Please sign the online petition for help suffering Eelam Tamils

Yesterday (May 10, 2009) saw the Sri Lankan government escalate its genocide of its own citizens. More than 300 killed and 1000 wounded.

Please sign this petition to the US Congress:

Please stop the genocide in Sri Lanka

Sri Lankan government creating another Darfur

The Sri Lankan government has asked all international aid agencies to leave the Tamil minority region under assault from government forces.

The reqion in the North of the country referred to as "Wanni" is on the brink of a humanitarian disaster as the government continues with its "slow genocide" of the Tamils.

Asia Times says that the Sri Lankan government even operates camps similar to the Nazi camps:

These camps are strictly policed and offer very limited freedom of mobility for inmates. Since civilian escapees from Wanni are all suspected of loyalties to the LTTE, the camps are subject to screening and "weeding out" operations by security forces. One informed international aid official likened them to Nazi concentration camps.

Will the international community act in time to save the suffering people of Wanni?

Desperate plight of Tamil civilians

This BBC article brings to light suffering Tamil people in Sri Lanka are bearing due to the war strategy of the Sri Lankan government:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7558467.stm

The article also touches upon the fact that the international community (India especially) has sought to ignore the plight of the Tamils.

How much better it would be if the people of the North and East of Lanka are provided with the opportunity to vote in an UN administered referendum to decide how they want to be administered (in a new country - Tamil Eelam or as part of Sri Lanka).

The US role in Sri Lanka

There are two possible view points for the US to approach the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka.

	Justice view	Incumbency view
Basis	All freedom loving people have the right to self determintaion and happiness like the American people.	We are a sovereign nation and we will always support another sovereign nation even if they treat their minorities badly.

Its obvious that a great nation like the United States of America should primarily base its opinion on the justice view. However, in reality the US has been a friend of the Sri Lankan government and its anti-minority war.

	USA	Sri Lanka	Tamil Eelam (future)
Form of government	Secular, open democracy	Theocractic oppressive democracy	Secular, open democracy
Minority Rights	Best standards in the world	One of the worst in the world - only nation to have aerially bombed its minorities for 22 years.	Will seek to establish minority rights based on the western model

Will the United States of America help secure justice for the suffering people of Tamil Eelam by supporting a referendum?

Why is a referendum in the North East of Sri Lanka the best option to solve the ethnic conflict

A referendum is the most peaceful and democratic means of solving the ethnic conflict that has already taken more than 80000 lives. The referendum is not just for Tamils, but for all traditional inhabitants of the North and East provinces along the lines of Quebec/Canada, Eritea/Ethiopia, Indonesia/East Timor etc.