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Keezhadi is not Tamil Thai Madi.
Keezhadi is a very ordinary site. Its excavation from the beginning has been supervised by Father Gasper Raj.Should an international criminal Catholic priest get associated with an archaeological site in Tamil Nadu to prove Tamil heritage.
Keezhadi is a very ordinary site. Its excavation from the beginning has been supervised by Father Gasper Raj.Should an international criminal Catholic priest get associated with an archaeological site in Tamil Nadu to prove Tamil heritage.
James J. Tareco, Special Agent of FBI, in 2006, at the United States District Court, Eastern District of New York has accused Father Gasper Raj for “procurement of military equipment, communication devices and other technology,
fund raising and money laundering through front charitable organizations and other criminal activities such as conspiracy to bribe public officials and dealing in financial transactions with a designated Foreign Terrorist Organisation like LTTE”.
Catholic priest Fr. Gaspar Raj is officially referred in US crime records as ‘Gaspar Raj Maria Paulian’. Senior national security strategist, Douglas C. Lovelace Jr., Esq., in Terrorism Documents of International and Local Control, Academic,
OUP, Vol. 91 (2008) alleged that between 2003 and August 2006, individuals including Gaspar Raj Maria Paulian, Nachimuthu Socrates, Fnu Lnu, and Vijayashanthar Patpanathan were “involved in multiple criminal activities in support of LTTE.
Similar charges were made by Domestic Security and Intelligence analyst, Siobhan O’ Neil, in Terrorist Precursor Crimes: Issues and Options for Congress (2007) pointed out Gaspar Raj’s LTTE links.
Neil stated that Gaspar Raj Maria Paulian along with others such as Nachimuthu Socrates “have conspired to remove LTTE from US state department’s Foreign Terrorist Organization list”.
Communist mouthpiece Frontline reported that “On September 24, 2016, Father Jegath Gaspar Raj, founder of an organization called ‘Tamil Maiyam’ and who had organised Sangam 4, a 10-day festival in August 2016 that focused on Madurai’s history, culture and tradition,
visited Keezhadi along with Kanimozhi, an advocate. Amarnath Ramakrishna took them around and showed them the trenches”. (Keezhadi treasures caught in a swirl, T.S. Subramanian, Frontline, Jan., 20, 2017)
Fr. Gaspar Raj, Kanimozhi Mathi and Keezhadi excavator K. Amarnath Ramakrishna charted out their programme. Kanimozhi Mathi who is also coordinator of Gaspar Raj’s NGO, Tamil Maiyam, filed a public interest litigation (PIL) petition in the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court
with the prayer that the ASI should not be allowed to take the artefacts to Karnataka and that it should not be allowed to close the trenches dug at Keezhadi. In their interim order,
the judges restrained the ASI from closing the trenches and shifting the artefacts to any place outside Sivaganga district.
Gasper Raj and his team including K.Rajan of Tamil University and K.Sivanathan, deputy director Tamil Nadu state Archaeology wanted the antiquities from Keezhadi to be kept secretly that none should know what has been excavated from Keezhadi.
ASI Director General Rakesh Tewari warned that Keezhadi excavator Amarnath Ramakrishna had submitted only “brief sketchy” reports about the first two years. Permission would be given to him after he wrote “a detailed report” (Keezhadi dig to continue, Frontline, March 17, 2017).
ASI former director Dr.T.Sayamurthy has alleged that Keezhadi is only a ordinary archaeological site.There are ongoing attempts to make Keezhadi associated with ancient Rome and Biblical sites.
Fr. Gaspar Raj was also actively associated with S.P. Udayakumar, Coordinator of the People’s Movement against Nuclear Energy (PMANE), who led protests against the commissioning of the Indo-Russian Nuclear Power Plant at Kudankulam,
Tamil Nadu (Kudankulam protesters disallow PM Manmohan Singh’s envoy to speak, The Economic Times, Sept. 21., 2011).Gasper Raj is involved in 2G scam as he was raided by CBI in 2010.
Amarnath Ramakrishna excavator for Keezhadi earlier gave a clean chit to the notorious Pattanam excavations conducted by left parties. Now conspiracies are on to make Pattanam a satellite site of Keezhadi.
R. Sivanantham, deputy director, Tamil Nadu state department of archaeology, officially facilitated a lecture on Pattanam by its excavator, P.J. Cherian at Chennai. Cherian claimed that the excavated material from Pattanam and Keezhadi are similar and hence there is a brotherhood
(Pattanam, Keezhadi excavated materials similar, says expert, Deccan Chronicle, Oct. 31, 2018).
P.J. Cherian runs an NGO named ‘PAMA’, and through its new project, ‘Rediscovering the ancient sites in Tamilakam’, he links Pattanam, Keezhadi and Kodumanal sites in Kerala and Tamil Nadu.
He claims he “had an on-hand documentation of excavated materials from many archaeological sites under the custody of Tamil Nadu Archaeology Department”
(Do ancient Tamilakam sites deserve rediscovery, The Times of India, Nov 30, 2018).
Many church NGOs in Tamil Nadu have direct access to excavated artefacts from Keezhadi
Many church NGOs in Tamil Nadu have direct access to excavated artefacts from Keezhadi
There is an ongoing conspiracy to make Keezhadi a Dravidian racial site arguing, Dravidians migrated to Keezhadi from Indus Sarasvati sites after Aryan migrants forced them out of north India.
There is a attempt by Father Gasper Raj and his team to identify racial and archaeological relationship between Harappan sites and Keezhadi and establish that Tamil Dravidians have been kicked out of North India by Aryan migrants who came from central Asia.
It is a road for civil war in India by church.
The Federation of Tamil Sangams in North America (FeTNA) invited Amarnath Ramakrishna in April 2018, to deliver a lecture on the Keezhadi excavations. The ASI denied him permission to participate as guest of honor at this event,
possibly because FeTNA publicly supported the cause of ethnic Sri Lankan Tamils in the Sri Lankan civil war. Commenting on Tamil groups in Sri Lanka, Gaspar Raj stated in an interview that, “We had a homeland and we have a homeland, and we will have the right for a homeland,
since we have our own history, language, culture and way of living, and hence have the right to self-determination” (Tamil Eelam not a lost cause: Fr. Jegath Gaspar, TamilNet, Nov. 3, 2009). FeTNA has honoured Gaspar Raj for Christianizing Tamil culture.
FeTNA sponsored the tenth World Tamil Conference, held in July 2019 at Chicago. Its central theme was “Keezhadi nam Thai madi” (On our Tamil mother’s lap - Keezhadi excavation),
dedicated to Rev. G.U. Pope on his 200th birth anniversary (10th edition of World Tamil Conference in Chicago from July 4, The New Indian Express, June 26, 2019). Bishop Robert Caldwell launched the Dravidian ideology in Tamil Nadu.
Caldwell was assisted in his Dravidian studies by an array of missionaries such as G.U. Pope, J. Brigel, J. Clay, J. Dawson, E. Diez, F. Kittel, F. Metz, A. Graeter, C. Graul, and H. Gundert.
In this context Indu Makkal Katchi shall not permit Hindu exodus in Tamil Nadu using archaeological sites such as Keezhadi controlled by Father Gasper Raj and Catholic Church.
