இங்கோ அண்ணா நினைவிடத்தில் எரிவாயுவை வீணாக்கி ஒளிவிளக்கு ஏற்றி கோயிலாக்கிக் குதுகலிக்கிறார்கள். சிலைகளுக்கு மாலை அணிவிக்கும் சடங்குகள் நடக்கின்றன. அவரின் படைப்புகள் அரசு முயற்சியாக அகில உலகமும் சென்றடைய திட்டமில்லை. மூலக்கதையை மறைத்து தழுவல் இலக்கியங்களை மக்கள் உள்ளங்களில் தவழ விடும் முயற்சி வெற்றி பெறாது, இயல்பான ஆற்றல் இருந்தும் முன்னோடிகள் முகவரிகளை மறைக்கும் மனப்பாங்கு வேதனையளிக்கிறது. தொல்காப்பியத்தை தொலைத்து விட்டு பூங்காவில் நறுமணம் நாடுக என்றால் மனம்ஒப்புமா? வள்ளுவத்தை இருட்டடிப்பு செய்துவிட்டு ஓவியம் கண்டு உவந்திடுக என்றால் உள்ளம் ஏற்குமா? இளங்கோவடிகளை மறந்து விட்டு அடியார்க்கு நல்லாரை மட்டுமே அகிலம் போற்றுமா? தன் நூல்கள் தரணியில் பரவ எவருக்கும் ஆசை எழுவது இயல்பு! அதற்காக முன்னூல்கள் மறக்கப்பட வேண்டுமா? வேரின்றி செடி ஏது?விதையின்றி மரமேது? அண்ணாவின்றி நாமேது? தமிழ்நாட்டுக்கே பெயர் சூட்டிய அண்ணாவுக்கு தமிழ்நாட்டரசு காட்டப் போகும் நன்றிக்கடன் அவரின் எழுத்தையும் பேச்சையும் கருத்தையும் எங்கும் பரப்புதலே ஆகும்! நூற்றாண்டிலாவது ஆடம்பரங்களால் அண்ணாவுக்கு சிறுமை சேர்ப்பதைக் காட்டிலும் அவர் நூல்கள் படித்து தம்பிக்கு மடல்கள் படித்து விழிப்புற்றெழுந்த நாம், நம் பின்னவர்க்கும் அறிவியக்க வாயிலை திறந்து வைப்போமாக! அறிவு கொளுத்து வோமாக! மாநிலங்களவையில் அண்ணா முன்மொழிந்த புத்தாக்கச் சிந்தனைகளை நினைவு கூறுவோமாக!

தேசிய இனங்கள் விடுதலையை மையக் கருத்தாக்கமாக வைத்தே மாநிலங்களவையில் 1962 ஏப்ரல் திங்களில் அண்ணா தன் கன்னிப்பேச்சை நிகழ்த்தினார். இந்திய விடுதலைக்கு முன் கபூர்தலா காங்கிரஸ் மாநாட்டில் நேரு நிகழ்த்திய உரையை நினைவு கூர்ந்து இந்திய ஒன்றியத்துக்குள் எல்லா மாநிலங்களையும் இணைத்து ஒன்றாக வைத்திருக்கவே காங்கிரஸ் விரும்புகிறது. ஆனால் எந்தப் பகுதியாவது பிரிந்து செல்ல விரும்பினால் காங்கிரஸ் இசைவளிக்கும் என நேரு பேசி இருந்தார். அதை நினைவு கூர்ந்து அந்த பழைய நெருப்பு இன்னும் நேரு பெருமகனாரிடம் கனன்று கொண்டிருக்கும் என தான் நம்புவதாகச் சொன்ன அறிஞர் அண்ணா ஏன் தென்னகத்துக்குச் சுயநிர்ணய உரிமையை தரக்கூடாது? எனத் வினா எழுப்பினார். இன்றளவும் காசுமீரச் சிக்கல் போர்களுக்கும் பல்லாயிரம் உயிரிழப்புக்கும் காரணமாக விளங்குகிறது. சுய நிர்ணய உரிமை மறுக்கப்பட்டதால் தான் தமிழ் ஈழமும் துன்பக் கடலில் தத்தளித்து நிற்கிறது.

நாடுகள் பலவற்றுடன் நட்புறவு என்பது நடைமுறையில் அந்த நாடுகளில் நம்மவர் படும் அவதிகள் தீர வழிகாண்பதில்லை என்பது அறிஞர் அண்ணாவின் வருத்தமாகும். 1966 ல் அண்ணா மாநிலங்களவையில் பேசிய சமயத்தில் அங்கேரி நாட்டு பிரதமர் இந்தியாவுக்கு வருகை தந்திருந்தார். தெருவில் இரு இளைஞர்கள் கிணடவாகப் பேசுவதாக அண்ணா சொன்னார். பசி (Hungry)நாட்டுப் பிரதமரை பார்க்க அங்கேரி (hungary) நாட்டுப் பிரதமர் வந்துள்ளதாக கிண்டல் செய்தாராம். இதைச் சொன்ன அண்ணா நட்புறவுப் பயணங்களால் நாட்டுக்கு என்ன பலன் என்று கேள்வி எழுப்பினார். பயன் ஏதேனும் இருந்திருப்பின் தென்னகத் திலிருந்து பர்மா சென்றவர்கள் ஏதிலிகளாய் எல்லாவற்றையும் இழந்து இந்தியா திரும்பிய சிக்கலுக்கு விடிவு காணப்பட்டிருக்கும். ஆனால் பலமுறை பர்மா போகிறார்கள்- வருகிறார்கள்- சுமுகத்தீர்வு ஏற்படும் என்று சொல்லி வருகிறார்கள். பயனில்லை. நட்புறவு என்பது இருநாட்டுத் தலைவர்களும் ஒருவர் நாட்டுக்கு அடுத்தவர் விருந்தினராகப் போய் திரும்புவதன்று. இரு நாட்டு மக்களின் பிரச்சினைகளை தீர்க்காத நட்புறவால் எள்ளளவும் பயனில்லை என்றார் அண்ணா. அடுத்து அண்ணா 1966 லேயே நாடாளுமன்றத்திலேயே கூறிய அறிவுரைகள் அவரின் தொலை நோக்குப் பார்வைக்குச் சான்றாகத் திகழ்கின்றது. பணக்கார நாடுகளுடன் பந்தபாசம் காட்ட போட்டா போட்டி போடும் தலைவர்களுக்கு மத்தியில் ஆப்ரிக்க நாடுகளுடன் இந்தியா தோழமை பூண்டிட வேண்டும் என்ற அண்ணா மாறுபட்டவர். ஏழைகளையே எண்ணி அரசியல் வியூகம் வகுப்பவர் என்பது வெள்ளிடை மலையென விளங்குகிறது. இன்று 12.4% இந்தியாவின் பணவீக்கம் எனில் ஆப்ரிக்க நாடான ஜிம்பாபாவேயின் பணவீக்கம் 1,500,000% விழுக்காடாகும். ஒரு தேநீர் பருக பெட்டி நிறைய பணம் எடுத்துச் செல்ல வேண்டிய நிலைமை! ஏழை நாடுகளை உயர்த்திட இந்தியா தன் பங்களிப்பை ஆற்ற அறிஞர் அண்ணா அன்றே அறிவுரை சொன்னார். அமெரிக்காவுக்கு வெண்சாமரம் வீச அல்ல அண்ணா சொன்ன அறிவுரை!

பிரிட்டன் தன் காலனி நாடுகளை ஒரு அமைப்புக்குள் அடக்கி வைத்திருக்க உருவாக்கியது காமன் வெல்த் அமைப்பு! தென் கிழக்காசிய நாடுகள் காமன் வெல்த் உருவாக்க இந்தியா முனைப்பு காட்ட வேண்டுமென அண்ணா பேசினார். ஐரோப்பிய யூனியன் உருவாகும் முன்பே தென் கிழக்காசிய நாடுகள் தமது பொருளாதார மேம்பாட்டுக்காக ஓரமைப்பிற்குள் திரள வேண்டும் என்றார் அண்ணா. சப்பானிய கூட்டையும் சப்பானிய தொழில் முனைவோர் பங்களிப்பையும் பெற்று இந்தியா ஏற்றமுற வேண்டுமென அறிஞர் அண்ணா எடுத்தியம்பினார்.

அண்ணாவின் பார்வை உலகநோக்குடையது, அண்ணாமலைப் பல்கலைக்கழகப் பட்டமளிப்புப் பேருரையில் அண்ணா தன் உலக நோக்கை அழகுறப் படம் பிறப்பார்.

“கையேந்தி இரந்து நிற்கும் இரவலனே இல்லாத – கஞ்சநெஞ்சனின்இதயமில்லாக் கடும்பார்வை விழாத – தேவைகள், குற்றங்கள், பொய்மையே இல்லாத – பழிப்புரையே கேளாத உலகம் – உடலாலும் உள்ளத்தாலும் பிணிவயப்படாத மனித இனம் – எங்கே வாழ்நாள் நீடிக்குமோ எங்கே அச்சம் மடியுமோ -எங்கே இன்பம் சுரக்குமோ எங்கே அன்பு ஆழமாகுமோ – அத்தகு புன்னகை பூத்த நிலம் நோக்கி குடிசையில் – வாழும் மனிதனை இட்டுச் செல்லும் இலட்சியமே அண்ணாயிசம்”

அண்ணாவின் கொள்கைளை மறந்துவிட்டு ஆளுயர வெட்டுருக்களில் அஞ்சல் தலை அளவு அண்ணா படம் போட்டு நூற்றாண்டு எடுக்கிறார்கள். இருளைக் கிழித்து எழுஞாயிறாக கூழைகளுக்காக எளிமையான அரசியல் நடத்திய அண்ணாவின் புகழ் உலகில் ஓங்கும்! உண்மைக்கு அழிவில்லை!

நந்திவர்மன், பொதுச்செயலர், திராவிடப்பேரவை, புதுச்சேரி, இந்தியா

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ARCHIVES:DISMISSED ACCOUNTS CASE AGAINST AUROBINDO ASHRAM

Everything is for history to judge.In one’s lifetime we  cannot expect justice.Hence we  leave it in our archives for historians and  researchers to evaluate our times. We lost the case  after  first lawyer became judicial magistrate and withdrew, and three more lawyers either on our request  or on their own after they accepting  briefs from respondents  in different cases, with drew. We appealed for in media to any lawyer  to come forward, one came,  handled sometime and threw the towel. So our case was dismissed. Let historians  study the issues raised…. N.Nandhivarman

Ev

IN THE  COURT OF PRINCIPAL DISTRICT JUDGE

AT PONDICHERRY

O.P. NO. 22/97

 

Between:

1.      N. Nandhivarman,

General Secretary, Dravida Peravai,

69, Rangapillai Street,

Pondicherry – 605 001

2.      D.K. Ramnujam, Ex. M.L.A.,

17, Pillayar Koil Street,

Thengaithittu,

Pondicherry – 605 004                                                                                                                                                                      …. Petitioners

 

Vs.

 

1.      Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust

represented by its Managing Trustee

Mr. Harikant C. Patel,

Sri Aurobindo Ashram  Main Building,

Marine Street,

Pondicherry – 605 002

2.      Mr. Manoj Das Gupta,

Trustee,

23, Saint Louis Street,

Pondicherry – 605 002

3.      Dr. Dilip Datta,

Trustee,

45, Lally Tollendal Street,

Pondicherry – 605 002

4.      Mr. Ved Prakash Johar,

Trustee, Sri Aurobindo Ashram Dining Hall,

8, Rangapillai Street,

Pondicherry – 605 002

5.      Mr. Albert A. Patel

Trustee,

15, Calve Subbaraya Chetty Street,

Pondicherry – 605 001                                    ….RESPONDENTS

 

PETITION UNDER SECTION 3 OF THE CHARITABLE AND RLIGIOUSTRUSTS ACT, 1920 (CENTRAL ACT NO. 14 OF 1920)

1)     The first petitioner is the son of Late R. Nagarathinam, Hindu, aged about    49 Years, residing at No.69, Rangapillai Street, Pondicherry – 605 001.

The second Petitioner is the son of Late Krishnaswamy, Hindu, aged about 76 years, residing at 17, Pillayar Koil Street, Thengaithittu,         Pondicherry- 605 004.

The  address for service of all process and summons of the petitioners is that of their counsel.

P. U. Chemmal, B.A., L.L. M.,

Advocate,

Ignacy Maistry Street,

Pondicherry – 605 001.

 

2)     The first respondent is a charitable trust created by Late Madame Mira Alfasa and managed by respondent 2 to 5 for the time being.

The second respondent is the son of father name not known to the Petitioner, aged 62 years and residing at 23, Saint Louis Street,  Pondicherry –605 002.

The third respondent is the son of father name not known to the Petitioner, aged 68 years residing at 45, Lally Thollendal street, Pondicherry-605 002.

The fourth respondent is the son of father name not knownto the Petitioner, aged 69 years, residing at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram Dining Hall,                   8 Rangapillai street, Pondicherry – 605 002.

The fifth respondent is the son of, father name not known to the Petitioner, aged 73 years, residing at 15, calve subbaraya Chetty street,       Pondicherry – 605 001.

The address for service of all purposes and summons of the respondents is as given above.

 

3)     The petitioner submits that the first respondent trust is a charitable trust created for the benefit of the disciples, devotees  and  inmates of                   Sri Aurobindo Ashram and of the schools conducted by the said Ashram.  The trust was created by a Declaration of Trust made by Late Madame Mira Alfasa who was known as the Divine Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, by a deed of declaration of trust executed on 1.5.1955 and registered as document No.1823 of 1955 in Book-1. Vol. 402, pages 273 to 287  in the Office of the Sub-Registrar of Vanur.  The Trust deed was subsequently registered on 28.3.1964 in the Enrigistrement Bureau in Pondicherry.  Thereafter the declaration of trust was further transcribed in Bureau Des Hypotheque, Pondicherry on 25.5.1964 in R.V. 90 as No.22.

 

4)     The petitioners submit that as it could be seen from the said deed of declaration of trust, the trust is possessed of extensive lands and buildings and the sale proceeds and benefits arisen out of the books,  periodicals, manuscripts and writings of Sri Aurobindo have also been made over to the trust for the sole benefit and use of the disciples, devotees and inmates of Sri Aurobindo Ashram.  It is also manifest on the trust deed that the properties of the trust shall be in use for the residence of the inmates of Sri Aurobindo Ashram and for various other purposes, industries and undertakings connected with the Ashram and for the extensive benefit and use of the disciples, devotees and inmates of the Ashram.  The properties are also to be put to use for the spiritual education and enlightenment of mankind generally on the ideal and philosophy of Sri Aurobindo.

 

5)     The petitioner submits that the first petitioner hails form a family of
Sri Aurobindo’s disciples and has immense interest in the study of the teachings of Sri Aurobindo and the Divine Mother.  The first petitioner therefore has lot of concern over the proper management and administration of Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust and in ensuring that the properties of the trust and its incomes are not exploited for personal ends.  The second petitioner is a freedom fighter and a social activist concerned about the charitable activities of a trust functionary in Pondicherry soil and its proper use for benefiting local populace and all.

 

6)     The petitioner submits that the trustees for the time being of Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust  have been vested with the absolute management and entire control of the trust properties for the purposes of the trust deed for execution of the trust.  The trustees shall be at liberty at any time to sell or let out any house, land, tenements, hereditaments and premises and any motors, pumps, fixtures or fittings, books and other movable properties subject to the trust with power to buy or resell the same. and all moneys that arise form such transactions shall be deemed to be part of the trust property.  The petitioner submits that the trust has also been registered as public charitable trust under section 80 G of the Indian Income Tax Act. 1961.

 

7)     The petitioner submits that while it was so the respondents 2 to 5 who are for the time being the trustees of the first respondent trust have been making misuse of the funds of the trust for their personal ends.  Therefore a demand was made from among the inmates for particulars about  the management of the trust and its accounts.  The respondents 2 to 5 have been functioning in an autocratic manner keeping away all the inmates and have refused to render accounts to them.  Consequently there was a move to form an association called Sri Aurobindo Ashram Inmates Association and the respondents 2 to 5 exercising their influence with official machinery took steps to thwart the association from being coming into existence.  A few of the promoters of the association have filed a civil suit praying for an injuuction to the  Registrar of the societies to register the Association . The said suit is disposed (O.S. No.12/97)  on 21.4.97 by the court of III ADM.  As a retaliation to the move adopted by a section of the inmates to form an association, the respondents 2 to 5 sought to expel a few identified persons who are inmates of Sri Aurobindo Ashram form the Ashram community, of flimsy grounds.  This triggered another round of litigation lodged by the four expelled inmates which were taken on file as original suits No.88/97, 89/97, 90/97, 91/97 on the file of the court of III ADM at Pondicherry.  The latter batch of suits has however ended in a compromise  under which the expelled members were unconditionally taken back to the fold of the Ashram.

 

     The petitioners respectfully submits that the respondents 2 to 5 have thus converted the whole trusts to own their benefits and do not render any account to anyone.  on the other hand there is a vast extent of movable and immovable properties for the trust and a number of industrial undertakings are being owned and conducted by Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust.  The trust also received quite on amount of public contribution from the devotees and the disciples of Sri Aurobindo.  The respondents do not appear to have rendered proper accounts and any move made by the inmates to look into the management of the first respondent trust by the respondents 2 to 5  only results in victimisation of the worst degree, including physical manhandling.

 

9)     The petitioners submit that in the Trust deed created by The Mother, the intention of the trust, the beneficiaries, the maintenance and utilisation of Trust funds and all other connected and incidental matters have been clearly delineated but the Deed of Trust does not contain any provision for removal of  Trustees in case of mismanagement, misconduct and misappropriations.  The Deed of Trust, the petitioners submit, does not contain any provision for the continuing trustees to oust any trustee even if one of them have committed misappropriation of trust funds or any other breach of  trust .  No trustee or majority of the trustees have any power to expel any other Trustee.  The Deed of Trust does not mention the period for which appointed trustees should hold office. The petitioners submit that if the trustees are to hold office throughout their life time, then there is danger of mismanagement due to their  old age incapacity of performing their duties towards the execution of the trust.  The petitioners state that the chances of the management  indirectly falling into the hands of undesirable and incompetent persons looms large.  The lack of accountability, transparency and democracy coupled with the ambiguous provision of the trust deed has resulted in Sri Aurobindo Ashram “falling from grace”.

 

10) The petitioners also submit that the Government of Pondicherry under the administration of the then Lt. Governor Cheddilal wrote three times to the trustees of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust, Sri Aurobindo Society and other units of Sri Aurobindo Ashram soliciting information regarding accounts. The petitioners state that there was a CBI raid on 13th September 1976 on  Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust, Sri Aurobindo Society and other units. These incidents, the petitioners submit is clear cut proof of the reluctance of   Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust to comply with the laws of the land.  It is to be noted that this defiance or refusal to show accounts at the time of emergency resulting in CBI raids will have to be taken note of by the Honourable Court in evaluating the proper functioning of the trust and  petitioners’ prayer for accountability.

 

11)The petitioners submits that the accounts of Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust and its subsidiary business trusts including Sri Aurobindo Udyog Trust are written in a centralised manner.  and of late there has been large  scale shifting of deposits/accounts from Nationalised Banks of repute like State Bank of India to other banks, for no rhyme or reason, other than creating cloud of suspicion over the pecuniary benefits accrued to the prime movers of this “deposit transfers” .

 

12) The petitioners submits  that the registered office of Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust and its  trustees, parties to this suit and witnesses reside within the jurisdiction of this Honourable court.  The Trust deed which was originally registered in Vanur, was subsequently registered on 28.3.1964 in the enregistrement Bureau in Pondicherry as well as transcribed in Bureau Des Hypotheque Pondicherry on 21.5.1964 in R.V. 90 as No.22. The Petitioners submit that it  is clear as whole of Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust and its properties, trustees, witnesses, office, registered office, commercial establishments etc are situated all within the areas of the jurisdiction of the Honourable Court.

 

13) The first Petitioner submits that the first petitioner is a native of Pondicherry and comes from a family that was close to Sri Aurobindo  and is an ardent admirer of his global vision and philosophy.  Both the petitioners understand that the respondents 2 to 5 are converting to their own benefit the properties of the first respondents trust  and income of the said trust.  There are also indications that respondents 2 to 5 are entering into shady deals involving sale of the properties of  the  first respondent trust in which lot of money is being passed under hand to be secreted and pocketed by the respondents 2 to 5 to their own persons.  It is therefore just and necessary that the respondents are directed to furnish to the petitioner with particulars as to  the properties and the income of the first respondents trust and application of those income in the matter of execution of the trust and also a direction be issued that the accounts of the trust shall be examined and audited for  a period of three years prior to the date of this petition.  Hence this petition.

 

14) The petitioner pays a court fee of Rs.10/- as per the provision of  schedule II under article 10 (2) of the Pondicherry Court Fees and suit Valuation Act, 1972.

 

15)The petitioner therefore prays that this Honourable Court may be pleased to pass an order and decree:

 

a)      directing the respondents 2 to 5 to furnish to the petitioner with particulars as to  the details of immovable, movable  properties of Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust, the income of the trust form those properties and from contribution made to the trust by the public and devotees and disciples of Sri Aurobindo Ashram and application of those income in the matter of execution of the trust;

b)      directing that the accounts of the said trust shall be examined and audited by an independent auditor for  a period of three years prior to the  filing of this petition;

c)      awarding the costs of this petition;

d)      granting such further or other order or orders as this Honourable Court may deem fit in the facts and circumstances of the case and thus render justice.

 

Dated at Pondicherry this the 24th day of June, 1997.

 

              Sd/-                                                                       Sd/-

COUNSEL FOR PETITIONERS                         PETITIONERS                               

VERIFICATION

We, the petitioners herein do hereby declare that what is stated above are true to the best of our knowledge, belief and information.

Dated at Pondicherry this the 24th day of June, 1997.

                                                                                                            Sd/-                                                     PETITIONERS

List of Docutment filed

Photo copy of the extract of the book.  The Life of Sri Aurobindo(1872-1926) page 233 to Prove the first petitioners family  is Sri Aurobindo’s disciples.

Pondicherry                                                                    Sd/-                         

Date : 22.7.97                                                  COUNSEL FOR PETITIONERS

 

//TRUE COPY//

 

CULTURAL SHOCKS OF AUROVILLE REGION

THE LONG DRAWN STRUGGLE AGAINST AUROVILLE

The Government of India and International donors must take note of the words of appreciation my blogs and statements are receiving from the followers of Aurobindo Ghosh. All the mails we got and comments we received had been a source of strength to us. Mr.Tushar N.Mohapatra, a dedicated follower of the Aurobindonian family had posted on june 24 th of 2008 the following comments : [Tuesday, June 24, 2008 N. Nandhivarman is doing a yeoman’s service for propagation of the Savitri Era Religion [DRAVIDA PERAVAI 23 Jun 08 SAVE AUROVILLE FROM FINANCIAL IRREGULARITIES] By nandhivarman ]

N. Nandhivarman is doing a yeoman’s service to the evolutionary revolution that was launched by The Mother and Sri Aurobindo. By turning the searchlights upon Sri Aurobindo Ashram and the Auroville, he is generating a lot of awareness as well as curiosity among the public. It is good for the hospitality industry in Puducherry and also for the propagation of Savitri Era Religion. If this nexus can work more openly and systematically, then we shall really be able to take the idea of Human Unity very far. All kinds of issues besetting a globalized world will look forward to a Puducherry rendezvous for their solution. [TNM] Posted by Tusar N Mohapatra at 10:40 AM 0 comments Links Tuesday, June 24, 2008

But I must place before the world his views much before I started the recent open debate on Auroville. Though I had spoken against Auroville in the Athiests Conference of 2006 and had written in Sinthanaiyalan Pongal issue of 2005, there had been voices within Aurobindonian family to show the door to the Ex-Maharaja of Kashmir Dr.Karan Singh, who like absentee landlord manages Auroville. Also other demands raised by Tushar N.Mohapatra are given in his words below including the date, year of those demands.

Sunday, July 22, 2007 A resident of Auroville should become the President of Auroville
The President of India, the Prime Minister, and the members of his Cabinet reside in India. The Chief Minister of Puducherry is a resident of the State. But most of the persons nominated to the Governing Board of The Auroville Foundation are not residents of Auroville. This is untenable; they must resign forthwith. A resident of Auroville should become the President of Auroville. [TNM] Posted by Tusar N Mohapatra at 9:44 AM 1 comments Links

Wednesday, July 18, 2007 They have no business to continue in such positions
[For first time, govt to choose IIM directors The Times of India 18 Jul 2007 MUMBAI: This could be the final blow to the long-held autonomy of the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs).]
Are the 5 nominated members of The International Advisory Council of the The Auroville Foundation well versed with the teachings of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo? If not, they have no business to continue in such positions. There are lot many others among the devotees with records of life long dedication to the cause of the Life Divine. The Government must not impose its bureaucratic whims over the organic growth of Auroville. [TNM] Posted by Tusar N Mohapatra at 6:39 PM 1 comments Links

Thursday, June 12, 2008 Savitri Era Party welcomes N. Nandhivarman’s 100 Questions
N. Nandhivarman, General Secretary, Dravida Peravai, in his article, “AUROVILLE’s MATRIMANDIR: AN EYE OPENER,” has promised that he will raise “100 Questions for generating awareness about the happenings in Auroville and to ensure Government of India intervenes to effect amendment to Act and initiate corrective measures.” [7:06 AM & 12:22 PM] Savitri Era Party welcomes this. [TNM] Posted by Tusar N Mohapatra at 6:26 PM 0 comments Links

Saturday, June 14, Saturday, June 14, 2008 Savitri Era Party demands free elections, accountability, and transparency in Auroville
[THANKS FOR BBC INITIATED DEBATE ON AUROVILLE - indiainteracts.com By Google Inc. THANKS FOR BBC INITIATED DEBATE ON AUROVILLE indiainteracts.com, India - The New Age commune revealed on TV is guiltier of child neglect than abuse, says Loic Rich. “I was not surprised by the allegations of child abuse at . ...The New Age Living Blog - http://newagelivinblog.com THANKS FOR BBC INITIATED DEBATE ON AUROVILLE indiainteracts.com - Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India “I was not surprised by the allegations of child abuse at Auroville – a progressive European community in India- that BBC news team made this week. ...See all stories on this topic]
The recent BBC (un)coverage on Auroville is admittedly low on propriety but compensatingly high on priority. Probably, years of good work get a bad name all of a sudden, but simultaneously, some sordid goings on also come under scrutiny, which otherwise would not have happened so easily.
The Congress has the satisfaction that it rules at least a tiny patch of Tamil Nadu through Dr. Karan Singh. But the 1988 Act, without territorial demarcation, deems to be infructuous as of today. As such, continuation of the present Governing Body is not only illegal but also illegitimate.
Matrimandir is the sacred shrine for the innumerable adherents of Savitri Era Religion. It is painful for the Savitri Erans to learn that certain high-ranking persons are colluding with nefarious activities and indulging in falsehood. Savitri Era Party wants change and demands free elections, accountability, and transparency. [TNM] Posted by Tusar N Mohapatra at 6:41 PM 0 comments Links

THE CULTURAL SHOCKS OF AUROVILLE

Let me quote from my article in Voice of Voiceless 2006 issue http://www.voiceofvoiceless.com/current/m2.asp

Jahaji Bhai” is a documentary film with an Urdu title, which means brothers of the ship. These are not sailors of the same boat as the English idiom indicates but literally are slaves taken away in the same ship. These are bonded labour taken 167 years ago in ships to erstwhile colonies of the Caribbean region. Suresh Kumar Pillai had tried to capture their miseries in this documentary on a totally forgotten peoples. Why did people from India go to Caribbean’s? The historical necessity arrives with the abolition of slavery in the nation ruled by white colored people. After the black race got reprieve from slavery, to work in the sugar plantations Indians from Chota Nagpur areas, mostly tribal people were lured into.The first ship left Calcutta in February 1838 and reached Guyana on May 5 th 1838. There were 420 hill coolies, as they were called, out of which 50 are women and 10 children. Many succumbed to diseases in mid way and those who reached there had either to perish under stress and strain within the 5-year contract period or to be killed for so called violations.

In fact many ships went missing and no one was there to shed a single drop of tear. If an Indian coolie absented for 7 days he was fined $24 dollars, which is equivalent to 6 months wages. These Indians lost their roots and culture. While liberated Negro slaves climbed in the social ladder, Indians filled that vacuum at the rock bottom of society. They were induced to become addicts to alcoholism. With few women around polyandry became the order of the day. Africans joined Europeans to suppress the brown race. Picturing their everyday lives and showing lot of documentary proof with regard to their plight from various sources, Suresh Kumar Pillai in this documentary records an unknown chapter on Indian migration. Ravi Dev, Leader of the Roar Guyana Movement speaks for his fellow brethren and a 103 old man tries hard to recollect his fellow passengers of the ship that carried them from India, all shown in the documentary.

While British India stopped labour supply due to awareness and campaigns, French India provided a fertile ground for hunting neo-slaves. Suresh Kumar Pillai had shot another documentary on these pathetic brethren. “ Songs of Malabaris” is a film on coolie migration from Pondicherry and its enclaves towards Caribbean sugar plantations. All South Indians are called as Malabaris or Madrasis it must be remembered. The French recruited the labourers mainly from Pondicherry, Karaikal, Chandranagore and Mahe and between 1854 and 1920 around 50,000 Indian labourers were taken to Guadeloupe and Martinique to work as coolies. It should be stressed that only Mahakavi Bharathiar immortalized the woes of the sugar plantation labourers in his poem”karumbu thottathile”. No one else bothered about our unfortunate kinsmen.

The Indian labourers in French colonies had to face stiff resistance from the Africans because the Indians had to work for paltry pittance, which freed Africans refused to comply. Thus Indians occupied the lowest of the low position in the French Caribbean society and called as “Cooli Malabarise”or “Chappa Coolies”. Indian coolies were never allowed to practice their religious faiths or to speak their native tongues on the plantations .The labourers had to be French in every sense. This was in sharp contrast to other Dutch colony of Suriname or British colony of Trinidad and Guyana where the Indians had some amount of freedom to retain their language and culture. The film looks at the history of migration of Indians to French West Indies and their struggle to retain their religion and culture against the French policy of assimilation.

THE QUESTION NOW HAUNTING US? WHY DOES WESTERNERS CHOOSE AUROVILLE. OUR PEOPLE WENT TO CARRIBEANS TO EARN A GOOD LIVING WHICH TURNED OUT TO BE A MIRAGE CHASE. THEY LOST THEIR CULTURE. HERE WESTERNERS HAVE COME TO MAKE A GOOD LIVING BETTER THAN WESTERN STANDARDS. THEY ALSO HAD ADMINISTERED CULTURAL SHOCKS ON OUR SOCIETY.

GAY SEX:

 

One person talks about his homosexual relationship in a letter with us. He says since 1977 he was having homosexual relationship. His Indian male partner had sent 120 love letters to this western male, as per his letter dated 6^th October 1996. The westerner had given 19 lakhs to the homo-partner, and to earn this the German had worked in petrol bunks during his visits to his home country Germany. It appears that the innocent Indian polluted by this German also cheated Dieter Wilm of Germany. This German tells in his letter that his Indian contact gave him marijuana to sell in Germany and it was found by German police. This Germans letter speaks of a triangular homosexual relationship. It also mentions about many western names, of Aurovillians of those days. Later this German went to live in Puducherry. His name is Volker A.Annuss. Auroville had such people, it is history. It is their duty to weed out such crimes if it exists now instead of barking against citizens who voice concern for public good.

 

LESBIAN SEX:

 

We gave a CD which was sold in free markets titled Auroville Beauties, wherein a western man will be watching two poor young Tamil girls made to perform lesbian acts before the camera. Also in another clipping a western man will be making sex with a Tamil girl before the camera. This indicates shooting of such scenes for selling in abroad. Dravida Peravai gave those CD’s to the then Superintendent of Intelligence Bureau Mr.Ramdass for forwarding to Government to take stringent action .There ends the matter. What action government took it is only known to Government of India. Such CD’s were given to BBC, but due to ethical standards British press did not publish nor did BBC telecast such porn videos.

 

The Tamil boys who had made it regular hobby to chase white girls, and Tamil women falling prey into contracts to live with westerners in exchange of monetary gains only to be ditched sooner, and a story of one Tamil’s wife got married to a westerner without divorcing the husband, all such real happenings undermining our culture and society, the free media of our country must come forward to expose through investigative journalism.

 

N.Nandhivarman, General Secretary, Dravida Peravai

 

 

 

robbing tsunami victims

CAG REPORT INDICTS RANGASAMY GOVERNMENT ON TSUNAMI FRAUD: SONIA TO DECIDE on 7th JULY 2008

 

[The Chief Minister, who had lost the support of his entire cabinet, and enjoys the support of only 2 legislators of the Congress Legislature party, who had been avoiding going to New Delhi for past one week on the pretext of stomach pain, finally had been sternly summoned by the Congress high command, and he is scheduled to meet Congress President Ms.Sonia Gandhi on 7th July 2008 10.A.M, who may send him to AIIMS hospital for curing his stomach pain. We submit the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General on his handling of the Tsunami funds, over which, Dravida Peravai had been spearheading a campaign for CBI enquiry. Let media men be in slumber by not even exposing CAG Report indictments, but like tsunami that struck by surprise, the Chief Minister who stage manages a clean image by throwing lavish advertisements even to monthlies, weeklies with less than 100 copy circulation, will be washed away to the dustbin of history. Of course he is the richest and purchasing power of that money will be witnessed from the day he steps down till next electoral verdict is written by the people of Puducherry….. N.N]

 

CHAPTER III PERFORMANCE REVIEWS 25 PERFORMANCE REVIEWS

This chapter presents two performance reviews on Tsunami Relief, Rehabilitation and Reconstruction, Functioning of Government General Hospitals and one long paragraph on Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan.

 

REVENUE AND DISASTER MANAGEMENT AND FISHERIES DEPARTMENTS

 

3.1 Tsunami Relief, Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Highlights: The Tsunami of December 2004 damaged 33 villages in the Union Territory of Puducherry. The Government provided assistance in cash and kind to the affected families. There was no comprehensive action plan to utilize funds received from Government of India. There were deficiencies in identification of beneficiaries for immediate relief and rehabilitation of Tsunami affected people. Assistance for repair/replacement of fishing crafts was delayed by 4 to 17 months after the calamity. There was delay in providing assistance for rehabilitation. Considerable delay was also noticed in reconstruction activities. Consequently, Tsunami affected families were not resettled as of September 2006. Monitoring of the implementation was poor. – Disaster Management Authority was not functional when Tsunami struck. Government of India scheme for creation of coastal shelterbelt to reduce the impact of cyclone was not implemented during 2000-04.

(Paragraphs 3.1.6.1 and 3.1.6.2)

- Government of India sanctioned Rs 255.62 crore till March 2006 as against Rs 312.37 crore recommended by central team. The reported expenditure of Rs 175.44 crore included Rs 55.42 crore comprising amount kept unspent, inadmissible expenditure, diversion of funds and a case of excess expenditure. (Paragraph 3.1.7)

 

Audit Report for the year ended 31 March 2006 – Though 2,006 houses were identified as damaged in Tsunami, Revenue Department did not restrict the payment of compensation only to house owners, but compensation was given to 5,247 families who claimed to live there. Scale of assistance prescribed by GOI was not followed. (Paragraphs 3.1.8.1 and 3.1.8.2)

 

- Government did not take action to claim and pay insurance amount due to active fishermen who died in Tsunami under the National Scheme for Welfare of Fishermen. (Paragraph 3.1.8.3)

 

- Assistance to fishermen was given 4 to 17 months after the calamity. (Paragraph 3.1.8.6)

 

- No comprehensive programme was evolved for infrastructure development for utilizing plan assistance. Out of 7,567 numbers of houses planned to be constructed, only 595 houses were completed as of November 2006 and of this, 495 houses were not allotted to Tsunami victims. (Paragraph 3.1.9.1)

 

3.1.1 Introduction: Tsunami is a series of waves generated when a large body of water such as a lake or ocean is rapidly displaced on a massive scale due to earthquake or volcanic eruptions. The impact of earthquake that had its epicenter off the Coast of Sumatra Island in Indonesia triggered the occurrence of Tsunami in the south eastern coast of India on the morning of 26 December 2004. The Tsunami caused extensive loss of lives and damages to both public and private properties along the Coastal States of South India including Union Territory (UT) of Puducherry and Andaman and Nicobar islands. In the UT of Puducherry, which consists of four coastal enclaves1, Tsunami caused damages in Puducherry and Karaikal regions and Government notified (January 2005) 33 villages in Puducherry (16) and Karaikal (17) regions for the purpose of relief and rehabilitation. The details of damages reported to Government of India (GOI) are given in Appendix XV. The majority of affected families derived their livelihood from fishing, agriculture and rearing livestock. Immediately after Tsunami, Government accommodated 30,000 affected people in 48 relief camps2 and distributed ex-gratia payment to families of 1 Three (Puducherry, Karaikal and Yanam) in the eastern coast and one (Mahe) in the western coast 2 Schools, marriage halls, temples, community halls, etc.

 

Chapter III – Performance Reviews 2 7 the deceased, cash for funeral and medical expenses. Relief packages consisting of rice, kerosene, saree and dhoties etc., bed sheets and supply of textbooks, uniforms to affected children were also made during December 2004 to February 2005. Cash dole were given for purchase of utensils, repair of damaged houses, sustenance and loss of crop and livestock. Government also restored the essential services like water supply and electricity. As mid-term relief, the Government provided assistance for repair and replacement of fishing crafts and reclamation of agricultural land. Besides repairing public property like roads, bridges etc., the Government has undertaken construction of houses, public utilities and preventive measures such as construction of coastal protection belt as one of the permanent relief measures.

 

3.1.2 Organizational set-up: Immediately after the disaster, Government appointed (31 December 2004) Development Commissioner and Secretary (Education and Power) as the Relief and Rehabilitation Commissioner (RRC) to manage and co-ordinate the arrangements for distributing relief supplies received from GOI, UT Government and other sources. The Revenue Department was placed under his control for this purpose. The immediate relief measures undertaken by five departments3 were monitored by State Level Relief and Rehabilitation Committee constituted in January 2005 with Chief Minister as Chairman. Government also established (April 2005) a Project Implementation Agency (PIA), a registered society, headed by a Project Director and assisted by Joint Project Director and other staff. The society has to implement the mid-term and long term rehabilitation and reconstruction measures through Revenue Department (now renamed as Revenue and Disaster Management Department) and other 134 departments. Besides, 185 Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) were involved in construction of houses to resettle the Tsunami affected families along with PIA.

 

3.1.3 Audit objectives: The objectives of Audit were to assess: whether proper institutional mechanism had been set up byGovernment for disaster management, adequacy of funding for relief activities and whether utilisation ofthe funds was proper,3 Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Education, Fisheries and Revenue4 Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Education, Electricity, Fisheries, Forest and Wildlife, Health, Local Administration, Public Works, Rural Development, Social Welfare, Tourism and Women and Child Development5 Over and above, Government of Maharashtra has also undertaken activities pertaining to construction of houses

 

Audit Report for the year ended 31 March 2006:28: the efficiency in providing immediate assistance and rehabilitation to affected families, the efficiency, economy and effectiveness of long term relief activities such as creation of assets and permanent infrastructure and resettlement of Tsunami victims, ?? The quality of monitoring and co-ordination mechanism to oversee rehabilitation activities.

 

3.1.4 Audit criteria

The criteria adopted in conducting the audit were: Rules in force on disaster management and policy adopted by the Government; conditions stipulated by GOI and UT Government while releasingfunds; the details of assistance received from various sources; norms prescribed by GOI for expenditure from National CalamityContingency Fund (NCCF);?? Target and schedule prescribed by Government for rehabilitation work and?? Monitoring mechanism adopted for extending relief and rehabilitation.

 

3.1.5 Audit coverage and methodology: Audit was conducted from November 2005 to March 2006 in Revenue and 13 other departments6, PIA and District Rural Development Agency (DRDA). Records relating to the period December 2004 to March 2006 on relief and rehabilitation activities maintained in the 14 departments covering all the 33 affected villages and status reports on the activities of NGOs in PIA were test checked in audit. An entry conference was held with the RRC in January 2006 and field visits were undertaken.

6 Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Education, Electricity, Fisheries, Forest and Wildlife, Health, Local Administration, Public Works, Rural Development, Social Welfare, Tourism and Women and Child Development

 

Chapter III – Performance Reviews; 2 9: Audit findings

3.1.6 Disaster management

3.1.6.1 Institutional arrangement

Based on the GOI recommendations, the Government constituted a State Disaster Management Authority in September 2003 under the Chairmanship of Chief Secretary to ensure co-coordinated steps towards mitigation and preparedness when disaster strikes. A District Disaster Management Committee was also formed (September 2003) for extending immediate relief to disaster affected people. However, no Disaster Management Policy has been framed. After occurrence of Tsunami, Government constituted (03 January 2005) a Committee under the Chairmanship of Chief Minister to monitor and review the relief operations. Government also appointed a Relief and Rehabilitation Commissioner to manage and co-ordinate relief operations. Thus, the institutions set up to manage disaster were not functional at the time of occurrence of Tsunami. After notification of the Central Act in December 2005, the UT Government was to initiate action to frame Rules. But the Rules had not been framed as of October 2006. No framing of Disaster Management Policy in time resulted in the absence of set framework of actions to be undertaken upon occurrence of Tsunami. Government stated (November 2006) that GOI had been requested (October 2006) to bring the Central Act into force in the UT with effect from 2 October 2006 and the Rules as well as the state policy would be framed and finalized on receipt of GOI notification.

 

3.1.6.2 Construction of coastal shelterbelt: All the four regions of the UT are located in coastlines and prone for cyclone. In order to create a belt of trees in coastlines to reduce the impact of cyclone, GOI sanctioned (January 2001) Rs 90.32 lakh to cover 448 hectare of land under ‘Integrated Afforestation and Eco-Development Project Scheme’. The scheme was to be implemented during 2000-02. GOI released Rs 20.12 lakh during 2000-01 as first installment. The Forest Department spent Rs 3.40 lakh for creating coastal shelterbelt during 2000-01, but stopped the work due to objection raised by fishermen. As the first installment was not spent in full, the balance amount was not released by GOI. Only after Tsunami, the Department spent Rs 5.48 lakh during 2004-05. The balance amount of Rs 11.24 lakh remained unspent as of July 2006. Had the Department implemented the scheme in 2001-02 by obtaining the entire funds sanctioned by GOI, the impact of Tsunami on the lives and properties could have been contained and reduced.Government stated (November 2006) that the Central scheme was not successful due to non-cooperation of the local fishermen community. This contention is not tenable as the Government failed to convince the Rules under ‘Disaster Management Act’ and Government policy on Disaster Management were not framed fishermen community regarding the benefits of the scheme for more than two years.

 

The UT Government sought (January 2005) Rs 465.99 crore for providing short term and long term relief to the Tsunami affected people. The activity wise details are given in Appendix XVI. The central team visited (January 2005) the affected areas and recommended Rs 312.37 crore. GOI sanctioned (March 2005 to March 2006) Rs 255.62 crore for Tsunami relief and released Rs 203.21 crore during the period March 2005 to March 2006. Government spent Rs 175.44 crore as of March 2006. The activity-wise details are given in Appendix XVII. Though the amount already released was not spent in full, GOI provided (2006-07) an additional plan assistance of Rs 220 crore for creation of infrastructure in Tsunami affected areas. Government stated (November 2006) that the report prepared in first week of January 2005 was tentative and did not include long term rehabilitation GOI sanctioned more funds than sought for, but the amount released was not spent

 

Chapter III – Performance Reviews: 3 1 requirement. This contention is not tenable as Rs 465.99 crore sought for by the UT Government included Rs 358.01 crore for reconstruction activities.

 

3.1.7.2 Overstatement of expenditure

The expenditure of Rs 175.44 crore includes Rs 107.15 crore drawn as advance by eight departments during December 2004 to March 2006, of which Rs 29.517 crore remained unspent as of March 2006. Test check revealed that Revenue and Fisheries Departments kept Rs 7.84 crore, released from funds received under RGRP, in bank (Rs 7.01 crore) and with PIA (Rs 0.83 crore).The remaining six departments kept Rs 21.67 crore received under plan assistance in bank (Rs 16.34 crore), with PIA (Rs 4.25 crore) and with DRDA

(Rs 1.08 crore). Thus, actual expenditure was only Rs 145.93 crore. Government stated (November 2006) that many works could not be taken up due to enforcement of model code of conduct on account of election. The reply is not tenable as the amount was shown as expended without completion of works.

 

3.1.7.3 Diversion of funds and charging of excess expenditure

 

Against Rs 32.01 crore released by GOI for giving subsidy to fishermen for purchase of boats, the UT Government paid a subsidy of Rs 46.60 crore.The excess amount was met by diverting Rs 9.07 crore available as savings out of Rs 39.78 crore received under NCCF and Rs 5.52 crore out of Rs 30 crore received for reconstruction activities. Government attributed the diversion to payment of higher scale of compensation. Though cartage and storage charges are to be levied on deposit works only, the Electricity Department also charged Rs 13.33 lakh as cartage and storage charges on Tsunami works, which are Government works. This resulted in inflation of expenditure under ‘Tsunami Relief’.

 

3.1.7.4 Inadmissible expenditure

 

Out of the plan assistance of Rs 100 crore released by GOI during 2005-06 to create infrastructural facilities in Tsunami affected areas, Rs 52.59 crore was allocated to Public Works Department. Of this, the UT Government sanctioned Rs 11.19 crore for providing infrastructure in areas not affected by Tsunami as detailed below: 7 Agriculture (Rs 2.75 crore), Education (Rs 0.36 crore), Fisheries (Rs 2.01 crore), Forest and Wild Life (Rs 0.86 crore), Health and Family Welfare (Rs 2.21 crore), Local Administration (Rs 14.41 crore), Revenue (Rs 5.83 crore) and Rural Development (Rs 1.08 crore) Unspent amount was shown as expenditure Infrastructure was provided in areas not affected by Tsunami

 

3.25 Though Yanam was not declared as Tsunami affected,the works have been executed in Yanam.Construction of Women and Children Hospital, Puducherry7.94 The expenditure incurred during 2005-06 under the ongoing scheme ‘Construction of Women and Children Hospital’ in Puducherry, taken up before the occurrence of Tsunami was transferred to the scheme ‘creation of infrastructural facilities in Tsunami affected area’.

Total 11.19 the expenditure was beyond the scope of the programme. Government stated (November 2006) that flood control works in Yanam were taken up as nearby East Godavari District in Andra Pradesh was declared as Tsunami hit area and the Women and Children Hospital was situated within half a kilometer radium from the coast. These contentions are not tenable as Yanam was not declared as Tsunami affected area. Besides, the hospital work was sanctioned before the occurrence of Tsunami.

 

3.1.7.5 Unutilized assistance from other sources

 

In addition to GOI funds, the Government received assistance in kind (cloth, groceries, utensils, etc.) from public for providing immediate relief to the affected families. The materials not distributed were kept in stock for future use. Besides, Rs 2.59 crore was received from Members of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme remained unspent as of March 2006. GOI also allocated World Bank assistance of Rs 158.28 crore (May 2005) under ‘Emergency Tsunami Reconstruction Project’ for undertaking long term relief measures. Out of Rs 75 crore received and deposited with PIA, Rs 2.68 crore was spent as of March 2006. Though, the allocation was made by GOI in May 2005, no concrete proposals were sent even by March 2006 resulting in non-utilization of funds received. Government stated (November 2006) that proposals for Rs 135 crore for Fisheries, Agriculture and Forest sectors were sent to World Bank (May 2006) and of this, seven projects for Fisheries sector were approved for Rs 117 crore. However, no project was taken up even by November 2006.

 

3.1.8 Immediate relief and rehabilitation measures Immediately after Tsunami, the Government paid immediate relief assistance of Rs 15.66 crore to families affected by Tsunami as ex-gratia payment to family of deceased (Rs 5 crore), cremation expenses (Rs 0.25 crore), medical expenses to injured (Rs 0.44 crore), housing subsidy to damaged houses (Rs 9.28 crore), compensation for crop damage/ha (Rs 0.28 crore) and compensation for loss of cattle/poultry Chapter III – Performance Reviews 3 3 (Rs 0.41 crore). In addition, rice, kerosene, cloth, cash dole for utensils (Rs 2000) and sustenance (Rs 3000) were given to the affected families by Revenue and Fisheries Departments. The deficiencies noticed in the disbursement of immediate relief to the families affected in Tsunami are discussed below:

 

3.1.8.1 Identification of beneficiaries for payment of compensation -Housing Though only 2,006 houses were damaged in Tsunami in Puducherry, the Revenue Department had not restricted the payment of compensation to owners of the houses but paid compensation to 5,247 families who claimed to live in these 2,006 houses. Government stated (November 2006) that the families residing in the damaged houses suffered the loss. This contention is not tenable as the assistance was meant for repairing of the damaged houses which could be carried out only by the owners.

 

3.1.8.2 Non-adherence to scale for immediate relief assistance

Government of India released funds for ‘Relief and responses’ from NCCF.Though the UT Government sanctioned expenditure for relief on account of injury, loss of crops, livestock, etc., as per the norms prescribed in NCCF, Rs 6.21 crore were spent by Revenue Department during January 2005 to May 2005 in excess of prescribed monetary limit for providing gratuitous relief for death and assistance for repair and restoration of damaged houses as detailed below:

 

3.1.8.3 Non-obtaining of insurance benefits Under National Scheme for Welfare of Fishermen, GOI insured 24,500 active fishermen of the UT against accidents resulting in death or injury. Under the scheme, the Fisheries Department had to prefer the claims in case of accidents. Though 318 fishermen died in Tsunami in UT, the Department had not taken action to claim and pay Rs 50,000 per active fishermen who died. After audit had pointed this out, Government stated (November 2006) that action has now been initiated.

 

3.1.8.4 Deficiencies in identification of beneficiaries – Fishing Government have not enacted the Marine Fishing Regulation Act to issue license for fishing crafts under various categories owned by fishermen in UT. Consequently, the Fisheries Department could not identify the number of fishing crafts damaged or lost in Tsunami. This resulted in payment of assistance based on the affidavits given by fishermen. The Department paid assistance for repair/replacement of 7,878 fishing crafts in Puducherry and Karaikal regions till May 2006. While 17,208 men were required to operate 7,878 fishing crafts, only 13,867 active fishermen were available in Puducherry and Karaikal regions as per census (2000) conducted by the Department. Government contended (November 2006) that all crafts would not be operated at a given time for fishing and one fisherman would be engaged in more than one craft. The fact, however, remained that failure to enact the Marine Fishing Regulation Act resulted in non-identification of crafts damaged/lost and Government had to release assistance based on the affidavits. In Karaikal region, 2,067 fishermen were to be paid assistance for repair/replacement of fishing crafts as per survey conducted by a special team. Of this, 582 fishermen were given fishing crafts by NGOs. Against the remaining 1,485 fishermen requiring assistance, the Fisheries Department Paid assistance to 1,898 fishermen (Rs 15.49 crore) as of May 2006.Resultantly, assistance amounting to Rs 3.37 crore was also extended to 413 fishermen over and above the number of fishermen identified during survey by special team. Government contended (November 2006) that the NGOs would have extended assistance to fishermen who were already benefited from Government. This was indicative of poor monitoring.

 

UT Government for this purpose with other funds and kept them in savings bank account. This resulted in non-crediting of interest earned on the amount in Tsunami Fund for utilization in Tsunami Relief. Government attributed (November 2006) the delay to non-cooperation of village panchayatars and contended that the interest earned by the society would be spent only for the welfare of fishermen. These contentions are not tenable as the non-cooperation was due to improper assessment of beneficiaries and the interest earned on Tsunami Fund would be utilized for other schemes implemented by the society.

 

GOI approved (October 2005) the ‘Prime Minister’s Child Assistance Scheme’ which provided for deposit of Rs 51,000 in the name of the child who have lost one parent in Tsunami and were less than 18 years of age on the day of Tsunami. The monthly interest on the deposit should be paid to the surviving parent till the child attains the age of 18 years and the amount would be released thereafter to the child. The scheme was to be implemented from Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund (PMNRF).Though, the Director, Women and Child Development Department identified (December 2005), 172 children under the scheme and funds were received (September 2006), the deposits were not made as of October 2006.Government stated (November 2006) that the Department has been requested to release money. Assistance for repair/replacement of fishing crafts were given 4 to 17 months after the calamity Benefits under the Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund was not extended to people affected in Tsunami

 

Similarly, under Universal Health Insurance Scheme, approved by GOI(October 2005) for assistance from PMNRF, the persons in the Tsunami affected family were to be insured for death (Rs 2 lakh) and disability(Rs 1 lakh) due to accident. As a comprehensive insurance policy was not evolved, the scheme was not implemented (October 2006).Government stated (November 2006) that the list of fishermen to been rolled was sent to Insurance company and further action would be taken by the Insurance company. This indicates the poor co-ordination by Government with Insurance Company.

 

3.1.9 Infrastructure development and reconstruction

3.1.9.1 Delay in construction of houses

 

The UT Government decided (March 2005) to construct houses outside the Coastal Regulation Zone by purchasing land and allot them to families living in Tsunami affected areas. Out of 7,567 houses proposed to be constructed, 4,984 were to be constructed by NGOs and the Government of Maharashtra and 125 by PIA. The remaining 2,458 houses would be constructed by the beneficiaries with Government assistance. Besides, PIA had to provide infrastructure such as internal roads, drains, water supply etc., in all areas where houses were proposed to be constructed. As of November 2006, 595 houses were completed by NGOs, of which 100 houses were handed over to the beneficiaries and construction of 4,389 houses was under progress. While construction of 57 houses was taken up by beneficiaries using Government assistance in the land where the damaged houses were located, the remaining 2,527 houses were not taken up as of November 2006. As such only 100 out of 7,567 beneficiaries were resettled even by November 2006. Besides, construction of houses in the locations affected by Tsunami would defeat the objective of relocation.

 

3.1.9.2 Improper utilization of funds under plan assistance: Rupees 100 core received as plan assistance during 2005-06 from GOI were allocated to 12 line departments for development of infrastructure in Tsunami affected areas. Of this, Rs 84.09 crore were allocated to Agriculture (Rs 5.50 crore), Fisheries (Rs 6 crore), Local Administration(Rs 20 crore) and Public Works (Rs 52.59 crore) departments. Out of Rs 100 crore, Rs 97.91 crore shown as spent by the line departments. There was no comprehensive programme approved by PIA for utilising the plan assistance of Rs 100 crore. Consequently, the line departments treated the expenditure incurred under various ongoing works also under plan assistance for Tsunami. Test check revealed that the Public Works Department booked (March 2006) Rs 11.36 crore incurred on 13 ongoing Tsunami affected people were not resettled due to noncreation ofinfrastructure.There was no comprehensive programme to utilize the plan assistance given by GOI

 

Chapter III – Performance Reviews works8 which were sanctioned and work commenced even before the occurrence of Tsunami. Further, Rs 5.25 crore was spent on construction of court building which could not be termed as Tsunami related work. Government contended (November 2006) that the works were executed only in coastal areas, which are prone to natural calamity and many ongoing works were damaged in Tsunami. These contentions were not tenable as the GOI assistance was meant for creating assets in Tsunami affected areas.

 

Departments had to identify the works required, which resulted in diversion of funds and undertaking works not related to Tsunami. The failure to enact the Marine Fishing Regulation Act resulted in non-identification of beneficiaries for rehabilitation, payment of assistance on the basis of affidavits and extent to which the benefit was availed by victims of Tsunami being not ascertainable. Failure to claim insurance resulted in deprival of benefits to fishermen. There were delays in release of assistance to fishermen. Reconstruction works were delayed considerably and the funds received remained unutilized. Schemes to benefit orphans and families affected in Tsunami were not implemented. Monitoring of the various activities by RRC and PIA was also inadequate.

Recommendations

 

 Government should frame necessary rules to carry out the provisions of the Disaster Management Act, 2005 enacted by GOI.  Government should evolve concrete programmes for utilizing the unspent amount including Rs 220 crore sanctioned as plan assistance for 2006-07.  Construction of houses to resettle the Tsunami affected families should be completed early and allotment of houses already constructed should be expedited by speedy completion of required infrastructure. Government stated (November 2006) that the recommendations made were taken note of and would be followed in future.