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	<title>Comments on: ‘We support Tamil right to self-rule in Sri Lanka’ &#8230;.- Erik Solheim</title>
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		<title>By: Prenevin Govender ( Hari Aum)</title>
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		<dc:creator>Prenevin Govender ( Hari Aum)</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 09:46:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Please, lets end this conflict, can we really stand to see our tamils brothers and sisters dying over this

Lord Krishna says, &quot;where man, helps his fellow man, he is pleased, where he does not, no mercy can help him&quot;

LETS STOP THIS BATTLE OF PRIDE</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Please, lets end this conflict, can we really stand to see our tamils brothers and sisters dying over this</p>
<p>Lord Krishna says, &#8220;where man, helps his fellow man, he is pleased, where he does not, no mercy can help him&#8221;</p>
<p>LETS STOP THIS BATTLE OF PRIDE</p>
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		<title>By: Gowri</title>
		<link>http://tamilweek.com/news-features/archives/238/comment-page-6#comment-906</link>
		<dc:creator>Gowri</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 May 2006 14:46:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Mahinda Chintana has produced another classic idea of arming the civilians against the tigers for self protection. What he is trying to say is that his forces are so weak that protection has to be given to his forces by the people. After geneva 1 he agreed to disarm the paramilitary forces but he did not do that and within a few hours of the attack on three capms and wiping them away he wants to create another group by giving 10,000 guns to the people. What is the guarantee that these guns instead of protecting his forces can be used to kill them. His chintana is a gross violation of norms and the IC should condemn his latest move. If the IC remains silent then it becomes clear that his chintana is accepted by the IC in the genocide he is committing.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mahinda Chintana has produced another classic idea of arming the civilians against the tigers for self protection. What he is trying to say is that his forces are so weak that protection has to be given to his forces by the people. After geneva 1 he agreed to disarm the paramilitary forces but he did not do that and within a few hours of the attack on three capms and wiping them away he wants to create another group by giving 10,000 guns to the people. What is the guarantee that these guns instead of protecting his forces can be used to kill them. His chintana is a gross violation of norms and the IC should condemn his latest move. If the IC remains silent then it becomes clear that his chintana is accepted by the IC in the genocide he is committing.</p>
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		<title>By: Suren</title>
		<link>http://tamilweek.com/news-features/archives/238/comment-page-6#comment-899</link>
		<dc:creator>Suren</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 May 2006 16:16:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The srilankan government is telling the world that all what they have done thus far was a retaliatory attack against the tigers. They are telling the world that the attack against Sarath Fonseka in colombo prompted them to do the air raids on tamil civilian residential areas. When they tell the world that the commander of the army did not get sufficient protection within the strong protective zone are they making the world to know that even their chief protector can be attacked inside his own citadel. Does this show their gravest weakness in combatting some kinds of attacks such as suicide attacks. They are very clever to arrest civilians in the thousands but they cannot capture one tiger either alive or dead. But they are quick to brand any tamil killed in their own attacks as tigers. To be correct tigers will never get arrested alive due to their cynide capsule but the commoners killed never had any cinide pills around their necks. The sinhala forces are only capable of killing tamil civilians and not the tigers. Their brave annoncements and their mouth organs the colombo medias are bragging about their power which is fake. The tamil leaders who were slain during the recent past should have prompted the tigers to start a counter assault but their respect for the CFA kept them from such backlash. If the government can attack the tamils in retaliation for the attack against Sarath Fonseka why can&#039;t the tigers also do the same.The tigers are honoring the CFA but now it looks that they also can do the same things that the SLG does and maintain that they have not violated the CFA.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The srilankan government is telling the world that all what they have done thus far was a retaliatory attack against the tigers. They are telling the world that the attack against Sarath Fonseka in colombo prompted them to do the air raids on tamil civilian residential areas. When they tell the world that the commander of the army did not get sufficient protection within the strong protective zone are they making the world to know that even their chief protector can be attacked inside his own citadel. Does this show their gravest weakness in combatting some kinds of attacks such as suicide attacks. They are very clever to arrest civilians in the thousands but they cannot capture one tiger either alive or dead. But they are quick to brand any tamil killed in their own attacks as tigers. To be correct tigers will never get arrested alive due to their cynide capsule but the commoners killed never had any cinide pills around their necks. The sinhala forces are only capable of killing tamil civilians and not the tigers. Their brave annoncements and their mouth organs the colombo medias are bragging about their power which is fake. The tamil leaders who were slain during the recent past should have prompted the tigers to start a counter assault but their respect for the CFA kept them from such backlash. If the government can attack the tamils in retaliation for the attack against Sarath Fonseka why can&#8217;t the tigers also do the same.The tigers are honoring the CFA but now it looks that they also can do the same things that the SLG does and maintain that they have not violated the CFA.</p>
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		<title>By: Thangan</title>
		<link>http://tamilweek.com/news-features/archives/238/comment-page-6#comment-894</link>
		<dc:creator>Thangan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Apr 2006 16:54:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What does the IC expect the tamils in srilanka to do in the present situation that is prevailing. The sinhalese have the SLG to protect their interests and lives but failed to protect the tamils. Genocide is a common day to day happenings that are going on. The tamils have lost their faith with SLG government and it&#039;s forces. If IC would intervene and bring about a settlement it would be much needed at this hour. But if IC would not take the SLG to task the genocide will continue and tamils can be annihilated in front of the IC&#039;s eyes. The only force that is capable of protecting the tamils is the LTTE. If the IC would recognise the LTTE as an entity to be the tamils only choice for protection, care and governance then the time to do that is now.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What does the IC expect the tamils in srilanka to do in the present situation that is prevailing. The sinhalese have the SLG to protect their interests and lives but failed to protect the tamils. Genocide is a common day to day happenings that are going on. The tamils have lost their faith with SLG government and it&#8217;s forces. If IC would intervene and bring about a settlement it would be much needed at this hour. But if IC would not take the SLG to task the genocide will continue and tamils can be annihilated in front of the IC&#8217;s eyes. The only force that is capable of protecting the tamils is the LTTE. If the IC would recognise the LTTE as an entity to be the tamils only choice for protection, care and governance then the time to do that is now.</p>
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		<title>By: A browser</title>
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		<dc:creator>A browser</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Apr 2006 17:58:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The improper use of this opinion column is to disturb the reality of good opinions by writing lengthy unwanted phraseology of side tracking the real opinions. There are some people who are just writing pages and pages of reports that are hardly read by viewers. Keep your opinions short and precise to convey the message you intended without dragging pages of lenghty unreadable pages. The pwners of this page should make sure that opinions are short and precise and limit the coloumns to a minimum. Lengthy columns are appreciative only if not repeated just to keep away good repoting.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The improper use of this opinion column is to disturb the reality of good opinions by writing lengthy unwanted phraseology of side tracking the real opinions. There are some people who are just writing pages and pages of reports that are hardly read by viewers. Keep your opinions short and precise to convey the message you intended without dragging pages of lenghty unreadable pages. The pwners of this page should make sure that opinions are short and precise and limit the coloumns to a minimum. Lengthy columns are appreciative only if not repeated just to keep away good repoting.</p>
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		<title>By: Ne. Pu. Siva, Europe</title>
		<link>http://tamilweek.com/news-features/archives/238/comment-page-6#comment-878</link>
		<dc:creator>Ne. Pu. Siva, Europe</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Apr 2006 11:06:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Is it not time to ask the International Community to declare the Sri Lankan Government as a Terrorist State and put their leaders on trial for genocidal attack and killing of innocent tamils in Trincomalee because the Occupying Army and their Commander were attacked by LTTE.

What is the difference between Sudan Government and Sri Lankan Government nothing much, Both are commiting unpardonable crimes against their own people.  I do not see any diffirence  between what is happening in Darfur and Trincomalee its a pure etnic cleansing by the respective Governments. 

After all this how can the stupid Mangala Samaraveera ask EEC to ban the LTTE. He must be very thick.

Read the following. Irony here is Daily News edited by that racist who used to write for that racist and fascist website TLA has cheek to publish an editorial to criticise the foreign news organisations specially the venerable BBC. It is well known Island is very racist newspaper and but they are very thick if they think they can teach Americans, Europeans and others a few things about impartial reporting. You take the newspapers Daily News and Island they are very well known for supporting racist sinhalese view and very anti Tamil and do not want give anything to Tamil. Take the future pages of those papers full of articles by the racists. You would expect if the government want to build up some goodwill they will order their newspapaers to tone down their virtioloc and racist attacks. 

You could write volume about the stupdity of the undiplomatic Foreign Minister The Pinko. First think he should know is hi is not Lakshman Kathirgamar (That&#039;s another story leave it for the time being). This man is very anti-tamil cannot even recognise the troubles Norway is undergoing to keep peace and avoid innocents being killed.

Rajapakse&#039;s story is like playing fiddle while the Rome is burning. He has no Leadership, no Statesmenship but only have dim Brithership. When International Peace Negotiator come to the Country he won&#039;t meet them may be he was planning to bomb and ethnic cleanse the Trincomalee. Bunch of amateurs running the country this what you will expect if you rely on brothers, borthers JHU, brothers JVP. God save the Country. Read the following news on the hysterical editorials from those fountains of hate, racisms Daily News and Island.

Sri Lanka is facing a propaganda war more dangerous than the recent violence in the country, the president said, as newspapers accused foreign journalists of biased coverage. 

&quot;The LTTE said 40,000 people were fleeing and some of the Colombo-based foreign journalists swallowed the lie, hook, line and sinker,&quot; The Island newspaper said in a front-page editorial Saturday headlined: &quot;Call girls and call boys of Fourth Estate.&quot;
It singled out the BBC and wondered why &quot;irresponsible swashbucklers&quot; are allowed to cover such sensitive matters.

&quot;They have mistaken their mission here for heightening the conflict by lionising Tigers,&quot; the privately-owned Island wrote.

The state-owned Daily News headlined its editorial: &quot;The truth slaughtered for Mammon&quot; and accused foreign news agencies and broadcast media of inaccurate coverage in order to make more money.
&quot;Is life in poor countries so cheap that these Western media organizations would not think twice about flouting every conceivable, time-honoured norm in journalism?&quot; the newspaper asked.

In his Friday speech to the political parties, Rajapakse did not directly accuse the media but he said: &quot;LTTE and their sympathizers are launching a large-scale propaganda war to tarnish our image.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Is it not time to ask the International Community to declare the Sri Lankan Government as a Terrorist State and put their leaders on trial for genocidal attack and killing of innocent tamils in Trincomalee because the Occupying Army and their Commander were attacked by LTTE.</p>
<p>What is the difference between Sudan Government and Sri Lankan Government nothing much, Both are commiting unpardonable crimes against their own people.  I do not see any diffirence  between what is happening in Darfur and Trincomalee its a pure etnic cleansing by the respective Governments. </p>
<p>After all this how can the stupid Mangala Samaraveera ask EEC to ban the LTTE. He must be very thick.</p>
<p>Read the following. Irony here is Daily News edited by that racist who used to write for that racist and fascist website TLA has cheek to publish an editorial to criticise the foreign news organisations specially the venerable BBC. It is well known Island is very racist newspaper and but they are very thick if they think they can teach Americans, Europeans and others a few things about impartial reporting. You take the newspapers Daily News and Island they are very well known for supporting racist sinhalese view and very anti Tamil and do not want give anything to Tamil. Take the future pages of those papers full of articles by the racists. You would expect if the government want to build up some goodwill they will order their newspapaers to tone down their virtioloc and racist attacks. </p>
<p>You could write volume about the stupdity of the undiplomatic Foreign Minister The Pinko. First think he should know is hi is not Lakshman Kathirgamar (That&#8217;s another story leave it for the time being). This man is very anti-tamil cannot even recognise the troubles Norway is undergoing to keep peace and avoid innocents being killed.</p>
<p>Rajapakse&#8217;s story is like playing fiddle while the Rome is burning. He has no Leadership, no Statesmenship but only have dim Brithership. When International Peace Negotiator come to the Country he won&#8217;t meet them may be he was planning to bomb and ethnic cleanse the Trincomalee. Bunch of amateurs running the country this what you will expect if you rely on brothers, borthers JHU, brothers JVP. God save the Country. Read the following news on the hysterical editorials from those fountains of hate, racisms Daily News and Island.</p>
<p>Sri Lanka is facing a propaganda war more dangerous than the recent violence in the country, the president said, as newspapers accused foreign journalists of biased coverage. </p>
<p>&#8220;The LTTE said 40,000 people were fleeing and some of the Colombo-based foreign journalists swallowed the lie, hook, line and sinker,&#8221; The Island newspaper said in a front-page editorial Saturday headlined: &#8220;Call girls and call boys of Fourth Estate.&#8221;<br />
It singled out the BBC and wondered why &#8220;irresponsible swashbucklers&#8221; are allowed to cover such sensitive matters.</p>
<p>&#8220;They have mistaken their mission here for heightening the conflict by lionising Tigers,&#8221; the privately-owned Island wrote.</p>
<p>The state-owned Daily News headlined its editorial: &#8220;The truth slaughtered for Mammon&#8221; and accused foreign news agencies and broadcast media of inaccurate coverage in order to make more money.<br />
&#8220;Is life in poor countries so cheap that these Western media organizations would not think twice about flouting every conceivable, time-honoured norm in journalism?&#8221; the newspaper asked.</p>
<p>In his Friday speech to the political parties, Rajapakse did not directly accuse the media but he said: &#8220;LTTE and their sympathizers are launching a large-scale propaganda war to tarnish our image.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: Surasena</title>
		<link>http://tamilweek.com/news-features/archives/238/comment-page-6#comment-866</link>
		<dc:creator>Surasena</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Apr 2006 23:07:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>How many more cover ups and fabrications need be done to conceal the identity of the killer as reported by the medias of SLG. To extract the truth from SLG and the medias is an impossible factor. Because they never publish the truth in the first place. The truth will have only have one version the whole time.It will not change from version to version. The conflcting reports suggest that the identity is still a mystery. She acted as pregnant and now she is pregnant. She had been to the clinic as long as to be familiar with the place. She pretended to be a soldier&#039;s wife.Initially she had a sinhala name later investigations from CID brought out her real identity as a tamil from vavuniya. The body parts need be assembled to verify the identity. The identity has now been established as that of a suicide tiger woman. Other parties claim the attack. In the above reportings there is no consisitency and lots of untruths are the basis of repoting. When will the SLG be true to its words and deeds.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How many more cover ups and fabrications need be done to conceal the identity of the killer as reported by the medias of SLG. To extract the truth from SLG and the medias is an impossible factor. Because they never publish the truth in the first place. The truth will have only have one version the whole time.It will not change from version to version. The conflcting reports suggest that the identity is still a mystery. She acted as pregnant and now she is pregnant. She had been to the clinic as long as to be familiar with the place. She pretended to be a soldier&#8217;s wife.Initially she had a sinhala name later investigations from CID brought out her real identity as a tamil from vavuniya. The body parts need be assembled to verify the identity. The identity has now been established as that of a suicide tiger woman. Other parties claim the attack. In the above reportings there is no consisitency and lots of untruths are the basis of repoting. When will the SLG be true to its words and deeds.</p>
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		<title>By: Jeyasurya,Maradana</title>
		<link>http://tamilweek.com/news-features/archives/238/comment-page-6#comment-852</link>
		<dc:creator>Jeyasurya,Maradana</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Apr 2006 10:12:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>details civilian killings by Sri Lankan forces and paramilitaries after Geneva Talks


103 civilians, including six children, have been killed by Sri Lankan forces and its paramilitaries since Geneva Talks on 24 February untill April 27, according to a report issued by the Political Head Quarters of the Liberation Tigers Friday. 12 Tamil civilians were killed on February 27, March 5, 6, 9, 20, 22, 24, 25, and 28, and the first attack on SLA posts after the Geneva Talks in February took place on April 8th after the assasination of Trincomalee district Tamil activist Mr. V. Vigneswaran. &quot;Readers can now make their own conclusion about who is responsible for deteriorating situation following the Geneva talks,&quot; the report issued by the LTTE concluded. 

Download the report with details in PDF format

Full text of the reports follows:

Tamil civilians murdered, by and under the supervision of, Sri Lankan Armed Forces since Geneva talks on 24 February until April 27 2006

The Tamil civilians murdered by, and under the supervision of, the SLAFs since the Geneva talks on 24 February are given in a Table in this report. With a brief explanation of the data in this Table. This Table tells the story of the gruesome terrorizing nature of the murderous campaign by the SLAFs. After reading this Table, it is not too hard to imagine the state of terror in which the Tamil people are living in the SLAFs controlled areas of Northeast.

These murders were carried out by two main methods. These are, killing by direct shooting of the SLAFs and killing by direct shooting of the paramilitary while SLAFs stood guard nearby.

In the case of direct shooting by the SLAFs, the victims are first arrested on a false pretext. They are then shot and the bodies just thrown in a public place to be &quot;discovered&quot; by the people. The murder of five young men in Puthur on 18 April is a typical case of this style of SLAFs murder.

The other style of SLAFs murder is carried out using paramilitary. These murders are carried out after the SLAFs prepares the ground for the safety of and escape route for the paramilitary which then carries out the murder. Sometimes the roads are cleared of vehicles by the SLAFs so that the crime can be committed with minimum number of eyewitness. SLAFs has stood at the doors of neighbours preventing the neighbours from going to the aid of the victims. In all such murders people reported the presence of SLAFs nearby. When murders had to be committed too close to a SLAFs presence, people observed that the SLAFs vacated the place just before the murder is carried out; returning only after the paramilitary has safely escaped. The close synchronization of the movement of SLAFs and the paramilitary during these murderous campaigns are clear signal that the two are working closely together. These paramilitary murders are carried out in three distinct styles. These are, balaclava wearing gunmen arriving in white-van at night at the victim&#039;s home; helmeted motorbike riders shooting and escaping in daylight; and missing people surfacing as bodies

In Trincomalee, Sinhala mobs have also been used by the SLAFs to kill Tamil civilians. That the SLAFs stood by as Sinhala mobs continued the mayhem is now well known and reported in the international media.

Following all such face to face killing, police is brought in to remove the bodies, a judge is also usually present at the scene, and the bodies are taken to the hospital for a postmortem report and the bodies are released to the family. The case is brought to the courts. As is now the hallmark of the Sri Lankan justice system it stops here. The Table gives the names of civilians killed grouped according to the styles of murdered described above.

To these styles of murders, two more styles must be added. These are, the killing by SLAFs planted claymore mines targeting civilians and killing by aerial bombing and shelling of civilian settlements.

Some of the claymore attacks and also one incident of face to face attack have been carried by SLAFs that penetrated the Forward Defense Lines of the LTTE. Since these murders are carried out inside LTTE area by the SLAFs these have been grouped separately in the Table.

The styles of murders to look for in the Table


direct shooting by the SLAFs, 
direct shooting by the paramilitary while SLAFs stood guard nearby, carried out in three distinct styles 
balaclava wearing gunmen arriving in white-van at night at the victim&#039;s home; 
helmeted motorbike riders shooting and escaping in daylight; and 
missing people surfacing as bodies. 
SLAFs assisted Sinhala mobs, 
SLAFs planted claymore mines that target civilians, 
SLAFs aerial bombing and shelling of civilian settlements and 
SLAFs killing inside LTTE area 
Other major issues to look for in the table

The number of Tamil children and women killed by the SLAFs since the February 2006 Geneva talks are highlighted in the age and gender columns of the table. Six children under the age of 18 have been killed. Three children were killed in the so called &quot;limited operation&quot; carried out by all three armed forced of GoSL in Trincomalee on 25 April. Among them is a four year old child. The photos of the dead bodies of these children are in page 8. Fifteen women were also killed by this SLAFs murderous campaign.

The murders of the three high profile community leaders, Vigneswaran on 7 April, Vilvarasa on 20 April and Senthilnathan on 26 April must also be highlighted as all the three men had the potential to be parliamentary representatives for Northeast. Their murders represent an attempt to eliminate the development of democratic leadership among the Tamils. 

Another very important aspect of these civilian murders that is missed by most international observers is the fact that a total 12 Tamil civilians were killed on February 27, March 5, 6, 9, 20, 22, 24, 25, and 28. Then on April 7 Tamil activist, Vigneswaran, was killed. The first attack on SLA posts after the Geneva talks took place on April 8th. Readers can now make their own conclusion about who is responsible for deteriorating situation following the Geneva talks.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>details civilian killings by Sri Lankan forces and paramilitaries after Geneva Talks</p>
<p>103 civilians, including six children, have been killed by Sri Lankan forces and its paramilitaries since Geneva Talks on 24 February untill April 27, according to a report issued by the Political Head Quarters of the Liberation Tigers Friday. 12 Tamil civilians were killed on February 27, March 5, 6, 9, 20, 22, 24, 25, and 28, and the first attack on SLA posts after the Geneva Talks in February took place on April 8th after the assasination of Trincomalee district Tamil activist Mr. V. Vigneswaran. &#8220;Readers can now make their own conclusion about who is responsible for deteriorating situation following the Geneva talks,&#8221; the report issued by the LTTE concluded. </p>
<p>Download the report with details in PDF format</p>
<p>Full text of the reports follows:</p>
<p>Tamil civilians murdered, by and under the supervision of, Sri Lankan Armed Forces since Geneva talks on 24 February until April 27 2006</p>
<p>The Tamil civilians murdered by, and under the supervision of, the SLAFs since the Geneva talks on 24 February are given in a Table in this report. With a brief explanation of the data in this Table. This Table tells the story of the gruesome terrorizing nature of the murderous campaign by the SLAFs. After reading this Table, it is not too hard to imagine the state of terror in which the Tamil people are living in the SLAFs controlled areas of Northeast.</p>
<p>These murders were carried out by two main methods. These are, killing by direct shooting of the SLAFs and killing by direct shooting of the paramilitary while SLAFs stood guard nearby.</p>
<p>In the case of direct shooting by the SLAFs, the victims are first arrested on a false pretext. They are then shot and the bodies just thrown in a public place to be &#8220;discovered&#8221; by the people. The murder of five young men in Puthur on 18 April is a typical case of this style of SLAFs murder.</p>
<p>The other style of SLAFs murder is carried out using paramilitary. These murders are carried out after the SLAFs prepares the ground for the safety of and escape route for the paramilitary which then carries out the murder. Sometimes the roads are cleared of vehicles by the SLAFs so that the crime can be committed with minimum number of eyewitness. SLAFs has stood at the doors of neighbours preventing the neighbours from going to the aid of the victims. In all such murders people reported the presence of SLAFs nearby. When murders had to be committed too close to a SLAFs presence, people observed that the SLAFs vacated the place just before the murder is carried out; returning only after the paramilitary has safely escaped. The close synchronization of the movement of SLAFs and the paramilitary during these murderous campaigns are clear signal that the two are working closely together. These paramilitary murders are carried out in three distinct styles. These are, balaclava wearing gunmen arriving in white-van at night at the victim&#8217;s home; helmeted motorbike riders shooting and escaping in daylight; and missing people surfacing as bodies</p>
<p>In Trincomalee, Sinhala mobs have also been used by the SLAFs to kill Tamil civilians. That the SLAFs stood by as Sinhala mobs continued the mayhem is now well known and reported in the international media.</p>
<p>Following all such face to face killing, police is brought in to remove the bodies, a judge is also usually present at the scene, and the bodies are taken to the hospital for a postmortem report and the bodies are released to the family. The case is brought to the courts. As is now the hallmark of the Sri Lankan justice system it stops here. The Table gives the names of civilians killed grouped according to the styles of murdered described above.</p>
<p>To these styles of murders, two more styles must be added. These are, the killing by SLAFs planted claymore mines targeting civilians and killing by aerial bombing and shelling of civilian settlements.</p>
<p>Some of the claymore attacks and also one incident of face to face attack have been carried by SLAFs that penetrated the Forward Defense Lines of the LTTE. Since these murders are carried out inside LTTE area by the SLAFs these have been grouped separately in the Table.</p>
<p>The styles of murders to look for in the Table</p>
<p>direct shooting by the SLAFs,<br />
direct shooting by the paramilitary while SLAFs stood guard nearby, carried out in three distinct styles<br />
balaclava wearing gunmen arriving in white-van at night at the victim&#8217;s home;<br />
helmeted motorbike riders shooting and escaping in daylight; and<br />
missing people surfacing as bodies.<br />
SLAFs assisted Sinhala mobs,<br />
SLAFs planted claymore mines that target civilians,<br />
SLAFs aerial bombing and shelling of civilian settlements and<br />
SLAFs killing inside LTTE area<br />
Other major issues to look for in the table</p>
<p>The number of Tamil children and women killed by the SLAFs since the February 2006 Geneva talks are highlighted in the age and gender columns of the table. Six children under the age of 18 have been killed. Three children were killed in the so called &#8220;limited operation&#8221; carried out by all three armed forced of GoSL in Trincomalee on 25 April. Among them is a four year old child. The photos of the dead bodies of these children are in page 8. Fifteen women were also killed by this SLAFs murderous campaign.</p>
<p>The murders of the three high profile community leaders, Vigneswaran on 7 April, Vilvarasa on 20 April and Senthilnathan on 26 April must also be highlighted as all the three men had the potential to be parliamentary representatives for Northeast. Their murders represent an attempt to eliminate the development of democratic leadership among the Tamils. </p>
<p>Another very important aspect of these civilian murders that is missed by most international observers is the fact that a total 12 Tamil civilians were killed on February 27, March 5, 6, 9, 20, 22, 24, 25, and 28. Then on April 7 Tamil activist, Vigneswaran, was killed. The first attack on SLA posts after the Geneva talks took place on April 8th. Readers can now make their own conclusion about who is responsible for deteriorating situation following the Geneva talks.</p>
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		<title>By: Brohier</title>
		<link>http://tamilweek.com/news-features/archives/238/comment-page-6#comment-838</link>
		<dc:creator>Brohier</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Apr 2006 23:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The genocidal Mahinda Rajapakse&#039;s presidency will be very sweet to his former leader and rival chandrika who is laughing her guts out at the near war break that could happen at any moment. In fact this is what she knew was coming and she wants a bad omen to this nasty man who even want to throw her out of party chairmanship. The current situation of no-return would make her as a better one of the two devils. She is happy about the situation and her silence is a proof to her cunningness. As the former president she failed to renounce the violence against the civilians that are happening in her motherland where she just completed her term in office and wanted to keep her powers by hook or crook but unfortunately failed. She should voice her criticism at the swollen headed mahinda and condemn his brutality otherwise she is also a part to the killing spree.The hell is waiting ready to absorb all these evil doers at the end of their life&#039;s journey. Every killer will have a field day in hell that is waiting for the sons and daughters who are fit to burn.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The genocidal Mahinda Rajapakse&#8217;s presidency will be very sweet to his former leader and rival chandrika who is laughing her guts out at the near war break that could happen at any moment. In fact this is what she knew was coming and she wants a bad omen to this nasty man who even want to throw her out of party chairmanship. The current situation of no-return would make her as a better one of the two devils. She is happy about the situation and her silence is a proof to her cunningness. As the former president she failed to renounce the violence against the civilians that are happening in her motherland where she just completed her term in office and wanted to keep her powers by hook or crook but unfortunately failed. She should voice her criticism at the swollen headed mahinda and condemn his brutality otherwise she is also a part to the killing spree.The hell is waiting ready to absorb all these evil doers at the end of their life&#8217;s journey. Every killer will have a field day in hell that is waiting for the sons and daughters who are fit to burn.</p>
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		<title>By: Ne. Pu. Siva, Europe</title>
		<link>http://tamilweek.com/news-features/archives/238/comment-page-6#comment-837</link>
		<dc:creator>Ne. Pu. Siva, Europe</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Apr 2006 21:51:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You sicko Thanabala Singhe read the following. Are you not ashamed of being Tamil souping with the killers of the Tamil, you dickhead.

We fear that the five decapitated bodies found near Kaduvela in Avissawela may belong to Tamil civilians who have been arrested during searches and disappeared from Colombo,&quot; said Leader of Upcountry Peoples Front (UPF) and parliamentarian P.Chandrasekaran in a letter sent to Sri Lanka&#039;s President Mahinda Rajapakse Thursday, sources in Colombo said.

The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), on Wednesday, called on the International Community to strongly condemn the &quot;genocidal attempt&quot; on the Tamil people in Muthur east in Trincomalee district. &quot;The International Community is turning a blind eye,&quot; while Colombo has openly declared a war and is carrying out &quot;reprehensible murders&quot; of Tamil civilians in the Tamil homeland. The Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) has violated gravely the ceasefire agreement (CFA) with the LTTE, said the statement issued by the Head Quarters of the Political Division of the Tigers. More than 40,000 people have displaced, terrorized and are languishing as refugees, the statement said.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You sicko Thanabala Singhe read the following. Are you not ashamed of being Tamil souping with the killers of the Tamil, you dickhead.</p>
<p>We fear that the five decapitated bodies found near Kaduvela in Avissawela may belong to Tamil civilians who have been arrested during searches and disappeared from Colombo,&#8221; said Leader of Upcountry Peoples Front (UPF) and parliamentarian P.Chandrasekaran in a letter sent to Sri Lanka&#8217;s President Mahinda Rajapakse Thursday, sources in Colombo said.</p>
<p>The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), on Wednesday, called on the International Community to strongly condemn the &#8220;genocidal attempt&#8221; on the Tamil people in Muthur east in Trincomalee district. &#8220;The International Community is turning a blind eye,&#8221; while Colombo has openly declared a war and is carrying out &#8220;reprehensible murders&#8221; of Tamil civilians in the Tamil homeland. The Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) has violated gravely the ceasefire agreement (CFA) with the LTTE, said the statement issued by the Head Quarters of the Political Division of the Tigers. More than 40,000 people have displaced, terrorized and are languishing as refugees, the statement said.</p>
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