India resolves with the United Nations to end the oppression of theTamil people

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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.

Human rights violations continue in Sri Lanka

Asim Boral — The United Nations Human Rights Commission (UNHRC) has adopted a US-based resolution with a majority vote – 25 against 13 – amongst the Nations’ members. India has predictably voted in favor of the resolution and asked Sri Lanka to obey human rights resolutions in letter and spirit with a rider of independent and meaningful concrete proof on Sri Lankan Tamil people who originated from India and living in that country for centuries.

It is also a fact that Sri Lankan Tamils are always oppressed by the majority community of Sri Lanka for a long long time; and as a result, this oppression led to the demand for a separate Tamil Eelam (Tamil country ) under one of the most deadly terrorists groups – LTTE – led by V Prabhakaran and the fight for separation for years, possibly for 40 years till Prabhakaran's assassination by Sri Lankan forces in recent times and the completion of a bloody solution for the issue of Tamil Eelam. But the oppression by Sri Lankan forces still continued and there was a lot of human rights violation in the Northern Province of Sri Lanka where Tamil populations are majority.

India as a responsible neighboring country always stood behind these helpless people since ages and tried to help with so many peace-keeping missions and even sending the Indian Army there under peace agreement by the then Premier of India, Rajiv Gandhi, and the Sri Lankan President in 1985 to help against the oppression of Tamil people, even at the hands of their own people under LTTE led by Prabhakaran.

It was the most unfortunate moment that Rajiv Gandhi became a victim of the bomb blast carried out by the suicide squad of LTTE-backed terrorists while he was in election mode in Tamil Nadu. It is sad that more than a hundred thousand (in fact an estimated 500 thousand ) people of Tamil origin died either at the hands of Sri Lankan forces or at the hands of LTTE, creating one of the most deadliest human rights massacres in that small country of Sri Lanka.

We do hope now that the present Sri Lankan government takes this matter seriously and stops all kinds of human rights violations in view of the resolution passed on March 21 this year in Geneva. Hopefully the Sri Lankan government is able to bring those Tamil people in the mainstream of Sri Lankan administration and treat them as their own people with equal rights and dignity, thus ending the oppression in letter and spirit of the resolution. As in the past, India will always stand for the rights of humans and fight against any kind of violations of such rights whether they happen in any country in the world.

About the Author

Asim Boral, a science graduate from Calcutta University of West Bengal, India, is a retired Senior Marketing Manager of the largest Steel Company in India. After retirement, he joined the Indian National Congress and started writing regular articles in Times of India, a national English daily, on various issues from politics to social causes. He is now engaged for service to a big NGO – Bharat Sevashram Sangha – which serves worldwide, from USA to Fiji. Now 64, he lives in a Mega city Ahmedabad, Gujarat state of India and enjoys practicing his expertise in rain water harvesting and biodynamic farming system.