Sri Lanka Tamil People[/caption]Asim Boral----UNHRC (United Nation Human Rights Commission) has adopted a US based resolution with majority vote (25-13 against ) amongst the member nations, specific to the human rights of Srilanka Tamil people. How will this impact relations and this oppressed minority?
.India has predictably voted in favor of the resolution and asked Sri Lanka to obey human rights resolutions in letter and spirit.
The Sri Lankan Tamil people originated from India and have lived in that country for centuries . These people have long been oppressed by the majority community in Sri Lanka. As a result, this oppression turned to a demand from the separate Tamil Elam (Tamil country) to be separate.
These Tamil people are led by the most deadly V Prabhakaran and fought for separation for many, many years possibly run for 40 years until Prabhakaran 's assassination by Sril Lankan forces as part of a bloody solution in the fighting of Tamil Elam.
But the oppression of the Tamil people still continued by Sri Lankan forces. There has been a lot of human rights violations in the northern province of Sri Lanka where the Tamil populations are the majority.
India as a responsible neighbor always stood behind these hapless people since ages and tried to help with so many peace -keeping missions. India has even sent members of the Army under peace agreements made by then Premier of India Rajiv Gandhi and Sri Lankan President in 1985 to help end the oppression of Tamil people that had occurred even in the hands of their own people under LTTE led Prabhakaran .
It was a most unfortunate moment that Rajiv Gandhi even fell to the bomb blast by suicide squad of LTTE backed terrorists while he was in election mode in Tamil Nadu. It was particularly sad that more than lakh (estimated 5 lakh ) people of Tamil origin died either in the hand of Sri Lankan forces and majority in the hand of LTTE, thus fueling one of the most deadliest human right massacres in that small country of Sri Lanka .
It is hoped that the now Sri Lankan government understand this matter of the Tamil people seriously and stop all kind of human right violations in view of the resolution passed to day on 21.3.13 at Geneva and bring this minority into the mainstream of Sri Lankan society and government. It is hoped they will be given equal rights and dignity and that the oppression of the Tamil will end both in the letter and spirit of the resolution.
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Asim Boral is a writer from India who focuses on human rights solutions for the people in his area of the world.
