Don't Forget the Disappeared in Sri Lanka

Today is August 30, the International Day of the Disappeared, observed by Amnesty International and other human rights groups to remember victims of “enforced disappearance”  around the world and to press for justice for them and their families.  An “enforced disappearance”  occurs when agents of the state detain someone and the state then denies any knowledge of the person’s status or whereabouts.   Over the past several decades, Sri Lanka has experienced tens of thousands of enforced disappearances, the vast majority of which remain unresolved.  One recent example is that of the journalist Prageeth Eknaligoda, who went missing shortly after leaving work on Jan. 24.  Please write the Sri Lankan government and ask them to conduct an effective investigation into Mr. Eknaligoda’s disappearance and make the results public.  Please also work to get the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance adopted.  Thanks.

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665 thoughts on “Don't Forget the Disappeared in Sri Lanka

  1. Archbishop Desmond Tutu said:.. disappearances in Sri Lanka, truely terrifying !!

    Cautioning that "the international response to Sri Lanka’s worrying approach to human rights, good governance and accountability as a ‘deafening global silence’ that may encourage other states to act in a similar way," Elders, an independent group of eminent global leaders, said Tuesday that "Sri Lankan government’s domestic conduct, as well as its recent unacceptable treatment of the United Nations in Sri Lanka warrants a firm, public response from its most influential friends – particularly China, India, Japan and the United States as well as the non-aligned group of countries."'

    Noting the following recent events in Sri Lanka as most concerning:
    •The persecution, intimidation, assassination and disappearance of government critics, political opponents, journalists and human rights defenders.
    •Ongoing detention of an estimated 8,000 suspected ex-combatants without charge or access to legal representation, their families or independent monitors.
    •The government’s failure to withdraw wartime emergency laws more than a year after the end of the conflict with the LTTE.
    •Lack of action by the government to address the political marginalisation of ethnic minorities that was at the root of Sri Lanka’s thirty years of war.

  2. Tamils mourn disappearance of 48 Tamils

    Tamils of several villages in Batticaloa district Friday observed the twenty years’ death anniversary of 48 Tamil people who were reported disappeared after being arrested by the Sri Lanka Army (SLA)

    SLA had cordoned off Siththaa'ndi Murukan Temple on that day and took forty-eight Tamils including women and children who had been called to the temple for interrogation.

    Thereafter they were reported disappeared when relatives inquired from the army authorities.

    The disappeared Tamils were from the villages, Ka'ruvaakkea'ni, Kiraan, Kumpurumoolai, Chanthive'li, Murakkoddanchchenai, Vanthaa'rumoolai, and Maavadiveampu.

    They fled from their houses and sought refuge in the temple to save their lives from the army.

  3. 4763 complaints ,mostly about disappeared family members , to the Human Rights Commission since the end of the Tamil War

    4763 complaints have been received by the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRCSL) from the districts of Jaffna, Mannaar and Vavuniyaa in Northern Province from May last year. Of these more than three thousand complaints are regarding the disappearances of persons from May 2009 till now, according to an official of the HRCSL.

    These complaints have been made to the HRCSL offices located in Vavuniyaa, Mannaar and Jaffna.

  4. Journalist disappearances: Lanka 'among worst' http://www.bbc.co.uk/sinhala/news/story/2009/08/0
    “Whether carried out by agents of the state or local criminals bent on settling scores, the many disappearances of journalists highlights the fact that the enemies of press freedom have no hesitation in using the most cowardly and despicable methods to gag journalists,” the RSF statement said.

    The disappearances of Jaffna journalist Subramaniam Ramachandran, who was arrested by the military in 2007, and that of Vadivel Nimalarajah are highlighted in the report.

  5. Journalist disappearances: Lanka 'among worst' http://www.bbc.co.uk/sinhala/news/story/2009/08/0
    “Whether carried out by agents of the state or local criminals bent on settling scores, the many disappearances of journalists highlights the fact that the enemies of press freedom have no hesitation in using the most cowardly and despicable methods to gag journalists,” the RSF statement said.

    The disappearances of Jaffna journalist Subramaniam Ramachandran, who was arrested by the military in 2007, and that of Vadivel Nimalarajah are highlighted in the report.

  6. Journalist disappearances: Lanka 'among worst' http://www.bbc.co.uk/sinhala/news/story/2009/08/0
    “Whether carried out by agents of the state or local criminals bent on settling scores, the many disappearances of journalists highlights the fact that the enemies of press freedom have no hesitation in using the most cowardly and despicable methods to gag journalists,” the RSF statement said.

    The disappearances of Jaffna journalist Subramaniam Ramachandran, who was arrested by the military in 2007, and that of Vadivel Nimalarajah are highlighted in the report.

  7. The ‘national reconciliation’ in Sri Lanka was ‘totally unrealistic’, after witnessing the major human rights violations inflicted upon the Tamil people, what has made the reconciliation really ‘impossible’ was the most serious recent slaughter of Tamils with features of genocide.

    The divisions between the Sinhala majority and the brutalized Tamil minority is deepening. So are the divisions between the ‘haves’ and the ‘have-nots’ in the Sinhala South. This division is set to get worse as a totally corrupt, ruthless and despotic regime will rule forever.

    The less fortunate Sinhalese are certainly 'spiraling downwards into crime and chaos'. Unfortunately, they do not have a powerful vocal expatriate community to jump up and down for them. That is the problem of being poor which I have seen, and sympathized with, for years.

    The role of the expatriate Tamil community, now more than a million, is to get the facts across to the international community that the Sri Lankan government is lying and has no intention of national reconciliation.

  8. There is much talk of ‘National Reconciliation’ in Sri Lanka – essentially between the Sinhalese-dominated Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) and the Tamil people. I support the struggle of the Tamil people to live with equality, dignity and without discrimination in the country of their birth, I simply do not think that ‘national reconciliation’ is possible.

    I have been closely involved with the problems faced by the Tamil people since 1948. This was when a million Plantation ‘Indian’ Tamils, (one seventh of the total population of Ceylon at that time), were disenfranchised and decitizenised in one of the most outrageous acts of political barbarism anywhere in the world. It was followed by a series of highly discriminatory measures adopted since 1956 by a succession of Sinhalese governments against the indigenous Sri Lankan Tamils. These included numerous Government organized pogroms of the Tamils. Having been a witness to all these and other major human rights violations of the Tamil people, I am convinced that ‘national reconciliation’ is totally unrealistic.

    The most serious recent slaughter of Tamils (June 2006 – May 2009), with features of Genocide, and done under the guise of “wiping out ‘Tamil terrorism’”, has made national reconciliation impossible.

  9. For national reconciliation to occur there are some fundamental requirements.

    1.There must be a genuine intention to do so.
    2.There must be regret for all that has happened to make national reconciliation necessary.
    3.The fundamental problems that caused the rift must be addressed.
    4.There must be a determination to wipe out all the obstructions to this process.

    Since none of these are present in Sri Lanka, national reconciliation is not possible. It is as simple as that.

    The pretence of ‘national reconciliation’ is nothing but a myth propagated by the GoSL with the sole intention of obtaining international support to keep a totalitarian regime going.

  10. In Sri Lanka there has been a complete dismantling of Democracy.

    There is a clearly stated aim to make Sri Lanka into a Sinhala-Buddhist nation.

    Until the above is reversed, there will be no prosperity, peace or reconciliation.

  11. Just as oil is the problem in the Middle East, the geographical position astride

    the Indian Ocean is the ‘problem’ in Sri Lanka. Just 36 km (20 miles) from India,

    it is in India’s backyard. The Indian Ocean is not the largest ocean in the world

    but by far the busiest. 40% of the world’s oil production occurs in countries which

    share India’s Ocean. It carries 70% of the world’s oil shipments and 50% of the

    container cargo. US Admiral Alfred Mahan said a hundred years ago, “Whoever

    controls the Indian Ocean, dominates Asia”

    Trincomalee, in the Tamil North East, is the world’s 4h largest natural harbour,

    and has attracted foreign powers for centuries. It continues to do so.

    Sri Lanka is one of China’s “String of Pearls”, the chain of military bases to

    guard its oil supply from the Middle East and its exports to Europe. Rather than

    fight (India) to get a foothold in Trincomalee, China chose a small fishing port in

    Hambantota (in Mahinda Rajapaksa’s home area) in the deep South, to set up a

    major harbour (for China’s use) and an international airport.

    A delighted Rajapaksa used this as a bargaining chip to build his massive military

    machine to crush the Tamils. The violation of human rights has never been a

    problem for China which supplied all the military hardware requested by the

    ruthless Sinhala military.

  12. Archbishop Desmond Tutu said:.. disappearances in Sri Lanka, truely terrifying !!

    Cautioning that “the international response to Sri Lanka’s worrying approach to human rights, good governance and accountability as a ‘deafening global silence’ that may encourage other states to act in a similar way,” Elders, an independent group of eminent global leaders, said Tuesday that “Sri Lankan government’s domestic conduct, as well as its recent unacceptable treatment of the United Nations in Sri Lanka warrants a firm, public response from its most influential friends – particularly China, India, Japan and the United States as well as the non-aligned group of countries.”‘

    Noting the following recent events in Sri Lanka as most concerning:
    •The persecution, intimidation, assassination and disappearance of government critics, political opponents, journalists and human rights defenders.
    •Ongoing detention of an estimated 8,000 suspected ex-combatants without charge or access to legal representation, their families or independent monitors.
    •The government’s failure to withdraw wartime emergency laws more than a year after the end of the conflict with the LTTE.
    •Lack of action by the government to address the political marginalisation of ethnic minorities that was at the root of Sri Lanka’s thirty years of war.

  13. Tamils mourn disappearance of 48 Tamils

    Tamils of several villages in Batticaloa district Friday observed the twenty years’ death anniversary of 48 Tamil people who were reported disappeared after being arrested by the Sri Lanka Army (SLA)

    SLA had cordoned off Siththaa’ndi Murukan Temple on that day and took forty-eight Tamils including women and children who had been called to the temple for interrogation.

    Thereafter they were reported disappeared when relatives inquired from the army authorities.

    The disappeared Tamils were from the villages, Ka’ruvaakkea’ni, Kiraan, Kumpurumoolai, Chanthive’li, Murakkoddanchchenai, Vanthaa’rumoolai, and Maavadiveampu.

    They fled from their houses and sought refuge in the temple to save their lives from the army.

  14. 4763 complaints ,mostly about disappeared family members , to the Human Rights Commission since the end of the Tamil War

    4763 complaints have been received by the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRCSL) from the districts of Jaffna, Mannaar and Vavuniyaa in Northern Province from May last year. Of these more than three thousand complaints are regarding the disappearances of persons from May 2009 till now, according to an official of the HRCSL.

    These complaints have been made to the HRCSL offices located in Vavuniyaa, Mannaar and Jaffna.

  15. Journalist disappearances: Lanka ‘among worst’
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/sinhala/news/story/2009/08/090830_rsf_disappearances.shtml
    “Whether carried out by agents of the state or local criminals bent on settling scores, the many disappearances of journalists highlights the fact that the enemies of press freedom have no hesitation in using the most cowardly and despicable methods to gag journalists,” the RSF statement said.

    The disappearances of Jaffna journalist Subramaniam Ramachandran, who was arrested by the military in 2007, and that of Vadivel Nimalarajah are highlighted in the report.

  16. The ‘national reconciliation’ in Sri Lanka was ‘totally unrealistic’, after witnessing the major human rights violations inflicted upon the Tamil people, what has made the reconciliation really ‘impossible’ was the most serious recent slaughter of Tamils with features of genocide.

    The divisions between the Sinhala majority and the brutalized Tamil minority is deepening. So are the divisions between the ‘haves’ and the ‘have-nots’ in the Sinhala South. This division is set to get worse as a totally corrupt, ruthless and despotic regime will rule forever.

    The less fortunate Sinhalese are certainly ‘spiraling downwards into crime and chaos’. Unfortunately, they do not have a powerful vocal expatriate community to jump up and down for them. That is the problem of being poor which I have seen, and sympathized with, for years.

    The role of the expatriate Tamil community, now more than a million, is to get the facts across to the international community that the Sri Lankan government is lying and has no intention of national reconciliation.

  17. There is much talk of ‘National Reconciliation’ in Sri Lanka – essentially between the Sinhalese-dominated Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) and the Tamil people. I support the struggle of the Tamil people to live with equality, dignity and without discrimination in the country of their birth, I simply do not think that ‘national reconciliation’ is possible.

    I have been closely involved with the problems faced by the Tamil people since 1948. This was when a million Plantation ‘Indian’ Tamils, (one seventh of the total population of Ceylon at that time), were disenfranchised and decitizenised in one of the most outrageous acts of political barbarism anywhere in the world. It was followed by a series of highly discriminatory measures adopted since 1956 by a succession of Sinhalese governments against the indigenous Sri Lankan Tamils. These included numerous Government organized pogroms of the Tamils. Having been a witness to all these and other major human rights violations of the Tamil people, I am convinced that ‘national reconciliation’ is totally unrealistic.

    The most serious recent slaughter of Tamils (June 2006 – May 2009), with features of Genocide, and done under the guise of “wiping out ‘Tamil terrorism’”, has made national reconciliation impossible.

  18. For national reconciliation to occur there are some fundamental requirements.

    1.There must be a genuine intention to do so.
    2.There must be regret for all that has happened to make national reconciliation necessary.
    3.The fundamental problems that caused the rift must be addressed.
    4.There must be a determination to wipe out all the obstructions to this process.

    Since none of these are present in Sri Lanka, national reconciliation is not possible. It is as simple as that.

    The pretence of ‘national reconciliation’ is nothing but a myth propagated by the GoSL with the sole intention of obtaining international support to keep a totalitarian regime going.

  19. In Sri Lanka there has been a complete dismantling of Democracy.

    There is a clearly stated aim to make Sri Lanka into a Sinhala-Buddhist nation.

    Until the above is reversed, there will be no prosperity, peace or reconciliation.

  20. Just as oil is the problem in the Middle East, the geographical position astride

    the Indian Ocean is the ‘problem’ in Sri Lanka. Just 36 km (20 miles) from India,

    it is in India’s backyard. The Indian Ocean is not the largest ocean in the world

    but by far the busiest. 40% of the world’s oil production occurs in countries which

    share India’s Ocean. It carries 70% of the world’s oil shipments and 50% of the

    container cargo. US Admiral Alfred Mahan said a hundred years ago, “Whoever

    controls the Indian Ocean, dominates Asia”

    Trincomalee, in the Tamil North East, is the world’s 4h largest natural harbour,

    and has attracted foreign powers for centuries. It continues to do so.

    Sri Lanka is one of China’s “String of Pearls”, the chain of military bases to

    guard its oil supply from the Middle East and its exports to Europe. Rather than

    fight (India) to get a foothold in Trincomalee, China chose a small fishing port in

    Hambantota (in Mahinda Rajapaksa’s home area) in the deep South, to set up a

    major harbour (for China’s use) and an international airport.

    A delighted Rajapaksa used this as a bargaining chip to build his massive military

    machine to crush the Tamils. The violation of human rights has never been a

    problem for China which supplied all the military hardware requested by the

    ruthless Sinhala military.

  21. In a Bangkok apartment, Tamils wait for a ship to Canada

    The four men, Sri Lankan Tamils, say they are in Thailand on vacation, though they rarely venture outside their one-room apartment on the outskirts of the Thai capital. They sit together on the bed, endlessly watching old movies in English and Thai that they barely understand.

    They have a standard answer when asked why they have come to Thailand. “Tourists. Arrived last week. Leaving next week,” said a 25-year-old man named Baksubramaniam, who then claimed to speak no more English, though he seemed to understand the language well. In the same five-floor building on Bangkok’s northern outskirts – far from the city’s usual attractions – are two more rooms occupied by Tamils who call themselves tourists. One is a family of four, the other another group of men.

    Those familiar with the workings of an alleged Tamil Tiger human-smuggling ring say the Tamils are in fact in transit. They are waiting for the next boat to take them to Canada, as the MV Sun Sea did for 492 Tamil asylum seekers who arrived in British Columbia via Thailand this month. And there are at least several dozen more Tamils waiting at other addresses visited by The Globe and Mail in and around Bangkok.

    Contd. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/asia-pa

    BTW, 740 comments in 20 hours!

  22. In a Bangkok apartment, Tamils wait for a ship to Canada

    The four men, Sri Lankan Tamils, say they are in Thailand on vacation, though they rarely venture outside their one-room apartment on the outskirts of the Thai capital. They sit together on the bed, endlessly watching old movies in English and Thai that they barely understand.

    They have a standard answer when asked why they have come to Thailand. “Tourists. Arrived last week. Leaving next week,” said a 25-year-old man named Baksubramaniam, who then claimed to speak no more English, though he seemed to understand the language well. In the same five-floor building on Bangkok’s northern outskirts – far from the city’s usual attractions – are two more rooms occupied by Tamils who call themselves tourists. One is a family of four, the other another group of men.

    Those familiar with the workings of an alleged Tamil Tiger human-smuggling ring say the Tamils are in fact in transit. They are waiting for the next boat to take them to Canada, as the MV Sun Sea did for 492 Tamil asylum seekers who arrived in British Columbia via Thailand this month. And there are at least several dozen more Tamils waiting at other addresses visited by The Globe and Mail in and around Bangkok.

    Contd. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/asia-pa

    BTW, 740 comments in 20 hours!

  23. In a Bangkok apartment, Tamils wait for a ship to Canada

    The four men, Sri Lankan Tamils, say they are in Thailand on vacation, though they rarely venture outside their one-room apartment on the outskirts of the Thai capital. They sit together on the bed, endlessly watching old movies in English and Thai that they barely understand.

    They have a standard answer when asked why they have come to Thailand. “Tourists. Arrived last week. Leaving next week,” said a 25-year-old man named Baksubramaniam, who then claimed to speak no more English, though he seemed to understand the language well. In the same five-floor building on Bangkok’s northern outskirts – far from the city’s usual attractions – are two more rooms occupied by Tamils who call themselves tourists. One is a family of four, the other another group of men.

    Those familiar with the workings of an alleged Tamil Tiger human-smuggling ring say the Tamils are in fact in transit. They are waiting for the next boat to take them to Canada, as the MV Sun Sea did for 492 Tamil asylum seekers who arrived in British Columbia via Thailand this month. And there are at least several dozen more Tamils waiting at other addresses visited by The Globe and Mail in and around Bangkok.

    Contd. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/asia-pa

    BTW, 740 comments in 20 hours!

  24. Niranjan, & Kanagarathnam —

    2 voices with indispensable messages.

    Niranjan make the connection between the suppressed Tamils & the oppressed Sinhalese.

    Equal — yet ( racially & historically ) unequal — victims of lanka's throne of blood.

    This spiritual kinship with the poorest classes of both peoples is essential to working towards the future of Tamil national selfdetermination.

    Kanagarathnam connects the "chain of pearls" of our own understanding — the connection between lanka's strategic location in global geopolitics, & the crushing of the Tamil nation & nationalism on the island.

  25. white van, Unmarked vans
    Sri Lankan reporter ‘kidnapped’ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8119854.stm

    The 1956 ‘Sinhala-only’ Act which made Sinhala the national language was a conscious attempt by the government to redress what was perceived as an imbalance in favour of the Tamils. In 1970 the government, in a bid to appease the disgruntled, unemployed Sinhalese youth, introduced ‘standardisation’ in education. Though meant to discriminate in favour of rural children, it effectively meant that Tamil students had to score higher marks than Sinhalese to enter higher education via a quota system.

    Each government since Independence has tried to appease the Sinhalese peasants by encouraging land colonisation schemes in traditional Tamil areas. Tamils allege that 1,500 of a total 7,000 square miles of ‘their’ territory has been brought under Sinhalese control. Such a claim to separate Tamil lands is a very recent phenomenon, brought about by the growing racisim of the state. For thousands of years Tamils and Sinhalese lived side by side – sharing kings, customs and foods, worshipping each others’ gods and entering into each others’ celebrations.

    But successive governments have turned the ‘Tamil question’ into a political football, vying with one anotherto gain the votes of the Sinhalese majority. Racism is now becoming institutionalised at every level. A recent survey by the Movement for Racial Justice and Equality showed that Sinhala schoolbooks stereotype the Tamils and provided children with only a partial, Sinhalese history of the country. The outbreaks of communal violence against Tamils are often incited by politicians cashing in on Sinhalese fears, suggesting that the Tamils are about to swamp the country and annihilate the Sinhalese Buddhist state forever.

    In peace, Sri Lankans still disappear http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/asia/090430/pe

  26. A journalist union leader who was abducted and tortured by yet unidentified group says he will seek international justice as authorities in Sri Lanka have failed to bring the culprits to books. Poddala Jayantha was one of the remaining journalist leaders in Sri Lanka when he was abducted, beaten and alter thrown away from a vehicle on 01 June 2010. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sinhala/news/story/2010/08/1

  27. In a Bangkok apartment, Tamils wait for a ship to Canada

    The four men, Sri Lankan Tamils, say they are in Thailand on vacation, though they rarely venture outside their one-room apartment on the outskirts of the Thai capital. They sit together on the bed, endlessly watching old movies in English and Thai that they barely understand.

    They have a standard answer when asked why they have come to Thailand. “Tourists. Arrived last week. Leaving next week,” said a 25-year-old man named Baksubramaniam, who then claimed to speak no more English, though he seemed to understand the language well. In the same five-floor building on Bangkok’s northern outskirts – far from the city’s usual attractions – are two more rooms occupied by Tamils who call themselves tourists. One is a family of four, the other another group of men.

    Those familiar with the workings of an alleged Tamil Tiger human-smuggling ring say the Tamils are in fact in transit. They are waiting for the next boat to take them to Canada, as the MV Sun Sea did for 492 Tamil asylum seekers who arrived in British Columbia via Thailand this month. And there are at least several dozen more Tamils waiting at other addresses visited by The Globe and Mail in and around Bangkok.

    Contd.
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/asia-pacific/in-a-bangkok-apartment-tamils-wait-for-a-ship-to-canada/article1689499/

    BTW, 740 comments in 20 hours!

  28. The most serious recent slaughter of Tamils (June 2006 – May 2009), with features of Genocide, and done under the guise of “wiping out ‘Tamil terrorism’”, has made national reconciliation impossible.

    For national reconciliation to occur there are some fundamental requirements.

    1.There must be a genuine intention to do so.
    2.There must be regret for all that has happened to make national reconciliation necessary.
    3.The fundamental problems that caused the rift must be addressed.
    4.There must be a determination to wipe out all the obstructions to this process.

    Since none of these are present in Sri Lanka, national reconciliation is not possible. It is as simple as that.

    The pretence of ‘national reconciliation’ is nothing but a myth propagated by the GoSL with the sole intention of obtaining international support to keep a totalitarian regime going.

    Before these fundamental requirements are discussed in detail, four crucial points must be appreciated.

    1.There has been a complete dismantling of Democracy.
    2.There is a clearly stated aim to make Sri Lanka into a Sinhala-Buddhist nation.
    3.There is an international dimension with foreign governments getting involved for their own geopolitical and economic gains.
    4.Sri Lanka is a British colonial construct, which has failed. Until this is reversed, there will be no prosperity, peace or reconciliation.

    'Anti-Tamil ideology, international meddling make reconciliation impossible' http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=79&art

  29. white van, Unmarked vans
    Sri Lankan reporter ‘kidnapped’ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8119854.stm

    The 1956 ‘Sinhala-only’ Act which made Sinhala the national language was a conscious attempt by the government to redress what was perceived as an imbalance in favour of the Tamils. In 1970 the government, in a bid to appease the disgruntled, unemployed Sinhalese youth, introduced ‘standardisation’ in education. Though meant to discriminate in favour of rural children, it effectively meant that Tamil students had to score higher marks than Sinhalese to enter higher education via a quota system.

    Each government since Independence has tried to appease the Sinhalese peasants by encouraging land colonisation schemes in traditional Tamil areas. Tamils allege that 1,500 of a total 7,000 square miles of ‘their’ territory has been brought under Sinhalese control. Such a claim to separate Tamil lands is a very recent phenomenon, brought about by the growing racisim of the state. For thousands of years Tamils and Sinhalese lived side by side – sharing kings, customs and foods, worshipping each others’ gods and entering into each others’ celebrations.

    But successive governments have turned the ‘Tamil question’ into a political football, vying with one anotherto gain the votes of the Sinhalese majority. Racism is now becoming institutionalised at every level. A recent survey by the Movement for Racial Justice and Equality showed that Sinhala schoolbooks stereotype the Tamils and provided children with only a partial, Sinhalese history of the country. The outbreaks of communal violence against Tamils are often incited by politicians cashing in on Sinhalese fears, suggesting that the Tamils are about to swamp the country and annihilate the Sinhalese Buddhist state forever.

    In peace, Sri Lankans still disappear http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/asia/090430/pe

  30. white van, Unmarked vans
    Sri Lankan reporter ‘kidnapped’ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8119854.stm

    The 1956 ‘Sinhala-only’ Act which made Sinhala the national language was a conscious attempt by the government to redress what was perceived as an imbalance in favour of the Tamils. In 1970 the government, in a bid to appease the disgruntled, unemployed Sinhalese youth, introduced ‘standardisation’ in education. Though meant to discriminate in favour of rural children, it effectively meant that Tamil students had to score higher marks than Sinhalese to enter higher education via a quota system.

    Each government since Independence has tried to appease the Sinhalese peasants by encouraging land colonisation schemes in traditional Tamil areas. Tamils allege that 1,500 of a total 7,000 square miles of ‘their’ territory has been brought under Sinhalese control. Such a claim to separate Tamil lands is a very recent phenomenon, brought about by the growing racisim of the state. For thousands of years Tamils and Sinhalese lived side by side – sharing kings, customs and foods, worshipping each others’ gods and entering into each others’ celebrations.

    But successive governments have turned the ‘Tamil question’ into a political football, vying with one anotherto gain the votes of the Sinhalese majority. Racism is now becoming institutionalised at every level. A recent survey by the Movement for Racial Justice and Equality showed that Sinhala schoolbooks stereotype the Tamils and provided children with only a partial, Sinhalese history of the country. The outbreaks of communal violence against Tamils are often incited by politicians cashing in on Sinhalese fears, suggesting that the Tamils are about to swamp the country and annihilate the Sinhalese Buddhist state forever.

    In peace, Sri Lankans still disappear http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/asia/090430/pe

  31. A journalist union leader who was abducted and tortured by yet unidentified group says he will seek international justice as authorities in Sri Lanka have failed to bring the culprits to books. Poddala Jayantha was one of the remaining journalist leaders in Sri Lanka when he was abducted, beaten and alter thrown away from a vehicle on 01 June 2010. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sinhala/news/story/2010/08/1

  32. A journalist union leader who was abducted and tortured by yet unidentified group says he will seek international justice as authorities in Sri Lanka have failed to bring the culprits to books. Poddala Jayantha was one of the remaining journalist leaders in Sri Lanka when he was abducted, beaten and alter thrown away from a vehicle on 01 June 2010. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sinhala/news/story/2010/08/1

  33. The most serious recent slaughter of Tamils (June 2006 – May 2009), with features of Genocide, and done under the guise of “wiping out ‘Tamil terrorism’”, has made national reconciliation impossible.

    For national reconciliation to occur there are some fundamental requirements.

    1.There must be a genuine intention to do so.
    2.There must be regret for all that has happened to make national reconciliation necessary.
    3.The fundamental problems that caused the rift must be addressed.
    4.There must be a determination to wipe out all the obstructions to this process.

    Since none of these are present in Sri Lanka, national reconciliation is not possible. It is as simple as that.

    The pretence of ‘national reconciliation’ is nothing but a myth propagated by the GoSL with the sole intention of obtaining international support to keep a totalitarian regime going.

    Before these fundamental requirements are discussed in detail, four crucial points must be appreciated.

    1.There has been a complete dismantling of Democracy.
    2.There is a clearly stated aim to make Sri Lanka into a Sinhala-Buddhist nation.
    3.There is an international dimension with foreign governments getting involved for their own geopolitical and economic gains.
    4.Sri Lanka is a British colonial construct, which has failed. Until this is reversed, there will be no prosperity, peace or reconciliation.

    'Anti-Tamil ideology, international meddling make reconciliation impossible' http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=79&art

  34. The most serious recent slaughter of Tamils (June 2006 – May 2009), with features of Genocide, and done under the guise of “wiping out ‘Tamil terrorism’”, has made national reconciliation impossible.

    For national reconciliation to occur there are some fundamental requirements.

    1.There must be a genuine intention to do so.
    2.There must be regret for all that has happened to make national reconciliation necessary.
    3.The fundamental problems that caused the rift must be addressed.
    4.There must be a determination to wipe out all the obstructions to this process.

    Since none of these are present in Sri Lanka, national reconciliation is not possible. It is as simple as that.

    The pretence of ‘national reconciliation’ is nothing but a myth propagated by the GoSL with the sole intention of obtaining international support to keep a totalitarian regime going.

    Before these fundamental requirements are discussed in detail, four crucial points must be appreciated.

    1.There has been a complete dismantling of Democracy.
    2.There is a clearly stated aim to make Sri Lanka into a Sinhala-Buddhist nation.
    3.There is an international dimension with foreign governments getting involved for their own geopolitical and economic gains.
    4.Sri Lanka is a British colonial construct, which has failed. Until this is reversed, there will be no prosperity, peace or reconciliation.

    'Anti-Tamil ideology, international meddling make reconciliation impossible' http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=79&art

  35. Niranjan, & Kanagarathnam —

    2 voices with indispensable messages.

    Niranjan make the connection between the suppressed Tamils & the oppressed Sinhalese.

    Equal — yet ( racially & historically ) unequal — victims of lanka’s throne of blood.

    This spiritual kinship with the poorest classes of both peoples is essential to working towards the future of Tamil national selfdetermination.

    Kanagarathnam connects the “chain of pearls” of our own understanding — the connection between lanka’s strategic location in global geopolitics, & the crushing of the Tamil nation & nationalism on the island.

  36. A. Savage

    Thank you for your insightful comment.

    ndia is paying for supporting the Sri Lanka Mass Murderers who slaughter 40 000 innocent women and children in the Tamil War.

    The Chinese pearl necklace is becoming a Hangman noose for India

    BTW I’ve read your poetry . Those lovely verses touched me. Thank you

  37. Not a single IDP registered (because they do NOT want to vote for the Rajapaksa government!)

    Nearly 14,000 IDP families will lose their voting rights in the coming local council elections. Campaign for Free and Fair Elections (CaFFE) claim that not a single IDP has been registered three months after the Department of Elections commenced its 2010 voter registry revision and that 14,184 IDP families will lose their chance to vote in the coming local council elections if immediate action is not taken. After three months the officials have made dismal progress in the North and the East

  38. The Alleged War Crimes Criminals are invading the Western countries with diplomatic portfolios

    Are they exporting the “ death squads in white vans “ culture ?

    Military Men To Head Key SL Missions in UK

    * Navy Commander Wasantha Karannagoda as Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner to the UK,

    * Major General Prasanna Silva as the defence attaché to the High Commission in the UK,

    * Major General G.A. Chandrasiri as the Permanent Representative to the Sri Lankan Mission to the UN in New York,

    * Major General Shavendra Silva as the Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN in New York.

  39. Where is this 'disappeared' woman?

    I urge all Amnesty International supporters to start looking for Aunty Adele Adele Balasingham, a horrendous serial abuser of child and human rights living in the cosy gentility of a New Malden, (a south London suburb) or the Bahamas.

    She's publicly admitted to her crimes. Here's Aunty Adele distributing cyande capsules to Tamil child soldiers: http://tinyurl.com/3457232

    AI Head office appear to be oddly hesitant in starting a letter writing campaign to find Aunty Adele. It's now up to you, loyal AI members. Think of it as a more useful game of 'Where's Wally'?

    @. Gunalan & a.savage: will you two just get a room? 🙂 Its been lovely to see a.savage declare his/her affection for Guanalan with poems, looking for voices in the wind etc. A more perfect union is hard to imagine!

  40. As usual, Jim MD has sat in front of the computer to ensure that he get's good marks for his Performance Review by end of December.
    http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread347164/

    Please check this link too…

    Try to find people who disappeared in your own back yard before trying to see what's happening 180 degrees away !!!

    Red on, but this is an exert !!

    In the U.S. alone there are reports of over 10,000,000 people going missing per year. Out of this figure 500,000 are never found. Some of these people are victims of crimes but some are just gone.

    It is also good if AI can have a program to find these people !!

    Another example of trying to wash other people's back sides when you are in the shit pit !!

  41. Where is this 'disappeared' woman?

    I urge all Amnesty International supporters to start looking for Aunty Adele Adele Balasingham, a horrendous serial abuser of child and human rights living in the cosy gentility of a New Malden, (a south London suburb) or the Bahamas.

    She's publicly admitted to her crimes. Here's Aunty Adele distributing cyande capsules to Tamil child soldiers: http://tinyurl.com/3457232

    AI Head office appear to be oddly hesitant in starting a letter writing campaign to find Aunty Adele. It's now up to you, loyal AI members. Think of it as a more useful game of 'Where's Wally'?

    @. Gunalan & a.savage: will you two just get a room? 🙂 Its been lovely to see a.savage declare his/her affection for Guanalan with poems, looking for voices in the wind etc. A more perfect union is hard to imagine!

  42. Where is this 'disappeared' woman?

    I urge all Amnesty International supporters to start looking for Aunty Adele Adele Balasingham, a horrendous serial abuser of child and human rights living in the cosy gentility of a New Malden, (a south London suburb) or the Bahamas.

    She's publicly admitted to her crimes. Here's Aunty Adele distributing cyande capsules to Tamil child soldiers: http://tinyurl.com/3457232

    AI Head office appear to be oddly hesitant in starting a letter writing campaign to find Aunty Adele. It's now up to you, loyal AI members. Think of it as a more useful game of 'Where's Wally'?

    @. Gunalan & a.savage: will you two just get a room? 🙂 Its been lovely to see a.savage declare his/her affection for Guanalan with poems, looking for voices in the wind etc. A more perfect union is hard to imagine!

  43. As usual, Jim MD has sat in front of the computer to ensure that he get's good marks for his Performance Review by end of December.
    http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread347164/

    Please check this link too…

    Try to find people who disappeared in your own back yard before trying to see what's happening 180 degrees away !!!

    Red on, but this is an exert !!

    In the U.S. alone there are reports of over 10,000,000 people going missing per year. Out of this figure 500,000 are never found. Some of these people are victims of crimes but some are just gone.

    It is also good if AI can have a program to find these people !!

    Another example of trying to wash other people's back sides when you are in the shit pit !!

  44. As usual, Jim MD has sat in front of the computer to ensure that he get's good marks for his Performance Review by end of December.
    http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread347164/

    Please check this link too…

    Try to find people who disappeared in your own back yard before trying to see what's happening 180 degrees away !!!

    Red on, but this is an exert !!

    In the U.S. alone there are reports of over 10,000,000 people going missing per year. Out of this figure 500,000 are never found. Some of these people are victims of crimes but some are just gone.

    It is also good if AI can have a program to find these people !!

    Another example of trying to wash other people's back sides when you are in the shit pit !!

  45. Dear Jim,

    Where's your appreciation for what Sri Lanka has achieved?

    Through the single-minded crushing of the LTTE and it's military capability, this SL govt has made possible the prospect of 'normal' SL. Granted, it has a long, long way to go and there are issues of governance etc. But I see no love from AI for SL having proved that crushing terrorists causes a huge improvement in human rights.

    p.s. can you do something about these 'cut'n'paste suicide attacks by disgruntled pro-LTTErs? Its ruining the blog and any meaningful debate/conversation.

    p.p.s. hint to pro-LTTE groupies: no-one reads your tedious, long-winded articles copied from Tamilnut.

  46. @ Kanagarathnam:

    Rip

    EDE
    "You are spewing forth vile, false propaganda hitherto via the printed media !!"

    Au contraire, my Eelamish friend 🙂

    Aunty Adele Balasingham, procuring children for the LTTE and distributing cyanide capsules to Tamil child soldiers.

    True or False? True.
    http://tinyurl.com/3457232

    Next, lie, please!

    We don't need to create propaganda when truth of the LTTE's crimes are on videotape. You might fool these suddhas, but we all know the truth, right? 🙂

  47. The Sri Lanka’s debt was the second highest in South Asia, increasing from 81% of GDP in 2008 to 86% in 2009.

    The country’s public debt rose to 86% of GDP last year – the second highest in any Asian country. Debt repayments is 44% of overall expenditure. The largest budget allocation is, and has been for years, for debt service repayments. In 2010, interest payments alone account for Rs 337 billion, 26% of total expenditure. In addition, the government has to find Rs 565 billion for debt repayments this year, raising its gross borrowings to Rs 980 billion ($US 8.5 billion).

    Unable to implement the IMF austerity measures without facing a massive anti-government backlash from voters, Rajapaksa repeatedly delayed the budget for 2010 (due in November 2009) till he was safely re-installed as President (January 2010), and his government re-elected (April 2010).

    In May 2010, Sri Lanka gave an undertaking to the IMF that it would considerably reduce recurrent spending by cutting government subsidies to the Ceylon Electricity Board, Petroleum Corporation, Central Transport Board, Railways, and Postal services. This can be achieved only by axing jobs, cutting wage and increasing prices.

  48. Rohan

    August 31st, 2010 at 12:45 am

    Thank you Rohan for this link.

    When i read it the below

    "Despite the civil population being Tamil the sign boards to the road are in Sinhala"

    It remains me of the incident in the 80ties when I was insulted and severely beaten for not answering a soldier in Sinhala at a check point in Batticaloa.

    I could have spoken with the Sri Lanka Army soldier in English.

    But the soldier did not speak either Tamil or English so was got angry with a crazed look in his eyes full of hatred and disgust started to scream.

    He very close and shouted so loudly that my ears were hurt.

    I felt his saliva on face. Then he grab me viciously and punch me in my face, stomach and rib cage.

    Two of my ribs were broken and I end up in hospital.

    Sri Lanka Army soldier felt that he is superior to me and this kind treatment is OK.

    This is the Sinhalese domination and never ending slavery for Tamils.

  49. When 'disappearances' help improve Human Rights.

    In August 2000, the British Army finally brought peace to Sierra Leone by destroying (i.e. crushing) the arm-chopping, child-massacaring rabble called "the West Side Boys".

    The British Army were.. (uh.. how shall I put this politely so that 'Human Rights activists' won't faint?)… ruthless in their crushing of the 'West Side Boys'.
    http://tinyurl.com/2f5nwnz

    "…… the complete destruction of the West Side Boys as a fighting force…. British forces stayed on the ground around Gberi Bana for four more hours, hunting down and engaging the rebels. No quarter was given.

    At least 200 enemy combatants were killed during and after the rescue, including several women and children."

    And then the 'disappearances':

    "…Faced with many bodies, the decision was taken to conceal the number of enemy fatalities by dis­posing of some of them."

    The result of this 'crushing'?

    "Within days.. the West Side Boys had been wound up, its commanders in custody, its surviving foot soldiers limping out of the jungle to take part in a national ­disarmament programme."

    Nice work, no?

    Even more amazingly, the resulting peace (brought by the Brits by the barrels of their guns) allowed AI's then chief Irene Khan to visit Sierra Leone to be crowned Paramount Chief of Bombali District. http://tinyurl.com/yzd5z32

    How lovely, inclusive and peaceful.

    Disclaimer: Crushing & disappearances are not always guaranteed to produce positive Human Rights outcomes. Your mileage may vary. Please seek advice from qualified military practitioners in Sri Lanka before embarking on your own crushing & disappearances program.

  50. Rip
    EDE

    You are spewing forth vile, false propaganda hitherto via the printed media !!

    You are basically, trying to monopolize the AI audience with your version of the events,

  51. white van, Unmarked vans
    Sri Lankan reporter ‘kidnapped’
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8119854.stm

    The 1956 ‘Sinhala-only’ Act which made Sinhala the national language was a conscious attempt by the government to redress what was perceived as an imbalance in favour of the Tamils. In 1970 the government, in a bid to appease the disgruntled, unemployed Sinhalese youth, introduced ‘standardisation’ in education. Though meant to discriminate in favour of rural children, it effectively meant that Tamil students had to score higher marks than Sinhalese to enter higher education via a quota system.

    Each government since Independence has tried to appease the Sinhalese peasants by encouraging land colonisation schemes in traditional Tamil areas. Tamils allege that 1,500 of a total 7,000 square miles of ‘their’ territory has been brought under Sinhalese control. Such a claim to separate Tamil lands is a very recent phenomenon, brought about by the growing racisim of the state. For thousands of years Tamils and Sinhalese lived side by side – sharing kings, customs and foods, worshipping each others’ gods and entering into each others’ celebrations.

    But successive governments have turned the ‘Tamil question’ into a political football, vying with one anotherto gain the votes of the Sinhalese majority. Racism is now becoming institutionalised at every level. A recent survey by the Movement for Racial Justice and Equality showed that Sinhala schoolbooks stereotype the Tamils and provided children with only a partial, Sinhalese history of the country. The outbreaks of communal violence against Tamils are often incited by politicians cashing in on Sinhalese fears, suggesting that the Tamils are about to swamp the country and annihilate the Sinhalese Buddhist state forever.

    In peace, Sri Lankans still disappear
    http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/asia/090430/peace-does-not-stop-sri-lanka-disappearances

  52. The economic crisis in Sri Lanka and its flow through have a critical effect on ‘National Reconciliation’ – be it reconciliation between the Sinhalese and Tamils, or the reconciliation between the ‘haves’ and the ‘have-nots’ among the Sinhala people. It therefore merits careful scrutiny.

    The country has been heavily in debt for years, with more problems to follow. The Rajapaksa government (elected November 2005) went on a spending spree to finance the war on the LTTE, crushing it, and also slaughtering upward of 40,000 Tamil and Muslim civilians – a massacre that ended in May 2009, with the President announcing “victory” and the end of the war.

    Despite this, a year later, (June 2010), as has been mentioned, the Armed Forces have gone from 175,000, to 230,000 with a declared intention of getting this up to 300,000. The question is why the military should be substantially increased when there is no war. The answer is that it is ‘necessary’ to crush Sinhalese if they protest at the escalating cost of living. That is what fascist dictatorships and totalitarian regimes have done over the ages. The Rajapaksa regime is no exception.

    The Defence budget in 2010, a year after the end of the armed conflict, to ‘defend’ the country from a non-existent enemy, is Rs 202 billion ($US 1.8 billion), 21 % of the total expenditure of Rs 974 billion to government ministries.

    Last year (2009), government debt reached an incredible Rs 4.1 trillion, of which Rs 1.8 trillion was foreign debt, a 22% rise. Sri Lanka’s Central Bank annual report stated: “The ratio of debt service to government revenue increased further to 117.5% from 90.5%”. Total debt servicing rose by 39% to Rs 825.7 billion in 2009, including a massive interest payment of Rs 309.7 billon which comprised 26% of total expenditure.

    There has been a marked increase in public debt with repayments in 2010 of Rs 767 billion, 44 % of the total budget expenditure of Rs 1,780 billion.

    In July 2009, with the government facing bankruptcy, Sri Lanka was forced to beg for an IMF loan of $US 2.6 billion, to ward off a balance of payments crisis, having earlier boasted that it never will! The IMF released two installments but withheld the third in February 2010 because the government failed to indicate how it would rein in the budget deficit, which reached 9.7% of GDP in 2009. The IMF demanded a reduction to 7% in 2009, 6% in 2010, and 5% in 2011.

  53. @ Gunalan:

    We've both been very critical of the SL govt when they do or allow stupid things to be done. That's called the ability to think for ourselves.

    And then you ruin your own argument with this: "Tamilnet, in my opinion is the only unbaised news site who share and advocate the freedom of expression."

    Ha ha ahh ha ha ! Thanks for my morning laugh! 🙂

    Who can forget Hordes of Genocidal Sinhala Monkeys Plague Resettled Eelam Families in Vanni http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&art

    Tamilnut. Truly, the gift that keeps giving.

    "beating their keyboards in impotent rage" Hmmm… that sounds like day in the life of a disappointed Eelam supporter. We who support a united, multi-ethnic, multi-lingual SL are the ones looking forward instead of lamenting the destruction of our cause.

  54. The most serious recent slaughter of Tamils (June 2006 – May 2009), with features of Genocide, and done under the guise of “wiping out ‘Tamil terrorism’”, has made national reconciliation impossible.

    For national reconciliation to occur there are some fundamental requirements.

    1.There must be a genuine intention to do so.
    2.There must be regret for all that has happened to make national reconciliation necessary.
    3.The fundamental problems that caused the rift must be addressed.
    4.There must be a determination to wipe out all the obstructions to this process.

    Since none of these are present in Sri Lanka, national reconciliation is not possible. It is as simple as that.

    The pretence of ‘national reconciliation’ is nothing but a myth propagated by the GoSL with the sole intention of obtaining international support to keep a totalitarian regime going.

    Before these fundamental requirements are discussed in detail, four crucial points must be appreciated.

    1.There has been a complete dismantling of Democracy.
    2.There is a clearly stated aim to make Sri Lanka into a Sinhala-Buddhist nation.
    3.There is an international dimension with foreign governments getting involved for their own geopolitical and economic gains.
    4.Sri Lanka is a British colonial construct, which has failed. Until this is reversed, there will be no prosperity, peace or reconciliation.

    ‘Anti-Tamil ideology, international meddling make reconciliation impossible’
    http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=79&artid=32514

  55. Military Men To Head Key Sri Lanka Missions

    •Navy Commander Wasantha Karannagoda as Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner to the UK,
    •Major General Prasanna Silva as the defence attaché to the High Commission in the UK,
    •Major General G.A. Chandrasiri as the Permanent Representative to the Sri Lankan Mission to the UN in New York,
    •Major General Shavendra Silva as the Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN in New York.

    ————————–
    The Western Governments couldn't possibly have shook their hands.

    Their hands are drenched in blood of the innocent women and children !!!

    It would have been repulsive !!

  56. Finally some good news for Eelam!

    The LTTE isn't banned in New Zealand and its judiciary seem to love the LTTE. So, you can all migrate to New Zealand and establish it there. I'd be careful of the Maoris, though. They're a tough bunch and may not take kindly to an influx of Eelamish hordes. 🙂
    http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&art

    "The Supreme Court of New Zealand in its judgement said: “At all relevant times the Tamil Tigers was an organisation having the goals of self-determination for Tamils and securing an independent Tamil state in northeast Sri Lanka. The principal objective was to induce the government of Sri Lanka to concede such political change."

    The SL govt regretfully declined to "concede" to the LTTE's demands. How sad for the LTTE.

    I'm sure that ordinary Kiwis desperately want the multicultural enrichment and new skills that the Eelamists will bring to New Zealand, including credit card fraud, fake ID documents, 'non-violent' youth gangs, drug and people smuggling etc.

  57. @ Kanagarathnam:

    Rip

    EDE
    "You are spewing forth vile, false propaganda hitherto via the printed media !!"

    Au contraire, my Eelamish friend 🙂

    Aunty Adele Balasingham, procuring children for the LTTE and distributing cyanide capsules to Tamil child soldiers.

    True or False? True.
    http://tinyurl.com/3457232

    Next, lie, please!

    We don't need to create propaganda when truth of the LTTE's crimes are on videotape. You might fool these suddhas, but we all know the truth, right? 🙂

  58. @ Kanagarathnam:

    Rip

    EDE
    "You are spewing forth vile, false propaganda hitherto via the printed media !!"

    Au contraire, my Eelamish friend 🙂

    Aunty Adele Balasingham, procuring children for the LTTE and distributing cyanide capsules to Tamil child soldiers.

    True or False? True.
    http://tinyurl.com/3457232

    Next, lie, please!

    We don't need to create propaganda when truth of the LTTE's crimes are on videotape. You might fool these suddhas, but we all know the truth, right? 🙂

  59. It comes as no suprise that "patriots" like Rip, EDE blindly advocate everything done by a the Sri Lanka government right or wrong.

    The dangerous trend of this government and (many so called "patriots" in here) where the “Ape” label is thrown out so freely to all those who disagree and the people are expected to cow down to unscrupulous characters.

    Tamilnet, in my opinion is the only unbaised news site who share and advocate the freedom of expression.

    Unlike the despicable one sided ones – most of the Sri Lankan Media outlets

    If there is anything sadder than a cause so intellectually and morally bankrupt that it can only be supported by attacking its critics instead of their arguments.

    Rip, EDE are beating their keyboards in impotent rage.

  60. When 'disappearances' help improve Human Rights.

    In August 2000, the British Army finally brought peace to Sierra Leone by destroying (i.e. crushing) the arm-chopping, child-massacaring rabble called "the West Side Boys".

    The British Army were.. (uh.. how shall I put this politely so that 'Human Rights activists' won't faint?)… ruthless in their crushing of the 'West Side Boys'.
    http://tinyurl.com/2f5nwnz

    "…… the complete destruction of the West Side Boys as a fighting force…. British forces stayed on the ground around Gberi Bana for four more hours, hunting down and engaging the rebels. No quarter was given.

    At least 200 enemy combatants were killed during and after the rescue, including several women and children."

    And then the 'disappearances':

    "…Faced with many bodies, the decision was taken to conceal the number of enemy fatalities by dis­posing of some of them."

    The result of this 'crushing'?

    "Within days.. the West Side Boys had been wound up, its commanders in custody, its surviving foot soldiers limping out of the jungle to take part in a national ­disarmament programme."

    Nice work, no?

    Even more amazingly, the resulting peace (brought by the Brits by the barrels of their guns) allowed AI's then chief Irene Khan to visit Sierra Leone to be crowned Paramount Chief of Bombali District. http://tinyurl.com/yzd5z32

    How lovely, inclusive and peaceful.

    Disclaimer: Crushing & disappearances are not always guaranteed to produce positive Human Rights outcomes. Your mileage may vary. Please seek advice from qualified military practitioners in Sri Lanka before embarking on your own crushing & disappearances program.

  61. When 'disappearances' help improve Human Rights.

    In August 2000, the British Army finally brought peace to Sierra Leone by destroying (i.e. crushing) the arm-chopping, child-massacaring rabble called "the West Side Boys".

    The British Army were.. (uh.. how shall I put this politely so that 'Human Rights activists' won't faint?)… ruthless in their crushing of the 'West Side Boys'.
    http://tinyurl.com/2f5nwnz

    "…… the complete destruction of the West Side Boys as a fighting force…. British forces stayed on the ground around Gberi Bana for four more hours, hunting down and engaging the rebels. No quarter was given.

    At least 200 enemy combatants were killed during and after the rescue, including several women and children."

    And then the 'disappearances':

    "…Faced with many bodies, the decision was taken to conceal the number of enemy fatalities by dis­posing of some of them."

    The result of this 'crushing'?

    "Within days.. the West Side Boys had been wound up, its commanders in custody, its surviving foot soldiers limping out of the jungle to take part in a national ­disarmament programme."

    Nice work, no?

    Even more amazingly, the resulting peace (brought by the Brits by the barrels of their guns) allowed AI's then chief Irene Khan to visit Sierra Leone to be crowned Paramount Chief of Bombali District. http://tinyurl.com/yzd5z32

    How lovely, inclusive and peaceful.

    Disclaimer: Crushing & disappearances are not always guaranteed to produce positive Human Rights outcomes. Your mileage may vary. Please seek advice from qualified military practitioners in Sri Lanka before embarking on your own crushing & disappearances program.

  62. Gunalan and others here …… can see malevolent comments by Rip and EDE intoxicated with venom, vengeance, and vile hatred against anyone who disagrees or critical of Sri Lanka ,typifies the emotional nature of most Sinhalese, a quality that seems to be the key driving force in them – one that seems rooted in deeply seeded insecurities.

  63. Kanagarathnam Says:
    August 31st, 2010 at 5:24 am

    You are spewing forth vile, false propaganda hitherto via the printed media !!You are basically, trying to monopolize the AI audience with your version of the events

    If you have a little bit of brain to read and understand what's posted above, please check what your fellow Apes and Worms of Peelam has posted – let me remind you that the AI thread is about disappearance in Sri Lanka. Check out your posts – Some name boards in Singhala, People from forces being appointed to diplomatic missions, Sri Lanka's Economics, Oil distribution, national reconciliation, Gay sounding poetry from Savage to Guanalan etc..So, with that tiny winy brain you have you decide who is posting rubbish here. At least i have a new found respect to Cut and paste Rohan who would paste articles that are related to the topic.

    Then you decide how many such posts are made under different names / handles and also from what source they come from. Then you will realize who actually is trying to monopolize this blog as well as spam this blog.

    If you still fail to figure that out, go show the blog to one of your white masters with more brains and tell him to explain it for you – if still you don't understand, better to hang your self than being a burden to the world.

    Gunalan Says:
    August 31st, 2010 at 6:17 am

    Hello there Guna who conveniently forgets the questions posted at him – still you think killing Lakshman K and other Tamils by LTTE is a good thing to happen ?? Check out the above link on crimes posted by Kapanna Alawanna – it will show the damage your Apes of Peelam have done to the good Tamils of Sri Lanka.

    It comes as no suprise that “patriots” like Rip, EDE blindly advocate everything done by a the Sri Lanka government right or wrong.

    It's unfortunate you did not see our comments criticizing the GOSL on many counts including 83 riots – if you did not see them, that is your own fault or your inability to read and understand stuff. It is your problem and not ours. But, we would like to see you say what LTTE did was wrong in killing all our good Tamil leaders. But, I do not expect such straight forwardness from an impotent Ape like you !!

    Also, please bare in mind that the Ape and Worm label is thrown at mentally under developed Terrorists immaterial of ethnicity – Ex. Adela who is Australian = Ape. Bin Laden who is Arab = Ape.

    Tamilnet, in my opinion is the only unbaised news site who share and advocate the freedom of expression.

    I wonder what the BBC, CNN and other "Most Watched" news sources would think when you call the Tamil.net to be unbiased…

    Let me give you an insight of Tamilnut

    Tamil.Net's three-month global Alexa traffic rank is 114,141. It has been online for at least fourteen years. It is based in Australia. While Tamil.Net is ranked #12,156 in India, where roughly 82% of its visitors are located, it is also popular in Sri Lanka, where it is ranked #7,220, and this site has a relatively good traffic rank in the cities of Madras (#1,729) and Madurai (#1,758).

    So most visitors are from Madras and Marai – compare that with any other news site !! Follow the link and you will get a good analysis of the site that you feel is credible !!!
    http://windsthatchanged.blogspot.com/2010/08/tami

    Once you check the link out and see to your self where your nut site that is run by fellow impotent apes stands – let's discuss the meaning of the word credibility !!! BTW, don't use the words I use on you on me – be creative and find your own words (not similar words)

    Until then, try tell me whether you appreciate the LTTE killing Lakshman K and other great tamil leaders of Sri Lanka !!

  64. In early June 2010, the Sri Lanka government presented to Parliament the expenditure estimates as part of an Appropriation Bill for 2010. The two largest budget items were Defence and Debt repayment. The necessary cuts will be made elsewhere, in particular, a freeze on wages, cuts in pensions and welfare benefits, and a slashing of funds for health and education.

    The budget was finally brought down on 29 June, 2010. The day before, a copy of the budget was sent to the IMF to show the massive assault on the working people that the government was going to unleash. The IMF was ‘impressed’ and released the third (suspended) installment of the $US 2.6 billion loan.

    The allocation for the Rehabilitation Ministry was slashed from Rs 4 billion to Rs 2 billion. The result will be that thousands of refugees in the North and East will continue to lack homes and essential services. As is obvious, national reconciliation with the Tamils in the North and East is simply impossible if they lack homes and essential services.

    Allocations for Health and Education were Rs 52 and 46 billion respectively, a total of Rs 10 billion less than for 2009. (The allocation for 2009 was itself Rs 12 billion less than for 2008).

    Well aware that such measures will provoke massive opposition and even strikes by working people, Rajapaksa has retained the huge Police State apparatus to crush any form of opposition. This is what a Police State does to its people irrespective of ethnicity.

  65. @ Gunalan:

    We've both been very critical of the SL govt when they do or allow stupid things to be done. That's called the ability to think for ourselves.

    And then you ruin your own argument with this: "Tamilnet, in my opinion is the only unbaised news site who share and advocate the freedom of expression."

    Ha ha ahh ha ha ! Thanks for my morning laugh! 🙂

    Who can forget Hordes of Genocidal Sinhala Monkeys Plague Resettled Eelam Families in Vanni http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&art

    Tamilnut. Truly, the gift that keeps giving.

    "beating their keyboards in impotent rage" Hmmm… that sounds like day in the life of a disappointed Eelam supporter. We who support a united, multi-ethnic, multi-lingual SL are the ones looking forward instead of lamenting the destruction of our cause.

  66. @ Gunalan:

    We've both been very critical of the SL govt when they do or allow stupid things to be done. That's called the ability to think for ourselves.

    And then you ruin your own argument with this: "Tamilnet, in my opinion is the only unbaised news site who share and advocate the freedom of expression."

    Ha ha ahh ha ha ! Thanks for my morning laugh! 🙂

    Who can forget Hordes of Genocidal Sinhala Monkeys Plague Resettled Eelam Families in Vanni http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&art

    Tamilnut. Truly, the gift that keeps giving.

    "beating their keyboards in impotent rage" Hmmm… that sounds like day in the life of a disappointed Eelam supporter. We who support a united, multi-ethnic, multi-lingual SL are the ones looking forward instead of lamenting the destruction of our cause.

  67. Finally some good news for Eelam!

    The LTTE isn't banned in New Zealand and its judiciary seem to love the LTTE. So, you can all migrate to New Zealand and establish it there. I'd be careful of the Maoris, though. They're a tough bunch and may not take kindly to an influx of Eelamish hordes. 🙂
    http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&art

    "The Supreme Court of New Zealand in its judgement said: “At all relevant times the Tamil Tigers was an organisation having the goals of self-determination for Tamils and securing an independent Tamil state in northeast Sri Lanka. The principal objective was to induce the government of Sri Lanka to concede such political change."

    The SL govt regretfully declined to "concede" to the LTTE's demands. How sad for the LTTE.

    I'm sure that ordinary Kiwis desperately want the multicultural enrichment and new skills that the Eelamists will bring to New Zealand, including credit card fraud, fake ID documents, 'non-violent' youth gangs, drug and people smuggling etc.

  68. Finally some good news for Eelam!

    The LTTE isn't banned in New Zealand and its judiciary seem to love the LTTE. So, you can all migrate to New Zealand and establish it there. I'd be careful of the Maoris, though. They're a tough bunch and may not take kindly to an influx of Eelamish hordes. 🙂
    http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&art

    "The Supreme Court of New Zealand in its judgement said: “At all relevant times the Tamil Tigers was an organisation having the goals of self-determination for Tamils and securing an independent Tamil state in northeast Sri Lanka. The principal objective was to induce the government of Sri Lanka to concede such political change."

    The SL govt regretfully declined to "concede" to the LTTE's demands. How sad for the LTTE.

    I'm sure that ordinary Kiwis desperately want the multicultural enrichment and new skills that the Eelamists will bring to New Zealand, including credit card fraud, fake ID documents, 'non-violent' youth gangs, drug and people smuggling etc.

  69. Mahinda Rajapakse means to be President for life

    The charade is finally over. President Rajapakse has informed Sri Lanka’s Micawberian Opposition that he intends to remove presidential term-limits and run for a third (and, the Grim Reaper permitting, a fourth and a fifth…) term. Clearly Rajapakse père means to be President for life, and be succeeded by Rajapakse fils. The UNP has been deluded, yet again, and (wittingly or unwittingly) made to serve the dynastic ambitions of the Ruling Family.

    Now that the truth is out, the UNP cannot continue to cling to the mirage of consensual politics. Here is an issue which must be fought and can be won. If the Rajapakse plan to remove presidential term-limits is successful, Sri Lanka will succumb to Dynastic Rule. But, if the proposed amendment is defeated, there is a fighting chance for a non-Rajapakse to succeed Mahinda Rajapakse, six years from now. This is a battle which cannot be evaded by any who abhors the thought of Sri Lanka in the grip of a tyrannous and rapacious Family Oligarchy.

    Removing presidential term limits while preserving the powers of executive presidency is incompatible with democracy. Consequently this is not a partisan issue but a straightforward battle for democracy in which all opposition parties (from the UNP to the JVP and the DNA, from the SLMC to the TNA and the TULF) can join, without reservations about political principles or electoral spoils. Since, in the final analysis, the only real beneficiaries of the proposed amendment are some members of the Rajapakse Family and their hangers-on, this issue can be used to drive a wedge not only between the Ruling Family and the Ruling Party but also within the Ruling Family, causing the isolation of Rajapakse père and fils, (Would Basil Rajapakse, for instance, be elated at the thought of a President Namal?) The Rajapakses, in their unctuous greed, have presented the opposition with the ideal single-issue campaign which can ‘unite the many to defeat the few’. Will the opposition grab this opportunity or miss it to the detriment of our common future?

  70. A. Savage

    Thank you for your insightful comment.

    ndia is paying for supporting the Sri Lanka Mass Murderers who slaughter 40 000 innocent women and children in the Tamil War.

    The Chinese pearl necklace is becoming a Hangman noose for India

    BTW I’ve read your poetry . Those lovely verses touched me. Thank you

  71. Not a single IDP registered (because they do NOT want to vote for the Rajapaksa government!)

    Nearly 14,000 IDP families will lose their voting rights in the coming local council elections. Campaign for Free and Fair Elections (CaFFE) claim that not a single IDP has been registered three months after the Department of Elections commenced its 2010 voter registry revision and that 14,184 IDP families will lose their chance to vote in the coming local council elections if immediate action is not taken. After three months the officials have made dismal progress in the North and the East

  72. Sri Lanka journalist who was abducted and tortured by yet unidentified group says he will seek international justice as authorities in Sri Lanka have failed to bring the culprits to books. Poddala Jayantha was one of the remaining journalist leaders in Sri Lanka when he was abducted, beaten and alter thrown away from a vehicle on 01 June 2010.

    The former President of the Sri Lanka Working Journalists Association (SLWJA), Mr. Jayantha has since left the country on security grounds.

    Police have recently informed the court that the investigation is no longer active as no suspects have been found.
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/sinhala/news/story/2010/08/1

  73. Kanagarathnam Says:
    August 31st, 2010 at 5:24 am

    You are spewing forth vile, false propaganda hitherto via the printed media !!You are basically, trying to monopolize the AI audience with your version of the events

    If you have a little bit of brain to read and understand what's posted above, please check what your fellow Apes and Worms of Peelam has posted – let me remind you that the AI thread is about disappearance in Sri Lanka. Check out your posts – Some name boards in Singhala, People from forces being appointed to diplomatic missions, Sri Lanka's Economics, Oil distribution, national reconciliation, Gay sounding poetry from Savage to Guanalan etc..So, with that tiny winy brain you have you decide who is posting rubbish here. At least i have a new found respect to Cut and paste Rohan who would paste articles that are related to the topic.

    Then you decide how many such posts are made under different names / handles and also from what source they come from. Then you will realize who actually is trying to monopolize this blog as well as spam this blog.

    If you still fail to figure that out, go show the blog to one of your white masters with more brains and tell him to explain it for you – if still you don't understand, better to hang your self than being a burden to the world.

    Gunalan Says:
    August 31st, 2010 at 6:17 am

    Hello there Guna who conveniently forgets the questions posted at him – still you think killing Lakshman K and other Tamils by LTTE is a good thing to happen ?? Check out the above link on crimes posted by Kapanna Alawanna – it will show the damage your Apes of Peelam have done to the good Tamils of Sri Lanka.

    It comes as no suprise that “patriots” like Rip, EDE blindly advocate everything done by a the Sri Lanka government right or wrong.

    It's unfortunate you did not see our comments criticizing the GOSL on many counts including 83 riots – if you did not see them, that is your own fault or your inability to read and understand stuff. It is your problem and not ours. But, we would like to see you say what LTTE did was wrong in killing all our good Tamil leaders. But, I do not expect such straight forwardness from an impotent Ape like you !!

    Also, please bare in mind that the Ape and Worm label is thrown at mentally under developed Terrorists immaterial of ethnicity – Ex. Adela who is Australian = Ape. Bin Laden who is Arab = Ape.

    Tamilnet, in my opinion is the only unbaised news site who share and advocate the freedom of expression.

    I wonder what the BBC, CNN and other "Most Watched" news sources would think when you call the Tamil.net to be unbiased…

    Let me give you an insight of Tamilnut

    Tamil.Net's three-month global Alexa traffic rank is 114,141. It has been online for at least fourteen years. It is based in Australia. While Tamil.Net is ranked #12,156 in India, where roughly 82% of its visitors are located, it is also popular in Sri Lanka, where it is ranked #7,220, and this site has a relatively good traffic rank in the cities of Madras (#1,729) and Madurai (#1,758).

    So most visitors are from Madras and Marai – compare that with any other news site !! Follow the link and you will get a good analysis of the site that you feel is credible !!!
    http://windsthatchanged.blogspot.com/2010/08/tami

    Once you check the link out and see to your self where your nut site that is run by fellow impotent apes stands – let's discuss the meaning of the word credibility !!! BTW, don't use the words I use on you on me – be creative and find your own words (not similar words)

    Until then, try tell me whether you appreciate the LTTE killing Lakshman K and other great tamil leaders of Sri Lanka !!

  74. Kanagarathnam Says:
    August 31st, 2010 at 5:24 am

    You are spewing forth vile, false propaganda hitherto via the printed media !!You are basically, trying to monopolize the AI audience with your version of the events

    If you have a little bit of brain to read and understand what's posted above, please check what your fellow Apes and Worms of Peelam has posted – let me remind you that the AI thread is about disappearance in Sri Lanka. Check out your posts – Some name boards in Singhala, People from forces being appointed to diplomatic missions, Sri Lanka's Economics, Oil distribution, national reconciliation, Gay sounding poetry from Savage to Guanalan etc..So, with that tiny winy brain you have you decide who is posting rubbish here. At least i have a new found respect to Cut and paste Rohan who would paste articles that are related to the topic.

    Then you decide how many such posts are made under different names / handles and also from what source they come from. Then you will realize who actually is trying to monopolize this blog as well as spam this blog.

    If you still fail to figure that out, go show the blog to one of your white masters with more brains and tell him to explain it for you – if still you don't understand, better to hang your self than being a burden to the world.

    Gunalan Says:
    August 31st, 2010 at 6:17 am

    Hello there Guna who conveniently forgets the questions posted at him – still you think killing Lakshman K and other Tamils by LTTE is a good thing to happen ?? Check out the above link on crimes posted by Kapanna Alawanna – it will show the damage your Apes of Peelam have done to the good Tamils of Sri Lanka.

    It comes as no suprise that “patriots” like Rip, EDE blindly advocate everything done by a the Sri Lanka government right or wrong.

    It's unfortunate you did not see our comments criticizing the GOSL on many counts including 83 riots – if you did not see them, that is your own fault or your inability to read and understand stuff. It is your problem and not ours. But, we would like to see you say what LTTE did was wrong in killing all our good Tamil leaders. But, I do not expect such straight forwardness from an impotent Ape like you !!

    Also, please bare in mind that the Ape and Worm label is thrown at mentally under developed Terrorists immaterial of ethnicity – Ex. Adela who is Australian = Ape. Bin Laden who is Arab = Ape.

    Tamilnet, in my opinion is the only unbaised news site who share and advocate the freedom of expression.

    I wonder what the BBC, CNN and other "Most Watched" news sources would think when you call the Tamil.net to be unbiased…

    Let me give you an insight of Tamilnut

    Tamil.Net's three-month global Alexa traffic rank is 114,141. It has been online for at least fourteen years. It is based in Australia. While Tamil.Net is ranked #12,156 in India, where roughly 82% of its visitors are located, it is also popular in Sri Lanka, where it is ranked #7,220, and this site has a relatively good traffic rank in the cities of Madras (#1,729) and Madurai (#1,758).

    So most visitors are from Madras and Marai – compare that with any other news site !! Follow the link and you will get a good analysis of the site that you feel is credible !!!
    http://windsthatchanged.blogspot.com/2010/08/tami

    Once you check the link out and see to your self where your nut site that is run by fellow impotent apes stands – let's discuss the meaning of the word credibility !!! BTW, don't use the words I use on you on me – be creative and find your own words (not similar words)

    Until then, try tell me whether you appreciate the LTTE killing Lakshman K and other great tamil leaders of Sri Lanka !!

  75. The Alleged War Crimes Criminals are invading the Western countries with diplomatic portfolios

    Are they exporting the “ death squads in white vans “ culture ?

    Military Men To Head Key SL Missions in UK

    * Navy Commander Wasantha Karannagoda as Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner to the UK,

    * Major General Prasanna Silva as the defence attaché to the High Commission in the UK,

    * Major General G.A. Chandrasiri as the Permanent Representative to the Sri Lankan Mission to the UN in New York,

    * Major General Shavendra Silva as the Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN in New York.

  76. Tamils for Obama to Supreme Court: Can the U.S. Arrest Rajapaksa?

    Tamils for Obama, a political group of American Tamils, wrote to Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Roberts asking for his opinion on whether Mahinda Rajapaksa (president of Sri Lanka and possible author of crimes committed during the recent Sri Lankan civil war) can be arrested as he travels through the U.S. this fall.

    Tamils for Obama asked that question in a letter to Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts.

    “The United States has arrested and deported accused war criminals in the past,” explained a spokesman for the Tamil American group.

    “Our country arrested accused Nazis decades after the crimes they were supposed to have committed took place, so this is not unprecedented.

    “We guess that this is different because the accusations come from international civilian organizations–the International Human Rights Groups, and so forth–rather than courts of law.

    They say that there is plenty of evidence that Sri Lankan government forces, which were ultimately commanded by President Rajapaksa, committed what would probably be considered war crimes…

  77. Supreme Court decides ‘LTTE a Political organisation’

    The Supreme Court of New Zealand Friday dismissed the appeal of the government seeking rejection of the refugee status of an Eezham Tamil who was captaining a ship carrying arms to the LTTE.

    The court in its judgement said: “At all relevant times the Tamil Tigers was an organisation having the goals of self-determination for Tamils and securing an independent Tamil state in northeast Sri Lanka.

    The principal objective was to induce the government of Sri Lanka to concede such political change.

  78. Sri Lanka journalist who was abducted and tortured by yet unidentified group says he will seek international justice as authorities in Sri Lanka have failed to bring the culprits to books. Poddala Jayantha was one of the remaining journalist leaders in Sri Lanka when he was abducted, beaten and alter thrown away from a vehicle on 01 June 2010.

    The former President of the Sri Lanka Working Journalists Association (SLWJA), Mr. Jayantha has since left the country on security grounds.

    Police have recently informed the court that the investigation is no longer active as no suspects have been found.
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/sinhala/news/story/2010/08/1

  79. Sri Lanka journalist who was abducted and tortured by yet unidentified group says he will seek international justice as authorities in Sri Lanka have failed to bring the culprits to books. Poddala Jayantha was one of the remaining journalist leaders in Sri Lanka when he was abducted, beaten and alter thrown away from a vehicle on 01 June 2010.

    The former President of the Sri Lanka Working Journalists Association (SLWJA), Mr. Jayantha has since left the country on security grounds.

    Police have recently informed the court that the investigation is no longer active as no suspects have been found.
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/sinhala/news/story/2010/08/1

  80. Unlimited power coupled with an unlimited term for the executive office is a certain recipe for dictatorship.

    It seems that the majority has chosen this path and so be it.

    Thanks to fools like Ranil W this spells the end to democratic opposition and dissent in Sri Lanka.

    Already the signs are evident, with the eviction of the poor in Colombo to the acquisition of privatly owned lands in the North and East.

    Is this the development we want where the rich get richer and the poor poorer?

    Grandiose schemes of carpeting roads and building airports while the poor stagnate in dire want and poverty.

    It seems that the Sri Lanka Govt is running short of options and legalized dictatorship at the point of the gun, once turned at the Tamils, now to intimidate its own people is imminent.

    The opposition seems to have thrown in the towel with impotent leaders like the caliber of RW.

  81. Kanagarathnam Says:
    August 31st, 2010 at 6:26 am

    Dear Impotent Ape worm !!

    Check the previous post where we condemn the 83 attacks on Tamils !!

    If that's not being critical, you need to go find a dictionary to figure out the meaning of the word criticizing !! We are not here to give our rear ends to the GOSL, but save Sri Lanka from Terrorists like you !!

    Now, let's see, can you call your selves unbiased and critical when required ?? Let's see your comments on killing of Lakshman Kadiragamar and other Tamil politicians by the LTTE -Try tell me whether you are for it or against it you impotent spineless chicken head !!

  82. Where is this ‘disappeared’ woman?

    I urge all Amnesty International supporters to start looking for Aunty Adele Adele Balasingham, a horrendous serial abuser of child and human rights living in the cosy gentility of a New Malden, (a south London suburb) or the Bahamas.

    She’s publicly admitted to her crimes. Here’s Aunty Adele distributing cyande capsules to Tamil child soldiers: http://tinyurl.com/3457232

    AI Head office appear to be oddly hesitant in starting a letter writing campaign to find Aunty Adele. It’s now up to you, loyal AI members. Think of it as a more useful game of ‘Where’s Wally’?

    @. Gunalan & a.savage: will you two just get a room? 🙂 Its been lovely to see a.savage declare his/her affection for Guanalan with poems, looking for voices in the wind etc. A more perfect union is hard to imagine!

  83. As usual, Jim MD has sat in front of the computer to ensure that he get’s good marks for his Performance Review by end of December.

    http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread347164/pg1

    Please check this link too…

    Try to find people who disappeared in your own back yard before trying to see what’s happening 180 degrees away !!!

    Red on, but this is an exert !!

    In the U.S. alone there are reports of over 10,000,000 people going missing per year. Out of this figure 500,000 are never found. Some of these people are victims of crimes but some are just gone.

    It is also good if AI can have a program to find these people !!

    Another example of trying to wash other people’s back sides when you are in the shit pit !!

  84. Dear Jim,

    Where’s your appreciation for what Sri Lanka has achieved?

    Through the single-minded crushing of the LTTE and it’s military capability, this SL govt has made possible the prospect of ‘normal’ SL. Granted, it has a long, long way to go and there are issues of governance etc. But I see no love from AI for SL having proved that crushing terrorists causes a huge improvement in human rights.

    p.s. can you do something about these ‘cut’n’paste suicide attacks by disgruntled pro-LTTErs? Its ruining the blog and any meaningful debate/conversation.

    p.p.s. hint to pro-LTTE groupies: no-one reads your tedious, long-winded articles copied from Tamilnut.

  85. Rohan

    August 31st, 2010 at 12:45 am

    Thank you Rohan for this link.

    When i read it the below

    “Despite the civil population being Tamil the sign boards to the road are in Sinhala”

    It remains me of the incident in the 80ties when I was insulted and severely beaten for not answering a soldier in Sinhala at a check point in Batticaloa.

    I could have spoken with the Sri Lanka Army soldier in English.

    But the soldier did not speak either Tamil or English so was got angry with a crazed look in his eyes full of hatred and disgust started to scream.

    He very close and shouted so loudly that my ears were hurt.

    I felt his saliva on face. Then he grab me viciously and punch me in my face, stomach and rib cage.

    Two of my ribs were broken and I end up in hospital.

    Sri Lanka Army soldier felt that he is superior to me and this kind treatment is OK.

    This is the Sinhalese domination and never ending slavery for Tamils.

  86. Garment factories exploiting Northern girls

    A garment sector trade union leader charged yesterday that some garment manufacturers were seeking cheap female labour from the one time battle areas of the north.“Factory workers were leaving due to poor wages, work and living conditions.

    Most in the north are ignorant of the labour laws and are falling prey,” Anton Marcus, President of the Progressive Free Trade Zone and Apparel Union told the Sunday Times.

    “After many years of war, the people in these areas are ignorant of workers rights, wages and so on and are easy prey for the apparel operators. Most of the big names currently touring the north and east are known to be serious violators of labour laws,” Mr. Fernando charged.

    He said there was a huge dearth of factory hands at the moment because many were leaving owing to poor wages and working and living conditions.

    “Therefore the apparel bosses have switched to the north and east where there is widespread unemployment. These people are willing to work for any wage and they care less about the working or living conditions. At the end of the day, these workers will be exploited,” he said.

    Meanwhile politicians in the north and east have also begun to frown on the ad-hoc system of recruiting workers from the area. In one case a local MP stopped a group of Kilinochchi girls from being loaded into a bus before they were taken to a factory in Kandy.

    TNA politician S. Sritharan said they had no objection to the recruitment but it should be done in a proper manner. “These girls are just loaded on to buses. No one knows where they are heading for. There should be some transparency in the whole issue.

    I have taken the matter up with the authorities,” he said.He said that even some security forces personnel were openly assisting in the apparel operators’ campaign to recruit unsuspecting girls.

    Lasantha De Silva with Timex Garments admitted they were involved in a recruitment drive in the north and east but said there was no illegality in it
    http://transcurrents.com/tc/2010/08/garment_facto

  87. Rip
    EDE

    You are spewing forth vile, false propaganda hitherto via the printed media !!

    You are basically, trying to monopolize the AI audience with your version of the events,

  88. The economic crisis in Sri Lanka and its flow through have a critical effect on ‘National Reconciliation’ – be it reconciliation between the Sinhalese and Tamils, or the reconciliation between the ‘haves’ and the ‘have-nots’ among the Sinhala people. It therefore merits careful scrutiny.

    The country has been heavily in debt for years, with more problems to follow. The Rajapaksa government (elected November 2005) went on a spending spree to finance the war on the LTTE, crushing it, and also slaughtering upward of 40,000 Tamil and Muslim civilians – a massacre that ended in May 2009, with the President announcing “victory” and the end of the war.

    Despite this, a year later, (June 2010), as has been mentioned, the Armed Forces have gone from 175,000, to 230,000 with a declared intention of getting this up to 300,000. The question is why the military should be substantially increased when there is no war. The answer is that it is ‘necessary’ to crush Sinhalese if they protest at the escalating cost of living. That is what fascist dictatorships and totalitarian regimes have done over the ages. The Rajapaksa regime is no exception.

    The Defence budget in 2010, a year after the end of the armed conflict, to ‘defend’ the country from a non-existent enemy, is Rs 202 billion ($US 1.8 billion), 21 % of the total expenditure of Rs 974 billion to government ministries.

    Last year (2009), government debt reached an incredible Rs 4.1 trillion, of which Rs 1.8 trillion was foreign debt, a 22% rise. Sri Lanka’s Central Bank annual report stated: “The ratio of debt service to government revenue increased further to 117.5% from 90.5%”. Total debt servicing rose by 39% to Rs 825.7 billion in 2009, including a massive interest payment of Rs 309.7 billon which comprised 26% of total expenditure.

    There has been a marked increase in public debt with repayments in 2010 of Rs 767 billion, 44 % of the total budget expenditure of Rs 1,780 billion.

    In July 2009, with the government facing bankruptcy, Sri Lanka was forced to beg for an IMF loan of $US 2.6 billion, to ward off a balance of payments crisis, having earlier boasted that it never will! The IMF released two installments but withheld the third in February 2010 because the government failed to indicate how it would rein in the budget deficit, which reached 9.7% of GDP in 2009. The IMF demanded a reduction to 7% in 2009, 6% in 2010, and 5% in 2011.

  89. More than settlements, government working hard for splits states, Mano Ganeshan http://www.lankasrinews.com/view.php?2bIAQUe0dRlm

    Democratic People’s Front Leader Mano Ganeshan said, the Sri Lankan government does not have any concern to find a settlement to the crisis faced by the Sri lankan Tamils.
    The government without finding a settlement to the crisis, is more concern to originate splits was pointed out by him. The war has come to an end, and one year and more has elapsed, but the Tamils issues are still the same. The political parties without giving importance to the people’s aspirations are functioning in the aim of political gains which he mentioned. In this situation the government is working hard to bring split among the north, east and upcountry Tamils which he alleged.

    Expectations that UN will originate a Commission to investigate missing persons in Sri Lanka http://www.lankasrinews.com/view.php?2bbnVBYYyddc

  90. Reports states, 35 Tamil political prisoners detained at the Anuradhapura Prison from the year 2005, had made an urgency appeal from the Sri Lankan Government. Their appeal is to release them or to bail them out.
    The prisoners are natives of Vavuniya, Anurahdapura, Mannar, Jaffna, Kilinochchi, Mullaitheevu and Batticaloa districts. They informed at many times they were produced in courts, but necessary inquires were not held. They pointed out charges are not filed against them. http://www.lankasrinews.com/view.php?2bb445JB32ee

  91. Don’t Forget 40,000 Tamils Disappeared in Sri Lanka last year.

    Sri Lanka massacred up to 40,000 Tamil civilians – former UN official http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&art
    Sri Lanka’s military massacred as many as 40,000 Tamil civilians in the final onslaught against the Liberation Tigers in 2009, according to a former United Nations official with detailed knowledge of events, press reports said. The former United Nations’ spokesperson in Sri Lanka, Gordon Weiss, has resigned from the UN after 14 years and returned home to Australia, where he was interviewed by ABC News. “He’s now free to speak openly about the situation in Sri Lanka, for the first time and does so candidly and unflinchingly,” the media agency said.

    A survivor of the slaughter in Vanni, who escaped from Muliyavaikkal on May 18 last year, shared his experiences of losing his father and cousins, of seeing people blown up in front of his eyes.

    “We took the injured to hospitals, and they [the Sri Lankan government] targeted the hospitals,” he said. http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&art

  92. Military Men To Head Key Sri Lanka Missions

    •Navy Commander Wasantha Karannagoda as Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner to the UK,
    •Major General Prasanna Silva as the defence attaché to the High Commission in the UK,
    •Major General G.A. Chandrasiri as the Permanent Representative to the Sri Lankan Mission to the UN in New York,
    •Major General Shavendra Silva as the Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN in New York.

    ————————–
    The Western Governments couldn’t possibly have shook their hands.

    Their hands are drenched in blood of the innocent women and children !!!

    It would have been repulsive !!

  93. The 11-member IIGEP said: "Summary executions, massacres, disappearances, wanton destruction of property, and forcible transfers of populations can never be justified. No efforts should be spared to uncover responsibility, including recognition of command responsibility, for such actions."

    The public report gave following reasons for IIGEP's decision to terminate the mission "with profound regret that more could not have been achieved.":
    A conflict of interest in the proceedings before the Commission
    Lack of effective victim and witness protection
    Lack of transparency and timeliness in the proceedings
    Lack of full co-operation by State bodies
    Lack of financial independence of the Commission http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&art

  94. @ Kanagarathnam:

    Rip

    EDE
    “You are spewing forth vile, false propaganda hitherto via the printed media !!”

    Au contraire, my Eelamish friend 🙂

    Aunty Adele Balasingham, procuring children for the LTTE and distributing cyanide capsules to Tamil child soldiers.

    True or False? True.

    http://tinyurl.com/3457232

    Next, lie, please!

    We don’t need to create propaganda when truth of the LTTE’s crimes are on videotape. You might fool these suddhas, but we all know the truth, right? 🙂

  95. The Sri Lanka’s debt was the second highest in South Asia, increasing from 81% of GDP in 2008 to 86% in 2009.

    The country’s public debt rose to 86% of GDP last year – the second highest in any Asian country. Debt repayments is 44% of overall expenditure. The largest budget allocation is, and has been for years, for debt service repayments. In 2010, interest payments alone account for Rs 337 billion, 26% of total expenditure. In addition, the government has to find Rs 565 billion for debt repayments this year, raising its gross borrowings to Rs 980 billion ($US 8.5 billion).

    Unable to implement the IMF austerity measures without facing a massive anti-government backlash from voters, Rajapaksa repeatedly delayed the budget for 2010 (due in November 2009) till he was safely re-installed as President (January 2010), and his government re-elected (April 2010).

    In May 2010, Sri Lanka gave an undertaking to the IMF that it would considerably reduce recurrent spending by cutting government subsidies to the Ceylon Electricity Board, Petroleum Corporation, Central Transport Board, Railways, and Postal services. This can be achieved only by axing jobs, cutting wage and increasing prices.

  96. Garment factories exploiting Northern girls

    A garment sector trade union leader charged yesterday that some garment manufacturers were seeking cheap female labour from the one time battle areas of the north.“Factory workers were leaving due to poor wages, work and living conditions.

    Most in the north are ignorant of the labour laws and are falling prey,” Anton Marcus, President of the Progressive Free Trade Zone and Apparel Union told the Sunday Times.

    “After many years of war, the people in these areas are ignorant of workers rights, wages and so on and are easy prey for the apparel operators. Most of the big names currently touring the north and east are known to be serious violators of labour laws,” Mr. Fernando charged.

    He said there was a huge dearth of factory hands at the moment because many were leaving owing to poor wages and working and living conditions.

    “Therefore the apparel bosses have switched to the north and east where there is widespread unemployment. These people are willing to work for any wage and they care less about the working or living conditions. At the end of the day, these workers will be exploited,” he said.

    Meanwhile politicians in the north and east have also begun to frown on the ad-hoc system of recruiting workers from the area. In one case a local MP stopped a group of Kilinochchi girls from being loaded into a bus before they were taken to a factory in Kandy.

    TNA politician S. Sritharan said they had no objection to the recruitment but it should be done in a proper manner. “These girls are just loaded on to buses. No one knows where they are heading for. There should be some transparency in the whole issue.

    I have taken the matter up with the authorities,” he said.He said that even some security forces personnel were openly assisting in the apparel operators’ campaign to recruit unsuspecting girls.

    Lasantha De Silva with Timex Garments admitted they were involved in a recruitment drive in the north and east but said there was no illegality in it
    http://transcurrents.com/tc/2010/08/garment_facto

  97. Garment factories exploiting Northern girls

    A garment sector trade union leader charged yesterday that some garment manufacturers were seeking cheap female labour from the one time battle areas of the north.“Factory workers were leaving due to poor wages, work and living conditions.

    Most in the north are ignorant of the labour laws and are falling prey,” Anton Marcus, President of the Progressive Free Trade Zone and Apparel Union told the Sunday Times.

    “After many years of war, the people in these areas are ignorant of workers rights, wages and so on and are easy prey for the apparel operators. Most of the big names currently touring the north and east are known to be serious violators of labour laws,” Mr. Fernando charged.

    He said there was a huge dearth of factory hands at the moment because many were leaving owing to poor wages and working and living conditions.

    “Therefore the apparel bosses have switched to the north and east where there is widespread unemployment. These people are willing to work for any wage and they care less about the working or living conditions. At the end of the day, these workers will be exploited,” he said.

    Meanwhile politicians in the north and east have also begun to frown on the ad-hoc system of recruiting workers from the area. In one case a local MP stopped a group of Kilinochchi girls from being loaded into a bus before they were taken to a factory in Kandy.

    TNA politician S. Sritharan said they had no objection to the recruitment but it should be done in a proper manner. “These girls are just loaded on to buses. No one knows where they are heading for. There should be some transparency in the whole issue.

    I have taken the matter up with the authorities,” he said.He said that even some security forces personnel were openly assisting in the apparel operators’ campaign to recruit unsuspecting girls.

    Lasantha De Silva with Timex Garments admitted they were involved in a recruitment drive in the north and east but said there was no illegality in it
    http://transcurrents.com/tc/2010/08/garment_facto

  98. It comes as no suprise that “patriots” like Rip, EDE blindly advocate everything done by a the Sri Lanka government right or wrong.

    The dangerous trend of this government and (many so called “patriots” in here) where the “Ape” label is thrown out so freely to all those who disagree and the people are expected to cow down to unscrupulous characters.

    Tamilnet, in my opinion is the only unbaised news site who share and advocate the freedom of expression.

    Unlike the despicable one sided ones – most of the Sri Lankan Media outlets

    If there is anything sadder than a cause so intellectually and morally bankrupt that it can only be supported by attacking its critics instead of their arguments.

    Rip, EDE are beating their keyboards in impotent rage.

  99. When ‘disappearances’ help improve Human Rights.

    In August 2000, the British Army finally brought peace to Sierra Leone by destroying (i.e. crushing) the arm-chopping, child-massacaring rabble called “the West Side Boys”.

    The British Army were.. (uh.. how shall I put this politely so that ‘Human Rights activists’ won’t faint?)… ruthless in their crushing of the ‘West Side Boys’.

    http://tinyurl.com/2f5nwnz

    “…… the complete destruction of the West Side Boys as a fighting force…. British forces stayed on the ground around Gberi Bana for four more hours, hunting down and engaging the rebels. No quarter was given.

    At least 200 enemy combatants were killed during and after the rescue, including several women and children.”

    And then the ‘disappearances’:

    “…Faced with many bodies, the decision was taken to conceal the number of enemy fatalities by dis­posing of some of them.”

    The result of this ‘crushing’?

    “Within days.. the West Side Boys had been wound up, its commanders in custody, its surviving foot soldiers limping out of the jungle to take part in a national ­disarmament programme.”

    Nice work, no?

    Even more amazingly, the resulting peace (brought by the Brits by the barrels of their guns) allowed AI’s then chief Irene Khan to visit Sierra Leone to be crowned Paramount Chief of Bombali District. http://tinyurl.com/yzd5z32

    How lovely, inclusive and peaceful.

    Disclaimer: Crushing & disappearances are not always guaranteed to produce positive Human Rights outcomes. Your mileage may vary. Please seek advice from qualified military practitioners in Sri Lanka before embarking on your own crushing & disappearances program.

  100. Canadian bishop calls for compassion to Tamils

    Vancouver Archbishop J. Michael Miller has called for compassion for Sri Lankan Tamil asylum seekers who have landed in British Columbia.

    Archbishop Miller says now is the time to remember the fundamental dignity of each human person, News 1130 reports.

    He stresses the men, women and children must not become “scapegoats” in immigration debates.

    He says while responsible governments need to find out the identities of newcomers so as not to open a door to a potential security risk, the Catholic Church maintains people who are victims of armed conflicts must be recognized as refugees and offered international protection.

    The archbishop says Canada has a solid reputation as a nation of immigrants and refugees and a long of history of welcoming people seeking a haven from injustice

  101. Gunalan and others here …… can see malevolent comments by Rip and EDE intoxicated with venom, vengeance, and vile hatred against anyone who disagrees or critical of Sri Lanka ,typifies the emotional nature of most Sinhalese, a quality that seems to be the key driving force in them – one that seems rooted in deeply seeded insecurities.

  102. In early June 2010, the Sri Lanka government presented to Parliament the expenditure estimates as part of an Appropriation Bill for 2010. The two largest budget items were Defence and Debt repayment. The necessary cuts will be made elsewhere, in particular, a freeze on wages, cuts in pensions and welfare benefits, and a slashing of funds for health and education.

    The budget was finally brought down on 29 June, 2010. The day before, a copy of the budget was sent to the IMF to show the massive assault on the working people that the government was going to unleash. The IMF was ‘impressed’ and released the third (suspended) installment of the $US 2.6 billion loan.

    The allocation for the Rehabilitation Ministry was slashed from Rs 4 billion to Rs 2 billion. The result will be that thousands of refugees in the North and East will continue to lack homes and essential services. As is obvious, national reconciliation with the Tamils in the North and East is simply impossible if they lack homes and essential services.

    Allocations for Health and Education were Rs 52 and 46 billion respectively, a total of Rs 10 billion less than for 2009. (The allocation for 2009 was itself Rs 12 billion less than for 2008).

    Well aware that such measures will provoke massive opposition and even strikes by working people, Rajapaksa has retained the huge Police State apparatus to crush any form of opposition. This is what a Police State does to its people irrespective of ethnicity.

  103. More than settlements, government working hard for splits states, Mano Ganeshan http://www.lankasrinews.com/view.php?2bIAQUe0dRlm

    Democratic People’s Front Leader Mano Ganeshan said, the Sri Lankan government does not have any concern to find a settlement to the crisis faced by the Sri lankan Tamils.
    The government without finding a settlement to the crisis, is more concern to originate splits was pointed out by him. The war has come to an end, and one year and more has elapsed, but the Tamils issues are still the same. The political parties without giving importance to the people’s aspirations are functioning in the aim of political gains which he mentioned. In this situation the government is working hard to bring split among the north, east and upcountry Tamils which he alleged.

    Expectations that UN will originate a Commission to investigate missing persons in Sri Lanka http://www.lankasrinews.com/view.php?2bbnVBYYyddc

  104. More than settlements, government working hard for splits states, Mano Ganeshan http://www.lankasrinews.com/view.php?2bIAQUe0dRlm

    Democratic People’s Front Leader Mano Ganeshan said, the Sri Lankan government does not have any concern to find a settlement to the crisis faced by the Sri lankan Tamils.
    The government without finding a settlement to the crisis, is more concern to originate splits was pointed out by him. The war has come to an end, and one year and more has elapsed, but the Tamils issues are still the same. The political parties without giving importance to the people’s aspirations are functioning in the aim of political gains which he mentioned. In this situation the government is working hard to bring split among the north, east and upcountry Tamils which he alleged.

    Expectations that UN will originate a Commission to investigate missing persons in Sri Lanka http://www.lankasrinews.com/view.php?2bbnVBYYyddc

  105. Reports states, 35 Tamil political prisoners detained at the Anuradhapura Prison from the year 2005, had made an urgency appeal from the Sri Lankan Government. Their appeal is to release them or to bail them out.
    The prisoners are natives of Vavuniya, Anurahdapura, Mannar, Jaffna, Kilinochchi, Mullaitheevu and Batticaloa districts. They informed at many times they were produced in courts, but necessary inquires were not held. They pointed out charges are not filed against them. http://www.lankasrinews.com/view.php?2bb445JB32ee

  106. Reports states, 35 Tamil political prisoners detained at the Anuradhapura Prison from the year 2005, had made an urgency appeal from the Sri Lankan Government. Their appeal is to release them or to bail them out.
    The prisoners are natives of Vavuniya, Anurahdapura, Mannar, Jaffna, Kilinochchi, Mullaitheevu and Batticaloa districts. They informed at many times they were produced in courts, but necessary inquires were not held. They pointed out charges are not filed against them. http://www.lankasrinews.com/view.php?2bb445JB32ee

  107. @ Gunalan:

    We’ve both been very critical of the SL govt when they do or allow stupid things to be done. That’s called the ability to think for ourselves.

    And then you ruin your own argument with this: “Tamilnet, in my opinion is the only unbaised news site who share and advocate the freedom of expression.”

    Ha ha ahh ha ha ! Thanks for my morning laugh! 🙂

    Who can forget Hordes of Genocidal Sinhala Monkeys Plague Resettled Eelam Families in Vanni
    http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=32363

    Tamilnut. Truly, the gift that keeps giving.

    “beating their keyboards in impotent rage” Hmmm… that sounds like day in the life of a disappointed Eelam supporter. We who support a united, multi-ethnic, multi-lingual SL are the ones looking forward instead of lamenting the destruction of our cause.

  108. Unfortunately ,Sri Lanka is heading towards Dictatorship.

    Mahinda Rajapaske lacks the vision to solve the ethnic problems facing Sri Lanka.

    True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.

  109. Don’t Forget 40,000 Tamils Disappeared in Sri Lanka last year.

    Sri Lanka massacred up to 40,000 Tamil civilians – former UN official http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&art
    Sri Lanka’s military massacred as many as 40,000 Tamil civilians in the final onslaught against the Liberation Tigers in 2009, according to a former United Nations official with detailed knowledge of events, press reports said. The former United Nations’ spokesperson in Sri Lanka, Gordon Weiss, has resigned from the UN after 14 years and returned home to Australia, where he was interviewed by ABC News. “He’s now free to speak openly about the situation in Sri Lanka, for the first time and does so candidly and unflinchingly,” the media agency said.

    A survivor of the slaughter in Vanni, who escaped from Muliyavaikkal on May 18 last year, shared his experiences of losing his father and cousins, of seeing people blown up in front of his eyes.

    “We took the injured to hospitals, and they [the Sri Lankan government] targeted the hospitals,” he said. http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&art

  110. Don’t Forget 40,000 Tamils Disappeared in Sri Lanka last year.

    Sri Lanka massacred up to 40,000 Tamil civilians – former UN official http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&art
    Sri Lanka’s military massacred as many as 40,000 Tamil civilians in the final onslaught against the Liberation Tigers in 2009, according to a former United Nations official with detailed knowledge of events, press reports said. The former United Nations’ spokesperson in Sri Lanka, Gordon Weiss, has resigned from the UN after 14 years and returned home to Australia, where he was interviewed by ABC News. “He’s now free to speak openly about the situation in Sri Lanka, for the first time and does so candidly and unflinchingly,” the media agency said.

    A survivor of the slaughter in Vanni, who escaped from Muliyavaikkal on May 18 last year, shared his experiences of losing his father and cousins, of seeing people blown up in front of his eyes.

    “We took the injured to hospitals, and they [the Sri Lankan government] targeted the hospitals,” he said. http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&art

  111. In Sri Lanka there are the ongoing atrocities and land grabbing in the Tamil areas. A large population still behind bars.

    There has been not a single word about political rights to the minorities.

    Sri Lankan regime continue to shamelessly play the “terrorist” card on the innocent Tamil refugees.

    I feel like living in Hitlers era when the atrocities on Jews were all justified and considered “just” by most part of the world due to Hitlers preachings about how Jews deserved the ill treatment.

    The West is watching silently the brutal murders of theTamil civilianswhile Sri Lanka Mass Murderers are playing the ”war on terror” card and hoodwink the whole world.

  112. The 11-member IIGEP said: "Summary executions, massacres, disappearances, wanton destruction of property, and forcible transfers of populations can never be justified. No efforts should be spared to uncover responsibility, including recognition of command responsibility, for such actions."

    The public report gave following reasons for IIGEP's decision to terminate the mission "with profound regret that more could not have been achieved.":
    A conflict of interest in the proceedings before the Commission
    Lack of effective victim and witness protection
    Lack of transparency and timeliness in the proceedings
    Lack of full co-operation by State bodies
    Lack of financial independence of the Commission http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&art

  113. The 11-member IIGEP said: "Summary executions, massacres, disappearances, wanton destruction of property, and forcible transfers of populations can never be justified. No efforts should be spared to uncover responsibility, including recognition of command responsibility, for such actions."

    The public report gave following reasons for IIGEP's decision to terminate the mission "with profound regret that more could not have been achieved.":
    A conflict of interest in the proceedings before the Commission
    Lack of effective victim and witness protection
    Lack of transparency and timeliness in the proceedings
    Lack of full co-operation by State bodies
    Lack of financial independence of the Commission http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&art

  114. Finally some good news for Eelam!

    The LTTE isn’t banned in New Zealand and its judiciary seem to love the LTTE. So, you can all migrate to New Zealand and establish it there. I’d be careful of the Maoris, though. They’re a tough bunch and may not take kindly to an influx of Eelamish hordes. 🙂

    http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=32503

    “The Supreme Court of New Zealand in its judgement said: “At all relevant times the Tamil Tigers was an organisation having the goals of self-determination for Tamils and securing an independent Tamil state in northeast Sri Lanka. The principal objective was to induce the government of Sri Lanka to concede such political change.”

    The SL govt regretfully declined to “concede” to the LTTE’s demands. How sad for the LTTE.

    I’m sure that ordinary Kiwis desperately want the multicultural enrichment and new skills that the Eelamists will bring to New Zealand, including credit card fraud, fake ID documents, ‘non-violent’ youth gangs, drug and people smuggling etc.

  115. Mahinda Rajapakse means to be President for life

    The charade is finally over. President Rajapakse has informed Sri Lanka’s Micawberian Opposition that he intends to remove presidential term-limits and run for a third (and, the Grim Reaper permitting, a fourth and a fifth…) term. Clearly Rajapakse père means to be President for life, and be succeeded by Rajapakse fils. The UNP has been deluded, yet again, and (wittingly or unwittingly) made to serve the dynastic ambitions of the Ruling Family.

    Now that the truth is out, the UNP cannot continue to cling to the mirage of consensual politics. Here is an issue which must be fought and can be won. If the Rajapakse plan to remove presidential term-limits is successful, Sri Lanka will succumb to Dynastic Rule. But, if the proposed amendment is defeated, there is a fighting chance for a non-Rajapakse to succeed Mahinda Rajapakse, six years from now. This is a battle which cannot be evaded by any who abhors the thought of Sri Lanka in the grip of a tyrannous and rapacious Family Oligarchy.

    Removing presidential term limits while preserving the powers of executive presidency is incompatible with democracy. Consequently this is not a partisan issue but a straightforward battle for democracy in which all opposition parties (from the UNP to the JVP and the DNA, from the SLMC to the TNA and the TULF) can join, without reservations about political principles or electoral spoils. Since, in the final analysis, the only real beneficiaries of the proposed amendment are some members of the Rajapakse Family and their hangers-on, this issue can be used to drive a wedge not only between the Ruling Family and the Ruling Party but also within the Ruling Family, causing the isolation of Rajapakse père and fils, (Would Basil Rajapakse, for instance, be elated at the thought of a President Namal?) The Rajapakses, in their unctuous greed, have presented the opposition with the ideal single-issue campaign which can ‘unite the many to defeat the few’. Will the opposition grab this opportunity or miss it to the detriment of our common future?

  116. Sri Lanka with its adaptation (or rather manipulation I should say) of George W Bush’s famous “war of terror” strategy has created, what I would like to call the perfect “Genocide for Dummies” handbook – that is being seriously considered by several oppressive genocide seeking regimes.

    The only problem is for the dictators who want to use the Sri Lank Final Solution that a bunch of brave Human Rights activists and some members of the UN who are trying to get Sri Lanka punished for its war crimes.

  117. Kanagarathnam Says:
    August 31st, 2010 at 5:24 am

    You are spewing forth vile, false propaganda hitherto via the printed media !!You are basically, trying to monopolize the AI audience with your version of the events

    If you have a little bit of brain to read and understand what’s posted above, please check what your fellow Apes and Worms of Peelam has posted – let me remind you that the AI thread is about disappearance in Sri Lanka. Check out your posts – Some name boards in Singhala, People from forces being appointed to diplomatic missions, Sri Lanka’s Economics, Oil distribution, national reconciliation, Gay sounding poetry from Savage to Guanalan etc..So, with that tiny winy brain you have you decide who is posting rubbish here. At least i have a new found respect to Cut and paste Rohan who would paste articles that are related to the topic.

    Then you decide how many such posts are made under different names / handles and also from what source they come from. Then you will realize who actually is trying to monopolize this blog as well as spam this blog.

    If you still fail to figure that out, go show the blog to one of your white masters with more brains and tell him to explain it for you – if still you don’t understand, better to hang your self than being a burden to the world.

    Gunalan Says:
    August 31st, 2010 at 6:17 am

    Hello there Guna who conveniently forgets the questions posted at him – still you think killing Lakshman K and other Tamils by LTTE is a good thing to happen ?? Check out the above link on crimes posted by Kapanna Alawanna – it will show the damage your Apes of Peelam have done to the good Tamils of Sri Lanka.

    It comes as no suprise that “patriots” like Rip, EDE blindly advocate everything done by a the Sri Lanka government right or wrong.

    It’s unfortunate you did not see our comments criticizing the GOSL on many counts including 83 riots – if you did not see them, that is your own fault or your inability to read and understand stuff. It is your problem and not ours. But, we would like to see you say what LTTE did was wrong in killing all our good Tamil leaders. But, I do not expect such straight forwardness from an impotent Ape like you !!

    Also, please bare in mind that the Ape and Worm label is thrown at mentally under developed Terrorists immaterial of ethnicity – Ex. Adela who is Australian = Ape. Bin Laden who is Arab = Ape.

    Tamilnet, in my opinion is the only unbaised news site who share and advocate the freedom of expression.

    I wonder what the BBC, CNN and other “Most Watched” news sources would think when you call the Tamil.net to be unbiased…

    Let me give you an insight of Tamilnut

    Tamil.Net’s three-month global Alexa traffic rank is 114,141. It has been online for at least fourteen years. It is based in Australia. While Tamil.Net is ranked #12,156 in India, where roughly 82% of its visitors are located, it is also popular in Sri Lanka, where it is ranked #7,220, and this site has a relatively good traffic rank in the cities of Madras (#1,729) and Madurai (#1,758).

    So most visitors are from Madras and Marai – compare that with any other news site !! Follow the link and you will get a good analysis of the site that you feel is credible !!!

    http://windsthatchanged.blogspot.com/2010/08/tamilnet-is-driving-good-tamils-nuts.html

    Once you check the link out and see to your self where your nut site that is run by fellow impotent apes stands – let’s discuss the meaning of the word credibility !!! BTW, don’t use the words I use on you on me – be creative and find your own words (not similar words)

    Until then, try tell me whether you appreciate the LTTE killing Lakshman K and other great tamil leaders of Sri Lanka !!

  118. Brave Tamil men of Jaffna asked Nirupama Rao

    “India provided arms and logistical support to Colombo in the Vanni war. It didn’t take any effort to stop the war. Even after one year of the war, India didn’t act on rehabilitating the incarcerated people,”

    After the meeting the Sri Lanka Army (SLA ) soldiers harassed the civil society representatives who spoke on the occasion.

    So much for Freedom of Speech in Sri Lanka !

  119. Tamils for Obama to Supreme Court: Can the U.S. Arrest Rajapaksa?

    Tamils for Obama, a political group of American Tamils, wrote to Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Roberts asking for his opinion on whether Mahinda Rajapaksa (president of Sri Lanka and possible author of crimes committed during the recent Sri Lankan civil war) can be arrested as he travels through the U.S. this fall.

    Tamils for Obama asked that question in a letter to Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts.

    “The United States has arrested and deported accused war criminals in the past,” explained a spokesman for the Tamil American group.

    “Our country arrested accused Nazis decades after the crimes they were supposed to have committed took place, so this is not unprecedented.

    “We guess that this is different because the accusations come from international civilian organizations–the International Human Rights Groups, and so forth–rather than courts of law.

    They say that there is plenty of evidence that Sri Lankan government forces, which were ultimately commanded by President Rajapaksa, committed what would probably be considered war crimes…

  120. Supreme Court decides ‘LTTE a Political organisation’

    The Supreme Court of New Zealand Friday dismissed the appeal of the government seeking rejection of the refugee status of an Eezham Tamil who was captaining a ship carrying arms to the LTTE.

    The court in its judgement said: “At all relevant times the Tamil Tigers was an organisation having the goals of self-determination for Tamils and securing an independent Tamil state in northeast Sri Lanka.

    The principal objective was to induce the government of Sri Lanka to concede such political change.

  121. Sri Lanka journalist who was abducted and tortured by yet unidentified group says he will seek international justice as authorities in Sri Lanka have failed to bring the culprits to books. Poddala Jayantha was one of the remaining journalist leaders in Sri Lanka when he was abducted, beaten and alter thrown away from a vehicle on 01 June 2010.

    The former President of the Sri Lanka Working Journalists Association (SLWJA), Mr. Jayantha has since left the country on security grounds.

    Police have recently informed the court that the investigation is no longer active as no suspects have been found.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/sinhala/news/story/2010/08/100830_poddala_attack.shtml

  122. Unlimited power coupled with an unlimited term for the executive office is a certain recipe for dictatorship.

    It seems that the majority has chosen this path and so be it.

    Thanks to fools like Ranil W this spells the end to democratic opposition and dissent in Sri Lanka.

    Already the signs are evident, with the eviction of the poor in Colombo to the acquisition of privatly owned lands in the North and East.

    Is this the development we want where the rich get richer and the poor poorer?

    Grandiose schemes of carpeting roads and building airports while the poor stagnate in dire want and poverty.

    It seems that the Sri Lanka Govt is running short of options and legalized dictatorship at the point of the gun, once turned at the Tamils, now to intimidate its own people is imminent.

    The opposition seems to have thrown in the towel with impotent leaders like the caliber of RW.

  123. The maid with nails inside her body is lying.

    Her injuries are self-inflicted .

    She did like her Sri Lankan President does-shamelessly lying !! 🙁

    We all remember – ZERO civilian casualties in the Tamil War

    Saudi Embassy expresses doubts
    August 31, 2010, 9:49 pm

    The Saudi Arabian Embassy in Colombo, responding to newspaper reports on a Sri Lankan Housemaid who had been tortured by her employer who had driven nails and needles into her body, issued a statement expressing doubts over the allegation.

    The statement said the most important of doubts were that how she managed to pass through check points and sophisticated machines at airports in Riyadh and Colombo with those solid things inside her body.
    http://www.island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-d

  124. Kanagarathnam Says:
    August 31st, 2010 at 6:26 am

    Dear Impotent Ape worm !!

    Check the previous post where we condemn the 83 attacks on Tamils !!

    If that’s not being critical, you need to go find a dictionary to figure out the meaning of the word criticizing !! We are not here to give our rear ends to the GOSL, but save Sri Lanka from Terrorists like you !!

    Now, let’s see, can you call your selves unbiased and critical when required ?? Let’s see your comments on killing of Lakshman Kadiragamar and other Tamil politicians by the LTTE -Try tell me whether you are for it or against it you impotent spineless chicken head !!

  125. The maid with nails inside her body is lying.

    Her injuries are self-inflicted .

    She did like her Sri Lankan President does-shamelessly lying !! 🙁

    We all remember – ZERO civilian casualties in the Tamil War

    Saudi Embassy expresses doubts
    August 31, 2010, 9:49 pm

    The Saudi Arabian Embassy in Colombo, responding to newspaper reports on a Sri Lankan Housemaid who had been tortured by her employer who had driven nails and needles into her body, issued a statement expressing doubts over the allegation.

    The statement said the most important of doubts were that how she managed to pass through check points and sophisticated machines at airports in Riyadh and Colombo with those solid things inside her body.
    http://www.island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-d

  126. The maid with nails inside her body is lying.

    Her injuries are self-inflicted .

    She did like her Sri Lankan President does-shamelessly lying !! 🙁

    We all remember – ZERO civilian casualties in the Tamil War

    Saudi Embassy expresses doubts
    August 31, 2010, 9:49 pm

    The Saudi Arabian Embassy in Colombo, responding to newspaper reports on a Sri Lankan Housemaid who had been tortured by her employer who had driven nails and needles into her body, issued a statement expressing doubts over the allegation.

    The statement said the most important of doubts were that how she managed to pass through check points and sophisticated machines at airports in Riyadh and Colombo with those solid things inside her body.
    http://www.island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-d

  127. Garment factories exploiting Northern girls

    A garment sector trade union leader charged yesterday that some garment manufacturers were seeking cheap female labour from the one time battle areas of the north.“Factory workers were leaving due to poor wages, work and living conditions.

    Most in the north are ignorant of the labour laws and are falling prey,” Anton Marcus, President of the Progressive Free Trade Zone and Apparel Union told the Sunday Times.

    “After many years of war, the people in these areas are ignorant of workers rights, wages and so on and are easy prey for the apparel operators. Most of the big names currently touring the north and east are known to be serious violators of labour laws,” Mr. Fernando charged.

    He said there was a huge dearth of factory hands at the moment because many were leaving owing to poor wages and working and living conditions.

    “Therefore the apparel bosses have switched to the north and east where there is widespread unemployment. These people are willing to work for any wage and they care less about the working or living conditions. At the end of the day, these workers will be exploited,” he said.

    Meanwhile politicians in the north and east have also begun to frown on the ad-hoc system of recruiting workers from the area. In one case a local MP stopped a group of Kilinochchi girls from being loaded into a bus before they were taken to a factory in Kandy.

    TNA politician S. Sritharan said they had no objection to the recruitment but it should be done in a proper manner. “These girls are just loaded on to buses. No one knows where they are heading for. There should be some transparency in the whole issue.

    I have taken the matter up with the authorities,” he said.He said that even some security forces personnel were openly assisting in the apparel operators’ campaign to recruit unsuspecting girls.

    Lasantha De Silva with Timex Garments admitted they were involved in a recruitment drive in the north and east but said there was no illegality in it

    http://transcurrents.com/tc/2010/08/garment_factories_exploiting_n.html#more

  128. Canadian bishop calls for compassion to Tamils

    Vancouver Archbishop J. Michael Miller has called for compassion for Sri Lankan Tamil asylum seekers who have landed in British Columbia.

    Archbishop Miller says now is the time to remember the fundamental dignity of each human person, News 1130 reports.

    He stresses the men, women and children must not become “scapegoats” in immigration debates.

    He says while responsible governments need to find out the identities of newcomers so as not to open a door to a potential security risk, the Catholic Church maintains people who are victims of armed conflicts must be recognized as refugees and offered international protection.

    The archbishop says Canada has a solid reputation as a nation of immigrants and refugees and a long of history of welcoming people seeking a haven from injustice

  129. More than settlements, government working hard for splits states, Mano Ganeshan
    http://www.lankasrinews.com/view.php?2bIAQUe0dRlmS0ecLBYy4a4J54ycd3cYB3dc2Amd3a434OX3e230Mm30

    Democratic People’s Front Leader Mano Ganeshan said, the Sri Lankan government does not have any concern to find a settlement to the crisis faced by the Sri lankan Tamils.
    The government without finding a settlement to the crisis, is more concern to originate splits was pointed out by him. The war has come to an end, and one year and more has elapsed, but the Tamils issues are still the same. The political parties without giving importance to the people’s aspirations are functioning in the aim of political gains which he mentioned. In this situation the government is working hard to bring split among the north, east and upcountry Tamils which he alleged.

    Expectations that UN will originate a Commission to investigate missing persons in Sri Lanka
    http://www.lankasrinews.com/view.php?2bbnVBYYyddc2e00Mmmb24aa3445JPdd0ee7Jlmmcccd3044OXXd32ee4BBYcccce004SAQQC44a44AAmddc00

  130. Reports states, 35 Tamil political prisoners detained at the Anuradhapura Prison from the year 2005, had made an urgency appeal from the Sri Lankan Government. Their appeal is to release them or to bail them out.
    The prisoners are natives of Vavuniya, Anurahdapura, Mannar, Jaffna, Kilinochchi, Mullaitheevu and Batticaloa districts. They informed at many times they were produced in courts, but necessary inquires were not held. They pointed out charges are not filed against them.
    http://www.lankasrinews.com/view.php?2bb445JB32eeAAmdd00eccmmlJ22cdd00Mmmccd32SAQQ44a44XXO44aa42BVBYYdd0eeBBYcc00

  131. Unfortunately ,Sri Lanka is heading towards Dictatorship.

    Mahinda Rajapaske lacks the vision to solve the ethnic problems facing Sri Lanka.

    True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.

  132. Don’t Forget 40,000 Tamils Disappeared in Sri Lanka last year.

    Sri Lanka massacred up to 40,000 Tamil civilians – former UN official
    http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=31186
    Sri Lanka’s military massacred as many as 40,000 Tamil civilians in the final onslaught against the Liberation Tigers in 2009, according to a former United Nations official with detailed knowledge of events, press reports said. The former United Nations’ spokesperson in Sri Lanka, Gordon Weiss, has resigned from the UN after 14 years and returned home to Australia, where he was interviewed by ABC News. “He’s now free to speak openly about the situation in Sri Lanka, for the first time and does so candidly and unflinchingly,” the media agency said.

    A survivor of the slaughter in Vanni, who escaped from Muliyavaikkal on May 18 last year, shared his experiences of losing his father and cousins, of seeing people blown up in front of his eyes.

    “We took the injured to hospitals, and they [the Sri Lankan government] targeted the hospitals,” he said.
    http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=31788

  133. In Sri Lanka there are the ongoing atrocities and land grabbing in the Tamil areas. A large population still behind bars.

    There has been not a single word about political rights to the minorities.

    Sri Lankan regime continue to shamelessly play the “terrorist” card on the innocent Tamil refugees.

    I feel like living in Hitlers era when the atrocities on Jews were all justified and considered “just” by most part of the world due to Hitlers preachings about how Jews deserved the ill treatment.

    The West is watching silently the brutal murders of theTamil civilianswhile Sri Lanka Mass Murderers are playing the ”war on terror” card and hoodwink the whole world.

  134. The 11-member IIGEP said: “Summary executions, massacres, disappearances, wanton destruction of property, and forcible transfers of populations can never be justified. No efforts should be spared to uncover responsibility, including recognition of command responsibility, for such actions.”

    The public report gave following reasons for IIGEP’s decision to terminate the mission “with profound regret that more could not have been achieved.”:
    A conflict of interest in the proceedings before the Commission
    Lack of effective victim and witness protection
    Lack of transparency and timeliness in the proceedings
    Lack of full co-operation by State bodies
    Lack of financial independence of the Commission
    http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=25308

  135. A new low even for an Eelamist

    @Perumal Kayalvili:

    Congratulations for proving how Eelamists have sunk even lower than even I imagined possible. You've decided, before all the facts about her story are proven, that the maid who allegedly had nails hammered into her body, is lying.

    "The maid with nails inside her body is lying. Her injuries are self-inflicted. She did like her Sri Lankan President does-shamelessly lying !! We all remember – ZERO civilian casualties in the Tamil War"

    Rajapakse lied because he's a politician. That's what we expected. For you to conflate his lie with the veracity (or otherwise) of a poor, ordinary woman from SL is truly… indicative of why the Eelam virus had to be totally and utterly wiped off the face of Sri Lanka.

    The Eelamists' worst previous lie was pretending to be Prageeth Eknaligoda and create a fake posting on this blog. This is far worse (or better) depending on your point of view.

    Your post must never be deleted.

  136. Sri Lanka with its adaptation (or rather manipulation I should say) of George W Bush’s famous “war of terror” strategy has created, what I would like to call the perfect “Genocide for Dummies” handbook – that is being seriously considered by several oppressive genocide seeking regimes.

    The only problem is for the dictators who want to use the Sri Lank Final Solution that a bunch of brave Human Rights activists and some members of the UN who are trying to get Sri Lanka punished for its war crimes.

  137. Rip Van Winkle – August 31st, 2010 at 4:45 am said:
    ”As usual, Jim MD has sat in front of the computer to ensure that he get’s good marks for his Performance Review by end of December”

    I hope he’s not on performance related pay. Check the two links at the start of the article (from the AI’s main site). They don’t have a single reference to Sri Lanka, Tamil or Sinhalese!

    International Day of the Disappeared http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/news/r

    Enforced disappearance http://www.amnesty.org/en/enforced-disappearances

    Has he declared UDI from AI?

  138. Brave Tamil men of Jaffna asked Nirupama Rao

    “India provided arms and logistical support to Colombo in the Vanni war. It didn’t take any effort to stop the war. Even after one year of the war, India didn’t act on rehabilitating the incarcerated people,”

    After the meeting the Sri Lanka Army (SLA ) soldiers harassed the civil society representatives who spoke on the occasion.

    So much for Freedom of Speech in Sri Lanka !

  139. Rip Van Winkle – August 31st, 2010 at 4:45 am said:
    ”As usual, Jim MD has sat in front of the computer to ensure that he get’s good marks for his Performance Review by end of December”

    I hope he’s not on performance related pay. Check the two links at the start of the article (from the AI’s main site). They don’t have a single reference to Sri Lanka, Tamil or Sinhalese!

    International Day of the Disappeared http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/news/r

    Enforced disappearance http://www.amnesty.org/en/enforced-disappearances

    Has he declared UDI from AI?

  140. Rip Van Winkle – August 31st, 2010 at 4:45 am said:
    ”As usual, Jim MD has sat in front of the computer to ensure that he get’s good marks for his Performance Review by end of December”

    I hope he’s not on performance related pay. Check the two links at the start of the article (from the AI’s main site). They don’t have a single reference to Sri Lanka, Tamil or Sinhalese!

    International Day of the Disappeared http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/news/r

    Enforced disappearance http://www.amnesty.org/en/enforced-disappearances

    Has he declared UDI from AI?

  141. The maid with nails inside her body is lying.

    Her injuries are self-inflicted .

    She did like her Sri Lankan President does-shamelessly lying !! 🙁

    We all remember – ZERO civilian casualties in the Tamil War

    Saudi Embassy expresses doubts
    August 31, 2010, 9:49 pm

    The Saudi Arabian Embassy in Colombo, responding to newspaper reports on a Sri Lankan Housemaid who had been tortured by her employer who had driven nails and needles into her body, issued a statement expressing doubts over the allegation.

    The statement said the most important of doubts were that how she managed to pass through check points and sophisticated machines at airports in Riyadh and Colombo with those solid things inside her body.

    http://www.island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-details&page=article-details&code_title=5659

  142. A new low even for an Eelamist

    @Perumal Kayalvili:

    Congratulations for proving how Eelamists have sunk even lower than even I imagined possible. You’ve decided, before all the facts about her story are proven, that the maid who allegedly had nails hammered into her body, is lying.

    “The maid with nails inside her body is lying. Her injuries are self-inflicted. She did like her Sri Lankan President does-shamelessly lying !! We all remember – ZERO civilian casualties in the Tamil War”

    Rajapakse lied because he’s a politician. That’s what we expected. For you to conflate his lie with the veracity (or otherwise) of a poor, ordinary woman from SL is truly… indicative of why the Eelam virus had to be totally and utterly wiped off the face of Sri Lanka.

    The Eelamists’ worst previous lie was pretending to be Prageeth Eknaligoda and create a fake posting on this blog. This is far worse (or better) depending on your point of view.

    Your post must never be deleted.

  143. Rip Van Winkle – August 31st, 2010 at 4:45 am said:
    ”As usual, Jim MD has sat in front of the computer to ensure that he get’s good marks for his Performance Review by end of December”

    I hope he’s not on performance related pay. Check the two links at the start of the article (from the AI’s main site). They don’t have a single reference to Sri Lanka, Tamil or Sinhalese!

    International Day of the Disappeared
    http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/news/remembering-the-world-disappeared-in-2009-20090828

    Enforced disappearance
    http://www.amnesty.org/en/enforced-disappearances

    Has he declared UDI from AI?

  144. Resettled people in the North affected by rains – TNA MP Sumanthiran

    TNA parliamentarian M. Sumanthiran has told the media that the resettled people in the North have been affected by the heavy rains experienced in the area and that his party has not been permitted to visit the people to look into their needs and help them.

    He said that people resettled in Ramavil in Jaffna District and Shanthipuram, Mailmanapuram and Kumarasamypuram in the Kilinochchi District have been displaced by the heavy rains and the government has not focused on the matter. About 270 families living in temporary shelters in the North have been badly affected by the rains and the Kilinochchi District Secretary has taken steps to find shelter for them in the Kilinochchi Hospital.

    However, the parliamentarian observed the people lacked food, drinking water, other necessities and sanitary facilities.

    According to Sumanthiran, the floods would result in the spread of diseases and the matter needed to be addressed.

  145. Do you remember how 500 Jewish refugees on the ship St Louis were turned away from Canada and the U.S. in 1939?

    It was made into a film, “Voyage of the Damned.”

    Tamils are the Jews of Sri Lanka. Thousands have been killed in numerous pogroms since the mid-1950s. Their safety is always uncertain.

    If a boatload of Jews from Germany sought refuge in the 1920s, fearing the Nazis, should they have been turned away?

    The situation is similar for Tamils. They fear the constant presence of Sinhala. They can visit their relatives in Sri Lanka, but can only stay there at their peril. They may be safe today, dead tomorrow.

  146. Batticaloa Tamils mourn disappearance of 48 Tamils two decades ago http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&art

    Tamils of several villages in Batticaloa district Friday observed the twenty years’ death anniversary of 48 Tamil people who were reported disappeared after being arrested by the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) on 27th August 1990, with silent procession from Siththaa'ndi Kaa'li Koayil to Siththaa'ndi Murukan Koayil from 9:00 a.m till 11:00 a.m. Relatives of the disappeared participated in the procession with tears. Special prayer was also held in Siththaa'ndi Murukan Temple in remembrance of those “disappeared”.

    SLA had cordoned off Siththaa'ndi Murukan Temple on that day and took forty-eight Tamils including women and children who had been called to the temple for interrogation.

    Thereafter they were reported disappeared when relatives inquired from the army authorities.

    The disappeared Tamils were from the villages, Ka'ruvaakkea'ni, Kiraan, Kumpurumoolai, Chanthive'li, Murakkoddanchchenai, Vanthaa'rumoolai, and Maavadiveampu.

    They fled from their houses and sought refuge in the temple to save their lives from the army.

  147. HC applications to be filed by familes of disappeared LTTE key persons http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&art
    The family members of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eezham (LTTE) key persons gone missing after arrest by Sri Lanka Army (SLA) or surrender at the end of the war on Vanni are to file Habeas Corpus (HC) applications next week, sources Jaffna said. According to Sri Lanka minister D. Gunasekara the wives of LTTE senior key persons Balakumaran and Yogi are now widows. Some sources say that both had been killed after surrendering to SLA and some that they are held in special SLA detention centres. The contradicting and confusing information have led their family members to file HC applications, the sources added.

    Around 1200 to 2000 youths had disappeared after being arrested by Sri Lanka Armed Forces in 1997, 98 and after 2006 and the complaints made to humanitarian institutions have not produced any results at all, the representatives pointed out. http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&art

  148. Records of persons fleeing Vanni destroyed by Special Action Committee of Basil Rajapakse http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&art
    The Special Action Committee (SAC) of Basil Rajapakse, the brother of President Mahinda Rajapakse, the present Sri Lankan Economic Development Minister and the former senior advisor to the President during the war on Vanni, had ordered the records of all persons who fled Vanni at the end of the war to be destroyed so as to conceal the recorded particulars of more than 17,000 persons who were suspected as Liberation Tigers and who had later disappeared without any trace, an official of the Ministry of Disaster Management and Resettlement (MDMRS) said. Rizard Badudin who was then the minister of the above ministry is alleged to have functioned as a puppet in the hands of Basil Rajapakse in destroying the records, sources close to MDMRS officials who had recorded the details of persons fleeing Vanni said.

    “To tell the truth is crime in Sri Lanka” – wife of disappeared Sinhalese journalist http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&art

  149. Rights group appeals for accountability for victims of disappearances, detainees http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&art
    The Civil Monitoring Mission in an appeal made after convening a conference on the "Disappeared and the Detained" said Wednesday, "[t]he end of war has not brought any end to our agonies and miseries. We feel more vulnerable today than in the past. National reconciliation and national unity have been reduced to mere rhetoric statements. Instead of bringing change towards constructive hope, the ending of war has brought new miseries to our people. We are today witnessing over two hundred and fifty thousand of our people languishing in military guarded camps…," and appealed to the Sri Lanka Government to account of all detainees in prison, and to "[p]rovide democratic space with legal assurance to human rights organizations tomonitor and evaluate the violations and represent the victims."

    SLA massacred civilians in bunkers – medical worker http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=79&art

  150. Victims Without Voices

    Like the last cries of a herd of sheep,
    Facing cruel cull amidst baying wolves,
    Stood thousands Tamils facing slaughter
    Among murderous army with cynical laughter;
    Gleeful of ensuing massacre of innocent lives.
    Skyward, echoed around walls of power, yells
    Of protest and plea for mercy of thousands.
    No power on earth moved-so perished thousands.
    Silenced by the very silence of flawed conscience
    Of moral high landers and so born us –
    The Victims without voices.

    Beyond massacre, mass graves and genocide,
    Beneath false surface of normalcy, besides ecocide,
    Wombs of yesterday walk in search of off springs,
    Mums-to-be reach post to post in search of husbands.
    Barbed wires weep at those detained behind them.
    Curbed villagers scorn at schemes which deny their homes.
    Kids many that defied death in the murderous onslaught,
    Sit in orphanages, a lot in shock, rest in mental drought.
    Sky much our agony, so little known of this tragedy
    Because, we are the – The Victims without voices.

    A nation being decimated and destroyed,
    While nations of goodwill seem to need steroid
    To break their silence and speak for us – silent victims.
    A community of people pushed to extinction
    While people of conscience lack moral conviction
    To break their silence and speak for us – silent victims
    In these civil and morally defunct valleys perish we –
    The Victims without voices.
    http://www.tamileelamnews.com/news/publish/tns_12

  151. Kapanna Alawanna Says:
    August 31st, 2010 at 6:08 pm

    Indeed !!

    It sounds to me like Jim MD is getting an additional pay-pack courtesy – Apes and Worms of Peelam Die Ass pora !!

    U should have Kapanna Alawanna the following few interesting statements from Jim's Bosses.

    Enforced disappearances persist in many countries all over the world, having been a continuing feature of the second half of the twentieth century since they were committed on a gross scale in Nazi-occupied Europe.

    In recent years, in the course of the "war on terror", the USA, sometimes with the complicity of other governments, has acrried out enforced disappearances of terror suspects. Amnesty International has campaigned to demand that the USA and all states reveal the whereabouts and fate of disappeared persons, and if they are not to be released that they are charged with a recognizably criminal offence and given a fair trial in accordance with international standards.

    As I mentioned in my above post you quoted, USA has the highest number of disappearance and in Sri Lanka, it is next to nothing and reduced drastically since end of Peelam Apes. It's true that Jim has been assigned to look in to affairs of Sri Lanka, but Sad that we never heard of him when the LTTE was involved in HR violations. He has come in to the scene majorly only after the LTTE was crushed and still do not take action against any HR violations by LTTE – If he is so unbiased and want to do a good job to be happy about the pay-pack he get's only from AI, he can do a simple thing by getting west to arrest Adela B – a proven HR violator.

    Sivayogapoopathy Says:
    September 1st, 2010 at 12:02 am

    Dear Goopathytic !

    Tamils are the Jews of Sri Lanka. Thousands have been killed in numerous pogroms since the mid-1950s. Their safety is always uncertain.

    I always ask this question for those who try to compare Tamils to Jews. Answer me if you have at least a little bit of spine and little bit of potency !!

    1. How many Jews were in the Cabinet and held ministerial portfolio's in Hitler's government
    2. What was the Jewish move to out run Hitler and ask for a separate state in Germany ?
    3. How many Jews did the Jews kill because these Jews did not agree with the separatist Jews ?
    4. How Many Jews in this movement left the movement and joined Hitler because they thought that the Jewish leader was an Ape and had his private agendas?
    5. Did Hitler select and kill Jews or did he kill all the Jews in sight ??

    If a boatload of Jews from Germany sought refuge in the 1920s, fearing the Nazis, should they have been turned away?

    Def. not !!!!! I don't think you even have to ask this question, but then again – U sound a dud !!

    If not, you will not even your wildest dreams would compare the Goof Tamil People to your Peelam Ape movement + the innocent Jews who got hammered by a lunatic !!

    Now, if by chance the Ape leader Piribaharan came in to power, we would have seen the following !!

    1. All Singhala and Muslim people killed, their houses burned and them chased out of their homelands in the north (Oh – did he already do that when he was around ??)
    2. Try attacking the neighbouring countries (Oh – If I remember, this Baboon did try to attack Maldives sometime back and got hammered by the Indian Army who went to the rescue)
    3. Try to have a partnership with other dictators around the world (Oh – He did do this too – Ties with Eritrea, Al Quaida, Taliban)
    4. Wanted his Image to be highlighted and worshiped by his own people he is suppose to server (OMG – even this happened and those who had different ideas – he killed)

    Oh – Now we see where the Terrorist low mental psychopath Hitler was reborn – In Sri Lanka in the form of Piribaharan !!!!

    Worship Mahinda Rajapaske you fools for getting rid of this low mental ape – Mahinda Saved you guys from this lunatic – try to understand it – You would have been slaves forever to a lunatic if not for MR !!

  152. Batticaloa Tamils mourn disappearance of 48 Tamils two decades ago http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&art

    Tamils of several villages in Batticaloa district Friday observed the twenty years’ death anniversary of 48 Tamil people who were reported disappeared after being arrested by the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) on 27th August 1990, with silent procession from Siththaa'ndi Kaa'li Koayil to Siththaa'ndi Murukan Koayil from 9:00 a.m till 11:00 a.m. Relatives of the disappeared participated in the procession with tears. Special prayer was also held in Siththaa'ndi Murukan Temple in remembrance of those “disappeared”.

    SLA had cordoned off Siththaa'ndi Murukan Temple on that day and took forty-eight Tamils including women and children who had been called to the temple for interrogation.

    Thereafter they were reported disappeared when relatives inquired from the army authorities.

    The disappeared Tamils were from the villages, Ka'ruvaakkea'ni, Kiraan, Kumpurumoolai, Chanthive'li, Murakkoddanchchenai, Vanthaa'rumoolai, and Maavadiveampu.

    They fled from their houses and sought refuge in the temple to save their lives from the army.

  153. Batticaloa Tamils mourn disappearance of 48 Tamils two decades ago http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&art

    Tamils of several villages in Batticaloa district Friday observed the twenty years’ death anniversary of 48 Tamil people who were reported disappeared after being arrested by the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) on 27th August 1990, with silent procession from Siththaa'ndi Kaa'li Koayil to Siththaa'ndi Murukan Koayil from 9:00 a.m till 11:00 a.m. Relatives of the disappeared participated in the procession with tears. Special prayer was also held in Siththaa'ndi Murukan Temple in remembrance of those “disappeared”.

    SLA had cordoned off Siththaa'ndi Murukan Temple on that day and took forty-eight Tamils including women and children who had been called to the temple for interrogation.

    Thereafter they were reported disappeared when relatives inquired from the army authorities.

    The disappeared Tamils were from the villages, Ka'ruvaakkea'ni, Kiraan, Kumpurumoolai, Chanthive'li, Murakkoddanchchenai, Vanthaa'rumoolai, and Maavadiveampu.

    They fled from their houses and sought refuge in the temple to save their lives from the army.

  154. HC applications to be filed by familes of disappeared LTTE key persons http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&art
    The family members of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eezham (LTTE) key persons gone missing after arrest by Sri Lanka Army (SLA) or surrender at the end of the war on Vanni are to file Habeas Corpus (HC) applications next week, sources Jaffna said. According to Sri Lanka minister D. Gunasekara the wives of LTTE senior key persons Balakumaran and Yogi are now widows. Some sources say that both had been killed after surrendering to SLA and some that they are held in special SLA detention centres. The contradicting and confusing information have led their family members to file HC applications, the sources added.

    Around 1200 to 2000 youths had disappeared after being arrested by Sri Lanka Armed Forces in 1997, 98 and after 2006 and the complaints made to humanitarian institutions have not produced any results at all, the representatives pointed out. http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&art

  155. HC applications to be filed by familes of disappeared LTTE key persons http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&art
    The family members of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eezham (LTTE) key persons gone missing after arrest by Sri Lanka Army (SLA) or surrender at the end of the war on Vanni are to file Habeas Corpus (HC) applications next week, sources Jaffna said. According to Sri Lanka minister D. Gunasekara the wives of LTTE senior key persons Balakumaran and Yogi are now widows. Some sources say that both had been killed after surrendering to SLA and some that they are held in special SLA detention centres. The contradicting and confusing information have led their family members to file HC applications, the sources added.

    Around 1200 to 2000 youths had disappeared after being arrested by Sri Lanka Armed Forces in 1997, 98 and after 2006 and the complaints made to humanitarian institutions have not produced any results at all, the representatives pointed out. http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&art

  156. Records of persons fleeing Vanni destroyed by Special Action Committee of Basil Rajapakse http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&art
    The Special Action Committee (SAC) of Basil Rajapakse, the brother of President Mahinda Rajapakse, the present Sri Lankan Economic Development Minister and the former senior advisor to the President during the war on Vanni, had ordered the records of all persons who fled Vanni at the end of the war to be destroyed so as to conceal the recorded particulars of more than 17,000 persons who were suspected as Liberation Tigers and who had later disappeared without any trace, an official of the Ministry of Disaster Management and Resettlement (MDMRS) said. Rizard Badudin who was then the minister of the above ministry is alleged to have functioned as a puppet in the hands of Basil Rajapakse in destroying the records, sources close to MDMRS officials who had recorded the details of persons fleeing Vanni said.

    “To tell the truth is crime in Sri Lanka” – wife of disappeared Sinhalese journalist http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&art

  157. Records of persons fleeing Vanni destroyed by Special Action Committee of Basil Rajapakse http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&art
    The Special Action Committee (SAC) of Basil Rajapakse, the brother of President Mahinda Rajapakse, the present Sri Lankan Economic Development Minister and the former senior advisor to the President during the war on Vanni, had ordered the records of all persons who fled Vanni at the end of the war to be destroyed so as to conceal the recorded particulars of more than 17,000 persons who were suspected as Liberation Tigers and who had later disappeared without any trace, an official of the Ministry of Disaster Management and Resettlement (MDMRS) said. Rizard Badudin who was then the minister of the above ministry is alleged to have functioned as a puppet in the hands of Basil Rajapakse in destroying the records, sources close to MDMRS officials who had recorded the details of persons fleeing Vanni said.

    “To tell the truth is crime in Sri Lanka” – wife of disappeared Sinhalese journalist http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&art

  158. Rights group appeals for accountability for victims of disappearances, detainees http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&art
    The Civil Monitoring Mission in an appeal made after convening a conference on the "Disappeared and the Detained" said Wednesday, "[t]he end of war has not brought any end to our agonies and miseries. We feel more vulnerable today than in the past. National reconciliation and national unity have been reduced to mere rhetoric statements. Instead of bringing change towards constructive hope, the ending of war has brought new miseries to our people. We are today witnessing over two hundred and fifty thousand of our people languishing in military guarded camps…," and appealed to the Sri Lanka Government to account of all detainees in prison, and to "[p]rovide democratic space with legal assurance to human rights organizations tomonitor and evaluate the violations and represent the victims."

    SLA massacred civilians in bunkers – medical worker http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=79&art

  159. Rights group appeals for accountability for victims of disappearances, detainees http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&art
    The Civil Monitoring Mission in an appeal made after convening a conference on the "Disappeared and the Detained" said Wednesday, "[t]he end of war has not brought any end to our agonies and miseries. We feel more vulnerable today than in the past. National reconciliation and national unity have been reduced to mere rhetoric statements. Instead of bringing change towards constructive hope, the ending of war has brought new miseries to our people. We are today witnessing over two hundred and fifty thousand of our people languishing in military guarded camps…," and appealed to the Sri Lanka Government to account of all detainees in prison, and to "[p]rovide democratic space with legal assurance to human rights organizations tomonitor and evaluate the violations and represent the victims."

    SLA massacred civilians in bunkers – medical worker http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=79&art

  160. Victims Without Voices

    Like the last cries of a herd of sheep,
    Facing cruel cull amidst baying wolves,
    Stood thousands Tamils facing slaughter
    Among murderous army with cynical laughter;
    Gleeful of ensuing massacre of innocent lives.
    Skyward, echoed around walls of power, yells
    Of protest and plea for mercy of thousands.
    No power on earth moved-so perished thousands.
    Silenced by the very silence of flawed conscience
    Of moral high landers and so born us –
    The Victims without voices.

    Beyond massacre, mass graves and genocide,
    Beneath false surface of normalcy, besides ecocide,
    Wombs of yesterday walk in search of off springs,
    Mums-to-be reach post to post in search of husbands.
    Barbed wires weep at those detained behind them.
    Curbed villagers scorn at schemes which deny their homes.
    Kids many that defied death in the murderous onslaught,
    Sit in orphanages, a lot in shock, rest in mental drought.
    Sky much our agony, so little known of this tragedy
    Because, we are the – The Victims without voices.

    A nation being decimated and destroyed,
    While nations of goodwill seem to need steroid
    To break their silence and speak for us – silent victims.
    A community of people pushed to extinction
    While people of conscience lack moral conviction
    To break their silence and speak for us – silent victims
    In these civil and morally defunct valleys perish we –
    The Victims without voices.
    http://www.tamileelamnews.com/news/publish/tns_12

  161. Victims Without Voices

    Like the last cries of a herd of sheep,
    Facing cruel cull amidst baying wolves,
    Stood thousands Tamils facing slaughter
    Among murderous army with cynical laughter;
    Gleeful of ensuing massacre of innocent lives.
    Skyward, echoed around walls of power, yells
    Of protest and plea for mercy of thousands.
    No power on earth moved-so perished thousands.
    Silenced by the very silence of flawed conscience
    Of moral high landers and so born us –
    The Victims without voices.

    Beyond massacre, mass graves and genocide,
    Beneath false surface of normalcy, besides ecocide,
    Wombs of yesterday walk in search of off springs,
    Mums-to-be reach post to post in search of husbands.
    Barbed wires weep at those detained behind them.
    Curbed villagers scorn at schemes which deny their homes.
    Kids many that defied death in the murderous onslaught,
    Sit in orphanages, a lot in shock, rest in mental drought.
    Sky much our agony, so little known of this tragedy
    Because, we are the – The Victims without voices.

    A nation being decimated and destroyed,
    While nations of goodwill seem to need steroid
    To break their silence and speak for us – silent victims.
    A community of people pushed to extinction
    While people of conscience lack moral conviction
    To break their silence and speak for us – silent victims
    In these civil and morally defunct valleys perish we –
    The Victims without voices.
    http://www.tamileelamnews.com/news/publish/tns_12

  162. Rohan Says:
    September 1st, 2010 at 1:30 am

    Good to know that you copy and paste poems too !! Only issue is the source of the post is not credible ! Tamileelamnews.com – Ha Ha Ha !!! Would love to see you create a poem using your imagination – oops, but then again, your whole existence in this site (which is only to Copy and Paste) becomes useless !!
    http://www.tamileelamnews.com/news/publish/tns_12

    Many creative people can write fairy tales, fictions, stories and poems – but, it is those who make these creations real that get in to trouble. I hope you gave up believing in Santa Clause, Snow White and wicked which babayaga as you grew up !

  163. Resettled people in the North affected by rains – TNA MP Sumanthiran

    TNA parliamentarian M. Sumanthiran has told the media that the resettled people in the North have been affected by the heavy rains experienced in the area and that his party has not been permitted to visit the people to look into their needs and help them.

    He said that people resettled in Ramavil in Jaffna District and Shanthipuram, Mailmanapuram and Kumarasamypuram in the Kilinochchi District have been displaced by the heavy rains and the government has not focused on the matter. About 270 families living in temporary shelters in the North have been badly affected by the rains and the Kilinochchi District Secretary has taken steps to find shelter for them in the Kilinochchi Hospital.

    However, the parliamentarian observed the people lacked food, drinking water, other necessities and sanitary facilities.

    According to Sumanthiran, the floods would result in the spread of diseases and the matter needed to be addressed.

  164. Do you remember how 500 Jewish refugees on the ship St Louis were turned away from Canada and the U.S. in 1939?

    It was made into a film, “Voyage of the Damned.”

    Tamils are the Jews of Sri Lanka. Thousands have been killed in numerous pogroms since the mid-1950s. Their safety is always uncertain.

    If a boatload of Jews from Germany sought refuge in the 1920s, fearing the Nazis, should they have been turned away?

    The situation is similar for Tamils. They fear the constant presence of Sinhala. They can visit their relatives in Sri Lanka, but can only stay there at their peril. They may be safe today, dead tomorrow.

  165. Rohan Says:
    September 1st, 2010 at 1:30 am

    Good to know that you copy and paste poems too !! Only issue is the source of the post is not credible ! Tamileelamnews.com – Ha Ha Ha !!! Would love to see you create a poem using your imagination – oops, but then again, your whole existence in this site (which is only to Copy and Paste) becomes useless !!
    http://www.tamileelamnews.com/news/publish/tns_12

    Many creative people can write fairy tales, fictions, stories and poems – but, it is those who make these creations real that get in to trouble. I hope you gave up believing in Santa Clause, Snow White and wicked which babayaga as you grew up !

  166. Rohan Says:
    September 1st, 2010 at 1:30 am

    Good to know that you copy and paste poems too !! Only issue is the source of the post is not credible ! Tamileelamnews.com – Ha Ha Ha !!! Would love to see you create a poem using your imagination – oops, but then again, your whole existence in this site (which is only to Copy and Paste) becomes useless !!
    http://www.tamileelamnews.com/news/publish/tns_12

    Many creative people can write fairy tales, fictions, stories and poems – but, it is those who make these creations real that get in to trouble. I hope you gave up believing in Santa Clause, Snow White and wicked which babayaga as you grew up !

  167. Kapanna Alawanna Says:
    August 31st, 2010 at 6:08 pm

    Indeed !!

    It sounds to me like Jim MD is getting an additional pay-pack courtesy – Apes and Worms of Peelam Die Ass pora !!

    U should have Kapanna Alawanna the following few interesting statements from Jim’s Bosses.

    Enforced disappearances persist in many countries all over the world, having been a continuing feature of the second half of the twentieth century since they were committed on a gross scale in Nazi-occupied Europe.

    In recent years, in the course of the “war on terror”, the USA, sometimes with the complicity of other governments, has acrried out enforced disappearances of terror suspects. Amnesty International has campaigned to demand that the USA and all states reveal the whereabouts and fate of disappeared persons, and if they are not to be released that they are charged with a recognizably criminal offence and given a fair trial in accordance with international standards.

    As I mentioned in my above post you quoted, USA has the highest number of disappearance and in Sri Lanka, it is next to nothing and reduced drastically since end of Peelam Apes. It’s true that Jim has been assigned to look in to affairs of Sri Lanka, but Sad that we never heard of him when the LTTE was involved in HR violations. He has come in to the scene majorly only after the LTTE was crushed and still do not take action against any HR violations by LTTE – If he is so unbiased and want to do a good job to be happy about the pay-pack he get’s only from AI, he can do a simple thing by getting west to arrest Adela B – a proven HR violator.

    Sivayogapoopathy Says:
    September 1st, 2010 at 12:02 am

    Dear Goopathytic !

    Tamils are the Jews of Sri Lanka. Thousands have been killed in numerous pogroms since the mid-1950s. Their safety is always uncertain.

    I always ask this question for those who try to compare Tamils to Jews. Answer me if you have at least a little bit of spine and little bit of potency !!

    1. How many Jews were in the Cabinet and held ministerial portfolio’s in Hitler’s government
    2. What was the Jewish move to out run Hitler and ask for a separate state in Germany ?
    3. How many Jews did the Jews kill because these Jews did not agree with the separatist Jews ?
    4. How Many Jews in this movement left the movement and joined Hitler because they thought that the Jewish leader was an Ape and had his private agendas?
    5. Did Hitler select and kill Jews or did he kill all the Jews in sight ??

    If a boatload of Jews from Germany sought refuge in the 1920s, fearing the Nazis, should they have been turned away?

    Def. not !!!!! I don’t think you even have to ask this question, but then again – U sound a dud !!

    If not, you will not even your wildest dreams would compare the Goof Tamil People to your Peelam Ape movement + the innocent Jews who got hammered by a lunatic !!

    Now, if by chance the Ape leader Piribaharan came in to power, we would have seen the following !!

    1. All Singhala and Muslim people killed, their houses burned and them chased out of their homelands in the north (Oh – did he already do that when he was around ??)
    2. Try attacking the neighbouring countries (Oh – If I remember, this Baboon did try to attack Maldives sometime back and got hammered by the Indian Army who went to the rescue)
    3. Try to have a partnership with other dictators around the world (Oh – He did do this too – Ties with Eritrea, Al Quaida, Taliban)
    4. Wanted his Image to be highlighted and worshiped by his own people he is suppose to server (OMG – even this happened and those who had different ideas – he killed)

    Oh – Now we see where the Terrorist low mental psychopath Hitler was reborn – In Sri Lanka in the form of Piribaharan !!!!

    Worship Mahinda Rajapaske you fools for getting rid of this low mental ape – Mahinda Saved you guys from this lunatic – try to understand it – You would have been slaves forever to a lunatic if not for MR !!

  168. Batticaloa Tamils mourn disappearance of 48 Tamils two decades ago
    http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=32506

    Tamils of several villages in Batticaloa district Friday observed the twenty years’ death anniversary of 48 Tamil people who were reported disappeared after being arrested by the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) on 27th August 1990, with silent procession from Siththaa’ndi Kaa’li Koayil to Siththaa’ndi Murukan Koayil from 9:00 a.m till 11:00 a.m. Relatives of the disappeared participated in the procession with tears. Special prayer was also held in Siththaa’ndi Murukan Temple in remembrance of those “disappeared”.

    SLA had cordoned off Siththaa’ndi Murukan Temple on that day and took forty-eight Tamils including women and children who had been called to the temple for interrogation.

    Thereafter they were reported disappeared when relatives inquired from the army authorities.

    The disappeared Tamils were from the villages, Ka’ruvaakkea’ni, Kiraan, Kumpurumoolai, Chanthive’li, Murakkoddanchchenai, Vanthaa’rumoolai, and Maavadiveampu.

    They fled from their houses and sought refuge in the temple to save their lives from the army.

  169. HC applications to be filed by familes of disappeared LTTE key persons
    http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=32372
    The family members of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eezham (LTTE) key persons gone missing after arrest by Sri Lanka Army (SLA) or surrender at the end of the war on Vanni are to file Habeas Corpus (HC) applications next week, sources Jaffna said. According to Sri Lanka minister D. Gunasekara the wives of LTTE senior key persons Balakumaran and Yogi are now widows. Some sources say that both had been killed after surrendering to SLA and some that they are held in special SLA detention centres. The contradicting and confusing information have led their family members to file HC applications, the sources added.

    Around 1200 to 2000 youths had disappeared after being arrested by Sri Lanka Armed Forces in 1997, 98 and after 2006 and the complaints made to humanitarian institutions have not produced any results at all, the representatives pointed out.
    http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=32282

  170. Records of persons fleeing Vanni destroyed by Special Action Committee of Basil Rajapakse
    http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=31862
    The Special Action Committee (SAC) of Basil Rajapakse, the brother of President Mahinda Rajapakse, the present Sri Lankan Economic Development Minister and the former senior advisor to the President during the war on Vanni, had ordered the records of all persons who fled Vanni at the end of the war to be destroyed so as to conceal the recorded particulars of more than 17,000 persons who were suspected as Liberation Tigers and who had later disappeared without any trace, an official of the Ministry of Disaster Management and Resettlement (MDMRS) said. Rizard Badudin who was then the minister of the above ministry is alleged to have functioned as a puppet in the hands of Basil Rajapakse in destroying the records, sources close to MDMRS officials who had recorded the details of persons fleeing Vanni said.

    “To tell the truth is crime in Sri Lanka” – wife of disappeared Sinhalese journalist
    http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=31681

  171. Rights group appeals for accountability for victims of disappearances, detainees
    http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=30245
    The Civil Monitoring Mission in an appeal made after convening a conference on the “Disappeared and the Detained” said Wednesday, “[t]he end of war has not brought any end to our agonies and miseries. We feel more vulnerable today than in the past. National reconciliation and national unity have been reduced to mere rhetoric statements. Instead of bringing change towards constructive hope, the ending of war has brought new miseries to our people. We are today witnessing over two hundred and fifty thousand of our people languishing in military guarded camps…,” and appealed to the Sri Lanka Government to account of all detainees in prison, and to “[p]rovide democratic space with legal assurance to human rights organizations tomonitor and evaluate the violations and represent the victims.”

    SLA massacred civilians in bunkers – medical worker
    http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=79&artid=30180

  172. Victims Without Voices

    Like the last cries of a herd of sheep,
    Facing cruel cull amidst baying wolves,
    Stood thousands Tamils facing slaughter
    Among murderous army with cynical laughter;
    Gleeful of ensuing massacre of innocent lives.
    Skyward, echoed around walls of power, yells
    Of protest and plea for mercy of thousands.
    No power on earth moved-so perished thousands.
    Silenced by the very silence of flawed conscience
    Of moral high landers and so born us –
    The Victims without voices.

    Beyond massacre, mass graves and genocide,
    Beneath false surface of normalcy, besides ecocide,
    Wombs of yesterday walk in search of off springs,
    Mums-to-be reach post to post in search of husbands.
    Barbed wires weep at those detained behind them.
    Curbed villagers scorn at schemes which deny their homes.
    Kids many that defied death in the murderous onslaught,
    Sit in orphanages, a lot in shock, rest in mental drought.
    Sky much our agony, so little known of this tragedy
    Because, we are the – The Victims without voices.

    A nation being decimated and destroyed,
    While nations of goodwill seem to need steroid
    To break their silence and speak for us – silent victims.
    A community of people pushed to extinction
    While people of conscience lack moral conviction
    To break their silence and speak for us – silent victims
    In these civil and morally defunct valleys perish we –
    The Victims without voices.

    http://www.tamileelamnews.com/news/publish/tns_12933.shtml

  173. @ Kappana:

    Very funny comment about Jim declaring UDI from AI! 🙂 Perhaps he's on a plausible deniability mission?

    Anyway, I hope Jim can reply to us so that at the very least we can invite him to visit SL and see that the reality of the SL is different to that being painted by the Donkey Diaspora.

    Destroying another Eelam Lie about the 20,000 or 40,000 or 40,000,000 dead civilians

    A whole bunch of Eelam Lies & ultra-tasty Eelam Punnaku destroyed.
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jan/

    p.s. for non-Sri Lankans, 'Punnakku' is the residue from coconut oil production and is typically fed to cattle, donkeys and pro-LTTE diaspora, who are now the world's largest consumers of Punnakku.

    The chief on-line producer of 'punnaky' is Tamilnut.com

  174. @ Kappana:

    Very funny comment about Jim declaring UDI from AI! 🙂 Perhaps he's on a plausible deniability mission?

    Anyway, I hope Jim can reply to us so that at the very least we can invite him to visit SL and see that the reality of the SL is different to that being painted by the Donkey Diaspora.

    Destroying another Eelam Lie about the 20,000 or 40,000 or 40,000,000 dead civilians

    A whole bunch of Eelam Lies & ultra-tasty Eelam Punnaku destroyed.
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jan/

    p.s. for non-Sri Lankans, 'Punnakku' is the residue from coconut oil production and is typically fed to cattle, donkeys and pro-LTTE diaspora, who are now the world's largest consumers of Punnakku.

    The chief on-line producer of 'punnaky' is Tamilnut.com

  175. @ Kappana:

    Very funny comment about Jim declaring UDI from AI! 🙂 Perhaps he's on a plausible deniability mission?

    Anyway, I hope Jim can reply to us so that at the very least we can invite him to visit SL and see that the reality of the SL is different to that being painted by the Donkey Diaspora.

    Destroying another Eelam Lie about the 20,000 or 40,000 or 40,000,000 dead civilians

    A whole bunch of Eelam Lies & ultra-tasty Eelam Punnaku destroyed.
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jan/

    p.s. for non-Sri Lankans, 'Punnakku' is the residue from coconut oil production and is typically fed to cattle, donkeys and pro-LTTE diaspora, who are now the world's largest consumers of Punnakku.

    The chief on-line producer of 'punnaky' is Tamilnut.com

  176. Who else has 'disappeared' in Sri Lanka?

    • 'Experts' from the international NGO circus fond of pontificating to Sri Lanka that the the LTTE were invincible and could not be beaten.

    • INGOs who helped the LTTE acquire hi-tech equipment and weapons.

    • Pro-LTTE Norwegian diplomats & Generals.

    • pro-LTTE Fluffers from the UK Labour Party on lecture tours to browbeat the SL govt

    Who has miraculously re-appeared in Sri Lanka?

    • Random death now involves motor vehicles and bad roads rather than suicide bombs or artillery strikes

    • KP, the last leader of the LTTE

    • pro-LTTE diaspora supporters who've faced reality

    • fake refugees from Canada visiting friends & relatives, unmolested.

    p.s. @ Gunalan:

    Here's a great job opportunity for you, in SL; with the salary they're offering, you can live like a king in SL.

    "Seeking Sri Lanka Country Representative"

    "Nonviolent Peaceforce is a dynamic international, non-governmental organization which works to reduce violence and protect civilians in situations of violent conflict and its aftermath."
    http://www.nonviolentpeaceforce.org/seeking-sri-l

    You can take a.savage with you to watch whales off the East coast and sing to each other. Listen to the voices in the wind… 🙂 🙂

  177. Who else has 'disappeared' in Sri Lanka?

    • 'Experts' from the international NGO circus fond of pontificating to Sri Lanka that the the LTTE were invincible and could not be beaten.

    • INGOs who helped the LTTE acquire hi-tech equipment and weapons.

    • Pro-LTTE Norwegian diplomats & Generals.

    • pro-LTTE Fluffers from the UK Labour Party on lecture tours to browbeat the SL govt

    Who has miraculously re-appeared in Sri Lanka?

    • Random death now involves motor vehicles and bad roads rather than suicide bombs or artillery strikes

    • KP, the last leader of the LTTE

    • pro-LTTE diaspora supporters who've faced reality

    • fake refugees from Canada visiting friends & relatives, unmolested.

    p.s. @ Gunalan:

    Here's a great job opportunity for you, in SL; with the salary they're offering, you can live like a king in SL.

    "Seeking Sri Lanka Country Representative"

    "Nonviolent Peaceforce is a dynamic international, non-governmental organization which works to reduce violence and protect civilians in situations of violent conflict and its aftermath."
    http://www.nonviolentpeaceforce.org/seeking-sri-l

    You can take a.savage with you to watch whales off the East coast and sing to each other. Listen to the voices in the wind… 🙂 🙂

  178. Who else has 'disappeared' in Sri Lanka?

    • 'Experts' from the international NGO circus fond of pontificating to Sri Lanka that the the LTTE were invincible and could not be beaten.

    • INGOs who helped the LTTE acquire hi-tech equipment and weapons.

    • Pro-LTTE Norwegian diplomats & Generals.

    • pro-LTTE Fluffers from the UK Labour Party on lecture tours to browbeat the SL govt

    Who has miraculously re-appeared in Sri Lanka?

    • Random death now involves motor vehicles and bad roads rather than suicide bombs or artillery strikes

    • KP, the last leader of the LTTE

    • pro-LTTE diaspora supporters who've faced reality

    • fake refugees from Canada visiting friends & relatives, unmolested.

    p.s. @ Gunalan:

    Here's a great job opportunity for you, in SL; with the salary they're offering, you can live like a king in SL.

    "Seeking Sri Lanka Country Representative"

    "Nonviolent Peaceforce is a dynamic international, non-governmental organization which works to reduce violence and protect civilians in situations of violent conflict and its aftermath."
    http://www.nonviolentpeaceforce.org/seeking-sri-l

    You can take a.savage with you to watch whales off the East coast and sing to each other. Listen to the voices in the wind… 🙂 🙂

  179. Rohan Says:
    September 1st, 2010 at 1:30 am

    Good to know that you copy and paste poems too !! Only issue is the source of the post is not credible ! Tamileelamnews.com – Ha Ha Ha !!! Would love to see you create a poem using your imagination – oops, but then again, your whole existence in this site (which is only to Copy and Paste) becomes useless !!

    http://www.tamileelamnews.com/news/publish/tns_12933.shtml

    Many creative people can write fairy tales, fictions, stories and poems – but, it is those who make these creations real that get in to trouble. I hope you gave up believing in Santa Clause, Snow White and wicked which babayaga as you grew up !

  180. In the early 19 50s the Ilankai Thamil Arasu Katchi (ITAK) launched the first and only non-violent movement to date to achieve internal de-colonisation through devolution of power. The party sought to mimic the essentials of the Indian model of linguistic states that contributed to partial democratisation; so it proposed similar devolution to future Tamil and Sinhalese linguistic states to introduce a democratic federal system of government in Sri Lanka. Their overriding aim was to modernise the bankrupt unitary State, which British colonialists had originally imposed in 1832 and monopolised power through it to dominate and plunder the island. Tamil civil society solidly backed federalism and, by extension, agreed to internal de-colonisation. http://www.tamilcanadian.com/page.php?cat=5&i

    Pro-war ideologues and intelligentsia had bayed for Tamil blood; one had hysterically urged the marauding Sinhalese army in Vanni to decimate the LTTE, to ‘cut it and kill it’; another blood-thirstily re-cast Tamil civilians – men, women and children, both aged and infirm – as ‘auxiliaries’ of the LTTE’s fighting formations and, therefore, military targets to be legitimately slaughtered at will.

  181. SRI LANKA: Special Task Force illegally arrest, detain and file fabricated charges against a German philanthropist staying in Sri Lanka http://www.ahrchk.net/ua/mainfile.php/2010/3533/

    The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a German philanthropist staying in Sri Lanka has been illegally arrested and detained by the officers attached to the Special Task Force (STF) of the Sri Lanka police on 17th August, 2010 at Siyambalanduwa. He was travelling with his son and his companions in the district of Monaragala. He was detained in the Siyambalanduwa Police Station where fabricated charges of illegal drug trafficking were filed against him. A few months before this incident a powerful Minister of the present Sri Lankan government illegally requested Mr. Michael Kreitmeir to give him Rs. 30 million towards his election campaign and when Mr. Kreitmeir refused he was threatened by the Minister. A report on this specific incident was sent to the German Embassy on 13 March 2010 by the victim.

  182. Sri Lankan government’s bogus inquiry into the civil war http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/sep2010/sril-s0
    The proceedings of the commission do not in any way constitute an investigation of alleged war crimes, but are aimed at covering them up. In the final months of the war between January and May 2009, the UN estimated that 7,000 Tamil civilians were killed as the army pounded the shrinking patch of LTTE-held territory. A report by the International Crisis Group this year put the death toll between 30,000 and 75,000 and accused the Sri Lankan military of deliberately bombarding hospitals and aid centres.
    In line with the Sri Lankan government’s flat denials that the military killed any civilians, the commission is yet to ask witnesses about any of these atrocities

  183. In the early 19 50s the Ilankai Thamil Arasu Katchi (ITAK) launched the first and only non-violent movement to date to achieve internal de-colonisation through devolution of power. The party sought to mimic the essentials of the Indian model of linguistic states that contributed to partial democratisation; so it proposed similar devolution to future Tamil and Sinhalese linguistic states to introduce a democratic federal system of government in Sri Lanka. Their overriding aim was to modernise the bankrupt unitary State, which British colonialists had originally imposed in 1832 and monopolised power through it to dominate and plunder the island. Tamil civil society solidly backed federalism and, by extension, agreed to internal de-colonisation. http://www.tamilcanadian.com/page.php?cat=5&i

    Pro-war ideologues and intelligentsia had bayed for Tamil blood; one had hysterically urged the marauding Sinhalese army in Vanni to decimate the LTTE, to ‘cut it and kill it’; another blood-thirstily re-cast Tamil civilians – men, women and children, both aged and infirm – as ‘auxiliaries’ of the LTTE’s fighting formations and, therefore, military targets to be legitimately slaughtered at will.

  184. In the early 19 50s the Ilankai Thamil Arasu Katchi (ITAK) launched the first and only non-violent movement to date to achieve internal de-colonisation through devolution of power. The party sought to mimic the essentials of the Indian model of linguistic states that contributed to partial democratisation; so it proposed similar devolution to future Tamil and Sinhalese linguistic states to introduce a democratic federal system of government in Sri Lanka. Their overriding aim was to modernise the bankrupt unitary State, which British colonialists had originally imposed in 1832 and monopolised power through it to dominate and plunder the island. Tamil civil society solidly backed federalism and, by extension, agreed to internal de-colonisation. http://www.tamilcanadian.com/page.php?cat=5&i

    Pro-war ideologues and intelligentsia had bayed for Tamil blood; one had hysterically urged the marauding Sinhalese army in Vanni to decimate the LTTE, to ‘cut it and kill it’; another blood-thirstily re-cast Tamil civilians – men, women and children, both aged and infirm – as ‘auxiliaries’ of the LTTE’s fighting formations and, therefore, military targets to be legitimately slaughtered at will.

  185. SRI LANKA: Special Task Force illegally arrest, detain and file fabricated charges against a German philanthropist staying in Sri Lanka http://www.ahrchk.net/ua/mainfile.php/2010/3533/

    The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a German philanthropist staying in Sri Lanka has been illegally arrested and detained by the officers attached to the Special Task Force (STF) of the Sri Lanka police on 17th August, 2010 at Siyambalanduwa. He was travelling with his son and his companions in the district of Monaragala. He was detained in the Siyambalanduwa Police Station where fabricated charges of illegal drug trafficking were filed against him. A few months before this incident a powerful Minister of the present Sri Lankan government illegally requested Mr. Michael Kreitmeir to give him Rs. 30 million towards his election campaign and when Mr. Kreitmeir refused he was threatened by the Minister. A report on this specific incident was sent to the German Embassy on 13 March 2010 by the victim.

  186. SRI LANKA: Special Task Force illegally arrest, detain and file fabricated charges against a German philanthropist staying in Sri Lanka http://www.ahrchk.net/ua/mainfile.php/2010/3533/

    The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a German philanthropist staying in Sri Lanka has been illegally arrested and detained by the officers attached to the Special Task Force (STF) of the Sri Lanka police on 17th August, 2010 at Siyambalanduwa. He was travelling with his son and his companions in the district of Monaragala. He was detained in the Siyambalanduwa Police Station where fabricated charges of illegal drug trafficking were filed against him. A few months before this incident a powerful Minister of the present Sri Lankan government illegally requested Mr. Michael Kreitmeir to give him Rs. 30 million towards his election campaign and when Mr. Kreitmeir refused he was threatened by the Minister. A report on this specific incident was sent to the German Embassy on 13 March 2010 by the victim.

  187. Sri Lankan government’s bogus inquiry into the civil war http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/sep2010/sril-s0
    The proceedings of the commission do not in any way constitute an investigation of alleged war crimes, but are aimed at covering them up. In the final months of the war between January and May 2009, the UN estimated that 7,000 Tamil civilians were killed as the army pounded the shrinking patch of LTTE-held territory. A report by the International Crisis Group this year put the death toll between 30,000 and 75,000 and accused the Sri Lankan military of deliberately bombarding hospitals and aid centres.
    In line with the Sri Lankan government’s flat denials that the military killed any civilians, the commission is yet to ask witnesses about any of these atrocities

  188. Sri Lankan government’s bogus inquiry into the civil war http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/sep2010/sril-s0
    The proceedings of the commission do not in any way constitute an investigation of alleged war crimes, but are aimed at covering them up. In the final months of the war between January and May 2009, the UN estimated that 7,000 Tamil civilians were killed as the army pounded the shrinking patch of LTTE-held territory. A report by the International Crisis Group this year put the death toll between 30,000 and 75,000 and accused the Sri Lankan military of deliberately bombarding hospitals and aid centres.
    In line with the Sri Lankan government’s flat denials that the military killed any civilians, the commission is yet to ask witnesses about any of these atrocities

  189. @ Kappana:

    Very funny comment about Jim declaring UDI from AI! 🙂 Perhaps he’s on a plausible deniability mission?

    Anyway, I hope Jim can reply to us so that at the very least we can invite him to visit SL and see that the reality of the SL is different to that being painted by the Donkey Diaspora.

    Destroying another Eelam Lie about the 20,000 or 40,000 or 40,000,000 dead civilians

    A whole bunch of Eelam Lies & ultra-tasty Eelam Punnaku destroyed.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jan/28/sri-lanka-human-rights-watch

    p.s. for non-Sri Lankans, ‘Punnakku’ is the residue from coconut oil production and is typically fed to cattle, donkeys and pro-LTTE diaspora, who are now the world’s largest consumers of Punnakku.

    The chief on-line producer of ‘punnaky’ is Tamilnut.com

  190. Who else has ‘disappeared’ in Sri Lanka?

    • ‘Experts’ from the international NGO circus fond of pontificating to Sri Lanka that the the LTTE were invincible and could not be beaten.

    • INGOs who helped the LTTE acquire hi-tech equipment and weapons.

    • Pro-LTTE Norwegian diplomats & Generals.

    • pro-LTTE Fluffers from the UK Labour Party on lecture tours to browbeat the SL govt

    Who has miraculously re-appeared in Sri Lanka?

    • Random death now involves motor vehicles and bad roads rather than suicide bombs or artillery strikes

    • KP, the last leader of the LTTE

    • pro-LTTE diaspora supporters who’ve faced reality

    • fake refugees from Canada visiting friends & relatives, unmolested.

    p.s. @ Gunalan:

    Here’s a great job opportunity for you, in SL; with the salary they’re offering, you can live like a king in SL.

    “Seeking Sri Lanka Country Representative”

    “Nonviolent Peaceforce is a dynamic international, non-governmental organization which works to reduce violence and protect civilians in situations of violent conflict and its aftermath.”

    http://www.nonviolentpeaceforce.org/seeking-sri-lanka-country-representative

    You can take a.savage with you to watch whales off the East coast and sing to each other. Listen to the voices in the wind… 🙂 🙂

  191. In the early 19 50s the Ilankai Thamil Arasu Katchi (ITAK) launched the first and only non-violent movement to date to achieve internal de-colonisation through devolution of power. The party sought to mimic the essentials of the Indian model of linguistic states that contributed to partial democratisation; so it proposed similar devolution to future Tamil and Sinhalese linguistic states to introduce a democratic federal system of government in Sri Lanka. Their overriding aim was to modernise the bankrupt unitary State, which British colonialists had originally imposed in 1832 and monopolised power through it to dominate and plunder the island. Tamil civil society solidly backed federalism and, by extension, agreed to internal de-colonisation.
    http://www.tamilcanadian.com/page.php?cat=5&id=5950

    Pro-war ideologues and intelligentsia had bayed for Tamil blood; one had hysterically urged the marauding Sinhalese army in Vanni to decimate the LTTE, to ‘cut it and kill it’; another blood-thirstily re-cast Tamil civilians – men, women and children, both aged and infirm – as ‘auxiliaries’ of the LTTE’s fighting formations and, therefore, military targets to be legitimately slaughtered at will.

  192. SRI LANKA: Special Task Force illegally arrest, detain and file fabricated charges against a German philanthropist staying in Sri Lanka
    http://www.ahrchk.net/ua/mainfile.php/2010/3533/

    The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a German philanthropist staying in Sri Lanka has been illegally arrested and detained by the officers attached to the Special Task Force (STF) of the Sri Lanka police on 17th August, 2010 at Siyambalanduwa. He was travelling with his son and his companions in the district of Monaragala. He was detained in the Siyambalanduwa Police Station where fabricated charges of illegal drug trafficking were filed against him. A few months before this incident a powerful Minister of the present Sri Lankan government illegally requested Mr. Michael Kreitmeir to give him Rs. 30 million towards his election campaign and when Mr. Kreitmeir refused he was threatened by the Minister. A report on this specific incident was sent to the German Embassy on 13 March 2010 by the victim.

  193. Sri Lankan government’s bogus inquiry into the civil war
    http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/sep2010/sril-s01.shtml
    The proceedings of the commission do not in any way constitute an investigation of alleged war crimes, but are aimed at covering them up. In the final months of the war between January and May 2009, the UN estimated that 7,000 Tamil civilians were killed as the army pounded the shrinking patch of LTTE-held territory. A report by the International Crisis Group this year put the death toll between 30,000 and 75,000 and accused the Sri Lankan military of deliberately bombarding hospitals and aid centres.
    In line with the Sri Lankan government’s flat denials that the military killed any civilians, the commission is yet to ask witnesses about any of these atrocities

  194. Kanagarathnam & Gnanendramohan,

    Thus the results of State wars & genocides transform into the opposite of those intended !

    How well Kanagarathnam puts it …..

    the Chinese pearl necklace is becoming a hangman's noose for india !

    Well put indeed … & for genocide's facilitators, well served !

    ********

    And Gnanendramohan makes the vital economic connection ….

    how lanka's surrender to the IMF's austerity demands dismantles ( irrespective of race ? ) the people's jobs, livelihood & wellbeing.

    The Rajapakses' Sinhalese base will now perforce have to drink the cup of poison he smilingly hands out to them.

    All the way to the bottom.

    And they may not even know what killed them !

  195. Where are those Child rights’ activists?
    How long can Sri Lanka fool the international community?

    During the peak days of the war, a few local and international NGOs championed the Child soldier issue in Sri Lanka. Obviously, the target was the LTTE – Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, which latterly admitted that there were child soldiers in their organisation. At the same time, the Sri Lankan security forces were also recruiting child soldiers from schools and poor families in the South. But this was overlooked by zealous government lobbyists and some NGO activists known among Civil Society as GONGOs – GOvernment Non-Governmental Organisations.

    Anyway, since May 2009 – no more war, no more LTTE, no more child soldiers, but there are thousands of children from war-torn areas in and out of internment camps – whose basic needs are not being met. Daily many children are dying, disappearing, abducted, sexually assaulted, tortured, etc. Vulnerable children including orphans are undergoing severe trauma and difficulties. All this continues.

    So far, how many Child rights’ champions locally and internationally have raised their voice about the suffering of these children? These NGOs had a hidden agenda and shed ‘crocodile tears’ about Child soldiers. There is obviously valid reason in raising one’s voice about Child soldiers, but it is not the only issue of concern to the Children. These politically-motivated NGOs never bothered about the massive range of Child rights violated in the North and East. One UN Civil servant talked about ‘five pillars’, but failed to raise concern about the sufferings of the children in the internment camps. It is interesting to learn new phenomena from these people.

    http://www.tamilcanadian.com/page.php?cat=211&amp

  196. It’s been one year since the war was declared over, and do any of you feel better at what is happening in Sri Lanka? So many big names from across the world are silent on the ongoing atrocities and land grabbing in the Tamil areas of this nation. A large population still behind bars. There has been not a single word about political rights to the minorities.

    The worse part is countries like Canada and Australia still traumatizing those who arrive as refugees with no shame and concern for human dignity and equality. While these nations fail to call out the war crimes of the Sri Lankan regime they continue to shamelessly play the “terrorist” card on innocent refugees. I feel like living in Hitlers era when the atrocities on Jews were all justified and considered “just” by most part of the world due to Hitlers preachings about how Jews deserved the ill treatment.
    http://truthdive.com/2010/08/29/prabhakaran-a-zor

  197. Where are those Child rights’ activists?
    How long can Sri Lanka fool the international community?

    During the peak days of the war, a few local and international NGOs championed the Child soldier issue in Sri Lanka. Obviously, the target was the LTTE – Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, which latterly admitted that there were child soldiers in their organisation. At the same time, the Sri Lankan security forces were also recruiting child soldiers from schools and poor families in the South. But this was overlooked by zealous government lobbyists and some NGO activists known among Civil Society as GONGOs – GOvernment Non-Governmental Organisations.

    Anyway, since May 2009 – no more war, no more LTTE, no more child soldiers, but there are thousands of children from war-torn areas in and out of internment camps – whose basic needs are not being met. Daily many children are dying, disappearing, abducted, sexually assaulted, tortured, etc. Vulnerable children including orphans are undergoing severe trauma and difficulties. All this continues.

    So far, how many Child rights’ champions locally and internationally have raised their voice about the suffering of these children? These NGOs had a hidden agenda and shed ‘crocodile tears’ about Child soldiers. There is obviously valid reason in raising one’s voice about Child soldiers, but it is not the only issue of concern to the Children. These politically-motivated NGOs never bothered about the massive range of Child rights violated in the North and East. One UN Civil servant talked about ‘five pillars’, but failed to raise concern about the sufferings of the children in the internment camps. It is interesting to learn new phenomena from these people.

    http://www.tamilcanadian.com/page.php?cat=211&amp

  198. Where are those Child rights’ activists?
    How long can Sri Lanka fool the international community?

    During the peak days of the war, a few local and international NGOs championed the Child soldier issue in Sri Lanka. Obviously, the target was the LTTE – Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, which latterly admitted that there were child soldiers in their organisation. At the same time, the Sri Lankan security forces were also recruiting child soldiers from schools and poor families in the South. But this was overlooked by zealous government lobbyists and some NGO activists known among Civil Society as GONGOs – GOvernment Non-Governmental Organisations.

    Anyway, since May 2009 – no more war, no more LTTE, no more child soldiers, but there are thousands of children from war-torn areas in and out of internment camps – whose basic needs are not being met. Daily many children are dying, disappearing, abducted, sexually assaulted, tortured, etc. Vulnerable children including orphans are undergoing severe trauma and difficulties. All this continues.

    So far, how many Child rights’ champions locally and internationally have raised their voice about the suffering of these children? These NGOs had a hidden agenda and shed ‘crocodile tears’ about Child soldiers. There is obviously valid reason in raising one’s voice about Child soldiers, but it is not the only issue of concern to the Children. These politically-motivated NGOs never bothered about the massive range of Child rights violated in the North and East. One UN Civil servant talked about ‘five pillars’, but failed to raise concern about the sufferings of the children in the internment camps. It is interesting to learn new phenomena from these people.

    http://www.tamilcanadian.com/page.php?cat=211&amp

  199. It’s been one year since the war was declared over, and do any of you feel better at what is happening in Sri Lanka? So many big names from across the world are silent on the ongoing atrocities and land grabbing in the Tamil areas of this nation. A large population still behind bars. There has been not a single word about political rights to the minorities.

    The worse part is countries like Canada and Australia still traumatizing those who arrive as refugees with no shame and concern for human dignity and equality. While these nations fail to call out the war crimes of the Sri Lankan regime they continue to shamelessly play the “terrorist” card on innocent refugees. I feel like living in Hitlers era when the atrocities on Jews were all justified and considered “just” by most part of the world due to Hitlers preachings about how Jews deserved the ill treatment.
    http://truthdive.com/2010/08/29/prabhakaran-a-zor

  200. It’s been one year since the war was declared over, and do any of you feel better at what is happening in Sri Lanka? So many big names from across the world are silent on the ongoing atrocities and land grabbing in the Tamil areas of this nation. A large population still behind bars. There has been not a single word about political rights to the minorities.

    The worse part is countries like Canada and Australia still traumatizing those who arrive as refugees with no shame and concern for human dignity and equality. While these nations fail to call out the war crimes of the Sri Lankan regime they continue to shamelessly play the “terrorist” card on innocent refugees. I feel like living in Hitlers era when the atrocities on Jews were all justified and considered “just” by most part of the world due to Hitlers preachings about how Jews deserved the ill treatment.
    http://truthdive.com/2010/08/29/prabhakaran-a-zor

  201. a.savage Says:
    September 1st, 2010 at 7:41 pm

    So suddenly A(ss) Savage has become the poet and the critique of the blog site… !! Without making his own comments, he has decided to harp on what others post here. But, then again, it is sad to see him applauding copy paste posts which are totally irrelevant to the subject matter that is supposed to be discussed here. But, then again, you cannot expect Gold from a coal mine !

    Rohan Says:
    September 1st, 2010 at 10:54 pm

    Looks like you have found another website to support the Tamilnut which is so credible as per the blinded Gunalan. I hope you already saw these statistics of the most credible news site in the world !
    http://windsthatchanged.blogspot.com/

    Let's look at the snapshot of site visitors !!

    No children – Impotent
    No education – Stupid fools
    24-34 – Easily Mislead
    Access from home – Jobless and living on dole !
    Where are those Child rights’ activists?

    Anyways thanks for this sentence !!

    Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, which latterly admitted that there were child soldiers in their organisation.

    But the following made me laugh !!

    At the same time, the Sri Lankan security forces were also recruiting child soldiers from schools and poor families in the South.

    Now the writer of this post really thinks from his rectum and have no clue what brains are – LOL !! Minimum O/L qualifications were required to get employed in the army and also there was a minimum height requirement which a child could never have achieved. I know of several adults who were turned down because they did not have the required height. You think that fooling the International community is easy because you have mislead a few International organisations ? LOL !!

    Children immaterial of their ethnicity are experiencing a childhood that we were unfortunate not to experience. Our childhood was deprived by the LTTE – we never got a chance to feel free or go out and play because our parents were scared of bombs and other atrocities carried out by the LTTE. But, our children are out there, living happy and getting themselves educated without fear. So goes to the Children in the north – they hold books instead of guns and have "Panchayuda's" around their necks instead of cyanide capsules.

    The happiness of people and development in the north and the Tamils living peacefully and happily with the rest of Sri Lanka must surely be hurting the Peelamists who had their own agenda to divide the country and rule these people with terror….. Sorry – Era of the Apes is over – it is time for the humans !

  202. a.savage Says:
    September 1st, 2010 at 7:41 pm

    So suddenly A(ss) Savage has become the poet and the critique of the blog site… !! Without making his own comments, he has decided to harp on what others post here. But, then again, it is sad to see him applauding copy paste posts which are totally irrelevant to the subject matter that is supposed to be discussed here. But, then again, you cannot expect Gold from a coal mine !

    Rohan Says:
    September 1st, 2010 at 10:54 pm

    Looks like you have found another website to support the Tamilnut which is so credible as per the blinded Gunalan. I hope you already saw these statistics of the most credible news site in the world !
    http://windsthatchanged.blogspot.com/

    Let's look at the snapshot of site visitors !!

    No children – Impotent
    No education – Stupid fools
    24-34 – Easily Mislead
    Access from home – Jobless and living on dole !
    Where are those Child rights’ activists?

    Anyways thanks for this sentence !!

    Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, which latterly admitted that there were child soldiers in their organisation.

    But the following made me laugh !!

    At the same time, the Sri Lankan security forces were also recruiting child soldiers from schools and poor families in the South.

    Now the writer of this post really thinks from his rectum and have no clue what brains are – LOL !! Minimum O/L qualifications were required to get employed in the army and also there was a minimum height requirement which a child could never have achieved. I know of several adults who were turned down because they did not have the required height. You think that fooling the International community is easy because you have mislead a few International organisations ? LOL !!

    Children immaterial of their ethnicity are experiencing a childhood that we were unfortunate not to experience. Our childhood was deprived by the LTTE – we never got a chance to feel free or go out and play because our parents were scared of bombs and other atrocities carried out by the LTTE. But, our children are out there, living happy and getting themselves educated without fear. So goes to the Children in the north – they hold books instead of guns and have "Panchayuda's" around their necks instead of cyanide capsules.

    The happiness of people and development in the north and the Tamils living peacefully and happily with the rest of Sri Lanka must surely be hurting the Peelamists who had their own agenda to divide the country and rule these people with terror….. Sorry – Era of the Apes is over – it is time for the humans !

  203. a.savage Says:
    September 1st, 2010 at 7:41 pm

    So suddenly A(ss) Savage has become the poet and the critique of the blog site… !! Without making his own comments, he has decided to harp on what others post here. But, then again, it is sad to see him applauding copy paste posts which are totally irrelevant to the subject matter that is supposed to be discussed here. But, then again, you cannot expect Gold from a coal mine !

    Rohan Says:
    September 1st, 2010 at 10:54 pm

    Looks like you have found another website to support the Tamilnut which is so credible as per the blinded Gunalan. I hope you already saw these statistics of the most credible news site in the world !
    http://windsthatchanged.blogspot.com/

    Let's look at the snapshot of site visitors !!

    No children – Impotent
    No education – Stupid fools
    24-34 – Easily Mislead
    Access from home – Jobless and living on dole !
    Where are those Child rights’ activists?

    Anyways thanks for this sentence !!

    Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, which latterly admitted that there were child soldiers in their organisation.

    But the following made me laugh !!

    At the same time, the Sri Lankan security forces were also recruiting child soldiers from schools and poor families in the South.

    Now the writer of this post really thinks from his rectum and have no clue what brains are – LOL !! Minimum O/L qualifications were required to get employed in the army and also there was a minimum height requirement which a child could never have achieved. I know of several adults who were turned down because they did not have the required height. You think that fooling the International community is easy because you have mislead a few International organisations ? LOL !!

    Children immaterial of their ethnicity are experiencing a childhood that we were unfortunate not to experience. Our childhood was deprived by the LTTE – we never got a chance to feel free or go out and play because our parents were scared of bombs and other atrocities carried out by the LTTE. But, our children are out there, living happy and getting themselves educated without fear. So goes to the Children in the north – they hold books instead of guns and have "Panchayuda's" around their necks instead of cyanide capsules.

    The happiness of people and development in the north and the Tamils living peacefully and happily with the rest of Sri Lanka must surely be hurting the Peelamists who had their own agenda to divide the country and rule these people with terror….. Sorry – Era of the Apes is over – it is time for the humans !

  204. Is this human or not ???

    An armed man, who held three hostages in the Discovery Communications building in the US state of Maryland, was shot dead, police said. Meanwhile, Maryland's Montgomery County police chief J. Thomas Manger added that all the three hostages are safe.
    http://www.hindustantimes.com/US-hostage-crisis-a

    Isn't this the news we hear when terrorism prevail ? How do we get rid of these inhumane acts ?? Is it by listening to AI or is it by crushing terrorism like GOSL ??

    The US has warned its citizens travelling to or residing in India during the upcoming Commonwealth Games of a threat of "terrorist action and violence" and asked them to "take care when travelling within Delhi".
    http://www.hindustantimes.com/US-warns-citizens-o

    Also,
    http://www.dailymirror.lk/index.php/news/6255-pla

    The Army has recovered several torched LTTE light aircraft parts that had been kept hidden inside a container in Vellamullivaikkal and Ampalawanpokkanai during the peak of the battles in Wanni.

    Most importantly, the tip was given by LTTE carders who are being rehabilitated. Rehabilitation is not a bad idea noh ?

    Watch this too !!
    http://video.dailymirror.lk/videos/638/gota-testi

    This is what we call inquiry !! – When was the last time an LTTE guy went through an inquiry ? Have you heard of that word ??

  205. Kanagarathnam & Gnanendramohan,

    Thus the results of State wars & genocides transform into the opposite of those intended !

    How well Kanagarathnam puts it …..

    the Chinese pearl necklace is becoming a hangman’s noose for india !

    Well put indeed … & for genocide’s facilitators, well served !

    ********

    And Gnanendramohan makes the vital economic connection ….

    how lanka’s surrender to the IMF’s austerity demands dismantles ( irrespective of race ? ) the people’s jobs, livelihood & wellbeing.

    The Rajapakses’ Sinhalese base will now perforce have to drink the cup of poison he smilingly hands out to them.

    All the way to the bottom.

    And they may not even know what killed them !

  206. Is this human or not ???

    An armed man, who held three hostages in the Discovery Communications building in the US state of Maryland, was shot dead, police said. Meanwhile, Maryland's Montgomery County police chief J. Thomas Manger added that all the three hostages are safe.
    http://www.hindustantimes.com/US-hostage-crisis-a

    Isn't this the news we hear when terrorism prevail ? How do we get rid of these inhumane acts ?? Is it by listening to AI or is it by crushing terrorism like GOSL ??

    The US has warned its citizens travelling to or residing in India during the upcoming Commonwealth Games of a threat of "terrorist action and violence" and asked them to "take care when travelling within Delhi".
    http://www.hindustantimes.com/US-warns-citizens-o

    Also,
    http://www.dailymirror.lk/index.php/news/6255-pla

    The Army has recovered several torched LTTE light aircraft parts that had been kept hidden inside a container in Vellamullivaikkal and Ampalawanpokkanai during the peak of the battles in Wanni.

    Most importantly, the tip was given by LTTE carders who are being rehabilitated. Rehabilitation is not a bad idea noh ?

    Watch this too !!
    http://video.dailymirror.lk/videos/638/gota-testi

    This is what we call inquiry !! – When was the last time an LTTE guy went through an inquiry ? Have you heard of that word ??

  207. Is this human or not ???

    An armed man, who held three hostages in the Discovery Communications building in the US state of Maryland, was shot dead, police said. Meanwhile, Maryland's Montgomery County police chief J. Thomas Manger added that all the three hostages are safe.
    http://www.hindustantimes.com/US-hostage-crisis-a

    Isn't this the news we hear when terrorism prevail ? How do we get rid of these inhumane acts ?? Is it by listening to AI or is it by crushing terrorism like GOSL ??

    The US has warned its citizens travelling to or residing in India during the upcoming Commonwealth Games of a threat of "terrorist action and violence" and asked them to "take care when travelling within Delhi".
    http://www.hindustantimes.com/US-warns-citizens-o

    Also,
    http://www.dailymirror.lk/index.php/news/6255-pla

    The Army has recovered several torched LTTE light aircraft parts that had been kept hidden inside a container in Vellamullivaikkal and Ampalawanpokkanai during the peak of the battles in Wanni.

    Most importantly, the tip was given by LTTE carders who are being rehabilitated. Rehabilitation is not a bad idea noh ?

    Watch this too !!
    http://video.dailymirror.lk/videos/638/gota-testi

    This is what we call inquiry !! – When was the last time an LTTE guy went through an inquiry ? Have you heard of that word ??

  208. When racist idiots work together….

    @ a. savage: if you're hoping for a general economic collapse in SL, you're an even bigger idiot than I imagined.

    Who will be most damaged by this scenario?

    It will be the poorest and most disadvantaged in SL, and that'll be the people in the war-ravaged and now slowly recovering, North & East (and of course the plantation workers). The overwhelming majority of whom are Tamil.

    The Donkey Diaspora and Eelam Fluffers like you and are the best allies that extreme Sinhala racists could hope for, to ensure that the poorer Tamils (and the others) remain in a permanent state of poverty and misery.

    What does the IMF say about the current and projected economic performance indicators for SL? Eelamists and their Fluffers of a sensitive disposition are urged NOT to read any further.

    "The International Monetary Fund has projected "strong growth this year" for Sri Lanka's economy, noting that the island nation's "fiscal performance so far remains consistent with achieving the government's full-year deficit target of 8 percent of GDP." http://tinyurl.com/2wwrpma

    You'd better start singing your lonely laments to Gunalan ….

  209. Where are those Child rights’ activists?
    How long can Sri Lanka fool the international community?

    During the peak days of the war, a few local and international NGOs championed the Child soldier issue in Sri Lanka. Obviously, the target was the LTTE – Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, which latterly admitted that there were child soldiers in their organisation. At the same time, the Sri Lankan security forces were also recruiting child soldiers from schools and poor families in the South. But this was overlooked by zealous government lobbyists and some NGO activists known among Civil Society as GONGOs – GOvernment Non-Governmental Organisations.

    Anyway, since May 2009 – no more war, no more LTTE, no more child soldiers, but there are thousands of children from war-torn areas in and out of internment camps – whose basic needs are not being met. Daily many children are dying, disappearing, abducted, sexually assaulted, tortured, etc. Vulnerable children including orphans are undergoing severe trauma and difficulties. All this continues.

    So far, how many Child rights’ champions locally and internationally have raised their voice about the suffering of these children? These NGOs had a hidden agenda and shed ‘crocodile tears’ about Child soldiers. There is obviously valid reason in raising one’s voice about Child soldiers, but it is not the only issue of concern to the Children. These politically-motivated NGOs never bothered about the massive range of Child rights violated in the North and East. One UN Civil servant talked about ‘five pillars’, but failed to raise concern about the sufferings of the children in the internment camps. It is interesting to learn new phenomena from these people.

    http://www.tamilcanadian.com/page.php?cat=211&id=5951

  210. It’s been one year since the war was declared over, and do any of you feel better at what is happening in Sri Lanka? So many big names from across the world are silent on the ongoing atrocities and land grabbing in the Tamil areas of this nation. A large population still behind bars. There has been not a single word about political rights to the minorities.

    The worse part is countries like Canada and Australia still traumatizing those who arrive as refugees with no shame and concern for human dignity and equality. While these nations fail to call out the war crimes of the Sri Lankan regime they continue to shamelessly play the “terrorist” card on innocent refugees. I feel like living in Hitlers era when the atrocities on Jews were all justified and considered “just” by most part of the world due to Hitlers preachings about how Jews deserved the ill treatment.

    http://truthdive.com/2010/08/29/prabhakaran-a-zorro.html

  211. When racist idiots work together….

    @ a. savage: if you're hoping for a general economic collapse in SL, you're an even bigger idiot than I imagined.

    Who will be most damaged by this scenario?

    It will be the poorest and most disadvantaged in SL, and that'll be the people in the war-ravaged and now slowly recovering, North & East (and of course the plantation workers). The overwhelming majority of whom are Tamil.

    The Donkey Diaspora and Eelam Fluffers like you and are the best allies that extreme Sinhala racists could hope for, to ensure that the poorer Tamils (and the others) remain in a permanent state of poverty and misery.

    What does the IMF say about the current and projected economic performance indicators for SL? Eelamists and their Fluffers of a sensitive disposition are urged NOT to read any further.

    "The International Monetary Fund has projected "strong growth this year" for Sri Lanka's economy, noting that the island nation's "fiscal performance so far remains consistent with achieving the government's full-year deficit target of 8 percent of GDP." http://tinyurl.com/2wwrpma

    You'd better start singing your lonely laments to Gunalan ….

  212. When racist idiots work together….

    @ a. savage: if you're hoping for a general economic collapse in SL, you're an even bigger idiot than I imagined.

    Who will be most damaged by this scenario?

    It will be the poorest and most disadvantaged in SL, and that'll be the people in the war-ravaged and now slowly recovering, North & East (and of course the plantation workers). The overwhelming majority of whom are Tamil.

    The Donkey Diaspora and Eelam Fluffers like you and are the best allies that extreme Sinhala racists could hope for, to ensure that the poorer Tamils (and the others) remain in a permanent state of poverty and misery.

    What does the IMF say about the current and projected economic performance indicators for SL? Eelamists and their Fluffers of a sensitive disposition are urged NOT to read any further.

    "The International Monetary Fund has projected "strong growth this year" for Sri Lanka's economy, noting that the island nation's "fiscal performance so far remains consistent with achieving the government's full-year deficit target of 8 percent of GDP." http://tinyurl.com/2wwrpma

    You'd better start singing your lonely laments to Gunalan ….

  213. a.savage Says:

    September 1st, 2010 at 7:41 pm

    Great observations !! 🙂

    China will become a superpower and you know, China is not fussy about the human rights abuse ….

    300 000 darker Sudanese killed in Darfur – no problems for China

    40 000 darker Sri Lankans – the Tamils butchered – it’s all OK for China

  214. An eye witness account when Sri Lankan armed forces burnt the Jaffna Tamil library

    Day One

    6.00am

    One the morning of the 1st July 1981 I woke up early and got ready to attend an accountancy class scheduled for 6 am. It was conducted by a person we referred to as 'Ghanam Master' at his residence on Temple road in Jaffna. I was in time for the class despite the early hour but found on my arrival, scenes of some confusion. I was told that the class had been cancelled because Sinhala policemen, both in and out of uniform, had ransacked and set fire to the home of the Member of Parliament for Jaffna Mr V Yogeswaran.

    Together with my friend Rajkumar we proceeded on our bicycles to Mr Yogeswaran's house that we reached in about ten minutes. The scene before us took us a back. We saw the destruction of the MP's house which had been set alight and was still smouldering. The MP's car which was parked within the compound beside the house had also been damaged and set alight. It was still smouldering when we arrived.

    I saw the MP Mr Yogeswaran at the gate to his house. He was wearing a pair of Khaki shorts and appeared very shaky. In answer to my question, he told me that there had been in all, around 10 to 15 persons in the house at the time of the incident. He said that on the previous night around 10 pm, a group of persons had come to his house and called out to him by name. He went out up to the gate at the top of the garden which had been shut and padlocked for the night. One of the persons in the crowd asked in Sinhala 'Yogeswaran mahataya innavatha '(Is Mr Yogeswaran in?). Mr Yogeswaran said that he realised that something was up. It was very unusual to have a group of Sinhala men call this late at night and ask if the owner was in, in a very intimidating tone. He therefore told them that the MP was not at home. The men apparently believed him and took him to be the night watchman because of his khaki shorts. They however grabbed his hands through the metal bars of the locked gate. He was able to pull his hands back and his hands were still bleeding when we met him. He said he had run towards the house screaming to his wife to get out of the house. They were both able to make their way through the rear fence of the house into their neighbour's property before the group of men forced their way in.

    Mr Yogeswaran asked my friend and me if we could help him look for his wife's 'thali kodi'. This is a necklace of ceremonial and religious significance that a Tamil bride wears from the day she marries till the day her husband dies, if he predeceases her. It is made of solid gold and is often worth a considerable sum of money. Sadly, the house was a mass of smouldering timber and other material and we looked without any success. I do not know if the 'Thali' was ever recovered. We told him, both I and the few people who had come, to go away from the vicinity of his house to his father's house and not remain around here any longer. His father Dr Vettivelu was a well known GP in the town and lived not far from his house.

  215. An eye witness account when Sri Lankan armed forces burnt the Jaffna Tamil library

    Day One

    6.20 am

    My friend Rajkumar and I got on to our bicycles and cycled towards the Jaffna library. What we saw was almost unbelievable. This beautiful building with its wealth of rare and irreplaceable first editions and manuscripts, some of them on 'ola leaves' was covered in dense smoke. We could not enter the library for the smoke. There were about 10 or 15 persons on the premises. There was only one tap outside the building and this was beside the statue of Saraswathi the Goddess of Learning, facing the building as one approached it. But there was nothing we could do. Apart from the distance from the tap to the smouldering library and the books, we did not have sufficient implements or manpower.

    Yet, only 2 minutes walking distance from the library, was the Jaffna Municipality building and offices and the Municipal fire station with its fire trucks manpower and implements. It was of no use, the firemen were too scared to try to put out a fire that had been started by the policemen quite a few of whom were still around with their guns.

    While I was still at the library, I saw a police jeep drive slowly around the library in a wide arc. They drove along the Kandy Road in front of the Municipality then turned left in front of the Rest House proceeding along the road by Jaffna Central College and then turning left on to Clock Tower Road. They were clearly making a 'show' of their presence. It was generally understood that two government ministers and their deputies and principal henchmen were still in residence at the Rest House.

  216. An eye witness account when Sri Lankan armed forces burnt the Jaffna Tamil library

    Day One

    7.15 am

    As we crossed from the library on to Muniyappar Road we heard loud jeering from the direction of the Duriappah Stadium where some of the police officers were apparently taking a nap after having worked so hard through the night wrecking and burning buildings and houses! There were a large number of police officers standing on the tiers of the stadium while yet others, were standing near the fence facing the road that surrounded the stadium. At first, we thought that the loud jeering was directed at us, but then we noticed that a passing motor scooter had been hit by a rock thrown at it by policemen from the stadium and that the scooter and rider had both gone sprawling on to the road. This was what provided 'entertainment' and merriment to these mindless semiliterate Sinhala police morons. I was a 19 year old student and had been brought up to believe in the rule of law. I thought that the police were there to enforce the law not to break it! I am certain that these policemen had been brought from outside Jaffna for a specific purpose. They were clean shaven and had close cropped hair and well built bodies. They appeared to be police trainees or policemen from outside the regular Jaffna police force.

    8 am

    I am still within the library premises but the others are gradually beginning to leave. There is a general belief that there is an unannounced curfew and that there was the possibility that the police would start taking pot shots at persons seen in the vicinity of the library. My friend Rajkumar and I decided to leave by the Muniyappar Road though it meant having to go past the stadium with its unruly policemen. We heard the policemen jeering at us but kept on going and did not look back.

    8.15 am

    As we rode past the Regal Cinema we made a left turn at the Shanthi Cinema and took a little known lane behind the Subas Café and through the Haron Cinema. I saw as many as 50 Jaffna people gathered along the route I took. They told me that the New Market was burning. My friend and I went through the Kottadi Road and saw that the heads of the statues of the great Tamil poetess and poet Ouvaiyar and Thiruvalluvar that had occupied a prime location in Grand Bazaar at the New Market and at the junction of KKS Road had been knocked off. A statue to Mahatma Gandhi head also been destroyed. The Old Market had been ransacked and looted by the police and I saw dried red chillies from the shops scattered on the ground as well as rice, kithul, dry fish and various other condiments. The Old Market that lay beside the New Market had been ransacked and looted.

    10 am

    My friend Rajkiumar told me that he was going back home as he was too scared. Jaffna Town looked like a ghost town. I continued on my own towards Kasturiyar Road and saw that the Bata shop on the corner of the New Market store and the Arrack Tavern on Kasturiyar Road had been looted by the police. I am pretty certain that they had used a heavy truck or an armoured car to get at these shops since I saw that the iron gates of these shops had been smashed and were lying on the road with a chain hanging from one of the gates.

    11.30 am

    I heard from passers by that the EelaNadu Press had been ransacked and burnt I proceeded towards KKS Road where the offices of the EelaNadu were and saw that the print works had been completely burnt. I was told that Mr Sivanathan, a director of EelaNadu, had suffered severe burns and had been taken to the Aanaipanthi Hospital. Mr Sivanathan is the father of a friend so I decided to go to the hospital and seen him.

    4 pm

    I went to the hospital and found that my friend's father had been badly burnt. All his hair had been burnt and he was practically bald. My friend Balakanna told me that his father had fainted due to inhaling excess smoke and that a co worker had bravely carried him to safety from the second floor to the ground floor, using a single drainpipe. Mr Sivanathan is today, a resident of Canada.

    Note

    It had been a very long and traumatic day and I was mentally and physically, exhausted. Up to this point I have been able to recollect in great detail not only the incidents but also their exact nature. I have also been able to give the exact times. From here on, even though I have described the incidents exactly as they occurred, I cannot vouch for the exact times.

  217. STF arrest, detain and file fabricated charges against a German philanthropist
    http://www.ahrchk.net/ua/mainfile.php/2010/35...

    The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a German philanthropist staying in Sri Lanka has been illegally arrested and detained by the officers attached to the Special Task Force (STF) of the Sri Lanka police on 17th August, 2010 at Siyambalanduwa. He was travelling with his son and his companions in the district of Monaragala. He was detained in the Siyambalanduwa Police Station where fabricated charges of illegal drug trafficking were filed against him. A few months before this incident a powerful Minister of the present Sri Lankan government illegally requested Mr. Michael Kreitmeir to give him Rs. 30 million towards his election campaign and when Mr. Kreitmeir refused he was threatened by the Minister. A report on this specific incident was sent to the German Embassy on 13 March 2010 by the victim.

    CASE NARRATIVE:

    Mr. Michael Kreitmeir is a German philanthropist living in Nikapotha, Koslanda in Sri Lanka. He has been helping the victims of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami, especially the children and mothers in need though building schools, houses and orphanages in the eastern and southern part of the country. The main project is a children's village at Koslanda in the hill country where around 90 orphans are being taken care of. Mr. Kreitmeir is in his mid-50s, a professional journalist and film director.

    On the afternoon of 17 August at 5pm, Michael, his son, Emmanuel, the chief matron of the children's village Bavani and her daughter Divia and her friend Shipani were on their way back to Little Smile in Koslanda after visiting a hospital project in Kalmunai in the district of Ampara and another children's home for 80 girls in Batticaloa which is funded by Michael Kreitmeir. They were stopped by officers of Special Team Force (STF) an elite anti-terrorism unit for a check at Siyambalanduwa near the city of Monaragala. They searched the car for more than 30 minutes. Even before the check started everybody had to hand over their mobile phones. When the check was coming to an end and the STF members were reloading the bags, suddenly one member appeared and showed a red plastic bag. It was not clear and visible to Mr. Kreitmeir or anybody from his group where it came from. Without even really looking at it the Superintendent of Police (SP) the highest ranking officer in that group was announced that it was an illegal drug. Mr. Kreitmeir and his son Emmanuel were at once separated and brought to the police station of Siyambalanduwa. Bawani and the children were also kept separately.

    Until 2am the 14 year old Diviah, the daughter of Bawani, and her friend, 14 year old Shipani were questioned. Mrs. Bawani was also questioned and kept separately until that time. She was threatened with life imprisonment, but promised with release if she would make a statement against Mr. Kreitmeir. The police also tried to get a statement against Michael from the two children.

    Emmanuel was separately brought to the police station and kept in a dark house there. He was not told anything about the whereabouts of his father or Bawani and the children. He was guarded always with heavy weapons and STF personal. He was not asked any question on the incident and nobody told him anything about any charges against him. He asked several times to call a lawyer or the German embassy and a STF personal started shouting and threatening him. When he was asked to see his father they assured him that he would be allowed to do so but he was kept separately without any information and without any questioning from 6pm to about 10.30pm. Eventually he was allowed to see his father and was questioned with him until 4am.

    Michael and his son Emmanuel were also forced to sign a statement in Sinhala, a language they cannot read.

  218. An eye witness account when Sri Lankan armed forces burnt the Jaffna Tamil library

    2nd Day

    I got home late on the first night unhappy and dejected. What I had seen that day was to remain with me for a very long time. Today, 27 years after the incidents, as I write these notes they remain vivid in my mind as if they took place yesterday. I had fitful sleep that night a sleep that was interrupted by terrible nightmares.

    My parents were working outside Jaffna where, my father was a Conservator of Forests and my mother, a sister of Charles Somasundrum who writes on matters concerning the Tamil nation, was a teacher. There was no older person to restrict my movements or advise me to remain at home and not get out. I took my bike and went to Jaffna town on the morning of the 2nd July 1981.

    I saw more destruction. The historic and well known Poobalasingham Book Depot that stood near the bus stand had been burnt. This was a shop that not only dealt in books but also dealt in school stationary like exercise books, paints and painting paraphernalia, school text books, instrument boxes and the like. All this had been burnt or destroyed. It then struck me. These police morons were only carrying out the instructions of the two ministers, who were at that moment hiding at the Rest House, and big man at the top in Colombo, who were pulling their strings. These senseless politicians were clearly under the impression that the Tamil people could be stopped from advancing if their access to books or the means of bettering themselves were taken away.

    Little did these small minded Sinhala politicians and their semi literate, mindless uniformed goons realise, that the Tamil people were at the top of the field in whichever discipline they had chosen, because they had the will and the determination. Given the opportunity, there was nothing to stop the average Tamil person excelling in their chosen field as they have shown today, in the various countries to which they have been compelled to emigrate.

    These silly Sinhalas and their equally mindless masters thought that by burning books and destroying their schools they could keep the Tamil nation at the bottom of the pyramid. It shows that however important or powerful a Sinhala person may be that person will never 'learn' or have the capacity to learn.

    While I was at the Poobalasingham Book Depot looking at the damage, I saw a dead body in front of the Book Depot. One of the people there carried the body to the Out Patients Department of the Jaffna Hospital, which is only a few minutes away. Perhaps the body should have been taken to the mortuary but the person probably thought that the hospital authorities would know what to do next.

    There were very few people in the town. There would have been, in all, around 200 to 300 heads. Yet, when a military vehicle passed by with soldiers pointing their guns, their fingers on the trigger, there was general panic. Barely 10 to 15 persons stood their ground. The others bolted with cries of 'odathai' 'odathai' (don't run, don't run) from those who stood their ground, ringing in their ears.

    The military started to bring in small Baval armoured vehicles and some new attack vehicles I have not seen in Jaffna before, all this, to 'attack' unarmed civilians who took flight at the sight of any army vehicle carrying soldiers!

    I visited the Dr Gobalapillai Flats to visit a friend, Chitragangani, to find, that she was preparing to leave the premises. She is currently resident in the UK.

    I was very scared, having seen the dead body at the Book Depot that I returned home

  219. An eye witness account when Sri Lankan armed forces burnt the Jaffna Tamil library

    3rd Day

    This was the 3rd day after the people of Jaffna had been subjected to terror and murderous assault. The Town appeared calm though most of the residents kept to their homes. I thought to myself, why are all these people so sacred? Why don't they all walk together in a simple non violent protest group and show their solidarity. After all, their own MP's house was ransacked and burnt and the MP himself escaped with his life by pure chance. I was ashamed that the people were so scared and frightened. Leading Tamils like Anandasangari and Amithalingam were nowhere to be seen or heard. There was no one to speak up for the Tamil nation in this time of their need. True, the two individuals mentioned above, made passionate speeches, but long after these incidents when they felt it was safe to come out into the open. Things have changed since. The Tamils are prepared to stand up for their rights and fight for them. There are many young men and women who would today have been brilliant professionals or academics but have sacrificed all to fight for a 'free' homeland for the next generation of Tamils. Though Tamils like me are outside our mother country we have not forgotten her. We will continue to extend her all the help and assistance to ensure a free and viable Eelam.

    I continued on my journey towards Kasthooriyar Road and saw just empty space in the middle of the Jaffna bus stand. On normal days, this bus stand would have been a hive of activity with buses and vehicles constantly entering and leaving. All I saw today was a few policemen sitting in front of the Sunlight Laundry – of course they were armed. I needed to cross into Hospital Road and it was very easy crossing through the bus stand. On other days I would have had to take the long route through Stanley Road where the Windsor Cinema is. As I approached the bus stand I saw around 20 policemen in white T shirts and police uniform trousers. They stopped me and told me to get into the drain and stand there. One of then said to me 'sinna podiyan paakirathu enna kaurtha kodi kaatu kiratha?' meaning, 'you look a small boy but you are the ones showing the black flags'. I told them that I had nothing to do with black flags. One of the policemen asked his boss to let me go as I was only a little boy. Meanwhile, the group had detained another person so they let me go. I was by now soaked with the smelly drain water. Perhaps they thought it was sufficient punishment.

    As I cycled further, behind Hospital Road I passed the BMICH building and saw Tamil people looting building material from the shop. I thought to myself that only 200 meters away were policemen harassing innocent Tamil people while here were Tamil people, who lacked the guts to protest about what had happened, looting this shop. There was no law and order when the policemen themselves were themselves guilty of breaking the law.

    I went on to MP Yogeswaran's house and found that around 200 to 300 persons had gathered there, but none of the self titled 'leaders' of the Tamil people. As a military vehicle passed by they jeered at the soldiers. The vehicle stopped and the soldiers fired in the air. All the people promptly ran away. I watched the scene from the front of Subbas Hotel behind Hospital Road.

    I heard that some persons had been killed in front of the Naga Vihare at Aariya Kulam Junction. The Vihare was well protected by the military. I heard that a young graduate of the Jaffna University had been piling bodies in front of the Vihare when he was apprehended by the army.

    They had forced him to throw the bodies into a fire they had started. I later heard that the young man was himself thrown, alive, into the same flames!

    I dedicate this article to the many Tamil men, women and children who lost their lives to the Sinhala policemen whose 'strings' were pulled by the hidden ministers in Jaffna and the big man in Colombo. I particularly remember the young graduate of the Jaffna University who demonstrated his personal protest by piling up some of the dead bodies in front of the Naga Vihare and lost his own life in the process.

    Now dear world tell us who are the terrorists?

  220. a.savage Says:
    September 1st, 2010 at 7:41 pm

    So suddenly A(ss) Savage has become the poet and the critique of the blog site… !! Without making his own comments, he has decided to harp on what others post here. But, then again, it is sad to see him applauding copy paste posts which are totally irrelevant to the subject matter that is supposed to be discussed here. But, then again, you cannot expect Gold from a coal mine !

    Rohan Says:
    September 1st, 2010 at 10:54 pm

    Looks like you have found another website to support the Tamilnut which is so credible as per the blinded Gunalan. I hope you already saw these statistics of the most credible news site in the world !

    http://windsthatchanged.blogspot.com/

    Let’s look at the snapshot of site visitors !!

    No children – Impotent
    No education – Stupid fools
    24-34 – Easily Mislead
    Access from home – Jobless and living on dole !
    Where are those Child rights’ activists?

    Anyways thanks for this sentence !!

    Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, which latterly admitted that there were child soldiers in their organisation.

    But the following made me laugh !!

    At the same time, the Sri Lankan security forces were also recruiting child soldiers from schools and poor families in the South.

    Now the writer of this post really thinks from his rectum and have no clue what brains are – LOL !! Minimum O/L qualifications were required to get employed in the army and also there was a minimum height requirement which a child could never have achieved. I know of several adults who were turned down because they did not have the required height. You think that fooling the International community is easy because you have mislead a few International organisations ? LOL !!

    Children immaterial of their ethnicity are experiencing a childhood that we were unfortunate not to experience. Our childhood was deprived by the LTTE – we never got a chance to feel free or go out and play because our parents were scared of bombs and other atrocities carried out by the LTTE. But, our children are out there, living happy and getting themselves educated without fear. So goes to the Children in the north – they hold books instead of guns and have “Panchayuda’s” around their necks instead of cyanide capsules.

    The happiness of people and development in the north and the Tamils living peacefully and happily with the rest of Sri Lanka must surely be hurting the Peelamists who had their own agenda to divide the country and rule these people with terror….. Sorry – Era of the Apes is over – it is time for the humans !

  221. Canadian parliamentarian expresses concern over human rights of 492 Tamil asylum-seekers

    SEPTEMBER 1, 2010
    NDP MP VISITS TAMIL ASYLUM-SEEKERS IN B.C.

    Peter Julian concerned over human rights, access to services, support and translators

    BURNABY – New Democrat MP Peter Julian (Burnaby-New Westminster) is concerned about the human rights situation of the recent 492 Tamil asylum-seekers currently detained in British Columbia.

    “I had an opportunity to meet with the refugees in two of the three detention centres and it is clear that they have inadequate access to support and services, such as translators,” said Julian. “Canadians of Tamil origin have contributed greatly to Canada, and the Tamil community in Canada has offered to provide a full range of professional support services free of charge to the refugees. Why hasn't the government allowed them to provide this support?” asked Julian.

    Since the arrival of the Tamil refugees earlier this month, Julian has met with the leadership of the Canadian Tamil Congress and lawyers from the Immigration and Refugee Board. He has also participated in meetings (including a town hall) with the community and activists.

    “During my visit to the detention centre, I learned that the refugees have not yet had access to religious services or spiritual guidance. Even convicted prisoners have an opportunity to meet with spiritual leaders – why haven't these Tamils been provided that right? I am growing more and more concerned about their treatment, as are many Canadians.”

    Rathika Sitsabaiesan, the NDP’s candidate for Scarborough-Rouge River, stressed that the Conservative government must treat asylum-seekers as asylum-seekers and not criminals.

    “Canada has an obligation to treat these Tamils with compassion and fairness,” said Sitsabaiesan. “We must uphold their human rights and provide safe, humanitarian conditions. We must also place the women and children into the supportive Tamil-Canadian community to provide them with security and a safe environment, instead of waiting and languishing in the detention centres.”
    http://transcurrents.com/tc/2010/09/canadian_parl

  222. Nirumpama visit to Lanka will be of no use: Vaiko

    MDMK general secretary Vaiko today said Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao's visit to Sri Lanka as special envoy would not help mitigate the miserable conditions of Sri Lankan Tamils.

    Talking to newspersons here, he said there was an initiative at international level to declare Sri Lankan President Raja Pakse, ''a war criminal''.
    http://www.uktamilnews.com/

  223. Sri Lanka: India stood with SL in responding to post-conflict challenges – Rao

    NOT A WORD ABOUT THE PROMISSED POLITICAL PACKAGE

    Despite India’s “new” found goodwill and cloak of compassion, the truth is that 40,000 innocent Tamils were killed by Rajapakse’s genocidal war on Tamils with the support of Indian Government and thousands more are still living a life of misery.

    They continue to live without neither peace or justice, because they’re victims without voices!!!
    http://www.uktamilnews.com/

  224. STF arrest, detain and file fabricated charges against a German philanthropist
    http://www.ahrchk.net/ua/mainfile.php/2010/35...

    The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a German philanthropist staying in Sri Lanka has been illegally arrested and detained by the officers attached to the Special Task Force (STF) of the Sri Lanka police on 17th August, 2010 at Siyambalanduwa. He was travelling with his son and his companions in the district of Monaragala. He was detained in the Siyambalanduwa Police Station where fabricated charges of illegal drug trafficking were filed against him. A few months before this incident a powerful Minister of the present Sri Lankan government illegally requested Mr. Michael Kreitmeir to give him Rs. 30 million towards his election campaign and when Mr. Kreitmeir refused he was threatened by the Minister. A report on this specific incident was sent to the German Embassy on 13 March 2010 by the victim.

    CASE NARRATIVE:

    Mr. Michael Kreitmeir is a German philanthropist living in Nikapotha, Koslanda in Sri Lanka. He has been helping the victims of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami, especially the children and mothers in need though building schools, houses and orphanages in the eastern and southern part of the country. The main project is a children's village at Koslanda in the hill country where around 90 orphans are being taken care of. Mr. Kreitmeir is in his mid-50s, a professional journalist and film director.

    On the afternoon of 17 August at 5pm, Michael, his son, Emmanuel, the chief matron of the children's village Bavani and her daughter Divia and her friend Shipani were on their way back to Little Smile in Koslanda after visiting a hospital project in Kalmunai in the district of Ampara and another children's home for 80 girls in Batticaloa which is funded by Michael Kreitmeir. They were stopped by officers of Special Team Force (STF) an elite anti-terrorism unit for a check at Siyambalanduwa near the city of Monaragala. They searched the car for more than 30 minutes. Even before the check started everybody had to hand over their mobile phones. When the check was coming to an end and the STF members were reloading the bags, suddenly one member appeared and showed a red plastic bag. It was not clear and visible to Mr. Kreitmeir or anybody from his group where it came from. Without even really looking at it the Superintendent of Police (SP) the highest ranking officer in that group was announced that it was an illegal drug. Mr. Kreitmeir and his son Emmanuel were at once separated and brought to the police station of Siyambalanduwa. Bawani and the children were also kept separately.

    Until 2am the 14 year old Diviah, the daughter of Bawani, and her friend, 14 year old Shipani were questioned. Mrs. Bawani was also questioned and kept separately until that time. She was threatened with life imprisonment, but promised with release if she would make a statement against Mr. Kreitmeir. The police also tried to get a statement against Michael from the two children.

    Emmanuel was separately brought to the police station and kept in a dark house there. He was not told anything about the whereabouts of his father or Bawani and the children. He was guarded always with heavy weapons and STF personal. He was not asked any question on the incident and nobody told him anything about any charges against him. He asked several times to call a lawyer or the German embassy and a STF personal started shouting and threatening him. When he was asked to see his father they assured him that he would be allowed to do so but he was kept separately without any information and without any questioning from 6pm to about 10.30pm. Eventually he was allowed to see his father and was questioned with him until 4am.

    Michael and his son Emmanuel were also forced to sign a statement in Sinhala, a language they cannot read.

  225. STF arrest, detain and file fabricated charges against a German philanthropist
    http://www.ahrchk.net/ua/mainfile.php/2010/35...

    The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a German philanthropist staying in Sri Lanka has been illegally arrested and detained by the officers attached to the Special Task Force (STF) of the Sri Lanka police on 17th August, 2010 at Siyambalanduwa. He was travelling with his son and his companions in the district of Monaragala. He was detained in the Siyambalanduwa Police Station where fabricated charges of illegal drug trafficking were filed against him. A few months before this incident a powerful Minister of the present Sri Lankan government illegally requested Mr. Michael Kreitmeir to give him Rs. 30 million towards his election campaign and when Mr. Kreitmeir refused he was threatened by the Minister. A report on this specific incident was sent to the German Embassy on 13 March 2010 by the victim.

    CASE NARRATIVE:

    Mr. Michael Kreitmeir is a German philanthropist living in Nikapotha, Koslanda in Sri Lanka. He has been helping the victims of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami, especially the children and mothers in need though building schools, houses and orphanages in the eastern and southern part of the country. The main project is a children's village at Koslanda in the hill country where around 90 orphans are being taken care of. Mr. Kreitmeir is in his mid-50s, a professional journalist and film director.

    On the afternoon of 17 August at 5pm, Michael, his son, Emmanuel, the chief matron of the children's village Bavani and her daughter Divia and her friend Shipani were on their way back to Little Smile in Koslanda after visiting a hospital project in Kalmunai in the district of Ampara and another children's home for 80 girls in Batticaloa which is funded by Michael Kreitmeir. They were stopped by officers of Special Team Force (STF) an elite anti-terrorism unit for a check at Siyambalanduwa near the city of Monaragala. They searched the car for more than 30 minutes. Even before the check started everybody had to hand over their mobile phones. When the check was coming to an end and the STF members were reloading the bags, suddenly one member appeared and showed a red plastic bag. It was not clear and visible to Mr. Kreitmeir or anybody from his group where it came from. Without even really looking at it the Superintendent of Police (SP) the highest ranking officer in that group was announced that it was an illegal drug. Mr. Kreitmeir and his son Emmanuel were at once separated and brought to the police station of Siyambalanduwa. Bawani and the children were also kept separately.

    Until 2am the 14 year old Diviah, the daughter of Bawani, and her friend, 14 year old Shipani were questioned. Mrs. Bawani was also questioned and kept separately until that time. She was threatened with life imprisonment, but promised with release if she would make a statement against Mr. Kreitmeir. The police also tried to get a statement against Michael from the two children.

    Emmanuel was separately brought to the police station and kept in a dark house there. He was not told anything about the whereabouts of his father or Bawani and the children. He was guarded always with heavy weapons and STF personal. He was not asked any question on the incident and nobody told him anything about any charges against him. He asked several times to call a lawyer or the German embassy and a STF personal started shouting and threatening him. When he was asked to see his father they assured him that he would be allowed to do so but he was kept separately without any information and without any questioning from 6pm to about 10.30pm. Eventually he was allowed to see his father and was questioned with him until 4am.

    Michael and his son Emmanuel were also forced to sign a statement in Sinhala, a language they cannot read.

  226. Sivayogapoopathy Says:
    September 2nd, 2010 at 5:01 am

    China will become a superpower and you know…..

    Indeed a good observation – and as per you, China becomes a super power = Dooms Day for Peelam – Not that Dooms day has not come already – it came on the 19th of May 2009, but, this would be dooms day for the Peelam Die Ass Pora !!

    May be china is not fussy because there is nothing to fuss about it – You move on – may be the reason they are turning in to a Super Power – Also, see all the developed countries and people who are status symbols – they move on – Now you Die Ass Pora understand why you never develop nor evolve – because you live in the past !! You see things with a crooked eye… You support Terrorists and not legal entities… China is one of the very few countries that was never conquered by another party. Also, one of the most advanced civilizations from thousands of years back – May be, they know what's best – May be you should learn from them !!

    Sivayogapoopathy Says:
    September 2nd, 2010 at 5:03 am

    An eye witness account when Sri Lankan armed forces burnt the Jaffna Tamil library

    I don't know what relation the Burning of the library has to do with disappearances in Sri Lanka, However, I noted down the following fascinating points just running through your spam article. Please do not think that I admire or support the dirty act which reminds me what the world lost when the Library of Alexandria was burnt. Literature in what ever form is most valuable !!

    Day One

    6.20 am

    My friend Rajkumar and I got on to our bicycles and cycled towards the Jaffna library. What we saw was almost unbelievable. This beautiful building with its wealth of rare and irreplaceable first editions and manuscripts, some of them on ‘ola leaves’ was covered in dense smoke.

    So he actually did not see who burnt it, but it was on fire !

    hey drove along the Kandy Road in front of the Municipality then turned left in front of the Rest House proceeding along the road by Jaffna Central College and then turning left on to Clock Tower Road.

    Now, the guy who explains is inside the library and had a bicycle – How did he see the jeep drive around the library as it is a large building and he could not see anything going "around" ? Was he not reading anything at the library to note this or was his job to spy on anything that goes around the library ?

    Also, The Central Collage, the Library, Clock tower and the collage are quite far apart, in fact parted by the Subramaniam park, meaning there is no way you could see through the park – So, if he was inside the library, how could he see the jeep approaching all the way from one end of Kandy road near school to the library ? Was he trying to follow the jeep on his bicycle which is quite a feat ? – we could have sent him to Olympics if he is that fast !!

    Then, Day 1 7.15 he was leaving the library down Muniyapar Road and 8.00 he says he is still inside the library premises ??? Heads or tails ? Decide please ?

    Seriously, what was this guys profession is other than riding his cycle – he has covered the peninsula that day !! Also wonder why he took all these small roads than take the main roads like the Vembadi road and hospital street ??

    Also, I saw you have mentioned Anandasangari and Amirtalingam's names – But, Both were not involved in your violent movement where Amirtalingam was killed by you ???? Is it because they wanted to sort out issues differently ?

    Well, can't be bothered reading all, but, I saw the post say bodies burning in front of Naga vihara and a man thrown alive – well, if you say that these people who did it were Singhala Buddhist, you are terribly mistaken – they would never do that in front of a historic temple as Naga Vihara – may be somewhere else. Very hard to believe…

    Anyways, forgetting this story, we know what happened and the politics behind it – it indeed was dirty and a sick thing to do and curse the loonetics who did that to disgrace this land – I know that lot of Sri Lankans will join me to denounce what happened to the library that day – Very bad..

    To date, we will condemn what happened to the Jaffna Library !!!

  227. Sri Lanka journalist who was abducted and tortured by yet unidentified group says he will seek international justice as authorities in Sri Lanka have failed to bring the culprits to books. Poddala Jayantha was one of the remaining journalist leaders in Sri Lanka when he was abducted, beaten and alter thrown away from a vehicle.

    Sri Lanka Police have recently informed the court that the investigation is no longer active as no suspects have been found.

  228. Is this human or not ???

    An armed man, who held three hostages in the Discovery Communications building in the US state of Maryland, was shot dead, police said. Meanwhile, Maryland’s Montgomery County police chief J. Thomas Manger added that all the three hostages are safe.

    http://www.hindustantimes.com/US-hostage-crisis-at-Discovery-channel-HQ-ends-gunman-shot-dead/H1-Article1-595031.aspx

    Isn’t this the news we hear when terrorism prevail ? How do we get rid of these inhumane acts ?? Is it by listening to AI or is it by crushing terrorism like GOSL ??

    The US has warned its citizens travelling to or residing in India during the upcoming Commonwealth Games of a threat of “terrorist action and violence” and asked them to “take care when travelling within Delhi”.

    http://www.hindustantimes.com/US-warns-citizens-of-terror-strike-during-Commonwealth-Games/H1-Article1-595037.aspx

    Also,

    http://www.dailymirror.lk/index.php/news/6255-plane-parts-found.html

    The Army has recovered several torched LTTE light aircraft parts that had been kept hidden inside a container in Vellamullivaikkal and Ampalawanpokkanai during the peak of the battles in Wanni.

    Most importantly, the tip was given by LTTE carders who are being rehabilitated. Rehabilitation is not a bad idea noh ?

    Watch this too !!

    http://video.dailymirror.lk/videos/638/gota-testifies

    This is what we call inquiry !! – When was the last time an LTTE guy went through an inquiry ? Have you heard of that word ??

  229. Canadian parliamentarian expresses concern over human rights of 492 Tamil asylum-seekers

    SEPTEMBER 1, 2010
    NDP MP VISITS TAMIL ASYLUM-SEEKERS IN B.C.

    Peter Julian concerned over human rights, access to services, support and translators

    BURNABY – New Democrat MP Peter Julian (Burnaby-New Westminster) is concerned about the human rights situation of the recent 492 Tamil asylum-seekers currently detained in British Columbia.

    “I had an opportunity to meet with the refugees in two of the three detention centres and it is clear that they have inadequate access to support and services, such as translators,” said Julian. “Canadians of Tamil origin have contributed greatly to Canada, and the Tamil community in Canada has offered to provide a full range of professional support services free of charge to the refugees. Why hasn't the government allowed them to provide this support?” asked Julian.

    Since the arrival of the Tamil refugees earlier this month, Julian has met with the leadership of the Canadian Tamil Congress and lawyers from the Immigration and Refugee Board. He has also participated in meetings (including a town hall) with the community and activists.

    “During my visit to the detention centre, I learned that the refugees have not yet had access to religious services or spiritual guidance. Even convicted prisoners have an opportunity to meet with spiritual leaders – why haven't these Tamils been provided that right? I am growing more and more concerned about their treatment, as are many Canadians.”

    Rathika Sitsabaiesan, the NDP’s candidate for Scarborough-Rouge River, stressed that the Conservative government must treat asylum-seekers as asylum-seekers and not criminals.

    “Canada has an obligation to treat these Tamils with compassion and fairness,” said Sitsabaiesan. “We must uphold their human rights and provide safe, humanitarian conditions. We must also place the women and children into the supportive Tamil-Canadian community to provide them with security and a safe environment, instead of waiting and languishing in the detention centres.”
    http://transcurrents.com/tc/2010/09/canadian_parl

  230. Canadian parliamentarian expresses concern over human rights of 492 Tamil asylum-seekers

    SEPTEMBER 1, 2010
    NDP MP VISITS TAMIL ASYLUM-SEEKERS IN B.C.

    Peter Julian concerned over human rights, access to services, support and translators

    BURNABY – New Democrat MP Peter Julian (Burnaby-New Westminster) is concerned about the human rights situation of the recent 492 Tamil asylum-seekers currently detained in British Columbia.

    “I had an opportunity to meet with the refugees in two of the three detention centres and it is clear that they have inadequate access to support and services, such as translators,” said Julian. “Canadians of Tamil origin have contributed greatly to Canada, and the Tamil community in Canada has offered to provide a full range of professional support services free of charge to the refugees. Why hasn't the government allowed them to provide this support?” asked Julian.

    Since the arrival of the Tamil refugees earlier this month, Julian has met with the leadership of the Canadian Tamil Congress and lawyers from the Immigration and Refugee Board. He has also participated in meetings (including a town hall) with the community and activists.

    “During my visit to the detention centre, I learned that the refugees have not yet had access to religious services or spiritual guidance. Even convicted prisoners have an opportunity to meet with spiritual leaders – why haven't these Tamils been provided that right? I am growing more and more concerned about their treatment, as are many Canadians.”

    Rathika Sitsabaiesan, the NDP’s candidate for Scarborough-Rouge River, stressed that the Conservative government must treat asylum-seekers as asylum-seekers and not criminals.

    “Canada has an obligation to treat these Tamils with compassion and fairness,” said Sitsabaiesan. “We must uphold their human rights and provide safe, humanitarian conditions. We must also place the women and children into the supportive Tamil-Canadian community to provide them with security and a safe environment, instead of waiting and languishing in the detention centres.”
    http://transcurrents.com/tc/2010/09/canadian_parl

  231. Nirumpama visit to Lanka will be of no use: Vaiko

    MDMK general secretary Vaiko today said Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao's visit to Sri Lanka as special envoy would not help mitigate the miserable conditions of Sri Lankan Tamils.

    Talking to newspersons here, he said there was an initiative at international level to declare Sri Lankan President Raja Pakse, ''a war criminal''.
    http://www.uktamilnews.com/

  232. Nirumpama visit to Lanka will be of no use: Vaiko

    MDMK general secretary Vaiko today said Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao's visit to Sri Lanka as special envoy would not help mitigate the miserable conditions of Sri Lankan Tamils.

    Talking to newspersons here, he said there was an initiative at international level to declare Sri Lankan President Raja Pakse, ''a war criminal''.
    http://www.uktamilnews.com/

  233. Sri Lanka: India stood with SL in responding to post-conflict challenges – Rao

    NOT A WORD ABOUT THE PROMISSED POLITICAL PACKAGE

    Despite India’s “new” found goodwill and cloak of compassion, the truth is that 40,000 innocent Tamils were killed by Rajapakse’s genocidal war on Tamils with the support of Indian Government and thousands more are still living a life of misery.

    They continue to live without neither peace or justice, because they’re victims without voices!!!
    http://www.uktamilnews.com/

  234. Sri Lanka: India stood with SL in responding to post-conflict challenges – Rao

    NOT A WORD ABOUT THE PROMISSED POLITICAL PACKAGE

    Despite India’s “new” found goodwill and cloak of compassion, the truth is that 40,000 innocent Tamils were killed by Rajapakse’s genocidal war on Tamils with the support of Indian Government and thousands more are still living a life of misery.

    They continue to live without neither peace or justice, because they’re victims without voices!!!
    http://www.uktamilnews.com/

  235. When racist idiots work together….

    @ a. savage: if you’re hoping for a general economic collapse in SL, you’re an even bigger idiot than I imagined.

    Who will be most damaged by this scenario?

    It will be the poorest and most disadvantaged in SL, and that’ll be the people in the war-ravaged and now slowly recovering, North & East (and of course the plantation workers). The overwhelming majority of whom are Tamil.

    The Donkey Diaspora and Eelam Fluffers like you and are the best allies that extreme Sinhala racists could hope for, to ensure that the poorer Tamils (and the others) remain in a permanent state of poverty and misery.

    What does the IMF say about the current and projected economic performance indicators for SL? Eelamists and their Fluffers of a sensitive disposition are urged NOT to read any further.

    “The International Monetary Fund has projected “strong growth this year” for Sri Lanka’s economy, noting that the island nation’s “fiscal performance so far remains consistent with achieving the government’s full-year deficit target of 8 percent of GDP.” http://tinyurl.com/2wwrpma

    You’d better start singing your lonely laments to Gunalan ….

  236. Why Sri Lanka must learn from the West about Human Rights and War Crimes

    Jim,
    I see that St. Obama's declared the Iraqi disaster to be over. Hmmmm…

    Benefits to Iraq from Western bloc aggression
    •  Iraqis marginally freer than in 2003, and considerably less secure.
    • 100,000+ civilians murdered due to occupation-related violence.
    • 2 million Iraqis remain exiles/refugees abroad from seven years of anarchy,
    • 2 million internally displaced peoples. (What! 2 millions IDPs? Unbelievable!)
    • Almost all Iraqi Christians have fled.
    • Under western rule, production of oil – Iraq's staple product – is still below its pre-invasion level
    • The typical Iraqi household enjoys fewer hours of electricity than under Saddam. (Utterly incredible)
    • No stable government
    • Minimal reconstruction
    • Daily deaths and kidnappings
    • Endemic corruption is fuelled by unaudited Western taxpayer-funded aid
    • Increasing Islamist rule leaves most Iraqi women less, not more, liberated

    An excellent summary here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/aug/

    Now, what were you saying about the West & Western-backed HR groups holding SL to account for HR abuses and 'war crimes'?

    Sorry, Jim, I can't hear you.

  237. a.savage Says:

    September 1st, 2010 at 7:41 pm

    Great observations !! 🙂

    China will become a superpower and you know, China is not fussy about the human rights abuse ….

    300 000 darker Sudanese killed in Darfur – no problems for China

    40 000 darker Sri Lankans – the Tamils butchered – it’s all OK for China

  238. An eye witness account when Sri Lankan armed forces burnt the Jaffna Tamil library

    Day One

    6.00am

    One the morning of the 1st July 1981 I woke up early and got ready to attend an accountancy class scheduled for 6 am. It was conducted by a person we referred to as ‘Ghanam Master’ at his residence on Temple road in Jaffna. I was in time for the class despite the early hour but found on my arrival, scenes of some confusion. I was told that the class had been cancelled because Sinhala policemen, both in and out of uniform, had ransacked and set fire to the home of the Member of Parliament for Jaffna Mr V Yogeswaran.

    Together with my friend Rajkumar we proceeded on our bicycles to Mr Yogeswaran’s house that we reached in about ten minutes. The scene before us took us a back. We saw the destruction of the MP’s house which had been set alight and was still smouldering. The MP’s car which was parked within the compound beside the house had also been damaged and set alight. It was still smouldering when we arrived.

    I saw the MP Mr Yogeswaran at the gate to his house. He was wearing a pair of Khaki shorts and appeared very shaky. In answer to my question, he told me that there had been in all, around 10 to 15 persons in the house at the time of the incident. He said that on the previous night around 10 pm, a group of persons had come to his house and called out to him by name. He went out up to the gate at the top of the garden which had been shut and padlocked for the night. One of the persons in the crowd asked in Sinhala ‘Yogeswaran mahataya innavatha ‘(Is Mr Yogeswaran in?). Mr Yogeswaran said that he realised that something was up. It was very unusual to have a group of Sinhala men call this late at night and ask if the owner was in, in a very intimidating tone. He therefore told them that the MP was not at home. The men apparently believed him and took him to be the night watchman because of his khaki shorts. They however grabbed his hands through the metal bars of the locked gate. He was able to pull his hands back and his hands were still bleeding when we met him. He said he had run towards the house screaming to his wife to get out of the house. They were both able to make their way through the rear fence of the house into their neighbour’s property before the group of men forced their way in.

    Mr Yogeswaran asked my friend and me if we could help him look for his wife’s ‘thali kodi’. This is a necklace of ceremonial and religious significance that a Tamil bride wears from the day she marries till the day her husband dies, if he predeceases her. It is made of solid gold and is often worth a considerable sum of money. Sadly, the house was a mass of smouldering timber and other material and we looked without any success. I do not know if the ‘Thali’ was ever recovered. We told him, both I and the few people who had come, to go away from the vicinity of his house to his father’s house and not remain around here any longer. His father Dr Vettivelu was a well known GP in the town and lived not far from his house.

  239. An eye witness account when Sri Lankan armed forces burnt the Jaffna Tamil library

    Day One

    6.20 am

    My friend Rajkumar and I got on to our bicycles and cycled towards the Jaffna library. What we saw was almost unbelievable. This beautiful building with its wealth of rare and irreplaceable first editions and manuscripts, some of them on ‘ola leaves’ was covered in dense smoke. We could not enter the library for the smoke. There were about 10 or 15 persons on the premises. There was only one tap outside the building and this was beside the statue of Saraswathi the Goddess of Learning, facing the building as one approached it. But there was nothing we could do. Apart from the distance from the tap to the smouldering library and the books, we did not have sufficient implements or manpower.

    Yet, only 2 minutes walking distance from the library, was the Jaffna Municipality building and offices and the Municipal fire station with its fire trucks manpower and implements. It was of no use, the firemen were too scared to try to put out a fire that had been started by the policemen quite a few of whom were still around with their guns.

    While I was still at the library, I saw a police jeep drive slowly around the library in a wide arc. They drove along the Kandy Road in front of the Municipality then turned left in front of the Rest House proceeding along the road by Jaffna Central College and then turning left on to Clock Tower Road. They were clearly making a ‘show’ of their presence. It was generally understood that two government ministers and their deputies and principal henchmen were still in residence at the Rest House.

  240. An eye witness account when Sri Lankan armed forces burnt the Jaffna Tamil library

    Day One

    7.15 am

    As we crossed from the library on to Muniyappar Road we heard loud jeering from the direction of the Duriappah Stadium where some of the police officers were apparently taking a nap after having worked so hard through the night wrecking and burning buildings and houses! There were a large number of police officers standing on the tiers of the stadium while yet others, were standing near the fence facing the road that surrounded the stadium. At first, we thought that the loud jeering was directed at us, but then we noticed that a passing motor scooter had been hit by a rock thrown at it by policemen from the stadium and that the scooter and rider had both gone sprawling on to the road. This was what provided ‘entertainment’ and merriment to these mindless semiliterate Sinhala police morons. I was a 19 year old student and had been brought up to believe in the rule of law. I thought that the police were there to enforce the law not to break it! I am certain that these policemen had been brought from outside Jaffna for a specific purpose. They were clean shaven and had close cropped hair and well built bodies. They appeared to be police trainees or policemen from outside the regular Jaffna police force.

    8 am

    I am still within the library premises but the others are gradually beginning to leave. There is a general belief that there is an unannounced curfew and that there was the possibility that the police would start taking pot shots at persons seen in the vicinity of the library. My friend Rajkumar and I decided to leave by the Muniyappar Road though it meant having to go past the stadium with its unruly policemen. We heard the policemen jeering at us but kept on going and did not look back.

    8.15 am

    As we rode past the Regal Cinema we made a left turn at the Shanthi Cinema and took a little known lane behind the Subas Café and through the Haron Cinema. I saw as many as 50 Jaffna people gathered along the route I took. They told me that the New Market was burning. My friend and I went through the Kottadi Road and saw that the heads of the statues of the great Tamil poetess and poet Ouvaiyar and Thiruvalluvar that had occupied a prime location in Grand Bazaar at the New Market and at the junction of KKS Road had been knocked off. A statue to Mahatma Gandhi head also been destroyed. The Old Market had been ransacked and looted by the police and I saw dried red chillies from the shops scattered on the ground as well as rice, kithul, dry fish and various other condiments. The Old Market that lay beside the New Market had been ransacked and looted.

    10 am

    My friend Rajkiumar told me that he was going back home as he was too scared. Jaffna Town looked like a ghost town. I continued on my own towards Kasturiyar Road and saw that the Bata shop on the corner of the New Market store and the Arrack Tavern on Kasturiyar Road had been looted by the police. I am pretty certain that they had used a heavy truck or an armoured car to get at these shops since I saw that the iron gates of these shops had been smashed and were lying on the road with a chain hanging from one of the gates.

    11.30 am

    I heard from passers by that the EelaNadu Press had been ransacked and burnt I proceeded towards KKS Road where the offices of the EelaNadu were and saw that the print works had been completely burnt. I was told that Mr Sivanathan, a director of EelaNadu, had suffered severe burns and had been taken to the Aanaipanthi Hospital. Mr Sivanathan is the father of a friend so I decided to go to the hospital and seen him.

    4 pm

    I went to the hospital and found that my friend’s father had been badly burnt. All his hair had been burnt and he was practically bald. My friend Balakanna told me that his father had fainted due to inhaling excess smoke and that a co worker had bravely carried him to safety from the second floor to the ground floor, using a single drainpipe. Mr Sivanathan is today, a resident of Canada.

    Note

    It had been a very long and traumatic day and I was mentally and physically, exhausted. Up to this point I have been able to recollect in great detail not only the incidents but also their exact nature. I have also been able to give the exact times. From here on, even though I have described the incidents exactly as they occurred, I cannot vouch for the exact times.

  241. An eye witness account when Sri Lankan armed forces burnt the Jaffna Tamil library

    2nd Day

    I got home late on the first night unhappy and dejected. What I had seen that day was to remain with me for a very long time. Today, 27 years after the incidents, as I write these notes they remain vivid in my mind as if they took place yesterday. I had fitful sleep that night a sleep that was interrupted by terrible nightmares.

    My parents were working outside Jaffna where, my father was a Conservator of Forests and my mother, a sister of Charles Somasundrum who writes on matters concerning the Tamil nation, was a teacher. There was no older person to restrict my movements or advise me to remain at home and not get out. I took my bike and went to Jaffna town on the morning of the 2nd July 1981.

    I saw more destruction. The historic and well known Poobalasingham Book Depot that stood near the bus stand had been burnt. This was a shop that not only dealt in books but also dealt in school stationary like exercise books, paints and painting paraphernalia, school text books, instrument boxes and the like. All this had been burnt or destroyed. It then struck me. These police morons were only carrying out the instructions of the two ministers, who were at that moment hiding at the Rest House, and big man at the top in Colombo, who were pulling their strings. These senseless politicians were clearly under the impression that the Tamil people could be stopped from advancing if their access to books or the means of bettering themselves were taken away.

    Little did these small minded Sinhala politicians and their semi literate, mindless uniformed goons realise, that the Tamil people were at the top of the field in whichever discipline they had chosen, because they had the will and the determination. Given the opportunity, there was nothing to stop the average Tamil person excelling in their chosen field as they have shown today, in the various countries to which they have been compelled to emigrate.

    These silly Sinhalas and their equally mindless masters thought that by burning books and destroying their schools they could keep the Tamil nation at the bottom of the pyramid. It shows that however important or powerful a Sinhala person may be that person will never ‘learn’ or have the capacity to learn.

    While I was at the Poobalasingham Book Depot looking at the damage, I saw a dead body in front of the Book Depot. One of the people there carried the body to the Out Patients Department of the Jaffna Hospital, which is only a few minutes away. Perhaps the body should have been taken to the mortuary but the person probably thought that the hospital authorities would know what to do next.

    There were very few people in the town. There would have been, in all, around 200 to 300 heads. Yet, when a military vehicle passed by with soldiers pointing their guns, their fingers on the trigger, there was general panic. Barely 10 to 15 persons stood their ground. The others bolted with cries of ‘odathai’ ‘odathai’ (don’t run, don’t run) from those who stood their ground, ringing in their ears.

    The military started to bring in small Baval armoured vehicles and some new attack vehicles I have not seen in Jaffna before, all this, to ‘attack’ unarmed civilians who took flight at the sight of any army vehicle carrying soldiers!

    I visited the Dr Gobalapillai Flats to visit a friend, Chitragangani, to find, that she was preparing to leave the premises. She is currently resident in the UK.

    I was very scared, having seen the dead body at the Book Depot that I returned home

  242. An eye witness account when Sri Lankan armed forces burnt the Jaffna Tamil library

    3rd Day

    This was the 3rd day after the people of Jaffna had been subjected to terror and murderous assault. The Town appeared calm though most of the residents kept to their homes. I thought to myself, why are all these people so sacred? Why don’t they all walk together in a simple non violent protest group and show their solidarity. After all, their own MP’s house was ransacked and burnt and the MP himself escaped with his life by pure chance. I was ashamed that the people were so scared and frightened. Leading Tamils like Anandasangari and Amithalingam were nowhere to be seen or heard. There was no one to speak up for the Tamil nation in this time of their need. True, the two individuals mentioned above, made passionate speeches, but long after these incidents when they felt it was safe to come out into the open. Things have changed since. The Tamils are prepared to stand up for their rights and fight for them. There are many young men and women who would today have been brilliant professionals or academics but have sacrificed all to fight for a ‘free’ homeland for the next generation of Tamils. Though Tamils like me are outside our mother country we have not forgotten her. We will continue to extend her all the help and assistance to ensure a free and viable Eelam.

    I continued on my journey towards Kasthooriyar Road and saw just empty space in the middle of the Jaffna bus stand. On normal days, this bus stand would have been a hive of activity with buses and vehicles constantly entering and leaving. All I saw today was a few policemen sitting in front of the Sunlight Laundry – of course they were armed. I needed to cross into Hospital Road and it was very easy crossing through the bus stand. On other days I would have had to take the long route through Stanley Road where the Windsor Cinema is. As I approached the bus stand I saw around 20 policemen in white T shirts and police uniform trousers. They stopped me and told me to get into the drain and stand there. One of then said to me ‘sinna podiyan paakirathu enna kaurtha kodi kaatu kiratha?’ meaning, ‘you look a small boy but you are the ones showing the black flags’. I told them that I had nothing to do with black flags. One of the policemen asked his boss to let me go as I was only a little boy. Meanwhile, the group had detained another person so they let me go. I was by now soaked with the smelly drain water. Perhaps they thought it was sufficient punishment.

    As I cycled further, behind Hospital Road I passed the BMICH building and saw Tamil people looting building material from the shop. I thought to myself that only 200 meters away were policemen harassing innocent Tamil people while here were Tamil people, who lacked the guts to protest about what had happened, looting this shop. There was no law and order when the policemen themselves were themselves guilty of breaking the law.

    I went on to MP Yogeswaran’s house and found that around 200 to 300 persons had gathered there, but none of the self titled ‘leaders’ of the Tamil people. As a military vehicle passed by they jeered at the soldiers. The vehicle stopped and the soldiers fired in the air. All the people promptly ran away. I watched the scene from the front of Subbas Hotel behind Hospital Road.

    I heard that some persons had been killed in front of the Naga Vihare at Aariya Kulam Junction. The Vihare was well protected by the military. I heard that a young graduate of the Jaffna University had been piling bodies in front of the Vihare when he was apprehended by the army.

    They had forced him to throw the bodies into a fire they had started. I later heard that the young man was himself thrown, alive, into the same flames!

    I dedicate this article to the many Tamil men, women and children who lost their lives to the Sinhala policemen whose ‘strings’ were pulled by the hidden ministers in Jaffna and the big man in Colombo. I particularly remember the young graduate of the Jaffna University who demonstrated his personal protest by piling up some of the dead bodies in front of the Naga Vihare and lost his own life in the process.

    Now dear world tell us who are the terrorists?

  243. SRI LANKA: The 18th Amendment destroying democracy by manipulation of the democratic process itself http://www.ahrchk.net/statements/mainfile.php/201

    A simple way of understanding the 18th Amendment is to compare it to the situation in the United States of America. The president of the United States is elected for a term of four years and is entitled to remain in power for a maximum of two terms. This is an absolute limit. Suppose this limit was removed and a US president could contest the election and remain in power for an indefinite period of time. What difference would that make to the entire system of governance in the country; to understand that we have to go into the principle of this absolute limitation.

    The principle is that any person who is vested with extraordinary powers should be subjected to limitations and the principle behind that is that no human being is worthy of absolute trust. No one will be trusted with power absolutely. Entrusting power must be accompanied with the placing of limitations to that power. The limitation of two terms was made on that basis. Behind this is the whole notion of binding power. Power should be bound otherwise power can destroy the very things it is supposed to protect.

    Why the media silence on Sri Lanka's descent into dictatorship? http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/libertyce

  244. 492 Tamil migrants arrived by boat to Canada , so why so much speculating and sensationalization ?

    What have become of the 21st century of media reporting ? 🙂

    Let the system work and let's await the results …

  245. Why Sri Lanka must learn from the West about Human Rights and War Crimes

    Jim,
    I see that St. Obama's declared the Iraqi disaster to be over. Hmmmm…

    Benefits to Iraq from Western bloc aggression
    •  Iraqis marginally freer than in 2003, and considerably less secure.
    • 100,000+ civilians murdered due to occupation-related violence.
    • 2 million Iraqis remain exiles/refugees abroad from seven years of anarchy,
    • 2 million internally displaced peoples. (What! 2 millions IDPs? Unbelievable!)
    • Almost all Iraqi Christians have fled.
    • Under western rule, production of oil – Iraq's staple product – is still below its pre-invasion level
    • The typical Iraqi household enjoys fewer hours of electricity than under Saddam. (Utterly incredible)
    • No stable government
    • Minimal reconstruction
    • Daily deaths and kidnappings
    • Endemic corruption is fuelled by unaudited Western taxpayer-funded aid
    • Increasing Islamist rule leaves most Iraqi women less, not more, liberated

    An excellent summary here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/aug/

    Now, what were you saying about the West & Western-backed HR groups holding SL to account for HR abuses and 'war crimes'?

    Sorry, Jim, I can't hear you.

  246. Why Sri Lanka must learn from the West about Human Rights and War Crimes

    Jim,
    I see that St. Obama's declared the Iraqi disaster to be over. Hmmmm…

    Benefits to Iraq from Western bloc aggression
    •  Iraqis marginally freer than in 2003, and considerably less secure.
    • 100,000+ civilians murdered due to occupation-related violence.
    • 2 million Iraqis remain exiles/refugees abroad from seven years of anarchy,
    • 2 million internally displaced peoples. (What! 2 millions IDPs? Unbelievable!)
    • Almost all Iraqi Christians have fled.
    • Under western rule, production of oil – Iraq's staple product – is still below its pre-invasion level
    • The typical Iraqi household enjoys fewer hours of electricity than under Saddam. (Utterly incredible)
    • No stable government
    • Minimal reconstruction
    • Daily deaths and kidnappings
    • Endemic corruption is fuelled by unaudited Western taxpayer-funded aid
    • Increasing Islamist rule leaves most Iraqi women less, not more, liberated

    An excellent summary here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/aug/

    Now, what were you saying about the West & Western-backed HR groups holding SL to account for HR abuses and 'war crimes'?

    Sorry, Jim, I can't hear you.

  247. The enlightened and civilized West now better informed on the brutality of SL’s human rights/war crimes support the Tamil cause with initiatives to pursue the war crimes perpetrators. The successful SL genocide is attributable to the extra-ordinary story telling capacity of Sinhala/Buddhists who fatally mislead the international community into not acting to censure with stern sanctions or war crimes when the naked brutality of SL’s state terrorism became evident in the May massacre of the resistance the world witnessed. The international community is now at pains to redress the consequences of hastily lumping the Tamil resistance (with Jihardi terrorism; the scourge of the world) to deprive the Tamils of the protection they had against SL’s brutal atrocities for over thirty years.

  248. STF arrest, detain and file fabricated charges against a German philanthropist

    http://www.ahrchk.net/ua/mainfile.php/2010/35

    The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a German philanthropist staying in Sri Lanka has been illegally arrested and detained by the officers attached to the Special Task Force (STF) of the Sri Lanka police on 17th August, 2010 at Siyambalanduwa. He was travelling with his son and his companions in the district of Monaragala. He was detained in the Siyambalanduwa Police Station where fabricated charges of illegal drug trafficking were filed against him. A few months before this incident a powerful Minister of the present Sri Lankan government illegally requested Mr. Michael Kreitmeir to give him Rs. 30 million towards his election campaign and when Mr. Kreitmeir refused he was threatened by the Minister. A report on this specific incident was sent to the German Embassy on 13 March 2010 by the victim.

    CASE NARRATIVE:

    Mr. Michael Kreitmeir is a German philanthropist living in Nikapotha, Koslanda in Sri Lanka. He has been helping the victims of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami, especially the children and mothers in need though building schools, houses and orphanages in the eastern and southern part of the country. The main project is a children’s village at Koslanda in the hill country where around 90 orphans are being taken care of. Mr. Kreitmeir is in his mid-50s, a professional journalist and film director.

    On the afternoon of 17 August at 5pm, Michael, his son, Emmanuel, the chief matron of the children’s village Bavani and her daughter Divia and her friend Shipani were on their way back to Little Smile in Koslanda after visiting a hospital project in Kalmunai in the district of Ampara and another children’s home for 80 girls in Batticaloa which is funded by Michael Kreitmeir. They were stopped by officers of Special Team Force (STF) an elite anti-terrorism unit for a check at Siyambalanduwa near the city of Monaragala. They searched the car for more than 30 minutes. Even before the check started everybody had to hand over their mobile phones. When the check was coming to an end and the STF members were reloading the bags, suddenly one member appeared and showed a red plastic bag. It was not clear and visible to Mr. Kreitmeir or anybody from his group where it came from. Without even really looking at it the Superintendent of Police (SP) the highest ranking officer in that group was announced that it was an illegal drug. Mr. Kreitmeir and his son Emmanuel were at once separated and brought to the police station of Siyambalanduwa. Bawani and the children were also kept separately.

    Until 2am the 14 year old Diviah, the daughter of Bawani, and her friend, 14 year old Shipani were questioned. Mrs. Bawani was also questioned and kept separately until that time. She was threatened with life imprisonment, but promised with release if she would make a statement against Mr. Kreitmeir. The police also tried to get a statement against Michael from the two children.

    Emmanuel was separately brought to the police station and kept in a dark house there. He was not told anything about the whereabouts of his father or Bawani and the children. He was guarded always with heavy weapons and STF personal. He was not asked any question on the incident and nobody told him anything about any charges against him. He asked several times to call a lawyer or the German embassy and a STF personal started shouting and threatening him. When he was asked to see his father they assured him that he would be allowed to do so but he was kept separately without any information and without any questioning from 6pm to about 10.30pm. Eventually he was allowed to see his father and was questioned with him until 4am.

    Michael and his son Emmanuel were also forced to sign a statement in Sinhala, a language they cannot read.

  249. Vivekananthan

    Exactly !!!
    Sri Lanka Mass Murderers, the perpetrators of genocide and ethnic cleansing are now behaving like the victims? Strange, no?

  250. Sri Lankan government’s bogus inquiry into the Tamil war

    President Mahinda Rajapakse established the commission to fend off international pressure for a war crimes inquiry. In the final months leading up to the LTTE’s defeat in May 2009, the Sri Lankan military killed thousands of Tamil civilians. The LLRC’s first sittings confirm that its purpose is to whitewash the role of the government and cover up their crimes.

    The commission is anything but independent. C.R de Silva, who heads the eight-member body, is a former attorney general with a record of defending the government against human rights violations. For instance, De Silva opposed a group of international experts set up to oversee a government Commission of Inquiry (CoI), when they questioned the inquiry’s independence and credibility.

    The CoI was appointed in November 2006 to examine 16 incidents involving allegations against the Sri Lankan security forces of murdering civilians. One particularly notorious case was the execution-style killing of 17 aid workers employed by Action Contre la Faim (ACF) in 2006 August. Rajapakse dissolved the CoI last year without it producing any public report or findings.

  251. Sivayogapoopathy Says:
    September 2nd, 2010 at 5:01 am

    China will become a superpower and you know…..

    Indeed a good observation – and as per you, China becomes a super power = Dooms Day for Peelam – Not that Dooms day has not come already – it came on the 19th of May 2009, but, this would be dooms day for the Peelam Die Ass Pora !!

    May be china is not fussy because there is nothing to fuss about it – You move on – may be the reason they are turning in to a Super Power – Also, see all the developed countries and people who are status symbols – they move on – Now you Die Ass Pora understand why you never develop nor evolve – because you live in the past !! You see things with a crooked eye… You support Terrorists and not legal entities… China is one of the very few countries that was never conquered by another party. Also, one of the most advanced civilizations from thousands of years back – May be, they know what’s best – May be you should learn from them !!

    Sivayogapoopathy Says:
    September 2nd, 2010 at 5:03 am

    An eye witness account when Sri Lankan armed forces burnt the Jaffna Tamil library

    I don’t know what relation the Burning of the library has to do with disappearances in Sri Lanka, However, I noted down the following fascinating points just running through your spam article. Please do not think that I admire or support the dirty act which reminds me what the world lost when the Library of Alexandria was burnt. Literature in what ever form is most valuable !!

    Day One

    6.20 am

    My friend Rajkumar and I got on to our bicycles and cycled towards the Jaffna library. What we saw was almost unbelievable. This beautiful building with its wealth of rare and irreplaceable first editions and manuscripts, some of them on ‘ola leaves’ was covered in dense smoke.

    So he actually did not see who burnt it, but it was on fire !

    hey drove along the Kandy Road in front of the Municipality then turned left in front of the Rest House proceeding along the road by Jaffna Central College and then turning left on to Clock Tower Road.

    Now, the guy who explains is inside the library and had a bicycle – How did he see the jeep drive around the library as it is a large building and he could not see anything going “around” ? Was he not reading anything at the library to note this or was his job to spy on anything that goes around the library ?

    Also, The Central Collage, the Library, Clock tower and the collage are quite far apart, in fact parted by the Subramaniam park, meaning there is no way you could see through the park – So, if he was inside the library, how could he see the jeep approaching all the way from one end of Kandy road near school to the library ? Was he trying to follow the jeep on his bicycle which is quite a feat ? – we could have sent him to Olympics if he is that fast !!

    Then, Day 1 7.15 he was leaving the library down Muniyapar Road and 8.00 he says he is still inside the library premises ??? Heads or tails ? Decide please ?

    Seriously, what was this guys profession is other than riding his cycle – he has covered the peninsula that day !! Also wonder why he took all these small roads than take the main roads like the Vembadi road and hospital street ??

    Also, I saw you have mentioned Anandasangari and Amirtalingam’s names – But, Both were not involved in your violent movement where Amirtalingam was killed by you ???? Is it because they wanted to sort out issues differently ?

    Well, can’t be bothered reading all, but, I saw the post say bodies burning in front of Naga vihara and a man thrown alive – well, if you say that these people who did it were Singhala Buddhist, you are terribly mistaken – they would never do that in front of a historic temple as Naga Vihara – may be somewhere else. Very hard to believe…

    Anyways, forgetting this story, we know what happened and the politics behind it – it indeed was dirty and a sick thing to do and curse the loonetics who did that to disgrace this land – I know that lot of Sri Lankans will join me to denounce what happened to the library that day – Very bad..

    To date, we will condemn what happened to the Jaffna Library !!!

  252. Sri Lanka journalist who was abducted and tortured by yet unidentified group says he will seek international justice as authorities in Sri Lanka have failed to bring the culprits to books. Poddala Jayantha was one of the remaining journalist leaders in Sri Lanka when he was abducted, beaten and alter thrown away from a vehicle.

    Sri Lanka Police have recently informed the court that the investigation is no longer active as no suspects have been found.

  253. SRI LANKA: The 18th Amendment destroying democracy by manipulation of the democratic process itself http://www.ahrchk.net/statements/mainfile.php/201

    A simple way of understanding the 18th Amendment is to compare it to the situation in the United States of America. The president of the United States is elected for a term of four years and is entitled to remain in power for a maximum of two terms. This is an absolute limit. Suppose this limit was removed and a US president could contest the election and remain in power for an indefinite period of time. What difference would that make to the entire system of governance in the country; to understand that we have to go into the principle of this absolute limitation.

    The principle is that any person who is vested with extraordinary powers should be subjected to limitations and the principle behind that is that no human being is worthy of absolute trust. No one will be trusted with power absolutely. Entrusting power must be accompanied with the placing of limitations to that power. The limitation of two terms was made on that basis. Behind this is the whole notion of binding power. Power should be bound otherwise power can destroy the very things it is supposed to protect.

    Why the media silence on Sri Lanka's descent into dictatorship? http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/libertyce

  254. SRI LANKA: The 18th Amendment destroying democracy by manipulation of the democratic process itself http://www.ahrchk.net/statements/mainfile.php/201

    A simple way of understanding the 18th Amendment is to compare it to the situation in the United States of America. The president of the United States is elected for a term of four years and is entitled to remain in power for a maximum of two terms. This is an absolute limit. Suppose this limit was removed and a US president could contest the election and remain in power for an indefinite period of time. What difference would that make to the entire system of governance in the country; to understand that we have to go into the principle of this absolute limitation.

    The principle is that any person who is vested with extraordinary powers should be subjected to limitations and the principle behind that is that no human being is worthy of absolute trust. No one will be trusted with power absolutely. Entrusting power must be accompanied with the placing of limitations to that power. The limitation of two terms was made on that basis. Behind this is the whole notion of binding power. Power should be bound otherwise power can destroy the very things it is supposed to protect.

    Why the media silence on Sri Lanka's descent into dictatorship? http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/libertyce

  255. Canadian parliamentarian expresses concern over human rights of 492 Tamil asylum-seekers

    SEPTEMBER 1, 2010
    NDP MP VISITS TAMIL ASYLUM-SEEKERS IN B.C.

    Peter Julian concerned over human rights, access to services, support and translators

    BURNABY – New Democrat MP Peter Julian (Burnaby-New Westminster) is concerned about the human rights situation of the recent 492 Tamil asylum-seekers currently detained in British Columbia.

    “I had an opportunity to meet with the refugees in two of the three detention centres and it is clear that they have inadequate access to support and services, such as translators,” said Julian. “Canadians of Tamil origin have contributed greatly to Canada, and the Tamil community in Canada has offered to provide a full range of professional support services free of charge to the refugees. Why hasn’t the government allowed them to provide this support?” asked Julian.

    Since the arrival of the Tamil refugees earlier this month, Julian has met with the leadership of the Canadian Tamil Congress and lawyers from the Immigration and Refugee Board. He has also participated in meetings (including a town hall) with the community and activists.

    “During my visit to the detention centre, I learned that the refugees have not yet had access to religious services or spiritual guidance. Even convicted prisoners have an opportunity to meet with spiritual leaders – why haven’t these Tamils been provided that right? I am growing more and more concerned about their treatment, as are many Canadians.”

    Rathika Sitsabaiesan, the NDP’s candidate for Scarborough-Rouge River, stressed that the Conservative government must treat asylum-seekers as asylum-seekers and not criminals.

    “Canada has an obligation to treat these Tamils with compassion and fairness,” said Sitsabaiesan. “We must uphold their human rights and provide safe, humanitarian conditions. We must also place the women and children into the supportive Tamil-Canadian community to provide them with security and a safe environment, instead of waiting and languishing in the detention centres.”

    http://transcurrents.com/tc/2010/09/canadian_parliamentarian_expre.html#more

  256. Nirumpama visit to Lanka will be of no use: Vaiko

    MDMK general secretary Vaiko today said Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao’s visit to Sri Lanka as special envoy would not help mitigate the miserable conditions of Sri Lankan Tamils.

    Talking to newspersons here, he said there was an initiative at international level to declare Sri Lankan President Raja Pakse, ”a war criminal”.

    http://www.uktamilnews.com/

  257. Sri Lanka: India stood with SL in responding to post-conflict challenges – Rao

    NOT A WORD ABOUT THE PROMISSED POLITICAL PACKAGE

    Despite India’s “new” found goodwill and cloak of compassion, the truth is that 40,000 innocent Tamils were killed by Rajapakse’s genocidal war on Tamils with the support of Indian Government and thousands more are still living a life of misery.

    They continue to live without neither peace or justice, because they’re victims without voices!!!

    http://www.uktamilnews.com/

  258. India asks Sri Lanka to find political solution for minorities.

    India asked Sri Lanka to look beyond the resettlement of war-displaced Tamils and start a political process that would meet the needs and aspirations of the country's minorities.

    'The focus on development and rehabilitation is welcomed but a long-term perspective that also includes the issues relating to the political settlement that would meet some of the needs of the minorities should also be kept in mind,' Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao said while wrapping her four-day visit to Sri Lanka.

    Rao stressed that she articulated this viewpoint in all her discussions and interactions in India. 'One of the points I sought to articulate in my meetings with the various representatives of the government and the people I met on my visit was that apart from pursuing the rehabilitation and resettlement of the IDPs, we would also have to move beyond to the political processes involved,' she said.

    Rao also raised the issue of attacks on Indian fishermen and suggested regular meetings between the joint working group to address their alleged harassment.

    With the plight of war-displaced Tamils a source of continuing concern for India, Rao's visit will be followed by that of External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna in October. India's army chief, General V.K. Singh, is expected to arrive in Colombo on Sunday.

    During her visit, Rao visited camps of internally displaced persons in Jaffna, Kilinochchi, Mullaitivu, Vavuniya and Trincomalee districts worst affected by the war.
    http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/

  259. India asks Sri Lanka to find political solution for minorities.

    India asked Sri Lanka to look beyond the resettlement of war-displaced Tamils and start a political process that would meet the needs and aspirations of the country's minorities.

    'The focus on development and rehabilitation is welcomed but a long-term perspective that also includes the issues relating to the political settlement that would meet some of the needs of the minorities should also be kept in mind,' Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao said while wrapping her four-day visit to Sri Lanka.

    Rao stressed that she articulated this viewpoint in all her discussions and interactions in India. 'One of the points I sought to articulate in my meetings with the various representatives of the government and the people I met on my visit was that apart from pursuing the rehabilitation and resettlement of the IDPs, we would also have to move beyond to the political processes involved,' she said.

    Rao also raised the issue of attacks on Indian fishermen and suggested regular meetings between the joint working group to address their alleged harassment.

    With the plight of war-displaced Tamils a source of continuing concern for India, Rao's visit will be followed by that of External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna in October. India's army chief, General V.K. Singh, is expected to arrive in Colombo on Sunday.

    During her visit, Rao visited camps of internally displaced persons in Jaffna, Kilinochchi, Mullaitivu, Vavuniya and Trincomalee districts worst affected by the war.
    http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/

  260. India asks Sri Lanka to find political solution for minorities.

    India asked Sri Lanka to look beyond the resettlement of war-displaced Tamils and start a political process that would meet the needs and aspirations of the country's minorities.

    'The focus on development and rehabilitation is welcomed but a long-term perspective that also includes the issues relating to the political settlement that would meet some of the needs of the minorities should also be kept in mind,' Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao said while wrapping her four-day visit to Sri Lanka.

    Rao stressed that she articulated this viewpoint in all her discussions and interactions in India. 'One of the points I sought to articulate in my meetings with the various representatives of the government and the people I met on my visit was that apart from pursuing the rehabilitation and resettlement of the IDPs, we would also have to move beyond to the political processes involved,' she said.

    Rao also raised the issue of attacks on Indian fishermen and suggested regular meetings between the joint working group to address their alleged harassment.

    With the plight of war-displaced Tamils a source of continuing concern for India, Rao's visit will be followed by that of External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna in October. India's army chief, General V.K. Singh, is expected to arrive in Colombo on Sunday.

    During her visit, Rao visited camps of internally displaced persons in Jaffna, Kilinochchi, Mullaitivu, Vavuniya and Trincomalee districts worst affected by the war.
    http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/

  261. Still the Rajapakse government inprisons thousands of Tamils in secret camps and hundreds of Tamil women with children are being kept in prisons for many years without any indictment.

    How long will the Sinhalese government keep all these Tamils in camps and prisons?

    For what reason?

  262. I think to prevent the island nation Sri Lanka from slipping further into the abysmal political inferno, western democratic nations should adopt a policy to either groom the belligerent nation Sri Lanka to reinstate a policy of resettling the war displaced Tamils and other minorities soon, integrating them into the social and economic strata and withdrawing the military from the North and East provinces or implementing a collective policy to free the citizens of Sri Lanka from the regime to pave way for the independent homeland to the Sri Lankan Tamil minority as was the case in Kosovo.

  263. I’m touched by Boycott sri lanka’s concern re 18th Amendment and the well being for all things Sri Lankan.

    You said “A simple way of understanding the 18th Amendment is to compare it to the situation in the United States of America. The president of the United States is elected for a term of four years and is entitled to remain in power for a maximum of two terms.”

    So let’s take a look at the last 16 presidential terms since the 2nd world war: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidents_o

    Term /Party
    41 / Democratic
    42 / Republican
    43 / Republican
    44 / Democratic
    45 / Democratic
    46 / Republican
    47 / Republican
    48 / Democratic
    49 / Republican
    50 / Republican
    51 / Republican
    52 / Democratic
    53 / Democratic
    54 / Republican
    55 / Republican
    56 / Democratic
    What do you see? Other than on the 51st term, the ruling party got kicked out after two terms.

    MR is not proposing life presidency, you can vote for him or kick him out at the next election.

    BTW – From the 48th to 56th terms, that’s approximately 32 years: one fat slob ruled the Kingdom of Eelam unopposed.

    So instead of Boycotting Eelam, we decided to destroy it once and for all to save you!

  264. Many of us Tamils were simply upset with what you people in Sri Lanka have done to the Tamils over the years.

    This War against Tamils and the massacre of 40,000 Tamil Civilians was totally unnecessary.

    These Rajapakses have no shame ….. Their day will come !!!

  265. I’m touched by Boycott sri lanka’s concern re 18th Amendment and the well being for all things Sri Lankan.

    You said “A simple way of understanding the 18th Amendment is to compare it to the situation in the United States of America. The president of the United States is elected for a term of four years and is entitled to remain in power for a maximum of two terms.”

    So let’s take a look at the last 16 presidential terms since the 2nd world war: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidents_o

    Term /Party
    41 / Democratic
    42 / Republican
    43 / Republican
    44 / Democratic
    45 / Democratic
    46 / Republican
    47 / Republican
    48 / Democratic
    49 / Republican
    50 / Republican
    51 / Republican
    52 / Democratic
    53 / Democratic
    54 / Republican
    55 / Republican
    56 / Democratic
    What do you see? Other than on the 51st term, the ruling party got kicked out after two terms.

    MR is not proposing life presidency, you can vote for him or kick him out at the next election.

    BTW – From the 48th to 56th terms, that’s approximately 32 years: one fat slob ruled the Kingdom of Eelam unopposed.

    So instead of Boycotting Eelam, we decided to destroy it once and for all to save you!

  266. I’m touched by Boycott sri lanka’s concern re 18th Amendment and the well being for all things Sri Lankan.

    You said “A simple way of understanding the 18th Amendment is to compare it to the situation in the United States of America. The president of the United States is elected for a term of four years and is entitled to remain in power for a maximum of two terms.”

    So let’s take a look at the last 16 presidential terms since the 2nd world war: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidents_o

    Term /Party
    41 / Democratic
    42 / Republican
    43 / Republican
    44 / Democratic
    45 / Democratic
    46 / Republican
    47 / Republican
    48 / Democratic
    49 / Republican
    50 / Republican
    51 / Republican
    52 / Democratic
    53 / Democratic
    54 / Republican
    55 / Republican
    56 / Democratic
    What do you see? Other than on the 51st term, the ruling party got kicked out after two terms.

    MR is not proposing life presidency, you can vote for him or kick him out at the next election.

    BTW – From the 48th to 56th terms, that’s approximately 32 years: one fat slob ruled the Kingdom of Eelam unopposed.

    So instead of Boycotting Eelam, we decided to destroy it once and for all to save you!

  267. You know who sets the US and the West as the benchmark?

    Guys like you who are desperately trying to justify GOSL behaviour.

    The only argument you have is this: If the West can do it, so can we!

    Actually the West CAN’T do it—it has never been able to evade scrutiny like Sri Lanka has, to escape all accountability for itself as Sri Lanka has managed to do so far.

  268. 492 Tamil migrants arrived by boat to Canada , so why so much speculating and sensationalization ?

    What have become of the 21st century of media reporting ? 🙂

    Let the system work and let’s await the results …

  269. We are talking about Sri Lanka’s civil war, alleged killings of innocent citizens.

    For me, that doesn’t compare with international wars.

    The latter are open to international scrutiny.

    Due to issues of sovereignty, countries can legally keep out international and any kind of public scrutiny in a civil war.

    Which is what Sri Lanka did?

    We know about US’ behaviour in Iraq, Afghanistan.

    That is the reason why you guys are even able to make such comparisons.

    Except there is absolutely no information on Sri Lanka government’s behaviour in the war theatre.

    Given the lack of knowledge with regard to GOSL and SLA behaviour, you have no justification in pointing fingers at US as a bigger infringer of human rights because you only know the figures on one side of the picture.

    What is wrong with applying international norms to judging Sri Lanka ?

    Isn’t it a signatory of the Geneva Convention and a member of the UN?

  270. Why Sri Lanka must learn from the West about Human Rights and War Crimes

    Jim,
    I see that St. Obama’s declared the Iraqi disaster to be over. Hmmmm…

    Benefits to Iraq from Western bloc aggression
    •  Iraqis marginally freer than in 2003, and considerably less secure.
    • 100,000+ civilians murdered due to occupation-related violence.
    • 2 million Iraqis remain exiles/refugees abroad from seven years of anarchy,
    • 2 million internally displaced peoples. (What! 2 millions IDPs? Unbelievable!)
    • Almost all Iraqi Christians have fled.
    • Under western rule, production of oil – Iraq’s staple product – is still below its pre-invasion level
    • The typical Iraqi household enjoys fewer hours of electricity than under Saddam. (Utterly incredible)
    • No stable government
    • Minimal reconstruction
    • Daily deaths and kidnappings
    • Endemic corruption is fuelled by unaudited Western taxpayer-funded aid
    • Increasing Islamist rule leaves most Iraqi women less, not more, liberated

    An excellent summary here:
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/aug/31/trillion-dollar-catastrophe-iraq-war

    Now, what were you saying about the West & Western-backed HR groups holding SL to account for HR abuses and ‘war crimes’?

    Sorry, Jim, I can’t hear you.

  271. The enlightened and civilized West now better informed on the brutality of SL’s human rights/war crimes support the Tamil cause with initiatives to pursue the war crimes perpetrators. The successful SL genocide is attributable to the extra-ordinary story telling capacity of Sinhala/Buddhists who fatally mislead the international community into not acting to censure with stern sanctions or war crimes when the naked brutality of SL’s state terrorism became evident in the May massacre of the resistance the world witnessed. The international community is now at pains to redress the consequences of hastily lumping the Tamil resistance (with Jihardi terrorism; the scourge of the world) to deprive the Tamils of the protection they had against SL’s brutal atrocities for over thirty years.

  272. Sahadevan

    Why should anyone have to examine the nauseating number of times that Rip and EDE here bring up America (in Iraq, in Afghanistan, whatever) whenever GOSL behaviour is queried?

    It seems that’s the only way they know to defend GOSL actions and policies.

    It becomes impossible not to respond to this and bring in the West/America if you want to continue the debate.

    After a while of this, you even start to anticipate their anti-Western diatribes and twaddle ….

  273. Vivekananthan

    Exactly !!!
    Sri Lanka Mass Murderers, the perpetrators of genocide and ethnic cleansing are now behaving like the victims? Strange, no?

  274. Sri Lankan government’s bogus inquiry into the Tamil war

    President Mahinda Rajapakse established the commission to fend off international pressure for a war crimes inquiry. In the final months leading up to the LTTE’s defeat in May 2009, the Sri Lankan military killed thousands of Tamil civilians. The LLRC’s first sittings confirm that its purpose is to whitewash the role of the government and cover up their crimes.

    The commission is anything but independent. C.R de Silva, who heads the eight-member body, is a former attorney general with a record of defending the government against human rights violations. For instance, De Silva opposed a group of international experts set up to oversee a government Commission of Inquiry (CoI), when they questioned the inquiry’s independence and credibility.

    The CoI was appointed in November 2006 to examine 16 incidents involving allegations against the Sri Lankan security forces of murdering civilians. One particularly notorious case was the execution-style killing of 17 aid workers employed by Action Contre la Faim (ACF) in 2006 August. Rajapakse dissolved the CoI last year without it producing any public report or findings.

  275. SRI LANKA: The 18th Amendment destroying democracy by manipulation of the democratic process itself
    http://www.ahrchk.net/statements/mainfile.php/2010statements/2800/

    A simple way of understanding the 18th Amendment is to compare it to the situation in the United States of America. The president of the United States is elected for a term of four years and is entitled to remain in power for a maximum of two terms. This is an absolute limit. Suppose this limit was removed and a US president could contest the election and remain in power for an indefinite period of time. What difference would that make to the entire system of governance in the country; to understand that we have to go into the principle of this absolute limitation.

    The principle is that any person who is vested with extraordinary powers should be subjected to limitations and the principle behind that is that no human being is worthy of absolute trust. No one will be trusted with power absolutely. Entrusting power must be accompanied with the placing of limitations to that power. The limitation of two terms was made on that basis. Behind this is the whole notion of binding power. Power should be bound otherwise power can destroy the very things it is supposed to protect.

    Why the media silence on Sri Lanka’s descent into dictatorship?
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/libertycentral/2010/jul/12/sri-lanka-journalists-threatened

  276. Dear Distraught Friends of Eelam (yes, that's you Sahadevan & Sivayogapoopathy)

    Do your IQs drop when you cheer for Eelam?

    The only reason I bring up the West's immeasurably worse HR rights record is that these countries see fit to judge SL. Basic logic demands that the person or entities doing the judging should themselves be blameless (or almost blameless).

    A war is a war regardless of internal (e.g. SL) or external aggression (e.g. UK, US etc). Let me put it really terms that even simpleton Eelamists can understand.

    I fully support AI's campaign to investigate Sri Lanka for war crimes and other abuses in its war against the LTTE, subject to the 'Human Rights Violations Speed Trap'concept in War Crimes.

    The Human Rights Violations 'speed limit' has been set to 70 mph. These Western countries have been caught, exceeding the HR speed limit.
    USA = 155 mph
    UK = 100 mph
    EU/NATO = 90 mph
    Sri Lanka = 72 mph

    Yet, only SL is being pursued for its alleged war crimes. The most fervent advocates of investigating and punishing SL are themselves the worst violators of 'Human Rights'.
    Clear?

    Even more absurd is to be lectured about HR by whiny LTTE supporters like you, who gleefully fundraised and cheered (away from danger) Fatty Prahba's 'Final War' and in the final months blamed everybody else other than the LTTE for the mass hostage taking of Vanni civilians to prevent their organisation being ground into the dust.

    The war's over. Your racist struggle and organisation within SL is dead. Finished. Your inability to accept that and pretend that the LTTE were camouflaged charity workers might fool the odd suddha, but we all know the truth.

    Where were the pro-LTTE diaspora's demonstrations in May 2009 asking the LTTE to let the hostage civilians escape? It didn't happen because you couldn't face the truth.

  277. India asks Sri Lanka to find political solution for minorities.

    India asked Sri Lanka to look beyond the resettlement of war-displaced Tamils and start a political process that would meet the needs and aspirations of the country’s minorities.

    ‘The focus on development and rehabilitation is welcomed but a long-term perspective that also includes the issues relating to the political settlement that would meet some of the needs of the minorities should also be kept in mind,’ Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao said while wrapping her four-day visit to Sri Lanka.

    Rao stressed that she articulated this viewpoint in all her discussions and interactions in India. ‘One of the points I sought to articulate in my meetings with the various representatives of the government and the people I met on my visit was that apart from pursuing the rehabilitation and resettlement of the IDPs, we would also have to move beyond to the political processes involved,’ she said.

    Rao also raised the issue of attacks on Indian fishermen and suggested regular meetings between the joint working group to address their alleged harassment.

    With the plight of war-displaced Tamils a source of continuing concern for India, Rao’s visit will be followed by that of External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna in October. India’s army chief, General V.K. Singh, is expected to arrive in Colombo on Sunday.

    During her visit, Rao visited camps of internally displaced persons in Jaffna, Kilinochchi, Mullaitivu, Vavuniya and Trincomalee districts worst affected by the war.

    http://story.indiagazette.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/701ee96610c884a6/id/680143/cs/1/

  278. Still the Rajapakse government inprisons thousands of Tamils in secret camps and hundreds of Tamil women with children are being kept in prisons for many years without any indictment.

    How long will the Sinhalese government keep all these Tamils in camps and prisons?

    For what reason?

  279. I think to prevent the island nation Sri Lanka from slipping further into the abysmal political inferno, western democratic nations should adopt a policy to either groom the belligerent nation Sri Lanka to reinstate a policy of resettling the war displaced Tamils and other minorities soon, integrating them into the social and economic strata and withdrawing the military from the North and East provinces or implementing a collective policy to free the citizens of Sri Lanka from the regime to pave way for the independent homeland to the Sri Lankan Tamil minority as was the case in Kosovo.

  280. New Zealand Supreme Court decides LTTE a political organisation
    [TamilNet, Sunday, 29 August 2010, 00:40 GMT]
    The Supreme Court of New Zealand Friday dismissed the appeal of the government seeking rejection of the refugee status of an Eezham Tamil who was captaining a ship carrying arms to the LTTE. The court in its judgement said: “At all relevant times the Tamil Tigers was an organisation having the goals of self-determination for Tamils and securing an independent Tamil state in northeast Sri Lanka. The principal objective was to induce the government of Sri Lanka to concede such political change. These characteristics made the Tamil Tigers a political organisation notwithstanding its use, at times, of proscribed methods of advancing its cause. That much is not in dispute”.

  281. The Human Rights Violations ’speed limit’ has been set to 70 mph. These Western countries have been caught, exceeding the HR speed limit.
    USA = 155 mph
    UK = 100 mph
    EU/NATO = 90 mph
    War Ceimes and Genocide Tamils by Sri Lanka = 72 mph

  282. Dear Sivayogapoopathy,

    The blow by blow account of the razing of the Jaffna Library & the antiTamil pogrom across 3 days & nights ….

    utterly rivetting …

    & revelatory…

    A sinhalese commented about the account that he "couldn't be bothered reading all the details"…

    something like that …

    But i read every bit …

    every question asked by the executioners in their own language …

    & i could hear them snarling those questions at me …

    i could see myself in the middle of the sinhalese night mob ….

    It reminded me of Kristallnacht…

    the night of the mass purge of the Jews by the Nazi storm troopers…

    A sinhalese ( may be the same person ) asks, What has the burning of the library got to do with the disappearances in lanka ?

    It is the same as asking, What has Kristallnacht got to do with the Holocaust ?

  283. Many of us Tamils were simply upset with what you people in Sri Lanka have done to the Tamils over the years.

    This War against Tamils and the massacre of 40,000 Tamil Civilians was totally unnecessary.

    These Rajapakses have no shame ….. Their day will come !!!

  284. I’m touched by Boycott sri lanka’s concern re 18th Amendment and the well being for all things Sri Lankan.

    You said “A simple way of understanding the 18th Amendment is to compare it to the situation in the United States of America. The president of the United States is elected for a term of four years and is entitled to remain in power for a maximum of two terms.”

    So let’s take a look at the last 16 presidential terms since the 2nd world war:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States#cite_note-num-1

    Term /Party
    41 / Democratic
    42 / Republican
    43 / Republican
    44 / Democratic
    45 / Democratic
    46 / Republican
    47 / Republican
    48 / Democratic
    49 / Republican
    50 / Republican
    51 / Republican
    52 / Democratic
    53 / Democratic
    54 / Republican
    55 / Republican
    56 / Democratic
    What do you see? Other than on the 51st term, the ruling party got kicked out after two terms.

    MR is not proposing life presidency, you can vote for him or kick him out at the next election.

    BTW – From the 48th to 56th terms, that’s approximately 32 years: one fat slob ruled the Kingdom of Eelam unopposed.

    So instead of Boycotting Eelam, we decided to destroy it once and for all to save you!

  285. You know who sets the US and the West as the benchmark?

    Guys like you who are desperately trying to justify GOSL behaviour.

    The only argument you have is this: If the West can do it, so can we!

    Actually the West CAN’T do it—it has never been able to evade scrutiny like Sri Lanka has, to escape all accountability for itself as Sri Lanka has managed to do so far.

  286. We are talking about Sri Lanka’s civil war, alleged killings of innocent citizens.

    For me, that doesn’t compare with international wars.

    The latter are open to international scrutiny.

    Due to issues of sovereignty, countries can legally keep out international and any kind of public scrutiny in a civil war.

    Which is what Sri Lanka did?

    We know about US’ behaviour in Iraq, Afghanistan.

    That is the reason why you guys are even able to make such comparisons.

    Except there is absolutely no information on Sri Lanka government’s behaviour in the war theatre.

    Given the lack of knowledge with regard to GOSL and SLA behaviour, you have no justification in pointing fingers at US as a bigger infringer of human rights because you only know the figures on one side of the picture.

    What is wrong with applying international norms to judging Sri Lanka ?

    Isn’t it a signatory of the Geneva Convention and a member of the UN?

  287. Sahadevan

    Why should anyone have to examine the nauseating number of times that Rip and EDE here bring up America (in Iraq, in Afghanistan, whatever) whenever GOSL behaviour is queried?

    It seems that’s the only way they know to defend GOSL actions and policies.

    It becomes impossible not to respond to this and bring in the West/America if you want to continue the debate.

    After a while of this, you even start to anticipate their anti-Western diatribes and twaddle ….

  288. Dear Distraught Friends of Eelam (yes, that’s you Sahadevan & Sivayogapoopathy)

    Do your IQs drop when you cheer for Eelam?

    The only reason I bring up the West’s immeasurably worse HR rights record is that these countries see fit to judge SL. Basic logic demands that the person or entities doing the judging should themselves be blameless (or almost blameless).

    A war is a war regardless of internal (e.g. SL) or external aggression (e.g. UK, US etc). Let me put it really terms that even simpleton Eelamists can understand.

    I fully support AI’s campaign to investigate Sri Lanka for war crimes and other abuses in its war against the LTTE, subject to the ‘Human Rights Violations Speed Trap’concept in War Crimes.

    The Human Rights Violations ‘speed limit’ has been set to 70 mph. These Western countries have been caught, exceeding the HR speed limit.
    USA = 155 mph
    UK = 100 mph
    EU/NATO = 90 mph
    Sri Lanka = 72 mph

    Yet, only SL is being pursued for its alleged war crimes. The most fervent advocates of investigating and punishing SL are themselves the worst violators of ‘Human Rights’.
    Clear?

    Even more absurd is to be lectured about HR by whiny LTTE supporters like you, who gleefully fundraised and cheered (away from danger) Fatty Prahba’s ‘Final War’ and in the final months blamed everybody else other than the LTTE for the mass hostage taking of Vanni civilians to prevent their organisation being ground into the dust.

    The war’s over. Your racist struggle and organisation within SL is dead. Finished. Your inability to accept that and pretend that the LTTE were camouflaged charity workers might fool the odd suddha, but we all know the truth.

    Where were the pro-LTTE diaspora’s demonstrations in May 2009 asking the LTTE to let the hostage civilians escape? It didn’t happen because you couldn’t face the truth.

  289. New Zealand Supreme Court decides LTTE a political organisation
    [TamilNet, Sunday, 29 August 2010, 00:40 GMT]
    The Supreme Court of New Zealand Friday dismissed the appeal of the government seeking rejection of the refugee status of an Eezham Tamil who was captaining a ship carrying arms to the LTTE. The court in its judgement said: “At all relevant times the Tamil Tigers was an organisation having the goals of self-determination for Tamils and securing an independent Tamil state in northeast Sri Lanka. The principal objective was to induce the government of Sri Lanka to concede such political change. These characteristics made the Tamil Tigers a political organisation notwithstanding its use, at times, of proscribed methods of advancing its cause. That much is not in dispute”.

  290. Don't forget over 25,000 Tamil family men disappeared in batticaloa alone.

    “Estimates reveal that there are more than 89,000 war widows in the North and Eastern provinces and more than 25,000 of these widows are in Batticaloa district in the Eastern province,” Tamil National Alliance (TNA) Batticaloa district parliamentarian P. Selvarasa said in a meeting of the War Victimized Women Association in Batticaloa. “Women have been victimized by war even more than by natural disasters and Sri Lanka government has failed to do anything constructive to improve their miserable living conditions though thirteen months have passed since the end of the cruel war,” Selvarasa said.

    “Sri Lanka Army (SLA) is mainly to be blamed for the victimization of these women. Their husbands had been killed, disappeared without trace and imprisoned. Young women have been sexually violated and many women arrested on suspicion are still languishing in prisons,” the MP further said.

    “Even mothers detained with their children have not been released or any legal actions taken against them by Sri Lanka government so far,” he said.

    More than 25,000 war widows in Batticaloa district alone http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&art

    The State sponsored violence against the Tamil people in the island of SriLanka has a very long history. A startling aspect of this State violence isthe large scale massacres of Tamils. Some of them are so spectacular that they are etched in the Tamil

  291. The Human Rights Violations ’speed limit’ has been set to 70 mph. These Western countries have been caught, exceeding the HR speed limit.
    USA = 155 mph
    UK = 100 mph
    EU/NATO = 90 mph
    War Ceimes and Genocide Tamils by Sri Lanka = 72 mph

  292. Dear Sivayogapoopathy,

    The blow by blow account of the razing of the Jaffna Library & the antiTamil pogrom across 3 days & nights ….

    utterly rivetting …

    & revelatory…

    A sinhalese commented about the account that he “couldn’t be bothered reading all the details”…

    something like that …

    But i read every bit …

    every question asked by the executioners in their own language …

    & i could hear them snarling those questions at me …

    i could see myself in the middle of the sinhalese night mob ….

    It reminded me of Kristallnacht…

    the night of the mass purge of the Jews by the Nazi storm troopers…

    A sinhalese ( may be the same person ) asks, What has the burning of the library got to do with the disappearances in lanka ?

    It is the same as asking, What has Kristallnacht got to do with the Holocaust ?

  293. Don't forget over 25,000 Tamil family men disappeared in batticaloa alone.

    “Estimates reveal that there are more than 89,000 war widows in the North and Eastern provinces and more than 25,000 of these widows are in Batticaloa district in the Eastern province,” Tamil National Alliance (TNA) Batticaloa district parliamentarian P. Selvarasa said in a meeting of the War Victimized Women Association in Batticaloa. “Women have been victimized by war even more than by natural disasters and Sri Lanka government has failed to do anything constructive to improve their miserable living conditions though thirteen months have passed since the end of the cruel war,” Selvarasa said.

    “Sri Lanka Army (SLA) is mainly to be blamed for the victimization of these women. Their husbands had been killed, disappeared without trace and imprisoned. Young women have been sexually violated and many women arrested on suspicion are still languishing in prisons,” the MP further said.

    “Even mothers detained with their children have not been released or any legal actions taken against them by Sri Lanka government so far,” he said.

    More than 25,000 war widows in Batticaloa district alone http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&art

    The State sponsored violence against the Tamil people in the island of SriLanka has a very long history. A startling aspect of this State violence isthe large scale massacres of Tamils. Some of them are so spectacular that they are etched in the Tamil

  294. Don't forget over 25,000 Tamil family men disappeared in batticaloa alone.

    “Estimates reveal that there are more than 89,000 war widows in the North and Eastern provinces and more than 25,000 of these widows are in Batticaloa district in the Eastern province,” Tamil National Alliance (TNA) Batticaloa district parliamentarian P. Selvarasa said in a meeting of the War Victimized Women Association in Batticaloa. “Women have been victimized by war even more than by natural disasters and Sri Lanka government has failed to do anything constructive to improve their miserable living conditions though thirteen months have passed since the end of the cruel war,” Selvarasa said.

    “Sri Lanka Army (SLA) is mainly to be blamed for the victimization of these women. Their husbands had been killed, disappeared without trace and imprisoned. Young women have been sexually violated and many women arrested on suspicion are still languishing in prisons,” the MP further said.

    “Even mothers detained with their children have not been released or any legal actions taken against them by Sri Lanka government so far,” he said.

    More than 25,000 war widows in Batticaloa district alone http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&art

    The State sponsored violence against the Tamil people in the island of SriLanka has a very long history. A startling aspect of this State violence isthe large scale massacres of Tamils. Some of them are so spectacular that they are etched in the Tamil

  295. Tamil research conference massacre 10.01.1974
    Tamils were preparing on a grand scale to hold a Tamil Research conference in Jaffna during 3-10 January in 1974. The government of Sri Lanka at that time did not like holding this Tamil research conference in Jaffna. The government continued to place hurdles to the organizers in Colombo and also in Jaffna through the Mayor of Jaffna. Permission to construct the open air platforms for the conference was held back until the very last minute. Many researchers who wanted to travel to Jaffna for the conference from other countries were refused visa.
    In spite of these hurdles, the conference organizers and the Tamil people were determined to persist with the arrangements. Seeing the support of the Tamil people for holding the conference the
    government came down a little and issued visas to a limited number of researchers. The President of the conference organizing committee, Thambaih, did not like holding the conference in Jaffna. He, therefore, resigned from his post. Prof Vidhyanandan took over the responsibility of the President. The conference started on 3 January. Hundreds of thousands of people from different parts of Jaffna came into town to attend the conference. Conference proceeded on a grand scale. No conferences of the past were conducted in such a scale and with such enthusiasm. The entire Jaffna town was in festival mood. 10 January was being celebrated as the final day of the conference. The last item was speeches made by experts in Tamil language about the greatness of the language and the culture based on it. Prof Naina Mohammad from Tamilnadu in India was delivering the final speech. At that instant, the police lead by the Deputy Inspector of Police for Jaffna, Chandrasekara, started to attack the people at the conference. The police also opened fire. Nine civilians were killed, the stages were destroyed. The same Inspector of Police Chandrasekara was later promoted to the post of Inspector of Police by the then Prime Minister Srimavo Bandaranayaka

  296. Sri Lankan Navymen snatch Rameswaram fishermen''s fish

    Rameswaram (TN), Sept 2 (PTI) A group of fishermen from this island were relieved of their fish catch and mobile phones allegedly by Sri Lankan Naval personnel when they were fishing near Katchatheevu. The affected fishermen numbering around 20 told reporters here that when they were fishing near Katchatheevu, an islet ceded to Sri Lanka by India, the Lankan Navalmen entered their five boats and took away their fish catch and mobile phones. Tension prevailed among the fishermen community here as the fishermen, who had put out to sea yesterday, returned to the shores empty handed this morning
    http://www.uktamilnews.com/

  297. 89,000 Tamil war widows in the Sri Lankan North and Eastern so it means that 89 000 Tamil men were butchered.

    When we add to this mass murder women and children……..

    it will be about 150 000

  298. Sri Lankan Navymen snatch Rameswaram fishermen''s fish

    Rameswaram (TN), Sept 2 (PTI) A group of fishermen from this island were relieved of their fish catch and mobile phones allegedly by Sri Lankan Naval personnel when they were fishing near Katchatheevu. The affected fishermen numbering around 20 told reporters here that when they were fishing near Katchatheevu, an islet ceded to Sri Lanka by India, the Lankan Navalmen entered their five boats and took away their fish catch and mobile phones. Tension prevailed among the fishermen community here as the fishermen, who had put out to sea yesterday, returned to the shores empty handed this morning
    http://www.uktamilnews.com/

  299. Sri Lankan Navymen snatch Rameswaram fishermen''s fish

    Rameswaram (TN), Sept 2 (PTI) A group of fishermen from this island were relieved of their fish catch and mobile phones allegedly by Sri Lankan Naval personnel when they were fishing near Katchatheevu. The affected fishermen numbering around 20 told reporters here that when they were fishing near Katchatheevu, an islet ceded to Sri Lanka by India, the Lankan Navalmen entered their five boats and took away their fish catch and mobile phones. Tension prevailed among the fishermen community here as the fishermen, who had put out to sea yesterday, returned to the shores empty handed this morning
    http://www.uktamilnews.com/

  300. a.savage Says:
    September 2nd, 2010 at 8:11 pm

    I assume you called me "A Singhalees" !!

    So unfortunately, I can't call my self a Singhalees because I have mixed blood and I am what one could call a pure Sri Lankan. So, let me let you hear from a Sri Lankan…. !!

    It is the same as asking, What has Kristallnacht got to do with the Holocaust ?

    Let's see !!

    Kristallnacht – (Crystal Night) or The Night of Broken Glass was an anti-Jewish pogrom in Nazi Germany (including Austria and Sudetenland) from the 9th until the 10th of November 1938.

    The Kristallnacht was triggered by the assassination in Paris of German diplomat Ernst vom Rath by Herschel Grynszpan, a German-born Polish Jew. In a coordinated attack on Jewish people and their property, 91 Jews were killed and 25,000 to 30,000 were arrested and placed in concentration camps.

    The Holocaust – (hólos, "whole" and kaustós, "burnt"), was the genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War II, a programme of systematic state-sponsored extermination by Nazi Germany. The genocide of these six million people was a genocide of two-thirds of the population of nine million Jews who had resided in Europe before the Holocaust.

    Now let's see !

    Jaffna Library Burning –On Sunday May 31, 1981, the Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF), held a rally in which three Sinhalese policeman were shot and two killed.

    That night police and paramilitaries began a pogrom that lasted for three days. The head office of TULF party was destroyed. The office of the Eelanaadu, a local newspaper, was also destroyed. Statues of Tamil cultural and religious figures were destroyed or defaced. On the night of May 31, according to many eyewitnesses, police and government-sponsored paramilitias set fire to the Jaffna public library and destroyed it completely.

    A forced disappearance (or enforced disappearance) occurs when a person is secretly imprisoned or killed by agents or other organization, but the organization does not admit that they have carried out this act, thereby placing the victim outside the protection of law.

    Now – I see a connection between the Kristallnacht and the burning of Jaffna Library as on how the whole thing began – but, I can assure that no 97,000 Tamils were killed in Sri Lanka. I also see a connection between Kristallnacht and Holocaust – many Jews were killed and their European population was reduced to 1/3rds. Many Jews were purposefully killed, but, cannot relate to Sri Lanka as it was only the LTTE that was purposefully killed by the state – in fact, LTTE went on to kill all the Tamils who opposed them and all the Singhalees and Muslims that lived in the north – So may be that's the link Ass wanted us to see….

    But, This post is about "Disappearance" and I don't see any link between Dissapearance and the other 3 topics – Am I dumb or is A(ss) Savage dumb ?? can someone please elucidate me ??? I also don't see any thing that happened in Sri Lanka

    And of course, I do not waste time reading copy paste articles… !! Also, I would have liked to see some answers to the questions than someone trying to compare the sun and the moon !!!

  301. Sivayogapoopathy Says:
    September 3rd, 2010 at 3:23 am

    Sri Lankan Navymen snatch Rameswaram fishermen’’s fish

    LOL – may be they had a BBQ at Navy HQ in Jaffna. Anyways, much better solution to the Indian Fishermen who cross boarders than taking them to custody. May be the Indian Navy should do the same to the Sri Lankan fishermen who cross the borders. There are 500 + Sri Lankan fishermen under the custody of the Indian Navy for crossing the borders – Not much Indian fishermen under SL navy custody though !!

    Sivayogapoopathy Says:
    September 3rd, 2010 at 2:49 am

    89,000 Tamil war widows in the Sri Lankan North and Eastern

    Actually this 89,000 includes Muslims and Singhalees widows who's Hubbies were killed by the LTTE too…… It also includes widows of the Tamils who were killed by the LTTE…. !! See, LTTE killed more Tamils than any other put together !!

    Sivayogapoopathy Says:
    September 2nd, 2010 at 4:02 pm

    Why should anyone have to examine the nauseating number of times that Rip and EDE here bring up America (in Iraq, in Afghanistan, whatever) whenever GOSL behaviour is queried?

    Though EDE has explained this crystal clear, let me also mention that is is you loonies who run to the west for help – You are running to the Gangster leader to complain about the little Gangster..

    It seems that’s the only way they know to defend GOSL actions and policies.

    Oh no – we have brought forward many more cases, just that you are running away from all of them without answering… Tell me if you want me to repeat my self….

    Also, we are not anti-western – we are very much for the west !! We are only playing "Follow me Leader"

    Sahadevan Says:
    September 2nd, 2010 at 3:48 pm

    You know who sets the US and the West as the benchmark?

    Well, You Apes do – Let me remind you – Some of the stuff you mentioned before are "HR should be like in USA and Canada" "England has the best HR record" "Thanks to HR in USA and Canada we are Free"

    Guys like you who are desperately trying to justify GOSL behaviour.

    Like you trying to Desperately justify the behaviour of the LTTE Terrorists… At least we have succeeded – what have you achieved ??

    The only argument you have is this: If the West can do it, so can we!

    Well, not exactly – We did it and the west are still struggling to do it… We finished Terrorism and USA is not backing off.. We tell them to take a cue from us.. Also, if no one compares any one to another – Please let Sri Lanka be – this is how we do things – No need to compare !!!

    Sahadevan Says:
    September 2nd, 2010 at 3:54 pm

    Except there is absolutely no information on Sri Lanka government’s behaviour in the war theatre.

    Who said ??? Everything is out there in public and those who knows know exactly what happened !!

    Given the lack of knowledge with regard to GOSL and SLA behavior, you have no justification in pointing fingers at US as a bigger infringer of human rights because you only know the figures on one side of the picture.

    Dude – If there is evidence against USA, that means we definitely can point fingers at them – If there is no evidence against SL, please do not point any finger unless you come up with the evidence – You are only shouting on speculations !! So, let's argue on the figures that are available – will that solve your issue ?

    Also, EDE / mango explained how SL was well within the Geneve code of conduct before !!

  302. @ a.savage
    Congratulations on winning this thread's 'Godwin's Law' award. [Godwin's Law '"As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1." The term Godwin's law can also refer to the tradition that whoever makes such a comparison is said to "lose" the debate."]

    Your attempt at conflating the Jaffna Library arson attack with the Kristallnacht is indicative of your general ignorance and is an insult to the victims of a genuine Holocaust whose suffering's been cheapened and is being used to defend and promote a demonstrably racist, supremacist ideology of Tamil Eelam.

    The Kristallnacht foreshadowed the complete destruction and real genocide of German Jews. Nothing comparable has happened or will happen in Sri Lanka. The comparisons you make thankfully only damage the racist cause of Eelam even further.

    Neither myself or any other pro-SL commenters have reacted with anything other than anger, sorrow and disgust at the Library burning or the '83 riots. Both these terrible events did untold damage to SL and all its' peoples and gave a massive boost to the LTTE's cause.

    Here's a SL MP apologising for the Library arson.
    http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&art

    And here's KP apologising for the damage caused by the LTTE to all Sri Lankans.

    "Yes I have two messages. The first is to my fellow Tamils. This is what I say. The war is over. Prabhakaran and other senior commanders are no more. Tamil Eelam is a lost cause. Please dont be deceived by irresponsible people into thinking that the armed struggle is not over. Please give up the confrontational attitude and help our broken people to re-build their lives. I appeal to members of the Tamil Diaspra and Tamil Nadu politicians to refrain from idle rhetoric and instead help Tamils in Sri Lanka to live in harmony and prosperity with others. We need reconciliation and co-operation not confrontation and friction.

    The second is to all my fellow Sri Lankans. We of the LTTE and other militant groups commenced an armed struggle to win back our lost rights. We thought Tamil Eelam was the answer and that the end will justify the means. In the course of our armed struggle we have caused much harm and misery to the people of Sri Lanka. We have violated all norms of civilized conduct at times. When I reflect on the past I am appalled by what has happened. As a senior leader or ex –leader of the LTTE I sincerely beg the forgiveness of all Sri Lankans for this. Please pardon us and help us to forge a bright future for all Sri Lankans." http://dbsjeyaraj.com/dbsj/archives/1670

    That just leaves the doomed and impotent pro-LTTE diaspora on their lonely path to irrelevance, accompanied by your poems, laments and love letters to Gunalan.

  303. Sri Lankan returnees tortured: Amnesty
    Three asylum seekers forcibly removed to Sri Lanka in 2009 have been tortured and jailed after they tried to return to Australia, Amnesty International says.

    The human rights group said it held grave fears for the men, saying they are now at risk of further torture and abuse from guards and other prisoners.

    The two returnees, Sumith Mendis and Lasantha Wijeratne, were taken to hospital on Wednesday with injuries from being beaten and tortured .

    It was not clear if they were still in hospital or had been returned to prison, where a third man, Indika Mendis, was being held
    http://www.sheppnews.com.au/aapArticle.aspx?aapID

  304. @ a.savage
    Congratulations on winning this thread's 'Godwin's Law' award. [Godwin's Law '"As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1." The term Godwin's law can also refer to the tradition that whoever makes such a comparison is said to "lose" the debate."]

    Your attempt at conflating the Jaffna Library arson attack with the Kristallnacht is indicative of your general ignorance and is an insult to the victims of a genuine Holocaust whose suffering's been cheapened and is being used to defend and promote a demonstrably racist, supremacist ideology of Tamil Eelam.

    The Kristallnacht foreshadowed the complete destruction and real genocide of German Jews. Nothing comparable has happened or will happen in Sri Lanka. The comparisons you make thankfully only damage the racist cause of Eelam even further.

    Neither myself or any other pro-SL commenters have reacted with anything other than anger, sorrow and disgust at the Library burning or the '83 riots. Both these terrible events did untold damage to SL and all its' peoples and gave a massive boost to the LTTE's cause.

    Here's a SL MP apologising for the Library arson.
    http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&art

    And here's KP apologising for the damage caused by the LTTE to all Sri Lankans.

    "Yes I have two messages. The first is to my fellow Tamils. This is what I say. The war is over. Prabhakaran and other senior commanders are no more. Tamil Eelam is a lost cause. Please dont be deceived by irresponsible people into thinking that the armed struggle is not over. Please give up the confrontational attitude and help our broken people to re-build their lives. I appeal to members of the Tamil Diaspra and Tamil Nadu politicians to refrain from idle rhetoric and instead help Tamils in Sri Lanka to live in harmony and prosperity with others. We need reconciliation and co-operation not confrontation and friction.

    The second is to all my fellow Sri Lankans. We of the LTTE and other militant groups commenced an armed struggle to win back our lost rights. We thought Tamil Eelam was the answer and that the end will justify the means. In the course of our armed struggle we have caused much harm and misery to the people of Sri Lanka. We have violated all norms of civilized conduct at times. When I reflect on the past I am appalled by what has happened. As a senior leader or ex –leader of the LTTE I sincerely beg the forgiveness of all Sri Lankans for this. Please pardon us and help us to forge a bright future for all Sri Lankans." http://dbsjeyaraj.com/dbsj/archives/1670

    That just leaves the doomed and impotent pro-LTTE diaspora on their lonely path to irrelevance, accompanied by your poems, laments and love letters to Gunalan.

  305. @ a.savage
    Congratulations on winning this thread's 'Godwin's Law' award. [Godwin's Law '"As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1." The term Godwin's law can also refer to the tradition that whoever makes such a comparison is said to "lose" the debate."]

    Your attempt at conflating the Jaffna Library arson attack with the Kristallnacht is indicative of your general ignorance and is an insult to the victims of a genuine Holocaust whose suffering's been cheapened and is being used to defend and promote a demonstrably racist, supremacist ideology of Tamil Eelam.

    The Kristallnacht foreshadowed the complete destruction and real genocide of German Jews. Nothing comparable has happened or will happen in Sri Lanka. The comparisons you make thankfully only damage the racist cause of Eelam even further.

    Neither myself or any other pro-SL commenters have reacted with anything other than anger, sorrow and disgust at the Library burning or the '83 riots. Both these terrible events did untold damage to SL and all its' peoples and gave a massive boost to the LTTE's cause.

    Here's a SL MP apologising for the Library arson.
    http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&art

    And here's KP apologising for the damage caused by the LTTE to all Sri Lankans.

    "Yes I have two messages. The first is to my fellow Tamils. This is what I say. The war is over. Prabhakaran and other senior commanders are no more. Tamil Eelam is a lost cause. Please dont be deceived by irresponsible people into thinking that the armed struggle is not over. Please give up the confrontational attitude and help our broken people to re-build their lives. I appeal to members of the Tamil Diaspra and Tamil Nadu politicians to refrain from idle rhetoric and instead help Tamils in Sri Lanka to live in harmony and prosperity with others. We need reconciliation and co-operation not confrontation and friction.

    The second is to all my fellow Sri Lankans. We of the LTTE and other militant groups commenced an armed struggle to win back our lost rights. We thought Tamil Eelam was the answer and that the end will justify the means. In the course of our armed struggle we have caused much harm and misery to the people of Sri Lanka. We have violated all norms of civilized conduct at times. When I reflect on the past I am appalled by what has happened. As a senior leader or ex –leader of the LTTE I sincerely beg the forgiveness of all Sri Lankans for this. Please pardon us and help us to forge a bright future for all Sri Lankans." http://dbsjeyaraj.com/dbsj/archives/1670

    That just leaves the doomed and impotent pro-LTTE diaspora on their lonely path to irrelevance, accompanied by your poems, laments and love letters to Gunalan.

  306. Sri Lankan returnees tortured: Amnesty
    Three asylum seekers forcibly removed to Sri Lanka in 2009 have been tortured and jailed after they tried to return to Australia, Amnesty International says.

    The human rights group said it held grave fears for the men, saying they are now at risk of further torture and abuse from guards and other prisoners.

    The two returnees, Sumith Mendis and Lasantha Wijeratne, were taken to hospital on Wednesday with injuries from being beaten and tortured .

    It was not clear if they were still in hospital or had been returned to prison, where a third man, Indika Mendis, was being held
    http://www.sheppnews.com.au/aapArticle.aspx?aapID

  307. Sri Lankan returnees tortured: Amnesty
    Three asylum seekers forcibly removed to Sri Lanka in 2009 have been tortured and jailed after they tried to return to Australia, Amnesty International says.

    The human rights group said it held grave fears for the men, saying they are now at risk of further torture and abuse from guards and other prisoners.

    The two returnees, Sumith Mendis and Lasantha Wijeratne, were taken to hospital on Wednesday with injuries from being beaten and tortured .

    It was not clear if they were still in hospital or had been returned to prison, where a third man, Indika Mendis, was being held
    http://www.sheppnews.com.au/aapArticle.aspx?aapID

  308. Nadarsa Says:
    September 2nd, 2010 at 6:56 am

    I think the following sentence itself is a good reason for Canada to turn back the false asylum seekers !!

    This is what you call "kicking the ladder that helped you climb".

    The low mental goons entered Canada under False claims seeking asylum and now after getting their citizenship, are forcing the peaceful Canadians legalize human trafficking ??

    Rathika Sitsabaiesan, the NDP’s candidate for Scarborough-Rouge River, stressed that the Conservative government must treat asylum-seekers as asylum-seekers and not criminals.

    Canada – this is where we say "You sleep with Dogs, be prepared to get up with Flees" – It's not too late to apply shampoo – get rid of these dogs, apes and worms for Canada to be prosperous in future – The Peelamists will ruin your country !

  309. Don’t forget over 25,000 Tamil family men disappeared in batticaloa alone.

    “Estimates reveal that there are more than 89,000 war widows in the North and Eastern provinces and more than 25,000 of these widows are in Batticaloa district in the Eastern province,” Tamil National Alliance (TNA) Batticaloa district parliamentarian P. Selvarasa said in a meeting of the War Victimized Women Association in Batticaloa. “Women have been victimized by war even more than by natural disasters and Sri Lanka government has failed to do anything constructive to improve their miserable living conditions though thirteen months have passed since the end of the cruel war,” Selvarasa said.

    “Sri Lanka Army (SLA) is mainly to be blamed for the victimization of these women. Their husbands had been killed, disappeared without trace and imprisoned. Young women have been sexually violated and many women arrested on suspicion are still languishing in prisons,” the MP further said.

    “Even mothers detained with their children have not been released or any legal actions taken against them by Sri Lanka government so far,” he said.

    More than 25,000 war widows in Batticaloa district alone
    http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=32527

    The State sponsored violence against the Tamil people in the island of SriLanka has a very long history. A startling aspect of this State violence isthe large scale massacres of Tamils. Some of them are so spectacular that they are etched in the Tamil

  310. Tamil research conference massacre 10.01.1974
    Tamils were preparing on a grand scale to hold a Tamil Research conference in Jaffna during 3-10 January in 1974. The government of Sri Lanka at that time did not like holding this Tamil research conference in Jaffna. The government continued to place hurdles to the organizers in Colombo and also in Jaffna through the Mayor of Jaffna. Permission to construct the open air platforms for the conference was held back until the very last minute. Many researchers who wanted to travel to Jaffna for the conference from other countries were refused visa.
    In spite of these hurdles, the conference organizers and the Tamil people were determined to persist with the arrangements. Seeing the support of the Tamil people for holding the conference the
    government came down a little and issued visas to a limited number of researchers. The President of the conference organizing committee, Thambaih, did not like holding the conference in Jaffna. He, therefore, resigned from his post. Prof Vidhyanandan took over the responsibility of the President. The conference started on 3 January. Hundreds of thousands of people from different parts of Jaffna came into town to attend the conference. Conference proceeded on a grand scale. No conferences of the past were conducted in such a scale and with such enthusiasm. The entire Jaffna town was in festival mood. 10 January was being celebrated as the final day of the conference. The last item was speeches made by experts in Tamil language about the greatness of the language and the culture based on it. Prof Naina Mohammad from Tamilnadu in India was delivering the final speech. At that instant, the police lead by the Deputy Inspector of Police for Jaffna, Chandrasekara, started to attack the people at the conference. The police also opened fire. Nine civilians were killed, the stages were destroyed. The same Inspector of Police Chandrasekara was later promoted to the post of Inspector of Police by the then Prime Minister Srimavo Bandaranayaka

  311. 89,000 Tamil war widows in the Sri Lankan North and Eastern so it means that 89 000 Tamil men were butchered.

    When we add to this mass murder women and children……..

    it will be about 150 000

  312. Sri Lankan Navymen snatch Rameswaram fishermen”s fish

    Rameswaram (TN), Sept 2 (PTI) A group of fishermen from this island were relieved of their fish catch and mobile phones allegedly by Sri Lankan Naval personnel when they were fishing near Katchatheevu. The affected fishermen numbering around 20 told reporters here that when they were fishing near Katchatheevu, an islet ceded to Sri Lanka by India, the Lankan Navalmen entered their five boats and took away their fish catch and mobile phones. Tension prevailed among the fishermen community here as the fishermen, who had put out to sea yesterday, returned to the shores empty handed this morning

    http://www.uktamilnews.com/

  313. a.savage Says:
    September 2nd, 2010 at 8:11 pm

    I assume you called me “A Singhalees” !!

    So unfortunately, I can’t call my self a Singhalees because I have mixed blood and I am what one could call a pure Sri Lankan. So, let me let you hear from a Sri Lankan…. !!

    It is the same as asking, What has Kristallnacht got to do with the Holocaust ?

    Let’s see !!

    Kristallnacht – (Crystal Night) or The Night of Broken Glass was an anti-Jewish pogrom in Nazi Germany (including Austria and Sudetenland) from the 9th until the 10th of November 1938.

    The Kristallnacht was triggered by the assassination in Paris of German diplomat Ernst vom Rath by Herschel Grynszpan, a German-born Polish Jew. In a coordinated attack on Jewish people and their property, 91 Jews were killed and 25,000 to 30,000 were arrested and placed in concentration camps.

    The Holocaust – (hólos, “whole” and kaustós, “burnt”), was the genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War II, a programme of systematic state-sponsored extermination by Nazi Germany. The genocide of these six million people was a genocide of two-thirds of the population of nine million Jews who had resided in Europe before the Holocaust.

    Now let’s see !

    Jaffna Library Burning –On Sunday May 31, 1981, the Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF), held a rally in which three Sinhalese policeman were shot and two killed.

    That night police and paramilitaries began a pogrom that lasted for three days. The head office of TULF party was destroyed. The office of the Eelanaadu, a local newspaper, was also destroyed. Statues of Tamil cultural and religious figures were destroyed or defaced. On the night of May 31, according to many eyewitnesses, police and government-sponsored paramilitias set fire to the Jaffna public library and destroyed it completely.

    A forced disappearance (or enforced disappearance) occurs when a person is secretly imprisoned or killed by agents or other organization, but the organization does not admit that they have carried out this act, thereby placing the victim outside the protection of law.

    Now – I see a connection between the Kristallnacht and the burning of Jaffna Library as on how the whole thing began – but, I can assure that no 97,000 Tamils were killed in Sri Lanka. I also see a connection between Kristallnacht and Holocaust – many Jews were killed and their European population was reduced to 1/3rds. Many Jews were purposefully killed, but, cannot relate to Sri Lanka as it was only the LTTE that was purposefully killed by the state – in fact, LTTE went on to kill all the Tamils who opposed them and all the Singhalees and Muslims that lived in the north – So may be that’s the link Ass wanted us to see….

    But, This post is about “Disappearance” and I don’t see any link between Dissapearance and the other 3 topics – Am I dumb or is A(ss) Savage dumb ?? can someone please elucidate me ??? I also don’t see any thing that happened in Sri Lanka

    And of course, I do not waste time reading copy paste articles… !! Also, I would have liked to see some answers to the questions than someone trying to compare the sun and the moon !!!

  314. Unless and until the root causes of the plight of Sri Lankan Tamils are addressed, the doors to the exploitation of human tragedy for personal enrichment will remain open to anybody, whether private or corporate personality, to cash in.

    What happens in Sri Lanka is, in a nutshell, the transference of human tragedy into profitable market enterprise. Though sad and despicable, it is the simple fact to grapple with.

    With connivance of corrupted and lawless Sri Lankan ‘thug cartel’ called Sri Lankan government, the governments India, Russia, China, and other minor states have found Sri Lankan Tamils’ human plight as the promising market enterprise.

    Human pain and suffering of the innocent and helpless are traded and cashed in.

    Is it the modern definition of ‘democracy’ ?

  315. It has been noted in elite political group, comprising former heads of states and religious preachers across the world, that the Western governments are the hidden organs behind the Sri Lankan Tamils’ tragedy today.

    Their tacit approval or tolerance of Sri Lankan massacre of more than 40,000 innocent Tamils and other minorities during the war on terrorism in 2009 has disgorged the horrendous situation unprecedented ever before.

    Unable to assimilate the folly in their estimation of Sri Lankan state terrorism, the western governments hide behind each other playing ‘hide and seek’ game.

  316. The only solution to the plight Sri Lankan Tamils face today is UN involvement in a strategic appropriation in deference to the UN Human Rights Convention and its enforcement without prejudice to initiate the UN independent inquiry into the nature of Sri Lankan war crimes that precipitated a situation in the death of more than 40,000 innocent minority lives.

    A crime that constitutes culpability with intent to inflict damage on a fellow human being or property demands punishment no matter who the person is.

    Politics is not a sacrosanct sphere nor is it a misguided religion to fool people just as the present Sri Lankan government does in Sri Lanka. One of the six holy religions of the world, Buddhism is synchronous with the idea of enlightenment but, definitely, not with violence. In today’s annals of Sri Lankan politics, Buddhism in Sri Lanka, unlike anywhere else, is practiced with a vehemence of hate and distrust towards the minorities, especially Tamils.

    The idea of religion flourishes in the sphere of life where it belongs giving meaning and direction to life path, but definitely not in a section of society where it does not belong.

    The key to the solution of the plight Sri Lankan Tamils is the closure of all the doors to the profitable human tragedy enterprise that is rampant today.

  317. With the UN involvement in the independent inquiry into Sri Lankan war crime parties, whether government or any organization or group, there is a promising veritable chance for the world citizens to know what really happened during the final stages of war in 2009 and reach a verdict on the war crimes. The sooner it happens, the better for those trapped in the human tragedy in Sri Lanka.

    Until and unless this happens, anything the world power body tries or is trying to do is only an ‘eye wash’.

    To do something meaningful and worthwhile, one needs not only a smart brain but the guts too.

    Does justice speak through one’s conscience or the conscience of an international power body like the UN?

  318. Sivayogapoopathy Says:
    September 3rd, 2010 at 3:23 am

    Sri Lankan Navymen snatch Rameswaram fishermen’’s fish

    LOL – may be they had a BBQ at Navy HQ in Jaffna. Anyways, much better solution to the Indian Fishermen who cross boarders than taking them to custody. May be the Indian Navy should do the same to the Sri Lankan fishermen who cross the borders. There are 500 + Sri Lankan fishermen under the custody of the Indian Navy for crossing the borders – Not much Indian fishermen under SL navy custody though !!

    Sivayogapoopathy Says:
    September 3rd, 2010 at 2:49 am

    89,000 Tamil war widows in the Sri Lankan North and Eastern

    Actually this 89,000 includes Muslims and Singhalees widows who’s Hubbies were killed by the LTTE too…… It also includes widows of the Tamils who were killed by the LTTE…. !! See, LTTE killed more Tamils than any other put together !!

    Sivayogapoopathy Says:
    September 2nd, 2010 at 4:02 pm

    Why should anyone have to examine the nauseating number of times that Rip and EDE here bring up America (in Iraq, in Afghanistan, whatever) whenever GOSL behaviour is queried?

    Though EDE has explained this crystal clear, let me also mention that is is you loonies who run to the west for help – You are running to the Gangster leader to complain about the little Gangster..

    It seems that’s the only way they know to defend GOSL actions and policies.

    Oh no – we have brought forward many more cases, just that you are running away from all of them without answering… Tell me if you want me to repeat my self….

    Also, we are not anti-western – we are very much for the west !! We are only playing “Follow me Leader”

    Sahadevan Says:
    September 2nd, 2010 at 3:48 pm

    You know who sets the US and the West as the benchmark?

    Well, You Apes do – Let me remind you – Some of the stuff you mentioned before are “HR should be like in USA and Canada” “England has the best HR record” “Thanks to HR in USA and Canada we are Free”

    Guys like you who are desperately trying to justify GOSL behaviour.

    Like you trying to Desperately justify the behaviour of the LTTE Terrorists… At least we have succeeded – what have you achieved ??

    The only argument you have is this: If the West can do it, so can we!

    Well, not exactly – We did it and the west are still struggling to do it… We finished Terrorism and USA is not backing off.. We tell them to take a cue from us.. Also, if no one compares any one to another – Please let Sri Lanka be – this is how we do things – No need to compare !!!

    Sahadevan Says:
    September 2nd, 2010 at 3:54 pm

    Except there is absolutely no information on Sri Lanka government’s behaviour in the war theatre.

    Who said ??? Everything is out there in public and those who knows know exactly what happened !!

    Given the lack of knowledge with regard to GOSL and SLA behavior, you have no justification in pointing fingers at US as a bigger infringer of human rights because you only know the figures on one side of the picture.

    Dude – If there is evidence against USA, that means we definitely can point fingers at them – If there is no evidence against SL, please do not point any finger unless you come up with the evidence – You are only shouting on speculations !! So, let’s argue on the figures that are available – will that solve your issue ?

    Also, EDE / mango explained how SL was well within the Geneve code of conduct before !!

  319. Sri Lanka staged a Brutal Racist War under the pretext of ‘fighting the war on terror’.

    The “mind frame of the West” was suitable and they were gullible enough to believe the srilankan’s false propaganda.

    Tamils became the unfortunate victims.

    Between 2006-May 2009 over a million displaced from their homes and were in the concentration camps as IDPs, more than 150,000 death and maimed.

    A UK based Journalist who flew with Ban-Ki Moon in June 2009 in the Srilankan Air force helicopter reported the devastation and said she was able to see the multiple graves into which the Army was bulldozing and burning the bodies.

    By the end of the war there were 300,000 placed behind barbed wire internment camps.

    Still the Srilankan government cares less for the Tamils.

    Many were removed from the main camps in Vanni to their home towns and villages and left to fend for themselves.

    Sri Lanka Army continue with their harassments.

    Tamil peoples belongings are plundered, their cattle, farming equipments, vehicles are all being stolen and moved to south.

    ‘White-van’ kidnapping ,extra judicial killings, ransom demands, rape are continuing unabatedly.

    No law and order only open prisons for Tamils.

  320. World Citizen: Sri Lanka, China Form Strategic Shield against the West http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/6315/

    China's interest has been warmly reciprocated by Sri Lankan authorities, who see Beijing's embrace as the key to prosperity at a time when the West demands pesky human rights standards in exchange for its largesse.

    While the West today is removing preferential trade treatment from Sri Lanka, citing its failure to cooperate with human rights investigations, Beijing is happily expanding its presence. Last year China became the country's biggest financial investor, and the level of cooperation is increasing by the day. Chinese businessmen and technical experts are a regular presence in Colombo's hotels, and government delegations make frequent visits. China is allowing Sri Lanka to develop its economy, while Sri Lanka is providing China with a key strategic position in the Indian Ocean — one that could evolve into a political and even a quasi-military alliance.

    Sri Lanka has become one of the beads in China's so-called "String of Pearls," a series of ports between the Persian Gulf and China that protect Chinese trade routes and create the foundation for what could become a series of bases for China's fast-growing navy.

    Sri Lankan asylum seekers tortured after being forcibly returned from Australia http://www.amnesty.org.au/news/comments/23625/

  321. Following decision to support the government UNP MP Cader to be freed from Samurdhi fraud http://www.lankanewsweb.com/news/EN_2010_09_03_01

    The President has informed the Attorney General’s Department to take the necessary steps to release UNP MP Abdual Cader from charges of misappropriating Rs. 100 million belonging to the Samurdhi Fund, sources from the Attorney General’s Department said.

    The Attorney General’s Department had filed a case against Cader for presenting forged letters to the Secretary of the Samurdhi Trust Fund, Priyantha Pathirana Abeysekera around November 17, 2003 claiming to be from Taj Mahal Stores in Gampola and New Ratnasiri Stores and misappropriating funds received.

    The case was taken up on August 31 before Colombo High Court judge Kumudhini Wickremasinghe. Senior State Counsel Dlieep Peiris who appeared fro the Attorney General’s Department told courts that the Department was planning on re-studying the evidence and documents related to the case.

    The state counsel had made this statement when defence counsel, President’s Counsel M.L.M. Ameen told courts that the case could not proceed without the initial documents related to the incident.

    The judge postponed the case till October 6.

  322. @ a.savage
    Congratulations on winning this thread’s ‘Godwin’s Law’ award. [Godwin’s Law ‘”As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1.” The term Godwin’s law can also refer to the tradition that whoever makes such a comparison is said to “lose” the debate.”]

    Your attempt at conflating the Jaffna Library arson attack with the Kristallnacht is indicative of your general ignorance and is an insult to the victims of a genuine Holocaust whose suffering’s been cheapened and is being used to defend and promote a demonstrably racist, supremacist ideology of Tamil Eelam.

    The Kristallnacht foreshadowed the complete destruction and real genocide of German Jews. Nothing comparable has happened or will happen in Sri Lanka. The comparisons you make thankfully only damage the racist cause of Eelam even further.

    Neither myself or any other pro-SL commenters have reacted with anything other than anger, sorrow and disgust at the Library burning or the ’83 riots. Both these terrible events did untold damage to SL and all its’ peoples and gave a massive boost to the LTTE’s cause.

    Here’s a SL MP apologising for the Library arson.

    http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=32027

    And here’s KP apologising for the damage caused by the LTTE to all Sri Lankans.

    “Yes I have two messages. The first is to my fellow Tamils. This is what I say. The war is over. Prabhakaran and other senior commanders are no more. Tamil Eelam is a lost cause. Please dont be deceived by irresponsible people into thinking that the armed struggle is not over. Please give up the confrontational attitude and help our broken people to re-build their lives. I appeal to members of the Tamil Diaspra and Tamil Nadu politicians to refrain from idle rhetoric and instead help Tamils in Sri Lanka to live in harmony and prosperity with others. We need reconciliation and co-operation not confrontation and friction.

    The second is to all my fellow Sri Lankans. We of the LTTE and other militant groups commenced an armed struggle to win back our lost rights. We thought Tamil Eelam was the answer and that the end will justify the means. In the course of our armed struggle we have caused much harm and misery to the people of Sri Lanka. We have violated all norms of civilized conduct at times. When I reflect on the past I am appalled by what has happened. As a senior leader or ex –leader of the LTTE I sincerely beg the forgiveness of all Sri Lankans for this. Please pardon us and help us to forge a bright future for all Sri Lankans.” http://dbsjeyaraj.com/dbsj/archives/1670

    That just leaves the doomed and impotent pro-LTTE diaspora on their lonely path to irrelevance, accompanied by your poems, laments and love letters to Gunalan.

  323. Media Organizations' Oppose 18th Amendment to the Constitution as an Emergency Bill http://www.lankanewsweb.com/news/EN_2010_09_03_01
    The Alliance of Media expressed its deep concern over the changes that are to be made to the Constitution as the 18th Amendments to the Constitution, violating the freedom of express on the part of the people and disregarding all the democratic norms.
    The accepted norm of bringing up amendments to the Constitution is to make such amendments after being discussed among the masses and arrived at consensus on them. But it is a dangerous trend to make such amendments in the form of an Emergency Bill violating that cardinal principle.

    When the country requires a new Constitution to address the challenges faces the nation, the amendments which further

    concentrate power seriously around one person and dismantling checks and balances on that rule taking an individual nature, would further establish this dangerous trend.

    http://www.lankanewsweb.com/news/EN_2010_09_03_00
    In fact while the 1978 Constitution was condemned for placing the President of the country beyond the reach of the law, the proposed amendment has gone beyond that and has made him an absolute despot. The citizens of the country would in future have no protection from the framework of the laws of the land.

  324. It's is Proofed by GoSL's War crime and Genocides Tamils

    Minister Kenney Encourages Groups to Sponsor Refugees to Come to Canada http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Minister-

    September 1, 2010
    Minister Kenney Encourages Groups to Sponsor Refugees to Come to Canada
    TORONTO, ONTARIO–(Marketwire – Sept. 1, 2010) – Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney today met with community groups to encourage them to consider sponsoring refugees to come to Canada.

    "Canada has a long history of helping those most in need," said Minister Kenney. "I'm encouraging the groups I've been meeting with, and others across the country who are interested, to be part of this history in a very personal and direct way."

    To promote the program to a diversity of groups, Minister Kenney has travelled to Vancouver, Kitchener and Toronto so far this summer to meet with community groups. He is encouraging them to become private sponsors and to help resettle people who are in desperate need of Canada's protection.

    Groups who sponsor refugees commit to providing financial assistance for one year or until the refugees can support themselves financially, whichever comes first. This assistance includes accommodation, clothing and food. Beyond providing for their physical needs, sponsors also offer emotional support and friendship to the refugees for the duration of the sponsorship period, and often well beyond.

    "I am proud that Canada has one of the world's largest refugee resettlement programs. It reflects Canadians' long-standing humanitarian tradition of offering protection to the displaced and persecuted," said Minister Kenney.

    Through the Private Sponsorship of Refugees Program, Canada has welcomed more than 200,000 refugees from all over the world, over and above the number of refugees resettled through the Government-Assisted Refugees Program.

    As part of the Balanced Refugee Reform Act, which was passed into law earlier this summer, the Government of Canada will increase the number of resettled refugees per year by 20 percent. This includes 2,000 more spots in the Private Sponsorship of Refugees Program.

    Since 2007, Canada has doubled refugee targets in the Middle East to allow for more resettlement of Iraqi refugees. Canada's commitment to the protection of Iraqi refugees is ongoing and, since 2002, over 11,000 Iraqi refugees have been resettled in Canada.

    In 2008, the latest date for which data are available, Canada was second only to the United States among all industrialized countries for providing protection to refugees from abroad and at home.

    For more information on Canada's resettlement program, visit CIC's website.

    Follow us on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/CitImmCanada

  325. Sri Lankan returnees tortured: Amnesty
    Three asylum seekers forcibly removed to Sri Lanka in 2009 have been tortured and jailed after they tried to return to Australia, Amnesty International says.

    The human rights group said it held grave fears for the men, saying they are now at risk of further torture and abuse from guards and other prisoners.

    The two returnees, Sumith Mendis and Lasantha Wijeratne, were taken to hospital on Wednesday with injuries from being beaten and tortured .

    It was not clear if they were still in hospital or had been returned to prison, where a third man, Indika Mendis, was being held

    http://www.sheppnews.com.au/aapArticle.aspx?aapID=10941

  326. Sri Lanka war crimes panel gets lost in translation http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-111806

    Sri Lankan government’s bogus inquiry into the civil war http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/sep2010/sril-s0
    The proceedings of the commission do not in any way constitute an investigation of alleged war crimes, but are aimed at covering them up. In the final months of the war between January and May 2009, the UN estimated that 7,000 Tamil civilians were killed as the army pounded the shrinking patch of LTTE-held territory. A report by the International Crisis Group this year put the death toll between 30,000 and 75,000 and accused the Sri Lankan military of deliberately bombarding hospitals and aid centres.
    In line with the Sri Lankan government’s flat denials that the military killed any civilians, the commission is yet to ask witnesses about any of these atrocities

  327. World Citizen: Sri Lanka, China Form Strategic Shield against the West http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/6315/

    China's interest has been warmly reciprocated by Sri Lankan authorities, who see Beijing's embrace as the key to prosperity at a time when the West demands pesky human rights standards in exchange for its largesse.

    While the West today is removing preferential trade treatment from Sri Lanka, citing its failure to cooperate with human rights investigations, Beijing is happily expanding its presence. Last year China became the country's biggest financial investor, and the level of cooperation is increasing by the day. Chinese businessmen and technical experts are a regular presence in Colombo's hotels, and government delegations make frequent visits. China is allowing Sri Lanka to develop its economy, while Sri Lanka is providing China with a key strategic position in the Indian Ocean — one that could evolve into a political and even a quasi-military alliance.

    Sri Lanka has become one of the beads in China's so-called "String of Pearls," a series of ports between the Persian Gulf and China that protect Chinese trade routes and create the foundation for what could become a series of bases for China's fast-growing navy.

    Sri Lankan asylum seekers tortured after being forcibly returned from Australia http://www.amnesty.org.au/news/comments/23625/

  328. World Citizen: Sri Lanka, China Form Strategic Shield against the West http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/6315/

    China's interest has been warmly reciprocated by Sri Lankan authorities, who see Beijing's embrace as the key to prosperity at a time when the West demands pesky human rights standards in exchange for its largesse.

    While the West today is removing preferential trade treatment from Sri Lanka, citing its failure to cooperate with human rights investigations, Beijing is happily expanding its presence. Last year China became the country's biggest financial investor, and the level of cooperation is increasing by the day. Chinese businessmen and technical experts are a regular presence in Colombo's hotels, and government delegations make frequent visits. China is allowing Sri Lanka to develop its economy, while Sri Lanka is providing China with a key strategic position in the Indian Ocean — one that could evolve into a political and even a quasi-military alliance.

    Sri Lanka has become one of the beads in China's so-called "String of Pearls," a series of ports between the Persian Gulf and China that protect Chinese trade routes and create the foundation for what could become a series of bases for China's fast-growing navy.

    Sri Lankan asylum seekers tortured after being forcibly returned from Australia http://www.amnesty.org.au/news/comments/23625/

  329. Following decision to support the government UNP MP Cader to be freed from Samurdhi fraud http://www.lankanewsweb.com/news/EN_2010_09_03_01

    The President has informed the Attorney General’s Department to take the necessary steps to release UNP MP Abdual Cader from charges of misappropriating Rs. 100 million belonging to the Samurdhi Fund, sources from the Attorney General’s Department said.

    The Attorney General’s Department had filed a case against Cader for presenting forged letters to the Secretary of the Samurdhi Trust Fund, Priyantha Pathirana Abeysekera around November 17, 2003 claiming to be from Taj Mahal Stores in Gampola and New Ratnasiri Stores and misappropriating funds received.

    The case was taken up on August 31 before Colombo High Court judge Kumudhini Wickremasinghe. Senior State Counsel Dlieep Peiris who appeared fro the Attorney General’s Department told courts that the Department was planning on re-studying the evidence and documents related to the case.

    The state counsel had made this statement when defence counsel, President’s Counsel M.L.M. Ameen told courts that the case could not proceed without the initial documents related to the incident.

    The judge postponed the case till October 6.

  330. Following decision to support the government UNP MP Cader to be freed from Samurdhi fraud http://www.lankanewsweb.com/news/EN_2010_09_03_01

    The President has informed the Attorney General’s Department to take the necessary steps to release UNP MP Abdual Cader from charges of misappropriating Rs. 100 million belonging to the Samurdhi Fund, sources from the Attorney General’s Department said.

    The Attorney General’s Department had filed a case against Cader for presenting forged letters to the Secretary of the Samurdhi Trust Fund, Priyantha Pathirana Abeysekera around November 17, 2003 claiming to be from Taj Mahal Stores in Gampola and New Ratnasiri Stores and misappropriating funds received.

    The case was taken up on August 31 before Colombo High Court judge Kumudhini Wickremasinghe. Senior State Counsel Dlieep Peiris who appeared fro the Attorney General’s Department told courts that the Department was planning on re-studying the evidence and documents related to the case.

    The state counsel had made this statement when defence counsel, President’s Counsel M.L.M. Ameen told courts that the case could not proceed without the initial documents related to the incident.

    The judge postponed the case till October 6.

  331. Media Organizations' Oppose 18th Amendment to the Constitution as an Emergency Bill http://www.lankanewsweb.com/news/EN_2010_09_03_01
    The Alliance of Media expressed its deep concern over the changes that are to be made to the Constitution as the 18th Amendments to the Constitution, violating the freedom of express on the part of the people and disregarding all the democratic norms.
    The accepted norm of bringing up amendments to the Constitution is to make such amendments after being discussed among the masses and arrived at consensus on them. But it is a dangerous trend to make such amendments in the form of an Emergency Bill violating that cardinal principle.

    When the country requires a new Constitution to address the challenges faces the nation, the amendments which further

    concentrate power seriously around one person and dismantling checks and balances on that rule taking an individual nature, would further establish this dangerous trend.

    http://www.lankanewsweb.com/news/EN_2010_09_03_00
    In fact while the 1978 Constitution was condemned for placing the President of the country beyond the reach of the law, the proposed amendment has gone beyond that and has made him an absolute despot. The citizens of the country would in future have no protection from the framework of the laws of the land.

  332. Media Organizations' Oppose 18th Amendment to the Constitution as an Emergency Bill http://www.lankanewsweb.com/news/EN_2010_09_03_01
    The Alliance of Media expressed its deep concern over the changes that are to be made to the Constitution as the 18th Amendments to the Constitution, violating the freedom of express on the part of the people and disregarding all the democratic norms.
    The accepted norm of bringing up amendments to the Constitution is to make such amendments after being discussed among the masses and arrived at consensus on them. But it is a dangerous trend to make such amendments in the form of an Emergency Bill violating that cardinal principle.

    When the country requires a new Constitution to address the challenges faces the nation, the amendments which further

    concentrate power seriously around one person and dismantling checks and balances on that rule taking an individual nature, would further establish this dangerous trend.

    http://www.lankanewsweb.com/news/EN_2010_09_03_00
    In fact while the 1978 Constitution was condemned for placing the President of the country beyond the reach of the law, the proposed amendment has gone beyond that and has made him an absolute despot. The citizens of the country would in future have no protection from the framework of the laws of the land.

  333. It's is Proofed by GoSL's War crime and Genocides Tamils

    Minister Kenney Encourages Groups to Sponsor Refugees to Come to Canada http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Minister-

    September 1, 2010
    Minister Kenney Encourages Groups to Sponsor Refugees to Come to Canada
    TORONTO, ONTARIO–(Marketwire – Sept. 1, 2010) – Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney today met with community groups to encourage them to consider sponsoring refugees to come to Canada.

    "Canada has a long history of helping those most in need," said Minister Kenney. "I'm encouraging the groups I've been meeting with, and others across the country who are interested, to be part of this history in a very personal and direct way."

    To promote the program to a diversity of groups, Minister Kenney has travelled to Vancouver, Kitchener and Toronto so far this summer to meet with community groups. He is encouraging them to become private sponsors and to help resettle people who are in desperate need of Canada's protection.

    Groups who sponsor refugees commit to providing financial assistance for one year or until the refugees can support themselves financially, whichever comes first. This assistance includes accommodation, clothing and food. Beyond providing for their physical needs, sponsors also offer emotional support and friendship to the refugees for the duration of the sponsorship period, and often well beyond.

    "I am proud that Canada has one of the world's largest refugee resettlement programs. It reflects Canadians' long-standing humanitarian tradition of offering protection to the displaced and persecuted," said Minister Kenney.

    Through the Private Sponsorship of Refugees Program, Canada has welcomed more than 200,000 refugees from all over the world, over and above the number of refugees resettled through the Government-Assisted Refugees Program.

    As part of the Balanced Refugee Reform Act, which was passed into law earlier this summer, the Government of Canada will increase the number of resettled refugees per year by 20 percent. This includes 2,000 more spots in the Private Sponsorship of Refugees Program.

    Since 2007, Canada has doubled refugee targets in the Middle East to allow for more resettlement of Iraqi refugees. Canada's commitment to the protection of Iraqi refugees is ongoing and, since 2002, over 11,000 Iraqi refugees have been resettled in Canada.

    In 2008, the latest date for which data are available, Canada was second only to the United States among all industrialized countries for providing protection to refugees from abroad and at home.

    For more information on Canada's resettlement program, visit CIC's website.

    Follow us on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/CitImmCanada

  334. It's is Proofed by GoSL's War crime and Genocides Tamils

    Minister Kenney Encourages Groups to Sponsor Refugees to Come to Canada http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Minister-

    September 1, 2010
    Minister Kenney Encourages Groups to Sponsor Refugees to Come to Canada
    TORONTO, ONTARIO–(Marketwire – Sept. 1, 2010) – Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney today met with community groups to encourage them to consider sponsoring refugees to come to Canada.

    "Canada has a long history of helping those most in need," said Minister Kenney. "I'm encouraging the groups I've been meeting with, and others across the country who are interested, to be part of this history in a very personal and direct way."

    To promote the program to a diversity of groups, Minister Kenney has travelled to Vancouver, Kitchener and Toronto so far this summer to meet with community groups. He is encouraging them to become private sponsors and to help resettle people who are in desperate need of Canada's protection.

    Groups who sponsor refugees commit to providing financial assistance for one year or until the refugees can support themselves financially, whichever comes first. This assistance includes accommodation, clothing and food. Beyond providing for their physical needs, sponsors also offer emotional support and friendship to the refugees for the duration of the sponsorship period, and often well beyond.

    "I am proud that Canada has one of the world's largest refugee resettlement programs. It reflects Canadians' long-standing humanitarian tradition of offering protection to the displaced and persecuted," said Minister Kenney.

    Through the Private Sponsorship of Refugees Program, Canada has welcomed more than 200,000 refugees from all over the world, over and above the number of refugees resettled through the Government-Assisted Refugees Program.

    As part of the Balanced Refugee Reform Act, which was passed into law earlier this summer, the Government of Canada will increase the number of resettled refugees per year by 20 percent. This includes 2,000 more spots in the Private Sponsorship of Refugees Program.

    Since 2007, Canada has doubled refugee targets in the Middle East to allow for more resettlement of Iraqi refugees. Canada's commitment to the protection of Iraqi refugees is ongoing and, since 2002, over 11,000 Iraqi refugees have been resettled in Canada.

    In 2008, the latest date for which data are available, Canada was second only to the United States among all industrialized countries for providing protection to refugees from abroad and at home.

    For more information on Canada's resettlement program, visit CIC's website.

    Follow us on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/CitImmCanada

  335. Nadarsa Says:
    September 2nd, 2010 at 6:56 am

    I think the following sentence itself is a good reason for Canada to turn back the false asylum seekers !!

    This is what you call “kicking the ladder that helped you climb”.

    The low mental goons entered Canada under False claims seeking asylum and now after getting their citizenship, are forcing the peaceful Canadians legalize human trafficking ??

    Rathika Sitsabaiesan, the NDP’s candidate for Scarborough-Rouge River, stressed that the Conservative government must treat asylum-seekers as asylum-seekers and not criminals.

    Canada – this is where we say “You sleep with Dogs, be prepared to get up with Flees” – It’s not too late to apply shampoo – get rid of these dogs, apes and worms for Canada to be prosperous in future – The Peelamists will ruin your country !

  336. Sri Lanka war crimes panel gets lost in translation http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-111806

    Sri Lankan government’s bogus inquiry into the civil war http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/sep2010/sril-s0
    The proceedings of the commission do not in any way constitute an investigation of alleged war crimes, but are aimed at covering them up. In the final months of the war between January and May 2009, the UN estimated that 7,000 Tamil civilians were killed as the army pounded the shrinking patch of LTTE-held territory. A report by the International Crisis Group this year put the death toll between 30,000 and 75,000 and accused the Sri Lankan military of deliberately bombarding hospitals and aid centres.
    In line with the Sri Lankan government’s flat denials that the military killed any civilians, the commission is yet to ask witnesses about any of these atrocities

  337. Sri Lanka war crimes panel gets lost in translation http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-111806

    Sri Lankan government’s bogus inquiry into the civil war http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/sep2010/sril-s0
    The proceedings of the commission do not in any way constitute an investigation of alleged war crimes, but are aimed at covering them up. In the final months of the war between January and May 2009, the UN estimated that 7,000 Tamil civilians were killed as the army pounded the shrinking patch of LTTE-held territory. A report by the International Crisis Group this year put the death toll between 30,000 and 75,000 and accused the Sri Lankan military of deliberately bombarding hospitals and aid centres.
    In line with the Sri Lankan government’s flat denials that the military killed any civilians, the commission is yet to ask witnesses about any of these atrocities

  338. Unless and until the root causes of the plight of Sri Lankan Tamils are addressed, the doors to the exploitation of human tragedy for personal enrichment will remain open to anybody, whether private or corporate personality, to cash in.

    What happens in Sri Lanka is, in a nutshell, the transference of human tragedy into profitable market enterprise. Though sad and despicable, it is the simple fact to grapple with.

    With connivance of corrupted and lawless Sri Lankan ‘thug cartel’ called Sri Lankan government, the governments India, Russia, China, and other minor states have found Sri Lankan Tamils’ human plight as the promising market enterprise.

    Human pain and suffering of the innocent and helpless are traded and cashed in.

    Is it the modern definition of ‘democracy’ ?

  339. It has been noted in elite political group, comprising former heads of states and religious preachers across the world, that the Western governments are the hidden organs behind the Sri Lankan Tamils’ tragedy today.

    Their tacit approval or tolerance of Sri Lankan massacre of more than 40,000 innocent Tamils and other minorities during the war on terrorism in 2009 has disgorged the horrendous situation unprecedented ever before.

    Unable to assimilate the folly in their estimation of Sri Lankan state terrorism, the western governments hide behind each other playing ‘hide and seek’ game.

  340. The only solution to the plight Sri Lankan Tamils face today is UN involvement in a strategic appropriation in deference to the UN Human Rights Convention and its enforcement without prejudice to initiate the UN independent inquiry into the nature of Sri Lankan war crimes that precipitated a situation in the death of more than 40,000 innocent minority lives.

    A crime that constitutes culpability with intent to inflict damage on a fellow human being or property demands punishment no matter who the person is.

    Politics is not a sacrosanct sphere nor is it a misguided religion to fool people just as the present Sri Lankan government does in Sri Lanka. One of the six holy religions of the world, Buddhism is synchronous with the idea of enlightenment but, definitely, not with violence. In today’s annals of Sri Lankan politics, Buddhism in Sri Lanka, unlike anywhere else, is practiced with a vehemence of hate and distrust towards the minorities, especially Tamils.

    The idea of religion flourishes in the sphere of life where it belongs giving meaning and direction to life path, but definitely not in a section of society where it does not belong.

    The key to the solution of the plight Sri Lankan Tamils is the closure of all the doors to the profitable human tragedy enterprise that is rampant today.

  341. With the UN involvement in the independent inquiry into Sri Lankan war crime parties, whether government or any organization or group, there is a promising veritable chance for the world citizens to know what really happened during the final stages of war in 2009 and reach a verdict on the war crimes. The sooner it happens, the better for those trapped in the human tragedy in Sri Lanka.

    Until and unless this happens, anything the world power body tries or is trying to do is only an ‘eye wash’.

    To do something meaningful and worthwhile, one needs not only a smart brain but the guts too.

    Does justice speak through one’s conscience or the conscience of an international power body like the UN?

  342. Sri Lanka staged a Brutal Racist War under the pretext of ‘fighting the war on terror’.

    The “mind frame of the West” was suitable and they were gullible enough to believe the srilankan’s false propaganda.

    Tamils became the unfortunate victims.

    Between 2006-May 2009 over a million displaced from their homes and were in the concentration camps as IDPs, more than 150,000 death and maimed.

    A UK based Journalist who flew with Ban-Ki Moon in June 2009 in the Srilankan Air force helicopter reported the devastation and said she was able to see the multiple graves into which the Army was bulldozing and burning the bodies.

    By the end of the war there were 300,000 placed behind barbed wire internment camps.

    Still the Srilankan government cares less for the Tamils.

    Many were removed from the main camps in Vanni to their home towns and villages and left to fend for themselves.

    Sri Lanka Army continue with their harassments.

    Tamil peoples belongings are plundered, their cattle, farming equipments, vehicles are all being stolen and moved to south.

    ‘White-van’ kidnapping ,extra judicial killings, ransom demands, rape are continuing unabatedly.

    No law and order only open prisons for Tamils.

  343. World Citizen: Sri Lanka, China Form Strategic Shield against the West
    http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/6315/world-citizen-sri-lanka-china-form-strategic-shield-against-the-west

    China’s interest has been warmly reciprocated by Sri Lankan authorities, who see Beijing’s embrace as the key to prosperity at a time when the West demands pesky human rights standards in exchange for its largesse.

    While the West today is removing preferential trade treatment from Sri Lanka, citing its failure to cooperate with human rights investigations, Beijing is happily expanding its presence. Last year China became the country’s biggest financial investor, and the level of cooperation is increasing by the day. Chinese businessmen and technical experts are a regular presence in Colombo’s hotels, and government delegations make frequent visits. China is allowing Sri Lanka to develop its economy, while Sri Lanka is providing China with a key strategic position in the Indian Ocean — one that could evolve into a political and even a quasi-military alliance.

    Sri Lanka has become one of the beads in China’s so-called “String of Pearls,” a series of ports between the Persian Gulf and China that protect Chinese trade routes and create the foundation for what could become a series of bases for China’s fast-growing navy.

    Sri Lankan asylum seekers tortured after being forcibly returned from Australia
    http://www.amnesty.org.au/news/comments/23625/

  344. Following decision to support the government UNP MP Cader to be freed from Samurdhi fraud
    http://www.lankanewsweb.com/news/EN_2010_09_03_010.html

    The President has informed the Attorney General’s Department to take the necessary steps to release UNP MP Abdual Cader from charges of misappropriating Rs. 100 million belonging to the Samurdhi Fund, sources from the Attorney General’s Department said.

    The Attorney General’s Department had filed a case against Cader for presenting forged letters to the Secretary of the Samurdhi Trust Fund, Priyantha Pathirana Abeysekera around November 17, 2003 claiming to be from Taj Mahal Stores in Gampola and New Ratnasiri Stores and misappropriating funds received.

    The case was taken up on August 31 before Colombo High Court judge Kumudhini Wickremasinghe. Senior State Counsel Dlieep Peiris who appeared fro the Attorney General’s Department told courts that the Department was planning on re-studying the evidence and documents related to the case.

    The state counsel had made this statement when defence counsel, President’s Counsel M.L.M. Ameen told courts that the case could not proceed without the initial documents related to the incident.

    The judge postponed the case till October 6.

  345. Media Organizations’ Oppose 18th Amendment to the Constitution as an Emergency Bill
    http://www.lankanewsweb.com/news/EN_2010_09_03_013.html
    The Alliance of Media expressed its deep concern over the changes that are to be made to the Constitution as the 18th Amendments to the Constitution, violating the freedom of express on the part of the people and disregarding all the democratic norms.
    The accepted norm of bringing up amendments to the Constitution is to make such amendments after being discussed among the masses and arrived at consensus on them. But it is a dangerous trend to make such amendments in the form of an Emergency Bill violating that cardinal principle.

    When the country requires a new Constitution to address the challenges faces the nation, the amendments which further

    concentrate power seriously around one person and dismantling checks and balances on that rule taking an individual nature, would further establish this dangerous trend.

    http://www.lankanewsweb.com/news/EN_2010_09_03_003.html
    In fact while the 1978 Constitution was condemned for placing the President of the country beyond the reach of the law, the proposed amendment has gone beyond that and has made him an absolute despot. The citizens of the country would in future have no protection from the framework of the laws of the land.

  346. It’s is Proofed by GoSL’s War crime and Genocides Tamils

    Minister Kenney Encourages Groups to Sponsor Refugees to Come to Canada
    http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Minister-Kenney-Encourages-Groups-to-Sponsor-Refugees-to-Come-to-Canada-1313005.htm

    September 1, 2010
    Minister Kenney Encourages Groups to Sponsor Refugees to Come to Canada
    TORONTO, ONTARIO–(Marketwire – Sept. 1, 2010) – Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney today met with community groups to encourage them to consider sponsoring refugees to come to Canada.

    “Canada has a long history of helping those most in need,” said Minister Kenney. “I’m encouraging the groups I’ve been meeting with, and others across the country who are interested, to be part of this history in a very personal and direct way.”

    To promote the program to a diversity of groups, Minister Kenney has travelled to Vancouver, Kitchener and Toronto so far this summer to meet with community groups. He is encouraging them to become private sponsors and to help resettle people who are in desperate need of Canada’s protection.

    Groups who sponsor refugees commit to providing financial assistance for one year or until the refugees can support themselves financially, whichever comes first. This assistance includes accommodation, clothing and food. Beyond providing for their physical needs, sponsors also offer emotional support and friendship to the refugees for the duration of the sponsorship period, and often well beyond.

    “I am proud that Canada has one of the world’s largest refugee resettlement programs. It reflects Canadians’ long-standing humanitarian tradition of offering protection to the displaced and persecuted,” said Minister Kenney.

    Through the Private Sponsorship of Refugees Program, Canada has welcomed more than 200,000 refugees from all over the world, over and above the number of refugees resettled through the Government-Assisted Refugees Program.

    As part of the Balanced Refugee Reform Act, which was passed into law earlier this summer, the Government of Canada will increase the number of resettled refugees per year by 20 percent. This includes 2,000 more spots in the Private Sponsorship of Refugees Program.

    Since 2007, Canada has doubled refugee targets in the Middle East to allow for more resettlement of Iraqi refugees. Canada’s commitment to the protection of Iraqi refugees is ongoing and, since 2002, over 11,000 Iraqi refugees have been resettled in Canada.

    In 2008, the latest date for which data are available, Canada was second only to the United States among all industrialized countries for providing protection to refugees from abroad and at home.

    For more information on Canada’s resettlement program, visit CIC’s website.

    Follow us on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/CitImmCanada

  347. Sri Lanka war crimes panel gets lost in translation
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-11180688

    Sri Lankan government’s bogus inquiry into the civil war
    http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/sep2010/sril-s01.shtml
    The proceedings of the commission do not in any way constitute an investigation of alleged war crimes, but are aimed at covering them up. In the final months of the war between January and May 2009, the UN estimated that 7,000 Tamil civilians were killed as the army pounded the shrinking patch of LTTE-held territory. A report by the International Crisis Group this year put the death toll between 30,000 and 75,000 and accused the Sri Lankan military of deliberately bombarding hospitals and aid centres.
    In line with the Sri Lankan government’s flat denials that the military killed any civilians, the commission is yet to ask witnesses about any of these atrocities

  348. Even singhalase are tortured in sri lanka, If there are tamils, definetly Disappear from the planet.

    Re-examine claimed safety of refugee returnees, AI appeals to Australia http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&art
    “The Australian government must re-examine its claims that asylum seekers returned to countries they are fleeing from are not subjected to torture and mistreatment,” Madhu Malhorta, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for Asia said in an appeal to Sri Lanka government Friday calling on it to ensure the safety of three men who have been tortured and jailed following their forced return from Australia where they had sought asylum in 2009. Three Sinhala men, two of them brothers, seeking asylum in Austarlia had been forcibly sent back to Sri Lanka by the Australian government.

    “This is an appalling situation that calls into question the actions of both the Sri Lankan and Australian governments,” Madhu Malhotra said.

    “Both governments are culpable in the forced return and mistreatment these men have endured, and both must bear responsibility for the results of their policies and procedures,” he added.

    Brothers Sumith Mendis and Indika Mendis were detained in 2009 in Christmas Island on seeking asylum after their boat was intercepted and found to be carrying Sri Lankan asylum seekers.

    Deported to Sri Lanka they were arrested and handed over to Criminal Investigation Department (CID) officers who had tortured Indika Mendis.

    Sumith Mendis had been released on arrest but Indika was held in the notorious Negombo prison for eight months.

    On 14 August 2010, the brothers were arrested again, apparently on suspicion that they were again planning to seek asylum in Australia. Sumith Mendis was then tortured by the CID for six days, experiencing beatings and psychological abuse.

    On 22 August, the brothers were taken to Negombo prison, along with Lasantha Wijeratne, another Sri Lankan who had also been deported from Australia and tortured in custody.

    Sumith Mendis and Lasantha Wijeratne, examined by a judicial medical officer, were transferred to the hospital.

    “They now face the risk of abuse by both prisoners and guards when they are again taken to Negombo prison unless authorities take the necessary steps to ensure their safety,” Madhu Malhotra said.

    In occupied Tamil land, every day Colombo is nakedly engaged in genocidal activities. http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=99&art

  349. Even singhalase are tortured in sri lanka, If there are tamils, definetly Disappear from the planet.

    Re-examine claimed safety of refugee returnees, AI appeals to Australia http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&art
    “The Australian government must re-examine its claims that asylum seekers returned to countries they are fleeing from are not subjected to torture and mistreatment,” Madhu Malhorta, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for Asia said in an appeal to Sri Lanka government Friday calling on it to ensure the safety of three men who have been tortured and jailed following their forced return from Australia where they had sought asylum in 2009. Three Sinhala men, two of them brothers, seeking asylum in Austarlia had been forcibly sent back to Sri Lanka by the Australian government.

    “This is an appalling situation that calls into question the actions of both the Sri Lankan and Australian governments,” Madhu Malhotra said.

    “Both governments are culpable in the forced return and mistreatment these men have endured, and both must bear responsibility for the results of their policies and procedures,” he added.

    Brothers Sumith Mendis and Indika Mendis were detained in 2009 in Christmas Island on seeking asylum after their boat was intercepted and found to be carrying Sri Lankan asylum seekers.

    Deported to Sri Lanka they were arrested and handed over to Criminal Investigation Department (CID) officers who had tortured Indika Mendis.

    Sumith Mendis had been released on arrest but Indika was held in the notorious Negombo prison for eight months.

    On 14 August 2010, the brothers were arrested again, apparently on suspicion that they were again planning to seek asylum in Australia. Sumith Mendis was then tortured by the CID for six days, experiencing beatings and psychological abuse.

    On 22 August, the brothers were taken to Negombo prison, along with Lasantha Wijeratne, another Sri Lankan who had also been deported from Australia and tortured in custody.

    Sumith Mendis and Lasantha Wijeratne, examined by a judicial medical officer, were transferred to the hospital.

    “They now face the risk of abuse by both prisoners and guards when they are again taken to Negombo prison unless authorities take the necessary steps to ensure their safety,” Madhu Malhotra said.

    In occupied Tamil land, every day Colombo is nakedly engaged in genocidal activities. http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=99&art

  350. Even singhalase are tortured in sri lanka, If there are tamils, definetly Disappear from the planet.

    Re-examine claimed safety of refugee returnees, AI appeals to Australia http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&art
    “The Australian government must re-examine its claims that asylum seekers returned to countries they are fleeing from are not subjected to torture and mistreatment,” Madhu Malhorta, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for Asia said in an appeal to Sri Lanka government Friday calling on it to ensure the safety of three men who have been tortured and jailed following their forced return from Australia where they had sought asylum in 2009. Three Sinhala men, two of them brothers, seeking asylum in Austarlia had been forcibly sent back to Sri Lanka by the Australian government.

    “This is an appalling situation that calls into question the actions of both the Sri Lankan and Australian governments,” Madhu Malhotra said.

    “Both governments are culpable in the forced return and mistreatment these men have endured, and both must bear responsibility for the results of their policies and procedures,” he added.

    Brothers Sumith Mendis and Indika Mendis were detained in 2009 in Christmas Island on seeking asylum after their boat was intercepted and found to be carrying Sri Lankan asylum seekers.

    Deported to Sri Lanka they were arrested and handed over to Criminal Investigation Department (CID) officers who had tortured Indika Mendis.

    Sumith Mendis had been released on arrest but Indika was held in the notorious Negombo prison for eight months.

    On 14 August 2010, the brothers were arrested again, apparently on suspicion that they were again planning to seek asylum in Australia. Sumith Mendis was then tortured by the CID for six days, experiencing beatings and psychological abuse.

    On 22 August, the brothers were taken to Negombo prison, along with Lasantha Wijeratne, another Sri Lankan who had also been deported from Australia and tortured in custody.

    Sumith Mendis and Lasantha Wijeratne, examined by a judicial medical officer, were transferred to the hospital.

    “They now face the risk of abuse by both prisoners and guards when they are again taken to Negombo prison unless authorities take the necessary steps to ensure their safety,” Madhu Malhotra said.

    In occupied Tamil land, every day Colombo is nakedly engaged in genocidal activities. http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=99&art

  351. Nirubama Rao’s fake visit

    More than One Year passed since India helped Sri Lankan Army Kill more than 40,000 Tamil Civilians but NO sign of the Promissed ”Political Package

  352. Tamils want Ottawa to stop making unproven accusations

    Ottawa must stop making allegations that some illegal Tamil immigrants may have terrorist links and instead produce evidence, the Canadian Tamil Congress said Wednesday.

    Authorities need to "get down to the bottom" of who was really among the almost 500 Tamils who arrived in British Columbia by boat last month, said spokesman David Poopalapillai.

    "If they have enough evidence against anybody involved in illegal activities, let's go after them, and work with our law enforcement officials and put them in front of our laws," he said.

    "That's all we want, but… there's an allegation, a suspicion. It doesn't sit well with the community."

    "It hurts the community down the road when you say there's a suspicion, there's an allegation," he said, adding Canadian Tamils are particularly concerned with the earlier comments of Public Safety Minister Vic Toews.

  353. Even singhalase are tortured in sri lanka, If there are tamils, definetly Disappear from the planet.

    Re-examine claimed safety of refugee returnees, AI appeals to Australia
    http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=32541
    “The Australian government must re-examine its claims that asylum seekers returned to countries they are fleeing from are not subjected to torture and mistreatment,” Madhu Malhorta, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for Asia said in an appeal to Sri Lanka government Friday calling on it to ensure the safety of three men who have been tortured and jailed following their forced return from Australia where they had sought asylum in 2009. Three Sinhala men, two of them brothers, seeking asylum in Austarlia had been forcibly sent back to Sri Lanka by the Australian government.

    “This is an appalling situation that calls into question the actions of both the Sri Lankan and Australian governments,” Madhu Malhotra said.

    “Both governments are culpable in the forced return and mistreatment these men have endured, and both must bear responsibility for the results of their policies and procedures,” he added.

    Brothers Sumith Mendis and Indika Mendis were detained in 2009 in Christmas Island on seeking asylum after their boat was intercepted and found to be carrying Sri Lankan asylum seekers.

    Deported to Sri Lanka they were arrested and handed over to Criminal Investigation Department (CID) officers who had tortured Indika Mendis.

    Sumith Mendis had been released on arrest but Indika was held in the notorious Negombo prison for eight months.

    On 14 August 2010, the brothers were arrested again, apparently on suspicion that they were again planning to seek asylum in Australia. Sumith Mendis was then tortured by the CID for six days, experiencing beatings and psychological abuse.

    On 22 August, the brothers were taken to Negombo prison, along with Lasantha Wijeratne, another Sri Lankan who had also been deported from Australia and tortured in custody.

    Sumith Mendis and Lasantha Wijeratne, examined by a judicial medical officer, were transferred to the hospital.

    “They now face the risk of abuse by both prisoners and guards when they are again taken to Negombo prison unless authorities take the necessary steps to ensure their safety,” Madhu Malhotra said.

    In occupied Tamil land, every day Colombo is nakedly engaged in genocidal activities.
    http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=99&artid=32185

  354. Tamils want people smuggler to stop making unproven accusations.

    A self-confessed people smuggler who helped asylum seekers get on boats to Australia has told a court of bribes paid in Indonesia. Sri Lankan-born Tamil Pathmendra Pulendren, 36, from Pendle Hill in Sydney’s west, pleaded guilty on Thursday to a charge of facilitating the arrival of unlawful people to Australia, The Sydney Morning Herald reports.

    Giving evidence at his sentencing submissions before Judge Robyn Tupman in Sydney’s Downing Centre District Court, the Toongabbie spice shop operator said he arranged for 20 people to join a boat that departed Indonesia bound for Australia on June 10, 2009.
    The boat, carrying 196 people, was intercepted by the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service near Christmas Island. Pulendren said through an interpreter he was contacted by a man, known to the court as "male B", with information about people wanting to travel to Australia.
    "At some time did you agree to help male B with people smuggling, is that correct?" Pulendren’s lawyer Mitchell Cavanagh asked.

    "Yes," Pulendren replied, adding that the approach came in December 2008.

    Male B set the price of passage, which Pulendren said he would pass on to relatives in Australia.

    He agreed with Mr Cavanagh’s proposition that his "job was to communicate with people in Australia on behalf of male B", who was a Sri Lankan man living somewhere in Indonesia.

    Some of the 20 people began their trip to Australia from Sri Lanka while others started in Malaysia, making their way to Indonesia for the boat voyage, Pulendren said.

    "(Male B) would bring those selected to Malaysia," he said.

    "He would pay a bribe to the Malaysian (high) commission in Indonesia and bring them over from Malaysia."

    He said that Tamil-speaking people had trouble getting visas for entry to Malaysia.

    Before getting on the boat in Indonesia, Pulendren said $US500 ($A550) had to be paid and that some of that money came from Australia.

    "That payment is for the food and the lifejackets on the boat," he said.

    At first, Pulendren said during his evidence that he never handled any money as part of his role in the scheme but later admitted he collected up to $US4000 ($A4396) from the Australian-based relatives of refugees.

    "Some people couldn’t send the money direct and they gave me the money," he said.

    Pulendren owed male B money for his own passage to Australia and said he feared his debtors who had made threats to his family.

  355. Douglas Devananda is lying like as the Sri Lanka President 🙂

    He said that other claims, for instance of kidnappings and murders by his paramilitary group, were largely "rumours" based on "LTTE [Tamil Tiger] propaganda".

    Last month in the northern town of Vavuniya, some civilians told the commission that their husbands or sons had been abducted more than a year ago by the Douglas Devananda group and never seen again.

    On many other uncomfortable questions he pretended that the English Translation not correct or has failed to speak fully into the microphone or he appeared to be unable to hear witnesses.

    The bogus Rajapakse reconciliation is descending into farcical comedy of errors

  356. Anglican Bishop: 18th Amendment will lead to destructive erosion of democracy

    The 18th Amendment, proposed by the Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa, if passed by the SL Parliament, will lead to destructive erosion of already fragile democratic culture said Rt. Revd Duleep de Chickera, the Anglican Bishop of Colombo

    A Plea to Withdraw the Eighteenth Amendment
    A Statement by the Rt Revd Duleep de Chickera, Bishop of Colombo

    Many sections of the population are deeply alarmed at the possible repercussions the proposed 18th Amendment to the Constitution will have on our system of democratic governance.

    If passed by Parliament, the constitutional changes will remove the restriction on the two terms a person can serve as President, which all democratic countries with an Executive Presidency subscribe to. In addition, it will much more than before empower the Government and President to select and appoint persons to serve on the crucial commissions that are meant to safeguard the democratic rights of the people, such as the Elections Commission, Public Services Commission, Judicial Services Commission, National Police Commission, Bribery Commission and so on.

    The nature of partisan politics is such that this will no doubt be a step backwards. It will inevitably lead to a further, dangerous politicisation of our national institutions and a speedier, destructive erosion of our already fragile democratic culture.

    It is therefore imperative that Parliament rejects this Bill, and that all who value democratic freedom in the country voice their objection to it.

    Along with this, Parliament and the people should call for the full activation of the 17th Amendment (passed by consensus between the Government and Opposition Members of Parliament), which ensures the independence of the Commissions referred to. It is only after this amendment is given a chance to impact on our shared national life that we will be able to assess the need for any further democratic constitutional amendments.

    If and when such a stage is reached there must be no haste to rush Bills of such serious implications through Parliament, as is being done with the 18th Amendment; and adequate space must be provided for public debate. It is when the people are properly informed of the pros and cons of constitutional change, and given a chance to participate in this process and make informed decisions, that democracy prevails and our legislators fulfil their obligations. The political freedom that our legislators are endowed with is determined by the democratic rights and aspirations of the people. To disregard these obligations amounts to a misappropriation of the peoples’ trust.

    May the God of peace and justice hear our cry and bless and nourish our beloved nation.

    With peace and blessings to all

    The Rt Revd Duleep de Chickera
    Bishop of Colombo

  357. 80% of resettled families in Batticaloa not paid livelihood assistance

    Where is the money gone ?? To the Rajapaksa and his thugs ??

    Around eighty percent of resettled people in Batticaloa district have not been paid their livelihood assistance of twenty-five thousand rupees. Others were not paid a single cent as livelihood assistance they are entitled at the time of resettlement, according to Batticaloa district Tamil National Alliance (TNA) parliamentarian Pon. Selvarajah.

    Thirty six thousand one hundred and eighty one (36,181) families had been resettled in the district. Only 7267 families have received the livelihood assistance. The rest are undergoing untold hardships in running their day to day live, he added.

    Not a single resettled family in the villages that comes under the administration of Ki'raan, Kokkaddichcholai, Vavu'natheevu and Chengkaladi divisional offices has been paid livelihood assistance, he pointed out.

    He further said 1066 uprooted families from Vanni and resettled in Batticaloa district also have not been paid any livelihood assistance.

  358. Properties of uprooted in Vanni plundered with SLA assistance

    Muslim and Sinhala traders from Southern Sri Lanka are actively plundering the properties abandoned when the people of Vanni were forced to leave them during war, with the assistance of Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers occupying Vanni. The traders make huge profits transporting them in vehicles to Vavuniyaa, Anurdapura and Puththa’lam for sale. The plundered goods include iron objects, spare parts dismantled from abandoned vehicles, house fittings and other valuable things. SLA soldiers are given a percentage of the profits made by the traders for allowing them to plunder and transport the goods of the people in Vanni to the South, sources in Vanni said.

    SLA authorities in Vanni, in response to the complaints of the resettled civilians, have stopped with putting up notices of warning against thefts in their area.

    The plunder and transport of the goods of Vanni people take place most where there are SLA camps close by, the sources said.

    Just after the war, the traders from South made a lucrative business in plundering the spare parts dismantled from motor cycles, tractors, trucks abandoned by their owners in Vanni.

    The stolen spares are now being sold in the open markets in Vavuniyaa, Anuradapura and Puththa’lam.

  359. Nirubama Rao’s fake visit

    More than One Year passed since India helped Sri Lankan Army Kill more than 40,000 Tamil Civilians but NO sign of the Promissed ”Political Package

  360. Tamils want Ottawa to stop making unproven accusations

    Ottawa must stop making allegations that some illegal Tamil immigrants may have terrorist links and instead produce evidence, the Canadian Tamil Congress said Wednesday.

    Authorities need to “get down to the bottom” of who was really among the almost 500 Tamils who arrived in British Columbia by boat last month, said spokesman David Poopalapillai.

    “If they have enough evidence against anybody involved in illegal activities, let’s go after them, and work with our law enforcement officials and put them in front of our laws,” he said.

    “That’s all we want, but… there’s an allegation, a suspicion. It doesn’t sit well with the community.”

    “It hurts the community down the road when you say there’s a suspicion, there’s an allegation,” he said, adding Canadian Tamils are particularly concerned with the earlier comments of Public Safety Minister Vic Toews.

  361. Tamils want people smuggler to stop making unproven accusations.

    A self-confessed people smuggler who helped asylum seekers get on boats to Australia has told a court of bribes paid in Indonesia. Sri Lankan-born Tamil Pathmendra Pulendren, 36, from Pendle Hill in Sydney’s west, pleaded guilty on Thursday to a charge of facilitating the arrival of unlawful people to Australia, The Sydney Morning Herald reports.

    Giving evidence at his sentencing submissions before Judge Robyn Tupman in Sydney’s Downing Centre District Court, the Toongabbie spice shop operator said he arranged for 20 people to join a boat that departed Indonesia bound for Australia on June 10, 2009.
    The boat, carrying 196 people, was intercepted by the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service near Christmas Island. Pulendren said through an interpreter he was contacted by a man, known to the court as “male B”, with information about people wanting to travel to Australia.
    “At some time did you agree to help male B with people smuggling, is that correct?” Pulendren’s lawyer Mitchell Cavanagh asked.

    “Yes,” Pulendren replied, adding that the approach came in December 2008.

    Male B set the price of passage, which Pulendren said he would pass on to relatives in Australia.

    He agreed with Mr Cavanagh’s proposition that his “job was to communicate with people in Australia on behalf of male B”, who was a Sri Lankan man living somewhere in Indonesia.

    Some of the 20 people began their trip to Australia from Sri Lanka while others started in Malaysia, making their way to Indonesia for the boat voyage, Pulendren said.

    “(Male B) would bring those selected to Malaysia,” he said.

    “He would pay a bribe to the Malaysian (high) commission in Indonesia and bring them over from Malaysia.”

    He said that Tamil-speaking people had trouble getting visas for entry to Malaysia.

    Before getting on the boat in Indonesia, Pulendren said $US500 ($A550) had to be paid and that some of that money came from Australia.

    “That payment is for the food and the lifejackets on the boat,” he said.

    At first, Pulendren said during his evidence that he never handled any money as part of his role in the scheme but later admitted he collected up to $US4000 ($A4396) from the Australian-based relatives of refugees.

    “Some people couldn’t send the money direct and they gave me the money,” he said.

    Pulendren owed male B money for his own passage to Australia and said he feared his debtors who had made threats to his family.

  362. Douglas Devananda is lying like as the Sri Lanka President 🙂

    He said that other claims, for instance of kidnappings and murders by his paramilitary group, were largely “rumours” based on “LTTE [Tamil Tiger] propaganda”.

    Last month in the northern town of Vavuniya, some civilians told the commission that their husbands or sons had been abducted more than a year ago by the Douglas Devananda group and never seen again.

    On many other uncomfortable questions he pretended that the English Translation not correct or has failed to speak fully into the microphone or he appeared to be unable to hear witnesses.

    The bogus Rajapakse reconciliation is descending into farcical comedy of errors

  363. Anglican Bishop: 18th Amendment will lead to destructive erosion of democracy

    The 18th Amendment, proposed by the Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa, if passed by the SL Parliament, will lead to destructive erosion of already fragile democratic culture said Rt. Revd Duleep de Chickera, the Anglican Bishop of Colombo

    A Plea to Withdraw the Eighteenth Amendment
    A Statement by the Rt Revd Duleep de Chickera, Bishop of Colombo

    Many sections of the population are deeply alarmed at the possible repercussions the proposed 18th Amendment to the Constitution will have on our system of democratic governance.

    If passed by Parliament, the constitutional changes will remove the restriction on the two terms a person can serve as President, which all democratic countries with an Executive Presidency subscribe to. In addition, it will much more than before empower the Government and President to select and appoint persons to serve on the crucial commissions that are meant to safeguard the democratic rights of the people, such as the Elections Commission, Public Services Commission, Judicial Services Commission, National Police Commission, Bribery Commission and so on.

    The nature of partisan politics is such that this will no doubt be a step backwards. It will inevitably lead to a further, dangerous politicisation of our national institutions and a speedier, destructive erosion of our already fragile democratic culture.

    It is therefore imperative that Parliament rejects this Bill, and that all who value democratic freedom in the country voice their objection to it.

    Along with this, Parliament and the people should call for the full activation of the 17th Amendment (passed by consensus between the Government and Opposition Members of Parliament), which ensures the independence of the Commissions referred to. It is only after this amendment is given a chance to impact on our shared national life that we will be able to assess the need for any further democratic constitutional amendments.

    If and when such a stage is reached there must be no haste to rush Bills of such serious implications through Parliament, as is being done with the 18th Amendment; and adequate space must be provided for public debate. It is when the people are properly informed of the pros and cons of constitutional change, and given a chance to participate in this process and make informed decisions, that democracy prevails and our legislators fulfil their obligations. The political freedom that our legislators are endowed with is determined by the democratic rights and aspirations of the people. To disregard these obligations amounts to a misappropriation of the peoples’ trust.

    May the God of peace and justice hear our cry and bless and nourish our beloved nation.

    With peace and blessings to all

    The Rt Revd Duleep de Chickera
    Bishop of Colombo

  364. 80% of resettled families in Batticaloa not paid livelihood assistance

    Where is the money gone ?? To the Rajapaksa and his thugs ??

    Around eighty percent of resettled people in Batticaloa district have not been paid their livelihood assistance of twenty-five thousand rupees. Others were not paid a single cent as livelihood assistance they are entitled at the time of resettlement, according to Batticaloa district Tamil National Alliance (TNA) parliamentarian Pon. Selvarajah.

    Thirty six thousand one hundred and eighty one (36,181) families had been resettled in the district. Only 7267 families have received the livelihood assistance. The rest are undergoing untold hardships in running their day to day live, he added.

    Not a single resettled family in the villages that comes under the administration of Ki’raan, Kokkaddichcholai, Vavu’natheevu and Chengkaladi divisional offices has been paid livelihood assistance, he pointed out.

    He further said 1066 uprooted families from Vanni and resettled in Batticaloa district also have not been paid any livelihood assistance.

  365. Properties of uprooted in Vanni plundered with SLA assistance

    Muslim and Sinhala traders from Southern Sri Lanka are actively plundering the properties abandoned when the people of Vanni were forced to leave them during war, with the assistance of Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers occupying Vanni. The traders make huge profits transporting them in vehicles to Vavuniyaa, Anurdapura and Puththa’lam for sale. The plundered goods include iron objects, spare parts dismantled from abandoned vehicles, house fittings and other valuable things. SLA soldiers are given a percentage of the profits made by the traders for allowing them to plunder and transport the goods of the people in Vanni to the South, sources in Vanni said.

    SLA authorities in Vanni, in response to the complaints of the resettled civilians, have stopped with putting up notices of warning against thefts in their area.

    The plunder and transport of the goods of Vanni people take place most where there are SLA camps close by, the sources said.

    Just after the war, the traders from South made a lucrative business in plundering the spare parts dismantled from motor cycles, tractors, trucks abandoned by their owners in Vanni.

    The stolen spares are now being sold in the open markets in Vavuniyaa, Anuradapura and Puththa’lam.

  366. Amnesty International Urges Sri Lanka to Ensure Safety of the Detained Former Asylum Seekers

    Amnesty International is today calling on the Sri Lankan government to ensure the safety of three men who have been tortured and jailed following their forced return from Australia in 2009.

    “This is an appalling situation that calls into question the actions of both the Sri Lankan and Australian governments,” said Madhu Malhotra, Amnesty International’s deputy director for Asia.

    Two of the men, Sumith Mendis and Lasantha Wijeratne, were transferred to a hospital to be examined by a judicial medical officer on September 1 amid claims that they were beaten and tortured following an alleged new attempt to migrate to Australia. It is not clear if they are still in hospital or have returned to prison. All three are at risk of further abuse from guards and prisoners when they are returned to prison where Sumith’s brother, Indika, is already being held.

    “Both governments are culpable in the forced return and mistreatment these men have endured, and both must bear responsibility for the results of their policies and procedures," said Malhotra.

    Sumith Mendis and Indika Mendis were detained in 2009 at the Christmas Island detention center after the boat they were crew members on was stopped by Australian authorities and found to be carrying Sri Lankan asylum seekers.

    They were deported to Sri Lanka and promptly arrested and handed over to the Central Investigative Department (CID). Sumith Mendis was released, but Indika Mendis was tortured in CID custody, sustaining severe ear injuries before being transferred to the notorious Negombo prison where he was held for eight months.

    On August 14, the brothers were arrested again, apparently on suspicion that they were again planning to migrate to Australia. Sumith Mendis was then tortured by the CID for six days, experiencing beatings and psychological abuse.

    On August 22, the brothers were taken to Negombo prison, along with Lasantha Wijeratne, another Sri Lankan who had also been deported from Australia and tortured in custody.

    Following examination by a judicial medical officer, Sumith Mendis and Lasantha Wijeratne were transferred to the hospital.

    They now face the risk of abuse by both prisoners and guards when they are again taken to Negombo prison unless authorities take the necessary steps to ensure their safety.
    http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA2

  367. Deceptive Reconciliation in Sri Lanka

    Reconciliation is not political surrender to the oppressor.

    It should instead restore the lost dignity of the oppressed.

    Reconciliation is not employing mean, manipulative and destructive methods, covertly, to destroy the rights, freedoms, vision and aspirations of the Tamil people.

    Deceptive acts by the GOSL, branded falsely as "reconciliatory acts", should be strongly condemned by all.

  368. Key political risks to watch in Sri Lanka

    Sri Lanka's President Mahinda Rajapaksa has attracted enough support from lawmakers to secure a two-thirds majority in parliament, enabling him to change the constitution

    Sri Lanka's budget deficit target of 8 percent this year is more than the 7 percent the IMF wants. So the country is under pressure to deliver on plans to boost revenue, rationalise a byzantine, costly tax code and above all, tighten fiscal discipline.

    Rajapaksa has yet to make good on a promised pay hike for Sri Lanka's state employees.

    He kept the pressure off since his election in 2005. The trade unions have been demanding he deliver. The government says the rise will come in 2011 but impatience is growing.

    Already, university students have held strikes, which traditionally presage labour union unrest. The state workers in the last month have held token strikes.

    Union members in Sri Lanka have traditionally been quick to lose fealty to leaders they view as doing too little for them.

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    COLOMBO, Sept 4 | Sat Sep 4, 2010 7:39am EDT

    COLOMBO, Sept 4 (Reuters) – Sri Lanka's President Mahinda Rajapaksa has attracted enough support from lawmakers to secure a two-thirds majority in parliament, enabling him to change the constitution. He has also embarked on ambitious plans to transform the nation's economy following the end of a quarter-century civil war in May 2009.

    Following is a summary of key risks to watch in Sri Lanka:

    * FISCAL REFORM

    An International Monetary Fund review in August said Sri Lanka's progress on key economic policy reforms was on track and it would recommend the payment of the fourth tranche of a $2.6 billion loan. It was a key vote of confidence in the country's economic policies, following a six-month delay in releasing the third tranche of the loan because Sri Lanka's budget deficit last year was well above the IMF target.

    Although the IMF has released the latest loan tranche, Sri Lanka's budget deficit target of 8 percent this year is more than the 7 percent the IMF wants. So the country is under pressure to deliver on plans to boost revenue, rationalise a byzantine, costly tax code and above all, tighten fiscal discipline.

    What to watch:

    — Whether Rajapaksa's administration gives into the classic temptation of all Sri Lankan leaders: dipping into public coffers to boost subsidies or dole out state jobs.

    — Whether the government takes concrete steps to make state-run entities revenue earners. Most of the deficit reduction plan hinges on completely turning around loss-making state ventures hampered by subsidy schemes or mismanagement.

    — The recommendations of a presidential tax reform commission.

    * STATE SECTOR LABOUR UNREST

    Rajapaksa has yet to make good on a promised pay hike for Sri Lanka's state employees. He kept the pressure off since his election in 2005 by appealing to workers to wait so he could pay for the war against the Tamil Tiger separatists.

    But since the war ended in May 2009, public sector trade unions have been demanding he deliver. The government says the rise will come in 2011 but impatience is growing.

    Already, university students have held strikes, which traditionally presage labour union unrest. A handful of state workers in the last month have held token strikes.

    What to watch:

    — The tenor and frequency of student and labour strikes. If they rise above token acts, that's a clear sign of more to come.

    — Whether trade unions drop their support for Rajapaksa and drift back toward the now-rudderless opposition. Union members in Sri Lanka have traditionally been quick to lose fealty to leaders they view as doing too little for them.

    * THE RAJAPAKSA FACTOR

    The president and his family together have direct control of nearly 70 percent of this year's budget through the portfolios they hold. Three brothers occupy key positions.

    One is the parliament speaker and another runs the state security apparatus with a special brief to develop prime state-owned property in Colombo.

    A third runs a new ministry overseeing tourism, nation building and investment promotion, which encompasses just about all the lucrative post-war investment and development areas.

    The president is also the finance minister, so in short, any big investment decision needs a Rajapaksa blessing because Rajapaksa is a King . 🙂

  369. Sri Lanka’s President Mahinda Rajapaksa has attracted enough support from lawmakers to secure a two-thirds majority in parliament, enabling him to change the constitution. He has also embarked on ambitious plans to transform the nation’s economy following the end of a quarter-century civil war in May 2009.

    Following is a summary of key risks to watch in Sri Lanka:

    * FISCAL REFORM

    An International Monetary Fund review in August said Sri Lanka’s progress on key economic policy reforms was on track and it would recommend the payment of the fourth tranche of a $2.6 billion loan. It was a key vote of confidence in the country’s economic policies, following a six-month delay in releasing the third tranche of the loan because Sri Lanka’s budget deficit last year was well above the IMF target.

    Although the IMF has released the latest loan tranche, Sri Lanka’s budget deficit target of 8 percent this year is more than the 7 percent the IMF wants. So the country is under pressure to deliver on plans to boost revenue, rationalise a byzantine, costly tax code and above all, tighten fiscal discipline.

    What to watch:

    – Whether Rajapaksa’s administration gives into the classic temptation of all Sri Lankan leaders: dipping into public coffers to boost subsidies or dole out state jobs.

    – Whether the government takes concrete steps to make state-run entities revenue earners. Most of the deficit reduction plan hinges on completely turning around loss-making state ventures hampered by subsidy schemes or mismanagement.

    – The recommendations of a presidential tax reform commission.

    * STATE SECTOR LABOUR UNREST

    Rajapaksa has yet to make good on a promised pay hike for Sri Lanka’s state employees. He kept the pressure off since his election in 2005 by appealing to workers to wait so he could pay for the war against the Tamil Tiger separatists.

    But since the war ended in May 2009, public sector trade unions have been demanding he deliver. The government says the rise will come in 2011 but impatience is growing.

    Already, university students have held strikes, which traditionally presage labour union unrest. A handful of state workers in the last month have held token strikes.

    What to watch:

    – The tenor and frequency of student and labour strikes. If they rise above token acts, that’s a clear sign of more to come.

    – Whether trade unions drop their support for Rajapaksa and drift back toward the now-rudderless opposition. Union members in Sri Lanka have traditionally been quick to lose fealty to leaders they view as doing too little for them.

    * THE RAJAPAKSA FACTOR

    The president and his family together have direct control of nearly 70 percent of this year’s budget through the portfolios they hold. Three brothers occupy key positions.

    One is the parliament speaker and another runs the state security apparatus with a special brief to develop prime state-owned property in Colombo.

    A third runs a new ministry overseeing tourism, nation building and investment promotion, which encompasses just about all the lucrative post-war investment and development areas.

    The president is also the finance minister, so in short, any big investment decision needs a Rajapaksa blessing because Rajapaksa is a King .

  370. The ‘Boatophobia’ debate: Dehumanising asylum seekers and refugees

    Counter terror experts and security analysts are back in action and what do they fear this time? Not bombs, IEDs, nor suicide bombers but the ‘boatpeople’! I have gained sufficient insight into the issue, having camped in Australia for the last two months, to comment on what I call a new form of racism called ‘boatophobia’.

    At stake are the lives of faceless, nameless (not the men in the Australian Labour Party who ordered the political assassination of former Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd!), men, women and children from war hit countries of Afghanistan and Sri Lanka. The two major Australian political parties, in their election campaign, made sure that the ‘boat peoples’ issue was projected as a national security issue.

    The Australian Labour Party leader and current PM, Julia Gillard, promised a detention centre in East Timor and a ‘small and sustainable Australia’; the Liberal National Party promised the reopening of the detention centre in Nauru and their leader, Tony Abbot, went around repeating as a mantra; “we will stop the boats.” The election has resulted in no clear mandate for either party, and a hung parliament, but the ‘boatophobia’ is here to stay as Australians continue to debate the threats from the faceless, nameless ‘boat people’.

    The identity-less’ boat people’ are also back in news, ever since the Thai cargo ship, MV Sun Sea landed at the Canadian coast of British Columbia last week, with 495 Sri Lankan Tamil asylum seekers. I haven’t seen any of these ‘boat people’ myself, but security experts, who are yet to visit the detention centres in Canada, have wasted no opportunity in declaring the Tamil ‘boat people’ as LTTE terrorists and potential threats to the ‘host countries’.

    The ‘boatophobes’ appear particularly concerned about the security of the host country, Canada, in this case and have accused the Canadian authorities of being slipshod on terrorism laws and granting asylum to terrorists and of endangering people’s lives. ‘boatophobes’ aka xenophobes from Canada would still have some legitimate concerns, because it is their country that is ‘under threat’ from foreigners descending on their soil to avail of their hospitality. Of grave concern is that ‘boatophobic’ experts in South and South East Asia are defining the ‘security’ requirements of the Western nations. Their arguments are not only patronising and racist but also dehumanise and demonise the Sri Lankan Tamil community, who have more than one reason to escape the brutalities of life in a country that they cannot even call ‘home’.

  371. Amnesty International Urges Sri Lanka to Ensure Safety of the Detained Former Asylum Seekers

    Amnesty International is today calling on the Sri Lankan government to ensure the safety of three men who have been tortured and jailed following their forced return from Australia in 2009.

    “This is an appalling situation that calls into question the actions of both the Sri Lankan and Australian governments,” said Madhu Malhotra, Amnesty International’s deputy director for Asia.

    Two of the men, Sumith Mendis and Lasantha Wijeratne, were transferred to a hospital to be examined by a judicial medical officer on September 1 amid claims that they were beaten and tortured following an alleged new attempt to migrate to Australia. It is not clear if they are still in hospital or have returned to prison. All three are at risk of further abuse from guards and prisoners when they are returned to prison where Sumith’s brother, Indika, is already being held.

    “Both governments are culpable in the forced return and mistreatment these men have endured, and both must bear responsibility for the results of their policies and procedures," said Malhotra.

    Sumith Mendis and Indika Mendis were detained in 2009 at the Christmas Island detention center after the boat they were crew members on was stopped by Australian authorities and found to be carrying Sri Lankan asylum seekers.

    They were deported to Sri Lanka and promptly arrested and handed over to the Central Investigative Department (CID). Sumith Mendis was released, but Indika Mendis was tortured in CID custody, sustaining severe ear injuries before being transferred to the notorious Negombo prison where he was held for eight months.

    On August 14, the brothers were arrested again, apparently on suspicion that they were again planning to migrate to Australia. Sumith Mendis was then tortured by the CID for six days, experiencing beatings and psychological abuse.

    On August 22, the brothers were taken to Negombo prison, along with Lasantha Wijeratne, another Sri Lankan who had also been deported from Australia and tortured in custody.

    Following examination by a judicial medical officer, Sumith Mendis and Lasantha Wijeratne were transferred to the hospital.

    They now face the risk of abuse by both prisoners and guards when they are again taken to Negombo prison unless authorities take the necessary steps to ensure their safety.
    http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA2

  372. Amnesty International Urges Sri Lanka to Ensure Safety of the Detained Former Asylum Seekers

    Amnesty International is today calling on the Sri Lankan government to ensure the safety of three men who have been tortured and jailed following their forced return from Australia in 2009.

    “This is an appalling situation that calls into question the actions of both the Sri Lankan and Australian governments,” said Madhu Malhotra, Amnesty International’s deputy director for Asia.

    Two of the men, Sumith Mendis and Lasantha Wijeratne, were transferred to a hospital to be examined by a judicial medical officer on September 1 amid claims that they were beaten and tortured following an alleged new attempt to migrate to Australia. It is not clear if they are still in hospital or have returned to prison. All three are at risk of further abuse from guards and prisoners when they are returned to prison where Sumith’s brother, Indika, is already being held.

    “Both governments are culpable in the forced return and mistreatment these men have endured, and both must bear responsibility for the results of their policies and procedures," said Malhotra.

    Sumith Mendis and Indika Mendis were detained in 2009 at the Christmas Island detention center after the boat they were crew members on was stopped by Australian authorities and found to be carrying Sri Lankan asylum seekers.

    They were deported to Sri Lanka and promptly arrested and handed over to the Central Investigative Department (CID). Sumith Mendis was released, but Indika Mendis was tortured in CID custody, sustaining severe ear injuries before being transferred to the notorious Negombo prison where he was held for eight months.

    On August 14, the brothers were arrested again, apparently on suspicion that they were again planning to migrate to Australia. Sumith Mendis was then tortured by the CID for six days, experiencing beatings and psychological abuse.

    On August 22, the brothers were taken to Negombo prison, along with Lasantha Wijeratne, another Sri Lankan who had also been deported from Australia and tortured in custody.

    Following examination by a judicial medical officer, Sumith Mendis and Lasantha Wijeratne were transferred to the hospital.

    They now face the risk of abuse by both prisoners and guards when they are again taken to Negombo prison unless authorities take the necessary steps to ensure their safety.
    http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA2

  373. The federal form of government is what the Sri Lanka need not adopt.
    Switzerland and Austria have adopted it and are doing very well from it. In fact they have a higher per capita income than the larger nations of europe. The United Arab Emirates is also another small country that has adopted it.If these countries had not adopted a federal constitution they would have probably broken up into even smaller countries as what has happened to the former yugoslavia which is now about 10 countries. Milosevic tried to dismantle what Josep Broz Tito had done and the consequences were that he got a bucket load of manure on his head.This is what will happen to Srilanka too It is heading towards Kosovo.

  374. Tamils are fleeing in large numbers from Sri Lanka to escape the violations of international human rights, including widespread abductions, disappearances, harassment and killings of Tamils still taking place with impunity.

    Even after the war ended almost two years ago, tens of thousands of poorly fed Tamils are still living in inadequate, government-run internment camps. During the last year, 40,000 Tamils were killed and 50,000 more maimed during state-sponsored violence. But the Sri Lankan president adamantly opposed the UN war crimes advisory panel, which wanted to find the truth about crimes and serve some justice to the victims.

    The Sri Lankan President claimed in his victory speech in Colombo in June that his troops carried a gun in one hand and a copy of the human rights charter in the other, and that their guns did not fire at a single civilian.

    If so, why is he is preventing the UN from doing its job?

  375. St. Catherine's Anglican and Trinity United churches in Canada are helping a Tamil family settle in the city by paying one month's rent and linking them to local social services.

    The desperate Tamils are most definitely thankful to both St. Catherine's Anglican and Trinity United churches for showing them compassion, kindness and understanding, which are part of the country's legacy.

  376. In Sri Lanka need more checks and balances on the raw political power given to the President by the 1978 Constitution.

    Instead, they are removing even the existing flimsy safeguards.

    Perhaps this is what we deserve.

    The Ven Inamaluwe Sri Sumangala Thero was reported as saying that what this country needs is a benevolent dictator.

    This is not a minority view.

    But we have to accept the full package, not just the parts we like.

    There no guarantees that all dictators are benevolent; even dictators who start out benevolent can change their stripes.

    And one cannot get rid of dictators at elections, by definition.

    Coups and people-power rebellions are integral elements of the benevolent-dictator package.

    Those who sit on their hands

  377. Sinhala Supremacist Ideology and abuse of International Law

    The strength of a nation depends on its ability to speak the truth about its actions and be transparent and respectful of the law in its dealings. The contrary often signals that the nation blunders on by continual evasion and major violations of human rights. Symptomatic of the state of affairs here is the alacrity with which some leading sections of the state and private media rushed to misquote Ambassador Jayantha Dhanapala’s presentation before the LLRC as justifying blanket exemption from humanitarian law in fighting terrorism.

  378. An earnest investigation would show that the Sri Lanka Military used excessive force in ‘liberating’ Sampoor during the night of 27th August 2006. Moreover, subsequent policies of the Government towards the Sampoor population were meant to further its agenda, with scant regard for rights of the civilians. Humanitarian law now or in the future would never countenance excessive force or displacement that was avoidable or permanent.

    Once Sampoor was captured, there was no further threat to security. President Rajapakse said on 4th September 2006 that they recaptured Sampoor ‘purely for the benefit of the people’. Military Spokesman Brigadier Prasad Samarasinghe told the Daily Mirror categorically (5th September 2006) that ‘ no threat to the Trincomalee harbour and the adjoining naval base was no more following the successful operation involving the three forces.’ He added that once the area was cleared the civilians could be resettled in the next few days. This was never done.

  379. Who, and by what right, decides that Tamil people should be deprived of their homes in several parts of the North-East? It is a structure in which almost unlimited power is held by military and ex-military men who had previously, along with the LTTE, violated international human rights and humanitarian laws by which these same people were protected. Other areas facing expropriation for new military establishments are Mullikulam, 28 miles south of Mannar and Channar east of Vidatthaltivu, which supplies its water and agricultural produce. The pattern is the same. Reasonably prosperous people who farmed from a few to 40 acres of rich agricultural land are to be given 20 perches of land in some barren backwater. This is just the thin end of the wedge.

    Depriving Tamils of their habitations on security grounds carries the general presumption that Tamils are collectively a security risk. Whence, they must be corralled and checked by repressive means. In 1984, the UNP government started with Weli Oya and the present one wants to go to the logical extreme. It gives the world the message that a façade of a single nation could only be sustained by systematic ethnic oppression. This is a logical consequence of state ideology. Policies inspired by Sinhalese supremacist ideology create conflicts where none existed.

  380. For a Sri Lanka military and Sri Lanka extremists behind the Sri Lanka present government, depriving minorities of their habitations is also based on the ideological presumption that Tamils and Muslims are usurpers who robbed land that belongs to Sinhalese Buddhists. Thus coveting land anywhere in the North-East to build a Buddhist temple or to create conditions for Sinhalese settlement becomes a birthright. The Hindus have no such rights, not even to keep a temple they have possessed for centuries.

    But Sampoor also has traditions old as any in that region, as old as Koneswaram and the economic and cultural links centred on it covering the villages of Trincomalee District. Pathirakaali Amman temple in Sampoor, which forms part of the tradition, is destined to decay without devotees. The houses of those devotees that were largely intact in early 2007 were destroyed after the Government arbitrarily changed its mind and decided that there would be a harbour, an Indian coal power plant and no people; at least not Tamil.

    Narrow nationalists pervert and mangle historical reality to make their claims. The rule of the kings of Kotte and Kandy in the region is cited to assert Sinhalese claims to the East. These kings however respected and fostered local traditions. The last rites of Bhuvaneka Bahu VII were performed at Koneswaram. They did not build a Buddhist temple in the precincts of Koneswaram citing some dubious history, as modern narrow nationalists have done. With regard to Sampoor, the respect Kandyan kings accorded local traditions is evident in the extract from the diary of Jacques Fabrice Van Senden, administrator of the province of Trincomalee, Wednesday 7th, 1776:

    “Visited the Temple at Tamblegam. Shown images rescued from Koneswaram – King Koneesar and Queen Isowerie in well lit temple – Presented by King Kollekote, founder of the tank at Kandelay. Representation by priest: While Tamblegamme was under the King of Kandy, a tenth of the produce was collected as tribute by the prince, who remitted half in favour of the Pagoda (Temple); that since the Company had taken the entire tax, death had entered the country and the harvest was diminishing yearly, that before the death of Commandant Shorer, they had obtained a promise from him that he would request permission to assign at least 600 parrahs of paddy yearly for the maintenance of the temple.”

    Unlike today’s narrow Sri Lanka nationalists, the kings of Kandy and Kotte were often cosmopolitan in outlook, whose culture was sensitive to local traditions and customary law. Today’s politics of narrow Sri Lanka nationalism is about creating discord, and its ideas of development, vandalism – vandalising the rich tapestry of Lankan heritage.

  381. Deceptive Reconciliation in Sri Lanka

    Reconciliation is not political surrender to the oppressor.

    It should instead restore the lost dignity of the oppressed.

    Reconciliation is not employing mean, manipulative and destructive methods, covertly, to destroy the rights, freedoms, vision and aspirations of the Tamil people.

    Deceptive acts by the GOSL, branded falsely as “reconciliatory acts”, should be strongly condemned by all.

  382. Key political risks to watch in Sri Lanka

    Sri Lanka’s President Mahinda Rajapaksa has attracted enough support from lawmakers to secure a two-thirds majority in parliament, enabling him to change the constitution

    Sri Lanka’s budget deficit target of 8 percent this year is more than the 7 percent the IMF wants. So the country is under pressure to deliver on plans to boost revenue, rationalise a byzantine, costly tax code and above all, tighten fiscal discipline.

    Rajapaksa has yet to make good on a promised pay hike for Sri Lanka’s state employees.

    He kept the pressure off since his election in 2005. The trade unions have been demanding he deliver. The government says the rise will come in 2011 but impatience is growing.

    Already, university students have held strikes, which traditionally presage labour union unrest. The state workers in the last month have held token strikes.

    Union members in Sri Lanka have traditionally been quick to lose fealty to leaders they view as doing too little for them.

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    COLOMBO, Sept 4 | Sat Sep 4, 2010 7:39am EDT

    COLOMBO, Sept 4 (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s President Mahinda Rajapaksa has attracted enough support from lawmakers to secure a two-thirds majority in parliament, enabling him to change the constitution. He has also embarked on ambitious plans to transform the nation’s economy following the end of a quarter-century civil war in May 2009.

    Following is a summary of key risks to watch in Sri Lanka:

    * FISCAL REFORM

    An International Monetary Fund review in August said Sri Lanka’s progress on key economic policy reforms was on track and it would recommend the payment of the fourth tranche of a $2.6 billion loan. It was a key vote of confidence in the country’s economic policies, following a six-month delay in releasing the third tranche of the loan because Sri Lanka’s budget deficit last year was well above the IMF target.

    Although the IMF has released the latest loan tranche, Sri Lanka’s budget deficit target of 8 percent this year is more than the 7 percent the IMF wants. So the country is under pressure to deliver on plans to boost revenue, rationalise a byzantine, costly tax code and above all, tighten fiscal discipline.

    What to watch:

    — Whether Rajapaksa’s administration gives into the classic temptation of all Sri Lankan leaders: dipping into public coffers to boost subsidies or dole out state jobs.

    — Whether the government takes concrete steps to make state-run entities revenue earners. Most of the deficit reduction plan hinges on completely turning around loss-making state ventures hampered by subsidy schemes or mismanagement.

    — The recommendations of a presidential tax reform commission.

    * STATE SECTOR LABOUR UNREST

    Rajapaksa has yet to make good on a promised pay hike for Sri Lanka’s state employees. He kept the pressure off since his election in 2005 by appealing to workers to wait so he could pay for the war against the Tamil Tiger separatists.

    But since the war ended in May 2009, public sector trade unions have been demanding he deliver. The government says the rise will come in 2011 but impatience is growing.

    Already, university students have held strikes, which traditionally presage labour union unrest. A handful of state workers in the last month have held token strikes.

    What to watch:

    — The tenor and frequency of student and labour strikes. If they rise above token acts, that’s a clear sign of more to come.

    — Whether trade unions drop their support for Rajapaksa and drift back toward the now-rudderless opposition. Union members in Sri Lanka have traditionally been quick to lose fealty to leaders they view as doing too little for them.

    * THE RAJAPAKSA FACTOR

    The president and his family together have direct control of nearly 70 percent of this year’s budget through the portfolios they hold. Three brothers occupy key positions.

    One is the parliament speaker and another runs the state security apparatus with a special brief to develop prime state-owned property in Colombo.

    A third runs a new ministry overseeing tourism, nation building and investment promotion, which encompasses just about all the lucrative post-war investment and development areas.

    The president is also the finance minister, so in short, any big investment decision needs a Rajapaksa blessing because Rajapaksa is a King . 🙂

  383. Sri Lanka’s President Mahinda Rajapaksa has attracted enough support from lawmakers to secure a two-thirds majority in parliament, enabling him to change the constitution. He has also embarked on ambitious plans to transform the nation’s economy following the end of a quarter-century civil war in May 2009.

    Following is a summary of key risks to watch in Sri Lanka:

    * FISCAL REFORM

    An International Monetary Fund review in August said Sri Lanka’s progress on key economic policy reforms was on track and it would recommend the payment of the fourth tranche of a $2.6 billion loan. It was a key vote of confidence in the country’s economic policies, following a six-month delay in releasing the third tranche of the loan because Sri Lanka’s budget deficit last year was well above the IMF target.

    Although the IMF has released the latest loan tranche, Sri Lanka’s budget deficit target of 8 percent this year is more than the 7 percent the IMF wants. So the country is under pressure to deliver on plans to boost revenue, rationalise a byzantine, costly tax code and above all, tighten fiscal discipline.

    What to watch:

    – Whether Rajapaksa’s administration gives into the classic temptation of all Sri Lankan leaders: dipping into public coffers to boost subsidies or dole out state jobs.

    – Whether the government takes concrete steps to make state-run entities revenue earners. Most of the deficit reduction plan hinges on completely turning around loss-making state ventures hampered by subsidy schemes or mismanagement.

    – The recommendations of a presidential tax reform commission.

    * STATE SECTOR LABOUR UNREST

    Rajapaksa has yet to make good on a promised pay hike for Sri Lanka’s state employees. He kept the pressure off since his election in 2005 by appealing to workers to wait so he could pay for the war against the Tamil Tiger separatists.

    But since the war ended in May 2009, public sector trade unions have been demanding he deliver. The government says the rise will come in 2011 but impatience is growing.

    Already, university students have held strikes, which traditionally presage labour union unrest. A handful of state workers in the last month have held token strikes.

    What to watch:

    – The tenor and frequency of student and labour strikes. If they rise above token acts, that’s a clear sign of more to come.

    – Whether trade unions drop their support for Rajapaksa and drift back toward the now-rudderless opposition. Union members in Sri Lanka have traditionally been quick to lose fealty to leaders they view as doing too little for them.

    * THE RAJAPAKSA FACTOR

    The president and his family together have direct control of nearly 70 percent of this year’s budget through the portfolios they hold. Three brothers occupy key positions.

    One is the parliament speaker and another runs the state security apparatus with a special brief to develop prime state-owned property in Colombo.

    A third runs a new ministry overseeing tourism, nation building and investment promotion, which encompasses just about all the lucrative post-war investment and development areas.

    The president is also the finance minister, so in short, any big investment decision needs a Rajapaksa blessing because Rajapaksa is a King .

  384. The ‘Boatophobia’ debate: Dehumanising asylum seekers and refugees

    Counter terror experts and security analysts are back in action and what do they fear this time? Not bombs, IEDs, nor suicide bombers but the ‘boatpeople’! I have gained sufficient insight into the issue, having camped in Australia for the last two months, to comment on what I call a new form of racism called ‘boatophobia’.

    At stake are the lives of faceless, nameless (not the men in the Australian Labour Party who ordered the political assassination of former Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd!), men, women and children from war hit countries of Afghanistan and Sri Lanka. The two major Australian political parties, in their election campaign, made sure that the ‘boat peoples’ issue was projected as a national security issue.

    The Australian Labour Party leader and current PM, Julia Gillard, promised a detention centre in East Timor and a ‘small and sustainable Australia’; the Liberal National Party promised the reopening of the detention centre in Nauru and their leader, Tony Abbot, went around repeating as a mantra; “we will stop the boats.” The election has resulted in no clear mandate for either party, and a hung parliament, but the ‘boatophobia’ is here to stay as Australians continue to debate the threats from the faceless, nameless ‘boat people’.

    The identity-less’ boat people’ are also back in news, ever since the Thai cargo ship, MV Sun Sea landed at the Canadian coast of British Columbia last week, with 495 Sri Lankan Tamil asylum seekers. I haven’t seen any of these ‘boat people’ myself, but security experts, who are yet to visit the detention centres in Canada, have wasted no opportunity in declaring the Tamil ‘boat people’ as LTTE terrorists and potential threats to the ‘host countries’.

    The ‘boatophobes’ appear particularly concerned about the security of the host country, Canada, in this case and have accused the Canadian authorities of being slipshod on terrorism laws and granting asylum to terrorists and of endangering people’s lives. ‘boatophobes’ aka xenophobes from Canada would still have some legitimate concerns, because it is their country that is ‘under threat’ from foreigners descending on their soil to avail of their hospitality. Of grave concern is that ‘boatophobic’ experts in South and South East Asia are defining the ‘security’ requirements of the Western nations. Their arguments are not only patronising and racist but also dehumanise and demonise the Sri Lankan Tamil community, who have more than one reason to escape the brutalities of life in a country that they cannot even call ‘home’.

  385. Amnesty International Urges Sri Lanka to Ensure Safety of the Detained Former Asylum Seekers

    Amnesty International is today calling on the Sri Lankan government to ensure the safety of three men who have been tortured and jailed following their forced return from Australia in 2009.

    “This is an appalling situation that calls into question the actions of both the Sri Lankan and Australian governments,” said Madhu Malhotra, Amnesty International’s deputy director for Asia.

    Two of the men, Sumith Mendis and Lasantha Wijeratne, were transferred to a hospital to be examined by a judicial medical officer on September 1 amid claims that they were beaten and tortured following an alleged new attempt to migrate to Australia. It is not clear if they are still in hospital or have returned to prison. All three are at risk of further abuse from guards and prisoners when they are returned to prison where Sumith’s brother, Indika, is already being held.

    “Both governments are culpable in the forced return and mistreatment these men have endured, and both must bear responsibility for the results of their policies and procedures,” said Malhotra.

    Sumith Mendis and Indika Mendis were detained in 2009 at the Christmas Island detention center after the boat they were crew members on was stopped by Australian authorities and found to be carrying Sri Lankan asylum seekers.

    They were deported to Sri Lanka and promptly arrested and handed over to the Central Investigative Department (CID). Sumith Mendis was released, but Indika Mendis was tortured in CID custody, sustaining severe ear injuries before being transferred to the notorious Negombo prison where he was held for eight months.

    On August 14, the brothers were arrested again, apparently on suspicion that they were again planning to migrate to Australia. Sumith Mendis was then tortured by the CID for six days, experiencing beatings and psychological abuse.

    On August 22, the brothers were taken to Negombo prison, along with Lasantha Wijeratne, another Sri Lankan who had also been deported from Australia and tortured in custody.

    Following examination by a judicial medical officer, Sumith Mendis and Lasantha Wijeratne were transferred to the hospital.

    They now face the risk of abuse by both prisoners and guards when they are again taken to Negombo prison unless authorities take the necessary steps to ensure their safety.

    http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20100903002

  386. The federal form of government is what the Sri Lanka need not adopt.
    Switzerland and Austria have adopted it and are doing very well from it. In fact they have a higher per capita income than the larger nations of europe. The United Arab Emirates is also another small country that has adopted it.If these countries had not adopted a federal constitution they would have probably broken up into even smaller countries as what has happened to the former yugoslavia which is now about 10 countries. Milosevic tried to dismantle what Josep Broz Tito had done and the consequences were that he got a bucket load of manure on his head.This is what will happen to Srilanka too It is heading towards Kosovo.

  387. Tamils are fleeing in large numbers from Sri Lanka to escape the violations of international human rights, including widespread abductions, disappearances, harassment and killings of Tamils still taking place with impunity.

    Even after the war ended almost two years ago, tens of thousands of poorly fed Tamils are still living in inadequate, government-run internment camps. During the last year, 40,000 Tamils were killed and 50,000 more maimed during state-sponsored violence. But the Sri Lankan president adamantly opposed the UN war crimes advisory panel, which wanted to find the truth about crimes and serve some justice to the victims.

    The Sri Lankan President claimed in his victory speech in Colombo in June that his troops carried a gun in one hand and a copy of the human rights charter in the other, and that their guns did not fire at a single civilian.

    If so, why is he is preventing the UN from doing its job?

  388. St. Catherine’s Anglican and Trinity United churches in Canada are helping a Tamil family settle in the city by paying one month’s rent and linking them to local social services.

    The desperate Tamils are most definitely thankful to both St. Catherine’s Anglican and Trinity United churches for showing them compassion, kindness and understanding, which are part of the country’s legacy.

  389. In Sri Lanka need more checks and balances on the raw political power given to the President by the 1978 Constitution.

    Instead, they are removing even the existing flimsy safeguards.

    Perhaps this is what we deserve.

    The Ven Inamaluwe Sri Sumangala Thero was reported as saying that what this country needs is a benevolent dictator.

    This is not a minority view.

    But we have to accept the full package, not just the parts we like.

    There no guarantees that all dictators are benevolent; even dictators who start out benevolent can change their stripes.

    And one cannot get rid of dictators at elections, by definition.

    Coups and people-power rebellions are integral elements of the benevolent-dictator package.

    Those who sit on their hands

  390. Sinhala Supremacist Ideology and abuse of International Law

    The strength of a nation depends on its ability to speak the truth about its actions and be transparent and respectful of the law in its dealings. The contrary often signals that the nation blunders on by continual evasion and major violations of human rights. Symptomatic of the state of affairs here is the alacrity with which some leading sections of the state and private media rushed to misquote Ambassador Jayantha Dhanapala’s presentation before the LLRC as justifying blanket exemption from humanitarian law in fighting terrorism.

  391. An earnest investigation would show that the Sri Lanka Military used excessive force in ‘liberating’ Sampoor during the night of 27th August 2006. Moreover, subsequent policies of the Government towards the Sampoor population were meant to further its agenda, with scant regard for rights of the civilians. Humanitarian law now or in the future would never countenance excessive force or displacement that was avoidable or permanent.

    Once Sampoor was captured, there was no further threat to security. President Rajapakse said on 4th September 2006 that they recaptured Sampoor ‘purely for the benefit of the people’. Military Spokesman Brigadier Prasad Samarasinghe told the Daily Mirror categorically (5th September 2006) that ‘ no threat to the Trincomalee harbour and the adjoining naval base was no more following the successful operation involving the three forces.’ He added that once the area was cleared the civilians could be resettled in the next few days. This was never done.

  392. Who, and by what right, decides that Tamil people should be deprived of their homes in several parts of the North-East? It is a structure in which almost unlimited power is held by military and ex-military men who had previously, along with the LTTE, violated international human rights and humanitarian laws by which these same people were protected. Other areas facing expropriation for new military establishments are Mullikulam, 28 miles south of Mannar and Channar east of Vidatthaltivu, which supplies its water and agricultural produce. The pattern is the same. Reasonably prosperous people who farmed from a few to 40 acres of rich agricultural land are to be given 20 perches of land in some barren backwater. This is just the thin end of the wedge.

    Depriving Tamils of their habitations on security grounds carries the general presumption that Tamils are collectively a security risk. Whence, they must be corralled and checked by repressive means. In 1984, the UNP government started with Weli Oya and the present one wants to go to the logical extreme. It gives the world the message that a façade of a single nation could only be sustained by systematic ethnic oppression. This is a logical consequence of state ideology. Policies inspired by Sinhalese supremacist ideology create conflicts where none existed.

  393. For a Sri Lanka military and Sri Lanka extremists behind the Sri Lanka present government, depriving minorities of their habitations is also based on the ideological presumption that Tamils and Muslims are usurpers who robbed land that belongs to Sinhalese Buddhists. Thus coveting land anywhere in the North-East to build a Buddhist temple or to create conditions for Sinhalese settlement becomes a birthright. The Hindus have no such rights, not even to keep a temple they have possessed for centuries.

    But Sampoor also has traditions old as any in that region, as old as Koneswaram and the economic and cultural links centred on it covering the villages of Trincomalee District. Pathirakaali Amman temple in Sampoor, which forms part of the tradition, is destined to decay without devotees. The houses of those devotees that were largely intact in early 2007 were destroyed after the Government arbitrarily changed its mind and decided that there would be a harbour, an Indian coal power plant and no people; at least not Tamil.

    Narrow nationalists pervert and mangle historical reality to make their claims. The rule of the kings of Kotte and Kandy in the region is cited to assert Sinhalese claims to the East. These kings however respected and fostered local traditions. The last rites of Bhuvaneka Bahu VII were performed at Koneswaram. They did not build a Buddhist temple in the precincts of Koneswaram citing some dubious history, as modern narrow nationalists have done. With regard to Sampoor, the respect Kandyan kings accorded local traditions is evident in the extract from the diary of Jacques Fabrice Van Senden, administrator of the province of Trincomalee, Wednesday 7th, 1776:

    “Visited the Temple at Tamblegam. Shown images rescued from Koneswaram – King Koneesar and Queen Isowerie in well lit temple – Presented by King Kollekote, founder of the tank at Kandelay. Representation by priest: While Tamblegamme was under the King of Kandy, a tenth of the produce was collected as tribute by the prince, who remitted half in favour of the Pagoda (Temple); that since the Company had taken the entire tax, death had entered the country and the harvest was diminishing yearly, that before the death of Commandant Shorer, they had obtained a promise from him that he would request permission to assign at least 600 parrahs of paddy yearly for the maintenance of the temple.”

    Unlike today’s narrow Sri Lanka nationalists, the kings of Kandy and Kotte were often cosmopolitan in outlook, whose culture was sensitive to local traditions and customary law. Today’s politics of narrow Sri Lanka nationalism is about creating discord, and its ideas of development, vandalism – vandalising the rich tapestry of Lankan heritage.

  394. Permanent military camps in the North and East

    The Defence Secretary has taken steps to establish permanent military camps in the North and east provinces claiming for the protection of national security. The Defence Secretary opened a camp in Mullikulam in Mannar as a first step in the programme on the 2nd. The camp has been named as the Navy’s Wayamba Command Headquarters and Rear Admiral Ruwan Dias has been appointed as the commanding officer of the camp.

    The coastal area between Udappuwa and Harippuwa and the seas to the west of the area till the Indo-Lanka maritime border and four naval camps in the area have been assigned to the Wayamba Command Headquarters. The Defence Secretary addressing the gathering at the event said that military camps will be established at all key areas for the protection of national security.

  395. So the Emperor is finally divested of his dazzling patriotic mantle, his vulturous greed for power and grandiose dynastic ambitions bared.

    The proposed 18th Amendment to the Constitution is quintessentially Rajapaksian: anti-democratic and deceptive, megalomanic and supercilious, rapacious and unctuous. The confluence of its two main components – presidential term-limit removal and negation of the 17th Amendment — would produce a supra-presidency which Mahinda Rajapaksa can hold for life and bequeath to his chosen successor. A virtual monarchy with a reassuringly democratic title – this was the predestined destination of the Rajapaksa project.

    The road to tyranny is often paved with indifference on the part of unexceptionable, law-abiding citizens. No perilous turning point happens in a vacuum but is preceded by innumerable official misdeeds, to which society should have reacted with outrage but did not, deeming them unimportant, irrelevant or kosher. The Rajapaksas have come within striking distance of transforming Sri Lanka from a flawed democracy into a dynastic oligarchy because their crimes and abuses have gone largely unchallenged by Lankan society, especially that intellectual-ethical obscenity, the zero-civilian casualty myth (and the incarceration of more than 300,000 Tamils in ‘welfare villages’).

  396. Let us boycott Colombo International Tamil Writers Conference – a request by Tamil creativists, artists and journalists.

    Some writers have announced that they are to hold an International Tamil Writers Conference in Colombo on 5, 6, 7, 8 January 2011. It has been announced that some persons in Colombo and some Diaspora writers had met on 3rd January 2010 and decided to hold this conference.

    Sri Lanka government, with India’s joint sabotage, had waged a massive Tamil genocidal war last year killing numerous combatants and innocent civilians to the great shock of the world.

    The countries of the world, enraged against Sri Lanka which had made cruel attacks and committed atrocities on the Tamils with frenzied Sinhala chauvinism violating International rules in the conduct of war and the treatment of prisoners of war, have condemned it.

    European Union has imposed an embargo on Sri Lanka. The UN General Secretary and the heads of UN member states continue to demand Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa to be charged in the International Court.

    Sri Lanka, having waged a Tamil genocidal war, in order to escape the accusations of the world countries and to dampen the anger of the Tamils had tried to show that it was not an enemy of the Tamils by holding the India International Film Awards Festival in Colombo on 3, 4, 5 June.

    But the Tamil film society boycotted the festival and appealed to the film societies of other languages in India resulting in the absolute failure of the festival.

    With this total failure Sri Lanka is now attempting to stage the Colombo International Tamil Writers Conference in an effort to hide the blood stains of a hundred thousand Tamils on its hands. Without revealing its true face it now wears the mask of writers to engage in this fraudulence.

    Therefore, the Tamil creativists, activists and artists and journalists should understand the background and the motive of holding this conference.

    We are humanists, creativists, humanitarian thinkers, artists and journalists who sincerely cherish humanity beyond the boundaries of countries, race and language. We are duty-bound to raise our voices together against violation of human rights and attacks on human beings in whichever corner of the world.

    The atrocities committed against Eezham Tamils and the horrendous killings of them which reached its zenith in Mu’l’livaaikkaal cannot be described in words. This tyrant Sri Lanka government, exposed of its atrocities and facing the condemnation of world countries, in an effort to hide its cruel face, is now making up its face with the paint of Tamil-love.

    We wish to emphatically state that we will not be a party to this effort under any circumstance.

    There is no record in world history of a people who had achieved any development independently without political liberation.

    Therefore, we request the creativists, scholars and artists to see through the cunning motive of the Sri Lanka government which tries to entice them in the name of development of literature, language and film industry. Tamils of the world should wholly boycott this counterfeit and pompous conference.

  397. Permanent military camps in the North and East

    The Defence Secretary has taken steps to establish permanent military camps in the North and east provinces claiming for the protection of national security. The Defence Secretary opened a camp in Mullikulam in Mannar as a first step in the programme on the 2nd. The camp has been named as the Navy’s Wayamba Command Headquarters and Rear Admiral Ruwan Dias has been appointed as the commanding officer of the camp.

    The coastal area between Udappuwa and Harippuwa and the seas to the west of the area till the Indo-Lanka maritime border and four naval camps in the area have been assigned to the Wayamba Command Headquarters. The Defence Secretary addressing the gathering at the event said that military camps will be established at all key areas for the protection of national security.

  398. So the Emperor is finally divested of his dazzling patriotic mantle, his vulturous greed for power and grandiose dynastic ambitions bared.

    The proposed 18th Amendment to the Constitution is quintessentially Rajapaksian: anti-democratic and deceptive, megalomanic and supercilious, rapacious and unctuous. The confluence of its two main components – presidential term-limit removal and negation of the 17th Amendment — would produce a supra-presidency which Mahinda Rajapaksa can hold for life and bequeath to his chosen successor. A virtual monarchy with a reassuringly democratic title – this was the predestined destination of the Rajapaksa project.

    The road to tyranny is often paved with indifference on the part of unexceptionable, law-abiding citizens. No perilous turning point happens in a vacuum but is preceded by innumerable official misdeeds, to which society should have reacted with outrage but did not, deeming them unimportant, irrelevant or kosher. The Rajapaksas have come within striking distance of transforming Sri Lanka from a flawed democracy into a dynastic oligarchy because their crimes and abuses have gone largely unchallenged by Lankan society, especially that intellectual-ethical obscenity, the zero-civilian casualty myth (and the incarceration of more than 300,000 Tamils in ‘welfare villages’).

  399. Let us boycott Colombo International Tamil Writers Conference – a request by Tamil creativists, artists and journalists.

    Some writers have announced that they are to hold an International Tamil Writers Conference in Colombo on 5, 6, 7, 8 January 2011. It has been announced that some persons in Colombo and some Diaspora writers had met on 3rd January 2010 and decided to hold this conference.

    Sri Lanka government, with India’s joint sabotage, had waged a massive Tamil genocidal war last year killing numerous combatants and innocent civilians to the great shock of the world.

    The countries of the world, enraged against Sri Lanka which had made cruel attacks and committed atrocities on the Tamils with frenzied Sinhala chauvinism violating International rules in the conduct of war and the treatment of prisoners of war, have condemned it.

    European Union has imposed an embargo on Sri Lanka. The UN General Secretary and the heads of UN member states continue to demand Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa to be charged in the International Court.

    Sri Lanka, having waged a Tamil genocidal war, in order to escape the accusations of the world countries and to dampen the anger of the Tamils had tried to show that it was not an enemy of the Tamils by holding the India International Film Awards Festival in Colombo on 3, 4, 5 June.

    But the Tamil film society boycotted the festival and appealed to the film societies of other languages in India resulting in the absolute failure of the festival.

    With this total failure Sri Lanka is now attempting to stage the Colombo International Tamil Writers Conference in an effort to hide the blood stains of a hundred thousand Tamils on its hands. Without revealing its true face it now wears the mask of writers to engage in this fraudulence.

    Therefore, the Tamil creativists, activists and artists and journalists should understand the background and the motive of holding this conference.

    We are humanists, creativists, humanitarian thinkers, artists and journalists who sincerely cherish humanity beyond the boundaries of countries, race and language. We are duty-bound to raise our voices together against violation of human rights and attacks on human beings in whichever corner of the world.

    The atrocities committed against Eezham Tamils and the horrendous killings of them which reached its zenith in Mu’l’livaaikkaal cannot be described in words. This tyrant Sri Lanka government, exposed of its atrocities and facing the condemnation of world countries, in an effort to hide its cruel face, is now making up its face with the paint of Tamil-love.

    We wish to emphatically state that we will not be a party to this effort under any circumstance.

    There is no record in world history of a people who had achieved any development independently without political liberation.

    Therefore, we request the creativists, scholars and artists to see through the cunning motive of the Sri Lanka government which tries to entice them in the name of development of literature, language and film industry. Tamils of the world should wholly boycott this counterfeit and pompous conference.

  400. Well done AI and kudos for finding evidence of alleged torture/maltreatment with these returned Lankans from Australia. Now it's up to the SL Police to prove that the allegations are untrue of if whether they or other prisoners were responsible for their maltreatment.

    The original complaint by Jim was that failed 'asylum seekers' (from Canada) who were returned to SL were tortured and mistreated. The Canadian government's own statistics prove that to be untrue.

    As for the rest of the Eelamish whining on this board… its tedious beyond belief but we should thank AI that supporters of a failed terror group have somewhere to come and moan. 🙂

  401. Rajapaksa-justice is an oxymoron, as is evidenced by the scandalous exoneration of Mervyn Silva by the SLFP disciplinary committee.

    This was despite the existence of innumerable visual records in the public domain of Mr. Silva getting the Samurdhi official tied to a tree.

    The SLFP disciplinary committee claimed that the incident was a mere piece of theatre; an Orwellian self-incriminatory letter was obtained from the hapless victim, indubitably under duress.

    The entire charade was so specious as to insult the intelligence of even a small child; it demonstrates the contempt with which the Rajapaksas hold the Lankan people, including fellow SLFP leaders

  402. The North has been bludgeoned into sullen silence; Tamils will be stigmatised and repressed as Tiger supporters if they show signs of democratic dissent.

  403. Tip to Eealmists

    If you want to change things in SL, you can't do it by whining on AL blogs. You need to er.. actually go back home, register to vote and do boring stuff like that. I know that most of you are unlikely to do that, given that even during Eelam's existence, you preferred to stay away from living in your perfect Eelam state. 🙂

    Keep listing each and every mistake & unjust action of the SL govt (e.g. the Mervyn 'The Vermin' Silva's rehabilitation), but you've got to be there to make a difference.

    No need to thank me for this tip. Consider it a favour done.

  404. Many in Sri Lanka are deeply concerned over the changes that are to be made to the Constitution as the 18th Amendments to the Constitution, violating the freedom of expression on the part of the people and disregarding all the democratic norms.

    The accepted norm of bringing up amendments to the Constitution is to make such amendments after being discussed among the masses and arrived at consensus on them.

    But it is a dangerous trend to make such amendments in the form of an Emergency Bill violating that cardinal principle.

    When the country requires a new Constitution to address the challenges faces the nation, the amendments which further concentrate power seriously around one person and dismantling checks and balances on that rule taking an individual nature, would further establish this dangerous trend.

    The Sri Lanka masses should seriously consider the proposals for amendments and to assess realistically the harm that they might cause to democracy, good governance and independence of government’s service.

    It also emphasis to rally against these undemocratic proposals made without peoples’ consent.

  405. Mahinda Rajapakse administration has recently announced its intentions to pursue legal action against former incumbent, Chandrika Kumaratunga.

    This cannot be a mere coincidence.

    Mahinda is counting on the landslide victory.

    Yet the fact that Rajapaksa fears the possibility of CBK running against him (the only explanation for the aforementioned judicial proceedings) implies that he is counting on a weak Opposition.

    Moreover, he is counting on a UNP/DNP/JVP Opposition that is even weaker than CBK, assuming the two are mutually exclusive.

  406. Thambipillai Says:
    September 4th, 2010 at 10:21 am

    I applaud you for the Interesting post I have ever seen in these blogs on Sri Lanka and the disappeared in Sri Lanka !!

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    This idiot also insults the Maha Brahma !!

    Jim MD

    Please let oxymoron's of this sort to continue posting here !!!!!

    Serves you right for being an ass hole your self !!

  407. Mango Says:
    September 5th, 2010 at 9:05 am

    The original complaint by Jim was that failed ‘asylum seekers’ (from Canada) who were returned to SL were tortured and mistreated. The Canadian government’s own statistics prove that to be untrue.

    Machan Mango – Jim is proving day by day the wise man's saying – sleep with the dogs and get up with flees 🙂 !!

    You saw the new new blog by Jim ?? He is talking of the 3 Singhalees who were deported from Aussie and stating that they are being tortured here – LOL 🙂 !!!

    May be Jim is under the impression that anyone who seeks asylum should be let in no matter what – let me see whether Osama Bin Laden could enter USA as an asylum seeker only to plant a bomb – LOL !!

    Jim, on a weekly basis is providing free entertainment – May be a descendant of Charlie Chaplin – LOL !! Oh Ya – I have heard that Charlie used to fart a lot !!!

  408. Although, the war with the LTTE has ended and there is no danger of another LTTE insurgency appearing on the scene in the foreseeable future, yet the government is hell-bent to colonize and militarise the North.

    For this purpose, the government has allocated a whopping 201.3 billion rupees, 35 billion rupees higher than the defence allocation in the 2009 budget.

    The lion’s share of the defence budget will be spent on salaries, uniforms, boots and feeding of the oversized Sri Lankan defence forces and police which altogether now number nearly 500,000.

    That also explains why Sri Lanka has the highest per capita military personnel (18.5 to 1000} in South Asia.

    The defence budget is so massive that it dwarfs the allocation of just Rs.30 billion (1%) for the Ministry of Resettlement. No wonder the government says the owners of houses destroyed during the war have to rebuild themselves!

  409. After Colonizing the East the Sinhala Government is Now Colonizing the North!

    After the end of the Tamil War the Sri Lankan government has opened the flood gates of state-sponsored Sinhala colonization of the Northeast, especially Trincomalee and Vanni districts. Not a single day passes without news of lands belonging to the Thamils being forcibly grabbed. For more than 25 years the government's attempt to move the border of Manal Aru was successfully thwarted by the LTTE, but the situation has dramatically changed since May 19th, 2009.

    Even before independence D.S. Senanayake as Minister of Agriculture and Land used state-sponsored Sinhala colonization as an instrument of state policy to change the demography of the Northeast provinces. Gal Oya (originally called Paddippalai Aru in Tamil) Allai-Kanthalai and Yan Oya in the Trincomalee district and Maduru Oya in the Batticaloa district were the major colonization schemes launched by D.S. Senanayake and his successors.

    In 1949 the government under D.S. Senanayake enacted Act No. 51 under which the Gal Oya Development Board was established. It was officially inaugurated by Prime Minister D.S. Senanayake on August 28, 1949 at Ingniyakala. A dam was built at Ingniyakala to divert the Gal Oya river waters. This water reservoir was appropriately named Senanayake Samudra – the biggest man made tank in the whole of Ceylon. Gal Oya Development Board spent a staggering US 67.2 million dollars to build the infrastructure and settle the colonists.

    All these schemes could easily be described as the single biggest ‘accomplishment’ of Sinhalese governments since independence in 1948 meant to reduce the Thamil majority in the East.

  410. While the Sri Lanka government is preventing thousands and thousands of Thamil IDPs to settle down in their own homes, it is grabbing swathes of cultivable land in Vanni to build military bases, cantonments and houses for the armed forces.

    Two cantonments with schools, hospitals, living quarters and ten military bases have been constructed in Kilinochchi and Mullaitivu under an agreement signed by Basil Rajapaksa, Head of Presidential Task Force with China. About 5,000 acres have been acquired for the purpose. China is also constructing 60,000 houses costing $110 million for families of the armed forces in Jaffna, Kankesanthurai, Mullaitivu and Pooneryn. About 1,000 houses in Vanni have already been completed. Chinese Defence Ministry has offered a loan of $ 20 million loan for purchasing equipment needed for building military-related installations in the North.

    China is underwriting these ventures with liberal credit. The Exim Bank of China has agreed to provide a preferential credit facility of over $1 bn for roads and rail projects and construction of military housing projects in the North.

    Other Chinese projects, including Hambantota port, a Special Economic Zone, a 1,000 acre Tapioca farm, the 900 MW coal-fired Norochcholai power plant, the Colombo-Katunayake Expressway, an oil bunkering facility, the Palai-Kankesanthurai rail-line, a Performing Arts Centre in Colombo and a host of other projects, make the Chinese portfolio the envy of export economies in meltdown.

    China remained Sri Lanka’s biggest source of foreign funding in 2009, providing $1.2 billion or nearly triple the $424 million given by the number two overseas lender, the Asian Development Bank. In March, 2010 China pledged another $290m for a new airport and to upgrade the island’s railways.

  411. Well done AI and kudos for finding evidence of alleged torture/maltreatment with these returned Lankans from Australia. Now it’s up to the SL Police to prove that the allegations are untrue of if whether they or other prisoners were responsible for their maltreatment.

    The original complaint by Jim was that failed ‘asylum seekers’ (from Canada) who were returned to SL were tortured and mistreated. The Canadian government’s own statistics prove that to be untrue.

    As for the rest of the Eelamish whining on this board… its tedious beyond belief but we should thank AI that supporters of a failed terror group have somewhere to come and moan. 🙂

  412. Rajapaksa-justice is an oxymoron, as is evidenced by the scandalous exoneration of Mervyn Silva by the SLFP disciplinary committee.

    This was despite the existence of innumerable visual records in the public domain of Mr. Silva getting the Samurdhi official tied to a tree.

    The SLFP disciplinary committee claimed that the incident was a mere piece of theatre; an Orwellian self-incriminatory letter was obtained from the hapless victim, indubitably under duress.

    The entire charade was so specious as to insult the intelligence of even a small child; it demonstrates the contempt with which the Rajapaksas hold the Lankan people, including fellow SLFP leaders

  413. The North has been bludgeoned into sullen silence; Tamils will be stigmatised and repressed as Tiger supporters if they show signs of democratic dissent.

  414. Tip to Eealmists

    If you want to change things in SL, you can’t do it by whining on AL blogs. You need to er.. actually go back home, register to vote and do boring stuff like that. I know that most of you are unlikely to do that, given that even during Eelam’s existence, you preferred to stay away from living in your perfect Eelam state. 🙂

    Keep listing each and every mistake & unjust action of the SL govt (e.g. the Mervyn ‘The Vermin’ Silva’s rehabilitation), but you’ve got to be there to make a difference.

    No need to thank me for this tip. Consider it a favour done.

  415. Many in Sri Lanka are deeply concerned over the changes that are to be made to the Constitution as the 18th Amendments to the Constitution, violating the freedom of expression on the part of the people and disregarding all the democratic norms.

    The accepted norm of bringing up amendments to the Constitution is to make such amendments after being discussed among the masses and arrived at consensus on them.

    But it is a dangerous trend to make such amendments in the form of an Emergency Bill violating that cardinal principle.

    When the country requires a new Constitution to address the challenges faces the nation, the amendments which further concentrate power seriously around one person and dismantling checks and balances on that rule taking an individual nature, would further establish this dangerous trend.

    The Sri Lanka masses should seriously consider the proposals for amendments and to assess realistically the harm that they might cause to democracy, good governance and independence of government’s service.

    It also emphasis to rally against these undemocratic proposals made without peoples’ consent.

  416. Mahinda Rajapakse administration has recently announced its intentions to pursue legal action against former incumbent, Chandrika Kumaratunga.

    This cannot be a mere coincidence.

    Mahinda is counting on the landslide victory.

    Yet the fact that Rajapaksa fears the possibility of CBK running against him (the only explanation for the aforementioned judicial proceedings) implies that he is counting on a weak Opposition.

    Moreover, he is counting on a UNP/DNP/JVP Opposition that is even weaker than CBK, assuming the two are mutually exclusive.

  417. Thambipillai Says:
    September 4th, 2010 at 10:21 am

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    This idiot also insults the Maha Brahma !!

    Jim MD

    Please let oxymoron’s of this sort to continue posting here !!!!!

    Serves you right for being an ass hole your self !!

  418. Mango Says:
    September 5th, 2010 at 9:05 am

    The original complaint by Jim was that failed ‘asylum seekers’ (from Canada) who were returned to SL were tortured and mistreated. The Canadian government’s own statistics prove that to be untrue.

    Machan Mango – Jim is proving day by day the wise man’s saying – sleep with the dogs and get up with flees 🙂 !!

    You saw the new new blog by Jim ?? He is talking of the 3 Singhalees who were deported from Aussie and stating that they are being tortured here – LOL 🙂 !!!

    May be Jim is under the impression that anyone who seeks asylum should be let in no matter what – let me see whether Osama Bin Laden could enter USA as an asylum seeker only to plant a bomb – LOL !!

    Jim, on a weekly basis is providing free entertainment – May be a descendant of Charlie Chaplin – LOL !! Oh Ya – I have heard that Charlie used to fart a lot !!!

  419. Although, the war with the LTTE has ended and there is no danger of another LTTE insurgency appearing on the scene in the foreseeable future, yet the government is hell-bent to colonize and militarise the North.

    For this purpose, the government has allocated a whopping 201.3 billion rupees, 35 billion rupees higher than the defence allocation in the 2009 budget.

    The lion’s share of the defence budget will be spent on salaries, uniforms, boots and feeding of the oversized Sri Lankan defence forces and police which altogether now number nearly 500,000.

    That also explains why Sri Lanka has the highest per capita military personnel (18.5 to 1000} in South Asia.

    The defence budget is so massive that it dwarfs the allocation of just Rs.30 billion (1%) for the Ministry of Resettlement. No wonder the government says the owners of houses destroyed during the war have to rebuild themselves!

  420. After Colonizing the East the Sinhala Government is Now Colonizing the North!

    After the end of the Tamil War the Sri Lankan government has opened the flood gates of state-sponsored Sinhala colonization of the Northeast, especially Trincomalee and Vanni districts. Not a single day passes without news of lands belonging to the Thamils being forcibly grabbed. For more than 25 years the government’s attempt to move the border of Manal Aru was successfully thwarted by the LTTE, but the situation has dramatically changed since May 19th, 2009.

    Even before independence D.S. Senanayake as Minister of Agriculture and Land used state-sponsored Sinhala colonization as an instrument of state policy to change the demography of the Northeast provinces. Gal Oya (originally called Paddippalai Aru in Tamil) Allai-Kanthalai and Yan Oya in the Trincomalee district and Maduru Oya in the Batticaloa district were the major colonization schemes launched by D.S. Senanayake and his successors.

    In 1949 the government under D.S. Senanayake enacted Act No. 51 under which the Gal Oya Development Board was established. It was officially inaugurated by Prime Minister D.S. Senanayake on August 28, 1949 at Ingniyakala. A dam was built at Ingniyakala to divert the Gal Oya river waters. This water reservoir was appropriately named Senanayake Samudra – the biggest man made tank in the whole of Ceylon. Gal Oya Development Board spent a staggering US 67.2 million dollars to build the infrastructure and settle the colonists.

    All these schemes could easily be described as the single biggest ‘accomplishment’ of Sinhalese governments since independence in 1948 meant to reduce the Thamil majority in the East.

  421. While the Sri Lanka government is preventing thousands and thousands of Thamil IDPs to settle down in their own homes, it is grabbing swathes of cultivable land in Vanni to build military bases, cantonments and houses for the armed forces.

    Two cantonments with schools, hospitals, living quarters and ten military bases have been constructed in Kilinochchi and Mullaitivu under an agreement signed by Basil Rajapaksa, Head of Presidential Task Force with China. About 5,000 acres have been acquired for the purpose. China is also constructing 60,000 houses costing $110 million for families of the armed forces in Jaffna, Kankesanthurai, Mullaitivu and Pooneryn. About 1,000 houses in Vanni have already been completed. Chinese Defence Ministry has offered a loan of $ 20 million loan for purchasing equipment needed for building military-related installations in the North.

    China is underwriting these ventures with liberal credit. The Exim Bank of China has agreed to provide a preferential credit facility of over $1 bn for roads and rail projects and construction of military housing projects in the North.

    Other Chinese projects, including Hambantota port, a Special Economic Zone, a 1,000 acre Tapioca farm, the 900 MW coal-fired Norochcholai power plant, the Colombo-Katunayake Expressway, an oil bunkering facility, the Palai-Kankesanthurai rail-line, a Performing Arts Centre in Colombo and a host of other projects, make the Chinese portfolio the envy of export economies in meltdown.

    China remained Sri Lanka’s biggest source of foreign funding in 2009, providing $1.2 billion or nearly triple the $424 million given by the number two overseas lender, the Asian Development Bank. In March, 2010 China pledged another $290m for a new airport and to upgrade the island’s railways.

  422. 174 Tamil youths disappeared in Vanthaa’rumoolai remembered http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&art

    Parents and relatives of one hundred and seventy four Tamil youths disappeared after arrest by Sri Lanka Army (SLA) from Vanthaa'rumoolai campus of the Eastern University of Sri Lanka in Batticaloa district two decades ago held prayers in memory of them Sunday. SLA troops had come in buses and taken 158 Tamil youths by force from Vanthaa'rumoolai campus on 05.09.1990 and 16 youths eighteen days later on September 23.

    Since then for the last two decades parents and relatives of these youths are in the dark whether their loved ones are alive or dead.

    These youths had sought refuge in Vanthaa'rumoolai campus to evade atrocities by the state armed forces and were arrested by SLA in the name of interrogation.

    The parents and relatives of the youths were not informed about their whereabouts.

    Some parents who are under the impression that their children are alive held prayers in temples of their faith Sunday for their safe return.

    Other parents who think their children are no more held rituals seeking solace to their souls.

  423. All attempts to investigate atrocities in the Tamil Tiger conflict have been stifled, despite promises made to Ban Ki-moon

    During the Vietnam conflict, the US military developed some creative ways to increase the numbers of Viet Cong insurgents it claimed to have killed. "If they're dead, they're Viet Cong," meant that any Vietnamese killed by American soldiers would automatically count as enemy fighters.

    But Gotabhaya has repeatedly cast aspersions on the idea that there were any civilian casualties.

    In his recent statement before a Sri Lankan commission looking at lessons learned from the war, Gotabhaya claimed that injured Tigers "changed their uniforms into civilian clothes"

    Gotabhaya also proclaimed that the military operation was a really a "humanitarian intervention" In practice, however, rather than protecting civilians, the government blocked access by humanitarian organisations. The International Committee of the Red Cross complained publicly that it was unable to reach those most in need.

    There are genuine concerns that the Lessons Learned Commission will serve only to whitewash allegations of serious abuses, and that its conclusions will be used to brush off calls for an international investigation.

    The panel's mandate is deliberately limited: its main responsibility is to understand the reasons for the collapse of the 2002 ceasefire agreement, and there is no express mandate to investigate laws of war violations.

  424. 174 Tamil youths disappeared in Vanthaa’rumoolai remembered http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&art

    Parents and relatives of one hundred and seventy four Tamil youths disappeared after arrest by Sri Lanka Army (SLA) from Vanthaa'rumoolai campus of the Eastern University of Sri Lanka in Batticaloa district two decades ago held prayers in memory of them Sunday. SLA troops had come in buses and taken 158 Tamil youths by force from Vanthaa'rumoolai campus on 05.09.1990 and 16 youths eighteen days later on September 23.

    Since then for the last two decades parents and relatives of these youths are in the dark whether their loved ones are alive or dead.

    These youths had sought refuge in Vanthaa'rumoolai campus to evade atrocities by the state armed forces and were arrested by SLA in the name of interrogation.

    The parents and relatives of the youths were not informed about their whereabouts.

    Some parents who are under the impression that their children are alive held prayers in temples of their faith Sunday for their safe return.

    Other parents who think their children are no more held rituals seeking solace to their souls.

  425. 174 Tamil youths disappeared in Vanthaa’rumoolai remembered http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&art

    Parents and relatives of one hundred and seventy four Tamil youths disappeared after arrest by Sri Lanka Army (SLA) from Vanthaa'rumoolai campus of the Eastern University of Sri Lanka in Batticaloa district two decades ago held prayers in memory of them Sunday. SLA troops had come in buses and taken 158 Tamil youths by force from Vanthaa'rumoolai campus on 05.09.1990 and 16 youths eighteen days later on September 23.

    Since then for the last two decades parents and relatives of these youths are in the dark whether their loved ones are alive or dead.

    These youths had sought refuge in Vanthaa'rumoolai campus to evade atrocities by the state armed forces and were arrested by SLA in the name of interrogation.

    The parents and relatives of the youths were not informed about their whereabouts.

    Some parents who are under the impression that their children are alive held prayers in temples of their faith Sunday for their safe return.

    Other parents who think their children are no more held rituals seeking solace to their souls.

  426. There is no doubt that the proposed constitutional amendment is merely a means of consolidating the dynastic ambitions of the Rajapakses. And clearly, the largest opposition, the UNP is quietly imploding and incapable of fulfilling its responsibilities and it is futile to hope that the amendment will be defeated in parliament. At this moment, probably the most crucial moment in Sri Lanka’s contemporary history, the Leader of the Opposition is out of the country on a ‘private visit’! This surely underscores his utter lack of concern for the good of this country, his political ineptitude and his callousness. Certainly, we cannot look to him for inspiration. Mahinda Rajapakse could not have asked for a better Leader of the Opposition. And Rauf Hakeem’s pathetic defence of his capitulation, that he was facing ‘reality’ and taking a ‘pragmatic political decision’ seems to reflect the views of the majority of politicians in this country who have defended this amendment or worse still stayed silent.

    If we do not express our collective anger at this moment, then we have no right to criticise or condemn any action the Rajapakse government takes in the future. If we are silent on this occasion, then all our analysis, discussions, debates and pontifications mean nothing. This is not the time to prevaricate or to look for perfect solutions; we must show our opposition to this most outrageous of moves by the Rajapakse dynasty.

  427. All attempts to investigate atrocities in the Tamil Tiger conflict have been stifled, despite promises made to Ban Ki-moon

    During the Vietnam conflict, the US military developed some creative ways to increase the numbers of Viet Cong insurgents it claimed to have killed. “If they’re dead, they’re Viet Cong,” meant that any Vietnamese killed by American soldiers would automatically count as enemy fighters.

    But Gotabhaya has repeatedly cast aspersions on the idea that there were any civilian casualties.

    In his recent statement before a Sri Lankan commission looking at lessons learned from the war, Gotabhaya claimed that injured Tigers “changed their uniforms into civilian clothes”

    Gotabhaya also proclaimed that the military operation was a really a “humanitarian intervention” In practice, however, rather than protecting civilians, the government blocked access by humanitarian organisations. The International Committee of the Red Cross complained publicly that it was unable to reach those most in need.

    There are genuine concerns that the Lessons Learned Commission will serve only to whitewash allegations of serious abuses, and that its conclusions will be used to brush off calls for an international investigation.

    The panel’s mandate is deliberately limited: its main responsibility is to understand the reasons for the collapse of the 2002 ceasefire agreement, and there is no express mandate to investigate laws of war violations.

  428. 174 Tamil youths disappeared in Vanthaa’rumoolai remembered
    http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=32553

    Parents and relatives of one hundred and seventy four Tamil youths disappeared after arrest by Sri Lanka Army (SLA) from Vanthaa’rumoolai campus of the Eastern University of Sri Lanka in Batticaloa district two decades ago held prayers in memory of them Sunday. SLA troops had come in buses and taken 158 Tamil youths by force from Vanthaa’rumoolai campus on 05.09.1990 and 16 youths eighteen days later on September 23.

    Since then for the last two decades parents and relatives of these youths are in the dark whether their loved ones are alive or dead.

    These youths had sought refuge in Vanthaa’rumoolai campus to evade atrocities by the state armed forces and were arrested by SLA in the name of interrogation.

    The parents and relatives of the youths were not informed about their whereabouts.

    Some parents who are under the impression that their children are alive held prayers in temples of their faith Sunday for their safe return.

    Other parents who think their children are no more held rituals seeking solace to their souls.

  429. In fact the cultural, educational, political and economic discrimination against the 18% minority Tamil population began in 1956: this included the systematic physical abuse (including murder) of Tamil civilians beginning in 1956. In 1956 supporters of Sinhalese political parties forming the coalition government attacked peaceful demonstrators calling for use of the Tamil language to be allowed in civil and other proceedings.

    The situation was aggravated by the then prime minister, and a number of Tamils living in the south of the country were attacked, beaten up and even killed, and houses were burned down.

    The violence was all committed by Sinhalese thugs in the Sinhalese south – but the government sent the army into the Tamil north, in order to "keep the peace" (where peace already existed).

  430. Canadian Tamils march

    Hundreds of Canadian Tamils, including members of the National Council of Canadian Tamils and the Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam, rallied in front of the Sri Lankan Consulate and then proceeded to march along Yonge Street.

    “Canada take immediate action.” “Resettle Tamils back to their homes.” “Close the camps. Save the Tamils.”

    These were the chants that could be heard throughout the city of Toronto on Friday as hundreds of Canadian Tamils rallied in front of the Sri Lankan consulate and proceeded to march down Yonge Street to Queen’s Park.

  431. Here is news for the Peelam fluffer apes !!

    Here is a case where real owners of land claim it – try copy and paste articles of this sort !!


    A Veddah leader says he has decided to go to court in order to secure the ownership of some land which he insists belongs to his community.

    The Rathugala Veddah community leader says a resident of Kandy has sought ownership to nearly 19 acres of land in Rathugala and has filed documents at the Monaragala Magistrates Court over the matter.

    However the Rathugala Veddah community leader says he will challenge the move in court as the remains of his father and past Veddah community leaders have been buried in that land. (Daily Mirror online)

    Here is Bad news for Human Trafficking Apes !!

    Sri Lanka is in the process of building and re-deploying its naval and air assets to thwart any future attempt to open up illegal sea routes to and from the country.
    The navy and air force will re-position their assets in support of ground deployment in coastal areas.

    I don't want to be labeled a copy paste Ape my self – hence, read the following link !!
    http://www.island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-d

  432. Here is news for the Peelam fluffer apes !!

    Here is a case where real owners of land claim it – try copy and paste articles of this sort !!


    A Veddah leader says he has decided to go to court in order to secure the ownership of some land which he insists belongs to his community.

    The Rathugala Veddah community leader says a resident of Kandy has sought ownership to nearly 19 acres of land in Rathugala and has filed documents at the Monaragala Magistrates Court over the matter.

    However the Rathugala Veddah community leader says he will challenge the move in court as the remains of his father and past Veddah community leaders have been buried in that land. (Daily Mirror online)

    Here is Bad news for Human Trafficking Apes !!

    Sri Lanka is in the process of building and re-deploying its naval and air assets to thwart any future attempt to open up illegal sea routes to and from the country.
    The navy and air force will re-position their assets in support of ground deployment in coastal areas.

    I don't want to be labeled a copy paste Ape my self – hence, read the following link !!
    http://www.island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-d

  433. Here is news for the Peelam fluffer apes !!

    Here is a case where real owners of land claim it – try copy and paste articles of this sort !!


    A Veddah leader says he has decided to go to court in order to secure the ownership of some land which he insists belongs to his community.

    The Rathugala Veddah community leader says a resident of Kandy has sought ownership to nearly 19 acres of land in Rathugala and has filed documents at the Monaragala Magistrates Court over the matter.

    However the Rathugala Veddah community leader says he will challenge the move in court as the remains of his father and past Veddah community leaders have been buried in that land. (Daily Mirror online)

    Here is Bad news for Human Trafficking Apes !!

    Sri Lanka is in the process of building and re-deploying its naval and air assets to thwart any future attempt to open up illegal sea routes to and from the country.
    The navy and air force will re-position their assets in support of ground deployment in coastal areas.

    I don't want to be labeled a copy paste Ape my self – hence, read the following link !!
    http://www.island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-d

  434. Sinha-Nazis

    I dont understand, why are you such self-haters !!!!

    Please, dip your tongue in chlorine…… 🙁

  435. Bitterness over High Security Zones continues to poison post war reconciliation.

    Especially, since Keheliya Rambukwella, the Defence Affairs Spokesman rhetorically responded to a media question that High Security Zones were going to stay, faint hope among the displaced Tamils for the magnanimity of the victor evaporated into thin air.

    When the Cabinet met in Kilinochchi, early this month, 2000 odd families petitioned the President requesting that they be allowed to return to their original land, where the military has now built a camp.

    Four thousand acres of land have been taken over in Murukandi and Kilinochchi to build a new military cantonment. The inhabitants of three villages have been displaced.

    When the petition by displaced Tamils was handed over to the president, he promised that Tamils would be resettled in their original lands. But, still, they languish as displaced persons.

    The worst fear of the Tamils is a rapid change of the demography in the region, courtesy military expansion.

    “There are 100,000 soldiers in the North-East. If everyone comes with their wives and two kids, there will be 400,000 new people in the Wanni. That would change the demography of the North overnight,”

  436. A Sinhalese couple sold their 16 day old infant for Rs 2000 and a bottle of Whisky was arrested by Women and Children’s Bureau.

    The father of the infant was a married man employed in Italy while the mother was an unmarried young woman, the police said. The mother had been admitted to a hospial in Borella through a doctor in Attidiya. The infant had been sold to a woman Attidiya through a female worker attached to the hospital.

    Srilanka Reporter August 2010

    ——————————————

    The high morality of the Sinhalese is shining brightly here !!!!! 🙁

  437. There is no doubt that the proposed constitutional amendment is merely a means of consolidating the dynastic ambitions of the Rajapakses. And clearly, the largest opposition, the UNP is quietly imploding and incapable of fulfilling its responsibilities and it is futile to hope that the amendment will be defeated in parliament. At this moment, probably the most crucial moment in Sri Lanka’s contemporary history, the Leader of the Opposition is out of the country on a ‘private visit’! This surely underscores his utter lack of concern for the good of this country, his political ineptitude and his callousness. Certainly, we cannot look to him for inspiration. Mahinda Rajapakse could not have asked for a better Leader of the Opposition. And Rauf Hakeem’s pathetic defence of his capitulation, that he was facing ‘reality’ and taking a ‘pragmatic political decision’ seems to reflect the views of the majority of politicians in this country who have defended this amendment or worse still stayed silent.

    If we do not express our collective anger at this moment, then we have no right to criticise or condemn any action the Rajapakse government takes in the future. If we are silent on this occasion, then all our analysis, discussions, debates and pontifications mean nothing. This is not the time to prevaricate or to look for perfect solutions; we must show our opposition to this most outrageous of moves by the Rajapakse dynasty.

  438. In fact the cultural, educational, political and economic discrimination against the 18% minority Tamil population began in 1956: this included the systematic physical abuse (including murder) of Tamil civilians beginning in 1956. In 1956 supporters of Sinhalese political parties forming the coalition government attacked peaceful demonstrators calling for use of the Tamil language to be allowed in civil and other proceedings.

    The situation was aggravated by the then prime minister, and a number of Tamils living in the south of the country were attacked, beaten up and even killed, and houses were burned down.

    The violence was all committed by Sinhalese thugs in the Sinhalese south – but the government sent the army into the Tamil north, in order to “keep the peace” (where peace already existed).

  439. Canadian Tamils march

    Hundreds of Canadian Tamils, including members of the National Council of Canadian Tamils and the Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam, rallied in front of the Sri Lankan Consulate and then proceeded to march along Yonge Street.

    “Canada take immediate action.” “Resettle Tamils back to their homes.” “Close the camps. Save the Tamils.”

    These were the chants that could be heard throughout the city of Toronto on Friday as hundreds of Canadian Tamils rallied in front of the Sri Lankan consulate and proceeded to march down Yonge Street to Queen’s Park.

  440. Here is news for the Peelam fluffer apes !!

    Here is a case where real owners of land claim it – try copy and paste articles of this sort !!


    A Veddah leader says he has decided to go to court in order to secure the ownership of some land which he insists belongs to his community.

    The Rathugala Veddah community leader says a resident of Kandy has sought ownership to nearly 19 acres of land in Rathugala and has filed documents at the Monaragala Magistrates Court over the matter.

    However the Rathugala Veddah community leader says he will challenge the move in court as the remains of his father and past Veddah community leaders have been buried in that land. (Daily Mirror online)

    Here is Bad news for Human Trafficking Apes !!

    Sri Lanka is in the process of building and re-deploying its naval and air assets to thwart any future attempt to open up illegal sea routes to and from the country.
    The navy and air force will re-position their assets in support of ground deployment in coastal areas.

    I don’t want to be labeled a copy paste Ape my self – hence, read the following link !!

    http://www.island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-details&page=article-details&code_title=6050

  441. Siva Says:
    September 6th, 2010 at 7:49 am

    Please, dip your tongue in chlorine

    Dear un-evolved Monkey !!

    Is this because you guys can't think on your feet and write stuff or is it because this reminds you of the LTTE torture chambers that used these kind of practices ??

    Anyways, if you remember, we do kind of dip our tongues in Chlorine daily while drinking chlorinated water and it's not so harmful – May be you need to think of another torture mechanism – why not ask your fellow Apes of LTTE ??

  442. The Scope of Canadian Conscience

    by Roy Ratnavel

    As my flight descended into Charleston, South Carolina, I could see Fort Sumter in the horizon through my sunny window of the aged United Airlines CRJ aircraft. Fort Sumter is best known as the site upon which the first shots initiated the American Civil War — subsequently bringing on unimaginable suffering of the people during and after that gruesome period in American history.

    This inspired me to write about the people I left behind almost 22 years ago and their unimaginable, still ongoing suffering due to the longest civil war in Asian history. Leading up to the finale of Sri Lankan Civil War, many military strategists, politicians and terror experts in the West have either failed to recognize the deeper issues in Sri Lanka or they have deliberately applied a methodology to cause one of the greatest humanitarian tragedies of the century.

    The murder of many thousands of Tamils last year by the Sri Lankan government is one more proof of lack of common sense of Western countries intervention in Sri Lanka. The listing of the Tigers, and not condemning the atrocities of Sri Lanka on Tamils severed to only strengthen Sri Lanka’s ‘racial’ tendencies, fanaticism and sheer brutality.

    We are now witnessing the outcome of such one-sided Western meddling with Tamil freedom struggle. Proud people of 2000 year old rich culture of Indus Valley are now risking the high seas and their lives, including the lives of many orphans, begging for another chance at life, and all we Canadians can say is, “send them back.” Ironically, we call ourselves a nation of ‘civilized’ people. One has to question if the mankind has already lost it’s sanity.

    Today, Sri Lanka is a ‘Democratic’ dictatorship run by a tiny elite family of thugs that suppresses the Tamil minority and denies past violence against Tamil civilians. But as always there are few noisiest cranks and sympathizers of Sri Lankan terror apparatus with clockwork prediction ready to suggest that the persecution of Tamils is a myth propagated by Tamil extremists. We know the kind of people who deny the Holocaust. What interest anyone has in denying the suffering of Tamils remains to be discovered.

    I would like to recommend to those who are in denial to pick up a copy of a recent U.S. State Department report which highlights well-documented atrocities committed by Sri Lanka last year alone. Despite their sophomoric denials, the systematic abuses by Sri Lankan government forces are among the most serious imaginable. Finally, this year UN has ordered a war crime investigation on Sri Lanka.

    Canadian officials too should stop making pedestrian, boringly predictable utterances on public forums. Public Safety Minister Vic Toews said, passengers paid up to $50,000 for a spot on the Sun Sea. If this sum is accurate, it suggests these people were desperate enough to spend what amounts to a small fortune to escape their homeland. I think Canada should take their desperation seriously.

    Lament of Toews that “terrorist planning and financing” behind this voyage is extremely prejudicial to these individuals and to the Tamil community. If I were fleeing persecution, I’d be grateful to any and all who facilitated my escape. The Tamil boat-people should not be tainted by a blanket presumption of guilt.

    Right now Tamils are sort of isolated, being demonized and the sense is growing in Canada that anything associated with Tamils is somehow alien, foreign and aggressive. And that is very dangerous line of thinking. Minister Toews irresponsible comments only helps to fan this illicit flame of anger.

    Even the possibility that the Canadian government may be considering a deal to share intelligence with the Sri Lankan government is reprehensible. Few years back Sri Lanka was voted out of UN Human Rights Council. Sri Lankan government even said our parliamentarian Bob Rae and the Swedish Foreign Minister are a threat to Sri Lanka’s national security. Given such lack of credibility and idiocy, relying on Sri Lankan authorities for background checks on Tamil refugees who have arrived on our shores makes as much as sense as asking Colonel Sanders, “What’s for dinner?”

    Tamils arrival in Canada started in earnest 27 years ago in 1983 after the Sri Lankan government orchestrated horrendous race riot in July of that year. The mass exodus accelerated in the last decade of last century resulting in the largest Sri Lankan Tamil population outside of Sri Lanka. Since then, collectively Tamil lives were ‘rewired’ in this great land, and all around the free world outside the borders of Sri Lanka.

    Prior to this, Tamils world consisted of the notion that populace mattered little. It is a world associated with state aggression and brutality. Tamils were exposed to death and destruction and witnessed many atrocities, engulfing us in general malaise. They are from a country where weapons dominated, and the slaughter of innocents was a form of development aid for the government.

    In the Canadian environment of political freedom and freedom of choice, the process of enantiodromia began in one form or another. Tamils gradual transformation began from an unfairly organized, flawed democratic system into a liberal Democracy where one has the freedom to attempt to shape their own life. Tamils gained the opportunity of knowing and choosing between different forms of life — and, have now established a mounting presence in multiple facets of Canadian life: business, academic, political and social.

    While the past may not repeat itself, it does often rhyme, as Mark Twain once said. Tamils’ future chapters to come may be different, but the verses are likely to sound the same. Contemporary events differ from history in that we do not know the results they will produce. Looking back, we can assess the significance of our past experiences, situations, hardships we faced and trace the consequences they have brought in our adopted country. While history runs its course, it is not history to us — rather, it’s our collective experience.

    Tamils have worked their own salvation, their survival, in a long series of acts, conditions and judgments. Now Tamils who live outside of Sri Lanka have purpose. This purpose is a big part of Tamil survival. Hereto between life and death, these 492 souls arrived on our shores — chose life. Chose Canada.

    Dangerous game of guilt by association could be played with almost anybody with a card and a highlighter. This whole thing has gotten to a panic mode. In our panic, us Canadians lost sight of something very important. If only someone could step up and cut through all this political posturing, grandstanding and fear-mongering and remind us what Canada is all about — a ‘civilized’ nation.

    Rather than creating a smokescreen with bitter rhetoric about terrorism, Canada’s priority must be to expedite due process of each refugee claim to determine if they are legitimate refugees. Similar accusations were made last year as well when Ocean Lady came to our shores with 76 Tamil men and it turned out to be unprovable. Canada must stop this predictable pattern of reaction because such entry doesn’t need villains. Hate is dividing us, and this hate is then harvested and sold as news.

    If Tamils victimized in this conflict and fearing further persecution put their lives in the hands of smugglers, they are only doing what so many refugees before them have been forced to do. As an island nation, there is no way out of Sri Lanka but by air or sea. Anyone who says that ‘these people’ should have applied for entry to Canada through ‘the proper channels’ certainly haven’t paid attention to the news emerging from Sri Lanka.

    Canada has an obligation under our law to take refugee claims seriously and give them due process. What is not sure is if Canadian government will send them all back to appease the masses to gain political mileage — which will be unfortunate. What is for sure is if Canada sends them back without hearing their stories, then we Canadians have no right to claim that we are a ‘civilized nation.’

    As I leave, I wonder if Sri Lanka could ever become like South Carolina after the civil war — devoid of state orchestrated killings but full of economic hope, peace and prosperity. And, how long would that take? Until then, Tamil boats will be roaming the friendly waters. Fort Sumter appeared through my window yet again, as I ascended towards the cloudy sky.
    http://www.tamileelamnews.com/news/publish/tns_12

  443. Sinha-Nazis

    I dont understand, why are you such self-haters !!!!

    Please, dip your tongue in chlorine…… 🙁

  444. Bitterness over High Security Zones continues to poison post war reconciliation.

    Especially, since Keheliya Rambukwella, the Defence Affairs Spokesman rhetorically responded to a media question that High Security Zones were going to stay, faint hope among the displaced Tamils for the magnanimity of the victor evaporated into thin air.

    When the Cabinet met in Kilinochchi, early this month, 2000 odd families petitioned the President requesting that they be allowed to return to their original land, where the military has now built a camp.

    Four thousand acres of land have been taken over in Murukandi and Kilinochchi to build a new military cantonment. The inhabitants of three villages have been displaced.

    When the petition by displaced Tamils was handed over to the president, he promised that Tamils would be resettled in their original lands. But, still, they languish as displaced persons.

    The worst fear of the Tamils is a rapid change of the demography in the region, courtesy military expansion.

    “There are 100,000 soldiers in the North-East. If everyone comes with their wives and two kids, there will be 400,000 new people in the Wanni. That would change the demography of the North overnight,”

  445. A Sinhalese couple sold their 16 day old infant for Rs 2000 and a bottle of Whisky was arrested by Women and Children’s Bureau.

    The father of the infant was a married man employed in Italy while the mother was an unmarried young woman, the police said. The mother had been admitted to a hospial in Borella through a doctor in Attidiya. The infant had been sold to a woman Attidiya through a female worker attached to the hospital.

    Srilanka Reporter August 2010

    ——————————————

    The high morality of the Sinhalese is shining brightly here !!!!! 🙁

  446. The Scope of Canadian Conscience

    by Roy Ratnavel

    As my flight descended into Charleston, South Carolina, I could see Fort Sumter in the horizon through my sunny window of the aged United Airlines CRJ aircraft. Fort Sumter is best known as the site upon which the first shots initiated the American Civil War — subsequently bringing on unimaginable suffering of the people during and after that gruesome period in American history.

    This inspired me to write about the people I left behind almost 22 years ago and their unimaginable, still ongoing suffering due to the longest civil war in Asian history. Leading up to the finale of Sri Lankan Civil War, many military strategists, politicians and terror experts in the West have either failed to recognize the deeper issues in Sri Lanka or they have deliberately applied a methodology to cause one of the greatest humanitarian tragedies of the century.

    The murder of many thousands of Tamils last year by the Sri Lankan government is one more proof of lack of common sense of Western countries intervention in Sri Lanka. The listing of the Tigers, and not condemning the atrocities of Sri Lanka on Tamils severed to only strengthen Sri Lanka’s ‘racial’ tendencies, fanaticism and sheer brutality.

    We are now witnessing the outcome of such one-sided Western meddling with Tamil freedom struggle. Proud people of 2000 year old rich culture of Indus Valley are now risking the high seas and their lives, including the lives of many orphans, begging for another chance at life, and all we Canadians can say is, “send them back.” Ironically, we call ourselves a nation of ‘civilized’ people. One has to question if the mankind has already lost it’s sanity.

    Today, Sri Lanka is a ‘Democratic’ dictatorship run by a tiny elite family of thugs that suppresses the Tamil minority and denies past violence against Tamil civilians. But as always there are few noisiest cranks and sympathizers of Sri Lankan terror apparatus with clockwork prediction ready to suggest that the persecution of Tamils is a myth propagated by Tamil extremists. We know the kind of people who deny the Holocaust. What interest anyone has in denying the suffering of Tamils remains to be discovered.

    I would like to recommend to those who are in denial to pick up a copy of a recent U.S. State Department report which highlights well-documented atrocities committed by Sri Lanka last year alone. Despite their sophomoric denials, the systematic abuses by Sri Lankan government forces are among the most serious imaginable. Finally, this year UN has ordered a war crime investigation on Sri Lanka.

    Canadian officials too should stop making pedestrian, boringly predictable utterances on public forums. Public Safety Minister Vic Toews said, passengers paid up to $50,000 for a spot on the Sun Sea. If this sum is accurate, it suggests these people were desperate enough to spend what amounts to a small fortune to escape their homeland. I think Canada should take their desperation seriously.

    Lament of Toews that “terrorist planning and financing” behind this voyage is extremely prejudicial to these individuals and to the Tamil community. If I were fleeing persecution, I’d be grateful to any and all who facilitated my escape. The Tamil boat-people should not be tainted by a blanket presumption of guilt.

    Right now Tamils are sort of isolated, being demonized and the sense is growing in Canada that anything associated with Tamils is somehow alien, foreign and aggressive. And that is very dangerous line of thinking. Minister Toews irresponsible comments only helps to fan this illicit flame of anger.

    Even the possibility that the Canadian government may be considering a deal to share intelligence with the Sri Lankan government is reprehensible. Few years back Sri Lanka was voted out of UN Human Rights Council. Sri Lankan government even said our parliamentarian Bob Rae and the Swedish Foreign Minister are a threat to Sri Lanka’s national security. Given such lack of credibility and idiocy, relying on Sri Lankan authorities for background checks on Tamil refugees who have arrived on our shores makes as much as sense as asking Colonel Sanders, “What’s for dinner?”

    Tamils arrival in Canada started in earnest 27 years ago in 1983 after the Sri Lankan government orchestrated horrendous race riot in July of that year. The mass exodus accelerated in the last decade of last century resulting in the largest Sri Lankan Tamil population outside of Sri Lanka. Since then, collectively Tamil lives were ‘rewired’ in this great land, and all around the free world outside the borders of Sri Lanka.

    Prior to this, Tamils world consisted of the notion that populace mattered little. It is a world associated with state aggression and brutality. Tamils were exposed to death and destruction and witnessed many atrocities, engulfing us in general malaise. They are from a country where weapons dominated, and the slaughter of innocents was a form of development aid for the government.

    In the Canadian environment of political freedom and freedom of choice, the process of enantiodromia began in one form or another. Tamils gradual transformation began from an unfairly organized, flawed democratic system into a liberal Democracy where one has the freedom to attempt to shape their own life. Tamils gained the opportunity of knowing and choosing between different forms of life — and, have now established a mounting presence in multiple facets of Canadian life: business, academic, political and social.

    While the past may not repeat itself, it does often rhyme, as Mark Twain once said. Tamils’ future chapters to come may be different, but the verses are likely to sound the same. Contemporary events differ from history in that we do not know the results they will produce. Looking back, we can assess the significance of our past experiences, situations, hardships we faced and trace the consequences they have brought in our adopted country. While history runs its course, it is not history to us — rather, it’s our collective experience.

    Tamils have worked their own salvation, their survival, in a long series of acts, conditions and judgments. Now Tamils who live outside of Sri Lanka have purpose. This purpose is a big part of Tamil survival. Hereto between life and death, these 492 souls arrived on our shores — chose life. Chose Canada.

    Dangerous game of guilt by association could be played with almost anybody with a card and a highlighter. This whole thing has gotten to a panic mode. In our panic, us Canadians lost sight of something very important. If only someone could step up and cut through all this political posturing, grandstanding and fear-mongering and remind us what Canada is all about — a ‘civilized’ nation.

    Rather than creating a smokescreen with bitter rhetoric about terrorism, Canada’s priority must be to expedite due process of each refugee claim to determine if they are legitimate refugees. Similar accusations were made last year as well when Ocean Lady came to our shores with 76 Tamil men and it turned out to be unprovable. Canada must stop this predictable pattern of reaction because such entry doesn’t need villains. Hate is dividing us, and this hate is then harvested and sold as news.

    If Tamils victimized in this conflict and fearing further persecution put their lives in the hands of smugglers, they are only doing what so many refugees before them have been forced to do. As an island nation, there is no way out of Sri Lanka but by air or sea. Anyone who says that ‘these people’ should have applied for entry to Canada through ‘the proper channels’ certainly haven’t paid attention to the news emerging from Sri Lanka.

    Canada has an obligation under our law to take refugee claims seriously and give them due process. What is not sure is if Canadian government will send them all back to appease the masses to gain political mileage — which will be unfortunate. What is for sure is if Canada sends them back without hearing their stories, then we Canadians have no right to claim that we are a ‘civilized nation.’

    As I leave, I wonder if Sri Lanka could ever become like South Carolina after the civil war — devoid of state orchestrated killings but full of economic hope, peace and prosperity. And, how long would that take? Until then, Tamil boats will be roaming the friendly waters. Fort Sumter appeared through my window yet again, as I ascended towards the cloudy sky.
    http://www.tamileelamnews.com/news/publish/tns_12

  447. The Scope of Canadian Conscience

    by Roy Ratnavel

    As my flight descended into Charleston, South Carolina, I could see Fort Sumter in the horizon through my sunny window of the aged United Airlines CRJ aircraft. Fort Sumter is best known as the site upon which the first shots initiated the American Civil War — subsequently bringing on unimaginable suffering of the people during and after that gruesome period in American history.

    This inspired me to write about the people I left behind almost 22 years ago and their unimaginable, still ongoing suffering due to the longest civil war in Asian history. Leading up to the finale of Sri Lankan Civil War, many military strategists, politicians and terror experts in the West have either failed to recognize the deeper issues in Sri Lanka or they have deliberately applied a methodology to cause one of the greatest humanitarian tragedies of the century.

    The murder of many thousands of Tamils last year by the Sri Lankan government is one more proof of lack of common sense of Western countries intervention in Sri Lanka. The listing of the Tigers, and not condemning the atrocities of Sri Lanka on Tamils severed to only strengthen Sri Lanka’s ‘racial’ tendencies, fanaticism and sheer brutality.

    We are now witnessing the outcome of such one-sided Western meddling with Tamil freedom struggle. Proud people of 2000 year old rich culture of Indus Valley are now risking the high seas and their lives, including the lives of many orphans, begging for another chance at life, and all we Canadians can say is, “send them back.” Ironically, we call ourselves a nation of ‘civilized’ people. One has to question if the mankind has already lost it’s sanity.

    Today, Sri Lanka is a ‘Democratic’ dictatorship run by a tiny elite family of thugs that suppresses the Tamil minority and denies past violence against Tamil civilians. But as always there are few noisiest cranks and sympathizers of Sri Lankan terror apparatus with clockwork prediction ready to suggest that the persecution of Tamils is a myth propagated by Tamil extremists. We know the kind of people who deny the Holocaust. What interest anyone has in denying the suffering of Tamils remains to be discovered.

    I would like to recommend to those who are in denial to pick up a copy of a recent U.S. State Department report which highlights well-documented atrocities committed by Sri Lanka last year alone. Despite their sophomoric denials, the systematic abuses by Sri Lankan government forces are among the most serious imaginable. Finally, this year UN has ordered a war crime investigation on Sri Lanka.

    Canadian officials too should stop making pedestrian, boringly predictable utterances on public forums. Public Safety Minister Vic Toews said, passengers paid up to $50,000 for a spot on the Sun Sea. If this sum is accurate, it suggests these people were desperate enough to spend what amounts to a small fortune to escape their homeland. I think Canada should take their desperation seriously.

    Lament of Toews that “terrorist planning and financing” behind this voyage is extremely prejudicial to these individuals and to the Tamil community. If I were fleeing persecution, I’d be grateful to any and all who facilitated my escape. The Tamil boat-people should not be tainted by a blanket presumption of guilt.

    Right now Tamils are sort of isolated, being demonized and the sense is growing in Canada that anything associated with Tamils is somehow alien, foreign and aggressive. And that is very dangerous line of thinking. Minister Toews irresponsible comments only helps to fan this illicit flame of anger.

    Even the possibility that the Canadian government may be considering a deal to share intelligence with the Sri Lankan government is reprehensible. Few years back Sri Lanka was voted out of UN Human Rights Council. Sri Lankan government even said our parliamentarian Bob Rae and the Swedish Foreign Minister are a threat to Sri Lanka’s national security. Given such lack of credibility and idiocy, relying on Sri Lankan authorities for background checks on Tamil refugees who have arrived on our shores makes as much as sense as asking Colonel Sanders, “What’s for dinner?”

    Tamils arrival in Canada started in earnest 27 years ago in 1983 after the Sri Lankan government orchestrated horrendous race riot in July of that year. The mass exodus accelerated in the last decade of last century resulting in the largest Sri Lankan Tamil population outside of Sri Lanka. Since then, collectively Tamil lives were ‘rewired’ in this great land, and all around the free world outside the borders of Sri Lanka.

    Prior to this, Tamils world consisted of the notion that populace mattered little. It is a world associated with state aggression and brutality. Tamils were exposed to death and destruction and witnessed many atrocities, engulfing us in general malaise. They are from a country where weapons dominated, and the slaughter of innocents was a form of development aid for the government.

    In the Canadian environment of political freedom and freedom of choice, the process of enantiodromia began in one form or another. Tamils gradual transformation began from an unfairly organized, flawed democratic system into a liberal Democracy where one has the freedom to attempt to shape their own life. Tamils gained the opportunity of knowing and choosing between different forms of life — and, have now established a mounting presence in multiple facets of Canadian life: business, academic, political and social.

    While the past may not repeat itself, it does often rhyme, as Mark Twain once said. Tamils’ future chapters to come may be different, but the verses are likely to sound the same. Contemporary events differ from history in that we do not know the results they will produce. Looking back, we can assess the significance of our past experiences, situations, hardships we faced and trace the consequences they have brought in our adopted country. While history runs its course, it is not history to us — rather, it’s our collective experience.

    Tamils have worked their own salvation, their survival, in a long series of acts, conditions and judgments. Now Tamils who live outside of Sri Lanka have purpose. This purpose is a big part of Tamil survival. Hereto between life and death, these 492 souls arrived on our shores — chose life. Chose Canada.

    Dangerous game of guilt by association could be played with almost anybody with a card and a highlighter. This whole thing has gotten to a panic mode. In our panic, us Canadians lost sight of something very important. If only someone could step up and cut through all this political posturing, grandstanding and fear-mongering and remind us what Canada is all about — a ‘civilized’ nation.

    Rather than creating a smokescreen with bitter rhetoric about terrorism, Canada’s priority must be to expedite due process of each refugee claim to determine if they are legitimate refugees. Similar accusations were made last year as well when Ocean Lady came to our shores with 76 Tamil men and it turned out to be unprovable. Canada must stop this predictable pattern of reaction because such entry doesn’t need villains. Hate is dividing us, and this hate is then harvested and sold as news.

    If Tamils victimized in this conflict and fearing further persecution put their lives in the hands of smugglers, they are only doing what so many refugees before them have been forced to do. As an island nation, there is no way out of Sri Lanka but by air or sea. Anyone who says that ‘these people’ should have applied for entry to Canada through ‘the proper channels’ certainly haven’t paid attention to the news emerging from Sri Lanka.

    Canada has an obligation under our law to take refugee claims seriously and give them due process. What is not sure is if Canadian government will send them all back to appease the masses to gain political mileage — which will be unfortunate. What is for sure is if Canada sends them back without hearing their stories, then we Canadians have no right to claim that we are a ‘civilized nation.’

    As I leave, I wonder if Sri Lanka could ever become like South Carolina after the civil war — devoid of state orchestrated killings but full of economic hope, peace and prosperity. And, how long would that take? Until then, Tamil boats will be roaming the friendly waters. Fort Sumter appeared through my window yet again, as I ascended towards the cloudy sky.
    http://www.tamileelamnews.com/news/publish/tns_12

  448. Siva Says:
    September 6th, 2010 at 7:49 am

    Please, dip your tongue in chlorine

    Dear un-evolved Monkey !!

    Is this because you guys can’t think on your feet and write stuff or is it because this reminds you of the LTTE torture chambers that used these kind of practices ??

    Anyways, if you remember, we do kind of dip our tongues in Chlorine daily while drinking chlorinated water and it’s not so harmful – May be you need to think of another torture mechanism – why not ask your fellow Apes of LTTE ??

  449. The Scope of Canadian Conscience

    by Roy Ratnavel

    As my flight descended into Charleston, South Carolina, I could see Fort Sumter in the horizon through my sunny window of the aged United Airlines CRJ aircraft. Fort Sumter is best known as the site upon which the first shots initiated the American Civil War — subsequently bringing on unimaginable suffering of the people during and after that gruesome period in American history.

    This inspired me to write about the people I left behind almost 22 years ago and their unimaginable, still ongoing suffering due to the longest civil war in Asian history. Leading up to the finale of Sri Lankan Civil War, many military strategists, politicians and terror experts in the West have either failed to recognize the deeper issues in Sri Lanka or they have deliberately applied a methodology to cause one of the greatest humanitarian tragedies of the century.

    The murder of many thousands of Tamils last year by the Sri Lankan government is one more proof of lack of common sense of Western countries intervention in Sri Lanka. The listing of the Tigers, and not condemning the atrocities of Sri Lanka on Tamils severed to only strengthen Sri Lanka’s ‘racial’ tendencies, fanaticism and sheer brutality.

    We are now witnessing the outcome of such one-sided Western meddling with Tamil freedom struggle. Proud people of 2000 year old rich culture of Indus Valley are now risking the high seas and their lives, including the lives of many orphans, begging for another chance at life, and all we Canadians can say is, “send them back.” Ironically, we call ourselves a nation of ‘civilized’ people. One has to question if the mankind has already lost it’s sanity.

    Today, Sri Lanka is a ‘Democratic’ dictatorship run by a tiny elite family of thugs that suppresses the Tamil minority and denies past violence against Tamil civilians. But as always there are few noisiest cranks and sympathizers of Sri Lankan terror apparatus with clockwork prediction ready to suggest that the persecution of Tamils is a myth propagated by Tamil extremists. We know the kind of people who deny the Holocaust. What interest anyone has in denying the suffering of Tamils remains to be discovered.

    I would like to recommend to those who are in denial to pick up a copy of a recent U.S. State Department report which highlights well-documented atrocities committed by Sri Lanka last year alone. Despite their sophomoric denials, the systematic abuses by Sri Lankan government forces are among the most serious imaginable. Finally, this year UN has ordered a war crime investigation on Sri Lanka.

    Canadian officials too should stop making pedestrian, boringly predictable utterances on public forums. Public Safety Minister Vic Toews said, passengers paid up to $50,000 for a spot on the Sun Sea. If this sum is accurate, it suggests these people were desperate enough to spend what amounts to a small fortune to escape their homeland. I think Canada should take their desperation seriously.

    Lament of Toews that “terrorist planning and financing” behind this voyage is extremely prejudicial to these individuals and to the Tamil community. If I were fleeing persecution, I’d be grateful to any and all who facilitated my escape. The Tamil boat-people should not be tainted by a blanket presumption of guilt.

    Right now Tamils are sort of isolated, being demonized and the sense is growing in Canada that anything associated with Tamils is somehow alien, foreign and aggressive. And that is very dangerous line of thinking. Minister Toews irresponsible comments only helps to fan this illicit flame of anger.

    Even the possibility that the Canadian government may be considering a deal to share intelligence with the Sri Lankan government is reprehensible. Few years back Sri Lanka was voted out of UN Human Rights Council. Sri Lankan government even said our parliamentarian Bob Rae and the Swedish Foreign Minister are a threat to Sri Lanka’s national security. Given such lack of credibility and idiocy, relying on Sri Lankan authorities for background checks on Tamil refugees who have arrived on our shores makes as much as sense as asking Colonel Sanders, “What’s for dinner?”

    Tamils arrival in Canada started in earnest 27 years ago in 1983 after the Sri Lankan government orchestrated horrendous race riot in July of that year. The mass exodus accelerated in the last decade of last century resulting in the largest Sri Lankan Tamil population outside of Sri Lanka. Since then, collectively Tamil lives were ‘rewired’ in this great land, and all around the free world outside the borders of Sri Lanka.

    Prior to this, Tamils world consisted of the notion that populace mattered little. It is a world associated with state aggression and brutality. Tamils were exposed to death and destruction and witnessed many atrocities, engulfing us in general malaise. They are from a country where weapons dominated, and the slaughter of innocents was a form of development aid for the government.

    In the Canadian environment of political freedom and freedom of choice, the process of enantiodromia began in one form or another. Tamils gradual transformation began from an unfairly organized, flawed democratic system into a liberal Democracy where one has the freedom to attempt to shape their own life. Tamils gained the opportunity of knowing and choosing between different forms of life — and, have now established a mounting presence in multiple facets of Canadian life: business, academic, political and social.

    While the past may not repeat itself, it does often rhyme, as Mark Twain once said. Tamils’ future chapters to come may be different, but the verses are likely to sound the same. Contemporary events differ from history in that we do not know the results they will produce. Looking back, we can assess the significance of our past experiences, situations, hardships we faced and trace the consequences they have brought in our adopted country. While history runs its course, it is not history to us — rather, it’s our collective experience.

    Tamils have worked their own salvation, their survival, in a long series of acts, conditions and judgments. Now Tamils who live outside of Sri Lanka have purpose. This purpose is a big part of Tamil survival. Hereto between life and death, these 492 souls arrived on our shores — chose life. Chose Canada.

    Dangerous game of guilt by association could be played with almost anybody with a card and a highlighter. This whole thing has gotten to a panic mode. In our panic, us Canadians lost sight of something very important. If only someone could step up and cut through all this political posturing, grandstanding and fear-mongering and remind us what Canada is all about — a ‘civilized’ nation.

    Rather than creating a smokescreen with bitter rhetoric about terrorism, Canada’s priority must be to expedite due process of each refugee claim to determine if they are legitimate refugees. Similar accusations were made last year as well when Ocean Lady came to our shores with 76 Tamil men and it turned out to be unprovable. Canada must stop this predictable pattern of reaction because such entry doesn’t need villains. Hate is dividing us, and this hate is then harvested and sold as news.

    If Tamils victimized in this conflict and fearing further persecution put their lives in the hands of smugglers, they are only doing what so many refugees before them have been forced to do. As an island nation, there is no way out of Sri Lanka but by air or sea. Anyone who says that ‘these people’ should have applied for entry to Canada through ‘the proper channels’ certainly haven’t paid attention to the news emerging from Sri Lanka.

    Canada has an obligation under our law to take refugee claims seriously and give them due process. What is not sure is if Canadian government will send them all back to appease the masses to gain political mileage — which will be unfortunate. What is for sure is if Canada sends them back without hearing their stories, then we Canadians have no right to claim that we are a ‘civilized nation.’

    As I leave, I wonder if Sri Lanka could ever become like South Carolina after the civil war — devoid of state orchestrated killings but full of economic hope, peace and prosperity. And, how long would that take? Until then, Tamil boats will be roaming the friendly waters. Fort Sumter appeared through my window yet again, as I ascended towards the cloudy sky.

    http://www.tamileelamnews.com/news/publish/tns_12930.shtml

  450. Ratnavel's obviously a bright man & a success in finance. But even he can't seem to face up to the blindingly obvious fact that LTTE was a party to the war.

    He talks about the 'murder of many thousands of Tamils' but cannot admit to himself that it was the LTTE whose actions guaranteed their deaths.

    If 'Western meddling' has lead to deaths it is 'meddling' on behalf of the LTTE. e.g. the Norwegians, the UK & Canada allowing unlimited fund-raising, enabling the LTTE to re-equip & replenish etc.

    I see this again and again. The total inability or refusal by pro-LTTE groupies to admit the LTTE's culpability in ensuring that the Tamils in SL have suffered more and lost more than any other group.

    Ratnavel should read Dr Dayan (Hammer of the LTTE) Jayatilleka's wise words:

    "In hard science when an experiment repeatedly fails and finally blows up the lab with it, the very assumptions which form the basis of the experiment are reassessed and often abandoned. 

    The empirically evident track record of Tamil nationalist politics in Sri Lanka is that of repeated failure capped by defeat."
    http://tinyurl.com/38e3ns9

    The gains of SL's victory over the LTTE cannot and will not be reversed by diaspora campaigns on 'war crimes' and boycotts. Everyone with an ounce of sense realises this. Non-Tamil Canadians couldn't give a damn about Eelam or its' attainment. Just read the the comments on Canadian newspapers.

    Canadian politicians cannot deliver Eelam, either.

    Perhaps its time to break the bad news to the deluded pro-LTTE diaspora of this fact?

  451. Nagaraththaar Says:
    September 6th, 2010 at 1:29 pm

    The Scope of Canadian Conscience

    by Roy Ratnavel

    So many things crossed my mind while reading this lengthy copy and paste post. However, felt it is useless to write all that harangue here as Roy would not even know that I had replied him as he would probably have not heard of this blog.

    By the sound of it I understand 2 points.

    1. Roy has not returned to Sri Lanka for 22 years
    2. He has come to Sri Lanka and is on his way back to Canada when he landed in South Carolina

    Either way He proves 2 things !!

    1. He is hallucinating about the situation in Sri Lanka as he has never been here for more than 2 decades
    2. He is proving Jim MD of AI wrong by saying that Canadian Tamils could come to Sri Lanka and return without being questioned, harassed or detained by the GSOL.

    It is also funny to know how Mr. Roy has conveniently forgotten the atrocities carried out by the LTTE towards Tamils – the number of good Tamil Politicians who were murdered by the LTTE, the innocent Children that were recruited as soldiers and deprived of education and childhood etc… He seems to be only knowing very little about the life of Tamil brothers and Sisters who live happily in Sri Lanka. So, in my point of view, he is not the quite qualified to make such comment, though, he is a free man has the right to pen down his thoughts.

    Also, everyone world over should know that Sri Lanka will never become a South Carolina, An America, England, Singapore or even Ethiopia or Somalia !!

    We are Sri Lanka and we will always be Sri Lankan and unique – Don't compare us with any one else !!!!

  452. Ratnavel's obviously a bright man & a success in finance. But even he can't seem to face up to the blindingly obvious fact that LTTE was a party to the war.

    He talks about the 'murder of many thousands of Tamils' but cannot admit to himself that it was the LTTE whose actions guaranteed their deaths.

    If 'Western meddling' has lead to deaths it is 'meddling' on behalf of the LTTE. e.g. the Norwegians, the UK & Canada allowing unlimited fund-raising, enabling the LTTE to re-equip & replenish etc.

    I see this again and again. The total inability or refusal by pro-LTTE groupies to admit the LTTE's culpability in ensuring that the Tamils in SL have suffered more and lost more than any other group.

    Ratnavel should read Dr Dayan (Hammer of the LTTE) Jayatilleka's wise words:

    "In hard science when an experiment repeatedly fails and finally blows up the lab with it, the very assumptions which form the basis of the experiment are reassessed and often abandoned. 

    The empirically evident track record of Tamil nationalist politics in Sri Lanka is that of repeated failure capped by defeat."
    http://tinyurl.com/38e3ns9

    The gains of SL's victory over the LTTE cannot and will not be reversed by diaspora campaigns on 'war crimes' and boycotts. Everyone with an ounce of sense realises this. Non-Tamil Canadians couldn't give a damn about Eelam or its' attainment. Just read the the comments on Canadian newspapers.

    Canadian politicians cannot deliver Eelam, either.

    Perhaps its time to break the bad news to the deluded pro-LTTE diaspora of this fact?

  453. Ratnavel's obviously a bright man & a success in finance. But even he can't seem to face up to the blindingly obvious fact that LTTE was a party to the war.

    He talks about the 'murder of many thousands of Tamils' but cannot admit to himself that it was the LTTE whose actions guaranteed their deaths.

    If 'Western meddling' has lead to deaths it is 'meddling' on behalf of the LTTE. e.g. the Norwegians, the UK & Canada allowing unlimited fund-raising, enabling the LTTE to re-equip & replenish etc.

    I see this again and again. The total inability or refusal by pro-LTTE groupies to admit the LTTE's culpability in ensuring that the Tamils in SL have suffered more and lost more than any other group.

    Ratnavel should read Dr Dayan (Hammer of the LTTE) Jayatilleka's wise words:

    "In hard science when an experiment repeatedly fails and finally blows up the lab with it, the very assumptions which form the basis of the experiment are reassessed and often abandoned. 

    The empirically evident track record of Tamil nationalist politics in Sri Lanka is that of repeated failure capped by defeat."
    http://tinyurl.com/38e3ns9

    The gains of SL's victory over the LTTE cannot and will not be reversed by diaspora campaigns on 'war crimes' and boycotts. Everyone with an ounce of sense realises this. Non-Tamil Canadians couldn't give a damn about Eelam or its' attainment. Just read the the comments on Canadian newspapers.

    Canadian politicians cannot deliver Eelam, either.

    Perhaps its time to break the bad news to the deluded pro-LTTE diaspora of this fact?

  454. Sri Lanka from a flawed democracy into a dynastic oligarchy because their crimes and abuses have gone largely unchallenged by Lankan society, especially that intellectual-ethical obscenity, the zero-civilian casualty myth (and the incarceration of more than 300,000 Tamils in ‘welfare villages’).

    So Sri Lanka is a land polarised between the friends and the enemies of the Ruling Family. In this land, anyone who is willing to play by Rajapaksa rules and submit to Rajapaksa dictates can lead a ‘normal’ life, without experiencing state terror. The North has been bludgeoned into sullen silence; Tamils will be stigmatised and repressed as Tiger supporters if they show signs of democratic dissent.

  455. This Sri Lankan triumphalism has exasperated Tamils recently liberated from Menic Farm.

    In mourning and without news of their loved ones, they survive on international aid – Sri Lanka Army is ready to kill the Tamils but not help them !!

  456. Nagaraththaar Says:
    September 6th, 2010 at 1:29 pm

    The Scope of Canadian Conscience

    by Roy Ratnavel

    So many things crossed my mind while reading this lengthy copy and paste post. However, felt it is useless to write all that harangue here as Roy would not even know that I had replied him as he would probably have not heard of this blog.

    By the sound of it I understand 2 points.

    1. Roy has not returned to Sri Lanka for 22 years
    2. He has come to Sri Lanka and is on his way back to Canada when he landed in South Carolina

    Either way He proves 2 things !!

    1. He is hallucinating about the situation in Sri Lanka as he has never been here for more than 2 decades
    2. He is proving Jim MD of AI wrong by saying that Canadian Tamils could come to Sri Lanka and return without being questioned, harassed or detained by the GSOL.

    It is also funny to know how Mr. Roy has conveniently forgotten the atrocities carried out by the LTTE towards Tamils – the number of good Tamil Politicians who were murdered by the LTTE, the innocent Children that were recruited as soldiers and deprived of education and childhood etc… He seems to be only knowing very little about the life of Tamil brothers and Sisters who live happily in Sri Lanka. So, in my point of view, he is not the quite qualified to make such comment, though, he is a free man has the right to pen down his thoughts.

    Also, everyone world over should know that Sri Lanka will never become a South Carolina, An America, England, Singapore or even Ethiopia or Somalia !!

    We are Sri Lanka and we will always be Sri Lankan and unique – Don’t compare us with any one else !!!!

  457. Ratnavel’s obviously a bright man & a success in finance. But even he can’t seem to face up to the blindingly obvious fact that LTTE was a party to the war.

    He talks about the ‘murder of many thousands of Tamils’ but cannot admit to himself that it was the LTTE whose actions guaranteed their deaths.

    If ‘Western meddling’ has lead to deaths it is ‘meddling’ on behalf of the LTTE. e.g. the Norwegians, the UK & Canada allowing unlimited fund-raising, enabling the LTTE to re-equip & replenish etc.

    I see this again and again. The total inability or refusal by pro-LTTE groupies to admit the LTTE’s culpability in ensuring that the Tamils in SL have suffered more and lost more than any other group.

    Ratnavel should read Dr Dayan (Hammer of the LTTE) Jayatilleka’s wise words:

    “In hard science when an experiment repeatedly fails and finally blows up the lab with it, the very assumptions which form the basis of the experiment are reassessed and often abandoned. 

    The empirically evident track record of Tamil nationalist politics in Sri Lanka is that of repeated failure capped by defeat.”

    http://tinyurl.com/38e3ns9

    The gains of SL’s victory over the LTTE cannot and will not be reversed by diaspora campaigns on ‘war crimes’ and boycotts. Everyone with an ounce of sense realises this. Non-Tamil Canadians couldn’t give a damn about Eelam or its’ attainment. Just read the the comments on Canadian newspapers.

    Canadian politicians cannot deliver Eelam, either.

    Perhaps its time to break the bad news to the deluded pro-LTTE diaspora of this fact?

  458. President Rajapakse’s government claiming to liberate the Tamil people who were caught up in between the clutches of the LTTE, and the atrocities of the Sri Lankan army including the bombings of civilian hospitals by them, called the “humanitarian operation” in the final days of the war, lured more than 300,000 thousand Tamil people from the war affected zone to move into areas controlled by the government. Little did they realise that this “liberation” meant that they were to be confined within razor wires only to experience another other facet of Sri Lankan State terrorism. Far from being free, much to their consternation, they were to experience the worst form of human indignity within these camps euphemistically called welfare villages. The idea was to identify, torture and kill those suspected of LTTE loyalties. In keeping with the former Army Commander Fonseka’s statement to a congregation of Buddhist priests in the US that at least 10,000 more of such persons were yet to be identified and killed, many are missing, some poisoned at the very early stages and some paying the supreme price for being the relatives of suspected terrorists. Hundreds have been summarily executed. Numerous women of all ages have been raped and children, killed or taken to be slaves in the homes of army personnel or influential persons in the south with no hope of any freedom.

    Around 7000 persons are still in custody most being severely tortured to this day said to be in the process of being rehabilitated. The idea is to weed out the suspected militants and leave the rest to perish being part of the process of “being finished off” reminiscent of the Nazi “final solution”. 40,000 civilians are still in the camps still surrounded by barbed wires virtually imprisoned. With no foreign NGOs allowed in and no witnesses, thousands of Tamils are shown to be released to go back home but when they reach their homes they are chased away by the security forces back to the camps from where they went, a drama that depicts their never ending trauma and suffering.

    Besides the tremendous physical agony and the painful inconveniences there is also the enormously serious long and short term psychological impact on the IDPS. Dr Daya Somasunderam of the department psychiatry at the University of Jaffna in his well researched scholarly paper on: “Collective trauma in the Vanni- a qualitative inquiry into the mental health of the internally displaced due to the civil war in Sri Lanka” (July 2010), states: “The narratives, drawings, letters and poems as well as data from observations, key informant interviews, extended family and focus group discussions show considerable impact at the family and community. The family and community relationships, networks, processes and structures are destroyed. There develops collective symptoms of despair, passivity, silence, loss of values and ethical mores, amotivation, dependency on external assistance, but also resilience and post-traumatic growth…… Considering the severity of family and community level adverse effects and implication for resettlement, rehabilitation, and development programmes; interventions for healing of memories, psychosocial regeneration of the family and community structures and processes are essential”….and further in his conclusion : “However, instead of using the historic opportunity for national reconciliation, the repressive ethnocentric approach without dealing with the underlying grievances in the long term will only alienate the minorities once again. Apart from the political implications, the contest of the different discourses at stake and the need of the Vanni IDP trauma for healing; if not social justice, the whole national reconciliation process at least needs some acknowledgement of what happened. If there is no healing of memories, merely a repression, the untreated collective trauma could well turn into resentment and rekindle cycles of violence once again…..” In no way can these observations be dismissed lightly. It is not like the flippant use of terms like “humanitarian operation”, “liberation” etc.

    At the beginning of the incarceration immediately after the war and thereafter, the world was told at various media interviews that land mines were being removed as if the people leaving their homes had mined their own houses before they left, being out of their minds, and whereas, while on their way to the camps from all directions no mines had exploded. The story of de mining was a myth to help contractors on both sides to make money and to stall the process of resettlement. Then we were told that the elusive electricity and water services were being connected to their new homes. What is real is that thousands of pre fabricated homes for the Sri Lankan army personnel are being constructed with Chinese aid in the Tamil homeland with its face being transformed to appear to be traditionally Sinhala Buddhist. The Tamil IDPs, if they are lucky, will get the residue of these. If the IDPs are lucky to return to their home environment they will not be able recognise their former habitat completely transformed to look a Sinhala Buddhist village. Those displaced from the Muttur and Sampur areas in the east a few years ago still remain displaced.

    In May 2010, in an interview with Al Jazira TV, President Rajapakse, besides his other blatant lies, stated that by the end of the current year all IDPs would be resettled in their own homes. It is becoming increasingly evident that the government can tell all kinds of lies in regard to Tamil affairs and get away with them, an indictment on the Sri Lankan sense of justice and integrity, emanating from the very top. A month later, Suresh Premachandran, an outspoken Tamil parliamentarian, stated at a televised interview that the provision of dwellings to the displaced Tamils both in the North and the east was negligible with little or no assistance given and absolutely no houses built in the Vanni area and that people including children and the sick were living under trees in some areas. They obviously are not enjoying a prolonged picnic. Premachandran also stated that any progress in regard to resettlement especially in the high security zones in Muttur (east) and Jaffna (north) was at a complete standstill.

    New Delhi’s claim that the assistance to the Tamil IDPs is being monitored is an absolute lie. The corrupt Indian polity with their hypocrisy and ruthlessness, intensified by a centre with a weak backbone, loving the Sri Lankan Tamils to death have come forward to provide housing and their maintenance to tens of thousands of displaced Tamils in the north and the east after having helped the Sri Lankan State to massacre tens of thousands of Tamil civilians during the first five months of 2010.

    With Chinese influence or rather aggression in the Indian ocean increasing, India not to lose any more time and favour, though far too late, has been desperate to build a buffer against any further Chinese advance and find the helpless Tamils a convenient friend and scapegoat. The other motivation is the appeasement of the Tamil Nadu government so that they could in turn keep their people happy while keeping the corrupt leadership in power. The Tamil people should not should not be bamboozled or deceived any more by Indian machinations. We recommend that they should, however, accept any favour that comes their way but should not be swayed by feelings of sentiment. The Sri Lankan government, on the other hand, claiming that the Tamils are their own citizens , seem to think that the Indians are obligated to help the Tamils because of their cultural affinity and would try to milk every cent out of them. Given the corruption on both sides there is also a lot money to be made in this game. Incidentally, the magnitude of Indian corruption could show its face at the conduct and the success of the Commonwealth games in Delhi which the rest of the world watch with trepidation. It would be recalled that the Indian Foreign Secretary who while being the Indian Ambassador in Sri Lanka formerly was flirting with Sinhala Buddhist chauvinism, has now developed a surprisingly inordinate love for the Tamils.

    To digress a little, for the Chinese, with their increasing influence and power in the region, their interest in Sri Lanka is strategic, economic and hegemonic diplomacy. For them the Sinhalese and the Tamils are faceless entities as long as their interests are satisfied. In Myanmar, the military junta is able to sustain themselves because of Chinese assistance and in return China’s strategic interests are fulfilled, while democracy and Aung Sans Suu Kyi despite the overwhelming landslide in their favour can wait for another day, and in Sri Lanka by no stretch of imagination is there any democracy.

    The question that has arisen in many Tamil circles is whether the Tamil people should show their backs to the Indians and turn to support the Chinese as the new strategy, with their children learning Chinese (Mandarin) developing to be a world language) to be taught in schools. Furthermore, the plague of Brahminism will no longer haunt the Tamils. They should be pragmatic in turning to the winning side that will bring them more benefits, not wasting their time with India. This was also the view that the late N. Shanmugadasan, a former leader of the Ceylon Communist Party (Peking Wing) and intellectual, advocated in the 1960s and the 1970s as a remedy for the redress of Tamil grievances.

    If the Tamils now languishing are to be continued to be used as pawns in the diplomatic games between India and Sri Lanka, it has to be presumed, that they are being considered for a slow and painful final solution to be “finished off’ with Indian complicity as was done in their massacre between January and May 2010. http://www.tamileelamnews.com/news/publish/tns_12

  459. Sri Lanka from a flawed democracy into a dynastic oligarchy because their crimes and abuses have gone largely unchallenged by Lankan society, especially that intellectual-ethical obscenity, the zero-civilian casualty myth (and the incarceration of more than 300,000 Tamils in ‘welfare villages’).

    So Sri Lanka is a land polarised between the friends and the enemies of the Ruling Family. In this land, anyone who is willing to play by Rajapaksa rules and submit to Rajapaksa dictates can lead a ‘normal’ life, without experiencing state terror. The North has been bludgeoned into sullen silence; Tamils will be stigmatised and repressed as Tiger supporters if they show signs of democratic dissent.

  460. Sri Lankan Tamil refugees spark racism row in Canada

    Government accused of scaremongering after prime minister claims 500 asylum seekers aboard boat a security concern

    The arrival off the west coast of Canada of a rusty boat containing nearly 500 exhausted Sri Lankan Tamil asylum seekers has sparked an angry debate about racism that has divided national opinion.

    The merchant vessel Sun Sea limped, under escort, into Esquimalt naval base in British Columbia on 13 August after a four month voyage from Songkhla in Thailand. The passengers spoke of grim conditions. One man died during the journey and was buried at sea.

    “It is a miracle that they survived,” David Poopalapillai of the Canadian Tamil Congress (CTC) told the Guardian. “The boat is very primitive, you wouldn’t even go out fishing in it.” He ascribed their survival to the fact that they had been living for many months in very hostile conditions in Sri Lanka.
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/sep/07/canad

  461. President Rajapakse’s government claiming to liberate the Tamil people who were caught up in between the clutches of the LTTE, and the atrocities of the Sri Lankan army including the bombings of civilian hospitals by them, called the “humanitarian operation” in the final days of the war, lured more than 300,000 thousand Tamil people from the war affected zone to move into areas controlled by the government. Little did they realise that this “liberation” meant that they were to be confined within razor wires only to experience another other facet of Sri Lankan State terrorism. Far from being free, much to their consternation, they were to experience the worst form of human indignity within these camps euphemistically called welfare villages. The idea was to identify, torture and kill those suspected of LTTE loyalties. In keeping with the former Army Commander Fonseka’s statement to a congregation of Buddhist priests in the US that at least 10,000 more of such persons were yet to be identified and killed, many are missing, some poisoned at the very early stages and some paying the supreme price for being the relatives of suspected terrorists. Hundreds have been summarily executed. Numerous women of all ages have been raped and children, killed or taken to be slaves in the homes of army personnel or influential persons in the south with no hope of any freedom.

    Around 7000 persons are still in custody most being severely tortured to this day said to be in the process of being rehabilitated. The idea is to weed out the suspected militants and leave the rest to perish being part of the process of “being finished off” reminiscent of the Nazi “final solution”. 40,000 civilians are still in the camps still surrounded by barbed wires virtually imprisoned. With no foreign NGOs allowed in and no witnesses, thousands of Tamils are shown to be released to go back home but when they reach their homes they are chased away by the security forces back to the camps from where they went, a drama that depicts their never ending trauma and suffering.

    Besides the tremendous physical agony and the painful inconveniences there is also the enormously serious long and short term psychological impact on the IDPS. Dr Daya Somasunderam of the department psychiatry at the University of Jaffna in his well researched scholarly paper on: “Collective trauma in the Vanni- a qualitative inquiry into the mental health of the internally displaced due to the civil war in Sri Lanka” (July 2010), states: “The narratives, drawings, letters and poems as well as data from observations, key informant interviews, extended family and focus group discussions show considerable impact at the family and community. The family and community relationships, networks, processes and structures are destroyed. There develops collective symptoms of despair, passivity, silence, loss of values and ethical mores, amotivation, dependency on external assistance, but also resilience and post-traumatic growth…… Considering the severity of family and community level adverse effects and implication for resettlement, rehabilitation, and development programmes; interventions for healing of memories, psychosocial regeneration of the family and community structures and processes are essential”….and further in his conclusion : “However, instead of using the historic opportunity for national reconciliation, the repressive ethnocentric approach without dealing with the underlying grievances in the long term will only alienate the minorities once again. Apart from the political implications, the contest of the different discourses at stake and the need of the Vanni IDP trauma for healing; if not social justice, the whole national reconciliation process at least needs some acknowledgement of what happened. If there is no healing of memories, merely a repression, the untreated collective trauma could well turn into resentment and rekindle cycles of violence once again…..” In no way can these observations be dismissed lightly. It is not like the flippant use of terms like “humanitarian operation”, “liberation” etc.

    At the beginning of the incarceration immediately after the war and thereafter, the world was told at various media interviews that land mines were being removed as if the people leaving their homes had mined their own houses before they left, being out of their minds, and whereas, while on their way to the camps from all directions no mines had exploded. The story of de mining was a myth to help contractors on both sides to make money and to stall the process of resettlement. Then we were told that the elusive electricity and water services were being connected to their new homes. What is real is that thousands of pre fabricated homes for the Sri Lankan army personnel are being constructed with Chinese aid in the Tamil homeland with its face being transformed to appear to be traditionally Sinhala Buddhist. The Tamil IDPs, if they are lucky, will get the residue of these. If the IDPs are lucky to return to their home environment they will not be able recognise their former habitat completely transformed to look a Sinhala Buddhist village. Those displaced from the Muttur and Sampur areas in the east a few years ago still remain displaced.

    In May 2010, in an interview with Al Jazira TV, President Rajapakse, besides his other blatant lies, stated that by the end of the current year all IDPs would be resettled in their own homes. It is becoming increasingly evident that the government can tell all kinds of lies in regard to Tamil affairs and get away with them, an indictment on the Sri Lankan sense of justice and integrity, emanating from the very top. A month later, Suresh Premachandran, an outspoken Tamil parliamentarian, stated at a televised interview that the provision of dwellings to the displaced Tamils both in the North and the east was negligible with little or no assistance given and absolutely no houses built in the Vanni area and that people including children and the sick were living under trees in some areas. They obviously are not enjoying a prolonged picnic. Premachandran also stated that any progress in regard to resettlement especially in the high security zones in Muttur (east) and Jaffna (north) was at a complete standstill.

    New Delhi’s claim that the assistance to the Tamil IDPs is being monitored is an absolute lie. The corrupt Indian polity with their hypocrisy and ruthlessness, intensified by a centre with a weak backbone, loving the Sri Lankan Tamils to death have come forward to provide housing and their maintenance to tens of thousands of displaced Tamils in the north and the east after having helped the Sri Lankan State to massacre tens of thousands of Tamil civilians during the first five months of 2010.

    With Chinese influence or rather aggression in the Indian ocean increasing, India not to lose any more time and favour, though far too late, has been desperate to build a buffer against any further Chinese advance and find the helpless Tamils a convenient friend and scapegoat. The other motivation is the appeasement of the Tamil Nadu government so that they could in turn keep their people happy while keeping the corrupt leadership in power. The Tamil people should not should not be bamboozled or deceived any more by Indian machinations. We recommend that they should, however, accept any favour that comes their way but should not be swayed by feelings of sentiment. The Sri Lankan government, on the other hand, claiming that the Tamils are their own citizens , seem to think that the Indians are obligated to help the Tamils because of their cultural affinity and would try to milk every cent out of them. Given the corruption on both sides there is also a lot money to be made in this game. Incidentally, the magnitude of Indian corruption could show its face at the conduct and the success of the Commonwealth games in Delhi which the rest of the world watch with trepidation. It would be recalled that the Indian Foreign Secretary who while being the Indian Ambassador in Sri Lanka formerly was flirting with Sinhala Buddhist chauvinism, has now developed a surprisingly inordinate love for the Tamils.

    To digress a little, for the Chinese, with their increasing influence and power in the region, their interest in Sri Lanka is strategic, economic and hegemonic diplomacy. For them the Sinhalese and the Tamils are faceless entities as long as their interests are satisfied. In Myanmar, the military junta is able to sustain themselves because of Chinese assistance and in return China’s strategic interests are fulfilled, while democracy and Aung Sans Suu Kyi despite the overwhelming landslide in their favour can wait for another day, and in Sri Lanka by no stretch of imagination is there any democracy.

    The question that has arisen in many Tamil circles is whether the Tamil people should show their backs to the Indians and turn to support the Chinese as the new strategy, with their children learning Chinese (Mandarin) developing to be a world language) to be taught in schools. Furthermore, the plague of Brahminism will no longer haunt the Tamils. They should be pragmatic in turning to the winning side that will bring them more benefits, not wasting their time with India. This was also the view that the late N. Shanmugadasan, a former leader of the Ceylon Communist Party (Peking Wing) and intellectual, advocated in the 1960s and the 1970s as a remedy for the redress of Tamil grievances.

    If the Tamils now languishing are to be continued to be used as pawns in the diplomatic games between India and Sri Lanka, it has to be presumed, that they are being considered for a slow and painful final solution to be “finished off’ with Indian complicity as was done in their massacre between January and May 2010. http://www.tamileelamnews.com/news/publish/tns_12

  462. President Rajapakse’s government claiming to liberate the Tamil people who were caught up in between the clutches of the LTTE, and the atrocities of the Sri Lankan army including the bombings of civilian hospitals by them, called the “humanitarian operation” in the final days of the war, lured more than 300,000 thousand Tamil people from the war affected zone to move into areas controlled by the government. Little did they realise that this “liberation” meant that they were to be confined within razor wires only to experience another other facet of Sri Lankan State terrorism. Far from being free, much to their consternation, they were to experience the worst form of human indignity within these camps euphemistically called welfare villages. The idea was to identify, torture and kill those suspected of LTTE loyalties. In keeping with the former Army Commander Fonseka’s statement to a congregation of Buddhist priests in the US that at least 10,000 more of such persons were yet to be identified and killed, many are missing, some poisoned at the very early stages and some paying the supreme price for being the relatives of suspected terrorists. Hundreds have been summarily executed. Numerous women of all ages have been raped and children, killed or taken to be slaves in the homes of army personnel or influential persons in the south with no hope of any freedom.

    Around 7000 persons are still in custody most being severely tortured to this day said to be in the process of being rehabilitated. The idea is to weed out the suspected militants and leave the rest to perish being part of the process of “being finished off” reminiscent of the Nazi “final solution”. 40,000 civilians are still in the camps still surrounded by barbed wires virtually imprisoned. With no foreign NGOs allowed in and no witnesses, thousands of Tamils are shown to be released to go back home but when they reach their homes they are chased away by the security forces back to the camps from where they went, a drama that depicts their never ending trauma and suffering.

    Besides the tremendous physical agony and the painful inconveniences there is also the enormously serious long and short term psychological impact on the IDPS. Dr Daya Somasunderam of the department psychiatry at the University of Jaffna in his well researched scholarly paper on: “Collective trauma in the Vanni- a qualitative inquiry into the mental health of the internally displaced due to the civil war in Sri Lanka” (July 2010), states: “The narratives, drawings, letters and poems as well as data from observations, key informant interviews, extended family and focus group discussions show considerable impact at the family and community. The family and community relationships, networks, processes and structures are destroyed. There develops collective symptoms of despair, passivity, silence, loss of values and ethical mores, amotivation, dependency on external assistance, but also resilience and post-traumatic growth…… Considering the severity of family and community level adverse effects and implication for resettlement, rehabilitation, and development programmes; interventions for healing of memories, psychosocial regeneration of the family and community structures and processes are essential”….and further in his conclusion : “However, instead of using the historic opportunity for national reconciliation, the repressive ethnocentric approach without dealing with the underlying grievances in the long term will only alienate the minorities once again. Apart from the political implications, the contest of the different discourses at stake and the need of the Vanni IDP trauma for healing; if not social justice, the whole national reconciliation process at least needs some acknowledgement of what happened. If there is no healing of memories, merely a repression, the untreated collective trauma could well turn into resentment and rekindle cycles of violence once again…..” In no way can these observations be dismissed lightly. It is not like the flippant use of terms like “humanitarian operation”, “liberation” etc.

    At the beginning of the incarceration immediately after the war and thereafter, the world was told at various media interviews that land mines were being removed as if the people leaving their homes had mined their own houses before they left, being out of their minds, and whereas, while on their way to the camps from all directions no mines had exploded. The story of de mining was a myth to help contractors on both sides to make money and to stall the process of resettlement. Then we were told that the elusive electricity and water services were being connected to their new homes. What is real is that thousands of pre fabricated homes for the Sri Lankan army personnel are being constructed with Chinese aid in the Tamil homeland with its face being transformed to appear to be traditionally Sinhala Buddhist. The Tamil IDPs, if they are lucky, will get the residue of these. If the IDPs are lucky to return to their home environment they will not be able recognise their former habitat completely transformed to look a Sinhala Buddhist village. Those displaced from the Muttur and Sampur areas in the east a few years ago still remain displaced.

    In May 2010, in an interview with Al Jazira TV, President Rajapakse, besides his other blatant lies, stated that by the end of the current year all IDPs would be resettled in their own homes. It is becoming increasingly evident that the government can tell all kinds of lies in regard to Tamil affairs and get away with them, an indictment on the Sri Lankan sense of justice and integrity, emanating from the very top. A month later, Suresh Premachandran, an outspoken Tamil parliamentarian, stated at a televised interview that the provision of dwellings to the displaced Tamils both in the North and the east was negligible with little or no assistance given and absolutely no houses built in the Vanni area and that people including children and the sick were living under trees in some areas. They obviously are not enjoying a prolonged picnic. Premachandran also stated that any progress in regard to resettlement especially in the high security zones in Muttur (east) and Jaffna (north) was at a complete standstill.

    New Delhi’s claim that the assistance to the Tamil IDPs is being monitored is an absolute lie. The corrupt Indian polity with their hypocrisy and ruthlessness, intensified by a centre with a weak backbone, loving the Sri Lankan Tamils to death have come forward to provide housing and their maintenance to tens of thousands of displaced Tamils in the north and the east after having helped the Sri Lankan State to massacre tens of thousands of Tamil civilians during the first five months of 2010.

    With Chinese influence or rather aggression in the Indian ocean increasing, India not to lose any more time and favour, though far too late, has been desperate to build a buffer against any further Chinese advance and find the helpless Tamils a convenient friend and scapegoat. The other motivation is the appeasement of the Tamil Nadu government so that they could in turn keep their people happy while keeping the corrupt leadership in power. The Tamil people should not should not be bamboozled or deceived any more by Indian machinations. We recommend that they should, however, accept any favour that comes their way but should not be swayed by feelings of sentiment. The Sri Lankan government, on the other hand, claiming that the Tamils are their own citizens , seem to think that the Indians are obligated to help the Tamils because of their cultural affinity and would try to milk every cent out of them. Given the corruption on both sides there is also a lot money to be made in this game. Incidentally, the magnitude of Indian corruption could show its face at the conduct and the success of the Commonwealth games in Delhi which the rest of the world watch with trepidation. It would be recalled that the Indian Foreign Secretary who while being the Indian Ambassador in Sri Lanka formerly was flirting with Sinhala Buddhist chauvinism, has now developed a surprisingly inordinate love for the Tamils.

    To digress a little, for the Chinese, with their increasing influence and power in the region, their interest in Sri Lanka is strategic, economic and hegemonic diplomacy. For them the Sinhalese and the Tamils are faceless entities as long as their interests are satisfied. In Myanmar, the military junta is able to sustain themselves because of Chinese assistance and in return China’s strategic interests are fulfilled, while democracy and Aung Sans Suu Kyi despite the overwhelming landslide in their favour can wait for another day, and in Sri Lanka by no stretch of imagination is there any democracy.

    The question that has arisen in many Tamil circles is whether the Tamil people should show their backs to the Indians and turn to support the Chinese as the new strategy, with their children learning Chinese (Mandarin) developing to be a world language) to be taught in schools. Furthermore, the plague of Brahminism will no longer haunt the Tamils. They should be pragmatic in turning to the winning side that will bring them more benefits, not wasting their time with India. This was also the view that the late N. Shanmugadasan, a former leader of the Ceylon Communist Party (Peking Wing) and intellectual, advocated in the 1960s and the 1970s as a remedy for the redress of Tamil grievances.

    If the Tamils now languishing are to be continued to be used as pawns in the diplomatic games between India and Sri Lanka, it has to be presumed, that they are being considered for a slow and painful final solution to be “finished off’ with Indian complicity as was done in their massacre between January and May 2010. http://www.tamileelamnews.com/news/publish/tns_12

  463. Sri Lankan Tamil refugees spark racism row in Canada

    Government accused of scaremongering after prime minister claims 500 asylum seekers aboard boat a security concern

    The arrival off the west coast of Canada of a rusty boat containing nearly 500 exhausted Sri Lankan Tamil asylum seekers has sparked an angry debate about racism that has divided national opinion.

    The merchant vessel Sun Sea limped, under escort, into Esquimalt naval base in British Columbia on 13 August after a four month voyage from Songkhla in Thailand. The passengers spoke of grim conditions. One man died during the journey and was buried at sea.

    “It is a miracle that they survived,” David Poopalapillai of the Canadian Tamil Congress (CTC) told the Guardian. “The boat is very primitive, you wouldn’t even go out fishing in it.” He ascribed their survival to the fact that they had been living for many months in very hostile conditions in Sri Lanka.
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/sep/07/canad

  464. Sri Lankan Tamil refugees spark racism row in Canada

    Government accused of scaremongering after prime minister claims 500 asylum seekers aboard boat a security concern

    The arrival off the west coast of Canada of a rusty boat containing nearly 500 exhausted Sri Lankan Tamil asylum seekers has sparked an angry debate about racism that has divided national opinion.

    The merchant vessel Sun Sea limped, under escort, into Esquimalt naval base in British Columbia on 13 August after a four month voyage from Songkhla in Thailand. The passengers spoke of grim conditions. One man died during the journey and was buried at sea.

    “It is a miracle that they survived,” David Poopalapillai of the Canadian Tamil Congress (CTC) told the Guardian. “The boat is very primitive, you wouldn’t even go out fishing in it.” He ascribed their survival to the fact that they had been living for many months in very hostile conditions in Sri Lanka.
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/sep/07/canad

  465. This Sri Lankan triumphalism has exasperated Tamils recently liberated from Menic Farm.

    In mourning and without news of their loved ones, they survive on international aid – Sri Lanka Army is ready to kill the Tamils but not help them !!

  466. President Rajapakse’s government claiming to liberate the Tamil people who were caught up in between the clutches of the LTTE, and the atrocities of the Sri Lankan army including the bombings of civilian hospitals by them, called the “humanitarian operation” in the final days of the war, lured more than 300,000 thousand Tamil people from the war affected zone to move into areas controlled by the government. Little did they realise that this “liberation” meant that they were to be confined within razor wires only to experience another other facet of Sri Lankan State terrorism. Far from being free, much to their consternation, they were to experience the worst form of human indignity within these camps euphemistically called welfare villages. The idea was to identify, torture and kill those suspected of LTTE loyalties. In keeping with the former Army Commander Fonseka’s statement to a congregation of Buddhist priests in the US that at least 10,000 more of such persons were yet to be identified and killed, many are missing, some poisoned at the very early stages and some paying the supreme price for being the relatives of suspected terrorists. Hundreds have been summarily executed. Numerous women of all ages have been raped and children, killed or taken to be slaves in the homes of army personnel or influential persons in the south with no hope of any freedom.

    Around 7000 persons are still in custody most being severely tortured to this day said to be in the process of being rehabilitated. The idea is to weed out the suspected militants and leave the rest to perish being part of the process of “being finished off” reminiscent of the Nazi “final solution”. 40,000 civilians are still in the camps still surrounded by barbed wires virtually imprisoned. With no foreign NGOs allowed in and no witnesses, thousands of Tamils are shown to be released to go back home but when they reach their homes they are chased away by the security forces back to the camps from where they went, a drama that depicts their never ending trauma and suffering.

    Besides the tremendous physical agony and the painful inconveniences there is also the enormously serious long and short term psychological impact on the IDPS. Dr Daya Somasunderam of the department psychiatry at the University of Jaffna in his well researched scholarly paper on: “Collective trauma in the Vanni- a qualitative inquiry into the mental health of the internally displaced due to the civil war in Sri Lanka” (July 2010), states: “The narratives, drawings, letters and poems as well as data from observations, key informant interviews, extended family and focus group discussions show considerable impact at the family and community. The family and community relationships, networks, processes and structures are destroyed. There develops collective symptoms of despair, passivity, silence, loss of values and ethical mores, amotivation, dependency on external assistance, but also resilience and post-traumatic growth…… Considering the severity of family and community level adverse effects and implication for resettlement, rehabilitation, and development programmes; interventions for healing of memories, psychosocial regeneration of the family and community structures and processes are essential”….and further in his conclusion : “However, instead of using the historic opportunity for national reconciliation, the repressive ethnocentric approach without dealing with the underlying grievances in the long term will only alienate the minorities once again. Apart from the political implications, the contest of the different discourses at stake and the need of the Vanni IDP trauma for healing; if not social justice, the whole national reconciliation process at least needs some acknowledgement of what happened. If there is no healing of memories, merely a repression, the untreated collective trauma could well turn into resentment and rekindle cycles of violence once again…..” In no way can these observations be dismissed lightly. It is not like the flippant use of terms like “humanitarian operation”, “liberation” etc.

    At the beginning of the incarceration immediately after the war and thereafter, the world was told at various media interviews that land mines were being removed as if the people leaving their homes had mined their own houses before they left, being out of their minds, and whereas, while on their way to the camps from all directions no mines had exploded. The story of de mining was a myth to help contractors on both sides to make money and to stall the process of resettlement. Then we were told that the elusive electricity and water services were being connected to their new homes. What is real is that thousands of pre fabricated homes for the Sri Lankan army personnel are being constructed with Chinese aid in the Tamil homeland with its face being transformed to appear to be traditionally Sinhala Buddhist. The Tamil IDPs, if they are lucky, will get the residue of these. If the IDPs are lucky to return to their home environment they will not be able recognise their former habitat completely transformed to look a Sinhala Buddhist village. Those displaced from the Muttur and Sampur areas in the east a few years ago still remain displaced.

    In May 2010, in an interview with Al Jazira TV, President Rajapakse, besides his other blatant lies, stated that by the end of the current year all IDPs would be resettled in their own homes. It is becoming increasingly evident that the government can tell all kinds of lies in regard to Tamil affairs and get away with them, an indictment on the Sri Lankan sense of justice and integrity, emanating from the very top. A month later, Suresh Premachandran, an outspoken Tamil parliamentarian, stated at a televised interview that the provision of dwellings to the displaced Tamils both in the North and the east was negligible with little or no assistance given and absolutely no houses built in the Vanni area and that people including children and the sick were living under trees in some areas. They obviously are not enjoying a prolonged picnic. Premachandran also stated that any progress in regard to resettlement especially in the high security zones in Muttur (east) and Jaffna (north) was at a complete standstill.

    New Delhi’s claim that the assistance to the Tamil IDPs is being monitored is an absolute lie. The corrupt Indian polity with their hypocrisy and ruthlessness, intensified by a centre with a weak backbone, loving the Sri Lankan Tamils to death have come forward to provide housing and their maintenance to tens of thousands of displaced Tamils in the north and the east after having helped the Sri Lankan State to massacre tens of thousands of Tamil civilians during the first five months of 2010.

    With Chinese influence or rather aggression in the Indian ocean increasing, India not to lose any more time and favour, though far too late, has been desperate to build a buffer against any further Chinese advance and find the helpless Tamils a convenient friend and scapegoat. The other motivation is the appeasement of the Tamil Nadu government so that they could in turn keep their people happy while keeping the corrupt leadership in power. The Tamil people should not should not be bamboozled or deceived any more by Indian machinations. We recommend that they should, however, accept any favour that comes their way but should not be swayed by feelings of sentiment. The Sri Lankan government, on the other hand, claiming that the Tamils are their own citizens , seem to think that the Indians are obligated to help the Tamils because of their cultural affinity and would try to milk every cent out of them. Given the corruption on both sides there is also a lot money to be made in this game. Incidentally, the magnitude of Indian corruption could show its face at the conduct and the success of the Commonwealth games in Delhi which the rest of the world watch with trepidation. It would be recalled that the Indian Foreign Secretary who while being the Indian Ambassador in Sri Lanka formerly was flirting with Sinhala Buddhist chauvinism, has now developed a surprisingly inordinate love for the Tamils.

    To digress a little, for the Chinese, with their increasing influence and power in the region, their interest in Sri Lanka is strategic, economic and hegemonic diplomacy. For them the Sinhalese and the Tamils are faceless entities as long as their interests are satisfied. In Myanmar, the military junta is able to sustain themselves because of Chinese assistance and in return China’s strategic interests are fulfilled, while democracy and Aung Sans Suu Kyi despite the overwhelming landslide in their favour can wait for another day, and in Sri Lanka by no stretch of imagination is there any democracy.

    The question that has arisen in many Tamil circles is whether the Tamil people should show their backs to the Indians and turn to support the Chinese as the new strategy, with their children learning Chinese (Mandarin) developing to be a world language) to be taught in schools. Furthermore, the plague of Brahminism will no longer haunt the Tamils. They should be pragmatic in turning to the winning side that will bring them more benefits, not wasting their time with India. This was also the view that the late N. Shanmugadasan, a former leader of the Ceylon Communist Party (Peking Wing) and intellectual, advocated in the 1960s and the 1970s as a remedy for the redress of Tamil grievances.

    If the Tamils now languishing are to be continued to be used as pawns in the diplomatic games between India and Sri Lanka, it has to be presumed, that they are being considered for a slow and painful final solution to be “finished off’ with Indian complicity as was done in their massacre between January and May 2010.
    http://www.tamileelamnews.com/news/publish/tns_12943.shtml

  467. Sri Lankan Tamil refugees spark racism row in Canada

    Government accused of scaremongering after prime minister claims 500 asylum seekers aboard boat a security concern

    The arrival off the west coast of Canada of a rusty boat containing nearly 500 exhausted Sri Lankan Tamil asylum seekers has sparked an angry debate about racism that has divided national opinion.

    The merchant vessel Sun Sea limped, under escort, into Esquimalt naval base in British Columbia on 13 August after a four month voyage from Songkhla in Thailand. The passengers spoke of grim conditions. One man died during the journey and was buried at sea.

    “It is a miracle that they survived,” David Poopalapillai of the Canadian Tamil Congress (CTC) told the Guardian. “The boat is very primitive, you wouldn’t even go out fishing in it.” He ascribed their survival to the fact that they had been living for many months in very hostile conditions in Sri Lanka.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/sep/07/canada-tamil-refugees-racism-debate

  468. Looks like Jim has disappeared !!!

    No Answer, No Talk, No communique at all ??

    Also, time this blog post is shut down – getting too old + getting too much rubbish posted by the Peelam Die Ass Pora Apes !!

  469. To the Demented Donkey from Badulla…

    You are harassing Jim like a third rate retard !!!!

    You and Repo are half caste genocidal bastards who are only talking a pack of lies here

    All your postings show what a third rate as you trying to justify genocide, ethnic cleansing and the brutalization of the Tamil people !!!

  470. Supan !!!

    Hilarious post!!

    Well let me guess, Repo is a 4'10" tall, with the face of Hanuma and has wide gaps between the teeth, and no hair on the head. Right ?

  471. Mahinda Rajapakse gets total power

    SRI Lanka last night handed its President absolute power – and in the process anointed another South Asian political dynasty – with parliament rubber-stamping constitutional changes that critics have warned will spell the death of the region’s most enduring democracy.

    President Mahinda Rajapakse secured the two-thirds parliamentary majority required to rush through the controversial 18th amendment, scrapping the two-term presidential limit and letting him appoint judges, police and election commissioners, and central bank officials.

    We don’t want to be contaminated by this undemocratic act,” UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe said yesterday, as he joined other opposition politicians in an angry demonstration outside parliament. The changes have been condemned by lawyers, rights activists and some religious groups.

  472. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Sing warns China wants foothold in South Asia – Sri Lanka

    “China would like to have a foothold in South Asia and we have to reflect on this reality,” Singh was quoted as saying by The Times of India on Tuesday. “We have to be aware of this.”

    There is a new assertiveness among the Chinese.

    China is seeking to expand its influence in South Asia at India’s expense, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh warned in rare public criticism of his country’s main rival for regional resources and geopolitical clout.

    “His (Singh’s) understanding is China has crossed the red lines that affect India’s core sovereignty concerns,” said Srikanth Kondapalli, chairman of the Centre for East Asian Studies at New Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University.”

    There is a realisation in India that you have to make your displeasure more explicit to be taken seriously.

  473. @Supan & Mathivathanan, valiant Eelam warriors!
    Thanks again for proving your inherent idiocy. Really, ladies, I thank you for your warm, flattering appreciation like "half caste genocidal bastards". Interesting choice of words, betraying your own in-built Eelamish tendencies, no?

    Why do you hate like mixed race people like… oh.. let's seee.. President Barack Obama?

    Your 'half-caste' Master Obama will not be happy, even with this pathetic begging site, created for him. http://www.tamilsforobama.com/

    Oh well, you'd better withdraw your begging bowl from underneath Pres. Obama's feet.

    He won't be pleased to know that righteous Eelam warriors secretly despise his mixed ethnicity … 🙂 🙂

    p.s. why not show us all how clever you are by proving our lies? It'll be easy for you on-line Eezahm super-warriors.

    p.p.s. not sure about Repo Man's good looks, but it's another chance to highlight my favourite Transsexual Eelam Government candidates Sock-in-a-Lingam Yoga-in-a-lingam, here: http://tinyurl.com/2562q4y

  474. @Supan & Mathivathanan, valiant Eelam warriors!
    Thanks again for proving your inherent idiocy. Really, ladies, I thank you for your warm, flattering appreciation like "half caste genocidal bastards". Interesting choice of words, betraying your own in-built Eelamish tendencies, no?

    Why do you hate like mixed race people like… oh.. let's seee.. President Barack Obama?

    Your 'half-caste' Master Obama will not be happy, even with this pathetic begging site, created for him. http://www.tamilsforobama.com/

    Oh well, you'd better withdraw your begging bowl from underneath Pres. Obama's feet.

    He won't be pleased to know that righteous Eelam warriors secretly despise his mixed ethnicity … 🙂 🙂

    p.s. why not show us all how clever you are by proving our lies? It'll be easy for you on-line Eezahm super-warriors.

    p.p.s. not sure about Repo Man's good looks, but it's another chance to highlight my favourite Transsexual Eelam Government candidates Sock-in-a-Lingam Yoga-in-a-lingam, here: http://tinyurl.com/2562q4y

  475. @Supan & Mathivathanan, valiant Eelam warriors!
    Thanks again for proving your inherent idiocy. Really, ladies, I thank you for your warm, flattering appreciation like "half caste genocidal bastards". Interesting choice of words, betraying your own in-built Eelamish tendencies, no?

    Why do you hate like mixed race people like… oh.. let's seee.. President Barack Obama?

    Your 'half-caste' Master Obama will not be happy, even with this pathetic begging site, created for him. http://www.tamilsforobama.com/

    Oh well, you'd better withdraw your begging bowl from underneath Pres. Obama's feet.

    He won't be pleased to know that righteous Eelam warriors secretly despise his mixed ethnicity … 🙂 🙂

    p.s. why not show us all how clever you are by proving our lies? It'll be easy for you on-line Eezahm super-warriors.

    p.p.s. not sure about Repo Man's good looks, but it's another chance to highlight my favourite Transsexual Eelam Government candidates Sock-in-a-Lingam Yoga-in-a-lingam, here: http://tinyurl.com/2562q4y

  476. Looks like Jim has disappeared !!!

    No Answer, No Talk, No communique at all ??

    Also, time this blog post is shut down – getting too old + getting too much rubbish posted by the Peelam Die Ass Pora Apes !!

  477. University academics call upon the Sri Lanka government to re-consider the proposed 18th Amendment to the Constitution

    We salute the academics here for not merely standing up to be counted but to tell the illegitimate regime, the country and the world loud and clear that the attempt to take this country and its plural societies along the fascistic path, in consolidating familial and dynastic rule, will be resisted.

    This is nothing but a naked attempt to deitify a single man and the cabal around him above Parliament, the law and to secure absolute and untrammeled power for life. This call would have been still stronger and more representative of the major communities if we saw names from other sections of the people as well.

    The Constitution of a country is its very life-blood and the protective arm of the people in those moments when the State is in questionable hands. If amendments to change its very character are considered, any decent and democratic ruling entity will call for the widest debate allowing sufficient time for the exercise to gain validity and acceptance.

    The issue is so explosive today even that part of the once powerful UNP, now moribund, has gathered up its nerve and walked out of Parliament. Those essential features of the judiciary, expected to come to the aid of the people when the executive shows clear truansic tendencies have chosen to take the path of least resistance and remain pliant and subservient.

    The tragedy of the country and our society in recent times has been a politicized and collaborative judiciary. I am reminded of the words of former Supreme Court Judge Kulatunga lamenting thus “there was hardly a judgement of ANY COURT in the country against the State”

    And yet another judicial supremo at the latter part of his controversial innings discovered his balance and wisdom and said “Public interest should be at the root of the minds of judges in Constitutional matters”

    Ignoring the people's collective dissent, the regime's warning is that manimals like the much hated Vermin will be reinstated and set upon them.

    That, is probably why that kind of creature is sanctified and secures high-profile in this uncaring regime. Yet another blow, yet another crude insult aginst the intelligence of the people.

    It is not late for the ruling clique to change course and stay within reason and democratic norms.

  478. Thilanga Sumathipala and Sanath Jayasuriya implicated in cricket match fixing

    20X20 not only killed the many beautiful features of this delightful game but also was only aimed at increasing the coffers of the Underworld in the Sub Continent of the Dawood Ibrahim type.

    The gains from this, to a large extent, went to de-stabilise the SE Asian region and strengthen radical politics.

    Lalit Modi gained a criminal record during his earlier years in the USA.

    What is cricket without the beautiful forward defence, the building up of a patience innings and so on?

    What sort of strokes, skill can one expect from about 11 balls to each player?

    "Pol-adi" "Wal-adi" or "podu-sambar" is not cricket.

    When Packer, Sobers and friends brought in the 50×50 there was a hue and cry.

    But many of us supported the 50-over because the 5-day Test matches found in a world dominated by the slow-moving steamship era is anachronistic in the jet age where productive time of people was necessary for the economy.

    The temptation of filthy lucre not only seduced the poorer but talented cricketers of the 3rd world but also took the lives of such fine men as Hansie Cronje- truly a versatile cricketer and gentleman.

    It is time to call a halt to this terminal cancerous culture and save yet another gift to the world by the English.

    I was always puzzled why those fine gentlemen in England and Australia in the ICC yielded to gangsters and political crooks with established bad records to climb the portals of the ICC.

    The world of cricket has to decide between this un-cricket montrosity that has devalued the game and corrupted it or to regain that wonderful world of the game of gentlemen that turned school boys into respectable citizens in the decades gone by.

  479. President Mahinda Rajapakse has broken promises made to his people on the conclusion of the war last year; promises to share and devolve power and to unite his nation.

    He has also broken his election promises. Just five years ago he explicitly and unequivocally committed himself to abolishing Sri Lanka’s executive presidency.

    Today, his power is absolute and absolute power corrupts absolutely !!!

  480. To the Demented Donkey from Badulla…

    You are harassing Jim like a third rate retard !!!!

    You and Repo are half caste genocidal bastards who are only talking a pack of lies here

    All your postings show what a third rate as you trying to justify genocide, ethnic cleansing and the brutalization of the Tamil people !!!

  481. Supan !!!

    Hilarious post!!

    Well let me guess, Repo is a 4’10” tall, with the face of Hanuma and has wide gaps between the teeth, and no hair on the head. Right ?

  482. Mahinda Rajapakse gets total power

    SRI Lanka last night handed its President absolute power – and in the process anointed another South Asian political dynasty – with parliament rubber-stamping constitutional changes that critics have warned will spell the death of the region’s most enduring democracy.

    President Mahinda Rajapakse secured the two-thirds parliamentary majority required to rush through the controversial 18th amendment, scrapping the two-term presidential limit and letting him appoint judges, police and election commissioners, and central bank officials.

    We don’t want to be contaminated by this undemocratic act,” UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe said yesterday, as he joined other opposition politicians in an angry demonstration outside parliament. The changes have been condemned by lawyers, rights activists and some religious groups.

  483. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Sing warns China wants foothold in South Asia – Sri Lanka

    “China would like to have a foothold in South Asia and we have to reflect on this reality,” Singh was quoted as saying by The Times of India on Tuesday. “We have to be aware of this.”

    There is a new assertiveness among the Chinese.

    China is seeking to expand its influence in South Asia at India’s expense, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh warned in rare public criticism of his country’s main rival for regional resources and geopolitical clout.

    “His (Singh’s) understanding is China has crossed the red lines that affect India’s core sovereignty concerns,” said Srikanth Kondapalli, chairman of the Centre for East Asian Studies at New Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University.”

    There is a realisation in India that you have to make your displeasure more explicit to be taken seriously.

  484. @Supan & Mathivathanan, valiant Eelam warriors!
    Thanks again for proving your inherent idiocy. Really, ladies, I thank you for your warm, flattering appreciation like “half caste genocidal bastards”. Interesting choice of words, betraying your own in-built Eelamish tendencies, no?

    Why do you hate like mixed race people like… oh.. let’s seee.. President Barack Obama?

    Your ‘half-caste’ Master Obama will not be happy, even with this pathetic begging site, created for him. http://www.tamilsforobama.com/

    Oh well, you’d better withdraw your begging bowl from underneath Pres. Obama’s feet.

    He won’t be pleased to know that righteous Eelam warriors secretly despise his mixed ethnicity … 🙂 🙂

    p.s. why not show us all how clever you are by proving our lies? It’ll be easy for you on-line Eezahm super-warriors.

    p.p.s. not sure about Repo Man’s good looks, but it’s another chance to highlight my favourite Transsexual Eelam Government candidates Sock-in-a-Lingam Yoga-in-a-lingam, here: http://tinyurl.com/2562q4y

  485. University academics call upon the Sri Lanka government to re-consider the proposed 18th Amendment to the Constitution

    We salute the academics here for not merely standing up to be counted but to tell the illegitimate regime, the country and the world loud and clear that the attempt to take this country and its plural societies along the fascistic path, in consolidating familial and dynastic rule, will be resisted.

    This is nothing but a naked attempt to deitify a single man and the cabal around him above Parliament, the law and to secure absolute and untrammeled power for life. This call would have been still stronger and more representative of the major communities if we saw names from other sections of the people as well.

    The Constitution of a country is its very life-blood and the protective arm of the people in those moments when the State is in questionable hands. If amendments to change its very character are considered, any decent and democratic ruling entity will call for the widest debate allowing sufficient time for the exercise to gain validity and acceptance.

    The issue is so explosive today even that part of the once powerful UNP, now moribund, has gathered up its nerve and walked out of Parliament. Those essential features of the judiciary, expected to come to the aid of the people when the executive shows clear truansic tendencies have chosen to take the path of least resistance and remain pliant and subservient.

    The tragedy of the country and our society in recent times has been a politicized and collaborative judiciary. I am reminded of the words of former Supreme Court Judge Kulatunga lamenting thus “there was hardly a judgement of ANY COURT in the country against the State”

    And yet another judicial supremo at the latter part of his controversial innings discovered his balance and wisdom and said “Public interest should be at the root of the minds of judges in Constitutional matters”

    Ignoring the people’s collective dissent, the regime’s warning is that manimals like the much hated Vermin will be reinstated and set upon them.

    That, is probably why that kind of creature is sanctified and secures high-profile in this uncaring regime. Yet another blow, yet another crude insult aginst the intelligence of the people.

    It is not late for the ruling clique to change course and stay within reason and democratic norms.

  486. Thilanga Sumathipala and Sanath Jayasuriya implicated in cricket match fixing

    20X20 not only killed the many beautiful features of this delightful game but also was only aimed at increasing the coffers of the Underworld in the Sub Continent of the Dawood Ibrahim type.

    The gains from this, to a large extent, went to de-stabilise the SE Asian region and strengthen radical politics.

    Lalit Modi gained a criminal record during his earlier years in the USA.

    What is cricket without the beautiful forward defence, the building up of a patience innings and so on?

    What sort of strokes, skill can one expect from about 11 balls to each player?

    “Pol-adi” “Wal-adi” or “podu-sambar” is not cricket.

    When Packer, Sobers and friends brought in the 50×50 there was a hue and cry.

    But many of us supported the 50-over because the 5-day Test matches found in a world dominated by the slow-moving steamship era is anachronistic in the jet age where productive time of people was necessary for the economy.

    The temptation of filthy lucre not only seduced the poorer but talented cricketers of the 3rd world but also took the lives of such fine men as Hansie Cronje- truly a versatile cricketer and gentleman.

    It is time to call a halt to this terminal cancerous culture and save yet another gift to the world by the English.

    I was always puzzled why those fine gentlemen in England and Australia in the ICC yielded to gangsters and political crooks with established bad records to climb the portals of the ICC.

    The world of cricket has to decide between this un-cricket montrosity that has devalued the game and corrupted it or to regain that wonderful world of the game of gentlemen that turned school boys into respectable citizens in the decades gone by.

  487. President Mahinda Rajapakse has broken promises made to his people on the conclusion of the war last year; promises to share and devolve power and to unite his nation.

    He has also broken his election promises. Just five years ago he explicitly and unequivocally committed himself to abolishing Sri Lanka’s executive presidency.

    Today, his power is absolute and absolute power corrupts absolutely !!!

  488. The murder of many thousands of Tamils last year by the Sri Lankan government is one more proof of lack of common sense of Western countries intervention in Sri Lanka. The listing of the Tigers, and not condemning the atrocities of Sri Lanka on Tamils severed to only strengthen Sri Lanka's 'racial' tendencies, fanaticism and sheer brutality.

    We are now witnessing the outcome of such one-sided Western meddling with Tamil freedom struggle. Proud people of 2000 year old rich culture of Indus Valley are now risking the high seas and their lives, including the lives of many orphans, begging for another chance at life, and all we Canadians can say is, “send them back.” Ironically, we call ourselves a nation of 'civilized' people. One has to question if the mankind has already lost it’s sanity.

    Today, Sri Lanka is a ‘Democratic’ dictatorship run by a tiny elite family of thugs that suppresses the Tamil minority and denies past violence against Tamil civilians. But as always there are few noisiest cranks and sympathizers of Sri Lankan terror apparatus with clockwork prediction ready to suggest that the persecution of Tamils is a myth propagated by Tamil extremists. We know the kind of people who deny the Holocaust. What interest anyone has in denying the suffering of Tamils remains to be discovered. http://www.tamileelamnews.com/news/publish/tns_12

  489. The murder of many thousands of Tamils last year by the Sri Lankan government is one more proof of lack of common sense of Western countries intervention in Sri Lanka. The listing of the Tigers, and not condemning the atrocities of Sri Lanka on Tamils severed to only strengthen Sri Lanka's 'racial' tendencies, fanaticism and sheer brutality.

    We are now witnessing the outcome of such one-sided Western meddling with Tamil freedom struggle. Proud people of 2000 year old rich culture of Indus Valley are now risking the high seas and their lives, including the lives of many orphans, begging for another chance at life, and all we Canadians can say is, “send them back.” Ironically, we call ourselves a nation of 'civilized' people. One has to question if the mankind has already lost it’s sanity.

    Today, Sri Lanka is a ‘Democratic’ dictatorship run by a tiny elite family of thugs that suppresses the Tamil minority and denies past violence against Tamil civilians. But as always there are few noisiest cranks and sympathizers of Sri Lankan terror apparatus with clockwork prediction ready to suggest that the persecution of Tamils is a myth propagated by Tamil extremists. We know the kind of people who deny the Holocaust. What interest anyone has in denying the suffering of Tamils remains to be discovered. http://www.tamileelamnews.com/news/publish/tns_12

  490. The murder of many thousands of Tamils last year by the Sri Lankan government is one more proof of lack of common sense of Western countries intervention in Sri Lanka. The listing of the Tigers, and not condemning the atrocities of Sri Lanka on Tamils severed to only strengthen Sri Lanka's 'racial' tendencies, fanaticism and sheer brutality.

    We are now witnessing the outcome of such one-sided Western meddling with Tamil freedom struggle. Proud people of 2000 year old rich culture of Indus Valley are now risking the high seas and their lives, including the lives of many orphans, begging for another chance at life, and all we Canadians can say is, “send them back.” Ironically, we call ourselves a nation of 'civilized' people. One has to question if the mankind has already lost it’s sanity.

    Today, Sri Lanka is a ‘Democratic’ dictatorship run by a tiny elite family of thugs that suppresses the Tamil minority and denies past violence against Tamil civilians. But as always there are few noisiest cranks and sympathizers of Sri Lankan terror apparatus with clockwork prediction ready to suggest that the persecution of Tamils is a myth propagated by Tamil extremists. We know the kind of people who deny the Holocaust. What interest anyone has in denying the suffering of Tamils remains to be discovered. http://www.tamileelamnews.com/news/publish/tns_12

  491. The murder of many thousands of Tamils last year by the Sri Lankan government is one more proof of lack of common sense of Western countries intervention in Sri Lanka. The listing of the Tigers, and not condemning the atrocities of Sri Lanka on Tamils severed to only strengthen Sri Lanka’s ‘racial’ tendencies, fanaticism and sheer brutality.

    We are now witnessing the outcome of such one-sided Western meddling with Tamil freedom struggle. Proud people of 2000 year old rich culture of Indus Valley are now risking the high seas and their lives, including the lives of many orphans, begging for another chance at life, and all we Canadians can say is, “send them back.” Ironically, we call ourselves a nation of ‘civilized’ people. One has to question if the mankind has already lost it’s sanity.

    Today, Sri Lanka is a ‘Democratic’ dictatorship run by a tiny elite family of thugs that suppresses the Tamil minority and denies past violence against Tamil civilians. But as always there are few noisiest cranks and sympathizers of Sri Lankan terror apparatus with clockwork prediction ready to suggest that the persecution of Tamils is a myth propagated by Tamil extremists. We know the kind of people who deny the Holocaust. What interest anyone has in denying the suffering of Tamils remains to be discovered.
    http://www.tamileelamnews.com/news/publish/tns_12930.shtml

  492. Tamil women – cheap labour – $1.25 a day

    Tamil woman earns a $1.25 a day – but according to Sivachandran, this is half of what a man would earn for the same work.

    “My husband disappeared in the concentration camp. He was arrested by the Sri Lanka Army and disappeared ” said the 26-year-old Jaffna resident.“My three sisters are still in school. My eldest child is in school. My parents are too weak to work.”

    Maillaiyappal Thangavelu supports her two children, parents and three sisters by working on a construction site.

    “It has become cheaper to hire women – men would demand higher daily wages. Women unquestioningly accept what is given, often because they have many mouths to feed,” Sivachandran said.

    “Women provide cheap labour, so they are preferred,” said Nagarasa Thavaselvam, president of the Kampanai Camp Residents’

  493. Tamil women – cheap labour – $1.25 a day

    Tamil woman earns a $1.25 a day – but according to Sivachandran, this is half of what a man would earn for the same work.

    “My husband disappeared in the concentration camp. He was arrested by the Sri Lanka Army and disappeared ” said the 26-year-old Jaffna resident.“My three sisters are still in school. My eldest child is in school. My parents are too weak to work.”

    Maillaiyappal Thangavelu supports her two children, parents and three sisters by working on a construction site.

    “It has become cheaper to hire women – men would demand higher daily wages. Women unquestioningly accept what is given, often because they have many mouths to feed,” Sivachandran said.

    “Women provide cheap labour, so they are preferred,” said Nagarasa Thavaselvam, president of the Kampanai Camp Residents’

  494. Supan Says:
    September 8th, 2010 at 9:22 am

    You and Repo are half caste genocidal bastards who are only talking a pack of lies here

    Once again – Prove the lies please and we will stop posting here forever 🙂 !!

    Also, regarding the cast matter – I am not quite sure which cast I belong to. But, I have heard that Lot of high Class Tamil people did not like Piribaharan because he was from a very low cast – is this true ???

    Also re. Genocide – We did post the meaning of the word genocide repeatedly – If you need to find the meaning of the word – go to http://www.dictionary.com

    Also get your English speaking neighbour to explain the meaning to you – Then you will realise how honorable Tamils as Lakshman K & Neelan T were killed and Also why Karuna, douglas D, Pillayan and the crowd are still alive and are supporting the government of Sri Lanka – Let me rest my case there…

    Mathivathanan Says:
    September 8th, 2010 at 9:32 am

    This must me the Masculine name of Mathivadini – Sounds Apish Anyways…

    Well let me guess, Repo is a 4′10″ tall, with the face of Hanuma and has wide gaps between the teeth, and no hair on the head. Right ?

    Oh – so you finally got to see your self in a Mirror – LOL !!!!!!! Good that you are getting used to the modern humans marvelous inventions !

    And, Oh – ya, you have discribed exactly how I look too – That indeed is how I look !! – Sounds a Good Match to your Sister or your Eelamist relative noh ?? Do you think she will like me ??? Please introduce me to her – May be they will like me too…… I am counting on you to find me a Hanuman Bride – Please don't let me down !!

    Baby !! this Hanuman is on fire !!!!!!! Wooooo Hooooo !!

    Cummon Baby Light My fire !!!!!!!!!!

  495. Supan Says:
    September 8th, 2010 at 9:22 am

    You and Repo are half caste genocidal bastards who are only talking a pack of lies here

    Once again – Prove the lies please and we will stop posting here forever 🙂 !!

    Also, regarding the cast matter – I am not quite sure which cast I belong to. But, I have heard that Lot of high Class Tamil people did not like Piribaharan because he was from a very low cast – is this true ???

    Also re. Genocide – We did post the meaning of the word genocide repeatedly – If you need to find the meaning of the word – go to http://www.dictionary.com

    Also get your English speaking neighbour to explain the meaning to you – Then you will realise how honorable Tamils as Lakshman K & Neelan T were killed and Also why Karuna, douglas D, Pillayan and the crowd are still alive and are supporting the government of Sri Lanka – Let me rest my case there…

    Mathivathanan Says:
    September 8th, 2010 at 9:32 am

    This must me the Masculine name of Mathivadini – Sounds Apish Anyways…

    Well let me guess, Repo is a 4′10″ tall, with the face of Hanuma and has wide gaps between the teeth, and no hair on the head. Right ?

    Oh – so you finally got to see your self in a Mirror – LOL !!!!!!! Good that you are getting used to the modern humans marvelous inventions !

    And, Oh – ya, you have discribed exactly how I look too – That indeed is how I look !! – Sounds a Good Match to your Sister or your Eelamist relative noh ?? Do you think she will like me ??? Please introduce me to her – May be they will like me too…… I am counting on you to find me a Hanuman Bride – Please don't let me down !!

    Baby !! this Hanuman is on fire !!!!!!! Wooooo Hooooo !!

    Cummon Baby Light My fire !!!!!!!!!!

  496. Supan Says:
    September 8th, 2010 at 9:22 am

    You and Repo are half caste genocidal bastards who are only talking a pack of lies here

    Once again – Prove the lies please and we will stop posting here forever 🙂 !!

    Also, regarding the cast matter – I am not quite sure which cast I belong to. But, I have heard that Lot of high Class Tamil people did not like Piribaharan because he was from a very low cast – is this true ???

    Also re. Genocide – We did post the meaning of the word genocide repeatedly – If you need to find the meaning of the word – go to http://www.dictionary.com

    Also get your English speaking neighbour to explain the meaning to you – Then you will realise how honorable Tamils as Lakshman K & Neelan T were killed and Also why Karuna, douglas D, Pillayan and the crowd are still alive and are supporting the government of Sri Lanka – Let me rest my case there…

    Mathivathanan Says:
    September 8th, 2010 at 9:32 am

    This must me the Masculine name of Mathivadini – Sounds Apish Anyways…

    Well let me guess, Repo is a 4′10″ tall, with the face of Hanuma and has wide gaps between the teeth, and no hair on the head. Right ?

    Oh – so you finally got to see your self in a Mirror – LOL !!!!!!! Good that you are getting used to the modern humans marvelous inventions !

    And, Oh – ya, you have discribed exactly how I look too – That indeed is how I look !! – Sounds a Good Match to your Sister or your Eelamist relative noh ?? Do you think she will like me ??? Please introduce me to her – May be they will like me too…… I am counting on you to find me a Hanuman Bride – Please don't let me down !!

    Baby !! this Hanuman is on fire !!!!!!! Wooooo Hooooo !!

    Cummon Baby Light My fire !!!!!!!!!!

  497. ‘LLRC lessons advocate permanent subjugation of Tamils’ http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&art
    LLRC, the Rajapaksa appointed Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission, is created “neither to learn lessons nor to reconcile but to make Tamils accept and tolerate the crime and cruelty of the Sinhalese and live with repression forever,” says a reader, Sam Thambipillai, in sending a comment on Jayantha Dhanapala’s submission to the LLRC.

    “Sri Lanka sets precedent for internationally acceptable genocide model” http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=79&art

  498. Breaking News from Interpol !

    Police Puwath !!!

    Jim Mc Donnald (AKA – Jim Lie, Jima Gona, Moda Jima, Paithyam Jimam) attached to the Amnesty International USA branch has gone missing for the past two weeks. He was Last seen in the USA running naked down the streets Laughing at others and trying to cover them up.

    The Government of Sri Lanka is the main suspect, whom, the Interpol feels have abducted Jim and put in to a hot water pool for cleansing purposes – however, this is only a mere suspicion without proof, but, lot of people are forced to believe by the organization named Peelam Die Ass Pora.

    Jim also has a lot of questions to answer, of which, most were posted on his blog site by fellow bloggers and Interpol believes that he was running away from the questions.

    Interpol intends to find Jim ASAP in order to get him to answer these questions on articles of his, which were proven beyond doubt as Damn Lies and Statistics.

    If you have any information about this woman, please contact the nearest Police Station – Oh Sorry – That was Ma Backer – If you have any information about Jim Mc Donald, please contact

    INTERPOL
    General Secretariat,
    200, quai Charles de Gaulle,
    69006 Lyon,
    France
    Fax: +33 (0)4 72 44 71 63

  499. ‘LLRC lessons advocate permanent subjugation of Tamils’ http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&art
    LLRC, the Rajapaksa appointed Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission, is created “neither to learn lessons nor to reconcile but to make Tamils accept and tolerate the crime and cruelty of the Sinhalese and live with repression forever,” says a reader, Sam Thambipillai, in sending a comment on Jayantha Dhanapala’s submission to the LLRC.

    “Sri Lanka sets precedent for internationally acceptable genocide model” http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=79&art

  500. ‘LLRC lessons advocate permanent subjugation of Tamils’ http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&art
    LLRC, the Rajapaksa appointed Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission, is created “neither to learn lessons nor to reconcile but to make Tamils accept and tolerate the crime and cruelty of the Sinhalese and live with repression forever,” says a reader, Sam Thambipillai, in sending a comment on Jayantha Dhanapala’s submission to the LLRC.

    “Sri Lanka sets precedent for internationally acceptable genocide model” http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=79&art

  501. Supan Says:
    September 8th, 2010 at 9:22 am

    You and Repo are half caste genocidal bastards who are only talking a pack of lies here

    Once again – Prove the lies please and we will stop posting here forever 🙂 !!

    Also, regarding the cast matter – I am not quite sure which cast I belong to. But, I have heard that Lot of high Class Tamil people did not like Piribaharan because he was from a very low cast – is this true ???

    Also re. Genocide – We did post the meaning of the word genocide repeatedly – If you need to find the meaning of the word – go to http://www.dictionary.com

    Also get your English speaking neighbour to explain the meaning to you – Then you will realise how honorable Tamils as Lakshman K & Neelan T were killed and Also why Karuna, douglas D, Pillayan and the crowd are still alive and are supporting the government of Sri Lanka – Let me rest my case there…

    Mathivathanan Says:
    September 8th, 2010 at 9:32 am

    This must me the Masculine name of Mathivadini – Sounds Apish Anyways…

    Well let me guess, Repo is a 4′10″ tall, with the face of Hanuma and has wide gaps between the teeth, and no hair on the head. Right ?

    Oh – so you finally got to see your self in a Mirror – LOL !!!!!!! Good that you are getting used to the modern humans marvelous inventions !

    And, Oh – ya, you have discribed exactly how I look too – That indeed is how I look !! – Sounds a Good Match to your Sister or your Eelamist relative noh ?? Do you think she will like me ??? Please introduce me to her – May be they will like me too…… I am counting on you to find me a Hanuman Bride – Please don’t let me down !!

    Baby !! this Hanuman is on fire !!!!!!! Wooooo Hooooo !!

    Cummon Baby Light My fire !!!!!!!!!!

  502. Breaking News from Interpol !

    Police Puwath !!!

    Jim Mc Donnald (AKA – Jim Lie, Jima Gona, Moda Jima, Paithyam Jimam) attached to the Amnesty International USA branch has gone missing for the past two weeks. He was Last seen in the USA running naked down the streets Laughing at others and trying to cover them up.

    The Government of Sri Lanka is the main suspect, whom, the Interpol feels have abducted Jim and put in to a hot water pool for cleansing purposes – however, this is only a mere suspicion without proof, but, lot of people are forced to believe by the organization named Peelam Die Ass Pora.

    Jim also has a lot of questions to answer, of which, most were posted on his blog site by fellow bloggers and Interpol believes that he was running away from the questions.

    Interpol intends to find Jim ASAP in order to get him to answer these questions on articles of his, which were proven beyond doubt as Damn Lies and Statistics.

    If you have any information about this woman, please contact the nearest Police Station – Oh Sorry – That was Ma Backer – If you have any information about Jim Mc Donald, please contact

    INTERPOL
    General Secretariat,
    200, quai Charles de Gaulle,
    69006 Lyon,
    France
    Fax: +33 (0)4 72 44 71 63

  503. Repo man – the drooling 100 year old fossil ,

    I’m glad I was spot on with your description.

    Ugly monkey !You are pathetic and sad creature.

    Your hate for Tamils is eating you from inside .

    Soon.. you will be a tired, old prune .. 🙂 🙂 🙂

  504. ‘LLRC lessons advocate permanent subjugation of Tamils’
    http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=32582
    LLRC, the Rajapaksa appointed Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission, is created “neither to learn lessons nor to reconcile but to make Tamils accept and tolerate the crime and cruelty of the Sinhalese and live with repression forever,” says a reader, Sam Thambipillai, in sending a comment on Jayantha Dhanapala’s submission to the LLRC.

    “Sri Lanka sets precedent for internationally acceptable genocide model”
    http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=79&artid=31553

  505. 18th CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT:"How Can This Bill be Urgent in the National Interest?

    Constitutional reforms, like elections, go to the heart of what it means to be a democracy in the modern-day world. Any changes that are introduced to a country’s constitution should be undertaken after due deliberation and consultation while having at its centre, the will of the People. In a pluralistic society such as Sri Lanka , ascertaining the will of the People can be a time-consuming and complex exercise. While the will of the People must be given due consideration, the essential features of a democracy, such as the rule of law, accountability of the government and transparency must be preserved and promoted through any constitutional reform.

    By choosing to amend the constitution through an urgent bill the entire process of reform has been expedited, if not short-circuited, and no room has been left for any kind of public debate let alone public consultation. Under a Constitution that explicitly recognizes the “Sovereignty of the People” that process is not acceptable, especially when no convincing reasons have been given as to the need to expedite this process. Indeed, the most distressing aspect to this whole process is the lack of interest in government ranks on the need to raise awareness, let alone build consensus, among the general public on the need for such urgent reform.
    Unquote.

    The Bar Association of Sri Lanka, having warned in due time, has again issued a statement this morning, and I quote:

    The Bar Association of Sri Lanka is perturbed by the move of the Government to introduce the 18th Amendment to the constitution as an “urgent bill”.

    As early as June this year, the bar Council resolved that constitutional Amendments should not be presented as “Urgent Bills” and urged the Government to desist from proposing Constitutional Amendments in the form of “Urgent Bills”.

  506. Sri Lanka Police is wasting their time and money by chasing against Rajapaksa posters

    According to police, the posters have already been distributed across Sri Lanka and all respective police stations and divisions have been informed of this and advised to apprehend all these posters

    large number of these posters have also been stacked in two houses located in Maharagama and Chitra Lane in Narahenpita.

    The houses were searched and subsequently it was revealed that one of the houses belonged to JVP MP Sunil Handunneththi.

    Following the arrest of several persons working at the printing press, the newspaper article claimed that UNP MPs Mangala Samaraweera, Dayasiri Jayasekara, John Amaratunga, Jayalath Jayawardena and Karu Jayasuriya had visited the Mirihana police station and demanded that the suspects be released.

    The suspects were however not released.

  507. The 18th amendment is 'A dark day for democracy': General Fonseka

    The DNA Member of Parliament and former chief of the army, General Sarath Fonseka addressing a news conference regarding the 18th amendment a short while ago said 'it's a dark day for democracy".

    He said that seven members of his party will be voting against the 18th amendment today.

    "This legislation is the last nail in the coffin of democracy", he said referring to the amendments.

    The MP added that the DNA will continue its struggle on behalf of the people even though it has only seven members.

    He added that it is regrettable that the main opposition party is not clear in its position on the constitutional amendment.

    There are several opposition MPs who have crossed over due to personal gains", he alleged.

    Fonseka said he too had been approached by intermediaries of the President who have urged him to ask the President for a pardon but said he would never do that.
    http://www.srilankaguardian.org/2010/09/dark-day-

  508. The 18th amendment is 'A dark day for democracy': General Fonseka

    The DNA Member of Parliament and former chief of the army, General Sarath Fonseka addressing a news conference regarding the 18th amendment a short while ago said 'it's a dark day for democracy".

    He said that seven members of his party will be voting against the 18th amendment today.

    "This legislation is the last nail in the coffin of democracy", he said referring to the amendments.

    The MP added that the DNA will continue its struggle on behalf of the people even though it has only seven members.

    He added that it is regrettable that the main opposition party is not clear in its position on the constitutional amendment.

    There are several opposition MPs who have crossed over due to personal gains", he alleged.

    Fonseka said he too had been approached by intermediaries of the President who have urged him to ask the President for a pardon but said he would never do that.
    http://www.srilankaguardian.org/2010/09/dark-day-

  509. The 18th amendment is 'A dark day for democracy': General Fonseka

    The DNA Member of Parliament and former chief of the army, General Sarath Fonseka addressing a news conference regarding the 18th amendment a short while ago said 'it's a dark day for democracy".

    He said that seven members of his party will be voting against the 18th amendment today.

    "This legislation is the last nail in the coffin of democracy", he said referring to the amendments.

    The MP added that the DNA will continue its struggle on behalf of the people even though it has only seven members.

    He added that it is regrettable that the main opposition party is not clear in its position on the constitutional amendment.

    There are several opposition MPs who have crossed over due to personal gains", he alleged.

    Fonseka said he too had been approached by intermediaries of the President who have urged him to ask the President for a pardon but said he would never do that.
    http://www.srilankaguardian.org/2010/09/dark-day-

  510. Rajapaksa is spreading the sugar – coated lies.

    Only fools would believe in the his “ Knowledge-based Development “ in Jaffna while thousands of Jaffna students who studied Finance, IT, Business Sciences are still imprisoned in jails where they are taught how to do rings from a coconut shell.

    One thing is very clear.

    The future for Tamils is enslaved and colonization

    The GoSL is hell bent on taking every step to wipe out the Tamil identity in the island.

    Earlier they were doing it subtly and slowly but now they are doing it more openly and aggressively

  511. Yes, the Jaffna Open Forum -“Pathways to Knowledge-based Development” is not a true reconciliation

    This is done to hoodwink the Tamils to accept the war crimes and the inhuman cruelty of the Sinhalese Army and to live with repression forever

  512. Repo man – the drooling 100 year old fossil ,

    I’m glad I was spot on with your description.

    Ugly monkey !You are pathetic and sad creature.

    Your hate for Tamils is eating you from inside .

    Soon.. you will be a tired, old prune .. 🙂 🙂 🙂

  513. “The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.”

    t is indeed terrifying and demoralizing to see the backward slide of our nation from a democracy to a dictatorship. We have never seen, in the course of our history, the likes of such unprincipled governance and self seeking deception by a leadership cloaked in the finery of patriotism and national interest.

    Even more distressing is the timidity and servility of the majority of the legislature, judiciary, public sector, private sector, religious institutions and media in expressing their very serious misgivings over the craftily concocted interpretations provided by the state in defending the proposed changes.

  514. “The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.”
    Robert M. Hutchins

    It is indeed terrifying and demoralizing to see the backward slide of our nation from a democracy to a dictatorship. We have never seen, in the course of our history, the likes of such unprincipled governance and self seeking deception by a leadership cloaked in the finery of patriotism and national interest.

    Even more distressing is the timidity and servility of the majority of the legislature, judiciary, public sector, private sector, religious institutions and media in expressing their very serious misgivings over the craftily concocted interpretations provided by the state in defending the proposed changes.

  515. 18th CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT:”How Can This Bill be Urgent in the National Interest?

    Constitutional reforms, like elections, go to the heart of what it means to be a democracy in the modern-day world. Any changes that are introduced to a country’s constitution should be undertaken after due deliberation and consultation while having at its centre, the will of the People. In a pluralistic society such as Sri Lanka , ascertaining the will of the People can be a time-consuming and complex exercise. While the will of the People must be given due consideration, the essential features of a democracy, such as the rule of law, accountability of the government and transparency must be preserved and promoted through any constitutional reform.

    By choosing to amend the constitution through an urgent bill the entire process of reform has been expedited, if not short-circuited, and no room has been left for any kind of public debate let alone public consultation. Under a Constitution that explicitly recognizes the “Sovereignty of the People” that process is not acceptable, especially when no convincing reasons have been given as to the need to expedite this process. Indeed, the most distressing aspect to this whole process is the lack of interest in government ranks on the need to raise awareness, let alone build consensus, among the general public on the need for such urgent reform.
    Unquote.

    The Bar Association of Sri Lanka, having warned in due time, has again issued a statement this morning, and I quote:

    The Bar Association of Sri Lanka is perturbed by the move of the Government to introduce the 18th Amendment to the constitution as an “urgent bill”.

    As early as June this year, the bar Council resolved that constitutional Amendments should not be presented as “Urgent Bills” and urged the Government to desist from proposing Constitutional Amendments in the form of “Urgent Bills”.

  516. Sri Lanka Police is wasting their time and money by chasing against Rajapaksa posters

    According to police, the posters have already been distributed across Sri Lanka and all respective police stations and divisions have been informed of this and advised to apprehend all these posters

    large number of these posters have also been stacked in two houses located in Maharagama and Chitra Lane in Narahenpita.

    The houses were searched and subsequently it was revealed that one of the houses belonged to JVP MP Sunil Handunneththi.

    Following the arrest of several persons working at the printing press, the newspaper article claimed that UNP MPs Mangala Samaraweera, Dayasiri Jayasekara, John Amaratunga, Jayalath Jayawardena and Karu Jayasuriya had visited the Mirihana police station and demanded that the suspects be released.

    The suspects were however not released.

  517. Yogarasa Says:
    September 10th, 2010 at 10:04 am

    Yes, the Jaffna Open Forum -“Pathways to Knowledge-based Development” is not a true reconciliation

    Here is another chance for you Apes to prove that you have some kind of spine !!

    You always throw stuff at us telling us to prove right ? And we do right ??

    So Here is my Challenge – Actually another !

    Please prove that "Phways to Knowledge based development is not a true recon effort and is fake !!

    Please prove with as many as facts you could get !! Let's see whether you have at least a little bit of energy left down there to get things straight !! 🙂 😉 !

  518. Rip

    EDE

    We can only admire their talents to cook up stories in different angles and suggest their names for nomination for Oscar award committee perhaps.

    Furthermore, some pilfer others' names and sail under false colours to express their views.

    If they are fort-right and they have no blemish in their minds, why should they steal Tamils' names to set forth their views?

    Quite absurdly, some impute mendacious accusations on me to attach a black mark to my name.

    Actually, these are a glimpse of their illegal and gruesome activities.

    Why do they behave in such a obnoxious manner?

    I still doubt whether the defects in the evolution from lion may have resulted in a rather mutated gene in their genome.

  519. Mathivathanan Says:
    September 10th, 2010 at 6:03 am

    I’m glad I was spot on with your description.

    Of Course my Dear Brother in Law to be !!!! How can you ever be wrong ???? Never !! Your Spot on, impeccable description is a unique showcase of your spotless brilliance !!

    Ugly monkey !You are pathetic and sad creature.

    Of course my Brother – so When do I come to see your Sister ??? Let's try make it Within the next few minutes pls – I am so impatient for this moment to happen !!

    Your hate for Tamils is eating you from inside .

    Oh Yes – After marrying your sister and joining your family, I will be a true Peelamist who would hate Tamils – See, I will also Kill Tamils like Lakshman K, Neelan T, Doraiappa, Ponnambalam etc… Just like our Great Ape leader Piribaharan Tharuna Seeni Bola Mahatha Did !! I will also go down the streets of London Telling GAP and M&S to Close down their stores and to Boycott Sri Lankan Garments that are produced now partially by the Rehabilitated LTTE carders who are Tamil – Together with you, I will ensure that the Tamils in Sri Lanka will never get a chance to raise up !! Don't worry my fellow Ape Brother in Law – I shall not let U down !!

    Soon.. you will be a tired, old prune .

    Yes my BIL 🙂 – My Prune will sooner than later be tired and old – for sure after I marry your sister and become a Peemalist – I mean that indeed is a qualification to be a Peelamist right ? Anyways, Prune aging is a situation of the world – Happens to all of us when we gradually age, The prune ages too…. But, then again, it's OK to age once you have taken the maximum use off your prune…. But, I feel sorry for you in that sense by BIL because you never had a prune to experience the wonders anyways 🙁 !!

    BTW, Love calling you bill and I hope you will not run away or change your Handle Name like others do – I will be so hurt !!

    BTW, see these Sinhala Racists and Tamil Racists – They have made their language to make your name sound as not enough words (Madi = Not Enough, Wadan = Words) and it means the Same in Tamil too !! As if they are calling you "All Fart, No Shit" – Bad of these Racists noh ??

  520. The 18th amendment is ‘A dark day for democracy’: General Fonseka

    The DNA Member of Parliament and former chief of the army, General Sarath Fonseka addressing a news conference regarding the 18th amendment a short while ago said ‘it’s a dark day for democracy”.

    He said that seven members of his party will be voting against the 18th amendment today.

    “This legislation is the last nail in the coffin of democracy”, he said referring to the amendments.

    The MP added that the DNA will continue its struggle on behalf of the people even though it has only seven members.

    He added that it is regrettable that the main opposition party is not clear in its position on the constitutional amendment.

    There are several opposition MPs who have crossed over due to personal gains”, he alleged.

    Fonseka said he too had been approached by intermediaries of the President who have urged him to ask the President for a pardon but said he would never do that.

    http://www.srilankaguardian.org/2010/09/dark-day-for-democracy-fonseka.html

  521. Puligal Says:
    September 10th, 2010 at 1:16 pm

    Puliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    My dear Puke Gal !!!!!!

    I was About to go to sleep and call it a day when I saw your post – I mean, It just lit up my eyes and sleep ? No I am not sleepy anymore – I have never fallen a sleep in the midst of a Charlie Chaplin Movie 🙂 !

    We can only admire their talents to cook up stories in different angles and suggest their names for nomination for Oscar award committee perhaps.

    Puksi – If Kollywood movies are nomnated for Oscars, the script of Rohan whee people swim across from Indonesia to get to Aussie would have won Hands down. As for EDE and me, we do not cook up stories – please tell us occasions that we have and may be we can consider – so, we will fail for sure – why not A(ss) Savage to do a Musical ? Proving to be better than Andrew Lloyd Weber !!

    Furthermore, some pilfer others’ names and sail under false colours to express their views.

    Indeed Puli – We love to Sail – U like to join ?? Next trip is from Thailand to Canada and we are also trying to seek asylum in Canada – the only hitch is that we have to pay USD 50,000 to the ship captain, but EDE managed to sell his Colombo 7 Elite cubical and we now have the cash !!

    Oh. BTW, the colour that we sail under are the Rainbow Colours 😉 !!

    If they are fort-right and they have no blemish in their minds, why should they steal Tamils’ names to set forth their views?

    See the post of Jim About the 3 Sri Lankan Asylum seekers who have apparently been tortured by the GOSL – Did u see it ?? Mendis and Weeraratne (or something like that)

    Did U also see the comments below by the Peelamists ?? They claim the Weeraratne's and Mendises to be Tamils – LOL – I mean, who could be that dumb noh ?? So, I don't see why names are much of a big issue in these blogs – See, There is no more Gunalan who has run away from answering questions, but, many other names that posts similar kind of posts. A(ss) Savage sounds as dumb as you are and I wonder whether you share the same gene pool – So it doesn't matter, but the content does – that's why we plead you to post only quality content and not cheap cartoon movies… ( at times your posts are like watching the Road Runner Show – Sp predictable, yet hilarious and stupid)

    Quite absurdly, some impute mendacious accusations on me to attach a black mark to my name.

    U mean, calling you Puke Gal or calling you similar to A(ss) Savage ?? I admit calling you A(ss) Savage could be Demeaning to any body – sorry about it – but I don't intend to stop it 🙂 !

    Actually, these are a glimpse of their illegal and gruesome activities.

    Oh Yes – I also intend to marry Madivandan's Sister and carry out all the legal activities you guys do – like Human Trafficking, Smuggling, Arms and Drug Trafficking etc… 🙂

    Why do they behave in such a obnoxious manner?

    I am trying to enjoy life before I get married to Madivana's Sister 🙂 – Last few days noh !!!

    I still doubt whether the defects in the evolution from lion may have resulted in a rather mutated gene in their genome.

    I think so too…… I mean, these Lions, they never learned to climb trees like the monkey's did – That is the major difference between the Lions and Monkeys I guess – But then again, Madi thinks that I look like you guys and have welcomed me to your Family… I think this EDE is missing this Gene of climbing trees – But, I wonder how he learned to Peel the Banana Before consumption and you couldn't !!! 🙁 !

  522. Rajapaksa is spreading the sugar – coated lies.

    Only fools would believe in the his “ Knowledge-based Development “ in Jaffna while thousands of Jaffna students who studied Finance, IT, Business Sciences are still imprisoned in jails where they are taught how to do rings from a coconut shell.

    One thing is very clear.

    The future for Tamils is enslaved and colonization

    The GoSL is hell bent on taking every step to wipe out the Tamil identity in the island.

    Earlier they were doing it subtly and slowly but now they are doing it more openly and aggressively

  523. Yes, the Jaffna Open Forum -“Pathways to Knowledge-based Development” is not a true reconciliation

    This is done to hoodwink the Tamils to accept the war crimes and the inhuman cruelty of the Sinhalese Army and to live with repression forever

  524. “The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.”

    t is indeed terrifying and demoralizing to see the backward slide of our nation from a democracy to a dictatorship. We have never seen, in the course of our history, the likes of such unprincipled governance and self seeking deception by a leadership cloaked in the finery of patriotism and national interest.

    Even more distressing is the timidity and servility of the majority of the legislature, judiciary, public sector, private sector, religious institutions and media in expressing their very serious misgivings over the craftily concocted interpretations provided by the state in defending the proposed changes.

  525. “The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.”
    Robert M. Hutchins

    It is indeed terrifying and demoralizing to see the backward slide of our nation from a democracy to a dictatorship. We have never seen, in the course of our history, the likes of such unprincipled governance and self seeking deception by a leadership cloaked in the finery of patriotism and national interest.

    Even more distressing is the timidity and servility of the majority of the legislature, judiciary, public sector, private sector, religious institutions and media in expressing their very serious misgivings over the craftily concocted interpretations provided by the state in defending the proposed changes.

  526. Yogarasa Says:
    September 10th, 2010 at 10:04 am

    Yes, the Jaffna Open Forum -“Pathways to Knowledge-based Development” is not a true reconciliation

    Here is another chance for you Apes to prove that you have some kind of spine !!

    You always throw stuff at us telling us to prove right ? And we do right ??

    So Here is my Challenge – Actually another !

    Please prove that “Phways to Knowledge based development is not a true recon effort and is fake !!

    Please prove with as many as facts you could get !! Let’s see whether you have at least a little bit of energy left down there to get things straight !! 🙂 😉 !

  527. Rip

    EDE

    We can only admire their talents to cook up stories in different angles and suggest their names for nomination for Oscar award committee perhaps.

    Furthermore, some pilfer others’ names and sail under false colours to express their views.

    If they are fort-right and they have no blemish in their minds, why should they steal Tamils’ names to set forth their views?

    Quite absurdly, some impute mendacious accusations on me to attach a black mark to my name.

    Actually, these are a glimpse of their illegal and gruesome activities.

    Why do they behave in such a obnoxious manner?

    I still doubt whether the defects in the evolution from lion may have resulted in a rather mutated gene in their genome.

  528. Mathivathanan Says:
    September 10th, 2010 at 6:03 am

    I’m glad I was spot on with your description.

    Of Course my Dear Brother in Law to be !!!! How can you ever be wrong ???? Never !! Your Spot on, impeccable description is a unique showcase of your spotless brilliance !!

    Ugly monkey !You are pathetic and sad creature.

    Of course my Brother – so When do I come to see your Sister ??? Let’s try make it Within the next few minutes pls – I am so impatient for this moment to happen !!

    Your hate for Tamils is eating you from inside .

    Oh Yes – After marrying your sister and joining your family, I will be a true Peelamist who would hate Tamils – See, I will also Kill Tamils like Lakshman K, Neelan T, Doraiappa, Ponnambalam etc… Just like our Great Ape leader Piribaharan Tharuna Seeni Bola Mahatha Did !! I will also go down the streets of London Telling GAP and M&S to Close down their stores and to Boycott Sri Lankan Garments that are produced now partially by the Rehabilitated LTTE carders who are Tamil – Together with you, I will ensure that the Tamils in Sri Lanka will never get a chance to raise up !! Don’t worry my fellow Ape Brother in Law – I shall not let U down !!

    Soon.. you will be a tired, old prune .

    Yes my BIL 🙂 – My Prune will sooner than later be tired and old – for sure after I marry your sister and become a Peemalist – I mean that indeed is a qualification to be a Peelamist right ? Anyways, Prune aging is a situation of the world – Happens to all of us when we gradually age, The prune ages too…. But, then again, it’s OK to age once you have taken the maximum use off your prune…. But, I feel sorry for you in that sense by BIL because you never had a prune to experience the wonders anyways 🙁 !!

    BTW, Love calling you bill and I hope you will not run away or change your Handle Name like others do – I will be so hurt !!

    BTW, see these Sinhala Racists and Tamil Racists – They have made their language to make your name sound as not enough words (Madi = Not Enough, Wadan = Words) and it means the Same in Tamil too !! As if they are calling you “All Fart, No Shit” – Bad of these Racists noh ??

  529. Dammit Repo Man, I want to marry Madivandan's sister.

    We'll have to prove to him who's the better man; and that's obviously me. So, I'll challenge you to a poetry recital (in the style of a.savage) at Galle Face Green, with Madivandan and his sister as judges and may the best man (me, obviously), win! I also have an Elite Cubicle in Colombo 7.

    Prof Puligal, great to see you back in action – we know that you're still only pretending to be an Eelamist… you can't fool us 🙂

    I think its also time to salute's Rohan's indefatigable MBRL barrages of cut'n' paste articles. Why not tell us what you think, Rohan, instated of merely copying someone else's thoughts and words?

  530. Puligal Says:
    September 10th, 2010 at 1:16 pm

    Puliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    My dear Puke Gal !!!!!!

    I was About to go to sleep and call it a day when I saw your post – I mean, It just lit up my eyes and sleep ? No I am not sleepy anymore – I have never fallen a sleep in the midst of a Charlie Chaplin Movie 🙂 !

    We can only admire their talents to cook up stories in different angles and suggest their names for nomination for Oscar award committee perhaps.

    Puksi – If Kollywood movies are nomnated for Oscars, the script of Rohan whee people swim across from Indonesia to get to Aussie would have won Hands down. As for EDE and me, we do not cook up stories – please tell us occasions that we have and may be we can consider – so, we will fail for sure – why not A(ss) Savage to do a Musical ? Proving to be better than Andrew Lloyd Weber !!

    Furthermore, some pilfer others’ names and sail under false colours to express their views.

    Indeed Puli – We love to Sail – U like to join ?? Next trip is from Thailand to Canada and we are also trying to seek asylum in Canada – the only hitch is that we have to pay USD 50,000 to the ship captain, but EDE managed to sell his Colombo 7 Elite cubical and we now have the cash !!

    Oh. BTW, the colour that we sail under are the Rainbow Colours 😉 !!

    If they are fort-right and they have no blemish in their minds, why should they steal Tamils’ names to set forth their views?

    See the post of Jim About the 3 Sri Lankan Asylum seekers who have apparently been tortured by the GOSL – Did u see it ?? Mendis and Weeraratne (or something like that)

    Did U also see the comments below by the Peelamists ?? They claim the Weeraratne’s and Mendises to be Tamils – LOL – I mean, who could be that dumb noh ?? So, I don’t see why names are much of a big issue in these blogs – See, There is no more Gunalan who has run away from answering questions, but, many other names that posts similar kind of posts. A(ss) Savage sounds as dumb as you are and I wonder whether you share the same gene pool – So it doesn’t matter, but the content does – that’s why we plead you to post only quality content and not cheap cartoon movies… ( at times your posts are like watching the Road Runner Show – Sp predictable, yet hilarious and stupid)

    Quite absurdly, some impute mendacious accusations on me to attach a black mark to my name.

    U mean, calling you Puke Gal or calling you similar to A(ss) Savage ?? I admit calling you A(ss) Savage could be Demeaning to any body – sorry about it – but I don’t intend to stop it 🙂 !

    Actually, these are a glimpse of their illegal and gruesome activities.

    Oh Yes – I also intend to marry Madivandan’s Sister and carry out all the legal activities you guys do – like Human Trafficking, Smuggling, Arms and Drug Trafficking etc… 🙂

    Why do they behave in such a obnoxious manner?

    I am trying to enjoy life before I get married to Madivana’s Sister 🙂 – Last few days noh !!!

    I still doubt whether the defects in the evolution from lion may have resulted in a rather mutated gene in their genome.

    I think so too…… I mean, these Lions, they never learned to climb trees like the monkey’s did – That is the major difference between the Lions and Monkeys I guess – But then again, Madi thinks that I look like you guys and have welcomed me to your Family… I think this EDE is missing this Gene of climbing trees – But, I wonder how he learned to Peel the Banana Before consumption and you couldn’t !!! 🙁 !

  531. Dammit Repo Man, I want to marry Madivandan’s sister.

    We’ll have to prove to him who’s the better man; and that’s obviously me. So, I’ll challenge you to a poetry recital (in the style of a.savage) at Galle Face Green, with Madivandan and his sister as judges and may the best man (me, obviously), win! I also have an Elite Cubicle in Colombo 7.

    Prof Puligal, great to see you back in action – we know that you’re still only pretending to be an Eelamist… you can’t fool us 🙂

    I think its also time to salute’s Rohan’s indefatigable MBRL barrages of cut’n’ paste articles. Why not tell us what you think, Rohan, instated of merely copying someone else’s thoughts and words?

  532. Mango Says:
    September 10th, 2010 at 6:42 pm

    Dammit Repo Man, I want to marry Madivandan’s sister.

    I proposed first, so wait in the line right behind me….. !!

    Well, We can also ask Madi, whether he has 2 sisters…. We can be Brother in Laws too…. !!

  533. Mango !

    Anyways, I am highly disturbed by the sudden lack of posts by the Peelamists and Jim going silent !!!

    Gunalan and some of our old friends have gone missing forever… 🙁

    I am worried that Madi will go missing and we will have to be Single too…..

  534. US Condemns Sri Lanka Constitutional Amendment http://www.voanews.com/english/news/asia/US-Conde

    The United States on Saturday condemned Sri Lanka's passage of a constitutional amendment granting the president new powers, saying it undermined democracy. Sri Lanka's parliament on Wednesday voted for the measure sought by President Mahinda Rajapaksa. It eliminates presidential term limits and grants the president more power over appointments to the police, judiciary, public service and electoral commissions.

    The Day Sri Lanka Lost Her Soul http://www.thesundayleader.lk/2010/09/12/the-day-
    As I pen these lines the knowledge bears heavy upon my soul that by the time these words go to press, Sri Lanka is well on the path to dictatorship and oligarchy: from the moment the Speaker puts his signature to the 18th Amendment bulldozed through Parliament on the 8th of September, his brother will become the constitutionally sanctioned autocrat of our troubled island. Perhaps 8/9/10 will go down in history as the day one of Asia’s oldest democracies lost her soul. [ full story | comments ]

  535. US Condemns Sri Lanka Constitutional Amendment http://www.voanews.com/english/news/asia/US-Conde

    The United States on Saturday condemned Sri Lanka's passage of a constitutional amendment granting the president new powers, saying it undermined democracy. Sri Lanka's parliament on Wednesday voted for the measure sought by President Mahinda Rajapaksa. It eliminates presidential term limits and grants the president more power over appointments to the police, judiciary, public service and electoral commissions.

    The Day Sri Lanka Lost Her Soul http://www.thesundayleader.lk/2010/09/12/the-day-
    As I pen these lines the knowledge bears heavy upon my soul that by the time these words go to press, Sri Lanka is well on the path to dictatorship and oligarchy: from the moment the Speaker puts his signature to the 18th Amendment bulldozed through Parliament on the 8th of September, his brother will become the constitutionally sanctioned autocrat of our troubled island. Perhaps 8/9/10 will go down in history as the day one of Asia’s oldest democracies lost her soul. [ full story | comments ]

  536. US Condemns Sri Lanka Constitutional Amendment http://www.voanews.com/english/news/asia/US-Conde

    The United States on Saturday condemned Sri Lanka's passage of a constitutional amendment granting the president new powers, saying it undermined democracy. Sri Lanka's parliament on Wednesday voted for the measure sought by President Mahinda Rajapaksa. It eliminates presidential term limits and grants the president more power over appointments to the police, judiciary, public service and electoral commissions.

    The Day Sri Lanka Lost Her Soul http://www.thesundayleader.lk/2010/09/12/the-day-
    As I pen these lines the knowledge bears heavy upon my soul that by the time these words go to press, Sri Lanka is well on the path to dictatorship and oligarchy: from the moment the Speaker puts his signature to the 18th Amendment bulldozed through Parliament on the 8th of September, his brother will become the constitutionally sanctioned autocrat of our troubled island. Perhaps 8/9/10 will go down in history as the day one of Asia’s oldest democracies lost her soul. [ full story | comments ]

  537. Mango Says:
    September 10th, 2010 at 6:42 pm

    Dammit Repo Man, I want to marry Madivandan’s sister.

    I proposed first, so wait in the line right behind me….. !!

    Well, We can also ask Madi, whether he has 2 sisters…. We can be Brother in Laws too…. !!

  538. Mango !

    Anyways, I am highly disturbed by the sudden lack of posts by the Peelamists and Jim going silent !!!

    Gunalan and some of our old friends have gone missing forever… 🙁

    I am worried that Madi will go missing and we will have to be Single too…..

  539. the Rajapaksa appointed Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission, is created “neither to learn lessons nor to reconcile but to make Tamils accept and tolerate the crime and cruelty of the Sinhalese and live with repression forever,” says a reader, Sam Thambipillai, in sending a comment on Jayantha Dhanapala’s submission to the LLRC. Colombo’s diplomat Jayantha Dhanapala, who once attempted to contest for the UN Secretary General position, in his submission to the LLRC last month said: “We have learnt a great deal of lessons from the experience of combating one of the most ruthless terrorist groups […] We would be providing something innovative to the international community […] to give some guidance to armies of nation states as to how they should react to such a situation”.

    Twisting the spirit of Right to Protect (R2P) in favour of the state in Sri Lanka and accusing India for training the Tamil militants and accusing others for allowing flow of money, Dr. Dhanapala said: "Now I think it is important for us to exapnd that concept [R2P] to bring in the culpability of those members of the international community who have subscribed to the situation that has caused injury to the civilians of a nation."

    According to the diplomat, who once served as the head of Colombo’s Peace Secretariat, 300,000 lives were saved in Vanni because of the bravery of Sri Lanka’s military.

    Jayantha Dhanapala was a former UN Under-Secretary-General, a former Ambassador of Sri Lanka to the USA and to the UN Office in Geneva. He is currently Chairman of the UN University Council.

    Full text of the comment received from Mr. Sam Thambipillai follows:

    “It is universally understood that a person who offends needs and seeks forgiveness. An apology therefore comes from the offender and not from the offended or the victim, if serious reconciliation is desired.

    “For the past 60 dreadful years, the Sinhalese wronged against the Tamils, repeatedly and brutally. Therefore, it is only the Sinhalese who must apologise for their wrongs. But why the Tamils? This pertinent question should have been put forward to Jayantha Dhanapala by any serious person sitting on LLRC. Why was it not done? Stupidity or hypocrisy?

    “Further, most African countries that were repressed, resorted to armed rebellion and gained their independence, after attempts for peaceful resolutions failed. Even the UN ratified the independence of those countries. ANC, ZANU, MPLA, SWAPO, EPLF and FRELIMO were such armed groups that have become political parties, governing their countries now.

    “Therefore, Tamils taking up arms against state terrorist and genocidal regimes in Sri Lanka, to gain independence for Tamil Eelam, after the people democratically mandated it in 1977 and negotiations with SL failed, is not wrong but is absolutely right according to the ‘morality’ of the UN. Rightly therefore, the Supreme Court of New Zealand decided that LTTE was a political organisation and not ‘terrorists’.

    “But the GoSL, which signed even a CFA recognising the ‘de facto state’ of Tamil Eelam and held talks with the LTTE, similar to the Israeli-Palestinian talks, defiantly propagated falsely LTTE as a sole terrorist organisation and Dhanapala spearheaded that rut.

    “Obviously, the covert purpose of the GoSL was to destroy the freedom movement of Tamil Eelam and the extermination of Tamils, in spite of being a signatory to all the covenants on Human Rights and [International] Humanitarian Law.

    “You do not ‘sign justice’ you do justice! Sri Lanka is a war criminal and genocidal state running away from the UN enquiry, yet Dhanapala stated in the LLRC that this prodigal Sri Lanka would contribute to the UN with its experience to fight ‘terrorism’ and went unchallenged by anyone in LLRC.

    “Undoubtedly, the LLRC is created neither to learn lessons nor to reconcile but to make Tamils accept and tolerate the crime and cruelty of the Sinhalese and live with repression forever.”

  540. US Condemns Sri Lanka Constitutional Amendment
    http://www.voanews.com/english/news/asia/US-Condemns-Sri-Lanka-Amendment-102695059.html

    The United States on Saturday condemned Sri Lanka’s passage of a constitutional amendment granting the president new powers, saying it undermined democracy. Sri Lanka’s parliament on Wednesday voted for the measure sought by President Mahinda Rajapaksa. It eliminates presidential term limits and grants the president more power over appointments to the police, judiciary, public service and electoral commissions.

    The Day Sri Lanka Lost Her Soul
    http://www.thesundayleader.lk/2010/09/12/the-day-sri-lanka-lost-her-soul/
    As I pen these lines the knowledge bears heavy upon my soul that by the time these words go to press, Sri Lanka is well on the path to dictatorship and oligarchy: from the moment the Speaker puts his signature to the 18th Amendment bulldozed through Parliament on the 8th of September, his brother will become the constitutionally sanctioned autocrat of our troubled island. Perhaps 8/9/10 will go down in history as the day one of Asia’s oldest democracies lost her soul. [ full story | comments ]

  541. In Sri Lanka, the democratic process is regressing
    Constitutional amendments allow president to run for unlimited terms and dismantle an important check on executive power

    A penchant for triumphalism is never an attractive or useful quality, but unfortunately it appears to be one with which Sri Lanka's president Mahinda Rajapaksa is overly well endowed.

    He has capped his defeat in May last year of the quarter-century separatist insurgency by the Tamil Tiger guerrillas and resulting conclusive reelection victory in January by, in essence, dismantling Sri Lanka's liberal democracy.

    On Wednesday, Rajapaksa used the overwhelming parliamentary majority of his United people's Freedom Alliance to push through some fundamentally nation-changing constitutional amendments.

    These changes opened the way for Rajapaksa to remain president for as long as he wants and reduced to impotence both parliament and the other institutions intended to curb and contain the power of the executive presidency.

    With two brothers as government ministers, a third as speaker of parliament and his son as an member of parliament, the administration of Sri Lanka now looks like a Rajapaksa family business.

    Rajapaksa's supporters and advocates of Wednesday's amendment say the changes are necessary to provide Sri Lanka with basic stability as the country attempts to rebuild and progress after 26 years of civil war. And if the presidential powers are a bit muscular, say supporters, that's necessary to ensure the Tigers don't rise again and that Tamil separatism in the north of the island is not revived.

    The 18th constitutional amendment , passed on Wednesday with more than enough votes to clear the two-thirds majority hurdle, does two things.

    The first is that it removes the constitutional ban on a president serving more than two six-year terms.

    Rajapaksa was first elected in 2005. His second term, after an early election, will start in November and with Wednesday's changes he will be able to run again in 2016 and again and again until the cows come home.

    Supporters point out that Rajapaksa will still be required to face re-election every six years and the voters can throw him out any time they want.

    That argument would be more convincing were it not for the second part of the 18th amendment.

    The second part overturns the 17th amendment to the constitution of 2001, which was aimed at curbing the power of the executive presidency.

    The 17th amendment created a 10-member Constitutional Council, which has a substantial degree of independence and which is responsible for making all senior institutional appointments.

    So the council appoints members to the Election Commission, the Public Service Commission, the National Police Commission, the Human Rights Commission, the Permanent Commission to Investigate Bribery or Corruption, and several other boards.

    One of the most recent examples of the value of the independence of the Constitutional Council and the institutions under its purview was the Election Commission's highly critical assessment of the skulduggery that went into Rajapaksa's January election victory.

    In the future, such carping need not concern Rajapaksa because the 18th amendment gives the president the power to make all those senior appointments to positions that might otherwise act as a brake on his authority, but which are now patronage sinecures.

    In truth, the whole constitutional framework of Sri Lanka is fundamentally flawed. The only place where the miscegenation between parliamentary and executive presidential systems has worked is France, and then inconsistently.

    To cap it, Rajapaksa is, as one might guess, the commander-in-chief of the armed forces and he has given the generals fair warning that they should stay clear of politics.

    The man who commanded the army when it overran the Tamil Tigers in May last year, Gen. Sarath Fonseka, attempted to turn that fame into a political career by running against Rajapaksa in January's election.

    Not only was Fonseka trounced at the ballot box, he has since been arrested and charged with breaching military law, including treason.

    There was, quite rightly relief and some applause when Rajapaksa and the Sri Lankan army defeated the Tamil Tigers last year.

    The war had gone on too long and the Tigers had shown they could not be trusted to stick to a political solution.

    But instead of using the opportunity to be magnanimous in victory and embark on a generous and genuine campaign of reconciliation and reconstruction, Rajapaksa has succumbed to meaner instincts.

    He is now taking the country down a path all Sri Lankans will come to regret.
    http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Lanka+democratic

  542. the Rajapaksa appointed Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission, is created “neither to learn lessons nor to reconcile but to make Tamils accept and tolerate the crime and cruelty of the Sinhalese and live with repression forever,” says a reader, Sam Thambipillai, in sending a comment on Jayantha Dhanapala’s submission to the LLRC. Colombo’s diplomat Jayantha Dhanapala, who once attempted to contest for the UN Secretary General position, in his submission to the LLRC last month said: “We have learnt a great deal of lessons from the experience of combating one of the most ruthless terrorist groups […] We would be providing something innovative to the international community […] to give some guidance to armies of nation states as to how they should react to such a situation”.

    Twisting the spirit of Right to Protect (R2P) in favour of the state in Sri Lanka and accusing India for training the Tamil militants and accusing others for allowing flow of money, Dr. Dhanapala said: “Now I think it is important for us to exapnd that concept [R2P] to bring in the culpability of those members of the international community who have subscribed to the situation that has caused injury to the civilians of a nation.”

    According to the diplomat, who once served as the head of Colombo’s Peace Secretariat, 300,000 lives were saved in Vanni because of the bravery of Sri Lanka’s military.

    Jayantha Dhanapala was a former UN Under-Secretary-General, a former Ambassador of Sri Lanka to the USA and to the UN Office in Geneva. He is currently Chairman of the UN University Council.

    Full text of the comment received from Mr. Sam Thambipillai follows:

    “It is universally understood that a person who offends needs and seeks forgiveness. An apology therefore comes from the offender and not from the offended or the victim, if serious reconciliation is desired.

    “For the past 60 dreadful years, the Sinhalese wronged against the Tamils, repeatedly and brutally. Therefore, it is only the Sinhalese who must apologise for their wrongs. But why the Tamils? This pertinent question should have been put forward to Jayantha Dhanapala by any serious person sitting on LLRC. Why was it not done? Stupidity or hypocrisy?

    “Further, most African countries that were repressed, resorted to armed rebellion and gained their independence, after attempts for peaceful resolutions failed. Even the UN ratified the independence of those countries. ANC, ZANU, MPLA, SWAPO, EPLF and FRELIMO were such armed groups that have become political parties, governing their countries now.

    “Therefore, Tamils taking up arms against state terrorist and genocidal regimes in Sri Lanka, to gain independence for Tamil Eelam, after the people democratically mandated it in 1977 and negotiations with SL failed, is not wrong but is absolutely right according to the ‘morality’ of the UN. Rightly therefore, the Supreme Court of New Zealand decided that LTTE was a political organisation and not ‘terrorists’.

    “But the GoSL, which signed even a CFA recognising the ‘de facto state’ of Tamil Eelam and held talks with the LTTE, similar to the Israeli-Palestinian talks, defiantly propagated falsely LTTE as a sole terrorist organisation and Dhanapala spearheaded that rut.

    “Obviously, the covert purpose of the GoSL was to destroy the freedom movement of Tamil Eelam and the extermination of Tamils, in spite of being a signatory to all the covenants on Human Rights and [International] Humanitarian Law.

    “You do not ‘sign justice’ you do justice! Sri Lanka is a war criminal and genocidal state running away from the UN enquiry, yet Dhanapala stated in the LLRC that this prodigal Sri Lanka would contribute to the UN with its experience to fight ‘terrorism’ and went unchallenged by anyone in LLRC.

    “Undoubtedly, the LLRC is created neither to learn lessons nor to reconcile but to make Tamils accept and tolerate the crime and cruelty of the Sinhalese and live with repression forever.”

  543. I want to work for unity and one voice of the Tamils of the island and to find ways of rebuilding society, livelihood, institutions and political structures for them, symbols of identity that are fundamental to all their regeneration with self-respect should not be compromised.

    The Tamil-speaking peoples of the island have to shun the identity of ‘Sri Lanka’ that has become a symbol of state oppression ever since the constitutionality of the identity in 1972.

  544. Mahendra Percival Rajapaksa is now the King of Sri Lanka

    “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever.” – George Orwell, 1984

    As I pen these lines the knowledge bears heavy upon my soul that Sri Lanka is well on the path to dictatorship and oligarchy: from the moment the Speaker puts his signature to the 18th Amendment bulldozed through Parliament on the 8th of September, his brother will become the constitutionally sanctioned autocrat of our troubled island.

    Perhaps 8/9/10 will go down in history as the day one of Asia’s oldest democracies lost her soul.

    It is unfortunate that the government’s propaganda machine has been so effective as to still the consciences of the majority of Sri Lankans, most of whom are not even aware that as they go about their lives, apathetic and ignorant, their democratic rights are being signed away by the man who claims to be their liberator, Mahendra Percival Rajapaksa.

    In what has been an insidious political maneuvering since he assumed the Presidency of Sri Lanka in 2005, Mahinda Rajapaksa and the ruling family have finally shown their hand in a way that makes it impossible for any right thinking citizen to ignore.

    That is why the newspapers, pundits, columnists, lawyers and civil society on every side of the ideological divide have made a unified plea, because not even Mahinda Rajapaksa and his talented team of spin doctors at the state media houses can disguise this unbridled lust for absolute power as an act of patriotism.

    Finally then the true persona of the man so many have hailed as liberator is laid bare.

  545. New ‘President For Life’ , Mahinda Rajapaksa

    The 18th Amendment to the Constitution so secretly drafted and so insidiously placed upon the agenda of the legislature is nothing but an unabashed power grab by a man who has had despotic ambitions from the start; a man who has done everything in his presidency so far to arrive at this day – the day when he can secure the position of ‘President For Life’, for himself, until such time that his brothers and sons are ready for the throne. For those who gave him the benefit of the doubt when he had artistes write songs about Mahinda being a ‘Maharajaneni’ as far back as May last year, let there be no mistake now that as of September 8, 2010, Mahinda Rajapaksa is the self appointed king of Sri Lanka.

    This new Amendment which aims to reverse the progressive 17th Amendment, a historic piece of legislation endorsed unanimously by parliament and also allows an executive president to serve an unlimited number of terms in office, has been rushed through the legislative process like no other bill put forth by the Rajapaksa Administration. There is good reason for this. While protecting the presidency and keeping it in the hands of the Rajapaksa family, the 18th Amendment also ensures that all appointments to the public service, judiciary and the appointment of the elections commission or commissioner fall under the writ of an almighty executive president.

    In short, the 18th Amendment is a piece of Rajapaksa legislation that ensures that the Rajapaksa writ holds sway over every single area of governance and public life, exactly that which the 17th Amendment sought to prevent by way of de-politicizing the public service, judiciary, police and ensuring independence during elections. It is indeed a strange situation we are faced with today.

    For decades, the central political and public debate in Sri Lanka has been about trying to find ways to dilute the extraordinary powers vested with the executive president by the 1978 Constitution. At the last two national elections, this debate and discourse took pride of place in the plethora of political issues raised. How ironic it is then for us to find ourselves at this juncture. While all those of us in the political firmament have been determined to redefine the Sri Lankan constitution that would make the presidency more accountable to the people, Mahinda Rajapaksa has checkmated the nation by this constitutional coup to increase his powers and ensure that he and his family remain at the helm of this country for an indefinite time to come.

    In short, he has managed in less than a week to change the Sri Lankan presidency into the office of an all powerful dictator. It should be recalled that some of the worst dictators the world has ever seen have tried to legitimize their positions by conducting nominal elections. Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein held an election every five years where he was the only candidate. So does Mugabe of Zimbabwe. Adolf Hitler too obtained a 2/3 majority in the notorious elections of November 12th 1933; armed with this majority, within 12 months Hitler substituted his personal dictatorship for its democracy, destroyed all political parties but his own, wiped out the labour unions, stamped out democratic associations of any kind, abolished freedom of speech and of the press, and stifled the independence of the courts.

  546. Mahinda Rajapaksa is the the worst human rights violator

    Today it has become crystal clear why President Mahinda Rajapaksa has chosen to associate himself with the worst human rights violators and dictatorial regimes in the world at present. Since assuming power Mahinda Rajapaksa has strengthened relations with the military dictators of Myanmar who brutally massacred Buddhist priests clamoring for democracy and have imprisoned democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi since 1989 when her party won an election. Rajapaksa is bosom buddies with Libya’s Mohammed Gaddafi who has ruled that country for 40 years without an iota of democracy and Mahmaud Ahmadinejad of Iran who last year squashed opposition protests after a disputed election.

    In 2006, when I attended the UN General assembly in New York with the President, many were surprised when our leader embraced the Zimbabwean dictator to express his admiration for the aging tyrant. The 18th Amendment, passed into law last Wednesday ensures that all future elections are rendered meaningless, given the sheer power and control over state machinery by the incumbency.

    Where the 17th Amendment upholds the writ of the Commissioner of Elections appointed by the Constitutional Council over the state media during elections, the 18th Amendment holds that the Elections Commissioner (appointed by the President) will control all public and private media, ensuring that the writ of the incumbent will also extend over independent media houses during polls. In short, a political opponent would stand no chance against the Rajapaksa juggernaut; picture the last two elections held in Sri Lanka magnified a thousand fold.

    It has long since been established that candidates constantly come into presidential office swearing to abolish the executive presidency only to experience the absolute power of that office and be intoxicated by it. Few who ascend the presidency have ever wanted to relinquish it. To her credit, former President Chandrika Kumaratunga made a sincere attempt to introduce a new constitution minus the executive presidency on 3rd August 2000; history would have been so different if she succeeded then. When a man is afforded unlimited terms in that position, with full control over state machinery indefinitely, only the naive would believe he will give it up one day when his ‘vision for Sri Lanka’ is achieved.

  547. Why Urgent Bill to become the Tyrant for life for Rajapaksa ?

    In April 2010 he received nearly two thirds of a majority to abolish this system. It is therefore abundantly clear that Mahinda Rajapaksa did not win a mandate from the people to extend his term in office indefinitely. He received a mandate, both in 2005 and in 2010 to abolish the presidency and replace it with a different system of governance. So never mind his opponents, this move to extend his presidential term indefinitely is a grotesque subversion of the people’s franchise and a slap in the face for those who voted for him.

    In 1977 when J.R. Jayewardene moved to change the constitution and establish an executive presidency it was the likes of Mahinda Rajapaksa and many other senior SLFPers who took to the streets claiming that it was paving the way for dictatorial government. Today those same SLFPers are supporting this Draconian piece of legislation that not only establishes an all powerful president, but changes the very nature of the state, making a farce of democracy and placing all power in the hands of a single family. There is no doubt in my mind that a majority of the opposition to this Amendment comes from within the ranks of the government. And yet, in the face of this subversion of democracy and in fact the very parliamentary system, SLFPers have chosen to be silent, perhaps out of fear, perhaps out of a sense of complacency. I can only hope that they will remember that it was in their hands to reverse this, in their power to stall the Rajapaksa power trip in its tracks.

    The rest of Mahinda Rajapaksa’s numbers he achieved by using the full might of the government’s financial strength, to bribe and entice opposition members to sign over a country’s democratic rights to a despot in waiting. Where financial enticement failed, the Rajapaksas employed tactics of terror and intimidation, threatening lawsuits and trumped up charges against those they needed to pass the 18th Amendment into law. It is this purchase of opposition MPs to pass this bill that will be most harshly judged by history.

    The people who voted with the opposition voted stoically and determinedly against Mahinda Rajapaksa and the continuance of the executive presidency. They voted for an opposition which had pledged to abolish the all-powerful presidency and bring about a parliamentary system of governance in its stead. The opposition members who have crossed over with little moral compunction represent the interests of that section of the populace; people who categorically rejected the Rajapaksa doctrine for Sri Lanka even when they were at the height of their popularity and power. What kind of warped politicking is this? How will the MPs who have betrayed the mandate they have received answer to their electorates?

    You have repaid their faith in you by signing over your voters’ rights to a President they rejected, ensuring that their votes will count for nothing ever again, given the all powerful nature of the incumbency.

    All this for money? All this because you refuse to stand up to the man who has proven time and again that his word is good for nothing? There is no doubt that this is a crime for which your voters will never forgive you. You have betrayed them and signed away what was left of their freedom to a megalomaniac in return for the perks of ministerial office.

    As for the minority parties who have opted to support this ludicrous piece of legislation, I can only say to them that they have dug their own political graves, by having entrusted more power into the hands of a extremist madman who will use the additional power you have gifted him to further oppress your people.

    There is simply no precedent for the way in which this bill was rushed through. It was proposed as an Urgent Bill, begging the questions about why and in whose interests it was necessary to speed up the process, disallowing time for debate, protest or the creation of public opinion. Furthermore the government has opted to do away with the need for a referendum despite the fact that record low voter turn out in April meant that this government has a mandate of a mere 34 percent of registered voters.

  548. Why not offer a referendum about the 'President For Life’ for Rajapaksa ?

    If the government was not afraid that the people would vote against this amendment en mass, why not offer a referendum?

    Surely an amendment that vests so much power indefinitely in an incumbent was more than worthy of seeking the explicit opinion of the general populace?

    Instead, the amendment was introduced so suddenly and without any warning, ensuring that there was no time for the opposition to educate the people about how dangerous the legislation would be for the future of democracy in this country.

    The President should have followed the example of his friend, Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, who directly went to the people to remove the two term barrier; Chavez called a referendum instead of trying to device an artificial majority in parliament through coercion and intimidation, blackmail and bribery.

  549. Mervyn’s death threat to media !!

    Shocking !! 🙁

    Mervin Silva is neither the subject minister nor the deputy minister of media here in Sri Lanka.

    He has only been reappointed as Deputy Minister of Highways.

    However the notorious deputy minister would surely have had a very good reason to direct his first salvo after the reappointment, at the media.

    While many outsiders may opt to dismiss his latest threat as a part of entertainment he provides to masses at regular intervals, the media fraternity on the other hand sees the larger picture.

    No other government politician has been found as useful as the Kelaniya organizer in sending messages to media whenever the regime felt that the tide is unfavourable to it. The government can definitely manage highways without having Silva as deputy minister. But it certainly can’t handle media without him. Hence the need was there to exonerate the garrulous parliamentarian from all charges against him and reinstate him as Deputy Minister Highways. Given a chance the regime definitely would have preferred to have him as Media minister or as the deputy of the subject. However the local and international pressure mounted during Silva’s short stint as deputy minister of media, which saw him being removed from the post, has made a re-appointment of Silva to the post somewhat difficult.

    By saying that the media persons here will face the same fate as former Army Commander Sarath Fonseka, if they continue to report the way they do now, Mervyn Silva is saying in no uncertain terms that everyone is expected to toe the government line. Any dissent would be met with strong punishment. His remark ‘Journalists should not write in such a way that they end up being hung’ is a very effective way of sending a strong message that nothing but death awaits those who write against the Mahinda Rajapaksa regime.

    With the 18th amendment getting the green light from the House and the opposition in total disarray a situation is being created to take the 4th estate to task when democracy is at one of its most vulnerable phases here.

    Understandingly no member of the government, not even the Minister of Media has come forward to say that the proclamations by Silva only reflect the personal opinion of the deputy minister. The minister too no doubt knows that Mervyn Silva is a mere messenger.

  550. In Sri Lanka, the democratic process is regressing
    Constitutional amendments allow president to run for unlimited terms and dismantle an important check on executive power

    A penchant for triumphalism is never an attractive or useful quality, but unfortunately it appears to be one with which Sri Lanka's president Mahinda Rajapaksa is overly well endowed.

    He has capped his defeat in May last year of the quarter-century separatist insurgency by the Tamil Tiger guerrillas and resulting conclusive reelection victory in January by, in essence, dismantling Sri Lanka's liberal democracy.

    On Wednesday, Rajapaksa used the overwhelming parliamentary majority of his United people's Freedom Alliance to push through some fundamentally nation-changing constitutional amendments.

    These changes opened the way for Rajapaksa to remain president for as long as he wants and reduced to impotence both parliament and the other institutions intended to curb and contain the power of the executive presidency.

    With two brothers as government ministers, a third as speaker of parliament and his son as an member of parliament, the administration of Sri Lanka now looks like a Rajapaksa family business.

    Rajapaksa's supporters and advocates of Wednesday's amendment say the changes are necessary to provide Sri Lanka with basic stability as the country attempts to rebuild and progress after 26 years of civil war. And if the presidential powers are a bit muscular, say supporters, that's necessary to ensure the Tigers don't rise again and that Tamil separatism in the north of the island is not revived.

    The 18th constitutional amendment , passed on Wednesday with more than enough votes to clear the two-thirds majority hurdle, does two things.

    The first is that it removes the constitutional ban on a president serving more than two six-year terms.

    Rajapaksa was first elected in 2005. His second term, after an early election, will start in November and with Wednesday's changes he will be able to run again in 2016 and again and again until the cows come home.

    Supporters point out that Rajapaksa will still be required to face re-election every six years and the voters can throw him out any time they want.

    That argument would be more convincing were it not for the second part of the 18th amendment.

    The second part overturns the 17th amendment to the constitution of 2001, which was aimed at curbing the power of the executive presidency.

    The 17th amendment created a 10-member Constitutional Council, which has a substantial degree of independence and which is responsible for making all senior institutional appointments.

    So the council appoints members to the Election Commission, the Public Service Commission, the National Police Commission, the Human Rights Commission, the Permanent Commission to Investigate Bribery or Corruption, and several other boards.

    One of the most recent examples of the value of the independence of the Constitutional Council and the institutions under its purview was the Election Commission's highly critical assessment of the skulduggery that went into Rajapaksa's January election victory.

    In the future, such carping need not concern Rajapaksa because the 18th amendment gives the president the power to make all those senior appointments to positions that might otherwise act as a brake on his authority, but which are now patronage sinecures.

    In truth, the whole constitutional framework of Sri Lanka is fundamentally flawed. The only place where the miscegenation between parliamentary and executive presidential systems has worked is France, and then inconsistently.

    To cap it, Rajapaksa is, as one might guess, the commander-in-chief of the armed forces and he has given the generals fair warning that they should stay clear of politics.

    The man who commanded the army when it overran the Tamil Tigers in May last year, Gen. Sarath Fonseka, attempted to turn that fame into a political career by running against Rajapaksa in January's election.

    Not only was Fonseka trounced at the ballot box, he has since been arrested and charged with breaching military law, including treason.

    There was, quite rightly relief and some applause when Rajapaksa and the Sri Lankan army defeated the Tamil Tigers last year.

    The war had gone on too long and the Tigers had shown they could not be trusted to stick to a political solution.

    But instead of using the opportunity to be magnanimous in victory and embark on a generous and genuine campaign of reconciliation and reconstruction, Rajapaksa has succumbed to meaner instincts.

    He is now taking the country down a path all Sri Lankans will come to regret.
    http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Lanka+democratic

  551. In Sri Lanka, the democratic process is regressing
    Constitutional amendments allow president to run for unlimited terms and dismantle an important check on executive power

    A penchant for triumphalism is never an attractive or useful quality, but unfortunately it appears to be one with which Sri Lanka's president Mahinda Rajapaksa is overly well endowed.

    He has capped his defeat in May last year of the quarter-century separatist insurgency by the Tamil Tiger guerrillas and resulting conclusive reelection victory in January by, in essence, dismantling Sri Lanka's liberal democracy.

    On Wednesday, Rajapaksa used the overwhelming parliamentary majority of his United people's Freedom Alliance to push through some fundamentally nation-changing constitutional amendments.

    These changes opened the way for Rajapaksa to remain president for as long as he wants and reduced to impotence both parliament and the other institutions intended to curb and contain the power of the executive presidency.

    With two brothers as government ministers, a third as speaker of parliament and his son as an member of parliament, the administration of Sri Lanka now looks like a Rajapaksa family business.

    Rajapaksa's supporters and advocates of Wednesday's amendment say the changes are necessary to provide Sri Lanka with basic stability as the country attempts to rebuild and progress after 26 years of civil war. And if the presidential powers are a bit muscular, say supporters, that's necessary to ensure the Tigers don't rise again and that Tamil separatism in the north of the island is not revived.

    The 18th constitutional amendment , passed on Wednesday with more than enough votes to clear the two-thirds majority hurdle, does two things.

    The first is that it removes the constitutional ban on a president serving more than two six-year terms.

    Rajapaksa was first elected in 2005. His second term, after an early election, will start in November and with Wednesday's changes he will be able to run again in 2016 and again and again until the cows come home.

    Supporters point out that Rajapaksa will still be required to face re-election every six years and the voters can throw him out any time they want.

    That argument would be more convincing were it not for the second part of the 18th amendment.

    The second part overturns the 17th amendment to the constitution of 2001, which was aimed at curbing the power of the executive presidency.

    The 17th amendment created a 10-member Constitutional Council, which has a substantial degree of independence and which is responsible for making all senior institutional appointments.

    So the council appoints members to the Election Commission, the Public Service Commission, the National Police Commission, the Human Rights Commission, the Permanent Commission to Investigate Bribery or Corruption, and several other boards.

    One of the most recent examples of the value of the independence of the Constitutional Council and the institutions under its purview was the Election Commission's highly critical assessment of the skulduggery that went into Rajapaksa's January election victory.

    In the future, such carping need not concern Rajapaksa because the 18th amendment gives the president the power to make all those senior appointments to positions that might otherwise act as a brake on his authority, but which are now patronage sinecures.

    In truth, the whole constitutional framework of Sri Lanka is fundamentally flawed. The only place where the miscegenation between parliamentary and executive presidential systems has worked is France, and then inconsistently.

    To cap it, Rajapaksa is, as one might guess, the commander-in-chief of the armed forces and he has given the generals fair warning that they should stay clear of politics.

    The man who commanded the army when it overran the Tamil Tigers in May last year, Gen. Sarath Fonseka, attempted to turn that fame into a political career by running against Rajapaksa in January's election.

    Not only was Fonseka trounced at the ballot box, he has since been arrested and charged with breaching military law, including treason.

    There was, quite rightly relief and some applause when Rajapaksa and the Sri Lankan army defeated the Tamil Tigers last year.

    The war had gone on too long and the Tigers had shown they could not be trusted to stick to a political solution.

    But instead of using the opportunity to be magnanimous in victory and embark on a generous and genuine campaign of reconciliation and reconstruction, Rajapaksa has succumbed to meaner instincts.

    He is now taking the country down a path all Sri Lankans will come to regret.
    http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Lanka+democratic

  552. Rajapaksa , the Mass Murderer speedily butchered 40 000 innocent women and children but when it comes for the political package for Tamils … it will come only as and when he decides. He seems to be in no hurry to do this. Apparently India is not happy with this as evident from the remark of Indian Foreign Secretary for External Affairs Ms Nirupama Rao during her visit to Sri Lanka in the first week of September.

    She said: “He [Rajapaksa] has constantly said that he is focused on that [political solution] need. And that he plans to move on it. He has his sight set on that. And this point about the need to be more than just focused on the economic issues and the development issues and to look beyond. Everybody in the government got a sense of how we look at it. From that point of view, I think they know how India is approaching or looking at this issue.”

  553. Activists show support for detained Tamils outside Burnaby detention centre

    A group of immigrant and refugee activists in Vancouver stood outside a Burnaby detention centre to show their support for the Tamil women and children being detained by the Canadian government.

    Forty-four children and 25 women have been held at the Burnaby Youth Custody Services Centre since August after three months at sea living aboard a decrepit cargo ship to flee Sri Lanka — a country whose government recently rejected a United Nations probe into possible war crimes against Tamils.

    "The fact that they're being held in a prison under prison conditions is really unacceptable," activist Harsha Walia said.

    About 60 people turned up at the gates of the centre and played loud South Asian music while blowing whistles, banging pots and pans, and beating drums to gain the attention of the migrants held captive inside.

    Among the group was Wayne Elliott, who brought his two young sons to the demonstration.

    "I think it's important that these people are represented while they're being detained here and to let let them know that the first people they encountered in Canada — who haven't been as welcoming — is not a fair representation of Canadians."

  554. I want to work for unity and one voice of the Tamils of the island and to find ways of rebuilding society, livelihood, institutions and political structures for them, symbols of identity that are fundamental to all their regeneration with self-respect should not be compromised.

    The Tamil-speaking peoples of the island have to shun the identity of ‘Sri Lanka’ that has become a symbol of state oppression ever since the constitutionality of the identity in 1972.

  555. Yes, Rohan is very helpful, smart and an asset to this forum.

    Compared to an uneducated wathu demala like Rip, Rohan knows a lot ! 🙂

  556. Mahendra Percival Rajapaksa is now the King of Sri Lanka

    “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever.” – George Orwell, 1984

    As I pen these lines the knowledge bears heavy upon my soul that Sri Lanka is well on the path to dictatorship and oligarchy: from the moment the Speaker puts his signature to the 18th Amendment bulldozed through Parliament on the 8th of September, his brother will become the constitutionally sanctioned autocrat of our troubled island.

    Perhaps 8/9/10 will go down in history as the day one of Asia’s oldest democracies lost her soul.

    It is unfortunate that the government’s propaganda machine has been so effective as to still the consciences of the majority of Sri Lankans, most of whom are not even aware that as they go about their lives, apathetic and ignorant, their democratic rights are being signed away by the man who claims to be their liberator, Mahendra Percival Rajapaksa.

    In what has been an insidious political maneuvering since he assumed the Presidency of Sri Lanka in 2005, Mahinda Rajapaksa and the ruling family have finally shown their hand in a way that makes it impossible for any right thinking citizen to ignore.

    That is why the newspapers, pundits, columnists, lawyers and civil society on every side of the ideological divide have made a unified plea, because not even Mahinda Rajapaksa and his talented team of spin doctors at the state media houses can disguise this unbridled lust for absolute power as an act of patriotism.

    Finally then the true persona of the man so many have hailed as liberator is laid bare.

  557. New ‘President For Life’ , Mahinda Rajapaksa

    The 18th Amendment to the Constitution so secretly drafted and so insidiously placed upon the agenda of the legislature is nothing but an unabashed power grab by a man who has had despotic ambitions from the start; a man who has done everything in his presidency so far to arrive at this day – the day when he can secure the position of ‘President For Life’, for himself, until such time that his brothers and sons are ready for the throne. For those who gave him the benefit of the doubt when he had artistes write songs about Mahinda being a ‘Maharajaneni’ as far back as May last year, let there be no mistake now that as of September 8, 2010, Mahinda Rajapaksa is the self appointed king of Sri Lanka.

    This new Amendment which aims to reverse the progressive 17th Amendment, a historic piece of legislation endorsed unanimously by parliament and also allows an executive president to serve an unlimited number of terms in office, has been rushed through the legislative process like no other bill put forth by the Rajapaksa Administration. There is good reason for this. While protecting the presidency and keeping it in the hands of the Rajapaksa family, the 18th Amendment also ensures that all appointments to the public service, judiciary and the appointment of the elections commission or commissioner fall under the writ of an almighty executive president.

    In short, the 18th Amendment is a piece of Rajapaksa legislation that ensures that the Rajapaksa writ holds sway over every single area of governance and public life, exactly that which the 17th Amendment sought to prevent by way of de-politicizing the public service, judiciary, police and ensuring independence during elections. It is indeed a strange situation we are faced with today.

    For decades, the central political and public debate in Sri Lanka has been about trying to find ways to dilute the extraordinary powers vested with the executive president by the 1978 Constitution. At the last two national elections, this debate and discourse took pride of place in the plethora of political issues raised. How ironic it is then for us to find ourselves at this juncture. While all those of us in the political firmament have been determined to redefine the Sri Lankan constitution that would make the presidency more accountable to the people, Mahinda Rajapaksa has checkmated the nation by this constitutional coup to increase his powers and ensure that he and his family remain at the helm of this country for an indefinite time to come.

    In short, he has managed in less than a week to change the Sri Lankan presidency into the office of an all powerful dictator. It should be recalled that some of the worst dictators the world has ever seen have tried to legitimize their positions by conducting nominal elections. Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein held an election every five years where he was the only candidate. So does Mugabe of Zimbabwe. Adolf Hitler too obtained a 2/3 majority in the notorious elections of November 12th 1933; armed with this majority, within 12 months Hitler substituted his personal dictatorship for its democracy, destroyed all political parties but his own, wiped out the labour unions, stamped out democratic associations of any kind, abolished freedom of speech and of the press, and stifled the independence of the courts.

  558. Mahinda Rajapaksa is the the worst human rights violator

    Today it has become crystal clear why President Mahinda Rajapaksa has chosen to associate himself with the worst human rights violators and dictatorial regimes in the world at present. Since assuming power Mahinda Rajapaksa has strengthened relations with the military dictators of Myanmar who brutally massacred Buddhist priests clamoring for democracy and have imprisoned democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi since 1989 when her party won an election. Rajapaksa is bosom buddies with Libya’s Mohammed Gaddafi who has ruled that country for 40 years without an iota of democracy and Mahmaud Ahmadinejad of Iran who last year squashed opposition protests after a disputed election.

    In 2006, when I attended the UN General assembly in New York with the President, many were surprised when our leader embraced the Zimbabwean dictator to express his admiration for the aging tyrant. The 18th Amendment, passed into law last Wednesday ensures that all future elections are rendered meaningless, given the sheer power and control over state machinery by the incumbency.

    Where the 17th Amendment upholds the writ of the Commissioner of Elections appointed by the Constitutional Council over the state media during elections, the 18th Amendment holds that the Elections Commissioner (appointed by the President) will control all public and private media, ensuring that the writ of the incumbent will also extend over independent media houses during polls. In short, a political opponent would stand no chance against the Rajapaksa juggernaut; picture the last two elections held in Sri Lanka magnified a thousand fold.

    It has long since been established that candidates constantly come into presidential office swearing to abolish the executive presidency only to experience the absolute power of that office and be intoxicated by it. Few who ascend the presidency have ever wanted to relinquish it. To her credit, former President Chandrika Kumaratunga made a sincere attempt to introduce a new constitution minus the executive presidency on 3rd August 2000; history would have been so different if she succeeded then. When a man is afforded unlimited terms in that position, with full control over state machinery indefinitely, only the naive would believe he will give it up one day when his ‘vision for Sri Lanka’ is achieved.

  559. Why Urgent Bill to become the Tyrant for life for Rajapaksa ?

    In April 2010 he received nearly two thirds of a majority to abolish this system. It is therefore abundantly clear that Mahinda Rajapaksa did not win a mandate from the people to extend his term in office indefinitely. He received a mandate, both in 2005 and in 2010 to abolish the presidency and replace it with a different system of governance. So never mind his opponents, this move to extend his presidential term indefinitely is a grotesque subversion of the people’s franchise and a slap in the face for those who voted for him.

    In 1977 when J.R. Jayewardene moved to change the constitution and establish an executive presidency it was the likes of Mahinda Rajapaksa and many other senior SLFPers who took to the streets claiming that it was paving the way for dictatorial government. Today those same SLFPers are supporting this Draconian piece of legislation that not only establishes an all powerful president, but changes the very nature of the state, making a farce of democracy and placing all power in the hands of a single family. There is no doubt in my mind that a majority of the opposition to this Amendment comes from within the ranks of the government. And yet, in the face of this subversion of democracy and in fact the very parliamentary system, SLFPers have chosen to be silent, perhaps out of fear, perhaps out of a sense of complacency. I can only hope that they will remember that it was in their hands to reverse this, in their power to stall the Rajapaksa power trip in its tracks.

    The rest of Mahinda Rajapaksa’s numbers he achieved by using the full might of the government’s financial strength, to bribe and entice opposition members to sign over a country’s democratic rights to a despot in waiting. Where financial enticement failed, the Rajapaksas employed tactics of terror and intimidation, threatening lawsuits and trumped up charges against those they needed to pass the 18th Amendment into law. It is this purchase of opposition MPs to pass this bill that will be most harshly judged by history.

    The people who voted with the opposition voted stoically and determinedly against Mahinda Rajapaksa and the continuance of the executive presidency. They voted for an opposition which had pledged to abolish the all-powerful presidency and bring about a parliamentary system of governance in its stead. The opposition members who have crossed over with little moral compunction represent the interests of that section of the populace; people who categorically rejected the Rajapaksa doctrine for Sri Lanka even when they were at the height of their popularity and power. What kind of warped politicking is this? How will the MPs who have betrayed the mandate they have received answer to their electorates?

    You have repaid their faith in you by signing over your voters’ rights to a President they rejected, ensuring that their votes will count for nothing ever again, given the all powerful nature of the incumbency.

    All this for money? All this because you refuse to stand up to the man who has proven time and again that his word is good for nothing? There is no doubt that this is a crime for which your voters will never forgive you. You have betrayed them and signed away what was left of their freedom to a megalomaniac in return for the perks of ministerial office.

    As for the minority parties who have opted to support this ludicrous piece of legislation, I can only say to them that they have dug their own political graves, by having entrusted more power into the hands of a extremist madman who will use the additional power you have gifted him to further oppress your people.

    There is simply no precedent for the way in which this bill was rushed through. It was proposed as an Urgent Bill, begging the questions about why and in whose interests it was necessary to speed up the process, disallowing time for debate, protest or the creation of public opinion. Furthermore the government has opted to do away with the need for a referendum despite the fact that record low voter turn out in April meant that this government has a mandate of a mere 34 percent of registered voters.

  560. Why not offer a referendum about the ‘President For Life’ for Rajapaksa ?

    If the government was not afraid that the people would vote against this amendment en mass, why not offer a referendum?

    Surely an amendment that vests so much power indefinitely in an incumbent was more than worthy of seeking the explicit opinion of the general populace?

    Instead, the amendment was introduced so suddenly and without any warning, ensuring that there was no time for the opposition to educate the people about how dangerous the legislation would be for the future of democracy in this country.

    The President should have followed the example of his friend, Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, who directly went to the people to remove the two term barrier; Chavez called a referendum instead of trying to device an artificial majority in parliament through coercion and intimidation, blackmail and bribery.

  561. Mervyn’s death threat to media !!

    Shocking !! 🙁

    Mervin Silva is neither the subject minister nor the deputy minister of media here in Sri Lanka.

    He has only been reappointed as Deputy Minister of Highways.

    However the notorious deputy minister would surely have had a very good reason to direct his first salvo after the reappointment, at the media.

    While many outsiders may opt to dismiss his latest threat as a part of entertainment he provides to masses at regular intervals, the media fraternity on the other hand sees the larger picture.

    No other government politician has been found as useful as the Kelaniya organizer in sending messages to media whenever the regime felt that the tide is unfavourable to it. The government can definitely manage highways without having Silva as deputy minister. But it certainly can’t handle media without him. Hence the need was there to exonerate the garrulous parliamentarian from all charges against him and reinstate him as Deputy Minister Highways. Given a chance the regime definitely would have preferred to have him as Media minister or as the deputy of the subject. However the local and international pressure mounted during Silva’s short stint as deputy minister of media, which saw him being removed from the post, has made a re-appointment of Silva to the post somewhat difficult.

    By saying that the media persons here will face the same fate as former Army Commander Sarath Fonseka, if they continue to report the way they do now, Mervyn Silva is saying in no uncertain terms that everyone is expected to toe the government line. Any dissent would be met with strong punishment. His remark ‘Journalists should not write in such a way that they end up being hung’ is a very effective way of sending a strong message that nothing but death awaits those who write against the Mahinda Rajapaksa regime.

    With the 18th amendment getting the green light from the House and the opposition in total disarray a situation is being created to take the 4th estate to task when democracy is at one of its most vulnerable phases here.

    Understandingly no member of the government, not even the Minister of Media has come forward to say that the proclamations by Silva only reflect the personal opinion of the deputy minister. The minister too no doubt knows that Mervyn Silva is a mere messenger.

  562. In Sri Lanka, the democratic process is regressing
    Constitutional amendments allow president to run for unlimited terms and dismantle an important check on executive power

    A penchant for triumphalism is never an attractive or useful quality, but unfortunately it appears to be one with which Sri Lanka’s president Mahinda Rajapaksa is overly well endowed.

    He has capped his defeat in May last year of the quarter-century separatist insurgency by the Tamil Tiger guerrillas and resulting conclusive reelection victory in January by, in essence, dismantling Sri Lanka’s liberal democracy.

    On Wednesday, Rajapaksa used the overwhelming parliamentary majority of his United people’s Freedom Alliance to push through some fundamentally nation-changing constitutional amendments.

    These changes opened the way for Rajapaksa to remain president for as long as he wants and reduced to impotence both parliament and the other institutions intended to curb and contain the power of the executive presidency.

    With two brothers as government ministers, a third as speaker of parliament and his son as an member of parliament, the administration of Sri Lanka now looks like a Rajapaksa family business.

    Rajapaksa’s supporters and advocates of Wednesday’s amendment say the changes are necessary to provide Sri Lanka with basic stability as the country attempts to rebuild and progress after 26 years of civil war. And if the presidential powers are a bit muscular, say supporters, that’s necessary to ensure the Tigers don’t rise again and that Tamil separatism in the north of the island is not revived.

    The 18th constitutional amendment , passed on Wednesday with more than enough votes to clear the two-thirds majority hurdle, does two things.

    The first is that it removes the constitutional ban on a president serving more than two six-year terms.

    Rajapaksa was first elected in 2005. His second term, after an early election, will start in November and with Wednesday’s changes he will be able to run again in 2016 and again and again until the cows come home.

    Supporters point out that Rajapaksa will still be required to face re-election every six years and the voters can throw him out any time they want.

    That argument would be more convincing were it not for the second part of the 18th amendment.

    The second part overturns the 17th amendment to the constitution of 2001, which was aimed at curbing the power of the executive presidency.

    The 17th amendment created a 10-member Constitutional Council, which has a substantial degree of independence and which is responsible for making all senior institutional appointments.

    So the council appoints members to the Election Commission, the Public Service Commission, the National Police Commission, the Human Rights Commission, the Permanent Commission to Investigate Bribery or Corruption, and several other boards.

    One of the most recent examples of the value of the independence of the Constitutional Council and the institutions under its purview was the Election Commission’s highly critical assessment of the skulduggery that went into Rajapaksa’s January election victory.

    In the future, such carping need not concern Rajapaksa because the 18th amendment gives the president the power to make all those senior appointments to positions that might otherwise act as a brake on his authority, but which are now patronage sinecures.

    In truth, the whole constitutional framework of Sri Lanka is fundamentally flawed. The only place where the miscegenation between parliamentary and executive presidential systems has worked is France, and then inconsistently.

    To cap it, Rajapaksa is, as one might guess, the commander-in-chief of the armed forces and he has given the generals fair warning that they should stay clear of politics.

    The man who commanded the army when it overran the Tamil Tigers in May last year, Gen. Sarath Fonseka, attempted to turn that fame into a political career by running against Rajapaksa in January’s election.

    Not only was Fonseka trounced at the ballot box, he has since been arrested and charged with breaching military law, including treason.

    There was, quite rightly relief and some applause when Rajapaksa and the Sri Lankan army defeated the Tamil Tigers last year.

    The war had gone on too long and the Tigers had shown they could not be trusted to stick to a political solution.

    But instead of using the opportunity to be magnanimous in victory and embark on a generous and genuine campaign of reconciliation and reconstruction, Rajapaksa has succumbed to meaner instincts.

    He is now taking the country down a path all Sri Lankans will come to regret.

    http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Lanka+democratic+process+regressing/3510805/story.html#ixzz0zKSd8vVH

  563. Gunalan, why so angry? If you want to marry Madivandan's sister, you'll have to fight me and Repo Man. Let's see how good your poetry is. I don't think his sister wants to marry loser Eelamists, unless they're already in the West, of course. 🙂

    And what's with your anti-gay attitude? I thought you Eelamish people wanted help from the LGBT sector? I hope you're not discriminating against gay people? Are you? Look, here's a poor chap stuck in a detention camp in Australia, claiming hostility from SL police and other groups… http://tinyurl.com/33fko2b

    p.s. re the 'Donkey' tag.. that's the exclusive preserve of the Eealmistas. I wouldn't dare to take ownership of that particular characteristic. 'Village idiot's' fine for me.

    Rohan's an expert at cut'n'paste, but not so good at thinking for himself. I know it takes time for that to evolve, so we're waiting patiently for the day when he finds his own voice. Perhaps you could help him?

  564. Mango Says:

    September 10th, 2010 at 6:42 pm

    Dammit Repo Man, I want to marry Madivandan’s sister.

    ———————————————–

    What a rubbish !! 🙂

    You don’t swing that way, Donkey from Badulla

    But Rip will be happy to oblige, so you should to propose to Rip 🙂 🙂 🙂

  565. Gunalan, why so angry? If you want to marry Madivandan's sister, you'll have to fight me and Repo Man. Let's see how good your poetry is. I don't think his sister wants to marry loser Eelamists, unless they're already in the West, of course. 🙂

    And what's with your anti-gay attitude? I thought you Eelamish people wanted help from the LGBT sector? I hope you're not discriminating against gay people? Are you? Look, here's a poor chap stuck in a detention camp in Australia, claiming hostility from SL police and other groups… http://tinyurl.com/33fko2b

    p.s. re the 'Donkey' tag.. that's the exclusive preserve of the Eealmistas. I wouldn't dare to take ownership of that particular characteristic. 'Village idiot's' fine for me.

    Rohan's an expert at cut'n'paste, but not so good at thinking for himself. I know it takes time for that to evolve, so we're waiting patiently for the day when he finds his own voice. Perhaps you could help him?

  566. Gunalan, why so angry? If you want to marry Madivandan's sister, you'll have to fight me and Repo Man. Let's see how good your poetry is. I don't think his sister wants to marry loser Eelamists, unless they're already in the West, of course. 🙂

    And what's with your anti-gay attitude? I thought you Eelamish people wanted help from the LGBT sector? I hope you're not discriminating against gay people? Are you? Look, here's a poor chap stuck in a detention camp in Australia, claiming hostility from SL police and other groups… http://tinyurl.com/33fko2b

    p.s. re the 'Donkey' tag.. that's the exclusive preserve of the Eealmistas. I wouldn't dare to take ownership of that particular characteristic. 'Village idiot's' fine for me.

    Rohan's an expert at cut'n'paste, but not so good at thinking for himself. I know it takes time for that to evolve, so we're waiting patiently for the day when he finds his own voice. Perhaps you could help him?

  567. How about doing something positive instead of arguing?

    “Nobody cares for us and we have no where to go”

    "Jeyarubi Jeyalingam “crawls on the ground and grass to move around. Her husband Selvaratnam Jeyalingam has a wooden clutch to support. Their only daughter Tharshika Jeyalingam (4) sits quietly between her parents on the ground of the landmark building of Jaffna, which bears the scars of a brutal war. She does not attend school a her parents do not have Rs.7,000/= (approximately US$63) to pay the Montessori. She either plays alone or with her parents in the railway station building. She does not have any toys.
    http://transcurrents.com/tc/2010/09/post_567.html

    Saving one person is better than doing nothing.

  568. Police investigate break-in at Canadian Tamil Congress

    TORONTO — Toronto police are investigating a break-in at the office of the Canadian Tamil Congress and the apparent theft of the names of the 492 Sri Lankan migrants smuggled to Canada last month aboard the MV Sun Sea.

    A computer containing the names of the migrants as well as their family members in Canada and Sri Lanka was stolen from the reception desk on Saturday night and a room used by volunteers working on the case was ransacked, the Congress said.

    The identities of the Sun Sea migrants is the subject of a publication ban ordered by the Immigration and Refugee Board. The ban was imposed to protect the refugee claimants and their families in Sri Lanka from reprisal.

    “The biggest worry about this is the MV Sun Sea information,” said David Poopalapallai, the CTC spokesman. The group has been trying to call the family members to warn them their contact information may be in the wrong hands.

    He said the break-in happened some time between 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, when the last volunteer left the office, and 9:30 a.m. on Sunday morning, when another returned. Toronto Police Service were called to the scene at 31 Progress Ave.

    “They did a targeted job,” he said, adding only the information on the Sun Sea appeared to have been taken. He said the group had received hateful calls and e-mails about the ship but did not consider them overly threatening.

    Since the Sun Sea arrived off the B.C. Coast in August, the Tamil Congress has been helping the migrants connect with their families. It has also been lobbying the government on their behalf and making sure they understand their rights under Canada’s refugee law.
    http://www.nationalpost.com/news/Police+investiga

  569. Rip

    You poke your nose into things you don’t know nothing about.

    Anybody who followed the discussion here can see it. 🙁
    You want to be the Drag Queen of the forum and control everything we say to each other.

    I mean , you are a bloody idiot , what does you know about being Tamil anyway?

  570. How about doing something positive instead of arguing?

    “Nobody cares for us and we have no where to go”

    "Jeyarubi Jeyalingam “crawls on the ground and grass to move around. Her husband Selvaratnam Jeyalingam has a wooden clutch to support. Their only daughter Tharshika Jeyalingam (4) sits quietly between her parents on the ground of the landmark building of Jaffna, which bears the scars of a brutal war. She does not attend school a her parents do not have Rs.7,000/= (approximately US$63) to pay the Montessori. She either plays alone or with her parents in the railway station building. She does not have any toys.
    http://transcurrents.com/tc/2010/09/post_567.html

    Saving one person is better than doing nothing.

  571. How about doing something positive instead of arguing?

    “Nobody cares for us and we have no where to go”

    "Jeyarubi Jeyalingam “crawls on the ground and grass to move around. Her husband Selvaratnam Jeyalingam has a wooden clutch to support. Their only daughter Tharshika Jeyalingam (4) sits quietly between her parents on the ground of the landmark building of Jaffna, which bears the scars of a brutal war. She does not attend school a her parents do not have Rs.7,000/= (approximately US$63) to pay the Montessori. She either plays alone or with her parents in the railway station building. She does not have any toys.
    http://transcurrents.com/tc/2010/09/post_567.html

    Saving one person is better than doing nothing.

  572. Police investigate break-in at Canadian Tamil Congress

    TORONTO — Toronto police are investigating a break-in at the office of the Canadian Tamil Congress and the apparent theft of the names of the 492 Sri Lankan migrants smuggled to Canada last month aboard the MV Sun Sea.

    A computer containing the names of the migrants as well as their family members in Canada and Sri Lanka was stolen from the reception desk on Saturday night and a room used by volunteers working on the case was ransacked, the Congress said.

    The identities of the Sun Sea migrants is the subject of a publication ban ordered by the Immigration and Refugee Board. The ban was imposed to protect the refugee claimants and their families in Sri Lanka from reprisal.

    “The biggest worry about this is the MV Sun Sea information,” said David Poopalapallai, the CTC spokesman. The group has been trying to call the family members to warn them their contact information may be in the wrong hands.

    He said the break-in happened some time between 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, when the last volunteer left the office, and 9:30 a.m. on Sunday morning, when another returned. Toronto Police Service were called to the scene at 31 Progress Ave.

    “They did a targeted job,” he said, adding only the information on the Sun Sea appeared to have been taken. He said the group had received hateful calls and e-mails about the ship but did not consider them overly threatening.

    Since the Sun Sea arrived off the B.C. Coast in August, the Tamil Congress has been helping the migrants connect with their families. It has also been lobbying the government on their behalf and making sure they understand their rights under Canada’s refugee law.
    http://www.nationalpost.com/news/Police+investiga

  573. Police investigate break-in at Canadian Tamil Congress

    TORONTO — Toronto police are investigating a break-in at the office of the Canadian Tamil Congress and the apparent theft of the names of the 492 Sri Lankan migrants smuggled to Canada last month aboard the MV Sun Sea.

    A computer containing the names of the migrants as well as their family members in Canada and Sri Lanka was stolen from the reception desk on Saturday night and a room used by volunteers working on the case was ransacked, the Congress said.

    The identities of the Sun Sea migrants is the subject of a publication ban ordered by the Immigration and Refugee Board. The ban was imposed to protect the refugee claimants and their families in Sri Lanka from reprisal.

    “The biggest worry about this is the MV Sun Sea information,” said David Poopalapallai, the CTC spokesman. The group has been trying to call the family members to warn them their contact information may be in the wrong hands.

    He said the break-in happened some time between 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, when the last volunteer left the office, and 9:30 a.m. on Sunday morning, when another returned. Toronto Police Service were called to the scene at 31 Progress Ave.

    “They did a targeted job,” he said, adding only the information on the Sun Sea appeared to have been taken. He said the group had received hateful calls and e-mails about the ship but did not consider them overly threatening.

    Since the Sun Sea arrived off the B.C. Coast in August, the Tamil Congress has been helping the migrants connect with their families. It has also been lobbying the government on their behalf and making sure they understand their rights under Canada’s refugee law.
    http://www.nationalpost.com/news/Police+investiga

  574. President Rajapaksa is firmly in saddle and as the opposition is weak and divided than ever before, his assertive style of governance is unlikely to change in his coming term.

    China’s foot prints in South Asia and Indian Ocean region are growing.

  575. Rajapaksa , the Mass Murderer speedily butchered 40 000 innocent women and children but when it comes for the political package for Tamils … it will come only as and when he decides. He seems to be in no hurry to do this. Apparently India is not happy with this as evident from the remark of Indian Foreign Secretary for External Affairs Ms Nirupama Rao during her visit to Sri Lanka in the first week of September.

    She said: “He [Rajapaksa] has constantly said that he is focused on that [political solution] need. And that he plans to move on it. He has his sight set on that. And this point about the need to be more than just focused on the economic issues and the development issues and to look beyond. Everybody in the government got a sense of how we look at it. From that point of view, I think they know how India is approaching or looking at this issue.”

  576. Activists show support for detained Tamils outside Burnaby detention centre

    A group of immigrant and refugee activists in Vancouver stood outside a Burnaby detention centre to show their support for the Tamil women and children being detained by the Canadian government.

    Forty-four children and 25 women have been held at the Burnaby Youth Custody Services Centre since August after three months at sea living aboard a decrepit cargo ship to flee Sri Lanka — a country whose government recently rejected a United Nations probe into possible war crimes against Tamils.

    “The fact that they’re being held in a prison under prison conditions is really unacceptable,” activist Harsha Walia said.

    About 60 people turned up at the gates of the centre and played loud South Asian music while blowing whistles, banging pots and pans, and beating drums to gain the attention of the migrants held captive inside.

    Among the group was Wayne Elliott, who brought his two young sons to the demonstration.

    “I think it’s important that these people are represented while they’re being detained here and to let let them know that the first people they encountered in Canada — who haven’t been as welcoming — is not a fair representation of Canadians.”

  577. Yes, Rohan is very helpful, smart and an asset to this forum.

    Compared to an uneducated wathu demala like Rip, Rohan knows a lot ! 🙂

  578. Gunalan, why so angry? If you want to marry Madivandan’s sister, you’ll have to fight me and Repo Man. Let’s see how good your poetry is. I don’t think his sister wants to marry loser Eelamists, unless they’re already in the West, of course. 🙂

    And what’s with your anti-gay attitude? I thought you Eelamish people wanted help from the LGBT sector? I hope you’re not discriminating against gay people? Are you? Look, here’s a poor chap stuck in a detention camp in Australia, claiming hostility from SL police and other groups…
    http://tinyurl.com/33fko2b

    p.s. re the ‘Donkey’ tag.. that’s the exclusive preserve of the Eealmistas. I wouldn’t dare to take ownership of that particular characteristic. ‘Village idiot’s’ fine for me.

    Rohan’s an expert at cut’n’paste, but not so good at thinking for himself. I know it takes time for that to evolve, so we’re waiting patiently for the day when he finds his own voice. Perhaps you could help him?

  579. sri lanka State terror now in canada too?
    “Either it’s a hate crime or we have a strong feeling Sri Lankan intelligence may have a hand behind this,” he told the Star.

    Tamil Congress says espionage is behind break-in http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/crime/article/860

    Gota went to his home country to get more arms, they need more arms to kill rest of the tamils in eelam and fishermen from Tamil nadu.
    Gota,military top brass go to China http://www.sundaytimes.lk/100912/News/nws_09.html

  580. How about doing something positive instead of arguing?

    “Nobody cares for us and we have no where to go”

    “Jeyarubi Jeyalingam “crawls on the ground and grass to move around. Her husband Selvaratnam Jeyalingam has a wooden clutch to support. Their only daughter Tharshika Jeyalingam (4) sits quietly between her parents on the ground of the landmark building of Jaffna, which bears the scars of a brutal war. She does not attend school a her parents do not have Rs.7,000/= (approximately US$63) to pay the Montessori. She either plays alone or with her parents in the railway station building. She does not have any toys.

    http://transcurrents.com/tc/2010/09/post_567.html#more

    Saving one person is better than doing nothing.

  581. Police investigate break-in at Canadian Tamil Congress

    TORONTO — Toronto police are investigating a break-in at the office of the Canadian Tamil Congress and the apparent theft of the names of the 492 Sri Lankan migrants smuggled to Canada last month aboard the MV Sun Sea.

    A computer containing the names of the migrants as well as their family members in Canada and Sri Lanka was stolen from the reception desk on Saturday night and a room used by volunteers working on the case was ransacked, the Congress said.

    The identities of the Sun Sea migrants is the subject of a publication ban ordered by the Immigration and Refugee Board. The ban was imposed to protect the refugee claimants and their families in Sri Lanka from reprisal.

    “The biggest worry about this is the MV Sun Sea information,” said David Poopalapallai, the CTC spokesman. The group has been trying to call the family members to warn them their contact information may be in the wrong hands.

    He said the break-in happened some time between 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, when the last volunteer left the office, and 9:30 a.m. on Sunday morning, when another returned. Toronto Police Service were called to the scene at 31 Progress Ave.

    “They did a targeted job,” he said, adding only the information on the Sun Sea appeared to have been taken. He said the group had received hateful calls and e-mails about the ship but did not consider them overly threatening.

    Since the Sun Sea arrived off the B.C. Coast in August, the Tamil Congress has been helping the migrants connect with their families. It has also been lobbying the government on their behalf and making sure they understand their rights under Canada’s refugee law.

    http://www.nationalpost.com/news/Police+investigate+break+Canadian+Tamil+Congress/3513819/story.html

  582. sri lanka State terror now in canada too?
    “Either it’s a hate crime or we have a strong feeling Sri Lankan intelligence may have a hand behind this,” he told the Star.

    Tamil Congress says espionage is behind break-in http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/crime/article/860

    Gota went to his home country to get more arms, they need more arms to kill rest of the tamils in eelam and fishermen from Tamil nadu.
    Gota,military top brass go to China http://www.sundaytimes.lk/100912/News/nws_09.html

  583. sri lanka State terror now in canada too?
    “Either it’s a hate crime or we have a strong feeling Sri Lankan intelligence may have a hand behind this,” he told the Star.

    Tamil Congress says espionage is behind break-in http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/crime/article/860

    Gota went to his home country to get more arms, they need more arms to kill rest of the tamils in eelam and fishermen from Tamil nadu.
    Gota,military top brass go to China http://www.sundaytimes.lk/100912/News/nws_09.html

  584. sri lanka State terror now in canada too?
    “Either it’s a hate crime or we have a strong feeling Sri Lankan intelligence may have a hand behind this,” he told the Star.

    Tamil Congress says espionage is behind break-in
    http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/crime/article/860072–canadian-tamil-congress-targeted-in-break-in

    Gota went to his home country to get more arms, they need more arms to kill rest of the tamils in eelam and fishermen from Tamil nadu.
    Gota,military top brass go to China
    http://www.sundaytimes.lk/100912/News/nws_09.html

  585. Rohan Says:
    September 12th, 2010 at 12:17 am

    The Day Sri Lanka Lost Her Soul

    Machan – Do U know when Eelam lost her virginity ???

    The day Piribaharan ordered to close the gates of Mavilaru !!! Things were OK for the LTTE till then noh ? What a pity – Asking and eating Dhal !!! 🙂

    Arivazhaghan Says:
    September 12th, 2010 at 9:57 am

    Mahinda Rajapaksa is the the worst human rights violator

    Where does Piribahran and Osama fit in to in your list ????

    Gunalan Says:
    September 12th, 2010 at 12:54 pm

    You poke your nose into things you don’t know nothing about.

    Unlike you Apes, I am quite open for discussion – please educate me on the stuff I commented without knowing anything….. No one seems to point things out at me…… !!

    Anybody who followed the discussion here can see it. 🙁

    I can't – all I see is cut and paste articles, Love poems from Ass S. to U and Professor Puligal's MS word lessons. please show me…..

    You want to be the Drag Queen of the forum and control everything we say to each other.

    Actually, it is called taking charge !!! Something that you will only be able to do when you evolved – I am happy that you feel this way (That I am in control) – Would like to see some constructive arguments from you – Not the ones that say that I am mentioning female body parts when I call you "Pussy" for being cowards !!!

    I mean , you are a bloody idiot , what does you know about being Tamil anyway?

    Please do educate me on Tamils – I thought I know a lot about them as I live among them and socialize with them – So please tell me the Dark side that I do not know of…..

    Gunalan Says:
    September 12th, 2010 at 2:46 pm

    Yes, Rohan is very helpful, smart and an asset to this forum.

    This proves me calling you an ape and respect Rohan.

    Though Rohan pretends he cannot write, I do believe that Rohan can communicate too from the few answers he has given, but you, though you can write better, are complete idiots when driving a point through. Also, all your posts indicates that you have different terrorist agendas and nothing for peace. At least Rohan copes and pastes articles at his will immaterial of it suiting the topic or not.

    Indeed he is a good asset for you peelamists as he has mastered the art of copy and paste and flooding blogs.

    Compared to an uneducated wathu demala like Rip, Rohan knows a lot !

    Now this my dear Ape, I vehemently condemn !!!

    It is quite wrong of you to differentiate your fellow Tamils by calling them Wathu Demala's…. Don't the Wathu Demala's have engineers, Doctors and respected men in their Ranks just as you Jaffna Tamils do ???

    See Guna, another reason to call you a complete moronic idiot – If you don't show the respect a fellow Tamil deserve, how can you expect a Singhalees or a Canadian or another human in this world to respect you ????? At least the Wathu Demala's you mention live a peaceful life – Also don't forget that there were the Estate Tamil workers who supported your movement just like some Singhalees did. You are also forgetting the Estate Tamil workers who write in this blog – what is your excuse to them for demeaning them ???

    At least these people sweated during the past years from the time they were brought down to SL by British to improve our economy and we are ever so grateful to them – We even have a praise song for them – "Thea Dalu nelana lande" – What did you do ?? Destroy everything that was build partially with the monies these hardworking Wathu Demala's brought in…. What makes you to think that you are superior to all these Wathu Demala's (Estate tamils) and the Singhalees and the Canadians ??? – Is being a Jaffna Tamil alone sufficient for you to presume yourselves as kings of the world ?? You are talking as if you were the only people to walk the earth and all other Ethnic groups are Aliens who have come to gulp you down.

    Bottom line – You have hurt your fellow tamils by demeaning them with your tunnel vision commentary. remember, they are from South India too – i.e. where your ancestors came and we all carry the same blood somewhere down the line. So, what would you do to correct your wrong act ??? If it was me, I would say Sorry Immediately………. and let me do that – I seek pardon from all my Tamil Brotheren for the comment Gunalan made mistakenly – Very very Sorry and please accept my sincere apologies…

  586. Gottabaya reject the BBC request to interview KP

    The BBC “Santheshiya” service requested KP alias Thambiah Selvaraja Pathmanathan for an interview, but it was rejected by Defense Secretary Gottabaya Rajapakse.

    The “Santheshiya” had requested for an interview for which 23 questions were prepared, but Gottabaya had rejected their request stating that the BBC is functioning against the Sri Lankan Government, hence permission will not be granted for the interview.

  587. The nature of Rajapaksa's executive presidencies is such that in most parts of the democratic world where the system is in place and there is legal immunity for persons holding the office, term limits are practically mandatory.

    Term limits offer a slight deterrent to incumbent presidents, ensuring that when their term or terms of office are ended, they will be vulnerable to legal action.

    The unlimited number of terms clause put forth in the 18th Amendment nips this small safeguard in the bud, assuring the incumbent president of immunity for life.

    The floodgates are therefore open for the Rajapaksas, with this Amendment being passed into law, to commit all manner of sins against the Sri Lankan state and citizenry at an intensity greater than the abuses that currently occur.

    Given the powers afforded to the incumbent by this legislation it is more than likely that Sri Lanka will never be able to prosecute the Rajapaksas or hold them accountable for their misdeeds while in power

  588. Those of us who recognised Mahinda Rajapaksa for the megalomaniac he truly was some years ago, realised that this day would come.

    Ever since he assumed office in 2005, the Mahinda Rajapaksa presidency has unfolded before our eyes as a truly Orwellian nightmare.

    When we expressed our fears then we were labelled unpatriotic and envious.

    Today, things have come full circle. Supporters and detractors alike have had to swallow the bitter pill that Mahinda Rajapaksa and his family are only concerned about entrenching themselves in power and perpetrating a dynasty; that their lofty rhetoric about patriotism, about being custodians of this nation, it was all a means to an end.

  589. Sri Lanka is mourning the death of democracy today, we must indeed share some of the blame.

    Sri Lanka has been too gullible, too ready to forgive, too willing to overlook the sins of this regime, to believe it was working in the interests of this country.

    If the lunatic fringe has won the day, it is because the moderates have chosen silence over dissent and passivity over affirmative action.

    Today, Mahinda Rajapaksa stands exposed, his power lust, greed and deception is there for all to see.

    Sri Lankans cannot continue to stand mute in the face of this revelation.

    Once, he was able to fool me too.

    I will rue that day as long as I shall live.

    And to correct my mistake, I pledge my life and all the strength left in me to make it my cause to strip him of power and reverse his dictatorial policies in order to regain Sri Lanka.

    All Sri Lankans who believe in democratic values and oppose this Rajapaksa dictatorship to join hands with me and those of us in the opposition who believe that the future of democracy in Sri Lanka is far more important than one man’s madness and power lust.

    Together we are stronger than them, together we can stall their despotic march, for a few of us who uphold the principles of democracy, freedom and equality for all can take on an entire regime of despots and still emerge triumphant.

  590. You are trying to help Rajapaksa, the Mass Murderer, to escape justice

    but

    Na antalikkhe na samuddamajjhe – na pabbatanam vivaram pavissa Na vijjati so jagatippadeso – yatthatthito munceyya papakamma

  591. British Parliamentarians to Raise Issue of Sri Lanka in House of Commons – GTF

    The Global Tamil Forum (GTF) press statement said that, the first Foreign and Commonwealth Office Oral Questions session since summer recess will throw a spotlight onto the current human rights situation in Sri Lanka. Taking place on 14th September, the Foreign Secretary Rt. Hon William Hague MP and other Foreign Office Ministers will be answering questions on Sri Lanka.

    The Global Tamil Forum exists to harness the skills and the knowledge of the members of the forum, well-wishers and others including mainstream decision makers in the international governments, institutions and organisations with the aim of alleviating the suffering of the Tamil community in Sri Lanka and to further their right to self-determination (as defined by Article 1.1 ‘United Nations: International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights’ 1976) within a democratic framework under pinned by international law, its covenants and conventions. The forum was set-up in 2009 with the support of many International Tamil community organisations

  592. Do not interfere http://www.dailymirror.lk/index.php/news/6533-do-

    The government today called on the United States to stop interfering in the internal affairs of Sri Lanka and added that they should refrain from making ‘unwarranted’ and ‘irresponsible’ comments about the island’s recent constitutional changes.Reacting to the statement released by the US State Department, condemning Sri Lanka’s passage of a constitutional amendment which would grant the President vast new powers, Media Minister and Cabinet Spokesperson Keheliya Rambukwella said that the government would not consider any such “unacceptable comments” and called on the US to address its own problems first.

  593. Do not interfere http://www.dailymirror.lk/index.php/news/6533-do-

    The government today called on the United States to stop interfering in the internal affairs of Sri Lanka and added that they should refrain from making ‘unwarranted’ and ‘irresponsible’ comments about the island’s recent constitutional changes.Reacting to the statement released by the US State Department, condemning Sri Lanka’s passage of a constitutional amendment which would grant the President vast new powers, Media Minister and Cabinet Spokesperson Keheliya Rambukwella said that the government would not consider any such “unacceptable comments” and called on the US to address its own problems first.

  594. Do not interfere http://www.dailymirror.lk/index.php/news/6533-do-

    The government today called on the United States to stop interfering in the internal affairs of Sri Lanka and added that they should refrain from making ‘unwarranted’ and ‘irresponsible’ comments about the island’s recent constitutional changes.Reacting to the statement released by the US State Department, condemning Sri Lanka’s passage of a constitutional amendment which would grant the President vast new powers, Media Minister and Cabinet Spokesperson Keheliya Rambukwella said that the government would not consider any such “unacceptable comments” and called on the US to address its own problems first.

  595. Rohan Says:
    September 12th, 2010 at 12:17 am

    The Day Sri Lanka Lost Her Soul

    Machan – Do U know when Eelam lost her virginity ???

    The day Piribaharan ordered to close the gates of Mavilaru !!! Things were OK for the LTTE till then noh ? What a pity – Asking and eating Dhal !!! 🙂

    Arivazhaghan Says:
    September 12th, 2010 at 9:57 am

    Mahinda Rajapaksa is the the worst human rights violator

    Where does Piribahran and Osama fit in to in your list ????

    Gunalan Says:
    September 12th, 2010 at 12:54 pm

    You poke your nose into things you don’t know nothing about.

    Unlike you Apes, I am quite open for discussion – please educate me on the stuff I commented without knowing anything….. No one seems to point things out at me…… !!

    Anybody who followed the discussion here can see it. 🙁

    I can’t – all I see is cut and paste articles, Love poems from Ass S. to U and Professor Puligal’s MS word lessons. please show me…..

    You want to be the Drag Queen of the forum and control everything we say to each other.

    Actually, it is called taking charge !!! Something that you will only be able to do when you evolved – I am happy that you feel this way (That I am in control) – Would like to see some constructive arguments from you – Not the ones that say that I am mentioning female body parts when I call you “Pussy” for being cowards !!!

    I mean , you are a bloody idiot , what does you know about being Tamil anyway?

    Please do educate me on Tamils – I thought I know a lot about them as I live among them and socialize with them – So please tell me the Dark side that I do not know of…..

    Gunalan Says:
    September 12th, 2010 at 2:46 pm

    Yes, Rohan is very helpful, smart and an asset to this forum.

    This proves me calling you an ape and respect Rohan.

    Though Rohan pretends he cannot write, I do believe that Rohan can communicate too from the few answers he has given, but you, though you can write better, are complete idiots when driving a point through. Also, all your posts indicates that you have different terrorist agendas and nothing for peace. At least Rohan copes and pastes articles at his will immaterial of it suiting the topic or not.

    Indeed he is a good asset for you peelamists as he has mastered the art of copy and paste and flooding blogs.

    Compared to an uneducated wathu demala like Rip, Rohan knows a lot !

    Now this my dear Ape, I vehemently condemn !!!

    It is quite wrong of you to differentiate your fellow Tamils by calling them Wathu Demala’s…. Don’t the Wathu Demala’s have engineers, Doctors and respected men in their Ranks just as you Jaffna Tamils do ???

    See Guna, another reason to call you a complete moronic idiot – If you don’t show the respect a fellow Tamil deserve, how can you expect a Singhalees or a Canadian or another human in this world to respect you ????? At least the Wathu Demala’s you mention live a peaceful life – Also don’t forget that there were the Estate Tamil workers who supported your movement just like some Singhalees did. You are also forgetting the Estate Tamil workers who write in this blog – what is your excuse to them for demeaning them ???

    At least these people sweated during the past years from the time they were brought down to SL by British to improve our economy and we are ever so grateful to them – We even have a praise song for them – “Thea Dalu nelana lande” – What did you do ?? Destroy everything that was build partially with the monies these hardworking Wathu Demala’s brought in…. What makes you to think that you are superior to all these Wathu Demala’s (Estate tamils) and the Singhalees and the Canadians ??? – Is being a Jaffna Tamil alone sufficient for you to presume yourselves as kings of the world ?? You are talking as if you were the only people to walk the earth and all other Ethnic groups are Aliens who have come to gulp you down.

    Bottom line – You have hurt your fellow tamils by demeaning them with your tunnel vision commentary. remember, they are from South India too – i.e. where your ancestors came and we all carry the same blood somewhere down the line. So, what would you do to correct your wrong act ??? If it was me, I would say Sorry Immediately………. and let me do that – I seek pardon from all my Tamil Brotheren for the comment Gunalan made mistakenly – Very very Sorry and please accept my sincere apologies…

  596. Gottabaya reject the BBC request to interview KP

    The BBC “Santheshiya” service requested KP alias Thambiah Selvaraja Pathmanathan for an interview, but it was rejected by Defense Secretary Gottabaya Rajapakse.

    The “Santheshiya” had requested for an interview for which 23 questions were prepared, but Gottabaya had rejected their request stating that the BBC is functioning against the Sri Lankan Government, hence permission will not be granted for the interview.

  597. The nature of Rajapaksa’s executive presidencies is such that in most parts of the democratic world where the system is in place and there is legal immunity for persons holding the office, term limits are practically mandatory.

    Term limits offer a slight deterrent to incumbent presidents, ensuring that when their term or terms of office are ended, they will be vulnerable to legal action.

    The unlimited number of terms clause put forth in the 18th Amendment nips this small safeguard in the bud, assuring the incumbent president of immunity for life.

    The floodgates are therefore open for the Rajapaksas, with this Amendment being passed into law, to commit all manner of sins against the Sri Lankan state and citizenry at an intensity greater than the abuses that currently occur.

    Given the powers afforded to the incumbent by this legislation it is more than likely that Sri Lanka will never be able to prosecute the Rajapaksas or hold them accountable for their misdeeds while in power

  598. Those of us who recognised Mahinda Rajapaksa for the megalomaniac he truly was some years ago, realised that this day would come.

    Ever since he assumed office in 2005, the Mahinda Rajapaksa presidency has unfolded before our eyes as a truly Orwellian nightmare.

    When we expressed our fears then we were labelled unpatriotic and envious.

    Today, things have come full circle. Supporters and detractors alike have had to swallow the bitter pill that Mahinda Rajapaksa and his family are only concerned about entrenching themselves in power and perpetrating a dynasty; that their lofty rhetoric about patriotism, about being custodians of this nation, it was all a means to an end.

  599. Sri Lanka is mourning the death of democracy today, we must indeed share some of the blame.

    Sri Lanka has been too gullible, too ready to forgive, too willing to overlook the sins of this regime, to believe it was working in the interests of this country.

    If the lunatic fringe has won the day, it is because the moderates have chosen silence over dissent and passivity over affirmative action.

    Today, Mahinda Rajapaksa stands exposed, his power lust, greed and deception is there for all to see.

    Sri Lankans cannot continue to stand mute in the face of this revelation.

    Once, he was able to fool me too.

    I will rue that day as long as I shall live.

    And to correct my mistake, I pledge my life and all the strength left in me to make it my cause to strip him of power and reverse his dictatorial policies in order to regain Sri Lanka.

    All Sri Lankans who believe in democratic values and oppose this Rajapaksa dictatorship to join hands with me and those of us in the opposition who believe that the future of democracy in Sri Lanka is far more important than one man’s madness and power lust.

    Together we are stronger than them, together we can stall their despotic march, for a few of us who uphold the principles of democracy, freedom and equality for all can take on an entire regime of despots and still emerge triumphant.

  600. You are trying to help Rajapaksa, the Mass Murderer, to escape justice

    but

    Na antalikkhe na samuddamajjhe – na pabbatanam vivaram pavissa Na vijjati so jagatippadeso – yatthatthito munceyya papakamma

  601. British Parliamentarians to Raise Issue of Sri Lanka in House of Commons – GTF

    The Global Tamil Forum (GTF) press statement said that, the first Foreign and Commonwealth Office Oral Questions session since summer recess will throw a spotlight onto the current human rights situation in Sri Lanka. Taking place on 14th September, the Foreign Secretary Rt. Hon William Hague MP and other Foreign Office Ministers will be answering questions on Sri Lanka.

    The Global Tamil Forum exists to harness the skills and the knowledge of the members of the forum, well-wishers and others including mainstream decision makers in the international governments, institutions and organisations with the aim of alleviating the suffering of the Tamil community in Sri Lanka and to further their right to self-determination (as defined by Article 1.1 ‘United Nations: International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights’ 1976) within a democratic framework under pinned by international law, its covenants and conventions. The forum was set-up in 2009 with the support of many International Tamil community organisations

  602. Do not interfere
    http://www.dailymirror.lk/index.php/news/6533-do-not-interfere.html

    The government today called on the United States to stop interfering in the internal affairs of Sri Lanka and added that they should refrain from making ‘unwarranted’ and ‘irresponsible’ comments about the island’s recent constitutional changes.Reacting to the statement released by the US State Department, condemning Sri Lanka’s passage of a constitutional amendment which would grant the President vast new powers, Media Minister and Cabinet Spokesperson Keheliya Rambukwella said that the government would not consider any such “unacceptable comments” and called on the US to address its own problems first.

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