Solidarity with Students’ Protest in Tamil Nadu

We Support the Demand for an Independent Inquiry against Sri Lankan and Indian Governments for the genocide in Sri Lanka !

We Support the demand for a REFERENDUM on Separate Tamil Eelam !

Recognize the Self-Determination Rights of Eelam Tamils in Sri Lanka !

The New Materialists stand in solidarity with the ongoing struggle of the thousands of students’ of various educational institutions in Tamil Nadu, which is being neglected criminally by the nationalist parties and media. Students, lawyers and people from all walks of life, are organizing sit-in-protests, indefinite hunger strikes as well as demonstrations in various parts of Tamil Nadu. The government has instructed the colleges and university authorities to shut down for an indefinite time to suppress the voices of people. Students are continuing their indefinite hunger strikes for seven consecutive days. Human rights activists say that more than 40,000 Tamil civilians were killed in Srilanka. The  proposed meeting of the UNHRC (United Nations Human Rights Council) where the UN will demand an inquiry for the ‘war crime’ that happened in Sri Lanka. After the British media Channel 4 revelations, we demand that the enquiry of the ‘genocide’ in Sri Lanka during 2009, should include Indian state’s role along with Sri Lanka government as perpetrators of violence against Eelam people. It has been three years since the genocide on Eelam people, none of the criminals have been brought to justice. We reject the US sponsored resolution, which is merely an eyewash and demand for an independent inquiry by an International Tribunal against the Rajapaksa government and the Indian government and their armies. The Inquiry should not be less than the nature of the Nuremberg trial. We condemn the demands of political parties in Tamil Nadu to support USA resolution which nowhere questions the role of the Indian government in the genocide that happened in Sri Lanka. We demand the Eelam people in Sri Lanka should be allowed for their self-determination rights and it should be recognized by an international body and the community.

We appeal to all the progressive forces of this campus to support the struggle of Tamil people, students, lawyers, workers for the cause of democracy, humanity and justice.