Nandha

It was election time 4:00 AM dawn , I don’t remember how old I was that time. Was sleeping next to my father on the floor. My mother and sisters both went to bring the water in pots five blocks away from our home, while the male sleep at that time. I was between sleep and awaken my mom stormed the house with the water full pot sitting on her hip, calling my father with sense of Urgency "Yennanga! Rajiv Gandhiyai konnuttangaalam" (RajivGandhi is assassinated)

Something really chilling intruded in my spinal card and felt the coldness up to my head, was speechless for a moment. I guess I was 10 year old that time. Gazed at my father who is visibly shaken by the morning news....
My mom! murmured something, after 10 minutes of silence father said, why did they kill in our soil. Later learned that he was blaming the Punjabi Sikhs for that. I grabbed my school bag opened the side pocket "Velupillai Prabakaran" photo fall on the floor , somehow I felt odd. I was influenced by his courage and vision that time J and carry

his photo in my bag.

Later news started to spread that Karthiykeyan (the officer who was in charge of Rajiv Gandhi killing investigation) is behind of LTTE men hiding at Bangalore. After a day saw the rows of photo Sivarasan, Suba and 11 more Tamilians. For my surprise I felt sympathy for those who died rather being infuriated by anger, for removing our prominent leader Rajiv Gandhi. Please dont ask why, could be because of stories that IPKF committing at srilanka, suppressed my feelings towards Rajiv Gandhi and opted the soft stand for Tamilians who was trapped to commit suicide. I can still remember both suba and sivarasan faces.. Also the gruesome picture of Rajiv Gandhi, an noble man. Still don’t know what good things he did to Srilankan Tamil, but he had a vision for India.

IPKF- srilankan tamil calls them Indian People Killing Force , they killed / rapped many tamilians than the Sinhalese Army did i would say. My cousin brother who was working that time with IPKF told many stories, unfortunately he too was involved in some of the atrocities against innocent Tamilians. He brought some broken gold chain to my elder sister with the claim that he bought it at Srilanka jewellery shop, some how my mother sniffed it is not new. Asked him to confess how he get that one, he told that he looted in one of the Tamilian house as everyone at that home left to London. That what was the last time I saw my cousin brother then he never come to my because of my parents. My friend Malini become ferocious whenever she hear IPKF, you should see her reddish face and the pain in her eyes..

Whatever.. the reason why I am talking Rajiv Gandhi, past two weeks there is lot going on in Indian dailies about Balasingam apology on Rajiv Gandhi assassinations.
I wondered why he is apologizing now, to get the sympathy of the Indian government...
There is no one in Delhi can help tiger now because it is congress government, the only messenger and comedian Vaiko cut off his goodwill in Delhi.

And the New Delhi policy chairs are filled with Dixit, Narayanan, Meenakshi Iyer and N.Ram. They all think Srilankan Government is correct democratic, law abiding and

Srilankan government will not kill their own people on the bus by detonating claymore…

They think that LTTE is Terrorist…

So what is next in Tiger’s plate I am eager to watch..

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posted by Nandha @ 12:42 AM