Gajalakshmi
Paramasivam – 24 June 2015
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Sinhala State from America to Australia
In response to our Australian Government’s
new laws towards blocking terrorism, I received emails from Sinhalese Diaspora with the subject heading ‘ Please sign this petition and support an
Australian lady who was attacked recently by LTTE Supporters’. The incident
mentioned in the email came to my attention about a month ago and I did not
take it as warranting my special focus. In other words, I was NOT alarmed as an
AUSTRALIAN. To me the ceremony was to mourn the death of those who died during the war and this
includes my close relatives also. It is interesting that the issue is being
raised now – at a time when the Australian Government is legalizing
cancellation of Australian citizenship for those who are suspected of terrorism
and have dual citizenship. As stated in
yesterday’s article ‘Islamic State-A
Warning to Sri Lankans’ , those principles must apply also to Governments ‘suspected’ of
war-crimes. That is when the law would be a just and democratic law. Our Prime
Minister got cross with the ABC for facilitating a person who was accused of
Terrorism to be included in the audience of the program 'lefty lynch mob'. To my mind that was the
right political decision given that this accused person escaped punishment due
to cleverness of his lawyer – through technicality. This needs also to be
applied to those who are aiding Terrorism by activating those genes in the
opposition.
Given that that lady at the center of the
email subject matter - Ms Diannah
Paramour was from Tasmania and the incident happened in Springvale/Geelong
Victoria – I took it as an ‘incident’ and did not respond to the communication
last month. To my mind, to use belief-based pathway – one must be on ‘home-grounds’.
Tamils to whom Victoria is home state had the belief-based right to express
their Truth. Hence I did not take it as being against ‘Sri Lanka’ or ‘Australia’.
In fact such expressions of Belief enrich the place where it is made. They are sacred
sites due to such belief.
The new laws and the emails they have
influenced from foreigner - have given rise to the need to express my feelings
on this – especially given that I received requests to sign above mentioned
petition.
Tamils raising their homeland flag in
Australia is not different to Aborigines raising their homeland flag outside
Australia - including during the
Olympics. It is belief based and to my knowledge
there is no Australian law against it. To
my mind, Ms Diannah Paramour seemed to have the genes of those who oppose
Aboriginal claim. Whether this is right or wrong – depends on each one’s
culture. The Common Measure is the Law. If it was unlawful and if Ms Paramour
was serious – she would have brought about legal injunction and would not have played
the role of Government irresponsibly to suppress minority rights. One who
values Traditional Land Rights would not have disrespected the memorial
ceremony. When belief based expressions of loss are suppressed – they would
lead to depression in that community and/or invoke rebellion which did happen
in Sri Lanka due to suppression of minority rights.
The question I ask our Government is what
happens to Australian born citizens with dual citizenship? Will their
Australian citizenship also be cancelled for them to be sent forward to the ‘other’
country? Say for example Ms Paramour who
expressed that she cares about Sri Lanka – would Ms Paramour be sent to Sri Lanka if she had dual
citizenship there – as many Westerns do have? In any case – is there a relative
punishment for Australians without dual citizenship – when they act to invoke
terrorism?
We Australians need to take care not to
invoke the negative past and facilitate Aboriginal negatives to join forces
with other negatives of other minorities. Likewise White Australian negatives
to join forces with other majority races.
We accept the Australian Government’s need
to prevent abuse of Australia for Terrorism purposes and hence the passage of
this legislation regarding cancellation of Australian Citizenship. We expect
mistakes to happen through individuals – just as they happened in Sri Lanka –
on both sides of the ethnic border. But the need for the law is accepted by
majority known to me.
As an Australian, I feel that we need this
Common Measure – as most Australians do NOT know the Truth through people who
have had the direct experience. This
above lady – Ms Ms Diannah Paramour, to my mind, is one of them. Ms Shenali
Waduge whose article entitled ‘60 year old Australian activist attacked by Tamils at Tamil Genocide
event in Australia!’ (http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2015/05/22/60-year-old-australian-activist-attacked-by-tamils-at-tamil-genocide-event-in-australia/)
was referred to me a month ago, and who
claims to be a Sri Lankan – did not ever publish any of my contributions to
Common Sri Lanka - nor did Ms Waduge ask
me an Australian of Lankan origin as to how I felt about the above . Ms Diannah
Paramour – a White Australian is shown to be more Trustworthy to Ms Waduge and
the Sinhalese Diaspora who have signed this petition initiated by Sinhalese
Diaspora as follows:
[From: Patriots <patriotsforunitedsrilanka@gmail.com>
Date: 22 June 2015 00:49:03 GMT-5
To: <PatriotsForUnitedSriLanka@gmail.com>
Subject: Please sign this petition and support an Australian lady who was attacked recently by LTTE Supporters
Date: 22 June 2015 00:49:03 GMT-5
To: <PatriotsForUnitedSriLanka@gmail.com>
Subject: Please sign this petition and support an Australian lady who was attacked recently by LTTE Supporters
This is a petition to the Australian
Government to disallow the raising of the LTTE Flag. The lady who is
Australian is a genuine supporter of Sri Lanka. She went to a meeting and
objected to the LTTE flag. She was attacked and her hand and one rib were
broken. The low life thugs physically assaulted a 60 some year old lady
lawyer who was supporting Sri Lanka. We need to support her.
Please sign this.
This law has surfaced the Truth – that Sinhalese
looking for a fight would stoop to using unethical pathways to rekindle the
ethnic war. Based on the principles underpinning this new law, all those
signatories must be banned by the Australian Government from entering Australia
and those who already have Australian
citizenship and are dual citizens – the new law needs to be applied to cancel
their Australian Citizenship.
In democracy – we interpret issues through
objective outcomes. The issue is Terrorism by foreigners. If terrorism is
surfaced by foreigners the Government has the responsibility to take action against them irrespective of
their ethnic associations. That’s when this new law would have the blessings of
Lady Justice who is blind to physical differences.
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