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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«Oldest ‹Older 3001 – 3200 of 4538 Newer› Newest»Oi, Nachchkuda Mahen, you’re wasting your time.
I don’t have any sisters.
This Mervin fellow is a disgrace to human civilization. Why such an idiot is tolerated is a big question ?
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Security chiefs should be careful to act according to their limits says Minister of Labour ‘Dr.’ Mervin Silva. Speaking at an opening ceremony of a road development project at Dematagoda headed by Western PC Member Thilan Sumathipala ‘Dr.’ Mervin said, “In a war the political leadership that directs it is important. It is the name of King Dutugamunu that was added to history. However, the war was carried out by the ‘ten heroic commanders.’ If there was no King Dutugemunu Welusumanas and Nandrimithras would be no where. No one could claim ownership to the war. It was planned and commanded by President Mahinda Rajapakse and Defense Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapakse. What the Commanders of Security Forces did was to carry out orders. There were commanders of security forces throughout thirty years of the war. Why couldn’t they win? Because then leaders of the state did not have a backbone.
Now certain commanders of security forces think the war was won because of them. I tell them to be aware of their limits. The gate should be erected according to the size of the fence. If anyone tries to act according to whims and fancies of the conspirators of the opposition we’ll have to reveal certain shady dealings. We request those officers of security forces not to create such a situation,” said Minister Mervin
CASC said...
“In a war the political leadership that directs it is important. It is the name of King Dutugamunu that was added to history. However, the war was carried out by the ‘ten heroic commanders.’ If there was no King Dutugemunu Welusumanas and Nandrimithras would be no where. No one could claim ownership to the war.
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I believe he has a very good point.
Military commanders should not put their nose in to Politics, the save way as the Religious Leaders. This is what happens when Military commanders start making statements that goes against the government policies. If they want to raise issues they should first raise it quietly. If they seriously believe and want to make a stand, they should resign from their posts and enter politics.
CASC
can u pls verify this mervin sakiliyas remarks with a link.. i am suprised.....
susantha said...
CASC
can u pls verify this mervin sakiliyas remarks with a link.. i am suprised.....
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It is in LT.
CASC,
I am not surprised. Whoever in power in Sri Lanka Mervin is his or her 'balu kukka'. This is just the begining of the 'kitchen sinks'.
As you correctly said, I believe SF is a apolitical person (who hates politics). Therefore I do not think that he would jump in to this political mud pit.
Now the government politicians are trying to preempt that improbable scenario and as a result they are belittling the great man.
I hope these (barking of these kukkas) would not force him to change his mind.
Is that self-proclaimed owner of Kelaniya behind all these trouble?
http://www.lankanewspapers.com/news/2009/10/48844.html
hemantha said...
Now the government politicians are trying to preempt that improbable scenario and as a result they are belittling the great man.
I hope these (barking of these kukkas) would not force him to change his mind.
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The dogs are barking for a reason. If the story in LT is the truth, that means MR had made the decision to attack (Unless Mervin was drunk when he made the comments).
The commander who saved the country is contributing to the destruction of it as well. My respect for SF is diminishing rapidly.
What is his strategy? Is he going to take over U.N.P.? If this is the case, it is o.k. Is he worried about the devolution? If that is the case, he should wait till it is proposed and then attack it.
Otherwise what he is doing is doing right now is really bad for the nation? Is this patriotism or power hunger in his part?
The LTTE scum SarathFonseka_2010 started this whole planned campaign about Sarath Fonseka contesting for 2010 elections.
Perhaps, this LTTE stooge's campaign has given the bankrupt UNP and other sakkili losers more ideas.
Now the naivety of our losers themselves are haunting this great Hero.
Someone has to fix this.
The lost souls like Mervyn comes in between means things not working well here.
That means everyone falling into LTTE trap.
Thusitha,
There is one simple answer to all of your questions.
He(SF)is doing nothing. Of course he did not accept that secretary post. (it too belongs to 'doing nothing').
Noltte,
Yes. Ponna clan and the Koti clan (Fonseka 2010) are the winners. Kukkas are helping them.(I got to go my friend. will be back in few hours).
Thusitha,
The man has done nothing. He has kept his head high and is ignoring everyone who is slandering him, which seems to me many people in power.
What the LTTE could not do with a suicide bomber, they have achieved through these people who are maligning his character.
Sri Lanka and India have contributed many words to the English vocabulary. One such word that comes to mind is the word pariah, which has similar meanings in English and Sinhala. It grieves me immensely that this great man is being treated like a pariah now.
Word meaning:
1. a outcast
2. a member of a low caste in South India
3. a person driven out of a group or community
4. a castaway
5. a leper
6. an untouchable
7. a heretic
8. a misbeliever
9. a person very low in society
Thusitha;
I am, beyond every threshold, surprised. You think this Kelaniya a*sehole is such a great strategist who's trying to save the nation from SF? MF will say anything he finds as cheap water to wash MR's legs, or whoever rules at that time. Pls do not fall to him.
To our knowledge SF did nothing. It is a suspicion from MR camp if anything. It could have been caused by the campaigns like Fonseka2010. If I go with order, following is how it was published by each source.
1. Fonseka_2010 started it
2. Some UNPers mumbled the word, including Mangala ones too.
3. LankaWetNews [LNW] and LankaE[lam]News further exploited
4. LankaTruth [JVP] and Lanka newspaper [JVP] carried their version few weeks ago.
5. Lakbima [Thilanga] got it out
6. Sec to Min of sports offered
7. Almost every media started talking about it and so did we.
8. Sirasa and similar sources are having a field day every day.[ever wonder why?]
It looks more than likely that MR and his clan fell for a trick by the enemies. To my knowledge SF has done NOTHING at all. Statement like what you wrote makes SF a f**king culprit, a scum to be kicked out. Just what Mervyn did, you're taking from there.
And if MR really raises his sarong to SF he will get its impact from public. Washing the underwear of his and fake-justifying like Mervyn/you did, won't help it. But hey, at least wait till something happens. You are defaming OUR CDS to date. SHUT UP PLS.
Your opinion that MR shud be protected and SF shud be kicked on the butt, is utterly wrong. They both shud be protected. There is no better service than keeping ourselves shut to do so.
You say that SF should not interfere to politics. SF DID interfere to politics, for a long time. Around 2003 when the MF Ranil was engaging in a fake climax of piss-talk, pussycats brought the condition to close the HSZs in order to carry on from that point. SF resisted. It was a clear interference to then political plan [right or wrong] and it in fact destroyed it. Pussycats walked away, and Piss talks never recovered after this event. But teh traitor and the betrayer RW still did not fire his then Jaffna commander I don't try to say that RW was a good guy, but I'm showing you why a military leader shud be allowed to express his own political opinion on matters that impacts national security.
I wanted to keep my mouth shut as every comment will disadvantage us only [the moment I relaised it, I stopped posting]. But if it is a self imposed curfew it shud be applied for all. You guys take the advantage and fill internet with such garbage that adds emmense shame to our national idols. How dare you worship Dr Dutugamunu Silva who shud be listed in Sam's list for other reasons, while undermining the great general who won the war, whereas latter has NOT done a single thing wrong.
Over to you Thusitha. I'm expecting a list of "bad-deeds" of general SF.
Otherwise may I ask all, those who think SF was right and those who think MR was right, PLS SHUT THE F UP and concentrate on matters that are of utmost importance than barking at one another
For heaven's sake, separatist MFs have won a major point right here and moving towards their next step. If you have so much time to waste in attacking SF/MR and licking the chunks of shit falling from the behind of likes of Dr Dutugamunu Silva; pls spend it writing about "trans-sexual" eelam.
[I'm wholeheartedly sorry that I had to write it this way. But there is a limit one can take, and feel someone has to write in THIS language right now. Apologies to all again]
I hear Baalu is tight lipped about the IDP camps because his people might demand the same standards in TN where there are fewer toilets per person and other hygiene conditions in our IDP camps are far superior.
Siva
I would appreciate if you could let us know the venue of your meeting in Midland (UK)? We are keen to go there instead of London,
What Chandi Seeya said “Meka Maara Magulak ne. Clinton nonata Monica gena amathakawela" is almost as bad as what Hillary Clinton said.
Now is the time to win friends instead of antagonizing the rest of the world. Nothing to gain by sayng such stupid things except to insult important people in other countries.
SL envoy summoned by State Dept
PM’s remarks on Monica Lewinsky attract US Protest
http://www.sundaytimes.lk/091011/News/nws_01.html
Patriots,
After a long time, we are happy to be writing here on this patriotic blog.
All these months we have been very busy trying to convince the great General Fonseka to become the president of the Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka in 2010.
General Fonseka has asked the president if he could be granted the post of Defence Minister.
But, mockingly, the president's brother Basil told our great general to be a secretary to the sports ministry. Our great general refused this position because it would have been an insult to the armed forces and all their sacrifices.
General Fonseka will be resigning from his current ceremonial position of CoDS in December this year.
In January he will be launching his presidential campaign.
Some traitors in green cloaks are spreading stories of the general being "common" candidate. There is no truth in the rumours. Please don't believe or spread rumours.
General Fonseka will be the people's candidate.
People's Fonseka2010 will be spearheading the Web 2.0 campaign in support of our general.
"the president's brother Basil told our great general to be a secretary to the sports ministry."
this MF is just repeting what i said b4 with a twist!!
green cloaks????
only PONNAYAS benefit by SF actually contesting an election. don't try to distance you from that. UNP = PONNAYAS, unfortunately today. it is up to REAL UNPers to bring men and women BACK.
calling the UNP "pro-western" is a cunning way to divert attention from its homosexual agenda.
mervyn is MR's hitman.
that's how it was always.
e.g. there was a blogger here by the name WESAPALA.
we raped him.
what he did. assumed another name, come here, and slander us. we screwed them too.
MR is unfortunately doing the same thing. he must be laughing when ppl APPEAL to him to tie-up mervyn!!!
there is an intersting this coming from all this.
IF PONNAYAS are behind a SF-MR clash, then patriots support MR no matter what.
so, ponnaseka2010, you are indirectly promoting MR among the patriots (the voters that matter in your agenda).
sujeewa,
good media analysis.
Ponnaseka 2010,
Nice fairy tales. Thanks for the entertainment.
Patriots,
As Sujeewa has suggested, we need to stay out of this artificial issue created by the greenmen, eelam Tamizhas, or some sinister foreign entity to drive a wedge among the people of Sri Lanka.
casc,
true it was stupid talk. but who has lodged the protest???
robert o'blake!!!
it was not strictly the comments by the PM but blake's general anti-SL attitude.
IF US wants to formally protest, it would be done by the DEPARTMENT OF STATE ITSELF WITHOUT the south asian arm getting involved.
Fonseka2010 the LTTE terrorist,
You are nothing more than a terrorist. In the past, you have appeared here as
ArmyLK
Buddha
nangige huththa
Lion Flu
පරන්ගි
Fonseka 2010
Fake Sam Perera
Fake Asithri
Nangige Bandiya
Thapal Bandiya
insulting everything from our soldiers to Buddhism. appearing here with various fake names is an indication that you are just a subhuman refuse terrorist who want to create suspicion and disunity among patriots. Your day will come soon to join Thalaivar in Eelam.
lak wesiyani gen sarath fonseka politics karanawa kiyanne me rate winasaya.eka ehumage weraddak nowe.eka ape lak mawa dekada karanna ona ayage maha selasumak.
mahinda mona jara wedak kalath mona dushana kalath ada ratak wediyata lankawa tibenne ehuma nisai.sebalu kotiyak hitiyat wedak ne , rate nayakayata kondak netnam.apita kondak neti ponna nayakayek hitiyanam marthu mase mula ceasefire balanna tibuna.me rate minisunwa baeda karanna hadanne kotingen aramudal lebena sinhala madya.lak mawata me bedawim tawat uhulanna be.
den lankawa sanwardanaye margayata wetila tiyenne.eka winasa karanna tamai munta one.matakane 1977 kaale.lankawa newatat araagika wenawa kiyanne .kiyanna deyak nehe.sinhalayange kulal kaa genima nisai athithayeth sema aakramana walata hasuwune.rata diwunu wenawa dekkama munta(ranil,mongala,...) ihilum nehe.
Patriots,
Stop pissing in your pants. Terrorist and ponna disinformation machine is running full time these days to create a crack in the patriotic core of Sri Lanka. Their aim is to destroy peace in our country. Please check where the news is originating from. Yo will find that MS story is coming from "Lanka Inverted Truth" site. Just relax but be proactive to dispel the LTTE terrorist disinformation.
Nobody questions the fact that it was the team work between President Mahinda Rajapakse, Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapakse, Genral Sarath Fonseka, Admiral Wasantha Karannagoda, and Air Marshall Roshan Goonthilake that save us from LTTE terrorist and their white masters. Non only their teamwork, it is the work of military commanders to foot soldiers that saved our nation. Having great commanders is not sufficient when we don't have great officers and soldiers to execute them. Having an all willing president was not sufficient if the people did not rally behind him. Having a good military is not sufficient if our diplomats didn't do their job. In summary it was the grand teamwork by patriots in Sri Lanka that destroyed the LTTE terrorists.
Please stop panicking and stop spreading rumors.
lankaenews saha lankanewsweb walata comments danna as a true lankan.mun kawadawat danne.ewunata awilena ginnata piduru dana comments walata tama mun mul tena denne.hodata mataka tiya ganna me rata maha winasayak kara yanna hadanne.kotinma kiwwoth sinhala minisunwa beda kirima tamai para demalunge grand plan eka.me sinhala harakta mewa noterei.hebei rata dekada wunata passe terei.puduma awasanawak.
Moshe Dyan
True. Probably a more nuanced statement without naming people would have been better. Robert Blake is on a one man crusade against Sri Lanka. 17 people went to see him last week (the composition of that group is a bit of a mystery). This is supposed to be Blake's meeting with the Sinhala diaspora which according to him does not exist. According to one person who was there Blake gave them a dressing down. He basically told the group to go and advise the Government of Sri Lanka.
What an insult !
This is what the joker said on his website:
“Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs
Robert Blake met with 16 Sri Lankan-American community representatives, including representatives of U.S.-based Sri Lankan-American cultural and media organizations, to discuss the humanitarian situation in Sri Lanka and prospects for political
reconciliation on October 9.
“Assistant Secretary Blake welcomed the opportunity to listen to the
concerns and perspectives of Sri Lankan-Americans and to share the
steps the United States is taking to help address the humanitarian
crisis and to promote the urgent need for national reconciliation. He
reviewed the long friendship between the U.S. and Sri Lanka, noting
that the United States has provided over $56 million in humanitarian
assistance in 2009, including $6.6 million in demining assistance.
“While the Government of Sri Lanka has made some progress easing camp
congestion, registering IDPs, and expanding access by humanitarian
organizations, much remains to be done, Assistant Secretary Blake
said. In particular, he emphasized the importance of the government
allowing freedom of movement for IDPs.
“Assistant Secretary Blake underscored the importance of political reconciliation. The U.S. has stressed to the government that to
achieve a lasting peace, it must promote justice and political
reconciliation for all parties and dialogue with all parties,
including Tamils inside and outside Sri Lanka, on new mechanisms for
devolving power. The government must also seek to improve human rights
and accountability. Assistant Secretary Blake recommended that Sri
Lankan Americans seek opportunities to channel their resources and
expertise toward supporting national reconciliation and the
reconstruction of Sri Lanka.”
http://www.sundaytimes.lk/091011/News/nws_27.html
Sujeewa Kokawala said...
Thusitha;
I am, beyond every threshold, surprised. You think this Kelaniya a*sehole is such a great strategist who's trying to save the nation from SF? MF will say anything he finds as cheap water to wash MR's legs, or whoever rules at that time. Pls do not fall to him.
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Sujeewa you got me wrong here. I didn't mean Mervin is good. What I said is that Mervin must have got the green light from MR (Other possibilities are LT has made up the story or Mervin was drunk at the time).
I have no problem with the comment Mervin made, because that is what I have been saying at this Forum as well (I mean in relation to SF is a commander and MR is Dutugamunu).
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SK said ...
You think this Kelaniya a*sehole is such a great strategist who's trying to save the nation from SF?
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No I didn't say that. I know who he is, he is not the strategist, but MR is. Right or wrong, he is doing this for a reason.
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SK said ...
To our knowledge SF did nothing.
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Doing nothing does not work right now, as yo can see. SF is not stupid, he clearly should understand what is going to happen. Say it is the whole fault of MR and assume MR is a total A**hole, SF should not allow this to happen. Him doing nothing is causing a division within the country. He absolutely need to do something.
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SK said ...
How dare you worship Dr Dutugamunu Silva who shud be listed in Sam's list for other reasons
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Again to repeat, I know who Mervin is.
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SK said ...
while undermining the great general who won the war,
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Not really, right now both MR and SF are doing the same thing. Dividing the nation. Many are undermining MR as opposed to SF. What I am saying is SF should put the country first. SF is the commander of our army and one would assume to be more patriotic compared to MR (I mean MR is a politician and I don't assume him to be that patriotic)
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SK said ...
Over to you Thusitha. I'm expecting a list of "bad-deeds" of general SF
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This whole thing started a while ago. Things don't happen for no reason. Both MR and SF are intelligent people. So if things come to this stage, both are at fault.
As far as I am concerned that this fighting is bad enough. The reason I support MR is that every one seem to put SF in a pedestal and passing the blame to the government. I can't see any one saying anything wrong about SF.
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SK said ...
I am not saying SF has done anything bad. I have no Idea that he has done anything wrong or not. But at the same time I am not going to assume that he is the innocent party here.
But who ever is to blame, right now being a patriot, he cannot just wait and do nothing. He needs to do something in the name of the country.
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SK said ...
For heaven's sake, separatist MFs have won a major point right here and moving towards their next step.
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I don't think so. I think the whole thing is the making of MR and SF (I would not apportion the blame to anyone). It seem like they will get in to dirty fight (If what LT is saying is the truth). Bit sad, but we need to face the facts. Bit too late to assume it will die down quietly.
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Please don't assume that I support MR because I am SLFP supporter. I support MR, because I cannot see some one else who would keep this nation together for the next year or so. After that when country becomes stable and the threat of Terrorism disappears, I don't really care who the president of the country is.
Sam Perera said...
Patriots,
You will find that MS story is coming from "Lanka Inverted Truth" site. Just relax but be proactive to dispel the LTTE terrorist disinformation.
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LT fabricating news? If that is the case they should taken to custody by TID and be given the full treatment.
lak putha said...
mahinda mona jara wedak kalath mona dushana kalath ada ratak wediyata lankawa tibenne ehuma nisai.sebalu kotiyak hitiyat wedak ne , rate nayakayata kondak netnam.apita kondak neti ponna nayakayek hitiyanam marthu mase mula ceasefire balanna tibuna.
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SK, if you wonder why I support MR, look at the comment by lak putha. That is the only reason why I support MR.
sam,
all patriots understand the absurdity of SF doing politics against MR.
it is NOT going to happen bcos SF has no such plans.
but bloggers are discussing hypothetical scenarios.
scenario analysis of tamil elamists is VERY intersting, AS ALWAYS!! they try to kill him, failed, get him resigned, failed, ridicule him strategies, failed miserably, defeat him, ended up with an ak-47 up their arse.
now they arselick SF. as the saying goes, many lick the arse they wish to cut.
but they think arse licking tickles the owner of the arse!! they are in for a mouthful of SHIT!!
it also proves they are utterly bankrupt politically. they know that they cannot beat us and ONLY we can beat us.
remember ERIC BAILEY'S "award winning analysis" of the US civil war where he concluded that SF was useless and therefore should be sacked???? remember how the undercover LTTE MFs jumped in his bandwagon???? its the same thing.
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moving forward.....
SF contesting PE is 100% BS.
SF contesting GE is 99% BS. 1% ????
at the next PE in jan10, UNP and JVP are going to get annihilated.
think of the mentality of the losers at that time. they think it is futile voting again.
BUT at the march10 GE, UNP and JVP are still going to get a sizable number of seats.
if the great general is willing to step down into politics, he can lead a party that appeals to anti-MR ppl who don't want to get defeated like dogs anymore. MOST JVPers and MANY sinhala UNPers can be POLITICALLY HARVESTED this way.
this is the ONLY way patriots can win the 2/3 majority.
it has another benefit.
MR can NEVER bring 13+
look at the SPC election.
a good 30% sinhalas rejected MR.
how many of them do you think will LOVE SF???
i bet at least 25% of them. the rajapaksha group cannot make good use of them. but they must be put to good use.
anyway this a 1% possible scenario.
lakputha,
you are absolutely right!!
even the great SF and great SS were humiliated when PONNAYAS & PROSTITUTES were running the country!!!!
i think this settles the matter.
MR MUST give due respect to SF, etc. no excuse for not doing so. but as long as MR does not insult SF, etc. as PONNAYAS did above, he is still the best of the lot.
Moshe,
That's a very interesting photo of SS and SF with Theepan.
Sam
[Patriots, Stop pissing in your pants. Terrorist and ponna disinformation machine is running full time these days to create a crack in the patriotic core of Sri Lanka. Their aim is to destroy peace in our country. Please check where the news is originating from.]
Outstanding! Well said mate!
This is exactly what's happening...the LTTE whorebitches are now on an agenda to drive a wedge between SF and MR/GR patriots...this sure looks like a RW.UNP=LTTE plot to me, with the backing of the LTTE whore-remnants to which this mommasodomizer "Fonska 2010" belongs.
Let us sodomize the bugger...okay, the game begins - right NOW!
:)) :)) :))
OaO Asithri
Thusitha
[lak putha said...
mahinda mona jara wedak kalath mona dushana kalath ada ratak wediyata lankawa tibenne ehuma nisai.sebalu kotiyak hitiyat wedak ne , rate nayakayata kondak netnam.apita kondak neti ponna nayakayek hitiyanam marthu mase mula ceasefire balanna tibuna.]
Right on brother! This is exactly my view/sentiments on this too!
OaO Asithri
Its obvious there is some issue among GR/MR and SF. When such a thing happened its not possible to avoid sirasa, LNW, LeN and monkeys having field days, premature orgasms.
Public should stop 'wait and see' and being victims all sorts of mis-info propagandas and instead -
How about pressurizing MR/GR/BR and SF to settle their issues and be unite and develop the country?
I think this is the strategy with the least risk for everyone, worst thing for anti-SL (pro-LTTE, UNP, INGO, RW-mongal-CBK, camp) and best thing for SL.
WOW! As customary, when humble OaOA visits the blog, the RW=LTTE huththigey puthas (ommala okka) go ilent!
Come to me whorebitches...come to poppa...come to OaOA...
LMSSAO!!! Truly LMSSAO!!!
OaO Asithri
OAOA,
indeed. those were the days.
i had to leave the party after wespala's bloody cuntt started leaking a whitish stuff!!!
but i'm sure the sakkiliya is active somewhere else.
OAOA,
but we should be wary of hilary clitoris. she smells our game!!!
i'm sure she had seen how we pulverized wesapala and other tamil elam pundais.
bcos we are the only ones in SL who used rape as a weapon of war!!
and it worked!!!
lol!!
UPFA ministers statements seems they are over-estimating their vote base. (The similar mistake LTTE did when they started fighting against SLA under SF.) (And I am not surprised at those SLFP ministers, we know how smart they are.)
Both JVP and UNP now have already made SF a football, its their only hope. And probably the best bet against MR even at propaganda level. Split in nationalistic camp is the best thing they can expect.
We should never under-estimate anti-nationalistic camp and should not forget race between 'ibba and hava'. (If you look at anti-nationalistic camp you should see they work 24/7 (as SLA did) while nationalistic camp seems thinking 'we can win any election-no problems'.
I think JHU/ JNF should intervene and settle this issue ASAP.
Ninja
[Both JVP and UNP now have already made SF a football, its their only hope. And probably the best bet against MR even at propaganda level. Split in nationalistic camp is the best thing they can expect]
Good observation.
However, I think this is overblown by the RW.UNP=LTTE motherfcukers...they are trying to capitalize on some small hiccup...to put forth a load of falsehood to their advantage.
Yes, this is time to be vigilant.
OaO Asithri
Moshey
[but we should be wary of hilary clitoris. she smells our game!!! I'm sure she had seen how we pulverized wesapala and other tamil elam pundais.]
Aha, at last! Now I know what she meant by saying we have used "rape as a weapon of war" !!!
Thank you Moshey for this enlightenment....may you live blissful thousands of lives with thousand virgins around you, bathing you with milk!
OaO Asithri
OAOA,
wish you the very same!!
fully respect your different religious beliefs mate.
cheers.
ninja,
looks like JNP has added salt to the insult (lankaweb, island.lk)
the BEST thing GOSL can do is, have the FCUKING PE in late november after 19th. (don't know there are enough days as stated by the constitution). AT the fcuking least, declare it TODAY.
ok. if they are waiting for the EU decision on GSP+ today, declare the FCUKING THING tomorrow.
SLFP has nothing else to offer in the coming months. no budget either. may19 is waning fast. get the max b4 ppl forget all about LTTE!! (thank you die-arse-pora for remembering us the LTTE from time to time).
i remember an episode from LOKKE MAMA tv drama for little kids. one bugger brings lokke mama venisen. so LM treats him to a soup. then another bugger comes and says he is the friend of the guy who brought venisen. LM filters the same soup and gives him.
then another MF comes and says he is the friend of the friend of the guy who brought venisen. so LM once again filters the soup further and gives him.
this happens many times and one bugger complains this is like drinking water with "indul". LM says that's the point.
this is going to happen to the SLFP, the more they delay the PE.
Bugger! This bally nonsense about supposed rift between MR, GR, and SF is poppycock. Anybody here seriously think the chap who highhandedly came up with the military tactics to annihilate LTTE monkeys need our help here on the blog? No worries, this gallant general can take care of himself.
By the way, can one of you chaps hang this Fonseka2010 by the gonads from the rafters and deliver couple of swift kicks to them in the process as well? I am getting sick of his vomit here. Bah! My patience is limited.
Cheers!
Asithri
/However, I think this is overblown by the RW.UNP=LTTE motherfcukers...they are trying to capitalize on some small hiccup...to put forth a load of falsehood to their advantage./
That is for sure. However, we don't want even such small hiccpus. As public, and patriots we should never fell asleep assuming every thing will be fine.
@KB
Forget about Ponz2010. His orgasm is related to SF news.
When war was there we had to rely upon alternative sources such as DW/DN. Reason was GSL news was limited to an extent. Unfortunately, no such news sources now regarding this political issues. Thus LNW, LeN etc having field days every day (similar to what Tamilnutz enjoyed in pre-DW era). Unless you are damn sure (unless if you know SF/ GR personal level) its really hard to verify what mis-info campaign propaganda. In such case, assume worse and be prepared and take initiative actions before its too late.
MD
/looks like JNP has added salt to the insult/
Yep, probably this is not knowing to WimalW.
CASC
MervinS is exactly same as that monkey who hit the fly by sword to protect the sleeping king.
Moshe,
This link is for you.
'Terrorist intentions will totally terminate resettlement' – Maj. Gen. Fonseka.
My Comment:
Tamils in Tamil Nadu can't even treat their own people fairly; why do you preach to Sri Lanka about Sri Lankan Tamils?
Sri Lankan Tamils are denied only the racist mono-ethnic apartheid state they demanded in Sri Lanka. That will NEVER BE.
There are no temple entry problems in Sri Lanka. No discrimination based on caste, sex, race or religion among the Sinhala people. Only the Tamils in Sri Lanka still CLING ONTO caste differences in their PERSONAL lives, but CASTE DISCRIMINATION is OUTLAWED under Sri Lankan Law.
Why don't you hypocrites MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS in Tamil Nadu and UPLIFT your long-suffering poverty-ridden people, instead of PREACHING to the CHOIR in Sri Lanka?
............
Temple entry bid turns violent
ExpresssBuzz.com
October 15, 2009
NAGAPATTINAM: The temple entry event at Chettipulam village near Vedaranyam here, in which Dalits were scheduled to enter the Ekambareshwarar Temple along with the villagers, turned violent on Wednesday.
Police opened warning shots in the air as mob pelted stones injuring Vedaranyam DSP. It may be recalled that on September 30, about 300 workers of CPI(M) led by Nagapattinam MLA Marimuthu organised a temple entry agitation at Chettipulam village alleging that Dalits were not being allowed entry into the Kamakshi Amman Sametha Ekambareshwarar Temple.
As the temple was reportedly remained closed, the CPI(M) and the Anti-Untouchability Movement, Tamil Nadu, resorted to a road blockade. They were arrested and later released.
Though the revenue and the police officials had sealed the temple, on October 1, hundreds of villagers resorted to forced entry into the temple by breaking open the seal. Police have registered cases against 15 people in this regard.
In a peace talk on October 7, presided by revenue divisional officer (RDO) Rajendran, it was decided that Dalits led by MLA Marimuthu would enter the temple on October 14 to offer prayers. The RDO also conveyed that any discrimination on the grounds of caste would attract severe punishment under various Acts.
Accordingly, on Wednesday, hundreds of CPI(M) cadre and Dalits led by MLA Marimuthu came for the temple entry.
However, the villagers reportedly said that they would allow only the Dalits belonging to the village and not the outsiders.
When the local Dalits proceeded towards the temple in a few vans, accompanied by RDO Rajendran, Vedaranyam DSP Chandrasekaran and other officials, stones were pelted on the vans allegedly by the villagers. DSP Chandrasekaran sustained minor injuries.
As the mob turned violent, police resorted to lathicharge to disperse the crowd. They also fired eight rounds of warning shots in the air. Police sources stated that no one was injured in the lathicharge.
Tight police security has been deployed in Chettipulam area.
Ninja,
I do not think it is a hiccup anymore. Patriots (including patriotic newspapers) put it under the carpet and let it rot. I feel it is too late now.
I think this episode will end by SF leaving the country with a heavy heart and a feeling of a betrayal (this is what I think)
MK has taken Tamils for a ride, says Jaya
ExpressBuzz.com
October 14, 2009
CHENNAI: Accusing Chief Minister M Karunanidhi of taking Tamils for a ride over the visit of a team of MPs to Sri Lanka, AIADMK general secretary J Jayalalithaa on Tue sday said the delegation merely comprised “assorted politicians from parties propping up the DMK government in the State.” In a statement here, she said: “Karunanidhi has confessed in the question-answer column in the paper (Murasoli). The all-party parliamentary delegation to Sri Lanka is not an ‘all-party’ affair after all. It was never intended to be. That is why Opposition parties were invited to join it. Neither is it an official delegation of MPs as it was originally made out to be.” “Very cleverly, MPs from these parties have been selected to give the impression that it is a parliamentary delegation and Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa might also be a victim of this subterfuge and will be rolling out the red carpet to them under the impression that they are official delegates of the Indian Government,” she said. Claiming that the delegates would be taken on a guided tour of specific Tamil areas where the oppression of the Lankan government was minimal, she said the outcome of the visit could well be predicted.
On their return, “the bogus delegation” would submit a report to the Chief Minister.
“They will say that there is a huge problem in the hands of the Lankan government, which is earnestly trying to resettle the displaced persons. They will make a ‘candid admission’ that there are some shortcomings, but that this is to be expected when handling a problem of such massive proportions.’’ The former chief minister said the delegation “will also claim that Rajapaksa had given them a solemn assurance that he would do his best in the least possible time.” She said posterity and the Tamils would never forgive Karunanidhi for his latest act of duplicity.
thanks hemantha.
"The furore over the Sri Lanka Army's High Security Zones (HSZs) in Jaffna orginated this week with a letter sent by its Jaffna commander to the Liberation Tigers, demanding the 'total disarmament' of the movement before Tamil civilians would be allowed back into occupied villages."
exactly my point.
SF was FORCED to exchange letters instead of artillery with the toilets!!
what a disgrace to a soldier!! i don't think no area commander was ever subject to such insults b4 the crap CFA.
our FDLs are our business and there is NO FCUKING reason to justify it to any MF.
...contd.
and WHICH motherfcuker says tamil civilians should be allowed into HSZs?????? or at least discuss the matter with terrorists????
SHAME on them.
there's NOTHING to discuss there, FULLSTOP.
in fact this is THE incident that brought SF to my attention. what not could he have done with a MAN (not a ponnaya or a prostitute) at the top, i thought. so it was 2002. i thought it happened in 2003.
thanks again. is there anyway i can get that letter????
i faintly remember janaka perera's name was also in it????????
ninja, hemantha,
"I think this episode will end by SF leaving the country with a heavy heart and a feeling of a betrayal (this is what I think)"
hopefully it won't happen.
well done!
at last!
from defence.lk
"Ancient settlements unearthed in Jaffna
Archaeological excavations have unearthed remains of ancient human settlements in Vadamarachchi East area, Archaeology Director General, Dr. Senarath Dissanayake said.
"We have found evidence of three old human settlements in these areas. They have spread over an area covering nearly three kilometres and are vitally important to prove the historical background of Jaffna peninsula", he said.
"We have also found clay pots of varied colours depicting the time frame. They will help archaeologists to determine the era of their usage. They are believed to have belonged to the years between the beginning of BC and upto 900 BC. However, we can't say exactly what era these settlements belong to, the Director General said.
"We have already completed the excavation work in Jaffna peninsular. Our findings have pointed to a location identified as Kadurugoda which is known as Kandarodai where we have unearthed remains of a large monastery (Sangawasaya).
Archaeologists believe that Kandarodaya belongs to ironic age and there are sufficient evidence to suggest that these human settlements in Kandarodoi lead to the existence of a very old history in the peninsula", Dr. Dissanayake said. Wallipuram golden scroll provides vital facts to determine the history of Jaffna peninsula. According to archaeologists, this Wachipuram scroll belongs to the 2nd century.
We have also found a provincial palace (Yuwa Maligawa) and its pond belonging to royalty. We also hope to identify the archaeological sites in places such as Mannar, Jaffna and Kilinochchi and establish their identities in the near future, Dr. Dissanayake said."
Moshe,
No Janaka Perera was not involved in this case.
(JP and SF together with their troops saved the Jaffna after the Jayasikuru debacle).
I cannot find the letter. But this is the document he sent with the letter I guess.
click here.
Ranil gov. asked him to make a resettlement plan. Of course he made a plan. but he included few lines which made any resettlement impossible. As I remember he was recalled from jaffna after this and some other incidents.
@ Hemantha
As I remember its in the Mulathiv ceremony SF said SLA's military victory is not to facilitate devolution. (This is a time when India/west advised GSL on devolution, solving ethnic problem etc and MR assured to India he would do so.) SF also said in another ceremony in his hometown that 'decision making was done in ground level under his pre-consent, not in Colombo AC rooms. Thus he targeted both MR and GR.
Its not clear that whether he initiated this or it was his reaction for some action taken by MR/GR against him previously and not known to us.
John F. Kennedy said that victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan. Perhaps, SF concluded that NO1 hero in this military victory is himself and he is not getting what he deserved and attacked MR/GR knowing his popularity in the country.
Some how anti-nationalistic camp quickly smelled this. Then they released their well-planned propaganda via LNW, etc. The success behind any mis-info propaganda is you relate your news to some thing true, then twist it, be the first to say it, and keep saying it.
National media was obviously reluctant to dig in this issue. We were also in the same boat. Its quite natural and easy to disregard such news putting them into 'false propaganda' account. I am pretty sure you, me and any other patriot did the same when you see this for the first time. Some other still do it. We usually think/ accept what's nice for our mind. (Imagining this kind of split, obviously painful for any patriotic mind.)
Its actually you who comment on this here for the first time and its me who told you not become a victim of propaganda of anti-SL nationalistic camp.
LTTE and their di-ass-pora made the same mistake; they became victims of their own propaganda. They rejected any different news from DW/DN etc and they were probably out of true news sources from their side. We are in the same boat now.
Apart from expressing his displeasure I don't see SF actively working on for PE. If he is going to contest independently its not possible to win as long as our people vote for UNP/SLFP basis which is the case and its not going to be changed withing next 6 months. If he joins UNP/ become common candidate then he should be eating a lot of "lanu"s.
There is a difference between you commanding 200,000 men who were trained to take and obey your commands within a clear structure and leading a party/ country under democracy where large number of individuals making decisions, influences, promises within a mess. Hope SF knows this.
And if it is indeed too late as you said then most probable outcome is SF leaving the land what he won.
PS. IF SF indeed wants to win PE he should first get rid of these clowns like PONZY2010 here, as he is oding a big damage to his image. (HIKzz)
Hemantha
If you read Tissa Ravindra Perera's latest book " Avasana Satana" there is another slight twist to this story of SF and resettlemet of civillians in HFZs. SF was asked for a plan by the Ranil Government and he (SF) seems to have deliberately leaked it to the press (its clearly implied by Tissa Ravindra)before RW was to commence an important round of international negotiations. Tissa Ravindra produly admits to his role in it and acknowledges that the public furor caused by the exposure effectively scuttled the resettlement plan. Both SS and SF are great people to have taken such a stand when politicians wanted to appease the LTTE.
Ninja,
Same sentiments here mate. This time we failed miserably.
CASC,
I remember reading a similar thing. While trying to find that I found this 2003 Hindu article by DBS Jeyaraj.
"Maj. Gen. Fonseka submitted a schedule for de-escalation to the Norwegian monitoring mission through the government on December 21. These proposals ruled out effective vacation of the HSZs at this juncture. While two small areas of possible resettlement were identified, the overall concept of dismantling HSZs was linked to decommissioning of arms, particularly artillery and heavy weaponry, by the Tigers whom Fonseka described as "terrorists". This proposal infuriated the LTTE. Adding to the chagrin of the Tigers was the public comment made by the head of the Norwegian monitoring mission, Trond Furuhovde, on Fonseka's proposals. He seemed to approve of Fonseka's concern over security.
This in turn provoked a harsh rejoinder from the LTTE, which reprimanded both Fonseka and Furuhovde. On the other hand, President Chandrika Kumaratunga agreed with Fonseka's position on HSZs. In an exceptional gesture, the Army chief, Gen. Lionel Balagalle, also went public defending the Army's position. While many Sinhala Opposition parties and organisations publicly supported Fonseka's stance, the LTTE, the Tamil parties and the media launched a frenzied campaign against it. The United National Front government was caught in the crossfire."
click here.
You see here, Lional Balagalla was the Army Commander. But SF was leading the resistance.
thanks hemantha. very informative.
casc,
SF was asked to dig SL's grave (in the "national front". 53/55 digvs) by the then govt.
after all he and JCP did to,
1. liberate it (1995)
2. defend it (2000)
3. expand it again (2001)
is .....UNTHINKABLE.
SF did the BEST in given circumstances.
the timing of the letter was also important.
"Kumaratunga agreed with Fonseka's position on HSZs. In an exceptional gesture, the Army chief, Gen. Lionel Balagalle, also went public defending the Army's position."
IF it was RW, he would have changed the jaffna commander and redone the report.
anyway, asking the army to consider HOW to dig their own grave, is enough insult to those who won it and defended it with life.
there should be a mechanism to stop politicos from entertaiing terrorist wet dreams in future.
Moshe,
"IF it was RW, he would have changed the jaffna commander and redone the report."
They removed SF from jaffna soon after these incidents (I do not know by whome). But by that time he was able to screw all their plans.
There is no smoke without fire.
http://www.island.lk/2009/10/15/news2.html
Or sh*t without fa*t.
Mewata thamai kiyanne "Padey wedilla karanna apaa".
hemantha,
he screwed them in style. he did the right thing by doing the report. if he had refused, rulers would have used another to do it and it won't be so brave.
i can only imagine LTTE's anger when SF was appointed the army commander!!
even after he was seriously injured he came back. i dont think some others would do so.
outstandin!
but MR put SF to the best use and fought off all the obstacles, political, diplomatic, economic, etc. making SF's task possible.
Patriots,
Politicians did not win the war by sitting in Colombo or sending their sons to England.
Our great general who was on the front-line for 90% of the duration of the war motivated our great heroes to march forward despite the bad weather and all other international challenges.
Please do not believe or spread rumours about General Sarath Fonseka contesting as "common candidate" along with treacherous elements that sold our motherland to white masters.
General Fonseka will contest as people's candidate. Logistical work for this is enormous. We are working day and night to ensure the correct structure is in place to engage with the people of this country and also enhance the general's security.
Once everything is in place, by January 2010, General Fonseka will release official statement. Until then, please do not expect to hear anything from him.
What happened to the helicopters that Velupille Pirabakaran was supposed to own?????
Were they discovered? Were they destroyed? Or have they not been found yet?
This raises the question whether Pirabakaran might have escaped, even though KP was captured. He wouldn't want anybody else to know would he?
Patriots,
Eelamist scum DBSJeyaraj has started spreading his usual lies.
In his latest Twitter posting, he says:
Sarath Fonseka will leave for USA before November. He wont aske for extension in December.Ex- army chief will plan his next move from US.
Please lodge your protest with this peaceful Eelamist who lives on our money by writing in Colombo papers.
Fonseka2010 the LTTE terrorist,
You are nothing more than a terrorist. In the past, you have appeared here as
ArmyLK
Buddha
nangige huththa
Lion Flu
පරන්ගි
Fonseka 2010
Fake Sam Perera
Fake Asithri
Nangige Bandiya
Thapal Bandiya
insulting everything from our soldiers to Buddhism. appearing here with various fake names is an indication that you are just a subhuman refuse terrorist who want to create suspicion and disunity among patriots. Your day will come soon to join Thalaivar in Eelam.
This is a special for the terrorist Fonseka2010 from Sec. Rajapakse.
All,
I was really busy and just had a time to drop in.
Re: Apology
Thusitha, Mate pls accept my apology for the kinda words I used. It wasn't done with anger, but I felt that I shud be using such at that point. But looking back at it now, I regret doing so.
I wouldn't agree with you in many things, but certainly will agree on some. Nevertheless I don't want to continue that debate.
This post is more about future than past.
Re: Comparing SF and MR
Let's pls agree that both MR and SF are valuable gems to us. And let's not do petty calculations of whom is worth than the other. I see that it can be debated either way for the value of one over the other. Let's stop doing it for reasons obvious and accpect they both have done an emmense contribution for our nation.
Re: MR vs SF [if any]
I really dunno whether there is a true happening, but more than enough evidence to say there is one. Yet MR as Prez is still keeping SF as CDS. It will be decisive in December.
In the worst case let them fight it gracefully and let's not take sides and disgrace either. Leave the fight for them.
Re: SF into politics
Very little chance. SF, if kicked out by MR, will leave SL. So do not rape him for your imaginary possibilities of him coming for elections. Just saw that GR also refused claims on his political future
Re: Defaming SF
Will tell this. Imagine SF reads these blog comments [I seriously doubt in reality]. And pls write only what will make our general happy, not the imaginary accusations that makes our hero unhappy. Keep it as a measure for what to write. [And of course i don;t think he reads us]
Re: What we should do
STOP defaming SF/MR. We can take up the discussion on happenings. But let's pls stop any actions that cause them any insult. Let;s not compare them. Let's not imagine unknown defects and faults by them.
This applied to all.
Re: Media having fired day on issue
Let's not blame SF or MR on this. Let's target the media, including our own PonnaSeka_2010 MF.
Cheers
Tamil Nadu MP's impression on welfare camps inconsistent- UNP
UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe who met the visiting Tamil Nadu delegation today said that their impression on the status of the displaced people is inconsistent. The UNP leader said the delegation had refused to comment on reports that they had given a positive picture on the IDP camp situation. (YP)
People have given an ominous warning to the govt. – Wimal
October 15, 2009 01:46 pm
NFF leader Wimal Weerawansa today addressing a press conference said that the masses have given an ominous warning to the government at the recently concluded Southern Provincial Council Elections. He added that it was evident that there were shortcomings in the path that the government has taken.
Wimal explained that the decision to appointment Shan Vijeyala as the Chief Minister of the Southern Provincial Council shows that the government too has understood the warning given by the people.
When queried about the common opposition presidential candidate Wimal stated that General Sarath Fonseka is not foolish to make such a decision.
Neat work Indonesia. Way to go.
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Lankan asylum seekers’ suicide threat passes...
October 15, 2009
The Indonesian navy says 260 Sri Lankans on board a boat in West Java are no longer able to blow themselves up as they had earlier threatened.
Yesterday a man from the group named Alex said they had threatened to blow themselves up if they were forced ashore, but Indonesian navy Colonel Irawan said today the group was no longer threatening suicide.
He said the group now had no explosives aboard after their gas stoves and diesel fuels were confiscated.
The navy says it is carefully negotiating with the Sri Lankans, saying human rights are the first priority and talks would progress one day at a time.
The boat was intercepted by the Indonesian navy on Sunday after a tip-off from Australian authorities and a call from Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to Indonesia’s President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
An Indonesian navy spokesman, First Marshal Iskander Sitompul, told the ABC that many of the 260 men, women and children aboard the boat moored at a West Java port feel traumatic about going ashore because they have been “disturbed and tortured” during their journey from Sri Lanka, which began in late July.
He says they lived in the jungle in Malaysiafor several months before a people-smuggling syndicate took their passports and promised to deliver them to Australia.
A hand-painted sign is tied to the top of the cargo boat’s cabin saying “We are Sri Lankan civilians, please save our lives’“.
The head of the Immigration Division of the Law and Human Rights office, Harry Purwanto, has told the ABC he is in Sumatrasurveying a new immigration detention centre - built with Australian aid - as a possible location for the asylum seekers.
EXCLUSIVE: I have “no intention whatsoever” to enter politics - Gotabaya
[Ada Derana]
October 15, 2009 10:11 am
Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa in an exclusive interview with Ada Derana rejected the recent media claims that he will contest upcoming elections from the Kuruneagala District. He added that he has no intention whatsoever to enter politics.
The Defence Secretary who is also the brother of Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa explained that the mandate given by the people was the difficult task of eradicating terrorism from Sri Lankan soil and that it was accomplished.
He stated that the only goal he wishes to achieve now is to initiate a sustainable rehabilitation programme for the disables soldiers. He furthered that he did not pursue any task with narrow political aims.
Patriots,
Gothabaya has taken a cheap shot at our great general by saying, "I did not pursue any task with narrow political aims."
http://www.adaderana.lk/news.php?nid=5666
He doesn't even have to contest any elections. His brother can make him a minister at whim.
Our General would not have stood and fought at the front line if he was leading the war for his own benefit.
Unlike the Rajapaksa family, he only thought about our country, not his brothers or cousins.
General Sarath Fonseka is needed as president to put the entire country in order.
Era of qualified professionals having to pay commission for jobs that there are entitled to, era of government servants doing ghost hours and era of police harassment will only end when Gen. Fonseka takes oath as President of the Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka.
Kevin,
Sir, the locations of our Heroes Day celebrations will be published very soon. If you wish to attend these please pick up a leaflet from the many Eelam grocery shops in and around London. We welcome participants from all walks of life to attend the holy event, you are more than welcome to attend dear sir, your humble and generous contributions to the welfare of the families of fallen cadres will be greatly appreciated and you will get an Eelam logo embossed tie pin as recognition.
Selva
Thanks! We have been to these shops.
Kevin,
Sir, there is no need to take that condescending tone with me. I have never insulted you, I am not the one to character assasinate. We are of the same generation, let us talk as equals. There were days in the late 60s when we would hit the bars and nightclubs in Colombo together with the likes of you, we had Singhala boys, Tamil boys, Muslims boys and Burgher girls in our click, we had no differences then, this was when we were Ceylon citizens. But gradually, leaders from your party took away our rights, our mandate for independence in the 70s was crushed and the early 80s, let's not even go there. Your government led by Mahendra Percival isn't doing anything to appease our concerns, thats why we are committed to the liberation struggle, you and I were brothers-in-arms once, now we are more like distant cousins by marriage.
Sujeewa Kokawala said...
EXCLUSIVE: I have “no intention whatsoever” to enter politics - Gotabaya
Sujeewa,
Thanks for posting. Here is a quiet hero. A true sign of greatness. He needs no false admirers to build up his ego. He does his duty for the sake of duty to his country and people. He controls one the biggest parts of the Sri Lanka Gov budget but makes no personal gains with the public's money. He is a shy and a private man by nature who avoids the limelight. He is the ultimate hero
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwYoGKZ8TqY
During his stay in the USA, he lived in Southern California for 16 years. This is what my relative said about him:
"HAVE BEEN AT MANY PARTIES WHEN HE WAS HERE. ITS AMAZING BUT HE WAS VERY QUIET AND TIMID. JUST STAYED IN A CORNER AND DID NOT GET INTO THE LAUGHTER OR ARGUMENTS. PEOPLE SIMPLY IGNORED HIM. NOW EVERYBODY WANTS TO MEET HIM."
Gen. Fonseka's phones tapped
http://www.lankaenews.com/English/news.php?id=8495
Selva,
Not sure if you noticed. The title of this website is Defencewire and we are far removed from events honouring so called LTTE heroes.
You seem to be lost in a time warp going back half a century. The country has changed for the better since those so called idyllic times when people who formed the majority of the population were discriminated against and denied access to government jobs.
Today, the majority of people in the Colombo municipal limits and many other major urban areas are not Sinhalese, and yet they live peacefully among their Sinhalese bretheren. In fact, I myself have relatives who are Sinhalese, Tamil, and Burger, and who come from Buddhist, Christian and Hindu religious backgrounds. This runs contrary to the racist Nazi ideology preached by diaspora Tamils who want a racially pure mythical state.
It was the Vellala hegemony, manifested through the old political order that gave rise to the urchin from Velvetiturai. He in turn destroyed the great Tamil civilization of Sri Lanka, which all people of Sri Lanka are heirs to.
Please go honour your Queen and country in your new land, and leave the people of Sri Lanka to their own business.
Asylum seekers en route to Australia declare hunger strike
Big Mac Time
Aren't Italians Smart.
Italy denies report it 'paid off' Taliban to protect its troops
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The French public was horrified, because the men had been mutilated, it added. "They were not informed that the departing Italians had kept the region relatively peaceful by paying local Taliban fighters to remain inactive."
Secretary Defence unveils 'Ranweta' at Gatambe Temple
The Maha Sanghe including Most Ven. Panditha Udugama Buddharakkitha, Maha Nayake of the Asgiriya Cahpter of the Siyam Nikaya, Ven. Niyangode Vijithasiri, Anu Nayake Thero, Malwatta Chapter, Siamese Nikaya, Rev. Mahanuwara, Chandananda Thero, Former Vice - Chancellor Bhikku University, Anuradhapura, Dr. Ven. Godagama Mangala Nayake Thero, Senior Committee member, Asgiriya Chapter Ven. Gallalle Saddhatissa, Senior Committee member, Asgiriya Chapter and ..........Mrs. Anoma Rajapakse, Chairperson Seva Vanitha Unit, Ministry of Defence participated at the occasion.
http://www.defence.lk/new.asp?fname=20091015_06
thusitha,
the comments are even more exciting.
....
there would be no surprise, if any of this asylum group will ask for separate part of land in Australia to make their own country like Tamil tigers in shri lanka.
I am so fed up with this emotional blackmail crap from these people. We do not want you here and I have no desire to have you living next door to me. Life is hard, deal with it.
I wonder whether it was the parents or the media who coached this nine-year-old girl. I have four girls and the youngest is ten. They do not speak like this, unless coached especially when it is their second language. If this mob land in Australia, all future boats will carry a cute, coached nine year old English-speaking girl. In fact they will be quite valuable. Australians need to wake up and realise that these economic refugees are smarter than they are.
The Australian Government should not be held ransom by these illegal immigrants threatening to starve themselves. They are not true refugees, they are SELECTIVE in where they choose to migrate to. Instead of claiming asylum in one of the MANY countries they stop at on the way to Australia, they keep on travelling to a Australia because they are aware of our welfare system and all the benefits they will receive courtesy of the AUSTRALIAN TAXPAYERS. WHAT A JOKE.
I will go to Sri Lanka, enter the Country Illegally and then go on a Hunger Strike.. I wonder what the Sri Lankan Government would do then??
"Please save our lives".... they put their own lives in danger when they set off on a dangerous old boat.
I didn't think Indoesian food was that bad.
Regarding the comment: What is the Sri Lankan Government doing to rescue it's citizens from this mess? -------------------------------------- Sri Lankan government is happy that the Tigers aren't their problem any more. Good luck Australia.
Sri Lankan? What's so bad about that? 30% of our students are overseas students (many from India) and our call centres go there now. Perhaps we should send the boat to India where they can get a job as a telemarketer? One government towed the boat back out to sea and left them there. Not a bad idea wot?
...contd.
time for harsher punishment why not start with this lot im sick of paying tax for these people to get let into this country and get free pay TV in there camps
Our country is screwed now, so many coming every year and there's not much that can be done to keep a lot of them out, not to mention we can't even support a lot of them. We can't even support our own country's' jobs at the moment.
hunger strike? LOL give me a break, i DARE them all to go on a hunger strike, see if i give a crap if they don't eat.
NO!
So they can stay on the boat for months as they say. So the owner of the boat that charged them huge money in the first place to make the trip, is he/she happy to stay for months as well.
Any attempt to blackmail a country into taking these economic illegal immigrants should be resisted at all costs. In one instant they threaten to blow up the vessel (perhaps an indication of terrorists on board) and now a hunger strike in an attempt to get their own way. If they are so keen to listen to people in say Canada, then let them go to Canada or try to get there so they are off our radar.
the asylum seekers were using mobile phones to talk to relatives in countries like Canada who were telling them not to leave the boat under any circumstances... What shall I say more about this?! News changed everyday from "blow up the boat" to "a girl plea in tears" to "hunger strike"...What's next?
"The group's spokesman, Alex, said all 222 men and women on board the rickety cargo boat would refuse food until a Western country, such as Australia, promised to resettle them" - well this just shows these people actually believe we OWE them something. We owe them nothing and if Rudd underhandedly makes a deal with these stand over merchants to secretly allow them into Australia in a few months we should ensure he is tossed out on his a%@e at the next election.
Isn't Indonesia an "international country"? These people aren't Asylum Seekers, they are Asylum Shoppers.
tamil illegal immigrants was the biggest security problem SL had from 1948-1983.
from tamil madu to SL - 15 km
now they are in their second leg of the journey.
from SL to australia - 2000 km
CASC and Sujeewa
We are delighted to read this.
‘ Here is a quiet hero. A true sign of greatness. He needs no false admirers to build up his ego. He does his duty for the sake of duty to his country and people. He controls one the biggest parts of the Sri Lanka Gov budget but makes no personal gains with the public's money. He is a shy and a private man by nature who avoids the limelight. He is the ultimate hero’
I always admired his attire which is a sincere reflection of his honest personality but I can’t say the same for others. I think GR and SF together could get us out of our present difficulties provided that the others will support them or not oppose them.
"our mandate for independence in the 70s was crushed and the early 80s, let's not even go there. Your government led by Mahendra Percival isn't doing anything to appease our concerns,"
isn't the reason there too????
the SUNJECT MATTER of this "mandate for independance", "struggle", "aspirations", "grievences", etc. is the LAND OF NORTH-EAST.
once the subjet matter is subjugated, there is no "struggle". the virgin has been made pregnant, no point going after this GF.
that is the latest battle which will be achieved peacefully using ethnic harmoney and ethnic integration - 2 very powerful things tamil elamists fear most. IF REQUIRED a little bit f force may also be used and there is NOTHING tamil elamists can do about it.
BUT we have to accept that there are tamil elamists in our society.
there is nothing wrong with them. they are entitled to their opinions.
but if they do anything to achieve that in SL, then law must handle that. if they use violence......then violence should be used to respond to them.
aren't we ready for that!
i agree that GR is the real hero. hope GR will develop his PR skills! may be his reserved behaviour has led to the lack of PR skills????
but his WIT has been outstanding. kroucher had to lick his wounds after GR's verbal 'abuse'!!
GR reversed AUTISM FERNANDO'S bullshit at the MOD. GR had to defend the MIG purchase which was totally unnecessary but mongal used it to discredit GR. (but as always it fcuked mongal's arse!!)
he SINGLEHANDEDLY handled the war at its MOST difficult time.
i.e. when SF the great general was seriously wounded for weeks due to a BARBARIAN attack.
the mavil-aru thing was GR's thinking. bombing LTTE positions in TRINCO was GR's idea as well IMMEDIATELY following the attack on SF. trinco seperated EAST from the NORTH and lakshman kadirgamar tried to 'die' over the deteriorating security situ of trinco.
what a journey it had been since then??
well begun is half done.
during the last phase of the war, our great general travelled to india for vital work and GR was co-ordinating a great deal of work.
for the first time in history defence.lk even with very poor english managed to beat toiletnet in the media war thanks to GR's guidance. it even beat many news sites along the way.
enough said.
(OK GR, at least now stop returning my emails!!! forgive me if i had BSed b4! don't be so proud, if that is the reason. lol!)
Good point KB. This one hell of asylum seekers to be able to afford satellite phones. I hope that Indonesian Navy will filter out innocent and children while sending the terrorists to Davy Jones' locker.
Kevin,
The man is completely unpretentious. He has a sense of righteous indignation that comes out when he gets aroused. Three weeks ago a family member went to see him speak at some local social. There were about twenty people in the room. When the event was almost over someone noticed a rather inconspicuous looking woman in a corner of the room. She did not say a word and the crowd basically ignored her. It seems his wife is equally a private person.
There is another aspect of him that shows his intellectual side. Its very difficult for career army officers with the type of skills that they acquire in the military (there are a few who have made it to the corporate boardrooms) to bring their skills into the civilian world, and in a foreign country too. After twenty years in the army, he goes to Sri Jayawardenapura University and does a post graduate degree in Computer Science, emmigrates to the USA, and works as a network administrator at a major university in California. Wow ! That too is an impressive feat.
The country is blessed to have such a man in a position of authority.
Moshey,
The names are very funny. The diaspora is going to eelamize the major cities of the world. We need to encourage them to continue along that path.
Future wars
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/10/general-iraqs-robot-lack-killed-122-gis/
Fonseka will have slow death by his employers; it's karma, folks, after that, KR, then MR.
Fonseka won't be alive to eat his own cake- results of his election campaign from the upcoming election- just as JP met his end.
Bhairav the terrorist,
Yes Fonseka 2010 is enjoying his last days. His boss, who payed him to engage in bogus acts, will face the same fate as Fonseka2010.
This Bhiarav is the same as Fonseka 2010.
As has been pointed out, this Foneseka 2010 is none other than a LTTE wesa-pundey. His aim is to create a hostile environment within the patriotic SL clan in CMB...and thereby enable the crumbling of it, to usher in the pro-LTTE RW UNP regime.
We can expect many more, with many different names to come here I am sure.
Just need to be wary of these bastards/bitches....fucking sakkili whores...stateless ugly humans...even the Australians are now scared of these buggers contaminating their various stable races in Australia.
I am told Australians are scared that these monkeys might genetically contaminate the Aborigine population there, giving rise to some hideous looking, violent Aborigines!
Bhiarav. ennoda poola oombuda kandaara oli …. ommala okka…hehehe
[adelaide - adiladd'ukulam]
Moshe, old boy, may be they should name it Adelekulam for that dried up terrorist hag Adele Balasingham.
[sydney - cheddik'kulam]
I certainly hope they will leave the great city of Sydney alone. Imagine the Eelamoids stinking up the place, so decent people will not be able to visit it to enjoy it's many delights.
Cheers!
Sam, dear chap, may be Indonesian navy should bait them with Big Macs. Leave some Big Mac's laced with cyanide on the dock.
Cheers!
In response to Eelam Tamizaha's trying to eelamize the great cities of the world, a patriotic Sinhalese lady is doing her part for Sri Lanka in the UK.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ggs3o3xJhwo
Defence analysts watching Sri Lanka are eager to learn more about the grand showdown between the Rajapaksha clan and Gen Fonseka. Their clash is expected to be nothing less than spectacular. Millions of dollars worth underhand deals were made by the Rajapakshas and Fonseka kept these secret although he protested privately. Relationship between Fonseka and Gotabaya has reached a new low according to close military sources. Gotabaya ordered MI officers to tap Gen Fonseka’s phone. However, the officers secretly told Gen Fonseka about their plan and he quickly took defensive action.
Fonseka’s life has been made miserable by the shrewd Rajapaksha clan knowing very well that he has political ambitions and mass support. Information is being uncovered about a secret plan to assassinate Fonseka in Singapore in 2006. Fonseka has told a very reliable source that he feels like an outsider in his own country. He had further confided that he is now convinced he should contest the forthcoming Presidential election alone. His supporters have proposed “Mathrubumi Pakshaya” (Motherland Party) as the name for his party. Already many JHU members have endorsed Fonseka’s candidacy. Powerful Buddhist clergy are likely to desert the Rajapakshas in favour of the General. All is underway to register this party while Rajapakshas will do everything under their power to stop or delay its registration.
Rajapaksha clan with its shrewd political thinking and Fonseka with his straightforwardness are likely to entertain Sri Lanka watchers with vital information about possible abuses of power, war crimes, civilian massacres and even acts of genocide. A clash of historical significance between two Sinhala nationalists will once again open doors for peace and reconciliation after almost six years of warmongering.
What would be Gotabaya’s next move to elevate his brother against his former teammate? Only time will tell. Nevertheless the next two months will be very interesting.
MIA
CASC said...
[ Selva,
Not sure if you noticed. The title of this website is Defencewire and we are far removed from events honouring so called LTTE heroes.
You seem to be lost in a time warp going back half a century. The country has changed for the better since those so called idyllic times when people who formed the majority of the population were discriminated against and denied access to government jobs.
Today, the majority of people in the Colombo municipal limits and many other major urban areas are not Sinhalese, and yet they live peacefully among their Sinhalese bretheren. In fact, I myself have relatives who are Sinhalese, Tamil, and Burger, and who come from Buddhist, Christian and Hindu religious backgrounds. This runs contrary to the racist Nazi ideology preached by diaspora Tamils who want a racially pure mythical state.
It was the Vellala hegemony, manifested through the old political order that gave rise to the urchin from Velvetiturai. He in turn destroyed the great Tamil civilization of Sri Lanka, which all people of Sri Lanka are heirs to.
Please go honour your Queen and country in your new land, and leave the people of Sri Lanka to their own business.]
CASC,
Well said! I could not agree with you more!
Let these assorted racists, masquerading as permanent victims, who want to slice and dice the constituent communities of Sri Lanka by race, religion, caste and sex go abroad and harrass someone else, and leave our resplendent motherland to be inhabited by those who love LANKA and ALL of its people EQUALLY.
aanduwe eelanga piyawara kumak wei da?
apage hitapu yuda hamudaapathi ge aarakshaka batayan iwath karai da nethinam ohuwa niwaasa adassiyata path karai da?
prashne godin beragaththa nang ratata hodai!
patriots,
i have shown with FACTS and FIGURES how the sakkili put words into the mouth of bloody blake. within a few days from that, he opens his arse mouth and puts out what was put in.
now ranil the ponnaya is doing the same thing. nothing new. but see the impact!!
On IDPs’ distress, extra judicial killings,
arbitrary arrests and lack of press freedom
Ranil sends envoy to brief Navanetham and Antonio Guterress
"Wickremesinghe states that Dr. Jayawardana would on his behalf present them with the latest developments including the pathetic situation of the IDPs, extra judicial killings, arbitrary assets and suppression of the media in Sri Lanka. Dr. Jayawardana will be in Geneva from October 21 to 24 and in London from October 26 to 30."
this happened on 13 october 2009. within 3 days....
Colombo ducking international investigations on civilian killings - UN Rights Chief
should we not punish MORE sakkiliyas like we did to pissa-nai-gon???
of course we should. doing it legally makes it much more EFFECTIVE and CLEAN.
implement the DRASTIC provisions on ponga tamil speakers NOW.
round up as many as possible leaving behind buggers like rajitha for the time being.
and confiscate their property too.
hunt down all sakkiliyas behind the CFA and punish them the MAX. it is legal and apart from a few shouting idiots there is nothing much anyone can do.
Moshe Dyan said...
thusitha,
the comments are even more exciting.
Regarding the comment: What is the Sri Lankan Government doing to rescue it's citizens from this mess? -------------------------------------- Sri Lankan government is happy that the Tigers aren't their problem any more. Good luck Australia.
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Hehe. That was me trying to stir the Aussie crowd early in the morning. Hehe.
But one thing, which is very clear form the comments is that Australians aren't a gullible lot like British or Canadians. They are a tough bunch and would not sympathise easily with people who try to emotionally blackmail a nation.
This is something I saw even in demonstrations. The Sydney police would not allow people to pull stunts like they do in Canada or U.K.
Revival of Yodhaveva region Inspirational.
How many great humans sacrificed their lives to make this happen. I hope their great spirits remains in the revival.
Notably missing topic, is ethic integration.
Patriots,
There is no use comparing GR with Gen. Fonseka.
One is a retired Lt. Col. who ran away to white land when the heat of the battle got too much for him.
The other is our first ever four star serving general and the greatest war hero this country has ever seen. He didn't run from terrorists. He fought and defeated them.
So, please, lets stop this nonsensical comparisons between the greatest General and a Lt. Col. who retired during the heat of the battle.
Winners and losers
http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14649114&fsrc=rss
I have added again defencewire blogspot as a bookmark which was removed few moths ago.
This Fonseka2010 is in facebook. Pls report him for using fake profile & stop him. The creator is Fonseka2020
Patriots,
We would like to thank the more than 2, 500 of you who have signed up on Facebook to show your support for our next President Gen. Fonseka.
Given the short time we have been active, this is a remarkable achievement.
Please see this:
http://twitpic.com/lppgw
actual 430 is way below 2500 as claimed by f2010
Gents,
My father worked in the Ceylon Civil Service, there was no discrimination againts Singhalas there, he had to sit the Civil Service entrance examinations just like everyone else, no preferential treatment given to anyone. Granted the businesses in the day were dominated by Tamils, but this had no nothing to do with race, the Tamil are and always been an enterprising and highly educated group, hence they got the top jobs.
Please keep an eye out for upcoming Heroes Day events, contribute generously to the Eelam fund and light a candle of sacrifice to the fallen cadres, they shall never be forgotten!
All the cricket fans, we would like to tank you for your continued support:
http://www.slcricket.com/index.php?topic=24904.0
Mr Perera,
Sir, I have not insulted or wished death upon you, I will never do that to a person regardless of whether he is a Ceylon citizen or Eelam citizen, all men were created equal.
Please kindly point out where the blatant lies are.
1) Civil Service entrance examinations were the norm ever since the British ruled Ceylon and introduced the Civil Service along with sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health. As far as I know the civil service entrance process hasn't changed a bit since the British left.
2) It is a fact that the current top businessmen in Sri Lanka are Tamils and Muslims (who are ethnically Tamil albeit with a different religion).
Selva,
"Muslims (who are ethnically Tamil albeit with a different religion)"
Take these two cents and buy a few clues before cooking up BS.
Mr Perera,
Sir, you are avoiding my questions, I asked you to point out the blatant lies but you are offering me two cents which are no longer in circulation.
Selva,
How did you know that he is your father? from your mother??
[Tamil are and always been an enterprising and highly educated group,]
For an example see how tamilnadu politicians taking the people of tamilmadu for a ride all the time.
Mr B#1,
I have never compared Eezham Tamils to Thamizh Nadu Tamils, you are the one making the comparison.
Selva the terrorist,
I in fact don't give a lot about what terrorist like you think. However, I am concerned about casual readers getting mislead by the terrorists.
And I have never insulted your parentage either, please don't use that type of language, please learn some manners, your language shows your upbringing.
ANC activists were once called "Terrorists", look where they are now, they are ruling the richest and most developed country in Africa. It is Eelam's turn next.
Selva the little terrorist monkey,
Stop blatant lies. Your jokes are not funny at all. Be prepared to listned to Thalaivar's speech in Eelam.
Selva,
Please do as you like in Eelam. However, you will never get an inch from Sri Lanka.
Patriots,
Please read Lanka Irida for full details of plans by the Rajapaksa Family to character assassinate our greatest General Sarath Fonseka.
Suddenly this place have been invaded by monkeys, hope DW, DN, Special Force Guy and vihulu EFT can shed some light?
Selva said, "LTTE activists were once called "Terrorists", look where they are now,"
Selva,
I cant understand this. Can you be little bit more certain?
The New-Face of LTTE Eelamist Propaganda: Use the EXODUS MOVIE strategy for propanda, claiming they cannot SURVIVE, and will be KILLED, in Sri Lanka!
Will the WORLD remember that it was the LTTE .. THEIR OWN PEOPLE .. who enslaved, tortured and killed the Tamil people, and that it was the Sri Lankan government who rescued them?
I think the BLEEDING HEARTS will fall for it, but Australian Govt will buy it only AS LONG AS THEY CAN SOLVE THE PROBLEM at SRI LANKA'S EXPENSE, BUT NOT AT THEIR OWN.
Many among these refugees are LTTE fighters, and include war-wounded LTTE cadre.
The Australian Govt KNOWS THAT, and it doesn't want them. They are TIRED of being CONNED.
Consequently, they fending them off, and paying the Indonesians to deal with it. Australia has also sent a team to Sri Lanka to try to get SL to deal with it at the SOURCE!
The LTTE will keep on playing victim, and is tugging at the heart strings .. and many Australians are falling for it!
It will be interesting to see whether Australia will be able to cope with this blackmail and will CAVE IN!
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Boat-bound Tamils plead for asylum
Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
Date: 15 Oct 2009
By Indonesia correspondent Geoff Thompson for AM
Almost 260 Sri Lankans aboard a boat moored in Western Java have made a desperate plea to Australia and other countries to consider their bids for asylum, saying returning to Sri Lanka is no longer an option for Tamils who wish to survive.
The group was intercepted in Indonesian waters on the weekend after a phone call from Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
Last night, journalists were allowed to board the vessel and speak to the asylum seekers, who are refusing to leave.
Boat-bound Tamils plead for asylum
....continued...
A gangplank creaks as journalists cross from an Indonesian Navy frigate to the 30-metre wooden cargo boat moored alongside it to view for the first time, all together and close-up, a mass of 255 faces drawn with fatigue, fear, hope and disappointment.
Huddled skin to skin they looked up knowing this may be their only real moment in the international spotlight, on which their plea for extraordinary attention would live or die.
As babies and young children slept on the boat's top deck, the fluent English of a young bearded man calling himself Alex was put forward as their best chance of being understood.
"There are people in the camps right now being murdered even today as we speak, as we are sitting comfortably on this boat in the shores of Indonesia, there are still Tamil people in Sri Lanka who are dying every day," Alex said.
"This is why most of these people here have fled from genocide in Sri Lanka and trying to find a future somewhere else.
"First of all I would like to say thank you to Mr Kevin Rudd because he has accepted many refugees in the past, and those refugees can be any one of our brothers or sisters who have found refuge and found safety in Australia.
"And we are thankful to him, but the other thing we would like to tell Mr Rudd is the fact that there are still many more Sri Lankans who need help.
"For you to share intelligence and make sure that this boat does not reach Australian waters - it was very difficult for us to accept because we came until the last point believing that Australia will accept us into their country."
But these asylum seekers are now Indonesia's problem, to be dealt with by organisations such as the International Organisation for Migration - which enjoys Australian funding - and Indonesian authorities seeking solutions which may rely on detention centres built with Australian money.
But for now these Tamils are determined not to leave their boat and have threatened self-harm if forced.
"Ask yourselves one question, if you had no home to go to, if you had no country to live in, if you had no place to go, if you had no country of your own - what would you do and how long would you stay in a boat before you were promised to enter a country that will give you asylum?" Alex said.
"How long will you go? How desperate will you be? Take a look at the picture today, look at my people, we're not only suffering back home, we're suffering here.
"We have no choice, we have no country to go back to, we cannot go back to Sri Lanka."
But Australia was not the first and certain choice for these asylum seekers - simply the cheapest and easiest place to get to, even if it means living in a Malaysian jungle for a month. Something even nine-year-old Brindha understands.
"Please help us and save our lives, we are your children. Please think of us, please, please," she said.
"We have lived in a forest for one month. Please sir, please take us to a country, it's OK if it is not Australia, it's better, if any other country takes us, we can't live in Sri Lanka."
The Tamils are fleeing because no one will ease their plight
BRUCE HAIGH- The Age
Kevin Rudd has prevented 255 Sri Lankan asylum seekers coming to Australia from Indonesia. The asylum seekers were already at sea when the Prime Minister put in an urgent call to Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono requesting that the Indonesian Navy intercept the vessel and escort it back to Indonesia.
The people on the vessel are ethnic Tamils, a group suffering at the hands of the majority Sinhalese following the defeat of Tamil resistance in a civil war that has waxed and waned tragically for the past 26 years.
About 300,000 Tamils are being held in camps controlled by the Sri Lankan Army under the most appalling conditions, including a shortage of food, medical supplies and adequate shelter. The old and very young are dying at the rate of several hundred a month. Who would not want to escape, particularly as conditions are set to deteriorate with the onset of the monsoon season? This weather will also affect the ability of boats to undertake the voyage, so the pressure is on to complete the journey soon.
British Foreign Secretary David Miliband admitted to the House of Commons on October 13 that the British Government was aware that the extrajudicial killing of Tamils has taken place. Others claim that it is continuing inside and outside of the camps.
Australia has not sought humanitarian assistance for Tamils detained in the camps. The Sri Lankan Government has denied access to international aid organisations whose protests against this, and the conditions inside the camps, has been muted. The international media has also been denied access so that their witness will not generate criticism.
Bob Birrell, of Monash University, says that the Tamils should wait to be processed by the UN's refugee agency, but it is not allowed access to the camps. If placed in the same situation, would he patiently wait to suffer illness and possibly die?
Australia has not sought access to the camps to process refugee claimants, which in any case is a process fraught with difficulty when conducted under the eyes of the military. In light of its own complacency and compliance, Australia can hardly complain when desperate people take matters into their own hands.
tbc..
..continued..
When it comes to criticism, we have seen how thin-skinned Kevin Rudd is. Does this stem from a lack of confidence or courage? There is no way Rudd is going to lose the next election, so why does he let the Opposition get away with the wedge on refugees? The issue is not an election winner or spoiler for either major party. Why can't he get out on the front foot and put the facts relating to refugees fairly and squarely to the Australian people?
The Opposition has no coherent, compassionate or long-term policy with regard to the processing of desperate people and has indicated that it is still prepared to play with the lives of those most in need of protection. It does them no credit.
Most people arriving by boat are found to be refugees after due process. Illegal immigrants arriving by plane run into the tens of thousands each year, maybe 50,000. Some pay large sums of money for illegal visas, some stay after arriving on valid visas. In addition, refugees are being demonised in the face of some dreadful and corrupt student visa practices.
Rudd was quite right to castigate the egregious former immigration minister Philip Ruddock for seeking to claim that the Howard government had ''success'' with respect to refugee policy. But if Rudd is to claim any sort of genuine humanitarian success, rather than narrow and cruel political success, he will need to ensure that he quickly processes those that he has sent back to Indonesia.
It is untrue to claim, that the slightly more humane approach of the Rudd Government has led to an increase in refugees seeking to come to Australia by boat. There has been a worldwide increase in the number of people seeking refugee protection. A deterioration in security in Sri Lanka for Tamils and in Afghanistan have pushed people towards the safe haven of Australia.
Make no mistake - sending these people back to Indonesia is to condemn them to a debilitating existence on top of the effect and memory of the horrors they sought to escape. They will be warehoused in Indonesia, a country that is not a signatory to the UN Convention on Refugees, for up to 10 years under conditions that will lead most to suffer mental deterioration.
Bruce Haigh is a political commentator and retired diplomat who served in Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia and South Africa. He has dealt with the issue of refugees since 1972 and is a former member of the Refugee Review Tribunal.
No rift between Fonseka and the Government- Army Spokesman
The Military today said that there was no rift between former Army Commander and current Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) Sarath Fonseka and the government and speculation to that effect is baseless and misleading.
In a statement posted on the website of the Media Centre for National Security (MCNS) Military spokesman Brigadier Udaya Nanayakara said that false news was being published using various print and electronic media alleging a rift between the government and General Fonseka.
Brigadier Udaya Nanayakara said that there was no truth in the reports and insisted that General Fonseka is still the most senior officer serving in the Army
He went on to say that media speculations alleging differences between the government and Gen Fonseka have been planted deliberately to create a rift between the government and the army which has won public confidence and popularity.
He said the publication of such reports on the army is “illegal and counter productive” and mislead the general public.
No rift between Fonseka and the Government- Army Spokesman
The Military today said that there was no rift between former Army Commander and current Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) Sarath Fonseka and the government and speculation to that effect is baseless and misleading.
In a statement posted on the website of the Media Centre for National Security (MCNS) Military spokesman Brigadier Udaya Nanayakara said that false news was being published using various print and electronic media alleging a rift between the government and General Fonseka.
Brigadier Udaya Nanayakara said that there was no truth in the reports and insisted that General Fonseka is still the most senior officer serving in the Army
He went on to say that media speculations alleging differences between the government and Gen Fonseka have been planted deliberately to create a rift between the government and the army which has won public confidence and popularity.
He said the publication of such reports on the army is “illegal and counter productive” and mislead the general public.
For the first time in history, a protesting uni student group is sued for property damage and vandalism. These MFs are protesting to abolish a suspension on a ragger. And usually it stands that uni students as a mass can do any vandalism. No police, no law.
I am really happy that they apply common law on these MFs and give them what they deserve. We shud do this ti every uni student strike. Like for pussycats, they also shud know taht this is not the right way to win the rights or solve problems.
Kudos to all who arranged this.
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J’Pura undergrads surrender, given conditional bail
Twenty three undergraduates of the Sri Jayewardenepura University who were protesting at the Administrative building of the university, surrendered through their lawyers as per the court order issued by the Gangodawila Magistrate and were each given personal bail of hundred thousand rupees each today.
They were released under the conditions that they move out of the Administrative building of the university, stop vandalizing public property, stop behaving in a harassing manner to the public and finally that they report to the police to give statements when they are called to do so.
The eight students who have not come forward had been issued with a warrant and told to appear in court by the 30th of October. (GS)
People continue repeating…
(Will the WORLD remember that it was the LTTE .. THEIR OWN PEOPLE .. who enslaved, tortured and killed the Tamil people, and that it was the Sri Lankan government who rescued them?)
The International Community is well aware of the atrocious crimes committed by LTTE (Banned Terrorist Organization) against all Sri Lankans for the past 30 years. The IC is equally aware that GOSL (democratically elected) having “rescued” the 300,000 Tamil civilians (own citizens) only for them to be languishing in overcrowded internment camps, surrounded by barbed wire fences and gun toting soldiers, prisoners in all but name.
One of the arguments used by GOSL to justify the internment camps is the need to weed out Tiger cadres hiding amongst the civilians. Most of those ‘hidden Tigers’ are probably ordinary foot soldiers, junior to the likes of Daya Master & George Master in rank and experience. If the CID/TID could not find evidence against Daya Master, the official Tiger spokesman, (evidence of his symbiotic relationship with the LTTE, easily and freely available on the internet) will it be able to find evidence against these lowly Tiger cadres, even if they are apprehended? If the CID/TID can find evidence against these anonymous Tiger cadres, how come it was unable to find evidence against the internationally known official Spokesman of the LTTE? Can it be that the government is prone to treat captured senior Tigers wiling to change masters with astounding leniency?
A further argument is that the northeast is full of landmines is an utter nonsense. How come the very same civilians lived there and made their living until earlier this year before taken hostage by the LTTE?
Why are’nt journalist and international de-mining organisations allowed access to witness the de-mining operations in the northeast?
Why is Halo Trust (http://www.halotrust.org/srilanka.html) forbidden to witness the demining operations in the northeast, when the very same organisation is actively supported by GOSL in de-mining in Jaffna.
Hogwash!
Jay;
Long long articles, relentless attempts of gobel's theory and endless uttering of same gibberish.
Let me buy your myth for a second - that GOSL is delieberately prolonging the IDP camps and will NEVER settle them.
And tell me then, how are you rationalizing current proceedings? What is the gain of running a permanent zoo of Wanni residents? Note that it is at a very high cost.
Also let's look at what happened in east. If your theory is right, then there should be similar IDP zoos in east too. Tell me where you can find them?
If I say that ALL the eastern IDPs are settled, will you contradict me, and if so how?
Your long long paragraphs lack few essential substances such as sense, logic and rationalism. But does it matter? You are paid per word or per post, not for the sense or logic in your gibberish. And the gobel's theory tells that at whatever zillionth time you will succeed [however the number will depend on the fool who writes it]
Nice English Jay. Keep on writing your high-school essays.
UN human rights chief criticizes the Lankan government
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay has criticized the Sri Lankan government for not responding “to our many requests for an international investigation of what we say is widespread acts of killing of civilians."
Speaking to reporters in Brussels, she said that “such a request has also been made by the (UN) Secretary General and we are working very closely with the Secretary General to hold the President of Sri Lanka to his promise which he made to the Secretary General that he will look into the issue of accountability and so we want to know what kind of mechanism is he setting up."
The UN human rights chief said, “we have pointed out that they have in the past attempted to hold national investigations of very serious acts of killings that occurred of NGO and humanitarian workers and these investigations were dropped."
“They do not have a very good record in holding serious investigations. Now, I am engaged in discussions with the Secretary General over what kind of mechanism would be acceptable. But as I said the bottom-line is that the government is resisting these suggestions," Pillay, a former South African high court judge, was quoted as saying by EuAsiaNews.
Asked if she was planning to visit Sri Lanka to discuss the human rights situation, Pillay told journalists that the Sri Lankan government has told the Secretary General and publicly that they would not let in the High Commissioner for Human Rights. (The Examiner)
Relax Jay; you don’t have to Cut and Paste BS here anymore.
Twenty two Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) suspects including their leader Nadaraja Matintiran charged with the offense that they extorted money from the country's Tamils were brought before a French court in Paris on October 12.
Selva,
How dare you compare the ANC to the LTTE. The ANC was a multi-ethnic entity consisting of Afrikaners, Blacks, Indians, and other ethnic groups whose goal was a multi-ethnic democratic state. The LTTE was simply a suicide cult revolving around one lunatic. Nelson Mandela is a great intellectual who is widely respected through out the world during and after the struggle. Thalaivar was nothing but a criminal and international pariah through out his entire existence.
Casc
Thanks for the more insight of this great man.He seems to touch a chord with us whose lifestyles are similar.should he ever wants to take the top job then we will be fully behind. I wasn’t too keen to see him opening that Ranwetta in Kandy because there is one or two persons there were trying to grab my land by force which one can see in the background of those pictures taken. We must fine tune him to avoid getting involved with unnecessary activities.
We are delighted to read this as well.
‘It’s very difficult for career army officers with the type of skills that they acquire in the military (there are a few who have made it to the corporate boardrooms) to bring their skills into the civilian world, and in a foreign country too’
My argument is this: If a person like Mervin can enter politics then why not this gentlemen and SF and the latter working together for the same just cause? We would like him to be in touch with the entrepreneurs, business people and even rural farmers and SF to deal with the law and order that includes the incompetent judiciary which had virtually paralyzed our ventures in SL where the lawbreaker seems to be winning.
True patriots love every part of their country and every person in it.
A vicious terrorist group and a cruel, weak, uncaring and thuggish government, are flip sides of the same coin.
The overreaction to my comments typifies the emotional nature of most bloggers in here who disagree with my views, a quality that seems to be the key driving force of the Sinhalese - one that seems rooted in deeply seeded insecurities.
Have a nice day!
Sri Lanka fines US embassy
COLOMBO - SRI LANKA'S main water utility said Friday it had fined the US embassy in Colombo more than US$3,000 (S$4,193) for illegally tapping supplies from the national network.
The National Water Supply and Drainage Board said it found that the supply to US ambassador Patricia Butenis' official residence in Colombo bypassed the water meter.
The US authorities were fined US$3,222 after the unusually low water bills for the building aroused suspicion and prompted an inspection.
'When informed of the illegal tapping of water, they agreed to the fine,' a board official said, asking not to be named.
A US embassy spokesman, Glen Davis, said they were investigating the matter. -- AFP
LOL! LOL!
SRI LANKA: Newly Reopened IMF Office Launches Budget Probe
By Feizal Samath
COLOMBO, Oct 16 (IPS) - The International Monetary Fund’s new resident representative in Sri Lankan is likely to receive his baptism of fire once he settles into his new post this week.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48883
Incorrect to state he is the "new" IMF Resident rep. He was the resident rep before GOSL closed the IMF office down.
How interesting Koshy goes back to Colombo?
Presidential Secretariat pays 2 million rupees to free IDP aid
The Aid sent through the Captain Ali vessel which had many false starts regarding its release, is now finally seeing the light of day and is only a few days away from being released. The Value Added Tax (VAT) & Nation Building Tax (NBT) which amounted to millions, and was the cause holding its release back, has finally been paid by the Presidential Secretariat. This gesture by the Presidential Secretariat is greatly appreciated at this time, Mr. Surein Peiris, Deputy Director General of the Sri Lanka Red Cross Society (SLRCS) told Daily Mirror Online.
The cheque amounting to Rs. 2million rupees was handed over to the SLRCS today; a further Rs. 500,000 was also paid by the SLRCS which included taxes from the 6th Of October to the 16th and previous unpaid port charges.
He further added that the goods are planned to be cleared out from the docks on Monday after the Sri Lanka Standard Institute carry out tests to ascertain the quality and state of the perishable goods in the 884 tons of aid at the port.
Mr. Peiris was hopeful that the goods will be transported out of the port on Wednesday and that after storing them at the paddy market; the aid will be distributed among the IDPs with the collaboration of the government
I don't understand this. Can someone explain to me why these taxes need to be levied on Aid.
It's not Gifts its Aid!
This certainly was not the case when millions of aid poured in following the Tsunami.
Extremely generous of the Presidential Secretariat to have paid this tax.
Gen SF is missing
http://www.dailymirror.lk/DM_BLOG/ArticleImages/eask2sbevxx4naz3nhrqcljf_p3.jpg
Major General Shavendra Silva to be appointed as SLFP organizer for Matale
The President has decided to retire Major General Shavendra Silva who served as the Commanding Officer of the 58th Brigade during the military operations in the north in order to appoint him as the SLFP organizer for Matale, sources from temple Trees said.
The President had arrived at this decision to make this appointment following a proposal made by Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa that it is the best step to be taken to fight the political challenge posed by General Sarath Fonseka.
The President had informed Major General Shavendra Silva that Major General Lalith Davulagala would be appointed as the Army Commander after current Army Chief Lt. General Jagath Jayasuriya retires from service and had assured Shavendra that he would be appointed as a Cabinet minister after the next general election.
Shavendra had then been asked to contest from the Matale District at the next general election by the President, who had also asked him to help put down General Fonseka in front of people if he made any serious political decisions.
The President has ordered his Media Secretary Vijayananda Herath to promote Shavendra Silva as the real war hero and to include him in all Ranaviru felicitation programmes that are to be held at village and school level.
Oh dear!.
I know this news item is from unreliable news agency LNW,
(same irk as AsianTribune, Tamilnet, Lankaweb etc.)
DW bloggers get terribly excited by such red herrings.
Raj Rajarutnam, Galleon Group CEO arrested.
Hey Bhairav,
Didn't you say this guy was going to buy out Sri Lanka and resurrect the LTTE?
Raj Rajaratnam Charged in Insider Trading Scam
October 16, 2009 09:50 pm
Raj Rajaratnam, the Sri Lankan born billionaire founder of the hedge fund firm Galleon Group, and ex-directors at a Bear Stearns Cos. hedge fund were among six people charged in a $20 million insider trading scheme by US federal prosecutors.
Also accused were Rajiv Goel, who worked at Intel Capital as a director in strategic investments, Anil Kumar, who worked as a director at McKinsey & Co., and IBM Corp. executive Robert Moffat. The former officials at Bear Stearns Asset Management are Danielle Chiesi and Mark Kurland, who were affiliated with the firm’s New Castle Partners, which managed about $1 billion.
Federal prosecutors have been investigating the case since at least March 7, 2008, when they obtained court approval to intercept a cell phone Rajaratnam used, according to one of two criminal complaints in the case. Prosecutors said they’ve also been listening to two of Chiesi’s landlines since August 2008 and to the cell phone of a person they didn’t identify who is cooperating in the federal probe.
“A number of the calls intercepted over the wiretap consist of Rajaratnam either providing, receiving, or seeking material nonpublic information about various publicly traded companies,” the complaint says.
The six are charged with using insider information in 2008 and 2009 to trade in shares of companies including Google Inc., Polycom Inc., Hilton Hotels Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc., according the complaints filed in Manhattan federal court today. U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara in Manhattanwill hold a press conference today at 1 p.m. to discuss the charges.
Arrests
Five of the defendants have been arrested in the New York City area and will appear in the Manhattan court today. Goel was arrested in California.
Rajaratnam, a graduate of the Universityof Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, was identified this year by Forbes as the 559th richest person in the world, with a net worth of $1.3 billion. Galleon Partners is based in Manhattan.
Galleon said in a February 2009 press release that it has a “17-year track record in the alternative investment business specializing in long/short equity strategies.” It has offices in London, Singapore, Mumbai, and Menlo Park, California.
Phone calls to Galleon were referred to an executive, George Lau, who didn’t immediately respond to a message seeking comment.
Secret Tips
According to one of the two complaints, Chiesi got secret tips from an unidentified person at Akamai Technologies Inc. and from Moffat, who passed along information about IBM, Sun Microsystems Inc., and Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
“Chiesi shared certain of this inside information with Kurland,” and they bought securities in the companies, the complaint says.
Chiesi also passed along tips to Rajaratnam, “who in turn provided Chiesi with inside information regarding AMD and other publicly traded companies,” prosecutors said in the complaint. Authorities said that Chiesi made illegal insider trades with accounts affiliated with New Castle.
The cases are U.S. v. Rajaratnam, 09-02306, and U.S.v. Chiesi, 09-mag-2307, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan).
Bloomberg
Now.. Now.. Now...
Where are those hedge fund might end up soon.
Last remaining LTTE hedge funds getting wiped out.
Galleon’s Rajaratnam Charged in Insider Trading Scam (Update3)
What I like in following news is the underlying suspicion that GOSL would try to settle sinhala ppl among tamils. I like it in the line that there is some discussion of this sort.
The promise of BR is pure political play. There will never be such an obligation from GOSL. However it simply shows what kinda resistance there will be if the GOSL starts a program for forced ethnic integration.
The rest of the article proves that GOSL is right about the concerns in premature settling of IDPs.
If a TN MP says what he has, I am compelled to believe that tamil diaspora is not caring for the IDPs and other tamils are planning to run businesses on them. No NGO is really supporting them other than use them to attack the govt and likes of Jay are bluffing to glory here
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Indian MPs asked to visit Sri Lanka again
October 16, 2009 10:48 pm
CHENNAI: The Sri Lankan government has asked the delegation of MPs from Tamil Nadu to visit the island again after three months “to see for themselves that Sri Lankahas not violated the promise that Sinhalese will not be settled in Tamil areas.”
Congress MPs E.M. Sudarsana Natchiappan and K.S. Alagiri, who were part of the delegation, said Basil Rajapaksa, adviser to President Mahinda Rajapaksa, denied the allegation that his government was trying to change the demographic character of the Tamil areas.
“When we raised the apprehension, the Sri Lankan government said it would not commit the mistakes committed by many countries that led to permanent conflicts,” Mr. Alagiri told The Hindu.
At the same time, Sri Lanka could not deny permission to the Sinhalese families that used to live in the Tamil areas, before war uprooted both communities, Mr. Alagiri said, quoting Basil Rajapaksa.
The Congress MPs said the Sri Lankan government did not try to hide anything from the visiting team, and it was heavy mines, the handiwork of both the Sri Lankan Army and the LTTE, that stood in the way of resettlement of Tamils.
“Indiais helping in demining the areas. But the Sri Lankan government is facing a crisis when it comes to financial and human resources. It needs the support of the international community and NGOs, besides the Asian nations. That is our overall understanding,” said Mr. Natchiappan.
While the government started the process of rehabilitating families that had land, property and business establishments, it was helpless in the case of those who had no property and others including orphans, widows and the disabled.
“The government is ready to allow the families without property to live with hosts. But in many places the hosts are demanding money and it has become a scandal. There is a delay in resettling the orphans, widows and persons with disability because not many NGO are coming forward,” Mr. Natchiappan said.
He said children in the camps were not missing education as around 2,000 teachers were conducting classes.
“I was told the teachers were getting around Rs. 20,000 per month. There are 150 doctors and the patients are allowed to visit hospitals outside the camps. People take buses to visit hospitals and there is no restriction on the movement of people,” he said.
Mr. Alagiri said there was water scarcity in the camps. “The government claims that it supplies 10 litres of water to a person every day, but sometimes one gets only 5 litres.”
“Many informed people wanted India to facilitate a political settlement since the LTTE, which resisted all the efforts, is no longer in the picture. They also wanted Indiato bring together all the Tamil political groups which will go a long way in protecting the interests of the Tamils,” he felt. – (The Hindu)
/Sri Lankan born Raj Rajaratnam Arrested for Insider Trading
The government is filing criminal charges against Raj Rajaratnam, not just a civil suit. He is being charged with four counts of conspiracy and eight counts of securities fraud./
Whaaat? Isn't he peezhaam thamizhzz? How come when get arrested all these peezhaam thamizzhhzz automatically become Sri Lankans? How come tamilnutz who reports tamil affairs to the world miss this? Isn't this tamil affair? How come Jay's reliable news source - tamilnutz sister site didn't find MR or GR behind this conspiracy? How come super duper born intelligent tamizaa getting arrested for fraud..?
Lol! The man who made John Keels has been arrested. What else to expect from the clan.
Double whammy for Monday trading: GSP+Rajaratnam.
Looks like million dollars won't be dropping in the banda brass bowl any time soon.
Galleon+Raj hold more than 15% of JKH.
And you guys are celebrating 'cause he is a Tamil.
Funny part is that most of you patriots won't dare invest in paradise. So, news that destabalises the market doesn't bother you.
Lol, indeed.
Indicted N.Y. Financier Gave Big to Hillary and Terror Charity
The New York hedge fund billionaire indicted today in an alleged $20 million insider trading scheme, Raj Rajaratnam, was a major contributor to the campaigns of Hillary Clinton and also the single largest known U.S. contributor to a charity linked to the Tamil Tiger terror group in Sri Lanka, according to records obtained by ABCNews.com.
/And you guys are celebrating 'cause he is a Tamil./
Too bad.. These moda bandas never learn.. How come USA arrests a Tamil? This must be genocide.. HIKz Are we going to enjoy nest McDonald sponsored hunger strike pretty soon? (He should have done insider trading in Tamil Transgender Government, not in USA hikZZ)
/..Raj Rajaratnam, was a major contributor to the campaigns of Hillary Clinton ../
Time for Hilarious to use rape as weapon..
Given that he held about 5% of CSE list, I couldn't be happier. In fact, I might treat myself to a Mac D breakfast - fk heart disease, this is news is too good.
Peter said...
Given that he held about 5% of CSE list, I couldn't be happier. In fact, I might treat myself to a Mac D breakfast - fk heart disease, this is news is too good.
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Man,
again back to your comment about CSE and share markets. A guy like Raj Rajaratna can only be one thing, A terrorist. Government of SL was going to take him down anyway. So it doesn't matter how he is going to go down. The more we take down, more confident the real investors become. So, we might loose his business, but we will get much better investors than him coming to SL.
Peter please don't start your investment analysis here again. You have already lost any confidence we had in you. You should wait a bit longer till we forget about all your wrong forecasting before you start giving investment advice here again.
It was reported that in 2008, the FBI warned the GOSL that a mutual fund connected to the LTTE was involved in a major market manipulation with the ultimate objective being the disruption of the SL economy. I suspect they have finally decided to act. Rajaratnam by his own admission donated money to the TRO, so this must be the man. Now all his assets in Sri Lanka will be taken siezed by the GOSL and will contribute towards helping reduce the Government budget deficit.
CASC, Thusitha
What are you saying? Don't you have any kindness for Peter? Bugger wants to have big mac.. please wait until he finishes his big mac.. hikzz Peter is 1 mile to Kilinochchi McDonalds..HIKzz
BTW its hard to prove these insider trading things? isn't it?
/The Sri Lankan government had intervened recently to prevent the launch of a book on Eelam War IV by an Indian author at the Sri Lankan High Commission in New Delhi after it was found to be factually incorrect. The book wrongly asserted a direct Indian role in the destruction of eight LTTE ships whereas a country outside Asia provided the vital information./
What's this country? Peter can have another big mac.. hikzz
Ninja,
Sorry for spoiling Peter's big Mac celebration.
Insider trading is difficult to prove except that in this case they have recorded conversations. Normally what the prosecutors will do is to get one of the lower ranking defendents to squeal in return for some leniency. However, the big fish end up doing hard time, which is what will happen to Rajaratnam.
"Sri Lankan born Raj Rajaratnam Arrested for Insider Trading"
The celebration is NOT he is a Tamils rather a Tamil who stinks more than thalathel, he smell LTTE.
[No rift between Fonseka and the Government- Army Spokesman]
Who wants to believe this statement.
I don't
Ninja said...
/.... The book wrongly asserted a direct Indian role in the destruction of eight LTTE ships whereas a country outside Asia provided the vital information./What's this country? Peter can have another big mac.. hikzz
Ninja,
Darn.
Indians are trying to take credit for everything.
One would need very sophisticated spy satellites to detect a cluster of ships 900 nautical miles from the Indian coastline. let me guess ?
/[No rift between Fonseka and the Government- Army Spokesman]
Who wants to believe this statement./
Its true that LankaRumorsWeb (LNW) etc capitalized a lot on this. And we too made several analysis based on assumptions. However, its non other than SF himself can clear all these rumors.
If SF ever wanted to run for PE, its non other than LNW and clowns like Fonseka2010ATgamil who ruined his chances.
For the moment this is the news.
http://www.rivira.lk/2009/10/18/puwath3.htm
Ok, Jay Haan Perera is running out if NGO money. His yapping is very intense to dupe his white masters.
Jay said...
[If the CID/TID can find evidence against these anonymous Tiger cadres, how come it was unable to find evidence against the internationally known official Spokesman of the LTTE? Can it be that the government is prone to treat captured senior Tigers wiling to change masters with astounding leniency?]
Jay,
Cooperative criminals are CUT DEALS ALL THE TIME!
Have you not heard that in the US, UK, and elsewhere in the world, criminals who agree to become state witnesses against other criminals are offered deals including less onerous sentences, and often completely new identities to protect them from their former allies?
It is done ALL THE TIME in the interest of PUBLIC GOOD. If in the best judgment of the authorities, they can get information on the whereabouts of other criminals, and evidence against them leading to convictions, they cut deals, encouraging others to turn state witness as well. It is often the ONLY WAY to break a case.
Your WAILING about Daya Master and George Master not being punished severely is laughable. You probably would like to have them silenced immediately, wouldn't you?
THEY ARE SINGING LIKE BIRDS now giving up information the GOSL needs to eradicate the LTTE and their supporting network both at home and abroad. I expect KP is singing loudly as well, and we will see MANY MORE ARRESTS of collaborators (Tamil & Sinhalese) and LTTE Diaspora Financiers being brought down with a THUD in the years ahead.
Did you hear Raj Rajaratnam the billionaire biting the dust? Keep you ear to the ground and LISTEN .. you can hear the THUDS!
Why are you wailing on behalf of a bunch of mafia-like goons who killed everyone who did not toe their line? The GOSL will treat each of them according to their crimes, their usefulness in forestalling future crime, and bringing other criminals to book, just as other democracies all over the world over do. BE GLAD INSTEAD, without trying to undermine the GOSL with all your might.
The LTTE and its running jackals will be HUNTED from NOW till ETERNITY. Sit back and ENJOY THE GONG SHOW .. err, I mean GOON SHOW!
SL likely to lose GSP+
if SL loses GSP+, govt should immediately get to mass development in vanni through colonisation to cover at least $100 million.
a good excuse to do multiethnic colonisation FAST!!
grab the opportunity.
Dear DW & All,
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/39baad52-b92c-11de-98ee-00144feab49a.html
Next generation of mahaveer jokers.
The writer, Shyamantha Asokan now based in Nigeria.
Eritrea would be better for her in many ways.
Anybody knows who is SL MP invloved in this case with Raj Rajaratnam.
Raj Rajaratnam, arrested for insider trading, also linked to Sri Lanka case
The world’s 559th wealthiest individual and hedge-fund owner, who was arrested in New York Friday for insider trading, is not just in trouble with US authorities. Raj Rajaratnam, founder of the Galleon Group, is also connected with an indictment against a Sri Lankan member of Parliament and two others, according to the Daily Mirror of Sri Lanka.
The MP and his two accomplices were indicted for depositing $3 million in a private Sri Lankan bank without informing the nation’s central bank, a violation of Sri Lanka’s banking rules. According to the indictment, $1 million of the funds came directly from Galleon on Dec. 22, 2006, and $2 million were deposited by Mr. Rajaratnam on Jan. 3, 2007. The funds were intended to purchase shares in the Union Bank of Sri Lanka, according to the Mirror.
Moshey
[if SL loses GSP+, govt should immediately get to mass development in vanni through colonisation to cover at least $100 million]
Yep.
Agree...it is time to go for broke if that happens...that will be the final nail in their "thamileelam" coffin...that will teach the LTTE whorebitches a lesson...the ones who have been lobbying the EU to remove this consession to SL.
Mass expropriation of land to the state and mass agriculture schemes, involving millions and millions of people brought to the N province from the rest of the country, to cover for the loss of revenues from the GSP+ - that is one way to go. We must become the "bread basket" of Asia and the mega-exports thereof should more than compensate for the collapse of the garment industry.
take no prisoner! scorched earth! that should be our survival policy if we ever have to succumb to this type of attacks from LTTE whorebitches abroad.
OaO Asithri
[The celebration is NOT he is a Tamils rather a Tamil who stinks more than thalathel, he smell LTTE]
Ata boy...that's more like it!
:)) :)) :))
OaO Asithri
Asithri said...
Agree...it is time to go for broke if that happens...that will be the final nail in their "thamileelam" coffin...that will teach the LTTE whorebitches a lesson...the ones who have been lobbying the EU to remove this consession to SL.
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I think this is great news. More and more the hold on our country by these Western MFs are disappearing. Finally we would be able to get rid of the shackles of our Colonial Masters. The way forward is the BRIC Nations. Australia realized this and that is why the Australian Economy is stronger than every. We should get more and more involved in these nations to get the country developed.
Thanks Diaspora, for guiding us to achieve our full potential. Your help will always be remembered. Specially making our Army one of the most combat ready, trained armies in the world. Hehe.
[The man who made John Keels has been arrested. What else to expect from the clan] - Peter Sakkiliya
Errrr...pardon me, but the man who made the great sovereign nation of "thamileelam" was captured, hacked, castrated, and displayed with mud all over his body for the world to see not long ago...so, John K means fucking squat...John K will still continue operate tomorrow, but the great "thamileelam" went down the tube!
LMSSAO!!!
OaO Asithri
EXPOSED! The NEXUS between US Politicians and LTTE Terror!
LTTE Tamils for YOU-KNOW-WHO!
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Indicted N.Y. Financier Gave Big to Hillary and Terror Charity
By Richard Esposito, Kristin Jones, Anna Schecter and Brian Ross
ABCNews.go.com
Oct. 16, 2009
The New York hedge fund billionaire indicted today in an alleged $20 million insider trading scheme, Raj Rajaratnam, was a major contributor to the campaigns of Hillary Clinton and also the single largest known U.S. contributor to a charity linked to the Tamil Tiger terror group in Sri Lanka, according to records obtained by ABCNews.com.
Indicted N.Y. Financier Gave Big to Hillary and Terror Charity: Raj Rajaratnam Accused in $20 Million Insider Trading Case
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Raj Rajaratnam, billionaire founder of the Galleon Group, a major hedge fund, is led in handcuffs from FBI headquarters in New York Friday, Oct.16, 2009. Rajaratnam was charged with insider trading in the stock of several companies including Hilton, Clearwire, and Google.
Rajaratnam is accused of operating an elaborate insider trading operation through his Galleon Group hedge fund, which made him one of the wealthiest men in America with an estimated net worth of $1.3 billion.
The case against Rajaratnam and the five others indicted alleges they netted over $25 million in profits and marked the first time a court authorized wire taps were used in a hedge fund case.
A Sri Lankan native, Rajaratnam gave more than $3.5 million to the Tamil Rehabilitation Organization (TRO), whose assets were frozen by the U.S. Treasury Department in Nov. 2007 because of its alleged ties to the Tamil Tigers.
According to documents filed with the IRS, Rajaratnam's contributions to the TRO were made in 2005 and 2006 through a separate charity, which he founded in the wake of the tsunami which hit Sri Lanka in Dec. 2004.
Despite its stated relief efforts, the Treasury Department described the TRO charity as "a front" for Tamil Tigers fundraising and procurement in the United States.
"TRO passed off its operation as charitable, when in fact it was raising money for designated terrorist group responsible for heinous acts of terrorism," said Adam Szubin, director of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control at the time.
The Tamil Tigers waged a bloody insurgency against the government of Sri Lanka in which both sides were accused of civilian atrocities. Under the Clinton administration, the State Department designated the Tamil Tigers as a terrorist organization in 1997.
Sri Lankan government officials alleged that contributions funneled through U.S. and Canadian-based charities prolonged the group's bloody campaign.
The leader of the Tamil Tigers were killed by government forces in May, effectively putting an end to its insurgency.
"Rajaratnam channeled funds to the TRO, a phony charity of the Tamil Tiger terrorist organization"
EVERY day, in EVERY way, we are getting CLOSER & CLOSER to these LTTE CON ARTISTS!
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Billionaire among 6 nabbed in inside trading case
Wall Street wake-up call: Hedge fund boss, 5 others charged in $25M-plus insider trading case
By Larry Neumeister and Candice Choi, Associated Press Writers
Finance.Yahoo.com
October 16, 2009
NEW YORK (AP) -- One of America's wealthiest men was among six hedge fund managers and corporate executives arrested Friday in a hedge fund insider trading case that authorities say generated more than $25 million in illegal profits and was a wake-up call for Wall Street.
AP - Raj Rajaratnam, billionaire founder of the Galleon Group, a major hedge fund, is led in handcuffs from FBI ...
AP - Raj Rajaratnam, billionaire founder of the Galleon Group, a major hedge fund, is led in handcuffs from FBI ...
Raj Rajaratnam, a portfolio manager for Galleon Group, a hedge fund with up to $7 billion in assets under management, was accused of conspiring with others to use insider information to trade securities in several publicly traded companies, including Google Inc.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Douglas F. Eaton set bail at $100 million to be secured by $20 million in collateral despite a request by prosecutors to deny bail. He also ordered Rajaratnam, who has both U.S. and Sri Lankan citizenship, to stay within 110 miles of New York City.
U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara told a news conference it was the largest hedge fund case ever prosecuted and marked the first use of court-authorized wiretaps to capture conversations by suspects in an insider trading case.
He said the case should cause financial professionals considering insider trades in the future to wonder whether law enforcement is listening.
"Greed is not good," Bharara said. "This case should be a wake-up call for Wall Street."
Joseph Demarest Jr., the head of the New York FBI office, said it was clear that "the $20 million in illicit profits come at the expense of the average public investor."
The Securities and Exchange Commission, which brought separate civil charges, said the scheme generated more than $25 million in illegal profits.
Robert Khuzami, director of enforcement at the SEC, said the charges show Rajaratnam's "secret of success was not genius trading strategies."
"He is not the master of the universe. He is a master of the Rolodex," Khuzami said.
Galleon Group LLP said in a statement it was shocked to learn of Rajaratnam's arrest at his apartment. "We had no knowledge of the investigation before it was made public and we intend to cooperate fully with the relevant authorities," the statement said.
The firm added that Galleon "continues to operate and is highly liquid."
Rajaratnam, 52, was ranked No. 559 by Forbes magazine this year among the world's wealthiest billionaires, with a $1.3 billion net worth.
According to the Federal Election Commission, he is a generous contributor to Democratic candidates and causes. The FEC said he made over $87,000 in contributions to President Barack Obama's campaign, the Democratic National Committee and various campaigns on behalf of Hillary Rodham Clinton, U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer and New Jersey U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez in the past five years. The Center for Responsive Politics, a watchdog group, said he has given a total of $118,000 since 2004 -- all but one contribution, for $5,000, to Democrats.
The Associated Press has learned that even before his arrest, Rajaratnam was under scrutiny for helping bankroll Sri Lankan militants notorious for suicide bombings.
Papers filed in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn allege that Rajaratnam worked closely with a phony charity that channeled funds to the Tamil Tiger terrorist organization. Those papers refer to him only as "Individual B." But U.S. law enforcement and government officials familiar with the case have confirmed that the individual is Rajaratnam.
Billionaire among 6 nabbed in inside trading case
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At an initial court appearance in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, Assistant U.S. Attorney Josh Klein sought detention for Rajaratnam, saying there was "a grave concern about flight risk" given Rajaratnam's wealth and his frequent travels around the world.
His lawyer, Jim Walden, called his client a "citizen of the world," who has made more than $20 million in charitable donations in the last five years and had risen from humble beginnings in the finance profession to oversee hedge funds responsible for nearly $8 billion.
Walden promised "there's a lot more to this case" and his client was ready to prepare for it from home. Rajaratnam lives in a $10 million condominium with his wife of 20 years, their three children and two elderly parents. Walden noted that many of his employees were in court ready to sign a bail package on his behalf.
Rajaratnam -- born in Sri Lanka and a graduate of University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business -- has been described as a savvy manager of billions of dollars in technology and health care hedge funds at Galleon, which he started in 1996. The firm is based in New York City with offices in California, China, Taiwan and India. He lives in New York.
According to a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, Rajaratnam obtained insider information and then caused the Galleon Technology Funds to execute trades that earned a profit of more than $12.7 million between January 2006 and July 2007. Other schemes garnered millions more and continued into this year, authorities said.
Bharara said the defendants benefited from tips about the earnings, earnings guidance and acquisition plans of various companies. Sometimes, those who provided tips received financial benefits and sometimes they just traded tips for more inside information, he added.
The timing of the arrests might be explained by a footnote in the complaint against Rajaratnam. In it, an FBI agent said he had learned that Rajaratnam had been warned to be careful and that Rajaratnam, in response, had said that a former employee of the Galleon Group was likely to be wearing a "wire."
The agent said he learned from federal authorities that Rajaratnam had a ticket to fly from Kennedy International Airport to London on Friday and to return to New York from Geneva, Switzerland next Thursday.
Also charged in the scheme are Rajiv Goel, 51, of Los Altos, Calif., a director of strategic investments at Intel Capital, the investment arm of Intel Corp., Anil Kumar, 51, of Santa Clara, Calif., a director at McKinsey & Co. Inc., a global management consulting firm, and Robert Moffat, 53, of Ridgefield, Conn., senior vice president and group executive at International Business Machines Corp.'s Systems and Technology Group.
The others charged in the case were identified as Danielle Chiesi, 43, of New York City, and Mark Kurland, 60, also of New York City.
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According to court papers, Chiesi worked for New Castle, the equity hedge fund group of Bear Stearns Asset Management Inc. that had assets worth about $1 billion under management. Kurland is a top executive at New Castle.
Kumar's lawyer, Isabelle Kirshner, said of her client: "He's distraught." He was freed on $5 million bail, secured in part by his $2.5 million California home.
Kerry Lawrence, an attorney representing Moffat, said: "He's shocked by the charges."
Bail for Kurland was set at $3 million while bail for Moffat and Chiesi was set at $2 million each. Lawyers for Moffat and Chiesi said their clients will plead not guilty. The law firm representing Kurland did not immediately return a phone call for comment.
A message left at Goel's residence was not immediately returned. He was released on bail after an appearance in California.
A criminal complaint filed in the case shows that an unidentified person involved in the insider trading scheme began cooperating and authorities obtained wiretaps of conversations between the defendants.
In one conversation about a pending deal that was described in a criminal complaint, Chiesi is quoted as saying: "I'm dead if this leaks. I really am. ... and my career is over. I'll be like Martha (expletive) Stewart."
Stewart, the homemaking maven, was convicted in 2004 of lying to the government about the sale of her shares in a friend's company whose stock plummeted after a negative public announcement. She served five months in prison and five months of home confinement.
Prosecutors charged those arrested Friday with conspiracy and securities fraud.
A separate criminal complaint in the case said Chiesi and Moffat conspired to engage in insider trading in the securities of International Business Machines Corp.
According to another criminal complaint in the case, Chiesi and Rajaratnam were heard on a government wiretap of a Sept. 26, 2008, phone conversation discussing whether Chiesi's friend Moffat should move from IBM to a different technology company to aid the scheme.
"Put him in some company where we can trade well," Rajaratnam was quoted in the court papers as saying.
The complaint said Chiesi replied: "I know, I know. I'm thinking that too. Or just keep him at IBM, you know, because this guy is giving me more information. ... I'd like to keep him at IBM right now because that's a very powerful place for him. For us, too."
According to the court papers, Rajaratnam replied: "Only if he becomes CEO." And Chiesi was quoted as replying: "Well, not really. I mean, come on. ... you know, we nailed it."
The criminal complaints in the case also captured what authorities said were efforts by the defendants to hide their conversations from authorities.
In one conversation, Chiesi was heard telling Rajaratnam that she was "glad that we talk on a secure line, I appreciate that," to which Rajaratnam replied: "I never call you on my cell phone," the complaint said. It added that Chiesi said she was "nervous" about being investigated.
Associated Press Writers Tom Hays in Riverside, Calif., and Beth Fouhy in New York contributed to this story.
Asithri macho, I have put my neighborhood stray dog's dick in this GutiKavaNeeyamata's mouth in your absense....do tm me dude when you are finished....got to get back to my paper....call me though if you visit here.
The Sri Lankan MP is Ravi K.
In this case The court accused Nexia Corporate Consultants (Private) Limited, Lincoln Chandrasoma Piyasena and Ravindra Sandresh Karunanayake on 10 counts including depositing US$ 3 million equal to Rs. 321,149,469 in the Kirilupone branch of Standard Charted Bank from the foreign company Galeon International and Raja Rajaratnam on two occasions without the knowledge of the Central Bank.
Munta chande dena kaapiriyanta hukanna ona madu payyakin.
FukkFace,
Uge nama Guulevakema.
GutiKavaNeeyamata is his moma's name. You may whack both of them. YUK! But don't mix them up. One is awhore the other is a son of awhore.
Possibly all Raj Rajaratnam's events with Ravi Karunanayake might come out soon.
Hik.. Hik..
Guys,
I expect Raj Rajaratnam's Fiscal Follies to BALLOON into a "TamilGate" affecting US Politicians, US Govt officials, and the Democratic party.
Raj Rajaratnam's FISHY very high investment returns in both good and bad markets, the rather uncertain source of his initial investment monies, his funding of organizations such as the TRO proscribed by the US as a terrorist organization, one-sided contributions to Democrats who have been critical of Sri Lanka possibly as a quid-pro-quo, and now electronically monitored insider trading activities confirming fraudulent behavior, ALL amount to a VERY POISONOUS BREW.
It may give the REPUBLICANS, eager to regain political power, JUST THE OPPORTUNITY they lacked to displace the Democrats.
Expect to see both federal investigators, and investigative reporters, follow the MONEY TRAIL from BOTH ends, the GIVERS (Raj Rajaratnam's) end, and the RECEIVERS (i.e., politicians) end.
Besides POLITICIANS who did favors for money, TWO OTHER GROUPS of people will now become decidedly NERVOUS, bordering on PANIC. They are the investment BROKERS who live off insider tips, and MOLES within companies who leak sensitive information in return for kickbacks from brokers and investment managers such as Raj Rajaratnam. Obviously, people provide insider tips FOR MONEY!
Curious revelations are about to unfold, STAY TUNED!
Who is this Rajanathan Rajaratnam? he was born in 1957 in Colombo and was educated at S. Thomas’ Mt. Lavinia; he obtained a Bsc Engineering degree from the University of Sussex and followed it up with obtaining an MBA in Finance from the Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania. His personal income today is estimated at between 300 and 400 million US dollars. He began life at the American Investment Bank, Needham and Company, where he worked for 11 years ending as President of the Bank in 1991. In Jan. 1997 he left Needham and established the Galleon Fund. The assets of that Fund is said to be worth five (05) billion US dollars. He is recently reported to have said "At some point you stop working for money, you work for pride and to help others".
INVESTMENT ADVICE: If it sounds too good to be true; it probably is!
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Profile: Raj Rajaratnam
By Sam Jones, Hedge Fund Correspondent
October 16 2009
EXCERPT
In 1997, as the alternative asset industry began to boom, Mr Rajaratnam left Needham and took the technology fund - renamed Galleon Technology - with him.
The same fund, which remains at the core of Galleon’s business today, has delivered stellar returns to investors since its foundation. Before the collapse of Lehman Brothers last year, the fund boasted an annualised return of 23 per cent for its clients.
Now, however, suspicion has been cast on those returns by criminal charges filed by the FBI against Mr Rajaratnam.
Law enforcers allege Mr Rajaratnam was part of an insider-dealing ring that profited from price-sensitive information unavailable to the wider market - information that almost exclusively concerns technology stocks.
The implications for Galleon are huge. Although the charges relate only to a handful of securities, specific to only a couple of Galleon’s funds, investors are likely to take flight at any inference of wrongdoing.
The charges are not, however, Galleon’s first run in with the law.
In May 2005 Galleon paid a $2.4m fine to settle a case brought about by the US market regulator, the SEC. Galleon, it was alleged, alongside two other prominent hedge funds, had made illegal gains by breaking market manipulation regulations.
Some investors say they were wary of investing with Galleon since. “We couldn’t get comfortable with some of their valuations,” one large money manager told the Financial Times. ”Their general attitude seemed to be ‘trust us, we’re Galleon’.”
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