Brigadier Prasanna de Silva, the illustrious Special Forces officer has been appointed Director General of Joint Training in the soon to be Office of the Chief of Defence Staff headed by 4-star General Sarath Fonseka.
The 47-year old officer could also receive a promotion as a Major General. Another little-known (by the general public) but equally brilliant officer appointed the Director General of Joint Planning and Development is Major General Mahesh Senanayake also of the Special Forces.
Other notable leaders in the Wanni battle like Major General Jagath "Chula" Dias, Major General Kamal Gunaratne and Brigadier Shevendra Silva have also received new postings.
Maj. General Dias was appointed Deputy Ambassador to Germany and was set to embark on that 2-year assignment when he met with an accident resulting in a broken hip. He was traveling alone without an escort after an unofficial trip. Claims by certain media of a conspiracy to assassinate the Maj. General is completely false.
Major General Kamal Gunaratne was appointed by Army Commander Lieutenant General Jagath Jayasooriya the SF Commander Wanni. He is also the Colonel Commandant of the Special Forces Brigade which functioned independently under General Fonseka until the end of the war. Major General Gunaratne is also to receive a foreign diplomatic assignment while still in service.
Brigadier Shevendra Silva has been appointed Director Operations at Army Headquarters Colombo. These officers will each receive a diplomatic assignment on a rotating basis.
Together these valiant officers will carry forward the farsighted reformations put forward by General Fonseka.
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Wanni heroes rewarded
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 378 of 378Moshe Dayan said...
[Ananda,
so we have drifted off course a bit!! thanks for bringing us back on track.
but the "byproduct/byroad" is as relevant as the topic.]
Absolutely! Yes, the espionage discussion was very interesting too.
Moshe Dayan said...
[the other side is also bad. just imagine what would have happened had we arrested VP and his band???? many buddhists would be praying for their release or humane treatment!!!! unfortunately that would have been the end of SL bcos these BARBARIANS would get all the benefits of weakness (undue kindness) and screw them for a thank you.
the third thing is about the "middle path". middle path from what i understand is doing the RIGHT THING and not to get driven by extremes. it is not about SURRENDERING or COMPROMISING what is right with what is wrong.]
Bravo, Moshe! You have written many great posts here at DW, but to me this is the BEST of them all.
Every word you saiad here is true; and we should take heed of it.
SARA said...
[ I understand that MIT is well in to the development of a pebble bed nuclear reactor for the Three Mile Island Power Plant.]
Hi Sara,
Yes, the pebble bed-reactor is a good concept, originally conceived by the South Africans. I have worked on several Gen-IV reactor concepts, including the pebble bed.
The primary advantages of the pebble-bed reactor are the enhanced criticality safety (the bed expands on thermal runaway automatically driving the reactor towards a sub-critical state), and the ease of refueling the reactor by loading a hopper with fuel-pebbles maintained in a sub-critical configuration.
In a project on geologic disposal of excess fissile materials (from missiles dismantled under SALT) that I led and managed, we used similar fissile-material loaded ceramic pebbles with the waste contained within by a tough fissile-material-free ceramic coating. The underlying basis for criticality safety was similar to that of the pebble-bed reactor. This disposal alternative design was selected at the safest one for disposal. However, it was not the most politically viable, because it is now the standby option in case the Yucca-Mountain repository fails to come online due to legal and regulatory reasons. The US-DOE documents we prepared for this project are freely available on the Internet, so I am not revealing anything classified.
My own favorite "unblessed Gen-IV concept" is a High Temperature Gas Reactor (HTGR) using Helium as the working fluid to drive an advanced thermoelectric electric generator instead of a single-or dual-vapor cycle plant with turbines. This concept replaces the failure-prone rotating vapor-driven turbo-generators that account for most of the nuclear power plant shutdowns, with a static thermoelectric generator using the latest high-Z thermoelectric materials.
tamilnet has started to mix DUMBASS reports with OBJECTIVE reports.
the one on underworld gangs is very good & objective.
this is the second time in 2 weeks they did it.
during 2001-04 TN was better than MOST news media. may be they are trying to rebuild their credibility FROM SCRATCH.
in response defence.lk should also improve on OBJECTIVITY in reporting. there is room for improvement.
re: "deterrence of foreigners without even loading a gun"
Something I suggested before was to have programmes like Israel's "Birthright Israel" and MASA.
http://www.birthrightisrael.com
http://www.jewishagency.org/JewishAgency/English/About/masa.htm
This kind of thing will bind young SL expatriates to the motherland and make them more patriotic; and appreciate the culture and values of our country.
This can also induce leadership qualities, or improve existing leadership qualities among attendees.
These youngsters may go on to be people of influence or leaders at various levels in their respective adopted countries. They can even be encouraged to do so.
They may also be able to influence voting patterns in these countries amongst SL diaspora.
Such a programme will also help Tamil diaspora youngsters see that Sri Lanka is truly a multi-cultural place.
The cost of this programme can be minimal. SriLankan airlines can give free tickets, since GOSL is the majority shareholder. The programme can be designed and set up by SLDF, but it should be conducted by a non-military body affiliated to GOSL. The public face of such a programme could be a lady, since youngsters will be involved.
Accommodation and the fees for trainers is perhaps where there may be a significant cost. Even these I'm sure can be brought down by using infrastructure already in place.
Divaina response to prelates and nilame crook regarding elephants
Beautifully written.
Once the SECURITY and ECONOMIC situations have stabilised, I hope MR will seriously look at the state of Buddhism in SL. It will take great courage to change the status quo, but MR can do it!
I'm grateful for SLDF for removing a major obstacle against Buddhism in SL - the next should be state level intervention to remove the inner rot, perhaps by having a Sangayana. Kings of the past have done this.
Thank you thank you Mr. President!!!
http://www.island.lk/2009/07/31/news14.html
President moved by elephants’ suffering
Baby jumbos to be reunited with mothers
President Mahinda Rajapaksa has decided that two baby elephants Diyawadana Nilame of Sri Dalada Maligawa forcibly brought to Kandy last Saturday from the Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage be returned to their mothers, according to highly placed sources.
The President had taken serious note of media reports on severe suffering inflicted on the elephant calves and their mothers faced with a serious health risk as milk was clotting in their breasts and the presidential decision would be conveyed to the Sri Dalada Maligawa authorities shortly, sources said.
A group including police personnel led by Diyawadana Nilame Pradeep Nilanga Dele separated the baby elephants from their mothers after a struggle and brought the calves to Kandy, though the law requires that only claves over five years of age be removed from their mothers. Both elephants are below five years. However, the Cabinet at the request of Minister of Sports and Recreation Gamini Lokuge had granted permission for two claves to be gifted to Sri Dalada Maligawa presumably oblivious to the legal requirement at issue and the fact that they had not yet been weaned from breastfeeding. The Wildlife Department under whose purview elephants come had not authorized the separation of the baby elephants on Saturday, sources said.
The Young Zoologists Association on Wednesday charged that the two baby elephants were being beaten with poles by their keepers as they had turned aggressive deprived of mother’s milk and care. Their mothers are pining in Pinnawala.
goolge,
that is good news.
only the president could do that and it was news in the media that grabbed his attention bcos others were not willing to take up the matter.
how stupid to give cabinet approaval without checking the LEGALITY!! only in SL!
there should be a better way to do things than this.
Ananda,
Thanks for the very useful info. I am so happy that we have someone like you with first hand experience in these matters.
You said,
[This concept replaces the failure-prone rotating vapor-driven turbo-generators that account for most of the nuclear power plant shutdowns, with a static thermoelectric generator using the latest high-Z thermoelectric materials.]
I know that thermo electric generators with Pu as fuel have been used in deep space craft such as the Galileo and Cassini because of the faint sunlight in these environs.
But how far are we in to power level generators of the order of 100 MW or so?
SARA,
In the deep-space space exploration applications you referred to, the TE generators are powered by the decay heat of non-fissile radionuclide isotopes Wikipedia, and not by fission chain reactions using fissile materials such as Pu-239 or U-235.
With regard to TE generators for small utility-scale reactors there is one R&D project underway in the US, but I would say that commercial availability of such reactors is at least 5-10 years away. The main barriers are in demonstrating TE material reliability and in cost reduction. The first use of such reactors would of course be in military applications such as submarines and aircraft carriers that value performance over low cost.
The most efficient dual-vapor cycle nuclear reactor plants of today are about 45% efficient. That thermodynamic efficiency can be matched by these nuclear powered TE generators using TE materials now becoming available in small quantities.
The availability at a competitive price will improve as the demand for such large scale applications ramps up, as in the case of PV modules.
Obvious questions rise whether Diyawadana Nilame Pradeep Nilanga is fit to hold office.
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Yes it is a really good decision of our MR . Some idiots are thinking that they can do what ever they want but they do not know those shits will reflect on MR .
Really good move finally . Finally baby elephants will be returned to their home .
Well done MR
Few lingering questions in Ali Baba story.
- Although media reported so, the President is yet to make any official statement on release of elephant cubs.
- Lokuge has walked out of darkness and asserted that the cubs will NOT be returned. It was him who has brokered the deal via Cabinet to originally donate them.
- A case is filed in Supreme Court as the act of Cabinet is illegal [cubs are too young].
- As an alternative Lokuge suggesting that mother elephants will be brought to the temple. In normal grounds I'd say OK. But with lots of political and under teh hand acts happening, I'd see that this is an attempt to make a good face to public.
- Under the guise of Maligawa, has this Diyavadana crook taken two elephants for HIS POSSESSION? That is the only way I can realize this unnecessary drama which did so much harm to Buddhist conscience of Sri Lanka.
One more thing.
- Right now the cubs are at neither the temple nor at orphanage but in the premises of Nilame's residence. This proves my suspicion.
Panhinda;
Nilanga the Nilame crook shouldn't have won it at the first place. It is a major risk to leave the exe powers of the temple in the hands of a gem trader.
I hope this causes his exit.
It is a great disgrace to the entire Buddhist structure of the nation. Redemption is still not late.
Suzanne Robinson you are some nut case
http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/features/Retro-Saddam-seizes-power.5513197.jp
Published Date: 31 July 2009
Suzanne Robinson looks back on a month when Saddam Hussein took hold of power in Iraq and Sony introduced the Walkman.
Dateline: July 1979
“NASA's first orbiting space station, Skylab, returned to Earth over Sri Lanka after a six year orbit. Meanwhile, superstitious Sri Lankans were offering human skulls as sacrifices and buying 'Skylab Oil' to protect themselves from the falling 100 ton craft.”
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sujeewa,
wrt nilame, yes but he is only the tip of the iceberg.
went the maligawa few years ago. areas at the back where king held court still in dilapidated condition. when i asked, they were waiting for UNESCO funds to repair. the smell from nearby sewers unbearable.
they mint money every day at maligawa. if the management really wanted to, they have resources to clean and repair entire city of kandy.
sri lanka is no longer about following of the dhamma but ritualistic Buddhism.
Ananda,
You said,
[In the deep-space space exploration applications you referred to, the TE generators are powered by the decay heat of non-fissile radionuclide isotopes Wikipedia, and not by fission chain reactions using fissile materials such as Pu-239 or U-235.]
That is what I meant when I spoke of deep-space spacecraft like Galileo, Cassini and I did not mean fission or fusion type reactors. As you have said these use the heat from radioactive decay to generate power. Pu 238 happens to be one of the sources they use. NASA calls them RTG, Radio-Isotope Thermoelectric Generators.
Here is an excerpt from NASA description of these:
"RTG's are light weight, compact spacecraft power systems that are extraordinarily reliable. RTG's are not nuclear reactors and have no moving parts. They use neither fission nor fusion processes to produce energy. Instead they provide power through the natural radioactive decay of Plutonium (mostly Pu-238, a non-weapon grade isotope)."
However, I have reservations about the efficiency. The efficiency would depend on the inlet temperature T1 (Carnot Eff being {1-T1/T2}), which would be limited as solid state materials used in the thermoelectric generators cannot withstand very high temperatures. On the other hand gas turbines can use cooled blades, which allows very high inlet gas temp (say around 1200 C). But cooling is out of question for TEG.
Panhida
(went the maligawa few years ago. areas at the back where king held court still in dilapidated condition. when i asked, they were waiting for UNESCO funds to repair. the smell from nearby sewers unbearable)
I am really surprised to hear it because how much money does it get as donations and how much money does it get by selling tickets to foreign tourists (each cost Rs500 and every one has to buy)I am surprise to hear that it does not have money at least 100,000 (should be more )tourist visit maligawa per year (out of 500,000)
100 000*500 =5000,0000 +donations
Does it get that much money ?Hope we are not going to do something by pure gold :))is something going on?I think maligawa can give money to Unesco :))
When people are venerated for no apparent reason, they lose their minds.
Jeewaka Edirisinghe of Swarnavahini has assaulted his Chief Make-up artist in his office.
Same Mervyn Silva mentality of abusing their position or power.
Without this moron's status, he should be punished by law for assault.
This is not Suddha's time in Sri Lanka.
www.srilankaequity.com
Sri Lanka Equity Analytics said...
Govt's attempt to control Exchange Rate by buying excess Dollars in the market will expected to create Rupee surplus. This would result in high inflation rates unless controlled. Govt expected to repurchase these excess rupees from the market.
This is a good problem. Government can buy back Rupees at a lower rate and push the interest rates down. Single digit like in Japan??
Lower interest will energise the equity investments and stock market!
This is a good time to look at the property market!!
July 31, 2009 9:52 PM
Thank you MR for getting those poor elephant cubs to their rightful parents. Please sack that DN and give it to one of your brothers that may show concern for people of Kandy.Don’t let this noble event being hijacked by a gem merchant who is immature. People in Kandy are harassed by the unnecessary road blocks where one can’t get to one’s house with heavy goods as the absurd roadblocks are preventing it. No sick could move in and out of the town as the cops manning the block are completely ignorant and insensitive.
Let’s give this noble event to its rightful people. Why not ask the majority in town as to what they think of these absurd measures and that good governance?
SARA said...
[ However, I have reservations about the efficiency. The efficiency would depend on the inlet temperature T1 (Carnot Eff being {1-T1/T2}), which would be limited as solid state materials used in the thermoelectric generators cannot withstand very high temperatures. On the other hand gas turbines can use cooled blades, which allows very high inlet gas temp (say around 1200 C). But cooling is out of question for TEG.]
Yes, the Carnot efficiency is the absolute upper limit to the efficiency for a heat engine ... and the TEG IS a heat engine subject to that limit, albeit without moving parts. The TEG is just a heat exchanger with TE elements inserted between high gas temperature T1 and the coolant (water) temperature T2.
My HTGR concept uses Helium gas at above 1,000 deg C as the working fluid entering the TEG after passing through and capturing heat from the Helium-cooled reactor. T2 can be few degrees above the atmospheric temperature in an external cooling tower. So, estimating in a simple minded way, Carnot Efficiency = (1000 - 25)/(273+1000) = 0.766 or 76.6% which is much higher than the 45% I quoted for the best current thermal power plants.
As you imply, there are many additional heat losses and irreversibilities that will prevent this upper limit for efficiency from being reached, but 1,000 deg C is doable and as long as the coolant stream is not interrupted the TEG can be prevented from "melting down." My estimates showed that the current efficiencies can be matched by such a reactor using a TEG.
I designed the main elements of the HTGR power plant, including the gas-cooled reactor and the TEG, and submitted it as a R&D proposal for funding about 8 years ago, but it was not funded ... for me.
Two years later another "anointed" person in my lab got a R&D project approved for basically the same idea, but I was not a part of the team!
Ah! Can't win them all, I guess! If only I could get funded all the great R&D product ideas that lie dormant in my head, we can make Sri Lanka's economy bloom! Now, I work only on those ideas I myself can fund through my own company, and SHELVE ALL OTHER BIG IDEAS for my NEXT LIFE! Who knows, the "pin" I've gathered in this life might give me that opportunity.
SARA,
To achieve 45% efficiency using the TEG with a Carnot efficiency of 76.6%, you would need to use a TE material with a ZT-factor of about 4.9 .. that is not available commercially.
Such high values have been demonstrated experimentally in Nano-structured TE materials in R&D labs; that is where the PRINCIPAL BARRIER lies.
Reliability at high temperatures can be achieved more easily, by configuring the TEG as a multi-stage cascaded device with a smaller temperature drop across each stage.
SARA,
Here is a reference for you on High-ZT nano-structured high-temperature TE materials
This is the kind of R&D I had proposed.
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High Temperature Thermoelectric Properties of Nano-Bulk Silicon and Silicon Germanium
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Author(s):
Jean-Pierre Fleurial, Sabah Bux, Richard G. Blair, Pawan K. Gogna, Thierry Caillat, Richard B Kaner
[Materials Research Society]
Paper #: 1166-N02-04
DOI: 10.1557/PROC-1166-N02-04
Point defect scattering via the formation of solid solutions to reduce the lattice thermal conductivity has been an effective method for increasing ZT in state-of-the-art thermoelectric materials such as Si-Ge, Bi2Te3-Sb2Te3 and PbTe-SnTe. However, increases in ZT are limited by a concurrent decrease in charge carrier mobility values. The search for effective methods for decoupling electronic and thermal transport led to the study of low dimensional thin film and wire structures, in particular because scattering rates for phonons and electrons can be better independently controlled. While promising results have been achieved on several material systems, integration of low dimensional structures into practical power generation devices that need to operate across large temperature differential is extremely challenging. We present achieving similar effects on the bulk scale via high pressure sintering of doped and undoped Si and Si-Ge nanoparticles. The nanoparticles are prepared via techniques that include high energy ball milling of the pure elements. The nanostructure of the materials is confirmed by powder X-ray diffraction, transmission electron microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, and dynamic light scattering. Thermal conductivity measurements on the densified pellets show a drastic 90% reduction in the lattice contribution at room temperature when compared to doped single crystal Si. Additionally, Hall effect measurements show a much more limited degradation in the carrier mobility. The combination of low thermal conductivity and high power factor in heavily doped n-type nanostructured bulk Si leads to an unprecedented increase in ZT at 1275 K by a factor of 3.5 over that of single crystalline samples. Experimental results on both n-type and p-type Si are discussed in terms of the impact of the size distribution of the nanoparticles, doping impurities and nanoparticle synthesis processes.
A story of a forgotten hero:
http://www.silumina.lk/2009/08/02/_art.asp?fn=af0908022
elephants are not being returned. loku bandara against it.
http://www.dailynews.lk/2009/08/01/news12.asp
How is it Possible for Potential LTTE detainess to escape from IDP camps?
Something is VERY WRONG in the security arrangements!
3 Lankan Tamils escape from refugee camp
ExpressBuzz.com
Aug 1, 2009
RAMANATHAPURAM: Three Sri Lankan Tamils, who were inmates of the government refugee camp in Vanni, escaped from there and reached Rameswaram by a fibreglass boat, on Friday.
Police said that Sarath Babu (18), Anuston (19) and Thirukumaran (15), had escaped from the Vanni camp and obtained a boat and reached Narikuli seashore, near Dhanuskodi, in the early hours of Friday. Dhauskodi police registered a case and the three are being interrogated to ascertain if they were LTTE dropouts.
Ananda,
I don't know how to thank you for all that information.
I do feel sorry that your ideas are not coming in to fruition as much as they ought to. But that is part of life.
Have you wondered about the devlopment of low cost PV cells? Dependence on amorphous silicon is what increases the cost.
What I am thinking of is a low cost thing that may have low efficiency. Who cares about eff if cost is low enough?
Please don't laugh, but I have for a long time had this premonition that Koholla (of the jack fruit) would be a good basic material for this. Don't know how I got this idea!!!!
Another thing I wanted to ask you is about the solar probe that used a zero gravity point near Jupiter to achieve a path correction. That sounded fascinating. Did you do any work with NASA on that?
Looks like India has more urgent issues to address than promoting Federalism in Sri Lanka!
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Report highlights hunger in India
BBC.com
July 31, 2009
India is emerging as the world centre of hunger and malnutrition, a report by Indian campaign group, the Navdanya Trust, says.
The trust says that there are more than 200 million people - or one-in-four Indians - going without enough to eat.
The prominent environmentalist Vandana Shiva, who runs the trust, said there were now more hungry people in India than in sub-Saharan Africa.
The government has not responded to the report which was released on Thursday.
But it has repeatedly pointed out that huge progress has been made in recent years to improve the country's food security as its population grows by an estimated 18 million people a year.
The government also argues that individual states must take more responsibility to ensure that there is enough food to go around, especially in rural areas afflicted by bad harvests.
Underweight
Ms Shiva said that 57 million children in India are underweight due to malnutrition.
Vandana Shiva
Studies worldwide show that the hungriest of people are its producers - the farmers
Vandana Shiva
The Navdanya Trust says that per capita food consumption in India has decreased from 186 kg per person annually in 1991 to 152 kg in 2001, despite government food subsidies costing billions of dollars.
The report is largely based on data collected from government surveys as well as the trust 's own material from areas where malnutrition is an issue.
Ms Shiva argued that food provided in ration shops across the country does not provide for a balanced diet and is too rich in starch, leading diseases to such as diabetes.
She was also critical of genetically modified crops and chemical fertilisers, arguing that they only served to increase the costs of food production, forcing farmers into debt and in some cases causing them to commit suicide.
"Studies worldwide show that the hungriest of people are its producers - the farmers," she said.
Ms Shiva told the BBC that the region of Bundelkhand in central India has been hit by drought and starvation for about five years.
"So we've done a primary study there and 90 percent of the families aren't eating a full meal. There are very high rates of starvation,'' she said.
The BBC's Jyotsna Singh says that the trust's report comes at a time when the central government is working on new legislation which aims to ensure all citizens have enough to eat.
Our correspondent says that there are doubts as to whether the poorest of the poor will actually benefit under the scheme.
Some experts say that if the government is able to pass the bill it will be a significant first step towards improving India's ranking on the global hunger index.
The trust's report follows a UN study released in June which said that hunger in South Asia had reached its highest level in 40 years because of food and fuel price rises and the global economic downturn.
The report by the UN children's fund, Unicef, says that 100 million more people in the region are going hungry compared with two years ago.
mark my word, now the JOKERS will renew calls to release IDPs IMMEDIATELY. we are yet to find MORE.
from island.lk
Sri Lankan forces yesterday said that 24 four barrelled 14.5 mm anti-aircraft guns of Chinese origin (ZPU 4) had been among arms and ammunition worth millions of US dollars recovered by troops during Eelam War IV.
They said that the mobile guns had been acquired along with a range of other armaments from China producing North Korean and Eritrean end-user-certificates.
President Mahinda Rajapaksa recently said at a public meeting that he felt that the LTTE collected such a large stock of lethal weapons to use against some other country.
The then Army Chief General Sarath Fonseka on his first visit to Vellimullivaikkal after the annihilation of the top terrorist leadership said that unlike the successful anti-terror campaign in Malaysia in the 50s against men armed with 303 rifles, his troops had fought an enemy with a vast range of weapons at its disposal.
An authoritative official told The Island yesterday that troops had so far recovered seven 152 mm artillery pieces, nine 130 mm artillery pieces, six 122 mm artillery pieces, fifty four 120 mm mortars, three six barrelled multi barrel rocket launchers, 11 surface-to-air-missiles, 8 recoilless weapons, 45 rocket launchers, two 85 mm mortars, thirty eight 82 mm mortars, one hundred and thirty 81 mm mortars, four hundred and seventy nine 60 mm mortars, 64 commando mortars, 45 locally manufactured ‘Baba’ mortars, 55 disposable rocket propelled grenades, 579 rocket propelled grenades, 42 thermobaric weapons, two hundred and ten 40 mm grenade launchers, 14 missile launchers, six 23 mm twin barrelled guns, ninety one 12.7 anti-aircraft guns, fourteen 0.5 weapons, 44 General Purpose Machine Guns (GPMG), 247 Multi Purpose Machine Guns (MPMG), 432 T-56 (Light Machine Guns), 13,240 T-56 assault rifles, 351 T -81 rifles,172 G3A3 rifles, 101 AK-47 assault rifles, 60 FNC weapons, 40 M-16 assault rifles, seventeen 5.56 weapons, 74 self loading rifles, 15 gas weapons, 18 guns fitted with silencers, 72 sub machine guns, fifteen .22 weapons, 10 mini Uzi guns, 126 shot guns, 365 9mm pistols, 27 sniper weapons and 83 micro pistols.
The military said that though the entire range of artillery, mortars, T-56 assault rifles as well as mobile anti-aircraft were of Chinese origin, the LTTE arsenal included US, Israeli, Russian and Belgium armaments acquired from other sources.
Sources said that security forces and police had also recovered almost 10,000 kilos of explosives, detonators and steel balls of Indian origin during the past three years. Although the navy had destroyed a dozen LTTE merchant ships in over a decade, eight of them under former Navy Commander Admiral Vasantha Karannagoda’s leadership and dozens of trawlers, the LTTE had brought large quantities of arms and ammunition. Sources said that while large consignments of arms had been unloaded on the Mullaitivu beach, relatively smaller stocks had come through the Gulf of Mannar.
The army said that troops had also recovered a large quantity of mines, a range of ammunition, including artillery and chemicals. The LTTE is also alleged to have brought aviation gasoline from India. The LTTE also had sophisticated communication equipment, including some of British make as well as Japanese radar on its fast attack craft and 250 horse power Japanese outboard motors.
Every day, in every way, we are getting better and better at catching these monsters!
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LTTE killer of 100 naval ratings apprehended
By Indika Ramanayake
DailyMirror.lk
July 31, 2009
A top LTTE cadre, who is believed to have fixed the bomb in a vehicle that was blasted at Digampathana, killing more than 100 naval ratings, has been apprehended in Vavuniya.
The suspect, who is 48 years old, had originally worked at a garage in Mullaitivu and it has been revealed that he had also worked in a garage in Kilinochchi owned by Pottu Amman and was the person who had fixed the bomb to the vehicle that was blasted in October 2006 in Digampathana.
Police said a special team from the Central Province had apprehended the wanted man when he had been getting ready to flee the area.
The suspect told his interrogators that all the suicide vehicles had been prepared in that garage. Three months prior to the attack, the LTTE activists had handed over the vehicle ‘The Canter’ to the suspect, which was believed to have been fitted with 150 Kilogrammes of explosives.
Upon completion of the job of fixing of the bombs, the vehicle had been given a new coat of paint and had been used in normal transport work for more than a month in Dambulla area. It is believed that the vehicle had been used in that manner to allow the people to get used to it and to gather information.
According to Police sources it had been after gathering such information that the attack had taken place on a line of Navy buses on October 16, 2006.
WORLD'S MOST ARMED TERRORISTS
t56 assault rifles ALONE cost over US$ 6 MILLION!!
= 2 x MiG-27s at the prices we got them!!
others cost at least US$ 15 million
13,240 - T-56 assault rifles,
579 - rocket propelled grenades,
479 - 60 mm mortars,
432 - T-56 (Light Machine Guns),
365 - 9mm pistols,
351 - T -81 rifles,
247 - Multi Purpose Machine Guns (MPMG),
210 - 40 mm grenade launchers,
172 - G3A3 rifles,
130 - 81 mm mortars,
126 - shot guns,
101 - AK-47 assault rifles,
91 - 12.7 anti-aircraft guns,
83 - micro pistols.
74 - self loading rifles,
72 - sub machine guns,
64 - commando mortars,
60 - FNC weapons,
55 - disposable rocket propelled grenades,
54 - 120 mm mortars,
45 - rocket launchers,
45 - locally manufactured ‘Baba’ mortars,
44 - General Purpose Machine Guns (GPMG),
42 - thermobaric weapons,
40 - M-16 assault rifles,
38 - 82 mm mortars,
27 - sniper weapons and
24 - four barrelled 14.5 mm anti-aircraft guns of Chinese origin (ZPU 4)
18 - guns fitted with silencers,
17 - 5.56 weapons,
15 - gas weapons,
15 - 0.22 weapons,
14 - missile launchers,
14 - 0.5 weapons,
11 - surface-to-air-missiles,
10 - mini Uzi guns,
9 - 130 mm artillery pieces,
8 - recoilless weapons,
7 - 152 mm artillery pieces,
6 - 122 mm artillery pieces,
6 - 23 mm twin barrelled guns,
3 - six barrelled multi barrel rocket launchers,
2 - 85 mm mortars,
the 4M strategy worked. 4M - men, materials, machines, methods.
the most vulnarable in the case of the LTTE was MEN. destroy MEN or fighters, LTTE is doomed. destroying "MEN" destroyed its "methods" as well.
machines and materials are bonuses for the winner!!
Everybody is now a PEACEMAKER; SOUR GRAPES me thinks!
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Decision to give up armed struggle taken by Prabakaran: KP
By B. Muralidhar Reddy
TheHindu.com Colombo
July 31, 2009
Fundamentals for the next phase of struggle.
A new twist to LTTE politics
In a new twist to LTTE politics in the post-Prabakaran era, new Tiger chief Selvarasa Pathmanathan known as “KP on Thursday claimed that the decision of the Tigers to give up armed struggle and take recourse to “political and diplomatic moves” was taken by Velupillai Prabakaran along with other commanders at Mullivaikkal in Mullathivu district days before his death in the Eelam War IV.
In a statement posted on his website KP, supposedly operating out of South-East Asia and wanted by the Interpol, dealt at length on his earlier statement about the LTTE’s decision to achieve the goal of Tamil Eelam.
The statement titled, “What are the fundamentals for the next phase of our struggle?” said, “In these pages last week I had stated, our liberation movement had concluded that applying pressures through political and diplomatic means to achieve the national liberation of the people of Tamil Eelam were the most practical and strongest ways forward.”
It assumes significance as KP’s statement was contested by sections of the LTTE Diaspora. The issue was apparently sorted out a few days ago and an announcement was made that KP is to carry forward Prabakaran’s movement for Tamil Eelam.
“I had also stated that this conclusion was reached on the basis of the current difficult situation our people face, taking into account the massive setbacks our freedom struggle had encountered in recent times, existing international environment, regional restrictive circumstances and the external factors that influence the existential realities in Tamil Eelam.
“In accordance with the resolution that our leader had taken in Mullivaikkal, I had said that the next steps of our journey to win our goal of freedom will continue with silenced guns and through political and diplomatic means.
“I also stated that this political position was an important one in the next steps of our struggle and that we will further explore this in this week’s pages”, KP said in his latest entry on his blog.
He said after he had announced the “new diplomatic path”, some asked him two intricately linked questions: “Can we not continue the guerilla warfare while we continued a diplomatic pursuit? Would that not create greater pressure on Sri Lanka and assist in the diplomatic process? These were the two questions”.
KP asserted that after the incident at Mullivaikkal (it is not clear if the reference is to LTTE announcement on silencing of guns on May 16 or death of Prabakaran on May 19), the decision to take a political and diplomatic path was not taken by him alone but was made in consultation with the military commanders who were in the field at that time and with other divisional cadres.
“In the context of today’s world order, to pursue a military option while pushing forward with a political and diplomatic option is contrary to each other, similar to travelling in two different directions. This will cause many practical obstacles in moving to the next stage our freedom struggle that seeks to centralise the welfare of the people”.
Meanwhile, the military said that in view of the festival at Nallur Temple in Jaffna and marked improvement in security situation, the Army has relaxed curfew hours by one more hour.
“The curfew hours will accordingly come into effect only between 12.00 (midnight) and 4.00 a.m.”, it said.
this is unfortunately TRUE.
I AGREE 100%.
from TN. BTW TN is increasingly posting OBJECTIVE news items. if they can cut down on LOADS of BULLCRAP, it will be better.
"The activities of the Secretariat for Coordinating the Peace Process (SCOPP) came to an end Friday. SCOPP Secretary General, Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha said Friday in a farewell message that the armed forces have not received enough recognition for the work they have done for the people in the country.
He thanked the armed forces for their commitment in ending the war and bringing peace to the people of the country.
"They have maintained discipline and courage in their humanitarian efforts to rescue people, to protect them, and to rebuild the country. They must be acknowledged for their efforts," he said.
Ananda,
lol!
they burry WEAPONS, we DIG them up
we burry TAMILELAM, they DIG it up!!
to win this competition, it got to be burried in such a way that it cannot be recovered.
this is like the chena boy-toilet cleaner thingy!! after all, BOTH are at the 2 ends of the DIGESTING SYSTEM.
Moshe,
In other countries people drill for oil and mine ores .. these are their non-renewable natural resources.
In Sri Lanka, we do the same, but for a different type of non-renewable resource.
We drill for and mine out WEAPONS .. these, are our non-renewable "unnatural" resources courtesy of the Tamil Diaspora. You see, they are DYING to equip the Sri Lanka Armed Forces with the latest weaponry.
They BURY 'em, we UNBURY 'em .. a truly UNNATURAL resource! LoL!
we must thank gods for indian imposing changes into this sick fukcing system in this country.
if the indian did not impose changes, the army should take over.
if not it will be living with the same ol crap.
Tamils still trickling into India
By M.R. Narayan Swamy
ExpressBuzz.com, New Delhi
July 31, 2009
More than two months after the Tamil Tigers were decimated, Tamils are still fleeing Sri Lanka to come to India, but mostly by air. And the number has reduced to a trickle.
Only 109 Tamils arrived in Tamil Nadu, the Indian state closest to Sri Lanka's shore, in May, the month Tigers chief Veluipillai Prabhakaran and all his top lieutenants were killed.
The number went up to 142 in June and it dropped to 89 in July - one of the lowest since the refugee influx began in right earnest in 1983 after the anti-Tamil violence in Sri Lanka.
But thanks to a tight naval blockade on the island's coastline, few Tamils cross the choppy sea now, said S.C. Chandrahasan, a Sri Lankan activist in India who has worked among the refugees for well over two decades.
Instead, they are heading to Colombo and boarding flights in what is a new phenomenon, Chandrahasan, who heads an organisation called OFFER, told IANS on telephone from Chennai.
"More people are now coming by flight because it is not easy to come by boat," he said. "It is very risky, costly and difficult to come through boats."
Of the 109 who came in May, only 13 came by boat. In June, 39 of the 142 sailed to Tamil Nadu. The figure was just 10 in July.
Chandrahasan added that many of the estimated 280,000 in the refugee camps in northern Sri Lanka were making enquiries to find out if they could make it to India to start life afresh.
These are the people who have been kept in camps ever since the military overran the last of areas controlled by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in May, ending one of the world's longest running insurgencies.
"There is constant expectation that a sizeable section (in the camps) will prefer to come to India," said Chandrahasan.
"But this will depend on the political situation and the accommodation of people who were in LTTE areas," he said. "If all goes well, people will not come. There are constant enquiries."
As of June 1, there were 73,475 Sri Lankan Tamils in refugee camps in Tamil Nadu, a sprawling state separated from Sri Lanka by the narrow Palk Strait.
Many Sri Lankan Tamils also live in Tamil Nadu outside the refugee camps.
Chandrahasan explained that the main factor still driving Tamils to India was fear.
"If you talk to them, it is clear why they are so traumatised. Their minds are not at rest. They are reacting to what they saw and what they went through.
"The healing is not taking place (in Sri Lanka). The healing has to happen. If that happens, then it will be fine."
Are LTTE members also escaping to India?
"No high profile (LTTE) person can come through," he said. "(Some of the people) may have had some links. Important LTTE people cannot come through."
(M.R. Narayan Swamy can be contacted at narayan.swamy@ians.in)
Guys,
Two ltte in youtbe becoming headache...If you type Sri Lanka and search in youtuibe, 100's of ltte same shit comes......I flaged most of them...try and get rid of these please
1) WatcherInDisguise
http://www.youtube.com/user/WatcherInDisguise
2) PonnapiIle
http://www.youtube.com/user/PonnapiIle
Guys,
Two ltte in youtbe becoming headache...If you type Sri Lanka and search in youtuibe, 100's of ltte same shit comes......I flaged most of them...try and get rid of these please
1) WatcherInDisguise
http://www.youtube.com/user/WatcherInDisguise
2) PonnapiIle
http://www.youtube.com/user/PonnapiIle
Maybe this is where KP should locate his transnational government.
City floating on the sea could be just 3 years away
Well Elephants story is ending at its sad note. Shame on all bigwigs, teh prelates, the presidents, the ministers Champika and Lokuge and all those who issue health reports for their goodbeing even w/o seeing them.
It is not a shame on you Diyavadana Nilame crook. We simply hate you more. You are not fitting your role even before the event. Perhaps you're the first third class thuga to hold the role. We wish for your removal and enjoy it as we did with the end of many other such megalomaniacs of this country.
Until then the Nilame crook can play Mervyn of Kandy.
Ananda-USA
ayya please do something about this follwoing article, this bitch is a lier..
http://transcurrents.com/tc/2009/08/in_search_of_a_home_grown_lion.html
Guys please go to the following link and comment,,,,,i will kill who ever is this bitch is....
http://transcurrents.com/tc/2009/08/in_search_of_a_home_grown_lion.html
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Mahinda has mentioned that the Brits who massacred in Uva Wellassa are not in a position to preach to us “human rights”. The poor blighters in Uva Wellassa who were listening to him would have been too ignorant to know that in-between, their Republic signed up to the Geneva Convention as well as the charter of Human Rights and promised before the world to uphold them. They also would have been clueless as to the real reason why Mahinda was taking a swipe at the Brits. The reason was the IMF loan, which the government said they did not want, just like Caesar declining the Roman crown. Now they are praising it.
Then there was that other “gem” where the crafty Ram of the Hindu made Mahinda do a Sarath Fonseka (Sinhala country comment to a Canadian newspaper), by the statement that “Prabakaran was from the jungles of the North and I am from the jungles of the South.”
Think about the implications of this statement, the Republics President equating himself with the head of a terrorist organisation, both from jungles? Add to this the fact it is stated that these were prophetic words!!!!!!
But all these enthusiasts seem blissfully unaware that the “Lion” in the “Lion Flag” is a “White”, “European” Lion and not a “home grown” Lion.
Recently Milibands effigy was burnt by some “enthusiasts” and thrown over the walls of the British High Commission, but it was comical to see them waving a flag with a British Lion.
Although we conveniently blame the British for giving the Tamils a preeminent position in the colonial administration, we have forgotten that the last king of Kandy and many before him were Tamils. The last queen was also Tamil. Tamil was spoken in the Kandyan court, the fashions aspired to by the Sinhalese were Tamil, the Kandyan dress and jewellery were Tamil, many of the customs were Tamil and the Kandyan ministers signed the Kandyan convention with the British, predominantly in Tamil. So Tamil had a preeminent position, long before the British arrived.
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Even Vijaya, the founder of the Sinhala race married a Tamil after ditching “Kuvani”.
But, it is “fashionable” to blame the British for giving the Tamils a preeminent position and laying the blame on their doorstep.
In keeping with these latest fashions, we should take a close look at the Lion, in the Lion flag. You will not find a Lion that looks like the lion in the lion flag anywhere in the ruins of Anuradhapura, Polonnaruwa, Dambadeniya, Yapahuwa, Kurunagala, Kotte or Kandy.
The Lion of the “home grown” type can be seen standing around D S Senanayake at Independence Square, and it is of the “makara” style, which is of “Tamil” “Pallava” origins and can be seen in Yapahuva. It is this makara Lion, which could be seen in Kandy and not the European Lion in the present flag.
The Lion portrayed at the new war memorial at Jayawardenepura Kotte is a European Lion, copied from Dambulla temple and is said to be the flag carried by Dutu Gemunu.
Many are unaware that this particular mural was painted at the Dambulla temple about 200 years ago, after the arrival of the Europeans and the European Lion. It was from a period when the Sinhalese switched their fashion preferences from South Indian styles of the Kandyan period, to European styles of the Colonial period and European looking Lions started appearing adorning Sri Lankan mansions and Buddhist temples.
There is no archaeological or historical evidence to indicate that Dutu Gemunu ever carried a Lion flag, or even identified himself as a Sinhalese. The Sinhala ethnic identity did not exist in 161 BC.
With fashions changing from South Indian Kandyan styles to European Colonial styles and our founding father wearing tie and jacket instead of sathakaya, the Ceylonese flag made a timely appearance before independence with a European Lion from the “mother country” at the time Britain. We were told it was hanging in the Chelsea hospital and was the flag of the king of Kandy. Mysteriously to date, no picture of this original Lion flag supposed to be of the last King has ever been presented and remains more illusive than the Turin shroud. It had been remarked that this original flag had faded beyond recognition.
So the Lion that returned from Britain as the Kandyan kings flag was a European Lion, during a period where our “father of the nation” and others were aspiring to European fashions.
Fashions have changed again and the “mother country” has been replaced by the “fatherland”, or is it the “motherland”.
So, are we to stop waving this European Lion and get ourselves a “home grown” “Yapahuve/Pallava” one with its origins from South India?
With Mahinda shunning European fashions and standards of governance in favour of “home grown” versions, one wonders if his journey will also end like the “home grown” lion, with its origins in India.
The latest trend is to take anything foreign and brand it as “apema ekak”
Mahinda?s famous quote that there are those who love this country and those who don?t is marketed as an “apema ekak”. But its origins are in Catholic and Islamic fundamentalism made famous by George W Bush in his war against terrorism in “You are with us or you are against us”.
The new “home grown” solutions to the ethnic conflict peddled by Mahinda is marketed to the maasses as “apema ekak”, but dig deeper and like the Lion, you will find its origins in India.
In the 1980?s Indian intervention in Sri Lanka was overt and the Sinhalese responded aggressively. Today, Indian intervention in Sri Lanka is covert and sophisticated and the Sinhalese accept it as “apema ekak”. They seem unaware and unconcerned to the same extent that they are waving a European Lion and regarding it as their own.
This is very bad...........
http://www.lakbimanews.lk/news/laknew1.htm
The IGP has alerted police chiefs in Vavuniya about a racket involving smuggling out IDPs from camps by operatives of several Tamil political parties.
In a confidential report sent to the DIG, Vavuniya, the IGP has implicated activists of Tamil political parties who laid down arms to join mainstream politics with smuggling civilians for exorbitant fees.
The claim has been confirmed by Vavuniya District TNA MP, S Kishor, who told this newspaper that he is aware that around 50,000 IDPs have escaped from welfare camps by paying money to these groups. He also said that President Mahinda Rajapaksa has been informed of the situation.
Sources revealed that amounts ranging from Rs.100, 000 to 10, 00000 have been paid to these groups by the Tamil IDPs for smuggling them out from welfare camps. In addition, Tamil political parties enlist these IDPs as new members and bring them out of the welfare camps.
DIG in charge of the Northern Province Nimal Lewke said “We are not still sure about the exact number of IDPs who escaped from the camps. Arrangements are being made to carry out a census on IDPs to check the figures”.
The DIG said that the lists of those who have passed away in camps and those who were released must be compared with documents at the Divisional Secretariat and then the number of those who have escaped can be identified”.
I don't like this bringing various quasi-military people into Sri Lanka for demining, etc. I think this opens the door for RAW agents to infiltrate Sri Lanka
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80 more Indians for clearing landmines in Lanka
ExpressBuzz.com
IANS
August 2, 2009
NEW DELHI: Over 80 former Indian soldiers have left for Sri Lanka following the defeat of the Tamil Tigers to join Indians already there in clearing thousands of buried landmines.
The new group has teamed up with compatriots working since 2003, mainly in the northern districts of Mannar and Vavuniya, in defusing mines laid by both the military and the Tigers during their prolonged conflict.
While 50 of the latest batch of Indians are attached to the Pune-based Horizon Group, 32 are from Sarvatra Technical Consultants, a company that is based in Gurgaon, Haryana. Sarvatra will send 32 more men.
Both are led by retired Indian Army officers who are proud of what they have achieved so far and are keen to help Sri Lanka now that it is engaged in post-war construction.
"It has been a wonderful opportunity," Horizon chief and retired Major General Shashikant Pitre told IANS over telephone from Pune, referring to the de-mining work.
"We are happy that we have been able to contribute to the building of Sri Lanka," added retired Major General Prem K. Puri, the director (operations) of Sarvatra.
Both Pitre and Puri said that Basil Rajapaksa, advisor to his brother and President Mahinda Rajapaksa, was immensely happy with the work the Indians were doing.
Sri Lanka is one of the world's most heavily mined areas. There are no precise estimates about the number of mines the military and the LTTE buried in the island's north and east over the past quarter century.
The mines have killed and maimed thousands -- Tamils, Sinhalese, Muslims et al.
From 2003, Horizon and Sarvatra have been funded by Norway in the de-mining operations in the wake of an Oslo-brokered ceasefire. Although the truce later collapsed, the de-mining work did not halt.
The Indians were not the only ones clearing mines. Nearly a dozen companies were engaged in the task including one from Denmark. The Sri Lankan military is also now defusing mines in a big way.
Besides Mannar and Vavuniya, the Indian companies also cleared mines in Batticaloa in the east. Horizon also worked in the neighbouring districts of Trincomalee and Amparai.
All de-mining is done under the care of the National Steering Committee, a government body in Colombo.
After Sri Lanka crushed the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in May this year, the Indian government also decided to provide separate funds to Horizon and Sarvatra as part of stepped up aid to the island nation.
The 82 Indians who have gone now are an outcome of the Indian funding.
Both Indian companies have shared their skills with Sri Lankans they have employed over the years.
It wasn't easy though when it all began.
"There were lots of problems in the beginning," said Puri, referring to the 2003 period when the Norway-sponsored ceasefire brought a semblance of peace to Sri Lanka. The LTTE then effectively controlled the northeast.
"LTTE people were initially suspicious. They wanted to know why (retired) Indian Army people were in Sri Lanka," he said.
The suspicion arose from months of fighting between the LTTE and the Indian Army in Sri Lanka's northeast in 1987-90.
In the absence of records, there was no clear idea where exactly the mines had been laid. And since this was humanitarian de-mining, extra care had to be taken, making it more time-consuming and difficult.
How long will it take for Sri Lanka to be cleared of mines?
According to Pitre, it will take one-and-a-half to two years to do away with most landmines and another year to declare the areas safe for habitation.
Added Puri: "From a distance it might seem as if we are working slowly. That is not so. We have to clear every bit of land carefully, inch by inch. It is a meticulous operation."
It would serve President Mahinda Rajapakse well, particularly in these wholly unsavoury circumstances, to pay heed to the sagacious words attributed to former Prime Minister Sir John Kotelawela, who, upon being informed by one of his genuinely loyal supporters just after his ignominous defeat in 1956, that many of his erstwhile `loyalists’ were `queuing up’ in Rosmead Place to curry favour with the victorious Prime Minister designate Bandaranaike, is alleged to have said:
ISAY, LICKERS NEVER CHANGE; ONLY THE ARSES DO
this is true. he should take this seriously.
but i think he does bcos MORE THAN ANYONE, MR values GR and BR and they don't have ARSELICKERS.
its time he tells those who praise him TOOOO MUCH to stop it. their praise is actually an insult.
INDIAN SUB....NICELY RETALIATED!!!
China on Thursday delivered the first of four state-of-the-art frigates commissioned by nuclear-armed Pakistan from top ally Beijing, a naval spokesman said.
"The first F-22P Frigate constructed for the Pakistan navy at the Hudong Zhonghua Shipyard in Shanghai was delivered to Pakistan on Thursday," said Lieutenant Commander Shakeel Ahmed.
In keeping with contracts signed between China and Pakistan in 2005, the frigates will be equipped with anti-submarine helicopters, surface-to-surface and surface-to-air missiles and other defence systems.
"The F-22P frigates will not only enhance the war fighting potential of the Pakistan navy but will also strengthen the indigenous ship-building capability of the country," said Ahmed.
The announcement came two days after Pakistan hit out at India, branding its rival's first nuclear-powered submarine "detrimental" to regional peace and vowing to take "appropriate steps" to maintain a "strategic balance".
Relations between nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan have plummeted since Islamist gunmen killed 166 people in Mumbai last November, attacks that New Delhi blamed on banned Pakistani group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).
India on Sunday launched the first of five planned submarines by naming the 6,000-tonne INS Arihant (Destroyer of Enemies), powered by an 85-megawatt nuclear reactor that can reach 44 kilometres an hour (24 knots).
China is Pakistan's strongest ally and Islamabad relies heavily on Beijing for its defence needs.
Many Chinese companies operate in Pakistan and China is involved in the construction of a deep-sea port at Gwadar on the Arabian Sea.
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india is in SHIT now. a MASSIVE regional arms race is building up. all started by india.
now i hear india is AGAIN going to HIRE old russian subs, the type that went under!!! which will aslo be retaliated by its neighbours!!
Chintana4lions
What make you think that Dushy Ranetunge is a liar? Come to Kandy and see for your self the past history of that town. All devales that surround the palace is of Sinhalese origin? Then the main road of Kandy was known as the Malabar Street and you think it is of Sinhalese origin? Please enlighten us as we are dying to know the truth.
Dushy Ranetunge is an ass. We discussed his writings during the latter part of the war. He was anti-Army and anti-government during that critical period.
Kevin,
Please take little time to read what DR was saying. DR is trying desperate to destroy Sinhala identity for some unknown reason. Perhaps to standout being a contrarian. Unfortunately his half educated writings do not make him a pundit but a joker.
Let’s start from your note about the Malabar Street in Kandy. In fact, there is no Sinhala Street in Kandy. Why is that? Is it because there were no Sinhalese and only Malabaris were there? Or is it because seeing a Malabari is something special and noteworthy in Kandy? My guess is that it is the latter. Some years ago somebody else tried to say that Valagambahu (Vattagamini Abhaya) was a Tamil because he was called the Mahakalu Sinhalaya (The big and dark Sinhalese) by a Nigantha named Giri. Why was Valagambahu addressed with a special prefix “dark?” It was because, being very dark skinned among Sinhalese is something that stands out. So your note about Malabar Street merely emphasizes the fact that there were some Malabaris in Kany in that time and it was not usual.
Let’s get to the bottom of DR's arguments. He tries to portray that many Tamils were kings of Sinhalese and therefore Sinhalese are Tamils indeed. Start of the Nayakkar Dynasty started in May 1739.That was because Veera Narendra Singha did not have a successor to the crown and the crown went to Sri Vijaya Rajasinha of Nayakkar Dynasy from Madurai. Following Sri Vijaya Rajasinghe we had Kirti Sri Rajasinha, Sri Rajadhi Rajasinha, and Sri Vikrama Rajasinha. In deed, if you study history, you can see how these monarchs tried to embrace Sinhala traditions. So it was not "many kings" as DR tries to portray but only 3 kings before Sri Wickrama Rajasinghe. Not only that the Nayakkars embraced the Sinhala Buddhist identity.
Let’s talk about about Dutugemunus's Sinhala identity (2nd Century BCE) and the Lions flag. The most popular version of SL history was written by Mahathera Mahanama in 5th century CE. It is also believed that Mahathera Mahanama used Dipawamsa and Mahawamsa Attakatha to compile his Mahavamsa. If everybody was Tamil in SL that time and in the time of Mahanama, what was the reason for Dutugemnu to fight against Tamils? Please keep in mind that there are enough stone inscriptions and monuments erected by our old kings to corroborate Mahavamsa. In this back drop, is there any reason to consider Tamils (Chola)as invaders of Lanka and kick them out with all our might. Keep in mind that a many other kings fought to preserve the identity of the people of Lanka. If so, what was that identity different from Tamils. We don't have to be rocket scientists to find that identity to be the Sinhala identity. This is a place where DR makes a fool out of his half baked knowledge.
Finally, let’s look at the Lions Flag story. Once again, the Mahavamsa written in 5th century CE has a reference to a lion. Did we have any British or for that matter Europeans invading our country in that time? In addition if DR has ever walked in our ancient capital Anuradhapura, he may have seen the famous Moonstones (Sandakadapahana) everywhere. Some of these Moonstones predate Dutugemunu. It is not just Moonstones you can see the lion, but many balustrades also (example Sinha Pokuna in Mihinthale). In one case I have seen the lion in much elaborated urinal stone at the western monastery (Anuradhapura) also. Most of these lion figures predate the Pallava Era (6th century CE) which DR tries to connect the Sinhala lion. It is an accepted fact that our art work had some influence from Pallva Era but Pallava’s did not introduce the image of the lion to Sinhalese culture. Indeed, this kind of clueless argument by DR can wake up Senerath Paranavithana and Anuradha Seveirathna from their grave.
In summary, Dushy Ranathunga has made himself the proverbial buffoon by building his arguments on false facts. He shall study history and archeology bit more carefully before he comes up with his next dumb argument.
kevin and Chinthana4lions,
I tried my best above to debunk Dushy Ranathunga's false argument. I will not call him a liar but a clueless buffoon who tries to stand out being a contrarian.
Kevin,
You may want to look at this claim by Tamilnet about Kandy where you are intimately connected with.
sam,
well said.
you should write this to a popular website.
there is no point it to be restricted here. it is actually a CRIME. let the truth be known to every motherfcuker.
pussy ranatunge has done these twists many times. it doesn't surprise us.
re: kandy from toiletnet. i'm surprised why TN didn't say kandy comes from the word KUNDI!!! like pussy ranatunge, there is another pussy at TN. STRANGELY these jokers SEEMS TO BE working together or at least to a common agenda.
Moshe,
It seems that we are facing another wave of history distorter monkeys who are trying hard to destroy our country and identity. Watching these monkeys seems more important than ever.
Sam
sam, mayil, ananda, and others,
ok. this is it. i had enough.
always wanted to counter this toiletnet KNOW YOUR ETIPIMOLOGY crap.
but i lack history knowledge. so your help is ESSENTIAL for this.
we are going to prove that there are SINHALA-TAMIL-KERALA-ARAB etc. origins of place names.
it will be published in popular websites in retaliation to the TN effort.
it is going to be a FRONTAL HEAD-ON attack.
SOME POINTS TO NOTE.
1. if you look at TN, they have a plan. they want to show that SL place names are CONNECTED to tamil madu!!! which is not the case. there is a BROADER connection to india and beyond.
we must extract that broader relevance PREFERABLY BYPASSING tamil nadu.
2. toiletnet 100% depends on RYMING WORDS!! funny as usual.
e.g. (tn style)
MANCHESTER is tamil.
historically it was known as, MAAN-CHEDDI-KULAM like MAAN-KULAM, CHEDDI-KULAM, etc.
lol!
we have HISTORY which they don't have. we must play this trump card.
ready for the challenge????
Re: Lion, the Tamils, colonials and Kandy
I read thru few posting on related topics. Thought of writing here instead of the corresponding places as their are few facts to be cleared out. This discussion should grow and get enriched as we all have the twisted two cents worth knowledge and another cent of intuition into the matter. I may be slow in responding, but pls do carry on the discussion in my absence if so.
This response is just that 2c+1c from me.
- Lion of SL flag is a copy from the lion in Kandyan kingdom flag. It is not British. However it was drawn in 1900s [while following features of the Kandyan one] so it can have artistic influence of colonials. So what?
- There is no known facts [to me] that in early Anuradhapura days we had lion flags. By 300s of CE [CE=AD] Mahawansaya was written. By then there was an established Sinhala notion, yet there was no sign of a lion being a national symbol.
- Dravidians [I leave it for others to clarify the relationship of Dravidians and Tamils] have lived in SL from early days. Like many other ethnic migrants there must have been migrants from our nearest neighbor, dravidian region. I once hypothesized
that the nation Sinhala is a mixture of them all, natives and migrants of Anuradhapura era .
- However before 993 CE there had not being a segregated tamil population. They all lived in a mix, so in the course of 1000s of years they must have gotten mixed up into one race. I still believe that race is what we call Sinhala today.
- In the follow up of 993 invasion and 1215 invasion the Sinhala were really chased out of the Northern regions and the cradle of their civilization was destroyed into a stagnant water pits brewing malaria. This caused Wanni become barren. The land segregation by Wanni arid lands made way for a northern dravidian base.
- Meanwhile Dravidians migrated to southern Sinhala regions and they got mixed up with Sinhala. Some such Dravidians ended up becoming kings of SL. Languages like Tamil, Malayali, Thelingu became active languages among the South. So did their traditions and rituals.
- The Dravidian kings of Kandyan era represented the entire ethnic mix. They represented then Sri Lanka bar the colonial regions. They were just ethnically Dravidian.
- There is NOTHING wrong in a Tamil ruling SL as long as he represents SL. There is nothing wrong in getting a touch from their culture and language. Afterall, tamil is one of the most influential languages for Sinhala. Ethnically also there should be a fair bit of Dravidian genes in us. When you live next to a population volcano these are inevitable.
- It is perfectly OK as long as they stand for solidarity brotherhood, equality and one SL nation.
- Getting back to history tales. Meanwhile the northern segregated region fell under colonial control and they were favored ahead of Sinhala. This caused a complexity after independence and they found that equality is disadvantageous and hence they started demanding for special treats and extra benefits.
- The reaction to that was equally brutal as we saw in politically backed up riots. So end result was the proceedings as we know them.
- Right now the need is not to seek the tail of the lion, but to see how the lion can represent one Sri Lanka where all ethnic groups huddle under one symbol.
- For that I prefer if the lion is not as Sinhala as it was thought to be. The writer of that article is doing us a favor. He's showing how tamils should not despise the lion. Instead teh writer attempts to prove that it is is a common symbol which even tamils can adapt in becoming Sri Lankan.
Sujeeva,
Dushy Ranathunge is not trying to find common grounds to accept our flag or the lion symbol. He is trying distort the history to say that Sinhalese are mainly Tamils with a false history and a mistaken identity. According to DR, the lion symbol starts from Pallava era, which is clearly a false argument as I have elaborated. This is another Mithra Fernando trying very hard to destroy our identity for some unknown reason.
Sujeeva, Moshe, C4L, and Ananda,
End of the day, what the monkeys like Dushy Ranathuge are trying is to break the backbone of our identity. They walk many miles to break our backbone, the very backbone that was strengthen by our recent victories against terrorists. This a new trend similar to the one we had around 2001 which tried to demoralize our soldiers and glorify ruthless terrorist like LTTE. A nation with strong identity and pride in itself can not be easily subjugated. Such a nationalistic pride will be a gigantic obstacle in building an Eelam or subjugating for the whims and fancies of western powers. It is our national duty to expose such naked attempts in the years to come.
dushi ranatunge is a legend. this guy used to invade LTTE gatherings by himself and expose their lies. LTTE used to have meetings where the sign in Tamil said one thing but English a totally different meaning. just like Federal Party <-> Arasu Kachi . westerners who were deceived into attend these meetings got to know the true nature of the LTTE.
the article he wrote and the angle he is seeking may not be obvious to a simpleton but slightly more sophisticated thinkers know the angle he is looking at.
panhinda,
mate, let me disagree.
that is like saying only the "intelligent ppl" can see the NAKED king's beautiful clothes!!!
ranatunge may have done so but there is no point stabbing the dead man. it doesn't make him a hero now. he did NOTHING when such work was needed especially in the final stages of the war.
also NEVER forget that LTTE is NOT our enemy #1. TAMIL ELAM is our enemy.
ranatunge has good and bad just like the LTTE leader but what he plays now is insane.
lions,
mate, kevin is a good guy though holds a different view on this.
sam, moshe,
dushe is a 'seasoned campaigner'. he may have been thinkin the way you think about 15 years ago. nothing to do with intelligence. people aquire more wisdom when you have been and done as long as he has.
so me thinks we ought to give him benefit of the doubt. his underlying thinking is as same as you and me. just the mode of delivery has changed. we have to respect that.
panhinda,
come on mate.
benefit of the doubt????
there is no doubt. he or she is a seasoned writer and knows what the writing creates in minds of the readers.
this is NOT AT ALL the time to bring up racial superiority stuff. this is time for ethnic integration.
walagamba was dark bcos his grandfather - kavantissa was as dark as a crow!!
if obama thinks like ranatunga, he will change THE WHITE HOUSE to THE BLACK HOUSE!!!!
Bravo Sam!
Yes, once again there appears to be a concerted effort to insult, malign, ridicule the nationalistic pride of the nation via hurling unmitigated attacks at the Sinhelas’ identity as these vile characters know that identity is akin to the vertebrae of the nation as it is espoused, venerated and nurtured by nearly 80% of the nation’s population and if they can damage it, they know they will have a “vegetable-Sri Lanka” that will be the most conducive to revive their separatist struggle and usher in their dreamland “thamileelam.”
True, this was the modus operandi of the traitorous elements during Ranil’s short lived UNF govt…where it was quite common then to see this type of feverish attacks on the Sinhela’s identity, all of course done under the patronage of pro-LTTE, pro-eelamist western govts, including of course Norway. Then too all that was done under the guise of “ethnic reconciliation” and it is amusing (and infuriating) to see that same monster has started rearing its heinous head up again.
I say time to take a no-holds-barred approach to countering this insidious ploy once again. We need to recall the supreme sacrifice made by our valiant Ranavirus and owe it to them to assure that these reactionary, traitorous elements don’t get their way.
Time to take the gloves off…be done with niceties and civility as the end truly justifies the means!
So for my part, here I go…
OaO Asithri
Panhinda
[the article he wrote and the angle he is seeking may not be obvious to a simpleton but slightly more sophisticated thinkers know the angle he is looking at.]
Hey Cocksuker…who the fuck do you think you are? Einstein here?
DR said (among other hilarious cum filth):
[Recently Milibands effigy was burnt by some “enthusiasts” and thrown over the walls of the British High Commission, but it was comical to see them waving a flag with a British Lion]
And you think anyone who would take exception to that is a “simpleton”…???
Pray tell me moron cum arsehole…did they not teach you in school that there is nothing called a “British Lion” or even an “English Lion” as lions were never indigenous to the fucking MilliBad land???
Fucking pro-eelmist, pro-RW piece of shit… (on such wanna-be) I’ll cut your donga off and shove it up your arse… better still, how about up your mtoher's yoni?
Ouch! Ouch indeed! As promised, here I go again...
OaO Asithri
It is amazing the number of history-Einstein MommaFucks who come here and try to teach us, yet-again and again, revised versions of our Sinhela history...Wow!
Yes, there is no dearth of these vile Cocksukers...yes, they all came out of the woodwork when the grad-design was laid out to destroy the psyche and pride of our MotherLanka and thereby grab the "thamileelam" by hook or by crook.
Now that the military approach failed, these MommaFucks are all out on the "let's re-write SL history" once again...
This is also a result of the over $300MM war chest the vile Sakkiliyas have and know not what to do with it...well, how about throwing some of it to some "journalists" to write anti-Sinhela filth...? Can't blame that strategy I suppose...
OaO Asithri
Guys
Last night we just came from the tour of those areas of North. Met a few people there and in private they seem to be delighted that they have been rescued by our brave toops.I think in my opinion we have neglected these areas for decades and these areas seems to be given to communal minded Tamil politicians. I think we should move a few government departments up there that would give employment to those people. We should not give a single inch of this island to any racist minded group.
I have my doubt about the intentions of these de mining people from abroad and I have no doubt our forces deployed there may have some control of their activities. There may be some infiltration of forces or groups that may give us a bit of bother.Gosl had gone a long way to get rid of the terrorists and have control of these areas and dealing with these infiltrators and people with a sinister motive can’t be that difficult. People are delighted that there’s transportation that will be established to their former homes in the North. I think the future is bright if we stand firm as this an internal affair of the island without anyone from outside putting their 2 cents into it. If they can’t give us the IMF loan that we need to develop the country then they must bugger off and we can raise the money within the island. As a proud nation we must find resources within then the IMF and other people will queue up to help us. It’s not good PR to insult them using the election platfooms.All we need is to win the heart and minds of the powerful and rich nations without compromising our dignity by using the right tools.
astri,
sorry i missed your one.
you'll find lion is non-indegenous both countries. what he found comical was burning something and throwing it over Brit HC wall like you some rubbish would make a statemet!
that is what i meant simpleton gets worked up for silly things.
that cum-suckin thig gettig stale btw.
[that cum-suckin thig gettig stale btw.]
That's not what your mother said to me last night.
OaO Asithri
astri,
it is buddy, its getting stale and boring. yawn.
Sam,
Is this "Panhinda" not another handle of that multi-polar, incestuous dad? I thought there was some discussion earlier to that effect...that given the real Panhinda vacated this blog long ago, a crafty pro-eelamist cocksucker crept in and too over it...
???????
OaO Asithri
astri, you not wring to 'economist' anymore? what happed? they got bored with you?
Pandal-eelam
[you'll find lion is non-indegenous both countries. ]
A beaut! Truly a beaut!
True, Lion is not indigenous to both countries, but SINHA, SIMHA, etc. in most Indian dialects means Lion, whereas "British" "English" (or even "Limey" for that matter, LMSSAO!!!) has no connection to Lion...but DR chose to use that term "British Lion" when denigrating the Sinhelas' identity and you vile cocksuker, a vile Retard but an Einstein-wannabe, has no problem with it...and you are trying to convince patriots here that DR's article is full of merit!!!
ha ha ha...I rest my case.
OaO Asithri
PriyaS,
Hey, menna apey-ma porak...sahodaraya kohomada...hondin innawada?
yes, brother I too did not come here too often after the Fat-Pig was found in his underwear (minus his linga of course!), minus half his skull, mud-strewn all over his torso, in MVK...but have been coming here occasionally to "take the pulse" and boy am I glad I did that today...as I found too many undercover filth here...trying to encourage the re-writing of Sinhelas' history...just the way cocksuker eelamist always wanted done.
Cheers,
OaO Asithri
OK History-Einstein wannabe MommaFucks...now chew on the meaty bones I have left for you here...until I grace you with my next truly captivating visit...
:)) :)) :))
Good night/day to all my dear patriots here...
OaO Asithri
Well, looks like there had been another fight rather than a discussion.
Moshe;
"However before 993 CE there had not being a segregated tamil population"
I did not mean the inverse of it is true. In fact it is not. The Jaffna based segregation started when the invaders completely destroyed the Rajarata civilization. Yes the Plonnaru era was before that.
Thanks for pointing out as someone could have taken it that way.
Sam,
I never meant that DushyR was really working for ethnic harmony. I understand the long way around. But indirectly his statement means that Tamils don't have a reason to hate the lion. I was stating in jest.
Panhinda,
I have never seen Dushy's previous writings. But I cannot agree here that he's purely academic on the subject. His writeup is intentional and he is taking us to one point.
Asithri,
Extra adrenaline, Calm down mate. I was just stating some idea which I believe has grounds. I see nothing wrong in it.
Senior Sri Lankan official arrested for rebel links
Irish Sun
Sunday 2nd August, 2009
(IANS)
Colombo, Aug 2 (Xinhua) A senior civil administration official in the Sri Lankan government has been arrested for alleged links with the defeated Tamil Tiger rebels, police said Sunday.
Nagalingam Vethanayagam, the government agent of Kilinochchi, was arrested Friday following information from an arrested Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) cadre, police said.
Vethanayagam held the post in the former LTTE political headquarters until January this year when Kilinochchi was recaptured by the government troops.
The government agent is the senior most civil service administrative officer of a district in Sri Lanka.
The authorities keep on interrogating former rebel cadres now housed in camps for displaced persons in the northern districts of Jaffna and Vavuniya.
They are among the near 300,000 civilians affected by the final battles between the government troops and the LTTE.
The LTTE had been fighting for more than two decades to carve out an independent Tamil homeland in the north and east before they were defeated by the troops in May.
Oh, No! Is Whabism Penetrating Sri Lanka?
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"Police Search For Islamic Preacher"
SundayTimes.lk
August 02, 2009
Detectives piece together disturbing picture after Beruwala violence
The Government yesterday launched a manhunt for a controversial South Indian Islamic preacher amidst reports that he was responsible for sparking sectarian violence among Muslims in Sri Lanka.
Immigration Controller P.A. Abeykoon told the Sunday Times yesterday he had sought Police help to locate the preacher named Kovai Ayoob.
Two youths at the Masjidur Rahman read slogans
written by Thawheed members condemning the attack.
The slogan dubs a rival mosque moulavi as
“Sheikh Prabhakaran”. Pic by Athula Devapriya
This was after a complaint from the Religious Affairs Ministry that he was fanning religious hatred among Muslims. The Ministry wants him deported immediately. Ayoob who had come to Sri Lanka on a tourist visa, is said to be a member of the controversial Tawheed sect, and was scheduled to deliver a sermon at a mosque in Kalmunai in the Ampara district after the weekly Jumma prayers last Friday. Upon learning that a search had been launched for him, he had read out a message for the devotees of the mosque through a telephone. This was broadcast via loudhailers in the mosque on Friday.
The move comes against the backdrop of the July 24 incidents in the southern coastal town of Beruwala. A mob of angry Sunni Muslims attacked the Masjidur Rahman mosque after a Moulavi (cleric) had during Friday prayers called the followers of a rival sect Kafirs or infidels because they had celebrated a feast.
The incident came after the neighbouring Bukhari Thakkiya ended a two-day 130th anniversary feast drawing tens of thousands of Muslims from all over the country. Two people died and 40 were injured in the violence. Nine of the injured are still in hospital.
The Thawheed group which has increased its numbers and influence in recent years in Muslim majority areas in the Eastern, Western and Southern provinces follows Wahabism, which for more than two centuries, has been Saudi Arabia's dominant faith. It is described as an austere form of Islam that insists on a literal interpretation of the Quran. Wahabis believe those who do not practise their form of Islam are heathens and enemies.
The Beruwala incident and subsequent investigations by intelligence agencies have led to the authorities beginning to piece together a disturbing picture. It has come to light that some preachers were coming here regularly from abroad to conduct sermons on the virtues of Wahabism. A closer watch on activities in mosques in the East had pointed to preacher Ayoob's plans.
In a related development, Police yesterday questioned members of a mosque said to belong to the Tawheed group in Ottamavadi in the Batticaloa district. This followed the abduction of an Imam (also cleric) from a mosque in the same village. Deputy Inspector General (Eastern range Central) Edison Gunatillake said the investigation into the incident began after the uncle of the Imam lodged a complaint.
The complainant had alleged that a Moulavi of a rival mosque was responsible for the abduction, he said. Police have now unearthed records that show that another South Indian preacher named P. Jainulabdeen was arrested and deported in 2006. This was after his sermons caused serious unrest among Muslims. A Police official who did not wish to be identified said that Jainulabdeen on being questioned after his arrest had disclosed plans to visit the Masjidur Rahman mosque. However, he was deported before that. "A pattern in their activities is now emerging," he said.
Visit The Sunday Times Insight team’s full report on the Beruwala incident.
OK, Patriots,
Get ready to celebrate: Here comes retribution for those TRAITORS who hid within the Govt and AIDED the Tigers!
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Top Govt. officials spied for Tigers
Recently captured top level cadres reveal
Some top government officials serving in the north are now facing arrest over their active feeding of intelligence to the LTTE after regularly visiting Colombo for official meetings.
Sources said their active role in the LTTE had been revealed by Tiger top level cadres recently captured by the security establishment.
These cadres under interrogation, in addition to giving locations of hidden Tiger caches had come out with detailed information about these officials, who had not only fed the organisation about movements of VIPs, but even maps of vulnerable installations and places in the south, they said..
At least a dozen top officials are now likely to be arrested in this regard, where solid evidence is available against them. What is most alarming is that some of these officials had helped to transport explosives and bombs to the south from the north hidden in their official vehicles.
Even top education sector officials had been part of the spy ring for tigers and some key people connected to the ring are also being questioned at present.
Patriots,
SL Vs Pakistan, 3rd ODI at Dambulla.
Pak. 128/4 after 27 overs.
sujeewa,
you were right in saying so, i only completed for the time after 993CE.
chol(er)a guys were completely unimportant in SL history. they were here for just <80 years which is NOTHING.
as a result hardly anything changed.
SL beating chol(er)a invaders however means ALOT. it means even the GREATEST TAMIL MADU "warriors" mean NOTHING to us. true, the war ran for a decade or more, but there was no compromise.
modern day chol(er)as should think again b4 taking on SL.
Wow, in recent couple of days we hit couple of waves of allegations (Including the Elephant incident) and reports regarding Kandy our world heritage city which is the sacred place for Buddhists. what i think this was all planned attacks to damage and discredit the reputation and pride that has been holding for centuries. first eh elephant story (Bit exaggerated). then this report by this A** clown. these people knows how to touch the nerves of the people of this country.
from BBC.....
Mr Rajapaksa said the government was aware that some people, mostly Tamil Tiger suspects, had escaped recently from the tightly guarded camps in the north.
"We have evidence that some people have gone to India, Singapore and to Europe," he said.
"We have taken action against those security personnel who had assisted the escape. But a majority of them have escaped on the pretext of going to hospitals."
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how nice if we could take AS MANY tigers as possible back into the battlefield and FINISHED THEM.
an UNACCEPTABLE number of terrorists are living in camps. most of them CANNOT be rehabilitated. of course now we can't do much, except give them e-coli to eat and die, we should have thought these things b4 the war ended.
or let them escape in boats to singapore on wherever. attach time bombs to the boats to go off in mid sea. NO ONE will know.
if anyone disagrees, excuse me for MOSSAD thinking but this problem will come to bite us soon. nip in the bud is something we MUST learn.
a "STITCH" in time saves 9!!!!
Moshe,
The whole crap of tamil self governance was created by primarily Kalinga Magha. Needless to say that SL kingdom was in chaos hence supporting him in a great deal.
The main reason for segregation is the destruction he did, primarily to the agrarian structure. The outcome of it pushed the population further south and made an uninhabited barrier between them and Jaffna peninsula. So anyone trying to get back Jaffna had to go thru the hardship of crossing teh harsh region.
Anyway, the whole period that Jaffna had was say 1215 -1619 roughly. During this many Sinhala kings invaded them. Kings Parakramabahu the Second and Parakramabahu the Sixth had the region fully under their ministers. Many other kings made Jaffna princes to accept their control over them. So the brief 400years were also not a self governance at all.
Ruhuna and Upcountry of SL had more autonomous periods than them.
I carefully wrote this time, as my last one had many lines which may have misused. Note my use of word Jaffna, I insist that the region was limited within peninsula, and NOT spreading to Wanni as many try to prove.
Back to the lion topic, I think some guys have come up with good responses. If we can combine them we can put a good response to DushyR. Can we write to transcurrent? Do they publish outsider's responses?
Moshe,
[[if anyone disagrees, excuse me for MOSSAD thinking but this problem will come to bite us soon. nip in the bud is something we MUST learn.]]
Fully agree. We missed the most important part of the war.
You saw the differences of rescued IDP groups. First lot ran for their life as if a T-Rex is chasing after. Those were thin, wounded, worn out ppl. Next lot came with all jewelery, potbellies and w/o any wounds. Those people were in a mood as if an overnight flashflood has inundated their houses and they had to take shelter in nearby hill side. A feel of annoyance instead of hope.
The latter lot WERE terrorists, no matter whether they ever held a weapon. And they shouldn't have lived.
Sadly from here on, they will be the dominant lot if we provide them a political solution, discuss anything or implement political structure. They will come in different political movements in future and state the same old crap.
Like in 1950-70; when few ambitious politicians gained control over mass of North, hence misleading them and hijacking their ambitions, the gang of remaining terrorists will take over the ideological move of the wanni ppl, and replace with those of separatists.
Millions in diaspora and 100s of NGOs are just waiting to get it going.
Pakistan 288/8 in 3rd ODI. Run Chase begins!
Gota warns of efforts to free hard core Tigers from IDP camps
by Shamindra Ferdinando
Island.lk
August 02, 2009
Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa yesterday said that though the LTTE had been military crushed once and for all, attempts were being made to rescue hardcore terrorists taking refuge among civilians accommodated in welfare centres in the Vavuniya region.
He warned that this could be a part of an overall strategy to explore ways and means of reviving the organization.
In an interview with The Sunday Island, he said that an organized campaign had been launched to free terrorists from welfare camps before army and police investigators now engaged in a systematic screening process closed in on them.
Ordinary civilians would never make an attempt to flee welfare centres as the government, with the support of some international agencies, had provided adequate facilities for them, Rajapaksa pointed out.
Newly appointed Commissioner General of Rehabilitation, Major General Daya Ratnayake, last week said that though close to 10,000 LTTE cadres, both men and women, had been detained at 12 detention camps exclusively set up for ex-combatants, up to 10,000 more, including hardcore cadres could still be hiding among the civilians accommodated separately.
He said that once the screening process come to an end, the total of terrorists in government custody could go up to 15,000 or perhaps as high as 20,000.
The Defence Secretary said a many persons had escaped over the past two months though some were again re-taken to government custody. He acknowledged that some of those who escaped had been assisted by a few police and army personnel deployed in the area.
Some had escaped after being admitted to Vavuniya hospital on the pretext of illness. Action was being taken to tighten security measures in the area he said, revealing that a clergyman too, had been involved in the human smuggling racket.
Fielding questions, he said that the government could find itself in a difficult situation if it failed to account for people accommodated at welfare centres with the knowledge of the ICRC. Those who demand freedom of movement IDPs would then make accusations about disappearances. Some who escaped had fled the country while many taken refuge in Colombo and plantations areas.
He said that interested parties would turn IDPs to a major issue as part of their overall strategy to undermine Sri Lanka. Some wanted the government to enhance facilities available to IDPs while these same people speculate that permanent structure in the camps would mean civilians would be held for two to three years.
Despite severe financial difficulties, the government had always provided maximum possible support to IDPs. He vowed that the government wouldn’t allow anyone to reverse military victories achieved at a huge cost of lives and limbs of the armed forces.
SL 144/0 ; half way to winning 3rd ODI. Mahela 82, Thranga 59 n/o.
Prachanda blames SL for destroying LTTE
It is surprising as he was in great friendship with MR when we did that. I see a pro-Pussycat turn in all Maoist movements and doubt whether remaining Pussycat brokered a deal to use the terror outfit's resources. Maoists and Islamists are the only active terror movements in South Asia right now.
sujeewa,
that is very interesting.
after beating our king should have taken the capital back to A or P.
he took the easy way out.
use it or lose it!!.
i recon dbsj would not reject a nicely written article. but then again, now he is a bit off.
Moshe,
1215 invasion was pretty harsh.
They practically burned the cities. If you go to P'naruwa, you can see how some temples were burned. [Some walls still have the burn marks and pieces of roof tiles stuck in the melting mixture which they used to plaster walls. And taht tells a magic about the mixture too].
A usual invader would not destroy the cities this much, as they plan to dwell there, Magha is not a conventional king, but a professional looter. I personally believe that he originally planned a Sinhala suppression and exodus such that his people can come back and settle there, hence planting the seeds for Ponnambalams, Sundaralingams, and Prabhakaran.
And they destroyed the irrigation system. Not by ignoring like British did, but by damaging teh tanks and Canals.
They found every family with knowledge of "shasthra/shilpa/kala" and killed up to infants such that the knowledge will not proceed from that point. This is the most significant place where we lost our science and tech.
Then the region was left for decades like that.
One king, Either Wijayabahu the third or his Son P'bahu the second tried to get back to P'naruwa and reigned there for few years, but he found it so hard to stay around. Note that he was left w/o any proper science and technology.
Historians still call Magha as the most ruthless invador, ahead of Portugese, English and Chola of Raja Raja kingdom. Knowing how cruel and destructive they had been, we can imagine Magha's impact.
Sri Lanka Wins 3rd ODI! 289/4; won by 6 wickets with 21 balls remaining.
Match & Series 3-0! WoW!
Ape' Kollanta Jayawewa!
After much searching, I've found the details of British scorched earth policy in Uva Wellassa:
cut down every yielding tree,
pull down every dwelling house,
destroy all fields,
canals and irrigation reservoirs,
kill all Sinhalese males over the age of 14 years and
slaughter all cattle leaving those which are needed for the use of the (British) army
http://www.island.lk/2002/02/04/featur04.html
I recently learnt that Wellassa actually means 100,000 paddy fields i.e. Wel (paddy field) lakshaya (100,000)!!! So this was a fantastic agrarian area, although it is considered a dry area now thanks to the destruction by his/her Brittanic Majesty's government at the time.
When Governer Brownrigg had seen these paddy fields (probably before the fighting) he had remarked that it would have been enough to supply the British Army in India!!
I am glad to say that the small traders are in large numbers selling stuff at the Kandy Perahara route which they have been deprived gradually for the last 3 decades. I think its victory for the small man where they could make a bit of money during this happy festive occasion. Next we want our Bogambara carnival back.
Blogger Asithri said...
Bravo Sam!
Yes, once again there appears to be a concerted effort to insult, malign, ridicule the nationalistic pride of the nation via hurling unmitigated attacks at the Sinhelas’ identity as these vile characters know that identity is akin to the vertebrae of the nation as it is espoused, venerated and nurtured by nearly 80% of the nation’s population and if they can damage it, they know they will have a “vegetable-Sri Lanka” that will be the most conducive to revive their separatist struggle and usher in their dreamland “thamileelam.”
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I wonder whether there should not be a multi-lingual public one-stop shop (web portal) for Sri Lankan history.
If such a portal is made non-political, accurate and reliable then it can be a single point of reference for people wishing to verify stuff they see elsewhere.
For example, if hosted by the Dept of Archaelogy at www.archaeology.gov.lk, there would be much credibility attached to it.
On a personal note, if I knew some of the stuff I am learning now, I could have used that to devastating effect elsewhere.
Ceylon Tobacco s earnings rise 44.3% YoY to LKR769 mn in 2Q09
www.srilankaequity.com
Ceylon Tobacco s (CTC) net profit has increased by a sharp 44.3% YoY to LKR769 mn in 2Q09 whilst cumulative 1-2Q09 earnings are also up by a strong 41.3% YoY to LKR1,262 mn. Despite a marginal decline in volumes, earnings have been boosted by a high margin brand mix coupled with aggressive cost management initiatives.
CTC enjoys a monopoly market for manufacturing, marketing and importing cigarettes in Sri Lanka. The company segregates the market based on income levels and markets Dunhill and Bensons for high income category along with Pall Mall, Gold leaf and Viceroy for the middle income category followed by Three Roses and Capstan for the low income category.
Faced with slowing revenue growth CTC has cut back on its training, transport and CSR expenditure in order to improve the profitability. Thus the company has halved its operating expenses (reduced by 47.9% YoY) resulting with the total expenses declining by 7.6% YoY despite a 90.3% increase in raw material cost and managed to grow its net profit by 44.3% YoY to LKR769 mn.
Net revenue has increased 7.6% YoY to LKR2,927 mn in 2Q09. Gross revenue has increased by 5.2% YoY to LKR14,640 mn in 2Q09, contributed by an improved sales mix, grabbing market share from illegal distributors and excise led price increases despite a moderate drop in volumes, which was a result of the ban on smoking in public areas coupled with change in smoking habits amongst the general public.
However, the government s efforts in curbing the presence of smuggled and counterfeit cigarettes provides some optimism for volume growth in future. The period under review witnessed one price revision in April 2009, which increased the price of Pall Mall, Goldleaf, Viceroy, Benson and Dunhill brands by LKR2 per stick whilst the price of Three Roses and Capstan sticks remained unchanged.
Government levies continued to be 80% of gross revenue, which grew 4.7% YoY to LKR11,713 mn driven mainly by increases in excise duties of nearly 7% YoY coupled with the 2% increase in Nation Building Tax with effect from May 2009. Consequently, net revenue has grown 7.6% YoY to LKR2,927 mn in 2Q09, supported by an upward price revision and a shift in product mix to high margin brands.
contd... www.srilankaequity.com
Folks,
Read how Indian flag moved from Charka to Chakra, the Ashoka Chakra.
On the other hand, our flag is ethnically demarcated and it is a vector of division.
The flag is there to bring other communities together with the Singhalas.
Every thing in the island is a flag to me – a grain of sand, a tree, a leaf, gama, Pansala, Wave, Old Royal cities, etc etc what ever is Sri Lankan. I need no flag to motivate me, to be a Sri Lankan.
Other communities may have no such links to the Sri Lanka Earth. So, we should give them a flag to flock together in our march towards a greater destiny.
Currently, the best solution is to give prominence to the flag of Mahinda Rajapaksa, which is more apt to be a binding force.
Please be humble in your assertions. Remember always that the average Sri Lankan was a Brit slave just 60 years ago – except the Kalu Suddas .
The Nation building has just begun….
goolge,
thanks for sharing.
this is horrifying stuff!!
barbaric british now teaching us human rights! i recon like in diago garcia, etc. there is a cause of action arising from the destruction in wellassa.
POSSIBLY the 1971 terrorism had root causes in this MASSIVE destruction.
also based on what i know, the rice, lentils, etc. from uva got a unique taste.
curse them those who destroyed wellassa.
mahindapala from guardian.
"S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike’s most revolutionary act was not the introduction of Sinhala Only in 1956. The greatest threat to the Vellahla domination came from the noted Prevention of Social Disabilities Act of 1959 which challenged and threatened to dismantle, for the first time since the Vellahlas took command of Jaffna in feudal and colonial times, its casteist castle, ensconced behind cadjan fences. It was, according to sociologists, a masterpiece of legislation which took the Vellahla fortress apart, piece by piece. Bryan Pfaffenberger, the leading authority on the Jaffna caste system, had made a detailed analysis of how Bandaranaike’s legislation was resented and demonized by the “caste fanatics” like Prof. C. Suntheralingam"
this is the truth. BTW the act was official language act not sinhala only act!!!
in a way banda did the the wrong thing. he should have instead used the frustration in lower castes to start up violence. this could have been used (when required) against tamil elamists.
by equalling lower and upper castes (although it is a very good thing to do) he joined the two groups and the tamil elam crap got both groups.
if one group was against the other, use one of them to screw the other.
DIVIDE & CONQUER!!
it took until 2004 to secure a division and thereafter it was SMOOTH SAILING.
SL badly needs a STRATEGIC NATIONALISTIC THINK TANK.
ananda and others who expressed suspicion over the INCREASE in indian presence....
well, you guys got it right.
"It will take one-and-a-half to two years to do away with most land mines and another year to declare the areas safe for habitation, reported Times of India, Sunday, citing Indian Army’s retired Major General Prem K. Puri who is heading one of the Indian outfits engaged in de-mining the North and East."
another indian move to SQUAT in SL. carefully look at how this will EXTEND the indian doctors' time indirectly!!!
their simple presence keeps away chinese and pakistani military from ever entering the country even if required.
3 years is a very long time.
also carefully look into the 13 amendment and indian pressure.
THE 3 THINGS ARE CONNECTED!!
(indian doctors, indian demining idiots, indian 13 amendment)
further...
MR said any solution after his reelection which can be 2009, 2010or 2011.
but indians want to wait and see it is the 13 that comes as the solution.
2009 + 3 = 2012.
the 3 year trap covers ALL POSSIBILITIES!!
the only difference from 1987 to 2009 is then it was open war, now proxy war, then open intervention, now phased intervention.
Moshe,
You said,"another indian move to SQUAT in SL."
Exactly...this is what I am worried about.
I am all for GOOD relations with India and a foreign policy that protects India's essential security interests, but I want Sri Lanka to MAINTAIN its sovereignty and freedom-of-action on its national agenda, economically, militarily and politically.
In this context here is a list of things I don't want:
1. More than 10% Indian investment in Sri Lanka
2. A permanent motorable BRIDGE linking Sri Lanka and India
3. Indian military forces, and/or retired military staff working for commercial outfits, in Sri Lanka for demining, infra-structure building, or anything else.
4. Indian NGOs "assisting" in "Rehabilitation and Reconstruction" work in the North & East of SL.
5. Indian doctors providing "Humanitarian Assistance"
to IDPs on a long term basis. As soon as the IDPs are resettled their role MUST END.
6. Direct disbursement of Indian Govt funds for any reason to any private individual, commercial, political, or community organization in Sri Lanka. All assistance MUST BE GOVT TO GOVT.
7. Purchase of LAND by non-citizens must be strictly prohibited. Foreign companies should only be able to LEASE LAND from Sri Lankan citizens and majority Sri Lankan owned companies.
Altough I specify "Indian" here, these requirements should apply to ALL FOREIGN NATIONS, or transnational groups that are politically linked (e.g., EU).
In that sense, only the proposed Palk Strait Bridge applies specifically to India.
In short, Sri Lanka must not allow itself to become a SUBSERVIENT PUPPET of any country, or group of countries that could have a COMMON POLITICAL-MILITARY AGENDA, because TODAY'S FRIENDS ARE OFTEN TOMORROW'S ENEMIES. We must not let ourselves fall IRRETRIEVABLY into the CLUTCHES of any foreign entity.
Sri Lanka's history has innumerable examples of the dangers of allowing foreigners to ACQUIRE A DOMINANT POSITION in the country. For example,
1. SL tried to coexist with the Portuguese. Instead, they enslaved the King of Kotte, converting him to a puppet king, and laid waste the coastal regions, bible and sword in hand. Their methods were the same as those the Spanish adopted in Mexico against the Aztecs. In the end, the baptized Aztec king Montezuma committed suicide rather than deliver his people into slavery.
Only the strength of the Sinhala Buddhist culture of our Sinhala ancestors, and their intrinsic warrior spirit, prevented the complete annihilation of our civilization, and the enslavement of our people, as befell the Aztecs.
2. Then, SL requested help from the DUTCH to EXPEL the PORTUGUESE This they did, but then refused to handover the captured forts, including Galle, and settled down to exploiting the country in the long haul, just as the Portuguese did before them.
On Indian Interference
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3. Next, SL asked for help from the BRITISH to EXPEL the DUTCH and the same thing happened again, only this time they went back on their promises to allow an independent Kandyan Kingdom and enslaved the entire country. Among the major impacts of total loss of sovereignty to the British are:
- Inability to control immigration: the British imported hundreds of thousand of Indian Tamils to work their Estates ignoring the wishes of the native people
- Inability to maintain ownership of land: the British confiscated land and created vast estates for their own use
- Inability to maintain control of economic, educational and cultural assets. The majority Sinhala people immediately became the "enemy" to be marginalized, their Buddhist religion denigrated, denied state sponsorship, temple schools denied their traditional income and status, while "English" scools were given state aid.
- Gradual destruction of Sinhala culture by creating disincentives for people to retain their Sinhala/Tamil names, their Buddhist/Hindu religions, and their Sinhala/Tamil languages in an effort to please the masters and somehow survive.
4. Independence came, and the ancient enemies of Lanka resumed their interference in our country. Under the GUISE of HELPING TO QUELL THE TERRORISM IT SEEDED IN LANKA, INDIA intervened to PACIFY the LTTE and ended up FORCING a DE-FACTO PARTITION on SL.
Not heeding the lesson's of its own History, SL considered itself without regional enemies, India a comrade in arms in the struggle to shed our colonial shackles, and left itself DEFENCELESS without adequate armed forces, WIDE-OPEN to military blackmail by our friend.
By the Grace of the Holy Triple Gem, and the sacrifices of our tens of thousands of Rana Viru Heroes dead, the motherland has been rescued from the JAWS OF DISINTEGRATION.
And here comes INDIA again, slithering to re-insert itself into our country to DICTATE its GOVERNANCE, through hordes of spies and assorted activists, now that the LTTE has been vanquished and eradicated at GREAT HUMAN and ECONOMIC COST.
We must SHUT THE DOORS FIRMLY AGAINST all these moves to INFILTRATE OUR COUNTRY and again render it defenceless from within!
Two DECADES must pass from now, to a before we reconsider relaxation of our policies against gradual re-infiltration of our country by foreigners; WE NEED THAT TIME TO CONSOLIDATE THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF THIS PATRIOTIC WAR & RESURRECT THE BODY OUR COUNTRY WITHOUT EXTERNAL INTERFERENCE!
moshe,
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mahindapala from guardian.
"S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike’s most revolutionary act was not the introduction of Sinhala Only in 1956. "
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in order to break vellahala hegemonic rule, SLFP introduced sinhala-only etc. the problem was the people whom suffered most were the avergage tamil joe and jane who had nothing to do with politics. fine the vellalaha were bastards. the srimavo was just a simpleton who could not think of fine tuning policies so that only the vellahla was hit hard.
SWRD was a reasonalby balanced politician. what unbalanced him was his wife who was a nazi (national socialist). it was the wife who pushed SWRD to break away from UNP and form SLFP nazi party. but then if its the woman who wear trousers, what point of being a man correct?
this stand as a good lesson to future politicians. just like the vellahla, the propotion of extremeists in tamils are quite small. thier numbers fit in the tail end 5% of a normal curve. in order to punish the 5% not to introduce legislation that hurt 95% of the population.
Why is it not possible for Sri Lankan Organizations (SLA, Govt Corps, Private Firms) to handle ALL RECONSTRUCTION WORK in Sri Lanka?; Let India provide the FUNDS ONLY!
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Indo-Lanka agreement to support NE projects
Defence.lk]
August 04, 2009
The Sri Lanka - India bilateral cooperation agreement signed at the Ministry of Construction and Engineering services on July 22 to support development projects in the construction industry is already being implemented in the Northern and the Eastern Provinces under the Uthuru Vasanthaya program.
There are many development projects already implemented to reconstruct buildings, roads and infrastructure facilities which were damaged due to the terrorist attacks.
The bilateral agreement was signed between the Institute of Construction Training And Development (ICTAD) which comes under the Ministry of Construction and Engineering Services and Construction Industry Development Council (CIDC) under the Indian Government.
"There are several objectives in signing this bilateral agreement. It will increase Gross National Product (GNP), reduce unemployment, rehabilitation and to involve in NE development projects, setup and to provide resources, to enhance infrastructure facilities and also to increase the involvement of manpower specially in construction and engineering services in the Northern Province.
These projects are mainly targeted at the development of the Northern Province and the required human resources and financial resources will be provided through the bilateral agreement.
We are planning to complete the development projects according to the given time lines," Minister Rajitha Senarathne said.
Courtesy: Daily News
sam perera - astri balu pootuwa not here today?
sujeewa,
dushe ranatunge along with pople like umberto-gui, maaveerar, j2k1 avatars were legends in internet forums. they were fighting eelamists way before the current crop of armatures and slum dwellers got rich enough to buy internet access.
panhinda,
i disagree on the reason why sinhala only was introduced.
right or wrong, it was NOT the purpose of the legislation to screw tamils. it was a HONEST, DEMOCRATIC demand from the MAJORITY to hell with the language of the majority.
it happened to be sinhala. in MOST democratic countries, there is only ONE state/national languages.
where there are more than one state/national languages, PRACTICALLY there is still only ONE!!!
best e.g. singapore
if swOrd banda didn't promise it, another party would have done so and SWEPT to power.
in 1956 only the COMMUNISTS were against it.
in 1965 JVP was formed. thank god sinhala only was there by then. otherwise JVP would have used it to come to power EASILY.
swOrd b should have stopped at that. why did he have to go and antogonise the vellalas???? they were his friends!!! if not the others would be friends!!
BTW not all NAtional ZocIalists are NA-ZI (nazi is the nazi of s-hitler). if it is another NA-ZI, then it is perfectly alright.
Ananda,
india is driven by the BADRAKUMAR factor.
india is concerned that SL will change the TAMIL MONO ETHNIC character of NE.
in other words, india wants to KEEP THE FIRES BURNING bcos multi ethnic colonisation is the only permanant solution.
it's a shame that GOSL don't seem to get it.
india DESPERATELY seeking a REGIONAL PUPPET in SL.
if 13 amendment is fully implemented, the PUPPET will have land and police powers too.
in 1988 india ACTUALLY HAD a puppet - perumal.
after that it will be DIRECT FINANCING THE PROVINCIAL COUNCILS!!!
the north & east PC will be a COCK-SCUKER or a SUCKLING in the true sense of the word.
SL should tell india that the political solution will come AFTER everyone is resettled.
it is logical. how can they (the MOST affected) benefit anything, if they are not resettled??? otherwise what's the point of a political solution to them???
Ananda said...
Oh, No! Is Whabism Penetrating Sri Lanka?
I am not surprised about it at all. In 1989 during the JVP trouble when we had our estate at Dodangaslanda these Muslim radicals came along the Daduru Oya split up into two groups, stole the coconut crop and the other lot took by brother’s money and his wedding ring. We found the wedding ring and the watch in a shop in Ridhigama and the coconut crop disappeared in to a copra trader in Kurunagela. Investigating this further we found that a small group was practicing rifle shooting in a forest near Malsiripura using air rifles.
Then in another occasion when we came from Batti to Potuwill we stopped at kathankudi where we were denied petrol and the man who sold honey said that Saudi based Wahabis have infiltrated these areas. My life long friend who accepted this sect doesn’t associate with us any more. I hear he had detached himself from his employers and from his own family.
I have spoken about the Kathankudi affair many times in this blogg or in Defencenet.That was the year when Kadiar and SSP Charles Wijeratne was killed.
They too and other radicals are active in Malaysia, south of Thiland,Indonisia and there’s some evidence they are linking with our tigers abroad and with the remnants still operating in the island.
Ps
I am Kevin's Bussiness partner and friend N....
More Indian Penetration at the grass roots level
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Indian assistance to build vocational training centers in Northern Sri Lanka for displaced youth
Mon, Aug 3, 2009
ColomboPage.com
Aug 03, Colombo: Sri Lanka's Institute for Construction Training and Development (ICTAD) has entered into an agreement with the Construction Industry Development Council (CIDC) of India, a joint body of Government of India and the Indian construction industry to reconstruct the infrastructure in the war-devastated North and the East.
According to a memorandum of cooperation signed by the two institutes a steering group would be set up to develop a plan for Sri Lanka. Nissanka N. Wijeratne, Secretary, Ministry of Construction, and Engineering Services would chair the group.
P. R. Swarup, Director General of CIDC has told the Hindu newspaper that the recognizing the vital role of infrastructure development in human rehabilitation programmes, the CIDC has decided to develop a plan for the country.
According to Swarup, the CIDC will design and establish vocational skill training centers in Jaffna, Vavuniya, Trincomalee and Batticaloa to facilitate the rehabilitation of displaced Tamil civilians by providing skill training in construction trades.
The joint effort plans to train over 70,000 displaced youth in construction industry as supervisors, laboratory technicians, masons, carpenters, plumbers, and welders.
The ICTAD sees the measure as a way to provide the youth opportunities to rebuild their own homes and other infrastructure facilities in the region.
LTTE attempting to reorganise, rescue hardcore cadres: Minister
[HindustanTimes.com]
August 03, 2009
The LTTE could be attempting to revive the organisation amid efforts by the defeated terror group to rescue hardcore cadres housed in government-run refugees camps for Tamil civilians in Sri Lanka's northern Vavuniya district, a top minister has said.
Defence Minister Gotabhaya Rajapaksa said that though the LTTE had been military crushed, attempts were being made to rescue hardcore fighters who are living in the refuge camps in the Vavuniya region. He warned that this could be part of an overall strategy to revive the organisation, which was crushed by the military in May.
In an interview with The Sunday Island, the Minister, who is the brother of Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksha, said that an organised campaign had been launched to free terrorists from refugee camps before army and police investigators, now engaged in a systematic screening process, closed in on them.
Gotabhaya vowed that the government would not allow the LTTE to reverse the military victory achieved at a huge cost to the nation.
He pointed out that ordinary civilians would never make an attempt to flee refugee camps as the government, with the support of some international agencies, had provided adequate facilities for them.
The civilians were displaced in the final months of fighting in the nation's quarter-century civil war between the government, dominated by the Sinhalese majority, and the Tamil Tiger rebels, fighting for a separate state for the Tamil minority.
Indian arms found in LTTE arsenal
ExpressBuzz.com
August 02, 2009
COLOMBO: Almost 10,000 kg of explosives, detonators and steel balls of Indian-make were found from hidden arsenal of the LTTE in the past three years, reported the The Island daily on Saturday.
Among the other significant weapons seized by the Sri Lankan armed forces and the police are nine 133 mm, seven 152 mm, and six 122 mm artillery pieces; 42 thermobaric weapons; 24, four-barreled 14.5 mm anti-aircraft guns; 91, 12.7 mm anti-aircraft guns; 113,240 T-56 assault rifles; 54, 120 mm mortars; three, six barrel rocket launchers; 11 surface to air missiles; 8 recoilless weapon; 45 rocket launchers; 38, 82 mm mortars; 479, 60 mm mortars; 130 81 mm mortars; 579 rocket propelled grenades; 210, 40 mm grenade launchers; and 14 missile launchers.
The LTTE was probably planning a massive offensive against the Sri Lankan armed forces if the latter had failed to capture the LTTE’s capital of Kilinochchi, an army official said.
Pahinda.
SWRD was a reasonalby balanced politician. what unbalanced him was his wife who was a nazi (national socialist). it was the wife who pushed SWRD to break away from UNP and form SLFP nazi party. but then if its the woman who wear trousers, what point of being a man correct?
Being in the Party and have relatives with that lady I can say that people like Felix Dias…, NM P, Phlip Goonewardana that pushed the socialist agenda in the party where people like Mp RE jayathilaka that seems to have opposed her and he was kicked out for acts that TB Illagratne and the likes of him were tolerated in the Party.
The busses were nationalized by Mr. Swrd.
You see he belongs to the old school of Radicals in Oxford where likes of him sang the same song against the Colonials where divide and rule, robbing resources of the third world were very prominent with these guys who change the status of the one time nations of the colonials. They eventually ruled nations in Africa and in other places and rest is history.
Wise Chinese let Hon Kong be in their hands until their stupid radicals were out of the scene and the methods they are using in the main land is very capitalist without democracy and they found even up to now that their other real estate Taiwan a threat to their system where Taiwan is a capitalist country with democracy.
It’s this ugly trend that started in those campuses that are still practiced in these countries that our holding us back while the local radicals educated in UK (the Brits) left those beliefs in their campuses and joined the mainstream like good boys. Terribly a troubled and racially divided country Yugoslavia was the head of this non aligned moment that bestowed so much suffering to the third world and we should have sought decolonization in a systemic may like HK and Singapore to seek ever lasting benefit without compromising our sovereignty and dignity.
Ps
I am Kevin’s Friend N….
Drug world out to grab LTTE's thriving cartel
[From Daily Mirror]
Mumbai: Following Liberation Tigers for Tamil Eelam (LTTE) chief V Prabhakaran's death, a massive tug-of-war is on in the drug world to grab his multi-million dollar drug cartel. The LTTE had a well-oiled drug syndicate in Southeast Asia, but there is nobody to run it after Prabhakaran's death. "Therefore, several other gangs are looking to take over the syndicate, which has corporate-like operations," said a senior narcotics control bureau (NCB) officer.
Narcotics experts believe a new drug lord is likely to fill the vacuum created by Prabhakaran's death. They are not ruling out the possibility of a terror outfit like the Lashkar-e-Taiba taking over. Swaraj Puri, former D-G, NCB, says, "The outfit's drug smuggling activities are currently stalled" but other drug lords will vie for the market LTTE created.
LTTE arranged funds for its terror activities by smuggling drugs from Sri Lanka to European and American countries. They also supplied drugs to Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand. According to experts, the LTTE's drug smuggling business was worth about $200-300 million. The outfit procured most of its consignments, largely heroin, from the Golden Crescent (see box) via Indian routes. They joined hands with Indian druglords to facilitate their business.
Mumbai has been a very important transit point for drug smugglers and those who earlier supplied drugs to LTTE will now try to strike deals directly with the drug mafia abroad.
"The LTTE had joined hands with other terrorist outfits involved in drug smuggling in neighbouring countries. The Tigers got their supply from outfits that operate from PoK. So the outfits that earlier supplied drugs to LTTE will try to spread tentacles in the market that earlier belonged to LTTE," a senior NCB official said.
In the past, customs, NCB and police officials in Chennai had seized heroin being smuggled to Sri Lanka from India. A senior police official said, "LTTE has always been in the drugs-for-arms business and they also supplied arms to the underworld for drugs that were then sold to the drug mafia in Europe and America".
Former BSF D-G Prakash Singh said, "India is located between the Golden Crescent and Golden Triangle (see box), which are the largest producers of opium globally. There are many organised drug mafias, operating from India, who have knowledge of the vast market the LTTE catered to. They would try to take it over. Separatists , too, would try and control it to fund their activities."
At a recent seminar on global terrorism, Sundeep Waslekar, president of the Strategic Foresight Group, said the LTTE had one of the most sophisticated drug cartels. "Their ships were the best in the business and it was a well-oiled syndicate. After Prabhakaran's death, this network is likely to be taken over by other cartels," Waslekar said. (DNA India)
The comment below from Sampanthan of the TNA leads me to believe he is an alien!
Only a blind dumb alien would be hallucinating and making such statements. The guys must be smoking something fulltime since the LTTE disappeared. Can anyone else see the tone in what they are saying?
All powers needed including land, agriculture, industries and security should be in our hands," Mr. Sampanthan said. "Financial arrangements including powers to raise funds inside and outside of the island are also crucial." Tamil diaspora is keen in investing in the North and East and the TNA is engaged in talks with everyone concerned and in planning with foreign governments, he added.
From Tamilnet!
TTBO;
It looks that Sampanthan is also sniffing the chunks in diaspora cashcow.
It is very interesting how GOSL goes about peace process. In one side it has the influence of India [whereas the West has already lost control over GOSL], and on the other hand the pro-separatism/pro-pussycat elements are demanding elam++. And the govt has some elements within itself who take/may-take supportive stance for strong power devolution.
Note that Mahinda is an expert to make all parties feel happy w/o giving any of them what they want.
On these grounds, I fully agree with his for sacking likes of DayanJ. Await some roller coaster time ahead.
Panhinda,
Sinhala Act was introduced in 1956, because 95% of the population understood Sinhala, and Tamil was never ever an official language of the country.
The Act only kicked out the discrimination that over 85% of the population underwent by not knowing English.
Tamil was never an Official Language and no body took away anything that Tamils already had (they had nothing!).
But when Suddha came, they took away what Sinhalese and the other none English Speaking but Sinhala known people, and the Act gave that back to them.
Sudda said Kandy because he could not pronounce Kande Udarata, and they simply called it Kandy... the heavy accent Scotts who were in the Suddha's Army and Engineers Corps to be blamed calling Kande as Kandy.
F&cking morons in Tamilnet knows a f&ck!
this is FCUKING fantastic!!
"[ToiletNet, Tuesday, 04 August 2009, 14:16 GMT]
“Minister Douglas Devananda’s men are intimidating the fishermen in Jaffna that the ban on fishing will be imposed again if they vote for Ilankai Thamizh Arasu Kadchi (ITAK) in Jaffna Municipal Council (JMC) election"
at last some men with brains!!
what's the FCUKING right ITAK - illankai tamil arse kachchi and TULF - tamil united liberation tigers, ULTRA RACIST parties have to contest SL elections????
ban ALL racist political parties and their cover-up groups.
great move DD, that's the way to go.
ppl want a better ECONOMY, not a tamil state. this is a great move to separate the two very well.
well done!
some-pandam's SUCK-KILLI formula to solve the problem!! my arse!!
asking a RACIST TAMIL national aliens politician for a solution for the ethnic problem is like asking a criminal what punishment he should get!!!
they can't even win the jaffna municipal election, this saturday, just talking CRAP.
now imagine what will happen if these toilets EVER manage to win a provincial election!
DISASTER!!
share power with these racists????
get real.
a very good (one of the best) articles on devolution.
OTOH no arselicker of the 13 can give REASONS why we should have it. I WONDER WHY!!
moshe, no-ltte,
although they disliked the legistalion, tamil parties had accepted sinhala-only.
before SWRD passed away, his govt made a compromise with tamil parties for a so called 'tamil language special provision act'. this meant people in NE understably were given some provisions to keep using tamil. what they wanted were things like.
- older tamil govt servants used to english continue to work under older regulation.
- village chiefs in tamil only areas to continue to work in tamil.
what srimavo did after coming to power in 1960 was disallow the 'reasonable use of tamil' also. srimavo did not allow what her husband had already promised to tamil parties.
sinhala-only had already put schools into language streams. by rejecting 'tamil special provisions' act, tamils leavig schools in jaffna even could not get a job because they had to know sinhla. its fine if all kids learnt all langages but they were in different langage streams.
the first coming of tamil militancy and satyagraha in directly linked to this despicable act of SLFP.
read here
http://www.atimes.com/ind-pak/CL08Df04.html
kevin’s friend "N",
thanks, that info will help me in another discussion im havnig.
felix dias bandaranake was only 30 smothing. but he was the finance minister.
there was not a single tamil in srimavo cabinet. only minority person was a muslim.
what more can you expect from a ratwatte familiy?
their legacy :
+ tamil miltancy
+ currupt civil service
+ jayasikurui op
+ killing of 15 innocent people
+ election fraud an violence
+ pludering of the treasuy
panhinda,
mate, i disagree with some issues though some are true.
1960s are not refered to as ROOT CAUSES as much as 1956/1958 is!!!
"the first coming of tamil militancy and satyagraha in directly linked to this despicable act of SLFP."
no. it was in 1931 (obviousy no militancy though).
tamil militancy is AT LEAST as old as sinhala-tamil riots. like sinhala militants killed tamils, tamil militants killed sinhalas in jaffna.
re: RAT-wattes
i TOO love to hate this GENERATION!!
but there are good things as well that changed the war.
1. it was ratwatte's plan to raise the LRRP to a FORMIDABLE killing force after his helicopter mishap.
even before SF, GR took over, in 2001 it was the ONLY thing vezapillai and other feared. i'm sure if not for that DICK-LICKER's CFA, the LRRP would have gotten the best of the LTTE under the cover of post 9/11.
2. the karuna split was "negotiated" in 2000. i cannot go into detail but it was another plan by CORRUPT & DIRTY THINKING ratwatte.
apparently he had calculated that all his headaches come from a guy named KARUNA.
e.g. 1996 mulaitivu, 1998 dalada maligawa, 1999 jayasikuru
his attempts to kill him ALL failed and then he used CORRUPTION!! and it worked (with some other incentives).
karuna started disobeying vezapillai from then. little by little. he waited till the ponna parliament of ranil is dissolved in 2004 to make a move through a UNP muslim MP who was IMMEDIATELY sacked by ranil.
3. the jaffna campaign was planned by him. it was the biggest victory by then. a victory that was never reversed. he was the GR equal at that time between the president and the armed forces.
but his other DISASTERS FAR FAR outweigh his achievements. agree.
i blame swOrd b and sirima for CLOSING the divisions within the tamil community by the 1959 act which was TOTALLY unnecessary.
it took us 45 years to divide it effectively again.
"divide your enemies" is an old jewish success receipe. imagine hamas and hezbullah working together!! and fatah!
now they are killing EACH OTHER!
a little back up to the weaker group against the stronger group does the trick. that will keep them occupied.
the NORTHERN, EASTERN, WESTERN, CENTRAL tamils MUST be divided and KEPT divided. if they collude, that is for something BAD.
what the hell is this??? i'm missing something in the SL constitution.
recently the LG election system was changed in the WPC. i never knew a PC can do that. i thought you needed 2/3 in parliament and change the constitution for it!!
now there is another way.
"Mr. Gammanpila said it was the courts which directed the government to refer the matter to the provincial councils so that parliament would be able to pass it with a simple majority if the provincial councils approved it."
so that is why so much attention for PC elections.
PCs will pass laws that will lead to the change of consitituion without 2/3 but with simple majority. this power was given under 13 and the PC act, i presume.
then MR is talking about an upper chamber in parliament from PCs.
now that starts making sense. a chess move is going on. effectively MR's party is gaining similar power as a parliament with 2/3s has (in some respects)!!!
a long term plan to screw the JVP.
also power devolution to the PS, MC level BYPASSING the provincial councils. good move.
imagine LG elections in trinco, ampara and batti in the FFP method! the PC would be no longer important and not at all RELEVANT!!
bloody eastern PC MFs didn't pass it, STILL.
Just got via SMS.
President hands over guardianship of the two tusker [elephant] babies to Malwathu Asgiri chapters. However the babies will be kept with their parents till they grow.
It is not clear where they will be kept as yet.
Nevertheless what a beauty Mr President. All parties gotta be happy. I am so proud of you. I think you're the best guy to win all hearts of this nation and bring harmony to them. Pls apply same formula for the mythical devolution seekers.
In a side note, we hope that this incident will escalate and make path to save the temple from the Mervyn Silva of Sabaragamuwa - the crook nilame Nilanga Dela.
Moshe and others,
Re: Devolution
Sadly I'm failing to understand what is meant by devolution in the context of SL. Following are my contradictions. I'm basing them on the claims of the "devolutionists",
1. If the problem is regarding languages, how is a separate political entity for a region gonna help it?
2. If the problem is discrimination on opportunity for jobs education etc, how is a separate political structure gonna help it?
3. If the problem is alienation, wouldn't any segregation make it more?
4. If the problem is not having access to the mainstream system as they are rural or remote, then providing a separate and smaller system will build a real discrimination. i.e. like in the case of exam papers of north central province. Smaller the system, weaker and trouble-prone it is.
5. If tax payers money is not distributed equally, then how is a separate and smaller system going to help it. Most tax payers live in western province and segregation makes it harder to distribute.
6. If the constitution is unfair then how is a regional unit going to fix the general constitution?
If any of above problems exist, they should be corrected then and there. Giving a separate ruling council for a region does not solve any of them.
So I fail to understand the need for devolution. However I can imagine why some people support it.
1. Since there had been an autonomous tamil rule in Jaffna for a short period of time [hell, there had been so many autonomous regions for shorter periods]
2. Since tamils are a separate race and some like racial division
3. Since some socialists religiously want to divide every non-socialist country and forcibly combine every socialist country
4. Since some politicians have a slogan for survival
5. Since India gets a remote control over SL
6. Since devolution makes way for separatism, and separatists have little hope in other avenues now.
7. Since some NGOs get donations for supporting such acts
8. Since a strong and rich international group called tamil diaspora sponsors the idea, with commission for local operatives.
9. Since many partiues in west, dispora, india and NGOs wanna stop SL development.
10. Sincve so many died for it and their kith and kin want it for the lost blood [well, mind you so many died to save the unitary state too]
Categorically I oppose all those agenda as they are very selfish and do not represent the betterment of SL.
However if MR is really gonna WASTE time on some devolution debate he has to comply following basic pre-requisites.
1. Screening of terrorism god-fathers and legal action against them. Put them behind bars.
2. Rehabilitate anyone who was forced for terrorism and can be turned into a genuine Sri Lankan. [otherwise go to action 1]
3. Take hold of NGOs and avoid them becoming a feeding tentacle for diaspora.
4. Settling all people
5. Providing needs for all people like housing and living
6. Strong rules banning the organizing discussion or morale support for separatism, and hence banning all formations that could make way for separatism in a future day.
Then after MR can talk about 13th to 26th amendments as he wishes.
We are delighted that the President had handed over those elephants to their parents. We in Kandy are delighted.
Big thank to you Sir!
Please don’t get carried away, you hear?
Not a square inch of land to any communal minded lot, so steady on old chap.
Can you please lift the ban on booze and we will drink to that.Have a nice day in Kandy and we are your neighbours now in kandy.
Kevin,
I have been a strong critic of the Diyawadana Nilame for many reasons. I do not believe that he should be holding the post for his thuggery and way too controversial actions. His actions brought a great shame. Also I find him a dangerous character to associate with the temple and fear for for its safety.
But I cannot agree with your previous comment. It maybe a hindrance that during perahera days that your mobility in Kandy is reduced and your freedom such as boozing rights are violated. But perahera has to take to roads. So there is a hindrance. The same hindrance exists in any pageant in any country such as carnivals of South America.
Also during the festivals there is a ban on alchohol. Otherwise what will happen is that people will be boozing all the way while the relic is passing them. It is an insult to religion.
Freedom is not universal. Nor that there is a clear line between freedom and insult. One's freedom becomes insult on the other.
Every country in the world bases their system on some religious philosophy. No country complies all the equality for every religion. Naturally there is a dominant and prime religious culture that decides rules and ethics and it so happened to be Buddhism for SL. If you go the Muslim world or to USA or to Scandinavia or Italy you can see that one religion makes the prime decisions and rest obey it.
Why do kids of every faith in America have to say "One America under One god' at school? Why are muslim clothing going to be banned in France? Where is equality? Can it be achieved in reality?
Look at what has happened to Sripada? You may say that it is a right for non-buddhist to booze at the peak, but see how much insult it brings to the shrine, which is the primary feature of the peak? Also if you were around during war victory you may have seen how ugly some people behaved after getting drunk and the way they treated the national flags after loosing their sense in alchohol.
sujeewa,
that encapsulates everything.
well said!
'devolution' is not the logical solution to STATE problems. we all know that.
devolution helps in development, no doubt. but for that devolution unit should be the SMALLEST unit which is PS, MC level. other development is best handled by a central administration.
tying race to land is the worse thing imaginable.
MR has ANOTHER plan with 13. 13 has MANY UNTAPPED powers. remember it is the law ALREADY.
so far ALL the presidents tried to fight the 13 POWERS and PCs in some way. always PCs and the govts were at loggerheads. now PCs are used to do govt work!!!
hopefully after gaining those benefits he will either drop 13 or do what you propose and continue with ANY NUMBER of amendments thereafter. he should do what is LOGICAL.
re: elephants
that is good news but i will believe it only when it HAPPENS.
ASS (ananda singari) has spoken again!!
ASS is complaining about the sri lankan election system which is HILARIOUS!!
he says, "I don’t lose anything by getting defeated at the poll, having contested a very powerful Government’s nominees. Only the country is the loser."
so like b4, the RACIST TAMIL TAMIL TAMIL united liberation front is going to LOSE. that ITSELF is a victory!!
at least now ASS should drop his RACISM and rename the party, PEOPLES UNITED LIBERATION FRONT.
as long as ASS contests AGAINST the president from a RACIST party, the president should not entertain his stupid demands.
if he does not want sri lankan style democracy, just fcuk-off. there is no point in having a free & fair election if RACISTS are going to win it.
An open letter to the President HE Mahinda Rajapaksha, Sri Rohana Janaranjana, Vishwakeerthi Sri Thrisinhalaadhishwara
Re: Ananda Sangari's demand for a free and fair election.
Bringing democratic elections to the north is a victory by itself.
We, the patriots of Sri Lanka, wish for a free and fair election in the North. It should be free and fair by all counts. It must first and foremost be free from RACISM which has unfortunately gripped our beloved Motherland for three decades, especially the north until our gallent soldiers backed by proper leadership vanquished part of the racists.
It is not rocket science Tamil United Liberation Front (the architects of the Vadukodai Resolution) and Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi are extreme racist manifestations. What all people want is inter ethnic peace and harmony. These political parties block peace and harmony by creating ethnic divisions.
People are shown 2 paths. One is towards development and the other to destruction (Tamil Elam). Obstructing the second evil path leads to a free and fair country.
Please put all your might behind the development candidate Hon Devananda who himself is a Tamil from the north and who has done a great service to Tamil people unlike politicians with Vadukadai background.
The Vadukadai candidate even refused to join hands with you to rebuild the country due to his past sins haunting him.
People have not forgotten how the ITAK, TULF and TNA rigged the elections of 1956, 1977 and 2004. Please don't allow these racists to raise their racist heads in this beautiful country where everyone must live in harmony.
People of the north are set to teach these goons a lesson by comprehensively defeating them. Please help them do so.
May God Bless You.
sorry DW and others. it is difficult to mix capital and simple letters consecutively.
the north elections have a BIG defence impact.
SAKKILI caught red handed!!!
look at the banner in the truck.
it says illankai tamil arse kanji. then their crap symbol - the house and cross.
in their understanding illankai tamil arse kanji (ITAK) means tamil "state" party. state is a misleading word. it can be a federal state or a nation state.
but no confusion here. look at what is in brackets.
it says TAMIL THESIYA KACHCHI. clearly it means tamil nation party (TNA)!
these sakkili parties should be banned.
[[Tamils Seek Link and Common Cause with Jews
Tamils for Obama sent a letter to major international Jewish organizations in which the Tamil American organization cited ancient and modern connections between Jews and Tamils and suggested that they make common cause against problems and enemies they both face.
New York (PRWEB) August 5, 2009 -- Tamils and Jews have much in common, says Tamils for Obama. They are both ancient peoples, with cultures that have been in continuous practice for thousands of years. They have what may be linguistic similarities. Both cultures have experienced setbacks at the hands of militarily stronger rivals. Both have had an ethnic diaspora. And most importantly, both have been victims of attempts to wipe them out.
Tamils for Obama described these similarities in a recent letter sent to major international Jewish organizations.
The letter begins in a friendly fashion: "Let us introduce ourselves. We are Tamils. We have certain things in common with Jews."
The letter goes on to describe the similar histories of the two peoples. It notes "The Tamils and the Jews are both ancient peoples. The Tamils built the cities of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro in the Indus valley. These cities had cultural and trade ties to Mesopotamia when much of Jewish culture was located there. The two Tamil cities are believed to have declined from about 1900 BCE, so we might even be a little older.
"The first 'Aryan invasion' of our original homeland in Northern India took place in the 1500s BCE, and was only the first of several. Over centuries the center of Tamil culture shifted to southern India and Sri Lanka and currently includes a Tamil diaspora with settlers in almost every country of the world."
A spokesman for Tamils for Obama said that he thought Jews could not help but make a connection between the Aryan invasion of the Indus valley and the Nazis, who identified themselves as Aryans.
The spokesman also noted that the linguistic connections were tentative. The letter says "The Hebrew word abba (dad) is similar to the Tamil word appa. The Hebrew ]]
http://asiantribune.com/08/06/the-fate-of-velupillai-snr-and-the-porously-feeble-moral-excuse-of-age/
A good analysis of the implications/connection/relevance of the Fat-Oily-Black-Pig’s parents in as far as what the miserable Fat-Pig wretch was during the hay-days of “thamileelam” (thanks to that RW Dick-Sucker) and ended up being a pathetic Bin-oora (“mud-insect”) on the muddy banks of MVK minus his skull, linga, and in his underwear too, for the whole world to see!
This is must read in my opinion…as it asks the questions that we rather not bother with now…it is important to pay heed to the angle of thought here if we are to discourage the next “Fat-Racist-Pig” wanna-be’s parents from giving sustenance to that kind of vile racist, violent agenda!
Nazi war criminals were tracked, hounded, and prosecuted even when some were octogenarians and I don’t see ANY reason why we should let these two old, racist sakkili whorebitches escape reckoning for what they did to the nation…at least we owe it to our dearly departed Ranavirus…they must be tried for TREASON/TERRORISM and when found guilty, they must be dealt with “extreme prejudice” in my view.
Wonder if an octogenarian terrorist motherfucker screams just the same as a 54 year old terrorist motherfucker when an axe chops off his skull… now now…don’t get me wrong…this is entirely an academic question.
:)) :)) :))
OaO Asithri
Nisal, a good post...
Yes the Sakkili MommaF's are now cozying upto even the Satan if they can get any breadcrumbs!
After all, they lost lock stock and barrel (no pun intended re. the Fat-Pig-Ponnaya) to our Ranavirus.
Actually, this is nothing new...in the '80s these same Sakkiliyas tried to cozy up to the Jews (using the same anti-Aryan angle), but at that time the Jews were more concerned about the Mossad/Shinbet revealed links between these Sakkiliyas and the extremist Palestinian groups (that they found evidence of when the IDF invaded Lebanon)....
However, now the equation is different...for one thing, there is no "Sakkili Army" (as we liquidated them whorebitches wholesale!) to cooperate with them Palestinian extremists...so, it is conceivable that some sympathy for them can come from the Jewish quarter...
Hence more the reason why we must combat this vile propaganda at every turn.
OaO Asithri
SujeewaK
Mate, saw some well articulated, pro-Motherlanka posts from you earlier...Kudos to you and please do keep it up!
A word of clarification to you...
I am not here to discourage free-spirited, open discussion of issues/ideas, but let me tell you that I have seen enough distortions, maligning, ridiculing of our proud Sinhelas' history herein and in the www and whenever I see such attacks by the non-learnerd, pseudo academics (often put forth in the way of encouraging "academic discussions/pursuits") I go fucking bonkers and I will lash out with "extreme prejudice" - as I know these are indeed vile designs that are well orchestrated to promote the racist "thamileelam."
The questioning of the Sinhelas' and Sri Lanka's history with level of feverish pitch and rabid obsession came only after the "thamieelam" whorebitches espoused sheer violence as the key driver to attain their goal and that alone convinces me of the bogus, vile designs they have up their sleeve...and hence why I would react the way I would.
Anyway, this is not to make excuses for my usual "disposition" herein, but only to ask for your understanding and forbearance as if you do something similiar to the vile "thamileelamists" (for any other reason perhaps?) then I am afraid my reaction would be the same.
Cheers mate...pls. keep up the good work!
OaO Asithri
Moshey
[it says TAMIL THESIYA KACHCHI. clearly it means tamil nation party (TNA)! these sakkili parties should be banned.]
May be...then again may be not.
How I look at it let the whoredogs campaign, but it should be incumbent upon us, the peaceloving non-racist, non-violent, Sri Lankans to make sure they DO NOT WIN!
ha ha ha... ;-) ;-) ;-)
Yes bro, there are more ways than one to skin the cat - and yes, not be accused of animal cruelty!!!
LMSSAO!!! Truly LMSSAO!!!
OaO Asithri
nisal,
thanks for sharing.
how desperate these sakkili can be!!!
"The Hebrew word abba (dad) is similar to the Tamil word appa."
lol! lol!
hilariously dispicable!!
so this is the liguisitc connection!! my arse!!
did not i recently said that MANCHESTER is also tamil???
it comes from the tamil words, mann (like maankulam) and cheddi (like cheddikulam)!!!
this is the ONLY way sakkili makes connections.
kaali = galle TF galle is tamil!!
i'm gonna RAPE them over this.
chena boys may need toilet cleaners!! but don't do the same mistake SL chena boys did! after that they will want to own the toilet and the land too!!
e.g. the symbol of the ITAK is the TOILET!!!
OAOA,
true but why always depend on good leadership when it can be swept out by the system??
if these parties were not there, ppl will get used to vote for what is available.
e.g. 1994 general election.
there were no racist parties. EPDP won 9 out of 10 seats with just 1,200 votes.
those who vote for racist parties don't deserve to be voters, me thinks.
kevin, stay off the booze mate!
moshe,
13+ will be implemented. its not the end of the world though. the system will evolve as time goes on. the constitution will settle down to somthing no one find offensive or threatening. patience is the key.
hey did not know ratwatte role in lurps. cheers for that.
Pahinda
Said; kevin, stay off the booze mate!
Yes I do but I do exploit these blighters for gain and this profit goes to my people here. You see I have a business in London that contains a drinking area to justify the number of stars or grading. Each visit during this time a selected lot from various countries come here bingeing in much needed FE to the country. Also I make sure they visit those areas that being claimed to be place of HW violation which now has been exposed as false. We all have to do our little bit at this hour of need.
Sujeewa
Thanks points taken. We all learn from these blogs.I don’t drink my self and I thought of the freedom one has… well your explanation is good enough. In fact my visitors are happy that they gone dry for these days in spite of their nagging other half. Some times booze helps them to get away from the real world. This the reason why that industry is doing so good in those country and the law enforcement people suffers a lot from these drunks and my son gets the worst of that in the streets of London on daily basis as he has to some time enforce the law.
Time for the day Perahara, bye!
Re: Tusker babies
Yes Moshe, I also started getting skeptical. The tusker baby program is headed by Lokuge. This Kalawedda was the top most culprit after Nilanga Dela. Nariyata Kukul Kptuwa Dunna wage.
Asithri bro,
Pls drop in your public mail address. I wanna write something to you.
BTW, I may take a bit of time to compose it.
Cheers Kevin,
Enjoy the Perahera
War is over but the battle is not
When will they realize that they lost it already?
Lot of people here are watching the actions of the Defence Secretary on this matter,
1. I did not know that we provide Police Escorts to the sons of DIGs
2. Clear abuse of dad's official powers and State Resources (all public money)
3. Illegal abduction (over a very minor matter that we would settle in the playground when we were kids). Again Gross Abuse of power and illegal conduct.
4. Severe assault - beating this kid over and over again
5. Gross violation of this kid's rights
6. Dad going to cover-up the incident, which is clearly obvious to anyone. "Mistaken identity - my a&se!"
We have lot of respect for Defence Secretary, and we are closely watching your actions,
http://www.dailymirror.lk/DM_BLOG/Sections/frmNewsDetailView.aspx?ARTID=57130
I know exactly what I would do if I was in-charge!
Totally unacceptable behavior of a father and son.
NL=P;
I think the victim's side also has some string backing. If not he'd not be alive. There will be some actions against the Police Rascal I guess.
Now there is Facebook group too to condemn the attack on this kid.
http://fr.facebook.ca/group.php?gid=247149815297&ref=mf
It is good that wider amount of news media has given the publicity to this a&sholes' acts,
http://www.island.lk/2009/08/06/news3.html
http://www.lankaenews.com/Sinhala/news.php?id=9883
http://www.lankaenews.com/Sinhala/news.php?id=9896
These a&sholes not only grossly abuse state powers and resources, but also bring utter discredit to the establishment.
People's anger is in their comments.
Not only this kid was beaten by the police escort, but also Vas Gunawardena's wife also has beaten him. What a woman!!!!
Moshe,
ITAK party symbol is not the toilet. It is the house.
rupavahini says forces nabbed KP, dw can you give some more details regarding this?
ITN and Rupavahini in Breaking News mode and said KP was taken into custody in Bangkok. DW do you have anything on this?
KP arrested in Thailand
The new self appointed LTTE leader and chief arms dealer Kumaran Pathmanathan also known as KP has been arrested in Bangkok, Thailand the government information department said.
FACTS
Born - April 6, 1955 (1955-04-06) (age 54)
Alias(es)-Selvarasa Pathmanathan
Kumaran Pathmanathan
and many others
Motive - Sri Lankan Tamil nationalism
Charge(s) - Criminal conspiracy, arms smuggling and for the violation of the Indian Terrorist Act and the Indian Explosive Act. Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi.
Status - Arrested on August 6th, 2009
Occupation - Leader of LTTE
KP knew Rajiv Gandhi was to be killed
ExpressBuzz.com
M.R. Narayan Swamy
August 07, 2009
NEW DELHI: The new chief of the Tamil Tigers who is now in Sri Lankan custody was one of the rare few outside the group's intelligence set-up who knew months earlier that former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi was to be assassinated.
Without taking Gandhi's name, Selvarasa Pathmanathan alias Kumaran Pathmanathan alias KP told a Sri Lankan Tamil in Tamil Nadu in November 1990 that the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) would soon target the "Indian leadership".
KP - as he is widely known - made the explosive revelation over telephone from a foreign country six months before a LTTE woman suicide bomber finally killed Gandhi at an election rally near Chennai May 21, 1991.
But KP, in contrast to a section of media reports, is not an accused in the Gandhi case and is not directly linked to the killing. He is merely a suspect in the eyes of the Multi Disciplinary Monitoring Authority (MDMA), which is still probing the larger conspiracy angle related to Gandhi's killing.
KP's advance knowledge of the assassination has intrigued Indian security agencies.
Since secret decisions of the nature of Gandhi's killing were shared in the regimented LTTE on a strict need to know basis, questions have been asked how and why he came to know about the plot.
One logical explanation was the LTTE's absolute dependency on KP, who was the key international arms procurer for the Tigers, a role he performed with aplomb. He became the LTTE chief after the death of the group's founder leader Velupillai Prabhakaran in May this year.
The LTTE may have felt that KP needed to be told in advance since the international ramifications of Gandhi's killing might jeopardise the carefully laid out global network aimed at procuring arms and ammunition.
Another senior LTTE member outside its intelligence unit who too knew about the Gandhi killing in advance was Tiruchi Shanthan, who in 1990-91 was in charge of all Tiger operations in Tamil Nadu.
So, questioning KP could yield enormously useful information to India since the pellets, explosives and the Singapore Fragmentation Grenade (SFG) used in the assassination reached the LTTE courtesy the arrested man though they were meant for the war in Sri Lanka and not for the Gandhi killing per se.
However, if India decides to ask its security agencies to question KP, those picked for the task should be well clued into LTTE affairs.
There is a group of dominantly low-key officers in India, both serving and retired, who have followed the Tigers for decades. But it has been seen in the past that qualified people often get sidelined on such missions.
KP's link to the Gandhi case is a small part of the mammoth role he played in building up the LTTE since 1983. Just as there could have been no LTTE without Prabhakaran, there may have been no Prabhakaran minus KP.
KP never underwent military training. When he was in India, Prabhakaran decided in 1984 to set up an ultra secret group within the LTTE to buy and transport war material from around the world. KP was picked for the job.
KP rose to the occasion. A man with natural talent for forgery and disguises, he soon acquired multiple identifies as well as passports (including Indian) and slowly built up the LTTE's procurement division.
He set up several front companies (in which he was a master) in several countries to smuggle gold and narcotics. He used the money to buy war material. In India, he secretly operated a dairy farm in Tamil Nadu in the 1980s.
KP knew Rajiv Gandhi was to be killed
........continued.....
He also set up a secret shipping network for the LTTE that was used to transport weapons brought abroad to Sri Lanka. He operated in total secrecy, reporting only to Prabhakaran.
It is courtesy KP that the LTTE gained thousands of tonnes of arms and ammunition, including advanced defence systems, anti-tank weapons, sniper rifles, mortars, rocket propelled grenades, ammunition, night vision devices, metal detectors, fibreglass boats as well as sophisticated radio and wireless communications.
Except in the last few years when he was known to be mostly in Malaysia, KP was constantly on the move in the 1980s and 1990s, always a step ahead of all his pursuers. One Indian official said he was "the most elusive of all pimpernels".
Using several identifies, he visited Lebanon, the Thai-Cambodia border, France, Britain, Sweden, Greece, Cyprus, Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Myanmar, Malaysia and Australia. He was known to have been in Britain in 2006 when LTTE ideologue Anton Balasingham died.
It was due to KP that the LTTE got its first small aircraft.
However, KP's meteoric rise generated jealousy in the LTTE. Prabhakaran sidelined the man from 2003, bringing in place another loyalist known by his nom de guerre Castro, who was no match for KP's natural talents.
As the LTTE began to sink, Prabhakaran realised the folly and resurrected KP this year. It was too late. Many LTTE watchers believe that Prabhakaran might still be alive if only KP's wings had not been clipped six years ago.
[Yahoo! Another Monster Bites the DUST!]
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LTTE chief KP arrested in Bangkok
ExpressBuzz.com
P K Balachandran
Agust 07, 2009
COLOMBO: Selvarasa Pathmanathan alias Kumaran Pathmanathan alias KP, the new head of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam was arrested in Bangkok, the Thai police said on Thursday.
The arrest was confirmed by Sri Lankan Foreign Secretary Palitha Kohona.
The 1955 born KP has five Interpol red notices against him, and he is wanted by the Sri Lankan police and the Central Bureau of Investigation of India.
Though he had no direct role in the LTTE’s assassination of Rajiv Gandhi in Sriperumbudur on May 21, 1991, he had slipped out of India (possibly Mumbai) five days after the former Prime Minister was killed.
KP was the ace arms procurer and fund raiser of the LTTE at the international level. KP, who had been a close associate of deceased Tiger chieftain Velupillai Prabhakaran, has been arrested before by the Thai police, some years ago, but was mysteriously released after the arrest became known and the Indian and Sri Lankan police wanted to question him.
KP has been masquerading as a democratic leader of the LTTE, after Prabhakaran’s death, trying to take it along the constitutional path through a “Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam” in exile.
Familiar with the movers and shakers of the world, the multilingual KP had been dodging the police dragnet in several countries for decades.
KP had tried hard to save Prabhakaran and his cohorts in the last stages of Eelam War IV in April-May, but was unsuccessful. After Prabhakaran’s death at the hands of the Sri Lankan army in May, KP had been elected Chief Secretary of the LTTE by the outfit’s executive. But the radicals in the outfit have not accepted this apppointment.
THE HIGHLY INTELLINGENT WING Castro My Man, WHERE ART THOU CASTRO? You are NEXT!
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Tiger Chief, KP caught, brought to Colombo
Island.lk
August 06, 2009
Born: April 6, 1955
AGE: 54
Aliases: KP, Selvarasa Pathmanathan and many others
Charges: Criminal conspiracy, arms smuggling, violation of the Indian Terrorist Act and the Indian Explosive Act, assassination of Rajiv Gandhi.
Self-appointed LTTE leader Kumaran Pathmanathan alias KP was arrested in a South-east Asian country and brought to Colombo yesterday (06). He was being kept in an undisclosed location.
Authoritative sources told The Island last night that a section of the international community had made a desperate bid to promote him as Velupillai Prabhakaran’s successor. Sources said that KP’s arrest would effectively neutralise on-going efforts to revive the LTTE spearheaded by foreign powers which arranged direct contacts between the key terrorist and UN officials.
KP, who had been the LTTE’s international relations chief till he claimed the LTTE leadership after the army killed Velupillai Prabhakaran in May, previously functioned as the group’s main arms procurer.
On August 04 the Indian Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) said the LTTE had been running a powerful narcotics network in Southeast Asia and after the demise of Prabhakaran other terrorist organisations in the region were vying with one another to take over the lucrative drug trade.
Government sources said that President Mahinda Rajapaksa had been briefed on the arrest and he had directed relevant authorities to go ahead with investigations.
KP was wanted by Interpol and also by India in connection with the assassination of one-time Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
In September, two years ago, though there were media reports of KP’s arrest in Bangkok, Thailand denied the reports. But, he subsequently reappeared under the name S. Pathmanathan and handled the LTTE’s international political arm.
Over the past several years, Sri Lanka made desperate attempts to track down the terrorist and his chief associates.
Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama last night told The Island that Sri Lanka in the recent past had inquired about KP from several countries, including Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Vietnam.
He said that Sri Lanka was grateful to the international community for cracking down on LTTE operatives.
Sources said that the arrest of Pathmanathan, the new head of the remnants of the LTTE, would strengthen Sri Lanka’s efforts to cripple LTTE operations abroad. Although the government didn’t confirm it, some sources said that the arrest had been made in Thailand, citing military officials.
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