Tamil diaspora rejects Nediyaven:Rudrakumaran leadership

New LTTE leadership’s grand idea of a Transnational Eelam Government suffered an inglorious defeat when 90 percent of the Tamil diaspora showed its contempt by abstaining from voting for the transnational government.

The LTTE leader Nediyavan, who succeeded K P as head of the terrorist outfit suffered a humiliating setback when Tamils in Norway rejected his leadership on Sunday.

Norway based LTTE leader decided to hold the first phase of Eelam Transnational election in Norway itself with the strategy of obtaining a resounding victory to force the sympathetic Oslo regime to recognize the Transnational Eelam Government. But only 2667 Tamils out of a total of 27,000 Tamils in Norway exercised their franchise.

Furthermore those who voted also decided not to elect a LTTE candidate and Vijaya Shankar, a South Indian Tamil from Chennai topped the list with 1864 votes.

As the Norwegian media and bureaucracy accepted the verdict of Tamil dispora’s outright rejection of the LTTE, infuriated LTTE website Tamilnet launched a frontal attack on the Norwegian Government. It said that Norway is now trying to mend fences with the Sri Lankan government.

“Norway is up to appease Colombo as the Tamil Tigers are out of the picture and the only way to do this is abetting Colombo’s discrimination of Tamils in the line of Iran, Burma and China, writes Professor Øivind Fuglerud of the University of Oslo adding that a revealing cue comes from Norway insensitively sponsoring a Buddhist organisation to conduct a music festival on 27th November in Galle, timed to humiliate Tamils on the Heroes' Day,” Tamilnet said.

The website added that Norway sat silently like a mouse in the final phase of the war. Now its ‘humanitarian’ aid helps the internment camps of captivity and death. In future Norway’s aid may be integral to Colombo’s military complex cum Buddhist temple infrastructure to dominate Tamil areas.

“The LTTE has selected Norway for its first phase of the election as they believed they had the best chance of wining in Norway,” said Rajan Rajasingham of the Norway branch of PLOTE. “But the Tamil dispora in Norway rejected the idea of so-called transnational government”. Rajasingham said that the idea of transnational government will not even take off in any of the western countries where sizable Tamil dispora is present.

Norway's leading news agency, NTB, on Monday came out with an accurate analyses on the first ever election of diaspora Tamils. It pointed out that the dispora has rejected the LTTE terrorism and now called for reconciliation.

According to Tamilnet article, the LTTE-Solheim honeymoon seems to be over. The pro LTTE website said that Development Minister Erik Solheim, the Norwegian facilitator of the Sri Lankan peace process between the period from 2002 and 2008, is on record having been quoted by NRK journalist Sverre Tom Radøy as saying that "Sri Lanka is the country where Norway has played its most significant role since the times of the Vikings."

This could not be believed today, roughly two years after the ceasefire agreement, which he contributed to be negotiated towards, was annulled. In the final phase of the war, while the Western countries – certainly due to their poor ability and unable to gain any success – attempted to find a solution that could save the lives of civilians, but Norway sat silently like a mouse.

The LTTE website accused Norway of being “totally absent in the international news-picture when it comes to the opinion on the situation in Sri Lanka today.”

Meanwhile, an Indian analyst said that the fact that South Indian, Vijaya Shankar taking over as head of the LTTE controlled Tamil dispora council in Norway could have serious repercussions. “There is a danger that the Tamil dispora with terrorist background could try to revive Tamil separatism in Tamil Nadu. As they have unlimited funds, that could pose a serious threat to Indian unity and the democratic system in the world’s largest democracy,” he warned.

- Asian Tribune -