The Duplicate Prabhakaran - Sebastian Seeman

“Not only we are going to separate Sri Lanka, but India as well” -Sebastian Seeman, Canada, 2010

To start with, he is a film director based in Tamilnadu. But why we are concerned about him is because he is a strong supporter of separatism.

The first act by him in relation to Sri Lanka was leading Tamilnadu people for mass protests in order to save Prabhakaran. Later he was shocked to hear the news of the capture of Kilinochchi by the Sri Lankan army. And he expressed his shock by declaring that he would make a Tamil army by himself and come to Sri Lanka to defeat the Sri Lankan army.

But alas, he couldn’t find a single person to join his army. Still, he was not ready to go down. Next he announced that he would bring the Sri Lankan president, defence secretary and the army commanders to Tamilnadu and jail them.

But that mission too, went down the hill.

All this happened before the death of Prabhakaran. Now, at present, Seeman is ready to hop on for his next mission. That is, namely, to become the ‘duplicate Prabhakaran’. Last Saturday, he announced the launch of a new political group, “Naam Tamilar” (We are Tamils). He stated that the reason for establishing this party is to give rebirth to the LTTE.

Further clarifications revealed that the official flag of this party would be the same as the LTTE’s. The news triggered some jubilations among the Eelaam supporters throughout the world; some went on to see Seeman as a ‘new star in the sky’.

Seeman, with the clear intention of resurrecting separatism in both Sri Lanka and Tamilnadu, is expecting to launch his party on 18^th of May , the doomsday of Prabhakaran and his killer group.

“We simply can’t forget that day. It is the day the Sinhala government crushed the LTTE. We have to continue the struggle from there on.” Seeman had stated.

It is still not clear whether the Indian authorities would allow Seeman to combine the LTTE flag for his political activities, given the fact that LTTE is marked as a terror organization in India. Some time earlier, due to his statement about separating both Sri Lanka and India, he was arrested and remanded. So the Indian government would be watchful about all his activities, be them political or not.

Last week, Seeman complained that the DMK and the Anna DMK, political parties of Karunanidhi and Jayalalita respectively, have let down the Tamils by not fulfilling their expectations. He also went on to say that this was one reason for him to come up with an alternative political solution. But with the Indian government already facing problems because of the Andhra separatists, chances are, they won’t let Seeman emerge as another separatist.

But Seeman is already getting the green light from the international LTTE network. This is easily understood by looking at their European website, which has allocated a large portion for Seeman’s politics. So it can be safely deducted that Seeman is not working as an individual; the LTTE worldwide network is behind him.

18^th of May 2010 marks the first year after Prabhakaran’s death. The LTTE network along with Seeman and other separatists expected this day to be celebrated under a LTTE friendly Sri Lankan president and a government. Fortunately for us, things didn’t turn out as they would have liked.

But danger lies in the near future.