We have received credible information on the arrest of two individuals, one a middle aged man traveling on a non-Sri Lankan passport at an undisclosed location in Bangkok in a joint stint launched by Thai and Sri Lankan authorities. The travel documents and said identity confirms with an alias of LTTE operative Shanmugam Kumaran Tharmalingham.
The man was carrying travel documents both under his own birth name and under other aliases at the time of arrest. A group of Sri Lankan officials is expected to fly the said two individuals to Sri Lanka shortly. Please await further information as it is made available.
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«Oldest ‹Older 1401 – 1600 of 4538 Newer› Newest»One way to get our own at the Brits: stop sending our kids to higher education there.
Each Sri Lankan student who goes to university in UK ends up converting more than Rs. 5, 000, 000 into British pounds.
One study says that every year around four thousand Sri Lankan students go to UK for higher studies.
If all these students studied in SL, a whopping 20 billion rupees could be added to our universities.
I know the president sent his eldest two sons to universities in England. Being the excellent leader that he is, I think the president will show us the way by sending his third son to a local university.
Moshe Dyan said...
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.
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James Elder is an Aussie, I believe.
Jay said,
/Sri Lanka's war on the tragic truth
Amanda Hodge, South Asia correspondent | September 10, 2009
Article from: The Australian /
Feels like a cut and paste from Tamilnet.
You can write your comments on the above article to :
letters@theaustralian.com.au
There are reports that Minister of Labour (Dr.) Mervin Silva visited Kerawalapitiya Power Station on the 8th and during his visit assaulted Chinese employees working in the project.
All Chinese employees working in the project demonstrated against the assault during the lunch break yesterday (9th) as there had been no action taken by authorities regarding the assault.
Marvel Mervin mistook it for a Chinese takeaway?
thusitha,
yes.
very strange how the brits are retaliating. they must be colluding with him on something. evidence gathering for "warcrimes" bullshit???
of course there never was war crimes but some idiots have fooled the brits to believe it is possible.
i think they are using these jnokers to gather whatever evidence to prove or disaprove war crimes crap.
Amanda Hodge's article is a great example of how to conveniently ignore the truth and twist the facts to serve prejudice.
Her whole article is a summary of TamilNet. Nothing more nothing less.
The hurt diaspora LTTE supporters based in the West keep stirring the Sri Lanka's pot, and the naive Western politicians keep dancing to their tune.
For many of these politicians, Sri Lanka is a huge prominance, compared to all the other issues in the world.
They think that it is a cool place to be in hammering Sri Lanka to expand their personal profiles.
I was always wondering why Sri Lanka did not expel Bhune when he was making totally unsubstantiated LTTE origin propaganda in the last part of the war, before Elder being shown the door.
The UN Office in Sri Lanka quite an LTTE den for some time. They still can not come out that mentality.
I do not know what the exact reason why Elder was shown the door, however we have a duty to make sure to reduce the impact of monsoon towards IDPs. They are our brothers and sisters, and we should do all our best to improve their living conditions.
A drainage system in IDP camps may help to reduce some monsoon impact - no brainer. Also, perhaps we can use wood pallets (used in shipping) based foot paths to ease walking within the camp area.
this is a cracker from toiletnet.
how DUMB can they be.
hilarious!!!
"Turbulent Sri Lanka opts for offshore tourism
[TamilNet, Thursday, 10 September 2009, 10:54 GMT]
Some European investors and a Sri Lankan entrepreneur, relieved about the ‘end of war,’ are embarked upon building a 175 million dollar luxury tourist resort in the offshore tracts of the Dutch Bay in Katpiddi.
bloody idiots, dutch bay may be "offshore" but in sri lanka!!!
and the reason is not "turbulance". ever been to maldives, fiji, polenesia????
govt should be more media wary.
continued medling with both foreign nations and media (local and foreign) is not good. handle each issue in ISOLATION.
most importantly, STAND BY THE DECISIONS.
if we change decisions due to pressure, we look like clowns.
IF MR is building any personal or non-development related construction in deniyaya he should immediately stop it.
the further we go away from V DAY, the lesser would be MR's popularity.
The chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) says he is gathering information about possible war crimes in Afghanistan.
Luis Moreno-Ocampo says that he will be examining claims relating to both Nato soldiers and Taliban insurgents.
...
Mr Moreno-Ocampo said his staff were also engaged in preliminary enquiries on possible war crimes in Georgia, Colombia, Kenya, the Ivory Coast, and by Israeli forces in Gaza.
BBC
Bugger! All our poor Eeelam retards flunked out of school. Bally fools made many mistakes in spelling 'Sri Lanka' in their petition to ICC such as 'N-A-T-O', 'G-e-o-r-g-i-a, 'C-o-l-o-m-b-i-a', 'K-e-n-y-a', 'I-v-o-r-y-C-o-a-s-t', 'I-s-r-a-e-l' etc.
Cheers!
Bravo!
Watch this Video Clip.. one of the superb productions!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUS2Fw1cNJo
Hitler is so worried about his LTTE!
Indian Navy to induct MiG-29 Ks by October
ExpressBuzz.com
September 09, 2009
NEW DELHI: The squadron of the first four Russian-made Mig-29K/KUB fighter jets purchased for the aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov will be inducted into the Indian Navy by October and will be called Black Panthers, officials here said.
"Pilot training for the squadron was completed in the US and Russia. The induction will be by October end," a senior Indian Navy official told IANS, requesting anonymity.
The navy has zeroed in on Black Panthers as the name for its new acquisition -- which was scheduled to be delivered in 2007 and has been delayed by two years.
"The squadron will be called Black Panthers after the big cat just like the Sea Harrier (jets) squadron is called White Tigers," the official said.
The emblem of the squadron, a snarling black panther with red mouth and yellow eyes, will be painted on the tails of the war jets.
The jets were purchased by the Indian Navy as part of the $740 million contract signed in January 2004 for Admiral Gorshkov, to be commissioned as INS Vikramaditya in the navy.
"The pilots were sent to US for deck landing training and the QFIs (qualified flying instructors) to Russia for conversion flying (for converting to different aircraft). The pilots will do the conversion flying in Goa under the supervision of QFIs," the official told IANS.
Four to five batches comprising four pilots each had gone to the US for the deck landing training.
As the 45,000-tonne Kiev class aircraft carrier Gorshkov is scheduled to be inducted in service only by 2011 after its refurbishment, the aircraft will be based on shore till then.
The navy will be getting 12 MiG 29K single-seater aircraft and four MiG 29KUB double-seater trainer aircraft in flyaway condition. The trainer version is similar to the single-seater but with a slightly reduced operational range.
The contract also stipulates the procurement of hardware for pilot training and aircraft maintenance, including flight simulators, and interactive ground and sea-based training systems.
The MiG 29K have arrestor gear and stronger landing gear for carrier landings, folding wings and rust proofing to reduce corrosion from salt water.
Features of the aircraft include a fully digitised glass cockpit, improved engine protection against ingestion of foreign particles (like birds), a multi-mode radar and increased range due to increase in internal fuel capacity.
The MiG-29K multi-role carrier-based fighter is designed to air cover the ship grouping, gain air superiority and destroy sea surface and ground targets with guided high-precision weapons in any weather, day or night.
The aircraft, the first bought by the navy after the Sea Harriers, will also be capable of playing the role of an air refueller. The contract with MiG will ensure that the navy gets the entire spectrum of services, including a full mission simulator.
Summons to Vaiko for Speech on LTTE
ExpressBuzz.com
September 10, 2009
CHENNAI: The VII Metropolitan Magistrate in GT has issued summons to MDMK leader Vaiko for speaking in support of the banned organisation LTTE at a public meeting in 2008.
The State police registered a case against Vaiko for offences under Sections 124 of the IPC and section 13(1)(d) of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.
The charge-sheet in the case was filed before the magistrate on September 2 last. Taking on file the charge-sheet, the magistrate John Santhosham on Wednesday issued summons to Vaiko requiring him to appear before him on October 16, 2009.
Mu Comment at ExpressBuzz.com
EELAMISTS vent their frustrations against the MAHAVAMSA (The Great Chrionicle) bemoaning the lack of a comparable LITERARY HERITAGE.
But, know this: The Mahavamsa is only the TIP OF THE literary ICEBERG recounting the SINHALA HERITAGE; it is supplemented by the CHULVAMSA (The Lesser Chronicle), the DIPAVAMSA (The Island Chronicle), the RAJAVALIYA (The Regal Heritage), the PUJAVALIYA (The Religious Heritage), the HANSA SANDESAYA (The Swan's Message), the SALALIHINI SANDESAYA (The Nightingale's Message), the PARANGI HATANA (THe Portuguese War) .....Ad Infinitum....recounting the heritage and the struggle of the Sinhala people to defend and preserve whole their resplendent nation of Sri Lanka.
May CONFUSION and PAIN reign among its ENEMIES. DEATH to the EELAMISTS!
Anada, dear chap, I sent you a couple of emails. Hope you had a chance to read them.
Cheers!
Konnapu Bandara said...
Bugger! All our poor Eeelam retards flunked out of school. Bally fools made many mistakes in spelling 'Sri Lanka' in their petition to ICC such as 'N-A-T-O', 'G-e-o-r-g-i-a, 'C-o-l-o-m-b-i-a', 'K-e-n-y-a', 'I-v-o-r-y-C-o-a-s-t', 'I-s-r-a-e-l' etc.
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KB, I think these guys will do their utmost to get us on war crimes charges. It will continue for 10-20 years. What SL people have to make sure is that the president of SL is well connected to the military (Like in the case of MR). SL should vote for a president who at least have a one of the immediate family members (brother sister, son daughter, father mother) in the armed forces. But hopefully not an ex military guy as president (Which doesn't seem to work well). Only such a person would feel strong enough about our national security issues, which must be a priority for some time to come. Similar to Israel we should consider such an approach until the threat of LTTE and separation disappears from this country.
We cannot have spineless people running the country in the future. We had it for the last 40 or so years.
Cheers!
an aircraft carrier with MiG-29s aboard will be a bloody beauti. it gives india enormous reach and power over seas.
so the tit-4-tat with china-pakistan continues. india and pakistan are acquiring naval equipment as in a competition. chinese developments are mostly unknown.
all this for US$ 740 M is damn cheap!!!
Thusitha, old chap, the good news is Sri Lanka is not a signatory to ICC Rome statute. ICC can exercise jurisdiction only in cases where the accused is a national of a signatory state, the alleged crime took place on the territory of a signatory state, or a situation is referred to the court by the United Nations Security Council. UN security council has China and Russia to watch our back. Checkmate to Peelamists and their lackeys.
Another bit of good news is below:
AP Worldstream Article date: November 22, 2002
Sri Lanka and the United States signed an agreement Friday not to surrender each other's citizens for trial at the International Criminal Court, a foreign ministry statement said.
Sri Lankan foreign minister Tyronne Fernando and U.S. Ambassador Ashley Wills signed the agreement in the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo.
'The agreement obliges not to surrender or extradite nationals of either party in the territory of the other to the International Criminal Court unless the express consent is obtained,' the statement said.
Cheers!
KB,
ahla!!
but bruce fein got to be cooking a pot full of shit. peelamists are hungry.
SL should not jumpt at every chance to sign ANY agreement. we should sign what benefits us.
well said ananda!
"EELAMISTS vent their frustrations against the MAHAVAMSA (The Great Chrionicle) bemoaning the lack of a comparable LITERARY HERITAGE."
in adition to the lovely list by ananda,
1. the mahavamsa ITSELF is a fabulous literature work!!
2. the unique sinhala language spoken NO WHERE else!!!
for the information of tamil elamists, sinhalas was one of 55 languages that was chosen to represent mankind onboard the sattelite VOYAGER-1, etc. tamil was not included!!!!
at that time there were only 10 million sinhala speakers work wide and 65 million tamils!!!
comparable LITERARY HERITAGE????
my arse!!
3. what about the MAGNIFICIENT BUILDINGS and other constructions??? they are our heritage too.
that's not all. the mahavamsa CROSS-REFERENCES these actual physical things much to the dismay of tamil elamists!!!
4. the unique version of buddhism of SL.
5. multiple cultural heritage of SL of sinhala, tamil, muslim, etc.
whereas tamil madu culture and tamil elam culture is TAMIL ONLY!!!
pathetic! pathetic! pathetic!
6. look at the dance styles of SL. upcountry, low country, sabaragamuwa, etc., etc.
look at tamil dancing. (i personally prefer tamil dancing MUCH more than any other dancing). it is called bharata natyam. now tell me bharata is not india but tamil elam!!!
lol!
7. the ONLY tamil elamists history book - yalpanai puka malai - was written in the 18th century by the instructions, sponsorship, insistence, dictation, compulsion, authority, manipulation, etc, of the DUTCH invaders!!!
holy shitt!!
for the information of tamil elamists, mahavamsa was written after the russians told us to write our history!! until then we didn't have a history.
[the ONLY tamil elamists history book - yalpanai puka malai]
Moshe, old boy, are you serious? Even if you tried won't be able to come with something funny as that. The name of their greatest history book roughly translates to "Jaffna arse died"!!
Cheers!
See what a fucking eelamist said after doing some soul searching:
[OK, I take it back...please readers do not think I am a MORON....I should know better. If Tamils came to SL first (as my ancestors told me) then why would the Tamils be only 12% and the Sinhelas 80% of the population? ha ha ha...yes, how silly of me! The only way that would have happened would be if the Tamil men could not "perform" or the Tamil women could not "bear" which I think are unlikely scenarios...ha ha ha...speaking of us Jaffna Tamil men, well, I know the "abundant-performance" we always go for...even with goats and cows when times are hard....ha ha ha...sorry, I take that back Karusilva.
By Selvaraja, Bolton ]
http://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/story.aspx?Title=Rajapaksa+blinks;+3+journos+released&artid=P3WbbmBN5bY=&SectionID=oHSKVfNWYm0=&MainSectionID=oHSKVfNWYm0=&SectionName=VfE7I/Vl8os=&SEO=
ha ha ha...ho ho ho...he he he...
Fucking scandalous!!!
OaO Asithri
And another LTTE Tamil whoredog, after soul-searching admitted:
[Racist, filthy Thamileelamist vent their frustrations against the Sri Lanka’s Mahavamsa (The Great Chrionicle of Sinhelas) bemoaning the lack of a comparable literary heritage in their own ghettoized nest. But, know this: The Mahavamsa is only the tip of the literary Iceberg, recounting the proud Sinhelas’ heritage; it is supplemented by the Chulavamsa (The Lesser Chronicle), the Dipavamsa (The Island Chronicle), the Rajavalia (The Regal Heritage), the Pujavaliay (The Religious Heritage), the Hansa Sandesaya (The Swan's Message), the Salalihini Sandesaya (The Nightingale's Message), the Parangi Hatana (The Portuguese War)...Ad Infinitum...recounting the heritage and the struggle of the Sinhelas of SL to defend and preserve as a whole their resplendent nation. Clearly, these racist Tamils who lack such literary works in SL (as they are really contemporary illegal migrants there) are furious with envy…ha ha ha…stew in your own ka-ka Tamil racists…we love to see you squirm!
By Arindam Datta, University of Virginia
http://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/story.aspx?Title=Lankan+SC+stalls+ban+on+ethnic+parties&artid=Z9yvMgNVMEw=&SectionID=oHSKVfNWYm0=&MainSectionID=oHSKVfNWYm0=&SectionName=VfE7I/Vl8os=&SEO=
ha ha ha...ho ho ho...he he he...
Truly fucked-up in head...these Tamil whoredogs!
:)) :)) :))
OaO Asithri
Got to run...Amnesty International is in the neighborhood collecting used female underwear for the shipment they are planning for Tissapaiyagum....as that is as close as he will get to the real-thing for the next 20 years...so, got to go ask my South American cleaning lady for at least one, to give as a donation for this worthy cause.
OaO Asithri
Hey FF, got your email via our mutual friend in SL...shall reply soon.
Take care bro...
OaO Asithri
now toiletnet cowards are crying for "fallen cowards"!!
they use an old british report.
By Dean Nelson in Colombo.
Published: 5:47PM BST 22 May 2009
The LTTE's political chief B Nadesan and 'peace secretariat' head S Puleedevan had attempted to surrender, a senior United Nations official disclosed yesterday. The men were subsequently later found dead amid claims that they were shot while waving a white flag, and Western diplomats have warned the government could face war crimes investigation of the incidents.
The group's leader Velupillai Prabhakaran was one of several hundred fighters killed after the Sri Lankan government declared victory in its 26 year-long civil war.
British and Norwegian ministers joined United Nations officials in trying to save them as the Sri Lankan army moved to 'annihilate' the rebels.
Friends of the two men asked Norway's international development minister, Erik Solheim and British foreign ministers to intervene on Sunday and in the early hours of Monday morning.
Vijay Nambiar, the U.N Secretary-General's envoy and chef de cabinet, said he was contacted by British officials who asked hime to make the Sri Lankan government aware that Nadesan and Pulideevan wanted to surrender.
Mr Nambiar said yesterday in Colombo that he conveyed the message to Sri Lanka's foreign secretary Dr Palitha Kohona, but was told the safe surrender of the men could not be guaranteed. He said: "He said:'It may be too late, we'll see."
Dr Kohona yesterday denied he had contact with Mr Nambiar, but said he had messages indicating the two men's intention to surrender. A series of emails and text messages seen by The Daily Telegraph, Dr Kohona was asked: "will the troops fire?"
"Just walk across to the troops slowly," he replied. "With a white flag and comply with instructions carefully. The soldiers are nervous about suicide bombers."
He did not, however, inform any other official or officers at the front of their imminent surrender.
"Contacting me at that time about surrender was probably not a useful way of setting about it," he said.
He said he had heard a rumour that the two men may have been shot in the back by their own comrades but said they equally could have been shot by advancing soldiers.
"This was at dawn in the dark," he said. I don't think the message got to the front that these people were coming with white flags," he said.
Mr Solheim said he had heard heavy gunfire in the background when one of the men had called pleading for help in surrendering.
Dr Kohona said he had not asked officers on the front line if they had shot the men as they surrendered:"You don't ask questions like that. If you're an investigator, yes, but you don't ask questions like that unless you already know the answer."
A Foreign Office spokesman could not confirm ministers' involvement but said "it would not be surprising" if they had passed on messages of this kind to the UN.
8 years after 9/11.
not only americans sri lankans are also victims of terror.
terrorism is same wherever it occurs. war on terror is also same.
9/11 the begining of the end of LTTE. 8 Years.
can someone please tell these guys to correct this.
webeditor does not like me after pointing out a series of corrections!!!
"We should thank for all Sri Lankans in Nagoya city who contributed their hardly (hard) earned money for the welfare of the war heroes" one of the representative participated at the occasion said, speaking to defence.lk."
My Comment at ExpressBuzz.com
We PATRIOTIC SONS and DAUGHTERS of SRI LANKA REJOICE in the ERADICATION of the LTTE from the Resplendent Land we call HOME.
It is HOME to ALL of its CITIZENS ... Sinhala, Tamil, Muslim, Burgher, Buddhist, Hindu, Moslem, Christian, the Rich and the Destitute ..not PART by PART, but as a WHOLE.
We do not differentiate between our people by CASTE or CREED, but ONLY by whether they LOVE, or DO NOT LOVE, this Beauteous Land we call HOME.
We are Sri Lankans with EQUAL RIGHTS as citizens, and EQUAL RESPONSIBILITIES to protect the Motherland.
The SINHALA community of Sri Lanka WELCOMES BACK with open arms those among our Tamil brothers and Sisters who temporarily left the FOLD, MISLED by the promise of MISBEGOTTEN GAINS of an APARTHEID DREAM .. to rejoin us again to love and build our country ... TOGETHER!
Let the voices of racism, of disunity, and of hate, be stilled FOREVER!
WE are ONE SRI LANKAN PEOPLE, ONE SRI LANKAN NATION, with ONE SRI LANKAN DESTINY!
WE ARE ONE ... ONE for ALL, ALL for ONE!
A US tiger exposed?
SL should seriously think on what they can do to these folks. I'm sure there is something we can do thru diplomatic circles.
As a by product, such attempts make us join hands with west and build trust in both sides.
‘LTTE’s global network used vigorously against sri lanka’
Addressing British lawyers, Queen’s Counsel in London
Even after the military defeat of the LTTE on Sri Lankan soil and the destruction of its leadership, the global network of this terrorist organisation continues to be used vigorously against Sri Lanka, Export Development and International Trade Minister Prof. G. L. Peiris said in London last week.
The Minister was addressing a group of eminent British lawyers, including Queen’s Counsel, in London.
Prof. Peiris said the situation had changed dramatically with the arrest of senior LTTE personalities outside Sri Lanka, and the remaining activities of the terrorist organisation could be expected to wind down as a result of these developments.
“It is important for the international community to be aware of the extent and tenacity of the misinformation campaign engaged in by groups of interests close to the terrorist organisation.
The aim and objective of these interests was to ensure that foreign governments and multilateral organisations adopt hostile postures intended to stultify Sri Lankas development efforts at a particularly critical and sensitive time,” Minister Peiris observed.
“While exorbitant sums of money were being invested in this persistent effort to distort and misconstrue every aspect of the contemporary Sri Lankan scene, opinion leaders have a vital role to play in ensuring fairness and objecting in assessing what is taking place in the country, he said.
Prof. Peiris proceeded to give the audience at Argent Chambers in London a full account of the initiatives by the government of Sri Lanka at the present time. Explaining the background, he dealt with attempts by successive administrations to engage the LTTE in substantive negotiations and showed how the consistent evasiveness and intransigence of the LTTE leadership prevented any meaningful progress in the negotiating process.
After the election of President Rajapaksa in November 2005, he attempted for seven months to negotiate with the LTTE, and during that period sent two government delegations to Geneva, but the LTTE refused to engage constructively.
America will hand over Rudrakumaran, if there is evidence against him
What a beauty. We should follow this up for sure. Diaspora eelamists should not get a smooth sleep considering the crimes they committed on ALL Sri Lankans [including tamils].
Rescued terrorist revealed top LTTE agents Govt. warns of JVP hand in anti-forces conspiracy
By Shamindra Ferdinando
Island.lk
September 11, 2009
Had a recently captured hardcore LTTE operative died after taking cyanide, the identity of two of the most important LTTE agents –– Lakshman Cooray and General Sarath Fonseka cook would have remained undisclosed. Although the terrorist had taken cyanide when detectives swooped on him, the medical staff at the National Hospital saved his life thereby giving investigators an opportunity to elicit vital information from him.
An authoritative government official told The Island that the two LTTEoperatives could have caused enormous damage had they remained undetected. Cooray, who was widely considered one of the SLFP favourites as his father had been a ruling party Provincial Councillor could have joined the Presidential Security Division or some other State agency with access to key political and military leaders. At the time of his arrest, he had been attached to the Gampaha Police Division.
Referring to a recent query raised in Parliament by the JVP with regard to the number of persons who had died while in police custody, the official said that this was all part of a plan.
Minister Dinesh Gunawardena’s response on behalf of the government that 91 persons had died in police custody, too, would be construed as executions carried out by the police. Had the LTTE terrorist, who led investigators to Cooray and General Fonseka’s cook managed to commit suicide, he would have been counted as the 92nd person to die in police custody and nobody would have bothered about his true identity, the official said.
Of the 91 deaths at issue, 12 had died of natural causes, 17 committed suicide and six succumbed to drug abuse. Eight had been killed by the LTTE and civilians while 48 died due to police action.
The Defence Ministry had to intervene to ensure the best possible facilities at the National Hospital and rush urgently needed medicine from the Military Hospital to save the life of the terrorist concerned. "He is perhaps one of the most important men in our custody," a highly placed official told The Island. He had been directly in touch with Pottu Amman and knew almost every minute detail about major operations in the city and its suburbs.
Responding to The Island queries, the spokesman said that the attack on police should be viewed in the backdrop of a well organised campaign to blame the Sri Lankan army of war crimes. The Channel 4 execution video, which had proved to be a hoax, he said, was all part of a strategy to paint a bleak picture of Sri Lankan armed forces. People accommodated in welfare camps in the Vavuniya region, too, had become part of their overall strategy, he said, adding that as Indian High Commissioner Alok Prasad pointed out on Wednesday, any country would have found it a difficult task.
Government sources said that a section of the international community, in spite of thier failure to save the LTTE on the military front, was bent on charging Sri Lankan forces with war crimes.
Ananda;
Re: Island article.
I agree that the arrests that police/TID did were very important. But I can not agree that there is a terrorist agenda to defame police. Instead what we see is a public outcry to cleanup police and raise their standard.
[[Referring to a recent query raised in Parliament by the JVP with regard to the number of persons who had died while in police custody, the official said that this was all part of a plan.]]
JVP is taking hell-bent on Police after Lanka Journelist incident. But there is a fair side in their outcry.
Most accept that thugs killed by police is right. Nevertheless there is a huge amount of mistreat and misconduct in police force. Innocents suffer. They have been. And they do.
Govt has to step in cleaning up the police as that is as important as cleaning of underworld. And on cleaning of underworld, I'm not sure whether they plan to clean underworld or crown Mervyn's gang as the solitary underworld.
So above statement cannot be agreed upon. JVP is making a point here and they should carry on with it. Otherwise the police will continue bullshit. [note that I always disagree with JVP politically, but I have gratitude for their good deeds]
[[Responding to The Island queries, the spokesman said that the attack on police should be viewed in the backdrop of a well organised campaign to blame the Sri Lankan army of war crimes]]
So those who reacted to Nipuna'a case are terrorists. I read this statement as a major coverup and an attempt to defame military. Police and some elements of govt are misusing the victory to conduct corruption and crimes. It will only dent the golden victory.
[[The Channel 4 execution video, which had proved to be a hoax, he said, was all part of a strategy to paint a bleak picture of Sri Lankan armed forces....]]
I agree for the rest obviously. But why do they try to add the crap this police actions into the great victory?
Few recent happenings make me worried. The Deniyaya incident, unnecessary/synthetic selection of Sajin Vass and possibility of him being selected as CM of SP. Cheap characters like Anarkali entering the platform created by victory.
Note that victory brings the discards and dirt into your side. Some people forget the genuine people around you and welcome them in mega style. Frankly, something looks pretty ugly about MR administration for the first time.
This is the first time I saw this govt deviating from public opinion. If not corrected that is the beginning of the end of any leader, no matter what great deeds they did.
Eastern schools named after LTTE leaders to be renamed
Long overdue.
But a good start anyway.
We need to clean all the signs of terrorism and ban all the possibilities of separatism. Then we should eliminate all the monolithic communities by blending and mixing. After all that, anyone can discuss any devolution of power.
Sinhalese are the most discriminated when it comes to University Opportunities.
Read the article,
http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2009/06/11/peace-loving-sinhalese-suffer-acute-discrimination-in-university-admissions-in-silence/
Can some patriot give me a link to Prof. Rajeeva's recent interview with Channel 4 or BBC on that fake video?
http://www.srilankaguardian.org/
Go to Srilanka Guardian you will find the video of the Rajiva interview.
It was not about the fake video though
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/world/asia_pacific/footage+reveals+sri+lanka+camp+conditions/3335367
see also above
Sam,
Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha Channel 4 News 11th September
Patriots around Sydney, Australia please go to the food fair at Roselea today in support of the Api Wenuwen Api program.
Roselea Hall is in Pennant Hills. The food fair will last the full day.
See you there.
No_Mess,
Thanks for the link. Aren't we glad that we have some kick-ass defenders to defend our soldiers from bogus war crime allegations. Why are these Channel 4 f---ers think that we have to disprove every bogus allegation in front of the world. Anyway, in the bizzaro world of LTTE stooges and their supporters in the west, Sri Lankans are guilty until proven innocent. I really wonder if Channel 4 ever spent a minute to discuss about the innocent civilians killed by LTTE by bus bombs, train bombs, suicide bombs, beheading, chopping, slicing, axing etc etc.
Another good showing by the good Professor, this time with CNN. The interview is tough, but fair.
These are the types of interviews we need to reduce this western backlash.
Sri Lanka's human rights secretary Rajiva Wijesinha and Amnesty International's Sam Zarifi on the country's refugee camp
kotiwaenasewa said...
Patriots around Sydney, Australia please go to the food fair at Roselea today in support of the Api Wenuwen Api program.
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Mate,
Can you please give us a days notice.
Thanks
My Comment at ExpressBuzz.com
The MAHAVAMSA .. The Great Chronicle of Kingship of Sri Lanka .. assailed as a "monumental yarn" by the INCURABLY DISAPPOINTED EELAMIST RACISTS lamenting their losses here, was pivotal to the discovery and the unraveling of the ancient history of INDIA itself.
Without the revelations of the MAHAVAMSA epic, the GOLDEN ASOKAN AGE OF INDIA would have remained shrouded in the mist of time; and the ASOKAN STANDARD would not grace the NATIONAL PILLAR of India today.
Indians would not know this great king who UNIFIED INDIA and its Diverse Peoples first by MILITARY CONQUEST, then by embedding DHARMISHTA LAWS following the TEACHINGS of that other GREAT SON of INDIA, the GAUTAMA BUDDHA.
Our SINHALA ancestors, descended from India themselves, saw the WISDOM in what the LORD BUDDHA and EMPEROR ASOKA offered, and MADE IT THEIR OWN.
They dedicated themselves, through times IMMEMORIAL, to PRESERVING and PROTECTING this heritage, of value beyond measure, to ensuring that it SHALL NOT PERISH from Sri Lanka!
We, the PATRIOTIC SONS and DAUGHTERS of Sri Lanka, continue that march towards the Dharmishta Rajaya ideal, with kindness and compassion for the deserving, and unwavering firmness towards all transgressors.
Thusitha,
Okay.
Its open till 10 pm tonight.
Click here for the link.
SL Gov should look at exporting Special forces skills while extending the relationship with our friends.
Looks like there is somthing our good friend need from the world.
Wish Defence.lk get the tittle corrected.
Should not this be "Resettlement" rather than "Release"
Time to open a tution class?
Sam,
It looks like this Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka (JDS) and Channel 4 News are in regular contact; we all know what happened to the last person who had a HOT LINE to CH4.
May be they have run out of funds and wish to be flown back to The Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka….
As for the CH4 and CNN interview: I know the Prof will disagree (he hates cold climates and lonely hotel rooms), but he should spend some time in London and demolish the Diaspora BS and educate the misled.
Diaspora BS:
Started as discrimination…. Then demanded 2/3 coastline and 1/3 land….then protect the human shield…..now IDPs.
What next - Regular garbage collection in Kilinochi?
Patriots,
I would bet that these extractions of "red hot" LTTE cadre in hding, before they are apprehended in Sri Lanka, is FINANCED and OPERATED by the LTTE Die-Ass-Pora.
Do they intend to re-insert these terrorists back ino Sri Lanka at some future time? Hmmm, some thing to ponder....
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LTTE Immigration racket busted
Island.lk
September 12, 2009
Police intelligence raided an establishment in Sea Street Colombo, said to be involved in sending escapees from the Vavuniya Welfare Centres abroad.
Police arrested six men along with a number of forged passports, visas and other documents.
Investigations revealed that most of those who escaped from the Welfare Centres were LTTE suspects.
The raid was sequel to the arrest of three suspected LTTE cadres who were detained at the Colombo Airport when they attempted to travel to Italy with forged travel papers, Police said.
Investigations also revealed that one of them was an LTTE cadre and all three had escaped from the Menikfarm Welfare Centre.
They were in possession of some pictures of Hindu deities and when the Police at the Airport examined the pictures they found visa documents hidden inside.
On questioning the suspects arrested from Sea Street, it was revealed that some LTTE cadres had already left the country by securing forged passports and visas.
Off topic my friends .
This is just in Canadian embassy
http://www.lankaenews.com/English/news.php?id=8293
UK, embassy also same . Dont we have to take any action against them ?
Are we lower than them ?
I have faced the same situation in some European embassies and institutions even though I am holding schengen resident permit .
Why cant we get together and have a better voice against discrimination?Are we not humans like them or are they better humans than us?
Suranimala said...
Off topic my friends .
This is just in Canadian embassy
http://www.lankaenews.com/English/news.php?id=8293
UK, embassy also same . Dont we have to take any action against them ?
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The U.K, U.S. Australian and Canadian Embassies are totally staffed by Tamils. This is discriminatory practice and should be exposed. It is about time we force them to change this practice or charge them under some discriminatory laws. This is basically illegal.
from toiletnet.
"India denies visa to US rights activist
[TamilNet, Saturday, 12 September 2009, 03:47 GMT]
Indian embassy in New York denied a visa to US-based humanitarian worker and a critic of the Sri Lanka Government, Dr Ellyn Shander to travel to New Delhi to address the Delhi Tamil Sangam on 20th September, Deccan Chronicle reported. Shander was to address the Delhi meeting with MDMK General Secretary Vaiko, after attending meeting in Bangalore with the local Tamil Sangam on 15th of September."
wow!
tamil elamist crappies,
we have friends, you have enemies!!
Thusitha said..
{The U.K, U.S. Australian and Canadian Embassies are totally staffed by Tamils. This is discriminatory practice and should be exposed. It is about time we force them to change this practice or charge them under some discriminatory laws. This is basically illegal.)
LOL. Above is laughable!
This exact mentality is what created the problems in the first place.
I fail to understand how it could be called discriminatory when a person (tamil or sinhala)with the experience, and the right credentials to get a job in any embassy. It so happens that many tamils work (some expats)in UK, US consulates. I like to see how you going to dictate employment policies to these foriegn embassies.
btw- Stephen Long from LA has a habit of exaggeration as can be evidenced in his bemoaning articles in Lankaweb.If a wrong doing was indeed done there are various appeal/complaints procedures instead of a typical whinge by this Stephen Long.
I myself had a similiar experience when bringing down a family retained domestic to Europe. The domestics name on the Birth Certificate did not exactly match the one on the Passport. UK & French embassies flatly refused asking the Passport to be changed irrespective of the fact she had been given a Schengen & UK visas in the past.
Following the Karuna Diplomatic passport and the Kudu Lal schnanigans all Western embassy staff must have been advised to be extra vigilant.
Just because someone disagrees with you and you happen to be tamil does not mean you cry wolf.
BTW one could argue that Lalith Kotelawala was discrimantory in not accepting Deposits from Tamils in various of his schemes. (Golden Key etc)
If you review the list of deposit holders who lost money on the GK scheme you will not find a single tamil name.
Strange!
Even stranger is the fact that Basil Rajapakse was one of the largest depositors in the scheme before the plug was pulled. There was a two month delay from the initial report issued by Central Bank and the plug.
BR name disappears from the Deposit holders!
re: war crimes BULLSHIT
we have to follow a proactive approach than this.
the best way to screw them is to call for war crimes investigations into THEIR warcrimes.
warcrimes were committed NOT BY THE LTTE but by tamil elamists in general.
we have to mske this equation. it is true. blaming everything on the now dead LTTE is not the way forward.
ALL LTTE crimes should be blamed on tamil elamists. LTTE did all that for the sake of them. it was their intention.
SL 307/6 against India. Jayasuriya 98, Kandamby 91 n.o.
Kandamby batted like a Trojan on fire at the end, piling up runs faster than I could count!
Ae' Deshapremi Puthata Jayawewa!
(The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has decided to expel Sri Lanka’s Ambassador in Japan Jayanthe Palipane and recall him immediately state sources in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Steps have been taken to recall Mr. Jayanthe Palipane owing to the incident Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickremanayake had to face at Narita Airport in Kobe in Japan.
Government sources say studies regarding the incident indicate Sri Lankan Embassy is partially responsible for the ordeal Prime Minister Wickremanayake went through at the airport. As a result of checking up process of the officials at Narita Airport the Prime Minister was delayed by half an hour and he also had to go through finger print testing.)
Typical reaction by GOSL. Another career diplomat gives way MR relative or henchman. The PM was on a private visit.
This reminds me of a similiar incident when MR was on a private visit (graduation of his son)to the UK when Sri Lankan Airlines only allocated first class seats to his immediate family for the return flight. I was offloaded at Heathrow but compensated with an overnight stay at a hotel near Heathrow and complimentary first class return airfare to CMB. I had no issues until i found out that four other passengers all tamils were offloaded from the first class cabin and the Captain, a tamil with over 20 years of flying experience with Air Lanka/SIA/Sri Lankan.
It appeared that the Rajapakse family did not want to share the first class cabin with Tamils!
It's common practice i hear that MR does not want a tamil in charge of an aircraft when he is onboard.
I did however receive a apologetic letter from Peter Hill before his visa was cancelled for this episode.
I'm not sure why MR and his Ministers want to travel to the "meddling" West these days with new found friends in China, Pakistan,Libya & Iran.
Is Tripoli, Karachi & Tehran not good for shopping and sight seeing?
The Listening Post - Media war in Sri Lanka-11 Sep 09-Pt1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMmjNP5P7V4&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Einfolanka%2Ecom%2Fnews%2F&feature=player_embedded#t=91
We could learn a thing or two from an advanced Democracy such as err... The UK
Today’s lesson – PUBLIC INTEREST
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Ibrahim Savant, 28, Arafat Waheed Khan, 28, and Waheed Zaman, 25, will face a third trial, Keir Starmer, the Director of Public Prosecutions announced.
The DPP argued it was in the public interest to take the unusual step of seeking a third trial.
Mr Starmer said there was a realistic prospect of gaining a conviction against the trio for conspiracy to murder.
“Although I recognise that it is common practice for prosecutors in England and Wales to offer no evidence against a defendant if two previous juries have been unable to agree, that is no more than a convention,” he said.
“My task is to judge whether, taking into account all relevant considerations, the public interest is better served in this particular case by offering no evidence or by seeking a further retrial.
"Having taken into account the views of the prosecution team, I am satisfied that, notwithstanding the failure of two juries to agree a verdict, there remains a realistic prospect of a conviction against each defendant on the charge of conspiracy to murder.”
He added: "Having regard to the very serious nature of the charge and the very considerable public interest in having the allegation determined by a jury one way or the other, I have concluded that, in this exceptional case, it is in the public interest to seek a further retrial.”
INDIA 67/2
iT IS NOW 105/3
NOW 108/4
POLIMA PATAN GANNAI HADANNE !!!
126/5
PODI POLIMAKNAM DAMMA.
No, Lalith
129/5 now! LoL!
129/6
POLIMA DIGA VENAWA.
130/7
POLIMA DIDAAAAAA..AAA.AA WENAWA.
MATHIEW 4.
India will not be able to make 179 runs from 179 from 24 overs; their run rate 4.96 is too far below the 7.45 needed!
Oh, it is 130/7 now ... Pathan is OUT!
Mathews got 5, 135/8!
watch it live on Malaka25.piczo.com
srispeed
Lalith,
139/9! As you said...
Polima Diga Wuna
Indiyawata Colomba Kotuwe
Balal Masuth Gini Gannan Wuna!
Jay said...
LOL. Above is laughable!
This exact mentality is what created the problems in the first place.
I fail to understand how it could be called discriminatory when a person (tamil or sinhala)with the experience, and the right credentials to get a job in any embassy
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Mate, learn bit of statistics then you would understand.
Suddenly only Tamils are qualified enough to work in Embassies. Need to get down from the Tamil Utopia and come back to earth.
Yippee! We WIN!
SL 307/6, India 168 ALL OUT! WoW!
Jayawewa!
Whats statistics got to do with it?
Its simple. The best qualified person suitable to carry out the job is hired irrespective of colour, race,religion, creed etc.
Whats so difficult to understand about that?
Jay said...
Whats statistics got to do with it?
Its simple. The best qualified person suitable to carry out the job is hired irrespective of colour, race,religion, creed etc.
Whats so difficult to understand about that?
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If you believe all citizens of SL are equal and then if you select staff without irrespective of colour, race,religion, creed etc, then roughly the ratios should be according to countries ethnic or religious ratios (Here I have assumed all other things being equal).
If this does not happen there has to be a very good reason. I can't see a very good reason why Embassies does not have Sinhalese.
Your argument that the let the best get selected does not work since this seem to assume that 20% people beat 80% people for jobs over many years. That means non Tamils must be really dumb.
(Your argument that the let the best get selected does not work since this seem to assume that 20% people beat 80% people for jobs over many years. That means non Tamils must be really dumb.)
Thusitha i can't believe you said the above.
How on earth do you expect the country to develop if you dont select the best qualified people to carry out jobs most suited to their skill sets?
I never said non-tamils are dumb.
In the case of Embassy jobs, it may just be the case that non-tamils may have felt Embassy jobs is not the career path they wish to pursue. They may have preferred to become CEO of Corp, MP/ Ministers or go see the Middle East as a domestic.
And btw Thusitha, according to MR Sri Lankans are all equals, equal opportunities and all that crap. I cannot recall MR saying 20:80 etc.
I recall in the early 70's a frightful tamil woman in the UK Embassy who worked hard and climbed up the ladder from being a mere steno/receptionist to the head of the visa section. Highly regarded by the UK/USA (neighbours) Ambassadors at that time but hated by the locals for her aggressive approach. She was scary!
Sometime in the 90's she was awarded an MBE by the Queen for her services and she know lives her twilight in some luxury with her extended family in Sydney.
Thusitha & Mottapala check this
Dec 14th 2007
The President was rushing back home last week from London for the crucial third reading of the budget in Parliament after watching the passing out of his son Yoshitha from the Royal Britannia Navel college in Dartmouth…….But, the Sri Lankan Airlines reportedly refused to clear 35 seats for Rajapakse and his entourage on an over-booked flight from London via Maldives
the President eventually returned to Colombo on a charter flight with Mihin Air.
So it must be this incident Peter Hill honeymoons in economy: (2nd story)
The Presidential entourage blocked out 12 seats on UL Flight No. 502 from London on Friday (1st Sep) to accommodate eight people. The flight left London at 9:35 p.m. on Friday (1). Sri Lankan Airlines had to downgrade two passengers, namely Sri Lankan CEO Peter Hill and his wife, Janaki who were on their way back from their honeymoon.
Bloody hell – do we have Janaki bloging here!
Love to see the passenger list for this flight…..
Mottapala,
Only peelamist may be boycotting Sri Lankan.
I find Sri Lankan provides an excellant door-to door direct flight from Heathrow to Colombo even though standards have dropped considerably since Emirates took the Management contract. (now relinquished)
Having travelled 4 times in the past 6 months to CMB there are more tamils on Sri Lankan than any other. Do you honestly think they are boycotting? Doubt it.
No Mess
Yea right!
Thushitha,
There is something wrong with local staffs in Colombo embassies for too long a time. These jobs are extremely sensitive because these people may take part in anti-national activities. To assure that such things do not happen , the govt should establish an organisation to provide sure local staff to embassies including UN.
Also, it must be assured that no Sri Lankan hates Sri Lanka.
One who hates SL shoul be automatically destituted of any SL citizenship.
Consistency of the hatred can be the criteria.
(To assure that such things do not happen , the govt should establish an organisation to provide sure local staff to embassies including UN.)
Sure they must. example: the staff trained to issue fake diplomatic passports to terrorist with false names, visas to the under-world gang leaders, diplomatic passports to extended families etc.
Yes ofcourse lets do it, why stop there?
Now lets take your SL citizenship test shall we? Why would anyone renounce SL citizenship and take up UK, French, US, Aus or even Canadian (not sure why?). Is it because they hate SL or for economic benefit? Hey, i might as well get the best of both worlds, when the heat gets too hot i can get out but who cares about lankans left behind. Someone else picks up the pieces right?
Not sure you will agree with me that non sri lankans (inc people who have taken citizenship in other countries) can take high office in Govt.
Why take up citizenship in other countries if you did not hate SL?
Whats so bad about SL ?
Jay said...
Thusitha i can't believe you said the above.
How on earth do you expect the country to develop if you dont select the best qualified people to carry out jobs most suited to their skill sets?
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Let me repeat again, best skilled workers within a community should be according to their ethnic ratios (all other things being equal).
Let me give an example. Lets take women at work. In the past there we very few women in Engineering, accounting, politics e.t.c. There were good reasons then. But now they do not exists. Therefore these jobs should have equal amounts of male and female employees. If that is not the case, there is some underlying discrimination against them (or some good reason for them not to be in the given type of job).
So in the end, when things become equal, there should be equal amounts of male and females in a particular role. There are jobs such as military that may be excused (But in future they would have considerable women presence as well).
So equality means, things being distributed according to their populations statistics.
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Jay said...
I never said non-tamils are dumb.
In the case of Embassy jobs, it may just be the case that non-tamils may have felt Embassy jobs is not the career path they wish to pursue. They may have preferred to become CEO of Corp, MP/ Ministers or go see the Middle East as a domestic.
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You can be right. But working as an embassy staff is a good job. Therefore there would be competition among people if these were properly announced. Therefore your argument is bit difficult to accept.
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Jay said...
And btw Thusitha, according to MR Sri Lankans are all equals, equal opportunities and all that crap. I cannot recall MR saying 20:80 etc.
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That is correct. He doesn't have to. That is not his job. But one day if you want to check the success of our country and see whether there is true equality, then the way to do this is by taking samples and seeing whether these ratios are agreed. This might not be true in some cases for different reason, but well sought after jobs should have that type of ratios. Otherwise their is discrimination, whether it is towards, Muslims, Tamils or Sinhalese.
MathaMathica said...
Thushitha,
There is something wrong with local staffs in Colombo embassies for too long a time.
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Maybe it is time our Journalist do some investigative articles on these Embassies.
Also maybe Spur can take up this in their own countries and create petitions. We should ask individual government to explain the lack of Sinhalese staff in their Embassies (Which basically would show bias, which is not acceptable in these countries). I think online petitions might be good.
lol.
Sri Lanka Guardian editors have been treated.
Someone has passed info to intel that SLG editors took money from a known LTTE activist who was in Colombo for almost a month. The terrorist had escape just as sleuths were closing in on him. The editors, not so.
PETER and the WONDER LAND continues so on..
some kids take long time to grow up.some kids never...
SLA has formed 64,65, and 68th divisions. That is great news and we need more to defend our homeland from future Peelamist adventures. It will be even better to see expanding SLN expeditious manner.
It is really funny when US tries to hide their own war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan by accusing us with bogus war crimes. I hope that this will take Blake and his stooges to comedy land. Nevertheless, Jehan Perera and Pakiyasothi Saravanamuththu shall be punished for engaging in acts of treason.
According to TamilNuut, TAG has hired an expert in US to rebut SL rebuttal of the video. However, true to the monkey standards, TAG has no idea that one dead actor lifts the leg and conveniently lands it after (check the video at 00:00:08 for your own verifications).
For your pleasure, please read the legendary work of the legendary 55th division under Maj. General Prasanna Silva.
this is the REAL video of LTTE MFs killing SOME ppl (their ethnicity is unknown). later dubed some IRRELEVANT sinhala voices and sent to channel 4!!
channel 4 motherfcukers telecasted it BELEIVING SL journalists. these journalists were REJECTED by SL readers as LIARS!!
good for them believing these pathetic MF souls.
good work.
now who is REAL and who is fake???
confused???
that is good enough!!
couter war crimes allegations is the strategy as mentioned yesterday. it is fun!!
noltte<>peace,
interesting.
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according to this, jaffna ranks 7 in medicine, engineering, dental.....university admission marks.
the LOWEST marks are also from tamil majority districts!!
why are the DUMBEST A/L students come from tamil only areas????
i wonder!!
even the so called super intelligent tamils from jaffna rank 7th islandwide. 6 sinhala majority districts ahead of them.
where have the super intelligent tamils gone???
DIE-ARSE-PORA???
i don't think so!! and you know why!!!
matthews 6 overs 6 wickets!!
sooo may instances of BOWLED.
DW & DA,
Any new posts?? would like to see something new on the blog. eritrea perhaps and what of links in pakistan ad the tribal belt?
Sleepers need to be put to sleep in their sleep before woken up.
cheers
Machan Thusitha,
Unfortunately Jay the gay is kind of right on this one..There is a disproportionately high number of Tamils working in embassies because one of the selection criteria is fluency in all three languages..
There is no overt bias in the hiring process itself..Howvever, once hired most of the tamils give preference to their own kind when conducting affairs of the embassy..This gives the impression that the embassies themselves are biased..
But on our part no one seriosuly bothers to take it up with the embassy adminsitration ..The embassies themselves could be more organized and give a reference number to each case or interview etc + all staff should clearly wear name tags..This way when there is bias (as often there is) a complaint can be made..If this is not acted upon then we can say that the embassies have an ethnic bias..
Diyasena said...
Machan Thusitha,
Unfortunately Jay the gay is kind of right on this one..There is a disproportionately high number of Tamils working in embassies because one of the selection criteria is fluency in all three languages..
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Yeah, I knew about the three language requirement. That is why it is bit hard to fight against it. Also this three language requirement should apply only to staff working at the reception. I wonder how many non Tamils are working as other staff.
Only thing is that I would have thought there are Sinhalese that can speak Tamil with language training an e.t.c. by now.
The other thing is if, this is the only reason, then we would see some Muslims working there.
Re:Embassy Staff
How many embassies and HCs are in SL? Get a list of employees since their establishment. Expected outcome is all western embassies having 20:80 sinhala/muslim: tamil ratio and others 20:80 tamil: sinhala ratio which is the national ratio. UK HC produced the No 1 tamil racist Anton Balasingham and other tamils are simply unable. White masters always trusted tamils who were truly obedient to them, not the sinhala problem makers.
Re: Embassies
I also believe that there is more than skillset when selecting tamils. However, there is nothing much we can do as trilingual [hey Muslims are BETTER trilingual than tamils] skill is dominating here.
One thing we can do is, we can direct some Arts graduates towards a degree in International Affairs or something, where we create a qualified person for this job. They will beat anyone in skillset and surely learning three languages is an essence for them. This way Sinhala/Tasmil/Muslim/* get equal opportunity and some jokers who know only bluffing will be kicked out.
There is a big outcry on the Embassies right now as British HC has rejected an application by Arjuna Ranathunga as well. Govt is pushed by victims [ministers] to expel British HCer.
SL should create a unit that works against embassy based discrimination and mediate into matters ASAP. They can apply a mix of diplomacy and judiciary system in order to get things straight and they can report to Cabinet [via FM] how some dogmatic international reps behave. This way the foreign staff in SL will soon find that they can't play the same joke on and on.
Most these tamils who are said to have conducted the discrimination are just minor level office staff and they will fear it like hell, if they know that there is someone looking over their shoulders.
Thusitha;
[[Only thing is that I would have thought there are Sinhalese that can speak Tamil with language training an e.t.c. by now]]
Thusitha not yet. It will only happen if Sinhala can freely settle among tamil majority regions, which has not happened yet. Tamils learnt sinhala same way, and there if no f**king brilliance in it.
I do not believe that schools can make ppl trilingual. Languages are far more lively and they can only be learnt through life. Schools and systems can help but w/o genuine integration it will never happen.
But for embassies alone we can use our uni system to create the required skills rather synthetically.
Sri Lanka's ambassador made scapegoat for official mess and muddle
http://www.sundaytimes.lk/090913/Columns/political.html
Further embarassments in visa, foreign visit episodes.
Buddhist Monk deported-I'm amazed Chamal Rajapakse and/or his advisors did not check the validity of his delegation.
Instead, the black listed buddhist monk embarrased the Minister and Sri Lanka.
I thought Japan was a "friendly" nation to SL.
So its not just Tamil refugees who illegally enter Foreign soil, Buddhist Monks do it too. A further case in UK a few years ago when a Buddhist Monk attached to the Kingsbury Temple was deported for over-staying. (genuine mistake i believe)
Please note i make the above comment without being disrespectful to Buddhism, Buddhist Monks or its followers.
I'm not suprised MR cancelled his trip to USA when he found out 6 of his delegation would have been refused US visas.
I note that the Speaker of the House has made an inappropriate comment about Foreign missions.
I can see this developing into a very similiar situation that arose in Zimbabwe when Robert Mugabe started dictating to Foreign Missions as a tit for tat.
Regrettably, SL has lot to lose if they carry on in this path.
ps- Thusitha: you will be pleased to know the Immigration woman officer at Narita Airport who finger printed the PM is not a Tamil!
If as suggested here by many that GOSL should be able to dictate who is employed in Foreign Missions in SL, likewise i like to see reciprocal arrangements to SL missions in Foreign countries.
I doubt any of the current serving Ambassodors will pass the test when they present their credentials (except for a few Career diplomats).
Particularly members of the Armed Forces in light of alledged war crimes!
http://www.groundviews.org/2009/09/12/the-sentencing-j-s-tissainayagam-not-in-my-name/
Extremely valid points made in the above article.
If Daya Master is not guilty under any crime under PTA, the sentence handed to JS Tissa is a farce.
Jay said...
If as suggested here by many that GOSL should be able to dictate who is employed in Foreign Missions in SL, likewise i like to see reciprocal arrangements to SL missions in Foreign countries.
I doubt any of the current serving Ambassodors will pass the test when they present their credentials (except for a few Career diplomats).
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Mate you are confusing things. I am talking about local employees working in Foreign Missions. They can staff using their own nationals according to their wishes as long as these people are not a security threat to our country.
When it comes to local staff, they should come under local laws and local anti discrimination laws relating to employment.
Jay;
Re: SL following Mugabe
Mugabe saga didn't come because he dictated terms on foreign missions. Mugabe had many other "crimes" which cost him isolation and recession. Diplomatic wrestling is common place in even the most developed nations today. Unless we go to the very extreme end of giving west its lesson there won't be such issue.
The approach is to isolate individuals. In fact we cannot find a nation guilty for some misconduct by an individual of that nation, or even worse, an individual hired by that nation.
SL should always stand that every nation is a friend, but there are evil individuals. This stand is not for fake reasons, in fact it is TRUE.
Re: Interference to embassy office staff selection
I personally do not think this as a feasible approach. We should never make the entire mission or the nation an enemy. However, the guys here are suggesting to dictate terms on the staff of embassy, not the ambassador.
All SL embassy workers of those countries are selected based on the legal framework of that country. So it applies equally for SL.
Re: Pissa-nayagam and two Masters
First of all the two masters are not freed but bailed out.
I think the view is more futuristic than retro. We have our judicial system for past crimes. However, we treat them more based on how they're gonna behave in future.
Pissa-nayagam, who may be a factory who casts pussycats in future, got maximum punishment under system. Masters will likely to be pardoned if they are harmless in future, and in fact helpful for us. Karuna is not even tried.
As long as we don't play with judicial system, GOSL is free to choose its own game plan. There is no violation happening here. It is in fact the freedom vested with GOSL as an independent govt.
Jay said...
ps- Thusitha: you will be pleased to know the Immigration woman officer at Narita Airport who finger printed the PM is not a Tamil!
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What are you on Jay? Could you please make statements that make sense.
Last thing I care about is a prime minister (who ever) getting finger printed. We should abide local laws and custom in other countries.
Jay said...
So its not just Tamil refugees who illegally enter Foreign soil, Buddhist Monks do it too. A further case in UK a few years ago when a Buddhist Monk attached to the Kingsbury Temple was deported for over-staying. (genuine mistake i believe)
Please note i make the above comment without being disrespectful to Buddhism, Buddhist Monks or its followers.
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Buddhist Monks are not saints. They are just humans. Are you sure that you didn't want to be disrespectful to Buddhist monks? I mean if you want to use a counter example, you could have used Sinhalese Refugees. I am sure there are quite a few Sinhalese refugees entering foreign soil illegally. But not as much as Tamil refugees entering foreign countries using the war as a reason.
/you will be pleased to know the Immigration woman officer at Narita Airport who finger printed the PM is not a Tamil!/
White masters use tamils against sinhalese when tamils are available. When tamils are not available they have to work on their own. See the dynamics in the "post-LTTE" world.
/So its not just Tamil refugees who illegally enter Foreign soil, Buddhist Monks do it too./
Well, some people become monks in SL just to get a chance (visa) to enter western countries/Japan. Its a well organized process.
/If as suggested here by many that GOSL should be able to dictate who is employed in Foreign Missions in SL,../
In modern economic terms, SL is like one of subsidiary company functioning under the holding company which is the collection of western super powers. SL government (elected by SL citizens) is like a local management team or a trade union elected by employees. They can perform certain things on their choice but within the limits imposed by the west the holding company. Western embassies in SL are like the local offices of the holding company, facilitating the communication between GSL (local management) and west (owners) and they act as control and observation points too. Local management (GSL) is prepared and willing to function under the instructions of these local offices (embassies). Situation was like this until MR comes to power. Until then every thing was fine and the smooth flow was there. However, now the problem is MR's team is acting independently, on their own, with some 'other super powers' and the entire flow and the system in chaos. That's what you see in daily media reports.
/..likewise i like to see reciprocal arrangements to SL missions in Foreign countries./
Any re-arrangement in SL mission is foreign countries will upgrade the SL missions thus it best interest for the white masters to let SL keep the mess as it is..
I am re-posting the following to supplement above posts. (My reply to MD for his comment is not included.)
****MR said 'the solution is home-grown' and he also rejected 'western 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.****
Looks like a “human rights” LTTE undercover whorebitch was done-in by the savvy Indian Govt. ha ha ha…para-wesa peelamists, like "Jay" whorebitch here, lost another attempt to cause disharmony in India to achieve their own selfish ends!
India denies visa to US rights activist
Chennai,, Sept. 11: The Indian visa of Dr Ellyn Sue Shander, a US-based humanitarian worker and a strong critic of Sri Lankan government, was cancelled by the Indian mission at New York, her Indian host M. Natarajan alleged here. The Stanford-based American woman activist was scheduled to tour India from September 13 and deliver talks on alleged human rights violations in the island country.
The India mission in New York informed Ms Shander on Thursday about the cancellation of her visa.
Ms Shander has vowed to protest against the visa cancellation. Her Indian host Mr M.Natarajan, Chennai-based political activist and husband of Ms Sasikala, close friend of AIADMK leader Ms Jayalalithaa, has accused both the Central and state governments of curbing free speech in the country. He has organised a series of meetings in Chennai, Bangalore, Coimbatore, Madurai and Delhi till Sept. 20 with Ms Shander as the main speaker. Mr Natarajan said that the Chennai police had denied permission to conduct an indoor meeting with Ms Shander as the guest on September 16. “We have moved the Madras high court against denial of permission to conduct indoor meetings on the human rights violations in Sri Lanka. The writ petition would be heard on Monday,” he said. Ms Shander was scheduled to address the Delhi Tamil Sangam in the national capital on September 20 along with MDMK general secretary Vaiko. She had a meeting scheduled at Bangalore Tamil Sangam on September 15.
http://www.deccanchronicle.com/chennai/india-denies-visa-us-rights-activist-081
Many LTTE whorebitches have posted comments there and to counter I posted one as not too many SL patriots have posted. Patriots, pls. go and post your own.
Thanks,
OaO Asithri
[If Daya Master is not guilty under any crime under PTA, the sentence handed to JS Tissa is a farce]
ha ha ha...why the fcuking pains to get an ex-LTTEr like Daya M to be prosecuted? Is it not in your interest to keep him away from the spotlight?
ha ha ha...
What, suddenly lost the love for the "liberation boys" did you???
ha ha ha...
Or is it because you got to know that Daya M has been COOPERATING VERY WELL with the authorities and many a bust of the LTTE whoredogs, especially the unarmed "sleepers" who provided much of the support for LTTE in the south, resulted from the info. Daya M gave to them?
ha ha ha...
Nice try...
LMSSAO!!! Truly LMSSAO!
OaO Asithri
Asithri said...
[If Daya Master is not guilty under any crime under PTA, the sentence handed to JS Tissa is a farce]
ha ha ha...why the fcuking pains to get an ex-LTTEr like Daya M to be prosecuted? Is it not in your interest to keep him away from the spotlight?
ha ha ha...
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Seem like the Army Intelligence realize Daya Master is a really good teacher. Haha.
Never mind Daya M, we did not even hit Karuna Amman with the PTA...ha ha ha...fucking ugly discrimination in SL uh? Ya, this ugly discrimination must stop uh thambi?
ha ha ha...
In case you missed the bus, this is all called the lesser-of-evil theory...any ex LTTEr who comes to us and willingly sings the blues and helps us to liquidate the rabid, racist, still-existing violent LTTE Mommafuckers is naturally given a "special-pardon"...ha ha ha...that is how it works you moron....anyway, here is a sample of why we didn't hit our dear friend Karuna A with the PTA:
http://www.asiantribune.com/index.php?q=node/2360
This is one of my favorite articles with the juicy pics to go along for good measure...hope it becomes one of yours too MF!
LMSSAO!!! Truly LMSSAO!!!
OaO Asithri
Thusitha
[Seem like the Army Intelligence realize Daya Master is a really good teacher. Haha.]
Yeah bro, the guy is now held in high esteem as a "guru" by the MI and the TID...his contribution to the resurgence of ethnic harmony in SL will be long remembered. If all goes well, it is possible there will be even a street named after him in Killinocchi I am told.
:)) :)) :))
OaO Asithri
In the earlier link I gave (re. TMVP making hamburger-meat of about 50 LTTE whoredogs), there is a line that reads:
"Reports revealed that the LTTE cadres in the area were unable to withstand the superior fire power and the onslaught of the TMVP"
ha ha ha...
This all happened in late 2006 but recently on a visit to SL, I got to know the inside scoop...
ha ha ha...it was truly a master play I gathered...with many truly admirable details...
For this attack (and many more after that), the TMVP was supplied with some state-of-the art weapons and those weapons evidently took the LTTE whores by surprise I am told (sorry, cannot mention here the specific weapons for the obvious reasons)...Mmmmm....now who would be naughty enough to supply TMVP with these super-duper nasty weapons I wonder? Must have been the RAW I would guess...damn those RAW guys...they are awful!
LMSSAO!!! Truly LMSSAO!!!
OaO Asithri
Sujeewa Kokawala said...
Re: Embassies
I also believe that there is more than skillset when selecting tamils. However, there is nothing much we can do as trilingual [hey Muslims are BETTER trilingual than tamils] skill is dominating here.
One thing we can do is, we can direct some Arts graduates towards a degree in International Affairs or something, where we create a qualified person for this job. They will beat anyone in skillset and surely learning three languages is an essence for them. This way Sinhala/Tasmil/Muslim/* get equal opportunity and some jokers who know only bluffing will be kicked out.
There is a big outcry on the Embassies right now as British HC has rejected an application by Arjuna Ranathunga as well. Govt is pushed by victims [ministers] to expel British HCer.
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I am not sure whether training specifically for Embassies would work as the whole point is not to hire non Tamil Staff. What we need to do is name and shame these High Commissions who are hiring only local Tamil Staff. These HC cannot afford to take the wrath of the Majority of the Country. They need people to keep on sucking up their countries. We need to put them on the spot few times asking this type of embarrasing questions regarding how their staffing process work in main stream media presenters and News Papers like Island. We have been very tolerant for too long. We should use the current public sentiment to clean up these kind of discrimations in these HC.
The only thing that goes within walls those HC would be ways and means of destroying the fragile stability of our country. But then again this is just not specific to our country, they are doing all they can to keep whole of Asia under western control.
India, Russian and China are becoming smarter now and are bit by bit loosening this tight grip of the west. We need to do the same. The ordinary people of SL have to understand the west who they really are. They are here to exploit problems within our country to maintain their geopolitical advantage within the region. It is very clear by the behaviour of Blake even after leaving SL for a job in state department.
But hopefully this would not last that long with the current mess U.S. is in. If the currency devaluation of U.S. occurs as very likely, it would be the next Zimbabwe.
"If Daya Master is not guilty under any crime under PTA, the sentence handed to JS Tissa is a farce."
this is BS.
how many ppl get away with mureder around the world???
but that doesn't mean murder should no longer be a crime!!!
this makes PTA more lethal. although i want PTA to be applied to all traitor, terrorist MFs, applying it to ANYONE who has committed a crime under PTA is good.
also, why are tamil elamists crying for pissa-nai-gon (who was never in the LTTE) but shows no mercy for LTTE daya master???
very strange.
'looks' can be deceiving!! IOW, who is the REAL tiger?? the onle in tiger clothes or the one in ASS clothes????
/If Daya Master is not guilty under any crime under PTA, the sentence handed to JS Tissa is a farce./
When UNP/JVP say this we understand they say so just becuz they have to say some thing on regular basis, (otherwise people forget their existence.) However, when thamil peelamians say the same i mut be due different reasons.
Fact is DayaM was not found guilt under PTA simply becuz he was not charged/ tried under PTA. So if you want to compare TSJ with DayaM the question you should ask s why DayaM is not accused under PTA while TSJ was.
(Or it should be ,at least, how come GSL didn't find evidence against DayaM so that he will be tried in court while GSL found evidence against TSJ? No wonder after practicing two fold thamil peelaam logic (i.e. 1. Thalivar is right. 2. If you think Thaleivar is wrong read the first rule.) for 25 years, peelamians making mistakes when using logic that is used by the rest of the world.)
Now even for such a question answer is simple. Note that PTA stands for "Prevention of Terrorism Act". So after Karuna Amman, Daya Master and George Master surrendered to GSL (well, Karuna also surrendered) they have prevented terrorism by doing so and no need to put them in jail to prevent terrorism. This is not the case for TSJ who was promoting terrorism or any other tigers arrested by GSL.
(If you need to try Karuna, Daya etc you should do that under regular law. And prove in the court by proving evidence they have committed whatever crimes they are accused of. I am not a lawyer and that's my understanding. Contact RW, who was accused of killing and torturing thousands of youth in Batalanda and ask how hard it would be to prove such accusations in court.)
lokubandara's fate in the UNP.....
what would be his fate in the stupid UNP???? he is one of the most senior guys and left out of top leadership positions.
he too has a history of arse licking the gay leadership but seems to have the thinking power (which is a very dangerous threat to the gay masters). recently he made some good points on the foreign embassy issue.
i'm sure he will have a better future in the SLFP than the UNP. but he is not likely to change sides. UNP must have at least him in the next parliament.
Thapal B
Leave OaOA alone....he told me his dog is not interested today in fucking your thalathel stinking, unwashed, black & oily sakkili whore mom. Actually the dog had fallen sick after the last time your wesa-amma had "opened up" OaOA told me.
Oink! Bonk! Tonk!
Hoooooooo! Hooooooo! Hooooooo!
thusitha,
i think we have to LIMIT US-EU, etc. bashing. (not stop it fully). they are not our enemies.
tamil elamists are our enemies.
1. if you look at the troubles they created, ALL those were based on the LTTE die-arse-pora's insistence.
2. these countries didn't initiate anything against SL by themselves.
3. TF we should bash them only to the extent they GOT FOOLED by the LTTE die-arse-pora crap.
4. and we should by-pass the LTTE die-arse-pora.
the best way to do this is by COLONIZATION. (not funny. i have been telling this 4 too long and little action has happened.)
US, EU SUPPORT it!!! they like if regions develop and if ppl live like in their countries. they have never tried to stop it.
it is like the war.
they supported us in the war. if not for the fire finder mortars of the US, we would not be able to shell LTTE hospitals!!!! LTTE hid 130mm arti in hospitals and fired at us. we responded using fire finder mortars. this is legal as per geneva convention.
they also gave us naval capabilities.
israel would never given us anything without the "YES" from the US.
that's not all, US stopped many LTTE weapons purchase attempts. gave us the cordinates of FLOATING LTTE WAREHOUSES, cracked down on fund raising, etc.
why???? bcos we were proactive and doing the right thing.
now we are batting LTTE challenges without being proactive. if we start MASS COLONISATION & DEVELOPMENT of the north, we can bypass the LTTE. AGAIN!
Guys
Please read this editorial of the Island.
http://www.island.lk/2009/09/14/editorial.html
guys,
hope you have seen GR at SFHQ mulativu
amazing landscape!!
i assume this means the debris in the NFZ have been cleared!!
no toys should remain for war crimes mongs to play!! no carcasses should remain for carrion brids like bruce fein to eat.
once IDPs are settled, NGO archeologists will dig the earth searching for any clues to call war crimes.
make sure they only find niandathal bones, chicken bones and fish bones.
clearing landmines should be the SECOND priority.
doubtful areas still not cleared should be classified as HSZs.
remember CBK digging graves in 1994???? ranil, etc, will do the same in the north one day.
i hear from sources that ranil has already agreed with some buggers to have "investigation of rajapaksha "warcrimes"" as an election promise!! this will be in the UNP manifesto 2010. who else will give election campaign money to the bankrupt UNP led by ranil???
this also makes NGOs support the UNP campaign.
EU has commissioned a bogus report on GSP+ and Human Rights of Sri Lanka.
http://www.divaina.com/2009/09/14/feature.html
.. and it has learned that David Milipede is behind Channel-4
Is DBS Jeyaraj trying to drive a wedge between Pakistan and SL?
A wee bit of English Divide & Conquer?
Are we going to fall for this?
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Tigers used ISI training manuals
ExpressBuzz.com
September 13, 2009
COLOMBO: The Intelligence Wing of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) was using the training manuals of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), alleged D B S Jeyaraj, an expert on the LTTE.
“The LTTE made a systematic study of the chief intelligence agencies of the world. According to ex-LTTE members who had been intelligence operatives, the training manuals of Pakistan’s intelligence agency the ISI were obtained and utilised for training intelligence wing cadre. The LTTE also copied many methods and stratagems of Israel’s Shin Bet and Mossad,” Jeyaraj wrote in Daily Mirror on Saturday.
TN COPS LET POTTU AMMAN OFF THE HOOK: When the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) was battling the LTTE in North East Sri Lanka in an effort to implement the India-Sri Lanka Accord of July 1987, the Tamil Nadu police had Pottu Amman, the LTTE’s chief intelligence man, in their custody for smuggling. But according to Jeyaraj, the officials took a bribe and let him off.
Tissanayagam ... a Scribe? My BLOODY FOOT!
LTTE is speaking up for its PAID OPERATIVE .. that is ALL
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LTTE speaks up for Tamil scribe
ExpressBuzz.com
September 13, 2009
COLOMBO: The committee set up by the LTTE for the formation of a Provisional Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam (PTGTE) has spoken up for the Sri Lankan Tamil journalist, J S Tissainayagam, who was recently sentenced to 20 years RI for allegedly accepting money from the LTTE and promoting it through his publications.
The committee’s convener, US-based lawyer Visuvanathan Rudrakumaran said on Friday that the international community should act with “urgency” and provide relief to Tissainayagam.
He said that the arrest and conviction of Tissainayagam not only highlighted the fact that the Tamils in the island lacked political space to obtain democratic entitlements but also the lack of space to tell the Tamil side of a story.
To buttress his contentions, he quoted President Barack Obama and Reporters Sans Frontiers.
"The LTTE made a systematic study of the chief intelligence agencies of the world. .......ISI....... Israel’s Shin Bet and Mossad"
lol!
whay not!! we can see that from what happened to the LTTE. TOTAL ANNIHILATION.
if they had half the knowledge of how ISI operate, vezapillai would be alive today.
pissa-nai-gam.......
get him to smoke pot in prison!! i hear drugs are everywhere in prisons. soon the bugger will get addicted.
Hey, everybody, have you heard?
The singing of the Mockingbird?
If the Mockingbird don't sing,
Then I'm gonna buy him an iron ring!
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‘KP met Taliban for arms running’
ExpressBuzz.com
September 14, 2009
COLOMBO: Sri Lankan experts on the LTTE have said that the outfit had a front company in Karachi to smuggle arms, and a safe house in Peshawar to liaise with the Taliban.
According to Shanaka Jayasekara, a terrorism researcher based in Macquarie University, Australia, the LTTE’s arms procurer, Selvarasa Pathmanathan alias KP, had traveled from Bangkok to Kabul through Karachi, on May 19, 2001. He had meetings with Taliban officials on matters relating to the notorious “Sharjah Network”. The “Sharjah network” is an arms supply line run by the infamous Russian arms dealer, Victor Bout, who had operated three to four flights daily to Kabul to transport arms.
Lakbimanews quotes Jayasekara as saying that the LTTE operated a cargo company Otharad Cargo in Dubai, 17 km from the offices of the Sharjah Network.
Otharad Cargo is believed to have acquired several consignments of military hardware as part of consolidated purchase arrangements with the Taliban’s “Sharjah network”.
Jayasekara claims that information recovered from a laptop computer of an LTTE procurement agent, now in the custody of a Western country, has provided detailed information on LTTE’s activities in Pakistan.
According to Rohan Gunaratna, a Sri Lankan expert on terrorism with the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism, in Malaysia, the LTTE had links with Jehadis in the Pakistani frontier and it had a safe house in Peshawar.
Pakistani Prime Minister, Yusuf Raza Gilani, had said that the Sri Lankan President, Mahinda Rajapaksa, had told him in Libya recently, that elements in Sri Lanka were linked with terrorist events in Pakistan, including the gun attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team.
Patriots,
This Analysis Provides Proof that the Channel 4 "Atrocity" Video is a Fabrication.
Judge for yourself!
Hey, everybody, have you heard?
The singing of the KP Mockingbird? If the Mockingbird don't sing,
Then we are gonna buy him an iron ring!
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Lanka turns heat on Eritrea
ExpressBuzz.com
P K Balachandran
September 14, 2009
COLOMBO: With the LTTE’s influential propaganda machinery overseas flexing its muscles menacingly, and the arrested LTTE leader, Selvarasa Pathmanathan alias KP, throwing light on the group’s still active international arms procuring network, the Sri Lankan government has decided to go on a diplomatic offensive to smash the Tigers’ overseas structures.
On Sunday, Lakbimanews quoted Shanaka Jayasekara, a Sri Lankan researcher on terrorism, as saying that the LTTE had its presence in over 44 countries, with established structures in 12 of them. The weekly paper also reported that the Sri Lankan intelligence had intercepted several satellite phone calls made by Aiyanna, an overseas operative of the LTTE. The “Aiyanna Group” controls intelligence as well as funds-gathering in the West.
Aiyanna, who contacted an LTTE sleeper in Colombo and another in Jaffna, had appealed to the former to prepare for the next phase of the struggle. He had, however, cautioned against rushing into attacks now, to avoid detection in the formative stage itself.
Aiyanna had instructed the Tiger operative in Jaffna to resume fund raising in the peninsula.
To check the influence of LTTE and its cohorts abroad, Colombo is planning to make a formal request to the US government to extradite the US-based lawyer, Visuvanathan Rudrakumaran, who has become the convenor of the LTTE’s committee for the establishment of Provisional Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam.
ENTRENCHED IN ERITREA: Colombo is to open a mission in Asmara, capital of Eritrea, a country in the Horn of Africa, which had been a major hub of the LTTE’s arms procuring network, local media reports say. An official of the Directorate of Military Intelligence, Major General Amal Karunasekara, is tipped to be Sri Lanka’s first envoy to Eritrea. There would be new missions elsewhere too, to keep a tab on the LTTE.
According to a report of the US Foreign Relations Committee, dated December 2006, which KP confirmed that Eritrea had functioned as a trans-shipment base for the LTTE as well as a safe haven for its key operators of the arms smuggling network. The Lankan media reports say that most of the End- User Certificates (EUCs) the LTTE had got to procure arms were from Eritrea and Myanmar.
KP also confessed that the LTTE had close contacts with the top brass in the Eritrean government. Prabhakaran had a special rapport with the Eritrean President, Isaias Afewerki, a former rebel leader, Jayasekara said.
Moshe Dyan said...
thusitha,
i think we have to LIMIT US-EU, etc. bashing. (not stop it fully). they are not our enemies.
tamil elamists are our enemies.
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Moshe, I will keep it down.
I am sure they are not the enemies. But aren't they playing the good cop bad cop thing. On one hand support our army and on the other hand support the terrorist and their sympathisers. This war would never have dragged on for this long if not for the support of the west by the LTTE.
Thusitha,
Re: West's policy on SL
I think it is individuals in both direction.
Note that SL has no place in US foreign policy, official, secret or any other scale. If we have any strategic importance to them they will have a cohesive approach, and we here a symphony be it evil or friendly.
Right now it is a cacophony as you mentioned. That is because the individuals beat their own drums and they are given freedom to do so.
Ashley Wills who was the ambassador for the first half of RW administration, was strictly supporting an undivided SL. It was a time when my home cat would purr for devolution and piss-talks. I was really fancy reading his speeches in paper and was amazed about it.
Then came Oh Blake who was an advocate for separation, a socialist, and the only thing he didn't say [rather forgot to say] was that he supports Eelam, maybe as body language needs no words.
Similarly the people in other shoes come and go in western powers and we see north-south pole shift in its policy on SL. It just means that they have nothing important in agenda about us, so SL is a topic that every Tom Dick and Harry in can speak out as he wishes.
But there are two matters of utmost important in this seemingly random policy in West. Both these are new and alarming.
1. Number of high-seaters financially OWNED by pussycats. I believe Hillarious will say a complete other thing unless the eelamist for hillarious movement bought her.
2. Alarming amount of neo-liberal socialists in high seats. Liberalism, and socialism fused in some abnormal manner. There are some well educated lunatic daydreamers who follow this new religion in western diplomatic arena who may support SL separation for their socio-liberal religious beliefs. People like Solheim, Miliband, Kouchner, Oh Blake qualify for this category.
Above two new trends are bigger concerns than a sudden diplomatic outcry for tamils, when the Ambassedor gets enlightened on SL war from his newly recruited tamil domestic servant or something.
India is 79/0 scoring more than 5 runs oer over. This match is already gone. We will lose by at least 100 runs.
95/1 Old man finally got the wicket. Still my money is on India as Sachin is batting beautifully.
thusitha,
yes, the war dragged on thanks to them.
they wanted to MANAGE the war and they want to play the cop.
we have to manage our affairs within that framework. and we have to get their backing for whatever we can.
it is a matter of time till they lift money collection restrictions on TE groups. by that time we should be able to frustrate the TE project in SL.
our politicians should also think not to bash them TOO MUCH. get them to help us. that will also DISTRACT them.
123/1
Can reach 300 easily. We are gone.
Thusitha,
We should look at the matter in a more futuristic manner. Revenge or punishment is terrorist's trait. A state should think more about solidarity and corporation. Winning hearts, so to say.
West did so many bad things, but still they don't beat India who created the mess. But we should be glad to join hand with all our former enemies to defeat the main one.
Today's heated argument against west should also end in that manner. I hope GOSL has wisdom to achieve it.
India 319/5; with luck SL can reach that if the openers show the way. The required run rate is 6.42.
SL is at 150/5 chasing a target of 320 to win against India.
Two Sri Lankans, one Sinhala (Kumar Sangakkara) and one Tamil (Thilina Kandamby) are struggling together to keep the run rate up with ones and twos without risking making big hits.
This is a good example of how Sri Lankans from different communities should work together to rescue our country and make it prosper and shine again.
I don't know how this match is going to turn out, but this display of our people supporting instead of fighting against each other, creeping little by little towards a shared victory, is very heart warming indeed!
Ananda-USA said...
I don't know how this match is going to turn out, but this display of our people supporting instead of fighting against each other, creeping little by little towards a shared victory, is very heart warming indeed!
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True, true. I know non in here agreed that we really need two Tamil players in the team (Every one wanted it to be based solely on merits, which of course is correct). It is good to see now we have two Tamil players any ways.
Now to make it truly multicultural we need one high profile Muslim player. Yes, I know I am asking for too much. Maybe then the Muslims would stop supporting Pakistani Team.
It is official now. North and East Belongs to Tamils.
Tamilnet Reports
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Documentation of Norwegian Tamil mandate released
[TamilNet, Monday, 14 September 2009, 07:49 GMT]
Comprehensive documentation of a referendum conducted among Eezham Tamils of Norway is now released in the form of a 48-page publication by Utrop newspaper, which conducted the poll on 10th of May this year. In the referendum, 99 percent of the voters endorsed the Vaddukkoaddai Resolution of 1976, calling for an independent and sovereign Tamil Eelam in the traditional homeland of Eezham Tamils in the North and East of the island of Sri Lanka. 90 percent of eligible voters in Oslo, and an average 80 percent of them in entire Norway turned out for the voting, a first of its kind exercise in that country and among the world diaspora of Eezham Tamils. The documentation is widely seen inspiring global democratic efforts of Eezham Tamils for their liberation.
"In the referendum, 99 percent of the voters endorsed the Vaddukkoaddai Resolution of 1976, calling for an independent and sovereign Tamil Eelam in the traditional homeland of Eezham Tamils in the North and East of the island of Sri Lanka."
if a referendum is held in N-E of SL, the SAME result would come, not 99% but less. more than 60% of voters will endorse the vaukoddai crap AGAIN. they once did in 1977.
we MUST accept this reality.
if you compare 2001 & 2004 GEs, you can CLEARLY see that 62% of n-e ppl voted for tamil elam.
in 2001, LTTE and TE were divided between TNA & UNP. UNP had t maheswaran and other sakkiliyas who were nothing less than LTTE at that time.
the total of UNP & TNA votes were 62%.
in 2004, TNA votes were 62%. same!
about 12%-15% are SLMC votes and 23%-27% are good gys (includes UNP in 2004 in N-E).
assuming SLMC are also generally anti-TE, we have 38% anti-TE votes of which 23%-27% are really good guys. why wasn't it a whitewash?????
bcos of previous colonisation!!
that is why we need to reduce the 62% and increase the 38% ESPECIALLY the 23%.
the ONLY way is colonisation.
after that tamil elam will be created in norway!!!
[In the referendum, 99 percent of the voters endorsed the Vaddukkoaddai Resolution of 1976, calling for an independent and sovereign Tamil Eelam in the traditional homeland of Eezham Tamils in the North and East of the island of Sri Lanka.]
Moshe, old boy, I heard that SL army has started vacating army camps in north east after hearing this news. The area will be handed over to the Swedish Bikini team as the mighty Norwegian Army is not capable of taking over the area. Norwegian army reportedly refused do so because of their mortal fear of the fierce SL army, specially after they saw what happened to their pet pig Velu. I hope our chaps get a good show when the Bikini clad Swedish beauties start parachuting in.
Cheers!
Mahinda aiya putuwen watila...putuwa thiyapu eka kapothi..
Moshe Dyan said...
bcos of previous colonisation!!
that is why we need to reduce the 62% and increase the 38% ESPECIALLY the 23%.
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Hopefully the army would effectively separate north and east by colonizing part of that area before letting the IDPs go back
Here we go again……the Hypocritical Christian Clergy MFs are at it again….used to be the Cross with one hand and a pic of V Parayakaran with the other hand…..now it is a bit different I guess….Cross with one hand and HRW/AI reports with the other hand! Don’t these parasites ever meet with accidents like how we normal humans do in Sri Lanka? he he he…..
Bishops say all must be allowed home
Sep 15 (Cafod) Bishop John Rawsthorne of Sheffield and Bishop John Arnold of Westminster call for Tamils displaced by civil war to be allowed to return home after visiting camps in Sri Lanka. Two English Catholic bishops have recently returned from Sri Lanka where they gained a rare insight into life in the post-conflict camps. Alongside CAFOD, they are calling for the end of forced confinement of nearly 300,000 Tamil survivors of the country’s
Sorry, the link for the above post:
http://www.cafod.org.uk/news/sri-lanka-2009-09-11
thusitha,
"effectively separate north and east by colonizing part of that area"
good news, mate. actually this has already happened!!!
it is mostly complete in the north - east border, north - northwest boarder, north - northcentral border, east - uva, east, northcentral, east - central borders in the past 61 years.
refer figure 2
we have to move FURTHER with ALL communities.
KB,
mate, it is not the norwegian army, its our own MFs who will dance to their tune.
TOILET (tamil organisations 4 the international liberation of elam tamils) is very active.
they are working according to a FANTASTIC plan.
i tell you, it is a FANTASTIC plan.
what i can't believe is their FCUKING UNBELIEVABLE unity towards tamil elam. i thought they would kill each other after vezapillai died.
they are trying now to somehow get a referndum held in N-E of SL. all their BS struggle is for that. one MAIN reason for IDP woes is also that. they know a referendum cannot be held in menik farm. if held, we know the result.
once the referndum result is out, then the MFs in the IC (unfortunately there are many) will be convinced what to do. then SL will have to prove to them why we don't allow it. constantly.
Yo FF, okay run along.. will catch you later matie....although must confess to you that I came here with the help of an older blogger....you know who he is.....we will talk.
Anyway Sri Lankan jaathi bhumi, jaathi-premayo.....we must keep up our anti-tamileelam attacks as these fcuking assholes are still at it.....you only have to look at the news to see their hand at play in the anti-SL stuff....phew, your would think that after the beating they got, the bastards and bitches would shove a cucumber up their ass and disappear right? But not so......I gather these fcuking whores are actually today on a project to spend over $400 million of the LTTE money.....and they want to do it by cutting down SL and weakening her economically.....and then they hope to re-start the fcuking "tamileelam" again....
Gooooood luck right?
Yes we have an insurance policy of the sort, with over 10,000 "pledges" to deter any imminent terra attacks and that should deter most whores from becoming too rash too fast....hak hak hak
[they are working according to a FANTASTIC plan.]
Moshe, dear chap, they do indeed work according to a master plan and that's why we need to be on the offensive for the foreseeable future. We need to KP and VP every bally Eelam retard regardless of age, gender, country of domicile, or smelliness.
Cheers!
We should hold a referendum in the whole island to see whether people accept the fact that whole Sri Lanka belongs to all the Sri Lankans or parts of it should be given to sections of people who claim that it is theirs.
This will solve that referendum issue!
Sri Lankans as a whole will decide the future of Sri Lanka, not few individuals.
I have rented a property in Mt Lavinia, and I am pretty certain that the renters will say 'yes'
if someone holds a referendum asking my property to be given to them free-of-charge!
Who would say 'NO'?
[the ONLY way is colonisation]
Moshe, old boy, that is indeed the only way to put the kibosh on great Peelam plan. I still remember chats I had with villagers from around the Kandalama tank while I was staying at the Kandalama hotel. They still, after couple of generations, remember Prime Minister D S Senanayake with reverence for his role in restoration and enlargement of abandoned Kandalama tank and establishing the colony there. Prime Minister, in his independence day anniversary broadcast on February 4, 1951, declared, "Colonization of land development activities are going at full speed and we are now able to bring more colonists to lands that have been fully developed and provided with irrigation and other facilities than we have ever done before." We need to bring that urgency back to the re-colonization of our ancient lands.
Cheers!
/Documentation of Norwegian Tamil mandate released/-tamilnet.com (ya.. its not .tv...)
/I heard that SL army has started vacating army camps in north east after hearing this news. The area will be handed over to the Swedish Bikini team as the mighty Norwegian Army is not capable of taking over the area./
HAk HAk HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
KB,
fully agree.
gam udawa had a HUGE social/cultural impact on SL. so did colonisation.
just wondering if there is a song about it???????
/the ONLY way is colonization/
Usually there many ways to do certain things. My suggestions:
1. Avoid using the word "colonization". Instead use some nice word such as "gam udawa", "uthuru wasanthaya" etc. Or follow the Fonseka method - no names, job done.
2. Give facilities. i.e.
i) Security
ii) Main roads
iii) Towns
3. Clear the legal and admin issues.
4. Start both agri and industrial zones. Let investors use NE land.
5. This is a long term program. Should start at the right time. (MR is the timing expert.) Don't stop until ethnic equilibrium achieved.
**MI and tamil speaking pro-SL individuals have a job in this program.**
holding a referndum to decide tamil elam, etc. or not is not a wise idea at all. that is EXACTLY why LTTE/TE idiots try to do it!!!
if it is held throughout the country, the results will clearly show that,
1. jaffna
2. batti
3. vavuniya
4. manar
5. kili
6. mula
7. trinco
districts want seperation while, the others don't want it. that is what tamil elamists want to show to the world!!!
the divisions purpoted by tamil elamists as in the SL society will be visible to everyone.
they are not asking for whole SL, they are only after those districts plus ampara!!
ninja,
re: the word....
i resorted back to the "C" word bcos the other words don't mean the EXACT same thing.
what we propose is MULTIETHNIC colonisation. of course tamils can be sourced from the north itself!!!!!
it MUST be govt sponsored as in the case of the british, DSS, mahaweli, welioya, etc. otherwise it will never happen. your examples are good.
actually ethnic mixing through colonisation was started by the brits b4 1948!!
even today MOST donor countries support it.
thereafter hold a general election and we will see TNA, TULF (vadukodai toilets) losing their arses!!!
what can they do???
become SLNA or DIE (preferred).
tamils, when living in multi ethnic communities DO NOT vote for RACIST tamil elam parties.
e.g. colombo.
in colombo you need only 5% of the vote to get a seat. (20 seats, 1/20 = 5%). there are more than 15% tamils. at least 2 seats. or 3.
but TNA doesn't take the risk. they know they will lose. and dividing the vote bank without winning means even mano gone-son will lose his arse!!!
why???
bcos, tamils, when living in multi ethnic communities DO NOT vote for RACIST tamil elam parties.
so do the others.
Re: Colonization/Integration/Mixing/Blending/Development
There is nothing wrong in us using teh word Colonization, but the govt should never. I think the best approach to this, and anything else in SL, is Fonseka method. I have noticed that most nay-sayers and rabble-rousers can operate only if the process is distinctly recognizable.
Moreover, the process should not be a distinct one at all. It should be blended with everything we do in N/E . Subtle and deep rooted.
Also it should happen before any kind of power sharing at whatever level. Even before Northern PC election. Even better if we start it before the local councils too.
If we plan to do any devolution, 13+ or whatever, project-C can only avoid that leading upto separation.
mosche
trinco is non tamil majority
more than 65% non tamil
MD
/i resorted back to the "C" word bcos the other words don't mean the EXACT same thing./
Well, I was referring to GSL and their media, not you and me. (Pro-LTTE media will any way use C word.)
/it MUST be govt sponsored as in the case of the british, DSS, mahaweli, welioya, etc. otherwise it will never happen./
Simply we need extension of the program started by DS (janapadhakaranaya). Mahaweli is also kind of such program but in defensive nature. Ironically, its UNP that has done that (partially completed) job while SWRD/SLFP stopped it.
sujeewa and ninja,
100% agree.
susantha,
agree. that is thanks to "C".
but still we have to "C" it further bcos............
2004 GE result. 2001 result was not much different.
yes, swOrd banda and his wife were against it for political reasons.
anyway they gained NOTHING!!! tamil ppl rejected them more than they rejected the unp.
BTW i am told there are art works around colonisation.
e.g. akara paha (5 acres) - novel
e.g. asiri mangala (not asithri & mongala!!!) - song
/holding a referndum to decide tamil elam, etc. or not is not a wise idea at all. that is EXACTLY why LTTE/TE idiots try to do it!!!
if it is held throughout the country, the results will clearly show that, (NE) districts want seperation while, the others don't want it. that is what tamil elamists want to show to the world!!!/
Re: Referendum
This is a challenge from LTTE/Di-ass-pora. And close to gambling for either side.
GSL can hold such thing in any area if they want. We can safely assume 99% of south (SL minus NE) will oppose any form of separation (self determination, federal or whatever) and support unitary SL.
Not so clear outcome is of NE people. Majority (i.e. >50%) may support either way. If GSL gets majority its dead for di-ass-pora. If LTTE gets majority GSL will be in serious trouble.
However, in practical terms, GSL (or any government in that case) should hold such referendum only if they are willing to act according to the out come. Thus, if GSL is not willing to separate the country depending on the result of NE there is no need for such referendum and GSL should not go for such a referendum (even if it was totaly funded by di-ass-pora).
[According to the constitution the executive president do have such power to call such referendum even just to find out what majority choose though he is not obliged to accept that decision-just makes no sense]
And they are talking about ending underworld.... That is by destroying the rest and raising one gang from under world to higher ground. Then after surely no under world.
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ටයර් සංස්ථා පාරේ යන වාහනවලින්
කප්පම් ගන්න මැර කල්ලියක්
කිරිබත්ගොඩ, දළුගම, කැලණිය ටයර් සංස්ථාවට යන මාර්ගයේ ගමන් ගන්නා වාහනවලින් එක්තරා මැර කණ්ඩායමක් විසින් කප්පම් ගන්නා බව සඳහන් වේ.
"පිබිදෙන කැලණිය සංවර්ධන පදනම"ට යෑයි පවසමින් මෙසේ මැර කණ්ඩායමක් විසින් මුදල් ලබාගන්නා අතර එසේ මුදල් ලබාගන්නා ස්ථාන දෙකේ ආරක්ෂවට ආයුධ සහිත පොලිස් නිලධාරීන් ද යොදවා තිබේ.
මෙම මාර්ගයේ ගමන් ගන්නා ලොරියකින් එක් පැත්තකට ගමන් කිරීමේදී රුපියල් 150 බැගින් අය කෙරේ. කුඩා කන්ටේනරයකට රුපියල් විසිපන්දහසක් මාසිකවද, විශාල කන්ටේනරයකට රුපියල් පනස්දහසක් මාසිකවද අය කෙරේ.
මෙම මාර්ගයේ ගමන් නොකර වෙනත් මාර්ගවල මෙම වාහන ගමන් කිරීම මාර්ග බාධක යොදා නවත්වා තිබේ. ඒ සඳහා මාර්ගය දෙපස යකඩ කණු යොදා මාර්ගය හරහා යකඩ බට යොදවා උස වාහනවලට ගමන් කළ නොහැකි වන සේ බාධක යොදවා ඇත.
පොලිස් නිලධාරීන් මෙම කප්පම් ගැනීම දැක දැකත් කිසිදු ක්රියාමාර්ගයක් නොගැනීම ජනතාවගේ විමතියට හේතුවී තිබේ.
මෙම කප්පම්කරුවන් ප්රසිද්ධියේම පවසන්නේ තමන් කැලණිය ප්රදේශයේ රජයේ ඇමැතිවරයකුගේ ගෝලයන් පිරිසක් බවයි.
මෙම කප්පම් ගැනීම නිසා සමාගම් රැසක් විවිධ ගැටලුවලට මුහුණදී සිටී.
ඒ සම්බන්ධයෙන් පැමිණිලි කරන්නට තැනක් පවා නොමැතිව ඇත්තේ පොලිස් නිලධාරීන් ඉදිරිපිටම මෙය සිදුවීම නිසාය.
Question?
Mr. Perera died on xx-xx-xx in (location) while traveling in a bus due to a claymore bomb. Now, isn't it the duty of GSL to find out who is responsible for that murder and act according to the law? [There were many thousands of such Mr. Pereras, Mrs. Silvas, Mr. Mohomads, Mrs. Lechchamies, Mr. Gunapalas...]
If a murder is happened and person A killed Mr.Perera using the money provided by person B, my understanding is both of A and B are guilty.
We all now, despite all these drug smugglings, credit card frauds etc LTTE or VP did get money from di-ass-pora. So how come no action taken against their aid toward killing of thousands of civilians in SL?
We should not let this crime committed by di-ass-pora, agaisnt the civilians in SL, drown in that lagoon.
Channel4, BBC, HRW, AI, INGOs.. Please tell me the answer if you have some time to spend on this.
SK
Check this
http://www.adaderana.lk/news.php?nid=5247
Much balanced reporting compared to one-sided reporting from divaina..
Expatriate Tamils express satisfaction over the progress in resettlement of rescued civilians from LTTE
Defence.lk
September 15, 2009
* News stories about poor conditions in the centers had been exaggerated
Sri Lankan Ambassador H.E Jaliya Wickramasuriya recently expanded his outreach campaign with the Sri Lankan community in the United States with visits to both Las Vegas and Los Angeles.
Ambassador has been meeting with Tamil, Sinhalese, Muslim and other Sri Lankan ethnics groups throughout U.S. to discuss reconciliation following the conclusion of the 25-year conflict between the government of Sri Lanka and LTTE terrorists. Recent trips by Ambassador Wickramasuriya included visits to Boston and Chicago.
During the California portion of his trip, Ambassador Wickramasuriya met with the local Sri Lankan community at the Sri Lankan Consulate in Los Angeles and briefed them on development initiatives by the Government of Sri Lanka in the Northern and Eastern provinces.
Ambassador Wickramasuriya noted that Sri Lanka is in a new era of reconciliation after years of conflict. Under the leadership of President Mahinda Rajapaksa, he said, the government has the support of most of the political parties in Sri Lanka.
Ambassador Wickramasuriya mentioned that he has personally visited the IDP welfare centers after the conflict ended and found that news stories about poor conditions in the centers had been exaggerated. Ambassador said he was confident that within the next few months the Sri Lankan Government would conclude the resettlement process responsibly.
He further mentioned that there are adequate doctors and other healthcare providers in the welfare centers, where the government has ensured that education and other essential needs are being met. The Government has already taken initiatives to rehabilitate the former LTTE child soldiers and LTTE cadres and is providing each with an education and livelihood.
Ambassador Wickramasuriya emphasized that the Government within the next few years will provide economic freedom to the people in the North and East with the establishment of free trade zones, vocational training centers and other economic benefits.
Ambassador requested that the Sri Lankan Diaspora extend their full cooperation to help Sri Lanka attract new business and investment from the U.S. He also requested that Sri Lankan community members who have let their citizenship lapse now become dual citizens by investing in fixed deposit savings accounts and treasury bonds and bills.
Those who are willing to invest $25,000 in NRFC accounts in Sri Lanka, he said, will be eligible to have their dual citizenship fee waived.
During his Las Vegas visit, Ambassador met with a large cross section of the expatriate Sri Lankan community over dinner. He discussed steps taken by the Government of Sri Lanka to resettle the civilians displaced by the conflict in Sri Lanka's Northern Province, and the misconceptions and falsehoods of some news reports regarding those displaced by the conflict.
When the conflict ended in May, there were about 287,000 internally displaced persons, or IDPs. Since then, about 50,000 have returned to their homes after the removal of LTTE landmines. As de-mining continues, another 50,000 are expected to be resettled by the end of this month. That means that a third of the displaced will have been resettled in just four months, putting the total number of IDPs below 200,000. The resettlement of the most IDPs is expected to be completed by January 2010.
Expatriate Tamils express satisfaction over the progress in resettlement of rescued civilians from LTTE
.....continued....
While in Las Vegas, Ambassador also participated in a panel discussion moderated by Daya Gamage, the U.S. national correspondent for the online daily newspaper Asian Tribune. Mr. Gamage was once a political specialist in the U.S. State Department. The panel also included Professor Karunaratne Hangawatte of the School of Criminal Justice at the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV).
The 30-minute discussion focused on steps taken to resettle IDPs, pro-LTTE propaganda designed to tarnish the image of Sri Lanka and efforts to engage the Sri Lankan Tamil Diaspora in reconciliation.
Both Ambassador Wickramasuriya and Professor Hangawatte reminded the large gathering that Sri Lanka has a Herculean task in combating the overseas LTTE propaganda machine, which over two decades became adept at spreading falsehoods.
In that regard, Ambassador outlined his efforts to meet with officials of the U.S. Department of State, U.S. representatives and senators and other policymakers to explain the Sri Lankan government's positions on a variety of issues.
Ambassador Wickramasuriya noted that he has also begun an open dialogue with members of the Tamil Diaspora in the U.S.
Courtesy : Embassy of Sri Lanka - Washington DC
The New Face of LTTE Fund Raising
An expose of how old banned organizations are being replaced by "brand new" ones to avoid national laws; but assets and staff remain the same.
The LTTE trademark of exploiting every humanitarian window to avoid detection continues UNABATED!
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"IMHO and LTTE Connection"
By Hassina Leelarathna,
Los Angeles, California
Island.lk
September 15, 2009
‘Maoists gravest threat to national security’
ExpressBuzz.com
September 15, 2009
NEW DELHI:Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Tuesday described left wing extremism as perhaps the "gravest internal threat" facing India and said there had not been much success in containing the level of violence despite efforts.
"I have consistently held that left wing extremism is, perhaps, the gravest internal security threat we face. We have not achieved as much success as we would have liked in containing it. It is a matter of concern that despite our efforts, the level of violence in the affected states continues to rise," Manmohan Singh said.
The prime minister was addressing state police chiefs on the second day of their three-day conference at Vigyan Bhavan here.
"Dealing with left wing extremism requires a nuanced strategy -- it cannot be treated simply as a law and order problem. Despite its sanguinary nature, the movement manages to retain the support of a section of the tribals and the poorest of the poor in many areas," he said.
"It has influence among sizeable sections of civil society, the intelligentsia and the youth. It still retains a certain elan. All this adds to the complexity of the problem. I expect you to keep this in mind as you devise newer and better strategies to deal with the problem," the prime minister told the gathering.
Expressing concern over the volatile situation in the northeast, Manmohan Singh said: "The situation in the northeastern parts of our country is far from comfortable. In two of the states -- Manipur and Assam -- current levels of violence give us cause for concern."
"In addition, extortion and intimidation have become a menace across most of the states in the region. It should be possible, I believe, to bring about a substantial improvement in the situation if there can be better security management," he said.
The prime minister also said firm but compassionate handling of law and order matters could bring about substantial improvement in the prevailing state of affairs in the northeast states.
A PTI report adds:
Singh termed as "worrisome" attempts by secessionist and militant groups in Jammu and Kashmir to make common cause with "outside elements" to create an impression of turmoil in the state and said such a situation must not be allowed to develop
Singh also said infiltration from across the Line of Control and also via other routes such as Nepal, Bangladesh and the sea is "going up"
Addressing the Directors General and Inspectors General of Police's here on the concluding day of the two-day conference organised by the Intelligence Bureau, he said there were reasons to be satisfied that both Assembly and Lok Sabha elections in the state were held in a peaceful manner and that the level of violence is "perhaps at its lowest levels" since the beginning of insurgency in the late 80's
"But there are certain developments that are worrisome.
Guys,
Does anyone else find that when you post comments on the DBS blog, he uses your alias but completely changes the comment?
Mine were a few questions to him. He changes it to a comment that praised him. It happened twice under the same post.
My concern is that if this guy is such a low life that he has to praise himself on his own blog under my alias, how can he be quoted by other media like BBC?
Can anyone take screen shots of their comments being submitted and also of the published comment under their alias?
We need to expose them Eelamist, who has a habit of equating the Sri Lankan government with the terrorist LTTE. He hates LTTE but is still an Eelamist.
In one of the comments he says he left the country because of our government and not the LTTE.
Though it was UNP at the time, it is still a bad name for us. He probably tells everyone that he is in exile, not because he wants luxury life in Canada but because our government is a threat to him.
Truth is that he ran away from the LTTE. A Tamil friend told me how LTTE was planning to kill him when he ran away. I asked him why he did not include it in the article about Potu.
Ninja,
That is not balanced reporting, but covering up. This act said to be imposed by PS is illegal at the first place. They do not hold such right. Again I seriously doubt whether PS is officially involved in it.
You are seeing the results if a Thug ganglord himself becomes a minister. This is the same as century old extortion. Only diff is that they give you a receipt.
This govt will seriously loose its foot if they do not consider on few ppl involved with them.
Invest in Lanka and have dual citizenship fee waived- Envoy
Sri Lankan community members in US who have let their citizenship lapse can now become dual citizens by investing in fixed deposit savings accounts and treasury bonds and bills. Those who are willing to invest $25,000 in NRFC accounts in Sri Lanka will be eligible to have their dual citizenship fee waived, the Sri Lankan Ambassador in the US said.
"Loku said...
Guys,
Does anyone else find that when you post comments on the DBS blog, he uses your alias but completely changes the comment?"
Yes indeed, DBS Jeyaraj often doctors others comments and even posts some self congratulatory comments under various names. Comments in his blog amount to a grand comedy of patting his back by himself. DBS Jeyaraj is another Eelamist megalomaniac in disguise of a writer.
Sujeewa K,
I also was pissed seeing all the antics of this Mervyn Silva who continue to misguide President (or does President know and keep a blind eye?)
NL=P;
I don't think MR does not know about Mervyn. I believe that they have this understanding and mutual use of the other.
MR is a great leader, but I think he was made so by circumstances of his time. I don't believe that he was truly the warrior he became, or had this idea in his head from 1970 when he entered politics. The people and several ideologists around you made him so. RW left him only that option.
This is why I see a great danger in his govt. Little by little those old forces which hovered around him diminish. MR gathers pace with likes of Duminda, Thilanga, Anarkali etc. Also there are some dangerous UNPers like GL, Rajitha, and UPFA's own separatists like Dilan, Vasu, LSSP/CP gang.
In the past MR managed not to be deceived by them. He felt a feeling of the common man. Had his sensors to the bottom of the society. But in past few months, I feel, that he has got detached from that. Maybe the poison of victory, maybe the constant praise by those who wanna bootlick for gains.
When you become great, all the rot gathers around you. Finally taht makes you one of them.
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