'ACOR SOS Racisme' Switzerland based NGO against Racism welcomes the formation of a Provisional Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam.
"Despite exile, repression, disappearances, ethnic cleansing or, more accurately, because of theses evils, the rights of the Tamil people have to be protected. The right of the Tamil people neither to be oppressed nor discriminated, their right for self determination, all their basic human rights and the humanitarian law have to be ensured them in Sri Lanka and abroad. For that reason 'Association COntre le Racisme (ACOR) SOS Racisme' welcomes the establishment of a working committee for the formation of a Provisional Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam," Mr. Karl Grünberg, the General Secretary of the NGO said.
The full text of the report released by Mr. Karl Grünberg, the General Secretary of the NGO, is as follows:
ACOR SOS Racisme welcomes the establishment of a Working committee for the formation of a Provisional Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam
After several weeks of slaughter, the Government and the Army of Sri Lanka crushed on May the 17th the last spot of resistance in the zone of Vanni. Alas, the international community supported that catastrophe or let it be done.
With Veluppillai Prapakaran and his last companions, women, children, elderly, sick or wounded persons – all civilians – lost their lives by thousands during that assault. The detention in concentration camps of the 300’000 civilians who lived in the LTTE controlled areas, the refusal of any legal recognition for the Tamil minority in Sri Lanka, shows that under the pretence of fighting terrorism the Government of Sri Lanka lead the war against the Tamil people of Sri Lanka.
The experience of the 61 years since independence reminds a painful reality. The fight for the rights of Tamil people took the form of an armed conflict because of the lasting racist discriminations having been imposed for years on the Tamil people and because of the frightful pogroms which took place in 1983.
In reaction to these violence hundred of thousands Tamil people sought asylum all over the world and built up Diaspora communities and supported LTTE which they saw as the legitimate representative of their aspirations.
After the military defeat of the LTTE, Tamil people of Sri Lanka and in the diaspora face a worsened situation. Rajapakse’s regime will not concede after its victory what he refused to a fighting movement.
His regime imprisoned in Colombo the 3 Tamil physicians who kept on making their duty among the civilians suffering the shelling of the Sri Lankan Army and witnessing its crimes.
Despite exile, repression, disappearances, ethnic cleansing or, more accurately, because of theses evils, the rights of the Tamil people have to be protected.
The right of the Tamil people neither to be oppressed nor discriminated, their right for self determination, all their basic human rights and the humanitarian law have to be ensured them in Sri Lanka and abroad.
For that reason ’“Association COntre le Racisme (ACOR) SOS Racisme” welcomes the establishment of a working committee for the formation of a Provisional Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam.
ACOR SOS Racisme is a Swiss NGO which has been created to fight for the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination. In the early eighties, fleeing the terror which spread up against their people in Sri Lanka, Tamil refugees sought asylum in Switzerland as they did in many countries. In European countries, and even in Switzerland although this country never was a colonial power, remains a racism which developed during colonial times. Therefore, after having escaped racism in their own country, Tamil people had to go on suffering racism.
ACOR SOS Racisme hopes that the international civil society will join its appeal to support the new page Tamil people are about to write.
Karl Grünberg
Secretary General
ACOR SOS Racisme
Lausanne, Geneva, 24.June 2009
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