Sri Lanka has shown far more humanitarian gestures
And who
looked after Prabakaran's parents?
India is getting its media to relay photos of Prabakaran's dead
son and interviewing Callum Macrae producer of the latest documentary tarnishing
Sri Lanka's image but has conveniently forgotten how India's Central Government
refused entry to Prabakaran's own ailing 79 year old mother (Velupillai Parvathi
Pillai) with Indian policemen not even allowing her to alight from the aircraft
at 11:30p.m on 16 April 2010 - how inhuman was this gesture from the Indian
Government for an old lady requesting medical attention?
No parent would ever want their child to turn into a murderer or
mass killer and mentally the parents of Prabakaran would have suffered much in
silence for what their son had turned into. Neverthless, Asian culture is such
that the elderly are always treated with reverence and respect whatever their
faults and in times of ill health all differences are put aside. Such was the
manner the armed forces treated the parents of Prabakaran ensuring that nothing
happened to Prabakaran's parents by their own people.
Prabakaran's parents came to the liberated areas on 17 May 2009
and were stationed at Menik Farm (Zone IV). It was after the Tamil people came
to realize who they were that a tense situation arose forcing authorities to
remove Prabakaran's parents lest harm should come to them. This was a poignant
incident because by this time having realized that the LTTE dictatorial rule had
finally ended the Tamil people who had suffered because of the LTTE were now
free to voice their emotions that had been kept bottled up for fear.
Nevertheless, the military authorities out of concern for the aged couple in
spite of being Prabakaran's parents were quick to remove them to a safe
accommodation in Panagoda. Not many kudus were given by media but that was
always to be expected.
On 4 January 2010 Prabakaran's parents requested to be shifted
to Jaffna though Velvetiturai was their ancestral home. However, 3 days later on
7 January 2010 Prabakaran's father (Veraswami Thiruwengadam Velupillai) passed
away. Prabakaran's only sister Vinothini Rajendran living in Toronto, Canada
requested Prabakaran's mother to be permitted to fly to Canada and she flew to
Malaysia in April 2010 but visa issues resulted in her going to India but India
too decided to deport her.
This is the very country that has now initiated a 2nd Resolution
against Sri Lanka through the US with a new wave of "perturbed" photos of
Prabakaran's son munching a cooking inside a fortified bunker alongside the same
picture that was circulated in 2012 of a gunshot wounded child.
Prabakaran's mother rejected by India was returned to Sri Lanka
and died in Jaffna on 20 February 2011. Her 2nd death anniversary just
concluded. Prabakaran's only sister and only daughter of Prabakaran's parents
did not come for the funerals of either parent though informed of their deaths.
Sri Lanka has shown far more humanitarian gestures than the
country is given credit for. Sri Lanka does not deserve the double standards and
hypocrisies that it now faces at the UNHRC.
By Shenali
Waduge
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