TELO LEADER ADAIKALANATHAN FAILS TO TELL THE LONDON RALLY HOW HIS FORMER LEADER SABARATHNAM AND 150 OTHERS WERE BURNT ALIVE AFTER SURRENDERING TO LTTE IN 1986
(By Walter Jayawardhana)
Los Angeles:- Selvam Adaikalanathan, Tamil National Alliance (TNA) MP and the current leader of the Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization (TELO) a constituent party of the TNA that has now become subservient to the LTTE Addressed a well attended “Black July” commermorative rally in London’s Hyde Park. In his speech he described how two previous leaders of TELO Kuttimani and Thangathurai were killed in a Welikada Prison riot by his fellow inmates in 1983.
But he miserably failed to mention how the LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran with his cousin the late Kittu burned alive TELO’s former leader “Tall” Sri Sabaratnam and 150 TELO fighters who surrendered to them after a fight. Indian newspapers like Times of India very reliably recorded this event describing how Sabaratnam and his fighters were tied to trees , firewood placed around them and burnt to death alive. Of course, Adaikalanathan would not tell these true facts of history, the true stories of real pogroms when he is in a pathetic situation today being utterly subservient to Prabhakaran.
Sabaratnam and the 150 prisoners of war of the TELO died May 5 1986 . Actually many Tamils who are still living under LTTE’s death threat think Adaikalanathan should also hold commemoration rallies called Black May in memory of their former leader, Tall Sri who was thousand times a more civilized being than Prabhakaran.
The TNA parliamentarian praised the Tamil diaspora in Britain for supporting the war waged by the LTTE by sending funds. He said after liberation of 70 per cent of the land a Tamil state is emerging in Sri Lanka after 23 years of struggle.
He attacked the European Union and other countries for banning the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. The TNA Member of Parliament said, “The international community does not seem to appreciate the plight of our people. Instead of helping to end the suffering and in pressuring the Sri Lanka government, it is denouncing the Tamil struggle as terrorism. The EU and Canada have recently banned the Liberation Tigers.”
“But in Canada, in Europe, everywhere our people are united in demanding an end to these bans,” he said warning those countries.
“We are gathered here today to send a message to the international community: you cannot split the Tigers and the Tamil people. They are united in their cause of liberation,” Adaikalanathan concluded.
