03-09-2006, 04:30 PM
தமிழ்மாகான் ஜீவன் கூலும்,ராஜன் கூலும் சகோதரர்கள் இல்லயா?இருவருமே UTHR அஐ நடதுபவர்கள். நீர் வேண்டு மென்றே குழப்புகிறீரா அல்லது தெரியாமல் எழுதுகிறீரா என்று தெரியவில்லை?கீழே மேலும் தகவல்கள் இவர்களைப் பற்றி.இவர்கள் தமிழ் ஈழத் தேசிய விடுதலைப் போராட்டத்திற்கு எதிராக அரசின் கைப்பாவயாக இயங்குபவர்கள்.
UTHR Credibility Under Attack
Human Rights Group Linked to Sri Lankan Government
South Asia Media Services,
Chennai, 11 January 1997
Analysts long believed that the Sri Lankan government has engaged both internal and external agents to carryout its smear campaign against the Tamil struggle and LTTE. The internal agents include the government's own media and its support staff, some individuals within the Sinhala and Tamil communities and a few front organizations. Invariably, all these agents are either directly or indirectly funded by the Sri Lankan government. This practice of government sponsored smear campaign is reminiscent of the tactics used against East Timorean struggle and the African National Conference(ANC).
The South Asia Media Services(SAMS), an independent non profit media services with reporters in all South Asian countries has undertaken to write on the different propaganda sources used by the Sri Lankan government. As a first topic, the SAMS has chosen to review the activities of one of the internal front organizations, the Jaffna University Teachers Human Rights(UTHR) group, based in Colombo.
The UTHR is headed by Mr. Rajan Hoole and his brother Jeevan Hoole. Although the Hoole brothers use the name, "Jaffna University Teachers", they have no affiliation to the University of Jaffna ... The Hoole brothers have not set foot in Jaffna since their expulsion, but they continue to publish their reports under the UTHR title from the capital Colombo, Sri Lanka. Our Colombo correspondent reports that the major source of information .... for the UTHR is the Sri Lankan government.
http://www.tamilnation.org/humanrights/uth...THR_Credibility
Mugunthan on the UTHR - Ignorance Costs Lives
Tamil Circle, 14 January 1997
It is interesting to read that an army officer who would not mind killing his own people was praised by UTHR in its last report. My belief is that UTHR blatantly ignores the facts. UTHR reports goes on praising the Sri Lankan army all over its report. Then again it also lists all the atrocities committed by the army. How can an army which rapes and kills people be called a well behaved army?...
Are these people (two brothers) just confused? Most of our problems are probably from within. If it is hard to convince our fellow Tamils that we have a problem, it would be much much harder to convince the international community we have a problem.
Only the toughest will survive in this world. It looks like there nothing is going to stop the death of the Sri Lankan Tamil nation with the help of Devananda and UTHR. I would like to point out that UTHR was completely silent during the Sri Lankan army early consolidation period in Jaffna... Is it not possible to take UTHR to court for running something in the name of Jaffna university without any representation or whatsoever from current Jaffna university people.
If you are reading this mail Mr. Jeevan Hoole, why do not you publish who are the members of UTHR? Given that no one I know from Jaffna University ever claimed to be a member of UTHR how can you call yourselves human rights group of Jaffna university? It makes me wonder whether you have personal problems with LTTE which makes you write supporting Sri Lankan army? If we do not solve our personal problems and short sightedness then the Sri Lankan aggressors will demolish us.
http://www.tamilnation.org/humanrights/uthr/#Mugunthan
University Teachers for Human Rights
(Jaffna Branch)
Whatever may be said, who ever may say it - to
determine the truth of it, is wisdom - Thirukural
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The Reports by the University Teachers for Human Rights (Jaffna Branch) have often attracted controversy.
On the one hand, the criticism has been made that the writers of the reports are no longer attached to the Jaffna University and that their continued use of the description UTHR (Jaffna Branch) is not only misleading but is also an attempt to give the reports a legitimacy and 'status' that they lack. The further point has also been made that the Sri Lanka government and the Sinhala media have often given inordinate prominence to the UTHR reports, and exploited these reports to undermine the Tamil struggle for self determination. Here, the comments of the South Asia Media Services and Mugunthan are not without relevance.
On the other hand, UTHR (Jaffna Branch) reply that the writers of the reports were unable to continue to work in Jaffna because their lives were endangered, that the termination of their employment by the Jaffna University is being contested, and that in any event the reports should be judged on their instrinsic value and content. This latter contention is not without merit.
The struggle of the Tamil people for self determination is rooted in that which is right and just - and will be strengthened, not weakened by an open examination of the issues that confront it. The Tamil struggle for freedom has no need for a 'media censorship' of the kind imposed by the Sinhala dominated Sri Lankan government from time to time - a media censorship which has served as a cloak for genocidal attacks by the Sinhala dominated Sri Lanka government against the Tamil people.
http://www.tamilnation.org/humanrights/uthr/
UTHR Credibility Under Attack
Human Rights Group Linked to Sri Lankan Government
South Asia Media Services,
Chennai, 11 January 1997
Analysts long believed that the Sri Lankan government has engaged both internal and external agents to carryout its smear campaign against the Tamil struggle and LTTE. The internal agents include the government's own media and its support staff, some individuals within the Sinhala and Tamil communities and a few front organizations. Invariably, all these agents are either directly or indirectly funded by the Sri Lankan government. This practice of government sponsored smear campaign is reminiscent of the tactics used against East Timorean struggle and the African National Conference(ANC).
The South Asia Media Services(SAMS), an independent non profit media services with reporters in all South Asian countries has undertaken to write on the different propaganda sources used by the Sri Lankan government. As a first topic, the SAMS has chosen to review the activities of one of the internal front organizations, the Jaffna University Teachers Human Rights(UTHR) group, based in Colombo.
The UTHR is headed by Mr. Rajan Hoole and his brother Jeevan Hoole. Although the Hoole brothers use the name, "Jaffna University Teachers", they have no affiliation to the University of Jaffna ... The Hoole brothers have not set foot in Jaffna since their expulsion, but they continue to publish their reports under the UTHR title from the capital Colombo, Sri Lanka. Our Colombo correspondent reports that the major source of information .... for the UTHR is the Sri Lankan government.
http://www.tamilnation.org/humanrights/uth...THR_Credibility
Mugunthan on the UTHR - Ignorance Costs Lives
Tamil Circle, 14 January 1997
It is interesting to read that an army officer who would not mind killing his own people was praised by UTHR in its last report. My belief is that UTHR blatantly ignores the facts. UTHR reports goes on praising the Sri Lankan army all over its report. Then again it also lists all the atrocities committed by the army. How can an army which rapes and kills people be called a well behaved army?...
Are these people (two brothers) just confused? Most of our problems are probably from within. If it is hard to convince our fellow Tamils that we have a problem, it would be much much harder to convince the international community we have a problem.
Only the toughest will survive in this world. It looks like there nothing is going to stop the death of the Sri Lankan Tamil nation with the help of Devananda and UTHR. I would like to point out that UTHR was completely silent during the Sri Lankan army early consolidation period in Jaffna... Is it not possible to take UTHR to court for running something in the name of Jaffna university without any representation or whatsoever from current Jaffna university people.
If you are reading this mail Mr. Jeevan Hoole, why do not you publish who are the members of UTHR? Given that no one I know from Jaffna University ever claimed to be a member of UTHR how can you call yourselves human rights group of Jaffna university? It makes me wonder whether you have personal problems with LTTE which makes you write supporting Sri Lankan army? If we do not solve our personal problems and short sightedness then the Sri Lankan aggressors will demolish us.
http://www.tamilnation.org/humanrights/uthr/#Mugunthan
University Teachers for Human Rights
(Jaffna Branch)
Whatever may be said, who ever may say it - to
determine the truth of it, is wisdom - Thirukural
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The Reports by the University Teachers for Human Rights (Jaffna Branch) have often attracted controversy.
On the one hand, the criticism has been made that the writers of the reports are no longer attached to the Jaffna University and that their continued use of the description UTHR (Jaffna Branch) is not only misleading but is also an attempt to give the reports a legitimacy and 'status' that they lack. The further point has also been made that the Sri Lanka government and the Sinhala media have often given inordinate prominence to the UTHR reports, and exploited these reports to undermine the Tamil struggle for self determination. Here, the comments of the South Asia Media Services and Mugunthan are not without relevance.
On the other hand, UTHR (Jaffna Branch) reply that the writers of the reports were unable to continue to work in Jaffna because their lives were endangered, that the termination of their employment by the Jaffna University is being contested, and that in any event the reports should be judged on their instrinsic value and content. This latter contention is not without merit.
The struggle of the Tamil people for self determination is rooted in that which is right and just - and will be strengthened, not weakened by an open examination of the issues that confront it. The Tamil struggle for freedom has no need for a 'media censorship' of the kind imposed by the Sinhala dominated Sri Lankan government from time to time - a media censorship which has served as a cloak for genocidal attacks by the Sinhala dominated Sri Lanka government against the Tamil people.
http://www.tamilnation.org/humanrights/uthr/