Today was a day of closure in the LTTE's violent saga. However, some interesting developments can be expected within the next day or two from the Eastern Province as Ram and Umaram and their teams are traced down.
The two leaders moved their families to the north soon after their split with Karuna in 2004. Their fate may be revealed in due course as more bodies are recovered from the battlefield.
As reported by the media, LTTE's former police and 'political wing' chief and chief spokesman Nadesan, his family, Pulidevan and his family and Ramesh and his family have all died and their bodies discovered by the Special Forces.
There were rumours that the two leaders had gone down on their knees and begged the Special Forces at which point they assumed the Special Forces to smile and let them go.
Rumours are that Prabhakaran's entire family was dead. These rumours indicate that even Prabha's daughter, Duharga was there at the scene. Until otherwise indicated by the government, at this moment in particular, their bodies are nowhere to be found.
Other leaders like Lawrence, Karikalan, Ilanthirayan, Papa, Sempian etc are also dead. Their bodies might also be discovered in due course.
The chief of the LTTE's Mine-laying unit and a chief innovator of the Jhonny Mine and other deadly IEDs has died having lost both his legs in a mysterious blast. The LTTE's chief of smuggling with India and the deputy of the international procurement units (not Castro) have also died.
Meanwhile the last batch of the 80,500 civilians rescued after the final operation on the 15th were dispatched to Vavuniya today. With this the total number of civilians rescued is a staggering 350,000.
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
All quiet on the battlefront
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«Oldest ‹Older 601 – 800 of 1329 Newer› Newest»Blogger Tim said..
You keep going back to some incident that happened years ago.
not years back, happened last week
Years and years back what happen was this, my tamil friends stayed home the day when a bomb blast about to happen, these are the friends who had lunch during office times sharing food.
We do not need to harbour hate anymore. Let's work on rebuilding this country.
I would shake your hand anytime for that (not even cautiously)
PS: I do not want to spread the hate, I was just responding to your one sided argument.
But thank you for your positive thoughts. may be the people in this blog stereotype you as another Srinivas or a Jay.
Folks,
What an excellent move this is. Look at the names of these countries. They represents more than half of the world population .
"Fending off outside criticism, Sri Lanka on Friday presented to the U.N. Human Rights Council a draft resolution stating the "principle of non-interference" in internal matters and respect for its sovereignty, territorial integrity and independence.
The draft was backed by 12 countries: China, India, Pakistan, Bahrain, Bolivia, Cuba, Egypt, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nicaragua, the Philippines and Saudia Arabia.
Western diplomats, who are also preparing a resolution to be presented at a special Council session on Sri Lanka on Tuesday, said Colombo's developing country allies were likely to band together to deflect serious scrutiny of its record.
"No matter how much we would like to have a U.N. investigation, it wouldn't fly with the other countries," a European diplomat told Reuters."
http://in.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idINLM97122520090522
patriots,
WARFARE IN THE INFORMATION AGESL should monitor ALL telephone, email and other electronic data transfered within and with outside the country.
if the laws need to be changed, so be it.
this is CRITICAL for the security of the country.
in the US, the govt with the help of AT&T monitors ALL electronic data using complex software.
1. everything sent/received by certain individuals are tracked.
2. other data tracked for certain key words/phrases/frequency of words/destination
i'm 100% sure the new LTTE network connects LTTE racism international (LITTER), colombo based tamil elamists, tamil elam media, terrorist cum drops still in the jungles, TNA/mano-ranil-mongal-sakkili, etc.
we can get ahead of them with EVIDENCE if we have this.
cc: mod (with essential modifications)
hemantha,
something proactive.
an excellent move. these other countries that supported would praise SL for fearlessly bring up something formal like this which helps them MORE than SL!!!
"Do not fall into the trap of giving Best education to tamils in the north."
agree with this 100%.
BUT this does not mean we should do anything bad. no way.
education opportunities must be equal for everyone. if the ethnic composition of universities and the country are DIFFERENT, that means there is a problem. someone is losing out.
whether those who are missing out takes guns/bombs is immaterial. also whether the advantadeg are taking guns/bombs demanding MORE is also immaterial.
in fact i'm keeping a close eye on some racist politicians like ASS who will try to SYPHON OUT development aid to north for education.
after gaining it free, they will leave the country and underdevelopment will screw northerners WHO ARE LIVING IN SL again and again. THIS breeds terrorism.
Hemantha
You are quite right.
There is growing disbelief and irritation in the west that eastern and other nations are no longer dependent on them for help, and thus their (western) influence is gradually diminishing. In colleges Professors are talking abt the end of the western civilization/dominance, end of the American empire' etc.
China and the east are the way to go. Even we in the US are now thinking of moving back home.
Blogger Suren said...
Do not fall into the trap of giving Best education to tamils in the north.
may be you did not mean to write what you try to say,
not giving better education is not the answer to cheating students.
strict quality control at exams and mandatory awareness about racial issues and patriotism at lower school level is a must.
There could be a brilliant tamil kid missing opportunity thus SL missing great character.
he might bring glory to SL by wining a Nobel prize and you and I will not hesitate a second to glorify like when Murali takes wicket everytime.
but I see your point, lots of Tamil intellectuals passionately talk bull about SL after all educating from SL money. Then again we had Kadirgaman etc.
Shahodarayani,
Lankawe inna demallu hondai, e unaata pitarata inna demallu apita lankawe inna honda demallu ekka hodin inne denna kemathi ne.
Be causes with Tamils on abroad!!
Pandula,
I can speak for my self- I was 12 years old when '83 happend. The same Sinhalese nighbourhood kids that came and did our gardening were the first to loot our house. The neighbours that lived South of our house were the ones that came and burnt our house. We had been living there for over 30 years! Having said that, the people who took us out and hid us in their back room were also Sinhalese.
The 4 years I spent in Jaffna I personally witnessed many attrocities commited by the GofSL. In '84 one of my uncle was shot dead by the army on his way to work in Paranthan. In '86 the new house our parents built after loosing the old one in Colombo was bombed in an aerial bombing. We ened up living without a kitchen for 4 months until it got fixed, but that was nothing! My extended family that lived near Chavacheri lost all their family members in an aereal bombing, including a 3 and 4 year old. Same year on our way to Colbomo helicoptor gunships fired at the bus that went 2 hrs ahead of us. I personally witnessed many dead childress, men and women being carted away. I can tell you a lot more horrific things I experienced to try to convince you that the Tamils DID infact suffer in the hands of the Govt from '83 onwards. Most of this, I am sure you never even heard of or read about in the news papers because that would have been an unwise thing for the govt to have done.
On the same token I am totally aware we too lived in our own island. We didn't know of the attrocities commited by the Tamil groups on innocent Sinhalese, be that ltte,tello or eprlf. I am sure a lot of crimes were commited in the name of revenge that the Jaffna papers never published.
Point is, there were a LOT of horrible things that happend in the past 25 years, and I would like all of US to forget about it and move on. I am hopeful that together, if we all work to gether, we can build this great nation of ours. We need to start with small steps and be sensitive to the other side. We are afterall brothers and sisters that were born to the same mother lanka. Like siblings I am confident we can hold hands again.
Blogger Moshe Dyan said...
patriots,
WARFARE IN THE INFORMATION AGESL should monitor ALL telephone, email and other electronic data transfered within and with outside the country.
Moshe, you know what frustrate me most ?
There are not coordination in our system at all. we do not kow whom to give a feedback.
Have you received a tracking number for your feedback ?, do you know to whom it routed ?, do you get periodic status update ?
Fuck! this drives me nuts
We cannot blame tamils not helping govt, it is the fact that we do not proper methods in place.
I was watching the Presidents address, and half of the members do not even know how to sit in positive posture. but again we are ones who appoint them based on their bila singing, acting skills.
It is not difficult to block those kind of traffic or even eavesdrop (called lawful intercept), most of the western countries the IT gear should complies to LI methods.
I wonder whether we have drafted a law clause for LI
Then again what about the Satalite Comm those terrorists using, do we have a method to stop that unless the SAT company let us listen to their conversations.
pandula,
quite true.
we lack co-ordination.
TF we should ALSO have a central co-ordination unit. but it has risks too. if info is centralised, the risk of misusing info by THOSE WHO KNAO ALL becomes VERY VERY high.
anyway i agree, our co-ordination should improve.
but we should NOT block pro-TE communication. we should monitor for INTEL, make arrests, etc.
re: satellite based communication that bypasses local operators.
we should have administrative controls over them. that's all we can do.
e.g. have an approval process, imprison those who keep these equipment without approval.
Ha ha ha ….Head of International Secretariat of the Intelligence wing of the LTTE, Mr. Arivazhakan: VP live and eating well!
Contradicting this claim, mother of Mr. Arivazhakan told me that VP and Charles is indeed dead and they both got shot close range by SF guys.
According to her, Prasanna and Shavindra was discussing “how to get VP and Charles out of the rat hole” and one SF guys heard this and said,
“How about we put 2 Mars bars out side the rat hole?”
Prasanna and Shavindra literally lost for words as they could not stop laughing and asked SF guy to sneak in through so called invisible Ratha and Black Tiger fcuksters and put 2 Mars bars just out side the entrance of VP”s rat hole. And then ask one of the SL Sniper guy to standby.
As easily as predicted first came fat Charles creeping through the rat hole to grab the Mars bar and as soon as he poked his massive head outside SL Sniper guy shot him in the eye. According to him, Charles head was so big he didn’t even have to look through the telescopic sight!
Then, a second later FAT Praba poked his head out of the rat hole with this hungry look in his eye and SL sniper guy could not stop laughing seeing this comical event and he apparently shot VP saying “Ho Ho Ho merry Christmas fcuker”! And he missed the eye and hit VP’s massive forehead!
Anyway, LTTP has appointed me as the “Head of International Fcuking BullShit of the BullShit wing of the LTTE”. So, u guys can look forward for some of my official statements in the near future.
Have a good weekend! Our GOD is alive and eating well! Thamiza people, pls donate more money!
AmmaGahai - Head of International Fcuking BullShit of the BullShit wing of the LTTE
Tim Said,
Like siblings I am confident we can hold hands again.
YES WE CAN and WE WILL !
If what you said is true, I am really sorry, you are just another victim like me in the other side of the fence.
peace@last,
fwe things to note.
1. ANYONE can hold ANY political aspirations. we cannot stop that. but using illegal methods to get them is punishable.
2. it is upto pro-SL guys to protect and promote SL. and frsutrate the TE aspirations.
3. diaspora tamils are not aliens to local tamils. they are their RICH, INFLUENTIAL, SUCCESSFUL BLOOD relatives. they are closer to them than others.
4. pro-TE/LTTE material is NOT fully produced in the diaspora. if you read tamil newspapers published in colombo, MOST of them OPENLY support the LTTE/TE. they don't need the diaspora tell them what to do.
5. BUT diaspora tamils have more freedom than local tamils to do CRAZY things without ANY FEAR. also the HATE GENERATION among them is VERY MUCH higher than local tamils. PLUS the influence they can make on rich powerful countries is high bcos they are the decision makers (voters).
6. we should SAVE as many tamils as we can from TE bullshit.
I won’t be available to answer any question until Monday afternoon as I have to go and take a massive crap now!
AmmaGahai - Head of International Fcuking BullShit of the BullShit wing of the LTTE
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Date: Saturday, May 23, 2009
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Being Nobody
I used to think the same thing. But ethanol from sugar cane does not take up that much land.
140,000 hectares can produce 800 million liters of ethanol per year. Enough to replace all petrol imports.
140,000 hectares is only 2% of the total landmass of Sri Lanka. JUST 2%!
BTW, about 23% of Sri Lanka's land is classified as "marginal lands" that are not used for anything. So we have more than enough land for ethanol production.
Brazil produces it's current ethanol output from just 0.5% of their total land mass.
Blogger Amma Gahai/Gahawi said...
having a crap
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ge,
agree with the numbers.
petrol is also internally produced from crude. PART of that can also be replaced.
plus can replace suger imports. a new brewery industry will also emerge.
Being Nobody said...
[GoldenEagle,
Allow me to differ. Using agricultural products to produce ethanol is not that productive. ethanol production requires vast amounts of agri-land/produce. therefore ethanol production will not only lower the food production but it would also inflate the food prices in the long run.]
I fully agreed. But what about cellulosic ethanol - from hay, grass or wood chips.
Fernando said...
[ I fully agreed. But what about cellulosic ethanol - from hay, grass or wood chips.]
Cellulosic fuel, particularly for ethanol production, is a Holy Grail of BioFuels production. Today ethanol is produced mostly from high-end feed such as corn kernels, beet root, and sugar cane body. Research is underway to produce ethanol not only from this high-end feed, but from everything else in the corn plant that is rich in cellulose: leaves, corn cob, stalk etc that is usually discarded, and even from switch grasses, hay etc as you point out.
Some people are claiming to be on the cusp of achieving practically viable processes for doing that, but there are no proven processes, or production plants yet.
In the LONG TERM, for Sri Lanka, ethanol produced in this way should only be viewed 1. as a byproduct of agricultural food production, and 2. if grown specifically for conversion to ethanol, only as a TEMPORARY IMPORT SUBSTITUTION measure.
The life cycle energy efficiency (water, harvesting, fertilizer, transportation, conversion, waste disposal), and the environmental impact of ethanol production as the PRIMARY PRODUCT (i.e., not a BYPRODUCT of food production) is NOT GOOD. Therefore it is not desirable in Sri Lanka in the LONG TERM with its very high population density, and premium value placed on land.
Moshe
You are right, we can also replace all sugar imports as well if we add another 120,000 hectares.
We need to start producing things locally to bring down the budget deficit. Energy and agriculture products is the best place to start.
Ananda
Sugar cane is the most energy rich plant there is for biofuels. Thats why Brazil has adopted it, after 30 years of growing sugar cane in the same lands, today the yields are higher than ever. This is due to more efficient ethanol mills and high-yielding varaties of sugar cane.
Sugar cane has a positive energy ratio of 8:1 , that means for one unit of energy used to grow and produce the ethanol(ie: harvesting, fertiliser and transportation) , the ethanol provides 8 units of energy.
Corn only has a positive energy ratio of 1: 1.2 , so its not that efficient.
ජනාධිපති තුමා මෙවැනි හිතුවක්කාර අනාරක්ශිත ගමන් යාමෙන් වලක්වා ගත යුතුයි..ඔහුගේ අදහස ඉදිරියේදී ආරක්ශාව තවත් අඩු කිරීමටයි!!! වහාම මෙහි ඇති අවදානම ඔහුට වටහා දෙන්න.....තවමත් කොටි හිතවාදීන් සටන අත් හැර නැහැ...
.දේශපාලන පුවත්.
Golden Eagle said....
[ Sugar cane has a positive energy ratio of 8:1 , that means for one unit of energy used to grow and produce the ethanol(ie: harvesting, fertiliser and transportation) , the ethanol provides 8 units of energy.
Corn only has a positive energy ratio of 1: 1.2 , so its not that efficient. ]
Agreed, sugar-cane is the highest energy ratio feed. But, my statements regarding optimal land use in a high-population density country, and the maturity of technologies for cellulosic feed conversion still hold.
A VERY PROMISING method of achieving ENERGY SELF-SUFFICIENCY is for Sri Lanka to develop a crash program to produce solar panels in Sri Lanka using our high-quality silica feeds. Until our own plants come on line, we should buy solar panels in bulk from other countries, especially China.
The Govt should think out-of-the-box regarding DISTRIBUTED GENERATION of solar energy, with the goal of enabling EVERY HOMEOWNER to become a small energy generator of electrical energy beyond his own needs, and EARN a NET INCOME to buy the equipment, and expand capacity progressively.
The SL Govt should grant very low interest loans to people to populate their roofs with solar panels, perhaps by entering into BUILD, OPERATE, FINANCE & TRANSFER agreements with foreign companies. The excess energy would be sold to the CEB at a profit to the consumer, and used to pay for the equipment over, say, 10 years, after which the profit would be INCOME to the consumer.
Such a DISTRIBUTED SOLAR ENERGY GENERATION program should be coupled with a Govt decision to move the country towards electric cars that can be charged overnight at home by electricity from the grid. Most cars are parked most of the time; the electric cars could be connected to the electricty grid and be charged as they sit and wait for the driver, thus reducing the burden on the grid's energy storage capacity!
Currently, the cost of high-capacity Li-Ion batteries is too high to provide a very large range comparable to a gasoline vehicle (350 miles). But, given Sri Lanka's small size and commuting distances, small electric cars with a 75 mile range can be built using Lead-Acid batteries. I have built such a car from scratch, and I myself have tested this low-cost concept. In this way, a homeowners own solar energy can be used for commuting to work!
Hundreds of thousands of such small solar power generation plants (1,000 to 4,000 watts each, say) providing an indigenous energy source for home and transportation use, can make Sri Lanka largely independent of imported petroleum!
Patriots,
The Daily Mirror article today about people trying to use VP's death as a means of DEMONIZING the GOSL are saying he "should have been allowed to surrender."
My question is WHY?
VP would have been prosecuted and executed for his crimes anyway, because of the extent and scope of his crimes against humanity.
He was lucky that he was spared the agony of the torture that Saddam Hussein was subjected to in the not too distant past.
I am sure that Saddam regretted that he clung on to life, and did not die honorably in the battlefield, thus avoiding the extended period of humiliation that he suffered.
I KNOW that I would have in his place.
DBS Jeyaraj is a fucking liar (pathetic). I had some sympathy towards him some times back.
What a running commentry he is giving about the last phase of the war. He is glorifying the LTTE in a subtle way.
To know all these things, which he explains, he ought to be the guardian angel of the LTTE and must have been present at every position of the battle field simultaneously.
Athas used to do the same (giving running commentaries on the war), even without setting his foot beyond Madawachchiya. Now DBSJ has stated from where Athas has stopped.
Tim said
[ it's all about trust. And trust takes time to build. You keep going back to some incident that happend years ago. Why don't you let past be past, just like we are asking the Tamils to do so?]
This is my personal opinion and should not be construed as part of a collective opinion. I abhor collective mentalities.
I am talking about the present. Throughout all this there is something I could not understand about the Tamil Diaspora and I would be grateful if you could help me to understand.
a) Tigers were holding the Tamil civilians hostage and shooting at them when they flee.
b) The IDP needed help and the ordinary people in Sri Lanka (mostly the Sinhalese) responded generously. I am working living outside SL and we too responded generously by sending several tons of food by air to them. That is because it is illegal to collect money here without the permission of the government here.
But we did not see even a bottle of water being sent by the Tamil Diaspora in Canada and UK who were spending a lot of energy protesting.
I can to some extent understand what the LTTE was doing and what the IC is doing. And to some extent I can also understand what the Tamil Diaspora IS doing. But honestly, I cannot understand what the Diaspora is NOT doing. That is to help the IDP who are their own people.
There are some explanations I can put forward:
1) Coercion: There are many who want to do something but are prevented from doing so by the Tiger agents, by force.
2) The Ant Hill Mentality: They have become zombies in the hands of LTTE and will do whatever they say. They do not have the capacity for independent thinking.
3) Apathy: They really don't care for these people.
4) Selfishness: They see the suffering of the diaspora good evidence for perpetuating their refugee status in the West.
5) Hatred: They think that by doing so they will be helping GOSL to do the job better and they don't want that.
One thing we can say about the Sinhalese is that we will never subjugate ourselves to the Ant Hill Mentality. Even in this blog you see them expressing many ideas and generally fighting amongst themselves. See how they fight among themselves in SL. I used to see this as a hindrance and weakness but now I see that it a strength to be preserved.
Notwithstanding all the infighting, we can also come together to a great extent when it is needed. But for a short time only. You cannot keep the interest of the Sinhalese for long. Now they are idolating MR but soon you will see them turning against him because of other reasons. Mark my word here. But I am happy that we are like that. As Ananda said very aptly, we take sometime to get our act together, but once we do so we are very effective. Our enemies better keep that in mind.
Don't forget that we have invaders for millenia. We never ever give up.
This Ant Hill mentality is the single most reason why the Fat Pig was able to build up his terror empire for 30 years. It would have continued for centuries if not for us. Such a project would be impossible amongst the Sinhalese. See what happened to Wijeweera. We may be Modayas and some body may lead us up the garden path for a few years. But not for 30 years like you guys.
I don't know whether this Ant Hill Mentality is a genetic trait in the Tamils. Tim, whatever it is, unless you get rid of this trait you will not be able to work with us and you are bound loose whatever concessions you Tamils get from us.
So just like your advice above, forget the past and try to do something about it now. Let us see you demonstrating the willingness to compromise by sending some help, however symbolic, to the IDP, through legitimate channels. After all they are your own people and they are badly need help.
LTTE Supporters Predicting the Second Coming of the SUN GOD!
[ Tamil Tigers still living in denial
P K Balachandran
ExpressBuzz.com
May 23, 2009
COLOMBO: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) re-asserted on Friday that their supremo, Velupillai Prabhakaran, reportedly shot dead by government troops in north east Sri Lanka on May 18, was alive, and that he would establish contact with the global Tamil community at an appropriate time.
The pro-Tiger website Tamilnet quoted Arivazhakan, identified as Head of the International Secretariat of the Intelligence Wing of the LTTE, saying that stories about Prabhakaran’s death were rumours engineered by the Sri Lankan government and its military establishment.
“Our beloved leader is alive,” Arivazhakan said. “The LTTE leadership will make contact with the global Tamil community at a suitable time in future,” he assured.
“The rumours have been set afloat to confuse the global Tamil community which has been voicing support for the liberation of Tamil Eelam,” Arivazhagan said.
This is the second time in four days that the LTTE is denying Prabhakaran’s death. Immediately after his death was confirmed by the Sri Lankan government on May 19, the LTTE had issued a statement trashing the claim.
PRABHAKARAN AND OTHERS CREMATED TOGETHER: Meanwhile in Colombo, the military spokesman, Brig.Udaya Nanayakkara, said the bodies of Prabhakaran and other leaders of the LTTE were cremated together after they were identified. There was no special cremation of Prabhakaran’s body, he clarified.
The mass cremation took place at an “unmarked place” in the Vellamullivaikkal area of the north eastern district of Mullaitivu, he added.
LTTE LEADERS PINNED HOPES ON INDIA TILL LAST: Till the very last moment, the LTTE’s leaders, from Prabhakaran downwards, were hoping that India would help them stem the onslaught of the Sri Lankan armed forces. Thaya Master, the former media liaison officer of the LTTE, told his interrogators after he surrendered to the army that Prabhakaran was holding on for so long in the ever shrinking war zone because he believed that India would intervene on his side.
In the run up to the Lok Sabha elections in India, the LTTE was certain that the AIADMK-PMK-MDMK coalition would defeat the Congress-DMK alliance in Tamil Nadu, and that a BJP-led alliance would come to power in New Delhi. The confidence was so high that some LTTE leaders had tried to send their families to India.
In his last interview to the press (given to the Colombo-based Lakbimanews on December 28, 2008 through e-mail) Prabhakaran had said that India was set to support the cause of the Eelam Tamils. “ We are working to build our contacts and relationships with the Indian Central Government through political diplomatic channels.
The environment in which the Indian Central Government will support our struggle is in the making,” Prabhakaran said. ]
GE,
"Energy and agriculture products is the best place to start."
100% true; agriculture, energy & food.
already crude is US$60+ despite recession!!
Guys
SF from LNP has updated his page, interesting stuff to read there.
This sky news woman is talking about a sinhalese flag. So she doesn't know what the Sri Lankan flag looks like and keep lying to the world. (no facts. Just bullshit)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b2jiQbeJn4
Ananda
I think we can spare 2% or even 10% of the land if we wanted to. Already 23% of the island is unused marginal lands. Most of the people want to live in the western province anyway. Thats where land is expensive.
The problem with solar panels is that the technology is not there to transfer the power generated from the panels across long distances.
For example, solar panel generated electricity from California cannot be supplied to NY, because the etechnology is not there yet. Thats what I have seen said on CSPAN.
Try wind power instead, SL has the capacity to generate 24,000 MW. We currently only consume about 4000 MW. Imagine the possibilities.
We must invite wind mill manufacturers to build factories to manufacture wind mills in Lanka.
The good reputation of Tamil people was largely destroyed by the LTTE terrorists in the past.
Now that their Terrorism in Sri Lanka has been brought to heel, they are running AMOK in foreign countries, breaking the laws of those countries, and attacking Sinhala people and Sinhala establishments.
What is the PURPOSE of these attacks?
Is it the same as the purpose of 4-years of attacks that preceded the death of 13 Sri Lankan soldiers in 1983?
That is, is it to provoke RETALIATION in Sri Lanka and ABROAD by Sinhala people, so they can yell "SEE...SEE HOW THE SINHALA PEOPLE ATTACK US INNOCENT TAMILS"?
I URGE Sri Lankans not to fall into this TRAP, by taking the law into your hands. Instead, URGE the law enforcement agencies to ACT, and protect yourselves DEFENSIVELY in ways that COMPLY with the LAWS OF THE HOST COUNTRIES.
If the pro-LTTE Tamils want to bring their OWN community into FURTHER DISREPUTE in these ways, that is their business; LET US STAY OUT OF IT and stay on the MORAL HIGH GROUND.
.................
[ Canada must protect Sri Lankan Canadians
The Government of Canada and provincial police forces must take immediate steps to protect peaceful Canadians of Sri Lankan origin.
Early this morning a 'Sinhalese' Sri Lankan restaurant in Brampton was firebombed by suspected Tamil Tiger supporters. Last week the Sri Lankan Buddhist Temple in Scarborough was set on fire, again by the same extremists, causing $40,000 in damage.
Other Sri Lankan community establishments (as opposed to Tamil Tiger fronts) are under significant threat in Canada but especially in the Greater Toronto Area. Peaceful Canadians of Sri Lankan origin cannot even gather at places of worship in Toronto . Their children are under threat in their schools and other places. Many of them have received hate mail and threatening phone calls. Some say that they are scared to organize cultural or sports events because they fear Tamil Tiger operatives.
The threat level has increased significantly since the Tamil Tigers and their leader Prabhakaran were eliminated earlier this week. This follows a worldwide pattern; Sri Lankans have been attacked and injured and Sri Lankan establishments, including many embassies, in Great Britain , Europe, and Australia have been attacked and damaged.
It is with regret that I say that nothing has been heard from government officials, provincial or federal, subsequent to the attacks and threats in Canada on Sri Lankan establishments except for Minister Jason Kenney's condemnation of the burning of the Scarborough Buddhist Temple . I am especially dismayed by the silence of the Premier of Ontario, Mr. McGuinty.
There is no point in issuing anodyne statements by Canadian politicians. What is required is action. What is required is proactive police protection of establishments that the community has identified and that should be 24/7 until the threat passes. What is required is active intervention in schools to remove the threat of Tamil Tiger thuggery within.
It is terrible that innocent, law-abiding Sri Lankan Canadians are being subject to these outrages. As Consul General for the Government of Sri Lanka I have been approached by many with their stories. It is not within my power to protect these people. I can only appeal to the Canadian authorities to put a stop to the Tamil Tiger operatives who threaten the people whose homeland I represent. ]
AFP NEWS proved that Fake video OF ITN,,,
Sri Lankan state TV broadcast footage on Tuesday of what authorities said was the body of Tamil tiger leader Veluppillai Prabaharan.hours after the
rebels claimed he was still alive.
WARRning:Graphig images
Visit the following link,,,,
http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?rn=3906861&cl=13541802&ch=4226714&src=news
Patriots,
Here is an article worth reading and
getting across to others. If some one already posted this- my apologies for doing it again.
Anyways, I see a bunch of parasites in addition to Vezapillai. That is the Balasinghams. These people were and are the true Tamil racist.
Link for the article ->
http://tehelka.com/story_main41.asp?filename=Ne230509coverstory.asp
Hemantha said
"Athas used to do the same (giving running commentaries on the war), even without setting his foot beyond Madawachchiya. Now DBSJ has stated from where Athas has stopped"
Simple as that, this DBSJ is a fantastic story teller, with all graphical details, his shadow is everywhere with each and every solder.
What I feel is he reads all news in the internet and them comes up with a cooked up story, beliveing tamils like fantacy storeis.
I put one comment there.
Sri Lankan government decided not to do DNA Test proving Prabaharan' death.But will give to INDIA death certificate of Velluppillai Prabaharan.
Subramanium said...
I have attached a link to the Sungods picture floating in the net and how it was "photoshoped". It is the third item down from the top.
You are free to believe / not believe.
http://sandeshaya-canada.blogspot.com/
Comparision of DBSJ with Iqbal Athas (IA) is similar to comparison of Silver with lead. DBSJ is a fine journalist while IA is nothing more than a two cents writer.
DBSJ based his writings on telephone calls he received from reliable sources in Wanni and was sympathetic towards non LTTE Tamils. There is nothing wrong with that.
DBSJ is not overwhelming patriot of SLDF and he need not to be. He wrote what he believed and trusted. He may have done mistakes but he was not bised like IA.
If we look at DBSJ’s writings as die hard Sinhalese patriots; of course, we will see him as a traitor.
If you can read what he has written with open mind, he did a splendid job during last 03 decades, irrespective to his personal beliefs.
There are times, where I criticise him as biased but later to found he is not. I personally admire DBSJ as a fine journalist and wish him good luck.
If I want a friend to discuss Sri Lankan affairs during last 30 years, I would be love to select DBSJ over any other writer.
Duminda Nirmal said...
Hemantha said
"Athas used to do the same (giving running commentaries on the war), even without setting his foot beyond Madawachchiya. Now DBSJ has stated from where Athas has stopped"
Simple as that, this DBSJ is a fantastic story teller, with all graphical details, his shadow is everywhere with each and every solder.
What I feel is he reads all news in the internet and them comes up with a cooked up story, beliveing tamils like fantacy storeis.
I put one comment there.
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It doesn't matter whether he created fantasy stories, but what he has done here is glorified the death of the sun goat.
It mentioned VP daughter fighting of LTTE, son leading an attack e.t.c. e.t.c. Subtle as some one says, but the effect is to glorify him death. Also tries to blame the SLA for the death of political leaders.
I think going forward we need to do away with these race-based political parties and others and should not allow these. This is the problem with Sri Lanka.
TNA, Muslim congress etc. Whilst they can represent needs/problems with certain communities, they should be encouraged to join mainstream political parties. Even these western do-gooders who preach and try to impose things on us, do not have ethnicity-based, race-based political parties/regions in their own countries. The recent US election and Obama is a case in point as he never took the ‘black’ thing as a slogan.
People (voters) should be given an opportunity to judge the parties based on their policies for developing Sri Lanka, not for what they are going to do to a particular ethnic group. If they happen to be Tamils/Sinhalese, so be it. Now it is absolutely important to promote the development of Sri Lanka rather than batting for an ethnic group.
I am not against having specific policies for uplifting the development of a particular marginalised group provided they are done based on need. The target groups may very well be Tamils/Sinhalese/Muslims. That’s all right. But we should move away from targeting people just because of their race.
I know this will not happen overnight, but in the long-term, we need to move towards that direction. We need to convince people by practising them as opposed to just preaching.
Over time, we should build up an egalitarian society where everyone is treated based on their abilities and needs, not based on their groupings (race, religion etc).
U.S. does not seem to end attacking GOSL.
It seem like the plans it had for SL was destroyed with the quicker than expected demolition of the LTTE. They seem to do their best to discredit the GOSL with which ever means it can.
Wonder what they had in mind of SL and what their future plans for SL is going to be since LTTE is no more. These fuckers are endlessly meddling in SL, PAK, Afganistan and to a limited extent in Asia.
Looks like behind the scene, there is a cold war battle going on with China and U.S. and we are sort of smack bang in the middle.
Nilambare said...
I think going forward we need to do away with these race-based political parties and others and should not allow these. This is the problem with Sri Lanka.
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I think the main media can take up this issue and educate the evils of this kind of ethnically based parties. Non of the western countries has this kind of parties. They keep the divisions within the country alive. Without existence of divisions these parties would have to disappear. So they are another form of victimization industry.
nilambare,
this is a recurring topic.
govt MUST do it without wasting time.
Golden Eagle said...
[ The problem with solar panels is that the technology is not there to transfer the power generated from the panels across long distances.
For example, solar panel generated electricity from California cannot be supplied to NY, because the etechnology is not there yet. Thats what I have seen said on CSPAN. ]
Golden Eagle,
1. The power transmission distance from California to New York is over 3,000 miles. Even over 200KV high voltage lines (for a fixed amount of transmitted power, the current decreases inversely with line voltage and the dissipated power as the square of the current)the resistive dissipation over the transmission lines can consume significant power. But, no one would transmit power over such a distance even if low-temperature superconducting cables are used. This example is not realistic. Any electrical energy generated by solar panels in large solar energy farms would be consumed locally within at most 200 miles.
The average transmission distance for residential solar energy is much smaller albeit at much lower voltage levels. Inversion of solar generated DC to AC is quite efficient (> 85% typically).
2. In Sri Lanka, high voltage transmission line lengths rarely exceed 75 miles at most, and residential electricity load centers are even more closely spaced. Thus resistive transmission power loss, are largely irrelevant for evaluating the feasibility of solar power generation in Sri Lanka.
3. Wind energy is usually a more concentrated natural resource than solar energy, but wind energy density is relatively low near the Equator compared to countries near the tropics of Capricorn and Cancer. This is also true of wave energy density. Therefore, in Sri Lanka, which is located just 250 miles north of the equator, the solar energy density is very high compared to most non-tropical countries, but wind energy density is relatively low.
Over 10 years ago, I met with engineers of the CEB, some of whom were my batchmates, and proposed that Sri Lanka assess the available wind resource for exploiting wind power. They were not very interested at that time. On my own, I evaluated the wind speeds at several locations in Sri Lanka. The wind speeds were the highest near Hambantota and in certain mountain passes in the highlands. However, I found the wind speeds to be much lower on average than what is available in certain parts of CA, and the mid-western states of the USA. As a result, the cost of wind power generation will be much higher in Sri Lanka than in the US or in europe.
A greater wind resource may be accessed offshore, but the cost of the pylons/towers built at sea will also be much greater than on land. In any case, the viability of wind power generation in Sri Lanka must be assessed through detailed resource evaluation studies.
I know these things, because I have worked for many years in Conventional Electrical Power Generation, in the general area of Alternative Energy, and in Oil & Gas Production. I also have a very broad engineering and scientific background in many Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Weapons, and Conventional Weapons areas. Of greater relevance, perhaps, is that I worked as an Electrical Engineer at Hydroelectric and Thermal power stations in Sri Lanka, and in Solar & Wind energy research projects at a US Govt National Laboratory.
Thusita said....
[ It seem like the plans it had for SL was destroyed with the quicker than expected demolition of the LTTE. ]
Yes, the plans of many countries to use the pretext of "civilian casualties" and "saving lives" was brought to nought by the SLA's quick elimination of the LTTE.
Guys,
DBSJ is heavily pushing power-sharing, devolution of power according to the 13th Amendment shoved down our Sri Lankan throats by India, and the Federal System "that has worked so well in India".
My bloody FOOT! We know where he is stealthily heading, don't we?
This is a very important step too. This has a tremoundous multiplier effect.
the President MUST keep this promise.
http://dbsjeyaraj.com/dbsj/archives/615#comment-5303
what do u think?
Golden Eagle...
[ Try wind power instead, SL has the capacity to generate 24,000 MW. We currently only consume about 4000 MW. Imagine the possibilities. ]
Golden Eagle,
From where are you getting the 24,000 MW wind power resource estimate?
Golden Eagle...
OK. the 24GW resource estimate is from the US Aid Dec 2002 report.
Commercially recoverable resource is somewhat optimistic, but is in the correct ballpark.
The problem is that, to be viable, wind power must be implemented on a relatively large scale...beyond the means of most homeowners. Solar energy, on the other hand, can make use of dual use roofs, and can put money in the hands of ordinary individuals.
SUBMARINE SAID....OOPS SUBRAMANIUM SAID...
Sri Lankan state TV broadcast footage on Tuesday of what authorities said was the body of Tamil tiger leader Veluppillai Prabaharan.hours after the
rebels claimed he was still alive.
EAT YOUR OWN WORDS... STATELESS LOSER...!!!
http://sandeshaya-canada.blogspot.com/
This is for Ananda-USA, Moshe Dayan, Sam Perera, Asithri, Thusitha, Ian, Myil Ravana, Apino and others:
I am one of the very few people in this blog that spoke against killing Madhvadhini, Duwaraka and Balachandran. Asithri laid on to me a vociferous, near personal attack but rest of others ignored me.
The latest post by DBSJ in the Daily Mirror states that Duwaraka was part of the Malathi Brigade. So, I repent and retract my statement to indicate that SLDF cannot be held responsible for killing them: it would have been in pitch darkness and soldiers would have fired at even a rabbit. Since, it is proven that the whole family had been in the "thick and thin" of the LTTE, their elimination in a war can be justified. Here credit goes to DBSJ for informing me.
Also, I want to point you in the direction of an interview published in the Sinhala section of www.lankaenews.com where General Sarath Fonseka speaks about leading the Army and waging war. It is a very candid, "no holds barred" interview that underscores the fact that any organization could succeed when led by a honest, dedicated, committed man who is less interested in publicity but more interested in getting the job done. It is patently clear that the man had the insight to bring together some of the finest field commanders who showed their prowess even in school days.
Unfortunately, I do not know anything about Brig. Shavendra Silva but if somebody could shed some light on this person whom LTTE considered as "humane" (the only one possibly other than late Kothalawala), I would very much appreciate. Rest of the crowd was part of my school days in the late 70's and they were no pussies in school..
Just wanted to appreciate what Tim stated and how SARA responded to it.
Hope SL newspapers would read this blog and publish these two entries in all three languages.
Appreciate about Tim's moving write up - it is not a come down - and SARA talking about the rank disunity among us - they say in HELL there are no guards to prevent SINHALAS sneaking away.
Thanks!
Peace @ Last said...
[I forgot:
Of course, DBSJ is only good for free thinking unbiased people not for racists and racist like people with already fucked-up mind.]
Conclusion from the above:
1) Anyone who considers DBSJ to be good is unbiased, non racist and has a clear mind.
2) Anyone who doesn't is a biased, racist with a fucked up mind.
Great. Now we have a simple but unambiguous test, which we may call DBSJ Pigment Test, to find out whether a person is unbiased, right thinkung, non racist and not having a fucked up mind.
One thing is certain. This test has no bias or preconceptions. Great, I say again.
Or wait a minute now. Apply this on the person who invented this teast and what do you get? I can't see anything clearly but I certainly do get a pig smell.
But then, I failed the DBSJ Pigment Test.
Of course DBSJ is a thinking writer, but far away from reality.
RETARDED WICKRAMABAHU KARUNARATHNA HAS ISSUED A STAEMENT REGARDING SAM'S JAATHIYE PAAHARA BALLO LIST.
(RAVAYA NEWS PAPER PAGE 2 - 2009.05.23)
APF NEWS published few days ago,,,
Sri Lankan state TV broadcast footage on Tuesday of what authorities said was the body of Tamil tiger leader Veluppillai Prabaharan.hours after the rebels claimed he was still alive.Warning:Graphic images...
VISIT Following link:
http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?rn=3906861&cl=13541802&ch=4226714&src=news
Thank all viewer of the World..
SUBMARINE SAID....OOPS SUBRAMANIUM SAID...
Sri Lankan state TV broadcast footage on Tuesday of what authorities said was the body of Tamil tiger leader Veluppillai Prabaharan.hours after the
rebels claimed he was still alive.
EAT YOUR OWN WORDS... STATELESS LOSER...!!!
http://sandeshaya-canada.blogspot.com/
HERE U ARE...
I WAS BORED...
MONKEY...
LETS HAVE SOME FUN....?
Tim and SARA,
Oh Dear..
"Honda honda sellam elivena jametane!"
Literally means "best of the show is shown at dawn" ( I think this refers to best part of a local "thovil" dance is at dawn)
After following this blog for a long time, I see very constructive debate and point of view. I think Sri Lanka need people like you in this hour.
Tim, we may not agree on everything, but if we are ready to forget and move on, then this is the true beginning. Not the end.
SARA,
What reply to "peace @ last" !
Max_Headroom said...
This is for Ananda-USA, Moshe Dayan, Sam Perera, Asithri, Thusitha, Ian, Myil Ravana, Apino and others:
I am one of the very few people in this blog that spoke against killing Madhvadhini, Duwaraka and Balachandran. Asithri laid on to me a vociferous, near personal attack but rest of others ignored me.
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Mate,
Every one above 18 are old enough to make a choice. They made the choice to stick with VP. So as far as I am concerned, these people should not be SLAs responsibility.
If they wanted to get in the harms way they should have left earlier. They were living with a man who order Terrorist to go an hack to death innocent women and children. You have a choice to be with a person like that. They chose to be with him, they got what was coming for them.
I don't want to speculate how they died, at the same time I wouldn't give a fu** about how they died. We have better things to do than worry about mass murderers or their loved ones.
Ananda-USA, Moshe, Sam ...
Just read this great news http://www.lakbima.lk/news/news1.htm
Maskman said...
[Tim and SARA,
Oh Dear..
"Honda honda sellam elivena jametane!"
Literally means "best of the show is shown at dawn" ( I think this refers to best part of a local "thovil" dance is at dawn)
After following this blog for a long time, I see very constructive debate and point of view. I think Sri Lanka need people like you in this hour.
Tim, we may not agree on everything, but if we are ready to forget and move on, then this is the true beginning. Not the end.
SARA,
What reply to "peace @ last" !]
I have already posted a reply to peace @ last. It is just a few posts above yours. I am afraid that it is not so kind.
I am actually sorry that I discovered this blog just a little too late. However, I have been impressed by the quality of DW's posts and those of the bloggers like Ananada.
I feel that they are playing certain different roles perhaps by collective agreement.
Ananda is the nice and polite one. But his posts are logical and firm.
Sam plays the role of a terminator cutting and slashing and generally decimating the pig opposition. he is the MBRL.
Sorry I cannot mention all of you.
I joined the fray only after observing all these things for a couple of months. And I decided to be sarcastic and witty, at which i am quite good.
I also thank those Tiger supporters without whom there wouldn't have been any fun and I also learned some defects in my line of thinking by reading their responses.
Thanks for your compliment and hope we all (Sinhala, Tamils, Muslims and others) can get together and do something constructive for Sri Lanka, forgetting our differences. Or am I thinking a couple of generation ahead?
GutiKewa - ගුටි දෙනවා and Other Patriots,
This is great plan we need to push harder. Smart and willing planners getting aggressively pushed by enthusiastic people will give the plan a super boost. We saw enough foreign interventions this time to make sure that we need a powerful military structure to fend off all the monkeys. We may need lots of naval power in the future. In addition to 500,000 standing military we need to give military training to every young man/woman in the high school. Those who get university admission should be mandated to serve in our forces in some capacity for a some minimum period (Ex. 2 years). This is what Korea/Taiwan/Singapore does. In addition, we have to transform our nations mindset to resist a foreign invasion. Of course, the economic development must happen concurrently.
" Sniper said...
ජනාධිපති තුමා මෙවැනි හිතුවක්කාර අනාරක්ශිත ගමන් යාමෙන් වලක්වා ගත යුතුයි..ඔහුගේ අදහස ඉදිරියේදී ආරක්ශාව තවත් අඩු කිරීමටයි!!! වහාම මෙහි ඇති අවදානම ඔහුට වටහා දෙන්න.....තවමත් කොටි හිතවාදීන් සටන අත් හැර නැහැ..."
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Totally agree bro ! Not only him. GR, SF, all div commanders should be extra carefull. If you see closely how international goons behave these days you can see they do ANYTHING to eliminate at least one of them. At leasest upto the point where we capture hidden guys, eliminate underworld gangs and LTTE supporters overseas.
SARA,
No no, you (and we) are not couple of generations ahead, our generation can do this, just have weed out a few.
Yes I saw your reply to peace @ last.. brilliant! But with my experience with these kind of people, they (peace @ last) will never get the sarcasm or the message within.
Sam Perera GutiKewa et al,
I think this is a really bad plan. What we need is now to use full energy of the country to improve the production of goods and services. Armed forces doesn't produce any goods nor any exportable service.
We are are planning resettlement, nation building, and massive development work for north east. If all these things are executed well, we will not need army camps at every mile post to protect the territory.
Another sector that doesn't produce hardly any 'incoming earning' service is a 'security services'. with the improvement of the situation we must use this man power for reconstruction rebuilding and anything 'productive'.
I agree we can't start winding down immediately, it will be a slow and steady thing. When the economy improves we will be able to focus on more high tech gadgets to look after national security than T56 bearing soldiers. We need them to do other important things.
Ananda said
[I know these things, because I have worked for many years in Conventional Electrical Power Generation, in the general area of Alternative Energy, and in Oil & Gas Production. I also have a very broad engineering and scientific background in many Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Weapons, and Conventional Weapons areas. Of greater relevance, perhaps, is that I worked as an Electrical Engineer at Hydroelectric and Thermal power stations in Sri Lanka, and in Solar & Wind energy research projects at a US Govt National Laboratory.]
This is quite interesting and somewhat similar to what I would have in my CV, though I have not worked in the US or nuclear. My daughter works in the US though. You seem to be product of the E-fac Perdnya or K'bedde.
plese let me know who you are. My email is sinhalyon@hotmail.com. We may be able to some significant things together.
By the way, for long distance transmission of power, DC is the best and HVDC tr lines go up to (+/-) 800 KV (meaning 1600 KV between the + and - conductors), Yunnan - Guangdong in China, 1400 km, 5000 MW due to come up in 2010.
Marksman,
Well, we have had that discussion many many times here. Ananda-USA talked about in lengths.
Firstly and most importantly, we need to prepare for the war we will never fight. Have we had a decent size military in 1980, we did not have to go through past 30 years of distress. We could have been a very prosperous country.
Have you ever purchased an insurance policy? If you did, why did you buy it? A strong military is our insurance policy against future threats. A few countries I mentioned earlier had such well organized military structures long before they became prosperous.
The salaries of these soldiers will pour in to rural economy and hence it will further strengthen the economy. How about buying an insurance policy that will improve our rural economy also?
Furthermore, we can keep the soldier engaged in other professions while they serve the nation only a few selected months of the year.
I believe that we had enough naysayers in the past who said that we can't beat LTTE. Naysayers are a decease in Sri Lanka. For every great idea, there will be thousands of naysayers. We need to dream the impossible and try the best to make it come true.
Have you ever heard of Looser vs Winner attitude? If not, I am noting it down for your benefit.
Looser was given a task and he says "May be this is possible but it is very difficult."
Winner was given a task and he says "May be it is a very difficult task but it is possible."
This is exactly what our President, Secretary of Defence, commanders, and soldiers did. Don't you think that it is the time for us to carry the flame forward?
Sam Perera
Our PM tells this about some bigwigs in foreign countries on a TV channel:
"What plans from those who do not wash their bottoms?” I have not heard a leader of country speaking like this publicly except in rare cases like Robert Mugabe. This is a cocky, racial remark and giving them ammunition to shoot at us.
Once a Britisher told me "Don't get angry. Get Even". Good advice which the British seem to follow.
I never liked Wickramanayake anyway.
The biggest roadblock to development in SL is the cost of Energy. We are among the countries with highest cost of energy which impedes setting up power intensive industries. I am not saying we have 10% or 20% higher energy cost in SL. Our energy cost is more than double of that of US or any other developed nation. Strategic investment in SL would be in the energy sector. We should not generate a single megawatt using diesel. Hydropower is requires high investment and it changes the environment. We need to tap wind power. Being an island with long coastline we have a large untapped wind energy resource. In the short run, you can import the certain parts of the windmill and we can locally construct the blades and the towers. For those who dont know, we have energy mafia in SL. They generate energy and sell to the CEB. They will block any action to lower energy cost. You have to break the back of these corrupt businessmen. That would be the first step.
"Sri Lankan forces did much much better than all the forces everywhere in the world when it comes to civilian casualties. We took all precautions to prevent civilian casualties from the beginning to the end (of the war)," Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa told NDTV on Saturday.
Mr. Rajapaksa, who is also the President's brother, said "if one talks of taking our military to a war crimes tribunal, before that you have to take US troops, UK troops, all those troops and all those leaders into war crimes (tribunals)."
Anyone who doubt about Pig's death..please contact Charles Anthony, Mathivathnai, Dwarga or Balachandran or any immediate family.
Or alternatively you may contact Pottu or any seniors of LTTE or their immediate family members..
Pl. get it confirm from them.
It is no wonder that even an uneducated pig like VP can fool Disporains for 30 years ):
Gota,thats the way we need to put that, they invaded a foreign nation under the pretext of the existance of Weapons of Mass destruction, but bullshit they didnt get shit out, that in the pretext of international law is invasion and colonization of that country, so tell Hogg to look into that before, I think the governments stance should be that "ok we will go to the war chrimes tribunal as soon as the court opens investigations into wat crimes in Iraq and Afganistan."
The case will automatically disolve
Next will not be faught with guns... It will be a propaganda / diplomatic war...
Let me reitterate this again and again and I will continue to do so...
They have infiltrated organisations, companies... they have given prominance to the tamils to get them in to higher places places of influence
Politicians
Doctors
Engineers
Journalists
Accountants
Shop Keepers
they are infact united under UMBRELLA to name few
British Tamil Forum
Tamil Youth Organisation
Students Against Genocide of Tamils
They conduct
Tamil (LTTE) schools
Tamil (LTTE) cultural shows
Tamil (LTTE) Sports events
Tamil (LTTE) provide well recognised professional qualifications
these are aimed at radicalising the youth younger generation against Sri Lanka in turn when they are in places of influneces giving them ability to manipulate situations in their local countries... with aim of de-stablising the country and out standing in the IC
TYO
Tamil Youth Organisation is an establishment that has been created solely for the betterment of Tamil Youths worldwide while enhancing our nation through getting our own hands for our country.
Dear Diaspora Eelam Tamils,
Sri Lankan Government not only captured our homeland but also killed our people by land, sea and air during this never seen genocide in Sri Lanka. In the past five months more than 100,000 innocent Tamil civilians have been killed and the rest are now in the army controlled torture camps. We Tamil Diaspora are suffering from mental depression without knowing where our relatives are or whether they are still alive. Since there is no access to the war zone to United Nations, Media and other aid agencies by the Sri Lankan Government safety of our Tamil people is a big question.
In the countries we live there are agencies to save and protect animals but is there are any such organisations to save our Tamil people’s life? We as Tamil Diaspora have to save our Tamil people before our Tamil race gets wiped out in our homeland. Please send your feelings in a letter format to the following organisations. These letters will force our respective governments and other aid agencies to intervene and get the true story out of our people who are suffering in the camps, so that they can save our Tamil people in our homeland and bring Sri Lanka in front of the International Criminal Court (ICC).
It’s our duty as Tamil Diaspora to bring back safety and self determination to our Tamil people as fast now.
Lets work towards Tamil Eelam fast.....
http://www.tamilsforum.com/about.html
What is the British Tamils Forum?
British Tamils Forum (“BTF”) is an umbrella organisation by bringing together individuals, and Tamil community organisations to highlight the humanitarian crises and human rights violations perpetrated by the Government of Sri Lanka (GOSL), and to advance the Tamil national cause through democratic means.
BTF's Mission Statement
To harness the skills and the knowledge of the members of the forum, well-wishers and significant others including the mainstream decision makers in the UK to alleviate the sufferings of the Tamils in the Island of Sri Lanka and to further their right to self determination within the democratic frame work under pinned by the international law, covenants and conventions.
What are the objectives of BTF?
Raise awareness amongst British public, the decision makers and agencies working in the humanitarian and human rights fields of the on-going suffering of the Tamils in island of Sri Lanka .
Provide information to the British public and the decision makers about the political and economic oppression experienced by the Tamil community in Sri Lanka since independence from Britain and to help them understand the in-justices and the discrimination against Tamils.
Work with all major British political parties, and the British government, to ensure that they recognize the legitimate socio-political aspirations of Tamils in the island of Sri Lanka and to help them find peace with justice and dignity.
finally this is how they going to do this
Enable British Tamils to advance their social and cultural well being.
i like the new proposed 5 year security plan for the north east. 500,000 troops. we don't even have to colonise it. it's a "security plan". read between the lines.
මට බෝම්බ ගහල තමයි ප්රභාකරන් වරද්ද ගත්තේ....
ජනරාල් සරත් ෆොන්සේකා.
Ok buddy
Keep dreaming, in a matter of a few months, you will see the army and tri-force rre-developed, and that means its not going to be that insignificat 10,000 soldiers its was when this war started, now the tri forces are 175,000,shortly the air force will be able to counter moves by anyone onto airspace.
If you do re-organize urself and hit from outside Sri Lanka we will call those who harbour you the very perpetraters who armed you and take it that the governments of those countries haveinitiated the invasions.
Almost 20% of our electrical energy in SL lost during transmission. It is mainly due to the ignorance of our CEB engineers. If they can save at least 10% it is a lot. Secondly CEB doesn't pay the same mount for non conventional electrical power plants that they pay for diesel power plants. Sometime back a project was started to use fire wood. They used bare lands to cultivate giniseria and used it to generate electricity. But CEB paid them a very low rate. Probably it might be still running.
Wind power and Wave energy are two possible sources. But still they are not that cheap.
However, we can use methane. In Sweden most of buses use bio gas. They produce methane using garbage and excrement. I think this we can do without spending a lot of money. It would help us to save our energy requirement by a good percentage.
Guys what would u think about wannangaman ship?????
do you think our navy will destroy it......
I'm waiting to see it sink with the 800 mtons stuff
NDTV talks to SF and Gota.
http://www.dailymirror.lk/DM_BLOG/Sections/frmNewsDetailView.aspx?ARTID=49801
Thusitha
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If they wanted to get in the harms way they should have left earlier. They were living with a man who orders Terrorist to go an hack to death innocent women and children. You have a choice to be with a person like that. They chose to be with him, they got what was coming for them.’
Very well said! This is exactly what I am saying to the bloody bleeding hearts in this country. We just had a Swedish high powered guest with whom we had much debates in the last 3 days after much effort he was convinced that these are just terrorists that should be got rid of. last thing worthwhile he said was what we saw on TV about C.Ki Moon’s comment that our IDPs are living in poor conditions but this guy noticed that similar conditions prevailed in Pakistan but no fault was ever mentioned as the West prefer to fight them to fight the terrorists in Pak but not in SL.
He is a powerful man and owns his company and has some influence with the government in Sweden. We must try our best to approach the people in the West about the plight of the island where there is a threat to her from the conniving Diaspora who have no real interest in that area as none want to come back to live. I too showed the pictures of the run down settlements from the years 1979 up to last August which we managed to take and he saw the real improvement to that even in the temporary IDP camps where every thing looks clean and tidy until people are processed for terrorists and resettled which is the right of any country.
Golden Eagle,Fernando,Ananda
I am following your discussions over ehanol, windpower and solar…thanks
I am installing WP and Solar in London just to compare.
onecountry
You are absolutely right about the cost of energy is Sri Lanka. Thats why I think we must go for wind power and any other renewable power source ASAP. They will be cheaper than the diesel-fuel expensive disaster that we currently ride on.
I heard that Tamil Nadu is the biggest generator of windpower in India. This is due to their location close to the ocean.
Sri Lanka's location is ideal for wind power. We are blessed to be an island.
Kevin
Good to talk to you again.
SRI LANKA AS A SATELLITE LAUNCH CENTER
The location of SL very close to the equator makes it ideal for a satellite launch center, like Korou in French Guyana from which the European Space Agency's (ESA) Ariane rockets are launched. Almost all satellites except for Polar orbiting satellites are launched in an Easterly direction to take advantage of the rotational velocity of the Earth, which is highest at the equator (1670 km/hr). Kirinda in South SL has a velocity of 1660 km/hr, while Kennedy Space Center has only 1475 km/hr only.
Another requirement is that the area East of the launch center should not be populated. This too is satisfied at Kirinda. Any malfunctioning rockets can safely come down in the vast expanse of the Indian Ocean East of it.
Kirinda would be especially suitable for launching geo-synchronous satellites, such as Eurostar and Hotbird. Launching communication satellites is a big business, which we could benefit from in addition to the hi-tech fall out.
I forwarded this idea to some of the professional organizations in SL sometime back but found that there was no interest. The end of war and the response of various countries to it rekindles my interest in it again. We should offer this to our greatest friend, China. China is far North of the equator and has no base like Korou to be used for this purpose. China is also slowly becoming a leading space faring nation. I am sure that they would grab this idea.
The Western powers need several good kicks for what they have done to SL. This could be one of them.
More to follow on this subject.
GE
Keep it up very interesting and I sorry that I can’t put my two cents as I am chatting with a few stranger keen to know about SL situation.
Friends in UK
Just ring 999 if you are ever being threatened as the enforcement people are well briefed about this and will use every available means as we are not politicians but trying to do a job properly.
Patriots,
This is a "Bull in a China Shop" type of question.
What can the citizens of Sri Lanka do, if any of our citizens, is indicted by a UN War Crimes Tribunal?
Can we ask for assistance from India, Russia or China? What do you advise the GOSL to do to ensure that this will not happen.
In my mind, there is a greater threat from the Milli-Vanilli crowd. Do you agree? If not, what could be the greatest threat to the sovereignty of Sri Lanka?
Thanks!
Fernando said...
[Almost 20% of our electrical energy in SL lost during transmission.]
Not all of it transmission losses. It is the difference between genration and billed energy. A good portion of it is due to under billing by errant CEB meter readers and others.
Max-Headroom,
It won't happen. (If you like you can mark my word on this).
Majority of the world is with Sri Lanka in this regard.
Center of the universe is not US, UK and France anymore. When they realize this it will be too late for them.
Max
In my mind, there is a greater threat from the Milli-Vanilli crowd. Do you agree? If not, what could be the greatest threat to the sovereignty of Sri Lanka?
Its simple just get together and go to the local library of is constituency
Get hold of the electoral register and get the names and addresses of his voters and write to each person explaining that he is in co hoot with the terrorists, but give him a chance first by writing to him and form an association get the rep from there to meet him privately then he may even explain his concerns and the reasons.This may be very effective.
Patriots,
1) The pigs are talking about recapturing their 'homeland' by force.
2) Indian Tamils are talking about pushing the army out of the East and North.
3) Shadowy ships are preparing to sail in to SL waters with cargos containing God knows what.
4) American satelites are spying on us, perhaps to prepare for an invasion.
5) Our leaders may be kidnapped and taken to be tried by the ICJ.
There is no time to loose. Our country is in peril. We have to set up those military bases in the Vanni to protect our sovereignty.
Settling the IDP's can be done afterwards. Otherwise they may again be taken as human sheilds.
In this situation the IDP is safer in the welfare villages where we can look after their needs.
SARA said...
Patriots,
1) The pigs are talking about recapturing their 'homeland' by force.
2) Indian Tamils are talking about pushing the army out of the East and North.
3) Shadowy ships are preparing to sail in to SL waters with cargos containing God knows what.
4) American satelites are spying on us, perhaps to prepare for an invasion.
5) Our leaders may be kidnapped and taken to be tried by the ICJ.
There is no time to loose. Our country is in peril. We have to set up those military bases in the Vanni to protect our sovereignty.
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Other than point number 2, others are things that no one in their right minds would do. I am not sure where you are getting your information from.
No one attack another country or kidnap officials without going through proper process. That will take few more months, if it ever happens.
Even the point 2 would not happen for at least 4-5 years. So stop worrying.
Thusitha,
I don't think you got the point.
Max and others. I think GOSL should get the other nations to bring Navi Pillay's conduct for a review.
On the War crimes charges - best defense would be to go on the offensive. We need to get the best minds on this in SL. They need to get hold of the genocide charges filed by Bruce Finn and work on it.
We need to bring laws in our country to bring to justice, the diaspora that funded LTTE. We need to have an option where civilians killed by LTTE bombs can go after the funds collected by the Tamil Diaspora - at least the key people.
I like what GR said- it may not be very diplomatic or in our best interest long term wise. But some one has to point out "Before they bring war crimes charges - they need to look at their own actions in recent wars." This is actually the new imperialist agenda that England want to push - because they are no body now. They want to drag USA on this and be somebody.
It is also very unfortunate that USA is risking their friendship with Sri Lanka. They believe the diaspora lies and follow their advice. It will be very difficult for US to the fix relationship with Sri Lanka in the future.
The misreading of Sri Lanka by the Obama administration and blindly following the stupid British who still think they own sri lanka is the root cause. Also British are very shrewd to get the US involved
as no one really cares for the British power plays - these days.
Sri Lanka need to keep the forces intact and actually expand the navy and the air force. We also need to keep live fire training - (especially night fighting) and keep innovating on the special forces - equipment, training etc.
Pretty soon the next generation of weapons fielded by US will be autonomous robots. There will be LTTE and some of the interested parties in the west trying to infiltrate Sri lanka from sea, air and frankly as tourist. So we cannot let our guard down.
I do pray for all the thousands of our dead heroes and the all the innocent civilians on both sides. But I have no sympathy for the LTTE'ers and wish they died a worse death than the poor border villagers that were hacked to death.
I mean what were these western diplomats trying to do - give Prabakaran a second lease on life- would they do the same for Bin Laden and Mullah Mohammad the taliban head?
SARA bro,
I really like some of your ideas (esp, Satellites and need to remain vigilant).
Have you joined Ananda's Patriot Blog?
"President Mahinda Rajapaksa Friday (May 22) said that as the war against the LTTE had been brought to a successful conclusion, he would now tackle waste and corruption." Island Newspaper.
This guy is the shrewdest and cleverest politician SL has yet seen. He has not put a foot wrong so far. Such exquisite balance of National and Personal interests.
http://imagehost.nordei.de/pics/4a41039567ea41432739c7e5c57ac844.JPG
URGENT!
Matthew Russell Lee of Inner City Press is in Sri Lanka as a reporter covering the UN Secretary General’s visit. I cannot understand why the SLG allowed him in, after all the anti Sri Lankan stories he wrote in the past. See my next post for details.
So far he has posted a steady stream of anti Sri Lankan stories today:
UN's Ban in Kandy, Never Called It a Bloodbath, No Word on the Doctors.
UN Shown Blown Out Land Devoid of People, UN Preaches Partnership Not Prosecution.
In Manik Farm Camp, Children Forced to Sing to Ban Ki-moon, No Questions.
On UN's Sri Lanka Trip, Holmes Did Not Favor It, NGOs Phase Out Work.
In 16 Hours in Sri Lanka, UN's Ban To Overfly Zone of Carnage, Dine with President.
I think his plan is to stay behind, after the UN visit and damage SL image during the Geneva meeting.
But all is not lost; on his reports from SL, he states:
Footnote / full disclosure: this reporter has been granted a visa, albeit for only two days, gratis by the Sri Lankan mission to the UN. A request for more than two days resulted in instructions to write a letter, which will be considered by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Colombo “after a background check.” Watch this site.
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Please use whatever means, to stop him damaging our country’s image. He should be under observation from now on, and under no circumstance should he be allowed to extend his stay.
Inner City Press(What I wrote approx 3 months ago.)
Watch This Guy…..
You must have noticed lots of anti SLG propaganda quoting “Inner City Press” - (ICP) lately. Just this weekend alone, I have seen ICP reports in Tamilnut, Sunday Times, Sunday Leader so far.
I’ve done some research, and this is what I found about ICP.
1) From Wiki:
Matthew Lee is a public interest lawyer, author and founder of two non-profit organizations, Inner City Press and Fair Finance Watch.
2) H. L. D. Mahindapala on srilankaguardian-
A new phenomenon against Sri Lanka has emerged at the UN -- Mathew R. Lee of the Inter City Press. As an accredited media representative he holds a unique position: he is only a blogger with no leading newspaper establishment to back him. He has been badgering the delegates to the Security Council UN officials, the Secretary –General, Ban Ki-Moon and his officials questioning them as to why Sri Lanka has not been put on the Security Council agenda. He feels frustrated because the general consensus is that Sri Lanka is not in the same category of other crisis-ridden trouble spots.
His partisan line of questioning has been so transparent that it is easy see through from where he comes. Obviously, the NGOs and the Tamil lobbies are feeding him with pictures and one-sided stories, which he peddles without any qualm.
Link:
Gloves on at UN to beat mounting pressures of Tiger lobbies - H. L. D. Mahindapala
3) He is a familiar face at UN press briefings. Very interested in Sri Lankan affairs. See him questioning the UN spokesperson at 16:30 on this clip.
I think he was the guy who questioned The President of the Security Council, Ambassador Takasu, about Sri Lanka, last Friday.
4) He appears regularly on bloggingheads.tv, discussing UN matters and lately Sri Lanka.
See clip 1, recorded 12th Feb (SL from 11:30 onwards, you can click directly on the stories below the screen)
And Clip 2, recorded 26th Feb.
5) ICP Website
PHANTHOM-X said....
[ WHERE HAVE ALL THE MONKEYS GONE...??? ]
GONE TO GRAVEYARDS EVERYONE,
WHEN WILL THEY EVER LEARN,
WHEN WILL THEY EVER LEARN......
Mayial Ravana said
‘He has not put a foot wrong so far. Such exquisite balance of National and Personal interests.’
I think MR is already on to this by getting Mervin S to resign his post which is a thorn in the flesh.
He must somehow rally round the private sector people and get advice as to get the economy on tract which is needed.
NONE of our business tenants big or small are in no position to pay rent can’t even pay the salaries of their employee. Revenue thus collected will be
Greatly reduced.
It will not solve the infiltrations or invasions by having half a million military people and garrisons everywhere and one will sleep walk into another Burma where the unchecked military build up ended up with a dictatorial junta running the country.
Burma too built up it’s garrisons to fight the Karan rebels who are still in force while the military and the Generals are a law unto themselves where they couldn’t care less for the people and the only economy is the opium trade and the rice that is collected out of the blood sweat and tears of it’s innocent people. There’s no life there in the country.
Way to deal is to make the country prosperous like Singapore. Go after the leaders that are fund rising abroad and there are simple ways to get rid of them where the Israelis are experts. Then the Diaspora will lose interest in SL affairs.
Country will never be able to afford a big military besides India will never allow these terrorists back into our soil for their own good.
Satellites have been there all the time and there’s nothing can anyone do.
Kevin"
"Country will never be able to afford a big military besides India will never allow these terrorists back into our soil for their own good."
Don't say never. If our economy improves rapidly (which I strongly believe would happen) anything is possible. Secondly, we have to save our own ass. We should not expect others to do that which is always doubtful.
I never liked big militaries. But only the show of strength would frustrate the separatist remnants and their international backers. So a big military will do short term wonders. Prevalent high security will enhance the tourism and many other aspects of the economy. We can formulate a new strategy after five or ten years if necessary.
"NGOs smuggling IDPs out — Govt.
By Leon Berenger
Attempts to smuggle out youth from camps housing Internally Displaced people (IDPs) prompted the Government to impose restrictions on visits, a senior Government official said yesterday.
Human Rights Ministry Secretary Rajiva Wijesinha said certain persons with the connivance of Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) workers were involved in this plot.
In the light of this, security sources said, a thorough screening of IDPs was under way in the camps. The purpose was to identify persons who were either guerilla cadres or had links with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)
Mr. Wijesinha said the authorities were also looking into reports that paramilitary operatives were known to be loitering inside the camps after gaining access through certain NGOs and this matter was being treated seriously by government authorities.
“The restrictions are aimed at bringing the situation in the camps to manageable levels where security is given the top most priority.
Things get complicated when there are too many vehicles running up and down the camps thereby compromising security,” Prof: Wijesinha said.
He said 52 NGOs had been mandated to operate inside the IDP camps and none of them was willing to operate on foot but insisted they brought their air conditioned vehicles which raised a lot of dust and dirt in the air leading to an environmental issue.
“Therefore, we have asked them to reduce the number of vehicles during their movements inside the camps, and they have agreed,” he said.
UN’s Colombo spokesperson Gordon Weiss confirmed the reports that attempts had been made by certain persons to smuggle out groups of IDPs from the welfare centres and this prompted the authorities to bring in the restrictions.
“The situation indeed got out of control with so many aid agencies and individuals involved in the humanitarian work in the camps. Therefore the authorities were forced to act fast in bringing the situation under control,” Mr. Weiss said. Consortium of Humanitarian Agencies Chief Jeevan Thiyagarajah, however, said there was no truth in the reports that certain persons had attempted to smuggle out IDPs from the camps.
He said NGOs were continuing with their work despite the restrictions imposed on the movement of vehicles. "
ATTN: Ananda aiyya
can you let me in to your blog, passing the honey pot :)
my email is
l.kandappa@gmail.com
"l" as in lawrence
Golden Eagle & Others,
The wind power resource of Sri Lanka, as estimated by the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory under a US Aid grant circa 2002 is 24 GW.
Let us roughly estimate of the Solar Energy resource:
1. Avg. solar insolation, convertible by photovolataic (PV) cells, is about 1 KW/m^2 near the Equator. That is, 1 GW/km^2 .
2. Sri Lanka total land area is about 65,610 km^2 .
3. Therefore, the total solar power INCIDENT on Sri Lanka's landmass is 65,610 GW.
4. If we assume Sri Lanka's population to be 22 million, and that 5 people live in a single house, then we can estimate the number of dwellings in Sri Lanka as 22/5 = 4.4 million homes.
5. Let us assume that, on average, each home is 100 m^2 in area, and that the USABLE roof area is also 100 m^2, neglecting the overhang roof area as unusable. Then, the total PV deployable RESIDENTIAL roof area is 440 million m^2 = 440 km^2 . Note that this RESIDENTIAL roof area amounts to only 0.67% of Sri Lanka's land area.
6. Therefore, the total solar energy incident on this RESIDENTIAL area base is 440 GW.
7. If we assume a realistic solar energy conversion efficiency of 15%, the RECOVERABLE solar energy resource is 66 GW which EXCEEDS the total windpower resource estimated by the NREL team by a factor of 2.75!
7. The total area deployable for PV solar energy generation must be supplemented by the following:
7.1 NON-RESIDENTIAL roof areas belonging to commercial, government, industrial, and educational institutions.
7.2 BACKYARD land areas belonging to homeowners.
7.3 Large SOLAR ENERGY FARMS deployed on vacant land unsuitable for agriculture or other uses.
8. What really attracts me to PV solar are the following features:
8.1 It makes use of existing roofs. That is, it is a TRUE DUAL USE TECHNOLOGY.
8.2 It puts money in citizens pockets allowing them to exploit their SINGLE GREATEST ASSET...their HOME. Watch TV, eat kiribath, and earn an income!
8.3 The PV panel arrays are STATIC equipment, perfectly compatible with human habitation in both rural and urban environments.
8.4 MINIMAL ENVIRONMENTAL impact.
8.5 Capacity of the array installed in each home can be increased incrementally, as money becomes available to the homeowner, and the Govt for making loans.
9. The KEYs to making this a REALITY are:
9.1 The Govt. making a POLICY decision that energy independence of the nation is not only an ECONOMIC ISSUE, but also a NATIONAL SECURITY issue that must be addressed NOW as a NATIONAL PRIORITY.
9.2 The Govt arranging for low-cost long-term (10-15 year) financing, partly subsidized by EQUIPMENT (PV panels, Mounting Frames, Inverters, Metering) manufacturers. The financing will be like a home mortgage.
9.3 CEB gearing up to go into DISTRIBUTED ENERGY GENERATION business. CEB will have to provide the energy metering (bothways...consumption & generation) and billing. If CEB cannot handle that efficient, it should establish the Connectivity Specifications and enter into Contractual Agreements with PRIVATE COMPANIES to Install, Maintain and even Manage the Govt Financing, and the NET PAYMENTS for the generated energy after the equipment & installation costs are paid off.
9.4 The Govt should move to attract PV panel manufacturers to set up manufacturing plants in Sri Lanka, using our high-quality silica minerals, employing our citizens, and giving prioritiy to filling Sri Lanka's PV panel demand before external sales, and giving significant discounts to Sri Lankan buyers, that will lower prices below imported PV panel prices. This can be achieved, in part, by the Govt guaranteeing the purchase of most of the output of these plants to the manufacturers.
9.5 A Govt sponsored PROGRAM to advertise and promote SOLAR ENERGY as a PATRIOTIC thing that each citizen can do to help the country.
Golden Eagle,
Yes, I am a graduate of E-Fac at Peradeniya in both ME and EE, 1966-1969 years (Student), and 1970 (Instructor & Student). I am still heavily involved in scientific and engineering work.
I would love to work with you on implementing good ideas that can help Sri Lanka grow economically & prosper.
while talking about energy
worth looking in to one before the last para, and give that tero a call
http://www.divaina.com/2009/05/24/politics01.html
We need to put our house in order first & foremost & I think treason charges should be followed to the letter .Powerful commission to look into activities of Mano & TNA traitors should take precedence and severe punishment should be meted out to prevent such acts in the future.
Is it not treason to ask India to pressure to SL to remove army from the NE.We need to come hard on this as security matters should not be discussed with foreign countries.GOSL should come out straight & simple telling HSZ is matter of paramount importance & is a PERMANENT fixture in the future.
Sam hit the nail on the head ,military is the country's insurance and should take precedence above all other matters and with further evidence of how IC tried to interfere in our affairs recently,we can survive only if we continue to show our mettle from this good begining and our best option is on a path very similar to israel,small but powerful and then and then only our future is secure. Our victory was assured only because we were having powerful heave artillery and how many doomsayers were there against it then.Hambantota & China have given us that extra leverage & we have enough importance internationally to remain in the orbit successfully contantly upgrading our military strength to remain on par.See Indian states still have people eating rats due to poverty but they now go to moon; other economic matters whatever shape is secondary to country's sovereignity.Military strength will remain our saviour.
Patriots!
Avadi Wanna! Avadi Wanna!
Deepthimath Yugayeki Uda Wela Thiyenne!
Sithanawata Wada Sonduru Vinodabara
Lokkeka Api Than Jeewath Wanne!
Blogger Suren said...
We need to put our house in order first & foremost & I think treason charges should be followed to the letter
Fully agree with you/sam on this my friend. if we say Sam is paranoid, then imagine.
you found the time travel formula, and just dialed 1960, and meet the great grand folks who runs the country and inform that someday some Malali fellows son going to build submarines and light aircrafts and run a mockery out of our country and we going to lose 20+ years of economy.
you will be sent to Angoda, if it was exist by then.
now,
imagine what lies ahead of us today ?
speaking of immediate future, our crack solders will come home, find lot of girls, and lose the crackness due to commitments and that is a concern too.
Ananda
I would like to work with you, but right now I am in college. Gotta finish that.
But you and I agree that we need to become more self sufficient in energy.
Right now the biggest problem for Sri Lanka is its budget deficit. To put it simply we are not producing enough stuff in this country and we import too much things. THIS CAN'T GO ON.
Already 23% of the annual budget goes to the military, I dunno how long we can keep that up before we end up like Pakistan(strong military but living on IMF handouts)
The main goal should be economic growth, the more the economy grows the more revenue the government will get. This will take a lot of financial pressure off the military budget.
Ananda you old fuk.
At least at this old age you ought to get laid.
6, 250 widows around. And 15, 000 odd frustrated nangies tied up to handicaps.
Pick and choose you perverted patriot.
Only 2, 500 rupees at Liberty Plaza.
Only a matter of time 'till we find a hand to mouth banda willing to leave a parcel on the bus.
Until then, hoot, hoot bandas. Don't forget the stopwatch.
GoldenEagle,
I am not talking about building a formidable military while forgetting our economy. Nobody sane would think like that. The economic development, diversification, and establishment of a military industry is a must. However, we should set our plan in that direction and keep working on the plan. I am confident that Lt. Colonel Gotabhaya Rajapakse and his elder brother Gaminiabhaya will do that service to the nation in the years to come. However, we need to push them as hard as we can.
Peter the TAMIL racist,
what if
1. "Hand to mouth Banda" says he will take it and inform the authorities
2. There are no parcels being made for the "Hand to mouth Banda" to take
3. SL pulls together and there will be less of "Hand to mouth Banda"'s
4. This really happened in the Biaspora country and old LTTE hands bit the hand that fed them.
Peter, future will be full of surprises - and you have no control over it.
Soon after discovering VP's body:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY7kpMiQWuw
Sam, Yes I do have bought many insurance policies?
How much did you insure your life for? $1,000,000 or $1,000,000,000?
If you go for the latter,unless you have a bottomless pit of cash, you will go broke paying premiums!
About salaries stimulating local economy?? So how does the government get money to pay the salaries, either the rest of the economy has to produce enough so that government has collected lot of taxes or foreign exchange. If best of the young is working for the army who's going to produce for country? Other obvious option is print money or borrow. Both of them practiced for long term is disastrous. Either inflation will go up or rupee will depreciate. I won't say any further..
Marksman,
I think your comparison of live insurance is not accurate. Without elaborating further, I suggest you to read a little bit about Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, and Switzerland. Compare the populations, their military sizes, and how they structure their military machine. Make no mistake, I am not talking about a Pakistan style system, I am talking about concurrent development of economy and military. For sure, we can't setup the magic formula in this blog. However, we should set our sight in that direction. Dream the impossible and make it come true.
Blogger Peter said...
Ananda you old fuk.
At least at this old age you ought to get laid.
ha ha ha ha
what is happening to soft spoken so called investment banking sinna punde ? craking up ?
Mutta-Kasi not coming your way anymore? or did you invest in Bank of Vanni ??
hahahahahahaha, hooooooooooo
16 figgin millions, wrapped like tosai, have you seen how our boys treating those money?, just like another evidence.
fuk (like you said), it was just another economy, kill more terrorists achieve more.
before you advise Ananda, this is what you ought to do.
Onndu, Rendu, moonu, kaiyala-adi
karuppan Kaiyala adi
Hey Peter Ponnadurai,
We missed your side comic appearance here for a few weeks. Where were you? I hope that Canada is allowing you to take your birth right back street dump these days. Anyway, keep us informed about how Thalaivar is doing these days.
Patriots,
Has any of you heard from the Nobel Prize, Peabody Award, and Pulitzer Prize winner Monkeypala Master? Yes, he is a solid patriot who didn't share a word when we finally sent Thalivar and stooges to the unmarked graves of Sri Lankan history.
You guys have probably seen this, but Marie Colvin in fine form yet again...the cow is moderating the comments.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6350563.ece?Submitted=true
Sam Perera
I hear ya. I heard Fonseka say that he wants to expand the army to 500,000. I think that is too much for the budget to handle. Already the financial aspect of the budget is strained into another demension.
I think we should invest more in HUMINT. Penerate the remaining LTTE organzation and destroy them from the inside. This is the most effective method as this war has proved.
We should Expand our special forces/commandos to 20,000. After all they were the most effective is shredding the LTTE cadres into mince meat. I prefer a smaller (150,000k) highly trained army with execellent HUMINT to deal with any up coming LTTE threats.
If we do actually plan to expand the army to 500,000...... then let's use some of them to build infrastructure like roads/expressways/railways in the north to link it better to the rest of the country and houses for the IDPs.
The only thing I want to see expanded is the navy, we need to build bigger ships for the navy to patrol our seas to prevent another LTTE like threat from rising.
GoldenEagle,
Yes, I am talking about improving our SF, CR, SI, MI, Navy etc etc. We need to introduce new divisions trained and equipped to combat in mountainous terrains. These soldiers should be in the reserve, i.e. they do another job and get called regularly for active duty in rotations. If needed we have that 500,000 ready to be mobilized. As for navy, we need to start building our own OPVs and destroyers. We need to think through the plan really hard.
No_MESS said...
URGENT!
Matthew Russell Lee of Inner City Press is in Sri Lanka as a reporter covering the UN Secretary General’s visit. I cannot understand why the SLG allowed him in, after all the anti Sri Lankan stories he wrote in the past. See my next post for details.
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The people who issue visas to these journalists must be getting paid off by the Journalist or the LTTE. Most likely LTTE. Otherwise there is no reason for some one like this to get in to the country.
Some one should inform this to the MoD. We need to monitor the journalists. These fuck**s are during so much damage to our nation.
Ban-Ki-Moon says
"I have traveled around the world and visited similar places, but this is by far the most appalling scenes I have seen," Ban told CNN. "I sympathize fully with all of the displaced persons."
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Is CNN lying or is Ban totally nuts. Has this fucker visited other war zones? Has he visited When they hit Iraq? This should be nothing compared to what American fire power did to Iraq.
TNadu monkeys offer Rs.25 million for the IDP's, on behalf of whom these guys were willing to starve to death...!
My modest house in SL is worth more than that.
Ladies and Gentleman, life as an undercover agent is not easy. I took many days living among terrorists and sympatizers in order to discover answer to the question which the Govt of SL has entrusted me in finding.
Question: Why does international tigers not accept that Vezapilai is dead? After many meetings with their operatives pretending a range of characters like journelists, diplomats to beggars and even having dinner with David Goo-pala and a phone call to KP, following is the answer I found.
Answer: The reason that LTTE and diaspora believes that Prabha lives is because Prabha did not inform he is dead. They're so accustomed to get orders from Suriya Thevan and blindly follow them. Awaiting Suriya Thevan to publish his own death I ran insane. Reporting from my asylum.
Ladies and Gentleman, life as an undercover agent is not easy. I took many days living among terrorists and sympatizers in order to discover answer to the question which the Govt of SL has entrusted me in finding.
Question: Why does international tigers not accept that Vezapilai is dead?
After many meetings with their operatives pretending a range of characters like journelists, diplomats to beggars and even having dinner with David Goo-pala and a phone call to KP, following is the answer I found.
Answer: The reason that LTTE and diaspora believes that Prabha lives is because Prabha did not inform he is dead. They're so accustomed to get orders from Suriya Thevan and blindly follow them. Awaiting Suriya Thevan to publish his own death I ran insane.
Reporting from my asylum.
GoldenEagle,
We need to think beyond LTTE and Eelamturds in planning our military. We need to think of other global threats against us.
Guys,
its good to see you guys still here,chatting about development projesct for our country.I would like to point a few facts regarding that.
1.Discussing mass development projects here is pointless as no one will see it.
2.Its after all the SL government.So you cant expect them to implement these huge energy projeccts and all that.
3.Action is needeed to make the leaders start these things.
thanks.
Sam Perera
Believe it or not, the age of nations invading nations and occupying it forever for wealth and resoruces is coming to an end.
This is because the world realised that more wealth can be created by trading than conquering.
India will not invade Lanka for many reasons. Some these you and I already know.
On military matters... I prefer a smaller better trained, better armed, better armoured and highly mobile army.
I agree with you that wee need to build OPVs and other large ships for the navy.
Most of the current military budget goes to salaries for soldiers and pensions for retired and disable soldiers. Now juts imagine the financial impass we face with a potential 500,000 army. Its not sustainable in the long term, unless.......
..we hire new soldiers based on contracts that are only a few years long. That way we won't be burdened by a pension bill for 500,000 soldiers in the future.
MayilRavana මයිල් රාවන said...
[SARA bro,
I really like some of your ideas (esp, Satellites and need to remain vigilant).
Have you joined Ananda's Patriot Blog?]
MR Bro. Yes I have. Thanks.
Golden Eagle said...
[ I think that is too much for the budget to handle. Already the financial aspect of the budget is strained into another demension. ]
I, together with Sam Perera and many others, have argued here for a 500,000 man SLDF backed up by a 3,000,000 man National Guard consisting of every able bodied adult citizen of Sri Lanka to defend and protect Sri Lanka for centuries to come. The INTENT is DETERRENCE. The best Self Defence Force is one that deters enemies from even contemplating aggression; it is not SOLELY one that defeats them.
Service in the armed forces of Sri Lanka should become a standard and routine DUTY of EVERY CITIZEN. If you are between the ages of 18 and 60 you must serve, NO EXCEPTIONS.
Many have opposed this idea on the basis of COST. First, the GREATEST COST is being UNPREPARED to DEFEND the country. The COST of our unpreparedness over the last 30 years, in lives, treasure and lost opportunities, is INCALCULABLE. Make no mistake, the EELAM war was NOT ABOUT GAINING EQUAL RIGHTS FOR TAMILS, but about the GREEDY being tempted to snatch the candy from a baby that could not hand onto it.
Properly organized and oriented, such an LARGE DEFENSE ESTABLISHMENT can be used for national development activities, part of their time, to offset it cost, and to embed a permanent Gauardian of Sri Lanka's independence in the very bowels of our society; something that no foreign invader can EXCISE from it.
The national development work can be in construction and maintenance of reservoirs, canals, power stations, bridges, military r&d and manufacturing (as in Israel), military ordnance testing, training merchant marine, installing ocean wave power facilities, wind power farms, naval construction, etc geared for both the domestic and export markets.
Much has been discussed and written at DW on this topic, by myself and others. I suggest that those who are interested in these topics again, to delve into the DW archives and review that body of work, and then add new ideas. Otherwise, we will be repeating things that have already been ploughed deep into the ground.
Golden Eagle said..
[ Believe it or not, the age of nations invading nations and occupying it forever for wealth and resoruces is coming to an end. ]
You don't have to invade and occupy to destroy a country. All that you have to do is to invade, destroy & degrade the NATIONAL UNIFYING FORCES, setup and pit different sub-national groups within the country against each other on some PRETEXT, make each of them DEPENDENT on you for survival, and VIOLA! you got CONTROL over the resources! Occupation on the ground is not needed, once you have established CONTROL. CONTROL is equivalent to OWNERSHIP.
Examples:
1. EELAM in Sri Lanka
2. USA, UK in Iraq
3. EU (Germany, UK)/USA in former YUGOSLAVIA
Ananda
Sounds good, but how are we going to pay for what you suggest?
Golden Eagle said...
[ On military matters... I prefer a smaller better trained, better armed, better armoured and highly mobile army. ]
High-tech, armour heavy, small armies are only good against conventional armies. For example, US Army Vs. Iraqi Army.
However, such armies are totally inadequate to hold and suppress asymmteric warfare by guerilla armies. The US Army learned that in Iraq. Ge. Shinseki, the US Army Chief of Staff, opposed Donald Rumsfeld small high tech Army of Invasion for Iraq. He wanted 350,000 troops. But, Rumsfeld was on a crusade to "streamline" the US Army and reduce costs and wanted to prove that point in Iraq. He fired Gen. Shinseki forcing him into retirement and implemented his own idea; the result was the post-war debacle of complete breakdown of law and order in Iraq, the extension of the war by 4 years, 5,000 US troops dead, about 500 UK troops dead, 70,000 US troops wounded (14:1 ratio), over 1,000,000 dead and wounded Iraqi civilians.
To occupy a country, and stop the emergence of a guerilla force, you need lots of BOOTS ON THE GROUND. The lack of sufficient troops, to protect the rear areas, and man the frontlines without holes, was among the main reasons why the SLA failed in the past, but with sufficient troops we succeeded brilliantly in the current Wanni Operation. Gen. Fonseka was creating deploying NEW DIVISIONS even after Kilinochchi had fallen. He wants to have 300,000 troops inthe SLA ALONE. With SLN and SLDF, we can easily arrive at the 500,000 that I advocate. The MOD currently has the same projections...and that is ABOSOLUTELY right.
Do you really think we have only the LTTE to woory abut? Think again, my friend, that is the TIP OF THE ICEBERG. Sri Lanka is a globally STRATEGIC location. THe friendships of countries change with the weather, only their own NATIONAL INTERESTS are permanent.
As our foolishness of the recent past in having only a largely ceremonial army to bust strikes at best, believing in the MYTH that we have NO ENEMIES, was a FOOLS DREAM. We dare not fall into that sedated state again. Today's friends can be tomorrow's enemies. We have to LOOK TO OUR DEFENCES, so that no matter who changes from friend to enemy, THEY WILL NOT BE ABLE TO DO ANYTHING to destroy our country, to dictate to us our country's laws, and how we govern it.
We have been RE-TAUGHT A VERY GOOD LESSON in the last 30 years: GUNS MUST COME BEFORE BUTTER, or we will have neither the GUNS, nor the BUTTER.
This LESSON is the SAME that punctuates the chapters of our national history; that we tend to forget again and again. PLEASE, let us not forget that lesson AGAIN, freshly carved with axe and knife into our minds NOW.
A SATELLITE LAUNCH CENTER IN SRI LANKA
There is a very good reason why SL’s position, very close to the equator, makes it ideal for such a venture. Let me give some simple definitions before I explain:
Orbital Plane: This is the plane passing through the path taken by a satellite in space. Imagine a large plane sheet of paper held straight in space so that it passes through all the points that the satellite passes through in space. That is the orbital plane.
This plane always passes through the center of the Earth.
Equatorial Plane: Again imagine a large sheet of paper held straight in space so that all the points on the Equator are on it. That is the Equatorial Plane.
Another way is to imagine the Earth to be like an orange and cutting it in to two equal halves at the equator using a huge flat knife. The flat knife in this case is in the Equatorial Plane. Sri Lanka and Korou lie very close to this plane.
Orbital Inclination: The angle between the equatorial plane and the orbital plane. Bend a sheet of paper at the middle and you have two planes inclined at each other. Imagine one to be the Equatorial Plane and the other to be the Orbital Plane.
A geosynchronous orbit should have an inclination of 0 deg, because that is the only way a stellite can remain above a single fixed point above the equator while orbiting.
Any satellite launched from a point with Latitude of L degrees inevitably has an orbital inclination of L degrees. Thus any satellite launched from Kennedy Space Center has an orbital inclination of about 25 deg while in the case of Kirinda it would be around 5 degrees, very close to the required 0 degrees.
It is possible to change the inclination of a satellite while in orbit but this requires a huge amount of fuel if the angle change is as large as 25 deg. and is not practical. This is why Sri Lanka is considered to be uniquely positioned for this purpose.
Here is Fake Prabaharan's photo...visit..
http://champika-nirosh.blogspot.com/2009/05/prabakaran-is-not-dead.html
Here is the Fake Sri Lankan state TV broadcast
Visit:
http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?rn=3906861&cl=13541802&ch=4226714&src=news
Peter,
Do you denigrate your parents because they are old also? Is age the only basis for assessing the value of an individual?
This is why your EELAM went down the tubes; no ethics, no morals, only greed, abuse and violence against people.
When you have accomplished something of substance, and have some of value to say, I would like to talk to you. Until, then you can get LOST!
Patriots,
Very soon the vanni mercy ship will be near SL. We need to handle this very carefully or it will be a public relations disaster or something worse.
Ship has previous SLMM goons and has satellite and internet facilities. They were video taping the whole loading operation in England.
The ship will be chocfull of video equipment transmitting real time video.
What ever time GOSL decided to intercept this and do what ever it does, it need to think before hand. If any personnel get on board - it may be a trap - they need to be very careful of what they do and what they say.
Also, if ever the cargo is allowed in to SL, GOSL should go through this cargo very carefully - with a fine comb for arms and racial disharmony literature.
I heard - but cannot vouch for the information that Farah ship that ran aground in Vanni had layers of weapons covered with food. If that was the case - this may be another LTTE ploy to get in cadres and arms in to SL again.
Pass your thoughts and idea's to higher authorities - do not post on the blog.
GoldenEagle said...
[ Ananda
Sounds good, but how are we going to pay for what you suggest?]
Read my previous post, and dig through DW archives for details on how to support a large SLDF by using their services for national development, Military R&D, and Military manufacturing.
Where is the FAKE DEAD BODY of POTTU AMMAN?? Still searching all over VANNI....
WHAT a BRAVE SOLDIERS!!
WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND
Poor Baby, Hilarious Clinton says "We are being out-communicated!"
ExpressBuzz.com, IANS, Washington
May 21, 2009
[ The United States is losing the propaganda war in Pakistan and Afghanistan, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has told lawmakers saying it was something that must be reversed.
"We are being out-communicated by the Taliban and Al Qaeda. That is absolutely unacceptable," she told the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee Wednesday.
Militants broadcasting from radio equipment on the backs of pickup trucks are threatening and intimidating people and spreading what she called "a steady diet of the worst kind of disinformation".
Admitting that the extremists have been more effective than the US when it comes to strategic communications, she said the Obama administration is revamping its communications strategy - looking at new ways to directly reach people in areas where militants are active - including on their cell phones.
The US must not lose the "information war" in the region, and do a much better job at communicating its values and ideals to Afghans and Pakistanis.
Clinton is seeking $48.6 billion in State Department funding for 2010, a seven percent increase over 2009 funding levels. The State Department will work side-by-side with the Defence Department to promote US interests and security in the region, she said. ]
Another Fake video who is this...
Visit
http://www.tubetamil.com/view_video.php?viewkey=508c014bfd88baaaefbb
Patriots,
When this vanni ship reaches Sri Lanka - while it keeps SLDF occupied will there be something else going on in SL, especially northern or eastern seas?
Are there any left over LTTE trying to escape or any new LTTE trying to come in?
Vezapillai Prabakaran said...
Patriots,
When this vanni ship reaches Sri Lanka - while it keeps SLDF occupied will there be something else going on in SL, especially northern or eastern seas?
Are there any left over LTTE trying to escape or any new LTTE trying to come in?
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This ship is all about propaganda. It is unlikely to have anything except food and other stuff that is necessary for Civilians.
There is no need to make it an international incident. Government should take it to port of Colombo, receive the goods and then deliver the good among the Tamil People, if there are any useful stuff.
Arresting e.t.c. should make it an international incident, which is what these guys are hoping for.
Best thing is to stop this ship entering SL waters. If we cannot do that, we should allow it to proceed to SL waters, put our best faces and escort to Colombo port.
One excuse we can give is swine flu. We should say, that some of them have symptoms of Swine flu and we need to take them to the Port and make sure that they are not carrying it. Get some bogus test result and quarantine them and send them back. We can later on say the tests were contaminated, please forgive for the inconvenience.
Folks,
Did you see the CNN interview with Ban ki-moon.
CNN ask the questions and then read the answers. Ban ki moon agrees.
Monkeymoongen unbiased reports balaporoththu wenna epa. Americawata puka dena eka egollange jathika kreedawa (A true Korean)
An Epilogue is written for any entity that no longer exists, or at the end of a saga, a story, etc.
In 1987 western media wrote the epilogue for Sri Lanka as a nation. It is an article which gives an insight into who we Sri lankans are as a poeple; unconquerable in spirit, undivided through harsh learning and unyielding under pressure.
http://srilankan-news.blogspot.com/
Wll the military dig up graves to find Poddu amman and Wife? Does anyone know?
this was posted at Ellalan Force:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY7kpMiQWuw
All I can make out is:
"kawda oluwata gahuwe?"
" api gahuwe"
"oka banna"
"oka baninawa baara wenne yana ewunta"
"hari mminiheknam mokatada bara wenne"
and before That:
"ooka banna"
"kawuda banne?"
"ooka"
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then at the end :
"Prbha!", "Prabho!!"
(laughter)
This is a good article.
http://www.thesundayleader.lk/20090524/realities.htm
The Tamil diaspora is in complete disarray at the moment. All they could do right now is to harass the minority Sinhalese in foreign countries and hope for a backlash in Colombo. With the war over, Tamils living abroad will in all probability be returning to Sri Lanka. With this in mind the Tamil diaspora will come out with something new to keep the heat on and justify their existence abroad.
It maybe true that there is a renewed fear psychosis among Tamils that they will continue to be targets. More so in the backdrop of a military victory.
The fear psychosis will continue for sometime. The security forces will have to nip it in the bud if there is any form of harassment of the Tamils. There were criminal elements who exploited the war situation and were responsible for abductions, kidnapping etc. for ransom. There were several ex-security forces personnel who figured in killings, abductions etc., for their personal gain.
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I am of the same opinion. I have mentioned this few times. Is the GOSL paying enough attention to the possibility of communal riots purposely provoked by Tamil Diasspora or criminal elements?
I think this should be one of the most important issues we have to look at with issues such as political solutions, NGOs, Journalists, War crimes charges, National Building.
Ananda Bro and the rest,
Regarding solar and wind power for SL does anyone have the latest cost per kW of these? Unless we know the economics of it we cannot say that it is viable.
I have these costs but they are for about 18 months back and are from the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency). These were acquired by me when the Gulf Cooperation Council (Middle East)was considering Nuclear Power as an option. I was in the team studyng this.
As per the data I have Photovoltaics are more expensive than nuclear kW to kW basis. Windpower is about half that.
[Nisal said..
Soon after discovering VP's body:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY7kpMiQWuw
Nisal,
An interesting video and the conversation. This somehow differs with Ogre's version of events put up here before.
Could that be that even the soldiers did not know the whole story of his boidy being there?
Interesting indeed. But one thing is sure, i.e VP is dead. That's what matters.
Last attempt made by west and LTTE supporters around the world to save terrorist's life..... Shocking tale...
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6350563.ece
Golden Eagle,
Ananda_USA is just a parrot with no brain. He will not listen to reason but force his coco mania ideas as splendid strategies to others.
Most of the time the fellow is brain dead; that is why he is a copy paste mater!
Do not take him seriously, no body does.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6350563.ece
A Tamil who was in a group that managed to escape the killing zone described what happened. This source, who later spoke to an aid worker, said Nadesan and Puleedevan walked towards Sri Lankan army lines with a white flag in a group of about a dozen men and women. He said the army started firing machineguns at them.
Nadesan’s wife, a Sinhalese, yelled in Sinhala at the soldiers: “He is trying to surrender and you are shooting him.” She was also shot down.
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If this story is true (let me reiterate that SLA would never kill innocent civilians) it shows a very good example of equality without any raced base preferences, when being fired at by SLA. :)
Nilambare,
It's a sound edited vedio clip. Don't take it serious.
Sara,
Mate, you seem to be a very junior engineer trying to learn A, B, C of power generation and transmission. You also sounded like working for CEB in renewable source section.
My advice to you “DO NOT TRY TO REINVENT THE WHEEL” . There are thousands of excellent engineering brains working on energy issues and solutions. I am one of them. My last advice to you is – keep learning!
Thusitha,
According to BRITISH news agencies, LTTE network is still active and collecting funds as its international leaders have ordered.
Blogger U know Who! said...
Sara,
Mate, you seem to be a very junior engineer trying to learn A, B, C of power generation and transmission.
If you are a Snr Engineer as you claim, that is not the way to encourage jnr fellow.
If he is a jnr, the words should be, "you should like that guy who built Lakshapana, and we see a great future in you" etc
You certainly have different motive here though we cannot smell Talatel or see any pulli.
why dont you take a walk ?, and don't look back.
Thusitha, a very good point and an observation! No race-based treatments.
Asanka, on the fund raising point, I saw on Puligal that funds colection had stopped after May 1; mainly I pressume they have not got a 'place' to send the money , no Eelam Bank anymore.
I'll tell you what! Those who held on to these millions (in transit) will vanish without any trace. They will have the last laugh I can tell you. The happiest group left I reckon.
Patriots,
Defence Minister Gothabhaya Rajapaksa said in Video:
From Mavil Aru to Now:
6,280 Killed in Action
29,551 Wounded in Action
2,556 Totally Disabled
2,276 In Hospital Now
THIS IS THE TRUE PRICE OF OUR FREEDOM!
6,280 + ! that is a bloody huge number.
this is MOSTLY due to shortsighted HOMOSEXUALS who took the country to a surrender by the name ceasefire.
tiger casualties should be aroung 18,000.
this puts that legendary "70,000" number to 95,000+.
we should train FROM NOW ONWARDS how to reduce OWN casualties and maximising enemy casualties.
my thoughts are with their family members. we are talking about 25,000 relatives here.
as Ananda said, this is the price of freedom. we should remind this to our politicos, IF they try to do BULLSHIT with the peace won with blood and lives.
if FEDERAL motherfcukers want ANYTHING, sacrifice 6,280+ federal idiots and then talk. until then their BS will not be tolerated.
fallen heroes family members MUST be given preference in higher education, government jobs, etc. where they have qualitifed to perform the tasks therein. this should be the bare minimum the govt should do.
sam & phantom-x,
great work.
sam has surely made an impression.
max,
no worries, mate.
SARA said...
[ Unless we know the economics of it we cannot say that it is viable. ]
Sara,
You said ONE of the most important things mentioned so far in this debate on energy options: What is the cost?
But, the Cost/KW installed is not the correct criterion to use to decide on the correct energy option. That is a measure only of the capital cost of equipment. Instead, all of the following factors must be considered in comparing energy options:
1. Capital cost
2. Fuel costs (zero for wind/solar)
3. Operating & maintenance costs
4. Financing Costs including Inflation
5. Price of competing energy sources
6. Operating period
7. Equipment Salvage, Disposal and End-of-life Replacement costs
The way that is usually done is by considering the Full Life Cycle Costs incurred by each option over the operating life of the installation, discounted to the present time, to arrive at a Net Present Value of the Project cost, and the Net Present Value of a UNIT OF ENERGY in KWh.
In the USA, on a per unit of energy basis, Natural Gas Thermal, and Wind energy plants now have the lowest per unit energy costs, with Coal fired, Nuclear and PV solar plants coming next, followed by and Oil-fired Thermal plants in the last place. The CAPITAL cost is highest for Nuclear and lowest for gas-fired Thermal plants. Wind energy and PV capital costs are high, but this is offset by the zero fuel cost.
The economies of SCALE and availability of resources (e.g., Land) in the USA will be very different from Sri Lanka; so Sri Lanka specific cost analyses must be done.
However, purely ECONOMIC analyses do not take into account the difficult-to-cost subjective values assigned differently by different countries to NATURAL SECURITY, PUBLIC ACCEPTANCE, LAND USE, ENVIRONMENTAL COSTS etc.
gutikewa,
thanks heaps.
this is great news.
i don't agree with 500k (my number is 350k and this is 1 of 3 major ongoing disagreements i have with Ananda). but other desicions are 100% in line with what we discussed here and emailed to MOD.
thanks again guti.
Ananda-USA said...
Patriots,
Defence Minister Gothabhaya Rajapaksa said in Video:
From Mavil Aru to Now:
6,280 Killed in Action
29,551 Wounded in Action
2,556 Totally Disabled
2,276 In Hospital Now
THIS IS THE TRUE PRICE OF OUR FREEDOM!
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We can put, the totally disabled in to the dead category. This means our total death toll should rise to around 10,000.
I believe, we paid a hefty price because of the diASSpora pressure in the last stages of the war. We should always remember these diASSPora MFs in kind in future and pay back when ever we get a chance.
There is something wrong in this equation. I believe Israel manage to kill 5 Palestinians for every 1 Israelis. How can 12% of a population screw the rest of the people in a such a way. This shows how badly the majority got fucked by the minority. I don't think their is any other majority in the world who had to suffer from a Minority in such a way.
People like Premadhasa, Ranil are directly responsible for our army deaths. They are the sub humans who destroyed our country for cheap political gains.
I hope the 29,000 wounded would get back to normalcy after a certain period of time.
We should try to get the totally disabled soldiers in to IT type of roles where they would be able to work much easily. Therefore we should try to put lot of effort in developing our IT industry.
Moshe,
I don't know who 'we' are that you refer to. I know that I emailed to MOD/SLA the 500k figure in MY OWN WRITE UP. I didn't participate in any other email forwarded jointly with any others.
I would like you to remind me what the other two disagreements you have with me are; I have forgotten them. :)
Moshe,
There was a report that the LTTE dead since Mavil Aru to May 18th are 24,000+ . Since then, more bodies have been found.
Today, MOD website reported that 10,000 LTTE cadres are in custody.
Hey Peter pan,
how nice of you to pop your head or should i say tail in here...
should have known it's you from the stink....
by the way...
can i borrow the "Mission Accomplished" banner from ya...
It's ...well not like you gonna ever need it,are you?
my dear chappy..
[ Ananda-USA said...
Patriots,
Defence Minister Gothabhaya Rajapaksa said in Video:
From Mavil Aru to Now:
6,280 Killed in Action
29,551 Wounded in Action
2,556 Totally Disabled
2,276 In Hospital Now
THIS IS THE TRUE PRICE OF OUR FREEDOM!
May 24, 2009 2:16 PM ]
CORRECTION: 6,260 Killed in Action (not 6,280).
Ananda-USA said...
Moshe,
There was a report that the LTTE dead since Mavil Aru to May 18th are 24,000+ . Since then, more bodies have been found.
Today, MOD website reported that 10,000 LTTE cadres are in custody.
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10,000 LTTE cadres in Custody? What a waste of space. Also what happen to the cyanide capsule policy. Have they run out? As patriots, the least we can do is to provide the pussy army with their urgent needs.
How funny, my word verification for the current post is: WYLOST. This must be mean for our Peter Pan.
DefenceWire,
We still have many battles to fight.
I have a short plan to silence the diaspora and make sure they never try to recreate the LTTE are restart the war.
1. We must make them believe that VP and all other leaders surrendered, pleaded for their lives and were killed. This will stop Diaspora from thinking of them as martyrs and try to fight in their memory.
2. We must release intelligence informations saying KP planned all this and he is on our side. This will stop them from giving money to KP. All of KP's henchmen collecting money will look like they are doing it for themselves.
That we must do urgently to stop all this nonsense like the Westminster protest which even had several people yesterday when I drove past.
War on the ground is over but war elsewhere has started. So DefenceWire and all patriots please think and act immediately.
LokuBanda-UK said...
[We must make them believe that VP and all other leaders surrendered, pleaded for their lives and were killed. ]
If we do this, we will ADD FUEL to the "war crimes" FIRE and cause additional trouble for the GOSL.
WE SHOULD NOT DO ANY SUCH THING!.
Ananda
There are ways of doing this without making this official. We can post news in Tamil newspapers, TV and radio we have in SL.
Yesterday they had a big burial thing in Westminster. All the people were there like their birthday they have in November. I fear they will glorify the dead as martyrs.
I think it is important to make sure no one ever buys into what these guys fought for. Especially the younger generation. War crimes can't do anything to SL. You know if US wants to hammer us it will do with whatever excuse. If it doesn't it won't. So we don't need to worry about it that much.
This is the best time to address the political solution. Majority people are ready listen president. Extremist voices are feeble now. If we fails then we won't see the paradise Srilanka. It may like Isreal or we might remain same. Both are not good. Tamils and Sinhalese should feel and live together with mutual respect. Then only the victory becomes complete and sustainable.
wait and see what will happen in future?
"The real value of a conflict is the debt that it creates. You control the debt, you control the conflict"
From the movie 'The International' - Clive Owen, Naomi Watts.
So, in Sri Lanka's conflict, who controlled the debt? US ? UK? UN?
Maybe that's gives us an answer to why these superpowers didn't want our conflict to end......
Where is the Pottu Amman's Dead body?Still searching?
Fake video is a link to a page on the AFP NEWS WEB.
Refugees tell tales of horror.
Refugees describe piles of faeces, knee-high, after the toilets overflowed and people were forced to relieve themselves on ….
At least seven bodies are scattered outside…
People sheltering …. say they have been robbed of their humanity
"I don't treat my dog like that," 47-year-old …….said as he pointed at a woman who lay dead in her wheelchair outside….
"We pee on the floor. We are like animals," 25-year-old …. cradling her three-week-old son
There were two reports of rape, one involving a child…..
"We got dead bodies sitting next to us for days. I feel like I am going to die. People are going to kill you for water,"
"This is a national emergency. This is a national disgrace,"
This is where they were told to come, but the authorities were woefully unprepared for the arrival of such numbers, who include the very young, the very old, and the very infirm.
PLEASE READ THE REPORT BEFORE YOU COMMENT..
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Ananda-usa:
Best thing is confusion. There wont be any memorials as long as the confusion exists. BTW, rumor is that KP is going to release a video showing velu. His face will be covered for security reasons.
Also, there are 2000 well trained LTTE fighters escaped to east and they are with pottu as we speak. :)
No_Mess,
Matthew Russell Lee of Inner City Press is an LTTE payrolled scumbag whose living come from terrorist money.
There are hundreds of scumbags who live in this world who has no morals whatsoever.
The f&cker would never go and write against Israel or Russia, as he knows that it would shorten his scummy acts and breathing.
We do not do such things. Therefore, they take terrorist money and write whatever to demonize Sri Lanka.
Similarly, BBC Sinhala and Tamil services, Editor of Boston Globe, Jeremy of Telegraph UK, Ravi Nessman and AFP make living. This world is not short of scummies!
Maskman and Golden Eagle,
"What we need is now to use full energy of the country to improve the production of goods and services. Armed forces doesn't produce any goods nor any exportable service.
On military matters... I prefer a smaller better trained, better armed, better armoured and highly mobile army."
You two have brought up very excellent points which some "defense enthusiasts" don't appear to understand. Defending against an external threat is very different from fighting an insurgency, even a conventional force like the former LTTE.
External actors, unlike insurgencies will not try to occupy territory as you pointed out. It is simply too expensive and not worth the effort. Instead they will attempt to influence Sri Lanka using a variety of economic, diplomatic, and non-army military means (ie airpower and seapower).
For an island like Sri Lanka, to maintain its sovereignty, **Sri Lanka will require the capability to defeat an amphibious assault spearheaded by a great-power carrier task force.**
The SLAF and SLN will naturally require higher priority than the SLA for this kind of threat. That will disappoint fans of Shavindra and Prasanna who had cut their teeth finishing off the LTTE, but militaries must adapt to face different threats.
That is where Schizo Sam and Proud to Be An American Ananda go wrong. 500,000-man SLDF and 3,000,000 home guards (originally it was 4,000,000) will not be able to stop a first-class air force from bombing Kandy or a navy from blockading Colombo.
What the "defense enthusiasts" don't quite grasp is that navies and air forces unlike armies require a lot of $$ and technical know-how to build and maintain. They require strong economies- but you will not be able to build the economy by sinking all the resources into an oversized SLA not tailored to face an external threat.
Schizo Sam is talking about building our own destroyers at the same time as building up the SLA (not mentioning where we will get the money, or the great difficulties that powers like India and China have had in building their own warships). What he appears not to understand is that navies in the 21st century require local air superiority to survive. That is why between the SLAF and the SLN, the development of the SLAF necessarily requires precedence, although it must acquire a naval aviation orientation to defend SL from an attack from the sea.
The SLN does not require ships larger than OPVs. Surface fleets consisting of large capital warships are increasingly becoming a liability in today's world- they are easily targeted and incapacitated. The SLN should think small with heavy firepower, taking the Israeli Navy's cue. Instead of wasting money on destroyers, the SLN should focus on navy-killing assets such as sea mines, anti-submarine warfare, and anti-ship missiles.
The SLA should be the final line of defense, and it should be a small but highly-trained force. With the LTTE in its current state, the primary task of counterinsurgency should fall on the Sri Lanka Police Service and the police should expand as the SLA downsizes (given that there is no longer a conventional enemy to fight).
NOLTTE=Peace,
The good news is, the SLG did not extend his visa. He went back with the UN Secretary General, but not before writing another nasty story!
2009-05-23 SLBC "Subharthi" discussion with General Sarath Fonseka - Link (1/5).
2009-05-24 President Speech at Felicitation ceromony at Dalada Maligawa - Link.
BREAKING NEWS!!!!
LTTE admits VP is dead.
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