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More than 100,000 Tamil Children traumatised: Norwegian aid worker

by admin on Mar.11, 2010, under Sri Lanka

More than 100,000 Tamil Children traumatised: Norwegian aid worker

 Redd Barna (Save the Children) aid worker from Norway, Vidar Strøm, has said that there are over one hundred thousand Tamil Children who have been traumatised, to a greater or lesser degree, after being exposed to the War and then for the internment camps in the North. Redd Barna has gained access to the camps only after December 01 and is working to create child-friendly environment within the camps.

“The goal is to make a very abnormal situation as normal as possible,” Mr. Strøm told the official website of the organisation. Save the Children is working intensively to put in place school, kindergarten or similar structures for children who are exposed to war, Mr. Strøm told the website. This is his fifth mission in Sri Lanka.

“Children need support from adults who can understand and attend to their needs. Save the Children, among other things, has provided training to parents and teachers.” “These children are entirely dependent on aid, and our job is to protect them best. I am glad that humanitarian organizations have been allowed entry into the camps,” Mr. Strøm has told.


4 Comments for this entry

  • Karuppen
    March 15th, 2010 on 11:25 pm

    I agree with P John’s meaningful remarks. They are very simple to understand.

    All my writings and posts are targeted towards a search for a peaceful solution to the grievances and agony the Tamils in Sri Lanka face today. We are more concerned with the root causes for the present condition rather than the agents who created this situation for the Sri Lankan Tamils.

    When the UN official inquiry or the US initiative into Sri Lankan war crimes proceed, it will bring to the International War Crime Court not only the Sri Lankan President Mr Mahinda Rajapakse, his military hierarchy, but also all the surviving LTTE combatants, cadres and the Australian nurse wife of the late LTTE political wing advisor Mr Balasingam who handed out cyanide pills to child solders in combat zones during trainings in Sri Lanka. The lady lives in Surrey, England. She should be brought along with others before the International War Crime Court to face charges against humanity.

    When justice knocks on your door, it never discriminates against anybody and its noise is loud enough to muffle the other moaning.

    Nothing is more appealing to a disturbed human mind other than seeing another human life wallowing in pain and suffering before it loses its life.

    The present plight of Sri Lankan Tamils is the result of a certain fragment of Tamil Diaspora who funded the combative manoeuvres through a war machine called LTTE against the helpless Tamil civilians in Sri Lanka. An ethnicity glowed with its fine human values, the Tamils in Sri Lanka have lost their glamour by the exposure to war they did not wage against the majority Singhalese government in Sri Lanka. Now is the time Tamil Diaspora refrained from funding further genocide through any war machines. Free your mind from combative instincts and mould a policy of co-existence with the majority Singhalese. The time has come to discover the art of reconciliation.

    Pretension will never help you free your mind. Do not pretend to yourself.

    There is no other option for the survival of Tamil identity in Sri Lanka than an amicable reconciliation. To realize it, the Tamil politicians should create the climate for the workable platform through TRUST. Give it a chance to work out and it will enlist the global support of democratic governments in power today. Democracy defines its existence through creating its roots in volatile spots where peace is the escaping culprit.

    The decimation of war machine LTTE and its shadow combatant roots have created a situation where a strong negotiation for peace is the antidote for the present situation the Tamils in Sri Lanka face today.

    Luxury produces self-forgetfulness, but pain and suffering awaken the mind to a search for survival.

  • Karuppen
    March 13th, 2010 on 8:27 pm

    The wind does not blow always in a certain direction. Time changes for the sole purpose of bringing about improvement and survival in political thinking.

    There are already palpable signs among Western countries in the measures they have taken to clearly define the meaning of war crimes. If the Tamil Diaspora keeps the rolling stones in momentum, it will infuse their aspirations for an independent homeland for indigenous Tamils in Srilanka with direction and strength. A mind set on the task of common good will always give strength to the idea to reach the goal.

    The Srilankan government, immersed in bloody battles and inebriated with war victory over terrorism, has lost sight of right course in political navigation. Unless the Tamil Diaspora develops a language of accord to bring international pressures on such issues as refusal of continued IMF loans and foreign aids tied up with security and sovereignty of indigenous Tamils, any move taken by the Tamil Diaspora will hardly create the conditions for the independent homeland for the Tamils in Srilanka, but only sizzle out.

    Alienation, monetary isolation, embargo on Srilankan goods abroad, strict screening of visa applications of ruling government ministers, military hierarchy or anyone in the military duty, and scaling down of consular Section in Foreign Offices in Srilanka and abroad, investigation into charges of discrimination against the minority citizens in Srilanka and abroad, a very strict screening of High Commission officials before their posing abroad to verify if they have in any stage of their life involved in State terrorism are some of the measures the foreign governments can adopt in sensitizing the Sinhala ruling regime to the past political excesses and instil a code of discipline into its political thinking and framework.

    A rogue can not be a rogue all the time. He has conscience too and his conscience teaches him to open his eyes to his crimes he has committed and mistakes he has made. The flagellation of his own conscience never rests unless it has raised his consciousness to mend his ways of infraction of democratic principles in a society. This is the lesson the ruling Srilankan government is going to learn soon. Anything that happens slowly has a horrendous effect in the end. The Mother Nature reveals her laws to the mind attuned to her language and rhythm.

    If you appreciate the discordant and different views, you build up a strong principled fortress in your mental outlook to deal with any problem. The views different from one’s own are the key to understanding any personal and political problems. They create quantum-based possibilities for one’s own survival. This is the Universal Truth.

    The Tamil Diaspora keeps the torch of independent homeland for Tamils in Srilanka aflame with inspiration.

  • Karuppen
    March 11th, 2010 on 8:44 pm

    We have to carefully separate two issues here. One is rhe general good of the Tamils in Sri Lanka, and the other is the part played by the Tamil militancy group whatever it is. The militancy group is or was not the Tamil community itself, nor the Tamil community is the essence of the militant group. The two are two poles of the called Injustice and discrimination.

    The militant group adopted violence as the tool of achieving the condition for the independent homeland for the Sri Lankan Tamils. But It not only failed, but also decimated the militant group and displaced the Tamils as homeless refugees in their homeland.

    When a certain tool failed to produce the results expected of a system, there are at the disposal of the Tamil community other tools. The one still to be tried is the tool of reconciliation. Reconciliation is not surrender, but a survival mechanism. Certain Tamil Diaspora members, imbedded in the idea of militancy, feel left out and very much hurt by the defeat and decimation of the militant group. Instead of wallowing in the idea of militancy of one sort or another, they have to mount pressure on foreign governments to get involved in the peace process to install peace and harmony as the prerequisite for a meaningful dialogue between the dissenting parties in Sri Lanka.

    History is a muddle of dirty water. Not a single person of worth will ever waste his or her time digging deeper and deeper into the stinking mud. Leave aside Hindu or Saiva religious recantations. They will not solve the problems at hand now.

    Reconciliation and mobility of global voice of democratic governments in power today are the two powerful tools the Tamil Diaspora has to use to bring the rebellious Sri Lankan government to the bargain table.

    Some interesting developments are to impact on the global approach to Sri Lankan Tamil issue. The UN is under pressure from all fronts to proceed with an official inquiry into the crimes Sri Lankan government and Tamil militant group have committed. Another is the strong Chinese presence in Sri Lanka which poses a grave danger to Indian security in the Indian Ocean. India is not going to be an idle duck any more. It is time India woke up from the Sri Lankan sedation and asserted its regional presence. The woes and grievances of the Sri Lankan Tamils are the powerful tools for India to implement corrective measures to ward off Chinese threat to Indian security. Once adopted, this measure will win back the hearts of Tamil Nadu of India.

  • Yoganathan
    March 11th, 2010 on 7:05 pm

    IF THE USA STOP FUNDING the ISRAEL, ISRAEL WILL THINK ABOUT RECONCILIATION WITH PALESTINIANS.
    THE SAME APPLIES TO THE NAZI SRILANKA, WHEN SRILANKA MADE BANKRUPT, SRILANKA WILL TALK PEACE.

    As per reconciling with NAZI Srilanka even after 62 years of Ethnic Cleansing of Minorities and Genocide of Tamils with CONCENTRATION CAMPS of more than 300,000 Tamils, and still ongoing Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide in all over the island, IF ANYONE ADVOCATE RECONCILIATION WITH SINHELLA NAZI TERRORIST SRILANKA, I WILL TELL THEM TO LOOK AT THE DESPERATE SITUATION OF POOR PALESTINIANS BY USA AND WEST DOING THE SAME HELP TO ISRAEL DESPITE ISRAEL DOING THE GENOCIDE AND ALL ATROCITIES AGAINST THE PALESTINIANS,
    We Tamils must not allow the Srilanka to Prsoper and do the same like Israel to kill all Tamils and Muslims,
    Srilanka – with all the DEBTS- adamant on Sinhala NAZISM – will do worse tahn now if they are allowed to be richer than now,
    CUT OFF THE BLOOD STREAM of SINHELL ANZISM by Cutting of the ECONOMY allowing them to fund the NAZi SInhELLA terrorist military, then they cannot do the Sinhella terrorism against Minorities and will talk peace.
    ONLY A DEAD SINHELLA RACIST is the Best thing on the Earth.
    PLEASE DON’t GIVE POLLU to SINHELLA racists with your own money to be beaten by the same POLLU.

 

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