Hon. Jurist V R Krishna Iyer in his message to Tamil National said, India cannot be a silence spectator of the unjust catastrophe taking place in Sri Lanka.
He said the Government of Sri Lanka in claiming victory is inflicting untold slaughter tragedies, killing daily bleeding lives mostly of women and children and indescribable human suffering. International law, so far as the Tamils are concerned, is the vanishing point of humanist jurisprudence.
He further added, Sri Lanka cannot be allowed Hitlarite brutality. World opinion should tell Colombo in tough tongue that racial annihilation, genocidal terrorism and uncivilized inhumanity are violations of world humanism, Buddhist compassion and secular democracy.
In his open letter to Sonia Gandhi, the President of Indian Congress Party, he says, "the gun is not the answer. Somehow, Colombo takes a terrible barbarian view of wiping out the Tamils by Sinhaleese supremacy tearing off the entire cultural edifice of the province of peace the world has seen." He urge Sonia Gandhi to act now when violence is at its worst bitterness.
OPEN LETTER TO MADAM SONIA GANDHI
April 24, 2009
Respected Madam Sonia Gandhi,I address this letter to you both in your capacity as the President of the most powerful party in the country with the longest national tradition and also as having a decisive voice in matters of fundamental internal policy and vital foreign relations with direct impact on our country’s peace and development. This letter has one focus namely our relations with neighbouring Sri Lanka which has traditional and historic bonds with us; but closer ethnic and cultural ties and intimate people to people racial and theological communal intimacies.
My regard for you has many dimensions. You are an integral part of Indian political life. I knew Feroz Gandhi whom I have met and been impressed with his independent and justice-oriented perspectives on public issues. Equally associated was my nexus with Rajiv Gandhi who had certain developmentally embryonic facets, but in later days I had realized on meeting him on two or three occasions that had he been alive he would have shaped Bharat Mahan a panchayati raj in a unique developmental dimension far different from its present dependencia syndrome. Above all, I have been shaped in my political views by the great first Prime Minister of India who made that historic speech on the tryst with destiny We, the People of India made. An equally great appreciation of Indira Gandhi and close relations with her particularly because she had daring and original views on nationalization of socialist secular democratic developmental creativity largely conditioned by her great father. All these have a place in my bosom when I write this first letter to you on the matter of great moment to the Tamils of India.
The Tamils of India have cultural roots as old as vedic and upanishadic wonder which we regard as our proud heritage. Tamil culture has spread to neighbouring countries with a hegemonistic infiltration into the national cultures of many Asian countries. In short Tamil is not just a language, it has ancient depths oceanic expansion and legends upon legends which mould the thinking operations of generation after generation of the suffered states of India, their peoples, their languages and letters. All these are at stake when we talk of Indo-Srilanka relationships with the great lord of Sri. Buddha of India which is the majority religion of the Sinhaleese of Sri Lanka. That beautiful island is part of the chronicle of Ramayana and is therefore inseparable from the epic chapters of ancient India. I narrate in fragmentary fashion only to emphasise the need for a sense of history in appreciating the mental matrix of south India and the crisis in that Island of escalating violence whoever wins a battle between the Tamils and the Sinhaleese the Island’s solidarity and the Indo-Sri Lanka estrangement will suffer aggravation. India shall not miss a great creative opportunity at this moment to take statesmanship vision towards this Indian Ocean imbroglio so that peace in Colombo may be a positive contribution and Indo-Sri Lanka cordial relations.
The Government of India must be deeply involved in this bizarre issue as it affects intangibly but importantly. The racial relations and ethnic amity between the Tamil country and Delhi, is not merely an inter-state dispute. Much deeper than that the whole people with their cultural linguistic militancy are likely to be ever hostile to Delhi. This will be followed up by Assam and other disgruntled States, a divisive fissiparous disastrous tendency for a country already weakened by various patricidal forces. At this critical hour Madam Sonia and your party have a nationalist role to play. Sri Lanka is not just another country, but have very many mutual matters which require discussions and happy harmonious revolutions. This is statesmanship now beyond politics. Kindly consider the importance of the solidarity and friendly relations between our two countries. Tamils versus Sinhala cannot be decided by a brute majority. We know the history of Pakistan how separated from India and how Bangladesh broke away from Pakistan. Splinter groups of today, the Sri Lankan President must know tomorrow will become breakaway states. India is hegemony in the Indian Ocean and cannot be indifferent to turbulence. I need not elaborate longer but leave it to you to take a Nehruvian, Gandhian perspective of this intricate international issue. Sri Lankan deterioration is not their only concern. This has been established by world history. To protest and act in time is a necessity. If you fail, our generation has let down Bharat and its people.
So I plead with you to act now when violence is at its worst bitterness. The gun is not the answer. Somehow, Colombo takes a terrible barbarian view of wiping out the Tamils by Sinhaleese supremacy tearing off the entire cultural edifice of the province of peace the world has seen.
I have a gut feeling that had India creatively intervened in Sri Lanka early enough both Prabhakaran and Colombo and the entire people both Tamils and Sinhaleese would have listened and positively reacted to India’s voice of peace. Even today when the military crescendo has reached and the Tamils as a race is on the verge of the vanishing point and their close relatives in Tamil Nadu are at India’s indifference because Delhi belongs to the North and not to the South. We cannot wait or delay longer now till disaster overtakes the million of Tamil’s future. To protest in time is an invitation to Hindus hiding in history. “They came for the Jews and I did not protest because I was not a Jew, then they came for communist and I did not protest because I was not a communist, then they came for the trade unionist but I did not protect because I was not a trade unionist, then they came for me and there was none to protest”. Protest in time or you loose the glory of history.
Prabhakaran caught killed will never see the end of the internecine hatchet. Democracy and socialism has a different semantics. Therefore a global outlook on this terrible crisis cannot be resolved merely by bombing and killing Tamil carnage, human history is made of sterner stuff Madam Sonia.
My appeal to you is on behalf of the millions of peace-loving masses and thoughtful intelligencia to one whose word is today is a political force in India.With high regards,
Yours sincerely,(V.R. KRISHNA IYER)
To
Smt. Sonia Gandhi
President
Indian National Congress
Janpath
New Delhi
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Subscribe to this comment's feedRacial annihilation and genocidal terrorism are violations of world humanism
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I appreciate the wisdom in Hon. Jurist V R Krishna Iyer's letter, I think it was too late for anyone to convince the world or at least the Tamils, that the current indian estabilishement has any concern for mankind or any belief in democratic principles.
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I appreciate the wisdom in Hon. Jurist V R Krishna Iyer's letter, I think it was too late for anyone to convince the world or at least the Tamils, that the current indian estabilishement has any concern for mankind or any belief in democratic principles.