Anonymous (10 Jun. 2008)

What the tamils can learn from chinese and jews is that they are united by their common heritage. and chinese are now building up partneship whether in hongkong or toronto or thaivan or singapore or malaysia not to forget test of the world.I remember almost two decades ago there were appeal from myanma tamils fro tamil books from tamils from india and elsehwere.Now with the devastation of myanma by recent cyclone many poor tamils would have perished.Tamils worldide has a moral responsiblity to rush to aid tamils-not to act against the govt of myamna but to help poor tamils there in their dire needs.I salute tamils of myanma whether they look like chinese or no so long as they call themselves tamils,pottu reminds me of our culture celebrated there like anywhere in the world.

Anonymous (10 Jun. 2008)

the artiucle is very well written and is very touching. The photos were well placed in the article. Are you in touch with them?

It is sad when the leaders of these coutnries dupe their own population. I wish the countries you mentioned like Korea, China, SL, Burma and cambodia followed the real budhhism as taught by the Budhha to do good and think good.

I enjoyed the article very much and even posted the link to some of my friends .o)

Anonymous (11 Jun. 2008)

Photos take in 1992 and the article could have been written around that time? World need the situation of tamils after the cyclone of 2008.

[Note that the photos are from 2007. -- Ed]

[This post was modified by the Editor]

V Paramanathan (15 Jun. 2008)

ITRO London is an organisation set up by Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora in 2005 to provide advice and support to TRO offices in Europe, Australasia and America to promote accountability and transparency in their operations.

ITRO is in the process of sending an engineer from London to Yangoon to identify the most important needs of the cyclone affected Tamil families in Myanmar delta areas. The engineer will explore opportunities to help these families and also facilitate relief and help reaching them. He will also promote funding from international agencies to reconstruct immediately needed community infrastructure in their villages. A small aid package from TROs offices will also be delivered to the affected people.

Paramanathan (15 Jun. 2008)

If anyone has contact details of Tamils in Myanmar please send it to ITRO London (itrolondon@gmail.com) and copy to paramanathans@gmail.com. Thanks

shamala (16 Nov. 2008)

Well written article. Here we see its not the religion we have problem with, its is all how we practice it .I like to see all the monks get their fundamentals from Myanmar to be better monks.Then we will have a peacefull country too. Its so sad to see Tamil people are scattered all over the world and go to this extend for survival.

vairam (28 Jan. 2009)

very good article .

Isaac (13 Sep. 2009)

Thank you for posting this wonderful article. I am writing a paper on Indians in Myanmar and I've had so much trouble finding up to date information. The few academic papers out there just blather on about the history of Indians in Burma under British Colonialism. It's great to find a current first hand account.