Tamil People in Overseas and their Actions and Reactions

I was thinking about how we all (every individuals) in Australia are reacting about our struggles in Sri Lanka.

I have been living in Australia for almost 10 years, and until the peace talk started, lots of the youth who grown up here they always said… LTTE are terrorists and they don’t want to do anything with it, they don’t even want to hear what I have to say or other people who grown up in Tamil areas got to say and then after the peace talk few had the chance to go to our homeland and seen what happened there. Most of the anti-LTTE people became LTTE supporters, but when they got back to Australia, most of them hesitated. They wanted to stay on the fence; they wanted to stay in their comfort zone. When they talk to Tamil people like me they say what is Sri Lankan government doing to our Tamil people is wrong and what LTTE doing is the right thing and we have to support blah blah… and then when they with a group of people most of them scared to open their mouth and say what they saw… I just couldn’t understand why.

One of my mate said, he could never understood why his parents so much involved in helping people back home and supporting the Eelam struggle, and then when he went there and saw it for himself he got involved in helping more than his parents and he said its also our parents faults that they don’t want to tell their kids what they went thru, they just tell their kids to get involved and help without telling them why they have to help and why we have to support our brethren back home. So, some got involved without any reason behind it, they just came and helped because their parents asked them to help. I know its not a pleasant, happy ending story for most of them; but if you don’t tell your kids where you came from and what happened to you, they will never know or they will never feel emotionally that they are Tamil. So parents got to start telling their kids where they came from rather than complaining that their kids not coming to Tamil functions and stuff.

I’m glad that I’m living in Australia. I’m thankful to the Australian government because it provided me a home and it provided me education and I’m living in harmony here. I only came here because I had the chance to catch the flight, I had the chance to buy the ticket and I had someone to support me financially to come here and survive. It doesn’t mean that I can just relax and forget about the people back home just because I have escaped. I often think about our people who never had the chance like me to catch a flight or a boat/ship to run away or escape from Sri Lanka like me. America cares about it? No… Australia cares about those people? No…Indian cares about those people? No…. Sri Lankan government cares about those people? NO…. So… Who is going to light up those people’s life? Only we as Tamils can do something about it.

I’ve learnt that we have to scream out loud … otherwise nothings going to happen. We can’t just sit down and think that somebody is going to do things for us. Specially we need to make awareness to our youth who’s been living Overseas and even Tamil kids in Colombo they have no idea what is going on there… Colombo is like another/ different world.