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Sign the Petition: Boycott of Sri Lanka Cricket 2011 (World Cup)

Targeting:
kerala cricket club (kerala cricket club ), Trinidad & Tobago
Cricket Board (TTCB) (Trinidad & Tobago Cricket Board (TTCB)),
saurastra club (saurastra club), see more...kerala cricket club (kerala
cricket club ), Trinidad & Tobago Cricket Board (TTCB) (Trinidad
& Tobago Cricket Board (TTCB)), saurastra club (saurastra club),
BCCI (BCCI ), Scotland Cricket team (Scotland Cricket team ), mumbai
cricket club (mumbai cricket club), Chandrakant S. Naik (Chandrakant S.
Naik), Jamaica Cricket Association (Jamaica Cricket Association),
Vilasrao Deshmukh (Vilasrao Deshmukh), BCCI (BCCI), Hemant Waingankar
(Hemant Waingankar), english coaches club (english coaches club ),
Jamaica Cricket Association ( Jamaica Cricket Association), BCCI
(Newzeland Cricket club ), Leeward Islands Cricket Association (LICA)
(Leeward Islands Cricket Association (LICA)), mumbai cricket club
(mumbai cricket club), orissa cricket club (orissa cricket club ),
vengsarkar (vengsarkar), West Indies Cricket club (West Indies Cricket
club ), Jamaica Cricket Association ( Jamaica Cricket Association),
rajastan cricket club (rajastan cricket club ), Hon. Sharad Pawar (Hon.
Sharad Pawar), Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) (Guyana Cricket Board (GCB)),
Prof. Ratnakar Shetty (Prof. Ratnakar Shetty ), BCCI (BCCI ), and
tamilnadu club (tamilnadu club )

Started by: MAY17 movement

We
the serious and consistent spectators and lovers of Cricket in India
and abroad, do endorse the “Vision of Success” adopted by the ICC that
binds all Cricket playing Member States in accepting Cricket,
As a
leading global sport, cricket will captivate and inspire people of every
age, gender, background and ability while building bridges between
continents, countries and communities.

This we say, should not
be left as a nice and a neat piece of ornamental literature on ICC
documents. This has to be translated into reality, both on the playing
field and outside, in “building bridges between continents, countries
and communities.”

The most apt and sportsman like intervention
for such noble practise in sports, is to play cricket with teams that
represent truly inclusive and plural societies. We stress here, the ICC,
the BCCI and all other member States should stick to and continue the
principle and spirit in which it treated the “former apartheid South
African regime of the exclusive Whites”, when playing cricket, in this
modern civilised world.

The Gleneagles Agreement of 1977, which
stated [quote] Heads of Government reaffirmed that apartheid in sport,
as in other fields, is an abomination and runs directly counter to the
Declaration of Commonwealth Principles which they made at Singapore on
22 January, 1971.[unquote] is what needs to be adhered to, in selecting
countries and regimes, to be sponsored and fraternised.

With
that, we raise the question, how could the ICCI, the BCCI and other
member countries continue to play cricket with Sri Lanka ?

The
Sri Lankan State and its government run parallel with the former
apartheid South Africa in its treatment of Tamil people, who were
decimated in a war that left well over 100,000 civilians killed, where
abductions, torture and extra judicial killings were continued with
impunity, where disappearance was the order of the day and over
thousands are yet to be accounted for, an estimated 14,000 youth are
held under detention as “hardcore LTTE combatants” without any
information given out to their relations and guardians, where the PTA
and the Emergency regulations are being systematically used for
suppression.

No less tormenting is the treatment still meted out
to the 300,000 displaced Tamil people in the North and the Vanni who
were initially kept behind barbed wire camps, with no clear and proper
reconciliation and resettlement programme yet announced by the
government.

Let us not forget that this Sri Lankan regime is
under tremendous pressure to face an independent international
investigation for serious allegations on war crimes and crimes against
humanity. The international human rights organisations and the
international community keeps pressure on the Sri Lankan regime to face
inquiry, for the human tragedy that was rolled out during at least the
last phase of the war, in year 2009. The EU decided to withdraw its GSP
“Plus” facility for all Sri Lankan apparel imports into the EU market,
for not respecting Human Rights in the country.

With that let us
also record the following. Muthiah Muralidaran, though a Tamil from the
Indian origin plantation sector in the Central hill country, was only an
“accident” and came from a well established Sinhala school in Kandy and
not from a Tamil or Muslim school. While his business family could
afford to sustain him financially, that was a major reason why he could
promote himself into club cricket and as a national player with
exceptional skills and talents. “Accidents” of that magnitude can not
happen often and would not, for Tamil youth from the North – East and
the Vanni.

* Cricket in Sri Lanka is a wholly Sinhala sports
* There are no functioning cricket clubs in any Tamil area
* Tamil Union Sports Club in Colombo founded over 65 year ago is now
a Sinhala dominated club with only Muralidaran as a Tamil player
* No Tamil schools, even outside the conflict areas were promoted and encouraged to play cricket
* P. Saravanamuttu, the Chanmugams, were all during the period of
“Ceylon” and after the country became “Sri Lanka” in 1972, Muralidaran
and Russel Arnold are the only names to mention.
* Arnold too was
never considered a Tamil, coming from a very respectable, Catholic
School in Colombo and being more a member of the urban, English speaking
middle class than Tamil.
* Even Muslim players are now far in
between, with Mubarak and Mahroof being the only players, again coming
from very influential Colombo Sinhala schools. In fact Mubarak comes
from mixed Sinhala parenthood in the elite Colombo circle.
* No
Muslim school is now playing serious cricket. Not even the famous
Colombo Zahira College that was long time ago, a very popular sports
playing school.

We therefore raise the question, should Sri
Lanka be accommodated in regional and international cricket tournaments ?
We don't accept Sri Lanka can qualify the ICC statement “Vision of
Success”. They are far more racist as a nation than most racist and
suppressive regimes in the world. Keeping Sri Lanka in ICC accepted
tournaments would undermine even the “Anti Racism Code” of the ICC.

We therefore call upon all ICC member States and the BCCI in particular
to boycott Sri Lanka as a venue at the forthcoming World Cup tournament
and also call upon all T20 franchise clubs/companies to refrain from
including Sri Lankan players, from year 2011.

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