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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DBSJ.
canada, toronto, media freedom, continue writing.....
all DBSJ's. it was HIS reply.
sorry for confusing over ian's blog!!! got lost in it.
my comment sounds really confusing when i read it now. i guess i was confused.
DBSJ's approach is different. he is trying to bring TE peacefully by BULLSHITTING in the name of peace.
try out ian's blog by clicking his handle and going to ian's den.
very interesting & DIPLOMATIC. appealing to the good sections of the tamil diaspora.
Konappu Bandara,
Good draft .. will work on it to strengthen it in several areas and will repost it for your review.
In particular, I want to focus on the fact that this was from start to end a Humanitarian Effort to free an enslaved population from the grasp of absolute and arbitrary tyranny, in a situation when most governments abdicate their responsibility towards their people in the interest of political expediency.
Cheers,
Ananda
war on terror is not over yet.
1. a van carrying 20 claymore bombs was found
2. search for a female suicide bomber continues
war is not over!!
abduction of terrorists must continue. what the REMNANTS of the LTTE is trying is,
1. to put pressure on the govt.
2. get some concessions
3. rebuild on the concessions
the MOST POWERFUL tool of war we had is now lost. that is RETALIATION. we cannot retaliate now. this is a HUGE advantage for tigers.
it will not be surprising if crap bombs go off soon. then all the clowns will cry for a political solution "bcos the roblem cannot be solved by war"!!
never allow that to happen. do WHATEVER it takes to wipe out the LTTE REMNANTS. there is less focus on human rights of LTTE cadres/suspected LTTE cadres now.
cc: mod
Moshe they have caught a terra hanging around in political meetings in Sabaragamuwa area. Plan was to kill some bigwig to boost the morale of the blood loving wrong breed of Kali [who usually takes human head for the handbag].
As I said for sometime now, war is not over mate. Long from over. And the ideological debate is the same. Just when some ar*ehole bit the dust asking for a separate homoland, another bunch who think that separate homoland should be maintained by our tax payer's money have won the Vavunia election.
Life is not a single day. Rome was not built in oneday and Dubai will not be finished building for another millennium.
We will simply hand over the button to another generation. Just that the button has a purple bow wrapped on it marked 20th May 2009.
Looks like that this is a thug plan, but never know who's really behind it:
"Plot to assassinate the President surfaces
[Ada Derana]
A plot to carryout a suicide attack on President Mahinda Rajapaksa in his hometown Madamulana with the involvement of an alleged suspect arrested in connection with the killing of Southern Provincial Councilor, Danny Hiththetiyage, came to light at the Mount Lavinia Magistrates court today.
The Attorney General made a special request to the Magistrate to order the prison authorities to handover the alleged suspect Madusha Lakshan to the Colombo Crime Division (CCD) for questioning over the alleged plot."
Whoops, I shud have said;
We will simply hand over the BATON to another generation. Just that the BATON has a purple bow wrapped on it marked 20th May 2009.
Sorry
Moshe, old boy, thanks for the excellent suggestions. Let's incorporate changes from good old Ananda and then put together a write up on the nomination procedure.
Cheers!
Sujeewa Kokawala said...
The Attorney General made a special request to the Magistrate to order the prison authorities to handover the alleged suspect Madusha Lakshan to the Colombo Crime Division (CCD) for questioning over the alleged plot."
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Like what happened to Bandaranayake, one of our own might end up killing MR. Better be vigilant than sorry.
In the IDP camps there are around 20,000 Terras. So if we assume 5% of them get back in to Terrorist Activities, they can do quite a bit of damage during peace time.
There are lot of fuckers just waiting for that to happen and say, we said so. Specially the western MFs. For the next few years we should continue to provide white van services to who ever is asking for it.
But one thing that has change in SL is the patriotism. I feel the young generation aren't afraid any more and they are ready to take on the fight if necessary.
Thais reject US request to extradite arms smuggler
BANGKOK – A Thai court Tuesday rejected a U.S. request to extradite an alleged Russian arms smuggler dubbed the "Merchant of Death," dealing a setback to American efforts to try him on charges of plotting to supply weapons to Colombian rebels.
Viktor Bout, 42, was arrested in March 2008 at a luxury hotel in Bangkok as part of an elaborate sting in which U.S. agents posed as arms buyers for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, which Washington classifies as a terrorist organization. He is being held in a Bangkok prison, but could be set free if no appeal is filed.
Thais reject US request to extradite arms smuggler
Commentary on DBS jeyaraj whining for KP.
LTTEir in Sheeps cloth
දේශපාලුවා said...
Commentary on DBS jeyaraj whining for KP.
LTTEir in Sheeps cloth
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Mate, Totally agree on what you have said about DBSJ. I mentioned this few times earlier. Many thinks he is unbiased. Many SL come to his blog and mentions how unbiased he is. That is all crap. The underlying theme is anti SL state.
Blake has already started commenting of possible Terrorist attack.
Reconciliate or risk terrorism
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As I just mentioned in my previous comment, these guys are just hoping for another suicide bomb in Sri Lanka. Must be really pissed of that it hasn't happened yet.
As soon as a bomb goes off, BBC, CNN will start again talking about devolution, separate state, e.t.c, e.t.c. The same way they publicised the last suicide attack by takaran air force.
There would be pretty pissed off terras waiting to die for the cause after the death of VP and the capture of KP.
We should have our PR campaigned ready for damage control as soon as some type of large scale Terror attack happens. Specially our good people at defence.lk should be ready a quick response if some major explosions happen.
Otherwise the investors might get scared off, plus would affect our improving tourism industry.
Hilary-Blake combination would be a liability for Obama administration.
They both going on an "anti" direction when it comes to South Asian affairs when truth is obvious.
Their actions would further tarnish the image of US.
Thusitha said...
Many SL come to his blog and mentions how unbiased he is.
Thusitha if you are talking about the comments on DBSJ's site, dont trust them at all. They are all edited. If you submit a comment criticizing his article or viewpoint they will never be submitted.
I submitted on criticizing his view point he shamelessly edited it as if I was praising him.
He is as undemocratic as the LTTE.
Eelam war IV: Fighting Tigers on ‘MEDIA’ front
click here
A Note on Hon. Lakshman Kadirgamar.
It has been four years since LTTE terrorists took the precious life of Hon. Lakshman Kadiragamar, one of the greatest leaders we ever had. Even though we have served justice to his killers, it disturbs me to find that Rohitha Bogollagama wants Kadirgarmar's statute at the exit point of Laksman Kadiragamar Institute(see linked Island article). I strongly believe that Mr. Bogollagama shall refrain from insulting the memories of this great son of Mother Lanka.
Thusitha,
I agree with දේශපාලුවා. DBS Jeyeraj routinely alters comments and often posts self congratulatory comments. I have seen DBSJ's dirty habits many times and he is nothing different than any other Elamist scumbag.
"The arrest of Indurugallage V. Sujeeva, editor of the now defunct Yugeye Janahanda, Yugeye Peraliya and Undaya in connection with his alleged involvement in the killing of Major (posthumously promoted as Lieutenant Colonel) Tuan Nizam Mutalif of the Directorate of Military Intelligence (DMI) emphasised the need for a thorough investigation. The recovery of a media accreditation card and a parliamentary pass issued to the suspect, too, revealed possible loopholes in existing security measures. Dr. Rajitha Senaratne, MP on behalf of the UNP claimed that Sujeeva had obtained his media accreditation card with the knowledge of Mangala Samaraweera, a charge denied by the former SLFP strongman."
amazing how all the motherfcukers are interlinked!
i know most of you will laugh at me for this. well, i'm not here to canvass for an election.
remember the story of an astrologer predicting MR dying by the 6 september???
i get this eerie feeling that it is going to become true.
NOT bcos some IDIOT based on PLANETS predicted it! not at all!! but carefully look at it.
1. first they (LTTE-TNA-sections of the UNP, NGOs, LTTE-die-arse-pora) planned this. ALREADY.
2. what would happen WHEN it happens??? ppl will blame these sakkili groups.
3. to tone down this effect, they are using an "ASTROLOGER" to say it as a prediction. when it happens, ppl would say that so & so correctly predicted it. so the BLAME gets shared between the culprits and the FAULTS IN MR'S HOROSCOPE!!!!
4. SL is a country the killer of a PM and the killer of a president escaped. TF this time is no big deal.
5. there is evidence these MFs are going to kill MR.
arrest of ONE ass-ass-in
there may be plenty
recovery of 100kg, 20 claymores
MoD searching for a female suicide bomber
6. the sakkili media is ALSO getting ready! did you notice??? their "excuse" for killing MR is already READY. that excuse is, no power sharing with tamils and tamils are going back to terrorism!
7. heading to the event, the sakkili media is doing MAXIMUM mud throwing at MR. this has started already.
8. at the same time they are promoting RW, sam-bund-an and other sakkiliyas.
9. chances are MR will be killed, if things go like this. he should be kept mostly indoors, at least away from public until january 2010. that is 5 months.
10. MR has not put in place any systems to carry out his good work. TF all his good work will reverse one by one thereafter. we will be back to square one.
11. what a cum-back ranil!!!
We fear for their safety as much as we fear for the safety of Mr Pathmanathan and ask the international community to secure a speedy solution to the plight of the 300,000 civilians, as well as to ensure that Mr Pathmanathan receives the protection of all international norms.
Visuvanathan Rudrakumaran
Coordinator
Bugger! The next joker to arrive at Katunayake airport wearing a funny gunny bag hat will be LTTE's head ambulance chaser Rudrakumaran Visuvanathan. This rascal also has awarded himself the pompous title; coordinator of committee for the formation of a provisional transsexual government of tamil peelam.
Cheers!
Sensational News
Looks like KP agreed to relinquish the stash of cash and the list of names to Gota's team.
The money will be (hopefully) used to develop the areas affected by terrorism, and also should be used to pay compensation to all armed services personnel and their families.
Moshe,
What you are saying is a distinct possibility where we don't need astrological predictions. It could have happened in the last Deyata Kirula if the security was not tight enough. Maintaining eternal vigilance and proactive crack down of terrorists is a must to prevent any such possibilities. We shall never let our guards down. This war will go on for several decades until we get rid of the last scumbag.
Now is the time to send every f---er who participated in anti Sri Lankan campaign during UNP-LTTE nexus, to Eelam. May it be Austin Fernando or Kulasiri Udugampola or any other traitor, they all shall be checked in to Hotel Eelam after speedy trials. It is of utmost significance to future generations to eliminate these mutated genes.
This abominable act of extra-ordinary rendition may set a very bad precedence in the South which is already fraught with Human and Fundamental Rights violations.
Balasingham Yogarajah,
Coordinator,
Norwegian Tamil Forum
Bugger! Another peelam codger begging to be 'KP'ed. According to this funny fellow extra-ordinary rendition is an abominable act but suicide bombings enabled by the recipient of that act are certainly not abominable.
Cheers!
extra-ordinary rendition.
wow! i LOVE it. extra-ordinary rendition as part of couter-terrorism is the ONLY solution.
based on available information, i'm going to prove this using a spreadsheet model.
white van them, white plane them or simply kay-pee them, but make sure they are given a proper cremation!!
make it a precedence in the north as well as in the south.
Robert Blake the Monkey,
Please practice what you preach. You shall start looking in to your own war crimes and displaced civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan. We did not seek your advice on anything. Just mind your own business. You are a persona-non-grata in Sri Lanka.
PAK 59/3
Why do Sri Lankan Muslims support Pakistan is a Sri Lanka v. Pakistan cricket match?
It is one of the weirdest things I have seen during my current stay in Bandastan.
Tamils in SL - a study into the roots of tamils
The 20 claymores and the van
I am finding that Vass Gunawardena appearing in it as a spooky event. Firstly he should be out of service in a court room. Secondly, what timing is this. Just when he lost his pants in front of public, he finds perhaps the biggest finding the police did regarding War.
Is this a set up?
Pardon me, VassG, if you have really done it. Regardless of all I salute anyone even a criminal who stands against terror. Criminals are humans and terrorists are not.
Lewke thinks that 20 claymore story is a set up
Very cheap joke it seem to be. Vass Gunawardena thinks that public can be cheated in Bandu-Tenny Style.
Another "Baila" from Desmond
Sorry I disagree. Few points I find as wrong.
- wrong timing, now military war is finished by means of war itself. They are talking about "kavada ivara vevida me vikara yudde"
- Sudda days are the root cause of all. It never happened then as sudda would ruthlessly demolish it.
- Major problem is not because some sinhala ppl eat wade and blame tamils, but the other way. Some fractions among tamils gain everything such as free education healthcare etc from Sri Lanka, but still think of a mythical eelam.
- We all like wade, but that is not a reason to appreciate segregation and superiority that some ppl belonging to one race are forcing upon us.
- Well what more can I expect from Desmond. Suddata gotta allana UNP karayek. We have lorry loads in Colombo.
- I am not a great supporter of a fool hardy reconciliation, especially when one side is tightening like "Shylock". Let's be realistic.
http://www.jaffnahistory.com/
http://www.sinhalaheritage.org/
2 sites that will provide any body enough and more facts with proff...that there is NO TAMIL HOMELAND IN SL.....
Everyone is blackmailing now
link
susantha,
thanks for sharing.
very informative.
US diplomatic monkeys have started meddling with our internal matters again. We need to ask these a-holes to go home and screw themselves without any delay.
sujeewa & others,
in my attempt to expel BULLSHIT propoganda by tamil elamists equating jews to tamils (my arse!!) i came across VERY INTERSTING stuff.
"The city of Galle, in the Southern Province is more commonly known as an important historical site (having UNESCO World Heritage listing) of Dutch occupation of the Island in the 1700’s. In terms of folk law, Galle is also the place identified as the Tarshish in the Torah. The period was 1,000BCE and the ships of Hiram and King Solomon were rumored to have visited the shores to trade[10]. Solomon’s ship was built at Ezion-Geber, near the Red Sea and took three years to make the round trip."
"Cosmas Indicopleustes, known as the “Indian Navigator”, points to the existence of Sri Lanka being an important site of international commerce in the eastern trade route. From other manuscripts we can discern a somewhat later, but still ancient presence of Jews and their participation, if not integration into civic life. Islamic geographic Abdullah el Idris (1099 – 1166) (sometimes known as Edrisi) in Scriptorum Arabum de Rebus Indicis Loci notes that in the ninth century, the Sinhala King [likely to be Kasyapa IV ruled 858 - 891] who advocated an integrated society built around religious tolerance established a council of sixteen officials to advise him: “… four were Buddhists, four Mussulums [sic], four Christians and four Jews”."
"According to Gilbert (1990) in the year 1170C.E. there were 3,000 Jews living in the Island today know as Sri Lanka. This assertion is based on the writings of Rabbi Benjamin of Tudela, Spain, whose manuscript Sefer Hamasot (Book of Travel) documents his travels to Jewish communities during the period 1154 – 1174 and records the size and economic conditions of the communities, including a community in Ceylon. This period in Sri Lanka predates the Portuguese occupation although it was a time of when the Moors of the Islamic tradition settled and traded in the Island.[21] In a piece on trade, using materials found in a geniza in Old Cairo, Goiten refers to a number of Indo- Hebraic trade letters and notes that during the eleventh/twelfth centuries the ‘Indian’ merchants who originated from North Africa and Spain were expected to “…read Hebrew as well as Arabic but not everybody was fluent in writing”."
GR appointed as a director to Apollo Hospital.
it should be "folk lore". sorry for not correcting it.
about kasyapa's ETHNIC INTEGRATION commission....
where are the HOMELANDERS????? the elam boys???
they were not represented in the commission obviously bcos they were not here in SL!!!
"The ‘de Fonseka’ surname (spelled da Fonseca in Portuguese) is a Jewish (Sephardic) name.
The name most probably would have been the name of the 'sponsor' who took part in the baptism ceremony, or would have been a name assigned by the Portuguese Authorities…..Who lent the name ‘de Fonseka’. Was he a military officer, a Priest or some other. It remains a mystery to date."
whatever the origin of the lender of the name, fonsekas have done wonders in SL!!
defenceSecOnSLIITincident
Shouldnt the relevent police officer be asked to go on compulsory leave to ensure impartial inquiry?
Moshe Dyan said...
sujeewa & others,
in my attempt to expel BULLSHIT propoganda by tamil elamists equating jews to tamils (my arse!!) i came across VERY INTERSTING stuff.
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Good work Moshe. Thanks for educating us. Pardon for my ignorance but until I found you in this blog, I didn't even realize we had a Jewish Community in SL. Any history lessons about SL is good. Is this info on Internet?
Peter said...
Why do Sri Lankan Muslims support Pakistan is a Sri Lanka v. Pakistan cricket match?
It is one of the weirdest things I have seen during my current stay in Bandastan.
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Peter, are you trying to make us fight against Muslims now? Are Tamils any different? If Tamil Nadu had a cricket team, I am sure quite a few of you guys would be cheering them instead of SL.
Thusitha
In the 70's there was a annual cricket match or a series between Tamilnadu team and Sri Lanka Board President's team. They played for Gopalan trophy. Last match was in 1981 or 1982. I am sure all Sri Lankans of all communities cheered for SL then.
WikipediaLink
thusitha,
yes. try jews in srilanka & chabadsrilanka.
this is from jerusalem post.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1249418554583
it says the day the first kosher mikve construction began, the war ended (may 19).
anne abeysinghe who won many sri lankan awards for books, poems, etc. and kumari campbell are popular SL jews. the important thing is integration. world population of sinhalas and jews are exactly 14 million (which is nithing in world population) each and the chances of them interacting is 0.0004%.
If Vass Gunawardena is connected with attack on Nipuna [which looks so much] he's a criminal and criminal law should apply to him. If this a*sehole planted 20 claymore in a van to cover up incident, it is an act breeching national security, a clear terrorist act and he deserves all the range of punishments including being white vanned.
This is no joke if we let our corrupted police to take over national security and use its protocols for personal motives.
Glad that Lewke is behind this a*sehole. Hope he'll be safe.
I have a very good respect to SLDF, but police, is mostly corrupted and weak chunk of crap.
Moshe,
What a beauty of a find that is. Especially I'm very interested about the timing 1000BCE, to run a port which was accessed and noted by a king in Ethyoian/Somalian region [am I right?] there should have been a sizable population.
it is time to unearth our true past which is more than 2500yrs and re-write history books, moving the Wijaya story into children fantasy books.
sujeewa,
around that area and the red sea.
however, galle is only one place claimed to be tarshish.
it had silver, apes, gold brought from other countries and most importantly PEACOCKS!!
but actually only one historian has attributed it to be galle. besides, we know that galle didn't have a history spanning so long (3000 years). our history doesn't talk of galle in the anuradhapura or polonnaruwa era. if it was SO FAMOUS it must be mentioned.
i think tarshish IF IT WAS in south asia, was in tamil nadu, not galle.
but the claims lead to some interesting paths too.
Moshe,
It is expected to have lots of races in a common transit station of that time like SL. It is equivalent to Dubai or Singapore of today.
But the Jews and other races who dwelled that mega city of Anuradhapura alongside iwth its natives, might not be so distinct now. It is so much impossible to have a distinct minority for 1000s of years, especially in a country where racism had a very low presence.
They must have gotten integrated into the population, which was later to be chased southwards and bundled into the label of theirs, Sinhala, which always represented the majority throughout the dynamic integration of all races.
Then after we see the arrival of cholas and Muslims from South India who settled in regions out of main Sinhala concentration. Later on came europeans too.
The wars, gaps and separation of each race synthetically created by their rulers [divide and rule] made these latter arrivals into separate races today. Hence they never got integrated with Sinhala, and Sinhala became a race, instead of a nation. And that is where all these hype and wars began.
Some of our friends may not like the fact that there had been a mix of races in Anuradhapura, but I'm failing to realize how such a major center of world remained ethnically pure. I believe that it was more about ethnic integration than purity, and Sinhala major race gulped everyone who came into the land, hence adapting and changing their culture and social practice, w/o loosing its root values.
Sociologically speaking, that is how a free and advanced society should behave. And that is what is happening in countries like America today.
The hype about ethnic purity is a very low point similar to what the racist factions among tamils posses. Integration is the natural possibility and better way, be it under the label Sinhala or Sri Lankan.
Sadly, in today's demography of SL, I fail to see us getting to what we lost after Anuradhapura, and we are always traveling towards segregation and separation.
So I wish, only a string military can save our nation for all foreseeable future.
I hope I will not be stoned again.
I wasn't trying to create trouble between Muslims and Sinhalese. At this rate, I'm sure natural course will lead you there, sooner rather than later.
I've been to many matches in England, where India and Pakistan are supported by 'Britons' from England. Those people, however, were second or third generation immigrants from the sub-continent.
I was never aware of any connection between Sri Lankan Muslims and Pakistan. I thought they were descendants of Arab traders.
Does anyone know why they support Pakistan, especially since none of them claim to be from there?
p.s.
I'm in negotiation with the Fonseka faction.
Smart military man, but privately he is probably the biggest idiot ever. One of very few military generals who has ended up penniless, despite overseeing a period where no one would have questioned him about finances.
I have to say, Gotha is smarter than Fonseka. He has moved pieces about a year ahead.
I'll probably be visiting here often. Though, I won't be departing with funds unless the faction can demonstrate ability to go beyond writing on walls in Colombo 7; that is just plain amateur.
A rare accolade for the great warrior SF from Peter.
Peter Monkeydurai,
Changing your style of the monkey dance will not make you a lesser terrorist. Nevertheless, we need some monkeys to fill the vacancy left by Rasaiiah Ilantherian.
Sam;
Peter is trying be a sweet terrorist.
"Sonduru Thrasthavaadiya"
In return we appeal to SLDF to play children music during his white van ride.
Lol! I don't think there is anything 'sweet' about what I'm doing.
I love the paranoia, though.
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From Daily Mirror:
"A Police Superintendent of the Gampaha police Division has been taken into custody for questioning by the Terrorist Investigations Division on the suspicion he had connections with the LTTE, police media spokesman SSP Ranith Gunasekera said."
Mosche dyan
this is one of the most strongest evidence available online to disapprove all tamil homeland claims...
http://www.nationaalarchief.nl/AMH/detail.aspx?page=dpost&lang=en&id=682#tab2
its from the dutch national archives website and it clearly says elephant pass was the border between the territory of the kigdom of kandy and the dutch controlled territories..this was the situation in the 1600s....so how can there b any tamil homeland in elephant pass..
my view is that countering tamil terrorists fake historical claims is important if we are to defeat Power devolution
Susantha,
Fairy tales of Eelamists have no end. So are the flaws of those fantasy stories.
For an example:
- They claim that tamils have been living in this Island before Wijaya came. They say that Sinhala are descendants of Wijaya and 700 men [and their imported wives]. How can it be, such a big nation shrunk to so tiny minority whereas 700 ppl could end up being majority? Is it possible that a whole nation bow in front of 700 ppl.
- They claim that Sinhala history of Anuradhapura begins with Dutugamunu beating elara. They take that part from Mahawansaya. But in the same book there are lots of previous sinhala kings notably pandukabhaya and devanampiyathissa. There is archeological evidence for them. Eelamists tactically avoid them.
- Eelamists call the north and east as their homeland. But never in our history that these two regions have been a distinct kingdom, even for a day. SL hasn't always been unitary, but the breaks were completely different to the borders of North and East. So how on earth N/E is there homeland?
- If they think tehir claim is right [home land] they should claim that whole Island is that. Be it correct or not.
- In saying so, they hide the fact that only within Jaffna that there had been any indigenous dravidian kingdom, even for a shorter period.
I fully agree that the homoland crap is the most selling point of for separation theorists to attract gullible tamil individuals. It is very synthetic and almost all of it is contemporary work. Not only the written history [in any language] but also the archeological evidence DOES NOT support the claim.
But partially the blame goes to our history knowledge too. Sinhala descending from Wijaya is a very incomplete statement saying the least. So is the ideology of ethnic purity of Sinhala. A center like SL cannot retain a purity of races. More likely is an integrated nation, while majority of contribution from natives. Like America will look in 100 years.
Our thinking in this line should first be reasonable and logical enough, if we're going to combat the myth and fairy tales from the other end.
Moda Dyan,
Stop talking crap, who cares whether Elephant Pass was the bridge between the Kandyan Kingdom and the Dutch Colony. We are an Island nation, which means we are a bastard race, we have mixed with every single ethnic group that came our way, but we have managed to maintain a unique identity i.e., peaceful, fun loving, morally sound, toddy loving (?!), cricket crazy and easy going nation.
The Tamils of Sri Lanka (except Hill Country Tamils) only started deviating towards Tamil Nadu post 83, they would have supported Sri Lanka againts any team. Our Muslim brothers support Pakistanis as Islam bonds them, but on closer association our Muslim brothers may find they have nothing in common with the Pakistanis apart from their religious beliefs.
By the way, I am back, how have chena boys, veddah girls and Peter been?
Sujeewa,
Kage Koka dha bung umba Walata damme?
Biling Sam,
Are you here? How many times have you have had black pork curry? Biling Gaha dhan mala wila athi neda?
Mahen,
Ammagen ahapan. Man anunge kokku daanne ne. Eka umbe job eka.
Anyway, glad to have you around.
Monavahari liyapan yako more often than this. Vass Gunawardena gana liyamuda?
Mahen;
If everyone accepts that we're a bastard nation there are no issues. Sadly, some people are talking about some mythical homoland and pure and superior ethnic subgroup.
We'll work against this until they like to get integrated [and become easy-going bastards]. Sadly Vavunia election just suggests me, they continuously prefer being a*seholes rather.
We're game if they tend to do so.
Peter said...
p.s.
I'm in negotiation with the Fonseka faction.
Smart military man, but privately he is probably the biggest idiot ever. One of very few military generals who has ended up penniless, despite overseeing a period where no one would have questioned him about finances.
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Yeah, do you want him to be like VP and start hoarding $$ in foreign bank accounts?
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I have to say, Gotha is smarter than Fonseka. He has moved pieces about a year ahead.
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Nice try. No one is biting.
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I'll probably be visiting here often. Though, I won't be departing with funds unless the faction can demonstrate ability to go beyond writing on walls in Colombo 7; that is just plain amateur.
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Keep your money and don't come back. We will survive.
Thusitha,
Don't take Peter too serious. Eelamist tamil faction has been talking way too big. KP was talking some Trans-Sexual Government and million other heavy words before he got rounded up like any other fugitive terrorist Mafia leader would get. Peter will be no exception.
A real fart fart no shit gang of people.
Shameless Sri Lankan Police culture still revolving bring disgrace to majority of good people there.
In our Police culture, they used to think that they are above all, but below the local MP and anyone claim to be a politician of the ruling party, the Illicit Liquor Dealer, and anyone claim to be an underworld figure attached to the ruling politicians.
This mentality that was developed and supported within and outside by the Ruling Politicians themselves corrupted the Police to the core over many decades.
In parallel, there ware always straight-forward, well-educated, and well-mannered people in the Police who shone well when they were given the opportunity and or kicked out of the Police or subject to harsh punishments and transfers when they rose against the corrupt lot. We can bring thousands of examples.
If you take any public vote, they would say Police is the most corrupted institute in Sri Lanka - this is extremely sad situation for an institution that has been set-up to upheld the law and order of the country (systematic politicization to be blamed?)
Every IGP when come to office says "I will make Police a Dignified and Respectable institution"....Well, this date is becoming further and further.
One man can make the change and Sarath Fonseka showed within three-years how it can be done.
In the past, I can remember how a high-ranking Army Officer was building his private Mansion in Colombo-8, and the Army Trucks were transporting all the Sand, Bricks, Iron Rods, and all the building material to the site (new found wealth being involved in the Purchasing Directorate of the Army then).
Now no more such activity. Army Officers are not even sending their Official Jeep to pick kids from School -scared of the job.
But, the Police...! What a disgrace!!!! First, we saw an IGP in a party hosted by the biggest Drug Lord in Colombo. Then we saw Nugegoda Superintendent of Police intimidating Naval Nihal family for his land-loot. All these are minuscule of things that have surfaced thanks to media etc. All the others, as much as possible swept under the carpet by the VERY Police culture.
Now, Nipuna was beaten. Evidence are overwhelming. No damn action being taken!
Our well-respected Defence Secretary can not be blamed! But IGP, can anybody relieve him from the blame?
However, I wish if Defence Secretary asked IGP in pure Sinhala "What the F&ck you are doing????" That would bring him to senses.
If what another highly respected DIG Nimal Lewke questioned is true, this Vas is a HUGE national security threat to the country. These are the kind of people (without any integrity whatsoever) who could take money from LTTE and do any ill-deed.
My appeal to the Defence Secretary is to take this Nipuna's case, how small or big it is (it is very BIG to us, because we care about the country), and start the cleaning up process of the Police.
Our country deserves more and deserves better! None should be allowed to take the law to their hand.
Take SF as an example. Our country would be a safe and dignified place for every citizen.
[But the Jews and other races who dwelled that mega city of Anuradhapura alongside iwth its natives, might not be so distinct now.]
Sujeewa Kokawala, old chap, you are absolutely right in calling Anuradhapura a mega city. It was the 6th largest city in the world in the year 100AD.
Top 10 Cities of the Year 100
1) Rome, Population 450,000
2) Luoyang (Honan), China, Population 420,000
3) Seleucia (on the Tigris), Iraq, Population 250,000
4) Alexandria, Egypt, Population 250,000
5) Antioch, Turkey, Population 150,000
6) Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka, Population 130,000
7) Peshawar, Pakistan, Population 120,000
8) Carthage, Tunisia, Population 100,000
9) Suzhou, China, Population n/a
10) Smyrna, Turkey, Population 90,000
Cheers!
Seriouly bung, after SLDF reorganisation no more news, under new management, will take time to re-establish contacts, even the drivers aren't talking ;-)
Mahen,
Macho, we have been cooking pork since May 19th every day. Probably, I will cook good pork curry with bilin for the rest of my life. In my free time, I grow bilin for my own supplies. I am going to throw a big pork party every May 19th to celebrated the liberation of my home land from LTTE terrorists.
I hope that you are aware of the other work going in the background. Let's no spare even one Elamist.
Sam 'parangi' Perera,
There are plenty of LTTE cadres in Colombo.
The, unfortunately, means you'll have to travel to the moda land to catch them. You aren't going to do that, are you? So, keep the tough talk to yourself.
NOLTTE=Peace,
I think you need to visit Colombo. In the so called post-LTTE scenario, Colombo is hardly a city at peace. Is it NOMUSLIMS=Peace, now?
Anyway, why are you obsessed with the Nippuna case? He is a JVP idiot. Ravi isn't such a bad character. I think the story has been blown out of proportion.
Well Peter,
You sounds like a hag SLIIT character who has gone back to finish rest of your course, as you had not finished it yet.
Well good luck with your exams!
I think Nipuna's case is a good starting point for the country to clean up the Police, as SF did with the Army.
As soon as we talk about Nipuna, Anugulana Police has done some LTTE work. Well, this is the problem with some of the people in our Police.
As someone suggested, Police should be given to SF for two years. He would surely clean it up!
Peter the Terrorist Monkey,
Tough talk or not, terrorists in Colombo or not, you saw what happened to your Thalaivar Vihilupundei and his subordinates. Please Keep dancing as you wish. We like your kind of light entertainment every once in a while.
NP,
Again, I think you need to visit Colombo. SF is in history pages. Have you noticed that even DefenceLK gives very little coverage to him. No shortage of stories of Gotha and new army chief, though.
Come to Colombo and talk about SF as you do. I'm sure you'll be the next Nippuna.
Parangi,
You are rightly proud of finishing VP after 30 long years. In my youth, bandas used to compare some general to VP. We finished him within months; his death anniversary wasn't too long ago. How many presidents, prime ministers and military chiefs had VP seen? Next one will see just as many.
Though, at the first instance, we have to get our house in order. In that respect, thank you modaland for getting rid of jokers like KP.
Hi Peter
Please don't get demotivated and discouraged by the very unfair moda critics from modaland. Please post 5 comments every day. Without monkey jokers these blogs are boring and same as dead blogs. Where are Upul, the boss and other jokers? You know how much we bandas in modaland like your monkey jokes. Please don't make us disappointed.
NOLTTE=Peace
yes . one man can make change but have to find that one . Surely mate why cant we make one of the best police in the world as we have one of the best Army in the world .
These are police gangsters we should wipe them out . there are so many this type of things but now it is in the peak . we use to ignore small things then these fools will think that they can do what ever they want . have to punish every one who is violating the law in the first step . then there will be no this type of big incidents .
Didn't we tell this long time ago?
http://www.lakbima.lk/articles/spec6.htm
/1. Police attack cricket fans including children at K’rama
The police brutally assaulted hundreds of cricket fans with valid tickets to view the T-20 International between Sri Lanka and Pakistan on Wednesday at R. Premadasa (Kettarama) stadium.
Unprecedented security checks conducted without prior notice caused a protracted delay and thousands of spectators were denied entry even after the match commenced. Unable to control the seething crowd, the police first shut the gates on them and then set upon irate spectators who became restive. Among the victims of police brutality were women and children.
"We were trapped with our children and the police mercilessly beat us with batons," a female cricket fan told The Island.
When some disappointed spectators hurled stones at the police, policemen retaliated by throwing the missiles at the crowd regardless of the presence of children among them.
Sri Lanka Cricket announced as early as at 6:15 pm, 45 minutes prior to the start of play that the car parks at the venue were full and many spectators with tickets who were looking for parking space were turned away. Among them was respected cricket administrator Kushil Gunasekara, the former board secretary and Manager of cricket star Muttiah Muralitharan.
At least two camera crews of police media unit filmed the rush of spectators at the entrance to the stadium.
Ground security was handled by SLC’s newly recruited Security Officer, Major General (Rtd) Lawrence Fernando, who has been handed a massive security budget of Rs. 7 million for the series.
Security personnel conducted checks on spectators at their own pace oblivious to the long queues of cricket fans with tickets being formed outside the stadium as a result.
Hundreds of spectators had to return home having paid for their tickets./
/2. Sri Lanka Police officers or brutal murderers? Bodies of two youths in Police custody found on the beach
The bodies of two youths who were taken into custody by the Lunawa Police yesterday (12Jul), were found at the Mt. Lavinia beach near the Lunawa bridge , by the residents of the area. The two youths were identified as Denesh Tharanga and Dunushka Aponsu of Angulana. According to the residents of the area , Dinesh Tharanga is a fish vendor while Anura Danushka was in charge of a Gymnasium.
The parents and relatives of the deceased stated, the youths were taken into custody yesterday night by the OIC of the Angulana Police IP Newton over an incident of teasing a girl. But, when they went the following day , that is today , the OIC had retorted that they had been handed over to the Galkissa Police, and had asked the parents to go there. However when they went to the Galkissa Police, they were told by the police officers that they were not there. Hence, they returned back to the Angulana Police. They were then told by the OIC to go and look for them in the beach. It is at the beach they found the two bodies of their children, the parents related to Lanka e News .
The two youths had been mercilessly assaulted and shot dead, they said.
People of the area who were infuriated surrounded the police station at around 7.00 a.m. today and carried out a massive demonstration while attacking the Police station with stones damaging the Police station doors and windows. The Police and Armed forces had to be deployed to bring the situation under control.
Following the protests of the public to transfer the OIC of the station, SSP Bernard Silva who visited the Angulana police station for the inquiry immediately transferred OIC Newton and appointed IP Chrishantha Dias to take over his duties.
The bodies of the two youths are now at the Kalubowila Hospital morgue./
/3. Nipuna exposes Vas Gunawardene’s death trap
Nipuna Ramanayake, who was abducted and assaulted by Vas Gunawardene’s men revealed to ‘Lankatruth’ his ordeal of being abducted and how Colombo Crime Division SSP Vas Gunewardena threatened him with death stating he would use his official powers to present Nipuna as an underworld thug. When we visited Nipuna the hospital authorities were making arrangements to transfer him to another ward but we were able to have a conversation before he was transferred.
Lankatruth: Could you tell us, in short, the experience you were confronted with?
Nipuna: There was an examination. When I came out of the campus at about 12.30 Ravindra Gunawardene, Vas Gunawardene’s son, came with several people, abducted me, took me to their home and assaulted me for about 5 hours. My friend who was with me when I was abducted had called 119 and made a complaint to Athurugiriya Police. They had found out the abductors from the number of the vehicle. Then my parents had spoken to the IGP and got me released.
They took me saying they would kill me. They tried to take a statement from me stating I had connections with a thug called ‘Olcott’ from Borella. However, before they could get my signature for the statement my parents rescued me and took me to the hospital. Ravindra’s mother too assaulted me. She hit me on my head uttering words I would not expect to hear from any mother. My head is bruised from the blows of that mother. The injuries on the hand and the leg are from the assault by her son. They hit me saying, “You go and tell others who I am. No one can challenge me.”
Lankatruth: What was the cause for the clash?
Nipuna: Our friends had an issue and when the administration came to know it they settled it. Ravindra thought it belittled his status. Since then he tried to be high handed. While in campus he states, “You cannot come to our status.” Another friend of mine was abducted some time ago and was assaulted. He was threatened with life and asked not to inform the police or the media. Only the mother of my friend is in Sri Lanka. Due to this they preferred to be silent over the matter. I too was similarly threatened. They tried to take a statement saying I was an underworld thug. They wanted to murder me and publish the statement .
After Nipuna was assaulted by Vas Gunawardene’s wife and son he had been taken to Criminal Investigation Unit at Dematagoda and Vas Gunawardene had tried to take another statement from him. Though we tried to get information regarding the present situation of the investigations on the incident several times no responsible officer was prepared to give us any information. According to reports reaching us no one has been arrested regarding the incident nor any statement taken from anyone involved in the incident./
/4. SSP Vaas allegedly misleads public and degrades Police -DIG makes controversial denial against Vaas’ claymore bomb laden Van arrest
Over the claymore mine laden Van taken into custody at Mannar , it is reported that SSP Vaas Gunawardena has allegedly given misleading information in this connection . The SSP whose son too was involved in another incident of a brutal attack on a SLIIC student Nipuna recently , also apparently tried to take the public on a ride , as, so far no one has been arrested over the incident.
SDIG Nimal Lewke in a dramatic turn of events had denied reports of SSP Vaas Gunawardena about a Van laden with bombs and its seizure . The SDIG who gave a lucid picture and the procedures that are followed duly by the Police in such an event , as opposed to the irresponsible and misleading information given by Vaas Gunawardena earlier , said the incident was not duly reported .
The SDIG said the Van in question was taken into custody , but the Driver was released later. The Van however was brought to Colombo on suspicion . It was highly questionable as to why the Driver was released if the Van was seized with a cache of powerful claymore mines. The SDIG has called for a detailed report on this./
1. If these things happened to tamils then it is "sinhalese police killing innocent tamil minority".
2. All IC, AI, HRW together with int. media say how "sri lankan state discriminate tamil minority".
3. As long as "sinhala police kills sinhala people" no issue with human rights champions.
4. This is no new trend. This is the usual case in SL. When there was war these incidents were not highlighted. Of course, our police was no match to LTTE killers who killed 30-40 civilians in every clamore bus bomb.
5. SL police is same as underworld. Both police and underworld are maintained by public funds. For underworld its ransom and for police its tax. Both can kidnap you, kill you, take ransom if they want. Law is not applicable for both. Both have connections to politicians. Only difference is police have a uniform.
6. Police is to protect people from dangerous people in the society. In SL people need to get protected from police.
7. Its no wonder if this kind of tragedy happened to tamils in north and they decide to take arms against the sinhala police. In fact, that's the hostory. History repeats.
If Tamils had worked with us instead of against us, Police corruption in SL could have been dealt with long ago.
Foolishly (perhaps for their own selfish corrupt reasons), they decided to play the ethnic card. This has permitted one of the most corrupt police forces to come to the fore.
Police all over the English speaking World are well known to be corrupt and in bed with the Under World. SL appears an good example.
I have followed both the Divaina and Island newspapers for over two decades, and I can say that those two are the ONLY two newspapers that were consistent and knew/know the heartbeat of our nation.
They are now talking clearly about straightening our Police.
http://www.divaina.com/2009/08/14/news28.html
http://www.divaina.com/2009/08/14/editor.html
And there is reply from Ranjit.. He says that Divaina has malice against the Police.
But he does not realize, it is not malice. The people of the country is fed up of the antics of Police. That is what has been shown by the anger expressed everywhere about the shameful conduct of police.
It is high time that the Sri Lanka police is cleaned up. People deserve more and people deserve better.
I have no connection to Nipuna, but the dangerous precedence that I sensed made to talk about it.
Now, the recent events unfolding expresses the true feelings of average Sirisena of Sri Lanka about Police.
We cut off many distinguished people in the Police i.e. DIG Kotakadeniya -a great person. And I saw DIG Prathapasinghe leaving to be engaged in Politics (I do not know much about him, but heard to be a good man). Then there was a great Policeman who range the CCD in Dematagoda in the past (I can not remember his name - I am bad) he was thrown to the bin. People trusted him as a person who would take a crack at anyone who would break the law and evade. No police person escaped from him. He was a big headache to all politicians around Negombo, Wattala, Ja-Ela etc, and this man was cut short.
As I understand, now Negombo has got a great head of Police. I can not remember whether he is a SSP or an ASP. He has cleaned Negombo a lot - many dubious figures have gone to hiding because of this great man.
Yes, there are great people. I believe DIG Nimal Lewke is such person. I do not know whether he is a great Administrator like SF.
We need to get Police under Sarath Fonseka. This would sort the vacuum.
Police is in the news suddenly,
http://www.island.lk/2009/08/14/news19.html
susantha,
that is fantastic!!
i have heard this b4 as well based on tamil evidence.
moda mahen,
cheers mate!
100% agree with you that SLs are a mixed race.
the elephant pass story is true. as you say it doesn't matter AS LONG AS SL IS ALLOWED TO REMAIN PEACEFULLY.
but it is CRITICALLY IMPORTANT when there is a separatist movement based on BULLSHIT theories.
sujeewa & konappu,
fantastic stuff!!
the strength is SLs has ALWAYS been its DIVERSITY as opposed to MONOETHNIC existence.
that is why we should use it as THE WEAPON to solve this problem.
the way forward is multiethnic colonisation of the north and east.
looks like the police has gone to dogs.
MANY recent events of abuse of power cause ALOT of alarm. this crap must stop.
i'm 110% sure these power abusing MOTHERFCUKERS have an agenda to DISCREDIT the govt as much as they possibly can. looks like the government has fallen to the trap!!
racism will NOT be banned in SL!!
SHIT!! our hopes are dashed on this.
"Ministers Mr. D. E. W. Gunasekara of the Sri Lanka Communist Party and Professor Tissa Vitharane of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party and Mr.Rauf Hakim, leader of the SLMC vehemently objected to the controversial clauses, de-recognizing the political parties with the bearing of religion or a race."
now we know who are the RACISTS.
naturally, racism will screw SL politics forever.
what a fcuking joke is this???
letter to GR on police dogs.
Security forces have shown the right way for the country by defeating the world's most ruthless and barbaric terrorists by laying down their valuable lives for the Motherland. However, the credit they brought is gradually destroyed by the police. The conduct of s section of the police is shameful, malicious, abusive, disgusting, despicable, evil and contemptible. We, patriots, urge you to look into the matter although the subject matter of police may not be fully under your highly disciplined defence establishment.
You can bring this matter with the relevant sections. You can a very capable professional who brought the war to an end contrary to naysayer advice. These sections of the police is working according to a UNP-TNA-LTTE agenda of discrediting the law of the land. First they tried to do that to the armed forces by hilarious claims about “genocide”, “war crimes”, thousands of civilian deaths, attacks on hospitals, etc. But when the international community realized the absurdity of these stupid claims the LTTE discredit campaign on our Motherland failed. Now they have found allies in the police.
Their next plan is to discredit the government by showing it is abusing power using their friends in the police to attack people. These crooks in the police should be punished before people punish the government for the faults of the police. Please look into these, Sir.
Mahen,
"Moda Dyan,
Stop talking crap, who cares whether Elephant Pass was the bridge between the Kandyan Kingdom and the Dutch Colony."
We care.
If you are a random sample of the people around President Rajapaksha then good luck to us.
well said HLD MAHINDAPALA!!. we appreciate your work. also shed some MORE light on the BIGGEST DANGER FACING SL NOW - full implementation of 13
what the fcuk is this???
"The US has asked the Sri Lankan government and the American Tamil community to seek opportunities to engage one another on political reconciliation and the reconstruction of Sri Lanka."
no need.
SL should only team up with the patriots. just bcos the US tamils have money, SL need not dance to their tune.
but if US tamils are willing to UNCONDITIONALLY help their cousins in vanni, they are welcome.
US is trying to pass THEIR PROBLEM to SL!!!
listen bloody blake, if you got in anti-SL tamils into USA, it is your misfortune and SL's fortune (to get rid of them). don't try to change it.
A great article by Mahindapala!
He has shown lot of maturity.
Ninja,
If it happened in this part of the world, the OIC of Angulana Police would be first taken to a Special Investigation Unit, and would be put on detention until he was produced before a Magistrate.
In the mean time, they will start on forensics, and a special team would be put on to gather evidence. The bullet-casing marks would be examined, bullet wounds would be examined, Autopsy would be conducted with utmost care, and people would be interviewed and their statements would be taken.
I am wondering whether anything such happening in the Angulana case, other than a Magistrate coming and looking at the body and saying.. "it looks like someone has shot these youth, I am directing Police to find the killers"!
BBC LTTE Service is also reporting about Angulana incident,
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sinhala/news/story/2009/08/090813_police.shtml
Brutally Assaulted
The parents of the victims said that they received information from a neighbour that the youth were being brutally assaulted at the police station during the early hours of Thursday,
“When we went to the police station we found that all the police officers were heavily drunk” said Saman Udayakantha Aponsu, the farther of one of the victims,
Villagers said that the Officer in charge of the Angulana Police station was in the habit of arresting young boys and later releasing them upon taking bribes from their parents.
“We went to the police station with the intention of bribing the police officers but it was too late” said Swarnalatha Aponsu the mother of the deceased Tharanga Fernando.
Very interesting indeed!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bToCpXxVpc&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.lankatruth.com%2Findex.php%3Foption%3Dcom_seyret%26Itemid%3D37%26task%3Dvideodirectlink%26id%3D107&feature=player_embedded#t=453
good article on Police thuggery
Angulana OIC will be punished. It is not a high-level connected issue. a "sillara" case.
Sadly Vass Gunawardena will get away with Angulana guy as scapegoat.
Konappu Bandara, Moshe and others,
Here is my revised version of Konappu's draft of the Letter of Nomination of President Mahinda Rajapaksa, Gothabhaya Rajapaksa and Sarath Fonseka for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Please revise as needed.
I am sorry for the delay.
......
Dear Nobel Peace Prize Committee Members,
I would like to nominate the following three distinguished Sri Lankans, President Mahinda Rajapaksa, Defense Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa, and Chief of Defense staff General Sarath Fonseka for the next Nobel Peace Prize.
These three leaders have been the architects of the wonderful peace that has dawned upon this ancient land, after thirty terrible years of war; a war inflicted upon the innocent people of Sri Lanka by the most ruthless and cruel terrorist movement the world has ever seen. What this noble trio has accomplished is nothing less than ensuring the safety and welfare, freedom and progress, of all men, women and children of Sri Lanka who have an inalienable right to live in peace and security. Here I speak particularly of the myriad homes where wage-earners strive amid the vicissitudes of human existence to protect spouse and child from harm, provide for their daily needs, and raise a family in the time-honored traditions of great religions and ethical standards that reflect their unique and proud heritage. To give security to these countless homes, they must be shielded from the two giant marauders: terrorism and war. We all know the frightful disturbances in which the ordinary family is plunged when the curse of war swoops down upon the bread-winner and those he struggles to protect and preserve.
The awful ruin of Northern Sri Lanka, with all its vanished glories, and of large parts of Eastern Sri Lanka is daunting to the soul of the most stoic of us. When the designs of wicked men, or the aggressive urge of ruthless terrorist groups, dissolve the fabric of civilized society over large areas, humble folk are confronted with difficulties they cannot fathom, or cope with. For them, all is distorted, all is broken, all ground to pulp. When I stand here at this time of blessed peace, at the end of this terrible war, I shudder at the awful memory of what actually transpired in this resplendent beautiful land to millions of its innocent law-abiding citizens. Terrorized each and everyday for past thirty years by these cruel terrorists, their voices silenced at the barrel of a gun, their under-age children conscripted for battle or as human-bombs, all protest stilled by rope, barbed wire, gun, and bomb, their property confiscated, and expelled from their homes to seek refuge among strangers, often in foreign lands as refugees. The magnitude of the pain, horror and mayhem they inflicted in these thirty years upon the innocent people of Sri Lanka is beyond human comprehension.
Nobel Peace Prize Nomination
....Part 2......
The ending of this anarchy and the restoration of the inalienable right to life and liberty to all people under the rule of just and fair law, was the supreme task and duty undertaken by these three brave champions of peace. Past leaders of Sri Lanka, though well meaning, did not take their duty to protect and serve the people of Sri Lanka seriously enough to pay the price for securing it. In placing political expediency above the lives and welfare of all of their people, and heeding the flawed advice of global naysayers with agendas not fully aligned with the interests of the people of Lanka, they allowed a terrorist movement to grow and usurp without consent the traditional liberties of the people. What distingushes these three leaders from those who preceded them, was their compassionate conviction that the lives and safety of their citizens matters more than any other consideration, particularly the interests of any ruling elite. To them what was at stake was not the survival of the leaders, but the survival of the common people. Following in the footsteps of that most compassionate of men, President Abraham Lincoln, vilified in his own time for pursuing the US Civil war with utmost vigor to bring it to a successful close in four short years, President Mahinda Rajapaksa, Defence Secretary Gothabhaya Rajapaksa, and General Sarath Fonseka launched a Humanitarion Operation with equal determination to liberate the enslaved people of North and East, and deliver all people of Sri Lanka from clutches of terrorism. They were dedicated to eradicating by leaf, branch, trunk and root every vestige of the violence and arbitrary exercise of power that the terrorists had unleashed, to reunifying the nation, and to restoring to all its people the protection of the fair and just laws of our democratic form of government. Their humanitarian compassion for the plight of their people rescued Sri Lanka from descending into the lawless abyss that grips Somalia today.
In undertaking this sacred duty to their nation, their people, the cause of justice for all, and to humanity itself, they confronted many obstacles: humanitarian, political, military, economic, and being assassinated by the terrorists, on any day, at any time. They confronted the political machinations of a global terrorist and criminal network wealthy enough to purchase the support of news media and of politicians of foreign governments, to hire batteries of lawyers to bring these great leaders to court under various spurious charges and browbeat them into foregoing the duty entrusted to them by their hapless people. They confronted a phalanx of political scientists and military experts making pontifical prononcements that terrorism cannot be defeated except through compromise abdicating the very rights and liberties we value as a free people, under the threat of continued terrorist violence. These great leaders, driven by their compassion for their people, understanding deeply the facts on the ground and the false allegations at work against them, girded their loins to confront these obstacles, in all of their manifestations, head-on, thus saving lives and avoiding further extending the debilitating conflict. Today, as a result of their yeoman efforts, Sri Lanka stands poised on the threshold of a glorious future for all of its people irrespective of community.
Nobel Peace Prize Nomination
....Part 3.....
The tireless work of these leaders to forge this victory not only benefited the Sri Lankan people, but it benefited all peace and freedom loving people and nations the world over, by putting to rest the flawed notion that democracies cannot successfully confront and defeat militant terrorism in their midst, militarily if necessary. Had the terrorists succeeded in their attempt to avoid defeat in Sri Lanka, it would have driven another nail in the collective coffin of democracies the world over; democracies fighting existential struggles against terrorists who exploit the very liberties afforded by the democratic form of government to undermine them and demoralize through false international propaganda and devious artifice, based not in reality, but in internationally broadcast falsehoods, false premises and insidious blackmail.
Furthermore, in adopting a humanitarian approach to the conflict, these great leaders of Sri Lanka showed the world that it is possible to fight and defeat terrorist movements in a compassionate way, that preserves and protects the lives of all non-combatants, while dealing firmly with the transgressors. In no other country in the world, in recent memory, has a government fed and provided all necessities for its citizens living in areas occupied by the enemy for three long decades, disregarding the use of those supplies by the enemy. In no other country has a government fighting a diabolically ferocious enemy, curtailed and limited its military operations and use of more effective weapons to save civilian lives, and successfully rescued of hundreds of thousands of civilians held as human shields, and kindly cared for them after rescue.
In the ultimate analysis, these three great leaders bestowed a real, tangible peace upon the twenty million people of Sri Lanka, allowing them to, once again, reach for the glorious future that beckoned them at independence in 1948. Sri Lanka that shone as a model for emerging nations before this unhappy war, can now resume its march towards that goal. I therefore urge you, the Members of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee, to recognize the humanitarian contributions of these three great leaders to the people of Sri Lanka in bringing them an enduring peace, and hope to people the world over who want government of the people, by the people, for the people to long endure, by selecting President Mahinda Rajapaksa, Defence Secretary Gothabhaya Rajapaksa, and the Chief of Defense Staff General Sarath Fonseka of Sri Lanka for the award of the Nobel Peace Prize.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Name and Signature
ananda and konappu,
mates, i prefer not to include SF & GR.
they are the biggest heroes and peacemakers no doubt, but we have to play to the audience. the nobel peace prize is given to THE BIGGEST COWARD (OR EXPECTED COWARD)not to the WINNERS.
MR stands SOME (very very remote though) chance. that will be spoilt if SF & GR were included. please understand the norwegien and scandinavian mentality.
sometimes the GORBACHEV effect may be expected by the nobel prize committee (not the nomination but the decision makers)
in 1990 they gave the peace prize to MG and he tored down the SU in 1991!!
they MIGHT consider giving it to MR on the same expectation that he will give tamil elam or federal or 13. of course after winning it, you can do whatever you want. there is no obligation.
EXPECTING this to happen (and of course knowing very well that third world leaders can be bought for money) the nobel committe MIGHT (as said b4 very very slim chance though) consider MR. BUT NOT GR, SF at all!!!
so shall we take off SF & GR????
Nirupama’s brother murdered in Tanzania
By Yohan Perera
In a shocking development Shyamlal Rajapaksa the brother of UPFA Hambantota District MP Nirupama Rajapaksa and nephew of President Mahinda Rajapaksa has been murdered in Tanzania yesterday.
According to family members Mr. Shyamlal Rajapaksa had been murdered by a gang who had tried to rob his house in the Tanzanian capital. He had met with the unfortunate death while struggling with the robbers.
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Hussein Bhaila told Daily Mirror that the Ministry had received the news of his murder but details were not known.
He said the Sri Lankan Ambassador in Kenya had been asked to look into the matter since there was no Sri Lankan mission in Tanzania.
Mr. Shyamlal Rajapaksa and his wife Prashanthi had been working as Attorneys in Tanzania. He was one of the prosecutors at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda seated in Arusha Tanzania.
The 42-year-old Shyamlal Rajapaksa had his school education at Royal College Colombo.
A London qualified Barrister, he was a People’s Alliance member of the Southern Provincial Council from 1999 to 2004. He is also the nephew of President Mahinda Rajapaksa and hails from the wellknown Rajapaksa family of Hambantota.
He was the only son of the late George Rajapaksa who was a prominent politician from the Hambantota District and Lalitha Rajapaksa.
He was earlier attached to the Attorney General’s Department as a State Counsel in Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka has gone to dogs!
War is over and time to reconcile with poor and oppressed to give a relief to suffering mass on both sides.
Enough of patriotic euphoria looks at the reality! For a mind which uses freedom of wisdom and logic to analyse humane tragedies Sri Lanka has become a land of predators for innocent citizens.
The motto is “If you want to survive praise Gota and mahinda” no matter what they do!!
They did an excellent job eradicating murderous Praba and his clan/LTTE but using the same ruthlessly to suppress innocent public and opposition. How ever it is not an excuse to suppress democracy and let police dogs to thrash innocent school bys just because they oppose the govt view.
There is no democracy with this govt any more.
There has to be a difference in war time and peace time; but with Gota running the show, it is always war!! There is a remarkable similarity between Gota and Prabha on ability to do cruelty! They matched nicely and Gota won by shear numbers.
My heart s crying for innocent folks who do not believe in the present govt aims and wishes but continue to suffer. They are our also kith and kin and also sharing our blood.
As always, I am after my third drink, so excuse or fuck me off for errors in the posting.
Rana The Warrior
Rana,
[[How ever it is not an excuse to suppress democracy and let police dogs to thrash innocent school bys just because they oppose the govt view.]]
Pray tell me, where have they used "police dogs" to thrash school kids with opposing views.
However we're also discussing some relevant topic you missed out. That is the use of the defence structure by several individuals in police to achieve their own evil objectives like trashing the arch-rival of son's class, or to get more bribery. And making up events to cover up.
Would appreciate if you can add more in the line you are taking.
Detachment between hand to mouth banda economic refugees and the Fonseka faction bandas of the glorious nation of Bandastan is simply amazing.
That's what happens when you can only trust DefenceLK. Half of the articles there are about Gotha or his wife. Fonseka has been made a nobody in less than a month.
But, poor boys toiling in the glorious nation have love for Fonseka. They know it is because of him, they get the pensions of their loved ones who became fertilizer. These patriotic boys of Dravidian descent will give their lives for their General.
If the hand to mouth bandas are truely patriotic they will see through the shades of DefenceLK and show some appreciation for Fonseka, who was actually responsible for killing VP.
Trinco Peter,
From saying this on May 19, 2009 6:15 PM
"Even if all this is true,
Tamils have KP, money and a lot of poor Sinhalese"
to saying this on August 13, 2009 11:15 PM
"In that respect, thank you modaland for getting rid of jokers like KP"
you seem to have become completely disillusioned now.
..and also you now are saying that VP is no more.So you mean to say,this wasnt another net kill?What happened to your video - is it still in the making?? or do we have to wait until Nov 2009 to see the Video??
Its really really strange that while your sister was easily hip hopping between the then battlefield NFZ to Trinco,the poor VP wasnt able to do so.Sigh....
I really really sympathize for VP now man.Jeez you people were boasting of about him at the drop of a hat and now you havent even given him a proper final salute.Absolute thankless morons
Good find Indian. If you just collect the past statements of Peter the low life, there is only two things that stay unchanged.
- His unrealistic threats and daydreaming.
- Being a joker
Peter is pretending that there is sooo much power hidden in the pussycat movement that they can crumble us into one micron dust particles, but they are waiting for the right time.
But in reality, this terrorist is living a hopeless life after everything they gambled was washed away and may even ATTAIN an international fugitive arrest, based on crimes he's conducted.
It is him who has to worry. It is his organization where hand to mouth pussycats are fighting with idealistic savages. Debate is either to enjoy the remaining loot or continue savagery. Have they been left with any other options, poor souls? Will they know any other anyway?
So this nature of hanging into any tiny hope is understandable. Now he must be thinking, whoever they appoint next must be even better than Fatpig and KP. Sadly it turns out that they are only better jokers than the previous one.
In that theory, Peter being a perfect joker, qualifies to become the leader only in many many decades. He's a lot better joker than Fatpig or KP with endless creativity and imagination.
Poor Peter Pooper,
Thanks for considering my request to dance more often.
Ananda, old boy, very fine work indeed. I think this makes a very compelling case to any rational person reading it. Now knowing the Norwegian thieves, anything rational will be toxic to them. So our chaps will stand no chance.
Moshe,
I am torn 50-50 on nominating all three wonderful chaps or just the President only. If we are doing this with the reasonable assumption that Norwegian scoundrels will never give any recognition to a decent Sri Lankan, the by nominating all three we can refer to them as Nobel Peace Prize nominee to drive Peelam rascals insane. On the other hand if we want to make this a serious nomination then just having the President only makes sense. Ananda, old boy, what's your take on this?
Cheers!
Great work
http://www.lankaenews.com/Sinhala/news.php?id=9989
One more police story
http://www.lankaenews.com/Sinhala/news.php?id=9987
http://www.lankaenews.com/Sinhala/news.php?id=9987
That's good!
This should be the momentum to clean up the Police.
Our beloved Defence Secretary, please draw-up a plan to clean up the Police.
If you have to fire bunch of people in the process, do not hesitate to do so.
Peoples of Sri Lanka deserve more and expect more!
/Indian said...
Trinco Peter,
From saying this on May 19, 2009 6:15 PM
"Even if all this is true,
Tamils have KP, money and a lot of poor Sinhalese"
to saying this on August 13, 2009 11:15 PM
"In that respect, thank you modaland for getting rid of jokers like KP"
you seem to have become completely disillusioned now.
..and also you now are saying that VP is no more.So you mean to say,this wasnt another net kill?What happened to your video - is it still in the making?? or do we have to wait until Nov 2009 to see the Video??
Its really really strange that while your sister was easily hip hopping between the then battlefield NFZ to Trinco,the poor VP wasnt able to do so.Sigh....
Sujeewa Kokawala said...
Good find Indian. If you just collect the past statements of Peter the low life, there is only two things that stay unchanged.
- His unrealistic threats and daydreaming.
- Being a joker/
Hi Peter
This is clear mud slinging. Please don't get demotivated. Keep posting 5 jokes every day.
You kill two guys or kidnap one and beat him and what you get is an transfer..?? Police should give the same treatment to themselves what they give to underworld. "Newton Fernando and Vas Gunewardane tried to grab a gun from a cop and were shot dead". Once you satisfied 'its clean up now' then go back to practicing normal law.
Newton Fernando has blessing from a high ranked minister. One guy he killed was selected as "rata surakina wishishtayo". Vas Gunawardena should be ruling party supporter otherwise he will not abuse power. Nipuna Ramanayaka's family contacted minister Mahinda Rathnathilake. So all involved perties here are ruling party supporters.
Hello All,
After a long time.I am in my beautiful country on a 1 1/2 month holiday. I visited EP. started from Kandy-Giritale/Polonnaruwa,Valachchenai,Pasikuda,Kalkuda( Stayed on Pasikuda beach for about 4 hrs)Eravur,Batticoloa,Kattankudi,Kalmunai,Oluvil,Akkaraipattu,Potuvil,Arugambay,Siyambalanduwa, Monaragala,Buttala,Kataragama,Tissamaharama,Kirinda,Yala,Bundala,Hambantota,Tangalla,Weligama,Matara,Galle,Beruwala,Colombo.7 nights/8 days.What a trip it was.
DW,
I got this news when i was in Yala.We all were happy. Why not???? It is still happy to see all are with DW.Yes guys we are better than Mosad guys.
Guys i was expecting to visit Jaffna,but i have to wait a little. may be next time :-)
Daily Mirror has been consistent about the Police antics for some time now. It is good, as it would help to regulate this this uncontrollable entity now out of order.
If Sri Lanka has not crumbled, Vas should be going home with his son in the jail, and Newton going to be convicted of murder and set for gallows. The other goons who were accessory to him, should be in jail serving 15 year terms for being accessory to murder.
We have to make this a history point in Sri Lanka to apply corrections to this unruly institute that brings disgrace to many good people who are there.
Nice one!
http://www.dailymirror.lk/DM_BLOG/Sections/frmNewsCategoryView.aspx?MAINCATID=8&SUBCATID=0
Good old chaps,
Re: Angulana incident - hot update.
I know a reliable folk out there and this is the story I heard from him. He is very reliable and this story tallies with every piece of evidence.
Here it goes.
Two guys had a drink and went to nearby stall to have a smoke. The woman of the grocery is a notorious case and Police OIC was involved with her in ways beyond the norms of public safety, rather up close and personal. Woman had no fire for the smokers. The two guys responded to her, "Ow ithin umba langa gindara thiyenne OIC mahaththayata witharane" [you have fire only for OIC]. The woman TOLD [note COMPLAIN is too formal here] this to OIC who is said to be a drunk animal after 6PM. Rest is history.
Woman's house is burnt to ashes by angry mob.
This Derana uncut version has some reference to the relationship of woman and OIC.
The child brother of a victim is crying and asking for just one bullet for him to use in the expense of OIC. I will leave it for analysts and sociologists to discuss its impact on the well being of our nation
It looks like a personal matter of OIC, and I'm quite sure he will receive his return for this. OIC is already in custody.
I hope that the focus on this event will not make a getaway to SSP Vass Gunawardena. VassG has been transferred to head office and that looks like some start.
Rana boy, the two main stories do not have any political perspective, mostly it is about some police officers who have made use of the security structure to take revenge for personal issues. So I seriously don't see a reason to blame Gota or MR. All what they can do is apply law on the officer accused.
Those days in the village area I lived Police had some super power. There are so many people who got arrested and ended up being cripples. Some even died. Events of this type are not so uncommon just that there is wide media coverage now.
If anyone say that SL police is a side fact which influenced tamil terrorism, I'm 100% in agreement [equally for the two JVP uprisings too]. Firstly due to their unfair conduct. Secondly due to their inept and coward reaction to the organized gangs in the rise, which later turns into terrorism.
Food for thoughts, in the new dawning. We should make sure this won't be a repeat of yesterday.
Ninja,
Please do not disturb.
Peter is writing his SLIIT exams these days, because his Investment Wanking boss has asked him to produce the certificate or else to go back to the janitorial job.
I am glad that Nipuna was spared. If Vas could stage a massive claymore find, then it would have been a pittance for him to kill Nipuna and tell that he tried to throw a hand-grenade at Police, so finished him off for self defence.
NL=P?
Nipuna's father is a estate owner with direct connections to ministers. The order has come from the minister himself for find him. While VassG and his family team busy disciplining the child, rest of teh police IGP to bottom were busy looking for him to set him free. That is how he was saved, and that is why VassG has come with tail between legs and told his parents "that there was a mistake in his side".
So if Nipuna was born to an ordinary somapala, Nanadana and Jayasiri he wouldn't be this lucky, and most likely to be christened as SLIIT NIPUNA who is the campus extortion head of Kaduwela gang.
This transfer is an utter joke - a disgrace!
His son should be in jail, and Vas should be indicted pending prosecution.
Looks like someone who is above Vas has asked Vas to stage the claymore find as an escape goat. Therefore, Vas being transferred to the head office to cover both their a&ses.
I am wondering what clown Ranjit has to joke in the next press conference.
Dear Sujeewa K,
In Sri Lanka, no matter how high is your position or which uniform you are wearing. You don’t take law into your hand unless you are sure of your well being and protection.
If Mervin Silva (non cabinet minister) can openly admit killing Lasantha Gunawardane and attacking poddala Jayantha in order to silent his political opposition. MR’s silence on Mervin’s act must be taken as his approval of things.
Unlike those days, today defence forces are completely controlled and manured by Gota. If they loose discipline then Gota is responsible. He is the king behind MR and all those who use and wear uniforms are shit scared of Gota.
Then tell me my friend, why suddenly after the war SL has gone to the dogs as far as discipline of uniformed personals concerned?
Is this the country we were expecting after decimating LTTE?
Continued…for Sujeewa,
Sri Lanka was a normal peaceful country up to 1970 but from 1970 our high ranking politicians used police personal to achieve their ugly motives through unorthodox methods using police officers with or without uniforms.
We have seen this for last 25 years. There is an alarming trend of spreading this cancer to other defence forces too. If this is continued further; SL will be a totally unhealthy place to live for normal law abiding citizens.
Eradicating terrorism is one thing but use the power of uniformed force to achieve and maintain total power over opposition whether in politics or day to day life cannot be approved by observers like me.
Konappu & Moshe,
I agree with Moshe that MR-only is the only choice having any chance at winning the Nobel Peace Prize all, but feel the same as Konappu about the final outcome.
Like Konappu, I hate to split the MR,GR,SF team up for expediency's sake to get the Prize for MR only, but given that we are dealing with Norway and Sweden, it is VERY UNLIKELY that they would award it to MR either.
Under these circumstances, the proper thing to do is to nominate the team of three and, as Konappu says "DRIVE THE EELAMISTS INSANE!"
The problem today is "bleeding heart liberalism". By citing Lincoln, I tried to make the case that winning and ending the war instead of letting it drag on interminably negotiating with fanatics was a humanitarian act of high order, but today "humanitarianism" has degraded to bleating about the pain and violence while simultaneously opposing any firm action by the forces of law and order to end it. It was not too long ago that the Norwegians took a very dim view of traitors assisting Nazis to enslave their country: they executed 42 and imprisoned hundreds more at the end of the war, but now they have forgotten what it feels like. Now it is ALL ABSTRACT THEORY and decisions are based ONLY ON WHOSE OX is being GORED: if it is yours, FINE, BEAR IT; if it is mine ... MURDER MOST FOUL!
Let us seek advice on this from the other patriots too. Hello, time to chime in, brothers!
NL=P,
Bro, punishing Vaas G or Angulana OIC and others connected is not a long lasting solution to police brutality. Yesterday Vass G did it and tomorrow somebody else will do it. This will continue unless top brass of the SLG namely MR and GR take stern action against it. They should act decisively as a lesson to all others to clean up their houses. Either shape up or get ready to ship out should be the motto.
Mr should start with Mervin S before Vaas and end up with OIC Angulana, if wants to clean the place.
However, it seems this is only a wishful thinking with the present lot.
Ananda & Konappu,
ok; i go with you. we can send the revised one for sure.
there is no harm in making MULTIPLE nominations. will make another one and send. the more the merrier!
of course it has some weight when a powerful guy makes nominations but even SL MPs can nominate.
also former winners. finding a SANE peace prize winner is very difficult though!!!
FYI
http://www.tamilsforobama.com/Nobel/Nobel_Campaign_letter.html
Pakistanis are the friends who stood by us in our darkest moments and it is our moral obligation to support them in our best capacity. I sincerely hope that my government is assisting Pakistan to defeat terrorists there in every possible way.
Moshe
Try not to read Blake's comments in isolation. You will miss the forest for the trees.
The American perspective is driven primarily from a systematic way of analysing events. And in that process, Americans often get stuck in the process by over analyzing data to a point beyond common sense. I see this daily even in working life here.
When the US used to tell SLG to 'negotiate' it was because they genuinely thought we could not win in a fight. The Norwegians had successfully convinced them of that. Therefore their advice to negotiate was well intended, even though poorly recieved at SL's end.
What's happening now is a repetition of how the Clinton administration brought the Arabs and Israelis together long ago. Tey don't understand that SLG doesn't need to negotiate when they have the ability to deal with the problems with both the stick and carrot..and with the folks who decided to live and work in SL.
This is why it is necessary for SLG to constructively engage the US State dept on how our own unique solutions are going to be implemented. We don't NEED their approval. But we do need friends, and the US has been a good friend in this fight.
TS,
"This is why it is necessary for SLG to constructively engage the US State dept on how our own unique solutions are going to be implemented. We don't NEED their approval. But we do need friends, and the US has been a good friend in this fight."
I am not sure if I can agree with you here. I know as a fact that Robert Blake walked in to our presidents office and threatened with bogus war crime charges. Further more, they tried all nasty things going beyond diplomatic norms to meddle with our internal matters. One time, RB went to Chennai to meet some Eelamists. Then of course US subversively tried to bring our country to UNHCR using their pawns UK etc. None of these are indications of any friendship.
We have to be cognizant to the fact that US has no strategic interest in SL. Robert Blake said it once and the previous ambassador said it again in the US senate foreign relations committee hearings (the one Anna Neistat testified). If US has no strategic interest then it is very likely that the matter will be left to a third rate diplomat like RB to handle matters in his own.
Given the fact that Hillary and the state department is bought by Terrorist for Hillary, it is unlikely that US will be our friend any time soon.
Sam
[I know as a fact that Robert Blake walked in to our presidents office and threatened with bogus war crime charges. Further more, they tried all nasty things going beyond diplomatic norms to meddle with our internal matters. One time, RB went to Chennai to meet some Eelamists. Then of course US subversively tried to bring our country to UNHCR using their pawns UK etc. None of these are indications of any friendship]
[Given the fact that Hillary and the state department is bought by Terrorist for Hillary, it is unlikely that US will be our friend any time soon]
Sam, Kudos to you mate for calling a Spade a Spade!!!
O'My Sweet Lord (so said George Harrison once I recall) when will we have persons of Sam’s caliber in our Diplomatic Corp and in the broader GOSL Foreign Ministry who will take a steadfast stand for OUR interests and stand by MotherLanka without caving in for West-thrown “breadcrumbs” and praising these whitey-illegal-gooks…and praising them too like Simple-Simon monkeys who received a half-ripe, half a banana???
OaO Asithri
p.s. this is in no way to belittle or disparage my dear mate in this blog, TropicalS….I hold the highest respect for him for what he has done to counter-propaganda the LTTE whorebitches and their supporters all the way to May 19th 2009 (and I know more than any other what he has done for our MotherLanka)
Got to run...some IDP LTTE whore-thangaatchi bitches are screaming...screaming for a "fill"...like how they used to get "filled" in the ex-FDLs...so got to get some 80MM mortar shells and visit them...duty calls….
:)) :)) :))
OaO Asithri
p.s. Aha, remember those "FDL"...I am truly nostalgic when I think of them...they went the way of Dinosaurs!
My post at Lanka Newspapers:
Thiviya,
You asked for evidence of Sinhala in Mahavamsa in January. I was not here then to reply. I have copied my reply to your earlier query here. Just to drive the point home how empty your racism is:
Here is the Pali followed by English Translation from Dipavamsa (which older than Mahavamsa) on which Mahavamsa is based (beginning Chapter IX):
'Lanakdipo ayam ahu sihena Sihala iti dipuppattim imam vamsam sunatha vacanam mama.
The island of Lnnka was called Sihala after the Lion listen ye to the narration of the origin of the island which I (am going to) tell.'
Sihala became Sinhale. It is not the name of a genetic group. It is the name of the island and its people. The same name is mentioned in Mahabarata and Fa Hien's writing (all around the early centuries of the common Era).
Similarly the Hela root of Damila= Dam + ila is one without Dhamma. i.e. reserved for those groups of people considerd uncivilised by the standards of the day (i.e. in those days the whole of India, including South India as well as SL was under Buddhist and Jain influence). Anyone who worshipped stone would have been considered uncivilised. It is not the name for a genetic or ethnic group but merely signified a type of people.
It was the British who made ethnic groups out of Sinhala and Tamil for their own administrative and nefarious purposes.
e.g. letter by Governor Torrington to Earl Grey after the 1948 rebellion (about colonising the North, East and Kandy):
'I am most anxious to introduce and locate on some of these very lands Malabars, allowing them to cultivate and pay a portion of the produce to government. This would have an excellent effect. A population would soon spring up that would act as a check on the Kandians and gradually be the means of giving us a supply of labour without sending to the coast. The Kandians hate the Malabars and on some of the estates near Matale the coolies fought well for the protection of their master's property.Pray give the plan some consideration- I need not remind you that the colony has been put to some expense in suppressing this outbreak.'
Note that even as late as 1848 there was no consideration of a 'Tamil' race. They were called Malabar or alternately 'Tamul'. The word Tamil was later derived from 'Damila' durig the Dravidian movement created by the myth of Caldwell (Aryan- Dravidian divide).
Even in the 'Tamil' (Taymoli= mother tongue) lexicon of the early 19th century considerd Eelam=Land of the Sinhala).
Thus it is rather spurious for those who had invented a new identity, forged on the concept of European idea of nation and declared Eelam in 1919 to now ask to show evidence that there were Sinhala race on the island form its origin. The fact is that they were not a race but Dipavasi or people of the island. Anyone was welcome.
If a bunch of fascists want to see themselves as different based on their caste-prejudices, Dipavasi are not to bear the blame.
Maila
TS,
yes we have to positively engage the US. but this incident occured after meeting the reps from the tamil diaspora. chances are that he was trying to please them.
we have to engage the US but not the TD; not NECESARILY. if at all they get engaged, it would be OUR TERMS.
political solutions, power sharing with racial elements, etc. should not mix with humanitarian assistence.
Konappu Bandara, Moshe and others,
Here is the Version 2 of my revision Konappu's draft of the Letter of Nomination of President Mahinda Rajapaksa, Gotabhaya Rajapaksa and Sarath Fonseka for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Konappu, since Moshe agrees, please revise as needed, please go ahead with the submission.
......VERSION 2: Part 1....
Dear Nobel Peace Prize Committee Members,
I would like to nominate the following three distinguished Sri Lankans, President Mahinda Rajapaksa, Defense Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa, and Chief of Defense staff General Sarath Fonseka for the next Nobel Peace Prize.
These three leaders have been the architects of the wonderful peace that has dawned upon this ancient land, after thirty terrible years of unremitting war; a war inflicted upon the innocent people of Sri Lanka by the most ruthless and cruel terrorist movement the world has ever seen. What this noble trio has accomplished is nothing less than ensuring the safety and welfare, freedom and progress, of all men, women and children of Sri Lanka who have an inalienable right to live in peace and security. Here I speak particularly of the myriad homes where wage-earners strive amid the vicissitudes of human existence to protect spouse and child from harm, provide for their daily needs, and raise a family in the time-honored traditions of great religions and ethical standards that reflect their unique and proud heritage. To give security to these countless homes, they must be shielded from the two giant marauders: terrorism and war. We all know the frightful disturbances in which the ordinary family is plunged when the curse of war swoops down upon the bread-winner and those he struggles to protect and preserve.
The awful ruin of Northern Sri Lanka, with all its vanished glories, and of large parts of Eastern Sri Lanka is daunting to the soul of the most stoic of us. When the designs of wicked men, or the aggressive urge of ruthless terrorist groups, dissolve the fabric of civilized society over large areas, humble folk are confronted with difficulties they cannot fathom, or cope with. For them, all is distorted, all is broken, all ground to pulp. When I stand here at this time of blessed peace, at the end of this terrible war, I shudder at the awful memory of what actually transpired in this hauntingly beautiful resplendent land to millions of its innocent law-abiding citizens. Terrorized each and everyday for past thirty years by these cruel terrorists, their voices silenced at the barrel of a gun, their under-age children conscripted for battle or as human-bombs, all protest stilled by rope, barbed wire, gun, and bomb, their property confiscated, and expelled from their homes to seek refuge among strangers, often in foreign lands as refugees. The magnitude of the pain, horror and mayhem they inflicted in these thirty years upon the innocent people of Sri Lanka is beyond human comprehension.
Nobel Peace Prize Nomination
.......VERSION 2: Part 2....
Ending this anarchy and restoring the inalienable right to life and liberty to all people under the rule of just and fair law, was the supreme task and duty undertaken by these three brave champions of peace. Past leaders of Sri Lanka, though well meaning, did not take their duty to protect and serve the people of Sri Lanka seriously enough to risk paying the price of securing it. In placing political expediency above the lives and welfare of all of their people, and heeding the flawed advice of global naysayers with agendas not fully aligned with the interests of the people of Lanka, they allowed a terrorist movement to grow and usurp without consent the traditional liberties of the people. What distingushes these three leaders from those who preceded them, was their compassionate conviction that the lives and safety of their citizens matters more than any other consideration, particularly the interests of any ruling elite. To them what was at stake was not the survival of the leaders, but the survival of the common people.
Following in the footsteps of that most compassionate of men, President Abraham Lincoln, vilified in his own time for pursuing the US Civil war with utmost vigor to bring it to a successful close in four short years, President Mahinda Rajapaksa, Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, and General Sarath Fonseka launched a Humanitarian Operation with equal determination to liberate the enslaved people of North and East, and deliver all people of Sri Lanka from clutches of terrorism. They were dedicated to eradicating by leaf, branch, trunk and root every vestige of the violence and arbitrary exercise of power that the terrorists had unleashed, to reunifying the nation, and to restoring to all its people the protection of the fair and just laws of our democratic form of government. Their humanitarian compassion for the plight of their people rescued Sri Lanka from descending into the lawless abyss that grips Somalia today.
In undertaking this sacred duty to their nation, their people, the cause of justice for all, and to humanity itself, they confronted many obstacles: humanitarian, political, military, economic, and assassination by the terrorists, on any day, at any time. They confronted the political machinations of a global terrorist and criminal network become wealthy enough through criminal activities to purchase the support of news media and of politicians in foreign governments, to hire batteries of lawyers to bring our great leaders to court under various spurious charges, and browbeat them into foregoing the duty entrusted to them by their hapless people. They confronted an international phalanx of political scientists and military experts making pontifical pronouncements that terrorism cannot be defeated except through compromise that would abdicate the very rights and liberties we treasure as a free people, under the threat of continued terrorist violence. These great leaders, driven by their compassion for their people, understanding deeply the facts on the ground and the false allegations at work internationally against them, girded their loins to confront these obstacles head-on, in all of their manifestations, thus saving lives and avoiding extending the debilitating conflict further. Today, as a result of their yeoman efforts, Sri Lanka stands poised on the threshold of a glorious future for all of its people, irrespective of community.
Nobel Peace Prize Nomination
....VERSION 2: Part 3....
The tireless work of these leaders to forge this victory not only benefited all Sri Lankan people, but it benefited all peace- and freedom-loving people and nations the world over, by laying to rest the flawed notion that democracies cannot successfully confront and defeat militant terrorism in their midst, militarily if necessary. Had the terrorists succeeded in their attempt to avoid defeat in Sri Lanka, it would have driven another nail in the collective coffin of democracies the world over; democracies fighting existential struggles against terrorists who exploit the very liberties afforded by the democratic form of government to undermine and demoralize them through false international propaganda and devious artifice, based not in reality, but in internationally broadcast falsehoods, false premises and insidious blackmail.
Furthermore, in adopting a humanitarian approach to the conflict, these great leaders of Sri Lanka showed the world that it is possible to fight and defeat terrorist movements in a compassionate way, that preserves and protects the lives of all non-combatants, while dealing firmly with the transgressors. In no other country in the world, in recent memory, has a government fed and provided all necessities for its citizens living in areas occupied by the enemy for three long decades, disregarding the use of those supplies by the enemy. In no other country has a government fighting a diabolically ferocious enemy, curtailed and limited its military operations, and the use of more effective offensive weapons, to save civilian lives, and successfully rescued hundreds of thousands of civilians held as human shields, and kindly cared for them after rescue.
In the final analysis, these three great leaders bestowed a real, tangible peace upon the twenty two million people of Sri Lanka, allowing them to again reach for the glorious future that beckoned them at the dawn of independence in 1948. Sovereign Sri Lanka that shone as a model for emerging nations before this unhappy war, can now resume its march towards that national goal ... thanks to the vision, compassion and courage of these leaders. I therefore urge you, the Members of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee, to recognize the humanitarian contributions of these three great leaders to the welfare of all people of Sri Lanka in delivering to them a durable peace, and in rekindling hope in the hearts of people all over the world that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall long endure, by selecting President Mahinda Rajapaksa, Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, and the Chief of Defense Staff General Sarath Fonseka of Sri Lanka for the award of the Nobel Peace Prize.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Name and Signature
Everybody, Have you heard?
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And if that Mockingbird don't sing,
He is gonna get two diamond rings
And if those diamond rings don't shine
He's gonna break this heart of mine
And that's why I keep on telling everybody, sayin
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KP spilling beans in Colombo
Sat, Aug 15, 2009, 12:23 am SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.
Aug 15, Colombo: The arrested leader of the LTTE, Kumaran Pathmanathan, aka KP, is revealing the financial deals of the vanquished terrorist reorganization to his interrogators in Colombo, the government news agency reported.
During interrogations KP has revealed that the LTTE maintained thousands of bank accounts in countries across the world. At least 1,582 bank accounts were maintained by LTTE, KP has told his interrogators.
KP is being extensively questioned by the government on various assets the LTTE has held overseas to the tune of billions of dollars. He has disclosed some details on the various organizations and individuals who have directly and indirectly contributed to LTTE coffers.
According to the defence spokesman, Minister Keheliya Rambukwella legal actions would be taken against the contributors.
KP also revealed that the LTTE had two international wings namely, the 'KP' Department and the 'Aiyanna' Group, which were active across the globe.
Interrogations have revealed that KP who had extensive contacts in various governments learned about Sri Lanka's military purchases beforehand.
Pontifical Pronouncements by Pusillanimous Pundits Continue Unabated to Paint the Dimmest Possible View of Post-War Sri Lanka
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Is Sri Lanka “careering back to where it was” after election?
Reuters.com
By Nita Bhalla, New Delhi
August 14, 2009
Sri Lanka’s bloody 25-year conflict with the Tamil Tigers ended in May but commentators reflecting on the country’s first post-war elections last weekend expressed little optimism about a peaceful future for the Indian Ocean island.
The ruling United People’s Freedom Alliance swept to victory in Sinhalese-dominated Uva province and scraped a win in Jaffna, while the Tamil National Alliance — political allies of the defeated rebels — won control of Vavuniya. Both Jaffna and Vavuniya are just outside the shadow state which the Tigers controlled for decades.
“The victory in Jaffna, the heartland of the country’s ethnic minority Tamils and birthplace of militancy, will give the government a chance to claim it as an endorsement of its handling of ethnic relations, postwar rehabilitation and a rejection of separatism,” Krishan Francis of the Associated Press wrote in the Washington Post.
But the results do not fully reflect public opinion in these war-battered regions, with more than 77 percent of the Jaffna voters staying away and only half of the Vavuniya voters casting ballots.
The London-based Financial Times pointed out that it was hard to know what really happened in the elections - foreign journalists were banned from the north, just as all journalists were during the final stages of the war.
“But the real purpose of the poll seems to have been to test the popularity of President Mahinda Rajapaksa before he calls an early general election to secure a second six-year term, in the afterglow of military victory,” the Financial Times wrote in an editorial.
The newspaper added that the notion of devolution to deal with Tamil grievances had been taken off the table and the government no longer wishes to discuss minority rights, only individual rights within the new national identity it intends to forge.
US and British officials fear this may involve the forced dispersal of Tamils across the island so they can no longer cluster, said the broadsheet.
“Put simply, while the conflict has ended, Sri Lanka is careering back to where it was when the conflict began. Its precarious identity as a mix of ethnic and linguistic, cultural and religious influences is in danger of being swept away by a triumphalist wave of Sinhalese chauvinism,” the FT said.
ELECTIONS HELD TOO SOON
According to the Christian Science Monitor some analysts believe the elections were held too soon after the end of the war for people to vote and for democracy to be truly tested.
“Certainly, normalcy in the battle-scarred north is a long way off: Nearly 300,000 Tamil civilians are being forcibly held by the government in camps near Jaffna and Vavuniya,” wrote Mian Ridge. “Both towns are still surrounded by government checkpoints, and are largely inaccessible to non-residents. Even residents can’t leave without permission.”
Ridge added that foreign - and many Sri Lankan - journalists were not allowed to cover the elections and Paris-based Reporters Without Borders said that the decision to bar the media “dashes any hope of a transparent election.”
Sudha Ramachandran from the Asia Times said the Jaffna and Vavuniya elections were seen as an important indicator of the mood among the Tamil people in the north.
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“Some have interpreted the ruling party’s strong showing in Jaffna as a sign that the Tamils are endorsing Rajapakse’s approach to the conflict in Sri Lanka,” said Ramachandran. But she pointed out that this interpretation amounts to little given the poor voter turnout, especially in Jaffna.
Charles Haviland from the BBC added that poor turnout was not just down to apathy amongst Tamils, but because much of the area is depopulated with about 300,000 Tamils detained in nearby government camps after the war, and others either dead or displaced to other parts of the island.
Hard Reality Trickling into the minds of Former Eelamists, Ohomama Yamu Putho! JAYAWEWA!
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Eelam cause washed away
V Suryanarayan
ExpressBuzz.com
August 14, 2009
Speaking in the Tamil Nadu Assembly recently Chief Minister and president of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), M Karunanidhi, pointed out that in the post-LTTE era, attaining the goal of Tamil Eelam was not a realistic goal. He advocated the pursuance of a ‘flexible policy’, where the Tamils should avoid critical comments against the Sinhalese ‘out of anger and hatred’, because it may have an ‘adverse effect’ on their well-being. The need of the hour, he underlined, is for the Tamils to carry on their struggle ‘for equal rights, equal status for their language and devolution of power at the regional level’.
Discerning students of Tamil Nadu politics, especially those analysing the role of the state in Sri Lankan ethnic conflict, are intrigued by the transformation that has taken place in the DMK perception on Sri Lanka. It may be recalled that following the communal holocaust in Colombo in July 1983, Karunanidhi and Anbazhagan resigned their seats in the assembly to protest against New Delhi’s lukewarm response to the sufferings of the Sri Lankan Tamils. On August 27, 1983, the DMK passed a resolution, which stated that a ‘separate Tamil Eelam shall be the only remedy and paramount solution’. Speaking on Marina Beach the next day, K Anbazhagan demanded Indian ‘military intervention’ to put a halt to the ‘genocide’ taking place in the island.
The DMK, in the long years when it was in the opposition, used to be severely critical of the policies and programmes of the Centre and used to accuse the AIADMK government of sacrificing the interests of the Tamils across the Palk Strait. While in power, in ’89, Karunanidhi did not have the courtesy to welcome the Indian Peace Keeping Force, which returned from Sri Lanka. He accused the Indian army of committing ‘atrocities’ against the Tamils.
As the Lankan military offensive gathered momentum, the war against the Tigers degenerated into a war against Tamils. The hapless Tamil civilians were caught between the Sinhalese Lions and the Tamil Tigers and hundreds of them lost their lives. Instead of trying to evolve an international mechanism, acceptable to both the Tigers and the Lankan government, to rescue the Tamil civilians from the war zones to refugee camps, the response of the Government of India, backed by Tamil Nadu, was only to express ‘concern’ at the increasing number of civilian casualties. The maximum that Karunanidhi could accomplish after his brief hunger strike was an assurance from the Lankan president that the military offensive would be suspended for three days.
How does one explain the paradigm shift in the New Delhi-Chennai equation? Was it due to the ‘coalition dharma’ of the Centre, where the DMK is an important ally? Was it due to Karunanidhi’s desire for stronger relations with Sonia Gandhi when sections within the Congress were toying with the idea of extending an olive branch to Jayalalithaa? Was the policy dictated by the chief minister’s desire to ensure important Cabinet berths to his near and dear ones in New Delhi?
Eelamist Cause Melting Away
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The role played by Tamil Nadu in fashioning India’s Sri Lanka policy is a subject matter of great controversy. The Sinhalese have maintained that Tamil Nadu was invariably the villain in the deterioration of India-Sri Lanka relations. Prof K M De Silva, a Lankan historian, has written that the separatist movement in Sri Lanka ‘was fostered, nurtured and protected in Tamil Nadu’. Strangely this argument has also its supporters among powerful sections in New Delhi. Explaining the reasons why India adopted an interventionist policy towards Sri Lanka, ambassador J N Dixit explained that if New Delhi did not positively respond to the demands put forth by Tamil Nadu, the Tamils would naturally raise the question: ‘Is there any relevance of our being part of a larger entity, if our deeply felt sentiments are not respected?’ Dixit, therefore, concluded that it was a ‘compulsion’ that could not be avoided by the Centre.
In the years of one-party dominance, New Delhi had often sacrificed the interests of Tamil Nadu in the name of good neighbourly relations — the conclusion of the Sirimavo-Shastri Pact in October 1964 and the signing of the maritime boundary agreements in 1974 and 1976, which ceded Kachchativu to Sri Lanka and sacrificed the traditional rights of Indian fishermen, are two examples. It should also be pointed out that when New Delhi, at the end of July 1983, decided to pursue the dual policy of mediation and support to the Tamil militants, it was done without any inputs from Tamil Nadu.
The volatile politics of Tamil Nadu after July 1983 can be explained only against the backdrop of competitive politics between the DMK and the AIADMK. Equally relevant was the Congress’ attempts to rebuild itself in Tamil Nadu by lending support to the Lankan Tamil cause. Those who completely identified themselves with the Tigers constituted a minuscule minority. The electorate decisively rejected Nedumaran and S D Somasundaram, who contested the 1989 state elections on the Tamil Eelam platform.
The overt and covert support extended by the political forces in the state to the LTTE cause continued till the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi and the publication of the Jain Commission report. After that the DMK and the AIADMK made a sudden somersault; each started accusing the other of supporting the Tigers.
The formation of coalition governments in New Delhi, wherein the AIADMK, DMK, MDMK and PMK became coalition partners at different times, brought about a qualitative change in the Centre-state equation with reference to the Lanka policy. The result was double edged, the regional forces, on certain occasions, made their inputs into the policy — the inclusion of the Sethusamudram project in the Common Minimum Programme, the non-conclusion of the defence agreement between India and Sri Lanka, the dropping of the idea of construction of a land bridge between India and Sri Lanka, the decision not to resume the shipping service between Tuticorin and Colombo and Rameshwaram and Talimannar — are illustrations where one can discern clearly the influence exerted by Tamil Nadu. What is more significant is that the central leadership has persuaded the DMK, especially the chief minister, to broadly conform to New Delhi’s policy towards Lanka.
Simultaneously, the DMK carried on its opportunist politics to checkmate the opposition on the Sri Lankan issue. The tragedy of the situation must be underlined; the Sri Lankan Tamils became pawns in the electoral politics of the state. What is more, their struggle for justice, equity and dignity has been pushed back by several decades. A long winter of discontent is ahead of Sri Lankan Tamils.
About the author:
V Suryanarayan is senior research fellow, Centre for Asia Studies, Chennai
With Sri Lanka citizens such as these, who needs foreign enemies?
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‘Sri Lankan refugee camps worst in history’
By Prince Jebakumar
ExpressBuzz.com
August 14, 2009
Nimalka Fernando (seated second from left),
Sri Lankan human rights activist,
along with Cynthia Tiphagne,
Director, Rehabilitation Centre for Victims
Internally displaced persons (IDPs) in refugee camps in the island nation were torn asunder and young women were forced to stay with strange men in make-shift tents. This is what the former Attorney General and Solicitor General of Sri Lanka Chitta Ranjan de Silva had told Lankan media, according to Nimalka Fernando, human rights activist and a lawyer from the island nation, on Thursday.
In an exclusive interview to Express, she said toothbrush and soap were luxuries for the IDPs and they continued to wear the same clothes that they wore when they were brought to the camps.
The Tamils were not treated like victims of war, but as war criminals by the authorities, Fernando said. She felt that if this was the plight of civilians, she could not imagine the treatment meted out to the LTTE cadre, including the disabled, who were being detained in special detention camps.
Ridiculing the claim of Sri Lankan government that the IDPs were forced to stay in the refugee camps because they faced danger from landmines, Fernando asked if the Tamil civilians could reach IDP refugee camps safely without being blown up by landmines why they could not return along the same routes?
Shelling of Tamil areas was intensified to make people starve and to force them to reach the refugee camps, she alleged and added the Lankan military had been sweeping the shelled areas and dumping the bodies into the sea obliterating all evidences of war crime.
Comparing the refugee camp of Koodalnagar, in Madurai, which she had visited on Thursday, with the IDP camps in the island nation the human rights activist said that she could sense the air for the freedom of movement, which was missing in Lanka.
She said rebuilding their lives would be tough for the refugees as everything, including their boats, agricultural tools and lands, were usurped by the State.
Further, funds for rehabilitation from foreign nations might get diverted to compensate debts incurred in the war and it would not benefit the affected persons.
Ramadoss Continues his Eelamist ways
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Ramadoss flays CM’s remark on Lanka
ExpressBuzz.com
August 15, 2009
CHENNAI: PMK founder S Ramadoss on Friday flayed Chief Minister M Karunanidhi for saying that cordial atmosphere had returned in Sri Lanka.
Referring to the remark of Karunanidhi that some people did not like resolving issues through talks and even after cordiality returned in Sri Lanka, certain people were trying to destabilise it, Ramadoss, in a statement here said, the prevailing situation in the island nation did not reflect any signs of cordiality.
‘‘Lankan Army has been targeting the Tamil
youths and Tamil women have been subjected to sexual assaults. Besides, the Sinhalas are being settled in Tamils areas.
While all these moves against Tamils have been going on, I wonder how Karunanidhi is saying that cordiality returned in Sri Lanka’’, Ramadoss said. ‘‘Only when the Tamils in Sri Lanka are able to attain powers to determine their future, we can say that cordiality returned in that country… let all Tamils living throughout the world raise our voice for that and save Lankan Tamils’’, he said.
Indian Navy a big challenge for China: Admiral M
ExpressBuzz.com
August 14, 2009
CHENNAI: Though China has been engaged in developing three ports at Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Pakistan thus encircling India, the weak area for the country today is the Indian Navy, Naval Chief of Staff, Admiral Sureesh Mehta, said here on Thursday.
Speaking to reporters here at a function held at Chennai Port on Thursday, the Admiral said, “The Chinese efforts and help to Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Myanmar to build ports in their countries were a part of its strategy to get a foothold in the ocean, but one has to understand the fact that it is not so easy for them (China) to come inside the Indian Ocean where our navy has better presence.” On a question about India being encircled by Chinese-sponsored ports in its Asian neighbourhood, Mehta said that Beijing was building such dependency ports as part of its strategy to have a strong footing in the ocean in future. While reacting to his reported statement on China-India comparison a few days ago, Mehta said, “During the intellectual discussion a few days ago, I spoke about several national security issues there but the media picked my China-related statement only.” Strongly discounting the number game with China, Admiral Mehta said, “It’s not that you have 50 ships, I have 50 ships. I may have 10 ships which are much smarter and better and let us do that.” To a query on the recent detention of North Korean cargo ship MV Musan near Hutbay in South Andaman, Mehta said that no full details were available at this point of time. “But with North Korea, we have to be doubly sure. But prima facie, it looks like the ship got some genuine cargo which was destined for Iraq,” he said. However, he added that the ship was being towed to Kakinada Port and different agencies would investigate the matter there.
The World Learns from Sri Lanka
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Nepal Maoist’s await LTTE fate: Girija Koirala
TelegraphNepal.com
The Maoists leadership while beamingly speculates the fate of the incumbent government akin to former king Gyanendra Shah sooner than later, however, the self proclaimed supreme leader of the 22-party coalition Mr. Girija Prasad Koirala, the Nepali Congress President, has begun sensing the Maoists’ fate similar to the LTTE of Sri Lanka.
“If the Maoists continue to ridicule the politics of consensus, their fate will be much similar to the LTTE of Sri Lanka and the Pakistani extremists”, Koirala said addressing the Second National Convention of the Democratic Teachers’ Association in Kathmandu, Friday August 14, 2009.
“With Prachanda January 2, 2008, video tape becoming public our international friends have changed their stance vis-à-vis the Maoists”, Koirala continued.
“We have repeatedly asked them (the Maoists) to join the consensus politics…they have rejected this proposition so far, if they continue to do so, their fate unfortunately will be quite similar to the Tamil rebels of Sri Lanka”, Koirala stressed.
“I have time and again played important role in bringing the Maoists into the politics of consensus, cooperation and unity”, Koirala said adding, “in each and every meet with Prachanda I have tried to convince him yet his double speak and dubious character have time and again continued to break the politics of consensus.”
Koirala criticizing the fresh Prachanda remark made in favor of “India, China and Nepal alliance for containing the increasing US threat in the region” he said, “who will believe Prachanda’s dubious stances…while he is in the US, he says that India and China are trying to alienate the US and while he find himself closer to China, he says India and US are trying to alienate China.”
I am off for another two months. One has to earn living when they can. See you all in two months time i.e. 17 October. However, time to time I will visit this hell hole from overseas for an update or a comment.
Good bye only to fair minded bloggers but euphoric patriots who praise cruelty to other human beings can go to hell.
Also carboard patriots who does cut and paste of other peoples posts with few lines of comments can take noble peace award ( the ridiculas noble peace award for A, B and C proposal and secondments are worthy to become biggest joke in the internet) for nothimg.
These are time wasters who have nothing else to do productively.
http://www.adaderana.lk/video_player.php?vid=Angulana%20Derana%20Media.flv
about Agulana
Kuna,
Why you are leaving Sri Lanka for two months? People go 2 years to middle east. Wife Pannipitiyeda Dubaida?
Peter puthe
KP maamata amaarulu. Pukata gaana thel kuppiyak arang palayang uwa balanna.
Welaawaka thoge amma appa ekka palayang. Den indala wedak nehene. Kakussiye watunu bettak wage elama flush korala. Mokata thava dangalanawada?
Heloo Rana
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Ananda-USA said...
The World Learns from Sri Lanka
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Nepal Maoist’s await LTTE fate: Girija Koirala
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Love it. Great to hear things like this. If few Asian countries start using SL as an example, those HR MFs and UK, US, Norway e.t.c would have no where to hide.
Go on Nepal, finish off those fckers as well. We don't want any more Terras or Commies in our parts of the world. It is time to focus on development.
A couple of comments here;
Nepal's case will be different to ours. They have a porous border all around and are dependent on friendly neighbors for everything. That makes them helpless when it comes to solving an issue like ours. If they take help from the Indians, which may be the case in a possible fight with the Maoists, China will help the extremists. Nepal may talk our talk, but they may not be ablt to walk the talk.
Re; India as a naval power. Yes they may build more expnsive toys like the US, but are starting at the bottom of the pile. A war with China may not be decided at sea, since neither has the potential to get boots on the ground on other's soil, unless Chinese troops cross over the Himalayas. The Chinks already have a force that specializes in that terrain. The Indians have marginal experience, more of it on the Pakistani front. The noises India is making are just the ones they need to acquire western advanced technology for military and industrial purposes. It works well for countries like the US also to have a cash rich client, when they only have high tech weapons to sell. There will never be a war between India and China, for the simple reason that business between these two nations are a more lucrative proposition than a war.
I like the way a lot of you write here, but the thinking can be more broder based. It is important that we don't necessarily examine the beauty of the individual tree, but also understand its position in the big forrest. These are simply two examples of such instances where we look only at the event in solo, with little consideration to the overall ground reality.
gladiator,
LankaENews and LankNewsWeb are tigers in gay elephant clothing. Any news coming from these two sources shall be taken with 2 pounds of salt. I am sure that you are aware that their agenda is to drive wedges in every crack they see and publish every such crack with electron microscope images.
Following bit is copied from Divaina. Very interesting indeed. Hope everyone can read Sinhala.
"යුද්දේ ඉවරයි. දැන් ඉදිරියේදී රටේ තියෙන ප්රශ්න විසඳන්න නම් සිංහල මිනිස්සුත් උතුරු නැගෙනහිර ප්රදේශවල හරි හරියට පදිංචි වෙන්න ඕනෑ. සිංහල අයට උතුරේ නැගෙනහිර ඉඩම් ගන්න ක්රමයක් හදන්න ඕන.... කරුණා කීවේය...
මම නම් දන්න විදියට ඔයාලයි ඔය තේසවලාමේ නීතිය නිසා කවදාවත් එහේ ඉඩකඩම් නම් සිංහල අයට ගන්න බැහැ. ඒකනේ අපිට තියන ප්රශ්නේ... වජිර කීවේය...
අපි ඒකට ක්රමයක් හදන්න ඕන. කරුණා කීවේය.
බලන්න.... වෙනම රාජ්යයක් දිනාගන්න සටන් කරපු නායකයෙක් අද කතා කරන විදිය. මේකනේ මේ රටේ අද වෙන්න ඕන.... හෙට්ටිගේ කීහ"
Rana;
- You are spot on about Mervyn.
- But I dont agree that Gota shud be responsible for VaasG or Anugulana OIC. Misconduct happens anywhere. Gota in his capacity never told them to do those. But he is responsible to take appropriate actions.
- events like Angulana happened for eons. Police went to dogs long before we were born.
- I lived only thru JRJ, Prem, [Wijethunga], CBK, RW, MR eras. In all those this kinda misconduct was there. They have reduced heavily compared to JRJ and Premadasa days. To my knowledge JRJ is instrumental in combining police and thugs and also using police as his goons. His time is still the worst era of SL. The seeds of evil he planted are still there.
- However, to my knowledge of history 70-77 was the start of many corruption. So I agree with you on that. But I believe JRJ multiplied it by a big number.
- I am still answering your claim that country went to dogs after war victory . No. It is the same [call it dogs or not]. Events like these always happened. I see no diff after war.
- You also said everyone has to worship MR or else be subjected to such treatment. Again it is wrong. There is no such scenario in SL. MR is perhaps the least troublesome leader we had. Sure he uses war for propaganda, but he's more democratic than his prev numbers.
- My counter arguments are not about all but specifically about above two [of your] statements in bold.
Guys
the Sl police needs a uniform change..what do u think...?????
the kaki uniform..is fu***** ugly.....mayb it should be black
sujeewa kothlawala...
according to my knowlege this thelwasami law is only in the jaffna town limit....
and i am wondering how there were 27000 sinhalese living in jaffna..in 1971..if there was such a law..??????
btw d o u knw if the people in the mahaweli L zone..weli oya gajabapura..and the sorrounding
areas(gajabapura was under LTTe control until late 2008)..were resettled...by the govt..the defence.lk..said 2 weeks ago that they were settling those people there....under the uturu wasanthaya program...
i am requesting all patriotic bloggers please do not condemn former president JR jayawardene
he was one of the leaders in SL who was deadly against any kind of separatism...from the 5 executive presidents and 1 executive PM..we had JRJ was one of the most committed to the elimination of seperatism...
even the naval officer who hammerd rajeev ghandhi recetly said JR was not to b blamed for the indo lanka accord...
Susantha,
No idea about Welioya resettlement.
One thing this 30 odd years of havoc did was, extending whatever granted for Jaffna into entire N/E. It was done by means of propa and political agenda. Vesa-thala-me law is one example. But probably nobody try to chase ppl using the law before 70s. Until politicians misleading I've heard that Jaffan ppl were among teh friendliest ppl in SL.
In any case, there can never be one SL, or ethnic harmony/integration until Vesa-thala-me exists. In my action plan that is teh first thing to fix. Even Udarata law, which is virtually defunct.
Special laws should be subjected to the basis whether the special law does not violate some other outside individual's right. Vesa-thala-me does.
Has anyone challenged this comic law in supreme court. It maybe only needing a simple petition to scrap it out of book.
Susantha,
I am not blaming JRJ for Indo-Lanka accord. But I have enough and more evidence for what he did to SL in his times.
In my view he is one rare leader who possessed the background capacity and power to take us into the best position we can get, but I believe he took us to complete other way round.
The unique difference between him and others is that many others did not have what is needed to develop our country, but they tried in their capacity. JRJ is completely otherwise.
Just because he was against separatism, I am unable to praise him.separatism, he cannot be spared
Susantha,
I am unable to agree with you in JRJ for the following reasons.
(1) He is a self serving leader who created a constitution that can work only for him in 1977.
(2)Made mockery of people's will by calling for referendum in 1982 to extend the parliament by 6 years.
(3)His inability or unwillingness to control 1983 riots which killed thousands of innocent Tamil Sri Lankans.
(4)His inability to play smart politics with India and allowing India to invade us in 1987.
(5)His banning of JVP and his inability to stop the up rise of JVP 1986-1988.
..hic..
MR for a Nobel Peace Prize?
I love this blog and its entertainers!
Who said Sri Lankans dont have a sense of humour? Only the very best!
Please keep up the good work of the "fake" patriots
..hic..
Re: SL Leaders
Let me leave JohnK, Dahanayake, Wijethunga as transitional leaders. We have DSS, DudleyS, Banda, Mrs B, JRJ, Prem, CBK, RW [considering his rule under CBK] and MR on table.
Most SL leaders were not made of gold, but we respect them. Personally I hate two of them, and have strong arguments against another. Ones I hate are RW and JRJ. One I have strong arguments against is CBK.
Who are our most visionary leaders? Everyone say DSS and Banda. But what a pity they lived to rule us for mere 3 years each. Both deaths have been suspected conspiracy. [some suspect DSS's horse was set to throw him] It is a sad matter and a worrying fact.
Who ruled us most? Before 77, Mrs B and DudleyS did that. Both known as good leaders, but both lacked vision, independence [from their party predecessors whom they had a personal relationship with] and they both were prisoners of minority govts and socialists.
From 47-56 socialists were the biggest opposition, whereas from 56-77 they were the most critical component of the ruling govt. [I consider socialists as a virus, pardon me any non-extinct such who may see this statement].
Now in 77 JRJ had everything he wanted. Country craved for him at office. He had a strong 5/6 govt. He did not have socialists as a strong force either in opposition or his govt [Socialists paid price for their sins in 56-77 and never got up after. 77 was the knock out punch]. JRJ had lots of very intelligent ministers, whom flocked around him due to 70-77 mess. He had superb workhorses like Prem.
JRJ was the last president to rule SL, in the void of LTTE [for I think they exist at large even now] and the first in the void of socilaists.
JRJ himself possessed an excellent intellectual capacity, strong maturity, extra skill for system articulation, decades of experience and internationally accepted charisma. He could have turned into the most visionary and greatest leader. He simply used it all for otherwise.
Prem, sadly got the throw away nation of JRJ with two wars to fight. I don't think he had a chance to do anything. Nor did he have the intellectual capacity.
CBK, lacked most above mentioned things. Plus she had one record foolish cabinet and a big big war to fight.
RW was NOT interested in ruling SL, preferred if west, LTTE and NGOs would do it for him.
MR, has little bit of each. Plus he has gotten rid of many evils. He's the only leader who got a country where Socialists, JVP, Separatists and foreign elements all lost their underpants. He has a great opportunity. Time will only tell his success.
Tropical Storm said..
[These are simply two examples of such instances where we look only at the event in solo, with little consideration to the overall ground reality.]
TS,
Since I posted these two articles on Nepal's learning from SL, and India's naval capabilities, let me respond to your comment above.
1. Nepal's situation, as a landlocked country, sandwiched between two giant neighbors, is indeed somewhat different from Sri Lanka, but not radically.
Nepal has a population of 29 million, and a land area of 57,000 sq miles...roughly twice that of Sri Lanka. It is multilingual (Sanskrit derivative Nepali is the majority language besides 80 others!), multiethnic (Indian, Burmese and Chinese extraction) and multireligious (80% Hindu, 10% Buddhist, 4% each Islam and Mundhum). Unlike Sri Lanka's 94%, the literacy rate is about 54%.
The REAL LESSON that Nepal SHOULD LEARN from Sri Lanka is not just MILITARY as you seem to imply, but on NATIONAL MOTIVATION & NATIONAL POLICY.
The MAIN REASON SL won its war against the LTTE was that SL finally committed itself to DEFEATING THE LTTE & maintaining an UNWAVERING NATIONAL POLICY to see it through to the bitter end, fending off all the pressure and advice from outsiders.
That required COURAGE, COMMITTMENT and PERSISTENCE that was lacking in the past. Once that courage and committment was attained through the emergence of an able leadership WILLING TO TAKE THE PERSONAL RISKS in carrying it through, everything other problem, military, political and diplomatic could be solved, and fell into place. The RESOURCES to win against the LTTE was always there (I have preached this for two decades), it was the WILL and DETERMINATION that was lacking in the leadership. The ENTIRE nation needed to be mobilized, and the willingness to do that was lacking.
So it is in Nepal's case. Even more than Sri Lanka, Nepal can get external assistance from its two giant neighbors, and from Pakistan, playing them off against each other in its national interest. Nepal is MUCH MORE IMPORTANT to both India and China than Sri Lanka ... it straddles the border between two nations with competing claims to border lands in that area. And yes, the porous national border is a problem, and will require an even larger military than Sri Lanka's to plug holes and defend adequately.
But, IT CAN BE DONE .. once the NEED TO DO THAT becomes clear and an urgent need, and ABLE leaders emerge to SUMMON the NATIONAL WILL & HARNESS ALL OF THE NATIONS RESOURCES to the task.
2. Regarding the article on India's naval capabilities .. you mistakenly attributed a myopic view to me that missed the overview of India-China power struggle, but that relationship was not my focus in posting that article, without comment.
I largely agree with your observations. I particularly feel that the statements by the Indian Admiral was a pitch by him for increased spending on his arm of India's defense forces, the Navy, by the Indian Govt.
My purpose in posting the article was to highlight India's concern about the Hambantota harbour construction by the Chinese and their annoyance at being ringed by this "enemy." In my view, that degree of concern by them is GOOD for Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka must never again be dominated by India so they can dictate matters that affect the peace, security and sovereignty of Sri Lanka to solve their internal political problems disregarding how it affects Sri Lanka.
As in Nepal's case above, we are FORCED to develop alliances with other powers because SIMPLY TRUSTING India to keep its hands off Sri Lanka ... SIMPLY DOES NOT WORK without our having any LEVERAGE.
We must ALWAYS keep India OFF BALANCE, just the right amount and no more, to preserve our independence. That requires alliances with other major powers. Having said that, we need to work at maintaining a good FRIENDLY relationship with India that COMMANDS RESPECT & NON-INTERFERENCE IN INTERNAL MATTERS; not a SERVILE ONE of a HELPLESS SUPPLICANT.
Brothers,
There are people with INCURABLE ILLNESSES suffering deeply at the prospect of MR, GR and SF being even NOMINATED for the Nobel Peace Prize.
1. First, there are the INCURABLY DISAPPOINTED Eelamists, like Jay, for whom the whole concept is anathema. They attempt to minimize and degrade ANYTHING the GOSL wants to do, even if it will BENEFIT their own people, and any public and global recognition for these great leaders.
It is EELAM or NOTHING for them, and NOTHING IT WILL BE! There is NOTHING we can do to alleviate the suffering of these lost souls. In fact, this nomination is designed to serve as bitter medicine to aggravate that heartburn and feeling of NOTHINGNESS!
2. Second, there are the INCURABLY JEALOUS political opponents of the current GOSL. These folks are utterly chagrined that the current GOSL succeeded in what they themselves could not achieve, despite hanging on to power over many decades, and merely going through the motions of fulfilling their duty to protect and preserve the nation. Their attacks on the current GOSL, and those who want to acknowledge the UNDENIABLE ACHIEVEMENTS OF THESE PATRIOTIC LEADERS with a open heart, is quite sad to see, in that they demonstrate a HIGH-ORDER of SELFISHNESS and HYPOCRISY among our own people. There is no GLADNESS in their hearts for the wonderful peace that has dawned.
3. Third, there are the INCURABLY MISERABLE Class Warfare Experts who inhabit the lunatic fringe. They are angry at anyone, other than themselves, who succeed at anything, and consider them to be barriers to their Viplavaya. Their modus operandi is to pit every segment of society, every ethnic, religious, linguistic and wealth group against each other in an attempt to open and widen any cracks they initiate. They will stop at nothing, even resorting to pitting alumni of different schools against each other .. for these are truly desperate folks with an incurable fear of looming irrelevance in the politics of Sri Lanka.
4. Finally, the saddest of them all, the INCURABLY REVENGEFUL. These are emotionally unstable people who never grew up, who have learned by rote all of the wisdom of every great sage, but never practice it, disregarding it all in the quest for revenge. These people care not for the validity of an argument in debate, or the intrinsic value of a patriotic effort to help our motherland, but only act on the grudges accumulated against others in the current and previous incarnations. It is all is self-centered, and driven by ego.
These are the true Angulimalayas .. before "damanaya" of course .. running around with a garland of severed fingers around their necks, and scratching their beggars wounds violently. They appear as multiple avatars here at DW, spout venom at all and sundry in machine gun bursts, and disappear into the dark when the kitchen gets too hot to cook in.
With the exception of the EELAMISTS, for whom there is NO CURE, I advise the other incurably sick folks to re-examine their personal MOTIVES and seek help in the teachings of their religion, for without a doubt they will find a CURE there.
Miserable,
If you want an answer for comments you made, pls read my previous answers to Rana in comments 200-this comment. You simply seem to sate the same thing as Rana.
Rana will feel his copyrights are violated. Good old chap declared two months leave, but I wonder from which corner and when he'll raise his head and say cheers, as he's done in the past.
sujeewa kothalawala..
http://www.defence.lk/new.asp?fname=20090802_09
here..
btw are u sure weather this law was there for the entire jaffna district or only in the jaffna town limit...
sujeewa and sam...
is there a single charge of corruption against JRJ?????
even if he did use unethical means to stay in power..
I think CBK and ranil are the worst leaders we had...
does anybody hear agree with me..that the police uniform should change..????
Father of the Sinha-la race found:
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miserable,
don't be so miserable!!
the political solution takes a LONG TIME to work.
the only political solution is ethnic integration (multiethnic colonisation) of the NE. it takes a long time to start, take root.
j,
how funny is the 3 doctor idiots winning the nobel peace prize????
those jokers lack integrity and sincerity!!
at least MR has those qualities.
..hic.
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Keep up with the humour
I love the way Bandas in the West rant about the West.
Bandas, here's a good way top get your message across: next time you go to renew your student visas, let them know exactly what you think of 'Bob' Blake.
Even from the modaland, I'm having to visit this site for daily laughs.
KP kapothi!!
KP's next sakkiliya has been interogated in norway.
now the whole world is against the toilet boyz from toilet elam.
next is ranil da ponnaya's clan under the microscope.
Nobel Prize for Success
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Brrreaking News!
Super Intelligent LTTE has recaptured Nachchikuda!
This is the end of Sri Lanka!
Noble peace prize will be awarded to all terrorists who participated in this amazing feat!
LTTE Tigerrrrr!
BOTH INDIA AND PAKISTAN THINK THAT SRI LANKA HAS PROVIDED EXAMPLE TO THE WORLD AS HOW TO ELIMINATE TERRORISM
By Walter Jayawardhana
Lankaweb.com
August 15th, 2009
Indian High Commissioner in Sri Lanka, Alok Prasad delivering his country’s independence day message said Sri Lanka has become An example to eliminate terrorism for India as well as the rest of the world.
Pakistan has also expressed similar sentiments regarding the elimination of terrorism earlier.
Both India and Pakistan are two countries in the subcontinent who are gravely suffering from terrorism having adverse effects on their economies.
There is also widespread belief in the subcontinent that the former colonial powers are in toe with some terrorist movements in the geographical area.
The Indian High Commissioner in Sri Lanka Alok Prasad delivering the country’s independence message paid complements to Sri Lanka for eliminating terrorism from the country.
He was addressing the 63rd Independence Day of India held at the Indian High Commission in Sri Lanka.
At this celebration the Independence Day message of Prathibha Patel was also read out. The Indian President#s message also said elimination of terrorism is essential to create world peace. The Indian President noted that terrorism which targets innocent people is against all religions and beliefs. A large number of Indian citizens in Sri Lanka participated in the celebration.
Mahavamsa myth solved: father of the Sinha-la race found.
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Lol! Looks like Mr USA doesn't live in the US, after all. Either that, or he is having major difficulties, despite the help of Viagra.
Sri Lanka, China sign pacts worth $350 million
B. Muralidhar Reddy
The Hindu
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka on Thursday signed two key developmental projects worth $350 million with the Exim Bank of China.
The Sri Lanka Board of Investment said here Secretary to the Treasury Sumith Abeysinghe signed the agreements relating to the construction of the Colombo-Katunayake Expressway and the Hambantota Bunkering Project with vice-president Zhu Xinqiang of the Exim Bank of China.
Mr. Abeysinghe is on a four-day visit to Beijing to discuss bilateral development assistance programme to Sri Lanka. Recent months have seen a major spurt in economic relations between Colombo and Beijing. A few weeks ago, China became the first foreign country in the island nation to have an exclusive economic zone.
The statement said that congratulating Sri Lanka on the recent victory in defeating terrorism, Mr. Zhu recalled the strong bilateral relations. He said overall relations had been strengthened and consolidated with closer development co-operation.
The Secretary told Mr. Zhu that under the leadership of President Rajapaksa, the government has launched a comprehensive development programme for the accelerated development covering the country.
The signing of the two agreements will pave the way for infrastructure requirements which will have an immense impact on the future socio-economic development. The Hambantota Bunkering facility is a major component of the Hambantota Port Development Project, which is also largely being funded by China.
Separately, it was announced here that Foreign Secretary Palitha Kohona will shortly assume duties as the Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the U.N., New York. There is no word yet on his successor. Dr. Kohona was with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Australia since 1983. He was posted to Geneva in 1989 and reutrned to Sri Lanka after Mr. Rajapaksa took office in November, 2005.
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