{"id":150016,"date":"2025-06-03T15:26:59","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T22:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=150016"},"modified":"2025-06-03T15:31:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T22:31:43","slug":"letter-to-hon-hugh-mcdermott-on-sri-lankas-war-to-defeat-25-years-of-terrorism-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/06\/03\/letter-to-hon-hugh-mcdermott-on-sri-lankas-war-to-defeat-25-years-of-terrorism-2\/","title":{"rendered":"letter to HON HUGH MCDERMOTT on Sri Lanka’s war to defeat 25 years of terrorism."},"content":{"rendered":"

SOCIETY FOR PEACE UNITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN SRI LANKA -VICTORIA & NSW\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

SOCIETY FOR PEACE UNITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN SRI LANKA -VICTORIA
SOCIETY FOR PEACE UNITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN SRI LANKA-NSW
PO BOX 2664 ROWILLE VIC 3178

Dr\u00a0 Hugh\u00a0 MCDERMOTT,\u00a0 MP\u00a0\u00a0
NSW Member of the Legislative Assembly for Prospect
Parliamentary Secretary to the Attorney General
Member of the Australian Labor\u00a0
Dear Sir,
Ref: Your speech on Sri Lanka\u2019s war against the LTTE, UN proscribed terrorist organization was an attempt to whitewash the HR violations of the intransigent Tamil Tiger while criticising unfairly the humanitarian war conducted to protect sovereign Sri Lanka and her civilians, including Tamils who were held forcibly by the LTTE as a human shield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The racist wing of the Tamil Politicians formed a political party in 1949 .soon after Sri Lanka became an
independent nation. The party was known as Ilanki Tamil arsu kachchi (Tamil State Party) which became the Federal Party who always promoted federal state in the North and the East of Sri Lanka whereas the Sinhalese ethnic group consisted of74.9 % of the total population in the country. Tamil population was 15.2 % and Moors was 9.2%<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The following is a brief history of the violent terrorism of the separatist Tamil politics in Sri Lanka, and you
are kindly requested NOT to endorse violence as a parliamentarian in Australia, as terrorism has to be
countered for the growth of democracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adoption of Vadukoddai Resolution by Tamil leaders in 1976.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The violence in Sri Lanka raged for 33 years, starting from the declaration of war on May 14, 1976 at
Vadukoddai by the Tamil leadership and ending in Nandikadal on May 18, 2009 when Velupillai
Prabhakaran\u2019s body was found floating in the murky waters of the Lagoon. This war has been described in
different ways, depending on the political orientation of the describer. It was, however, commonly described as an ethnic conflict between the Sinhalese and the Tamils. But the unravelling events questioned this description. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The decision to go for a military solution, stated unequivocally in the Vadukoddai Resolution, was ratified by the Tamil leadership led by S. J. V. Chelvanayakam, the man who claimed that his ambition was to be a father to the Tamils. Led by Chelvanayakam, the Tamil leadership agreed at Vadukoddai that the military solution was better than the non-violent parliamentary process and decided to wage a war against the Sinhalese who were identified as the enemy of the Tamils.The distorted history, the generalised accusations and the main political thrust of the Vadukoddai Resolution were designed to demonise the Sinhala community and generate hate politics of the extreme kind against the Sinhalese. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Accordingly, the hate politics inscribed in the Vadukoddai Resolution and picked up by Prabhakaran should have led Tamil violence to target only the Sinhala community as there was no other enemy identified in the Vadukoddai Resolution. But Velupillai Prabhakaran, the anointed proxy of the Vellahla leadership which urged the Tamil youth to take up arms, targeted the Muslims and the Tamils indiscriminately. Why? What had the Muslims done to the Tamils to massacre them? And, above all, what had the Tamils done to Prabhakaran for him to target the Tamils? Prabhakaran first turned his guns on the Tamils and killed more Tamils than all the others put together. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

No other leader had pursued hate politics to insatiable extremes as Prabhakaran. His hate politics that led to the killing of anyone whom he perceived to be his enemy was totally irrational and counterproductive.\u201d
We produce below HRW report issued on 15 December 2008 for you to understand how the Tamil Tigers
violated HR of the civilians in Sri Lanka including the Tamils.

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH -15 DECEMBER 2008
Trapped and Mistreated
LTTE Abuses against Civilians in the Vanni
https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/report\/2008\/12\/15\/trapped-and-mistreated\/ltte-abuses-against-civilians-vanni<\/a>

I trust that you will have the time to go through the attached as a widely read senior politician and reach a reasonable conclusion as to the Sri Lanka\u2019s war against the terrorist Tamil Tigers who killed most of the senior Tamil politicians and many Tamil civilians apart from the Sinhala and the Muslim persons.
Thanking you,
SPUR VICTORIA
SPUR NEW SOUTH WALES
28 May- 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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