Naam Tami­lar Katchi Chief co­or­di­na­tor See­man has called for all lin­guis­tic na­tion­al­i­ties, liv­ing in the In­dian Union to join hands to fight for lin­guis­tic na­tion­al­ity rights, sov­er­eignty and au­ton­omy of peo­ples and re­gional iden­ti­ties. It is time to de­struct the dom­i­nat­ing BJP and Con­gress regimes who take turns to sub­ju­gate peo­ples and tram­ple their rights. He tells the Sikhs, “you are not alone in this hour, the Tamil world joins you in shar­ing your grief and con­cerns. The pro-Tamil party “We Tamils” en­dorses your as­pi­ra­tions and will en­sure that such a glo­ri­ous chap­ter of his­tory -when Sikhs laid down their lives for their dig­nity and ho­n­our is known to the non-Sikh world too.

IT IS THE 36TH YEAR OF RE­MEM­BRANCE OF THE SIKH GENO­CIDE. Sikhs were branded ter­ror­ists and trai­tors in In­dia and sub­se­quently at­tacked in the most vi­cious man­ner by Prime Min­is­ter In­dira Gandhi, merely be­cause they wanted to live their lives with dig­nity and self-re­spect.

“Like the Sikhs, Tamils ​​have been sub­jected to geno­cide, and we have been cry­ing hoarse at var­i­ous in­ter­na­tional fo­rums in­clud­ing the United Na­tions to get jus­tice for the geno­cide of Ee­lam Tamils since the last 30 years,” reads the state­ment of the pro-Tamil na­tion­al­ist leader See­man, is­sued on 6 June at Chen­nai.

The sons of the soil -Sikhs, who were pro­tect­ing their Sikh shrines -Gur­d­waras were ab­hor­rently at­tacked and I feel proud of the fact that they had waged a valiant bat­tle to up­hold the dig­nity of Sikhism and at­tained mar­tyr­dom.

It is ul­ti­mate bru­tal­ity that the In­dian Army en­tered the Golden Tem­ple which the holi­est of the holy place of Sikhs in the first week of June 1984 in Am­rit­sar and killed hun­dreds of men, women and chil­dren and pil­grims with their hands tied be­hind their back.

“We Tamils, who prac­tice the phi­los­o­phy of Clas­si­cal lit­téra­teur, Pura Naanooru who said,  “Yaathum Oore Yaavarum Keleer”, which means “I am a world cit­i­zen and every cit­i­zen is my own kith and kin.” 

Naam Tami­lar Katchi Chief Co­or­di­na­tor -See­man

NTK party ide­o­logue Dawn­ing Jeeva, shar­ing this re­lease told WSN that, “This dark page of In­dian his­tory has been kept un­der the wraps, but no more. We are now aware of this and will tell the Tamil world about it.”

Speak­ing to World Sikh News, See­man said, “We Tamils, who prac­tice the phi­los­o­phy of Clas­si­cal lit­téra­teur, Pura Naanooru who said,  “Yaathum Oore Yaavarum Keleer”, which means “I am a world cit­i­zen and every cit­i­zen is my own kith and kin.” We are par­tic­i­pat­ing in the Sikh Geno­cide re­mem­brance week and shar­ing the sor­rows of the Sikh peo­ple. We stand to­gether with all Sikhs to get jus­tice for the Sikh Geno­cide.”

Sen­thamizhan See­man re­it­er­ated that the Tamils in the In­dian state of Tamil Nadu have been re­duced to sec­ond-class cit­i­zens by suc­ces­sive cen­tral and state gov­ern­ments. He added, “I am pleased with the in­ter­est be­ing taken by a sec­tion of the Sikh com­mu­nity in­clud­ing in the Di­as­pora about Tamil af­fairs and Tamil geno­cide in Sri Lanka.”