According to reports from London, there were second and third generation Tamils in the protest against Sri Lanka at Westminster Parliament Square, with LTTE flags in their hands, and emblazoned on their T-shirts. They wanted a full stop to army operations and a peace deal with the LTTE. In short, they wanted to save the most wanted criminal in the world. They were as much LTTE as the fanatical cadres now holed up in Ampalavanpokkunai with Prabhakaran. They are on a mission impossible, unacceptable and unattainable.

These zombies of the LTTE should know that separatism has been soundly defeated by our gallant security forces in the battlefield. Moreover, the alleged supporters of Eelam have walked away and abandoned the promised paradise in favour of ordinary citizenship of Sri Lanka. These destitute Tamils from the ‘No-Fire-Zone’ know the unbearable agony and intolerable misery of life under the oppressive LTTE. They have demonstrated to the world the brutal nature of the LTTE’s terrorism and have dared LTTE’s bullets, artillery fire and trenches to forsake Eelam and accept the protection of our security forces. They are unlikely to play the role of cannon fodder any longer for the LTTE or the hypocritical Tamils in the western capitals.

Until they obtain legitimate Sri Lankan passports, those second and third generation Tamils are not Sri Lankan citizens. They are foreigners with no intention to give up their centrally heated, wall-to-wall carpeted cozy homes, their limos and their well-paid jobs. They have no claim to any homeland in Sri Lanka which is nearly six thousand miles away from their land of birth. They should join the scramble for the ice-bound artic and the antarctic by the nations of the world. With help from their friends in high places in the UN, there is a better chance of establishing ice-bound Eelam there. There are also spare lands and islands within the Norwegian artic circle, the Samy people notwithstanding.

A better option would be to get their retained British MPs to present a Devolution Private Bill in Parliament to establish an Eelam in Wembley. They have an amazing assortment of characters for this purpose. Besides the corrupt MPs who can lead the way, there are the illegal immigrants, the economic migrants, credit-card fraudsters, welfare cheats, human traffickers, drug peddlers, the ungrateful MBBS and other graduates from Sri Lankan universities and, of course, the fanatical LTTE cadres. The last lot would be useful for ethnic cleansing of Wembley and collecting blood-money to run Wembley Eelam. If they start now on this project, then in five to ten years’ time they might see the beginnings of a Tamil Wembley Eelam with all the trappings of a nascent exclusively ethnic devolved Tamil province, if not, a Tamil state, but still singing ‘God Save the Queen’ for namesake in Tamil. We should all wish them good luck.