Photographs of two MIC leaders delighted at weapons and strategy used by Sri Lankan armed forces in defeating LTTE terrorists show no regard to sensitivities of Tamils in Sri Lanka and Malaysia.
COMMENT
By P Ramasamy
The MIC has neither fought valiantly for the Indian cause in Malaysia, the majority of whom are Tamils, nor voiced concern over the plight of the Sri Lankan Tamils.
Even if the MIC cannot fight for the Tamil cause, it should not betray them. Recently, two MIC national leaders, M. Saravanan (deputy minister) and C. Sivaraajh (MIC Youth Chief) visited Sri Lanka and posed for photographs in areas where Tamils were massacred.
No Tamil or Indian leader with the right attitude would do such a thing, especially when hundreds of thousands of Tamils were murdered during the height of the civil war in the north and east of Sri Lanka in 2009.
These MIC leaders have no regard for the sensitivities of Tamils in Sri Lanka and in Malaysia. They are not ordinary citizens of Malaysia but leaders who are supposed to represent the interests and concerns of Tamils in Malaysia and elsewhere.
In the photographs, both Saravanan and Sivaraajh were shown to have been “delighted” at the weapons and the strategy used by the Sri Lankan armed forces in defeating the LTTE “terrorists”.
The massacre, disappearance and atrocities committed against Tamils in the name of defeating the LTTE “terrorists” are not closed chapters in the political history of Sri Lanka. Debates are still taking place in the UN Human Rights Council on the need for an international investigation into the massacre of Tamils and the return of lands grabbed by the Sinhala forces from Tamils in the north and east.
To date, MIC leaders, fearing a backlash from Umno, have refused to support the just and democratic cause of innocent Tamils in Sri Lanka.
They have not even lifted a finger to assist the thousands of Tamil refugees who came to Malaysia to escape the persecution at the hands of the Sri Lankan Government.
Yet it is the same party that goes around boasting that it has the best interests of Tamils in Malaysia.
The MIC seems rather oblivious to the historic treatment of Tamils in Sri Lanka and how the civil war that lasted 30 years ended up in the massacre and disappearance of Tamils.
It is well known that the MIC has failed the Malaysian Tamils miserably. But even if this is so, Tamils expect the MIC not to endorse the massacre committed by the Sri Lankan Government against Tamils in the name of eradicating “terrorism”.
I dare both Saravanan and Sivaraajh, once they are back, to denounce the LTTE as a Tamil “terrorist” organisation. Will they be willing to do this in Tamil circles?
P Ramasamy is Deputy Chief Minister II of Penang.
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