Dear Mr.George Willy Ratnasingam , I am SS , from London (UK) , came across your speech in front of Sri Lankan president Rajapakse..!!!

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An excerpt of Mr. George Willie's awesome speech in Houston, at the reception given to Rajapakshe is given below. Also given are his outstanding credentials.

Mr George Willie is one of very few tamil, who use his professional status, education and political influence for the betterment of his kith and kin back in the island unanimuosly named by majority Sinhalese as Srilanka. A true intellectual, who very well deserve honour and respect from every tamil living around the world.

Many so called tamil warriors by mouth, who still carry their tamil name even visit the island after May 2009 to personally greet MR and to ensure their financial and business interests are met on the expense of thousands of Tamil's life. They are shamelessly loose their self-respect to get crumbs thrown at them by MR government. On the other hand, George is a real warrior who gave advice to Srilankan president at his doorstep how to rule the island. His speech is very well within the democratic norms and political boundaries. He could have simply utilized this opportunity like many other tamils for his own benefit, but he didn’t. A Statesman, Gentleman, and his speech will definitely go on the history books of tamils.

Dear Mr.George Willy Ratnasingam , I am SS , from London (UK) , came across your speech in front of Sri Lankan president Rajapakse last week on a you tube video , wishes to thank you from bottom of my heart. As a person born and brought up in Jaffna and Colombo , and then moved to UK after 30 years , since you left the country , I have many 1000 stories about the atrocities of the brutal war. I , myself has missed the death by seconds during my teen aged life , and I have been put in Jail three times in south even though me or my family never ever had any connections to Tamil Tigers in our life. So I finished my degree in University of Peradeniya , as every Tamil intend to do in my generation , I tried my best to escape from Sri Lanka and at last successfully I did in 2005. Even after I left , I never failed to keep my touch with the country's political situation and I became a Tamil activists to fight for the rights of Tamils determine what they want. I believe you might have gone through million stories and even after Tigers are completely defeated , militarising the Tamil homeland never ever stopped. The key reasons for the Tamil youth to take arms which are , restricted entrance to Universities , Sinhala colonisations and human rights of Tamils are still been unanswered. With the recent arrival of Sinhala families who want land in Jaffna is once again begun to aggravate the local Tamils who are just trying to persuade themselves to live in peace. With incidents like what happened in a public bus , where a Sri Lankan soldiers abused a 14 year old school girl front of others , have not stopped. University systems are not changed to open the entrance without racial religious discrimination. Rajapakse's government has killed thousands of youth who surrendered to Sri Lankan military. Also the youth who are taken from Vanni , based on their age from the IDP camps are kept in military monitored camps for one and a half years now. Even we hear many abuses , threaten to commit sex , and the camps are not open to world wide NGOs or common public. I personally believe current government is just enjoying the victory, and once again repeating the history by trying to keep the Tamils under guns. They have succeeded so far due Chinese and Iranians who were keen on seeking allies with Sri Lanka. The question is we have seen that in the international arena, allies and enemies change. In this climate Sri Lanka do not believe in reconciliation with Tamils rather showing the imperialism policies with hegemonic strategies. I do not believe current Rajapakse regime will win anything by doing this. Rather Rajapakse is keen on changing legislation to bring more powers to president which J.R.Jayawardane began in 1977 which has caused the huge war. At last Tamil have become transnational society with very good economic growth but Sinhalese are keen on capturing a small island. So provided Rajapkse listened to your speech (in fact his facial expressions showed his feelings during the speech) and acted as you requested, me too would love to see a Sinhala nation which respects Tamils in the future. We were broken into pieces when Sinhala nation danced and praised Rajapakse in May 17th which has made me personally more pessimistic about the way Sinhala nation is heading towards to. We will continue to watch and voice for the reasonable cause.We still believe Sinhala nation can correct the whole issue at this at this point of time by allowing Tamils to have their equal power and dignity on their homeland. Once again thank you for your wonderful brave speech. Good Luck Regards

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