These days, talking about Sri Lanka means talking about the Sri Lankan military, its elite politicians and diplomats and…oh yes…The UN. Are we trying to single-out the UN or the “West” here? Not really. The UN is singling its own self out. In fact, the UN looks more ridiculous now than it did when it allowed the Tutsis to be killed in 1994. If you want proof, read the news items in the world press about ‘leaked’ UN reports where the dead Tamil civilians increased from 6,000 to 20,000 almost overnight. In another report, 13,130 civilians had ‘disappeared’ after arriving in the camps.
The UN, certain “Western Governments” and the pro-LTTE Tamil Diaspora are all saying, pretty much the same thing these days. They just cannot accept the fact that Sri Lanka, comprising of all ethnic groups, have prevailed over racist separatism. But this is a simplified way of looking at things.
The United Nations is primarily a tool to police developing countries—to keep them in line with the “West”. It seems that the morally righteous “West” is trying to make the rest of the world tag its line. There is no evidence to prove otherwise. The UN has a track record of selective interventions. The reasons for not intervening, for example in Rwanda, were because President Bill Clinton thought it inappropriate. So we know very clearly who is behind the current UN ‘actions’ against Sri Lanka.
An intervention by the UN in Rwanda was ‘inappropriate’ in 1994 because the UN, backed by the USA were humiliated in Somalia just before the Rwandan genocide started. The use of the word genocide was forbidden in the description of the violence in Rwanda. What in the world did the failed Somali excursion of the USA have to do with those poor Tutsis? Why were they punished by the same International Community who now screams genocide at the Sri Lankan state for wiping out the LTTE? The question on every Sri Lankan’s mind today is why did they all jump in to save the LTTE when they themselves opposed it and when the entire country of Sri Lanka and the rest of the free thinking world (even Communist China) wanted otherwise? What does China’s naval domination in south Asia, Iran’s generosity and Libya’s friendliness to Lanka have to do with Sri Lanka’s right to decide its national security?
The same groups running the UN from the "Western world" today allow a section of the Tamil Diaspora looters the free and undisturbed use of the word “Genocide” to describe the massacre of terrorists in Sri Lanka. How are these two things similar? Where were the Milibands, Kouchners and Clintons when Tutsi’s were massacred in the thousands for 3 months until the Interahamwe gave up on its own, tired? In fact, UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros Ghali refused to even visit Rwanda after the genocide. He was taken, almost by force to a Rwandan church to witness the horror with his own eyes. All he did even then was lie to the survivors that the UN wanted to help those dead Tutsis. Perhaps a Tutsi should have held Navi Pillai’s current position. Then that job would have made some sense.
Now that was a real genocide. Compared to that, what have the Sri Lankan Tamils faced? Large numbers of Tutsi’s were systematically removed from educational institutions in Rwanda. Even the most brilliant ones weren’t spared. In Sri Lanka, Tamil university students come to Colombo and help run the LTTE networks while surviving on government scholarships. Giving birth to a Tutsi child was a crime before and even after 1994. The birth of a Tutsi child was a closely guarded secret. The Tutsi mothers never saw the inside of the local hospital during that entire ordeal. In Sri Lanka, you walk to any hospital, even those in the south; you will see hundreds of ‘minorities’ obtaining free treatment.
No UN documents ‘leaked’ to the press about Rwanda back then. Why do they ‘leak’ now? How and why do these ‘leaks’ occur in the absence of evidence when actual facts about the Rwandan genocide could have been ‘leaked’ handsomely both before and after April 1994?
But the biggest question in our mind is that why do the Diaspora Tamils sitting comfortably abroad perpetuate such hatred when they themselves have nothing to lose or gain from continued violence in the name of separatism? The latest claim was for a Tamil Homeland. Why do Sri Lankan Tamils take this so seriously? Why do Tamils in South India, South Africa, Malaysia (including Prabhakaran’s father and Chelvanayaham), Singapore etc are demanding that the SRI LANKAN TAMILS MUST FIGHT FOR A TAMIL HOMELAND? Why don’t they do it themselves? WHY ONLY THE SRI LANKAN TAMILS, THE POOREST TAMILS ON EARTH, HAVE TO DIE IN THEIR THOUSANDS? Why can’t the Sri Lankan Tamils say NO. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! TO HELL WITH YOUR HATRED! IT HAS BROUGHT US ONLY MISERY AND SHAME. WE CHOOSE TO LIVE, PROSPER AND COEXIST WITH THE SINHALESE. WE HAVE FINALLY EARNED THAT RIGHT!!!
If you look very closely, you will realize that the Tamil Homeland concept seems to be driven by a group of greedy Tamil elites more than lower class Tamils. The latter plays the subservient role of trooper, suicide bomber and child soldier while the rest live in luxury abroad and perpetuate the hatred. But mark these words. The day moderate Tamils start raising their heads AGAIN isn’t far away. This is all thanks to whom? Who else but the Sinhalese of course! The days of the Tamil racist is numbered in Sri Lanka.
dA
Thursday, June 4, 2009
UN on Sri Lanka: A Comedy of Errors
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Ambassador of India Gopinathan Achamkulangare of India, responding yesterday (4.6.2009) to the remarks on Sri Lanka included in the statement of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Ms. Navi Pillay
Full transcript of the Ambassador's statement:
Thank you, Mr. President,
Mr. President, we thank the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Ms Navanethan Pillay for her statement this afternoon that provides useful updates on human rights themes and on situations of particular concern.
We wish to raise a matter of some concern to our delegation with regard to the remarks made by the High Commissioner on Sri Lanka and the recently concluded special session in her statement.
The High Commissioner has welcomed the special session and consequently, we consider it safe to assume that she also accepts its concomitant outcome. The High Commissioner and her office would be fully aware of the discussions and negotiations on the different elements of the outcome, and on the positions adopted by different member states and groupings on these elements.
It is important to recall and reaffirm that the outcome of the special session reflects an inter-governmental decision, adopted according to the rules of procedure of the council. What is more, it endorses the joint communiqu‚ issued at the end of the recent visit to Sri Lanka by the UN secretary General, which among other things, reaffirms the willingness of the government of Sri Lanka to address the issue of accountability in response to the concerns expressed by the UN Secretary General in this regard.
We feel that in these circumstances, it will be prudent to adhere to the outcome of the special session and be sensitive to the concerns expressed already, rather than take a position on contested proposals or controversial issues and ideas, which did not find eventual acceptance in the outcome of the special session.
It would be extremely unfortunate, if the inter-governmental decisions adopted by the human rights council, were to be ignored or set aside, and the High Commissioner and/or her office were to misinterpret them or willfully neglect them, or supersede them according to their convenience or in accordance with the agenda of some states, or unrepresentative or unaccountable organizations, or to pursue their own agenda.
In this regard, we would like to remind all concerned, that the independence of the High Commissioner cannot be presumed to exceed that of the UN Secretary General.
Thank you, Mr. President.
Ninja,
Yes, Peelamoids should be given a chance to come to terms with the fact that
(1)Sgt. MuthuBanda of SL Army Special Forces sent a bullet through Thalaivar's micro size brain.
(2)Remains of Thalivar was flushed to an unknown cesspit similar to the birth place of Peelamists.
(3)Peelamists are not in a position to challenge moda bandas anymore.
Until then, racist Peter should be allowed to perform his famous monkey dance as it wishes.
When the U.S. invaded Iraq, with the full cooperation of the U.K., many civilians were killed. As have been killed in Afghanistan. Not to mention abuses at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay.
Perhaps the specter of a developing nation conquering terrorism is galling to us in the developed world, knowing Osama Bin Laden has eluded our best efforts to capture him.
We seem to suffer from Empty Nest Syndrome. We need to accept that our former colonies have grown up - and can now stand for themselves.
Link.
Different tunes, need to watch both.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEgGiw5oDbU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPjgpCqAtPg
Western So Called Democracies, Aid Agencies (NGO and INGO) & other War & Peace Mongers Exposed:
In a series of stunning speeches by Professor Rajiva Wijesinha criticized hypocrisies, double standards and anti-Sri Lanka policies of Europeans at UNHRC.
UNHRC Video.
Thava Eliyathambi who is famous among Canadian Tamils as an open sympathizer of the LTTE and as a person that worshipped Prabakaran daily was gifted a shopping complex from North Finch. The name of the business is North Finch Shopping Center.
LTTE bought several houses from Colombo and a medical center from Cinnamon Gardens via Eliyathambi. He was also eying a business of wind powered electricity generation in Sri Lanka.
LTTE associates reject giving assets to KP.
Tiger ship Captain Ali was named as a tribute to Ranil Wickremasinghe [Captain of the Ali] by LTTE. He, like the ship, tried to support the LTTE with logistics during his time. And when ceased of power he became a propaganda and controversy machine [like the ship does now].
Sniper said...
Western So Called Democracies, Aid Agencies (NGO and INGO) & other War & Peace Mongers Exposed:
In a series of stunning speeches by Professor Rajiva Wijesinha criticized hypocrisies, double standards and anti-Sri Lanka policies of Europeans at UNHRC.
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Yeah,
He and Rohitha Bogollagama are to of the greatest assets to Sri Lanka.
Sam,
We have a list of Jathiye Pahara Ballo list. But what about creating one for great sons of Sri Lanka and start adding peoples names who are doing a great work for Sri Lanka.
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wijayapala,
“Here's the catch- how will Mahinda justify this growth in the long run *without a credible threat*??? Since you insist on comparing the current govt with the LTTE (which to a certain extent is valid), didn't you argue that the LTTE derived some legitimacy from the Tamils in that it was the only force which could protect them from the SLA??”
You are right that he won’t be able to justify it in the long run (unless he creates a new threat), and that people will object. My point is that, if and when they do object, they’ll have a much tougher fight because of this war, if the military sides with the govt as it presumably would.
Your tongue-in-cheek remark about “expatriate defence enthusiasts” reveals an important point – Mahinda is not at all beholden to expatriates. So why, then, is he increasing the size of the defence forces, if it is bound to be electorally unpopular (diverting resources from health/education)??? I can think of only one of 3 reasons: a) He has no choice – he has been bullied into it by Fonseka and co b) He thinks the military might help preserve his own power, by force if necessary, or c) He is a grade-A dumbass. Probably a bit of all three.
“If the SLA was out of the equation, there would be no CFA because the LTTE openly stated that the basis of the CFA was the "parity of forces" between the govt and the LTTE. The LTTE could have taken ***the entire island*** without the SLA to stand in the way!!! Brilliant reasoning, RT!”
When I talked about the SLA being out of the equation, I meant essentially cleared from the theatres of conflict in the N-E. I did not mean non-existent. I should have clarified this.
The ultimate aim of its leadership was simply to have authoritarian control over the N-E. I have never heard any evidence that they had any designs on controlling the South. Certainly, they should not have been able to (I would have had no problem with the SLDF maintaining an adequate deterrence presence on its borders).
“You did not answer my question at all- what is this "principled political movement" that you're talking about???? I asked whether it belonged to the same category as Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy because I have not ever come across it.”
I’ve never had much time for the “there is no alternative” argument. I think that if you think you’re forced to choose between two devils, then you should start your own alternative.
There are parties in SL who support the things that I believe in, such as the SEP, and the New Left Front. They are small, yes (though this hasn’t stopped their members being attacked and killed by the govt and the LTTE) - the same could be said of almost any political organisation at some stage in its lifespan. But at least I am doing my bit to support an ideal which I believe in, instead of supporting people I actually know to be unprincipled, lacking in vision, hoping that they’ll suddenly change. And if I did opportunistically support someone like Mahinda, I’d know I bear some culpability for his victims especially the victims who think like me, but actually had the balls to stand up for what they believe in.
wijayapala,
(cont)
“The Nov 05 election is probably the best case to demolish your notion that the Tamils could have stood up to the LTTE.”
The Nov 05 election simply shows that they could not stand up to the LTTE using the ballot box – which is not surprising, given the LTTE is a non-democratic entity.
I cannot honestly answer how long it would have taken for a successful rebellion to materialise. But nor could I (or you) have predicted how long it would have taken for a military victory, or how many lives it would cost (we still don’t know, and may never know). You might take it for granted that a military solution was always going to be quicker and more painless than a rebellion from within, but there is no proof for this. Maybe if things had gone my way, it would’ve taken longer for the LTTE to disappear, but with fewer casualties.
But more important than numbers guesswork – a grass roots revolt from below, because it is democratic in essence (unlike a military invasion by an outside force), would have led to a more peaceful post-conflict scenario, in place of the rubbish we are now stuck with. 200 000+ people stuck in camps, after years spent in total misery. Do you think these people will ever be able to feel comfortable as Sri Lankans.
“You haven't explained why the govt did not revoke the CFA until Jan 2008- why even Mahinda kept the farce going for one and a half years.”
To make it seem like he was interested in a peaceful resolution.
“The CFA actually began to unravel much earlier when the LTTE presented the ISGA in Nov 2003, prompting Chandrika to retrieve some portfolios and leading to the dismissal of parliament the following year. It was really at that point that the CFA lost credibility in the South, and by default the political leaders who backed the CFA also lost credibility as well. Your belief that the CFA held credibility in the south until 2005 is utterly baseless.”
If the CFA had totally lost credibility after 2003, the election in Nov 2005 wouldn’t have been so close. If the Sinhalese in the South were so overwhelmingly incensed by the prospect of ISGA, and the way the CFA was being handled, Mahinda would have won in a landslide. As it was, he won by a whisker, and would probably have lost if the Tamils had voted. Even if it had lost support, the majority of the country still seemed to want to maintain a ceasefire.
“Fascinating that you don't think that Karuna splitting from the LTTE was the far more fundamental blow to the CFA, which had taken the LTTE's monolithic facade as one of its fundamental bases.”
It was a blow to the LTTE, but why was it a blow to the CFA? I’d have had no problem with the govt offering sanctuary to Karuna and his supporters (and preferably then handing him over to a war crimes tribunal). What jeopardised the CFA, though, was the SLA using Karuna as a proxy for fighting the LTTE. As I said earlier, this was qualitatively distinct from the LTTE’s CFA breaches (forced child recruitment, and killing dissidents) because it for the first time put systematically combatants in the firing line.
wijayapala,
(cont)
“Karuna revealed that the LTTE had been preparing for war during the length of the CFA- and the extent of child recruitment which you callously brush off as inconsequential to Southern politics (wrong!) proves this.”
I don’t consider Karuna a credible source, under the circumstances. The statistics on child recruitment show that, far from the LTTE recruiting “thousands” of children each year (as you’d claimed), they’d recruited about 1000 each year between 2002 and 2007 – but that by 2007, they were holding only about 300 children (compared to Karuna’s 400), and that recruitment levels were actually falling . If the LTTE was preparing so aggressively for war, they would not have been decommissioning child soldiers as late as 2007, and recruitment rates would not have fallen.
You’ll recall, however, that this discussion did not start off about child recruitment as evidence of the LTTE’s war crimes, but rather a comparison of child soldiers in the LTTE and Karuna group. You asked me how many children the Karuna group holds. The fact is, as of the 2007 statistics, according to the UNHCR, the GOSL-backed Karuna group had more children than the LTTE (this is some 3 years after he started to get govt patronage). Not people recruited as children, but actual children, aged under 18 – the LTTE had about 300, Karuna group 400.
Can you show how child recruitment ever played an important role in Southern politics, aside from as cynical propaganda that warmongers used, alongside standard communalist fare (the same people who couldn’t care less about Tamil children, who were happy to bomb them into smithereens a month ago, and are quite happy to see them wilt away in the camps now)? ?
“You clearly don't have a solid understanding of the role that LTTE leadership has played- as demonstrated by the current Eelamoids inability to revive the iyakkam. The LTTE lost its two key military leaders- Shankar and Balraj- after most of its victories in the 1990s. Their loss (along with Karuna's) goes a long way to explain why the LTTE did not do as well in recent fighting.”
Yes, and soaring recruitment and doubling the defence budget had nothing at all to do with it.
“1) The most important thing the govt should have done was disbanding the SLA, since the Tamils would have no reason to fear the govt and therefore would hold the LTTE more accountable. It would be acceptable for the LTTE to become the dominant power in the island as a result of disbanding the SLA, since the Tamils would hold the LTTE in line.”
Dismantling of the SLA from as much of the N-E as was necessary to achieve a lasting peace, not disbanding the SLA. To reiterate what I said earlier, I think it is only conspiracy theorists who say the LTTE has housed designs on the whole of SL. Far too unmanageable.
“2) Before disbanding, the SLA should have hunted down Karuna, taking casualties in the process, to hand him over to the LTTE for execution.”
No, they just should never have used Karuna as a proxy to attack the LTTE and thus scuttle the CFA.
wijayapala,
(cont)
“3) Child recruitment by the LTTE is acceptable because it didn't have a direct impact on the South. Absolutely not worth protesting. It should be left to the Tamils themselves to stop the LTTE from taking their children away from them, whether or not they have the means to do so.”
Can you please show me where I ever said, or suggested, that “child recruitment is acceptable”??? I said that child recruitment is not enough to justify a return war. If you think that it is, then you have a lot of wars around the globe to fight, my friend.
“4) Unspecified "progressive forces" would arise from the absence of the SLA and the LTTE's child recruitment, and the LTTE would presumably be delighted to see these forces come as a challenge. THe LTTE would engage these progressive forces in civilized debates out of fear of antagonizing the Tamils, and certainly would not knock them off as it has always done in the past.”
What makes you so befuddled by the notion that people can fight back and win?
According to your earlier theories, it should be relatively easy – just one bullet to the head of Prabhakaran, and the LTTE collapses like a pack of cards!
The Tamils wouldn’t even necessarily be left to their own devices. An end to the war would allow progressives to rise in the South as well (as the communalists would be rendered impotent by the absence of any fight), and they could link up with the like-minded in the N-E, as they had in decades past. An end to conflict might also make divisions within LTTE ranks more likely to surface. You have already noted the myth of the monolithic LTTE.
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NAXLITES FOLLOWING IN LTTE's FOOTSTEPS into EXTORTION BUSINESS!
[ Naxalism: A multi-crore extortion business now
ExpressBuzz.com
June 7, 2009
RANCHI: Naxalism, which started off as a people's movement, has now become a nearly Rs 1500 crore organised extortion business in the form of 'levy', police and central security officials said.
CPI (Maoist) and especially its splinter groups, which extort the money hardly pump it back for running the movement but instead use it to maintain luxurious life-styles for their masters, the officials said.
The Naxal literature and documents seized by central security agencies and state police forces during their operations have revealed intricate details of "levy" extorted by groups which run in several hundred crores every year.
The 'levy' is not only paid by the contractors working in the areas dominated by the Naxals but also by the industrial houses including some of the nationally reputed ones, the officials said.
Though, CPI (Maoist) still remains the prominent Naxal group in Jharkhand, there are other splinter groups which too have now started imposing 'levy' besides indulging in kidnapping, looting and narcotics trade, which results in around Rs 300 crore as annual income from the state.
If a conservative estimate is taken of the income generated from 'levy' in the seven most Naxal-infested states -- Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh, Orissa, Bihar, West Bengal and Maharashtra -- security agencies feel the collection from these areas, which are commonly referred to as 'red corridor', amount to nearly Rs 1,500 crore. ]
Ananda,
There is something very wrong with your hours on DW.
Either USA has been planted owing to a complexity, or your wife simply isn't performing anymore. Which one?
Finally, a vacancy for Asithri:
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1903076,00.html
Online video tutorial for people facing media interviews. Less than 5 minutes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXSM0eE70uc
EU elections results to appear later today, and the number of seats for each EU country is shown here; nice interactive display:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/elections/euro/09/flash/html/eu.stm
Patriots,
May be Peter can help his Racist LTTE manage its properties?? Petorrr, Petorrr, where areeee youooo? Ahoyeeeeeee!!
Looks like LTTE investments are having some ownership issues.
Where is Navi Hitler Pillai when we need her???
EU is going decidedly conservative.
Looks like terror supporters will get their asses roasted once the real people, and not the lesbo-gay twistees rule those countries.
@ Pandula,
There is a high probability that SNS will come to politics, probably not from UPFA, but UN-Pee.
It's glad to hear that the governing body in SL to All NGO/INGO's has changed to Internal Defence Ministry. And they are going to monitor each.
GREAT DECISION
It Should be Internal affairs Ministry
/There is a high probability that SNS will come to politics, probably not from UPFA, but UN-Pee./
I am not law expert like SNS but I can't understand WTF he says.
/Chief Justice Sarath Nanda Silva said that although there were Tamil Tiger courts in Kilinochchi and Mullaithivu, they had respected Sri Lanka’s courts./
This seems like a contradiction to me.
/LTTE respected our courts; they did not fire a single shot at our courts -CJ/ (LeN)
If they respected how come LTTE leader didn't surender to his court to get 200 years imprisment?
Ninja
Mark my words SNS being close to some people in Kandy I know he will bat for UNP.
Ninja thinks
CHIEF JUSTICE of SRILANKA is biased and he is on LTTE PAYROLL
What a joke,there is a limit even for telling a lie
JAYAWEWA
Chena boys from Bandastan are pissing all over eelamistan today.
So what happened to the supreme eelamistani seththupochchi army that was led by special commanders and self-styled brigadiers?
Extinct.
ENDGAME. I told you so.
Ninja,
SNS seems to be hallucinating. No Sri Lankan court system existed properly in LTTE controlled areas. He could have tasted how LTTE respected courts if somebody tried to prosecute a LTTE member. In addition, court system of Sri Lanka is an integral part of Sri Lanka which needs law enforcement system (police) to function. Otherwise, it can just issue all judgments which will translate to nothing. There was no police and hence no courts. LTTE disrespecting one part of the governmental system is equivalent to disrespecting the entire country. SNS is just hallucinating or trying to get some Tamil votes just like UNP in the next election if he goes along with UNP. However, he can not gain any political clout among the majority by talking nonsense like this.
Ninja,
Other thing is that courts had no rights to accept a thing from LTTE. LTTE was not a recognized part of law enforcement system in Sri Lanka. Therefore, LTTE can't produce anything meaningful to courts. SNS has got his neurons short circuited.
Patriots,
CJ Sarath Silva was not some one you wanted to follow, when it came to personal ethics. This persons, private life was a mess.
Considering how perverse was LTTE's buying of people - when even Army officers were on their payroll till SF started cleaning it up- I would not be surprised if Sarath Silva was on LTTE's payroll or was beholden to a western master like Norway.
Anyway, Sarath Silva's last few statements as CJ is stupid and degenerating to the office he holds.
He may help the Nazi Pillai in her SS tactics.
//....
SL ASSHOLE said...
Ninja thinks
CHIEF JUSTICE of SRILANKA is biased and he is on LTTE PAYROLL
What a joke,there is a limit even for telling a lie
JAYAWEWA
....//
slpower said...
@ Pandula,
There is a high probability that SNS will come to politics, probably not from UPFA, but UN-Pee.
slpower,
yes...he is going to enter in to politics...The surprise would be that he will be announced as the common opposition candidate for the Presidential Election!!!.
This plan is being carried out by Mangala et al. The recent announcement of Ranil not competing for presidentials and asking for the PM post in turn is part of this plan. Imagine having SNS as president and Ranil as PM!!!!
Nightmare isnt it!!! and this is what the peelamists are desperately trying and betting on these days ...
The recent announcements (hedging, oil price, 13 amendment, SLIC reversal etc.) by SNS are all to get him popular among people and specially minorities...and he is appearing on "The Buddhist" channel and slowly tapping in to the Sinhala Budhist voters as well...
all patriots should be on guard against this new conspiracy...
RT,
"My point is that, if and when they do object, they’ll have a much tougher fight because of this war, if the military sides with the govt as it presumably would."
Sri Lanka unlike the LTTE is a democracy (as I pointed out before), meaning that Mahinda will eventually have to face elections. The only way he can avoid elections is to jettison the constitution and democracy as a whole, and that will have much wider implications. In any case, Mahinda with his populist leanings will be highly unlikely to go down that route. He is no JR Jayawardene.
The litmus test will be Fonseka's retirement date later this year. If he retires, then he can go home a hero and we'll be ok. We'll be in trouble if he doesn't. Stay tuned.
"When I talked about the SLA being out of the equation, I meant essentially cleared from the theatres of conflict in the N-E. I did not mean non-existent."
Let's put aside the very obvious implication- you're basically saying that the govt should have handed over the entire N-E to the LTTE on a platter!! Funny that Balasingham never made this ingenious suggestion at the peace talks!!! LOL
Even in this utterly nonsensical outcome that you propose, the LTTE would always point to the SLA as a threat if the SLA remains intact anywhere in the island. Take a look at a map and you will see that the N-E is right adjacent to the rest of the island. It is not a colony thousands of miles away, nor is it even a separate island. It would make this excuse to continue recruiting child soldiers by the thousands.
"There are parties in SL who support the things that I believe in, such as the SEP, and the New Left Front."
Mahinda supported the annihilation of the LTTE, like I did. Now that the LTTE is gone I don't have any more reason to support him, unless he comes up with something new worth following.
"Maybe if things had gone my way, it would’ve taken longer for the LTTE to disappear, but with fewer casualties."
And maybe by dragging things out, more would have died. You also are not taking into account what the LTTE would do to stop your plans- remember the enemy gets a vote too. Once the LTTE finds a vulnerability it will most certainly exploit it. Why else did the LTTE use all those civilians as human shields?
Speculation at this point won't change anything, since we now have to look at the present and future.
//“You haven't explained why the govt did not revoke the CFA until Jan 2008- why even Mahinda kept the farce going for one and a half years.”//
"To make it seem like he was interested in a peaceful resolution."
And to whom would that make any difference at all, if not to the international community which I argued was propping up the CFA???
"If the CFA had totally lost credibility after 2003, the election in Nov 2005 wouldn’t have been so close."
There were more important factors, namely that the sitting President Chandrika and a large chunk of his own party were against Mahinda.
"What jeopardised the CFA, though, was the SLA using Karuna as a proxy for fighting the LTTE."
There is no evidence of that. All we know is that Karuna had safe haven in govt territory. Karuna certainly needed no prodding from the SLA to take revenge on the LTTE for murdering his partisans, including his brother Reggie.
"I don’t consider Karuna a credible source, under the circumstances."
It makes no difference- the UNHCR's numbers tally spot on with what he was saying.
"The statistics on child recruitment show that, far from the LTTE recruiting “thousands” of children each year (as you’d claimed), they’d recruited about 1000 each year between 2002 and 2007"
You're leaving out the part where the UNHCR admits that the figure is the low end- **that is because the figure represents only those REPORTED cases**.
I'm glad that you assigned a benchmark to "acceptable" child recruitment. The LTTE "only" recruited 1000 per year. They deserve a medal for cutting back.
"but that by 2007, they were holding only about 300 children (compared to Karuna’s 400), and that recruitment levels were actually falling."
The UNHCR actually had no way of counting how many child soldiers were in the north, and its numbers are certainly suspect given the numbers of child soldiers killed in the recent fighting.
"If the LTTE was preparing so aggressively for war, they would not have been decommissioning child soldiers as late as 2007, and recruitment rates would not have fallen."
If the LTTE was NOT preparing aggressively for war, there would have been no reason to recruit a minimum number of 1,000 children per year.
"Can you show how child recruitment ever played an important role in Southern politics,"
Uhh... that why would any party to a peace process recruit and expand its fighting forces???? Why the hell do you think that (useless) clause was in the CFA to begin with???
//You clearly don't have a solid understanding of the role that LTTE leadership has played- Their loss (along with Karuna's) goes a long way to explain why the LTTE did not do as well in recent fighting.”//
"Yes, and soaring recruitment and doubling the defence budget had nothing at all to do with it."
Recruitment soared only after the SLA began achieving victory- against an enemy which had lost 2 of its best military leaders.
"Can you please show me where I ever said, or suggested, that “child recruitment is acceptable”??? I said that child recruitment is not enough to justify a return war."
In other words, child recruitment is perfectly acceptable if trying to stop it will bring a return to war.
"What makes you so befuddled by the notion that people can fight back and win?"
Because that notion is ahistorical. Just ask the American Indians.
"According to your earlier theories, it should be relatively easy – just one bullet to the head of Prabhakaran, and the LTTE collapses like a pack of cards!"
LTTE had already taken care of that by 1) disarming the population under its control and 2) ensconcing Thalaivar in a deep underground bunker (why do you think the fat ass never got any exercise) and surrounding him with hundreds of guards. Did you really think that Prabakaran was "a man of the people"?????
"An end to the war would allow progressives to rise in the South as well (as the communalists would be rendered impotent by the absence of any fight),"
You might get that chance now that there is the absence of a fight.
"and they could link up with the like-minded in the N-E, as they had in decades past."
When did this happen?
"An end to conflict might also make divisions within LTTE ranks more likely to surface. You have already noted the myth of the monolithic LTTE."
That's actually pretty a good point- but I think that Karuna's case was exceptional in that 1) he was far from the Wanni and 2) he had been given more autonomy than the northern district commanders, who were more vulnerable to Prabakaran being able to play them off each other.
Folks,
I have criticized the Chief Justice (CJ) few times in these blogs. The reason was always his tendency to poking his hands in matters belonging to the other arms of the government, specially the Parliament.
I can understand that if a 'terrorist ass hole' suggesting that CJ was taking LTTE money. But I do not understand how Ninja suggesting such and others agreeing with him, considering how ridiculous the idea is.
Sarath N. Silva had many shortcomings. But sympathy towards LTTE is not one of them. Of course he was controversial. But there were many ground breaking judgments by him which frustrated the 'Elam' project with no end. If he did not screw the PTOMS, around a billion dollars would have ended up in LTTE hands after Tsunami and would have legitimized the LTTE as par with the Sri Lankan government. If this was being the case MR wouldn't have a country to fight for.
And he was the one who gave the judgment to separate North and East.
These were key judgments, by him which changed the course of Sri Lanka towards it's destiny and unfortunately many are unaware of these.
He was a controversial figure and was a package which includes the good and the bad both. But one thing for sure is he was patriotic to the core. Do not try to understand him on one comment made by him. One day he may be sympathetic towards the suffering Tamil civilians in the camps (I sympathize with them too) and on the next day he would make a comment rejecting the Police and the land power devolutions which a true patriot would agree with the both.
If there is any power devolution in the future we might miss him if the new CJ is not up to the task.
(I did not mention here about the trend he had created against large scale political corruptions and his judgments in this regard is unprecedented and will go a long way. But that would be another topic. The 'political column, in 'The Island, Sunday’ would shed some light on this)
It is not Sarath N. Silva we should be careful of but the likes of Minister Dilan Perera who were PTOMS babies.
Ninja,
Sorry. Didn't know that this 'ass hole' being making things up again.
"SL ASSHOLE said...
Ninja thinks
CHIEF JUSTICE of SRILANKA is biased and he is on LTTE PAYROLL"
re: CJ SNS
i have defended him MOST times. he like anyother has shortcomings. but he was a good CJ COMPARED to his predecessors.
he served in the times of 2 presidents and 4 prime ministers when legal matters were MOST crucial in this country.
some of the decisions he made were based on the strict interpretation of the law. it is not his fault. some of our laws are contradictory. CJ can only interprest them (and) give judgement based on those.
the parliament should fix the contradictions first.
courts under him could have done better especially re: CFA crap.
i don't think LTTE respected the courts system but it didn't go after it either. LTTE was much better than underworld thugs.
SNS will enter politics unless given another task by the govt.
re: the 3 MF doctors.
now we know who passed photos, etc. while the last stages of the war was going on.
they MUST be investigated.
mark my word, they stand to win some crap prize (not the nobel prize though????) bcos the prize givers LOVE this type of crap. TF it is good if we can eliminate them in a "natural"-like way. there are many options.
IF (IF) these MFs get some significant award, that will make their crap statements MORE appealing to some crooked western MFs.
urgent.
toiletnet is calling all TERRORISTS for action!!!
"It is time for all Eezham Tamil freedom fighters to realise that there is no credible alternative other than taking up the matter directly to the people concerned for a mandate to reaffirm the political fundamentals and to direct the course of action."
we should expect this BS and counter it EARLY.
in simple terms this means,
1. war again
2. call for a referendum IN NORTH EAST ONLY on tamil elam crap.
this referendum crap will come OVER AND OVER AGAIN. reason will prevail for now, but what about the future?????
this makes multiethnic colonisation of the north a FCUKING URGENT task.
leave NO ROOM for this POSSIBILITY.
if shit can happen, it WILL.
Bugger! Commie loving, terrorist supporting, limp wrist Gordon Brown and and his Labour goons have been whacked bad by decent Brit public. The Conservatives are the big winners in the EU elections. Bad news for LTTE supporters in UK.
Cheers!
Moshey
[re: the 3 MF doctors. now we know who passed photos, etc. while the last stages of the war was going on.]
Yes, these LTTE supporting Tamil racist whoredogs were concocting all kinds of civilian casualties, bombings of hospitals, etc. at the last stages - to save the Fat-Fuck's Black-Arse. These whoredogs must be prosecuted for aiding and abetting the LTTE (luckily, LTTE was banned by the GOSL as a terrorist org then!) and they must be sent to prison for a long time...like 10 yrs with hard-labor...the beauty of it is, by the time these motherfuckers get out (alive that is, LMSSAO!!!), IC would have forgotten all about the war in SL.
You fcuk with laws of Sri Lanka...well, then you must pay the price like any one else...no favoritism when it comes to the law of the land...simple as that.
OaO Asithri
Same goes for that British-citizen Tamil racist cunt who was a hardcore LTTEr, who was ostensibly doing "humanitarian medical services" in the NFZ (aka attending to the LTTE wounded, patching them up, and sending them back to the FDLs to fight the SLDF)...this cunt must be tried and send to prison for at least 15 years - with hard labor - for supporting terrorism in SL...who the fuck cares that she is a British citizen? Now when she gets out after 15 years (alive that is!), she will be so fluent in Sinhela and likely she would have had "union" of the sort and married a Sinhela in prison, likely producing a child too...that I think it is a moot point what she will say then...
ha ha ha...
Yes, the law of the land is equal to all...it must be applied equally to a Tamil racist whore-cunt as well as to a non Tamil racist whore-cunt.
:)) :)) :))
OaO Asithri
the first serious cricket match after winning the war and the first captained by sanga.
SL MUST win today.
bowling attack should start with murali or another spinner. second over should be malinga.
aussies are trying hard to keep wickets and get a DREAM start. that is where our spinners come handy. aussie openers CANNOT FACE our spinners. they are already under pressure.
1. put pressure from ball 1
2. due to pressure they will crumble at the top.
3. use the x-factor wisely.
good luck sanga & the boyz.
Well, you get the message don't you?
What I am saying is the same should go for the Australian-Tamil cocksuckers who got caught in the NFZ after having aided and abetted the LTTE.
These momma-fcukers too must be sent to prison for a looooooooong time and let's hope they don't get splashed with acid in prison by inmates ;-) (as retribution for LTTE whoredogs stabbing and splashing acid on two innocent Sinhela students in Sydney and blinding one permanently, done in sheer rage for LTTE being decimated by SLDF)...
Karma...strange how it has the ability to settle scores uh?
;-) ;-) ;-)
OaO Asithri
They even cut the tongue of TELO Kuttimani in the '80s and some even drank the blood dripping from it...damn it...Sri Lankan prison inmates have a tendency to misbehave now and then uh?...let's hope the "doctors" the "doctor's helper" and the "kangaroo-turds" are safe...kinda hard make guarantees you know...prisons don't come with "business class" and "economy class" you know...
Certainly, we live in a such cruel world...Buddhist temples have been attacked/vandalized/burnt, Sinhela restaurants have been vandalized/burnt, innocent Sinhela students have been stabbed and doused with acid...the list goes on...
And in "balancing the books"...
God knows "what other horrors have happened where" that one will never know uh? But rumor has it the "books are being balanced very well"...with hefty build up of equity...
Indeed, it is a cruel world we live in...
:(( :(( :((
OaO Asithri
Good news!
Jan Jananayagam the terrorist bitch looses the vote.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/elections/euro/09/html/ukregion_39.stm
Hemantha, Moshe,
I agree with you guys, CJ SNS has done many things very good for a united Sri Lanka.
I am taking back what I said before, that he may have been in the LTTE pay for the last statement he did on LTTE.
But, I do wish he does not state things to legitimize LTTE. We have DBSJ trying to do that.
What is wrong with our people. Do not they remember what these Racist LTTE did to SL.
Having said all of the above, I believe there will be a big effort from IC at the instigation of Nazi Pillai trying to do an inquiry.
I hope CJ will not become party to that - As what was done was a legitimate police effort done by a democratically elected Government to remove a terrorist organization threatening free country.
Guys, FYI.
I changed my handle from Vezapillai Prabakaran to Navi-Da-Tamil-Racist-Pillai to current iteration Navi-Nazi-Pillai
Booboo, That is in deed very good news. Hip.. hip... hooray for a United SRI LANKA.
//...
booboo said...
Good news!
Jan Jananayagam the terrorist bitch looses the vote.
...//
NNP,
good move.
we burried the carcass of vp long time ago.
booboo,
great news.
toilenet will now blame democracy!!
Thanks Moshe.
Guys, Is GSP+ handled by individual Governments or the EU?
Was reading King of Ealam, Da very racist Peters article (link posted by him few days ago on this blog) - may be we should diversify our exports very quickly.
May be make an extra effort to manufacture engineering products.
I do not see why we are even importing buses - when we used to make them at CTB. Rolling stocks and chassis may be needed. But could we at least make them, generate employment - export???
It is time to call it a day at this part of the world. Blog with you all later.
LTTE supporter Loses Election to EU Parliament as Independent Candidate from UK!
"Janani, the new Tamil icon"
By P K Balachandran
ExpressBuzz.com, Colombo
June 6, 2009
In the absence of the LTTE and its redoubtable leader, Velupillai Prabhakaran, the Sri Lankan Tamil Diaspora is looking for leaders and faces to to promote the idea of self-determination for their community in Sri Lanka.
The search has resulted in two leading young Sri Lankan Tamils coming to the fore. First to come to the limelight was Mathangi Maya Arulpragasam aka M.I.A (Missing in Action), the only Sri Lankan Tamil musician to be nominated for the Oscar and Grammy awards.
With the European Parliament going to the polls on June 4 emerged Janani (Jan) Jananayagam, a Jaffna-born business management and banking professional, an independent British candidate fighting for self-determination for Lankan Tamils. She also represents a multi-ethnic and anti-racist Britain.
In an interview to the BBC on February 3, Jan had said self determination was the only answer to the problems of Lankan Tamils and that they had no option but to take up the cudgels and fight for their rights on their own.
Justifying the armed struggle, the Tamil peoples’ right to take their own decisions, the existence of the LTTE and its refusal to lay down arms, Jan said: “I don’t think the UN, based on its record in Rwanda, has proved it can alone defend the Tamil people. The Tamil people are under threat and there is a party required to defend them.” Supporting Jan, M.I.A told Sky TV that Jan should be promoted because post-Prabhakaran, there was “no genuine representative of the Tamil people.” “Vote to Jan could save 300,000 [Tamil] people [in Sri Lanka],” M.I.A’s entry in Myspace and twitter read.
Folks
@ SNS: I pointed out few discrepancies in his last speech. Its that "ASS HOLE" who wrote 'what I think". I never thought SNS is under LTTE pay role. If that ASS HOLE is going to write what I am thinking this blog will become like playboy.
jan de silva is the new CJ.
he seems to be known to be very independant. more trouble for govt.s
SL's judiciary is taking back its due place.
"we need another Upali these days"
at least one.
sadly the govt of JRJ (after the open economy when opportunities are the most) did nothing to help him.
+ ken balendra
+ hussain esufally
etc.
Following article from a Canadian Institute talks about the next phase of LTTE after Sun God abandoned his fans (or fanatics) rather dramatically.
This man predicts more dark days for foreign Tamils (and us) if they continue to hold on to LTTE fantasies.
Should we be surprised that this man knows more about Sri Lanka than 95% of our Sri Lankan 'journalists'?
http://www.island.lk/2009/06/08/features12.html
What Next for the Tamil Tigers?
by John Thompson
...
(this is only the conclusion, go to link for the full article)
"It is fundamental component of human nature to over-compensate for a weak identity. Converts to a religion are often more zealous than those raised in it. Grandchildren who missed a trauma that defined their parents and grandparents are often far more militant in seeking retribution. Children of immigrants often romanticise the homeland culture they never knew.
The children of Tamil immigrants – utterly convinced that ‘Sri Lanka is a genocidal society bent on the subjugation of the Tamil people’ – are likely to be very militant in the expression of their identity for decades to come.
The only thing that might – and this is a remote possibility – defray this militancy could be detailed accounts of the true nature of the Tigers and their leader. Unfortunately, if such information comes from the Sri Lankan government, it is not likely to be believed. Still, conflicting information is the anodyne to propaganda, which the Tigers’ apparatus bombarded the Diaspora community for twenty years. However, as a propaganda system usually requires the subjects’ consent to be propagandised, success in counter-propaganda is really only possible on an individual case-by-case basis.
While the LTTE’s guerrilla force has been defeated and the founder of the movement killed, there are loose ends to the Tigers. All these loose ends —the global criminal mafia, the activist network, and the youths of the Diaspora itself – were once suborned to the Tigers but are now free to take on lives of their own. Sri Lanka’s civil war might be ended, and though its troubles are lessened, they are far from over. The countries that have played host to the Sri Lankan Tamil Diaspora have derived the usual benefits for receiving these new immigrants, but the full price for our negligence about the Tigers lurking among them has yet to be realised.
The Tamil community in Canada certainly does contain many brave people, and they have amply displayed talents for innovation and hard work. Unless a new anti-Tiger leadership miraculously emerges very soon, the Diaspora Tamils will not be truly free of the legacy of the Tigers and the Civil War for many years to come."
More from CJ according to this reliable news service, BBC Sinhala (proudly presented in broken English)
Sinhala heritage 'basis of demerger'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sinhala/news/story/2009/06/090607_cj_demerger.shtml
What is he talking about?
Nothing against the CJ, but there have been many powerful figures in the past who wanted to buy life insurance before their expiry date.
Problem with these learned gentlemen is that they may or may not actually mean the things they say.
It is pleasing to see the developments happening in SL immediately after the war. A umber of stations in the North are being developed and already the 'Yal Devi" has run beyond Vavuniya. After all, it is only three weeks or so after the war. If we can achieve that in such a short time, there will be bigger things to come.
SL is a very resilient country and should pick up very fast. Hope for the best.
Next tourism will up very fast and it will help foreign currency problem somewhat. We should also not underestimate the impact of SL diaspora returns and various kinds of investment that will flow through them.
Give a year or so, I'm sure we will se makered change in SL.
It is pleasing to see the developments happening in SL immediately after the war. A number of railway stations in the North are being developed and already the 'Yal Devi" has run beyond Vavuniya. After all, it is only three weeks or so after the war. If we can achieve that in such a short time, there will be bigger things to come.
SL is a very resilient country and should pick up very fast. Hope for the best.
Next tourism will pick up very fast and it will help foreign currency problem somewhat. We should also not underestimate the impact of SL diaspora returns and various kinds of investment that will flow through them.
Give a year or so, I'm sure we will se makered change in SL.
Algeria Slams Navi Pillai
peter is heavily traumatised & has been sedated after seeing pics of vesapillai's gory & torturous death. must have been a terrible shock to peelamists who thought their butt masters would save them. no such luck.
last seen peter was running around naked carrying a lion flag & shouting "peelam, peelam forever". in his sedated & confused state of mind he had confused the lion flag to a peelam pussy flag. ha ha ha!
Now PMS slut kannimoshi is planning to have sex with thondaman jr after the gory death of vesapillai. not much of a replacement. ha ha ha! thonda jr will tickle kanni's pussy with a tea leaf until she cums plain tea! ha ha ha!
vaiko & her fossil dad will die cumming if they see this PMS orgy. ha ha ha!
what is banned ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ypOwIg73XU&feature=rec-HM-fresh+div
Sri lanka ordered captain "ali baba and 13 theives" to leave the island without unloading its cargo.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090608/wl_sthasia_afp/srilankaunrestshipcivilians_20090608090420
Joseph Asoka N. De Silva appointed to the highest seat in the Judiciary of Sri Lanka.
One of the most important factor that considered for his apponitment is that..
Justice De Silva was appointed to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) as a permanent judge by the United Nations Secretary General, Kofi Annan in August 2004. Justice De Silva served the ICTR as one of the 16 permanent judges in the tribunal in Trial Chamber II.
Link.
This would give our Judicial system the much needed international recognition at this moment.
I think this is another great appointment by MR as he is considered as a very independent Justice.
Patriots,
Any idea of what happened to unaccounted TAF hardware like Robinson choppers and Zlin 143? Given the number of hardcore LTTE in custody, we should be able to piece the puzzles together quick. We also need to find what happened to that thing called a tunnel and submarines.
Most corrupted Labour MP’s got slap on the face when Tamils (asylum seekers in London) said they go for EU election…see what Tamils got there …they lost not only that ..now Labour MPs’s should understand what Tamils up to in London…just onl power…can tamils go after labour again…? These Moda Tamils never understand who they are! There are more than 200,000 Tamils live in London…now they must understand British people are not backing them..and in future Labour party (lamost finished) not with them
Well done by British public !
booboo said...
Good news!
Jan Jananayagam the terrorist bitch looses the vote.
More good news as another Sri Lankan won the EU parliament seat.
Mr. Niranjan Deva.
Niranjan Deva-Aditya is the first person in history to be born in one continent (Asia), to be elected to parliament in another continent (UK) and then elected to represent that country as a member of a multi-national Parliament (the European Parliament). He was the first non-white person to sit on the Conservative benches in the British House of Commons in the 20th century
He was born in 1948 in Sri Lanka to a Catholic family of Rajasthani Indian descent from Udaipur. He speaks Sinhalese and English, and is married to Indra - a French-speaking Mauritian, with one son.
In 2001 he was appointed Ambassador-at-Large by Letters Patent issued by the Sri Lankan Cabinet, and in 2006 he was awarded the title of “Vishwa Keerthi Sri Lanka Abhimani,” by the Buddhist clergy in recognition of his services to Sri Lanka..
Who writes these stories for AFP?
Sri Lanka grants amnesty to military deserters
"The amnesty announcement coincided with Boson, the celebration of the arrival of Buddhism in Sri Lanka more than 2,500 years ago."
Never heard of that celebration before.
Here's the caption to the photo:
"The pardon applied to deserters serving up to a year in jail after being convicted by a military court"
Here's the photo
The picture shows a Buddhist crowd at a temple.
What is the connection between Army deserters and Buddhists?
What is AFP saying here?
Isn't that the Ealamist big lie that killed 70,000 of my brothers and sisters?
Just who are these AFP 'journalists'?
"Very nice, how much?"
http://www.dailymirror.lk/DM_BLOG/Sections/frmNewsDetailView.aspx?ARTID=51243
Ananda,
I think your poem on marriage is THE type of post we should have in a defense blog because according to my personal experience, marriage is the biggest battle a man has to fight in his life.
Guys
Electorates inhabited by Diaspora like Leicester had done well in the European elections and that’s one reason for the governing party for their support of the terrorist lobby
Lol @ http://www.chnpress.com/news/?section=1&id=2127
Only the Bandastan Sovereign Fund would diversify into such gems.
I can't wait to holiday in Tehran.
Guys, we have just sent the Aussies packing from T20 WorldCup!
Hurray!
yaaaaah.... hoooooraah
We won the match.
--- Auseees go home-----
Pete
dont laugh too erly mate...
Bandas doing unconventional thing these days... results.. so far so good.
hey wat happend to GAP shares u bought to stop them buying our gurmets..... hooooooooh haaaa
and
Protests infront of M&S....to stop them investing in SL... heeee haaa
http://www.island.lk/2009/06/09/opinion2.html
tgg,
The purpose of this victory parade is not necessarily military. It was mainly to send a constant reminder that SL has defeated terrorists and hence it is a stable place for foreign investments. As I see, it is bit of advertising than any thing else .
Sara,
It is advisable to call given number to verify exact data provided by the Seva Vanitha before transferring funds.
/‘Stop-Genocide’ candidate secures record result, but misses London seat
[TamilNet, Monday, 08 June 2009, 02:49 GMT]
Ms. Jan Jananayagam, an independent candidate contesting the European Parliament elections in London, secured over 50,000 votes, an unprecedented result, and a record for an independent candidate in an EU election. Though Ms Jananayagam failed to secure a seat, her campaign team said they were delighted with the results. Despite having decided to contest only days before voter registration closed and four weeks before the polls, the Tamil candidate had amassed more votes than some well-established small parties in Britain, and more than twice all other independent candidates combined, they said./
HUK HUK HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Now I don't surprise if tamilnut the 100% non - punnakku news source says:
"peelaam war IV was a record victory - we were just out of fighters.
Mr. V. Priabaharan, our supreme commander and beloved leader (of, course, who is alive and well) managed to kill nearly 100,000 humans including 25,000 sinhalese and 75,000 tamils in our 30 years peelaam war, an unprecedented result, and a record for an any terrorist organization. Though Mr. Peiabaharan, was unable to keep control of at least one inch land, yet alone establishing peelaam, our diASSpora is delighted with his results. Despite being a grade 5 drop out, he fought the war for 30 years with much smarter singhalas (who are of course, the same moda singhala bandas) and hence this is a tremendous victory, tamil circles and triangles among diASSpora told tamilnut."
http://www.asiantribune.com/?q=node/18313
When ZIMBABWE cricket team is banned of playing cricket in england because of human right violence
SRILANKAN cricket team should be banned from playing cricket anywhere in the world because of continuing human right violence in SRILANKA
How can they play cricket so casually after killing thousands of their own people in the name of terrorism as though nothing has happened
HOPE DW WILL SHED SOME LIGHT/ARTICLE REGARDING THIS
We must start promoting Sri Lanka in local news papers and magazines in the west especially UK & USA to attract the tourists. We must start good fact base PR mechanism now. I do not think our embassies and temples are doing enough for the country. Cricket is doing fantastic job as we discuss. Also i hope this is the best time to encourage expats to invest money in Sri Lanka. Guys we must start this soon from this blog..now time has come to give something back to our nation.
SARA said...
[ Ananda,
I think your poem on marriage is THE type of post we should have in a defense blog because according to my personal experience, marriage is the biggest battle a man has to fight in his life.]
Ha! Ha! LoL!
Yup, if you can't win that battle, you can forget about winning anything else! Ultimately, it is the most important thing for a man to work on...a man's home should be his refuge, not his FDL!
Sam Perera said...
[ Patriots,
Any idea of what happened to unaccounted TAF hardware like Robinson choppers and Zlin 143? Given the number of hardcore LTTE in custody, we should be able to piece the puzzles together quick. We also need to find what happened to that thing called a tunnel and submarines.]
Hey Sam,
We should also identify the engineers and technicians who designed and built these things. My guess is that, being the artful dogers that they are, they avoided being involuntarily descended to hell on May 18th, and now are among the IDPs.
These guys are will be among the CORE of any group that will try to resurrect the LTTE. Also, they are very likely to be among those who know where the CACHES of ARMS and EQUIPMENT were HIDDEN.
They may also be willing to dump their allegiance to the LTTE at this point, if given alternative sand boxes to play in. Engineers and scientists never grow up from wanting to play with toys...I know that very well!
What do you think?
got info from a 75% credible source that some sakkili elements are letting IDPs go for 1,000,000 rupees each from the camps.
i'm sure terrorists would be the first to escape this way.
MoD should immediately look into this.
Swamy: cancel visas of LTTE propagandists
Special Correspondent
http://www.hindu.com/2009/06/09/stories/2009060955961000.htm
CHENNAI: The Union government should cancel the visas of Sri Lankan citizens who are campaigning against their government on Indian soil, Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy said here on Monday.
“Most of them are pro-LTTE propagandists,” he said. Sri Lankan citizens had no right to campaign against that country using Indian soil.
“If Indians campaign against the Indian government among foreigners abroad, we Indians will not tolerate it and, in fact, suspect foreign governments of planning to destabilise our country. Hence we cannot practise double standards in such delicate matters,” he said.
Sri Lanka was a democracy and a member of SAARC, and Sri Lankan citizens could speak out in Sri Lanka itself, he added.
/we MUST eliminate LTTE doctors ASAP using natural-like methods./
Even if they die naturally (perhaps due to dengu) HRW etc will say its GSL work!!!
BTW, some one said its LTTE work that fire in ammo dump in Jaffna..!!
lankaputhra,
I second what you say.
If there's anyone with good sense of investing, this is the time to start a new blog.
It's definitely time to take off our defence caps (for the laymen, not for the people in MOD)and put on our investing/entrepreneurial caps.
ninja,
it doesn't matter.
that WILL silence them for good in a method the UN, etc. would find NATURAL.
mark my word, these MFs will be a REAL ARSE-ACHE.
The population figures of the Mullattivue and Kilinochchi district as of 1981 and the present population of internally displaced Tamil people when compared gives one much reason to suspect that people from Tamil Nadu must have been settled in these two districts.
lt col amerasekera.
this is 100% true. i have given the link to census data and the calculation that shows the ASTRONOMICAL INCREASE a few weeks ago.
Ninja said...
[ Even if they die naturally (perhaps due to dengu) HRW etc will say its GSL work!!!]
Ah! Then the place for them is in the INTENSIVE CARE UNIT...insert the feeding, breathing and urinating tubes immediately? LoL!
Sniper, thanks for the post about that EU guy.
All going good
* some bitch losing EU
* a moderate guy wining
* Sanga's first win against the best
* as we closing June,first half of the year is really achieving
Take that wining feeling people !!
Hopefully Govt will give a bonus to our forces.
While I was watching t20 match I was thinking.
we have this world cup coming to SL and this is the best opportunity to show case post war era.
We must upgrade all stadiums to world class level, bring strict laws to maintain the city also change driving habits as well.
build a modern architectural show off.
also change the uniform of our police force.
Imagine, when the commentators going gaga about the change.
Ananda-USA,
"They may also be willing to dump their allegiance to the LTTE at this point, if given alternative sand boxes to play in. Engineers and scientists never grow up from wanting to play with toys...I know that very well!"
Hmm, it is a cool idea if we can harness their talent for our ship building. At minimum, we should identify who these guys are.
"The purpose of this victory parade is not necessarily military. It was mainly to send a constant reminder that SL has defeated terrorists and hence it is a stable place for foreign investments. As I see, it is bit of advertising than any thing else ."
It's not a great advertisement for investment to increase the size of the SLA while asking for an IMF loan at the same time.
The oil hedging fiasco is also going to send the wrong message.
"if anyone is affected by faggot thinking excuse me for my mossad thinking."
Unfortunately it seems as though it is Mushe himself who suffers from the "faggot thinking."
"ASS is against the TNA not bcos he OPTED to avoid it, but vezapillai gave the TNA leadership to someone else."
Once again, it is Mushe making the ASS out of himself. Anandasangaree was already known to be critical of the LTTE and thus had nothing to do with the formation of TNA- which was masterminded by D. Sivaram not the LTTE.
"The population figures of the Mullattivue and Kilinochchi district as of 1981 and the present population of internally displaced Tamil people when compared gives one much reason to suspect that people from Tamil Nadu must have been settled in these two districts."
Both Lt. Col. Amerasekera and Mushe are wrong.
The population of the Wanni jumped in 1983 after many estate Tamils fled there following Black July. The number further increased with migrants from Jaffna, some who were displaced in 1995 when the LTTE tried to move the entire population of Jaffna into the Wanni.
Charitable Sceptic,
""The amnesty announcement coincided with Boson, the celebration of the arrival of Buddhism in Sri Lanka more than 2,500 years ago."
"Never heard of that celebration before."
AFP messed up "Poson."
Charitable Sceptic,
"Sri Lanka needs a military not to fight and win over an invader, but to prevent hostiles from thinking about a fight in the first place."
The question remains the same- who would want to fight Sri Lanka, and what kind of fight would it be??
A 300,000-man SLA will have zero deterrence value against an enemy air force conducting a parippu drop or navy blockading Colombo or Trinco.
"We don't have to divert funds from development to have an army if we become smart about using the military."
The dumb, 3rd-World use of a military is for purposes other than defense- such as development. This is generally the case when the civil services are too ineffective/incompetent to be relied on.
First-class militaries spend their time preparing for war. Third-class militaries waste their time doing other things.
"Can you imagine any other group that doesn't go on strike at the drop of a hat?"
But there have been deserters, as you pointed out.
"Nearly all economic powers have a strong military industrial machinery that acts as the backbone for their economic activity."
Hardly. The US had virtually no standing army until WWI and WWII.
Malaysia, which has a longer military history going back through the colonial era, has a 90,000-man army for a population of 27 million, despite sharing land borders with two countries (Thailand and Indonesia). It has a very respectable PPP per capita of $14,000.
Could you explain how the Malaysian Army played a role in the country's economic development?
LankanWinOverAus
Pandula said...
we have this world cup coming to SL and this is the best opportunity to show case post war era.
We must upgrade all stadiums to world class level, bring strict laws to maintain the city also change driving habits as well.
build a modern architectural show off.
also change the uniform of our police force.
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Great Thinking. Time to get the payment hawkers out of the street and give them places in an organised set up. Pass laws that require the premises boardering highways to keep the exteriors painted and clean or otherwise Local Govt Body to clean/paint and recover the cost + penalty from the owners.
Study and copy city road maintainence methods of the western cities. Implement strict guidelines on sign boards. their sizes and colors. Built parking buildings and implement strict parking restrictions that hinder free flow of traffic. Regular mowing of lawns on roadsides and parks.
Not costly but can improve the beuty of the cities leaps and bounds.
Sri Lanka, as a cricket team and country, has gone through rough times in recent months. Today's game was their first international since the team survived the terror attacks in Lahore and their country recently witnessed the end of a bloody 26-year war.
They were reminded of that strife as they approached the venue, where 70 pro-Tamil supporters were holding a lawful protest outside the ground. Sangakkara, though, said that playing cricket was their focus and the team wouldn't bother about anything that was outside their control.
Three hours later, though, the scene outside Trent Bridge had changed remarkably. The protesters had dissipated and the only sounds emanating from outside the ground were deliriously happy Sri Lankan, and Irish, fans singing and drumming they way down Bridgford Road.
Cricinfo.
hak hak...
It looks like everything the peelamists touch nowadays turns in to Shit...
Therefore, I suggest we create another antonym phrase for "Midas Touch" called as "Peelam touch" (everything one touches turns to shit!!!).
hak hak hak....
noltte,
value your view.
in fact even i too will condemn it in PUBLIC. (ok, i know you whole hertedly condemn it).
but in my view, for the well being of the nation, we MUST do some stuff that are not quite humane.
ALL the countries faced with a threat to their existence have done it and doing it.
when prof pa de silva (???) suggested that we make guns and ammo, JRJ screamed at him, how dare you make such a suggestion, what kind of a buddhist are you!!!
if only JRJ appreciated this truth!
still appreciate your stand which IS the popular/majority view.
but i stand by my guns. (may be NOT mentionaing it would make it easier IF (IF) it were to be attempted)
to avoid what MIGHT be a "loud mouth blunder", deleted the comment.
NOT AT ALL bcos i don't believe in it!!!!
Ananda,
[We should also identify the engineers and technicians who designed and built these things. My guess is that, being the artful dogers that they are, they avoided being involuntarily descended to hell on May 18th, and now are among the IDPs.
These guys are will be among the CORE of any group that will try to resurrect the LTTE. Also, they are very likely to be among those who know where the CACHES of ARMS and EQUIPMENT were HIDDEN.
They may also be willing to dump their allegiance to the LTTE at this point, if given alternative sand boxes to play in. Engineers and scientists never grow up from wanting to play with toys...I know that very well!
What do you think?]
Are you member of the (IESL) Institution of Engineers Sri Lanka? If not I suggest that you join. Membership fees are only around Rs 5000 per annum.
With the kind of ideas you are putting forward it would be very useful if they are published in the monthly news letter, which carries many interesting articles.
For example your short comment above could be a very useful one there and some body may pick it up and act on it.
"Sri Lanka turns back Mercy ship
[TamilNet, Monday, 08 June 2009, 23:07 GMT]"
well done!
the best way would have been to unload the cargo, not the idiots, though.
Charitable Sceptic,
"Sri Lanka needs a military not to fight and win over an invader, but to prevent hostiles from thinking about a fight in the first place."
You are right on money. Unlike some anti Sri Lankan Eelamist pundits here, yours is the kind of forward looking thinking we need. This fake pundit, brings up Malaysia as his example while conveniently forgetting it's tiny neighbor Singapore who is under the threat of it's gigantic neighbor Malaysia. The population of Singapore is about 5 Million and it has about 75,000 active duty armed force with a 300,000 reserve force. Quite remarkably per capita income of Singapore is $39,000. You may want to look at Switzerland, South Korea, and Taiwan etc as other great examples who have decent size armed forces and splendid economies. I believe that time we listened to our own enemies about the size of military is over. You may want to ask why these nefarious elements are so keen on reducing the size of our forces.
Success come to those who dream the impossible and make it come true. Looser says, may be is is possible but it is difficult. lets give it up. Winner says, may be it is difficult but it is possible, lets figure out a way to do it. That is what our current defence establishment led by President, Secretary of Defence, commanders, and foot soldiers achieved recently defying monkey thinking.
I would rather embrace British SAS motto "Who Dares Wins" than listening to disoriented monkeys.
Ananda & sara,
there is another benefit.
we have to ascertain WHAT MADE THEM do it that way/why chose the methods they chosed/why excluded other methods????
understandng of the REASONS for this PARTICULAR kinds of innovation helps us BLOCK these avenues of them recurring.
e.g. a number of patriots wrote to the now defunct company that produced the ZLIN and asked now a ZLIN can carry anything of sizable weight for which the plane was not suitable.
despite that TAF never crashed due to it.
WHAT MADE THEM do it that way/why chose the methods they chosed/why excluded other methods????
the answers will surely SURPRISE us!!!
Moshe Dyan said...
"Sri Lanka turns back Mercy ship
[TamilNet, Monday, 08 June 2009, 23:07 GMT]"
well done!
the best way would have been to unload the cargo, not the idiots, though.
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MD,
Initially I thought the same thing, but their mission never was for Tamil People. Also they are associated with LTTE. Therefore this might been a good decision as well. I mean no other country even would have allowed a ship organized by a Terrorists to come near its waters.
Well done SL for showing that we do not deal with Terrorists.
sam & cs,
from the art of war (chapter 3) by sun tzu,
"For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill."
simple. ASSES don't get it, don't blame them.
thusitha,
come to think of it more...yes.
justification-
even the joker who agreed to become the "consignee" has been taken in for questioning!!!!
Buddhist monk doing good work in an IDP camp
http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2009/06/08/sri-lankan-monk-leaves-meditation-retreat-to-help-refugees/
US journalists sentenced to 12 years in North Korea labour camp.
“The trial confirmed the grave crime they committed against the Korean nation and their illegal border crossing,” it said, “and sentenced each of them to 12 years of reform through labour.”
Times online.
wonder what Hillarious Clinton would do now against North Korea?
We should also take strict action against the journalists who came on Tourist visa but went in to the war zone and report harmful things against our country...
Defencewire is right about that. Here is another article about lies in the UN.
http://www.toplankanews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14&Itemid=6
I thought the UN was supposed to do good things, help out countries but it does not appear to do that. In the end, it has become a tool for developed nations to control the less developed countries.
My two cents to the large army debate.
I am fully for a large army as a deterrent for any kind a threat on the territorial integrity. However this also has be a smart army too in addition to the numbers.
Hence we need to
(a) Keep pace with military technology.
If we are to learn from our experiences. There was a time we had air craft without anti missile capability when LTTE has anti aircraft missiles. Hence we need to upgrade continuously with the technology as any future threats will be equipped with the latest available to them. Every year the top commanders should assess the technological capabilities against the available technologies in the market and also with other terrorist groups etc.
(b) Battle readiness
Through military exercises and deployment of the forces in UN and other missions, we need to maintain a fit and battle ready army and not only the numbers. There is another aspect of battle readiness. There will be many who will join the army but during peace for income but leave as soon as they are needed in a front line.
(c) Military intelligence
Intelligence gathering on potential threats and their capabilities. This is Self explanatory.
In addition to main stream MI, screening of civilians, finger printing of all civilians and people who enter the country, CCTV coverage in crucial areas, CCTV coverage on people entering the city, high tech passports, identity cards.
(d) Changes to the law/Military prisons
Suspects of people who plan for terrorism or separatism should be held/tried/dealt with under a separate set of laws like the west after 9/11 and should not be subjected to the normal laws including Military controlled prisons and holdings facilities etc.
(e) Develop military supplies manufacturing capability.
Similar to SBS boats manufacture we need to ensure larger portion of the SLDF needs are manufactured here. This can be explored as an export industry as well. By doing this the foreign exchange outflow for military can be limited to the higher technology or latest equipment purchases
Interesting talk by Nandan Nilekani, CEO of Infosys.
The part that caught my attention was where he describes how they need to create an internal market.
Btw, this www.ted.com is really amazing.
i listed down reasons why the cost of a large army is not unbearable.
1. the incremental cost in large part is coming back to the economy.
2. it enables disproportionate economic activity by supporting multiethnic economic settlements in vanni, etc.
3. it helps RETAIN the north east economy which is worth over US$ 2 billion a year!!!
4. the large army helps in infrastructure development works+++++
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another one,
we can earn forex by sending the army to UN missions. don't be put off by haiti. that was just one instance. there are and will be plety of opportunities.
emergency assistence needs in SL and other countries.
reduce the HUGE impact of strikes by JVP and others.
agriculture (yes SLA was engaged in this b4 the war!!!).
a live source of patriotism, discipline, productivity in each and every village. no cost, mind you.
can spoil ANY recruitment attempt by the JVP terrorists again (if ever they attempt it).
a large SLDFs means large number of retirees as well annually. so large number of recruitment needs. this provides a fallback job vacancy for the most vulnerable sections of the ppl. reduced unemployment.
skills development in the army, etc. help them get other SKILLED jobs. SL's ambition of replacing house maids with nurses fits in VERY well.
plenty more....
i'm sure a large army, etc. CAN BE MADE 150% economically feasible.
Oh, My!
These Guys Have Still Not Gotten the Message that there are:
NO ETHNIC SUBDIVISIONS in Sri Lanka!
No Sinhala Lands, No Tamil Lands, No Muslim Lands, ad nauseam!
Only SRI LANKAN LAND for ALL Sri Lankans.
[Sri Lankan army ‘colonising’ Tamil lands
ExpressBuzz.com
June 9, 2009
CHENNAI: Sri Lanka’s Army Commander General Foneska’s statement on recruiting 100,000 new recruits has raised fears, in the minds of Sri Lankan Tamil Observer groups, of systematic colonisation of the Tamil lands in the North and the East by the Sinhala army.
This fear is becoming a pre-occupation with these observers, as they mull over the issue of peaceful settlement of Tamil issue.
At the third anniversary of International Tamil Centre (ITC), they said, “Instead of demobilisation of armed power, Sri Lankan government is going in for fresh recruitment drive. This is nothing but the reflection of the mistrust and unsafe conditions that exist for the innocent Tamils.” As the think-tanks tried answering what Next? After the fall of LTTE, Bruce Fein, former Associate deputy Attorney General and Counsel for the Tamils Against Genocide Group urged the Tamils groups to unite. He said: “We very badly need a sense of unity and co mmitment, we have to put aside the egomania and have to represent the issue united for the movement to be persistent. We need a face to lead, we need unity now than ever before.” Burce Fein also pointed at the debilitating Tamil trait of infighting as, “If there are three Tamilians , there are 10 political outfits. This has to stop. We need to come together as a collected force, otherwise we are allowing the Lankan government to get away with the genocide.” Dr Winston Panchat - sharam, Founder ITC (USA) president with a powerpoint presentation took the audience through the throes of torture and trauma of the innocent Tamils at the island nation. He said, “More than 50,000 Tamils were killed in Wanni and 13,000 are missing if you don’t call this genocide then what is genocide? ]
i can make out an economic, political, social, cultural, law & order MIRACLE in a unitary SL with a large SLDF.
sooo many reasons for LIBERATION ASSES OF TAMIL ELAM (LATE) to panic.
(btw there are no more liberation tigers).
Ananda,
i'm LOVING it!!!
"colonisaion, structural genocide, fear of a large army............."
these MOURNS make me horny.
[My Comment at ExpressBuzz.com]
BRUCE FEIN is FRANTIC! He had a good thing going at $100,000/month in legal fees from the LTTE; now it is about to VANISH into THE THIN AIR!
Gotta keep the TAMIL EELAM GENOCIDE pot BOILING somehow....this BLOOD MONEY pays for his Yacht and Decadent Life Style.
This is money contributed by the Tamil Diaspora without feeding their BABIES you say? So, they should, so they should my man, a good GENOCIDE PROGRAM is expensive, Needs FREQUENT STOKING..and it is ALL FOR A GOOD CAUSE....you are FUNDING the BRUCE FEIN RETIREMENT PLAN!
Have you NOT HEARD? Retirement Plans have suffered in the US, his $100 million fund is not what it used to be a year ago.
STEP RIGHT UP, KEEP THE MONEY ROLLING into the BRUCE FEIN RETIREMENT FUND folks! Come ONE, Come ALL, sell your land, sell your house and your mother...He needs it more than YOU DO!
GOD Bless You, Every CENT COUNTS! Remember, it is ALL for the EELAM CAUSE....and a few other MINOR things!
My Comment at ExpressBuzz.com on the "Sri Lankan army ‘colonising’ Tamil lands" Article:
[ Dr Winston Panchat - Sharam, Founder ITC (USA) is an IDIOT! HOW MANY TIMES have I told him the CORRECT TamilNET approved Numbers of those KILLED and MISSING? He NEVER gets it right. OK Guys, here asre the CORRECT TamilNET approved NUMBERS: "More than 5,000,000 Tamils were killed in Wanni and 13,000,000 are missing" ]
I Really DON'T KNOW WHY Patriotic Sri Lankan Tamils should be Discussing Sri Lanka's Political Matters with TN Politicians.
We should adopt a POLICY that Sri Lanka's INTERNAL MATTERS are NO BUSINESS of Foreigners.
[ All-party team to visit Lanka
ExpressBuzz.com
June 8, 2009
CHENNAI: An all-party delegation might visit Sri Lanka to study the present situation and help the Tamil there, DMK MP Kanimozhi indicated on Sunday.
Asked about the possibility of such a visit by an Indian delegation, Kanimozhi told reporters that there are chances for it to happen.
She was speaking to newspersons after a Sri Lankan delegation comprising ministers, a trade union leader and Chennai-based consul called on her at her residence.
Sri Lanka’s Minister for Social and Youth Development, Arumugha Thondaiman, deputy Minister for Rehabilitation and Training Sivalingam, trade unionist Senthil Thondaiman and the deputy high commissioner in Chennai, P M Amsa, were part of the delegation that held discussions for about half an hour.
Arumugha Thondaiman said that the situation in the island nation has changed after the war and stressed on the need to think about the future of the 20 lakh plantation Tamils there.
He said that elections that are due in Vavuniya and Jaffna should be held only after the displaced Tamils were resettled and added that the people of Sri Lanka expected India’s help in every aspect.
Kanimozhi said that India has already sanctioned Rs 500 crore for the Sri Lankan Tamils and if there was any need for more funds, it would be decided by the government. ]
Hey guys
any one here know how to get (buy) that Api Wenuwen Api Bangle. yellow colour one. pls tell
Moshe,
/"Sri Lanka turns back Mercy ship
[TamilNet, Monday, 08 June 2009, 23:07 GMT]"
well done!
the best way would have been to unload the cargo, not the idiots, though./
Mate I thought the actions we should have taken,
a) to use the ship/cargo/crew as bargainign chips
b) frustrate future attempts by taking time to make decisions.
saman,
mate, that would have reflected badly on us. but looks like the TID has got someone in for agreeing to clear the goods. a good bargain that was; rather a BAIT!!
now it is highly unlikely that they will try it again. this was actually planned when the LTTE was still alive.
noltte,
thanks again, mate.
how easy it is to miss the obvious!!
Those government doctors were working for LTTE. If you visited those areas anytime during past 10 years you know those doctors were working under direct LTTE orders. Everything had to be cleared from the LTTE. Sometimes even small decisions had to wait because LTTE contacts were not available.
I think over time all of them became full LTTE, because the government was not there for them for anything except to pay the salary and send supplies.
Everyone in those areas had to work with LTTE to survive.
Over time all government agents became LTTE agents, and they were controlled by other LTTE agents, sometimes secretly.
It was the same in Kili, Jaffna, Trinco, Batti, everywhere. Some people were directly taking oders from LTTE, or acting on their own to fit the LTTE plan.
If we want to kill all LTTE agents and sub agents, we will never finish this war because a lot of people are out there.
Ninja, AnandaUSA, Moshe,...
I can't find who came up with this idea of natural death.
We should condemn that idea as 100% anti-Sri Lankan.
It is a very dangerous thing to say things just for show because we know Army can't do things like that.
I have a family member working for IDPs, and I don't think they want to even imagine people talking about such things. If LTTE did such things we will never forgive them.
Sri Lankan hero's died with self respect because they saved civilians. We should not damage their name with idle talk.
If we killed every LTTE terrorist when we had the chance, when they were pretending to be a civilian, we could have 10,000's of soldiers and civilians.
But we didn't. We waited to check, and make sure as much as possible, and sometimes got killed because of that. This happened everyday a thousand times at sentry point and all sorts of other places.
How many soldiers willingly risked trying to help civilians used by LTTE?
We sacrificed those thousands of soldiers to maintain our civilized way of thinking.
If you are just making a half assed comment, other people don't know you are joking. Not everyone reads the whole blog. They don't know the context.
This kind of foolish talk will damage poor soldiers. We should not say things that will never happen.
Joking about killing civilians is very stupid.
We should never even think about doing uncivilized things like that.
Might be of interest to some of you.
Reincarnated WWII fighter pilot?
http://gmy.news.yahoo.com/v/13880459
International Forum on Sri Lankan at the Oxford Union.
Theme: "Reconstruction & Democratisation of Sri Lanka's Former Conflict Regions."
Venue: Oxford Union, University of Oxford, Frewin Court, Oxford, OX1 3JB
Date: 5th of June (Friday) 2009 from 6.00pm to 8.00pm.
Hon. Niranjan Deva's speech P1.
Hon. Niranjan Deva's speech -P2.
A very good speech...
"Batti Mayor to join SLFP, Pillayan to remain with TMVP"
According to an old posting of DW, Pillayan was a creation of MI. He now seems to have served his purpose. The TMVP has become a party of criminals with their rank and file resorting to criminal activities like abducting businessmen and children for ransom. It is better to have national parties in Sri Lanka with ethnic minorities than to have exclusively ethnic or religious parties.
Even though the war has officially ended, Sri Lanka remains a heavily militarised country and the authorities say the military will play a vital role in resettling those now in the Vavuniya camps.
"The military will be with the civilians even after the last refugee is resettled in his or her village," the official in overall charge of resettlement, Major-General GA Chandrasiri, said on Sunday.
Bugger! Just what the doctor ordered. Even a single LTTE flea will not be able to hide among the civilians in the future.
Cheers!
Saboteurs are getting in to our ammo dumps. Any idea how two ammo dumps caught fire recently, one in Myladdi and other in Vavuniya? We need to weed out moles very soon.
the bleeding hearts of british HR activists in full action for 3 centuries.
straight from the horse's mouth.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jun/08/british-empire-colonies-banks-reform
will the opec cartel have to drink their own oil to survive soon?
will the hype of green western technology be over soon?
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/driving/features/article6432436.ece
Moshe Dyan said...
got info from a 75% credible source that some sakkili elements are letting IDPs go for 1,000,000 rupees each from the camps.
i'm sure terrorists would be the first to escape this way.
MoD should immediately look into this.
Moshe,
I said this a few weeks back. I can confirm positively that this is happenning. A few days back a person confirmed that his family members who were in camp are now in Wellawatta awaiting a visa to a foreign country. one of the members is a former fighter. Hope someone can do something about it. From what i heard it is being run by some corrupt army officers and tamil inmates of the camps.
An invitation to the Sri Lankan Diaspora & the Migrant Working Community to invest in Government Treasury Bills / Treasury Bonds
http://www.boc.lk/bochome/international/tiera.jsp#GLsec1
http://www.boc.lk/bochome/rates/tbillrate.jsp
guys read this. it is a very interesting article about retired CJ
Sarath N De Silva
Kumar Rupasinghe the top gets what he deserves by Asian Tribune readers. Please feel free to speak for our homeland.
Fire at Army camp in Vavuniya
June 9, 2009 06:45 pm
A fire has broken out at an Army camp in Vavuniya this afternoon. No casualties have been reported and the flame has been brought under control. The extent of damage is still not confirmed, says Military spokesman Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara
hi guys
i still read the blog
Scum of Sri Lanka (Jaathiye Paahara Ballo)
Highlight of the Day
Lakshman Kiriella
Please read the linked article to say what Lakshman Kiriella says about the last minute attempts by Ranil Wickramasinghe's to harm our nations image in Europe. His and Ranil's servitude to white masters are amply clear in this speech.
Ranil Wickramasinghe
Lakshman Kiriella
Ravi Karunanayake
Vajira Abeywardena
Jayalath Jayawardena
Mangala Samaraweera
Rauf Hakeem
Wickramabahu Karunaratne
Kumar Rupasinghe
Jehan Perera
Sunanda Deshapriya
Sunila Abegunasekara
Mano Ganeshan
R Sampanthan
K Sivajilingam
G.K. Ponnambalam
other TNA sakkiliyas
Duleep Chikera
Pakiyasothi Saravanamuttu
Rohan Edirisinghe
Mithra Fernando
Tisaranee Gunasekera
Priyath Liyanage
Rayappu Joseph
Rosy Senanayake
Sonali Samarasinghe
Nimalka Fernando
Sirithunga Jayasuriya
Dayasiri Jayasekara
Iqbal Athas
Lal Kantha
Anura Kumara
Malik Samarawickrama
Lalith Kothalawala
S.B. Dissanayake
Brian Seneviratne
Sisira Jayasuriya
Johnston Fernando
Ranath Premalal Kumarasinghe
Sucharitha Gamlath
Jayantha Senevirathna
Nirmal Ranjith Devasiri
Terrence Purasinghe
Chandrapala Kumarage (Attorney-at-law)
Yohan Devananda
Patrick Fernando
Kumar David
Basil Fernando
"Accidental explosion at ammo dump in Vavuniya
There has been an accidental explosion in an ammunition dump at the Wanni army command in Vavuniya a short while ago. Vavuniya police say the explosion sound can still be heard and a police team has been rushed to the scene."-daily mirror
WHAT'S GOING ON??? Infiltrations?
AN EXPOSURE OF PERFIDY AGAINST SRI LANKA
Y. Gumperaliya
http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2009/06/08/an-exposure-of-perfidy-against-sri-lanka/
[ SL boy said...
An invitation to the Sri Lankan Diaspora & the Migrant Working Community to invest in Government Treasury Bills / Treasury Bonds]
The maximum you can get from this is 13%.
If the inflation in Sri Lanka is > 13%, you loose your investment.
This is good if you want to donate money to Sri Lanka with no or little expectations.
Otherwise money deposited in NRFC will be a better investment.
India seems to have adopted the Emperor Dharmashoka's foot path in relationships with Sri Lanka according to Mr. Shivshankar Menon. Perhaps, this is the most mutually agreed path for Indo-Lanka relations
Fellas... can someone translate this for me ? I t was left on my flickr page under VP's dead photo !
ினிக்ஸ் பறவை போல் வருவோமட கோழைகளே, ஐந்து நாட்டு ராணுவத்தை வைத்து வெற்றிபெற்று விட்டோம் என்று சொல்வது உங்களுக்கு வெக்கமாக இல்லை.
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Any know whathe's saying here fellas ?
GOSL and its vital organs of state may find the use of YouTube channels productive in taking forward its abroad.
Examples:
http://www.youtube.com/user/2O12LondonOlympics
http://www.youtube.com/user/BarackObamadotcom
Buckingham Palace
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheRoyalChannel
Guys, for good updated articles, look at:
http://lrrp.wordpress.com/
Interesting to see why President MR picked his first foreign trip to Burma. When India and East Pakistan (later Bangladesh) were created some of the same ethnic groups got sandwiched between the artificial borders of these three countries. Burma had long standing ethnic insurgencies, which at one time controlled large parts of the country. These insurgencies were crushed completely only about a decade ago. Unlike Bangladesh which was created by India and has been destablized by successive Indian governments, Burma's military men have protected the country from the west and from India by allying with China and other ASEAN countries.
There is a lot of shared history between Sri Lanka and Burma. Two Nikayas were founded by Burmese monks. When the Buddha's tooth was taken by a colonial power, it was the King of Burma who paid a ransom to get it back.
Vavuniya main armory on fire?
Con someone confirm this?
Terrorist die, but there lies don't.
Please take a look at this false allegations in TamilCircle. In some photos, you can see feet of LTTE terrorists in their standard issue Bata slippers. Even their comments say that
"...
பதிந்தவர் Pottu Amman, June 09, 2009
Shit, we forgot to remove the slippers of those 'soldiers' in the background. Crap. Even our precious propaganda network is screwing us up big time.
Long Live Eelam."
I saved a PDF of this page with comments if somebody want it for later reference. You may find our favorite Peelam Terrorists Puligal giving all kinds of comments for their own hoax.
CASC
If the President is going to Burma perhaps there a valid reason to go to that country out of all the countries. Have you guys ever been there recently? So if we want to bash the Western countries then we become like Burma? So this intended military build up to half a million seems to be going that way of a future military style dictatorship. This is very frightening think what the future of the island would be. As much as we opposed the tiger terrorists setting foot in the island we will also oppose any type of dictatorship in the island disguised as something devious to say the least.
SLAF in Air Forces Monthly
The June '09 issue of Air Forces Monthly magazine contains an excellent 10 page article on the SLAF as it hastened the LTTE's demise.
I've uploaded PDFs of the article here, contained in a Zip file.
http://tinyurl.com/lrzvlc
High-res squadron insignia (part of the article) can be found here, saved in .jpg file format.
http://tinyurl.com/lrzvlc
Current issue info here:
http://tinyurl.com/lurpqy
DONT U GUYS STILL DONT REALISE
COMMUNISM HAS ENTERED SRILANKA
END OF DEMOCRACY
TTBO,
indeed.
if delayed it might be too late
sara,
LTTE was the MOST technologically advanced terror group. there is no doubting that.
we MUST learn from them NOT to emulate them!! but to BLOCK the recurrence of what they did.
charitable,
looks like some motherfucker sakkiliyas have missed the point.
killing civilians is terrorism, nothing else, while killing terrorists, abbeters of terrorists is a MUST IF it is the most expedient way to save anymore deaths.
some LTTE doctors have DELIBERATELY arranged the massacre of patients in hospitals and they have gathered photographic and other "evidence" against the SLDFs!
strange but TRUE, believe me these MFs are good at TWISTING the truth.
nalin de silva has written an article under the heading the solution to LG but there is no solution in it (may be in the next part).
the ONLY solution is the creation of MULTIETHNIC COLONIES in the north and east.
nothing else works.
Moshe
Agree with Ya.
Human Rights legislation, Local and International HR bodies, Fundamental Rights legislation etc have been devised to safeguard the non-influential and innocent civilians against military regimes and arbitrary actions of the states or by the police or the armed forces.
The terrorists or groups that violate human rights are the ones that make use of (an abuse) this legislation mostly. This is/was the case in Sri Lanka too. Terrorism should be countered by equally lethal force. If not the rights of vast majority would be violated. This was proven twice in Sri Lanka. Once against JVP the terror tactics to counter terror worked with PRRA and other similar methods.
While it is our responsibility to protect and look after the innocent IDPs who’s HR were violated by LTTE, the same treatment is not deserved and cannot be afforded to the ones who planned or supported the terror. Any action taken to ensure that these HR violators won’t have another chance CANNOT be termed as terror or HR violations.
re: ammo dump explosions
this is very strange. 2 biggest dumps exploded within a cause of 3 days.
from what i hear, this is not by infiltrators and the events were fully under our control.
ian,
exactly.
we HAVE in the past played into the hands of the LTTE in a quite shameful manner. so far the govt avoided that. hopefully they will continue.
mercy should NOT be heaped upon the undeserved. this is called, "adagena nanawa".
UN fell into this trap foolishly. we must avoid it.
e.g. first the UN said 6,000 civilians deaths which was a lie to start with.
then they said (copying tamilnet, times-online) the number is 20,000.
then came the question how come 6k became 20k.
the answer is ingenious!
13,800 "disappeared" from IDP camps!!!
13,800 + 6,000 = almost 20,000!!!
so far 3 lies to cover up 1 lie.
FACTS.
1. NO CIVILIAN was killed/abducted/or otherwise hurt by SLDFs for the past 5 months
2. aribert heim & joseph mengele like LTTE terrorists killed ppl possibly in thousands.
3. terrorists and abbeters of terrorists & terrorism - of course. and they deserve it.
4. there is NO grey area.
A great description of how everybody in racist SL genocided the Kagaroos White Masters in Eelamish language.
I did a calculation based on past history of SL exchange rates.
1$=96.75-2003
1$=113.68-2009
The return on investment of 1000$ in SL RS account at 13% and return on investmnet at 4% in NRFC will be as follows after 6 years:
Rupee Account
1000$=96750@13%*6years=201429Rs=1771.89$
NRFC Account
1000$=1000@4%*6years=1265$
A great article,
http://www.divaina.com/2009/06/10/feature01.html
A great initiative,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6_9tj-GxB8
Sam P.,
Can't believe that this incompetent f&cker going around the world and internationalising domestic issues.
A total MF&cker in that sense!
Do not know whether they wear any clothes on these tours,
http://www.lankaenews.com/Sinhala/news.php?id=8823
slboy,
your calculation is correct. subject to the SPREAD in exchange.
boy! i'm missing navindran!
my choice is NRFC!!! if i get 4% US$ return---> wow!
want no more from a savings account.
SL boy, you forgot to include the inflation! In real terms the value becomes much low.
BTW guys any news regarding the armory on fire?
Moshe,
If you are getting 4% it is great!
My NRFC account in GBP got less than 0.7% for last year.
BN,
mate, there is no need to include inflation bcos it is a comparison of 2 instruments. the exchange rate takes care of that.
rana,
yea. 4% is enough and the risk is also enough!!!
what's up?
bike to mobike and back to car???
Moshe,
MB is only for pleasure rides and these days too cold (morning less than 10 degrees) to have fun.
Bike is for excercise, bro!
Kevin,
I don't think there is anything sinister behind the President's foreign trip. Burma may not be a democracy but neither is Thailand or Singapore which is a western oriented one party state.
The previous heads of states of Sri Lanka have customarily gone to India when a new government takes office in that country. During the President's interview with NDTV he indicated that he wanted to visit India. However, old man Manmohan Singh does not want President MR to come at this time for various reasons. I suspect the Prez made some promises to the Indian establishement before the LTTE was quashed. India was under the impression that the President would implement the 13th amendment in full, which includes the devolution of land powers, police powers and judicial powers to the provinces. Also one of the key elements of the Indo-Sri Lanka accord was the merger of the northern and eastern provinces. I don't think the President has any intention of implementing any of these provisions. Since the President started saying that there are no minorities in Sri Lanka and that there are only two types of people--patriots and traitors, the Indians have got more jittery. Today, the Congress spokesperson, Janaki Natarajan, issued a rather harsh statement saying that President most devolve powers and give rights to Tamils.
Hence India is not going to throw him the red carpet at this point.
However, by visiting a country bordering India, namely Burma, it opens up the possibility that India will re-consider and possibly invite him.
Burma's biggest international ally is China and India does not want Sri Lanka to be in that orbit. The Prez is good at playing the great power game by dangling the China card when he needs to get India on his side. Anyway, all of this is pure speculation on my part.
[CASC
If the President is going to Burma perhaps there a valid reason to go to that country out of all the countries. Have you guys ever been there recently? So if we want to bash the Western countries then we become like Burma? So this intended military build up to half a million seems to be going that way of a future military style dictatorship. This is very frightening think what the future of the island would be. As much as we opposed the tiger terrorists setting foot in the island we will also oppose any type of dictatorship in the island disguised as something devious to say the least.]
This is just panic talk. If MR visits Vatican does it mean that he is going to convert Sri Lanka to a Catholic country?
If he wants to emulate Burma in SL it is not necessary to make a personal visit. He can simply go ahead and do it.
Similarly, if we want to bash up the iC we is it necessary to become like Burma? That is like cutting the nose to spite the face.
He may be wanting to pass a message to the IC including India. MR has also been building relationships with somewhat unusual coountries like Turkey. There is nothing wromg in all that.
In any case MR is smart knows very well that a dictatorship will not work in SL.
Video of Prabhakaran's remains probably taken by a soldier with a phone cam..
http://www.srilive.com/view/1107/prabhakarans-unseen-video/
Hey Peelam Sakkiliyas who is having the last laugh?
WASHINGTON, June 9, 2009 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ ----Defendants Include the Leader of the LTTE in the United States and one of the LTTE's Senior Arms Procurement Agents
Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, defendants Karunakaran Kandasamy, Pratheepan Thavaraja, Murugesu Vinayagamoorthy, and Vijayshanthar Patpanathan pled guilty to, among other crimes, conspiring to provide material support to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a designated foreign terrorist organization. The guilty plea proceedings were held before Chief United States District Judge Raymond J. Dearie. Kandasamy and Pratheepan face a 20-year maximum statutory sentence. Vinayagamoorthy and Patpanathan face a 15-year maximum statutory sentence.
Pay Back Time!
Tuesday, June 09, 2009
Four Plead Guilty to Conspiring to Provide Material Support to the LTTE, a Foreign Terrorist Organization
http://www.foxbusiness.com/story/plead-guilty-conspiring-provide-material-support-ltte-foreign-terrorist/
rana,
sure.
ten degrees, low UV. IDEAL for bike rides!!!!
Kevin and SARA,
As I said before, I don't think there is a hidden reason for the Burma visit. I think MR will take Sri Lanka down the path of non-alignment which has worked best for the country. JRJ got us into this mess by aligning Sri Lanka with the west. We got a few scraps like the Victoria dam paid for by the British but nothing else and a heap of trouble. India has the potential to be the spoiler in Sri Lanka so MR plays the game where he keeps them at bay and at the same time keeps their goodwill.
MP,
fantastic news.
hope NIB, TID, CCD, MI, etc, etc. are keeping records of these MFs and MORE importantly the others in the group. there were MANY MORE in this group. and their close associates too.
SL's criminal law should also have this law. i'm sure PTA has similar provisions. we should add providing moral support as another crime.
pro LTTE Canadiam MP Bob Ray has been detained at the airport to be deported.
when bbc talks about that WHORE LOSER it says about the LTTE (now carcasses),
"The Tamil Tiger rebels, regarded by the British government as a terrorist organisation, were defeated last month after a conflict lasting about 30 years.
The group fights for a separate state in the north and east of the island."
fights or fought???? wtf???
Look how the biased broadcasting company (BBC) twists the Jan Jananayagam story.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8089744.stm
They are doing their best to make her look good.
A less biased Story
Lanka News
and a story about how Tamil Nationalism started
Lanka News
North to Get 21 Police Stations
Army.lk
June 10, 2009
AS PART OF ESTABLISHING civil administration in the North after eradicating terrorism, the Police Department is to set up 21 police stations in the North and a Tamil language training centre for police personnel in Kilinochchi.
Addressing the media at the Police Headquarters yesterday, IGP Jayantha Wickramaratne said after eliminating terrorism from the country after three decades, particularly in the North, it is important to establish civil administration in the liberated areas.
A Tamil Language Training Centre will be established in Kilinochchi in addition to the existing one in Kalladi
He said a Tamil Language Training Centre (TLTC) will be established in Kilinochchi in addition to the existing TLTC in Kalladi.
“We will need nearly 200 acres to build the TLTC for police personnel in Kilinochchi. The trained Tamil language police personnel will be appointed to serve in the North and the East,” the IGP said.
“We are planning to establish 21 new police stations in Mannar, Mullaitivu and Mankulam divisions in the North.
Seven police stations have already been set up in these areas. These police stations will function under a DIG and SSPs for each division,” he added.
He said the police stations will be set up after the required lands are provided to build police stations with all facilities.
“We need at least 50 acres to build police stations with all facilities for families of police personnel serving in the respective areas,” he added.
IGP Wickramaratne said around 2,995 police and STF personnel were killed and 3,571 injured by LTTE attacks since 1974. Around 500 police and STF personnel were killed and 485 injured in LTTE attacks after the Mavilaru operation to the last leg of humanitarian operation.
The Police Department has organized religious and memorial services islandwide for police personnel who sacrificed their lives to safeguard the Motherland. “These ceremonies will be conducted in the presence of families of war heroes. The families and relatives of the war heroes will not be neglected,” the IGP remarked.
A monument will be built in Thirukkovil, Kalmunai in tribute to 600 police personnel who were massacred by the LTTE.
Police blocks and checkpoints will not be removed until the last LTTE cadre is apprehended.
IGP Wickramaratne said there was a belief that since the LTTE were defeated and the country free of terrorism, the road blocks and checkpoints should be removed.
“The obvious reason for that is some LTTE cadres have infiltrated into different parts of the country during the last lap of the humanitarian operation in the North.
These Tiger cadres without their leadership can carry out any desperate attempts to civilian life. They are still a threat to the country,” he added.
“We have obtained precise information about these hiding Tigers from people living in the IDP centres in Vavuniya. We will continue our roadblocks and checkpoints until the last LTTE cadre is arrested,” he said.
(Courtesy: Daily News)
I present the following article as a prime example of the lack of understanding through ignorance, or deliberate acts of sabotage, that we can expect from certain segments of the Sri Lankan news media.
In particular, the writer criticizes the plans to expand the Sri Lankan defense forces further, having concluded that, with the death of Prabhakaran and most of his leadership, we are without enemies! Therefore, the writer briliiantly concludes, we can reduce the armed forces and realize "a peace divided."
These are the ignorant rantings of unthinking people with a need to make a living as journalists. Similar thinking after the defeat of Saddam Hussein's Army led to the emergence of an insurgency that has now taken the lives of over a million Iraqi civilians and an additional 5,000 US soldiers lives, and vast amount of treasure that could have been allocated to reconstruction, ALL AFTER George Bush declared the "Mission Accomplished!" No patriotic citizen of Lanka, with even a modicum of knowledge of Sri Lanka's history of foreign invasions and internal insurrections, all made possible by military weakness, would fail to fathom the need for a strong military to forestall such events in the future.
I think, those who led the soldiers, sailors, airmen, police, and civil guards who died fighting this war and protecting the country over a 30 year period, and the political leadership of the current Government of Sri Lanka that to this day has to contend with overt and covert, internal and external, threats to the sovereignty of Sri Lanka, have a much better appreciation and understanding of the large threats we still face, and will continue to face in the future.
They also understand better, through hard won experience, how difficult it is to develop a Powerful Defense Force only AFTER the threat has materialized in physical form. They understand that MILITARY WEAKNESS PRECIPITATES AGGRESSION and that the best defense force is one that NEVER HAS TO FIGHT and is NEVER USED IN WAR, because it serves its purpose by DISCOURAGING all potential enemies from even CONTEMPLATING it!
If the strength and motivation of the Sri Lanka Defence Forces had not been evident to ALL, there is no doubt in my mind that the threats of intervention in Sri Lanka in the concluding days of the Wanni war would have been more severe, and may have prevented the GOSL from eradicating the LTTE by leaf, branch, trunk and root.
It never ceases to amaze me how QUICKLY people seem to forget the NARROW ESCAPE we have of the DISINTEGRATION and EXTINCTION of our country.
[ Possible futures in post-war Sri Lanka]
Tisaranee Gunasekara
The Island
June 06, 2009
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According to media reports, the Lankan military is to be expanded substantially, from 200,000 to 300,000, to prevent the rejuvenation of the LTTE: If a 200,000 strong military is sufficient to defeat the LTTE led by Vellupillai Pirapaharan, why is a 300,000 strong military necessary to prevent the resurrection of the LTTE, sans Mr. Pirapaharan? What is a 300,000 strong military going to do, sans a conventional war? Keep Tamils under control, in the North and the East and perhaps elsewhere, under the guise of preventing the resurrection of the LTTE? Is the government planning to turn the North and the East into garrison provinces, controlled by the mainly Sinhala Armed Forces and their Tamil adjuncts?
...........
WAR1981-2009
Casc
‘As I said before, I don't think there is a hidden reason for the Burma visit. I think MR will take Sri Lanka down the path of non-alignment which has worked best for the country’
I am so happy to hear this from you. I am very much for our President and his close nit family who is giving all the support he needs at the crucial time as there are saboteurs within us just for money.
Should there be a strong man to turn things around in that island then it must be Gotabaya as he has some knowledge of the Western mindset, being there for some time. We must work hard to make the island a better place for all with complete freedom without a religion breathing down on our lives.
Last night we had dinner with a young delegation from China and all of them are very business like and they are here to do some trade deals as well as to study the way things are done here. None of them care two hoots for any religion though their parents were Taoist and they think religion is irrelevant to this day and age and they are forging ahead with developing their country. I think we should learn from them and they too had people sent by Cuba to study the system here and there is significant amount coming here to study English language which they think is essential to their country that opens their people to outsiders with respect to trade.
CASC said...
[Kevin and SARA,
As I said before, I don't think there is a hidden reason for the Burma visit. I think MR will take Sri Lanka down the path of non-alignment which has worked best for the country. JRJ got us into this mess by aligning Sri Lanka with the west. We got a few scraps like the Victoria dam paid for by the British but nothing else and a heap of trouble. India has the potential to be the spoiler in Sri Lanka so MR plays the game where he keeps them at bay and at the same time keeps their goodwill.]
Agree with you. we should not read too much in to this.
Dear friends,
There are many poisonous snakes spreading racial hatred in the Tamil community. Govenment is doing nothing to stop them. Only celebrating. This is very bad. Something must be done to stop.
If govenment depends on legal methods it will never work. Our legal system is very slow and big crooks escape. Only smalltimers get caught.
Unless something is done to stop the spread of racial hatred by people who loved the LTTE Sri Lanka will be in for trouble. Time is running out.
We need a Premadasa. I am not telling to kill people but to clean up the society. Premadasa didn't take "cant" "no" for an answer. At the end of the day it benefitted everyone including the bad people. Old fashioned thinking cannot stop the spread of poison in the Tamil community.
Do something now.
i hv following your blog for a couple of year, but never commented.. but found a good aritcle
Sri Lankan war strategies in business by Rohantha
http://dasuns.blogspot.com/
YoganathanB
‘There are many poisonous snakes spreading racial hatred in the Tamil community. Government is doing nothing to stop them’
It’s up to the Tamil people to realize that we are in it together in that island and shun any attempt by anyone to divide the community. One must learn to live in harmony with others without picking one issue after another to establish a separatist cause. If the Tamils thing having their own separate state will solve their problem is sadly mistaken. One has only gone to Vanni to see the utter neglect and poverty trust on them by their sole reps and liberators. One must go to Tamil nadhu to see the same neglect by the utterly corrupt politicians who are responsible for it. Some towns in TN have only one toilet for 100 families and that’s why they do their business in the beaches, allys and even in the streets. Life in SL is far better and all communities must pull together and ask the politicians power to do the right thing for the country.
Ananda-USA,
Ian has posted a link for the video you wanted of the animation of the War on the SL map.
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