CUDDALORE: Chief of the Naam Tamizhar Katchi, a tamil political party, Seeman on Saturday sprang a surprise on the police when he brought in JKLF leader Yasin Malik to address a public rally.
The rally was organised to commemorate the fourth anniversary of the Mullivaikkal massacre at the end of the Eelam (Srilankan Tamil state) war in 2009.
“We were totally in the dark until Yasin Malik landed here for the rally. Seeman did not inform us”, district SP Ms A. Radhika said.
She said the police had no option but to withdraw the permission given to Nam Tamizhar Katchi as the party had put up many posters and banners hailing the LTTE and its slain leader.
Yasin later addressed an indoor rally and said Sri Lankan Tamils and the people of Kashmir had identical views and destinies, and insisted that ‘nothing on earth’ can smash their ‘democratically justified protests’.
Malik said the rulers in Sri Lanka might have succeeded in killing some individuals championing the Tamil cause in the island but they would never succeed in dismantling the principles evolved by the organization (LTTE) for the cause of Eelam Tamils.
“Tamil Eelam is in the heart and soul of Tamilians. The philosophy of Tamil Eelam has been uppermost in the minds of all sections of people irrespective of age. There was no incident in history that organisations or movements fighting for liberation of people had met with failure. And so our fight should continue till the end”, he declared.
Referring to his own plight, Malik said since he fought for the cause of the families affected by the army in Kashmir, he had to suffer incarceration in prisons in Kashmir, Delhi and Rajasthan.
“Kashmir is the most militarised zone in the world right now but then, no military might will ever break the will of the Kashmiri people. The non-violent and democratic principle of Gandhi had inspired great leaders like Nelson Mandela but this has not happened in the country of his (Gandhi) birth.
“On the other hand, only the principles of Godse seem to be ruling the roost”.
(Deccan Chronicle)
