Similarly, it is not very prudent of Tamils to suggest that the Sinhalese government will NEVER allow them their rightly due freedoms. As the old adage goes, “never say never”.

The need of the hour is for all of us to be positive about future outcomes and refrain from promoting Tamil separatism on one extreme and Sinhalese-Buddhist fundamentalism on the other.

Mr.Ambassador ,
Please arrange of a Tamil statehood referendum under United Nations control.

Thanking you!

Whenever mysterious bombs explode in the SLAF controlled areas the President appears promptly on TV and beats the war drum to crush the LTTE.

But when mysterious bombs explode in the LTTE controlled areas killing innocent civilians he doesn’t even bother to condemn it.

You can imagine the depth of the racism-driven state terrorism.

Thanks you Sir!

An unworkable and unpragmatic solution of “United Sri Lanka” is to appease the Sinhala nation (SN) and the government , in fear of repercussions, as evident from the reluctance of Ambassador Blake in the interview.

You say “It has not worked for 20 years in Sri Lanka under the many Solutions offered by Successive Governments, it will not work now.” Yes, it did not work because the SN always was deceptive, untruthful, dishonest and full of dirty tricks. Always the attitude was “we Sinhalese are masters and you Tamils are slaves”. This is evident from your dictate “Live in Sri Lanka, as a Sri Lankan Citizen, not a Tamil, Sinhalese or Muslim, etc” in your opinion. Equality of treatment is never possible by the Sinhalese to the Tamils.

If Tamils of NE want Federalism or their independent sovereign state, that is their decision within their legitimate right to rule themselves. They should have it. Civilised nation would grant that right to them. No husband can force to continue with marriage, when a wife seeks divorce from a brutal and murderous husband. This is very true with nations also. It happened in front of our eyes in East Timor and Kosovo. The husband does not give divorce order. It comes from the court of justice.

The reason we are at war is because the GOSL thinks that it can try a military shot to solve a political problem. Terrorism is more from the state than the LTTE.

Logically, if the USA is agaiinst Terrorism, how could it provide military support to a country that is active in state terror? Is this not disregard for Tamil lives? Or is it just an excuse?

Ambassador Blake also said that USA gave “law enforcement support” to the Government of Sri Lanka. Judicial system in Sri Lanka is at its worst ebb. Soldiers who kill Tamil civilians are never brought to justice.

When willful law violaters, unwilling to abide by the law, such as the GOSL against Tamils, received the knowledge they used to the detriment of its own Tamil citizens. Has the USA not committed a blunder here and contributed indirectly to the gross Human Rights violations against the Tamils?

Robhert blake fails to realise that power sharing cannot work with untruthful, dishonest and trickery nations and governments. Sinhal nation has never ever honoured any agreement with Tamils of North East. Therefore, power sharing can never work. A separate state only becomes a viable solution.

Can Robert Blake explain as to where he got his statistics when he said “95% of Tamils support a solution within united Sri Lanka”. Is it not from the government propaganda machinery?

He speaks of development in the East. People of North East are not seeking development. They can develop their own country Tamil Eelam, with their friendly countries. Before development, Freedom and legitimate right to rule themselves is important. I am sure that even the USA developed on those lines.

President Bush and his administration have been overexaggerating terrorism. This is the reason for his failure in Iraq and Sri Lanka.

When Obama becomes the president of the USA, he would be able to change the policies of that country towards freedom of people and their rights. Let us hope that things would change for the better then. The Sinhala nation needs a stick and not a carrot.

The US Ambassador to Sri Lanka Robert Blake said from his discussions with Tamil people in Sri Lanka, he thinks “95 per cent of them support a solution within a framework of a united Sri Lanka.

“They (the Tamil people) are not seeking an independent Tamil Eelam which Prabhakaran is seeking,” Blake told the Sunday Observer Newspaper.

Thanks a lot Ambassador, but I don’t seem to remember that we elected you to represent our views on the possible solution we are seeking. It is truly amazing that you made a survey among the Tamil people (the first ever) and came up with the percentage (95%)of Tamils who do not seek independent Tamil Eelam State. By the way Ambassador, I really hope the margin of error in your survey is not 100% by any chance? Or did you first say to each one of the Tamils that you (the US) would never ever support independent Tamil Eelam before listening to their opinion?

You could try this Ambassador. Try telling them that the US would support an independent Tamil Eelam if majority of Tamils support it. The person you mentioned above (It might be illegal in your or most of the western laws now to even mention his name. So I will refrain from mentioning his name) would, I am sure be very happy to take a referendum to gauge Tamil opinion on that as long as it is held free and fairly. Are you ready to go on that direction Ambassador? Please Sir, do not recommend the Sri Lankan election commission who have just conducted a very “free and fair” election in the East!

I am asking this because I guess I must be counted into that 5% minority who believe a solution for the issue would be the creation of Tamil Eelam state. If your survey is truly authentic then I am a bit worried. Or may be I am an expatriate and possibly we the rich Tamil expatriates are the only Tamils who seek this independent state sitting in the the luxury of the western life? Yes I know you would say that championing the voice of the poor suffering Tamils in Sri Lanka who are a different breed to that of the Tamil expatriates?

So I checked with my uncle and cousins who are still living in Jaffna. And guess what? It seems they too were within your 5%.

Ambassador, you can say any thing you like because you are representing the most powerful state in the world. But please leave us to express our own views. Please don’t hijack our right to express our political aspirations. Last time I checked that was called democracy which a greatest nation called United States of America claim to champion.

Of course you can say that you want a solution to the conflict in which the power would be solely vested in Sinhalese just because you like it that way. You can also say that you hate the Tamils and that is why you support the brutal Sinhalese government. Or you can even say that US interests (whatever those might be) are best served by propping up a Sinhala racist government. We have no problems with that.

What annoys us a bit is that you at times hijack our right to express our own political views and appoint yourself as our (sole) representative. Yes of course you are after all Ambassador of United States government and you have the right to be arrogant this way or in fact any way. But is there any chance that you could let us keep our beliefs and views? It is our belief that only solution to the conflict is an independent Tamil Eelam. It is just a belief Ambassador deep inside our mind. A belief we arrived at after decades of grief. We cannot just change this belief because you don’t like it.

Certainly you don’t have to agree and as you have been doing for decades you can throw every obstacles in the way to stop this belief of ours becoming a reality. But still we can keep this belief, can’t we? Or would you be soon passing a legislation outlawing it so believing in an independent Tamil Eelam as a solution would also be illegal in most of the great western democracies?

Folks, we need to get over the mis-trust if we are make headway in getting to peace and creating wealth for our children.

I have written this earlier – the Tamils need to stop asking for separation and the Sinhalese need to be more forthcoming and generous in creating an equitable and secure environmen for the minorities. Neither is doing either – but doinng exactly the opposites thus feeding the visciou cycle.

Mr. Blake’s assertion is grossly misleading. As is the notion that there is no ethnic conflict in the country.

Well let’s put the US ambassador assertion to the test.

Hold a UN monitored, international peacekeeping enforced referendum among the Sri Lankan Tamil community on the question of whether they wish to be a part of a united Sri Lanka or do they wish to opt for a separate state in lands of their traditional inhabitance.

Simply propose what I`ve said above in Sri Lanka and the Singhalese ethnic supremacists will tear you apart.

Tamils have repeatedly tried to negotiate a fair and just political solution to the country`s ethnic conflict for 6o years to no avail.

The ethnic Singhalese majority Sri Lankan government has repeatedly engaged in acts of state terrorism that has driven nearly 1 million Tamils out of the country and hundreds of thousands into IDP camps. In the Colombo where Mr. Blake asserts “Tamils are living in Colombo peacefully with their Sinhalese and Muslim friends“, Tamils are being abducted, extorted, raped, and killed by the Singhalese government.

The United States needs to stop funding the terrorist state of Sri Lanka and actively stop the ethnic cleansing of Sri Lankans Tamil community by the Singhalese government.