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July 30, 2010 Dear fellow fighters against oppression and injustice, It is very painful to see the Photo Document of the three decade war in Sri Lanka where my fellow Tamil brothers and sisters have been slaughtered without any mercy by the Racist Sinhala regime. While no words of praise can be attributed to these ghastly episodic events, but I would unreservedly congratulate the efforts of you all for documenting this as a lesson of reminder for future generations. Presently the Sri Lankan regime is still basking in the shine of “winning” the war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, and are behaving as if the problem of the Tamil nationality struggle is over and done with. But the reality of life is different from assumptions, new seeds of discontent are being sown in the North and the East of Sri Lanka, a communalisation drive is on under the patronage of the Sri Lankan state to coerce the Tamil and Tamil speaking population into further submission. On the other side of the spectrum, the Militarisation of the Sri Lankan society has risen to alarming proportions, ordinary people in the south are bearing the economic and social burden of this Militarism, slowly all the democratic pretensions of the regime are falling down one by one like the leaves from the trees in the Spring, the Mahinda Rajapakse's Sinhala racist regime is naked with its real intentions showing. Be it hawkers i the streets, workers in the factories, consumers in the market place or the organised working class all are facing the brunt of this regime. While MR and his cohorts in the regime live in a made to believe world, the Tamil National Question is the fundamental question facing the Island country, and the present Capitalist and Landlord regime is incapable of finding a just solution to it. In fact the issue of Tamil nationality is far from being over is now internationalised, the next arena of intense war drama may not be here but may engulf the entire South Asia in which the regional big brother India being the epicentre. While your Photo documentation efforts of the thirty years war are laudable, but the real challenge is to learn from the history, while I personally salute the heroic nature of the rebels for the cause of Tamil nationality struggle, nevertheless I have always been critical of the sratergies and methods of the leadership in taking forward the struggle. The over dependence on the armed struggle alone and not linking up with the other toiling sections in Sri Lanka and in the neighbourhood was a grave mistake in my opinion. The leadership of the rebels did always put their faith in the foreign governments and on the top echelons of the world, never tried to link up with the democratic, working class struggling people, and used the diaspora as just a fund rising source. I think the challenge for the future is to learn from these mistakes and take the struggle forward. The solution to the nationality question is inalienably linked to the liberation of the mankind from the system of capitalism and landlord ism. I wish you all the best in struggle for Socialism In solidarity,
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