The U.S. Tamil Diaspora firmly believes that only through renewed talks and a serious diplomatic process can the deep agony of the Tamil people be addressed. Sixteen years of silence have failed to bring justice or healing. The international community — especially the EU and the U.S. — must recognize the urgent need for their involvement to resolve the long-standing conflict, ensure accountability, and uphold the Tamil people’s right to decide their future.
Tamil Mothers Urge the EU to Reopen Tamil-Sinhala Talks: 16 Years of Silence Cannot Be the Solution
We, the Tamil mothers of children who disappeared during and after the final stages of the war, are making a heartfelt appeal to the European Union and the international community.
To find the disappeared Tamil children, to protect Tamils from future genocides, and to achieve Tamil sovereignty with the help of the United States and the European Union, our continuous protest reaches its 3036th day today at the tent in front of the Vavuniya courthouse on the A-9 highway.
During the war, the EU was part of the collective of donor nations that promised the Tamil people a just political solution once the conflict ended. This promise was echoed by Indian leaders as well—including Sonia Gandhi who assured Tamils in Chennai that their political rights would be addressed. But 16 years have now passed. Not a single step has been taken to fulfill that promise.
Instead of reconciliation and justice, the Tamil homeland in the North-East has become a zone of military occupation, intelligence surveillance, drug trafficking, and sexual exploitation—all under the watch of the Sri Lankan military and state-sponsored networks. This is not peace. This is the normalization of structural genocide.
We lost the confidence of out Tamil politicians. Their focus in only to survive as the politicians as long as the live. They do not have any creative thinking or take the example from other suffering countries that achived their goal of sovereignty. They have failed to call EU to involve or even remind them these EU countries deceived the Tamils.
We, the mothers who continue to search for our missing sons and daughters, urge the European Union to relaunch or facilitate a renewed political dialogue between the Tamil and Sinhalese parties. The talks that were abandoned after the war must be reopened immediately if Sri Lanka is to move toward any real and lasting peace.
We also call on every Tamil across the homeland and in the global diaspora to raise your voices and demand international engagement, especially from the EU and the United Kingdom. It was former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair who once insisted that military aggression must not replace a political settlement. We urge the current UK leadership to honor that legacy and actively support renewed negotiations.
We will be reaching out to European embassies and officials with this urgent appeal. Our struggle is not over. Until our children are accounted for and a political solution is realized, we will not be silent.
Thank you,
Tamil Diaspora News,
June 21, 2025
