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TGTE Salutes French President Macron’s Statesmanship and Moral Courage in Holding Referendum In New Caledonia!
- October 13, 2020
- ENGLISH NEWS, TGTE PRESS RELEASES
However, we are aware that the Sinhala leaders of the Government of Sri Lanka do not have such statesman-like qualities or moral courage .
Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam (TGTE) congratulates French President Emmanuel Macron for allowing New Caledonia, a French territory and island chain in the South Pacific, to hold a referendum on independence. TGTE also lauds President Macron for expressing gratitude to the New Caledonians for opting to remain a part of France, showing demonstratable respect for the People of New Caledonia, democracy, and human rights.
While New Caledonians voted on October 4, 2020 to remain part of France by a slight margin, the event is significant in that President Macron’s approval of it being held is a critical act of recognition by a world power of a people’s fundamental right, even when it goes against the reigning State’s interest, to self-determination.
We are not at all surprised by President Marcon’s decision to allow the Referendum to be held in New Caledonia. Following the French Revolution, the French Constituent Assembly declared that the French Nation renounced the undertaking of any war for the purpose of conquest and it would never employ it’s forces against the liberty of any people. It was stated the French Republic” wishes no other possession than the heart of the nation”. In essence, the idea of Referendum is in the DNA of France.
”Referendums afford an avenue for peaceful resolutions to conflict. Instead, Sri Lanka opted for the death of 70 thousand Tamils in six months in 2009 and war to preserve its chauvinistic state.”
— Visivanathan Rudrakumaran
Elsewhere, more often than not, a people’s assertion of their right to self-determination is disregarded and even worse, violently repressed, by states for the sake of maintaining ethnocracy, as is the case with Eelam Tamils in and from the island of Sri Lanka.
Sunday’s referendum was the second of three allowed by the Noumea Accord, an agreement made in 1998 and enshrined in France’s constitution.
However, we are aware that the Sinhala leaders of the Government of Sri Lanka do not have such statesman-like qualities or moral courage. Instead, successive state administrations have stifled, often with lethal force, Eelam Tamil calls for self-determination and its corollary referendum. Referendums afford an avenue for peaceful resolutions to conflict.
Instead, Sri Lanka opted for the death of around 70 thousand Tamils in six months in 2009 (UN Figure) and war to preserve its chauvinistic state.
As former Nobel Laureate Jose Ramos-Horta noted during his speech at the 2020 Tamil Mourning Day event organized by TGTE, Colombo (Sri Lankan unitary government’s main point of operation) should ask itself the question: “why does an entity want to separate itself from the existing political arrangement?”
Mr. Visuvanathan Rudrakumaran
Prime minister
Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam (TGTE)
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