With Guy Fawkes Night or the Gun Powder night of the British passing without much fire on November 5, the big publicity blow up in the UK and other parts of the world where those who still remain with the LTTE is Mahaveer Day.

It is the day in November each year, when Velupllai Prabhakaran marked his birthday with a lengthy, often boring and also complaining exhortation to Tamils the world over, and especially to Sri Lankan Tamils, to support the LTTE’s brutal policy of terrorism to establish his dream state of Thamil Eelam, which became a nightmare to most Tamils in Sri Lanka.

The pro-LTTE Tamils in the West, especially in the UK, Canada and Germany are going all out to make Mahaveer Day a huge event this year, with publicity for the Tamil separatist cause being fuelled to give the feel of a rebirth of Velupillai Prabhakaran’s terror, if not his own reincarnation to lead the Tamils to the phony promised land of Eelam.

Mahaveer flyers, posters and even exhibitions are popping over Tamil "Diaspora" Land, with hardly any concern by the authorities in those countries that what is being promoted is a banned organization of terror, and the person being remembered on his birthday is the leader of what has been rightly described as the world’s most ruthless terrorist organization.

Bala Nimal – not the "Nimal" who made his recent statement to Channel 4 about alleged torture in Sri Lanka, asked his MP in the UK why no action was being taken against this publicity boost for Mahaveer Day.

"When did you come to England?" he was asked.

"More than five years ago. How does that matter?"

"Well if you’ve been here for so long, then you must know more about Freedom of Expression."

"You mean Freedom of Expression for terror?"

"Oh come on, it is only a birthday bash. I’ve spoken to the organizers. They want to remember their dead leader. Surely what’s wrong in that?"

"You mean remembering a dead leader who was a ruthless terrorist and brutalized his own people more than any others, is all in order?"

"But they say he was a liberator of the Tamils – now what do you expect me to do. They are in my borough, just like you. They are my voters. What if they turn against me if I oppose them?"

"So you don’t mind losing my vote by supporting them…

"Now, you must not…"

"Don’t worry yourself…but tell me, will you allow any people in your borough to also celebrate the birthday of Osama bin Laden?"

"You must not confuse issues….Osama bin Laden was killed on orders issued by President Obama. Surely we can’t be expected to help remember him, on his birthday or death anniversary, with the Very Special Relationship we have with the USA?"

"But isn’t it part of Freedom of Expression you spoke about that his followers, or those who believe in his strategies or tactics should be allowed to remember him?"

"You can’t stretch the concept of Freedom of Expression in a democracy to include remembering a terrorist who gave cause to the War of Terror. Surely you must know the difference between Osama and this Prabha?"

"You mean that the first was killed in Pakistan on the orders of President Obama and the other was killed in his hideout in the North of Sri Lanka by Sri Lankan troops. What other difference do you see?’

The British MP suddenly looked at his watch and said he had to be excused as he had to attend an urgent meeting at the House of Commons?"

He gave no answer to Bala Nimal’s next question whether it was about organizing support by the UK Government for Mahaveer Day celebrations, in its push for the spread of democracy the world over.

Across the Atlantic in Canada there was a debate among some Tamils in Toronto that is often called the capital city of Eelam among those in "Diaspora Naadu". There were some young Tamils who are not as eager as others for a great celebration of Mahaveer Day. They were planning a Mahaveer Day exhibition.

"But do you not agree that he was a great leader of the Tamils. That he fought for our liberation," asked Raju who was promoting the event.

"Is it the sign of a great leader to have killed so many other Tamils, to have killed our own youth?" asked an opponent, Chelva.

"What is to be done with those who were opposed to Eelam? How could they be allowed to exist?"

"Then why did you not stay back and fight. Why are you here enjoying life as best as you can, and suddenly remembering your great leader’s birthday?"

"Well, you know we had to escape the brutality of the Sri Lankan State. How could we stay in Jaffna when we were being attacked by the Sinhalese, who were carrying out ethnic cleansing there? We had to leave. We had to raise funds for the struggle over there; funds for the liberation of the Tamils."

"Don’t you know that it was this leader who really carried out ethnic cleansing in Jaffna? Why are you fooling yourself with such nonsense? Why do you believe the myths of terror that are being spread through this Mahaveer Day show?"

"But it was the Sinhalese troops that terrorized us. That is what my uncle tells me every day."

"Why don’t you ask your uncle as to who killed Neelan Tiruchelvam? Who killed Amirthalingam? Who killed Mr and Mrs Yogeswaran? Who killed……?

"No, no, enough. I have heard all these names …even more…but my uncle tells me that they betrayed the Eelam cause. That is why they had to be killed…

"You mean the principals of leading Jaffna schools also betrayed the Eelam cause to deserve death? Why don’t you ask your uncle whether turning women into suicide killers was forced on your leader by the Sinhalese? Was turning Tamil children into soldiers of terror also forced on your leader? One more question, why did your uncle not hand you over to this leader to be trained as a child soldier; and what arms did your uncle carry in the battle to liberate the Tamils?

The debate was getting heated as more Tamil youth came and asked the dissident Chelva to just shut up and get out, or face the consequences of opposing Eelam in Toronto.

"What about my Freedom of Expression," he asked Chelva.

"Remember, democracy and its rights are for us – the liberators. They are not for those who oppose Mahaveer Day," they shouted.