Tigers, Tamil Diaspora and the Tamil civilian plight. ⇒
11 May 2009, mid-morning
"A tactical blunder by the diaspora is its ethno-centric approach to what is essentially a humanitarian catastrophe. If it dispenses with its tiger-oriented agitation and alters the focus to that of a human rights perspective there are vast possibilities of attracting many human rights organizations also into joining the demonstrations. But the LTTE flavour prevents such a wider mobilisation." A great article on the relationship between the Tamil Tigers and the Tamil diaspora. One day i'll write about how it is immoral to support the LTTE from afar, where you don't have to fear them or their actions. The Tamil middle classes abroad watches the war they supported for all these years from the comfort of the UK or Canada, while sending their children to private schools and fancy universities: it's obnoxious.
This is a post from my link log: If you click the title of this post you will be taken the web page I am discussing.