Will The LTTE make an air Strike on Colombo?
by B. Raman
(“The LTTE has still much bite left in it as seen by the rapidity and deadly effectiveness with which it has hit back against the Sri Lankan Police, Army and Navy after each incident of reprisal killing by the Government in which their hand is suspected……After the spectacular assassination of Laxman Kadirgamar, the then Foreign Minister, last year, the LTTE has not been able to mount any other spectacular strike in Colombo. Most of its post-November,2005, terrorist strikes have been confined to the Northern and Eastern provinces. Is it due to operational weaknesses on the ground in Colombo or due to fears of further turning international opinion against it by operating in Colombo? It would be difficult to answer this question at present for want of adequate information on this subject”….. Extract from my article dated April 23, 2006, titled “Sri Lanka: The Wounded Tiger”
The LTTE demonstrated its unimpaired capability for planning and mounting a clandestine strike against even the key nerve centres of the Government in Colombo on April 25,2006. A suspected woman suicide bomber, reportedly posing as a pregnant woman needing medical attention, managed to penetrate into a high security area of the army and blew herself up as Lt. Gen. Sarath Fonseka, the Commander of the Sri Lankan Army, was reportedly leaving his office, which is located in front of the army hospital. The Army chief suffered serious abdominal injuries and is in hospital undergoing treatment. Eight people were killed, including some of the bodyguards of the chief.
2. The LTTE has not claimed the responsibility for the attack. It is unlikely to do so since it never claims responsibility for its acts of terrorism. Only the LTTE could have carried out an operation of this type marked by precise intelligence regarding the movements of the chief, an ability to penetrate even highly-guarded areas, precise planning and precise execution by a highly-motivated lone suicide bomber.
3.The LTTE’s targeting of Lt. Gen. Sarath should not be a cause for surprise. It is believed to suspect him to be the author of the covert action plan to keep it bleeding in the Eastern Province with the help of “Col” Karuna, a legendary commander of the LTTE from the Eastern Province, who raised the flag of revolt against Prabhakaran, the LTTE leader, in March,2004, in protest against the alleged discrimination of Eastern Tamils by the organisation’s northern leadership. Lt. Gen. Sarath is an anti-LTTE hardliner, who enjoys the confidence of President Mahinda Rajapakse, and has emerged as one of his key advisers.
4. The LTTE’s attack on the Army Commander came four days after a statement (April 21) made by Lt. Gen. Sarath in which he was quoted as saying: “If the LTTE do not participate in peace talks and continue their provocative acts, the army will have no other option other than to retaliate. There is no connection, whatsoever, with the recent killings in North and East and the army. It is the LTTE who are doing these ruthless killings. These killings are mercilessly done by the LTTE. The LTTE are forcing us for war. We will not allow this war to begin. The people of Sri Lanka are longing for peace. We too are desirous of the same.”
5. There is no reason to believe that the LTTE attack on him was provoked by this statement. He has been a marked man of the LTTE even earlier because of his suspected role as the chief co-ordinator of the anti-LTTE covert actions in the Northern and Eastern provinces. The attack on him was partly an act of reprisal terrorism and partly demonstration terrorism. Reprisal for the alleged killings by the Army and Karuna’s men of the supporters and sympathisers of the LTTE in the Eastern Province and demonstration of the LTTE’s continuing capability for precision strikes even in Colombo. It was an attack against supposedly the hardest of the hard targets—-the highly protected army headquarters– and not a soft target.
6. The Government has tactically retaliated through artillery, air and naval strikes on the LTTE positions in the Eastern Province for about five hours on the evening of April 25. The artillery and air strikes were particularly concentrated on the Muttur East area of Tricomalee District. The Government has so far avoided any retaliatory strike in the Northern Province and has projected even the strikes in the Trincomalee District as in retaliation for a naval strike allegedly mounted by the LTTE coinciding with the attack in Colombo. There is so far no credible evidence in support of the Government claim that the LTTE had made a naval strike in Trincomalee at the same time as the attempt to kill the Army Commander in Colombo.
7. The Government has been projecting its retaliatory strikes as tactical in nature, not amounting to a formal end of the cease-fire entered into with the LTTE in February,2002, and a resumption of its war against the LTTE. It remains to be seen how the LTTE reacts to the air strikes. De jure ceasefire and de facto fighting—-that continues to be the ground situation.
8. A retaliatory attack by the LTTE is very likely and it may be in kind against the air and ground assets of the Sri Lankan Air force, including its personnel. The possibilities are of a ground strike against the international airport in Colombo similar to the one launched by the LTTE with devastating effect in July, 2001 or an air-mounted terrorist strike by the microlite aircraft allegedly procured by the LTTE and smuggled into the area controlled by it in 2004. However, a factor inhibiting the use of its aircraft will be the fact that there will be no deniability of the LTTE’s hand if it uses its aircraft. [Source: saag.org]
(The writer is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India, New Delhi, and, presently, Director, Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai.)
Saurabh & Toronto said,
April 26, 2006 @ 11:47 am
speculation, speculation & speculation, I guess anybody can write any gibberish these days & post it on the net.
Thanabalasingam said,
April 26, 2006 @ 11:50 am
The same author two days ago wrote a different perspective on LTTE and no started thinking in a different angle. Truth is anything is possible in side an “ILLUSIVE MIND” that our rulers failed to grasp so far. Those people should read what JN Dixit has said in an interview while promoting his book “Assignment COLOMBO” (he simply changed his assessment he had on this illusive mind only after his assignment was over)
Thambu/London said,
April 26, 2006 @ 12:30 pm
Ladies/Gentleman
Please look at the reality to see why the tamils have been fighting for decades. Don’t just look into an incident alone and look at the routes as to why we are at this juncture. Did Tamil Tigers exist in 1950′s ? No.They were created by the oppressive and successive sinhala governements.
As a journalist, never be biased.
K.K said,
April 26, 2006 @ 12:37 pm
Foneseka is a decorated war hero of the GOSL, but for the Tamils he’s a mass murderer of innocents. Responisble for the mass graves in chemmani and the torture and death of many Tamil civilians. He’s been a target of not only the LTTE but many Tamil organizations and individuals.
The air strikes and mortar strikes being carried out by the Sri Lankan Army targetting Tamils is largely a knee Jerk reaction with no coordination or precision. The Air Force has reportedly even bombed some parts of their own territory because they lack precision bombing technology. The chances of these retaliatory measures affecting the LTTE, who are protected in well enforced bunkers are slim. Those who’re affected as usual will be ordinary Tamil civilians.
rubasinhge Alberta. ca said,
April 26, 2006 @ 12:39 pm
why this auther always refer ltte as terrorists. An un biased writer never take one side. He ( un biased writer) only analys the situation. and report it.
Sam Perera said,
April 26, 2006 @ 12:50 pm
Most right thinking citizens of the country know what happened in 1950′s was caused by SWRD’s greed to capture power. What most right thinking Tamils and Sinhala, should do now is to discuss the issues and find solutions rather than killing each other.
Alex Ottawa said,
April 26, 2006 @ 1:10 pm
Be neutral and no bias comments has to be come out fom journalists but these days oppressive regimes pay big buck to these people and buy them out(truth) easily…
Alex
TB Colombo said,
April 26, 2006 @ 1:23 pm
Anybody who uses violence to achieve their demand is called terrorism. One who practices terrorism to solve problem will diminish with the same way.
loyallankan said,
April 26, 2006 @ 1:30 pm
When the Army kills a civilian in the process of striking the terrorists the hole world talk about it. What about the hundreds of innocent Sinhalese killed in the South or in Colombo by brutal LTTE.
k.d.c jayatileka/ dubai said,
April 26, 2006 @ 1:32 pm
well we see another human bomb going off a single female
getting access to one of the highest security places, possibly
with known or unknown assistance from inside the army.
Are the intelligence agencies this much dumb in colombo, seems like
this woman had gone in to the camp several times..dont they
have ” cctv” at all entry/exit points of important places…dont
they have x-ray machines installed at imporatnt places to screen
people…are they only going for manual searches and security of
people.
HAVE THEY THOUGHT OF ANY OTHER WAYS OF ATTACKS BY THE
LTTE SUCH AS A WOMAN AND A MAN COMMING TOGEATHER AS A
COUPLE FOR A SUICIDE ATTACK OR AS A FAMILY WITH AN INFANT
OR WITH A CHILD, STILL WE HAVE NOT SEEN THIS SORT OF “COMBO ATTACKS” BUT HAVE THE SECURITY AUTHORITIES TAKEN STEPS TO
PREVENT THESE TYPE OF ATTACKS IF IT EVER HAPPENS.
should not we expect the unexpected, its impossible to completely
stop a suicide attack but with anticipation and barriers surely
these monsters can be curtailed.
we need lot of civiliens on the cid pay roll to get lot of info about suspecious objects in our city…enroll beggers even they are the
eyes on the streets, get assistance from three wheeler drivers,
way side/payment vendors…they do not need to be attached to
any security unit but….pay them monthly and obtain lot of data
from them of day to day significant changes and of suspecious people.
it was said…
” you have to stop the violence before you can start the peace
nogotiations.sometimes the only way to stop it is to go in with
a bigger bunch of guys and guns than the bad guys have.
executive outcomes ( a south african based private military company ),
did that in sierra leone.they literally stoped the war. ”
-canadian brigadier general ian douglas.
” An Army may be likened to water : water leaves dry the high places
and seeks the hollows ; an army turns from strength and attacks
weakness. The flow of water is regulated by the shape of the ground.
victory is gained by acting according to the state of the enemy.”
-sun tzu, the art of war. c-500bc.
may our country win this war one day.
shan said,
April 26, 2006 @ 1:36 pm
Mr.Raman should be a RAW personnel.
mushtaq mohamed said,
April 26, 2006 @ 1:42 pm
One can not help but wonder what the LTTE wants? They portray an image as the saviours of the Tamils in the north but are they? The LTTE defeated ,during the recent presidential election, the only candidate who could have found an amicable solution. The LTTE helped the extremist in Srilanka to gain power. LTTE created the necessary atmosphere that is inclined for war. Is this the act of freedom fighters? But the LTTE has got the whole calculation wrong. Internationally they have exhausted all of their sympathisers. The recent ban in canada is one good example. Internationally their true colours as a terrorist organisation is begining to come to light, this will make it very difficult for the organisation to collect funds using dummy corporations. What America did in Afganistan was to trace and stop all the funds that were coming through to the terrorist. This has virtually distroyed the organisation. The LTTE fate will be nothing less. In Srilanka the LTTE has lost its muscle. In Batticloa the Karuna factor with several other anti LTTE militia control. The LTTE is now reduced to only the North? Like Mike Tyson the LTTE is trying to live of its former image? However war is not the solution. There will be no winners. The only solution is to embrace Democracy. We live in the 21st century but yet Srilanka seem to be stuck with no progress. We should listen to the international community before the international community stops listening to us.
Ragu said,
April 26, 2006 @ 2:25 pm
The author of this piece and Raman are writing articles after articles.
Just go back to see what they’ve been writing and verify weather their predictions came true. I remember reading this authors article during CBKs ‘war for peace’ time. He even claimed the LTTE is a ‘spent force’ and ‘tamil eelam’ is a ‘pipe dream’. Then to my surprise I see the same wordings in the Hindu group publications by different authors.
After 5 , 6 years he complained that ISGA is a stepping stone for Eelam. You all should read how they defended CBK and white-washed her as peace dove! This Raman never writes anything definitive. He always leaves one or two points favorable to the opposite side too, so he can later claim that he predicted it too! All these analysts’ who never visited the ‘field of action’ just write craps by reading some western analysts’’ article. Most of the time you can find some words or phrases never used by them before, but if you search them on the web you will find them in some recent article by a US analyst in Iraqi or 9/11!
victor, USA said,
April 26, 2006 @ 2:26 pm
War is not the solution but war was forced on US.
When HRW report was released, LTTE was banned in UK and what ???
I am surprised to see that some one here still betting the dead horse (Karuna).
If Karuna et al. has enough peoples’ power, the group should be staying far away from SLA camps not in the HIGH SECURITY ZONE under the cover of SLA.
Ever since Banda changed the law to SINHALA only, all the Srilankan development was freezed and interestingly, our honorable President was calling his election victory as similer to Banda’s victory. That means we are still in 50s.
SURANGA-LONDON said,
April 26, 2006 @ 2:28 pm
LTTE IS A TERRORISTS AND THEIR NOT REPRESENTING THE WHOLE TAMIL NATION, ALSO THEY ARE TERRORISING THE TAMILS WHO LIVING IN OVERSEAS AND SRI LANKA TO COLLECT FUNDS BY BLAKMAILING THEIR FAMILIES,THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY COMADY FILM MADE BY THAMILCHELVAM AND ANTON BALASINGHAM,PRABAKARAN HAS BEEN WASHED AWAY BY TSUNAMI, KARUNA HAS LEFT THE GROUP,SO THERE IS NO ABSOLUTE CONTROL OVER THE CADERS, AND THIS WILL BE THERE FINAL WAR AND LTTE WILL NO MORE BY 2008 IF THEY FAIL TO GET BACK IN PEACE PROCESS,
GOOD LUCK SRI LANKA BOTH SINHALEESE AND TAMILS,
raj selvadorai said,
April 26, 2006 @ 3:53 pm
hi sri lanka shude be one land tamil ,sinhala,muslim can live to gether but until this brutell merderess LTTE live in the country its never happen ???? we must stand to gether and distroy them as soon as possible united stete thinking al quIda is the most dengerous but i whill sajest LTTE THE NO ONE KILLING MASTERS, NO 1 IN THE WORLD ITS LEADER UNSIVILISE BLUD HUNGRY BRBHAKHREN I APILL TO TAMIL BROTHES AND SISTERS DONT FAND THEM DONT LET THEM TO DISSTROY SRI LANKA
Anthony Jones, Colombo, Sri Lanka said,
April 26, 2006 @ 4:23 pm
The Army Commander is very well known as a lothario, who thrives on the female domestic help, known to all & sundry as the “Ayahs”.
My contacts at the SLA Head-quarters, state that, the bomber was a Sinhalese lady, who had been taken advantage by the cad “Sarath Fonseka”. She was carrying his child & was a native of Narramala, a Sinhalese haven in the Kurunagala District.
She has also had a good knowledge of the workings at the SLA head-quarters. The Sinhalese themselves betrayed the proudless beggar nation known to all and sundry as Sri Lanka.
Do not blame the LTTE, blame the traitors in the Sinhala community, who sold out their own head, the ever virile Sarath Fonseka.
Wimal Jayawardana - Toronto said,
April 26, 2006 @ 4:35 pm
Brain washed Suicide Bomber is a product of LTTE. LTTE are silent on this attack. Why dont they take that responsibility and show the world there capability. They brainwashed innocent tamils to act as suicide bombers. Can anybody challenge Prhabakaran to brainwash his own children to be suicide bombers. No he will never allow that to happen. He is not going to gain anything out of these acts. Any problems can be sortout only by communicating and negotiating and not by Suicide Bombers. He does not realize this factor yet. He thinks that he is not going to be die in this world. Please be remind that you are not going to take northen part of Sri Lanka when you Die!!!!. You say this is for the sake of future generations, but you won’t be there to see that generation. Where are you going to pay for your sins? Countless number of innocent new born babies,children, pregnant mothers, poor farmers etc.etc… killed by your brainwashed people with your instructions. Don’t you feel guilty of these barberic acts. You don’t feel anything becasuse you are the first person been BRAINWASHED. We all have to live together. You cannot seperate from other communities. In time to come whole world will be living together Like EU. This Mother Sri Lanka cannot be seperated as you think. Everybody who born in this country has the right to live in harmony and peacefully. South Tamils are living very peacefully and no sinhalese are going against them. So what is your problem?
Please close all the doors and think to yourself what you are doing is correct or wrong.
Anthony Jones, Colombo, Sri Lanka said,
April 26, 2006 @ 5:03 pm
Walter Jayawardene safe & in the well in Toronto, did you write, when the Tamils, were being burnt, looted, raped & sodomized.
No, why, it is the just right of the buddhist nation, to indulge in such past-times. Observe sil on a full moon & then it is vile for the rest of the month.
Take a good look, at yourself in the mirror & ask yourself the question, why is my mother-land, in this situation ?, who is to be blamed ?
Bombing the LTTE from 40,000 feet high above in the sky, firing shells from 60 km’s out at sea, ensures the accuracy of taking the blasted LTTE out.
Oh no, the victims are the hapless, the wretched, who just cannot hit back, those who just do not have the resources to take a slow boat to Canada & claim economic refugee status, like what you did a few moons ago Walter.
Thanks to the mighty LTTE, the Tamils can walk with their heads held high in the air. You can hit us from the air, bomb us from the distance, but you will never face the Tamils face to face. Why ?.
Because, Walter, you come & come, at the mere mention of the word
” Kottiya ” or ” Tiger “. 3 kottiyas, at the Fort Railway Station, in 1983, can you remember it Walter, can you ?.
Be genuine, in your attempts to seek a resolution to this ethnic cancer, why dont you ask Tiren Alles, he has the answer.
Tiren, he did a deal with the LTTE, to elect Mahinda Rajapakse into power.
As usual, after the victory, the deal done is conveniently forgotten & it is Tamil bashing time again.
This is why the four legged cannines of Sri Lanka, known to all as a
” ballaa ” or ” dog “, has more gratitude & loyalty, than most of the Sinhalese, living on this planet.
Thanabalu said,
April 26, 2006 @ 5:09 pm
Wimal Jayawardana was right in one sense!!
The Sinhalese was brainwashed to think that Tamils don’t belong to the Island ,
He was right in one sense that Sinhalase were brainwashed to believe that Island was only belong to Buddhism and all buddhist have the right to kill non-buddhist.
WHAT is NOT RIGHT then? Tamils doesn’t deserve any JUSTICE.
Mr.Wimal Jayawardana, No TAMIL will agree with Suicide bombing and you don’t need to preach that, if you can change some thing, change the thinking in the COLOMBO CIRCLE and RULING ELITE.
IF TAMILS WERE given the right place and right to exist, right to do their own business, studies, worship whenever and whereever they want in their traditional home land, they don’t even need LTTE.
It is TAMILS who should get what they want and not what we can get from Srilankan government and that mentality needs to change.
Why not have a REFERENDUM IN northeast and ask simple questions like
” DO THEY WANT TO REMAIN with rest of the Island” May be a NON VIOLENT UNITED NATIONS WAY. if they elected to stay then ask them whether they want to remain as UNITARY or UNITED instead of Colombo tell us that all what you get is this because SINHALA PARTIES DON”T AGREE to GRANT MORE THAN THIS TO YOU TAMILS.
And if you close your door and think, you will get this point without hesitation
Jeevan said,
April 26, 2006 @ 5:41 pm
Quite interesting to see the comments about the attack at the army hospital area in a well established secure region of the srilankan military might. Is it right to assume that the most secure part of the army is attackable by the LTTE as perceived by analysts who are still prepared to say that only LTTE is capable of doing this. Why can’t this be a preplanned army plot to scare the LTTE into submission by the subsequent bombardments carried out in Trinco. The government wanted a plan to attack the tigers at any cost and so the preplanned attack arranged and carried out by army itself is the most possible scenario. They want the wrath of international community against the tigers and an incident of this nature can do it. The SLG is willing to go to mean levels to achieve it’s ends and this action of bombing in colombo is a nicely set up stage. All the events during the past few weeks are all govt. planned actions to discredit the LTTE. Since the CFA factor is still holding the LTTE from hitting back very hard the time is ripe for them to spring into action after breaking away from the CFA with due notice to the SLG through the facilitator who has worked tirelessly to end the enmity. The facilitator’s efforts are proving to be ineffective due to the hard core criminals of the SLG. The time is ripe for counter action by the LTTE.
jegan colombo said,
April 26, 2006 @ 5:56 pm
Dear writer :
Why you faill to write srilankan forces atrocity against tamil comunity. Today we all see international community only cryiig for srilankan forces death not innocent tamils
still those countries claim themself as civilised socity
TAMIL CAN SEE NO GENUINE JUSTIFICATION
THEY HAVE TO SUFFER FOR THEIR DESTINY
than you
JEGE
Desapriya, Canada said,
April 26, 2006 @ 5:58 pm
Appa Sinhala Uadrattaaa Mayathayas…..
YOu all are sitting and talking over here in the west and don’t know what is exactly happening in Colombo. I do had aconversation with my brother today ( I don’t want to disclose , He is a Patriatic Sri Lankan officer) he also told me the facts something related what “Anthony Jones” said. But only one difference is plastic type bomb is planted in the one of the motor bike of the body guards which can go off for heat. Our people are becoming slave for teh LTTE money. He siad the couple who died must be involved in the planting of teh bomb since they do have good contacts with in teh head quaters as “Anthony Jones” said. Murderous LTTE bought them for money. But this idots doesn’t know it will kill them too. For their bad time bomb went off while they are rushing outside.
We need to do lot of cleanup in our top circle, Kepping a “Modayaa” like Mahinda , Who is also “Tsunami Horaa” will not help our community. This is the time we all support JVP to take over our mother land.
THink and act.
Desapriya, Canada
Anthony Jones, Colombo, Sri Lanka said,
April 26, 2006 @ 6:52 pm
Is this not funny, the GOSL proudly states, we are up-holding the CFA, we are for un-qualified peace.
Can anyone, put my little mind at ease, this bombing from the air & the sea, is it not a VIOLATION OF THE CFA ??????????????.
Who is the culprit, is it the LTTE or the GOSL ???????????????.
Any answers ?????????????????????????.
Anthoney-Toronto said,
April 26, 2006 @ 8:00 pm
World dangerous terrorist group ‘LTTE’ is talking about problems of Tamil people. Problems are not only for Tamils. Unemployment, education, health… you name. All these are common problems for everyone, no matter who you are. I do not understand as to how you can find solution for these problems by killing people. LTTE started to find solution for these problems by killing people. Later, now they need to separate the country. Any child can understand the objective of this leadership. No any terrorist group governs a country in this world. Now time has come. As GOSL is responsible for protecting all Sri Lankan, government should clean terrorist from our country ASAP. We being Sri Lankan should thank whole world, at least now you have realized the truth. You can’t hide truth forever. It will come up one day. I think it is happening.
Australia said,
April 26, 2006 @ 8:07 pm
Anthony Jones???????
What a load of crap, same as your fake name. Violation of CFA???? Take a mirror and look at your self. LTTE getting what they deserve finally. This is just the beginning. Wait and see.
Find a better name next time ………..perhaps Eric…. whatever
Nagules said,
April 26, 2006 @ 8:56 pm
The SLG with all trump cards pulled out to try to under estimate the tamils objective to establish self-rule have finally begun to show forth their fierce terrorism by direct action of joint forces attack of civilians in air bombardments and to justify their action by telling the world of counter attacks against tigers. The IC can also be duped for a while if tamils suffered this brutalism of sinhala chauvinism for 6 decades but the naked truth of the reality can never be hidden. Truth will triumph at the end and that is what all the schooling taught to everyone. Thuggerism and blatant lies by a so called democracy such as srilanka is the despicable criminal attrocity perpetrators are having a field day with the philosophy of JHU,JVP and tamil haters all combined to annihilate the tamils. This is the situation right now from all events that are unfolding before our eyes. The IC is silent when tamils are brutally assaulted ,killed,maimed.raped and bombed. The slightest thing that would happen to any person within the SLG the IC is very quick to condemn the LTTE even without any proof. Is this one sided decision or not. If they give their equal voices with respect to both tamils as well as srilanka government then they will not be prejudiced in their decisions. But now their silence when tamils get killed in large numbers never made them condemn the SLG for their attack against civilians . This kind of action by IC will earn the the wrath of the entire tamil world.
Cheran said,
April 26, 2006 @ 9:28 pm
Mahinda rajapakse instead of implementing the agreement reached at geneva 1 has now decided in a different course of action and try to tell the world attacking the tigers in an air bombardment will still keep the peace talks in tact. Just to please the JVP,JHU,the Joint military forces he has brought about a ‘u’ turn for peace talks by expecting the tigers to continue his no-peace talks and says in no way the talks will be hindered by his action. He is day-dreaming about a smooth presidency by destroying the tigers only and not the tamils. This beastley monster doesn’t want to believe that as much as he is chosen by people to be the president, Mr.Prabhaharan is the national leader of all the tamils endorsed by 90% of tamils. Mahinda got 40 % support from sinhala people but Prabaharan got 90% of tamils support. Prabhaharan is a more credible leader and straight forward man than Mahinda can ever be. It is unfortunate that tamils can never be humiliated to have their leader underestimated by sinhala thugs and the genocidal SLG. Time will show the tamil resolve of freedom from sinhala hegemony and bondage. Prabhaharan is the proven honest leader for the tamils.
Anthony Jones, Colombo, Sri Lanka said,
April 26, 2006 @ 10:05 pm
Australia, are you selectively blind, being in Australia, did you not watch the programme on TV, where the good Sinhalese folk, were made to look really really foolish.
Since 1956, it is the Sinhalese politicians & racists who have made themselves responsible for the wonderful state of affairs in the haven for pedophiles.
They need the Tamil vote to come into power, once they do, then they conveniently get a dose of amnesia.
Is it not a fact, that the Army Commander is a cad & a petty racist ???????.
Is it also not a fact, that it was the LTTE, that elected the President of the homosexual haven ????????????.
Were the agreements reached in Geneva implemented ???????????.
If not why ?????????????????????.
Therefore, do not point your impotent finger at the LTTE, take a good look at the likes of you, who flaunt dead kolli kottus, much to the disgust of the decent folk.
As for me, yes I am writing under a pen name, is there anything immoral or wrong with it ?????????.
Pure said,
April 26, 2006 @ 10:57 pm
LTTE IS Not the only voice of tamils , tamils can not united because they are very much seperated by caste and area .
Jafna people doesnot give water in proper glass to eastern tamils .
tamils now brainwashed by LTTE . Tamil should think why this killings , who created it ? reply is LTTE is the foolished terrorist .
LTTE Came to peace only for some reasons as below
Pure said,
April 26, 2006 @ 11:05 pm
LTTE IS Not the only voice of tamils , tamils can not united because they are very much seperated by caste and area .
Jafna people doesnot give water in proper glass to eastern tamils .
tamils now brainwashed by LTTE . Tamil should think why this killings , who created it ? reply is LTTE is the foolished terrorist .
LTTE Came to peace only for some reasons as below
Prabaheran want to send his son and daughter for higher studies to europe
ZOO PAA ,bALAKUMAR , NADESAN , and all top ranks want to send their sons and daughter for higher studies to europe
WHY THIS TAMILS NOT REALISING THE FACT ?
Now LTTE want war because they completed their mission of sending kids ti europe .
who’s money is this ? think ? Who is suffering and they sitting comfortably living luxury life in jungle bunger and their kids are safe in europe .
Ruwan/Sri Lanka said,
April 27, 2006 @ 12:27 am
LTTE Wants war. They are not represents Tamils. There are a lot of Tamils in the south. No body wants to and lives in their so-called homeland. Our homeland is Sri Lanka – BAN LTTE.
Thanabalu said,
April 27, 2006 @ 1:42 am
There are some “PURE” geniuses out there coming up Re(U)Wi(A)Nding the tape with new ideas. Hilarious!!!
Here is what I want to give it to those who preach the democracy in Srilanka may find it OFFENDED.
A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC)
SRI LANKA: Sri Lanka faces a problem far greater than the escalation of violence
The lower level of violence that prevailed during the cease fire is now being pushed higher. A country that is already facing a collapse of its basic institutions and living at the lowest ebb of the rule of law is now plunging deeper into an abysmal crisis in all areas of life.
The AHRC has consistently pointed out that the crisis in Sri Lanka is a crisis of democracy, with its roots in the authoritarian style of rule that arose as a result of the 1978 Constitution. The architect of the 1978 Constitution was an aged politician who had no other ambition than to rule for the rest of his life, like colonial governor generals or ancient monarchs.
The ethnic conflict developed into a KILLING COMPETITION as a result of the initial collapse of democratic safeguards. In the early years, there were some forms of resistance on the part of the judiciary and some liberal elements, but over the years everyone has become adjusted to the authoritarian scheme. While there is a lot of expression of frustration and grief about what has taken place in the country in citizens of all classes’ private conversations, there has been no growth of a strong movement within the country to fight back and to reassert democracy.
The full article can be found in http://www.ahrchk.net/statements/mainfile.php/2006statements/507/
selva said,
April 27, 2006 @ 1:49 am
ceasefire violations within this month. (2006-04)
Serial No Incident
125 2006-04-23 BATTICALOA/POLONNARUWA
Two soldiers attached to the WADUMUNAI entry/exit point at WELIKANDA sustained injuries after they came under an LTTE claymore explosion followed by hand grenade and fire attacks. However, the Tamil Tigers have fled towards the interior part of the jungle in the face of retaliation by troops.The SLMM has been informed.
…
126 2006-04-23 TRINCOMALEE
LTTE directed fire and hand grenade attacks at Air Force troops on a combined search conducted by Security Forces at KAPPALTHURAI in TRINCOMALEE.Air Force troops retaliated the LTTE fire.One LTTE terrorist involved in the offensive was killed in retaliation.The SLMM was informed.
…
127 2006-04-23 TRINCOMALEE
Two LTTE cadres who hurled hand grenades at the troops on duty near the PERATHUVELI railway crossing at PORTANKATU on the Main Supply Route died due to firing by troops.Troops were attempting to check two men on suspicion but those two Tamil Tigers threw a hand grenade at the troops injuring one Home Guard on duty. Later, troops fo…
128 2006-04-23 TRINCOMALEE
LTTE terrorists brutally gunned down six innocent Sinhalese farmers who were in their paddy fields at KALLANPATTU, GOMARANKADAWALA in TRINCOMALEE. Armed LTTE terrorists indiscriminately fired on those farmers who were from neighbouring villages.One Home Guard who also does farming during his leisure was also among those slain farme…
129 2006-04-23 VAVUNIYA
LTTE small arms fire directed towards troops at IRANAILUPPAIKULAM in VAVUNIYA injured one more soldier. The injured soldier was admitted to ANURADHAPURA hospital.The SLMM has been informed.
selva said,
April 27, 2006 @ 1:55 am
ceasefire violations within this month. (2006-04)
Serial No Incident
130 2006-04-23 AMPARA
The army detachment at 10th COLONY in AMPARA came under LTTE hand grenade attack..The incident was reported to the SLMM..
…
119 2006-04-22 BATTICALOA/POLONNARUWA
One army officer was killed and six other soldiers were injured when an Army vehicle was blown up in an LTTE claymore explosion at SINHAPURA, WELIKANDA. The vehicle was moving from WELIKANDA towards SINHAPURA. A subsequent search by troops recovered one more claymore mine laid around the same location. The SLMM was inform…
120 2006-04-22 VAVUNIYA
One more solider died at KALMADU in VAVUNIA when Tamil Tigers detonated a claymore mine on troops. Private S.A SARATH, who was on piquet duties with fellow-soldiers in the area was killed.The SLMM was informed about the incident.
…
121 2006-04-22 VAVUNIYA
An army unicorn vehicle carrying troops was bumped off by LTTE terrorists between THANDIKULAM and KIDACHOLEI areas killing two soldiers and injuring four others.The Unicorn vehicle was moving from THANDIKULAM, VAVUNIYA towards KIDACHOLEI when LTTE terrorists activated a claymore mine. The incident was reported to the SLMM.
…
122 2006-04-22 TRINCOMALEE
Incident at ANURADAPURA junction in TRINCOMALEE LTTE terrorists threw a hand grenade at a Police post in the area. One Police sergeant, who received serious head injuries was airlifted to Colombo.The SLMM has been informed.
Nilantha, Colombo said,
April 27, 2006 @ 2:34 am
Ask from your parents how hard they work to raise you to this status. How much a mother worry when a baby get sick. But utimately s/he become a Suicide Bomber at get killed. How can man like Prabakaran knows the value to a human life. He does not have education or virtues. He only think about himself and how to destroy somone or something. It is not a surprise because he went to school till Grade 2. But the wonder is everybody even professors are kneeling before him at his gun point. This country is the motherland of Sinhala, Tamil, Muslim, Malay and Burgur. But if somebody tries to destroy a race, they should be removed. If they hide among innocent tamils, it is there cowardism.
SURANGA-LONDON said,
April 27, 2006 @ 3:16 am
I FEEL SORRY FOR LTTE COZ THIS TIME THEY ASK FOR IT, SO THEY GONNA GET IT FROM DOWN SOUTHLEADER,
LTTE HAS UNDERMIND THE CAPABILITIES OF A DOWN SOUTH LEADER, SO THERE YOU GO,WAIT AND SEE WHAT MAHINDA RAJAPAKSE CAN DO TO STOP THIS BLOODY WAR, COST THOUSAND LIVES BOTH SINHALESE AND TAMILS, JUST TO FULL FILL DURTY MINDS OF SRI LANKAN TAMIL&SINHALEESE POLITICIANS,
WE ARE JUST BLOODY TALKING HERE, CAN’T YOU SEE THE PICTURE, ALL THE POLITICAL LEADERS CHIDRENS ARE OVERSEAS ENJOYING HIGH LIFE WHILE POOR PEOPLE SUFFER, IS THIS CALL HUMANITY, I HATE WHEN GOVET:AND LTTE TALK ABOUT MOTHERLAN WHEN THAY FAKE THE REALITY(COVER/HIDE) TO THE WHOLE NATION(TAMILS/SINHALEESE) BASTERED WE SHOULD IRADICATE THE SELFISH BLUFFING POLITICIANS OF BOTH SIDE TO HAVE PEACE,
GOD BLESS SRI LANKA
Anthony Jones, Colombo, Sri Lanka said,
April 27, 2006 @ 4:34 am
The LTTE dictates the govt of Sri Lanka by opting to terrorism to reach there goals. As long as the govt is prepared to talk peace and refrain from reacting to their terror acts, the LTTE will limit their actions to murder and assasination.
If the govt should opt to defend its position, war will break out and the terror group would extend their actions to suicide bombing. At present they are dictating the international community and nobody has done anything to stop this. The ‘hands off passive attitude’ of the International platform is pushing the LTTE towards terrorism instead of containing them.
Norway runs to and forth trying to save the CFA, India is passive and USA/Japan only warns, but no action has been taken.
Would somebody step in to stop this simple conflict and show the world that there is no room for terrorism.
Step in to end Sri Lanka’s war
By Michael Vatikiotis International Herald Tribune
THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 2006
SINGAPORE It seems perverse that a world gripped by the scourge of terrorism neglects the bloody conflict in Sri Lanka, where minority Tamils battling for a separate state against the Sinhala majority are using the full range of terrorist weapons, including suicide bombers. In the past week 70 people have died in bomb attacks – mostly troops and police officers, but also children drafted into the rebel forces.
Norway is valiantly leading attempts to revive a stalled peace process. But there is precious little help coming from elsewhere. A new government in Colombo is dominated by hard-line Sinhala Buddhists. The main rebel group, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, has pulled out of a second round of peace talks scheduled to take place in Geneva at the end of April, citing as a reason their inability to hold internal meetings because of restrictions imposed by the Sri Lankan Army.
Each side accuses the other of not being serious about the talks, and a full- blown resurgence of this vicious war looms. The Tigers accuse Colombo of bad faith and demand that the government disarm a renegade Tamil rebel group that has been attacking the Tigers in the North – a link denied by the government. For their part, the Tigers have gone on a sectarian killing spree.
Unlike the Middle East, or smaller conflicts like Aceh in Indonesia and Mindanao in the Philippines, there is little pressure from the wider international community for peace. The tsunami that devastated both Aceh and Sri Lanka in 2004 helped bring peace to Aceh but only more discord to Sri Lanka, where the two sides have quarreled over the allocation of aid.
With more than 64,000 people dead after three decades of conflict, it is time the rest of the world took Sri Lanka seriously. The threat of force is needed to bring the two sides to the table and keep them there. The presence of a small Nordic monitoring mission of 64 personnel hardly does the trick.
A major part of the problem is that both sides in this conflict have proved reluctant to negotiate. The Tigers are strong. They control territory and have a respectable military capacity. They aren’t going away. The government in Colombo wants to play it both ways – seeking to isolate the Tigers and engage them in a peace process.
The progressive isolation of the Tigers, now banned as terrorists in Canada and Europe as well as in the United States, doesn’t help. Instead of pushing them into terrorist oblivion, where they could prove even more dangerous, governments should be finding ways to engage with them through the widely dispersed and hugely sympathetic Tamil diaspora. More forceful engagement with both sides could push them to respect the cease-fire agreed to in 2002 and lead to discussions about an acceptable federal solution.
India is well positioned to exert pressure, yet it prefers to lend quiet support to the Norwegian-led process. Perhaps this is understandable: Indian military intervention in the 1980s was costly and led to Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination by a Tamil suicide bomber.
Colombo, meanwhile, has played on regional rivalries to help it fend off the Tamils. Military cooperation with Pakistan was critical to throwing back a Tamil offensive in 2000.
One solution to this mess would be to strengthen regional security cooperation. The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, or Saarc, provides a platform for regional consultation. But unlike the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, which has assumed more collective security and political functions over the years, Saarc has remained a weak forum dealing mainly with economic cooperation.
The status quo that has benefited India is now changing. Just as Asean started to acquire greater political significance when it expanded as an international forum, so the admission of China, the United States and Japan as observers to Saarc in the past year will make it harder for India to ignore instability on its fringes.
The region’s major donors and strategic allies, using their enhanced access to the region, should persuade South Asian nations to cooperate more closely to bring an end to the war in Sri Lanka.
South Asian intervention in Sri Lanka suggested
By Indo Asian News Service
New Delhi, April 22 (IANS) A Singapore-based scholar has suggested an internationally backed South Asian intervention in Sri Lanka to end its unending ethnic conflict.
It is time the rest of the world took Sri Lanka seriously,’ Michael Vatikiotis of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore said in an opinion piece in the International Herald Tribune.
He said the ‘threat of force’ was needed to bring the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to the negotiating table ‘and keep them there’.
Vatikiotis said India was well positioned to exert pressure on both sides but it preferred to lend quiet support to the Norway-backed peace process that is now under serious strain.
He said South Asia’s major donors and strategic allies, ‘using their enhanced access to the region, should persuade South Asian nations to cooperate more closely to bring an end to the war in Sri Lanka’.
He added that admission of the US, China and Japan as observers to the South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation (SAARC) ‘will make it harder for India to ignore instability on its fringes’.
The scholar added that the growing categorization of the LTTE as a terrorist group had not helped.
‘The progressive isolation of the Tigers, now banned as terrorists in Canada and Europe as well as in the US, doesn’t help.
‘Instead of pushing them into terrorist oblivion, where they could prove even more dangerous, governments should be finding ways to engage with them through the widely dispersed and hugely sympathetic Tamil diaspora.
‘More forceful engagement with both sides could push them to respect the ceasefire agreed to in 2002 and lead to discussions about an acceptable federal solution.’
Vatikiotis credited Norway, the peace facilitator, with ‘valiantly leading attempts’ to revive the stalled peace process but warned that ‘there is precious little help coming from elsewhere.
‘It seems perverse that a world gripped by the scourge of terrorism neglects the bloody conflict in Sri Lanka…
‘Each side accuses the other of not being serious about the talks, and a full-blown resurgence of this vicious war looms…
‘A major part of the problem is that both sides in this conflict have proved reluctant to negotiate.
‘The Tigers are strong. They control territory and have a respectable military capacity. They aren’t going away.
‘The government in Colombo wants to play it both ways – seeking to isolate the Tigers and engage them in a peace process.’
Ajith Dharma said,
April 27, 2006 @ 5:06 am
Mr Thanabalu, I found that you are simply a Tamil Racist. I understand some tamils after 1983 have bitter feelings about Sinhalese which is fair. But YOU. Your only agenda is to bashing Sinhalese. Like that Chiken writer who wrote about our women working in Middlese East and Sinhala children in Hikkaduwa. Little that you know there are Tamil prostitutes in London and some NGO’s abusing tamil women and children as well. These are not isolated incidents. As a nation we have to support these people. Instead you racist Tamils laughing at these poor sinhalese without knowing Tamils suffer same fate. I think you are high cast Tamil licking VP boot and because of that depression attacking Sinhalese.
I am Sinhalese who accepts Sinhala politicians created LTTE not listening to democratic Tamil politicians. And I am a Sinahalese who never think Island belongs to Indian religion called Buddhism and Buddhists can kill. I am A BUDDHIST that never kills any living been knowing. That is JHU brand of buddhism and they got only 60,000 votes out of 8 million. There are more Sinhalse like me. We do not think Buddhism as Sinhalese or every Sinhalse as Buddhist. I have lot of Sinhala catholic friends. So remove your Racist galsses and look carefully. There are us who thinks about our Tamil brothers who are suffering in Sri Lanka as well as Sinhala and Mulim poor people who suffer there. We do what we can to support them. Our Tamils belong to our Sri Lanka. You pathetic Racist Ramils and Pathetic Racist Sinhalese betetr stay where you are in Canada and else where and please do not come back.
selva said,
April 27, 2006 @ 5:10 am
It has been revealed that the tiger suicide bomber who carried out the attack on the Commander of the Army was really a pregnant woman. The police team investigating the incident have got information that the woman had been participating for months in clinics held for pregnant women in Army Hospital.
Using pregnant women for terrorist acts is a detestable, barbaric and deplorable act that should receive the attention of all says intellectual community. They say employing a pregnant woman as a suicide bomber was an unpardonable crime. Also, the barbaric attack launched using the privileges available to pregnant women deny them of the care and concern they deserve and is a gross unjust for them say these intellectuals.
Thanabalu said,
April 27, 2006 @ 5:59 am
Ajith, I am not offended by your comments as I have seen your writings as one that is different from the others.
Let me quote you based on the facts from recent publications.
When a Sinhala Nationalist happen to be a Buddhist was asked a question what took sinhalese to massacre the muslims in 1915. His answer was it was to save the buddhism as it was endangered by those muslims in Kandy. If you recall the events that lead to the first ever ethnic violence in 1915, that is the violence against muslims, it all started with the (I presume but not 100% sure) either stone throwing on a buhddhist procession or some sort of obstruction to the procession as muslims refused to have the procession pass through the same road where their mosque was.
Well, it may be an instant gratification of any one to hit back then and there and it is human nature. What I didn’t understand and possibly lay the foundation for the future such events (as in 1956) why the muslims from five other districts were targetted for not commiting any acts of violence and the nationalist I refer try to justify that it was done to save the buddhism.
I write in this forum to make at least some one aware that we tamils lived in the NE as long as SInhala people lived in the SOUTHWEST, CENTRAL area. We don’t have to beg for what is rightfully ours to enjoy one life we have.
Banda, Srima, CBK, JRJ all try to appease the SINHALA majority for the votes and what they got now is CURSE and and spit on their graves generations to come.
As you might have noted from by previous note, LTTE was created by GoSL and tamils found them as the only hope and if they are not strong enough to bargain (even when they are strong Ranil cunningly spirited them to the CFA) we may even loose what e had earlier.
I don’t have the exact statistics but do yu know how many tamil youths committed suicide after they failed to secure a university position after 1972.
The only NON VIOLENT role any international intervention can do the Srilankan violence is a REFERENDUM like the one Canada had. Let the Colombo campaign for “NO” vote and if they WIN majority of the TAMIL would like to stay with rest of the ISLAND, then talk about Unitary Vs United. Lets not bring the holy man and relegion into this mess. THEY SHOULD STAY WHERE THEY BELONG TO. IF they insist, then de-robe them.
Sam Australia said,
April 27, 2006 @ 7:21 am
The excuse the LTTE terrorists employ to commit these heinous crimes
have absolutely no legitimate basis.They have never been discriminated as a race,one has to look at the number of professionals the Tamil race has produced,the unfair education system that made it possible.They were quite happy to accept a language spoken by only 2% of the population(English) as the official language,because it suitet them.I see no reason why the action of Mr,SWRD Bandaranayake to make the language spoken by over 75% of the population the oficial language of the country is condemned by a section of the Sinhala community.Look at India,the official language is Hindustan spoken by only 42% of the popupation,or Malaysia where Malaysian spoken by a slendr majority of the population is the official language.Havn’t the Sinhalese bent over backwards to rectify the so-called “injustices”,eg. Tamil a language spoken by only 12% is an equal official language.Can you quote one country in the world where this is the situation?It is an open secret that the LTTE is not serious about a negotiated settlement.It is clear that they will only negotate as long as they get what they want.That in anybobdy’s language is hypocrisy.
Jayamanna said,
April 27, 2006 @ 7:27 am
1. Karuna Factor:
If Karuna was not discriminated within LTTE, would he split? Would he work for Lanka military and above all, India’s RAW?
Whose fualt it is then?
2. Why did LTTE start claymore attacks on military SUDDENLY?
3. Where does Muslim Army unit + Muslim paramilitaries stand in this?
Thanabalu said,
April 27, 2006 @ 7:47 am
1. Karuna Factor:
If Karuna was not discriminated within LTTE, would he split? Would he work for Lanka military and above all, India’s RAW?
Whose fualt it is then?
Answer: Karuna was misapropriating LTTE funds amout into Rs.50million. Finance dept was controlled by Thamilenthy and his actions were noted and the cadre who reported this to Head office was poisoned and killed. Then there are two more killings. When he was called to Vanni for inquary, he anounced the split with all cock and bull stories. Initially Ex- Minister moragoda gave idea that he should take over the east as seperate entity (minister had told this during the Presidential election campaign) His money had been invested in Malaysia and some company he started in his father in law’s name (LAte Taraki had exposed this)
2. Why did LTTE start claymore attacks on military SUDDENLY?
Just rewind the tape little bit and you can see a fatal blow in the HIGH SECURITY ZONE in Trinco. That is Mr.Vigneswaran’s assasination. Tigers did not retaliate after Joseph Pararajasingam as the foundation for the Geneva was laid during that time. But this time they didn’t have the same mindset since GoSL did not respect the Geneva 1 promise.
3. Where does Muslim Army unit + Muslim paramilitaries stand in this?
GoSL has long been active in carving the East from north and altering the population census. By aiding a muslim group, they tried to create an armed gp in the east to minimize the dominance of the Tamils so it will help seperate the east from the north. It is all for the TRINCO.
Thanabalu said,
April 27, 2006 @ 7:54 am
Sam need a lot of info from net.
Canada, Swiss are some of those prominent countries.
75% speak sinhala 12% speak tamil. What happen to the rest 13%. What language they speak in Srilanka. Giberish or laughish???
some thing wrong some where down the road?????????????
Tony in Australia said,
April 27, 2006 @ 7:54 am
Peace won’t work with animals who don’t want peace. After 23 years of war and all the arguments and counter arguments it is clear that the LTTE terrorists and the Tamil people are poles apart. Tamils will never vote for the LTTE terrorists if things are done democratically. However, until this hardcore bunch of Prabha et al are alive peace is only an illusion. What will Prabha do after peace? Go and live with his children who are studying abroad? Unfortunately, the south does not have a strong dictator like Prabha otherwise like Gen Musharaf in Pakistan these terrorists would have been wiped out.
My point is don’t live under the delusion of peace as it is not going to happen. If the terrorists attack go and give them back hard and destroy them as there is no other alternative.
Thanabalu said,
April 27, 2006 @ 8:05 am
After 23y of war and destruction and after nearly 100000 dead, still talking unitary and still finding a way nothing tabled and now tigers are the OBSTRUCTIONIST to the peace. Give me a break.
Why bother LTTE, table something and have a REFERENDUM in NE to ask people whether they want to stay with the rest of the country. IF so then Talk about United Vs Unitary.
Bob Ryan Shohail (USA) said,
April 27, 2006 @ 8:10 am
The LTTE is the curse of the Tamil people and the people of Sri lanka. Mr. Prabakaran is a psychopathic Megalomaniac. He has brainwashed poor innocent Tamils to sacrifice their lives for the glory of “their struggle”. What have the Tamils in Sri lanka and around the world gained from what the LTTE has done so far? The innocent peace loving Tamils have been extorted for money, held at ransom and killed by the LTTE. The LTTE is not about liberating the tamils. It is a ruthless killing machine. While the children and families of LTTE members are enjoying all the luxuries living off ransom money and money collected by illigal means in western countries, the poor Tamil farmers children are forced/brainwashed to join the LTTE and sacrifice thier lives for the glory of the LTTE leaders. What have the tamils gained from all of this? The LTTE does not represent peace loving Tamil people in Sri lanka or around the world. They represent the true definition of modern terrorists.
The only way peace can be brought about in Sri lankan is by declaring a full scale war against the LTTE. War is the only language the LTTE understands. With the help of the international community, especially with help from the US, the Srilankan forces can wipe out the LTTE for good. Mr. Anton Balasingham should be stripped off his British citizenship and extradited to Sri lanka to face criminal charges for being the main architect of the LTTE. Mr. Prabhakaran should be captured alive and sent to India to face murder charges commited against Rajiv Gandhi, and charged in an international tribunal court for mass murders and crime against humanity. The LTTE should be attacked with brute force. The Srilankan president should not waste anymore time trying to negotiate with terrorists. As president Bush once said “we don’t negotiate with terrorists” after 9/11 incident, Mr. Rajapakse should also have the same mind frame. Only brute force can tame a mighty killing machine like the LTTE. The LTTE is only buying time on the pretext of agreeing to a ceasefire, when in actuality, a peaceful soultion is the last thing on their mind.
Thanabalu said,
April 27, 2006 @ 8:17 am
Save your Crocodile tears for some thing else. Why not have a REFERENDUM under UN supervision and decide instead of sending a rural Sinhala Youth to fight your proxy war from USA.
It is the strength of the LTTE bothers every one. Cannot win this war and then go for the alternative NON-VIOLENT WAY. THE REFERENDUM.
If you abuse your spouse, then she will go for the DIVORCE and once settled in COURT, each take care of their own business, IS IN IT A BETTER WAY THAN KILLING EACH OTHER???
Ajith Dharma said,
April 27, 2006 @ 8:20 am
Mr Thanabalu, thank you for at least accepting that fact. Now please do not think my comments are attacks. I also trying to show the opinon of moderate Sinhalese like my self and my family and friends.
1. I do not want to go back to 1915 as I see it as both communities were initialy wrong. Muslims by having British power behind them refuced to allow the pocession which is wrong and Buddhists as followers of non violent religion should have gone in the other road and petition perhaps Britis instead attacking Muslims. What happened is now history.
2. I agree Tamils should not have to beg for anything from Sinhalese because they are citizens of Sri lanka and no one is above the other.
3. About Univercity Entrance and Tamil students commiting suicide. Let me explain to you this which I explained to one of my univercity collegues (a Tamil) from Jaffna once. I won a scholarship to study in leading Colombo School from poor state school. After studying hard I had enough univercity entrance marks for A/L. However i could only can go to NDT cource or Colombo Uni but Not Moratuwa Eng faculty. Later I got admission to Chmical Engineering at Moratuwa because someone else did not go. So you see for Colombo admission mark I had just one mark less. But there were students from Gampaha and subburbs who study from tution masters same as us in Colombo went in to same uni (Moratuwa) with lower marks. That injustice done to me as a Sinhalese. I went abroad to study Engineering afterwards and my Jaffna friend admitted this was unfair. So our politicians knee jerk recation and creating district basis admission created unfair situation for us students in Colombo and Jaffna . One sided tamil politicians show this as only happened to Tamis. Now LTTE cleansed all the Sinhalese from Jaffna univercity and government accepts extra Tamil students who did not enter Jaffna Uni to other univercities in south. So that has been remedied somewhat but we still need more places. That descrimination of Uni places happened not only to Tamils.
Dear Neelan, There is no need to do such comments n here. Take your sexual deprivation somewhere else. There are lot of internet adult sites. people here discuss topics in civilised manner.
Dear Sam from Australia-
As a Sinhalse I do not agree with you. Not only 12% but if it is even 1% we should have made Tamil as official language. Tamils should not even need to ask that. They have that right by birth. India’s official languages are Hindi, Urdu and English. They did not throwout English like us. Their politicians did not keep English to special high class like Sinhala politicians and their stooges. That policy paid off well for India in this IT age specialy for their outsourcing skills to west shows.
UK and Germany are two countries that make available lot of languages to ethnic minorities if you want examples. Welsh and Scottish languages are promoted. Sinhala, Tamil, English and Veddas language should all be official.
Anonymous said,
April 27, 2006 @ 8:39 am
xx
Suran Fernando said,
April 27, 2006 @ 8:39 am
Foneseka is a decorated war hero of the GOSL, but for the Tamils he’s a mass murderer of innocents. Responisble for the mass graves in chemmani and the torture and death of many Tamil civilians. He’s been a target of not only the LTTE but many Tamil organizations and individuals.
The air strikes and mortar strikes being carried out by the Sri Lankan Army targetting Tamils is largely a knee Jerk reaction with no coordination or precision. The Air Force has reportedly even bombed some parts of their own territory because they lack precision bombing technology. The chances of these retaliatory measures affecting the LTTE, who are protected in well enforced bunkers are slim. Those who’re affected as usual will be ordinary Tamil civilians.
REPLY To ABOVE STATEMENT
Who is the evil Prabakaran having syenite and fighthing for prologed conflict killing inssent civillians having child soldiers.
He is one of a evil in the world and should be wiped off.
Tamils say they have been iltreated and 22 years ago but now its a complete new generation its not happening now.
But evil prbakaran want war he lives with war he cant come to the peace.
Imagine one day a person who motvated suicide attacks hiding in the jungles, encouraged killing innocent civillians including mums who were breast feeding their infants, come to the real politics …Joke
HE WANTS TO KILL SRI LANKANS AND AGGREVATE RATIAL TENSIONS IN ORDER TO CONTINUE THE WAR
GET RID OF THAT EVIL OUT OF THE WORLD
AND WE WILL NEVER GIVE UP SAVING OUR MOTHER LANKA
YOU PRBAKARAN
DONT FORGET PEOPLE WILL BE IN A QUE TO GET YOUR HEAD AND DISTROY YOU LIKE A PIG, EVIL….. WE WILL SAVE OUR COUNTRY SOME HOW AND WE CANNOT BE SEGREGATED……. YOU EVIL……..
Thulasi, Jaffna said,
April 27, 2006 @ 8:46 am
Dear Nilantha,
I understand ur ‘mother’s worry over her child when it gets sick’. It is so good of you, atleast you have that sense. Being from jaffna throughout the life i am telling you. Fonseka, who is now ‘on the way to hell’ is a massive killer. He has to answer the tears of thousands of mothers in Jaffna. He has been the responsibility for the mass grave chemmani and Krishanthy’s ‘crush the four eggs operation’. You cannot simply count, not even by calculator the number of arrests, torture and harrasment led by him during 1990s when he has been the army commander in chief in jaffna. Selva, if pirabaharan is a terrorist, tell me who is this Fonseka?? Is he a peace promoter??? You know, why he did not die is for good. He has to realize the pain of being a victim. I am not blabbering anything just by reading the papers and articles. It is my own experience as a war victim.
neelan, please don’t write after drunk.
Maithree said,
April 27, 2006 @ 8:52 am
If we all ordinary tamils, ordinary singhalese and politicians including prabhakaran and his followers can say what’s written below, we will not suicide bombers!!!!!
Siyalu sthvayo niduk wethwa
neerogi wethwa
suwapth waethwa
Aaru said,
April 27, 2006 @ 9:13 am
Everybody knows the bombing is a inside job. The CID branch had admited it. Why the airforce has to bomb the Muttur area. Why they didn’t hit the Wanni area. Something fishy.
It is another Prabha-Mahinda coordination just as
Prabha-Pramadasa did earlier
Bala said,
April 27, 2006 @ 9:39 am
Sri lanka – State Terrorism
Jeyasuriya (R),Maradana said,
April 27, 2006 @ 10:03 am
Sri Lanka’s Tamil separatist conflict is rooted in the nation’s history, but the past three decades have been the bloodiest on an island colonised by Europeans and invaded by Indians.
At least 60,000 people have been killed since minority Tamils took up arms in 1972, about 24 years after the Indian Ocean island won independence from Britain.
The British, the last in a long line of imperialists, dominated the island for 133 years with a policy of “divide and rule” among the majority Sinhalese and ethnic Tamils.
Moves by the Sinhalese to retake key state jobs that had been controlled by the better-educated Tamils brought communal tensions into the open.
But folk stories have long been told of ancient wars between Tamil and Sinhala kings.
Many believe the state policy of adopting Sinhalese as the official national language while, at the same time, dropping both English and Tamil as a turning point in the chequered history of the island.
“The conflict possibly started in 1956 when we adopted the Sinhala-only policy,” said retired airforce chief Harry Gunatillake. “From there onwards, we have gone down hill.”
In 1972 a disgruntled Tamil school dropout, Velupillai Prabhakaran, formed the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), or Tamil Tigers, who were to become one of the world’s most ruthlessly efficient guerrilla organisations, known for trademark suicide bombings.
Tamils have long claimed that they were discriminated against in education and jobs. Equal opportunity legislation has been put in place, but its implementation has been slow and inadequate.
Tamil discontent, which had traditionally been expressed in small-scale unrest, turned into a full-scale guerrilla war after a 1983 anti-Tamil riot left 400 to 600 people, mostly Tamils, dead on the streets.
Unofficial figures suggest up to 60,000 people may have been killed in ethnic clashes over the past three decades.
The Sinhalese are mostly Buddhists while the Tamils are Hindus but religion has not played a role in the long conflict.
The majority Sinhalese trace their origins back to a North Indian prince, Vijaya, whose father banished him for disobedience.
Vijaya is said to have taken a native princess of the yaksha or demon tribe as his wife and together they gave birth to the Sinhalese race.
After being colonised by the Portuguese, the Dutch, and later the British, many Sinhalese have mixed European blood.
Arabs, who controlled the old trade routes between the east and west, also came to Sri Lanka in search of cinnamon and ended up marrying local women.
Their descendants, known as Sri Lanka Muslims, make up 7.5 percent of the 19.5 million population.
They are the second largest minority after Tamils who make up 12.5 percent of the population.
In the 5th and 6th centuries Tamils arrived in Sri Lanka from neighbouring India, but they fought many wars with the kings who ruled the island’s different provinces.
The “Sri Lankan Tamils” are distinct from the Tamil labourers imported much later from the subcontinent by the British in the 19th century to work on their plantations.
The British left Ceylon, the name they gave the island, in 1948 but their divide and rule policies left a legacy of ethnic conflict.
In December 2002 a peace deal brokered by Norway, a country with no role in the island’s colonial past, was agreed. The two sides said they would settle for a federal state but that agreement has never moved forward
GOD BLESS SHRI LANKA……………..
veera said,
April 27, 2006 @ 10:11 am
The pain of mass murderer sarath fonseka will wipe out the tears from the mothers in jaffna. Hell is the wright place for him.
Jeyasuriya (R),Maradana said,
April 27, 2006 @ 10:14 am
Decapitated bodies feared belonging to disappeared Tamils
“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,” said Leader of Upcountry Peoples Front (UPF) and parliamentarian P.Chandrasekaran in a letter sent to Sri Lanka’s President Mahinda Rajapakse Thursday, sources in Colombo said.
Five headless male corpses were found in Puwakpitiya and Dehiowita in Avissawella police division Thursday morning. A senior police officer in the division said the victims, believed to be Tamil youths, have been brutally murdered and their headless bodies were spotted by the estate workers in the area and informed the police.
The bodies were only partially clothed, belonged to males, and have serious cut injuries to the bodies, sources in Avissawela said.
Several travellers coming from Trincomalee to Colombo also have been arrested and disppeared, Chandrasekaran said.
GOD BLESS SHRI LANKA……..
Jeyasuriya (R),Maradana said,
April 27, 2006 @ 10:23 am
No country distrusts the Tamil Tigers more than India but when Sri Lanka began bombing rebel positions this week its giant neighbour got nervous.
The air and artillery strikes, which followed a suspected Tiger suicide bomb attack that killed 10 and wounded the army commander, halted on Thursday, with the government under international pressure — not least from New Delhi — to stop.
“It’s very complicated in the sense that the LTTE continues to be an organisation India would like to be banned worldwide,” said Rahul Roy-Chaudhury, a South Asia specialist at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London.
“But there is a sense that because of the volatile politics in South India there is no choice but to tell the government to stop the strikes,” he said.
India, home to more than 80 million Tamils in its southern state of Tamil Nadu, armed and trained Tamil guerrillas, including members of what was to become the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), for much of the 1980s.
But when the Sri Lankan government invited Indian troops to enforce a 1987 peace pact, the Tigers turned on the Indian army, killing more than 1,100 soldiers.
Yet India has been among those urging restraint from Colombo since the strikes began on Tuesday night and continued into Wednesday, and raised fears that a 2002 ceasefire had collapsed and the island could return to civil war.
Its main donor countries met President Mahinda Rajapakse on Thursday to express concern, a meeting that was followed immediately by talks between Rajapakse and the Indian high commissioner, a senior official at the president’s office said.
Even before this week’s violence, India was said to have expressed concern over ethnic riots in the northeastern district of Trincomalee, in which majority Sinhalese attacked Tamil villages in anger after mine blasts they blamed on the Tigers.
“Our sense of sympathy and our sense of rights of the Tamil community are not affected by our feelings toward the LTTE,” said an official at the Indian High Commission in Colombo. “There is a distinction we draw between the two.”
At one time there were more than 100,000 Sri Lankan Tamils in camps in Tamil Nadu, some of whom remain.
India also has economic interests in Trincomalee, home to a strategic deep-water port, not least in the form of oil storage tanks leased by Indian Oil Corporation, India’s largest refiner.
“India is worried, undoubtedly. Especially with large volumes of investment in Trincomalee, they wouldn’t want their economic interests to be hurt,” But with local elections under way in India, its bigger fear is the possible destabilising impact another Sri Lankan war could have.
“A fragmented Sri Lanka is the worst case scenario for India,” said Roy-Chaudhury.
GOD BLESS SHRI LANKA
Neville said,
April 27, 2006 @ 11:43 am
The CFA is not holding. It is about to end with last rites that are due before it’s burial. Mahinda is happy because that is what his partners the JVP, the JHU, the ministers and all the big wigs in his sinhala rulership expected to come by. Now that a full-scale war is in the cards all evil and corrupt sinhala leaders, the generals, the anti-tamil populous can be happy about the expected outcome. They wanted it and they are getting it. The IC can only be a spectator and may even support the evil SLG to get the beatings against the tamils and tigers as an ongoing event. The IC is busy in working out a plan to implement it’s sinister motives to fish in troubled waters in the srilankan deteriorating scenario. The IC will remain one sided all the time and never will a condemnation come against the dictatorial, genocidal SLG even in the wake of air attacks and killings where the loss is for tamils only. When tamil leaders get killed by sinhala thugs and sinhala forces the IC is silent but when an army man gets injured or killed they are up at arms to raise their cruel voice against the LTTE.The anti-tamil forces both sinhala and foreign are in the business of destrying the tamil nationalism.
Clements said,
April 27, 2006 @ 10:41 pm
The backing of Canada and USA is a blessing in disguise for military terrorism of SLG. The arm of the terrorist SLG has been further strenghtened by the decision of USA to pressure the IC to take drastic action to cut the tail of the tigers. The tamils of srilanka will never get any solution to their 60 year old ethnic question by these super powers all want to bail out the corrupt SLG which is continuing it’s genocide on tamil civilians at random for no fault but for being tamils only. The 1983 communal violence has been so unforgettable in that some buddhist monks made the tamils to pronounce sinhala words and the failure of correctness determined their instant death. These and the continued brutalities against the tamils ended up in tamils taking up arms for protecting their people. LTTE is a trusted strong force to fight back state terrorism and their genune attempts at peace talks produced nothing thus far. On the contrary more sufferings are perpetrated to the community so that 50% of tamils are displaced as at present within the country. The tamils voices are no concern for the IC but when the killer army man got injured USA and the world raise their voice to condemn the tigers even without facts made known and on fabricated news from sinhala side is acceptable to the IC. It is a shame for the IC to act against the tamil community at large and is it not time for the IC to listen to the tamils to see their real stories of woe or perhaps go and see for themselves without biased views.
Roger, Canada said,
April 27, 2006 @ 11:46 pm
May Sarath Fonseka suffer unbearable pain for the rest of his lifetime. This is for murdering 600 innocent Tamil during the rampage into Jaffna in 1995 and the brutal murders of Tamil Civillains once appointed Army Commander.
According to informed sources:
Mass murderer Sanath Fonseka is being kept in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), more than 48 hours after he was admitted to the Colombo National Hospital with serious injuries, hospital sources said.
Around 12 surgeons worked around the clock and performed three different major operations to maintain him in a sate at which he could be medically classified as being ‘alive’, sources added.
However, his actual health can not be confirmed for at least another 12 hours, a hospital nurse said.
Medical experts told this reporter that Fonseka’s injuries seem to be severe and that even if he survives “he may have to be tube fed for the rest of his life”. “He would most likely be paralysed from the hip below,” experts added.
ANTON BALA VANNI JUNGLE said,
April 28, 2006 @ 12:06 am
LTTE IS FOKING CHILD MOLESTER PRABHA IS A PIG HE WIL BE KILLED LIKE A PIG SOON
Ruwan/Sri Lanka said,
April 28, 2006 @ 12:46 am
There is no ethnic conflict. Just TERRORISM…
Durraiappa, Colombo 06 said,
April 28, 2006 @ 1:32 am
We the Tamils should be grateful to the Singhalese. I live in Colombo and enjoy their hospitality. Although even one Sinhalese cannot live in LTTE areas a vast number of Tamils live in the so called “Sinhala areas” without any problems other than those problems created by our so called “saviors” LTTE by indiscriminately killing civilians. LTTE is run by a pack of animals and those tamils who support LTTE directly or indirectly are all a part of this pack. Starting from Prabha who cannot even read or write properly to the LTTE “IGP” who is really a former police constable, the political wing head – the former barber and the bogus “Dr” Anton Balasingham who is a former clerk and posing off as a PhD. (as revealed by the Tamil Journalist Jeyaraj….. “Balasingham has not even passed his Advanced Level…. not stepped in to a University for any academic learning other than to disrupt learning by other tamils who could easily surpass him and expose him…) the LTTE is a terrorist organization run by 3rd class tamils who try to camouflage their lack of everything by trying to be cowboys.
Thank god that Sinhalese have not lost their patience since 1983 least we the peaceful tamils would have to end up in the clutches of the murderous LTTE, giving our hard earned money to these megalomaniacs and doing peon services to these coolies.
Tamils will find peace only on the day they get together and hang Prbha and his blood seeking pack of wolfs along the A9 road.
Anton Jones, Sri Lanka said,
April 28, 2006 @ 2:26 am
Hay Mr. “Anthony Jones”, why are you silent these days.
Please Mr. “..e..” , do not think that I cannot recognise you! Hope the hint I am giving above make you feel sick as I have identified you. You are the one who did “……a…” keeping your wife in the dark. (How unfortunate this blog cannot accomodate photos!). Ha!Gootcha!!
Lets see what you have to say to this before deciding to unmask you!
Ruwan/Sri Lanka said,
April 28, 2006 @ 3:58 am
Sanath Fonseka may be a mass murderer. b’s he killed 600 Terrorist. then what abt ur (so called) National Leader ? how many ppl he killed ?one.. two… no 60,000+ people … all of them are innocent Sri Lankan. Tamil or Sinhala …imagine if he wasn’t there. Jaffna will be developed as same as Colombo or more. Jaffna ppl get all the privileges as Tamils in Colombo.
LTTE is a terrorist organization. they are thirty of WAR. if there is no war. ppl loose fear. no fear no LTTE .
Maithree said,
April 28, 2006 @ 4:08 am
More like Ajith Dharma should come forward; that will be a benefit to ALL (including to real Buddhism).
Jeyasurya,Maradana said,
April 28, 2006 @ 6:07 am
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. “Readers can now make their own conclusion about who is responsible for deteriorating situation following the Geneva talks,” 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 “discovered” 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’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’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 “limited operation” 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.
Thulasi, Jaffna said,
April 28, 2006 @ 6:56 am
Well done Rwan! Finally you have admitted as what your government always claims!! Tamils are terrorists and terrorists are tamils. so, will you say that the fifteen civilians (Sorry in your terms terrorists) killed in Trinco are terrorists?? Then what about the muslims killed in aerial blast in muttur?? Are they terrorist supporters then??
Wimal Jayawardana - Toronto said,
April 28, 2006 @ 9:23 am
Yes Mr. Thanabalu, You still cannot answer why Your Supreme Lord Prahabakaran not allowing his own children to be trained as Suicide Bombers??? Why he is scared loosing his own children. Isnt that a fact? In the same manner he don’t have brain to think about other parents children who are forced to take training to become a Suicide Bomber. Mr. Prahabakaran is very much like to enjoy BLOOD of innocent Tamils. Later he make a Mounement to respect them as HEROS. He thinks that by doing this he can just wash his blood stain hands!!! This is unpardonable CRIME. It is worst when he use another mother (a pregnant lady to satisfy his BLOOD THIRSTY). Let this factor understand by Human rights Commissions and International Community. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME IN THE WORLD SUCH A NASTY BARBARIC ACT OF USING AND FORCING AND BRAINWASHING A PREGNANT MOTHER TO ACT THIS CRIME OF SUICIDE. Think if your mother is pregannt and will you ever allow to use her to do this type act? Hope you will answer to this factor only.
Bob Ryan Shohail (USA) said,
April 28, 2006 @ 10:38 am
Mr. Clements, obviously you don’t know the difference between tamils and the LTTE. The majority of tamils are not LTTE supporters. The LTTE has dont nothing for the tamils except give them a lot of misery and a bad name in the international community. You might be a LTTE sympathizer, but they have lost all trust & regard among Sri lankans and the international community. As i mentioned before, the only language the LTTE understands is violence, war & death. A peaceful resolution has failed over and over again. Instead of the LTTE going out for a final Elam war with the GOSL, The GOSL should declare a war on the LTTE and not bow down to foreign pressure, and incinerate the LTTE. Prabakaran should be captured alive and convicted as a mass murderer. The srilankan forces should continue to attack rebel positions and wipe out the LTTE for good. The US should help and is willing to supply the GOSL with military and intelligence to accomplish the feat. Once the LTTE is eliminated, then the peace loving tamils can live in harmony and co-exist with the other ethnic groups in Sri lanka.
Kingsley said,
April 28, 2006 @ 10:45 am
The anilmal type slayings as shown in pictures of headless young naked bodies are a typical slaying of the sinhala thugs. Similar killings have been done in Bindunuwewa,Welikada,Chemmnani,Punkudutivu and many more places by the armed thugs recruited as military and police personnels. The animal type of slayings are nothing but the type of brutality that is being shown to human bodies. The five bodies are that of the tamils arrested by the police in colombo. The srilankan government wants peace with the tamils is not true but to kill as many tamils by brutal methods will make their hearts feel cool. If they can drink the blood of these slain persons they will certainly do it if it would quench their thirst. The sinhala brutality is unspeakable and beyond civility and is absolute barbarism. The pansalas are the places where these hate mongers are being born. Buddhism will never teach the basic values of human lives. Whether LTTE killing or Sinhala thuggerism the brunt of these murders are making Hitler a better person than these thugs of SLG.
Ajith Dharma said,
April 28, 2006 @ 11:09 am
Dear Mithree, Thanks for the vote of Confidence. We have to thank Tamil Week to allow us to express ourselves freely in here. BBC and most other forums do not do that. I get to know Tamil and Sinhala opinion, moderate opnion, extremist views the lot. It’s good to know how people think.
Dear Kingsley, as far as I understand 5 headless bodies are not Tamils. 2 Sinhalese and 3 muslims or other way round. There was interdicted Police IP and his wife gunned down same day as suicide bombing happened. That news went unnoticed. That IP was about to reveal few high politicos and officials in Police with drug connections. These five are evidence related to that. Chandrasekaran screaming these are Tamils due to the fact that he is about to get minitry portfolia from MR. So he is worried about how VPO react and making noice. Tamilnet perhaps picked that up. If you say that killing is brutal then LTTE also kills in similar manor and haven’t you seen the lamp post bodies. SL army death sqauds killed Sinhala youth in 1989 to 1991 in way beyond barbarism. But that was handfull of SL army people. We cannot blame majority on that. The commanders of that era also went unpunished. Human rights has to go still long way in SL.
Please don’t attack Buddhsim. We don’t know those killers Buddhist or not. Just because someone born to buddhist family does not mean Buddhsm never teaches human values. Buddhsim is one of most compassionate religions. Just because Hitler killed jews and he was born to Christian family does not mean Jesus did not preach humanity and compassion.
Satchchi said,
April 28, 2006 @ 3:05 pm
Two forces are prevalent in srilanka as at present and many more perhaps on the underground:-
Force # 1 _ Combined forces of SLG + Paramilitary +Thugs
Force # 2 – LTTE + Allied Peoples forces under different names
The tamils in srilanka have to choose between the two forces is it going to be 1 or 2. As far as tamils are concerned they have lost all hopes on 1. Whether they like it or not the obvious choice will be 2. If some one will say most tamil para groups who are a part with govt. groups could be trusted then EPDP is yet a choice but their popularity at the basest level among tamils.Most of the paramilitary groups have deserted the tamil cause and have become the enemies of tamil people in their evils done to kill tamils. The SLG and the IC should think for a moment how they can convince the tamils to believe otherwise and to support the SLG any more for peaceful co-existence. Chandrika is condemning the attack against the commander but she still thinks that Mahinda did the right thing in bombing the tamils. her failure to condemn this air attack is a dismal portrayal of sinhala hegemony which is empowering the present and former leader. Tamils can never get justice from sinhala leaders and the IC must enter the scene and solve the ethnic equation.
Roger, Canada said,
April 28, 2006 @ 3:10 pm
The Co-Chairs ultimately have the power to rein in on this blood thirsty Sinhala regime. It was they who bankrolled “War for Peace” – the perpetual genocide of Tamils and now they still refuse to acknowledge the Govt. record of mass murder and are merely paying lip service.
Listening to these self appointed co-chairs clears makes you feel sick to the stomach. They just do not CARE about TAMIL LIVES.
The LTTE should be given carte blanche authority to put the final Nail into the Sinhala regime’s coffin.
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The Co-Chairs of the Tokyo Donor Conference (the European Union and the Governments of Japan, the United States and Norway) met in Oslo on 28 April for consultations.
The purpose of the meeting was to assess the serious situation in Sri Lanka and examine how Co-Chairs could most effectively respond to it.
Co-Chairs reiterated their deep concern at the recent deterioration of the situation in Sri Lanka, condemning all acts of violence and calling on this to stop.
The Co-Chairs from the EU, Japan and USA reaffirmed their support to the Norwegian peace facilitators.
The Co-Chairs have decided to meet again in Tokyo to further discuss steps and concerted actions to encourage the parties to pursue a durable solution in Sri Lanka.
Kannangara said,
April 28, 2006 @ 4:59 pm
The JVP and the JHU were partners in making the king called Mahinda and his CHINTHANA. The manifesto clearly spells that norway should be pushed out from being facilitator in the peace talks. The two allied partners are still opposed to norway but the co-chairs are in favour of and insisting for continued facilitation by norway. Mahinda has an obligation by the partners who were creators of his CHITHANA and put him on his pedastel of power. Now mahinda has a choice to make whether to say yes to JVP and JHU or to the CO-Chairs in the decision made now.If mahinda is honest he should come clean and tell the world which side he is going to take instead of sitting on the fence and expecting things to automatically calm down.The situation is pretty tense and opposing views can cripple his administration as a whole. Even now it looks as if there is no law and order in the country. If he desires an open war against the tigers let him do it instead of putting the people and the country to ransom. Either he decide to settle the issue or proclaim the war and seek his desired results.
Sri Lankan said,
April 28, 2006 @ 10:44 pm
Dear All,
It is by chance I got into this site. I am bewildered and saddened in what I read. What I read here is absolute bull shit, people slinging mud against each other and trying to prove who is right and who is wrong. This is pathetic. What is wrong with all of us? We have something wrong fundamentally in our system, we are being polarized and the feeling of Sri Lankans is completely lost. I will/ can assure for sure if we don’t have the feeling of us being Sri lankan’s we will never find solutions to this conflict and it “party time” for war mongers.
The reason I say we have something fundamentally wrong in the way we run the country is due to the following;
Education: The present education system in Sri Lanka is the first and foremost root cause to feed to the conflict. The concept of having separate school for different communities is a very big mistake. Children are taught intentionally / non intentionally that each community is different. It is engraved in their minds that people are different and the feeling of being Sri Lankan takes a back seat. If children are made to sit from their formative ages in the same class they will understand about each other and learn to tolerate one another – what is our system doing now? Segregate them even further by having Sinhala schools, Tamil schools, Muslim schools, International school
(for the rich) etc. What efforts are we taking to build “one Sri Lanka”? Nothing. People might think I am silly and am being idealistic but in your hearts you will know and understand what I am say makes sense. Hope and pray something works out and the people who sit in the decision making chair do something about this.
Quick fixing: Other issue that I find wrong happening in the country is trying to find quick fixes. With the conflict raging for the past 23 years in full and silently since independence some one need to have the “gut” to get into the root of the problem and take bold decisions that will benefit the nation at large. Some people will be hurt with the process of the solutions but it will be good for the nation. If we have to please all people’s feeling I guess we end up in making quick fixing decisions.
One voice: We as a nation should agree bad happened in the past. What will it give us just bickering about the past? By dwelling in the past we forget that we have a future. Does anyone care for a strong and solid Sri Lanka? I guess not. With what I read here no one is objectively seeing and eyeing the conflict. They just respond to incidents that happen and get completely emotional – what good does it give us? I don’t have a clue. We should learn to forgive and forget what happened in the past and learn to be one. Under one banner, under one Sri Lanka that loves and respects her subjects.
Come on fellow citizens let us forget to discuss why Sarat Fonseka was tried to be assassinated, why Prabhakaran is having his iron fisted policies, why we are stuck in a political muddle that is hindering Sri Lanka in its growth and see what can be done to address the root cause of the conflict/war. As I mentioned earlier lets discuss what went wrong and where rather that fighting like a hungry pack of wolves over a rabbit.
Sri Lanka needs all, everyone one of us to love our nation first and then our respective race and religions.
Ne. Pu. Siva, Europe said,
April 29, 2006 @ 6:51 am
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’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’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’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.
“The LTTE said 40,000 people were fleeing and some of the Colombo-based foreign journalists swallowed the lie, hook, line and sinker,” The Island newspaper said in a front-page editorial Saturday headlined: “Call girls and call boys of Fourth Estate.”
It singled out the BBC and wondered why “irresponsible swashbucklers” are allowed to cover such sensitive matters.
“They have mistaken their mission here for heightening the conflict by lionising Tigers,” the privately-owned Island wrote.
The state-owned Daily News headlined its editorial: “The truth slaughtered for Mammon” and accused foreign news agencies and broadcast media of inaccurate coverage in order to make more money.
“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?” the newspaper asked.
In his Friday speech to the political parties, Rajapakse did not directly accuse the media but he said: “LTTE and their sympathizers are launching a large-scale propaganda war to tarnish our image.”
Munidasa said,
April 29, 2006 @ 1:27 pm
Let us be realistic about facts. Is LTTE an equal and powerful force in srilanka beside the SLG. They have a powerful army,navy,airforce and a shadow government. Can anybody dispute this reality.Speaking of a unitary state while a shadow powerful entity is in existence within the country and is it not the right time to recognise them and to extend an arm of friendship and enter into a treaty to live as friends and neighbors in co-existence and to stay away from one another without combats and to be very friendly with the super power of a neighboring India and to remain without being of any danger to one another. This type of a settlement to the current prevailing tense situation may ease all enmity and bring about peace and calm to the country and the region.Assistance of foreign nations are welcome but to keep India the strong neighbor as our big brother in all fairness to all parties within the region is the most viable solution to the current stalemate. Will the SLG and IC give a thought to this and bring to pass stability in the region.
Prasad said,
April 30, 2006 @ 12:17 pm
Chandrika and the IC have condemned the LTTE time and again. But they never condemn the SLG bombings on civilians in trinco. When there are many foreign embassies in colombo not a single one has given it’s opinion regarding the SLG attacks against tamil civilians. The IC and the former SLG president and all relevant parties are telling the world that tamil’s lives are not valuable but if a genocidal SLG force personnel got killed these nations are quick to condemn. The present trend of beheading of arrested tamils and dumping the naked bodies out in the open is a message of the full hatred for tamils being shown by this genocidal SLG to the whole world. They are giving the signs of things to follow and earlier similar incidents prove that arrested tamil’s lives are in the hanging. If the international community would not speak loud against these SLG subversive timid leaders the lives of all tamils in custody are like those in the death row without any fault of theirs. The thousands of tamils arrested in colombo and disappearances are a sure proof of genocide. Will the IC rescue tamil’s lives and bring the genocidal SLG to wrath and condemnation of the IC.
Madan said,
May 1, 2006 @ 8:54 pm
The destruction of paramilitary camps was adifficult task to the SLG but they were wiped out within a few hours of raging dawn attack by the relevant party who got the brunt of the paramilitary attacks. The casualty figures are as high as 30 or perhaps more. Now the president has a classic idea to provide 10,000 guns to sinhala civilians for their protection. This is in total disrespect for the geneva 1 talks and agreements and on the other hand he is trying to create more para groups to make the situation worse. JVP must be very happy with this decision and will earn the president some votes from JVP in this effort. It all boils down to genocide for tamil civilians and it will go un abated. The training provided by tigers to civilians in self defence also is an eye opener regarding the on coming point of no return. War has to decide the future of srilanka and peace talks are a waste of time and energy and will keep tamils stay as homeless,landless, foodless protection less within government areas. LTTE is the only way out for tamils and waiting any longer is unwarranted but declaration of Eelam is the only sure solution.
Poobalan said,
May 2, 2006 @ 9:47 am
Speaking of sovereignty in the perspective of sinhala chauvinists is an undivided island of sinhala sovereignity. If sinhala people think that they are sovereign and the entire srilanka is theirs then there is no room for the tamils in this country except for the sinhala mercy and kindness which allows them residency in their lands and sorrounding sea. If in the same tone tamils enforce their own sovereignity by claiming the lands and sea thet are theirs for thousands of years then who can deny their rights. If India or other co-chairs consider these facts it becomes a point to ponder as to which nation is sovereign in srilanka. Perhaps the two nations the sinhala and the tamils are sovereign in their own ways. The two nations have to live in their own homes and lands and sea sorrounding it. Sinhalese have their own territory and so do the tamils.The time has come for the tamils to take back their soverignty into their own hands and fight the evil forces that are trying to steal away their homes,lands and sea from them.
Kamales said,
May 2, 2006 @ 9:47 pm
The srilankan medias and their propaganda machineries are working relentlessly in their anti -tiger war mongering. This propaganda is affecting the tamil diaspora in a tremendous ways. Since the SLG has it’s foreign embassies in most lands their propaganda is done on an official level and the foreign governments believe their version as truth and nothing but the truth. The tamil diaspora being tax payers and living as blameless citizens are torn apart by this form of malice shown against the tigers on foreign lands through the SLG influence. To add insult to injury there are the lanka web and go2lanka medias are having their voices in Los Angeles and other parts of Europe. The Asia tribune is another moutn piece for the SLG and antitamil propaganda. The IC would not want to listen to the tamils but would take heed when the SLG sends its envoys to plead for banning the LTTE and take action against tamil’s cause. Canada is also a part to tamil being treated as secondary to the sinhala government and it’s advisors.The entire world can put a black mark on tamil nationalism but the tamils will not be pressured into made abroad solutions fabricated with sinhala government. A tamil consensus of 90 % shows that their leadership is their choice. The time has come for recognising the tamil leadership.
Jasmine said,
May 4, 2006 @ 10:26 am
How can accountability with regards to Tsunami relief funds to the tune of 1.5 billion dollars be shown by this president and his government . Even during his days as prime minister under Chandrika he was caught with theft of Tsunami funds amounting to several million dollars. Now that he is the captain of the ship he is empowered to do anyhting he wants with this massive money poured into the country as donations and grants. Since the captain of the, ship called srilanka, is a thief himself he can do anything and who is there to question his modalities and ways of robbery. He is on a collision course and may ruin the whole country due to his bad non accountability of all affairs that are happening in the land.
Mavis said,
May 4, 2006 @ 5:19 pm
A sinister attempt is on the way in arming the serunuwara sinhala residents to keep the displaced tamils away from their homes. The government has provided guns for self defence it seems. The SLG wants trincomalee to be extracted free of tamils and that is the motive in these attempts but if the tamils on the other hand will also get their arms and ammunitions from the tigers on a counter measure where does the SLG stand on this issue. India may be having it’s oil tanks and other interests in trinco but what is the guarantee that even India’s properties will be protected by this traitors government. This is the time India should give thought to the situation and put a full stop of trusting the SLG and turn a page to give it’s full support to tamil nationalism and it’s leadership.
Guru said,
May 5, 2006 @ 11:07 am
The investigations against the STF in the brutal killings of tamil university students in trincomalee has been found futile due to lack of evidence as is reported. These investigations are showing that the killer and the investigator are the same such as the SLG and it’s president. No killings are unknown as is revealed by investigations but being the killer and investigator they can never punish the perpetrator since it is done by the SLG itself. The many young tamils killed recently has become a pattern and may be an un written manifesto of Mahinda Chintana. Mahinda Chintana is multi-faceted and the main and most holy one of these Chintana is annihilation of tamils. His chintana as far as killing of tamils has thus far produced some favourable results. Though JVP weerawansa want to be an angulimala to make garlands with the thumbs of tamils killed ,the Mahinda chintana is trying to make a garland of tamils heads and counting has begun to aquire as many heads as possible in the beheading of tamils. In order to cling to power he has got the latest idea to strengthen his vote base by shuffling of ministries to suit his greed for power needs. The tamil question is not a matter to this monster but his remaining as president by hook or by crook is important. Knowing that he doesn’t have a tamil vote base he has to maintain the sinhala base without minding the tamils whether they live or die is not his concern.
Helaya, Wanni said,
May 31, 2006 @ 3:10 am
Hey, LTTE mouth pieces,
Why are you talking about a few “innocent” Tamils that have been killed by anti-LTTE elements while ignoring the large number of innocent Sinhalese, Tamils, moors and burgers killed by LTTE and pro-LTTE groups? You all are reaping what you have sowed. The LTTE were the pioneers of indiscriminate killings of really innocent civilians in this country and a few others too have mastered the LTTE/pro-LTTE tactics. Now why are you yelling “foul! foul!” Face the music or stop LTTE killings and automatically the other killings will also stop. The rulesapply equally to all. Why, you people think that the LTTE has a monopoly to kill?
You people think that the world if full of idiots other than you guys. LTTE was fooling the IC for a long time but they could not fool them all the time.
The result! LTTE banned in India, USA, Canada, EU, Singapore and Malaysia!
Hats off to the IC. Teach the LTTE the lesson of their lives!!!
Long live united Sri Lanka!!!
sinha,russia said,
June 5, 2006 @ 10:16 pm
well said wanni
we are with you
long live united srilanka!!!