Tamil Nationalism becomes The Ethno-Suicide of Sri Lankan Tamils
The German-Swedish academic Peter Shalk has come forward to present us "Quotes by Veluppillai Pirapakaram", in an article published in the Sri Lanka Guardian ( May 29, http://www.srilankaguardian.org/2008/05/ quotes-by-veluppillai-pirapakaran.html ). It is a known fact that Dr. Shalk has become totally mesmerized by the macabre madness of the "suicidal Black Tigers".
So here we see him rehashing the words of Prabhakaran with the reverence of a true devotee. Shalk is not alone in getting religiously misled by the poisonous, violent mono-ethnic nationalism of Prabhakaran. Shalk should know all that from the National-Socialist mesmerism of the 1930s in Germany.
Shalk's Faustian preamble totally fails to reveal the ghoulish, sanguinary sadism of Prabakaran's words, and their terrible consequence on the Tamil people as well as on Muslims, Singhalese and others who have anything to do with Sr Lanka. V. Prabhakaran (VP)'s words reveal how a call for "self-determination for the Tamils" has transformed into its dialectical opposite.
VP's talk of education and culture has ended in the suppression of Tamil freedom, killing of leading academics and the closure of schools and universities. His celebration of blood and death as the seed of Eelam for a pure Tamil land, and his celebration of the "unwavering aim for Eelam" and the consequent "short-lived cease fires" are seen as assets in the "Tamil struggle". This struggle is supposed to have arisen, (in the eyes of Shalk as well?) "to achieve violently a state formation as protection and last refuge from the Lankan Government's attacks".
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http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items08/030608-2.html
So here we see him rehashing the words of Prabhakaran with the reverence of a true devotee. Shalk is not alone in getting religiously misled by the poisonous, violent mono-ethnic nationalism of Prabhakaran. Shalk should know all that from the National-Socialist mesmerism of the 1930s in Germany.
Shalk's Faustian preamble totally fails to reveal the ghoulish, sanguinary sadism of Prabakaran's words, and their terrible consequence on the Tamil people as well as on Muslims, Singhalese and others who have anything to do with Sr Lanka. V. Prabhakaran (VP)'s words reveal how a call for "self-determination for the Tamils" has transformed into its dialectical opposite.
VP's talk of education and culture has ended in the suppression of Tamil freedom, killing of leading academics and the closure of schools and universities. His celebration of blood and death as the seed of Eelam for a pure Tamil land, and his celebration of the "unwavering aim for Eelam" and the consequent "short-lived cease fires" are seen as assets in the "Tamil struggle". This struggle is supposed to have arisen, (in the eyes of Shalk as well?) "to achieve violently a state formation as protection and last refuge from the Lankan Government's attacks".
read more,
http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items08/030608-2.html
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