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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Why did we give this guy such a big punishment, knowing very well that it would create a huge fuss and get more attention to ourselves than needed?
Can there be a conspiracy to undermine the government by the lawyers themselves?
All,
When get a chance can you spend a minute and sign the below
Petition to Channel 4 Television Corporation - UK .
The Channel 4 video seems to be an omitted part from the "My Daughter the Terrorist".
That movie also has the background location similar to the place of execution.
What I ask from Mr. Douglas Wickramaratna is to file a case against Channel-4 in the UK courts against fundamental rights violation and seek damages GBP 25M.
This will sort the Channel-4 out, and make them learn not to deliberately air fake videos discrediting Sri Lanka.
NO LTTE- I agree with you Channel 4 should be sued in the UK courts for libel and defamation.
However, i doubt this will ever happen as i'm sure GOSL and its defense establishment will be keen not to be under scrutiny under a British Court.
So, the best GOSL can do for now is to have online petitions, street demos, and rebuttals.
The C4 video as most people know is a fake and blatant fabrication.
Most media organisation print, audio and TV have their inhouse legal counsel to sanction any news story before they are aired.
C4 legal counsel would have weighed the risk of legal action and its ramifications before approval was given.
More shocking however is the punishment meted out to JS Tissa.
This judgement is farce and MR is going to regret this for the rest of his life unless some serious damage limitation exercise is carried out fast.
ie- Presidential pardon with a lenient sentence.
Storm is brewing in US/UK circles.
Jay,
What is the difference between the JS Tissa story and the one below. Might makes right. Human rights is all in the eye of the beholder.
The west does not give a damn about human rights. Their main goal is to put their man at the helm.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090902/wl_nm/us_iraq_journalist
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1111929.html
See how 2500 years of proud history and Buddhist Heritage shaping up my culture;
[Yo fake moshe dayan
Are u also into finger-fukking your daughters like this rana whorecunt? Well if you have no daughters I am sure u do it with your mother? Surely u too love suckking RW cock and helping him to give them Sakkiliyas thamizeezam?
Hooooo .....
ada para wesa, be careful here okay....some of us are in a lousy mood over all the video and TissaFukker stories and might decide to take it on you and use the hot iron rod....right up your ass to see you scream in pure pleasure.......nice?
Hooooooo Hooooooooo Hoooooooo]
[fukkface
Let's go easy bro...
I don't think we need to get unduly worried as sooner or later the fake "moshe" (if so) will show his/her true colors ....we have all come to know our "original and real" Moshey that we will very soon spot a fake whoredog here...and then we will shred the mommafucker to pieces...
So, I say let's observe for now...sounds reasonable?
OaO Asithri
p.s. nice to meet you here mate...Gosh, your writing style reminds me of someone :-))]
Great, Puligal.blogspot allows the postings now.
Badri,
you can update the blog at least weekly now on.
Sri Lanka and the EU
From The Economist
A report for the European Union into Sri Lanka’s fitness for preferential tariff treatment is unfavourable
(Septeber 03, London, Sri lanka Guardian) RARELY has a government soiled its reputation as dramatically as Sri Lanka’s. In recent months President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s regime has won a war and lost the love of many allies.
Its alleged wartime and other abuses make a grim catalogue: thousands of Tamil civilians allegedly killed by army shelling during the rebels’ last stand; scores of Tamils disappeared; nearly 300,000 Tamil war-displaced callously interned; murder and intimidation of journalists—including J.S. Tissainayagam, sentenced to 20 years hard labour on August 31st for criticising the army’s tactics (see article).
There is not much high-minded western countries—to whom Sri Lanka once looked for aid money—can do about this. Mr Rajapaksa has found alternative friends, in China, Libya, Pakistan—and others, who recently scotched a European effort to launch a war-crimes investigation into Sri Lanka. But the Europeans do have one wrench on Mr Rajapaksa’s government: a trade concession known as “GSP Plus”. This boon, which has helped make exports to the EU the country’s biggest source of foreign exchange, worth $3.3 billion last year, is up for review. Judging by an EU-commissioned report on Sri Lanka’s compliance with its terms, which include stipulations on human rights, it can kiss the concession goodbye.
The confidential 130-page report, which has been obtained by The Economist, concludes that Sri Lanka has failed to honour important human-rights commitments, and is ineligible for GSP Plus. Widespread police torture, abductions of journalists, politicised courts and uninvestigated disappearances have all played a part in creating a state of “complete or virtually complete impunity in Sri Lanka”. The internment of the Tamil displaced, which the government claims is necessary to weed out the last Tamil Tiger rebels and to protect them from munitions left in their fields, is “a novel form of unacknowledged detention”.
A final decision on GSP Plus is not due until October. The government, which barred the report’s authors from visiting Sri Lanka, called the study “outrageous” but seems resigned to losing the trade preference: a senior official in the trade ministry, S. Ranugge, admitted: “GSP Plus is very unlikely.”
Perhaps this does not bother Mr Rajapaksa: defying the West is part of his appeal. Anyway, his minions recently secured a $2.6 billion loan from the IMF. But as an indicator of where one of Asia’s oldest democracies may be headed, it should worry Sri Lankans, and all who wish their country well.
-Sri Lanka Guardian
A 'quiet, slight' terrorist lackey
National Post Published: Wednesday, September 02, 2009
Re: Sri Lanka's Abuse Of Press Freedom, editorial, Sept. 1.
This editorial states, "[J. S.] Tissainayagam's main crime seems to have been writing two articles in the now-defunct Northeastern Monthly magazine in 2006 and 2007 criticizing the Sri Lankan persecution of the Tamils."
Really? Even a cursory scan of the Sri Lankan media will reveal an abundance of articles critical of the Rajapaksa government.
It seems that the National Post is exercising its "press freedom" by calling Mr. Tissainayagam a journalist while putting aside the fact that he was on the LTTE payroll. I also note that the editorial made no mention that Mr. Tissainayagam portrayed the Oxford-educated Tamil politician Lakshman Kadirgamar as a traitor. He was Sri Lanka's foreign minister at the time of his murder by the LTTE in 2005.
For nearly a quarter-century, the Western media has paid little attention to LTTE atrocities against Sri Lankan Tamils, Muslims and Sinhalese. Meanwhile, the LTTE jammed hundreds of millions worth of ordnance procured with Western funds down the throats of Sri Lankans. Considering that the World Bank's estimate of the per-capita gross national income of Sri Lanka is about 4% of that of the average Western country, one should easily fathom the devastating effect on the country and its people.
That Mr. Tissainayagam, a "quiet, slight" terrorist lackey, was the first to receive the Peter Mackler Award "for courageous and ethical journalism" is a fitting testimony to the standard to which journalism has fallen. Walter Duranty would have been impressed.
Gordon Richens, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands.
Patriots,
[ perein said...
All,
When get a chance can you spend a minute and sign the below
Petition to Channel 4 Television Corporation - UK . ]
PLEASE support this effort by signing the BBC Channel4 Video Petition.
What was boy George doing in Gaddafistan with our soldiers marching to their band?
I don't like where we are heading these days.
For the benefit of the SOB here:
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Yo fake moshe dayan
Are u also into finger-fukking your daughters like this rana whorecunt? Well if you have no daughters I am sure u do it with your mother? Surely u too love suckking RW cock and helping him to give them Sakkiliyas thamizeezam?
Hooooo .....
ada para wesa, be careful here okay....some of us are in a lousy mood over all the video and TissaFukker stories and might decide to take it on you and use the hot iron rod....right up your ass to see you scream in pure pleasure.......nice?
Hooooooo Hooooooooo Hoooooooo
-----------------------------
Yes, here's another Hoooooooooooo!
The Channel 4 too has a history of broadcasting distorted and misleading news about Sri Lanka. Specially, Jonathan Miller is doing his best to settle what appears to be a personal grudge he has with Sri Lankan people at the expense of his professionalism. It is interesting to watch how Miller has filed stories about Gaza and Iraq. There are few that can be easily goggled.
Even his story about Gaza after 22 days of bombing by the Israel in February was free from adjectives he often uses in his stories about Sri Lanka. He saw no "brutalism" in the bombing that many reliably claimed to have killed over thousand civilians including some 400 children, he found no "brutalized" people there. Moreover, it was not "shocking" for him to see the UN headquarters in Gaza bombed with white phosphorus. Nothing is "callous" or "sickening" about conflicts in Iraq, Gaza or in Afghanistan for Miller or for the Channel 4. This hypocrisy is of course common to many other similar media and is no longer a secret to the world.
It should be noted that it was this Miller who boastfully claimed the credit for having the first "face to face" interview with Interpol's wanted terrorist Kumaran Padmanadan alias KP few months ago. Unfortunately for Miller, the criminal that he ridiculed Sri Lankan government for being unable to nab for 25 years is now with Defence Ministry. KP is certainly spilling the beans and has given a very important place to the Channel 4 affair and Miller connection in his confessions. Though not much information on this is permitted to be revealed at this stage, it can be said with great responsibility that LTTE had made Channel 4 one of its propaganda allies.
defence.lk
Bugger! This little scumbag Miller certainly holds a grudge against our country. Soon as it's possible we need to lay out the dirt on Channel 4 and this Miller bugger obtained from KP.
Cheers!
The famous adage "Nations have no permanent friends and no permanent enemies. Only permanent interests" applies to Sri Lanka.
Two middle eastern countries gave loans of US$500 million and $1.5 billion when the country desperately needed the money. Until very recently we had foreign expchange reserves equal to 1.5 months of imports. Non-alignment helped Sri Lanka in the past and it is commendable that President Rajapakse has chosen this path in his foreign policy.
TropicalS
[I don't like where we are heading these days]
Respectfully, I disagree bro.
Sometimes what these hypocritical white kooks need is a "realty check" ... to show that the sun does not shine through their milk-white arses... and that there are other world players today who are equally capable of warding off bullies (remember the recent UNHRC session and how Russia and China did the west-hypocrites in, to protect SL?).
This is a standard play-ground tactic we learned when we were kids and in my view it applies equally well in International real-politiking.
Take India for instance, today the west is at India's feet and this fact alone, in my view, had a substantial impact on why we won this war (as despite goading from the west – who in turn was goaded by the Tamil-vote rich states - to India to stop the war in SL, India steadfastly refused – refused because India today holds many triumph cards).
In addition, our true patriot CACS said very aptly:
[Two middle eastern countries gave loans of US$500 million and $1.5 billion when the country desperately needed the money. Until very recently we had foreign expchange reserves equal to 1.5 months of imports. Non-alignment helped Sri Lanka in the past and it is commendable that President Rajapakse has chosen this path in his foreign policy.]
Yes, the world is no longer black & white (yes, the Cold War is over) and today alliances are being made and broken all the time...in the interest national interests, all over the globe!
Trust me on this...I see this at a very macro level in the profession I am in.
OaO Asithri
Konnapu B
[Soon as it's possible we need to lay out the dirt on Channel 4 and this Miller bugger obtained from KP]
I have been working to get an international law firm to look after SL's interests and sue the fucking pants off such as the Ch4 when the fuckers step out of line and defame the nation of Sri Lanka and her people...
However, this is not a meager task and it needs funding and support from the powers that be in SL....so far the interest has been some what lukewarm (as they like react rather than proact)...but I am going to go at it again with a different funding model this time....as I have commitment from many expats all over the world who have told me that they are willing to provide a "monthly subscription" for the upkeep of such a vanguard for our nation...
and hopefully then I am hoping the powers that be in SL will have the appetite to join in and make good on the balance of any shortfall...stay tuned.
Cheers,
OaO Asithri
OAO, excellent!
Keep up ur good work aiya and I will be happpy to join in and help you if/when you start this program.
Patriots,
Please Read This Article!
This article is a classic account of how the LTTE ran rings around the GOSL, and our laws, in creating propaganda and spy outfits to destroy our country, and achieve their separatist goal.
Also note how the iNGOs and NGOs FUNDED and ENABLED these operations to function. You might ask, for example, what motive the Swiss Embassy would have in funding LTTE operations through one of their iNGOs.
The LTTE operatives acted with IMPUNITY as career "Human Rights" advocates to undermine the country, creating one organization after the other to hide under and provide cover, permanently LIVING OFF NGO money (in addition to LTTE money).
HOW WAS THIS POSSIBLE?
The answer is that successive GOSLs, and many of our career politicians, sought to "curry favour", obtain "perks" and "junkets abroad" and "outright bribes" from these foreign organization in return for turning a blind eye. In the process they created a MONSTER that answered to no one, and was immune to Sri Lanka's laws. They were an entire INDUSTRY all by themselves, that was ABOVE THE LAW and was PROTECTED by the foreign governments and agencies.
These Foreign Organizations soon started to TERRORIZE the GOSL itself, usurping the sovreignty of Sri Lanka, and DICTATING policy within the country. If any GOSL did not comply, various ambassadors would begin calling, threatening various PUNITIVE sanction to bring the GOSL to heel. Even as we speak this continues with the EU threatening to withold GSP+ trading status from Sri Lanka.
ALL OF THIS MUST BE ENDED, and Sri Lanka has to RECOVER its INDEPENDENCE from this TANGLED SPIDER WEB of Foreign Governments, iNGOs and NGOs. We must THROW OUT as many of these iNGOs intefering in Sri Lanka's internal affairs.
A national policy has to be established to EVALUATE & DENY ENTRY by iNGOs into fields where they have NO LEGITIMATE ROLE to play except for DESTABILIZING and UNDERMINING the nation. That POLICY must be backed up by a government department maintaining strict oversight of iNGO and NGO activities.
To enable the achievement of this goal, Sri Lanka MUST forge a wide spectrum of international alliances: diplomatic, economic and military, to inoculate itself against these kinds of INFLUENCES and to REGAIN our independance.
President Mahinda Rajapaksa's recent trip abroad to develop and cement alliances of this kind is an important step in that direction.
The MESSAGE MUST BE LOUD & CLEAR: SRI LANKA is not OPEN ANYMORE FOR THESE KINDS OF MONKEY BUSINESSES! Sri Lanka is open to bona fide' trade and tourism, but is closed to ALL EFFORTS to manipulate our society and national cohesion.
Jay,
I am not asking GOSL to sue Channel-4, but anyone with Sri Lankan residency who permanently lives in the UK. News Agencies have been sued in the past by general public for mischief, and have been successful.
Tissanayagam was not convicted by MR. He was convicted by the Courts. The courts have followed due process.
Sri Lanka has not gone and criticized UK/USA or any other court decisions.. and those countries should show the same respect for country laws and court decisions.
Tissanayagam was sentenced for receiving terrorist funds to carry out terrorist propaganda -nothing more, nothing less. This will serve as a good lesson for would be journalists who would like easy terrorist money to make a living.
If you have any evidence to be brought out that the Sri Lankan courts have not followed the due process, point them out!
If USA or UK have the right to sentence people who side with the terrorists, Sri Lanka also has the same rights. We do not like double-standards!
"The Economist" has a Tamil journalist who has been placed there by LTTE.
Their agenda has been to discredit Sri Lanka at every opportunity.
If you have read Economist, what you would find is investor scaring tactics about nations who are not favored by the West.
If you would scan the Economist for the last 10 years, you may not find a single article that encourage significant investment in China. However, you would find tons of articles trying to teach you how scary the Chinese economy is and how close it to collapse.
The same goes with Russia, Venezula, Iran, Siriya, and now Sri Lanka too.
The problem is that these magazines using their power to assassinate economies that are not favorable to their masters.
Sri Lanka is now one of their priorities to assassinate. That may be why they have hired from the LTTE.
Ananda, CASC, diyasena, sujeewa, OAOA, rana and others,
at last!
i'm OK though we landed in some serious trouble in a crap country when visiting a famous forest. robbed and attacked by some really NASTY (and very smelly) ppl.
worsened by my b-i-l ("aththar") to-be when he tried some "marmathesam" and yalpanam tricks on them!! glad to be alive but should have avoided ALOT of unnecessary trouble if we had just COMPLIED.
this is the first chance to sit down, think and type.
disappointing that while that horror unfolded, some MF had stolen my MD handle here!!
good luck to all patriots. will write soon.
konappu, sam, priyasantha, FF,
cheers.
Moshe, dear chap, glad you made it out in one piece. But to chaps who love this sort of thing wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit. I would rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth.
Cheers!
Lol! Here comes Jihad.
But one of the speakers at the Muslim protest, which was partially organised by leftist parties, said that if the current situation continued, Muslims in Colombo might take up weapons.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/8238454.stm
/But one of the speakers at the Muslim protest, which was partially organised by leftist parties, said that if the current situation continued, Muslims in Colombo might take up weapons./
The speaker is Wikramabahu Karunarathne. He and his leftist clan helped a lot by such protests in 80s for 'tamil cause', encouraged, justified and helped in ideology to take arms and fight against GSL and finally reduce the SL tamil population by 50%. Now his leftist clan doing the same for muslims. Considering high growth rate. perhaps Gota/MI are using him.. HIKzz
I am happy to read that Nipuna Ramanayake initiating his own lawsuit against his tormentors.
This is clear democracy.
Those who cross the line beware!
Peter,
Wikarabahu, NGO workers and other such shit have lost their credibility to such an extent that ppl ignore whatever they say.
You can enjoy their association. Right now Pussycats are similar discards.
Moshe,
Glad you made it in one piece. Wow ! Sounds like a James Bond type saga.
Cheers
According to LNW the sinhala tamilnut sources, Ram and Nagulan also eating well..
One of my sources told that the Maligawatta protest was organized by few Muslim politicians who are closely linked to the Muslim underworld.
.. and there is a reason for that too.
There are Three prominent Muslim underworlds in Colombo.
1. Maligawatta
2. Dematagoda/Wellampitiya
3. Borella
There are different leaders running these areas.
For some reason Police have been targeting the Maligawatta underworld. Nothing has happened to the other two.
The most strongest of the two also has been the Maligawatta underworld, and account for about 50% of heroin dealings of Sri Lanka.
There is quite a lot of money involved and many beneficiaries. That's why the protests are.
Many residents of Maligawatta also are captives of the underworld, and therefore it is natural for the protest.
One of the other complains they have is, even after LTTE, the Police have not touch the Tamil underworld a bit in Colombo.
The Tamil underworld operates totally separately from LTTE and actually the LTTE was only one customer of them.
The St. John fish market to Kathiresan St, Pettah Wholesale trades, Sea Street and many areas are still run by the Tamil underworld.
Both the underworld factions have made many many Police higher-ups and politicians RICH.
There are allegations that some senior police officers just pick-up the phone and ask to bring 5 lakhs in some occasions, and the money has been delivered within hours compared to days.
So, this is all money. Lot of money.
The current DIGs, SSPs are not the ones who should be dealing here.
TID has been maintaining higher integrity levels and the GOSL should create a separate division similar to TID to suppress the underworld. Muslim, Sinhala, and Tamil, all underworlds are bad. .. bad for the country.
Moshe,
Glad to have you back.
/Gates: AP decision 'appalling'
Defense Secretary Robert Gates is objecting “in the strongest terms” to an Associated Press decision to transmit a photograph showing a mortally wounded 21-year-old Marine in his final moments of life, calling the decision “appalling” and a breach of “common decency.”/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20090904/pl_politico/26759
Media Freedom in US is under threat!! It is so clear how US defence secretary threatens journalists.. Lets go to Fort railway station and do the protest.. HIKz Time is right Jaliya to issue a statement.. instructing US government to establish media freedom.. hikZZ
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090904/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama_speech_schools
/WASHINGTON – The White House on Friday dismissed as pointless the furor over President Barack Obama's plan to deliver a televised back-to-school speech to the nation's students./
kalumalli has started brainwashing kids..
/"I think we've reached a little bit of the silly season when the president of the United States can't tell kids in school to study hard and stay in school," presidential spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters. "I think both political parties agree that the dropout rate is something that threatens our long-term economic success."/
HC US president has to say kids to go to school and study hard...? US should teach what a grade 5 drop out can do.. HIKzz Is Robert Blake a drop out too? hikZ
/Gibbs said former Republican presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush delivered similar speeches to students./
Well, whites can brainwash kids but not blacks.. hikZ
tamilnut.com has become another copy pasting blog.. Nothing from 'tamil circles', 'tamil political analysts', or 'tamil columnists' for days.. HIKzz
http://www.divaina.com/2009/09/05/news20.html
Ninja,
Any idea if these officers who discriminate live in Colombo? Are the SL citizens or Canadians with diplomatic immunity?
Abduction of a child and bringing him back story.
It reminds me the fact of using Children for fund-collection.
There are large number of organized criminals in Sri Lanka who uses children to collect bogus funds.
It works like this. They dress these kids up with good clean clothes and bring them to religious public places i.e. the car park of Kaluthara Bodhiya, Bellanvila Temple, Kelaniya Temple etc with one or two of their supervisors.
These kids were given bogus ticket books, and ask them to sell these tickets to the public. Usually the ticket books are priced at Rs. 10.00 to 20.00, and designed around a story like treatment for a kid needing bone-marrow transplant, or kidney transplant, etc etc.
These kids have been taught to be pushy as well as be extremely polite at the same time.
This is a huge racket that is well organised. I have heard that the persons behind these rackets have become multi-millionaires with amazing amounts of wealth.
It is time for the Police to look into this racket too, as it is widely being practiced.
I recently went to Kirinda Vihara, and the same thing went on there too. It was pushy mafia run by a man call "Mala Malli". Everyone supposed to buy a ticket from the girls, and if not you are not even allowed to park.
I guessed, he used to be selling Mala in the area before he discovered this new venture.
casc,
quite the opposite mate!!
lol!
fundamentals-of-victory-against-terror
These are listed as the ‘Rajapaksa Model of fighting terror’ and are described as:
• Unwavering political will
• Disregard for international opinion distracting from the goal
• No negotiations with the forces of terror
• Unidirectional floor of conflict information
• Absence of political intervention to pull away from complete defeat of the LTTE
• Complete operational freedom for the security forces
-Let the best men do the task
• Accent on young commanders
• Keep your neighbors in the loop
i would add the following too.
* maintaining colombo, etc., security at a very high level
* TIMELY & violent retaliation
from TN.
"Sri Lanka has failed to honour important human-rights commitments, and is ineligible for GSP Plus."
this is total BS.
govt has to take a 2 step approach.
1. show that HR violations (if any) were TEMPORARY. having won the war, there will be no FURTHER violations after resettling the IDPs.
2. IF the EU continues to make threats, a counter threat must be made to AGGRESSIVELY COLONIZE the north. this can economically offset the adverse effects of losing GSP+ TO A GOOD EXTENT.
EU (and europe) is ethnically divided. TF they prefer (than US or canada, etc) to keep the "ethnic balance" in a region. it can strike a chord.
Moshie,
Welcome back brother.
Heloooo....can some deserving parties have some credit please here....for strongly (to put it mildly that is! lolzzz!) taking the position that there was a fake MD motherfucker cum Tamil eelamist/RW=thamileelam supporter running rampant here? lol
Yes, OaOA and I took delight in going chop-chop on this fake MD bugger's stunted cucucumber.....Hooooo!
MD
"some really NASTY (and very smelly) ppl"
Sure you weren't referring to a past experience when you might have strayed into a place called Killinocchi?
Hoooooooo!
Hey Moshey, good to have you back mate...we knew you will do a "Nandikadal" on whatever the adversary and appear here soon! Yes, there was a fake MF here and we took care of it. No worries mate!
As for the fundamentals-of-victory-against-terror
I would add the following:
* Not being afraid to show dead bodies of killed LTTE whore-dogs whether they were intact or not (yes, shock-jock treatment is an important psy-op element in an asymmetrical war)
* Effective control of the foreign media and NOT allowing them access into the war-zone irrespective of which foreign country or which foreign VVIP kook was asking such access be be allowed. (Basically, GOSL did a wonderful job of RISK MANAGEMENT here as it did not take a chance with the foreign media as there was no way of knowing which one was an undercover LTTE or LTTE sympathic entity and which was not!) This is a very crucial strategy in an asymmetrical war I believe...evidently, many eminent historians, war-analysts, senior war-vets, now agree this was why the Vietnam war was lost!
Hey FF...if you are in the US, please sign onto Ananda's "SLpatriots" blog and build a rapport there and then I will ask Ananda bro (only he will know how I will do it) to give you my personal email add...would love to meet you and share a good single-malt with you bro...if you are in the US, I am pretty sure I know who your family in Colombo is...enough said... :-))
Cheers,
OaO Asithri
OAOA,
Ya man, I am in the US and am a student. I will reveal more about me-self when I contact you. You might have guessed already. I have been an active follower of these news sites/blogs for a long time and I am pretty sure I know you.
Got a campus gig so will catch you later. Certainly I will sign onto ananda's blog.
OK FF bro...have a good one...be good okay...do not do anything you cannot tell your grandma...!!!
:)) :)) :))
OaO Asithri
Easily the OaOA GEM Award of the day!
By Ninja:
[The speaker is Wikramabahu Karunarathne. He and his leftist clan helped a lot by such protests in 80s for 'tamil cause', encouraged, justified and helped in ideology to take arms and fight against GSL and finally reduce the SL tamil population by 50%. Now his leftist clan doing the same for muslims. Considering high growth rate. perhaps Gota/MI are using him.. HIKzz]
Kudos to you brother! Very well put!
OaO Asithri
met a TE activist from US. he says he doesn't blame MR or SF or anyone. he blames india and china!!!
what a joke.
as if india or china would give a rat's arse about "human rights violations" and other bullshit alleged by TE activists.
OAOA,
cheers matie.
i must confess that it was not a nanthikandal but was rather a KAB2001 situ.
i feel shit to think that i cannot return the "favours".
patriots,
this is FCUKING shocking.
population growth rate of SL is only 0.47%!!
this is according to the UN. the CIA figure gives 0.904%.
birth - death - emmigration
= 16.26 - 6.13 - 1.09 = 9.04 (for 1,000).
TF 0.904%.
even this is on the low side (comparable to most developed countries).
but we know the growth rate is uneven across ethnic groups. this is a problem.
but ppl need LAND to occupy, produce food, live, for industry.
landlessness is a BS problem in SL that can be easily overcome. population density is a HUGE problem outside the NE. that too can be solved through COLONISATION.
colonisation is the panacea for all ills. the biggest benefit of it is the resolution of the "ethnic problem".
SamP
/Any idea if these officers who discriminate live in Colombo? Are the SL citizens or Canadians with diplomatic immunity?/
Sorry I am not familiar with these embassy stuff.. 'Vienna convention, diplomatic immunity.. so many things.. only thing I know is only thing GSL can do is expelling the buggers and thats exactly MR and his team doing all these times..
Asithri
/Easily the OaOA GEM Award of the day!/
Ha Ha Look at the GEM I found today..
/do not do anything you cannot tell your grandma...!!!/
If you tell this to me some time ago perhaps I didn't do it.. HA HAAA
kattiya, see one guy is missing and we are missing the 10+ different handles.. hikz
Moshe,
Glad to have you back in one piece!
I am still puzzled as to what really happened .. but you will clarify as appropriate!
We need to send you for Special Forces Training! LoL!
Guys
With respect to Ch 4 vedio.It does not belong any of the mobile phone formats(3Gp or Mpe4).looks like this footage is taken from an video camera and they seems to have dubbed the sound. If the GSOL cares to take it up then they could get the experts to examine the those tapes.Inter governmental cooperation is the most effective.
Tamil Diaspora has been instructed to move a way from the ruling labour party as they feel that they are bound to lose the next election and this betrayal might wake the people in govt and help us to fight the these terrorist supporters.
Must get my friends to the demo!
A popular folk song making rounds in rural Sri Lanka seems to be a new take on an old song about King Rajasingha I and the Portuguese:
Nithara Nithra Sitavaka Rana Bera Asuna
Colomba Kotuwe Balal Masuth Gini Ganan Una
Mulleriya Welle Wathura Leyata Harawuna
Tikiri Kumaru Rajasingha Naming Raja Una
War drums were heard frequently in Sitavaka, Price of cat meat became prohibitive in Colombo fort, Water of the Mulleriya marsh turned to blood, Prince Tikiri was crowned King Rajasingha
Nithara Nithra Colomba Purae Rana Bera Asuna
Killinochchiea Balal Masuth Gini Ganan Una
Naathikandal Kalapuwe Wathura Leyata Harawuna
Mahinda Kumaru Deveni Gamunu Naming Raja Una
War drums were heard frequently in city of Colombo, Price of cat meat became prohibitive in Killinochchi, Water of the Nathikandal lagoon turned to blood, Prince Mahinda was crowned King Gamunu II
Bugger! I didn't know water of the lagoon turned blood color. I guess it was like shooting fish in a barrel.
Cheers!
konappu,
lovely!
BUT there is a spelling mistake!! lol!
shouldn't your name go as KONAPPU not KONNAPU?????
ananda,
another dream come true!!
from tn.
"India is likely to share its nuclear technology with Sri Lanka for power generation using Thorium as the main source of energy, Science and Technology Minister Tissa Vitharana said Friday. The Daily Mirror newspaper quoted Professor Vitharana as saying India is prepared to support Sri Lanka with setting up a nuclear power plant and that he had requested IAEA support for the project. Professor Vitharana also told the paper he had invited Indian nuclear scientists to conduct a feasibility study on the use of Thorium deposits – said to be found in abundance along Sri Lanka’s southern costal belt – as a source of nuclear energy for power generation."
not only the southern coastal belt, but in the north too!!!
it is a long call but doable.
http://www.defence.lk/new.asp?fname=20090903_04
[shouldn't your name go as KONAPPU not KONNAPU?????]
Moshe, old boy, I have seen it written both ways. Like our good chap Ninja says after a few G&Ts you can't frankly tell the difference between the two.
Cheers!
James Elder, a senior official with the United Nations Childrens Fund (UNICEF), held a visa until July next year to serve in Sri Lanka. He is the first UN official carrying a UN passport with diplomatic status to be asked to leave Sri Lanka.
Bugger! This is brilliant. How about following this up with few more Brits, Norwegians, and Canadians.
Cheers!
thusitha,
"What is the best way to spend around AUS $1000 on our soldiers?"
IMHO, api wenuwen api.
Moshe Dyan said...
thusitha,
"What is the best way to spend around AUS $1000 on our soldiers?"
IMHO, api wenuwen api.
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Thanks Moshe,
I was going through the website.
Interestingly MoD has not put contact in Australia.
thusitha,
the website (defence.lk) is good enough.
if you want to do it through a group, SPURNSW should be fine AFAIK. i can't find their website. only the main SPUR website is there. if you have their contacts, pls ask them.
they have already donated some money recently!!
Blackcap cricketers cowardly and duplicitous on humanitarian support
Before the cricketers left they met with representatives of the New Zealand Tamil community, along with GPJA, where the team was requested to use its high public profile to help keep the international spotlight on the humanitarian crisis facing the Tamil population.
NZ Cricket and player reps agreed they would do what they could without getting involved in the politics (which they were never requested to do). With this in mind no protests were organised against the team leaving for Sri Lanka.
Subsequently agreement was reached between Fonterra, World Vision and representatives of the New Zealand Tamil community whereby the Blackcaps would publicly and symbolically facilitate the transfer of milk powder products from Fonterra in Sri Lanka to World Vision for the victims of war in the military camps where there is an on-going humanitarian catastrophe.
The Blackcaps then got cold feet with Dave Currie (NZ Cricket manager with the Blackcaps) refusing to allow the cricketers to take part. Currie says he fears for the safety of the players. If helping feed starving people with milk powder is going to compromise player safety then what are the Blackcaps doing in Sri Lanka in the first place?
The team has cowered in silence, complicit in the oppression of the Tamil population.
Bugger! Why is it so bloody easy to trick these Peelam retards. It's like taking candy from a baby. As usual Tamilnut is again crying about being tricked by the nasty world.
Cheers!
HNB Bank's net profit up 76% YoY in 2Q2009
www.srilankaequity.com
Hatton National Bank s (HNB) net profit has risen by a sharp 76% YoY to LKR996.4 mn in 2Q2009 whilst lifting the cumulative 1H2009 net earnings by 32% to LKR1,708.2 mn. The net profit growth in the latest quarter has bettered our forecast and was driven by net interest income growing by 22% YoY and a 32% YoY dip in total provisioning cost.
HNB was incorporated in 1888 and since then has grown to become the second largest private sector bank with an asset base of around LKR275 bn and an island wide branch network of 178. The bank already has a relatively strong presence in the recently liberated Northern and Eastern provinces of the island and also boasts the largest low cost deposit base amongst the private sector banks. HNB has been fairly aggressive compared to its peers and is expanding both its corporate and retail loan books on the back of a strong deposit base whilst maintaining a loans to deposit ratio of around 90%. Further due to the stable low cost deposit base HNB s net interest margin has been approx. 50 bps to 75 bps above peer average. HNB despite being aggressive continues to be well capitalised with a Tier 1 CAR of 8.5% and Total CAR of 10.6%.
However the main negative of the bank has been its lateness in technology adoption and also the average performance in Non Performing Loans (NPL). However since lately HNB has made remarkable inroads in technology adoption and now offers real time ATM networks, internet/sms banking etc. The bank would also shift to a single IT platform in 2010E whilst phasing off the non compatible two IT platforms which are presently in use. Based on management reports, circa 64% of operational losses are due to drawbacks in delivery, process management and system failure, which we believe would be markedly reduced in future with the introduction of a single core banking IT platform. With regard to risk mitigation HNB has strengthened its credit risk analysis function and has managed to bring down the NPL levels to around the industry average. Further HNB had fully provided for a LKR2.6 bn bad loan (which was a resultant of the borrower going bankrupt) in 2006 and is presently awaiting to collect compensation in lieu of the land and building which was initially placed as collateral. However the recovery could be based on a phased compensation plan since the government has taken over the properties of the bankrupt borrower and compensation would be more so based on the terms put forward by the government.
Read more www.srilankaequity.com
What's going on. There are only 4000 petitions yet. We can do better than this.
Petition to Channel 4 Television Corporation - UK.
Thusitha _ all;
Re: CH4 petition
Following is what I got when I tried to sign it few days ago. Today when I repeated got the same.
"This petition has been closed to new signatures at the author's request."
Meanwhile, a Swedish charity has alleged foreign troops entered its hospital south of the Afghan capital Kabul, smashed doors and tied up staff and patients' relatives.
The Swedish Committee for Afghanistan said the soldiers came into the clinic in Shaniz in Wardak province late on Wednesday "without giving any reason or justification".
The charity said it breached agreements between non-governmental organisations and the International Security Assistance Force (Isaf), which along with the US has more than 100,000 foreign troops in Afghanistan.
An Isaf spokesman said an investigation had been launched.
Bugger! I love the smell of genocide in the morning.
Cheers!
"I love the smell of genocide in the morning."
lol!
of course they don't use napalm nowadays.
very creative!!
"Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said Sunday there were indications that the Tamil Tigers were involved in the March 3 attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Pakistan.
Gilani told reporters that investigators have got indications to suggest that the Tamil Tigers had financed the attack in which a bus carrying Sri Lankan cricketers was fired at by gunmen near the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore.
Gilani said that he had met Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa in Libya last week and discussed the possibility of the involvement of the Tamil Tigers.
He said Pakistan will soon send a team to Sri Lanka to share intelligence with Sri Lankan officials.
Tehrik-e-Taliban Punjab had claimed the responsibility for the attack.
Six members of the Sri Lankan cricket team were injured in the attack, in which six Pakistani policemen and two civilians were killed.
Several cricket teams, including that of Australia, cancelled their tour to Pakistan over security concerns after the attack.
(Staff Writer, © IANS)"
when this possibility was suggested by many here at DW, i disagreed.
i may be wrong.
but why this news is only coming from india??????
also another news report suggested that the SL LM has hinted about this (than investigations revealed this). if so, it may be a PR stunt by SL which is good. but the truth may be different.
"SL LM"
i meant SL PM.
/"This petition has been closed to new signatures at the author's request."/
It seems that the organizer has given up due to death threats from the UK-LTTE.
Moshe Dyan said...
when this possibility was suggested by many here at DW, i disagreed.
i may be wrong.
but why this news is only coming from india??????
also another news report suggested that the SL LM has hinted about this (than investigations revealed this). if so, it may be a PR stunt by SL which is good. but the truth may be different.
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I think I am the one who suggest this first in this blog. Even at that time I mentioned that it really doesn't matter whether they did it or not, but it is good for publicity.
But I still believe LTTE had a hand somewhere in it and some high ranking Pak. officials are complicit in this attack.
I think every one other than China wanted this war to continue (Good for business). For china, getting a shipping line and a strategic hold of SL became much more important than the profit from the arms sales.
Brown makes 'U-Turn' on Libya and IRA terror, opposition says
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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced Sunday that his government will support IRA victims in seeking compensation from Libya, in a move conservatives called a "U-turn" from his earlier position.
Brown, right, will support asking Gadhafi's Libyan regime to pay compensation to IRA bomb victims.
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"I desperately care about what has happened to those people who have been victims of IRA terrorism," Brown said at a Sunday news conference in Germany.
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Does this mean Sri Lankan's can sue US, UK, Norway, Australia and Canada for their support of the LTTE?
Ninja said...
It seems that the organizer has given up due to death threats from the UK-LTTE.
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Bit unlikely
What KB wrote comes to my mind.
I love the smell of genocide in the morning.
Tamilnet.com says "Reporting to the world on Tamil Affairs" and I had some confusion with some of their 100% intelligent, 100% true, 100% unbiased reports so I contacted their 100% democratic editor at tamilnuteditor@tamilpeelaam.hikz and got the following responses;
1.
"Colombo evicts UNICEF official
[Sun, 06 Sep 2009, 13:34 GMT]
James Elder, Chief of Communications, UNICEF Sri LankaChief of Communications for UNICEF in Sri Lanka, James Elder's visa to continue to remain in Sri Lanka was refused by Sri Lanka's Department of Immigration, BBC reported Sunday."
James elder is a (great) tamilian. His name reads as Jamesen Elderam which is pure tamil. Isn't this tamil affair?
2. "China to boost Sri Lanka’s coconut industry
[TamilNet, Sunday, 06 September 2009, 08:12 GMT]
Sri Lanka’s Plantations Industries Minister Mr. D. M. Jayaretna held discussions Friday with visiting officials of a China based company to boost coconut industry in the island and also to set up a plant to manufacture coconut shell charcoal, sources in Colombo said."
Coconut is pure tamil food. Note the similarity with tamilnut.
3. "Pakistan Navy ship to visit Sri Lanka
[TamilNet, Sunday, 06 September 2009, 07:59 GMT]
Pakistan Navy Ship “ZULFIQUAR” will pay a goodwill visit to Sri Lanka next week, Colombo media reported quoting a spokesperson of Pakistan High Commission in Colombo."
ZULFIQUAR is pure tamil. So this is tamil affair.
4. "India to share nuclear technology with Sri Lanka - report
[TamilNet, Saturday, 05 September 2009, 20:45 GMT]
India is likely to share its nuclear technology with Sri Lanka for power generation using Thorium as the main source of energy, Science and Technology Minister Tissa Vitharana said Friday."
Thorium is pure tamil chemical. We regret your knowledge on Tamiz language.
ninja,
whatever the stated objectives are, toiletnet is like a MORTUARY WITHOUT BUSINESS today!!
so it has "diversified" into other business like general reporting.
but there is a golden rule the toiletnet editors must be aware (picked from DW).
the same land area is claimed by BOTH SL and tamil elam. but there is room for only one. one MUST die for the other to prosper.
IOTW, if one prospers, the other dies.
so they don't like anything good happening to SL bcos they know that means death to TE. that's why they drag bullshit to discredit (that's all TN can do now after the nanthikanda grand GENITAL-O-CIDE). its like BRAMAN the UNINTELLIGENT INTELLIGENCE joker from CHENA-NAI once shouted that iran is giving money to SL to buy weapons!!!
when the STUPIDITY of it came out the CHENA-NAI BRAMAN said,
1. iran gives cheap oil to SL.
2. SL saves money
3. from this money saved SL buys weapons.
poor bugger was unaware that his beloved mother india was giving FREE WEAPONS to SL to screw his beloved, unbeatable tigers in kilinochchi!!!!
this pattern of toiletnet is good. now the whole world knows the distructive tendencies of TN. when MASS COLONISATION starts in the north, toiletnet is going to cry again. but it would be as usual so no one will give a damn.
"Four hundred babies are born every month in the internment camps at Menik Farm where nearly 300,000 Tamil civilians are held in Vavuniya district, and they are in need of considerable assistance and care, according to Sarvodaya leader Dr A. T. Ariyaretna."
wow!!
400 a month = 4,800 a year.
4,800 / 300,000 = 1.6%
this is way higher than the national average of 0.97%!!
65% higher!!
looks like these ppl had fcuked to celebrate LTTE defeats from 12 august 2008 onwards.
if 280 days are added to 19 may 2009, it will be 23 february 2010.
expect a BABY BOOM!!
/Four hundred babies are born every month in the internment camps at Menik Farm where nearly 300,000 Tamil civilians are held in Vavuniya district,../
/looks like these ppl had fcuked to celebrate LTTE defeats../
GSL give them food.. They have nothing to do.. So just hav sex.. Looks like Menik Farm has no condoma available either.. too bad..
Re: Tissanayagam
Divaina questions whether it is an attempt win publicity and tarnish govt
One of our bloggers also questioned this here.
There is no doubt that Tissanayagam deserve white van ride. But is there a deeper plot?
Sujeewa Kokawala said...
Divaina questions whether it is an attempt win publicity and tarnish govt
There is no doubt that Tissanayagam deserve white van ride. But is there a deeper plot?
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We need to find out who the lawyers were? According to The paper raises quite a few questions. That was the first thing that came to my mind when I saw the verdict. Maybe the lawyer who gave the verdict or the defence lawyers had a different agenda. To tarnish the image of SL.
This is a time when SL should be lying low for few years. Things like this takes it to head line news.
Was he represented by Tamil Lawyers or Sinhalese Lawyers. We have to remember these Fkcers are prepared to self immolate. Going for 20 years of hard labour in nothing, if they get something out of this.
LTTE or UNP are the ones who are going to win from a verdict like this.
These MUTTS have discovered this ONLY NOW!
LoL!
.....continued....
‘27 Indian leaders were on LTTE’s payroll’
ExpressBuzz.com
September 5, 2009
CHENNAI: Charging that 27 Indian politicians were on the paylist of the banned LTTE, Janata party president Subramanian Swamy on Saturday urged the Central government to appoint a multi-disciplinary monitoring unit headed by the CBI to investigate into the issue.
Addressing a press conference here, Swamy alleged that the LTTE had been funding some political parties and their leaders in Tamil Nadu.
Swamy said he had written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in this regard. “I have obtained a list of 27 such Indian politicians from reliable Sri Lankan official sources,” he said.
On claims that electronic voting machines (EVMs) were tamper-proof, Swamy said he was not against their use but wanted better procedures wherein the voter could have a documentary proof that his vote had reached the intended candidate. Swamy said he would prove the tamperability of the EVMs to the Election Commission soon.
Answering a question on India’s ties with China, he called for a two-pronged policy wherein India should focus on strengthening the defence forces matching Chinese military and at the same time pursue a foreign policy paving the way for friendly relations in the interest of global stability.
Ninja said...
/It seems that the organizer has given up due to death threats from the UK-LTTE./
The petition had an exact closing time. The petition was meant to be handed over to Channel 4 at the protest(Protest was held on Sep 5).You can find some info on the protest at this link,
http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2009/09/06/how-could-we-believe-chanel-4-anymore-ask-demonstrators-who-accused-them-as-a-bogus-news-station/
patriots,
i get this freaking weird feeling that there will be a mutiny in SL SOON.
some MFs in the SLDFs (very small number) (SLDFs are recruited from the society and if there aren't any MFs, i will be surprised) will hold MR, etc. hostage and call for an international investigation into BS "war crimes" and to get the IC introduce a "political solution".
money can buy many and the safety it would bring if it goes well is also attractive.
remember there were plenty of anti-SL SLDFs and there still are many. they know their days are numbered!!
screw OR get screwed!!! they also know there is a huge international BULLSHIT project going on to get many things including a plan to save these traitors.
Guys,
Why don't you put your comments in a place like,
http://blogs.channel4.com/snowblog/2009/08/26/authenticating-the-sri-lanka-war-crimes-footage/
which has more viewers, international attention and where ealamists are having a good time.
At least give a vote for a comment by a patriot in that.
Thusitha
[Maybe the lawyer who gave the verdict or the defence lawyers had a different agenda. To tarnish the image of SL]
Possible, but I personally think unlikely and my inside info thus far tells me same. The PTA is adorned with dire consequences for those who aid and abet terrorism in the nation and I personally think it is good the judiciary (the independent judiciary which even overrules the Executive President in the nation as we have seen on occasion) follows through on it to send a strongest possible message to the next terrorist-supporter wannabe…the last thing we want is to have such an Act in the nation which is regarded as a worthless piece of paper and it becomes the joke of the nation. The horrific and colossal death, injury, property destruction, that the LTTE terrorism brought about to the nation is something I am sure we patriots need no reminders of…as such, I personally think this sentence is well deserved and timely.
Now as for…
[This is a time when SL should be lying low for few years. Things like this takes it to head line news]
You do have a point. However, here again from what we have seen, the LTTE Tamil whore-diaspora is determined to NOT let SL lie low. They have nearly $400 Million war-chest at their disposal and they are determined to use that to tarnish SL’s image and we have seen the Ch4 work as an example of that…as such, no, I don’t think SL can lie low…just as how we prosecuted this war – going from defensive to unquestionably offensive – I for one think it is good to stay on the offensive to show these LTTE whore-cunts that we will get them when they are on our soil and punish them with “cruel and unusual punishment” to show them diaspora mommafuckers how displeased we are with their actions against SL…to this end, a pathetic LTTE mommafucker like Tissanayagam provides the right occasion to get that message out loud and clear!
OaO Asithri
Moshey
[i get this freaking weird feeling that there will be a mutiny in SL SOON]
Rest easy bro.
This is not going to happen, at least in the near future, due to:
1) The overwhelming SL population is today happy with this GOSL...and the mutineers will have a hard time running the country post-mutiny
2) "Mother India" will not allow it. She will intervene in SL in a blitzkrieg fashion that the mutineers will not know what hit them. One thing to stay off the SL war - i.e. to stay off and let SLDF finish off the LTTE mommafuckers and make a few calls for "restraint" now and then to appease the ToiletNadu - but it is totally another to let a military junta run SL and India will step in with the excuse that she is coming to safeguard the Tamils in SL.
Now it is true there are some dissatisfied old-fart deadwood SLDFs (who have been bypassed for promotion due to lack of merit for example) and some die hard RW-Huttha supporters too who would love to see the end of this regime....but they are a tiny minority and do not carry enough popular support in the nation. Sure they might have the hypocritical west's support, but without India's countenance, even that is highly unlikely.
What we need to keep in mind is that secretly India is VERY HAPPY that the LTTE is no more and "tamil separatist" agenda has been dismantled in SL as it would have been the precursor to such starting in ToiletNadu...no, it is unlikely India will allow a military coup in SL to bring forth a SL regime that we restart that again.
Anyway, this is how I see it...I am sure there are other angles of how one may look at this possibility...and would like to hear of them from other patriots...
OaO Asithri
Loabi, I left the following comment in that blogspot, but not sure the LTTE biased cocksuckers will publish it...
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By your editors agreeing to air this clearly doctored piece of garbage, you have shown what a dire state your organization is in. Perhaps you might investigate the bank accounts of some of the go-between employees (and their relatives) in your org. who brought this laughable piece to your org. in the first place. Remember LTTE has $400 Million war-chest (useless now) and the word is out there that they are throwing it lavishly for anyone to grab at, provided the favor is returned in kind, to tarnish the image of SL. ha ha ha...what a fiasco!
Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha – Channel 4 News 7th September
'Don't call us, we'll call you - if we need to'
Moshe
Said..
i get this freaking weird feeling that there will be a mutiny in SL SOON.
No chance as no one in the right mind will go against the mood of the country.
From what we hear, that the Diaspora resources will be used to destabilize the plantation sector as it was an original plan B and C of VP, if one should remember his video distributed among his key members abroad 15 years ago.
They too will use the unsuspecting NGO and the corrupt officers to move people and materials about in the island.
With respect to the Ch 4 affair I would highly recommend that the gosl hire a tough lawyer like Imran Khan to take CH4 to the cleaners.
Our own lawyers in UK are just pussies and everyone fears Imran K.
No_MESS said...
Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha – Channel 4 News 7th September
'Don't call us, we'll call you - if we need to'
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Excellent Video. The D**K head was handled in a very cool and calm manner as usual by Prof. RW.
No Ch4 MFs should every be allowed to set foot in SL period.
href="http://www.unp.lk/portal/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3337&Itemid=1" >Lanka tolerates no self-styled ‘Kings’ – UNP hopes to make all Sri Lankans Kings- Ranil Wickremesinghe
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No, he just want every SL to be a Po**ya, just like him.
Prabhakaran's now detained close aide Gokulan Master, who was with the Tiger chief during the last stage of the war:
When the Sri Lanka Army`s Special Forces and Commandos initially attempted to rescue the civilians held hostage, and when the civilians responded by moving towards the army controlled areas, Prabhakaran immediately instructed his cadres to kill anyone who attempted to flee, and display the bodies as a deterrent to the others.
Tamilnut.com:
On alleged earlier firing on civilians, who in desperation tried to get into SLA controlled area, and on violence in recruitment during the last days that especially affected the families of LTTE heroes and fighters, the medical worker attributed responsibility to some elements long infiltrated into the LTTE, to work on behalf of Colombo. LTTE senior ranks were shaken by such treachery, he writes.
Bugger! It looks like the fat pig Velu was infiltrated into the LTTE by our brilliant MI chaps.
Cheers!
asithri and kevin,
fully agree.
i don't think so either.
it is only a gut feel i was talking about.
BUT it is still possible to HAPPEN though they CANNOT SUCCEED. NO CHANCE.
these traitor MFs (especially those in the SLDFs) are SOOO desperate and there are plenty of them. they have NO ESCAPE left. they have NO ESCAPE left.
pls understand their level of desperation.
the only escape they can think of is the ENEMY. but the local enemy is dead and gone. that leaves only the LTTE die-arse-pora. the LTTE die-arse-pora want to get the IC involved in SL, SOMEHOW.
and some MFs in the IC, LOVE to get involved. R2P, federal, political solution, you-name-it....
this serves ALL of them right.
1. LTTE die-ass-pora---> will be happy.
2. traitors now shitting in their pants -----> will be VERY happy.
they will survive or escape prison terms if it happens.
3. UNP, TNA, old-JVP and other DISASTER STRUCK opposition parties -----> VERY VERY happy
4. LTTE media MFs -----> VERY happy
of course india, china, SL ppl will be against it aggressively. so it will be a show down.
but IF they manage to get many top nationalist SL guys hostage, SL ppl's actions will be WITHOUT A LEADER.
worse, that leaves RANIL, SAM-BUNDH-AN, hack-him, mongal, ASS, lal kantha to lead the ppl!!!!
THAT is the danger.
indian interests are not 100% SL ppl's interests. which means IF the R2P, etc. crazy IC satisfies india with federal or some other BS, india will keep quiet.
SL will be the only loser.
the crackdown on traitors MUST become more aggressive and fast.
KB,
good pick
"LTTE senior ranks were shaken by such treachery"
LOVELY!!!
vezapillai....
shake shake shake your arse
shake your bum shake your arse!!
toiletnet bullshit reporting.
"Roads lead to ruin – Prime Minister Wickramanayake"
he never said that. but PM made a blunder bcos he didn't want to tell the REAL reason.
the real reason is, GOSL repiars only those roads that are essential for ethnic integration and business.
other roads NEED NOT be repaired in the short term.
e.g. the trico-batti roads. ONLY the road through gal-oya has been repaired. toiletnet complained about this too.
e.g. MR was asked the qeustion why LINK roads of north-south are repaired but north-north and north-east roads are NOT repiared. MR mentioned ethnic integration as a priority.
"wonder what kinds of drugs the TamilNut buggers are on when they write such garbage. .................... such a cesspool of lies and fantasies"?????
the answer is there. ECSTASY!!!
Israel to build more houses in West Bank
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has approved the building of 455 housing units in the West Bank, his office has said. U.S. President Barack Obama has insisted Israel freeze such activity as a necessary step toward advancing talks with Palestinians.
lovely!!!
israel is COLONIZING other countries' territories while SL is SHIT SCARED to settle sinhala ppl its OWN country!!!
pls note that ehud barak is the DEFENCE MINISTER!!
some MFs tell that PISSA-NAI-GON MFs who was jailed was praised by oba-ma. so what??? oba-ma has a right to express his opinion. we respect that. but that does not mean others are not entitled to their opinions. they too are entitled to their opinions.
SL leant how to fly KFIRS from israel; leant how to sail DEBORAH boats from israel; how to use BLUE HORIZON-2 from israel; how to manufacture DEBORAH boats in SL, how to retaliate from israel, etc.
now its time to learn how to solve the ethnic problem and the problem of landlessness from israel. after all its OUR land, not others.
the israeli solution is a COMPLETE one. not just air/sea/land attack on terrorists.
we dearly miss,
1. ds senanayake
2. dudly senanayake
3. gamini disanayake
4. major janaka perera
5. most venerable DIMBULAGALA thero. (an unsung hero. he was killed by the sakkiliyas in 1995 supported by CBK govt's complicency).
ppl's ENORMOUS support for them (and their children) further approves their work.
MR said 'the solution is home-grown' and he also rejected 'wetern models for development'. These are really remarkable, MR and his team GR, BR, SF etc have proven their potential, but I don't know how extent to SL people are willing to go ahead with MR.
When you say 'the solution is "home-grown"' you trickily skip the western definition of "solution" and also the what the "question" is. Development is indeed a model and when MR says 'rejects western model' he clearly identify that the present model is 'western'. This is nothing but a slap of entire western hegemony even though many failed to realize it.
(If the relevant personals had enough brains to understand this by this time there should be renewed anti-Rajapakshe releases. West failed to understand that MR is not going to be their puppet when MR disobey their very first 'peace negotiation command' and it took 3 years for them to understand this - So no surprise; Many so called western intellectuals are not smart as we think.)
Nothing is 'absolute', (not even 'science', yet alone the rest) and every thing is 'relative'. However, western knowledge system supplemented by economic and military power is so powerful and public think (or convinced) that relative terms introduced by west are absolute.
An easily understood example is 'development'. SL is not 'developed' and that's according to 'western measurements'. It will be really hard people to convince that the term 'development' is a relative measure subjected to western norms, under western education system and highly influential western mass media. It will be even harder to come up with accepted alternative model.
The leaders of this 'west' are USA, UK, France, Germany, Auz, Canada, NZ, Japan and other nations follow them can easily be seen. Only a few nations could avoid being followers of west and come up with their own models in any field. These are strong countries - strong in the sense; population, natural resources, culture, and ideology. Examples are China, India, Pakistan, Russia, and Iran. (You can see how and up to what extent each country s correlated to above mentioned factors; But the common factor is leadership and determination of people.)
SL is the newest to join this group as SL proved their own model in defeating terrorism. We are yet to find a way in economic model.
It should be clear when you read western media/ di-ass-pora comments, now they group SL together with this "bad nations". Time is over for SL being their "good" nation. I am positive that MR and his team are well aware of what they do. But what about the people?
Its easy follow and hard to be a leader. Even after a master decide to free a slave, he may love to be in slavery; its easy and that's what he was taught and used to be. Some people are the same in SL, in their mindset. This category is easily identifiable - look at hardcore UNPers and leftists.
Ninja,
Some good points to ponder.
Thanks.
ninja,
wow!
from the bottom of the heart!!
fully agree but i take the side of the ppl.
ppl want short term economic incentives TO DO ANYTHING. under whatever development model. they want to see that they can buy more, enjoy more, etc.
TF govt's economic development plan should diliver these in the short and long terms.
the old model of "years of hard work and sacrifices but not much economic rewards in the short term" is a failure in SL. this cannot be changed. and no point blaming the ppl.
there are many methods to bring both short term and long term development. rapidly expanding the agri sector, fisheries sector is one EASY and VERY VERY effective way forward.
1. ensures food supply. (the biggest problem is solved)
2. ensures unemployment IN THE MOST VULNERABLE SECTIONS of the society is taken care.
3. minimum govt repeated investments. most investments in these sectors are private.
4. ppl become rich. yes, rich enough. after that they invest. a garment girl or a EPZ worker will never become rich.
SL already has world's second highest yield per hectare in rice production. it cannot be practically increased radically.
what we can do is, increase the cultivated area and reduce cost. when area increases, cost per 1 MT reduces. the same goes for other crops.
there is enough land in the north and enough water.
having handled the most critical problems of basic food, unemployment of BIGGEST potential trouble makers, govt should develop industry.
2 kinds of ppl. (the GOLDEN RULE)
1. those who love SL
2. those who hate SL
have a mechanism to ensure BIG industries concentrate within the ownership of GROUP 1.
e.g. i would say ALL the wholesale business in colombo central belong to group 2.
these are VERY EASY business. very very easy to manage. but highly politically influential and highly profitable.
help group 1 ppl get into this business, grow and dominate.
then ppl will invest in other investments, not the govt.
ninja made a good point linking POLITICAL SOLUTION to DEVELOPMENT. these 2 are linked!!!
the golden rule of MR should drive both.
1. there is no point giving political solutions to group 2
2. there is no point developing group 2.
increasing the economic clout of group 1 at the expense of group 2 will turn more group 2s into group 1.
Germans genocide Afgan Civilians
Another preecher to SL, is found wondering naked and conducting atrocities.
We should collect these incidents and speak of them whenever they try to play bully at us in international arena.
Moshe,
Though this is a somewhat late reply, Dolphin Vans are Toyota HI-ACE vans. Some recent modles have a front side window curvy shaped like the nose of a Dolphin. Purely SL terminology.
Sujeewa Kokawala said...
Germans genocide Afgan Civilians
Another preecher to SL, is found wondering naked and conducting atrocities.
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Seems like the German Soldiers need mothers permission to go outside their barracks. It seem like it is too early for the boys to out and play cowboys and Indians.
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Germany has strict limits on the operations of its troops, which, in practice, means they can move around only during certain hours of the day, whether in convoys or on foot. The airstrike took place in early Friday morning.
Sujeewa,
You have drawn our attention to a very important incident .. that should be used fully to expose the DOUBLE STANDARDS of these western countries that habitually criticize Sri Lanka, but IGNORE or JUSTIFY their own transgressions.
I am posting the entire article below.
In this instance two things are VERY CLEAR:
1. If the Germans were willing to risk more of their troops dying from dealing with these problems using ground troops, then "collateral damage" to civilians can be minimized .. but they want the easy way out .. bomb from air.
Ultimately, this war WILL NOT BE WON by airstrikes and a few hundred thousand ground troops (from all countries including Afghanistan). They will have to commit well over 500,000 troops to dominate and control the land, as the SLA had to in Sri Lanka.
2. On the other hand, it is also a CERTAINTY that the Taliban is EXPLOITING the situation and co-mingling their cadre and civilians to discourage air strikes, and are exploiting any deaths that do occur .. passing off ALL DEATHS as those of civilians .. just as the LTTE did in Sri Lanka.
This is quite a nice pickle for these bleeding heart critics of the SLA now find themselves in fightiong a war in a far off country where they really have no real stake.
3. The LESSONS that THESE western countries should LEARN AS SOON AS POSSIBLE are,
A. LEARN to FIGHT this kind of war understanding that the enemy is USING PROPAGANDA as a MAJOR WEAPON to UNDERMINE and DESTROY their WILL TO FIGHT.
B. Acknowledge DEFEAT and GET OUT as soon as possible if they are not WILLING TO COMMIT the NECESSARY RESOURCES and ASSUME THE RISK of having to PAY THE PRICE in BLOOD and TREASURE to WIN. If they are not willing to PAY THE PRICE, they will not be able to win this war.
Ultimately, ONLY the SONS OF THE SOIL .. the Afghans themselves .. will be willing to pay that PRICE .. as we did in Sri Lanka .. and the Vietnamese did in Vietnam.
The foreigners should turn over the war to the Afghans and leave Afghanistan, but support those who support the government with arms and money. Whether the Afghans are willing to fight for their own freedom should determine who wins. NO ONE ELSE CAN, or SHOULD, decide that issue for the Afghans.
4. However, NATIONAL PRIDE and EGOS of these countries will ensure that their participation will continue for another 5 years, at least!
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Germany Defends Decision on Afghan Airstrike
By NICHOLAS KULISH and JUDY DEMPSEY
Published: September 7, 2009
BERLIN — Germany defended itself Monday against growing international criticism of a devastating NATO airstrike that German forces in Afghanistan requested on Friday, laying out a detailed version of events leading up to the attack.
The airstrike, directed at two tanker trucks carrying NATO fuel that were hijacked by the Taliban near the northern city of Kunduz, killed scores of people, burning many beyond recognition.
The number of dead civilians is still in dispute, with German officials saying no civilians or few had been killed. But Afghan Rights Monitor, a national watchdog group, said that based on its interviews with villagers, 60 to 70 villagers had been killed, The Associated Press reported. The A.P. also noted that a spokesman for the provincial government, Ahmad Sami Yawar, said five of the dead were civilians.
The episode has been a debacle for NATO forces at a time when efforts are under way to reduce civilian casualties from airstrikes. It has also exposed rifts between allies over different approaches to fighting the war in Afghanistan, and has added to pressure on Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government ahead of elections on Sept. 27.
Germany Defends Decision on Afghan Airstrike
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At a news conference on Monday, a Defense Ministry spokesman, Thomas Raabe, laid out the German case in an unusually lengthy account of the surveillance and intelligence that led a German commander on the ground to conclude that armed Taliban were near the tankers and that the fuel trucks could have been used in an attack on German or Afghan positions.
Mr. Raabe said the decision to bomb the tankers was based on surveillance by a B-1B bomber and then by a pair of F-15 fighter planes, as well as information from a reliable Afghan informant and an additional intelligence source “that we cannot speak about in public.”
He added, “We stand behind the decision, and we continue to consider the military strike correct.”
Yet Defense Minister Franz Josef Jung, who has come under the harshest criticism here in Germany, backpedaled Monday from his assertion that only insurgents were killed in the attack. He told the German television network ZDF that he could no longer rule out the possibility that there were civilian victims as well, though he continued to insist that “the predominant share were Taliban.”
The episode has brought to the surface long-simmering tensions between NATO allies. The United States and Britain, for example, have griped that Germany was shirking its share of the fighting.
German leaders, for their part, believe that their efforts have been considerable in light of the widespread pacifism among Germans after World War II and the opposition of the German public to a continued military presence in Afghanistan. Germany has about 4,200 troops in the country.
When Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the commander of the American and NATO forces, visited the site of the strike on Saturday, he asked Col. Georg Klein, the German commander, why forces from the Regional Command North had “not come here quicker,” news agencies reported Monday. The general recently tightened the rules on airstrikes, saying that if civilians may be in danger, troops should move in on the ground rather than call in an airstrike.
Germany has strict limits on the operations of its troops, which, in practice, means they can move around only during certain hours of the day, whether in convoys or on foot. The airstrike took place in early Friday morning. “The accusation that we are not capable of fighting such battles on the ground is ridiculous,” Mr. Raabe said.
The timing could not be worse for German politicians like Mrs. Merkel who support the troop deployments, with voters soon heading to the polls to elect a new Parliament. Mrs. Merkel announced that she would address Parliament on Tuesday about the matter, reflecting growing concern by her conservative bloc that the war in Afghanistan could become a major campaign issue.
At NATO headquarters, some of the countries involved in the fighting in southern Afghanistan have expressed concern that Colonel Klein had called in the NATO bombers but delayed in sending troops to the site of the bombing, according to a NATO diplomat who declined to be identified because of the delicacy of the matter.
Rear Adm. Gregory J. Smith, a spokesman for the United States and NATO in Afghanistan, said the delay meant that insurgents could come out with their own version of events before all the facts were known, news agencies reported.
NATO has ordered an investigation into the bombing.
“We hope that the continued investigation will prove that this operation was correct,” Mr. Raabe told reporters on Monday. “We continue to consider it militarily necessary and correct, and that it will prove what we have said up to this point.”
sara,
thanks. that will avoid heaps of embarassing situations !!!
i thought freezer vans for big fish transport!!! (and terrorists too. in the luxury of fish stink!!)
lol!
Sri Lanka President holds talks with Tamil party members
ColomboPage.com
September 7, 2009
A delegation of Sri Lanka's major Tamil party, Tamil National Alliance (TNA) met Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa today at the Temple Trees for discussions on the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs).
The TNA delegation was led by its leader and Trincomalee District Parliamentarian R. Sampanthan. The main issue at the discussion was the resettlement of the IDPs in their original homes in the Wanni before the rainy season.
Earlier the government said the TNA requested a meeting with President Rajapaksa and he agreed. This was the first meeting of TNA with the President since the elimination of LTTE from the North in May.
TNA members of the delegation included parliamentarians Mavai Senathirajah, Suresh K. Premachandran, Srikanthan, . Sivasakthi Ananthan, I.M .Imam, Ms. Thangeswary Kathiraman.
Ministers Susil Premajayantha and Rishad Badurdeen, parliamentarian and Senior Advisor to the President Basil Rajapaksa, President's Secretary Lalith Weeratunga, Governor of Northern Province Major General G. A. Chandrasiri and Jaffna Area commander Major General Kamal Gunaratna participated in the discussions.
"the decision to bomb the tankers was based on surveillance by a B-1B bomber and then by a pair of F-15 fighter planes............."
how stupid can they be????
1. this is bullshit, OR,
2. B-1Bs and F15s don't have PROPER surveillance facilities (this was said by germans against US jets), OR,
3. with proper surveillance, they deliberately bombed civilians!!
there are no further possibilities!!!
possibility #2 is very interesting. it means in-fighting.
the longer and harder the afghan war goes, the better for us.
My take on German attack was that I stand by the Germans, in principle.
I agree there is possibility of foul play, and I'm sure they give rat's care to civilians. But war is war and civilian casualty is not 100% avoidable. In an strategic moment you may have to take up a certain maneuver which may cost civilian life. Maybe the true meaning of collateral damage.
Obviously we're unaware of pragmatic situ in the attack. Germans may have attacked in panic and cost unnecessary damage, or they simply never cared for civilians and carried out the attack. It may even be a serial killing for thrill. But those facts are not clear for us the outsiders.
In principle however, civilians are not an external party in terrorist war. Every terrorist is an interchangeable civilian, and rise from them. So civilian cost is inevitable. Everyone should understand that.
Some may debate that Afganistan is a diff country so German invaders have no right to conduct attacks there no matter what. I'm little light on that point. Terrorism is borderless, and eliminating it is equally the same. It sure leaves lots of messes, but I do not call any country an invader for sending troops into a place where their terrorists get oxygen from. For me, Iraq was invasion, but afganistan was a defensive act.
But the bottomline is that I am dumbfound why the same parties who conduct same acts fail to understand when we have to face our own version of terror war. What applies for Germans in Afganistan, should equally be applied for our troops too.
We should start our campaign right from that point. We should have a record of all such events. Whenever the diplomats of a certain country start pulling our leg, we should come back on to them with remarkable accuracy how their own armies conducted such and such acts and how they were defended by their own mouths.
There is no better way to shut a mouth than making one guilty.
Old debate relives.
What happened to Pottu?
Maybe Nachchikudah Mahen can educate us on this? Mahen, was it a lie to deceive the diaspora? In your current standings it won't harm you in any manner to tell the truth now.
Well, Is N. Mahen alive anyway?
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Prabhakaran, Pottu Amman removed from Kadirgamar trial
The Colombo High Court today allowed the indictment in connection with the killing of former Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar to be amended, excluding the names of Vellupillai Prabhakaran and Pottu Amman.
High Court Judge Kumuduni Wickremasinghe had allowed the application made by the Attorney General, that the two main accused in the assassination trial of Minister Kadirgamar, LTTE leader Prabhakaran and Shanmuganadhan Shivashankar alias Pottu Amman, were confirmed dead.
Has he got TNA also tamed?
As per the news around, he has tols them in black and white that if they hang onto separation ideology any further the he will import some more white vans with AC.
Latest on Ch4 video:
>> Four separate investigations proving it false
>> SL solicitor is planning to sue CH4 through British judiciary
Beauty. If we can get them cornered, then every monkey will understand that SL is not here for them to defame like mercenaries in order to gather "private funding" to recover from economic crisis.
SK
- SL to sue C4 in UK courts-
I'm afraid this is exactly what C4 and LTTE supporters are looking for.
Its not just this "fake" video to be argued in UK courts but alledged war crimes, GR, SF to be called to the witness stand.
A whole can of worms!
I somehow doubt GOSL will go through with it. They will back down at 'discovery'.
C4 would have had a legal opinion before they aired this video and the qualifications they made.
I understand C4 have 5 other videos, tape recordered interviews with released IDP and pictures.
One was released last night with an interview with Rajiva W.
Unreasonable, ungrateful attitude of Sri Lanka-Guardian UK Editorial
Full Text of Editorial, Guardian UK, Sep 8, 2009:
(The Sri Lankan government is hugely dependent on outside aid in its efforts to deal with the human consequences of the war which the island had to endure for more than a quarter of a century. High military spending, collapsed tourism revenues, disrupted agriculture, reduced trade, and, to make matters worse, natural disaster in the shape of the tsunami have all undermined the economy.
The government simply does not have the resources to undertake, without international help, the work of repairing infrastructure, restoring economic life, feeding and temporarily housing large numbers of displaced people, and then returning them to their old homes in conditions approaching normality. Long before the war reached its end earlier this year, United Nations agencies, the International Committee of the Red Cross, and scores of voluntary organisations were all present in Sri Lanka ready and anxious to mitigate the impact of the fighting on ordinary people. They were kept at arm's length by the Sri Lankan authorities, who brooked no interference with, or oversight of, their military campaign. There was reason to hope that, with victory, this attitude would change. Unhappily, it has not. Colombo is still severely restricting access to the north, particularly to the area of the final battles, and to the camps where an estimated 280,000 people displaced by the fighting are detained.
The United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, came to Colombo a week after the war ended to ask for "unhindered access" to those camps. UN agencies have instead found themselves hampered in their attempts to bring in the materials to make life in the camps bearable, particularly vital as the monsoon breaks. Voluntary agencies have similarly found themselves blocked by regulations which seem to change weekly, if not daily, while some ICRC offices have been closed down on government orders. Independent travel by journalists is banned. In addition, the government reacts with fury to any criticism, from whatever source, of its slowness in getting the refugees out of the camps and back to their homes.
The secretary general's reward for the low-key approach he has taken to the Sri Lankan crisis since he assumed office has been to be ignored. Now the Sri Lankans have served an expulsion order on the Unicef spokesman, James Elder, after he warned that the monsoon would cause chaos and suffering in the camps. The Colombo government wants aid but it also wants to micromanage the way it is deployed and to bully those who have the job of delivering it. It is time that the donor nations and the agencies formed a united front to resist this unreasonable and ungrateful attitude.)
Jay,
It is not as easy as you said. Every company evaluates their action with legal officers, but they always do not work as they dream.
In this video there is no reason for SF/GR to testify. Question is not about war, it is about authenticity of the video. People with technical capacity will discuss it.
SL is [thinking of] suing Ch4 in the line of defamation, not supporting terrorists.
SK-
I disagree.
The action is about authenticity of the video - defamation of SL Armed forces vis a vis war crimes.
They may well prove the video is a fake but the defense lawyers - QC for C4 being Michael Mansfield will call in high ranking officials like GR, SF to the witness stand to establish the integrity of the Armed Forces.
The net will be thrown wider to establish if the events shown on the video have some semblance to the conduct of the Armed Forces.
I somehow doubt this will ever go to court
Jay,
Were you the person who gave the Video to CH-4.
You seem to pulling unnecessary 'scare tactics', which is highly unusual for a layman.
As Sujeewa K mentioned, the case would be about authenticity and damages, but nothing to do with the allegations.
The only people who would need to testify is the CH-4 executives, the Plentiff (who could be anyone that files the case- and does not need to be GOSL), and the Expert Witnesses.
CH-4 will not have a cat in a hell chance to win such challenge, and would certainly resort to an out of court settlement.
C4
"fair comment on a matter of public interest"
A defendant may also attempt to illustrate that the plaintiff had a poor reputation in the community, in order to diminish any claim for damages resulting from the defamatory statements.
Busted, banda style!
Why Commencing A Defamation Action Is Not Aways A Good Idea
While people who are targeted by lies may well be angry enough to file a lawsuit, there are some very good reasons why actions for defamation may not be a good idea.
The publicity that results from a defamation lawsuit can create a greater audience for the false statements than they previously enjoyed. For example, if a newspaper or news show picks up the story of the lawsuit, false accusations that were previously known to only a small number of people may suddenly become known to the entire community, nation, or even to the world. As the media is much more apt to cover a lawsuit than to cover its ultimate resolution, the net effect may be that large numbers of people hear the false allegations, but never learn how the litigation was resolved.
Another big issue is that defamation cases tend to be difficult to win, and damage awards tend to be small. As a result, it is unusual for attorneys to be willing to take defamation cases on a contingent fee basis, and the fees expended in litigating even a successful defamation action can exceed the total recovery.
Another significant concern is that, even where the statements made by the defendant are entirely false, it may not be possible for a plaintiff to prove all of the elements of defamation. Most people will respond to news that a plaintiff lost a defamation lawsuit by concluding that the allegations were true.
In other words, the plaintiff in a defamation action may be required to expend a considerable amount of money to bring the action, may experience significant negative publicity which repeats the false accusations, and if unsuccessful in the litigation may cement into the public consciousness the belief that the defamatory accusations were true. While many plaintiffs will be able to successfully prosecute defamation actions, the possible downside should be considered when deciding whether or not such litigation should be attempted.
No- LTTE
Why do people jump to conclusions?
If i did provide the video i would have made sure its authentic
Scare tactics?
Why would GR/SF be scared? Their hands are clean are'nt they?
I sincerely hope GOSL (have the balls) to sue C4.
The Defendant can call any one they like as -not only are they going to argue if the video was a fake or not but it has also damaged the reputation of the Armed Forces. It is on the latter point that Leading Counsel will wish to question high ranking officials.
There is no point in discussing this any further as GOSL have only made threatening noises not even issued Letter before Action.
a bit of banda drum beating
before perehera
for monkey dance of defence enthusiasts.
haha
Jay,
A Defendant can request to call anyone, but any objection from the plaintiff being, they have to justify their call to the judge.
..and well, it would be the witnesses' call whether they want to accept a request from a foreign court.
Having subject to the exposure earlier, the LTTE group has created another video (but still HD Video, alleged to be a video taken from a Mobile phone, and smuggled out of the country).
Are they wearing any clothes while doing such forgery?
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/world/asia_pacific/footage+reveals+sri+lanka+camp+conditions/3335367
patriots going to sue c4
haha
another drum beating
This is what should happen to all the NGO MFs who spy and try to destroy our nation. Good on you Congo.
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Norwegians sentenced to death in Congo
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Two Norwegian citizens were sentenced to death Tuesday in the Democratic Republic of the Congo for espionage, murder and attempted murder, Norway's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has confirmed to CNN
he two men were found guilty of spying for Norway and for killing a driver in May, according to NRK. It is not clear why the two were in Congo.
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It is not clear why they were in Congo? Oh really. People don't go to countries like this just for fun. The same way Norwegians and Irish go to Colombia and train FARC terrorist.
patriots going to boycott uk visa
all patriots already in uk will be leaving within next 48 hours
If the President's brother in law is misusing state resources to build his private mansion, then it would be a case for the President to pay close attention.
Perhaps this bugger may be using the President's name and his connection to the President to misuse state resources.
Such incidents tarnish the name of the President himself. Therefore, this person should be given the maximum punishment for misusing public funds and the journalists should be rewarded for trying to expose that misuse.
http://www.sundaytimes.lk/090906/News/nws_06.html
We can still remember how Premadasa's son-in-law abused the state resources and scammed the nation billions of Rs.
Jay,
The Guardian Editorial highlights the hypocracy of the British Government. No point paying any attention to these sanctimonious humbugs.
The British Medical Journal Lancet wrote in 2004 that 654,000 Iraqi's had died due to the invasion of that country.
In 2003, Dr David Kelley, a scientist who had been leaking information undermining the British Government's lies about Iraq to the BBC was found dead with his wrists slashed.
An international tribunal should be set-up and Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, and Milliband should be tried for crimes against humanity.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7192
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancet_surveys_of_Iraq_War_casualties
Sujeewa said...
[ But the bottomline is that I am dumbfound why the same parties who conduct same acts fail to understand when we have to face our own version of terror war. What applies for Germans in Afganistan, should equally be applied for our troops too.]
This was my main point too .... :)
SL (217/7) crushes NZ 119 all out in 50-over match!
Fabuluous effort over by Malinga taking 3 wickets in one over.
Jayawewa!
Patriots,
Please add your comment. Peelamists are having a ball.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/sep/08/sri-lanka-aid-un?commentpage=1
The best way to complain about channel 4 news is through contact us email news@channel4.com , they even reply. I think the viewers has more power with regard to this than GOSL. Trouble them till they stop.
http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2009/07/23/eros-accused-british-tv-channel-over-glorifying-terrorism/
http://www.dailymirror.lk/DM_BLOG/Sections/frmNewsDetailView.aspx?ARTID=59396
some idiots seem to have their 'panties' in a knot.
the lawsuit (if any) against CH4 is NOT about "war crimes" and other BS.
it is about defamation, unsucstantiated claims, etc. war crimes allegations, etc. are totally irrelevant to this.
in CH4's defence, it will have to cite the sources. this is also something we are after. lets see who are the motherfcukers behind this!!!
unlike SL, UK has defamation laws. SL does NOT have defamation laws relating to media reporting!!!
the THREAT of court action will detter many others from even considering the video!!
"Banning political parties identifying with race, religion is violation
[TamilNet, Tuesday, 08 September 2009, 16:59 GMT]
Counsel Jayampathy Wickremaratne …………………appeared for the SLMC to retain RACISM IN POLITICS."
and what right this jayampathy wickremaratne sakkiliya has to discuss political solutions!!
we know who he is now - a promoter of RACISM.
and CBK vested him the responsibility to find a political solution. funny!!
Who will guard the ‘knights’?
The Island Editorial
The western knights who are going hell for leather to condemn Sri Lanka to the stake for ‘war crimes’ find themselves in an unenviable position. They are in the same predicament as the proverbial cat that defecated on a rocky surface and had no way of covering up its stinking mess. In Afghanistan, they have laid bare their true faces usually hidden behind the human rights masks, once again.
On Monday, American troops stormed through a hospital in Central Afghanistan tying as they did health workers in search of wounded Taliban combatants there. That civilian medical facility is run by a Swedish charity, which has let out a howl of protest against the US action. A spokesman for the charity has said the US soldiers came late at night last Wednesday, kicked in doors, tied up four hospital employees and two family members of patients and forced patients out of beds during their search. They had occupied the hospital for about two hours before leaving empty-handed as there were no terrorists being treated there, with a dire warning that it was they who decided if wounded Taliban cadres could be treated.
This unfortunate incident happened close on the heels of US air strikes on two fuel tankers hijacked by Taliban. About one hundred civilians perished in the attacks. In a war against terrorism, terrorist assets need to be destroyed but why on earth did the US jets target the two fuel bowsers with civilians in the immediate vicinity? The US claims to possess the best of technology in the world and, therefore, cannot claim it was unaware of a heavy civilian presence near its highly inflammable targets. It is patently clear that the US military did not care a damn about human lives and went for the kill out of desperation. With the US-led forces being mired in the Afghan bog deeper, the ferocity of their counter terror operations is sure to increase manifold; civilians will continue to perish. And the world leaders will look the other way.
contd......
...........contd.
It is intriguing that Foreign Ministers of Britain, France and Sweden, to wit, David Miliband, Bernard Kouchner and Carl Bildt respectively, who cried blue murder about the civilian casualties during the final stages of Sri Lanka’s war on terror have not rushed to Afghanistan to protest against the US and its allies unleashing hell in that country. At least Bildt should have taken the red eye to Kabul last Thursday immediately after the hospital raid by the US military because of a Swedish charity’s involvement with that health facility.
In what looks an interesting development, Germany and the US have crossed swords over the civilian casualties in American air raids. Although the German troops that called for air strikes at issue have defended the US action, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has criticised the attack. This kind of political reaction has prompted US General Stanley McChrystal commanding US and NATO forces in Afghanistan to rebuke Germany. Rifts among the coalition forces seem to be widening with the Taliban stepping up resistance.
British lawmakers who have taken upon themselves the task of protecting human rights and preventing war crimes in the world have not made a whimper of protest against the tragic drama unfolding in Afghanistan, where civilians continue to die in large numbers. The UN Chief is behaving like the three proverbial monkeys, hearing no evil, seeing no evil and speaking no evil. How articulate he was when he commented on Sri Lanka’s war and looked for evidence of war crimes! Maybe he is wary of pitting himself against big powers capable of making his head roll in New York. Who doesn’t like his or her job?
If the brutal atrocities that the US-forces are committing in Afghanistan are not war crimes, what are they? How many people should die in a deliberate air attack on fuel tankers surrounded by civilians for it to be called a war crime? Isn’t it a war crime for an army to storm a hospital, force open doors, manhandle its staff, drag patients out of beds and threaten doctors not to treat the wounded enemies?
One’s gorge rises at the shameful conduct of the western Knights crusading for human rights and global democracy. Who will guard the western knights on the rampage?
Try harder Thapal Bandiya aka Fonseka2010 (ID 18437290059825726588),
It seems that you have given up pretending a diehard supporter of General Sarath Fonseka. Please continue with your highly acclaimed monkey dance.
Below are the other names you have used here in the past. You still can't beat that De Vil.
1. ArmyLK
2. Buddha
3. nangige huththa
4. Lion Flu
5. පරන්ගි
6. Fonseka 2010
7. fake "Sam Perera"
8. fake "Asithri"
9. Nangige Bandiya
10. Thapal Bandiya
"Unreasonable, ungrateful attitude of Sri Lanka-Guardian UK Editorial"
complete BULLSHIT.
IF they are unwilling to give aid to SL, SL will approach more intersting donors.
it is as simple as that.
or else, the IDPs will suffer.
which one the aid agencies want????
also bloody UK refused the IMF loan to SL. still SL received it.
now what the fcuk they are complaining about SL now??? they never helped SL and there is nothing SL will lose by UK's arrogance anyway!!
you can't eat the cake and have it in front of your eyes on a plate at the same time.
1. if the UK wants to have a say in aid disposal, give aid to SL.
2. if aid agencies want to function in SL, which is their business, not an option, obey the regulations.
3. "Now the Sri Lankans have served an expulsion order on the Unicef spokesman, James Elder"
what does a spokesman got to do with actual work carried out by the UNICEF????? NOTHING!!
cannot a spokesman be replaced easily???? of course you can and it doesn't affect UNICEF operations AT ALL. he is only a spokesman after all. not a field worker, doctor, engineer doing work for IDP housing, etc., psychologist looking after IDPs.....
DUMB!
MD
/fully agree but i take the side of the ppl.
ppl want short term economic incentives TO DO ANYTHING. under whatever development model. they want to see that they can buy more, enjoy more, etc./
People are the same every where in world. They need to satisfy their basic needs and enjoy the life.
No question about basic needs; well, one can argue what really are 'basic'. One may say a cell phone is a basic need and another may disagree. For the moment let's assume people can agree on this matter. However, the question how, which way, under what conditions and upto what extent people should enjoy the life is more subjective than that.
This is where eastern nations, specially therawada buddist nations differ, SL is clear example. While rest of the world's objective is to enjoy the life as much as possible, at any cost, Sinhalese Buddhists, having satisfied the basic needs, try to exit the world. However, this happens at personal level and on personal choice.
As a nation, Sri Lankans (specially the sinhalese buddhists) need to make a clear choice between two. One is easy, practiced since independence and fcuk up in north for the last 30 years. The other is hard way, but proven doable within last 3 years.
1. Accept western nations as our masters, leaders, follow them, basically, keep west happy, do as they say.. we get loans from them, eat and drink on credit and we are their puppets forever. Risk free easy method as long as west take care of their obedient "good" nation.
2. Work on our own, satisfy the nations basic needs by our own, without being dependent on foreign nations. Hard way.
My guess is SL people are not yet ready for #2. As the UNP/leftists correctly say SL people are self-hypnotize by the military victory and as a consequence they back MR and team without any questions.
/SLA massacred civilians in bunkers - medical worker
[Mon, 07 Sep 2009, 08:57 GMT]
The advancing Sri Lanka Army massacred civilians by paving their bunkers with tanks, by throwing explosives inside the bunkers and by shooting the injured, says a medical worker who came out of Mu’l’li-vaaykkaal during the last days of the war, became incarcerated in a camp and now escaped the island. "Around a hundred thousand captured civilians herded to Mullaiththeevu were kept in rows within barbed wires, most of the time without water or food under the hot sun, and were bullied and ill treated with arrogance," he writes in a lengthy note that reached TamilNet this week. The note in Tamil was provided by the Norwegian Tamils Health Organisation (NTHO), urging TamilNet not to reveal the identity of the health worker for reasons of his security./
So the video story is over and next episode has been released. It seems with the vast amount of money, di-ass-pora has decided to release "war crimes" episodes bi-weekly.
What would be the next episode?
1. C4 find some "civilian" who escaped from IDP camp and who witnessed "war crimes" and giving an interview..!
2. Improved version (without the errors GLS pointed out for the first one) of another video..
Anyways, the common LTTE strategy is clearly seen in this int.media campaign too.
If GSL stay silent they can give the impression to public that GSL has accepted their claims. If GSL deny (as one blogger pointed out) and take legal action GSL may be walking in to their well-set trap.
Western media has many reasons to back LTTE elements. Huge amount of money they process, divert the attention from their losing war in Afganasthan, convince people that SL military victory came with a 'big cost' and degrade it (this will at least help to keep their western pride).
ninja,
ppl ARE READY for #2 if they are given the tools.
1. LAND
2. labour
3. entreprenuership
4. capital
#2 is aplenty though skills development is needed.
#3 is there for agri, fisheries business. there are enough consultants for other industries provided by the financiers (banks).
#4 agri, fishries need little capital (apart from aquiring land) the way it is done. MOST ppl get bank loans and pay off quickly. or they can lease. it works reasonably well.
only problem that cannot be overcome is LAND. buying land is IMPOSSIBLE for landless farmers!! and that's the end of it (even b4 it started!!).
it shouldn't be the "HARD WAY". not necessarily. it can be fun provided they get what is needed especially LAND.
Dear Chaps, I think I know this patriot, who is, if I am not mistaken, an oncological surgeon at Kandy General Hospital. I think he makes a good point about not appreciating local medical professionals who put in innumerable hours taking care of our soldiers while making a big deal about foreign physicians with Medecins Sans Frontieres or Indian Military doctors who come in for a short time and get all the publicity.
Cheers!
Medical professionals and war
The War is finally over. Suffering, fear and insecurity are behind us. Every sensible countryman, except a few short-sighted power hungry politicians, is looking forward to rebuilding Sri Lanka. The sense of true freedom is almost palpable in the air. People stand up straighter when the national anthem is sung or the national flag is hoisted.
All this is possible because of the unwavering leadership of one man, President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who assembled the best possible team against the so-called invincible LTTE. An invincible Sri Lankan military was born right before our eyes, spearheaded by the very able and matter-of-fact Gotabhaya Rajapakse. And the real battle might and the push came from the brilliant strategist General Sarath Fonseka. All these brave men, ably assisted by other service commanders and IGP, had one goal –– wiping out the LTTE from the face of the earth – and they were committed and disciplined. They made sacrifices and placed the country before self. I had the privilege of meeting and treating some of these brave yet unassuming heroes, when the were hurt badly, and I will always remember their courage, determination and morale.
Promotions have been given, felicitations have been held at government level, ministerial level, and school level and even at village level. Even the reporters who reported the war were called heroes and accolades were on their way. Nobody should feel bad or envious about this. The whole country has a right to praise these people.
One question remains unanswered: Who looked after the tens of thousands of injured war heroes? Has it ever occurred to you? The doctors in the military?
I write this article to draw your attention to a group of people whose services are never ever appreciated. We know thousands of defence personnel lost their lives during the final war. Tens of thousand were seriously injured. In a battle, when there are 10 deaths, there will be at least 30 injured. Some will lose their limbs, hearing or vision. They require patient, dedicated care and long term rehabilitation. So who cared for them? The military Hospitals in Colombo and Palaly?
Yes, but in addition to them our ordinary hospitals looked after most of these victims, even though not a word has been written in appreciation of their silent contribution. There was a time it was a constant experience to hear screaming fleets of ambulances rushing towards NHSL, Anuradhapura Hospital, SJPH, Kalubowila Hospital, and Kandy Hospital. Who looked after the fallen heroes in their darkest hour? It’s the health workers –– doctors, nurses, paramedics and the minor staff members.
Kandy Teaching Hospitals were not provided with extra equipment, staff or drugs to treat the war heroes. No additional nursing staff, minor staff or doctors were allocated. Equipment which was requested for war related surgery in Kandy and approved by the Health Minister himself in December last year has not yet arrived! So how did Kandy Teaching Hospitals manage? Does anybody want to know?
Medical professionals and war
cont.
Complicated war casualty cases were transferred to Kandy from Anuradhapura, and they arrived in large groups, all requiring complicated procedures, several times. In Kandy Teaching hospital, routine orthopedic operations were cancelled. War heroes were accommodated in the best possible manner. The Hospital Director allowed the use of five beds from each ward, so none of the injured heroes were ever put on the ground. The doctors worked around the clock in two operating theatres. They never complained or grumbled. The nurses in Orthopedic operating Theatres never grumbled. Tired, sleepy, exhausted, they kept on working. The minor staff, had all their leave cancelled, but they trudged on giving yeoman’s service without complaining. In Kandy orthopedic wards, no soldier or officer had to have a higher amputation; no one died and there were no serious infections in spite of the severely contaminated wounds. The injured were looked after as tenderly as possible. We understood their position and plight and we gave of our best. Every injured officer, every soldier and every coordinating army officer will vouch for this.
By February, we were certain that nothing was going to stop our heroes. They were so brave, committed, unrelenting, and their morale was over the moon. This feeling of euphoria spread to doctors, ward and operating theatre nurses, minor staff in operating theatres and wards and the medical teams consisting of orthopods and anaesthetists, spurring us on. The department of anaesthesia never grumbled and provided additional anaesthetists whenever required. The director and deputy director gave us their 100%. This is how Kandy coped.
The struggle continued long time after the battle was won. We had to look after injured heroes during the final days. Their injuries were gruesome. The security threat to the staff was immense. Some times we had more than 100 seriously injured soldiers / officers under our care. A suicide bomber could have achieved what the tigers couldn’t achieve in PTK, if he managed to smuggle in a bomb to the ward. But we continued with our task, unperturbed.
Now the war is over. The last patient who was injured ironically on 19 May morning also has now gone back home. We are happy as a team to have contributed to the forces during the war.
So why do I write this letter? Whenever a patient dies in a hospital, doctors or nurses are criticised mercilessly by the media. In a country notorious for lethargy, inaction and incompetence, every doctor and nurse is scrutinised under a microscope. Just read the letters to editor in any newspaper. The so-called newspaper journalists and electronic media journalists and even disc jockeys without any general knowledge blurt out their comments even before they verify the actual incident.
The doctor or the nurse is identified and crucified. They will never dare do this with political bigwigs. Doctors can’t hit them back; their explanations will never be published or given equal prominence. It is well known that GMOA members continue their emergency work during their strike. Can anyone name a single trade union which really maintains this? When CEB strikes, the patients in ICUs died. Health sector achievements are never appreciated by the plethora of ministers or high officials. Kandy received thank you notes from Brig. Sanjeewa Munasinghe, Head, Medical Corps, and Brig D Wijerathne CO, in Kandy. But that’s all.
Medical professionals and war
cont.
Anyway we have another task now. Looking after the IDPs and their neglected war wounds. They are now being transferred by the dozen from Vavuniya. So we will attend to them as well. This will double our workload but who cares? Already doctors have gone in large groups, with only basic facilities to IDP camps on a voluntary basis. If a group of foreign doctors with dubious qualifications performs one operation on our soil, that hits the headlines. If a native physician claims that he cured leukemia or can cure any disease under the sun, our media gives him immense coverage. Do these so-called journalists follow up on these so-called miracles? Never! Their journalism ends the moment the drama is over.
Now the war is over. Isn’t it a good time to ponder how much the doctors of this country contribute to the sick people of this country? People are very critical about private practice and trade union action. Private practice is a necessary evil because of the minuscule salaries we get. Trade union action becomes essential when thick skinned individuals in the ministry try to bypass accepted time honoured procedures. We do that as a last resort and even then we maintain emergencies on our own volition.
So it is best to ponder now who treated the thousands of seriously injured war heroes, including the ultimate hero, Gen Sarath Fonseka. Even the reporters who were reporting the war were felicitated as heroes! We never ask for felicitations, but humbly ask our countrymen and the administrators to appreciate the yeoman’s service we provide. Same request goes to journalists who ruthlessly decimate reputations overnight, some even when they read newspaper headlines on TV!
Long live the President of this country, whose unwavering stand against terror finally stood its test, long live the Defence Secretary who streamlined it, long live the Service Chiefs who planned it an oversaw it, and long live the humble soldiers who did it. We always remember you and I have many stories to tell my grandchildren about the Sri Lankan war and the brave soldiers I treated. And Long live all my colleagues, the nurses, physiotherapists , radiographers and the minor staff of all the hospitals which catered to the injured soldiers, and civilians during the last three decades – you are the real unsung heroes. Long live our freedom!
A Surgeon
Kandy
LankaNewsWeb the LTTE whorehouse is trying hard to artificially create imaginary problems. Not only that our soldiers get reasonably paid, whereever they go, our soldiers are welcome by people as great warriors of our time who stand taller among Gamini Abhaya and Kiththi Vijayabahu era warriors. In such unprecedented atmosphere where they will not have to face terrorists everyday, it is laughable to say that our soldiers are deserting the forces.
/LankaNewsWeb the LTTE whorehouse is trying hard to artificially create imaginary problems./
What they have written is what they like to happen and what they like to see.... Their sister site also did the same for quite a time... and its history now..
/3RD LEAD (UPDATE: 15 killed)
Three pronged SLA offensive thwarted - LTTE
[TamilNet, Monday, 31 July 2006, 07:05 GMT]
Sri Lanka Army (SLA) began moving ground troops through three fronts from two SLA bases towards Mavil Aaru sluice gate Monday morning, supported by Multi - Barrel Rocket Launchers, artillery fire and aerial bombardment from Kfir and MIG jets towards Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) controlled area in Mavil Aaru. The SLA advance was thwarted by the Tigers, according to Ilanthirayan, the military spokesman of the Tigers. Three LTTE cadres were killed and two wounded, Mr. Ilanthirayan said. Meanwhile, informed defence sources in Colombo said 12 SLA troopers including two SLA officials were kiled and many wounded. The SLA initiated operation has threatened the Ceasefire Agreement.
LTTE defence was being carried out under the supervision of LTTE's Trincomalee District Special Commander Col. Sornam, Mr. Ilanthirayan said.
Mavil Aaru story
SLA troopers launched a troop movement from Thirumangalam SLA camp towards Ankodai in LTTE controlled area, but the move was defeated at Valkottu by the Tigers, amidst indiscrimate bombing by Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) Kfir jets and MIG bombers.
"They [the SLA] could not move far, even a kilometer from Thirumangalam camp," Ilanthirayan said confirming intensive clash between ground troops from the both sides.
In the meantime, another move, made from Kallaru SLA camp eastwards in the direction of Eachilampattu, was also defeated, he said.
A third "surprise" move through a jungle area was also defeated by the Tigers.
"The defence forces of the Tigers under the supervision of Col. Sornam offered heavy resistance," Ilanthirayan said.
Meanwhile, Colombo military sources said in Monday's fight 12 SLA soldiers were killed.
Many wounded soldiers were first admitted to the Serunuwara government hospital and later transferred to the Polonnaruwa hospital.
Schools in the Serunuwara division were closed and shops were shut down as tension prevails in the area, police sources said.
Keheliya Rambukwella, the Sri Lankan Minister and Defence Ministry spokesman in Colombo said that SLA troops were advancing towards Mavil Aaru.
"The movement of troops is reportedly slow due to mines and attack of the LTTE," Mr. Rambukwella told media Monday./
Ninja,
"Three pronged SLA offensive thwarted - LTTE
[TamilNet, Monday, 31 July 2006, 07:05 GMT]"
This is true according to some die hard RW UNP supporters who still want LTTE to come back.
a good analysis by peter. i said so long b4. the table drives the truth home
but the highly dumb TE supports (most of them) will not listen to this.
good on them!!
/This is true according to some die hard RW UNP supporters who still want LTTE to come back./
Well, according to LNW, tamilnut's sister site, fighting is still going on in wanni and SLA troops are dying.. There are people who feel good after reading such news.. so they keep supplying punnakku..
/a good analysis by peter./
Not really.. USA and west help then RW/UNP admin becuz they wanted to keep the balance between GSL and LTTE so that conflict drags and both sides under their control. (They didn't expect THE END produced by MR and his team.) Its China, Pakistan etc helped SL by continuous supply of ammo and other supplies. Supply from Czech was despite EU pressure. Peter's learning rate is below the average peelamians.
/but the highly dumb TE supports (most of them) will not listen to this./
Well, the good thing about 'super intelligent peelamians' is they think they are intelligent (of course, because of they are tamizzz.)
ninja,
no argument on perter's IQ level.
but i still think it is a good analysis.
most of those weapons were procured AFTER RW.
RM-70s were purchased in 2006 after starting the war from EU countries. PLUS fragmentation missiles for BM-21s (RM-70 is the whole thing) came from EU president's country in 2008!!
mig-27s in 2007 through a british co. (we needed some expertise in QC for selecting these old neglected planes)
firefinder mortars were purchased in 2006.
only the ships were first negotiated to be purchased during RW time. contracted during CBK/JVP time. PIGBAL ATHTHAS screamed IRRELEVANT & CORRUPTION at that time. some were delivered in CBK/JVP time.
the otherside of it is, 99% of LTTE weapons came from china, north korea, tamil madu plus croatia, eritrea. the others were stolen from SLDFs.
shouldn't talk too much in case the dumb tam-ill LTTE die-arse-pora will apprehend this situ.
even MOST of the intelligent tamils are crammers. any crammer can get this if we continue to discuss!!
let them bash their weapons suppliers and embrace the jokers who sold us weapons thinking that we can never beat the LTTE ----> US, EU, UK. now these MFs crying war crimes.
if we go down, we go down WITH THEM!!!
Every politician is runied by his in-laws, I've heard. Mahinda seem to follow suit.
Usually your family members have your own BG and they feel it well. They protect you and resonate with your agenda.
For in-laws, you're simply free lunch and they expect it served in five star style.
Mahinda made his first mistake when his "in-law" side relative [or so said] Ashantha De Mel played a blunder. His hedging was wide outside off asking for the treat it got. And now another.
Is this Sajin Vass? I'm compelled to believe so. Sajin Vas is playing the Sajith of Premadasa times, or Ratwatte of CBK times here. Many bad tags attached to him, including the bust of mihin air.
What foothold has he got in southern province? Note that south is a dangerous place to play around. MR is going with two blunders [kella and Massina] and they will be likely failures not only in election but also in his future.
MR should know that Maha rajano is very very temporary, if you look at politics in SL. War victory is not the main reason why ppl like him. Main reason is his ability to feel the ground, and think accordingly.
Ppl like Ashantha, Sajin. Anarkali etc only ruins him, not gain anything.
There are 1.5mill stray pussycats in international terrain
A known fact, but still worthy for discussion.
So we have an active international terror war at hand. The first of its kind.
Moshe bro,
///cannot a spokesman be replaced easily???? of course you can and it doesn't affect UNICEF operations AT ALL. he is only a spokesman after all. not a field worker, doctor, engineer doing work for IDP housing, etc., psychologist looking after IDPs..... ///
My most loving bro, brilliant!
I don't know; how you find energy and time to do all of these, mate.
Anyway, million kudos for that post.
I thought of writing the following after observing few of the post war developments. Has to publish in few segments as it is too long. In my view the past is gone but there are so many lesions we will have to learn and survive in the present. The future is likely to be good but it all depends on how we take the present situation.
Rise … the new world order!
In 1991, Soviet Union was utterly defeated in the Cold War. Even though the rulers of Soviet Union managed to transform an impoverished region of the world to one of the most industrial while defeating Hitler in WWII within a relatively shorter time, (40 years!) due to lack of initiatives, the nation degraded and eventually disintegrated. Once the Soviet Union was defeated, United States of America with the support of its other satellite pooches in Europe, created the “New World Order”.
The concept of New World Order was initially originated in the Hitler’s mind. Once the Nazis capture the global power, the centre of the power is going to be the “Germania”, the capital of greater Germany. It was the capital of the world which endorsed the system “New World Order”. The purpose of the system is to enslave the whole world to serve the people with Germanic origin.
In United States of America, the whole system which is based on pure capitalism and market mechanism, is primarily controlled by the Jews. Name a few millionaires and billionaires in United States and naturally majority if not all could be of Jewish origin. The wise Malaysian leader Dr. Mahathir Mohamad once very rightly stated that the whole world is controlled by a bunch of “Zionists”. Zionism is the Jewish equivalent version of Nazism. Actually, Zionism has its nationalistic roots far earlier that Nazism. Naturally, Hitler borrowed the idea from Jews and wanted to eliminate them as he thought the main threat to Germania would come from Jews (because it is their idea!) than others such as other capitalists and communists. Today, we have the empire of the Anglo Saxons spreading the ideology of the new world order, based on Zionist and Nazi thinking, ruled by few rich companies. These companies create rules in US and influence the global bodies to implement similar rules throughout the world. They will rake billions of dollars once such laws are in place (Eg. Laws on intellectual property etc).
Thus, we see the so called new world order in action today. We see the key economic entities of the capitalist world, the companies are deeply penetrating into the regions which they were out of access before. The riches are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. But naturally, there would be resistance. There is resistance. Now, to crush such resistance, the administrators of the new world order needs to be weaken the nations which are likely to rebel against the new world order which is being propagated. For this, they use various tactics. Some are new and innovative while the others are the same old tactics they used during the occupation of lands (British) and the Cold war period. One key factor is to create resistance, divide and rule.
Contd…
Divide and rule
Once a nation is divided, the nation becomes weak. The history provides us with many such instances. Sri Lanka was a unitary country for majority of its two and half millennia old recorded history. There was a single ruling institution which overlooked the affairs of the total land mass. Most of the earlier attempts to divide the land were thwarted thanks to our courageous fighters and strategic rulers. During the latter part of our history, we had to face trouble on the political and economic angles when the country did not have a strong ruler who would guide people with a strategic vision. The country was divided into many kingdoms (not based on Ethnicity though) and the economy as a whole was weak. This naturally resulted in various forces invading the country and stealing our resources. Eventually the Anglo Saxons anchored here for good in 1915, after defeating the only kingdom which held against the invaders and never left since (Do you dispute and say they left in 1948? Well, think again!).
Naturally, Sri Lankans are from various nationalities with ancient wisdom. They cannot be fooled for ever, irrespective of their nationality (Sinhalese, Tamil, Muslim or other). They would understand what’s going on in the land and take steps to take over the resources which are being exploited by the Anglo Saxon forces and the Anglo Saxons wants to prevent this at any cost. After 1948, they lost certain parts of the game anyway. They regained a lot after 1977 and wanted to complete this regaining process over the economic resources of the country as soon as possible. But the situation is not static and it would get complicated. People of the land are vigilant and would understand clearly as to what is happening. So the Anglo Saxons would need to weaken the watchful nations with a conflict and they can enjoy the resources of the land.
Contd…
What resources?
Oh! Come on, what are the resources we have in this land? This is such a small country that any Anglo Saxon force, if there is any such would hardly ignore it. It is just not worth wasting their resources on! This is one of the key arguments that our own ignorant lot put across when we say that they invade the land for our resources. This is a small country true, but this is so rich of resources, the word serendipity stemmed out from the Arabic name given to this land. There is no other place in the world like this. I am not saying this because it is my country, because it is true and scientific. Let’s see why shall we?
Sri Lanka divides the Indian Ocean into two parts. Placed very close to key commercial routes of the world between China and Europe, Sri Lanka can make riches from others who pass the sea routes by providing them with a place to land and necessary services. The placement is so strategic; any missile fired from SL can reach a major part of the Europe, Africa, Middle East and Far East.
Sri Lanka is a tropical island which has ample water resources. Water is a resources which is quickly depleting due to the global warming and other ignorant actions by the industrial countries. Water is an essential to life. People will pay heavily for water as this is an essential for life. Don’t you believe me? But it is true. Why did so many world organizations and NGOs talk about water management in a country which has experience over two millennia on effective water management? Because, they want to make water a commodity and sell, and they are already doing a good job with introducing the concept of bottled water. Sri Lanka, with such a heavy rainfall, is one of the ideal locations to collect and process water. So they are after our water.
The human resource of the land is another key element. We hear some old “walavve hamu”s complaining about there are no “gas nagina kollas” to get coconuts plucked etc. That’s because the free education has given a number of local and global opportunities to the sons of those “gas angina kolas”. The labour here is well disciplined and trained relative to most of the other labour markets. Our people are learning oriented and obedient while being loyal to their organization. They are committed in getting a task completed. This attributes cultivated in them through millennia of civilization coupled with training from the free education has opened a number of new avenues. The Anglo Saxons would like to have free access to human resources of this quality.
Apart from these we have number of other natural, biological and philosophical resources which the world can benefit from. The Anglo Saxons are not interested in extending the benefits of our resources to the world. They want to make them commodities so they can sell then on the global markets for money. Thus, it can be understood that we are resource rich and they would like to get their hands on them again the way they have done during the colonial times. In fact during the colonial times the sophisticated technologies for man exploiting resources, man exploiting nature, man exploiting labour and man exploiting knowledge were not at the stage they are today and the Anglo Saxons missed out a lot. That’s why its important that they regain the grip they lost and take the exploitation to the next level for their own survival. Well, this is the new world order.
Contd…
LTTE
LTTE is from the inception is created by the Anglo Saxons as a part of their global koolie army who does their dirty deeds in nations that they would target to be exploited. LTTE is not the only organization of this level. But LTTE rose to the fame as the China was rising and Sri Lanka’s position was becoming increasingly important (militarily and commercially) due to this. Few other organizations created for this purpose still exist. Al Qida is one such organization. They created this to attack the Soviet Block. Once the Soviet Block was fallen, they thought the organization would implode as its purpose is served. How wrong were they there!
LTTE followed a cause which certain post Dominion Tamil movements conceptualized, a separate state for Sri Lankan Tamils in one third of the land mass of the country. Never ever in history has such a country existed. It is a dreamland promised to the global Tamil community by Sri Lankan Tamil politicians who were driven by the Anglo Saxon forces. LTTE raised the dream high and fought for it. India was mislead by the idea that if they would support this idea of Tamil Homeland in Sri Lanka, the Tamilnadu people will support such politicians in New Delhi. Thus, knowing LTTE is a monster created by the Anglo Saxons, they poked their finger in and tried to gain the control over the monster to their advantage. The monster took the advantage of India’s support but eventually proved only loyal to the Anglo Saxon white master when they “killed the hand that fed”.
From the other end, the masters of the LTTE were at work too. They made sure that only governments with a separatist agenda would rise to the power in Sri Lanka. LTTE supported President Premadasa to wipe out Sinhalese in 1989 who were against the India-Sri Lanka accord. Once the president started fighting against the separatists, they naturally turned around and killed him. The masters devised various dubious ways so the Sri Lankas would go against their own kin to gain power and money. Eventually, they with the NGOs as their key instrument, used the atrocities done in 1989 to bring down the UNP government which they were very much in accordance with during that time to get a president who is a major pooch of NGOs on the thrown. The division of the land is so close and as they say rest is history.
Contd…
Is it happy ever after?
But that never happened. The patriotic forces fought back. LTTE was defeated to the disbelief of the global masters and LTTE fund providers. Does this mean that we are done for and will live happily ever after?
The Anglo Saxon koolie forces were defeated and even for them, it will take time to build a strong and a formidable force like the LTTE. On the other hand, these videos which would surface etc are just final cries who still have to work for the money they would have received from the LTTE and their masters. As there is no land and no fighting force, the LTTE tends to eventually diminish into the darkness of the history and be forgotten. This is true for sure, but this is not the end. The cause still remains alive and the Anglo Saxon forces will come after us until the cause remains. It is not easy to get rid of our cause either too. May I remind you that this is all because of our country’s riches and until we are resource rich, they will try various ways to take control or “Regain Sri Lanka”.
Does this mean a never ending war in the land? No. But we have to be ready. In 1970s and 1980s we didn’t know. We didn’t see and we did not listen to people who saw. We learnt the lesson the hard way and now we know. Now we see and we need to be ready. The dubious Anglo Saxon Empire would try its best to tarnish the image of the country and create political disorder. They will spread various rumors and buy progressive politicians and political parties. Certain progressive parties and politicians will sell their souls and enjoy the benefits they would get from the Anglo Saxons. So it is important that as a nation we watch out for these kinds of things. Such things can ruin our nation again easily.
We need to have a strong military. We need to continuously improve our defense capabilities and build our won weapons. After all it is the military forces which achieved this great victory over the Anglo Saxon forces. It makes sense to put the military first in a nation like ours under constant threat from the Anglo Saxon Empire.
Contd…
Next world order is rising!
However, nothing is forever and it is a fact that we would observe in this case as well. The new world order has become stale and rotting. The masters have lost their efficiency, new technologies and the ability to manufacture. They became so lazy to do things themselves and handed the processes over to the other nations to work for them. But few of the wise ones took what the masters do to their advantage and do things better. Naturally, the world of the Anglo Saxons is in dire disorder and is on the verge of imploding.
In the horizon we see a multi polar world bound by friendlier ties towards each other. Rising powers such as China and Russia remain apart from the political affairs of other nations and do not hesitate to rebuke the pooches of the Anglo Saxon masters. I don’t think it is too late to remember as to what had happened to all powerful Georgia, when it invoked a war with the Russia thinking the Anglo Saxons would defend them.
The positive thing is, Sri Lanka as a nation with friendly ties with these rising powers. Sri Lanka has become a celebrity due to defeating the Anglo Saxon koolie forces in its soil. The future looks great even though the past was messed up. It is the present that we have to worry about now.
Conspiracy to assassinate President thwarted- Government
[Ada Derana]
The government says a conspiracy involving both foreign and local elements to assassinate President Mahinda Rajapaksa and Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa as well as several other leading government figures had been thwarted.
“The government sleuths are still unearthing facts about it and will be able to come up with a better picture shortly. We will reveal the names and sources of this heinous attempt to the country pretty soon,” Minister Dallus Alahapperuma said. (SAJ)
"The government sleuths are still unearthing facts about it and will be able to come up with a better picture shortly"
I like the above statement.
Govt sleuths are still 'unearthing' who killed Kadirgamar, Lasantha,Pararajasingham, and countless other people.
When did Govt sleuths ever solve a crime apart from getting false confessions (eg JS Tissa).
Pigs will fly!
These conspiracies are a joke!
Rajapaksa must intervene and set Tissainayagam free-“Hindu” Editorial
Full text of editorial, The Hindu, Sep 9, 2009
The August 31 verdict of a Colombo High Court sentencing the veteran journalist and columnist J.S. Tissainayagam to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment under the country’s draconian anti-terror law has raised concerns across the world on the state of freedoms in the country. The punishment is extremely disproportionate to the alleged crime of writing articles criticising the military in his North Eastern Monthly magazine. Tissainayagam, an ethnic Tamil who wrote in English and was a regular newspaper columnist, was arrested by an anti-terrorism division of police in March 2008. He was not formally charged or produced in court until August 2008, when he was indicted under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA).
The court made a determination that his column, which was a mere expression of opinion on the government strategy in the war against terror, was intended to cause racial or communal disharmony. His raising money to run his magazine was construed as raising funds for the promotion of terrorism. The shock over the judgment is understandable as it is the first case in which a journalist had been charged and convicted under the PTA of 1979 and has come in the post-Prabakaran Sri Lanka that eagerly awaits reconciliation, after the military defeat of the LTTE in May this year.
Even before the court pronouncement, the case of Tissa made international headlines. On the occasion of World Press Freedom Day on May 3, United States President Barack Obama referred to the lack of media freedom in many parts and to the case of Tissainayagam along with another as “emblematic examples of this distressing reality.”
Reporters Without Borders, an organisation that has consultative status with the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), has called on the Council to intercede on behalf of the jailed Sri Lankan journalist. The incarceration and prosecution by the state and the court’s judgment have the effect of intimidating reporters and editors who may want to question the government’s anti-terror campaign and strategy.
President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who has earned all-round praise for his successful military campaign against the LTTE, should heed democratic voices and intervene urgently in the matter to set Tissainayagam free. Even in difficult times, the Sri Lanka Parliament had in 2002, during the tenure of Ranil Wickramasinghe and Chandrika Kumaratunga, repealed law relating to criminal defamation. The core post-war theme espoused by the government is, “let’s forget the past and rebuild the battered nation.”
The Tissa episode is an opportunity for the government to move towards reconciliation as well as to ensure that basic freedoms are protected.
What? Hindu Editorial requesting Tissa to be set free?
Thats a turn up for the books!
Is Hindu going soft?
Deshal said...
Naturally, Sri Lankans are from various nationalities with ancient wisdom. They cannot be fooled for ever, irrespective of their nationality (Sinhalese, Tamil, Muslim or other). ….
Is’nt it better to write:
Naturally, Sri Lankans are from various communities with ancient wisdom. They cannot be fooled for ever, irrespective of their community (Sinhalese, Tamil, Muslim or other). ….
There is only one nation in Sri Lanka, the Sri Lankan Nation – of course more than 70% of the nation consists of Singhalese.
Excerpts from an interview given by Dr. Subramanian Swamy of the Janata Party of India to the Economic Times of India in response to the question "Is the press under attack in Sri Lanka ?" I think Dr. Swamy is being slightly melodramatic describing the majority as a hegemonic majority. Otherwise his response seems to make sense. Dr Swamy was the union law minister of India at the time of the Rajiv Gandhi assassination.
Is the press under attack in Lanka?
The short answer is “yes”, but that doesn’t express the Sri Lankan reality that is found in the details. Sri Lanka is best characterised as a nation facing a death struggle between a hegemonic majority and a hapless minority tied by a double-edged fear to a nasty terrorist movement. Tamils find themselves between the devil and the deep sea. Moreover, the Lankan state faces dismemberment if it negotiates peace with the terrorists, but is afflicted by hubris if it defeats the terrorists on the battlefield.
The media doesn’t recognise this paradigm. For journalists, it is a trade union loyalty oath to defend journalists against the state, any state, irrespective of the rights and wrongs. To an extent this is a commendable pledge as state power has to be moderated in its dealing with free press, because the press must invariably expose the errors of the state. But every democratic constitution mandates that freedom of the press has to be subject to reasonable restrictions. One such reasonable restriction is that the press should not become a paid mouthpiece of either the state or the enemies of the state.
Hence, was the Lankan government wrong in taking action against some journalists, like recently charging J S Tissainayagam with treason and seeking his prosecution for a 20 year jail term? The Colombo high court has upheld the charge as the law of evidence in the Sri Lanka Prevention of Terrorism Act makes it easy. But I have read Tissainayagam’s writings, and they are pure LTTE propaganda. The LTTE has produced doctored videos, manufactured incidents and spread canards. We witnessed this perfidy too when the IPKF was in northern Sri Lanka. When Tamil journalists wrote against the LTTE, they found themselves driven out, ostracised or killed. Hence, one-sided criticism of the Sri Lanka state is de facto pro-LTTE propaganda.
Thus, the summarised long answer is: when a state fights a secessionist terrorist outfit, then press freedom suffers as a consequence. Therefore to say that Sri Lanka does not have press freedom is an occupational hazard, not a condemnation. Whatever price has to be paid by the state to exterminate terrorists must be paid.
S Swamy, President, Janata Party
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-106228.html
Not sure if this is true or not since Lankaenews is highly biased. Neverthless, the police force has become a personal fiefdom of top officials. The top people should be retired and sent home.
18 Senior CID officers come under the axe – transferred to Kilinochchi
(Lanka-e-News, Sep.09, 2009, 5.40PM) On the orders of DIG Nanda Munasinghe in charge of the CID, 18 senior police officers of the CID with several years experience in that division have been transferred to Kilinochchi. 12 of these 18 Officers are from the investigation unit.
Mr. Munasinghe succeeded DIG Sisira Munasinghe who was earlier in charge of the CID. Prior to becoming the DIG , Mr. Munasinghe has been an SSP in the Division. Owing to the resentment shown against him by other Police officers , Mr. Munasinghe was transferred out of the CID.
It is noteworthy that these transfers have occurred following the return of Mr. Munasinghe now to the same Division as DIG.
It is reported that these transfers prompted by personal grudges against these officers had adversely affected the division , as these are officers who have several years of hands on experience on terrorism investigations before and after the war.
Casc
This transfer business one of the curses that came to us from the Colonial times and we are still continuing this horrible practice. Most of my father’s working life was filled with transfers every 5 years or so. This brought a lot of heartache to see our father away from home from the beginning of the week day costing him much for a second home and travelling and mum had to look after the house with young all alone which is very unfair. Just as the very lengthy court cases these transfer business, some time for revenge have never been done away with since independence.
C4 ass-h*** was given a good treat by Prof Rajeeva
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/world/asia_pacific/footage+reveals+sri+lanka+camp+conditions/3335367
Kevin,
Its sad to see what has happened to the police force. All other service arms have evolved into world class merit based systems while the police has not changed with the times. It needs a Sarath Fonseka type person to turn it upside down.
even toiletnet doesn't believe in the C4 footage!!!
now toiletnet says C4's IDP camps coverage has enraged the govt.
why not the 'execution' video?????
is it bcos it is anyway fake and even toiletnet knows it???
Jay
'Is the Hindu going soft?'
Not really. Even I feel that the punshment far exceeds teh crime. It is true that the guy wrote nasty stuff, like justifying the killing of world class people such as Kadirgamar.
Abhorrant though such acts may be for us, the ability to express an opinion must exist in a civilized society. It is when that right is removed that violence becomes the last resort left to communicate with.
We did it, with an amendment to the constitution during JRJ's times which made talking of a seperate state an illegal act. And ended up having to deal with a violent reaction which cost us three decades of development and over 1-lakh lives. Now we have learnt to deal effectively with the symptoms of the problem, we seem to be over willing to forget that the problem itself isn't solved. We MUST talk it out, and for that we must find moderate people who will put the nation before petty communalism and serve all Sri Lankans equally.
Jay
“apart from getting false confessions (eg JS Tissa)”
Yo, undercover LTTE whoredog….so you are cocksure that Tissanayagam’s confessions are false? Please enlighten us patriots here why you think so and I would like to have a factual itemization and not the kind of bandwagon-jumping ludicrous rhetoric we have seen from the various special-interested parties, including your type of LTTE Tamil-cocksucker diaspora.
The fact that TissaN took a large sum of money from the LTTE terrorist whoredogs and used that money to publish the LTTE’s vile propaganda (proven and admitted in court) to demoralize the country’s brave fighting force alone is enough in my view to hang that whoredog - ten times!
"But I have read Tissainayagam’s writings, and they are pure LTTE propaganda.
The LTTE has produced doctored videos, manufactured incidents and spread canards. We witnessed this perfidy too when the IPKF was in northern Sri Lanka. When Tamil journalists wrote against the LTTE, they found themselves driven out, ostracised or killed. Hence, one-sided criticism of the Sri Lanka state is de facto pro-LTTE propaganda.
.....Dr. Subramanian Swamy
LTTE is a heinous terrorist group and anyone who supported it morally, materially or militarily must be held accountable for their actions and within the soil of Sri Lanka (and that now includes all the way from Point Pedro in the north to Dondra in the south) I am glad they are being held accountable and my hat's off to this GoSL for doing so with diligence and zeal.
This was not another opposing cricket team, a soccer team, a basketball team, or even a political party, but a heinous band of killers who saw nothing wrong in setting off lethal bombs in trains, buses, supermarkets killing thousands upon thousands of Sri Lankans, and also sword/axe hacking of pregnant women and children in poorest of poor Sri Lankan farming villages!
Kudos GoSL...do continue to hunt these killers and their supporters down and subject them to due punishment - and I hope it will be nothing but "cruel and unusual"...
TS,
"We MUST talk it out, and for that we must find moderate people who will put the nation before petty communalism and serve all Sri Lankans equally."
allow me to disagree.
agree with the right to express as long as it doesn't violate laws.
1. this problem cannot be solved through TALKS.
2. MOST tamil ppl on earth want TAMIL ELAM within the land of SL. they have a right to that opinion. they have right to aspire. we cannot fool them or gritify them into giving that up.
3. we cannot demarcate tamils in SL and tamils elsewhere. as we can see clearly, such demarcations won't work!!! tamils the world over want a place to be called the tamil nation. only a fraction of them live in SL. so even if most tamils in SL don't want TE, still the problem continues. the tamil diaspora are only blood relatives of tamils in SL. they will NEVER consider sinhalas or muslims in a closer manner than their blood relatives abroad in the tamil diaspora. also they identify VERY VERY closely with tamil madu, india, socially, politically and culturally.
4. even MOST tamils in SL (in NE - which is TE to some - particular) haven't given up on TE. TNA, TULF, ITAK stand for tamil elam and they are the MAIN political forces of tamil ppl in N-E SL.
5. winning over the "moderates" is not going to change anything. "moderates" were always with us but nothing changed!!! even when GOSL did terrible mistakes the moderates were willing to co-operate and change the bad to good. but nothing changed. bcos MOST tamils are NOT moderates when it comes to tamil elam. they will never be. they need not be. and i have no problem with that. when it comes to violence, MOST tamils (95%) are moderates. they hate violence.
6. tell tamil ppl in NE to give up racism, nothing will happen. mark my word, at the next general election too, they will vote overwhelmingly to RACIST political parties. (unless EPDP goes on rampage).
7. also tell tamil ppl not to read HATRED in newspapers, not to listen to hatred 24/7 in sakthi fm, etc. or not to get carried away by hatred in toiletnet or sakki tv, etc., they will laugh at you.
if you have a CLOSE tamil friend, pls ask him to read the news of a popular tamil newspaper as it is in english. there is NOTHING other than RACIAL HATRED EVERYWHERE!!!
8. but they have the right to read, watch, listen to those stuff (subject to legal restrictions). we cannot call them idiots, fools, racists. no way.
9. this is why we should take the initiative to CHANGE the ROOT CAUSES that breed racism. mainly in politics.
10. look at tamils living outside NE. they NEVER vote for racist political parties. MOST of their elected reps don't try to die over tamil elam unlike TULF, ITAK, TNA motherfcukers. this is what we should bring about in NE.
11. that is why colonisation is the ONLY solution. of course the racists will be against it bcos that is their death knel. they are going to lose their daily bread.
12. the IC (i mean nations/govts.) is not at all against colonisation.
13. all the other "solutions" are about moderating, managing and manipulating racism. none of them can uproot racism to a reasonable level.
14. tamil ppl in the north are not against colonisation provided no land robbing. there is no need. most land belong to the govt!!! those who are abroad are willing to sell too.
tropicalstorm
"the ability to express an opinion must exist in a civilized society"
I agree with this statement with certain caveats.
1) When a nation is fighting a heinous band of terrorists like what SL did, then one cannot say the atmosphere is a "civilized society" in the nation as inevitably the sheer horror that the terrorists bring about require the state to adopt certain strong or harsh measures that may be deemed "not so civilized"...this is a fact of life and no country on this planet has fought a terrorist campaign by maintaining a squeaky clean "civilized society" where, for example, the freedom of expression was the same pre-terrorism and post-terrorism
2) "ability to express an opinion" cannot include expressing the heinous terrorists' propaganda and demoralizing the country fighting force, i.e. the very critical tool that the state has deployed to combat that terrorism horror.
This is exactly what TissaN went afoul with and the rat got what he deserves!
FF,
agree with caveat #1 but disagree with #2.
i don't mean to say it is the RIGHT THING. not at all.
but it cannot be stopped. so we have to assume it as given. we have to pull the rug under their feet!!!!
one fine day they will wake up and see UNP or SLFP has won the election in northern province and ppl of all races living peacefully in jaffna.
i can only imagine the shock in their arrse faces!!
now this is the kind of stuff that attract flies. namely wesapala.
bait & see.
Democracy of UK is at work!!!!
Kohona's brilliance was too much to bear for hypocrites like Millipede!
He has been denied UK visa. Ho! Ho!
Once a brilliant nation, UK has gone to the dogs, because of few dogs.
http://www.dailymirror.lk/DM_BLOG/Sections/frmNewsDetailView.aspx?ARTID=61046
We need to find innovative ways to snub the British High commissioner for the blatant act of refusing a visa to UK to the then Foreign Secretary of Sri Lanka. My suggestions are.
(a) Government ministers including foreign minister should not attend any function organized by the British high commission. They should delegate such functions to a person below the position of Asst. secretary of their ministries.
(b) President or the senior cabinet ministers should not attend any function that is also attended by the British high commissioner. This will make other diplomatic missions/other organizers of functions not inviting the British high commissioner for their functions if they want senior ministers or president /prime minster to attend.
(c) In allocating seats in national function s such as Independence Day etc. front row /prominent seats should not be allocated to the British high commissioner or his deputy.
This should be continued until the culprit formally apologizes to Sri Lankan government or until he leaves his position. Let’s see whether our ministers have the guts to do this.
Ian said...
This should be continued until the culprit formally apologizes to Sri Lankan government or until he leaves his position. Let’s see whether our ministers have the guts to do this.
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Why do we still suck up to the British. This is something we cannot understand.
Puligal.blogspot is updated.
merci!
"The British High Commission has done it again. This time it has knocked back a visa application by the Foreign Secretary on the same day that it refused Arjuna Ranatunga. All efforts by the Chief of protocol of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to contact the High Commissioner or his deputy were in vain as neither could be contacted by phone.
It is reported that the Sri Lankan authorities bent the rules to accommodate the visa application of the UK Deputy High Commissioner’s gay partner despite homosexuality being a criminal offense in Sri Lanka."
it the UNICEF spokesman, james elder, british????
if so, clearly retaliatory. it also means that james elder staying in SL is VERY VERY IMPORTNAT FOR SOME. i wonder who they are!!!
after all he is just a spokesman, or is he???? GOSL has touched a raw nerve of some british MF.
India's Eelam movement gets another nail on coffin.
Court throw the claim to stop Indian Cricket Tour
What a bulk of losers.
last mile,
are you around??
what is the significance of saturn going to virgo???
toiletnet gives it such a big pomp.
no one knows MR's correct star sign. that means no loser can predict anything about him corrcetly, even if they belive in stars.
one astrologer predicted MR would die on 6 september!!! that suggests the change may not be good. of course stars & planets cannot dictate terms to ppl UNLESS THEY BELIEVE IN THEM AND CHANGE THEIR PLANS ACCORDINGLY.
this is the danger. MR seems to believe this.
Sri Lanka's war on the tragic truth
Amanda Hodge, South Asia correspondent | September 10, 2009
Article from: The Australian
IT is a dim spotlight the world shines on Sri Lanka and the human rights abuses that occur there.
The expulsion from the country of Australian-born Unicef spokesman James Elder this month, for speaking out against those abuses and child casualties in the bloody final stages of Sri Lanka's 26-year long civil war, dims it further still.
Elder was one of very few aid workers on the ethnically riven island nation who was prepared to brave the wrath of the Sinhalese-dominated government to highlight the plight of civilians, especially children, during the war and in its aftermath.
As Unicef's chief of communications in Sri Lanka, this was his brief and his responsibility.
That the government's chief spokesman, Palitha Kohona - an educated and charming man who spent several years as an Australian diplomat and many more as a UN official - should suggest otherwise is, as Unicef itself said this week, bordering on ludicrous.
Kohona, also an Australian citizen, has accused Elder of supporting a terrorist organisation and espousing the views of the pro-Tamil news website Tamil.net by highlighting issues such as child malnutrition in government-run internment camps.
About 250,000 internal refugees are now held in camps while the government de-mines the former rebel-held north and weeds Tamil militants from civilian populations.
It is a preposterous accusation, particularly given the Tamil.net forum far more often selectively reflects the news of the day than breaks it.
The government's real gripe would seem to be that Elder has contradicted the state propaganda saying no civilians were killed in the last stages of the war and that all is well in the camps.
The Sri Lankan government, as the victor in the war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, is determined to write its own history and is brutal in its suppression of inconvenient facts.
Led by the country's former human rights activist Mahinda Rajapakse and his two brothers, Basil and Gotabhaya, the government has successfully cowed most local media and aid organisations.
Local journalists have been arrested for casting the government in an unflattering light. Some have been murdered.
The media are refused independent access to overcrowded and unsanitary internment camps - about to get far worse with the coming monsoon.
In a self-penned eulogy that anticipated his own assassination last January, Sri Lankan journalist Lasantha Wickramatunga wrote: "Murder has become the primary tool whereby the state seeks to control the organs of liberty. No other profession calls on its practitioners to lay down their lives for their art save the armed forces and, in Sri Lanka, journalism."
In the weeks leading to Rajapakse's May victory declaration - as the army bombarded rebel forces along with a massive civilian population it knew was being used as a human shield - most aid groups took the view it was better to temper their comments and remain in the country for the mop-up than risk expulsion.
Elder continued to brief journalists and highlight abuses on both sides.
As triumphant Sinhalese Buddhists crowded the post-war streets of Colombo and Tamil Hindus sheltered indoors, he told The Australian: "People have paid a high price for this peace. Thousands have been killed, including large numbers of children."
In the weeks that followed, other aid groups would back those claims.
The UN now estimates as many as 20,000 civilians were killed in the final mayhem, as army shells rained down on as many as 200,000 civilians squeezed into a tiny land sliver between the two sides.
Elder called for aid groups to have unfettered access to the camps, to bring in medical aid and supplies.
.tbc..
..continued..
"It's important to remember these people have arrived in camps in the worst possible state," he said. "They are hungry and sick, and many still have untended wounds from the war."
Hardly the statements of a terrorist sympathiser.
Some aid workers say Sri Lanka has become an almost intolerable place to work. Best known in Australia as a tropical holiday island, Sri Lanka is in fact a police state. Whether the massive security apparatus - considered a necessity during wartime - will be dismantled in peace remains a test of the Rajapakse regime.
The other will be whether Rajapakse delivers on his promise for a political settlement that grants some autonomy to the Tamil minority and addresses legitimate concerns over their discrimination.
But as Robert Kaplan wrote in the Atlantic Monthly: "Like the Serbs in the former Yugoslavia, the Jews in Israel, and the Shi'ites in Iran, the Sinhalese are a demographic majority with a dangerous minority complex of persecution."
The international community continues to hold out carrots - such as the $2.5 billion IMF loan granted in July - even as the Rajapakse government bites the hand that feeds it.
In the last days of the war it lashed out at all international attempts to broker a ceasefire so civilians could be evacuated from the conflict zone.
In return for huge arms purchases, China and Russia have given Sri Lanka cover at international forums such as the UN Security Council, blocking all attempts at censure.
This week, Sri Lanka adds another weapon to its diplomatic arsenal: Kohona flew out of Colombo yesterday for New York, where he will be Sri Lanka's ambassador to the UN.
No doubt his diplomatic grounding in our own Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, including a three-year stint in the Australian embassy in Geneva, will assist him.
DFAT has refused to comment on Kohona's role in Elder's expulsion, or on his Australian citizenship, other than to say the decision "was made by a Sri Lankan official acting in his official capacity".
Britain and the EU have backed calls by the UN Human Rights Commissioner for an independent investigation into alleged war crimes on both sides. Australia has remained mute on the issue.
The US and Britain made public their decision to abstain from the IMF vote, a move widely interpreted as a shot across the Rajapkse government's bow. The Rudd government has not revealed which way it voted.
In that context, Elder's willingness to poke his head above the parapet is even more impressive.
It's a shame that for that bravery he has had it lopped off
Oh dear! Palitha your own adopted
country is taking issue with your stance.
Good luck at the UN.
SL on a diplomatic collision course with the West.
Recent incidents include, SL PM finger printed on entering Japan, MR cancelled his trip to the UN session on finding many of his 80 entourage were refused visas, all SL visitors to US with the surname "Rajapakse" are interviewed by Border Control at JFK, Visa application forms issued by US,UK,Aus & Canada have recently been amended to include a question "Have you or any member of your family been a member of the Armed Forces?"
Lakshman Kadirgamar must be turning in his grave
Comment on Ground Views
Sri Lanka on a Collision course with the West.
Why on earth is the Rajapakse regime on a collision course with the West? Okay, we are being bullied by the West, but haven’t we asked for it mainly on account of our stubborn resistance to international appeals for independent investigations into war crimes and human rights abuses? Taking blanket cover under a ‘conspiracy theory’ to undermine Sri Lanka by the West due to our ‘strategic importance’ borders on the ridiculous. It sounds more like a ‘Jamis’ Bond plot to distract and entertain an impoverished and ignorant rural polity. From Solheim to Milliband, we have identified so called ‘international conspirators’ who serve as convenient scapegoats or punching bags. Alas, the regime does not stop to think of the long term consequences of the shortsighted unsustainable ‘ collision diplomacy’ which our role model authoritarian states such as oil rich Iran and Libya have the economic power to counter, unlike resource starved Sri Lanka.
The collision course became most evident with the horrendous mass murder of seventeen Tamil aid workers of the French aid organiation ‘action contre le faim’(ACF) during the last days of battle against the LTTE in the Eastern province. Mainly on account of an international furor instigated by ACF alleging involvement of the armed forces, the government was compelled to appoint a Human Rights Commission(HRC) and ‘stage’ an inquiry. In a defensive stance, the government took the opportunity to include, for investigation by the HRC, several other criminal acts allegedly perpetrated by the LTTE. The President also appointed a International Independent Group of Eminent Persons (IIGEP) to act as observers in order to endorse the HRC’s findings. Rajapakse’s appointment of retired Indian Chief Justice Baghwati as head of the group may have been deliberate in order to take advantage of his presumed frailty due to advanced age. Unfortunately the President seriously underestimated his mental capacity which turned out to be razor sharp in seeing through the staged inquiry to the consternation of the government. After nearly one year of prevarication by the government , the IIGEP decided to withdraw their observer status as they alleged that the inquiry was not being conducted in a fair and transparent manner. In order to save face, the government accused the IIGEP of conspiring with the West to bring discredit to Sri Lanka. Such a ridiculous accusation against a group of eminent persons struck the ‘last nail on the coffin’ of lost credibility. It made them appear even more suspect in the eyes of the international community and also provided plenty of ammunition for the Tamil Diaspora to make further allegations of racism and genocide.
..tbc..
..continued..
The confrontational stance has additionally become a election gimmick to display the regime’s bravado in confronting world powers to the largely insular rural electorate whose patriotic fervor can be easily manipulated in order to divert their attention from their own as well as the nation’s dire economic straits. The regime constantly highlights the double standards and hypocrisy of the west with regard to war crimes and human rights abuses in order to vindicate themselves of the very same injustices which is a puerile and pathetic form of defence, to say the least.
Despite its ravishing scenic beauty, Sri Lanka still remain as a poverty stricken, resource poor inconsequential little island nation in the global scenario with little or no achievements to be proud of as a nation except for the recent blow up of the regime’s success in eliminating terrorism. Unfortunately, most of the democratic world has been slow to acknowledge this signal achievement as it has been marred by controversy on the ‘modus operandi’ adopted due to alleged violation of international conventions on warfare and human rights by the government in the final stages of the war when the enemy’s attempts to surrender were denied or ignored. Also, their lack of respect for ‘ safe zones’ by using heavy fire power resulting in mass killing of civilians shocked the world. Continued post war persecution of suspect Tamil civilians in internment camps in violation of their fundamental rights has aggravated the government’s image as racist and authoritarian.
Due to its collision course, the regime has antagonized Britain as well as the entire European Union and continue to do so without thought of the economic consequences and diplomatic deadlocks as a result of such actions. Locally, organizations and individuals who provide constructive criticism are relentlessly persecuted in a most ruthless manner and accused as traitors when, in reality, it is the regime that is the real traitor which is sacrificing the country and its people in order to remain in power to perpetuity like their role model dictatorial regimes such as Iran, Libya and Burma which have held power for over three to four decades by crushing all opposition and thereby denying their citizens of fundamental rights to freedom, justice and prosperity.
Before it is too late, the intelligentsia of this country must lift up their heads in defence of democracy instead of meekly endorsing authoritarianism by granting honorary doctorates to chauvinistic and despotic leaders who only pay lip service to democratic ideals while covertly advocating extremist notions of sinhala Buddhist supremacy prejudicial to ethnic harmony, equity and national prosperity.
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