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Nava Sama Samaja Party (NSSP) leader Dr. Wickramabahu Karunaratne who called for the international recognition of the “ongoing” genocide of Tamils and the recognition of Tamil Eelam as a state has passed away in Colombo. He was 81 at the time of this death.
In 2021, Dr Karunaratne, in a statement, called for the international recognition of the “ongoing” genocide of Tamils and the recognition of Eelam as a state. “A systematic referendum is needed to recognize Tamil Eelam internationally,” Dr. Karunaratne stated. “The Western world has propagated the name of terrorism to suppress the Tamil voice calling for a separate state,” he added.
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Dr Karunaratne was a speaker at the Maaveerar (Heroes) Day gathering in London in 2010. There he mentioned that Tamils were killed by successive Sinhala chauvinistic governments and last but not least by the Mahinda regime.
"Not only Tamils but also thousands of Sinhala youth who were sent for aggression in the Tamil homeland and attack Tamils died in an alien land," he said.
See his full speech below.
He called on the gathering to unite and overthrow the military regime to have democracy in the homeland. At the event, he also mentioned his close association with B. Nadesan, the LTTE political head, Kumar Ponnambalam, and the TNA parliamentarians Raviraj and Joseph Pararajasingham, whose lives were taken by the Sri Lankan state.
