We have received credible information on the arrest of two individuals, one a middle aged man traveling on a non-Sri Lankan passport at an undisclosed location in Bangkok in a joint stint launched by Thai and Sri Lankan authorities. The travel documents and said identity confirms with an alias of LTTE operative Shanmugam Kumaran Tharmalingham.
The man was carrying travel documents both under his own birth name and under other aliases at the time of arrest. A group of Sri Lankan officials is expected to fly the said two individuals to Sri Lanka shortly. Please await further information as it is made available.
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Time and again i have condemn LTTE and the heinous crimes they have committed against SL society for the past 30 years especially against innocent people.
I'm not going to repeat myself if people have difficulty understanding my comments.
Jay Haan,
Please stop all jokes here, you don't have any answers to my question. Instead of answering, your are just posturing yourself with garbage. Your peace vending amounts to nothing more than a grand facade.
it really doesn't matter to me if you answer my questions or not. What really matters to me is you deceiving the casual reader here with your fake HR agenda to support the terrorist cause.
Rest assured, low lives like you will be countered at every opportunity you try to spread disinformation in support of the terrorist cause.
Learn to live an honorable life than coughing for terrorist cause using foreign funds.
Kevin and others,
Trying to see Jay as a terrorist is a failure in my view.
Jay is NOT a terrorist. In this complex universe there are many other species than civilized humans, and terrorists.
Jay is most likely to be a so-called "peace-hawk" or a "HR activist". This is a dangerous breed and I'd take more attention in him than what I'd say against a known terra like Peter or By-raw.
Look at what Jay cried for.
- GOSL violations of HR.
- GOSL blocking freedom of expression
- Wrath of west
- GOSL keeping IDPs [where govt has very fair reasons that they step over convieniently]
- Pissa-nayagam [even his mom and dad won't post the amount Jay has done for him, I wonder whether Jay's real life form is jealous with the prisoner. Had he been arrested and put in jail, he'd have won the awards ha?]
This war is not a simple pillow fight between two teenage gals. There are so many harsh moments and I believe that every party had to do their best to win it. HR takes vacation during terrorist war. It is common all over. Geneva convention losses its validity too.
Why? Because these resolutions are made based on the wars between two nations such as WWII. They are applicable when two govts are both accountable and both obey certain rules. [even in such wars they were NOT upheld ex: Iraq]. However the war on terror is not yet defined, so it is not realistic to apply HR or Geneva rules on it.
And contrary to what Jay says there is a growing cry all over the world to follow "SL" model as that was the only way one has won it.
Does Jay not know them. He knows them better than me. It is my leissure but his career.
Sadly that is the problem. Jay and his clan run NGOs where they are supported with lucrative life styles. Look at their SUVs look at the kinda life they live. They are supported by western donors in order to force SL to support their never followed rules . It may be knowingly supported by western govts or just by richer public in west.
These f**kers deceived our nation around 2002. Even my cat purred "piss talks". These f**kers lived in live TV.
We just had a little luck to survive. And that is what they find as both their disappointment and lucrative income source. They'll keep on writing, brainwashing the gullible public. In another few yrs, the cats will again start purring "piss" and "harmony" with pussycats.
Look how lunatic they are. When a bomb goes on they go and draw a big pigeon on the road, as if the remaining terrorists will write there in the wee hours that they are sorry for the crime. In reality half of those who take part in drawing are looking for the next location for the next bomb.
Does Jay not know this? He knows, but as long as he's paid for the pigeon he gives rat's care. Very expenbsive pigeons they're.
One f**ker called A T Ariyaratne would meditate to melt terrorist's heart. Now that illusion is poured on buddhist minds that fancy meditation. What f**king peace can meditation bring whereas your other side is blood drinking terroists? They killed devotees and monks, do tey not meditate, or was it a fault in theior meditation?
Does AT and Jay not know it? They do. But they're paid per each devotee.
List is endless. Tomoro you'll see them in action more and more. They are subtle and dangerous compared to blood drinking credit card stealing pusycats. And see how many HR/Freedom and other crap activist started appearing here in place of known terras, Peter et al.
Worst, as Jay said about the pussycat wealth, their donors may become pussycats directly. That day, Peace, HR, Freedom and Democracy will be defined with their own strips.
Don't worry Kevin, Jay will keep on barking anyway. For them it is not freedom of expression, but they express their rot even by force. More you write more $$.
[[Jay Said;
Kevin, Time and again i have condemn LTTE and the heinous crimes they have committed against SL society for the past 30 years especially against innocent people.
I'm not going to repeat myself if people have difficulty understanding my comments.]]
We have never seen it from Jay or Jehan Perera [in his public appearances].
And let;s trust him. So this is his stance.
- Jay condemns all Hr violations, suppression of freedom, and what he thinks as non-democratic, conducted by GOSL.
- Input of lads like Jay can be used by other countries to punish SL.
- Jay [suppossed so] has said to have condemned pussycat acts too.
- And what? Did anyone even cae about it? What is so much about criticizing a terror movement. Even By-raw does so when an extra beer breaks the locks in his sensors. Does ot help anyone?
This is the difference. Hillary did the exactly this. Jay can follow her anyway.
So Jay's stupid token condemnation of pussycats is not enough. You ought to eliminate taht curse, and tat is where GOSL has come. Sadly, it is likes of Jay who block that path.
"US responds to Sri Lanka protest over Clinton remark
(AFP) – 5 hours ago
WASHINGTON — The United States, responding to protests from Sri Lanka over remarks by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, said it had no recent evidence of women being raped while in Sri Lankan government custody.
In a letter addressed to Sri Lanka's Minister of Foreign Affairs Rohitha Bogollagama, the State Department noted that the US government and international human rights groups over the years had detailed "numerous cases of rape and sexual violence in Sri Lanka, particularly acts committed against women held in detention by the government."
However, the letter signed by Melanne Verveer, ambassador at large for global women's issues at the State Department said that "in the most recent phase of the conflict, from 2006 to 2009 ... we have not received reports that rape and sexual abuse were used as tools of war, as they clearly have in other conflict area around the world."
"We hope that this clarification puts the issue in its proper context," the letter said, adding that Washington remains concerned about extrajudicial killings, disappearances and detainee abuse in Sri Lanka.
"Secretary Clinton believes that Sri Lanka must focus to the future and move forward on the promotion of peace and the protection of human rights," the letter said.
Sri Lanka lodged its protest with the US embassy in Colombo over the remarks made by Clinton last month to the United Nations Security Council.
"We've seen rape used as a tactic of war before in Bosnia, Burma and Sri Lanka and elsewhere," the US secretary of state had said during a resolution calling for an end to sexual violence in armed conflict, according to published reports of Clinton's remarks.
Her comments sparked an outcry across Sri Lanka, where government forces in May crushed Tamil Tiger rebels after decades of fighting.
Colombo faced condemnation for its handling of the final stages of the war against Tiger rebels and managed to stave off a Security Council resolution calling for war crimes investigations thanks to the vetoes of China and Russia.
The United Nations has said that over 7,000 civilians perished in the first four months of intense fighting this year.
Sri Lanka is now facing international pressure to free 250,000 ethnic Tamil civilians who managed to escape the fighting but are now held in internment camps while they are screened to see whether they were rebels."
/We hope that this clarification puts the issue in its proper context../
oh yeah.. proper context.. is hilarita mool..
we have not received reports that rape and sexual abuse were used as tools of war
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In a letter addressed to Sri Lanka's Minister of Foreign Affairs Rohitha Bogollagama, the State Department noted that the US government and international human rights groups over the years had detailed "numerous cases of rape and sexual violence in Sri Lanka, particularly acts committed against women held in detention by the government."
However, the letter signed by Melanne Verveer, ambassador at large for global women's issues at the State Department said that "in the most recent phase of the conflict, from 2006 to 2009 ... we have not received reports that rape and sexual abuse were used as tools of war, as they clearly have in other conflict area around the world."
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"Secretary Clinton believes that Sri Lanka must focus to the future and move forward on the promotion of peace and the protection of human rights," the letter said.
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Oh, really madam, we were waiting for you advice all these years. Get a f*** life. There is no question about she getting some kind of funds from Terrorist. She should pay a price for what she has done. Maybe we should make KP sing.
When you want to control your enemy, you may sue him for false allegation.. Ofcourse you may not prove any thing but harassment and there by control is done.. JR did this for many of his opponents VijayaK, MR, SB, etc etc. He put them in jail for weeks accusing some thing.. MR too tried the same against Sripathi.. This is comman in SL socaity.. (boru naduwakata patalaweema)
US/west are trying the same against SL in taming SL.. that's the proper context.. Lets expect few more episodes from US/west in harrasing Sri Lanka and taming MR program..
Jay said....
[ There was a great game plan in Colombo over Secretary of the State of the US comment about rape in the war the government is executing. The US state officials refused to meet our national hero- the Secretary of the Defence of Sri Lanka. He is also a citizen of US.
Now that he has been humiliated, will he say good bye to the Yankee state and burn his green card in the pile of skeletons in the northern war theatre?]
Jay,
You knowledge of US immigration matters seems to be rather deficient.
US immigration dept. issues "Green Cards" to Permanent Residents who are not US citizens. Upon becoming a "naturalized" citizen, the "Green Card" is replaced by a "Certificate of Citizenship."
So, your asking whether GR is going to burn his Green Card is inconsistent with your prior assertion that he is US citizen, and is therefore both incorrect and irrelevant.
I believe that GR is NOT A US CITIZEN, but has US PERMANENT RESIDENT status and, therefore, does have a Green Card.
It is always amusing to observe your spinning a web of deceit and obfuscation with the goal of degrading the image of both Sri Lanka and its outstanding leaders; leaders who have rescued the nation from terrorism and disintegration.
Please do carry on entangling yourself in your own cobweb!
Ninja said...
US/west are trying the same against SL in taming SL.. that's the proper context.. Lets expect few more episodes from US/west in harrasing Sri Lanka and taming MR program..
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We shouldn't take this things lying low. We should make sure we give them the same shit back. Otherwise we will continue to be in the receiving end of this.
We should give KP a story line and make him sing. And start spreading some rumours about the Clinton clan. She definitely receives funding from these guys, so what we need is a nice story. We should do the same shit they pulled at Channel 4. She is sating things without evidence. We should do be able to do the same.
"So there are IDPs in east too..? Then howcome all those UN clowns go and watch only the menikfarm zoo?"
eastern IDPs have been cured by karuna/pillyan over 3 years!!
now there are no more LTTE MFs left there and that means no business for the UN, etc.
same fate awaits the "FARM"IDPs too. (only the animals within the IDPs)
In a letter addressed to Sri Lanka's Minister of Foreign Affairs Rohitha Bogollagama, the State Department noted that the US government and international human rights groups over the years had detailed "numerous cases of rape and sexual violence in Sri Lanka, particularly acts committed against women held in detention by the government."
Now now Hillary, there is a significant difference between,
(1)Rape used as tactic of war
and
(2) Sexual violence committed against women held in detention by the government.
The first is the case when soldier rape women by following orders. The second are the cases of isolated incidents with no orders coming down the ranks. Since that is the case you are talking about, we all know that US men had dome many such acts in Iraq an Afghanistan recently. How come you forgot to mention raps by your own country men?
"we have not received reports that rape and sexual abuse were used as tools of war, as they clearly have in other conflict area around the world."
this is better than just saying so!!
clinton's stupidity GRAGGED this topic into worldwide fame. and now when the whole world is aware of it, USA says it is POSITIVELY not so!!
another dead end for tamil elam losers. we should give them more of these dead ends. that will keep them busy.
imagine what would happen if the IDP issue was not there????
then ALL the MFs will be DEMANDING a political solution.
thanks to the IDP case, the demand for a political solution is put off INDEFINITELY. drag it another 2 months and we have the presidential election. after that we can discuss the political solution. good timing.
give them a bone to bite. and another, and another.....
/The United Nations has said that over 7,000 civilians perished in the first four months of intense fighting this year./
When and to whom UN said so, based on what evidence?
/Sri Lanka is now facing international pressure to free../
"International pressure" puh.. what's that? Does US and west' mean international' ? Isn't this abuse of language? or is the so called 'media freedom'?
guys,
this is the latest TE plan.
1. arselick powerful guys in the west
2. get them to make "statements"
3. get GOSL excited
tamil elamists arselicked USA on 12 august 2009
happy about the arselicking, the masters of the janitors PAY BACK just 2 days later!!!
how closely connected!!!
we should attack this plan.
1. check WHOSE arse TE MFs are licking now
2. get to them at the intellectual level ASAP. (b4 2 days)
Gents,
One has to be sorry for Hillary Clinton. She is a victim of sexual deprivation. Her husband has a history of marital infedility. He does not give her what is rightfully due to her as a wife. Who can blame him ? One look at Hillary will drive any man into the arms of other women. Her only consolation is to keep repeating this sexual mantra over and over again. It makes her feel better and allows her to empathize with women whom she believes are in the same boat as her self. This is my psychoanalysis of Hillary Clainton.
Inconsistent US Policy on Afghanistan & Sri Lanka
It may seem strange to many of you that the US, faced with Taliban and Al Quaida in Afghanistan, criticizes Sri Lanka for having done everything that was needed to eliminate the LTTE.
That is because the US political leaders have SILL NOT COME TO GRIPS with the reality of what their goals should be, what needs to be done to achieve them, and educated the people of the United States on the need to pay the costs of doing that.
It took Sri Lanka, and its people, nearly 30 years to COME TO GRIPS WITH THATREALITY ... and we were fighting FOR OUR OWN COUNTRY .. not in some far off land to prevent a calamity in the US at some unspecified future date.
Obama is currently faced with the REALITY of events in Afghanistan ... that a war of containment on the cheap ... is not going to prevail.
Gen. McChrystal, commander of the US and NATO forces in Afghanistan, recently huddled with Obama and educated him on the stark reality of the situation western forces on the ground. He essentially said that the war will be lost if the required resources in men and money are not committed with a comprehensive reversal of policy in Afghanistan.
My guess is that Obama, the thinking man and American patriot that he is, will be dragged into making a major commitment, mewling and puking like a reluctant schoolboy dragged to school. There are some things you cannot avoid, however much you would wish to.
It is up to us Sri Lankan Patriots to help open Obamas eyes to the fact that Sri Lanka confronted the same problem, albeit very reluctantly ... and won because of wholehearted commitment at the end! In doing so, we must gain the support of the American people and the Obama Administration for Sri Lanka as Allies in a shared struggle against violent terrorism.
Winning in Afghanistan will require an integrated political and military approach, cast in the reality that foreign forces must ultimately return home. The Afghans also know this, and in order to survive, give their allegiance to those who they think will come to power after the foreigners leave. For them, that choice is a matter of life and death. So far, they seem to be betting on the Taliban .. because the Afghan Govt led by the mayor of Kabul (Karzai) seems incapable of unifying the country, of extending the writ of the central govt over all of Afghanistan, and DEMONSTRATING the ability to protect all people of Afghanistan after the NATO foreigners leave.
You see, this is precisely the reason that many Tamil people of Sri Lanka, and the people of the Wanni, allied themselves with the LTTE .. because successive GOSL gave ample proof that they could not be relied upon to win and deliver peace and security. For them, their survival depended on the decision they made.
Inconsistent US Policy on Afghanistan & Sri Lanka
....continued...
In Afghanistan, regional warlords re-emerged after the Taliban govt was toppled, to challenge and prevent the exercise of power by the Central govt. The local people in these regions now look to these warlords for their security and sustenance .. in what is, in fact, a feudal system. The only lucrative livelihoods available to them is poppy cultivation and gun-running .. with the warlords, the Taliban, and the Al Quaida as their well-paying albeit life-threatening customers.
The mayor of Kabul survives in his city-state only through the support of his foreign benefactors .. not a situation atuned to gaining him any acceptance among the fiercely patriotic Afghans. He has no independent means of income, except foreign aid that circulates and reconcentrates within Kabul itself, and therefore, little leverage with the people at large.
How is a country to be unified, a people protected, legal and honorable livelihoods created, laws enforced, borders controlled, and the confidence of the people won, by such an inept powerless government?
This is a prime example of why Sri Lanka must retain preponderant power at the center, and not allow the rise of provincial fiefdoms that can challenge and subvert the national will .. notwithstanding the chest-thumping agitated urgings of the "democracy critics" from within, and without, the country. Stability and National Cohesion is a prerequisite for any economic and social progress .. Security and Cohesion First, progress Second.
Returning to Afghanistan, the US needs to decide whether they want to win tthe war in Afghanistan and whether they are willing to pay the price in lives and treasure.
It can be won only by unifying the country under a strong central government, and securing the lives and livelihoods of the people throughout the land. To this end, they should create a 750,000 man Afghan army supported temporarily by up to 500,000 NATO forces (until the Afghans can take over), bring the warlords to heel and enforce the writ of the central government, and pump-in vast sums of money for infrastructure development (roads, bridges, schools, hospitals, factories, agricultural centers, universities, and jobs and business creation.
In each of these infrastrutural centers, most of the employees should be Afghans, in both leadership and non-leadership positions, with only a few foreigners in oversight roles. The purpose should be to train and employ the people, put money in their hands, under the CONTROL of the CENTRAL government to wean the people away from the war lords and terrorist groups. In every population center, highly disciplined police and militia forces should be omnipresent, to maintain law and order and wean the people away from their dependence on the local warlords for security.
Only in these ways can the US and NATO forces ever hope to leave Afghanistan, secure in the knowledge that a strong democratic central government exists, and will survive in the long term, to prevent the resurgence of the Taliban and the Al Quaida. The Afghan people, themselves, must be able to see that there is a better, more secure, alternative to the latter. Once this policy decision is made in Washington, it should be unwavering .. not subject to periodic upheavals as government changes. Obama has two terms (8 years) to see this through).
All of this will take great gobs of money, but FAR LESS THAN an interminable indefinite HIGH-TECH war of containment waged with inadequate forces, that will destroy many more Afghan and American lives in a human meat-grinder.
Inconsistent US Policy on Afghanistan & Sri Lanka
....continued 2 ...
Such a war of CONTAINMENT will inevitably spiral out of control, as more and more people become ensnared in its web both in Afghanistan and in Pakistan, and brainwashed over decades by the opposition. Remember the 30 years of brainwashing of the people of the Wanni, cutoff from all other people? TIME is not on the side of the forces of democracy and freedom in such situations.
We in Sri Lanka learned this lesson the HARD WAY; will the WEST take heed in how they act in Afghanistan?
/Sam Perera said...
Any idea about this monkey Sri Lankan Professor Amal Jayawardane who tells Philippines always be nice to terrorists. The sooner we send the monkeys like Jay Haan, Paiki Sara, Amal J etc out of peace vending business, the sooner world becomes a better place./
To be honest I am not aware of the back ground of political/ military/ terrorist issue in Philippines. But we should know that not all terrorist problems any where in world could be same as what we had and hence the solution approach need not to be same. So that guy may be right.. or wrong.
ananda,
true.
but the REAL afghan war is to be faught in pakistan. that is where the terras are hiding. this is where their supplies come from. and islamic fun-da-mental-sim breeds.
so tackling the pakistani problem is essential in winning the afghan war.
also, US depends on tribal leaders for war. any development has to go through them. if they don't like certain acts of development, that mean these projects won't go ahead.
tackiling this is very difficult and may be counter productive.
but as you say, development is a must if these MFs are to be taken away from violence.
another big problem is the weapons flow. this got to be stopped SOMEHOW. otherwise things will not improve. SL had the advantage of being an island. but in the case of afghanistan, pakistan, iran, central asia, even russia and china are helping the bad guys.
what an agreement!!!
"The two new Dolphins cost about $650 million each, with Germany picking up a third of the coast, as part of their reparations for World War II atrocities against Jews. The Dolphins have a fuel cell based propulsion system which enable them to stay under waters for over a week at a time. The Dolphins are also very quiet, and very difficult for the Iranians to hunt down and destroy. The first three Dolphins didn't have the AIP (Air Independent Propulsion) system."
- strategypage
we should try to get the brits, the dutch and the portuguese to pay for the atrocities they did in SL.
/Ananda-USA said...
Inconsistent US Policy on Afghanistan & Sri Lanka
.../
There is no inconsistency. People see such inconsistency becuz they assume the stated US policy as true; i.e. US fight against global terrorism etc. This statement is false as any one can see how US work against GSL in their fight against terrorism which is of course part of global terrorism. So you just need to redefine US global terrorism in terms understandable to us.
i.e. If there are terrorists in some where in the world US help the respective governments or the terrorist outfit depending on the political/ economical advantage toward US.
Moshe,
You said...
[but the REAL afghan war is to be faught in pakistan. that is where the terras are hiding. this is where their supplies come from. and islamic fun-da-mental-sim breeds.
so tackling the pakistani problem is essential in winning the afghan war.]
True .. the fight and the sanctuaries extends into Pakistan, but securing and consolidating Afghanistan at the same time is critical .. or the whole thing becomes a shell game .. where the terrorists shift between the two countries .. adapting to your stategies. Where you are not, they will be active. YOU HAVE TO OCCUPY THE GROUND .. using local people/forces on your side .. EVERYWHERE. This requires a massive local and foreign manpower commitment.
[ also, US depends on tribal leaders for war. any development has to go through them. if they don't like certain acts of development, that mean these projects won't go ahead.
tackiling this is very difficult and may be counter productive.]
Extending the writ of the central govt has priority over pleasing tribal leaders. Maybe the way to accommodate both is to make them central government officials within the context of a National Administrative system controlled by the central government. That is, the tribal leaders become officers of the government, appropriately trained in the procedures of a modern government. That will gradually wean the people away from tribal attitudes towards national attitudes.
You know, 50-years ago, Afghanistan was a more modern and relatively secular country with a established Civil Service, women in leadership positions, etc. In the last 50 years it has regressed into feudalism under warlords or theocrats. This is somewhat true of Iraq also, which has regressed into communal politics.
We agree on the need for development. Stemming weapons flow and the difficulty of doing that with extensive land borders requires the large local security force that I advocated .. at least until the politics and governments in neighboring countries stabilize.
jay, kevin,
1. those horrendous crimes ATTRIBUTED to the LTTE were not commit0ted by the LTTE alone. they were committed by PEACEFUL TAMIL ELAMISTS in collaboraiton with the LTTE. LTTE MFs were JUST tools in the hands of peaceful tamil elamists.
as rats desert a sinking ship, tamil elamists are now distancing themselves from the LTTE.
2. LTTE's grandfathers (ITAK, FP, TULF) and grandmothers (mrs amirthalingam) were tamil elamists too!!
3. tamil elamists FINANCED the LTTE. that is how LTTE managed to do EVERYTHING!!
so peaceful tamil elamists are THREE-TIMES resonsible for all those terrorists acts than tigers.
little vezapillai had read speeches, articles written by chelvanayagam, ponnambalam, annadurai and other sakkiliyas according to his whore sister in canada. they were the marx and lenin of vezapillai.
the scary thing is these sakkiliyas are still out there!!!!
govt is doing the right thing by teaming up with "good" LTTE leaders to take on the REAL terrorists - 'peaceful' tamil elamists.
i'm sure this hurts them MOST!!
ananda,
in that context, destabilizing iran would be the dumbest thing to do!!!
then it will be double the fun from east and WEST of afghanistan.
i'm sure the US govt is thinking about it b4 taking a military approach to iran. but israel doesn't give a rat's arse about afghan war and a possible fall out on iran is likely.
already the jerusalem post has said that peace negotiations with iran cannot make israel any safer.
so now there is a 8th "neigbour" USA has to consider about afghanistan!! as with pakistan and afghanistan, this neighbour too wants MONEY to keep quiet!!
this is getting TOO complicated and far too costly.
Army bomb squad member arrested over Kurunegala bomb explosion
(Lanka-e-News, Oct.03, 2009, 5.35PM) An Army bomb squad member was arrested today (03) from the Minneriya Army camp in connection with the Van bomb explosion tragedy where 12 students were injured and another 11 year old student died.
According to the Police the suspect was taken into custody while he was on duty at the Minneriya Army camp. He had most craftily fixed the bomb in the Bus , and has traveled back to the camp. At the time of his arrest there had been explosive devices in his room.
The suspect had submitted a confession to the Police that because he could not bear his wife maintaining an illicit relationship with the owner of the Van that he fastened the bomb to the Van.
The suspect is in the custody of the Kurunegala Police Headquarters following detention order for further questioning.
A special Police team is conducting further investigations on the instructions of Senior SP Cyril Fernando.
The funeral of the unfortunate victim of the bomb blast Isuru Chandrika, a student of Maliyadeva Balika Vidyalaya will take place tomorrow (04) at the Kurunegala General cemetery.
Jay;
Asking me which part you gotta explain, in fact it is my entire comment. Repeating...
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[[From your comments vis a vis Halo Trust, you are obviously not aware HT is the only de-mining org commissioned and approved by GOSL working in the Nort and North East.]]
Do I give a f**k?
NGOs are NGOs. Just like yours.
[[There was no "extra effort" in naming the rape case ]]
Did you notice that such things happen with almost all armies. And tell me an army which engaged in a major war and did not do such.
Secondly Hillarious, you madam said "rape is used as a weapon in war". Krishanthi case does not show any such signs. She was raped, but it was an isolated event, NOT a "weapon of war". Do you not get the little English Jay. You are pretending here again.
[[as that was the most publicised for the under hand dealings.]]
Presidential pardon is barred for this man, whereas your buddy Pissa-nayagam shud be given it. I'm sure your knowledge in judiciary is better than mine, so just stop sleep walking and pretending.
Everyone, unless specifically stated as "w/o parole" is eligible for pardon. Your RIGHTs shud extend to Krishanthi's murderer too. Do I see it imbalanced here?
[[I have no wish to waste my time with a generalised comment made by
Hillary C.
Its naturally disturbed a hornest nest.]]
The WTF did you do all these times. Why did you start discussing it. It is just that you realized taht your free shots as SL targets are countered. This is how you walkaway.
[[SK- your last comment appeared in "boxes". i do not read nor write in Sinhala or Tamil.]]
Why is taht my problem. Read Azarbijanian or Zulu, I don't care.
[[Do you think its worth my while to get a translation?]]
Nop. It is an article from a worthless news channel called Divaina. It has nothing so important to you. If it has any relevance, SLDF will give you the corresponding translation during your white van ride.
[[ps- Where are the likes of Ananda USA (the real one) and Wijapala and the likes.]]
:) bored with me and Sam. Jay for a change you can start cyber sex with Kumari. Sounds pretty hot from her end.
[[I did enjoy reading those opinions even though i did'nt agree with most.]]
You and your enjoying. I'd rather say you'd have made a living if they all start commenting. How much are you paid per word Jay?
Ninja, brother,
You said...
[i.e. If there are terrorists in some where in the world US help the respective governments or the terrorist outfit depending on the political/ economical advantage toward US.]
True, the US Govt will do whatever is in its NATIONAL INTEREST. An axiom of foreign policy is that there are no permanent friendships or principles; there is only permanent national self-interest.
My point was that we should attempt to convince US leaders that Sri Lanka remaining a united, terrorism-free, democratic free-market driven country, friendly towards the US, is in THE US NATIONAL INTEREST!
That does not mean that Sri Lanka must be a slave of the US, especially in areas which pose an existential threat to Sri Lanka.
Recent events demonstrate the ABSOLUTE NEED for Sri Lanka to pursue an INDEPENDENT FOREIGN POLICY with powerful allies who are now viewed with suspicion by the US, BUT MAY BECOME THE BEST ALLIES OF THE US TOMORROW. Mark my words, Iran is a prime example of such a country, that will in time enter into a love affair with the US.
In any case, Sri Lanka doing what is in ITS NATIONAL INTEREST is very unlikely to be diametrically opposite to the intrinsic interests of the US. Only the US mistakes can DRIVE US AWAY from the fold, as they did with INDIA and CUBA long ago, and we have a RESPONSIBILITY to Sri Lanka that such misunderstandings do not arise through our own misjudgments and inaction.
In fact, the national interests of US and Sri Lanka are 80% in agreement; we have to live with the 20% there is no agreement on. Diversity of alliances should be used to offset the impact in those areas where there is NO AGREEMENT. There will never be 100% agreement; but we should try whenever feasible to improve our relations.
CASC said...
Army bomb squad member arrested over Kurunegala bomb explosion
(Lanka-e-News, Oct.03, 2009, 5.35PM) An Army bomb squad member was arrested today (03) from the Minneriya Army camp in connection with the Van bomb explosion tragedy where 12 students were injured and another 11 year old student died.
According to the Police the suspect was taken into custody while he was on duty at the Minneriya Army camp. He had most craftily fixed the bomb in the Bus , and has traveled back to the camp. At the time of his arrest there had been explosive devices in his room.
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What an Idiot. Doesn't this guy have any brains to figure out that he might end up killing other people. If his wife is having an affair in the end police is going to end up putting two and two together and catch him. Why risk killing innocent people when a simple shot to the head would have achieve the same result without killing innocent kids.
Moshe said...
[1. those horrendous crimes ATTRIBUTED to the LTTE were not commit0ted by the LTTE alone. they were committed by PEACEFUL TAMIL ELAMISTS in collaboraiton with the LTTE. LTTE MFs were JUST tools in the hands of peaceful tamil elamists.
as rats desert a sinking ship, tamil elamists are now distancing themselves from the LTTE.
2. LTTE's grandfathers (ITAK, FP, TULF) and grandmothers (mrs amirthalingam) were tamil elamists too!!
3. tamil elamists FINANCED the LTTE. that is how LTTE managed to do EVERYTHING!!
so peaceful tamil elamists are THREE-TIMES resonsible for all those terrorists acts than tigers.
little vezapillai had read speeches, articles written by chelvanayagam, ponnambalam, annadurai and other sakkiliyas according to his whore sister in canada. they were the marx and lenin of vezapillai.
the scary thing is these sakkiliyas are still out there!!!!
govt is doing the right thing by teaming up with "good" LTTE leaders to take on the REAL terrorists - 'peaceful' tamil elamists.
i'm sure this hurts them MOST!!]
MOSHE,
These are GOLDEN WORDS that should be used to IMPALE the so-called PEACEFUL TAMIL EELAMIST Diaspora on the POINTED STAKE of THEIR CULPABILITY for the murder and mayhem they unleashed on the innocent people of Sri Lanka!
Bravo, brother!
ananda,
mate, the point is GOSL, etc. must make this distinction.
this is the way of the JANITOR VALLA-ALLALA ppl.
(now i'm sure the janitor's janitor wesapala is going to get cross with me for talking against the janitor valla-allala ppl!!)
but their racist leaders must be implicated in these horrendous crimes.
i agree with the concept that we should not be bashing the west or the USA blindly.
its the tamil elamist MFs who are instigating these violence.
for instance oba-ma has not said anything against SL. man priased PISSA-NAI-GON sometime back, but after his TERRORISM conviction, oba-ma didn't renew his praise.
this shows that he is not easily fooled.
"The wife of a Tamil State bank officer Mr. V. Gnanorathan is still being held in detention by the State Intelligence Unit of the Sri Lanka Army. Gnanorathan was released Saturday. Wellawatte police arrested both a few days ago from their residence in Wellawatte on information received following the arrest of medical specialist Dr. Maheswaran Umakanth serving in Vavuniyaa general hospital."
one terrorist after another until we get to the bottom of the thing!!
good thing is they are coooooperting!!
a doctor to a banker to his wife!!
despicable racists!!!
without ANY problem these racists are creating unnecessary problems.
are canadian, british, etc. education ministries under tamils too??????
"EP Education Ministry administered by Sinhalese officers - CTU
[TamilNet, Monday, 05 October 2009, 03:48 GMT]
Ceylon Teachers’ Union (CTU) pointed out in a memorandum sent to the President Mahinda Rajapakse Saturday that the development of education in the Eastern Province where Tamil speaking people are in majority is in the hands of three Sinhalese officers who hold the three top posts in EP provincial education ministry. The provincial minister of education is also a Sinhalese, CTU said.
There are 718 Tamil medium schools with 2, 58,134 students and 15,302 teachers in the eastern province. 240 Sinhala medium schools with 71,450 students and 4440 teachers are also functioning in the province.
Tamil medium teachers and students of the province cannot expect fair treatment from the Sinhala dominated administration in the provincial education ministry, the memorandum pointed out.
The three top Sinhalese officials are on extension of service after retirement age.
CTU has its headquarters in Colombo and its president is a Sinhalese.
It has appealed to the President to take immediate steps to change the present Sinhala dominated administration in the province giving more representation to minority communities in the Eastern Province Education Ministry."
presidet should disregard these BS to teach them a lesson.
Moshe,
Regarding the CTU letter, if this was the Southern Province instead of the Eastern Province, and the Officials were Tamil instead of Sinhalese, and they were summarily replaced by Sinhalese because of their ethnicity, there would be such an outcry of RACISM that the roofs would lift off.
However, Sinhalese officials in the Eastern Province are FAIR GAME .. because when it is in their interest, racist policies are commendable to the EELAMISTS!
What Hypocrisy! They NEVER SEE the RACISM in their OWN COMMUNAL demands! They are always trying to maintain ETHNIC control of the North and East!
Today eight US soldiers died along with about a dozen Afghan soldiers in Nuristan near the Pakistani border. Taliban has said it has captured 35 enemy soldiers.
In a related announcement ....
" General Stanley McChrystal said he plans to withdraw troops garrisoning remote outposts in sparsely populated regions like Nuristan and instead concentrate them in towns and cites. A spokesman said: "Previously announced plans to depart the area as part of a broader realignment to protect larger population centres remain unchanged.”
In my view, withdrawing from the countryside to towns and cities is a prescription for future military disasters for the NATO forces. Have they learned nothing from history?
This was the strategy that led the French to defeat against the Viet Minh at Dien Bien Phu, and the US-led forces later to defeat in Viet Nam, and previous Sri Lankan Army offensives to defeat against the LTTE.
It is a strategy dictated by the LACK OF SUFFICIENT TROOPS to hold the ground, that allows the enemy safe sanctuaries in rear areas, and hands the initiative to the enemy to choose the time, place and conditions of the attack.
I was anticipating these kinds of events when I advocated in a post today a 750,000-man Afghan force and 500,000-strong NATO force as necessary to victory in Afghanistan.
8 US troops killed in fierce Afghan fighting
By ROBERT H. REID and RAHIM FAIEZ
Sun Oct 4, 11:41 pm ET
KABUL – Hundreds of insurgents armed with automatic rifles and rocket-propelled grenades stormed a pair of remote outposts near the Pakistan border, killing eight U.S. soldiers and capturing more than 20 Afghan security troops in the deadliest assault against U.S. forces in more than a year, military officials said.
The fierce gunbattle, which erupted at dawn Saturday in the Kamdesh district of mountainous Nuristan province and raged throughout the day, is likely to fuel the debate in Washington over the direction of the troubled eight-year war.
It was the heaviest U.S. loss of life in a single battle since July 2008, when nine American soldiers were killed in a raid on an outpost in Wanat in the same province.
Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan, plans to shift U.S. troops away from remote outposts that are difficult to defend and move them into more heavily populated areas as part of his new strategy to focus on protecting Afghan civilians.
U.S. troops used artillery, helicopter gunships and airstrikes Saturday to repel the attackers, inflicting "heavy enemy casualties," according to a NATO statement. Fighting persisted in the area Sunday, U.S. and Afghan officials said.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. NATO spokesman Brig. Gen. Eric Tremblay said the assailants included a mix of "tribal militias," Taliban and fighters loyal to Sirajudin Haqqani, an al-Qaida-linked militant based in sanctuaries in the tribal areas of Pakistan near the Afghan border.
Afghan authorities said the hostile force included fighters who had been driven out of the Swat Valley of neighboring Pakistan after a Pakistani military offensive there last spring.
"This was a complex attack in a difficult area," U.S. Col. Randy George, the area commander, said in a statement. "Both the U.S. and Afghan soldiers fought bravely together."
Details of the attack remained unclear Sunday and there were conflicting reports of Afghan losses due to poor communications in the area, located just 20 miles (30 kilometers) from the Pakistani border and about 150 miles (230 kilometers) from Kabul.
A NATO statement said the attacks were launched from a mosque and a nearby village on opposite sides of a hill, which included the two outposts — one mostly American position on the summit and another mostly Afghan police garrison on a lower slope.
NATO said eight Americans and two Afghan security troopers were killed.
An Afghan military official, speaking on condition of anonymity because of security issues, said three Afghan soldiers and one policeman had been killed in two days of fighting. He also said at least seven Afghan army soldiers were missing and feared captured.
8 US troops killed in fierce Afghan fighting
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In addition, provincial police chief Mohammad Qasim Jangulbagh said 15 Afghan policemen had been captured, including the local police chief and his deputy. Jangulbagh estimated that about 300 militants took part in the attack.
"Kamdesh is one of the most dangerous areas of Nuristan province," he said, noting that the area is across the border from parts of Pakistan where al-Qaida-linked militants operate.
Jangulbagh said that after Pakistani forces drove militants from most of the Swat Valley five months ago, militants "received orders to come to Nuristan and destabilize the situation."
Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said militants overran both outposts, but U.S. spokeswoman Capt. Elizabeth Mathias said U.S. troops were holding the outposts Sunday. She also said a roadside bomb killed a U.S. service member southwest of Kabul on Saturday, bringing the U.S. death toll for the month to 15.
The fighting occurred in a region where towering mountains and dense pine forests have long served as a staging area for Taliban and al-Qaida fighters who move freely across the Pakistani frontier.
The region was a key staging area for Arab militants who fought alongside Afghan warriors during the U.S.-backed war against the Soviets in the 1980s and is one of the few parts of South Asia where Muslims follow the hardline Wahhabi sect of Islam.
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Associated Press Writers Rahim Faiez and Lori Hinnant in Kabul and Noor Khan in Kandahar contributed to this report.
The Reality of Afghanistan
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Paradise On Earth
Strategypage.com
October 2, 2009
U.S. commanders in Afghanistan are trying to get hundreds of millions of dollars to match the media campaign the drug gangs and Taliban have been waging. The enemy has cash (from drugs) and intimidation (Taliban terror) to influence Afghan media and opinion leaders. Currently, the U.S. and NATO are not doing much to oppose this. So Taliban and drug gang lies get spread wide, and often accepted, because you don't hear much about the reality. This is important beyond Afghanistan, which is in danger of being turned into a sanctuary for heroin gangs and Islamic terrorists, just as it was in the 1990s.
U.S./NATO operations over the Summer did substantial damage to drug gangs in Helmand province. The gangs are desperate to halt this disruption of heroin production and distribution. This can only be accomplished by overthrowing the Afghan government, or at least keeping the government out of Helmand, and away from drug operations. This will also require finding some way to get the foreign troops to leave. The foreign troops cannot be defeated militarily. Most of the population tolerates the drug gangs, as long as they spread the money around. But the Taliban are another story. Bitter memories of what the Taliban did in the 1990s, make most Afghans fearful of being ruled once more by these fanatics.
The reality of Afghanistan is lots of unemployed young men. Most of these guys have guns, or would be glad to have one. The gangsters supply the paycheck and the Taliban a religious based license to kill. The fact that 20 percent of more of each year's crop of recruits get killed, or otherwise disappear, does not discourage the gunmen. Afghanistan has the lowest life expectancy in Eurasia, and locals are well aware of it. U.S. commanders say that, some of the same techniques that worked in Iraq, will work in Afghanistan, That is, get the potential gunmen on your payroll. Give these guys better prospects than the heroin producers and Taliban. Meanwhile, the drug gangs have no choice but to spend, if need be, all the money they have, to defend the heroin business that has made so many Afghans richer than they ever believed possible. Their Taliban allies are on a Mission From God, and need no further encouragement. Although, as in the 1990s, there is a growing migration Taliban into the drug gangs. Paradise on earth is always a temptation for those reluctant to wait for the afterlife.
Paradise on Earth
...Continued...
The Taliban operate in small groups, rarely more than a few dozen men, to protect them from detection and death by smart bombs. These gangs have vague orders, that are easily understood. Attack road traffic, and villages that are not friendly to the gangs and Taliban. In other words, do what the tribal culture praises; go forth and raid and loot. While this sort of behavior is officially looked down on, it is still admired at the tribal level, but only if the victims are from another tribe.
The campaign against the few main roads is killing a lot of civilians, which is an accepted side of effect of an attempt to cripple the legitimate economy, and government control over large portions of the country. The army and police have to assign a large proportion of their strength to trying to keep the roads safe. It's very difficult, when the Taliban can go cross country to set up an ambush or place a roadside bomb, one that can be set to go off when the next vehicle (most likely a civilian one) passes by.
The U.S. commander wants more troops to deal with the new Taliban tactic of sending groups of gunmen all over the country, where they raise hell. Most of rural Afghanistan is unprotected by police or soldiers. There is the tribal militia, which is called up for a major incursion by a neighboring tribe. Otherwise, the few armed men in every village, is enough to take care of local crime. But not a few dozen Taliban gunmen, zipping around in their SUVs and pickup trucks. These mobile gangs have cash to bribe their way past checkpoints, and some carry satellite phones, to stay in touch with the home office. But mainly they are just sent north to ravage non-Pushtun tribes (who are 60 percent of the population, and despised by the large Pushtun minority) and most return home for the Winter, carrying loot and stories of adventure.
The Taliban and drug gangs are using his squads, paid well to use murder, kidnap or other threats to intimidate government officials who are not already on their payroll. While most of these officials are safe, all are now scared.
Pakistan is now complaining that Pakistani Taliban are getting most of their weapons and ammunition from Afghanistan. The Pakistani army has cut most of the roads into rebellious tribal territories. But the Afghan/Pakistani border runs through Pushtun tribal lands, and the Pushtun never thought much of that border (created by British colonial officials over a century ago). Smuggling across this border is a respected profession among the Pushtun, and moving guns and ammo is considered a public service. Pushtuns have to be able to defend themselves. The Pakistani complaints are largely cosmetic, because there's no easy way to halt the movement of small quantities of goods (off the roads) across the border.
'Citizenship for refugees a recipe for disaster'
ExpressBuzz.com
October 5, 2009
SALEM/CHENNAI: The DMDK and BJP came down heavily on the proposal by Chief Minister M Karunanidhi to grant citizenship to the Sri Lankan Tamils, now living as refugees in India, on Sunday.
DMDK presidium chairman, P Ramachandran, told reporters in Salem that the idea of granting citizenship was a convenient ploy to covertly aid the Sri Lankan government to keep pushing Tamils out of their land.
Ramachandran, a former minister in the MGR government who shaped state policies on Sri Lankan Tamils, said “the chauvinistic Sri Lankan government with its linguistic and Buddhist fanaticism would only be very happy at the prospect of the Tamils being accorded citizenship in Tamil Nadu. The idea is fundamentally flawed as any approach aimed at recognising the right of the Tamils to their homeland will be contradictory to the citizenship idea”.
Recalling that it was Art of Living guru Sri Sri Ravishankar who first espoused the idea at Kancheepurm a few months back, Ramachandran said Ravishankar had met Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa before making that statement. Such ideas are by nature anti-Tamils, he said.
On Union Home Minister, P Chidambaram’s discussions with the Chief Minister on October 3 and his subsequent statement that the Centre would take a decision on granting citizenship after further discussions, Ramachandran said that pursuing such a course of action will be detrimental to the long term interests of the affected people.
The same day, the Tamil Nadu
BJP vice president, H Raja, told reporters in Chennai
that giving citizenship to Sri Lankan Tamils in India would only help Rajapaksa in his ethnic cleansing
8 U.S. troops killed in seige of Afghanistan outpost
By Joshua Partlow and Greg Jaffe
MSNBC.com
October 4, 2009
KU.S. commanders had been planning since late last year to abandon the small combat outpost in mountainous eastern Afghanistan where eight U.S. soldiers died Saturday in a fierce insurgent assault.
The pullout, part of a strategy of withdrawing from sparsely populated areas where the United States lacks the troops to expel Taliban forces and to support the local Afghan government, has been repeatedly delayed by a shortage of cargo helicopters, Afghan politics and military bureaucracy, U.S. military officials said.
The attack began in the early morning hours. Taliban-linked militiamen struck from the high ground using rifles, grenades and rockets against the outpost, a cluster of stone buildings set in a small Hindu Kush valley that has been manned by 140 U.S. and Afghan forces. By the end of a day-long siege, eight Americans and two Afghan security officers were dead, marking the highest toll for U.S. forces in over a year.
The deaths brought into stark relief the dilemma the Obama administration faces in Afghanistan. Without more soldiers and supplies, the Taliban and allied insurgents are gaining ground, but committing more forces could sink the country deeper into an increasingly deadly and unpopular war.
Several U.S. soldiers were injured in the attack, Rear Adm. Gregory J. Smith, a U.S. military spokesman, said Sunday, but he did not specify the number. The province's deputy police chief, Mohammad Farouq, said more than 20 Afghan soldiers and police had disappeared since the fighting began and may have been taken hostage. A Taliban spokesman said the district police chief and the intelligence chief were among the hostages.
The fighting came on a day when poor weather limited visibility. The insurgents struck from positions in a mosque, village buildings and hillside positions above the outpost, which is in the Kamdesh area of Nurestan province. Surrounded by enemy fighters and under heavy fire, U.S. soldiers called in ground reinforcements, along with attack helicopters, airplanes and surveillance drones. U.S. forces eventually repelled the attack while inflicting "a significant amount of casualties" on insurgents, Smith said. "Virtually everything that could be thrown at it was thrown at it."
Due to the "very challenging terrain," the insurgents had effective firing positions, Smith said. "It was obviously a very, very difficult day."
A Taliban spokesman, Zabiullah Mujahid, claimed responsibility for the attack. "If the Americans want to increase their troops, we will increase our fighters as well," Mujahid said by telephone.
Another American died in a separate attack in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, bringing the day's total to nine.
The violence on Saturday, in its severity and geography, mirrored an onslaught in an adjacent valley of Nurestan province in July 2008. About 200 insurgents attacked an American outpost in Wanat, killing nine U.S. soldiers and wounding 27 in one of the bloodiest battles of the war for U.S. forces.
The military investigations into what went wrong that day helped precipitate a war-strategy assessment that led to the decision to pull some troops from rural areas dominated by insurgents and to move them into larger cities and towns. The move was in line with the counterinsurgency approach of Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, of trying to protect population centers.
8 U.S. troops killed in seige of Afghanistan outpost
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In addition to 50 U.S. soldiers, about 90 Afghan army and police personnel were stationed at the base, which was set up several years ago to try to stop fighters moving into the country from Pakistan. But the insurgents learned long ago to maneuver around the outpost, and U.S. troops there said they had not detained anyone in months.
"It is really hard to interdict the enemy," said the base's company commander in an interview with The Washington Post in late September. "There are literally thousands of trails around here. We just don't have the numbers of troops we need to be effective."
Although the village of Kamdesh is only about a mile from the base, U.S. and Afghan troops never visited it because it was too dangerous, the company commander said.
"We patrol the high ground around the base, but we have an agreement that we won't go into the villages around the outpost unless we are invited," the officer said. "We have not been invited yet."
Attacks on the outpost have been frequent -- approximately 50 since May, although they had rarely caused casualties before Saturday.
When soldiers from a new brigade took over the outpost earlier this year, one of their top priorities was to leave as quickly as possible, a process their commanders had begun planning as early as December 2008. Before the planned U.S. retreat, American and Afghan army commanders tried to strike a deal with a senior insurgent commander in Kamdesh, a man named Mullah Sadiq. He had been on the U.S. list of enemy targets for several years, and may have led or ordered Saturday's attack.
"Many civilians have been injured and killed during the fight, and I offer apologies to the Nuristani people for the bombings that hurt the innocent," Lt. Col. Robert B. Brown wrote in a letter to Sadiq dated Sept. 6. "We ask for your guidance in developing a plan that will improve security and development in the area."
Brown promised not to arrest Sadiq if he agreed to a meeting. But Sadiq, a local commander of the Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin insurgent group, refused to meet with the Americans.
Meanwhile, the Americans were having trouble getting out. In the weeks leading up to the Aug. 20 presidential election, the Afghan government was reluctant to let Americans leave the Nurestan outposts and appear weaker by ceding territory to the Taliban.
In early July, Afghan President Hamid Karzai asked senior U.S. officials to dispatch about 100 U.S. soldiers to Barge Matal, a small village in Nurestan. The cargo helicopters required for the mission exacerbated a preexisting shortage, and left frustrated U.S. commanders without the airlift needed to withdraw from the Kamdesh outpost and another that they were planning to close. At the same time, the U.S. military was undertaking a major war assessment by McChrystal's team, and there was a sense that some troop movement should wait for that process to finish.
The provincial governor, Jamaluddin Badar, said on Sunday that security had steadily deteriorated around Kamdesh. The Taliban leadership has appointed a shadow governor in the province, Mullah Dost Muhammad, and had opened a training camp in the forest, he said.
"I have already warned the central government to help us and send more Afghan soldiers, and I warned the American soldiers they need to be more serious and stop the Taliban," Badar said in a telephone interview. "But unfortunately, nobody listened to me."
Badar said he was unaware of American plans to abandon the outpost. He said his province has a shortage of Afghan soldiers and an incompetent police force. The province is at risk of falling to the Taliban if the Americans pull out, he said.
"I request that they stay," he said. "If they leave, it will be very dangerous for Nurestan."
http://www.dailymirror.lk/DM_BLOG/Sections/frmNewsDetailView.aspx?ARTID=63684
kunuUNA !!!!
[Inconsistent US Policy on Afghanistan & Sri Lanka]
Ananda-USA, dear chap, a brilliant analysis and a well reasoned commentary on US Afghanistan strategy and what they can lean from Sri Lanka's victory in Global War on Extremism (GWOE). As you know there is high interest right now in US over Afghanistan strategy. President Obama is huddling with his advisers to come up with a new strategy. Therefore, I urge you, good chap, to submit this article as an opinion piece to websites with high readership in US (NY times, Washington post, Economist, Times magazine, NPR etc.). It will be a win-win for both these great countries if President Obama adopts this strategy; US will win in Afghanistan and Sri Lanka's victory will be looked at in a positive light by policy and opinion makers in US.
Cheers!
LTTE murder czar, TNA MP’s son
Published on: 4th October, 2009
Inteligence officials have revealed that the son of Vanni district TNA MP Sathasivam Kanagaratnam was a prominent LTTE member “Giri” who is said to have handled many attacks in Colombo, and attempted attacks on president Mahinda Rajapaksa and defence secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, in close association with several high ranking army officials.
‘Giri’ was involved in the planning of the assassination of former Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar, and he is said to be responsible for stashing away suicide kits and explosives, which were recently discovered by the State Intelligence Services (SIS) from a house in the Modera Anandaraja housing complex. The SIS has also revealed that Giri had a plan to assasinate defence secretary, Gotabhaya Rajapaksa by blasting a bomb fixed to a motor bike and ridden by a suicide cadre.
Meanwhile, the plan to assassinate the president at the ‘Deyata Kirula’ exhibition premises last year was also said to be Giri’s. He, it is reported, had also planned to assassinate the president at a passing out ceremony at the Diyatalawa army camp on December 20,.2007 with the help of a Lieutenant Colonel who is now in the custody of the Colombo Crime Division.
Meanwhile, it is said that Giri handled the suicide attack opposite air force headquarters on the day President Mahinda Rajapaksa addressed the nation regarding the Kilinochchi victory. The SIS has also revealed another plan by Giri to attack the defence secretary and several other higher ups at a hotel in Kollupitiya. Giri was also responsible for the attacks which targeted the Pakistan high commissioner at Pittala Handiya and EPDP leader Minister Douglas Devananda at the Social Services Ministry in Kirullapone.
According to a top defence official, Giri has operated these missions staying at his father’s official MPs residence
When Hilary and Blake pet LTTE, Taleban hit WFP
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8290059.stm
A Sri Lankan-American sent this letter to Hillary.
Honorable Hillary Clinton
Secretary of State
Dear Madam Secretary:
Rape as weapon of war
We are deeply aggrieved by your statement in the Security Council meeting of 30 September 2009 presenting Resolution 1888/2009 on Women & Peace & Security that rape was used as an instrument of war in Sri Lanka. It is incomprehensible how you could make such a damning statement without a shred of evidence. Not one single case of rape was reported throughout the last Eelam War of two and a half years, either by government forces or by the LTTE terrorists. We cannot but conclude that you were unfortunately influenced to make such a statement by the powerful LTTE propaganda machine that is spending enormous sums of money in U.S. political circles using the resources that they extort from the Sri Lankan Tamil community in North America.
We have over 200,000 Sri Lankan-American voters in the USA and they overwhelmingly voted for you and the Democratic Party at the last election. Most of us voted for you in the Democratic Presidential primaries as we felt that you had the maturity and courage to lead our nation in a time of crisis. Many of us sent individual contributions to your campaign. We are now shocked and disappointed by your unwarranted criticism of a democratic nation trying to come to its feet after 30 years of terrorist violence. You have only to check the CIA website to see that the LTTE was the worst terrorist organization in the world.
It is hoped that you will correct this injustice by making a public correction of your wrong statement made as a result of a lack of proper information.
Sincerely,
Hilary gets Mouthful,
http://www.divaina.com/2009/10/06/feature02.html
I also wish that Hilary has b*lls (lack of other term) to come out and apologize for her ill-statement.
"8 U.S. troops killed"
the more the merrier!!
that helps SOME HYPOCRITES in the US come to terms with the reality. unfortunately dead soldiers wrapped in the US flag is the only way to convince these DUMBASSES that terrorists everywhere are the same.
casc,
thanks for posting.
i said on October 5, 2009 9:59 AM
"2. LTTE's grandfathers (ITAK, FP, TULF) and grandmothers (mrs amirthalingam) were tamil elamists too!!"
didn't see casc's report of "LTTE murder czar, TNA MP’s son"
Published on: 4th October, 2009" which he posted here on October 5, 2009 9:24 PM.
no rocket science. it is common knowledge!!
let me refine the statement.
2. LTTE terrorists' ancestors/blood relatives are/were peaceful tamil elamists too!!
so for all intents and purposes, LTTE = peaceful tamil elamists.
if ASS (ananda sakkili) rejoins his old friends like sampanthan, etc. don't be surprised.
i hear that ASS has already pledged support to the "grand" UNP-TNA axis of evil that will contest the next presidential election. (and possibly the general election too).
CID, CCD, DMI, etc, should check bank accounts, dealings, emails, computer hard drives, etc of ALL TNA (includes hack-him and gona-sung too) MFs and their close relatives.
this is the tip of the iceberg.
best way is for EACH secret service to carryout SEPERATE investigations.
revealing findings should be delayed until the last week before key elections!!
using politics to get milage for terror work????
then get MAXIMUM political milage from terror work. it works both ways!!
News News News…
[Indian Navy in Sri Lanka
HindustanTimes, Tue,06 Oct 2009. n a first after the 27-year-old war with the LTTE ended in May, a group of 140 Indian Navy and Coast Guard cadets reached Sri Lanka on Monday as part of a training programme with cadets from the Sri Lankan navy.]
So much for the LTTE whore Sakkiliyas and their supporter going on hunger strike in India to get India to ostracize Sri Lanka!
LMSSAO!!! Truly Fcuking LMSSAO!!!
Pardon me one and all here …this is something I have been harping in the www since the early days of “eelam wars” where LTTE whores went on terror attacks in Sri Lanka to achieve their mono-ethnic (racist) separate state. Yes, I have told gzillion times in the www that Mother India will NEVER EVER allow a Tamil separate state in Sri Lanka as she knows that it is the precursor to Tamilnadu also very violently agitating for separation and she knows if that happens then what she experienced re. the late “Khalistan Movement” will be like a child’s play!
I have been pleasantly taken up with the intellect of some Tamil intellectuals/professionals I have met over the years (many in my travels in many different parts of the globe at various business/academic fora). But alas, what I found with even the most astute brain amongst them was that they could not fathom and come to realty with this fact!!! It was almost like they were playing the Ostrich game – burying their head in the sand and pretending that this impossible impediment to their formation of a mono-ethnic “thamileelam” was simply not there!!!
See what racism can do to you? It makes you blind to all other reason, including the simple, around you!
OaO Asithri
CBK, son will not enter politics: Mangala
Oct 5 (DM) SLFP (Mahajana Wing) leader Mangala Samaraweera yesterday dismissed speculation that former President Chandrika Kumaratunga or her son Vimukthi Kumaratunga would enter active politics. “I can categorically say that they will not enter politics at all,” he said. Mr. Samaraweera was responding to a query whether there was any plan by him to bring them to the proposed UNP-led alliance through his party
Aha, once a fcuking puk-kolla is always a fcuking puk-kolla…
LMSSAO!!!
This whore-homo-dog in my view is as a traitor to the Motherland as much as the Tamil racists and their LTTE whores were/are.
Why is it that a Bo-tree doesn’t fall on this whore-homo-dog and not on some innocent villagers?
:(( :(( :((
OaO Asithri
Moshey
[if ASS (ananda sakkili) rejoins his old friends like sampanthan, etc. don't be surprised. i hear that ASS has already pledged support to the "grand" UNP-TNA axis of evil that will contest the next presidential election. (and possibly the general election too).]
Yeah bro, we must be ready for this and accept it as a inevitability.
This is not the first time that a Tamil parasite stabbed us in the back - and it won't be the last!
What is needed is timely releasing of our terrorist-containment strategy even in this post-terra-war period.
Law of nature - what goes up, must come down without support for keeping it up right?
OaO Asithri
In the previous post I should have said "an inevitability" and NOT "a inevitability"...just thought of correcting it in case my once good looking English teacher in RC (a pretty fair Tamil lady) is in the blog and keeping an eye on me (as she did then!)
:)) :)) :))
OaO Asithri
OAOA,
truely good news man.
you know this bit too. only for the record.
1. india tolerate no seperate tamil nation in SL (or within india)
2. but india wants to DRAG parts of SL into its direct power/control/influence. india fears that otherwise china, pakistan , etc. will have a foothold in SL.
3. and india wants SL to pander into its say/authority/importance. for this to happen on a PERMANANT basis, india wants some level of trouble in SL to continue.
4. india wants SL to be on it's side in the COLD WAR between china and india. this cold war is undeniable. and SL (among many other subject matters) is at the centre of it!!!!
for SL it is disastrous to be on india's side. (not suggesting taking the other side though more beneficial)
considering all these, SL should MANAGE its relations with india as EQUALS without allowing india to manage SL.
a good starting point is SCRAPING THE 13 AMENDMENT and ERECTING A HEROES MONUMENT FOR IPKF FCUKERS.
OAOA,
that means vimukti and CBK are going to enter politics.
CBK is a crafty politician. she created 4 political parties. her plan is this.
1. create crap political parties and contest against the SLFP
2. reduce as many SLFP votes as possible.
3. then threaten SLFP to continue this and eventually ruin the bonus seats in many districts of the SLFP. use this threat to join the SLFP
4. once in, use henchos to screw/kill the opponents, use blackmail, get friendly outsiders in, drag her parents (then the husband and now the brother too!!) to get undue political support and reach the top.
she knows apart from the rajapakshas, there are no challengers. also chamal, basil and gota are not very effective politicians. essentially MR is the only challenge.
Moshey,
Cannot disagree with anything you said brother!
Yes, India always wanted the have this "Tamil-militancy leverage" over our tiny nation and she was into all kinds of mendacious machinations, including the training and unleashing of the early "tamil tigers" in SL to destabilize the then GOSL headed by JRJ!
So, yep bro, I agree with you and am under no misgivings of the the fcuking Indian devils have done to us (for which they paid heavily with the over 2000 dead Jawan bodies and over 3000 wounded Jawans and also with the disintegrated body of Rajiv G)...
However, the point I was making was how much of a stupid motherfcuker these thamileealm racists were/are...to think that India will allow them to form their Tamil racist/nationalist separate state in SL - by simply defeating the SLDF!
ha ha ha...truly LMSSAO!!!
This was told to me by an eminent prof (an Indian) when I was attending college in the US in the late eighties! How true his words were/are (that "India NEVER EVER allowing a separate Tamil state in SL"...!!!)
OaO Asithri
Moshey
[she knows apart from the rajapakshas, there are no challengers. also chamal, basil and gota are not very effective politicians. essentially MR is the only challenge.]
You got a point here. Yes, I think this unpatriotic she-dog is hoping that will be the case...however, I personally think she has another surprise coming to her. Enough said.
:)) :)) :))
OaO Asithri
Bugger! Do you chaps remeber our good general calling these Poopnadu monkeys jokers? I think he was too kind to them. I think only blood sucking leeches use the plight of poor uneducated people for photo-ops.
Cheers!
Warring DMK loses national clout
Nistula Hebbar / DNA
Tuesday, October 6, 2009 2:45 IST
New Delhi: In the first UPA government, the DMK had 16 seats and tremendous clout. In UPA-II, it has 18 seats but a vastly-diminished visibility, thanks to a growing feud in party chief and Tamil Nadu (TN) CM M Karunanidhi's family.
With ministerial posts in Delhi becoming part of the division of spoils in TN's first family, divided loyalties have weakened the presence of the once-mighty Congress ally. Once, a word by Karunanidhi against disinvestment in Neyveli Lignite Corporation had halted all divestment. Now, competing demands by family factions have meant the feud is playing out in Delhi as well.
"Last week, chemicals and fertilizers minister MK Alagiri refused to be part of a delegation of Tamil MPs that went to meet the prime minister to demand the Centre's intervention in Sri Lanka. This was because the delegation had been timed as a photo-op for the inaugural issue of Kalanidhi Maran's Dinakaran newspaper's Delhi edition," a source said.
CACS
Re. that letter from a SL patriot to HillaryC:
[We have over 200,000 Sri Lankan-American voters in the USA and they overwhelmingly voted for you and the Democratic Party at the last election.]
Duh!
Yes, some of you stupid morons voted with your head up your arse!
Democrats/Republicans what the FUCK did it matter to you buggers...they were not Commies and Capatalists...they were not invasionists and pacifists...they were not believers and atheists...
But alas, you had to go and support the election of a Democratic setup!
This despite that it was clear from the beginiinng that a Democrat US administration would be MORE THAN LIKELY SYMPATHETIC TO THE THAMIEELAMISTS - as all signs pointed to it (i.e. with the brainwashed Democrat congressmen uttering anti SL slogans and supporting anti-SL resolutions in the Congress even during Bush's time!)...but what did you buggers do...you buried your head up your arse and went on to support the election of a clan of Democrat kooks in Washington!
So my answer to you, whoever you are, now shut the F up and just lament over your myopic mistake!
We Sinhelas have much to learn about the theory of "friend of friend and whose friend are you" theory!!!
Fcuking myopic dolts...now complaining about the Obama/Hillary administration's anti-SL stance!
Phew!
OaO Asithri
Patriots
This year's Nobel Peace price has already been announced.
It will be shared by Mahinda Ranapakse and Hillary Clinton on their work on bringing peace to the Earth.
Please join me on congratulating President Mahinda and Sec. Of State Hillary.
Kumari aka fake Sam Perera aka fake Ananda-USA,
How is your gay lover Jay?
Thanks my diaspora donkeys for your contribution towards our latest Advanced Infantry Training School.
/8 U.S. troops killed/
/White House: US won't pull out of Afghanistan (AP)
AP - Defense Secretary Robert Gates appealed Monday for calm amid intense administration debate over the flagging war in Afghanistan,../
8 troops killed.. US talking about pulling out..? huh (This is I guess even without RW-CBK-mongal type opposition in US.. I think Republicans support their war..)
Assume Al-Qaida doing the same in US as same as what LTTE did in SL. 1.e. Living among fellow muslims blow themselves up in trains, buses, kill US leaders and losing 100s or 1000s of own troops in a single day... Imagine what would be the reaction/ out come from US..? Will they follow AI, HRW, and other human rights protocol they advise on SL..?
If there is a test war for each country under exactly similar conditions as SL had for last 30 years with a terrorist outfit similar to LTTE, I believe SL will the country who fight the war most humane manner.
Patriot
Be careful
The transsexual is appearing as fake Sam Perera with ID: 07809036198381030982
Moshe said...
[ considering all these, SL should MANAGE its relations with india as EQUALS without allowing india to manage SL.]
A good way to get our point across to the Indians, is to start offering them a copious unending stream of unwelcome advice .. through well advertised govt to govt and news media channels .. on how to manage and solve every security, economic and social ill prevailing in India. This should be done in an always friendly, helpful, yet painfully insistent manner, like the advice from a mother-in-law to a woman on how to raise her baby.
They should not be able to turn around, before they run into some Sri Lankan politician, official or "expert" offering them advice on how to to run their country and manage their affairs.
That should start the ball rolling on getting them to be more introspective and self-aware, than they are now, don't you think?
Ha! Ha! I love this!
Ninja,
One big difference between the US fighting in Afghanistan for their security, and Sri Lanka fighting the LTTE within Sri Lanka, was that the threat and the consequences of fighting was much more immediate, and painful to us.
It was our own people who were being blown up, our society that was being destroyed .. brick by brick; it was not some strange people in some far off land. Our economy, our means of production, our educational standards, the health of our public, and respect for law and order, that was held hostage and was being gradually dismantled.
These were things we couldn't ignore like American can, largely ignoring the suffering of the Afghans and the destruction of their society and their hopes for a decent future for their children.
The hearths and homes of Americans are secure, their economy is largely unaffected by this war, whereas our economy and our people's future was held hostage by the LTTE.
For precisely this reason, the US does have the (bad) option of giving up and going home, and dealing with the longer-term security impacts of that at some later date. We Sri Lankans could not do that, for it WAS IN OUR HOME that the conflict was raging, the elephant was running amok in our living room!
The conflict in Afghanistan will become like the conflict in Sri Lanka, only when a popular Afghan government, made up of Afghans fighting for the national survival of Afghans, comes to pass. As I had written earlier, in the ultimate analysis, only Afghans can find a permanent cure to this; other countries must only help such a government getup and stand on its own two feet.
guys,
did you notice that now MR directly makes PUBLIC statements on important anti-SL propoganda????
this is very good.
until now we considered the EXTERNAL element of external anti-SL propoganda. now we are addressing the INTERNAL element too.
bcos it is the president saying so, these statements intended for internal consumption, goes international too.
the significance is this.....
it gives any bloody idiot following SL events an indication of peoples' mood and beliefs which cannot be reconciled with what the LTTE lobby says.
these statements obviously don't have the diplomatic TONE DOWN effect. TF higher impact!!
these statements are an added punch to what the foreign ministry says. (rohitha's incompetant guys lack punch anyway!!!!)
Are Tigers setting up shop in Australia?
Is the Tamil Eelam of Australia in the offing?
...........
Boatpeople facing expulsion over security concerns on former Tamil fighters
By Paul Maley
TheAustralian
October 06, 2009
SECURITY officials may move to expel some of the Sri Lankan boatpeople detained at Christmas Island over concerns they are Tamil Tiger fighters and could pose a risk to the community.
Some young men are believed to have raised suspicions because they have injuries consistent with warfare, such as shrapnel wounds. Officials are concerned they could be Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam fighters trying to pass themselves off as asylum-seekers.
While not proscribed in Australia, the LTTE has been listed as a terrorist organisation here since 2001.
It is either banned, proscribed or listed as a terrorist organisation in 31 other countries, including the US, UK and Canada.
Yesterday, Sri Lanka's high commissioner to Australia, Senaka Walgampaya, said security agencies in Colombo had indicated there was a strong possibility Tigers were among the latest wave of boat-borne asylum-seekers to reach Australia.
"I have in fact informed (the Department of Immigration and Citizenship) also that there is a really strong possibility that the combatants, the LTTE cadres, will try to infiltrate, will try to come into Australia," he said.
In May, Sri Lankan troops crushed the decades-old Tamil separatist movement, sparking a humanitarian calamity.
The high commissioner's remarks came as Immigration officials prepared to repatriate three Sri Lankan boatpeople, who landed as part of a group of 12 at Shark Bay on the northwest coast in November. Eight of the group have been deported, including two forcibly returned on Sunday.
Mr Walgampaya said the repatriation of the men, understood to be Sinhalese economic migrants, would discourage other potential boatpeople. The increasing number of boat arrivals threatens to overwhelm the offshore processing centre at Christmas Island, with immigration officials preparing to open the Northern immigration detention centre in Darwin to cope with the overflow.
The high commissioner's advice is in line with concerns raised by Australian security agencies, who are understood to have warned Immigration that ASIO could be set to issue adverse security assessments against some Sri Lankans already in detention.
Such a finding would make the men ineligible for an Australian visa and create a dilemma for the Australian government, who would risk jeopardising the men's safety should they return them to Sri Lanka.
Several Sri Lankan detainees at Christmas Island had aroused the suspicion of guards with their regimented behaviour, such as exercising in small groups at first light. Some of the men, understood to be young and fit, are also said to carry injuries similar to those suffered in combat.
An Immigration Department spokesman yesterday refused to say if any adverse security assessments had been issued, saying it was a matter for ASIO.
And, while it is likely at least some of those in detention fought with the Tamils, it is not certain they will be denied visas as a result.
The Tamil Tigers are not a proscribed terrorist organisation in Australia and not everyone who served with them necessarily poses a threat to the community.
The fall of the last Tamil redoubt in May triggered a humanitarian catastrophe in Sri Lanka and warnings from the Australian government that increased refugee numbers were likely.
The UN estimated that up to 7000 civilians may have died as a result of the fighting in the first four months of this year.
Tamil Eelam of Australia
Refugees now, sole Masters of a Tamil Eelam later?
.....continued...
More than 250,000 Tamil civilians have been interned by the Sri Lankan government, which claims it is screening the Tamil population for former fighters.
Mr Walgampaya said his government was "rehabilitating" ex-combatants and denied unsuccessful Sri Lankan asylum-seekers faced any risk should they return home.
Mr Walgampaya said there was a risk ex-Tamil fighters would come to Australia to "reactivate" their networks.
This risk, he said, was based on advice from the Sri Lankan government.
"There is a large Tamil diaspora here and really it's a very dangerous situation here if they come and start their activities again here," Mr Walgampaya said.
"Now that the LTTE have been defeated militarily in Sri Lanka they will try to come here and reactivate their network."
When asked if he believed LTTE fighters might already be on the boats, he replied: "I believe so ... I can't tell you the information I have but that's a firm belief."
Last month around 500 asylum-seekers arrived by boat, with favourable seasonal conditions expected to deliver similar - or greater numbers - in the months ahead.
The surge makes it all but certain the government will begin transferring asylum-seekers to the mainland for the final stages of processing, with the Christmas Island detention centre near capacity.
Immigration Department officials are understood to be readying a facility in Darwin that has an normal operating capacity of 382 and a surge capacity of 546.
I think the US/west approach toward SL has another goal apart from obvious ones.
# Western media saying "satellite evidence of army killing 20,000 tamil civilians"
# C4 saying "this is how sinhala country boys killed innocent tamils"
# Hilari saying "GSL used rape as a weapon of war" (Thier 'yanne koheda malle pol' - 'clarification' neither apologized nor withdrew the accusation.)
# Vast propaganda on "GSL detaining ethnic tamils"
All these aimed at keeping the tamils (in and out of SL) against GSL/ sinhala majority. If SL tamils absorbed to SL society and became Sri Lankans (rather than 'ethnic tamils') obviously, problem solved and SL will be on top gear on development. Its wise approach from west to keep the problem dragging and there by employ control and influence through tamil minority toward any GSL. I think west has calculated that SL is on that way under MR and they do what’s possible to avoid such an strong SL occurring.
When big powers meddle in the affairs of little powers it’s very difficult to fathom their motives or let's say that their motives are not perceived as benevolent by the intended recipients of their goodwill. I am currently reading General Sinha Rantaunga's memoires "From Peace to War. Insurgency to Terrorism." In it he describes an incident with the IPKF. When the LTTE started massacring Sinhala villagers in the East after the IPKF arrival Gen Ranatunga requests permission from the IPKF to visit a particular village. Despite repeated requests he is denied permission. General Rantaunga describes this incident in rather diplomatic terms. In 1989 a family friend who was then an Army Brigadier put it more bluntly. The IPKF had in fact threatened to shoot down Gen Ranatunga's helicopter if he went into any operational areas without their express consent. I am sure that the incident must have been a moment of revelation to everyone in the Sri Lanka military high command that ndia's intentions towards Sri Lanka were not benevolent.
In the case of Afghanistan, I am not sure why President Bush Jr chose Hamid Karzai, a man who is a US citizen who was previously employed as an executive for Conoco Phillips Petroleum, American oil company. If that country poses the biggest threat to American security why appoint an oil executive who has roots in USA ?
I think the situation in Sri Lanka has no parallel to Iraq, Afghanistan or Israel. In Sri Lanka a sovereign democratic Government without direct foreign assistance wiped out a terrorist movement. The Government's stated aim is to restore full civic rights to all citizens of the land irrespective of their ethinicity or religion.
CASC said...
[In Sri Lanka a sovereign democratic Government without direct foreign assistance wiped out a terrorist movement.]
This is exactly right.
However, the issue of who can successfully confront terrorism within a country still needs to be debated. Can foreigners do it, or can only the native people do it?
In my view, the local people are the only people who can successfully confront it; foreigners should only assist by providing the means to fight.
In Afghanistan, the existing government was deposed and a new government was setup. If this national government, under Karzai or someone else who is more effective, can be assisted to stand up and fight for itself, there is hope.
Fortunately in Sri Lanka, the national government was never completely overwhelmed, although at times Indian forces could have deposed the GOSL. They may well have been poised and planning to do it, but GOSL strategy and LTTE intransigence pushed them out.
It all goes to show, that people must fight their own battles against terrorism and separatism without inviting foreigners in to do it for them. Outsiders will only exacerbate the conflict, and undermine the integrity of the country because their interests do not coincide with those of the people of the country. Whatever the declared initial motives of intervention are, foreign agendas often evolve out of alignment with the will and interests of the majority of the people of the country.
That is why, patriotic locals turn on the foreigners if they detect a long term agenda to occupy and remain in the country .. as was the case in Iraq. In this context, one of the biggest blunders the US made in Iraq was to begin the contruction of a the Largest US Embassy Complex in the world .. in Baghdad. That told the Iraqis .. these people plan to stay here as occupiers!
Lankan dancers mesmerize city
October 6, 2009
The Times of India
NEW DELHI: The third day of the Delhi International Arts Festival (DIAF) 2009 belonged to the expression of Sinhala dance and Sri Lanka's modern
dance form pioneered by Chitrasena. Besides showcasing the hardship of fisherfolk, it brought out issues of caste, religion, gender, love and identity along with a beautiful contrast of hope and despair.
The 10-day festival organised in association with The Times of India is a curtain raiser to the upcoming Commonwealth Games 2010 in Delhi. The fest is showcasing some of the unique art forms from various Commonwealth nations. And one could not have asked for more from the island nation. The performance by the renowned Chitrasena Dance Company which has presented a dozen scintillating acts that have enthralled audiences across the world for the past five decades was simply spellbinding.
Monday's performances offered Delhiites a glimpse into the best of Amaratunga Arachige Maurice Dias alias Chitrasena, who infused a new dynamism into and revived Sri Lanka's traditional dance. The artistes presented some of the famous dance drama such as Nala Damayanthi and Ravana.
The highlight of the day was the incredible `Theiya' a Kandyan dance technique in which dancers display their virtuoso movements in interpreting a particular segment by switching roles as the lead dancer, presenting sheer joy, energy and movement.
The colourful performances showcased all aspects of the urban and rural life in Sri Lanka and were picked up from different parts of the country and its heritage. The uniqueness of the performance lay in its exotic mask dances, the rhythmic throb of drums and fiery ritual dances that brought alive the centuries-old dance tradition.
Although dance has been a part of the country's culture and tradition for thousands of years, it was only in the 1930s with the vision of Chitrasena an expert in the traditional dance forms of Sri Lanka and the first professional dancer in his country that this ancient art was given a new life as it was adapted on the modern stage.
Anada, dear chap, I took the liberty of posting your article on "Inconsistent US Policy on Afghanistan & Sri Lanka" on Economist.com blog. There was a very bad article there on IDPs and I added a few comments to blunt the propaganda Eelamists were posting there.
Cheers!
KB, old chap, why did you lose the momentum of canvassing for the Nobel Peace Prize on the Economist.
I was particularly interested in seeing the NPP committees reaction to the nominations of MR, GR & SF.
The Nobel committee does not award the prize on the basis of an obscure blogspot,neither does it tend to pay much attention to the North Korean- style spin that would-be dictators tend to spout. A mention in the Daily Noose of Sri Lanka really won't cut the mustard when it comes to winning the prize.
So, on that balance of probabilities, I'd recommend that Rajapakse tried for Miss World instead; indeed in the same way as I would have recommended Prabaharan. By the way, is Rajapakse getting these deranged ideas from an ex-LTTE media adviser? What is it about despots that makes them crave public adulation?
Now that Rajapakse has his eyes on the Peace Prize, I'm surprised that his spin doctors haven't hit on the Miss World idea as plan B.
His media advisers (evidently, trained in N Korea) who dream up these crackpot schemes must have their work cut out for them. Soon we'll have Rajiva W,Palitha K and Mahinda S trying to convince us that the whole world is now at Sri Lanka's doorstep trying to glean some gems of good governance from our Dear Leader.
What a sad indictment of the circle of lackeys that surrounds the Brothers. First they convince Rajapakse that he is King, now they want the Peace Prize. Sounds like they've been trained by Prabaharan himself
Watch out for the Brothers' next witchhunt for subversives.
It looks like they've decided that the 17th amendment to the Constitution (like any other checks and balances)is nothing but a hinderance to the omnipotent President.
Very soon, any talk of getting the government to implement that amendment would be deemed "unpatriotic" and touted as evidence of an "unseen foreign hand" bent on destabilizing the country.
The "unseen foreign hand" theory has long been a favourite gripe of presidents (JRJ was one of the finest exponents) who could never stomach dissent. Remains to be seen what the Rajapakse cabal can come up with next.
Finally, it is in deed a fine piece of analysis by A-USA, but not sure of the relevance of it in the said article.
..have another G & T old chap..
Uk to withdraw funding
UK Minister Mike Foster says rainfall might cause devastation
The British government has said that soon it will withdraw all but emergency funding for the camps where about a quarter of a million Tamil displaced people are confined in northern Sri Lanka.
The announcement came from the UK’s [junior] development minister, Mike Foster, after he visited the huge Menik Farm camp.
BBC correspondent Charles Haviland accompanied him on the visit and sent this report.
Mr Foster said that once the imminent monsoon is over, Britain will only fund life-saving emergency interventions in the camps, which he described as “closed” as their inhabitants cannot freely leave.
Sri Lanka’s government says it’s installing adequate drainage to ward off any flooding. But the UK, the UN and others disagree.
Visiting Menik Farm, the British minister said he feared heavy rainfall might cause devastation and spread disease.
He said some 70 percent of the camp-dwellers could leave and stay with host families.
The BBC was able to meet refugees who clamoured to talk about their situation.
Refugees voice
One woman after another said the conditions were poor – that there wasn’t good drinking water, the drains could not cope, and that people were falling ill in the hot conditions.
“Please send us home as soon as possible,” one said.
Media access to the camps, and the north in general, has become rare.
But the army which is in overall charge of the refugee facility didn’t stop the BBC having brief but spontaneous meetings with people.
The former military boss of the camp, now governor of the Northern Province, defended the slow progress of refugee releases, saying people couldn’t just go back to areas from which landmines hadn’t yet been cleared.
The government says about 240,000 people remain in Menik Farm and just over 20,000 have been resettled or released – this figure also includes those who have died
BBC allowed access to the camps and spontaneous meetings with the people?
Oh i forgot GSP + on the line!
( ps- I believe GSP + will be granted. Similar to the IMF, EU is dragging its feet)
Jay Haan Perera the Terrorist,
You are back with never ending anti Sri Lankan agenda. What makes you to think that a blog will be accepted as the official nomination for NPP? Please read the blog before before you putting your 0.5 cents next time. If MR,GR, and SF did not bring peace to Sri Lanka, do you think that it is you Nocturnal Pussy Cats anti SL acts that brought peace to Sri Lanka.
Learn to live an honorable life than coughing for terrorist and white master money.
මඩ වෙබ් අඩවි දෙකක් ගැන ස්කොට්ලන්ඩ්යාඩ් පරීක්ෂණ
ජනාධිපති, ආරක්ෂක ලේකම් හමුදා ප්රධානීන් සහ මාධ්යවේදීන් චරිත ඝාතනය කිරීම සඳහා ක්රියාත්මක වන මඩ වෙබ් අඩවි දෙක සම්බන්ධයෙන් ස්කොට් ලන්ඩ්යාඩ් පොලිසිය පරීක්ෂණ අරඹා ඇත. කොලින් බොන්ඩ් (Colin bond) යන ව්යාජ නමක් යටතේ මෙකී මඩ වෙබ් අඩවි මෙහෙයවන්නේ බ්රිතාන්යයේ සහ ජර්මනියේ සිට යෑයි හෙළිවී තිබේ.
Deported asylum seeker arrested in Colombo- Australia
A Sri Lankan asylum seeker deported at the weekend has been arrested and charged with people smuggling in Colombo, the Age newspaper reported. Indika Mendis was among nine men flagged for forced deportation last week as the Government began returning people from Christmas Island to countries of origin against their will.
He failed to meet criteria for protection in Australia.
According to the Age newspaper in Australia the Australian Immigration Department confirmed the arrest and that it sought more information on its circumstances. It is alleged the man was beaten by police and was too frightened to speak.
''Whether someone has broken Sri Lankan law is something for the Sri Lankan courts to determine,'' a departmental spokesman said.
Mr Mendis was named as the skipper of a boat that sailed into Shark Bay, Western Australia, last November. But the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre's Pamela Curr said the real criminal was still at large.
When Daily Mirror online contacted police spokesman senior DIG Nimal Mediwaka over the report he was unable to confirm the specific case but said that it is normal procedure for any illegal asylum seeker deported back to the country to be arrested.
The police spokesman added that if there were any report of beatings or harrassment at the hands of Lankan officials he would have been made aware of it, but said that as such he had recieved no such information on the matter
Oh dear!
A sinhalese asylum seeker beaten up on return for being a traitor to the Kingdom of Rajapakse.
Sujeeva,
I hope that Jehan Perera is not involved in this anti SL site, eventhough that is all he does behind National Peace Crows.
Fron Lanka e-news:
"He confirmed that the UK is holding £4.8 million ready to provide further support to help the Sri Lankan Government meet its welcome commitment to release the majority of civilians from the camps before the end of the year."
UK's generosity knows no bounds That's about 16-17 pound sterling per refugee.
The British Government has expressed disappointment with the progress on returning IDPs back to their home areas with visiting UK Development Minister Mike Foster saying UK funding could not support people simply being transferred from existing ‘closed’ camps to new closed camps.
Rubbish! the IDP have been "released" from one 3 star camp to a 4 star camp and next week 5 star camp. GOSL looks after all its citizens!
Mike Foster needs to be deported falsely accusing GOSL of not "releasing" IDP's.
Bringing disrepute to the soon to be awarded Nobel Peace Prize winner Mahinda Rajapakse.
...hic...
CASC,
Think you forgot Mr Basil (10%) Rajapakse, Camp Project Management Fee payable in advance.
[KB, old chap, why did you lose the momentum of canvassing for the Nobel Peace Prize on the Economist.]
Jay, my poor fellow, the game, as they say, has just begun. Sit back and watch how it plays out. There are many ways to skin this cat. We hold all the cards and your Peelamists none.
Allow me, my poor misguided fellow, to throw something at you which make you scream and run to HR nannies of the world. How about cutting a deal with the NPP committee, 'X' number of IDPs released ahead of time and 'Y' number released upon the announcement of the award? Time for me to go fix up a good G&T and light up a fine handmade Gurkha Master Select Churchill cigar.
Cheers!
Sam;
I am not proving Jay translations. He does not read/write sinhala does not mean that he does not understand it. He is deliberately avoiding reading/writing sinhala, so he can always find out what is written in my unicode sinhala postings. Nevertheless, why bother, he'll get a perfect translation on his way in white van.
Jay,
Re: GSP+
What about your constant threatening? Do you agree that you did a hate campaign and scare-theory on that? I still dunno whether GSP+ will be given, but your position as an independent and impartial man can jolly well be debated.
Re: Returning [sinhala] asylum seeker arrested, and Jay thinks it is another VIOLATION of freedom.
Idiot, those who take the trawler boat to depart illegally are always taken to court. Why so much bothered about it? It is a common procedure,just a small case.
Another attempt to use a distant news for advantage.
Re: Nobel price for our heroes
We do not bark like an idiot who goes onto each blog and write some crap of a doomsday prediction.
If you have not seen this already (I have not been here for a long time) then have a look at
http://defensewire.blogspot.com/
Double-O ... Seven
That sounds like the O your mom gets getting F$$ by LTTE...
Dude, that is a fake video and there is scientific evidence to prove that. It is a shame for the Eelam nation to put out such an obvious fake video. Even my 2nd year old nephew asked how come the shot comes before the guy fell dead?
http://www.divaina.com/2009/10/07/feature01.html
Jay,
Per the BBC, the rational for the UK aid cut is:
"He said some 70% of the camp-dwellers could leave and stay with host families."
Since you have strong feelings about the treatment of refugees, I trust that you will now do you part to look after you kith and kin. The Government has said that they have no objection to refugees staying with their relatives after security screening.
Sorry. Typo in my previous post.
Should read instead
Since you have strong feelings about the treatment of refugees, I trust that you will now do your part to look after your kith and kin.
It's time to put your money where your mouth is.
another cracker from ramanie de zoysa.
Sri Lanka must focus to the future and move forward”- State Department Are you quite sure, Ms Verveer!?
extract..
What is even funny is that this ‘focus on the future’ order has been barked at Sri Lanka by the US when Sri Lanka objected to an astoundingly false accusation made by the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Speaking in her capacity as the current President of the Security Council on the subject of ‘Women and peace and security’, Clinton reportedly stated that “We’ve seen rape used as a tactic of war before in Bosnia, Burma and Sri Lanka and elsewhere”. Having dropped this bombshell Clinton now wants Sri Lanka to focus on future and move forward.
Clinton, who is well on the way to a career that gives dumb blondes a bad name, is on a roller coaster since May this year mouthing off warning after warning against Sri Lanka mostly based on misinformation supplied by Tamil Diaspora LTTE sycophants. Leaving aside the fact that the Sri Lankan Tri Forces have emerged not only victorious but with an unblemished record from this so-called “war” the very claim of Clinton is an act of being stuck in the past, muck raking and grasping at straws to find reasons to haul Sri Lanka before a kangaroo court in Europe.
State Department’s letter to Sri Lanka followed an equally absurd explanation offered by the US Ambassador in Colombo Patricia Butenis regarding the Clinton gaffe in response to objections raised by the Sri Lankan Government. Both Butenis response and the letter from the US State Department, to my mind, have fallen far short of what should have been appropriate under the circumstances. Patricia Butenis’s statement says that “During the 26-year long war in Sri Lanka, there were allegations of rape and sexual violence, just as in other conflicts. Secretary Clinton’s statement was to raise awareness of such brutality, not to implicate specific perpetrators.” She added that the full remarks of the speech by Secretary Clinton’s shows that she made no reference to the Sri Lankan Army or to the LTTE.
This- coming from the woman who came to Sri Lanka to “speak her mind”- is a mindless statement. How can Clinton not implicate anyone in Sri Lanka and still say that rape has been used as a tactic of war in Sri Lanka. In English, the sentence “rape has been used as a tactic of war in Sri Lanka” means rape was used by those who fought the “war” in Sri Lanka to conduct that war. Those who fought the “war” in Sri Lanka were the Sri Lankan State itself and its soldiers. Some unknown third party could not have used rape in the Sri Lankan “war”! It is absolutely no comfort that Butenis and Clinton refer to what occurred in other conflicts. Why did neither of them name those “other” countries that raped as a tool of war? In fact the Clinton statement at the Security Council could have made much more sense if she named US as a perpetrator of rape and sexual violence in war as the US is one of the prime users of such tools in its so-called wars against terror.
contd....
....contd
The State Department letter offers Sri Lanka no apology, retraction or unambiguous clearance either. Melane Verveer, Ambassador at large for global women issues of the State Department says, “in the most recent phase of the conflict, from 2006 to 2009 … we have not received reports that rape and sexual abuse were used as tools of war, as they clearly have in other conflict area around the world.” Why did she name Sri Lanka who they now say did not use rape as a tool of war instead of naming those “other conflict areas” which have been using rape as a tool of war even after 2006? Verveer says that the US has no reports of Sri Lanka using rape as a tool of war between 2006-2009 implying that Sri Lanka used rape prior to 2006 as a weapon of war. If that were the case Ms Clinton may well have been justified in making the statement she did- and, this seems to be the US conclusion. Having said that Ms Verveer has the gall to conclude “We hope that this clarification puts the issue in its proper context.” The “issue” is that the chief spokesperson for the US besides the President has named Sri Lanka alongside Bosnia and Burma as having used rape of men/ women as a means to winning the “war” against Tamil Tigers. The overture that Sri Lankan Army (probably) have not been guilty of the crime after 2006 (but did so up till 2006) is absolutely no consolation for Sri Lanka. The issue has only one perspective, proper or improper- that perspective is that Sri Lanka stands condemned for something for which there is absolutely no proof of or even an accusation from the enemy front to that effect. Having done all this damage these three American women- Clinton, Butenis, Verveer- expect Sri Lanka now “to focus to the future and move forward”! In my view, both the US and its Ambassador in Colombo lost an opportunity to show their mettle by retracting Clinton’s gaffe and offering a sincere apology.
Sri Lanka has no regard for unethical antics of ambitious upstarts of the West and has no respect for what Secretary Clinton believes Sri Lanka should be doing. Moving forward and focusing on its future is what Sri Lanka wants to do. That is why Sri Lanka’s very own gallant heroes decimated the terrorists and cleaned up four corners of the country.
Sri Lanka can not focus on its future as long as these innuendos and muck rakings engage her scarce resources and damage her confidence. Sri Lanka can not move forward as long as there are perverts of justice baiting Sri Lanka on spurious charges which they can not even substantiate. Sri Lanka has to respond to these baseless allegations, protect her good name and guard against immoral conspiracies that threaten the very existence of the Nation.
Sri Lankan Government must not choose to swallow its pride and accept insincere ‘explanations’ sans apologies from the US; no little boy received justice from the school yard bully for turning the other cheek. Sri Lanka knows this best!
ranil is still living in his BS CFA.
here is a list of evils of the CFA posted in DN used to dispute BULLSHIT by david blacker.
time has proven these RIGHT!!!
"A list of evils of the CFA. Not exhaustive.
CFA created lawlessness
1. CFA violated the constitution and many other laws that were put in place after extensive thought by mainly JRJ and his team to defend the country and its people from terrorists, et al. Checks and balances were also put in place to force adherence to lawfulness. This was completely destroyed by the CFA which never had any legal standing in SL. Major rifts were created between the 3 branches of the govt. The dispute in little lanka was converted to a conflict between two nations (one de jure and the other de facto). International conflicts are much worse than internal conflicts.
2. CFA recognized LTTE controlled areas as a separate de facto state. This stopped all law enforcement beyond govt. controlled areas as long as the CFA was to be adhered to. Police stations returned complainants of child soldiers in places like Batti where previously the police and army could exert law and order.
3. This international conflict became unsolvable as there was no legitimacy for one party and it started acting up irresponsibly. It is like North Korea where there was nothing the IC could do to handle it until it voluntarily (supported by carrots and sticks) gave up nuke tests. Without a CFA the IC would never had to worry about the wishes of the LTTE’s de facto state
4. All foreign VIPs visited the LTTE unless stopped by the govt (to the dismay of the IC). This reinforced the notion of a separate state further.
5. CFA created GOSL area, LTTE area and a no-man’s land (NL); this NL became the breeding ground of other terror groups. TMVP was one such product; the CFA multiplied the number of terror groups. Another Muslim group was also present when the govt. could not do anything to stop the serial killing of Muslims during CFA.
6. CFA made NGOs in N-E uncontrollable as many started to report to LTTE and not the GOSL. They brought war material, telecom equip. for tigers and the govt. was tied to the CFA that for the sake of ‘peace’ had to ignore such acts.
7. CFA took away all checkpoints that were a part of the City’s law enforcement (not only against terrorists) without any security assessment. A large number of bombs and sleepers crept to areas outside war zones. Their true strength is undeniably yet to be seen.
8. The CFA contained a section demanding the govt. to dismantle the LRRP. The elitist security force in the country was thus dismantled; national security went to dogs.
9. CFA allowed the LTTE to collect ransom along main highways and elsewhere from visitors and there was nothing the govt could do to stop that. Billions were collected and went into terror acts.
10. CFA imposed a ban on the govt. from carrying out development work through its agencies functioning in LTTE controlled areas (including the RDA, etc.). Under development was a root cause of this war and it further strengthened the LTTE position
11. Foreign donors had to give the TRO indirect funding as they recognized a de facto separate state. By the time they realized that TRO money went into buying 32,000 mortars, etc. etc. it was too late. TRO got money from 2002 to 2007 November from the US until its assets were frozen.
12. CFA became the criteria for foreign aid to SL. This was the most powerful tool the IC used to force SL to comply. Also the CFA caused a split in aids SL would get as the de facto state also got some.
13. CFA created an environment of impunity where any group could do anything especially in the no-man’s land (this was created by the CFA although not recognized by the CFA) and in each other’s territory. Of course acts in one’s own territory were out of the question.
14. The CFA created a major regional rift between Northerners and Easterners. A large number of Jaffna intellectuals (and others) were killed in the East and in Colombo. This problem is set to escalate in time to come making it impossible to find an amicable solution for N-E even when the war is over as infighting has already broken out among the two main tamil communities in the N-E with historical under-the -carpet grudges.
15. A toothless SLMM replaced the armed police force as the point of making grievances. Many deaths were not even recorded by SLMM (some brought coffins to SLMM) and police also redirected people to SLMM. Today it has become more difficult than in 2001 to bring Tamils to police stations to handle their grievances for which they pay a tax to the govt. The CFA created distance is taking a heavy toll. TMVP should not be allowed to exploit this.
CFA destroyed the Tamil democratic movement
16. CFA recognized the LTTE as the SOLE REPRESENTATIVE of the Tamils. All tamil democratic forces were made irrelevant. In finding a political solution, it is these Tamil democrats who would become vital. The IC was forced to recognize Tamil and LTTE as same.
17. Almost all moderate tamil legislators were killed during the CFA - UNP tamil candidates for Batti in 2004; Kadir, Joseph, Raviraj, Maheswaran, etc. This further enforced the LTTE as the SR and caused any future attempts for political solutions impossible.
18. CFA forced the UNP not to field Tamils for Jaffna, etc. going by the SR claim. This directly resulted in returning ultra extremist Tamil MPs to parliament. The vote base for Mahes, etc. were destroyed and replaced by a TNA one.
19. Extremism crept into parliament first from the Tamil side (TNA took all UNP, SLFP, TULF and some EPDP seats). This was also reflected in the Sinhala and Muslim camps. Almost one third of today’s parliament comprise of extremists making it impossible to find political solutions.
20. The SR claim and its respect mainly from the UNP (a MoU was signed) helped tigers to block voters from voting for the UNP in 2005 which was seen as a moderate party then. The IC criticized this but had to accept this as a result of contracting with a terror group. The UNP, CWC, UPF, WPF, TNA, SLMC all had MoUs with the LTTE as the CFA recognized them as the SR and rulers of the de facto state.
21. Ask any LTTE supporter and he will tell you that LTTE and Tamil people are one and the same. But factually it is not so. The CFA legitimized this LTTE claim. Sections of the IC started to increasingly refer to the LTTE as Tamils and vice versa as they were the de facto rulers of the Tamil mono-ethnic de facto state recognized by the CFA.
22. Tamil democratic movements (TULF UK, etc.) abroad were the most harmed. They became just offices without any recognition both by the IC and the Tamil Diaspora.
CFA strengthened the LTTE militarily as never before
23. The govt was deterred from carrying out military operations by the CFA. Although the 2005 elect ‘hardline’ govt was an exception, both previous administrations strictly honored this as SLMM’s recommendations were like God’s say for donors. LTTE brought shiploads of weapons (only a few were destroyed). The present Navy commander was warned by Ranil not to engage the tigers at sea! Tigers assembled an air force thanks directly and solely for the CFA. LTTE’s mortar and arti capabilities increased by many fold.
24. The CFA paved the way for Manirasakulam, Muttur, etc. new LTTE camps
25. CFA allowed more than enough time to regroup and recruit its cadres. A mad rush for recruiting children was undertaken and there was nothing the govt. could do to maintain peace and goodwill at the same time until a hardliner took office. Also the LTTE bought enough time for many of its children to become adults as thee CFA held for almost 6 years; even a twelve year old could have turned 18 by then!!
26. LTTE engaged in direct arms import and negotiations with foreign arms suppliers. Part govt. owned arms producers like NORINCO - China had no hesitation in providing arms to representatives of a de facto state.
27. LTTE delegations were sent on foreign trips at public expense with no return. They visited arms suppliers in Norway, South Africa, Croatia, etc.
28. LTTE dismantled not only the Colombo based LRRP but also many other mainly tamil anti-LTTE militant groups.
29. Ships that did not fly the TE flag were plundered by the LTTE with impunity and stole their valuables including radars and there was nothing the GOSL could do.
30. CFA violations by the GOSL (mainly in offensive operations) were overly highlighted to the IC by the SLMM. Other HR violations by the GOSL were also overly emphasized thanks to SLMM’s first hand accounts.
31. SLAF bombings on LTTE areas were promptly visited by the SLMM and recorded. This heavily deterred the GOSL from carrying out some planned air strikes especially in important locations obviously located among civilian settlements. At times tigers sent SLMM officers to potential air attack locations to actively stop the SLAF.
32. Sencholai terror camp was converted to an orphanage by the SLMM. If not for the injured children who escaped and hospitalized, the IC would have believed this and SL would face a heavy war crime charge.
33. Army had to scale down their operations to give an impression of ‘retaliation’ or ‘neutralisation’ than an offensive operation as offensive operations stood out most noticeably in SLMM’s record to the account of GOSL. The IC placed heavy reliance on ‘independent’ SLMM as other journalists were bared from Vanni by both groups.
34. From 2002 to early 2004, the GOSL did not contract for major military purchases to sustain the CFA goodwill. It took a long time to rectify the situation in 2006. It also took a long waiting time to get firefinders, etc. Had there been a proper war plan from 2002, this would never have happened. The govt. by taking on the easy east first minimized this planning disaster.
Lost opportunities thanks to the CFA
35. All ceasefires must be bargained from a position of strength. In 2002 SL was in a position of strength vis-à-vis the LTTE. After the july 2001 attack, the LTTE didn’t launch any major attacks but the army was continuing small scale operations. LTTE leaders were dead scared of the LRRP and refused to comeout of their foxholes (refer. Wikipedia - LRRP). However, the political leadership was at its weakest partly due to Ranil (a weak leader) and partly due to infighting between the executive and the legislature. A war on terror had started and the LTTE was desperately seeking shelter. SL could have bargained adequately for a pole position. Whenever Israel goes to a ceasefire it actively CAPITALISE on military gains and the world order. There by each ceasefire with Palestine strengthens Israel’s position, not undermine it.
36. After the CFA, the clam that existed from July 2001 to Feb 2002 on the LTTE front shattered as tigers could do whatever they wanted. A CFA breakdown would have been a deadly blow to the UNP govt and it did EVERYTHING to keep it going by pleasing the LTTE in EVERY WAY imaginable.
37. By 2001 the LRRP was closing in on LTTE leaders; they successfully took the life of Shankar the TAF guy. Had that operation delayed by just 4 months he would be saved by the CFA and SL would have completely lost its air superiority to this innovative tiger. Russian Shmels were procured at great effort and were left to decay without use. These cannot be purchased in the open market and SL needs diplomatic efforts to get them again.
38. The war on terror provided SL an ideal opportunity to crush the tigers. But the CFA saved them. Indonesia, Philippines, Congo, India, Pakistan used the war on terror to crush terrorists in their countries. As usual SL lagged behind. Good thinking by the LTTE and no thinking by the GOSL.
39. The tsunami brought hope again. Aceh in Indonesia used the tsunami to disarms Aceh terrorists and many hoped the same will happen in SL. But there was the CFA and the govt. was committed to honour it. GOSL didn’t even move in to CFA’s de facto TE let alone disarm the LTTE or get them to talks.
40. The JVP that talk nonsense now were actually backing the CFA from 2004 May to March 2005. CFA violations by the GOSL became minimum during that time!! The extremist politics that resulted from the lawlessness brought about by the CFA strengthened the likes of JVP/JHU/TNA. They will ensure that no political solution will be passed in SL. Had there been no CFA, TNA would not be so strong, moderate Tamil MPs would come from N-E, JVP would have run out of ammunitions (at least part of it), JHU would never be there.
Continuation of the CFA
41. CFA made the internal conflict an international conflict. According to international war laws, no country can colonies another country’s captured area. However this does not apply to internal conflicts. (refer warcrimes Geneve and wikipedia - warcrimes). Today colonization of the east is a major agitation run by pro-LTTE groups abroad. If the CFA did not recognize a separate territory within SL, this claim could never be made. However, the GOSL is continuing with its ‘settlements’. It can continue regardless, but this creates a lot of confusion in IC. The IC’s apprehension of SL’s conflict has always been highly inadequate. This always helped the LTTE. Unless officially invalidated, the colonization of the East and the North become warcrimes in the eyes of an outsider who considers (going by the CFA) that there IS a de facto LTTE area with separate jurisdictions and civil administrations.
42. Misusing a “flag” of truce is a warcrime. “Flag” is not per se a flag only and can be any instrument by which a party signals to the other warring party it is not going to attack and seek reciprocal action. The CFA was a tool of truce that actually stopped the army from carrying out large scale operations. Now the attrition warfare stage is changing and large scale military operations are needed to get into deep Vanni. The govt. must officially annul the CFA to avoid all confusion that can go against it in the event of a large scale offensive. Some Serbian officers were charged for unleashing violence during ceasefires. Although this is not at all practical in SL as violence was part of the CFA from day one, large scale military offensives will certainly take the GOSL beyond the line in the sand. Arguably, they may be committing a warcrime if tools of a truce was held out while waging large scale open warfare.
43. The SLMM in Vanni is a big disadvantage to war games in Vanni. They are not only witnesses to a bloody war that is yet to unfold, but also ‘adjudicators’ of methods and tools used by the SLDFs. They cannot be ‘eliminated’ as the LTTE (and others!) eliminated aid workers, Catholic priests, etc. Hence only an official ending of the CFA can send them. LTTE understand this too well. It made two separate pleadings. One - continue the CFA and they will 100% adhere to it this time. Two - Norwegians to continue.
44. CFA continues to recognize a separate de facto state controlled by the LTTE. CFA also recognizes the fact that LTTE has a right to rule its territory just as GOSL has a right to rule its territory. The IC has placed faith in the CFA although it was illegal as per SL law. The SL territorial law became immaterial for the IC after the CFA. Therefore, attacking the heartland of LTTE controlled area will never be accepted by the IC as long as the CFA is in place and the government purports to adhere to it as it declared from time to time.
45. The LTTE was planning to declare a UDI on the 18th January 2008. The CFA officially ends on 16th January, narrowly escaping the LTTE attempt to continue from one platform to another. An UDI from a status of a de facto state as officially recognized by the GOSL is an easier jump than a leap by a political non-entity. As the GOSL knew the LTTE’s plan of a pre-planned UDI on 18 January, some late planning seems to have gone in annulling the CFA before hand.
46. Norway came to the CFA with its own agenda. It had Tamil voters back home heavily aligned to LTTE. It is like asking Ricky Ponting whether his team mate took the catch cleanly!! Therefore Norway always had a protectionist approach towards the LTTE. Cognizant of this fact, in 2006 LTTE sent off all other Scandinavian monitors but not Norway!!
47. Norway had other interests in SL like oil. Two Norwegian oil companies were charged by the US for providing material support for terrorists (not LTTE). But this justifies their overall alignment to the de facto rulers of where oil is. Australia followed a similar strategy in East Timor but it was like a SLMM with teeth where they mediated in ET in 2001. Now Australia companies are drilling oil in ET seas! But ET citizens are the poorest in the world.
January 12, 2008 4:30 AM"
This is what is waiting for Ranil Wickramasinghe
People of Sri Lanka
Plaintiff,
vs.
Ranil Wickramasinghe
Defendant.
COMPLAINT
1. Conspiracy by collaborating with white masters to overturn the democratically elected government of Sri Lanka
2. Conspiracy by collaborating with white masters to bring bogus war crime charges against the armed forces of Sri Lanka
3. Espionage by giving national security information to white masters.
4. Treason by trying to give a 1/3rd of land mass of Sri Lanka to terrorist
5. Treason by collaborating with terrorists.
6. Treason by handing over SLA LRRP and MI operatives to LTTE
7. Crimes by attempting to stall economy by choking foreign investments.
8. Crimes by threaning foreign banks to reneg from any financial agreements made by the government if he ever comes to power.
JURY DEMAND
1. Administration of traditional traitor’s punishment at a public square.
2. Life sentence with no parole.
3. Expulsion from Parliament and revocation of civil rights (a trick from the bastard JR Jayawardena)
sam,
demands 1 and 2 applies seperately.
"Administration of traditional traitor’s punishment at a public square."
at first ranil will enjoy it. ask "mongal, did you sharpen your pencil recently?? naughty kolla!!"
then mongal goes, "that is not mine, darling. its the dickk of nature standing upright from this blessed land!!"
while seated on the spear ranil should be given the CFA documents, the communication equipments given to tigers and a heavy effigy of eric solheim.
best fun starts when HR jokers publish a snapshot of ranil's arsse in toiletnet under the heading "from arsses to arsses"!!!
next in the queue is mongal, rauf hacked pig, mano gone-sung, pakayasoththi and CBK.
"from arsses to arsses"
/"Mr. Wickremesinghe who reiterated that Sri Lanka could not be hauled before the International Criminal Court as the country was not a signatory."
We do not know about Sri Lanka, but Tamil Eelam never signed anything with International Criminal Court!
Thus, the best way for Sri Lankan soldiers to protect themselves is to get TE citizenship....
Right now, PTGTE, the provisional govt of the Stete of Tamil Eelam is accepting applications... and Singalese can apply...!
If MR, Gota are scared of Hague, they should immediately apply for TE citizenship...! Indeed, some Tamil sources say they have already received TE citizenship, secretly...!/
Fake Sam Perera/ Ananda-USA sounds very familier..
Boat people, no security risk - Australian Minister
[TamilNet, Tuesday, 06 October 2009, 12:25 GMT]
fantastic!!
GOSL can help them go to australia.
if 10,000 buggers go, thereafter they will get their family members too. if on average 4 per family, it comes to 40,000.
this means a 2.5% reduction of the pool of ppl which can possibly produce terrorists.
/Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickramanayaka, in a live radio interview this morning, said US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton seems to have forgotten the Monica (Lewinsky) episode and should focus on her own backyard instead of making allegations of women being abused in other countries./
[[next in the queue is mongal, rauf hacked pig, mano gone-sung, pakayasoththi and CBK.]]
Moshe you missed Jay. If Sara-vana-muttu is in why not Jay?
[[Ninja said...
/Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickramanayaka, in a live radio interview this morning, said US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton seems to have forgotten the Monica (Lewinsky) episode and should focus on her own backyard instead of making allegations of women being abused in other countries./]]
We need to retire our chandi PM soon or some mess will be created. This stupid remark will turn teh entire anti-hillary campaign from its head. Diplomacy is far diff ffrom his Horana-politics. Yuo shud only do things taht may advantage you.
I see a major defect in govt policy. For one or two foreign officials taking part in the side of our enemy, we shouldn't mark the whole nations as enemies. We shud try to win hearts of average ppl and n turn eliminate the dangerous elements in their systems. As long as we attack AMerica, UK, or Norway, likes of Hillary, Miliband, or Solheim will get more and more protection there.
Found this interesting poem by a young poet Nirasha Gunasekara. He's primarily targeting the load of sinhala blogs of neo-liberal/X-group/trotskyte/HR/NGO funkies [see their "syndi" here]. But this is equally applicable for "sinhala-ignoring" breed of Jay too.
What this guy writes is really true.
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සිංහල කොටි
ඇස් කන් පියා වකුටු ව
අකල් නිද්රාවෙන් නිදි වැද
කොටියා මැරුණු තැන
තිගැස්සී
උමතුවෙන් වගේ අවදි ව
කොහෙන් දෝ ඇහිඳ ගත්
මළ කෑ තුඩපතින්
සිංහල අත් අකුරෙන්
ලියනවා
ලියනවා
ලියනවා
දෙමළ තුවාල ගැන
සිංහල තුවක්කු ගැන
- නිරාෂ ගුණසේකර
Sorry that syndi link didn't work.
This should work
Some poets are on a role scoring for pussycats.
sujeewa,
i forgot. gay-jay is in. and a load of others in the JPB list.
BTW that rupasinghe JPB has one silent. bugger was last detected helping IDPs which is a good thing.
IF he or any JPB behaves well CONSISTENTLY, we have to take them off the list.
hope one day hilata-ari clinton will also get into the US JPB list.
if hilata-ari clinton had won the caucases against oba-ma, we would be deeep shit now trying to answer BS coming from the US president.
Moshe;
They will also be in deep shit "clarifying" and further "clarifying"...
Moshe
Thanks. A great summary of what happened with the CFA.
By some bloody luck and a few straight thinking men we have managed to come out of the pit.
Unfortunately there are still many fish hooks created by the CFA, ourselves, and the IC, around which GOSL needs to negotiate carefully
Sujeewa Kokawala said...
[[Ninja said...
I see a major defect in govt policy. For one or two foreign officials taking part in the side of our enemy, we shouldn't mark the whole nations as enemies. We shud try to win hearts of average ppl and n turn eliminate the dangerous elements in their systems. As long as we attack AMerica, UK, or Norway, likes of Hillary, Miliband, or Solheim will get more and more protection there.
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Sujeewa,
I am not sure that is the case here. We are clearly attacking Hillary and that has nothing to do with Americans. Any way I personally do not think this bending our heads down is working. The only thing that is happening is that they are becoming bolder and attacking more an more.
Hilary and Bill are powerful, but that didn't stop Obama going after them during the election time. There is a time to say enough is enough. That whore b*** has insulted our nation enough.
Also what a lame, stupid statement was given by State department and Butani. How stupid do they think Sri Lankans are, to give such a lame response after making a despicable statement like that in the UN against SL. People must be really stupid to think that state department or American Ambassador made an apology towards SLs. SL should continue to critise raise this and make sure we get a proper apology. Otherwise these fuckers will continue to walk all over us.
Thusitha;
Wholly agree with what you wrote. But it does not cover my main concern. That is that there is no point of attacking hilarious on her private life.
We got four statements from SD of US.
- hillarious calling SL is using rape as a weapon of war.
- Butenis stating "she didn't mean it is govt itself"
- Verveer stating "there had not been any reported rape cases in the recent phase of war alleged against the govt"
- Hillary stating "SL should move ahead"
See how weak these statements are. There is a plenty of arguments you can create against them. Many ppl around the world and in SL were doing so. We saw a pretty good reaction from SL side.
So why did our premier came up and said "ado v*si, man dannava thoge minhage charattuwa. Oka ara monicath ekka hitiya eka" etc etc. I mean real mudukkuwe redda athe statement.
Where does it fit in original game plan. Will it not be used by US if we carry on with this diplomatic war? Will this statement discourage the more diplomatic segments in our foreign service? Will it leave them speechless, if brought forward?
Will Hillarious feel anything from it? Will she fear SL and stop the intimidation? She'll laugh it out. She wrote a whole book about what Mr PM told here. Cultures differ. In west Hillarious is a victim and wins sympathy of the matter of Monica.
Whom is Mr PM winning? US public? Anti hillarious US politicians? World at large? Other diplomats? NONE in my view. He'll hear a hurray of few locals in his home town and colombo.
And does he care? He'll say we don't want any of these foreign f**kers, and I only address local public. This is not right at all.
Also note that many of us admired how Russian prez used F word over miliband and few others treated them so. But these were private conversations. They were said where the words should be said. Not to public media.
Mr PM could have said this straight to Hillarious in private. But do not make our diplomatic machine humiliated by issuing this kinda statements to public.
It has no gain, all to loose.
it wasn't russian prez, it was russian FM. apologies for mistake.
too many similarities????
"Israeli leaders run for cover
Tel Aviv, Israel (UPI) Oct 6, 2009
Israel's leaders are circling the wagons against international efforts to arrest them abroad on war crimes charges.
The deputy prime minister, Gen. Moshe "Boogie" Yaalon, a former military chief of staff, this week canceled a fundraising visit to London for fear he might be arrested for the assassination of Hamas military chief Salah Shehahdeh in July 2002.
Shehahdeh was killed when the air force dropped a 2,200-pound bomb on his apartment block in Gaza City, along with 14 other people, including his wife and nine children.
Yaalon, a former commander of the Israeli army's elite Sayaret Matkal special forces unit, was forced to call off an earlier visit to London in September 2005 after Palestinian groups sought warrants for his arrest for the Shehahdeh killings.
A week ago a London court rejected a Palestinian bid to have Defense Minister Ehud Barak, another retired general who is the Jewish state's most decorated war hero, arrested on similar charges, this time linked to the Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip in December and January.
On Sunday the current chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Gaby Ashkenazi, had to fly secretly to Normandy for a military conference with U.S. and French commanders amid warnings that senior Israeli officers could be arrested in Europe because of their involvement in Operation Cast Lead, the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip on Dec. 28.
Israeli concerns that the country's leaders have become targets of a widening campaign to hold them accountable for alleged war crimes against the Palestinians, and other Arabs, over the years are not new.
But they were dramatically heightened by a 574-page U.N. report on the 22-day Israeli invasion of Gaza that alleged Israel committed "actions amounting to war crimes, possibly crimes against humanity" during that offensive in which some 1,200 Palestinians, mainly civilians, perished. Israel fatalities totaled 13.
The closely documented report was issued Sept. 15. The four-member commission headed by widely respected former South African Supreme Court Justice Richard Goldstone, who is Jewish, also accused Hamas of war crimes.
But it came down particularly hard on Israel, denouncing the disproportionate use of force employed during the winter offensive.
Israel refused to cooperate with the commission, appointed by the U.N. Human Rights Council based in Geneva.
The scathing report was given weight because Goldberg is one of the world's most respected experts on war crimes and served as chief prosecutor of the U.N. International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia.
The Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv branded the report "a prize for terrorists." Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu held emergency meetings to discuss the consequences of the report.
"The goal is to avoid a slippery slope which would lead Israel to The Hague," said a senior official in the premier's office.
According to J.J. Goldberg of The Forward, an influential Jewish weekly published in the United States, "Israel's international isolation and vulnerability is several degrees deeper" following the report's release.
"How serious the damage will be depends in considerable measure on how Israel chooses to respond. Initial signs are not encouraging."
The report urged the Israeli government to investigate its allegations and take the appropriate action.
If Israel failed to do so within three months, the United Nations was urged to refer the case to the 108-state International Criminal Court, which could potentially indict Israeli generals and political leaders.
If that happens, they could find themselves in the same situation as African tyrants currently on trial for war crimes or quarantined like President Omar al-Bashir.
Now, Goldberg noted, "that sort of isolation is a real threat" for Israeli leaders.
The Israelis are currently faced with a new principle of international law -- "universal jurisdiction" -- that permits prosecutions by countries other than those in which the alleged crimes were committed.
No Israeli leader has ever been convicted of such crimes. In 2001 Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was tried in absentia in Belgium, though not convicted, for the massacre by Israeli-allied Lebanese Phalangists of as many as 2,000 unarmed Palestinian civilians in Beirut's Sabra and Chatilla refugee camps during Israel's 1982 Lebanon invasion."
parayo everywhere trying to screw their own country!!!
Chena boys and Veddha girls,
Nacchikuda has been retaken. Our Supreme Leader and the President of Tamil Eelam has lived up to our expectations.
Moshe said....
[Israeli leaders run for cover ]
Moshe,
So, is this "war crimes" thing going to come home to roost with
1. US leaders being hunted for their recent activities (Tomawhawk & Predator strikes, Abu Gharib for example) in Serbia, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan,
2. UK leaders for their recent activities in Iraq and Afghanistan,
3. Germany's leaders for their recent bombing in Afghanistan?
Very soon, no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, will dare act against any terrorists anywhere in the world for the fear of being tried for "war crimes" charges. After all, the terrorists now have the UN, the ICC, the NGOs and the news media on their side!
Are we going to see some PAST & PRESENT heads of government of western countries being hauled up in front of the ICC in the Hague?
At this rate, Milosevich & Saddam Hussein are going to have the last laugh! What a travesty of justice, the MURDERERS rights now transcend those of the VICTIMS! All the world is UP SIDE DOWN!
Ananda-USA said...
At this rate, Milosevich & Saddam Hussein are going to have the last laugh! What a travesty of justice, the MURDERERS rights now transcend those of the VICTIMS! All the world is UP SIDE DOWN!
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My thoughts as well. I think best way to stop this insanity is for Israel to create its own HR groups and make them go after U.K, U.S, Germany leaders. Then only these guys will realize the insanity of this. Also in few years time, with LTTE money, these guys will again attempt to lay charges on our Army as well. So it is good to keep an eye on these developments.
Thisis amazing. If it becomes a trend, it will be exponential. More the news spreads more the interest will be on it.
BTW, we need todo a check into how much eelam money was involved in it. During teh days of Piss Talks Gnanakoones tried taking a hold of semi-govt institute shares [or so was rumored - I cannot confirm that news now].
Now what have our nay-sayers gotta say. We all miss legendary Navindran. But Peter the investment wanker and Jay the "middle" man can comment on this.
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Record after record at the CSE
October 7, 2009 02:54 pm
With today’s turnover of Rs. 1.1 Billion, the daily turnover of the Colombo Stock Exchange surpassed Rs. 1 Billion for six consecutive market days for the first time in history.
And Jay is off for some duration. Has he gone again to Germany? While he was claiming to be [jokingly] in South Africa watching Cricket, I believe he was visiting Germany with more interest. they have been trying their best to block GSP+.
And last response from Jay was that it could well be in vain. So has he gone to Germany again?
Blocking GSP+ was an outsource from Pussycats to NGO/HR lunatics. Few parties like JDS, Sara-vana-muttu etc were instrumental in it. I'm sure Jay was involved in it to some extent.
That is why Jay spoke about GSP+ so well.
Mahen,
[[ Mahen said...
Chena boys and Veddha girls,
Nacchikuda has been retaken. Our Supreme Leader and the President of Tamil Eelam has lived up to our expectations.]]
Times change the tide. It is your low tide.
Long ago when you posted riddles, many split their neurons to resolve them. That was the peak of war. But right now when you post a riddle like this, how many, do you think, will try decoding it?
In simple words, therena sinhalen kiyapan, thun theravili nodaa. :)
ananda, thusitha and sujeewa,
yes. no one except terrorists will be able to do whatever it takes to bring "law and order" (depending weather the law as we know or sharia law or whatever).
sanity must prevail but now we (UN states) are fast losing it in the global scene.
something worse will happen to the UNO at this rate. i bet it will be much worse than what happened to the nations union b4 1940s.
from other pov, ALTHOUGH SL LEADERS ARE NOT RUNNING FOR COVER, both SL and israel are in the same boat as far as lunatic allegations are concerned.
so the last thing we should do is BLAME EACH OTHER!!!!
that's why i was pissed when nimal siripala de silva publicly bashed israel at the WHO.
we should closely follow what israel does. and adopt whatever strategies that help us.
if this is going to be the case, in future HAMAS, JIHAD, FATAH, AL AQSA, HEZBALLA, etc, etc. etc. will shell israel with katusha MBRLs and israel will have to stay like ranil the ponnaya OR risk retaliatory punishment.
for weaker countries, it will be even worse!!
this is a fcuking joke.
its time nations come together and tell these idiot....
ok, you MFs you breast feed our terrorists, at least let us kill our terrorists in our little backyard OUR WAY.
Sujeevanappa Kokaveendran,
Read between the lines, we are referring to sleeper cadres escaping from IDP camps (more like being facilitated out) and re-grouping in the jungles. After all the blood, toil, tears and sacrifice, a small minority of traitors are selling out for short term profits.
Moshe,
You talk too much mate.
the case of israel is a bit worse bcos most top political leaders have a military background.
which means the political command is actually a military command as well!!
this is not the case in SL. but SL is sending retired SLDF topshots to diplomatic postings.
e.g. gen nanda mallawarachchi is doing a great job in indonesia
an intersting way to test the waters.
1. IF any country refuses them over alleged war crimes BS, that is FAR TOO MUCH and outrageous
2. if they don't and accept them, thereafter they cannot say this and that. accepting a suspected "war criminal" although subsequently proved is no excuse and the host country is doing a wrong. TF stakes are high to convict them.
so either way we are safe in relation to SLDFs in diplomatic positions.
mahen,
ok then. api giya.
Sujeewa Kokawala said...
So why did our premier came up and said "ado v*si, man dannava thoge minhage charattuwa. Oka ara monicath ekka hitiya eka" etc etc. I mean real mudukkuwe redda athe statement.
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Haha. I read the English Version. Didn't realize there is a Sinhalese version as well. I saw lot of people are against what PM said, but I am not one of them.
As far as I am concerned, what ever PM said is nothing compared to what Hillarious said. Very unlikely this would cause problems between U.S. and SL. Every one knows who Hillary is. Now it is our time to show who our PM is. There is no need to act like a gentlemen in this type of situations.
We just need MR and the ministry of defence to be Diplomatic. I saw response by the Army commander, which is very diplomatic. The rest should show the displeasure the way they feel like.
Mahen,
Do you think that LTTE can do things beyond petty hit and run attacks now? even if it is the case, we have a very decent size defense force to take care of them. Our SF and CR boys must be itching these days to hunt the remaining pigs. Nevertheless, we have to be very proactive in preventing pigs gathering any steam.
Patriots,
Some heart warming photos from Wellawaththa.
Mahen;
Now you talk business. Let us be straight. Isn't there a Baduddin connection? I didn't like the fellow from day 01.
Yes we did not handle the matter rightly at all. We should have created a national security council [or kept previous] to carry out IDP issues and all international issues too.
Coming is election times. Seeing what is terribly wrong with UPFA I seriously doubt whether there will be any improvement within coming year. It is enough for the MFs to re-organiuze hit and run.
Hopefully after re-election the responsible parties will look back at defence seriously. Probably by then we'd get one of more hits from them. As usual we'll be reactive party again.
One mind is capable of overcoming the hysteria and hence proving my prediction wrong. It is a mind that says awake, watches every move and takes the right action at right time. Gen SF really qualifies for the phrase "jaathiye mura devatha eli re pura del vee thiye". He's undoubtedly our only hope. For heaven's sake general take a good care of your life please.
Sam;
Re: Wellawatte beach
Ramakrishna beach of Wellawatte is becoming a recreational hotspot these days. Most visitors are Sinhala. Isn't this a good way to build up ethnic harmony.
Re: Current security situ
GOSL seem to need a good knock on its head to come to senses. After May MR has been taking one too many mis-steps. Worst is his cabinet.
Why did we leave the camps in the hands of Rishard Baduddin? Shouldn't they be in the hands of GR, SF, KG, JJ etc. I mean, the reason to set them up was to screen pussycats and clean the landmines. SO the matters are of defence importance. Why did we leave such a responsibility in the hands of a muslim velenda by all means? [pardon me other muslims, I didn't mean that all muslims are such]
Today SF was appointed the secretary of min of sports IN ADDITION to his role as CDS. But I believe he shud be left with genuine security issues all the time. Any gunapala, jayendran or marikkar could have fulfilled the sports secretary job.
I hope we'll get back to senses before something big happens. But given that next year is an year of elections I see little chance. This SPC election shows how ugly the lead upto gen election will be. The architects of war victory seem to fade away, and a recent pop community with riches and fame has clouded MR, w/o any depth or value in them. MR has to come back to sense, and stop ignoring many cries from the parties who held him above with sweat and blood in the time of need.
Like a nightmare CBK comes to my mind. CBK was a heroine by 1997. It took only a matter of an year for her to turn it to a villain. Mr Prez shud learn this lesson and live upto the great responsibility in his hand. That great responsibility which he'll be entrusted with the power of the voters in next year.
Thusitha;
Sinhala version is my creation, I've gotta admit it. But I hope you got my point.
Sorry mate. Got to disagree with you. I honestly see no purpose in the sudden discharge of his anger. And I would never endorse acts with no purpose, be it pride or whatever.
Our such null acts from 1970s till three years ago left us with such destruction. Had the politicians of 1980s, notably JRJ walked a fraction of his talk, the entire blood bath could have been averted. I hope you remember hearing "ekiyabhavaya, svaireethvaya haa buamika akhandathavaya surekimata rajaya bendi sitiyi" in almost every news broadcast/telecast. What did they do to preserve those?
We need politicians who deliver results not dogmatic talks.
A few days ago an Indian pilot attached to Sri Lankan airways was found murdered in his home in Negombo. The news highlighted the fact that there are a number of Indians working for Air Lanka. Someone I know who was a ground engineer working for the airline took a leave of absence to get his commercial pilot's license in the USA. When he returned he discovered that they had hired several ground engineers from India in his absence and that he would have to wait at least six months before getting his position back. Rather than twiddling his thumb for six months, a few days ago he decided to join a European-owned airline operating from the Middle-East. I would think that, given the number of pilots there are in the SLAF today, and the a fact that there must be a surplus of them now, that they would be offered opportunities in the national air line instead of bringing in foreign pilots.
Mahen said...
[ Read between the lines, we are referring to sleeper cadres escaping from IDP camps (more like being facilitated out) and re-grouping in the jungles. After all the blood, toil, tears and sacrifice, a small minority of traitors are selling out for short term profits.]
Mahen,
I would like to eradicate these bloody traitors assisting these buggers as well.
However, there is an advantage to us in the residual LTTE regrouping into hit-and-run attack squads and becoming visible: they will be easier to locate and wipe out.
Right now, all these guys are hiding out either as IDPs, or in safe houses elsewhere. There are no sanctuary no-go areas anywhere in the country, and the police, the CID, and the SLDF are everywhere.
As such, the moment they raise their heads, they expose themselves, and provide the justification for being wiped out in groups rather than one-by-one dugout from hiding and put through the Rehabilitation and Release process.
Only STUPID people will persist. After a long time, these guys have a truly once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to live a normal life, raise a family, and die of old age with their slippers off, essentially being forgiven their murderous acts todate.
If instead they want to be suicidal, and become more easily targeted, so be it .. they will die like dogs runover in the street.
Hey Mahen,
I don't think Moshe talks too much ... because his posts always have some thing worth reading.
So, what is annoying you?
Speak plainly man, not in riddles; Nachchikuda deep cover is now old hat, although Nov 30 is coming up again!
Sujeewa
Interesting analysis. Not sure if CBK is a good example. She is a functional alcoholic who was off her nut. Hence, most of the sane people in the party like Professor Peiris crossed over to the UNP during her reign. At the start, Ranil looked like a genius and a pinnacle of stability. Today the situation is completely different. I agree that there is some euphoria after the war so the Prez can't do no evil. This euphoria will wear out as more pressing and down to earth matters touch the lives of the electorate.
Also, today there is no opposition in Sri Lanka. Milinda Moragoda who is supposed to be Ranil's best friend deserted him. I do hope and pray that the President will use his mandate wisely and justly. President JRJ after getting a massive mandate from the country destroyed the country and became a dictator. Of course, we live in different times. I think the Rajapakse clan has a strong sense of social justice and a vision for the country.
Ananda;
Agree on that point. In fact it is a great fortune for us to "screen" them that way.
But think of its cost. Lives, and most importantly VIP lives. You miss-we hit philosophy is still biased with their advantage. They need three successful suicide bombers in the three key targets to destroy us beyond recovery.
Mahen did not tell where the run-away terras go. They do not really really go to jungle. Majority move to Colombo. Most run-aways were arrested in Colombo. Note that the lull of conventional war victory leaves them with another "piss talk" like time to get into sleeper positions.
There's so much that the beautiful mind of SF can do too. Especially when ministers betray his effort. GR has to step in for his long time friend and partner. One grumble from him will get many things straight.
Right now sadly, velendas trade terrorist's freedom to kill for $$ whereas everyone else is worried about Anarkali vs Muthuhettigama.
CASC;
Agree that CBK is not the right example. But CBK's down time was not when GL left her. In fact CBK lost partially due to likes of GL, who advocated for a crappy piss deal. But real low point was her inability to anticipate pussycat re-grouping after latter lost Jaffna. They were so reluctant to take actions and when they started the pussycats already had gathered pace and advantage. 1997-2001 are the bloodiest times for our forces. And that is the kinda outcome you get when you close your eyes and let ppl run crook business on sensitive affairs.
It is not the same today as MR destroyed the pussycats into tatters, but I wouldn't call it beyond revival. We need to keep a well focused eye into that.
MR has lots of sensible advisers, notably two brothers. But he seem to distance most of his close advisers and "guides" and move further into the evil clan.
Genuine MR man would always criticise him, but a fake one will never fail to say yes. It is Mr's mind that can recognize who's who.
I am wishing to be wrong.
For those who are bored with defence, politics and election matters and lost hope with SL cricket, it would be good to follow SL U19 tour in Aus.
Just as the flair in our cricket seemed to fade and the lightening of Sanath the great seemed to cease, comes the young hero Bhanuka Rajapakse. He's been around for past year always playing noteworthy knocks [and almost always batting with ~120 strike rate] but his 154 in 111 balls in Australia against Aus U19 is simply a gem. The reports did not indicate a butcher at work, instead I saw word elegant written all over. Young Bhanuka is just turning 18 in few months, so I really hope he will sort out the lost glory of our Cricket.
Follow SL U19 tous in Aus in cricinfo.
ananda,
i was going to hit the sack anyway. just left with a parting shot!!
lol!
patriots,
this is good news.
coming from a sakkiliya who is on his last legs.
they sure read my comments with spiritual devotion as they should be reading the bagawat geeta.
jayawewa!!
from toiletnet (what else!!)
"“In Ki’linochchi a large Sri Lanka Army (SLA) camp has been constructed in 150 acre area and the villages around it are to be colonized with Buddhist Sinhalese. A big Buddhist Vihara is being built based on claims that it is as ancient as the ones in the South in an attempt to steal the traditional homelands of the Tamils in the Vanni. This is part of a major plan to colonize sizable areas in the North with the motive of altering the ethnic demography.”
“Many small Buddhist Viharas are being erected along A9 road in Vanni for the religious activities of the Buddhist Sinhalese people brought from the South.”"
colonisation of the north is the ONLY solution to the ethnic problem. after all, the problem MUST be resolved OUR way not any way.
We have been told that a massive undersea earthquake over 8 on RS had been detected in the East; sure to generate a tsunami.Location may be East of Indonesia perhaps in the pacific.
Hope this is true... but we know its not true.. another lie from tamiznut as usual..
/Colombo has plans to colonize North with Buddhist Sinhalese – Suresh Premachandran
[TamilNet, Wednesday, 07 October 2009, 17:06 GMT]
The government of Sri Lanka is actively engaged in colonizing Ki’linochchi, Mullaiththeevu and Jaffna district with Sinhalese Buddhists in order to crush the demand for Eelam in the traditional homelands of the Tamils in the North, Suresh Premachandran, Tamil National Alliance (TNA) Jaffna parliamentarian, said in a press meet held Monday in his Jaffna office./
None of the patriots were seen at today’s Conservative conference at Manchester while the others were there. We have done our little part for the island.
The big talking US is struggling hard to avoid having to concede defeat in Iraq. the chosen verbiage is ' unable to declare victory....since we don't know how long it will take...' etc.
In any case the US forces will be leaving Iraq in 2011, leaving a token 'military advisors' presence there. The reality on the ground by then, just as it is now, will be an Iraqi regime which does what Iran dictates.
On the other side, Afghanistan is spiralling out of control for NATO. The US and NATO are now struggling to hold back against a resurgent Taliban and is struggling to 'safe-guard civillians'. The same civillians they massacred with scant concern a few years ago. The ground reality again is that Pak-Iranian support is withering the US and NATO presence. Military experts in the US are now talking of a 'negotiated truce' with the Taliban. It is increasingly looking more like a 'negotiated' expulsion from Afghanistan.
The Americans under George bush went on a crusade to islamic lands in 2001 to bring back Jesus Christ. That's how they sold it to the masses here in the US Mid West and many other places. They justified their actions with specific bibilical references, portraying the action as a precussor to the advent of Christ in a second coming.
Instead they succeeded in bringing back a very vengeful Muhammed instead. And the scimitar is wreaking havoc, proving billion dollar military wiz-systems obsolete and the only way out for the aggressor; beg on your knees.
From the death and destruction a super Iran will rise. It will be nuclear armed and weigh in on the ME's political balance of power in a very significant way. Pakistani and Afghanistani territories will provide 'strategic depth' to this new phenomenon and regional powerhouses such as Israel, India and China will have to learn to live with them in peace.
Kevin
the quake is east of Australia. Will not affect SL.
Moshe,
Just a camp is insufficient. We need military cantonments with military families living there. They shall have the top class schools for military kids (Sinhala, Tamil, Moor etc) and those schools shall accept local kids also. I hope that there will be huge military cantonment in Kilinochchi encompassing Iranamadu airstrip and reservoir, yes combined SLA and SLAF base. Also we need another SLA, SLAF, and SLN cantonment in Mulathivu combining the Muliyavel airstrip. In the breath I want to say that we need a proportionate number of Tamils Sri Lankan in our forces.
sam,
absolutely.
even that is not sufficient. our aim is TO SOLVE THE ETHNIC PROBLEM.
this can be resolved only when ACTC, ITAK, PLOTE, TULF, TNA, etc, etc. stop winning elections in the north-east with majority power.
our aim should be that. to achieve it with economic success is the challenge. but the FATHER OF THE NATION has shown how BOTH can be done at the same time.
we have to INCREASE our effectiveness. AGRICULTURE is the best way forward for a start.
we need to look for crops that,
1. yield MAXIMUM profit
2. require HIGHEST mandays per hectare per year
you don't need a liner programing model to find out!!!!!
at the same time we should DISCREETLY & CREATIVELY encourage all MAHAVEER family members to leave SL ASAP to australia.
we fcuked the LTTE until they screamed GENOCIDE. similarly we should colonise the north and east until TNA screams in pain, "structural genocide".
until then, this is not over. we have a FANTASTIC excuse.
1. development
2. 90% of SL's poor are landless farmers, farmers will too small lands not economical to cultivate and other landless ppl
3. north east have the LARGEST arable land bank
4. north east have the LOWEST population density or land utilisation.
we MUST listen to what G~d tells us.
TS,
nicely put it. spot on.
unlike india & china, israel cannot afford to live in peace with them bcos they are after israeli blood (=land).
unfortunately the powerful jewish lobby in the US is attached to the conservative republicans. republicans were dumb asses, one after the other. bush, dick, mccain & of course sarah!!!
also now massive arabic investments in the US has eclipsed jewish financial and TF political clout. they backed oba-ma.
israel is hanging from US successes and failure means DISASTER, especially in the ME.
all this means israel will have to take matters into its own hands. until now israel was the SOLE NUCLEAR SUPERPOWER in ME. now it is threatened.
being a very small country, israel cannot have a large conventional weapon base to match its enemies. the only option is nuclear deterence. that is why even peaceful nuclear use is not tolerated.
everything points to a scene of attacking iran ASAP. the more israel delays, the worse it becomes. it is safer for israel to do so WHILE US troops are in the region!!! the small number of US defence units in saudi arabia cannot do anything.
on sep 7, when PM visited russia, he had shown putin & med a mossad report indicating,
1. iran is developing a n-bomb
2. russian scientists are doing the development
3. russian scientists are working under a state agreement between iran and russia
IF TRUE, this will make things bloody messy. points more towards a "live in peace with them strategy" which is IMPOSSIBLE.
IF TRUE it also means russia is using iran, israel, etc. as tools to screw the US. they succeeded so far forcing the US to scrap the missile defence plan for russia to EVEN CONSIDER IRAN.
there is a rumour it is not true. i dearly hope so.
Moshe,
This TNA scummy Premachandran shall be educated that there is no special areas for any ethnic group in Sri Lanka. We need to take a serious effort in putting these terrorist supporters and Eelamists behind bars.
http://www.tamilnet.tv/index.php/tamil-dinosaur?blog=1
sam,
"We need to take a serious effort in putting these terrorist supporters and Eelamists behind bars."
oh no! mate.
we should NEVER use violence against them.
the best and permanant way to shut them up is COLONIZATION!!
as the saying goes, crabs dance in the pot until the water reaches the boiling point!!
there is no need to stop the coker and ask them why they dance. just keep on doing the right thing.
when there are sizable populations of sinhalas and muslims in vanni and jaffna, how can SOOO MANY TNA SAKKILIYAS (22 OF THEM) come to parliament???
that will shut them up forever.
even if they shout, that doesn't matter. they will no longer be DECISION MAKERS!!
when the FATHER OF THE NATION did it, all the SAKKILIYAS in the country screamed and vowed to reverse it.
this included COMMUNIST MFs too.
so don't worry. those who cry foul will cry. we should carry on regardless. this time our good work should be backed by the WORLD'S BEST DEFENCE FORCES who have already taekn positions in the north!!!
if in doubt, read gen moshe dayan's great words and deeds.
"Along the Syria border there were no farms and no refugee camps — there was only the Syrian army... The kibbutzim saw the good agricultural land ... and they dreamed about it... They didn't even try to hide their greed for the land... We would send a tractor to plow some area where it wasn't possible to do anything, in the demilitarized area, and knew in advance that the Syrians would start to shoot. If they didn't shoot, we would tell the tractor to advance further, until in the end the Syrians would get annoyed and shoot. And then we would use artillery and later the air force also, and that's how it was...The Syrians, on the fourth day of the war, were not a threat to us."
lovely!!!
Two articles for Jay
http://sinhale.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/hillary-clinton-insults-sri-lanka/
http://sinhale.wordpress.com/2009/09/09/a-government-with-guts/
/UN Under Secretary-General on Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons, Walter Kaelin says the Sri Lankan government has legitimate security concerns about the displaced people in the Vavuniya camps as there are former LTTE cadres among the refugees./
Now what's wrong with guy? Did one UN employee suddenly get an understanding of reality? or (as Mahen said) did they find out that whoever the tigers locked in camp by now have escaped? (If so, we know, they-UN/west/HR clowns have no worries about civilians staying in a camp even forever.)
Sujeewa said ...
[ Mahen did not tell where the run-away terras go.]
Sujeewa,
Read below what Mahen said .. again. He did say they go to the jungles:
[Read between the lines, we are referring to sleeper cadres escaping from IDP camps (more like being facilitated out) and re-grouping in the jungles.]
I think they will go to the jungles to dig up their weapons and explosives, but will strike in populated areas and against VIPs, as I implied, and you stated explicitly.
Bottomline is: Our leaders must maintain their personal security for a LONG TIME TO COME and until Eelam is MADE IMPOSSIBLE through ETHNIC INTEGRATION. I am talking a DECADE or MORE!
However, as I said .. despite the inevitable casualties of bombings .. the terrorists will be Located & Eliminated MORE QUICKLY if they gather and act in groups rather than as isolated individuals.
Moreover, It will also lead to MORE QUICKLY unearthing the TRAITORS who assist them and provide safe houses, etc.
ananda,
you were demanding this.
"'India follows Sri Lanka in waging civil war'
[TamilNet, Thursday, 08 October 2009, 05:01 GMT]
India, in consultation with US counter-insurgency forces, is planning an unprecedented military offensive against ultra-Marxist rebels that is going to hit mainly the Adivasi (indigenous) peoples of India in the states of Andra Predesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Orissa, West Bengal and Maharashtra, warns a protest document drafted by Arundhati Roy
However, the Indian Establishment is inspired by the experience of the war it abetted against Eezham Tamils in Sri Lanka, points out academic circles in Bangalore, citing how the Establishment was able to engineer media, politicians and naïve intellectuals and was able to ignore public uprising in Tamil Nadu."
excellent. gota/SF and the team are bigger heroes than we know them.
SL is truely an inspiration to the world.
this further explains why india VEHEMANTLY protested when some jokers tried to implicate SL for war crimes and HR abuses.
Ananda;
Hoping it will be the case. But thinking of 101 ways of possible security breach by the biggies, I feel very much alarmed. For an ex how many Lakshman Coorays can be made out of police.
This has to be expected anyway. But if we could bundle teh pussycats then this is no big deal. There won't be anyone to execute it. Right now, thanks to Baduddin and co, we have 100s of sleeper pussycats around.
Mahne said they "ran to jungle". I don't know whether he literally meant. If they're in jungles that will be a blessing, but I never found any such reports. What I heard was that they ran in to the "concrete jungle".
Some are leaving country and that is a good thing. They'll be a nuisance, but 100s or even 1000s make no diff to millions already there. They wll be organizing more and more protests and scams and other crimes. So they'll be an added advantage.
My concern is the ones who remain in SL. Undoubtedly they're waiting for the next command, and coming is theyear of elections.
ethnic integration and tsunamis
looks like there will be many more earthquakes in the indonesian region for years to come.
some can possibly cause tsunamis. if reach SL, they can create MOST destruction in the east. we actually don't know the REAL destruction of the 2004 tsunami bcos MOST damage was caused in LTTE controlled areas.
b4 doing ethnic integration, we should plan it in such a way that TSUNAMI IMPACT IS ZERO on these EI areas.
Moshe said...
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Ananda,
you were demanding this.
'India follows Sri Lanka in waging civil war']
Moshe,
Yes, indeed!
Every opportunity I had DW, and at any Indian website that would allow comments, I preached that very sermon; that they needed to hit hard, and act fast, before the violence spun out of control and people got used to accepting that level of violence as normal.
That was not a self-serving sermon as a Sri Lankan Patriot, but because I truly want India to remain one nation, and Indians to thrive and prosper in the years ahead.
The last line of the sermon was, of course, that we are no different from them, and would like their support in our own battle to preserve our nation whole.
Often I elicited a "big power" complex response, with Indians expostulating how dare I, from an insignificant speck in the "Indian" ocean, offer advice to mighty India?
But I did, as often as I could ... taking care to always be irritatingly helpful and impeccably logical!
Regarding SL being an inspiration to the world, we can rely on that becoming so, for winners have MANY fathers, while losers are ALWAYS orphans!
Mahen;
Igniting a discussion and hiding in nachchikudah is not right. What exactly has happened in the story of pussycat smuggling? Who's behind it?
More Indian Hardline Against Maoist Rebels
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PC favours IAF firing on Maoists
ExpressBuzz.com
October 7, 2009
NEW DELHI: As government contemplates use of air power against Maoists, Home Minister P Chidambaram today favoured the Indian Air Force firing on naxals while the Air Chief P V Naik said the rules of engagement in such situation will be stringent.
With the Cabinet Committee on Security set to consider the IAF's request for permission to fire when under attack by naxals, the Home Minister told a press conference the Force will take adequate counter-measures to protect its choppers and pilots from naxal attacks.
However, he refused to reveal any detail, recalling that an IAF helicopter was fired at by the Maoists a few weeks ago in Chhattisgarh.
Naik, who personally disfavoured use of defence forces for internal security, said the issue was under consideration.
"Decision will be taken only at the highest level.
Conditions under which my air crew are going to fire are very very stringent. We put up a set of Rules of Engagement, RoE, as it is called. And these RoE are very very stern. No excessive force, no collateral damage, positive assurance, positive identification, only then," the Air Chief told NDTV.
Defence Minister A K Antony appeared to suggest that such an engagement may be unavoidable when he said ".....actually, we were to minimise armed forces operations for the internal security".
The Defence Ministry is understood to have taken the decision to put the demand of IAF to CCS as the Ministry's stated position was that it could not take offensive action against the Maoists who are Indian citizens.
/ Pakistan's powerful military rejected U.S. attempts to link billions of dollars in foreign aid to increased monitoring of its anti-terror efforts, complicating American attempts to strike al-Qaida and Taliban fighters on the Afghan border.
Although the U.S.-backed government of President Asif Ali Zardari has the final say on whether to accept the money, the unusual public criticism threatens to force its hand and undermine military cooperation with the Americans just as the Pakistani army prepares for what could be its most important offensive against extremists since the U.S.-led anti-terror campaign began exactly eight years ago./
If we had this kind of military, our army didn't need to hand over weopons to LTTE under RP's orders and look at tigers back under RW's orders. We need SLDF to take GenSF chinthanaya and public supporting military. Any one comes to power will then think twice even before pronouncing federal.
/U.S. and NATO commanders say the war there cannot be won unless Islamabad does more to tackle extremists on its side of the border./
Oh really? Just ask from Sri Lnakn military how they crushed LTTE the worlds most ruthless terrorist outfir even when they had supply lines from west-Colombo-wanni.
India Unravels while Assorted Pundits Sap the National Will to Survive!
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Veteran questions Maoist fight
By SANKARSHAN THAKUR
TelegraphIndia.com
October 4, 2009
New Delhi, Oct. 3: One of India’s topmost anti-Naxalite strategists has questioned the Centre’s new “crackdown-first development-later” credo and warned that any use of air power against Maoists could saddle the nation with “Afghanistan and Iraq-like” security liabilities.
“Development must go hand in hand with the fight against Naxalites; deprived people in the heartland cannot be expected to wait on their misery until the government is done with its long-haul campaigns,” Mahendra Kumawat, who retired as director-general of the BSF last month, told The Telegraph today.
“The government is going to lose more hearts and minds to the Maoists if it forges ahead with a strike policy that brings nothing but bloodshed and disruption to people in the affected zones. That is going to multiply our problems, not solve them. I wish the government all the best, but it isn’t going to work.”
The scorch-then-salve policy, advocated for long by hardline think-tanks, has found favour with home minister P. Chidambaram, but it has also alarmed sceptics within the security establishment who believe strictly police solutions are a “counter-productive half measure”. Recently unshackled by retirement, Kumawat may be articulating their concerns.
Kumawat speaks from a decade’s “on ground” experience of dealing with Naxalites in the Andhra-Orissa-Chhattisgarh triangle. Before assuming command of the BSF, he was also chairman of the national anti-Naxalite task force in the Union home ministry during Shivraj Patil’s tenure as internal security boss.
Kumawat wouldn’t take names, but he made it apparent that his experience as head of the national co-ordination desk in North Block did not inspire too much optimism over the anti-Naxalite offensive in the works under Chidambaram.
“We may think nationally but we do not act nationally,” he said. “There is little or no co-ordination between states which are actually as big as countries. West Bengal, for instance, would not share information with Jharkhand. There are debilitating turf battles between various agencies, intelligence is routinely held back or delayed, and most of the intelligence and documentation we have is poor in any case. All that needs to change if the government is to have half a chance of success.”
The retired top cop was critical of the manner in which governments approached the “very alarming” Naxalite challenge, saying: “We don’t prepare well enough. Information is critical and it is not available in the market, it has to be gathered and analysed all the time and over a long period of time. How many of our states have done that? Probably Andhra Pradesh, and they have had some success to show for homework done. But the same cannot be said for the rest. We are ill-prepared.”
Veteran questions Maoist fight
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Asked whether there was virtue to Chidambaram’s argument that Naxalite-dominated areas first needed to be “cleansed” of their “disruptive dominance” before development initiatives can be effectively mounted, Kumawat said: “Well, the home minister has himself said this will be a long battle, how long are people to wait for the welfare state to come to them? The challenge and the ingenuity of governance lies is doing both at the same time, the security component will have to be built in to development projects, as has been successfully done in parts of the Northeast. It may be tough to do, but that is what governments are about.”
Cautioning against using too hard a hand, Kumawat said: “We are hearing things about the use of the Indian Air Force, but the government should be extremely careful it is only logistical use, nothing else. And even so, the Naxalites are very capable of trapping the air force in ugly situations where they will have no option but to retaliate. Once that begins to happen, there will be the huge risk of collateral damage to populations and further alienation. The Naxalites are clever tacticians, they will engage and scoot, innocent people will get killed, you will have mess on your hands. Look at what the drone attacks are doing in Afghanistan and Iraq.”
He sounded utterly unsurprised by indications emerging from Naxalite circles that they plan a bloody cat-and-mouse with security forces in the weeks and months to come.
“If they are talking of encircling the government rather than getting encircled, it is nothing to scoff at or be smug about. That is classical Maoist tactic -- you go looking for them in their strongholds and you find they have melted away, their mobility is an advantage they employ to the hilt,” Kumawat said, adding that this Naxalite tactic, too, bedevils government plans.
“They will melt away, or just merge with populations. An operation, even if it is based on good and specific tip-offs, can end up hurting innocent people and creating greater disaffection against the state.”
Are these clarifications, or Hilarifications??
We should nkeep up with teh proposed great relationship with US, but we shuid not just let go by the clarifications. Still there are unanswered Qs.
1. When [at any stage of war] has there been a case where rape [although it did happen] had been used as a weapon of war ?
2. If you look at broader time scale, say 20-30 yeras, how come only SL, Bosnia and Burma got mentioned?
3. What about US occupation in Vietnam, where rape was used as a weapon of war
4. Can Us clearly separate that the recent rape cases by their soldiers in Iraq, were not used as mechanisms of warfare? What about Abu Garib sexual harassment?
5. Providing a statement on a past event [if any] that does not apply for today, has Mrs Secretary breached her responsibility at a public summit?
We should still raise questions. US-SD statements tell me taht they are helpless, in fact they are very used to likes of Allbright, Powell, and Rice and suddenly found taht they have to keep on clarifying stupid statements made by an ordinary celebrity, with little cells in her head than her mouth.
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US again clarifies Hillary Clinton's remark on Sri Lanka
Washington: The Obama administration on Wednesday asserted that recent remarks made by Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, that rape was used as a weapon of war in Sri Lanka along with Burma and the Balkans, was not specific to the recent phase of conflict which ended early this year.
US Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, PJ Crowley, yesterday said the US Ambassador at Large on Women's issues, has written a letter to Sri Lankan government that Hillary’s mention on this issue during a debate in the UN Security Council, was not specific to the recent conflict during which the Sri Lankan Army defeated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, thus ending three decades of civil war in the country.
"There were some questions raised by the Sri Lankan government, because in the intervention at the Security Council, the Secretary did -- among -- in pointing out a number of countries where we've had this concern in the past, she mentioned Bosnia. She mentioned Sri Lanka," Crowley said in response to a question during his interaction with reporters at the Foreign Press Centre.
"Melanne Verveer, who is our ambassador at large for women's issues, sent a letter over the weekend to the Sri Lankan government clarifying that the reference that the secretary made, you know, was to, you know, very well-documented reports of significant levels of rape that were documented through, I think, 2002 or 2003 in a variety of reports, including State Department reports and also reports done by Amnesty International," he said.
"At the same time, Ambassador Verveer did clarify that the reference was not specifically to the most recent phase of the tragic conflict in Sri Lanka," Crowley said.
In the same letter, Crowley said, Verveer, indicated that Clinton has a significant interest in looking to see how the US can help Sri Lanka move forward.
Noting that there are a significant number of displaced persons, still in camps in Sri Lanka, Crowley said it is vitally important for the country to move forward and help to deal with the refugee population and try to help stabilise that situation.
"It is very important for the government to expand a dialogue with various ethnic groups, try to help move the country forward, get past now that the military conflict has ended; find ways to get past and move Sri Lanka, you know, forward aggressively," he said.
Crowley said there is an opportunity here for a stronger relationship between the US and Sri Lanka going forward. (ZEE News)
/Sujeewa Kokawala said...
Are these clarifications, or Hilarifications??/
Actually this is clarification of clarification.. which means these white trash can't even write a clarification, yet alone original statement. In sinhala it simply says "eka boruwak wahaganda boru dahayak kiyanda one".
This just shows how high these white trash think about themselves.. instead of statement withdrawel or apology they are sending clarifications clarifying clarifications.. (now i feel good about our own state service..)
Has Jay really gone to Germany to plan his next step, with likes of JDS? It is very much possible as [according to him] GSP+ will be granted. Blocking that was the prime task of Jay's gang.
Interesting article about US Foreign aid to Pakistan.
"The military's criticism of the bill came in a brief written statement that said senior commanders, including the army chief, "expressed serious concern regarding clauses impacting on national security.
Among other strings, the bill conditions U.S. aid on whether Pakistan government maintains effective control over the military, including its budgets, the chain of command and top promotions."
Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/08/pakistans-military-reject_n_313477.html
/"Melanne Verveer, who is our ambassador at large for women's issues, sent a letter over the weekend to the Sri Lankan government clarifying that the reference that the secretary made, you know, was to, you know, very well-documented reports of significant levels of rape that were documented through, I think, 2002 or 2003 in a variety of reports, including State Department reports and also reports done by Amnesty International," he said./
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O.k. If this is the case what about the extremely large number of Rapes in Iraq, Vietnam e.t.c. Is U.S. ready to categorize the same way.
The government should give them an ultimatum to apologize or show proofs. No further BS clarifications.
My Comment at DBSJ's blog on his Article (let us see whether it will be deleted):
Tragic fate of TRO employees abducted by TMVP in January 2006
It is very curious that only now after Karuna and crew fell out with the LTTE, and has joined the Govt, that all these stories are coming out to label them as awful individuals who presided over terrible tortures and murders. When Karuna and Pillayan, and the Eastern cadres who were in the vanguard of the killings and ethnic cleansings of Sinhala and Moslem villagers, were part of one LTTE, the ferocity of "our boys" were much admired. Most Tamils admired their shootings, blowing to bits, and hacking to pieces of thousands of human beings, including some of my very good friends of in the Mount Lavinia train station, and labored mightily in the global Tamil Diaspora to gather funds, buy weapons and generally keep the blood flowing.
Except for a few brave souls like Lakshman Kadirgamar, a few good Tamil neighbors we had protected in 1983, and a few people of mixed Sinhala-Tamil heritage, no one condemned the LTTE, or Karuna, or Pillayan, or those "now diabolical" TMVP cadres.
Reading this story, the diabolical nature and acts of Prabhakaran's LTTE-wing are not mentioned. Karuna's crew learned their trade at the feet of the Sun God himself, who made them in his own image. THey fell out and started killing each other, and any and all associated with the other side ... in the only way they knew how .. with the utmost cruelty.
How are we to unravel the truth of these stories? For every story told against Karuna's crew, there are probably ten that are told about VP's crew. All of the stories are told by the same con-artists who brought us the Eelamist Propaganda war, some of whom are still plying their trade abroad. So, who can we believe, and why is it President Mahinda Rajapaksa's personal crown of thorns to sort out these things?
Tragic fate of TRO employees abducted by TMVP in January 2006
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Finally, nothing is said here about the TRO organization itself, that was part and parcel, front and center, in the vast con game that was crafted by the LTTE to fund its murderous separatist movement, to whitewash it as a "humanitarian" organization, provide cover for its propaganda activities demonizing the Sinhala people and the Government of Sri Lanka, and facilitate the gun-running, with the connivance of Western Non-Governmental Organizations of every ilk. Those who were killed were LTTE VP-wing operatives in the business of sustaining that wing. They were killed by LTTE Karuna-wing operatives, dishing out the violence they inflicted liberally on the people of the other communities of Sri Lanka. These people KNEW the kind of people they were serving .. the UTHR and some other Tamil organizations had informed them REPEATEDLY about it. Why did they PERSIST in serving these cannibals of the LTTE? Did they not have an inkling that they could suffer the same fate dished out to others? I suppose they were all bought with the VISION of money to be made on the tilting deck of the TITANIC. In my view, these people must share the blame of taking part in this diabolical scheme like Dr. Guillotine who never imagined he himself would be guillotined when he invented that diabolical means of execution of innocents. Some really STUPID people believed they could carve out a mono-ethnic apartheid separatist state in Sri Lanka and put their trust in an illilterate bunch of goons. The blame for what happened collectively belongs to them; as long as they keep on blaming other people, they will not find any relief anywhere.
Finally, PLEASE do not try to hang this one on the neck of President Mahinda Rajapaksa .. I do not blame him one iota for not wanting to open this particular can of worms. It will be like trying to solve the Hindu temple access problem of low-caste Tamils in Sri Lanka's remote past; it was a no win situation.
Let us all be glad that this awful nightmare is coming to an end, and learn to live as citizens with equal rights and equal responsibilities in this ONE nation, to live as ONE people aspiring to ONE shared destiny.
Now, let the rotten eggs be thrown at me!
Sujeewathahamotharan Kokavanathapuram (ok,I am running out of ideas now).
Traitors are behind bars and KP has helped identifiying them, he is singing and eating well. However, this won't put a stop, by nature Singhalams are after short term profits, therefore no second thoughts about selling the country for hard cash, recent underperformance of the SL team in the champions trophy is a good example.
Ananda-USA said...
My Comment at DBSJ's blog on his Article (let us see whether it will be deleted):
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It has already been deleted. It is clear who he is.
Ananda-USA said...
Reading this story, the diabolical nature and acts of Prabhakaran's LTTE-wing are not mentioned. Karuna's crew learned their trade at the feet of the Sun God himself, who made them in his own image. THey fell out and started killing each other, and any and all associated with the other side ... in the only way they knew how .. with the utmost cruelty.
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Yeah, non of these guys had issues about giving 1/3 of the country to the Mass Murderer VP, but they have issues when some one who must have killed 100 times less come to power in the east.
These Tamils has no bounds in their hypocrisy. Something they must have learnt from the white masters they happily serve.
Mahen,
Is that true you had to leave the country after Eelam dream ended?
It’s wrong for any one to propose SF in to the political arena at this moment as MR deserves another term for his firm stand on this terrorist and so called ethnic issue.
If not for MR’s support we would be still having terrorist thugs giving us much grief in the island.
MR must bring law and order in the land to support the infrastructure of the island and say NO to aid and foreign loans with unreasonable strings attach. We can go it alone with our own recourses.
Kevin,
Seen any ducks lately?
Mahinda Raviraj – “Traitors are behind bars and KP has helped identifying them, he is singing and eating well”
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How come we haven’t heard any songs about EU based Traitors?
BTW – any news re: 27th November Mahaveer celebration?
Nomessilingam,
One by one mate, one by one, the songs will soon turn into a non stop Baila session that even Desmond would be proud of.
Mahaveer day will be celebrated in Greater Eelam in a grand scale. Guess where Greater Eelam is.
Kevin,
Still waiting for an answer, no ducks? Ducks for breakfast, ducks for lunch, ducks for dinner, replace D with the letter to the right of D in your keyboard.
Bugger! That shameless tart Arundhati Roy having lost her source of income from LTTE goons looking for new paymasters.
Cheers!
India, in consultation with US counter-insurgency forces, is planning an unprecedented military offensive against ultra-Marxist rebels that is going to hit mainly the Adivasi (indigenous) peoples of India in the states of Andra Predesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Orissa, West Bengal and Maharashtra, warns a protest document drafted by Arundhati Roy and a group of progressive intellectuals.
The Indian Establishment is inspired by the experience of the war it abetted against Eezham Tamils in Sri Lanka, points out academic circles in Bangalore, citing how the Establishment was able to engineer media, politicians and naïve intellectuals and was able to ignore public uprising in Tamil Nadu.
Russia has built a great political capitol in Sri Lanka (see reader comments), quite contrary to what Hilary does to destroy goodwill Sri Lankan has toward USA. To some unknown reason Hilary's State Department does an extraordinary job in creating animosity towards USA in Sri Lanka. Only time will tell us why.
[To some unknown reason Hilary's State Department does an extraordinary job in creating animosity towards USA in Sri Lanka. Only time will tell us why.
]
Clintons have bad impression about Sri Lanka from Tsunami Rehabilitation times. Bill Clinton came to SL as a UN embassador and he met LTTE front orgs like TRO offically. He was the one behind PTOM and he forced CBK to implement it so that GOSL rehabilitation money directly transfered to LTTE accepting it as a legitimate administration in NE. It was because of JVP went to supreme court CBK couldn't do it. Bill Clinton has very good relationship with CBK even now, and some SL business leaders like Harry Jayawardane. Apart from LTTE front org lobbying in US these personalities may also be behind Clintons anomosity towards SL. CBK is actually a member of Clinton's org called Clinton Global Initiative.
CGI Former Heads of State and Government Members
COLOMBO, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's government on Thursday sought an additional 39.6 billion rupees ($345 million) to fund its military, a 20 percent increase from the original defence budget despite the end of a 25-year war against Tamil Tigers in May
Bugger! This is good news. Like old Teddy Roosevelt said "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far".
Cheers!
Offering the secretary position of the Sports Ministry to SF is a disgrace.
He should reject this offer.
(Does this mean the post "Chief of Defence Staff", he currently holds has no value? I am afraid even to think about such a scenario. How much hope we had on everything?)
"Bill Clinton has very good relationship with CBK even now..."
That is the reason why Hilary hates Sri Lanka so much. LOL.
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