Comments on Sanjiva Weerawarana's Blog: Hillary Clinton on terrorism in Sri Lanka

Iam a sinhalese but some of my family members are ...

2011-06-08T04:52:01.868+05:30

Iam a sinhalese but some of my family members are tamils.I live in Colombo.My place is near to Wellawatte where we have 90% present tamil population. most of them are buisness men during the time nearly end the war, i saw by time to time the ambulance are running up and down and transport dead body of soldiers.
But the sinhalese people look at that feeling with a great sorrow. But they didnot try to do anything harm to tamils there.So I saw sometimes the tamils from jaffna come to Colombo and they had no any threat from Sinhalese.I kaow there are two race of tamil who loved the country, and
who dreamed Sri Lanka as apart of Tamil Nadu.I ask if anybody wanted to accuse for war crimes first come here and see how the tamils are getting on their lives.

I have red all these comments Only can leave my op...

2011-06-08T04:18:03.086+05:30

I have red all these comments Only can leave my opinon, The Tamils who are living out of Sri Lanka and supported trererist to distroy lives,and the country everywhere, must be resposible I will pray them to live where they are because you are not sri lankan and not loved to my Country.

I understand that this is an old blog, but I wante...

2009-11-06T22:28:28.866+05:30

I understand that this is an old blog, but I wanted to comment on it anyway. I appreciate you recognizing that Sri Lankan Tamils do have grievances in Sri Lanka.
The point I think your missing is that 'terrorism' is not exclusive to rebel groups. State-sponsored terrorism is a very real entity in this world (aka government terrorism). How does an oppressed group fight for their rights against an oppressor who commands a well-armed military, navy, airforce??? When the government commits acts of terror the media isn't there to report it, or the government spins the story to suit their purposes. Terrorism works both ways. But those in power, and the media, try to paint the world as being black and white.
The majority of Singhlese and Tamil people are decent and moderate. This war is a tragedy.

I'm a Sri Lankan and I'm really grateful t...

2009-10-07T10:29:31.475+05:30

I'm a Sri Lankan and I'm really grateful to the current Sri Lankan government and the President for,that the country is no more facing the unfortunate violence of war,which we suffered for nearly 30 years.It had always been a true Sri Lankans only dream to eradicate violence and bring back hope to the whole nation.So here we are,all gathered together now.
But there is a hidden truth where the Sri Lanakan government has gone wrong.I personally think what Hilory Clinton has stated was quite the truth.It is the harsh truth behind the long waited peace, We respect the army with all our hearts for the unbelievable victory they brought upon the whole nation .But proof from all over the country on this reckless behavior of the army is reverberating.
There are innocent people,homeless,and orphans without any guardian,people suffering from epidemic diseases and people famishing with no food.They are begging for shelter and begging for food.And on top of all they are begging for the protection of their daughters.
Do u call this peace???We sinhalese do not need peace with no humanity.We want the same rights for both us and the tamil people.They have the right to live in this small island as much as we do.Most of the workers from UN,UNICEF,WHO,Red cross..etc complain that they are not being allowed to enter the salvage areas to at least feed the victims.No one knows what exactly is happening in there.If there's peace what's so big to hide in there???These victims should be re-established with shelter,food and a job to survive,not be trapped in a salvage area.Like us,they lived there lives,they had their dreams,they had a hope to live...they prayed for peace...but not this...
Everyday there's a girl being raped,in front of their parents begging for mercy,everyday there's a murder...everyday there's nothing but violence...
They are humans,they need their rights...Prabhakaran was a vicious person who used the innocent tamils against the government to fulfill his personal grudges,but if the government continues to treat the tamils like this,it will be like giving birth to millions of future Prabhakarans.And it has already begun,the new born babies are named after these terrorists,and being a sinhalese Sri Lnakan I don't see any fault in that...
It's not only Hilory Clinton,millions of people have there eyes on this foolhardy behavior of our troops on the tamil people,and their rights...this island of buddhism,is now called the 'blood Island"...this is not any of Hilory Clinton's statements...this is what the whole world thinks of us!!!Hilory Clinton is just one person,but there will be soon a day,a day that the whole world will be against us.
If the Sri Lankan government does not take any action against this abrasive truth,this so called peace we are celebrating now will turn against our children being the most devastating disaster of the whole history...and on top of all...leaving thousands of new Prabhakarans to deal with,and the whole world will be there to support them...which will not be easy to contend.
Here we are,Sri Lanakans begging for peace,not only to Sinhales,to all Sri Lankans alive on our motherland.

I'm a Sri Lankan and I'm really grateful t...

2009-10-07T10:28:47.056+05:30

which terrorism?Sri Lanka has discriminated Tamils...

2009-08-26T09:12:35.251+05:30

which terrorism?Sri Lanka has discriminated Tamils since 1948,there are clear evidence of riots,educational,language,religion, political discrimination.

Ok,lets come to the point!If SL Government really concern about Tamils,let the 300 000 people to free,atleast allow all medias,nuetrel organization into camps???still today dere white vans coming and people r dissapering in hevily army controll area

SRI LANKAN GOVERMENT STILL NOT ALLOWING FOOD ITEM SENT BY BRITISH TAMILS,THEY COULD' VE SCAN AND SENT TO CAMPS(FREE ITEMS).SL GOVMENT NEVER LIKE PEOPLE WHO ADVACATING TAMILS,BCOZ THEY HAVE HARDLINE THOUGHTS!!

WOLFS PRETEND AS THEY HAVE SYMPATHY FOR GOATS!!!

USA government has so many faces and all faces are...

2009-04-28T07:35:00.000+05:30

USA government has so many faces and all faces are evil. They created the world's most dangerous terrorist and now they pretend to have a war on ' terror' but they don't fight terrorism.. They only fight threats against their superiority.

Terrorism in other countries are none of their concern as long as the terrorists win. Because America can't stand any other country having peace. They WANT us to divide and fight.

I have nothing against tamils. I don't feel happy when LTTE cadres are killed because most of them are being joined by force and some are children. Whatever they call themselves.. they are still Sri Lankans.

Soon the war will end. We WILL have peace. Though you might agree with my opinions or not.. you all will then live peacefully. All this hatred will end because Prabakaran will no longer be there to fuel the anger.

There are so many genocide attacks on Tamils by Sr...

2009-04-24T15:30:00.000+05:30

There are so many genocide attacks on Tamils by Sri Lankan armed forces time to time.
Some of them ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumudini_boat_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirusuvil_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vankalai_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Trincomalee_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990_Batticaloa_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Kokkadichcholai_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mylanthanai_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumarapuram_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akkaraipattu_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tampalakamam_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allaipiddy_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welikada_prison_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gal_Oya_riots
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_Valvettiturai_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mannar_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_July
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_University_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_State_terrorism_by_Sri_Lanka
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Trincomalee_massacre_of_NGO_workers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bindunuwewa_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riots_and_pogroms_in_Sri_Lanka
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prawn_farm_massacre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_attacks_attributed_to_the_Sri_Lankan_military
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_of_Jaffna_library

There was such an untold suffering to Sri Lankan c...

2009-04-24T05:37:00.000+05:30

There was such an untold suffering to Sri Lankan civilians for 30 years by LTTE Terrorist (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LTTE). Those suffering were not highlighted in world news or been ignored. The list of massacres by LTTE Terrorist can be found in the link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_attacks_attributed_to_the_LTTE

Throughout USA history all the international war they participated has caused many civilian casualties by US military. The most revealing - and damning - fact about the US approach to the issue is that military commanders do not intend to institute any changes in tactics to try and reduce civilian casualties, rather than change perceptions about them. See in link http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Costs_of_war:_The_civilian_casualty_issue

US in general should applaud the SL Military for defeating an International Terrorist group successfully. This could be the first time in history a government manage to defeat Terrorism. US is still struggling to do so. Without been negative towards the SL Govt, US should request military intelligence from SL government to defeat Terrorism in US.

Furthermore SL military undertook the largest rescue mission in world history in the week of 20/04/2009. Link http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE53J0IZ20090422

2009-04-24T05:34:00.000+05:30

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Bala,
For majority of the Tamils Prabaharan and...

2009-02-25T13:31:00.000+05:30

Bala,
For majority of the Tamils Prabaharan and LTTE is the only safe guard. If not for LTTE we would have ended up like the Jews in Germany.
if you were to end up as jews your prabha could have done nothing...you know that very well.so stop lying to yourself

We are not idiots; we tried the non violent path for more than 50 years. It did not work

both violent and non violent path to a Tamil Eelam will not work.talking about many tamil kingdoms founded by south indians also will not work.you have laid a claim on the sinhalese homeland.period.
so find another solution like power sharing...no Tamil Eelam,only Eelam!

janani,
"My family left sri lanka after my hou...

2009-02-25T13:20:00.000+05:30

janani,
"My family left sri lanka after my house was bombed by SL air force (no, I am not affliated with LTTE) during their major operations in the 1990s. Entire areas were made to ground level."
there were probably no computerised bomb delivery systems back in early 90's.so the only question is, did SLAF intentionally target you? you are suggesting SLAF wasted bombs on innocent tamil civilians,which is highly questionable.since Jaffna is under army control maybe you can name the area you lived.

"no fear of rape"-there might be some truth in the 90's but most is lies.definitely not now. were you raped in SL?

The World Socialist Web Site calls on workers and ...

2009-02-04T17:43:00.000+05:30

The World Socialist Web Site calls on workers and young people to denounce the criminal assault now being unleashed by the Sri Lankan military against more than a quarter of a million Tamil men, women and children trapped in the Mullaithivu district in the country’s north.

After 25 years of bloody war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), the Sri Lankan army captured the town of Mullaithivu on Sunday and is pressing its offensive against the remnants of the separatist movement, indiscriminately using its military superiority to terrorise the local population.

Thus far the Sri Lankan military has strafed and bombarded so-called “safe zones”, makeshift hospitals and ambulances, killing and wounding hundreds of civilians. The unfolding humanitarian disaster is taking place behind a wall of military censorship reinforced by a ban on all journalists from the frontlines.

According to an emergency statement issued yesterday by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), hundreds have already been killed and more than 250,000 Tamil civilians are trapped in the war zone without adequate food or medicine. The Sri Lankan military this week prevented the ICRC from evacuating 200 critically injured people and has blocked basic relief supplies from entering the area.

The military onslaught in northern Sri Lanka bears a striking resemblance to the ruthless 22-day Israeli offensive against Gaza. Even the government lies and propaganda are similar. Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse claims that the military is engaged in a “war against terrorism”, not a vicious communal war on the island’s oppressed Tamil minority.

Military spokesmen brazenly lie, denying that any war crimes are being committed. When that is no longer possible, they accuse the LTTE of using civilians as “human shields”, saying the military has “no choice” but to bombard the small and densely populated area. The government claims that the LTTE is holding the civilian population against its will, but those who flee to government-held territory are detained in what amounts to concentration camps without adequate food, medicine and the basic necessities of life. The truth is that the Sri Lankan government and military regard the entire Tamil population as the enemy.

Like the bloody carnage in Gaza, the new atrocities taking place in Sri Lanka are a warning to the working class around the world. Led by the US, the major powers that backed the Israeli government are now lined up behind the Rajapakse regime. For all its hypocritical expressions of concern about the plight of civilians, Washington backed Rajapakse’s repudiation of the 2002 ceasefire, and his launching of offensive operations in July 2006, and provides the Sri Lankan military with counter-insurgency training, intelligence and equipment.

Equally complicit is the Indian government, which feigns concern about the “safety” of Tamils, while fully endorsing the military attack. Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee visited Sri Lanka on Tuesday, cynically declaring that the military victories would “bring peace” to the Tamil-dominated northern areas. What the Rajapakse government has in store for the North is already on display in the “liberated” East—a military occupation presided over by the head of a notorious para-military outfit.

The branding of the LTTE as a terrorist organisation is designed to cover up the real roots of the country’s 25-year civil war, which lie in the systematic discrimination against the Tamil minority by successive governments since independence in 1948. Organically incapable of providing any progressive solution to the country’s economic backwardness and poverty, Colombo politicians took a leaf out of the book of their former British colonial rulers—whipping up anti-Tamil chauvinism to divide and rule the working class and oppressed masses.

Rajapakse claims to be bringing “democracy” to the country, but an elementary requirement of democracy is the provision of basic rights for all. Tamils confront discrimination in every aspect of their lives, including jobs, education, and access to state bodies and services. Communalism has been codified in Sri Lanka’s constitution, which makes Buddhism the state religion. The aim of the war against the LTTE is to ensure the continued domination of the island’s Sinhala elites.

The LTTE, however, has been unable to elaborate any viable perspective for the Tamil people. Its military collapse over the past year is a manifestation of its bankrupt perspective of a separate capitalist Tamil statelet in the North and East of Sri Lanka sponsored by one or other of the major powers. Even as the “international community” has backed the Sri Lankan government’s criminal war, the LTTE has continued to issue impotent calls for support from the same imperialist powers.

The LTTE’s own communal perspective renders it incapable of making any appeal to the Sinhala working class and peasantry, which it blames for the repression and war. Its violent attacks on Sinhalese civilians have only played directly into the hands of the Sinhalese extremists and militarists.

Above all the disintegration of the LTTE and its inability to provide any way forward the Tamil people makes clear that Tamil workers and peasants require a new strategy. The real ally of the Tamil people is the international working class—the only force capable of putting an end to the bloody disaster in Sri Lanka and developing a genuine struggle against capitalism, the source of racialism and war.

This is the program fought for by all sections of the International Committee of the Fourth International and the Socialist Equality Party (SEP) in Sri Lanka, which is contesting the Nuwara Eliya and Puttalam provincial council elections on February 14. SEP candidates are explaining to workers, youth and students the class nature of the war, demanding the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of all Sri Lankan troops from the north and east of the country and urgent aid to the Tamil masses.

Twenty five years of war against the Tamil population have brought nothing but misery for working people—Tamil, Sinhalese and Muslim alike—with the destruction of over 70,000 lives, and the creation of hundreds of thousands of refugees, paid for through the axing of thousands of jobs, hard-won conditions and attacks on the basic rights of working people and peasant farmers.

Every section of the working class has been told that it must sacrifice living standards. Those who have rejected these government dictates have been branded as LTTE allies and terrorist sympathisers. Hundreds of people have “disappeared” or been killed by military-sponsored death squads. These methods will not stop with a military victory over the LTTE but will intensify as the Sri Lankan economy is further hit by the escalating global economic crisis.

Against the triumphalism of the Sri Lankan government and its criminal war, the SEP insists that the only solution is a socialist program, the formation of a workers’ and farmers’ government and the establishment of a Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka and Eelam. This must be part of the broader struggle throughout the Indian sub-continent, against all forms of ethno-communalism, to reorganise society on a socialist basis for human need, not the profit requirements of the ruling elites.

Richard Phillips
(http://wsws.org/articles/2009/jan2009/pers-j29.shtml)

Over 100,000 people, mostly Tamils came from acros...

2009-02-04T17:34:00.000+05:30

Over 100,000 people, mostly Tamils came from across the UK to march in central London on Saturday demanding an end to the war in Sri Lanka and the atrocities carried out by the military. During the march itself reports came in of a cluster bomb attack that killed 39 civilians and wounded 128 more.

Saturday’s demonstration was the largest ever of its kind and took the organizers, who only expected a few thousand to turn up, completely by surprise. The police were likewise unprepared, and central London ground to a halt as the march made its way from the Tate Britain gallery past Downing Street, the residence of UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, to Temple Station where speakers addressed the enormous crowd. Only a few were able to make their speeches before the police demanded an end to the rally claiming the organizers did not have permission to use a public address system.

Despite the unprecedented nature of the demonstration, a similar one of 50,000 people in Toronto the previous day and other demonstrations across Europe, none of the British or international TV news channels or Sunday newspapers reported it.

The march was dominated by home-made banners and placards condemning the slaughter of Tamil civilians by the Sri Lankan military. Others attacked India for sending in troops and the silence of the “international community” over the humanitarian crisis that has developed. The BBC was criticized for failing to report the killings and the British government for its role in Sri Lankan history. Young and old alike shouted, “Stop the killing of Tamil people”, “End the War Now”! “Drop food and medicines—not bombs”.

There were calls for self-determination for Tamil Eelam and shouts of support for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam but there were few red and yellow Tamil Eelam flags and no Tamil Tigers flags.

Leaflets were handed out by several Tamil nationalist organisations, but their perspective was limited to putting pressure on various governments to intervene. Typical was that put out by the main organizer, the Tamils Forum, which called for people to “pressure the UK government to prevail upon Sri Lanka to stop the genocide” and write to their MPs. A petition was circulated calling for Brown to remove the LTTE from the list of banned terrorist organizations.

Members and supporters of the Socialist Equality Party handed out thousands of leaflets in English and Tamil of the January 29 perspective article from the World Socialist Web Site “Troops out of northern and eastern Sri Lanka!” It denounced the criminal assault being unleashed by the Sri Lankan military, criticised the bankrupt perspective of the LTTE and called for the unity of the Tamil, Sinhala and international working class. Demonstrators clamoured for the leaflet, and after they had read it several came back for more and began distributing it themselves.

Many had heard of the World Socialist Web Site and were eager to express their views. V. Vijay said, “First of all we have gathered here to stop the war against the Tamil people. It is ethnic mass murder. Afterwards we should talk about a peace process and solution.

“The Sri Lankan government has used Sinhala chauvinism for a long time to carry out war against the Tamils. It wants to eliminate the rights of Tamils using the ‘war on terror’.

“None of the imperialist countries are willing to stop the war, particularly India, which has used our ethnic conflict for its own purposes and fomented conflict between Sinhalese and Tamils for a long period. India wants to establish its own regional power and markets.

“People are conscious that Sinhala and Tamil people should solve the national conflict, establish permanent peace without involving imperialism.

“We have to show solidarity with our people and show our anger. However, I don’t think this movement is going to stop the war. Mass demonstrations were carried out in 2003 against the war on Iraq but it didn’t stop the US.

“We should appeal to all people to fight to end the war”, V. Vijay concluded.

Govindaraj [Indian Tamil], a member of a Tamil youth organization who has come from Manchester to London to start a hunger strike in protest at the war said, “We want to express our anger at the world powers. It is not simply genocide; it is predetermined structural and physical genocide against the Tamil people in Sri Lanka by the world powers.

“What we want immediately is to stop the war because Tamils have been killed using the ‘War on Terror’. The imperialist countries have turned the ‘liberation struggle’ into a mere fight against terrorists in order to mask the real issues behind it. As a result, the Tamil people have been killed and their rights attacked.

“If India wants to stop the war it could do so, but it won’t because of its own geo-strategic interests. The Sri Lankan government uses the location of Sri Lanka [close to India] to sell itself to India. But Indian people are not supporting this war, only the government is doing so.

“We should push our [Indian] government to impose peace in Sri Lanka. What we want is to protect Tamils in Sri Lanka,” Govindaraj added.

K, a Tamil youth, who did not want his full name used because he feared being targeted by the Sri Lankan government in future, said that he had only come to the UK a few months ago after being released from jail in Sri Lanka where he had been badly tortured. He said that though he was a refugee and immigrant worker and was unable to get time off to come to the demonstration, “I am ready to sacrifice my job in order to show my anger against this war”.

“The Sri Lankan government won’t give anything to the Tamil masses,” K explained. “It wants to keep Tamils as slaves.

“Tamil people are living in fear in Colombo. Any time anything could happen to them. No one is there to protect them. People are afraid of being identified and targeted by the government if we have relatives in LTTE held area”, he continued.

“I have lost my relatives in this bombardment. My relatives in Colombo and Vavuniya are unable to mourn or cry for them. This is cruel and criminal war against the Tamils.

“I know Tamil people who refuse to come to the so-called ‘safe zones’ after they were bombarded by the government and because they are going to be held like criminals in camps. The government did it before and is going to do so again. Most people have a relative in the LTTE and they are going to be the first target of the government. I know what will happen if they move to the Sri Lankan army area.

“The government is bombarding the area to terrify Tamils saying they supported the LTTE and joined them. Through the aggression, shelling and killing the government expects to eliminate the Tamil struggle, but it won’t happen like that. More Tamils will take up arms again because every day they see the atrocities carried out by the Sri Lankan army”, K said.

Paris demonstration

Members and supporters of the SEP in France also found strong support for the perspective to unite workers across ethnic lines based on socialist internationalism during their campaign in Paris.

More than 1,000 people gathered in the La Chappelle area for a demonstration over the war. Although organised by LTTE front organizations, Tamil youth organisations and Tamil shop owners, many people were participating independently angered not only by the actions of the Sri Lankan government but also the Indian government and the international community, which is backing the Colombo ruling class.

SEP members distributed the statement “Troops out of north and eastern Sri Lanka” and spoke to many Tamil youth who expressed their concerns about the innocent people who are losing their lives because of the Rajapkse government and the military, which is using powerful weapons such as multi-barrel rockets, mortars and airplanes.

“Where is the United Nations? And where is the international community? Why they can’t stop the war”? one asked.

Another youth, Ravee, said, “I have come with our sports club to oppose the war. We are not supporters of the LTTE, but we are gathering here in solidarity with our people who are being killed in barbaric military attacks every day.

“They are living in a very inferior situation in Wanni without any food, medicines or shelter. Today I heard about 3,000 Indian army [soldiers who] landed in Mullaitheevu. Rajapakse is very cunning man. He announced a two-day cease fire, but in reality, he deployed his army with the support of the Indian army to prepare another assault against Wanni peoples and the LTTE”, Ravee concluded.

Kandeepan said, “Once I was a supporter of the EPRLF (one of the Tamil national movements, now with the Rajapakse government) but now I do not support them. In the past I lost many of my family members. This war is destroying many Tamils in Sri Lanka”.

I'm not at all surprised that Hillary Clinton (or ...

2009-02-04T17:33:00.000+05:30

I'm not at all surprised that Hillary Clinton (or any american leader) supporting LTTE. One good thing about Bush is he was in his cowboy mindset that forgot that LTTE is a useful too for 'American Interests'.

It is the Western Imperialists who created and nurtured the LTTE and most importantly who created the theories for tamil seperalists in Sri Lanka, by creating a false history. They use LTTE against the Sinhala Buddhist culture. They have similar operations sucessfully in countries like Sudan (Darfur) and Indonesia (east timor).

Prabakaran is just a mere servant of Western Imeprialists. So is Ranil. It is now clear that Prabakaran was falsly imaged as an 'Invincible power' by Western Media such as BBC and CNN.

Only thing in my mind that is bothering the US to openly support LTTE is al quaida. Understandably, all terrorist organisation share resources and there may have been occasions where al quaida had some links with LTTE. If it wasn't for al quaida and the current economic crisis, I think the western powers would more actively supporting LTTE, maybe using thier proxy organisation called the UN.

a tamil person can live anywhere in Sri Lanka. Can...

2009-02-04T17:20:00.000+05:30

a tamil person can live anywhere in Sri Lanka. Can a Sinhala person do that?

a tamil person can work anywhere in Sri lanka? Can a Sinhala person do that?

a tamil person can study anywhere in Sri lanka? Can a Sinhala person do that?

Can someone please let me know one single so called 'injustice' done to the tamils by Sinhala people 'only because they are tamils'? I'm asking about something happening right now. not something that happened some indefinite time back in the past.

Don't mention about checkpoints cos we also go thru them. And checkpoints are an outcome of ur terrorist activities. not a cause for it.

I won't take a brainwashed tamil expat who may have come here twice during his lifetime saying 'Black July' (which happenend a quarter century back) as an answer. It was staged by the then SL goverment to get political advantages using thugs and without the backing of a majority of sinhala people. whatever it is, it is finished now and there's nobody who can do anything abt it.

Also, don't tell me a tamil person getting Sinhala birth certificate example. All u need is a clerk who knows both Sinhala and tamil to fix that. No need to create a mono ethnic tamil state after doing ethnic cleansing on the Sinhala and Muslim people to fix that problem.

I noticed a video by BBC that talks about the root...

2008-11-02T18:23:00.000+05:30

I noticed a video by BBC that talks about the roots of the problem in Lanka and how it all started. The below link shows the documentary:-

http://www.tajtube.com/watch_video.php?v=1039ddd4f18e2df

What a mix of utter ignorance or the pretense of i...

2008-06-11T20:22:00.000+05:30

What a mix of utter ignorance or the pretense of ignorance. Thankfully, Joseph provided this string of comments some sense. People need to understand some important things before they go ahead and write things. One is, as Joseph mentioned, one needs to address the root cause of the problem which gave birth to the terrorist atrocities of the LTTE, secondly one needs to NEVER forget that Sri Lanka is equally plagued by 'State-Terrorism', thirdly not all Tamils are LTTE and not all Sinhalese are racist but racism and regional bias is seeped in the mindsets of many Tamils and Sinhalese (The Jaffna Tamils vs. the Eastern Tamils/ Upcountry Tamils is this regional bias), fourthly and importantly, the marginalisation of the Muslims in this fiasco and last but not least Diaspora nationalism and its implications on the ethnic conflict.

People, like Cian, Sivaji and Bala very conveniently forget that the LTTE is not and cannot be the sole representatives of the Tamils. The Tamils are clearly divided on this issue. Thankfully, a growing number of Tamils now realise that a liberation struggle that murders its own peoples cannot win them their rights and freedom. The LTTE is fighting for a Tamil Eelam that will end up as a mass grave of the people it supposedly fought for. The Tamils who still blindly believe that the LTTE are their sole emancipators are mostly part of the diaspora feeding a 'liberation struggle' that is drinking the blood of the poor people still stuck in Sri Lanka. Long distance nationalism is a heady but lethal element that has a major part to play in fueling SL's ethnic conflict.

Lastly, no matter whether its Hillary or Obama and hopefully not McCain, the US will always use the rest of the world to their benefit. So it is up to us to sort out our own mess.

Basically due to LTTE attrocities, the people in t...

2008-02-14T10:06:00.000+05:30

Basically due to LTTE attrocities, the people in the vanni, north are sufferring.
Most of the Tamil young professionals are leaving the country as LTTE demands money from them if they live in CMB or South!
The LTTE is run by the Tamil despora in foreign countires and LTTE is a BIG COMPANY which get Millions of $$$s extracted forcefully from various tamil people and also variou illegal businesses like arms deals + who knows providing "How to do Suicide bombing by brainwashing women" CONSULTANCY! to other world terrorist orgs.

LTTE FALSE PROPAGANDA‏

Please check the two...

2008-02-14T10:00:00.000+05:30

LTTE FALSE PROPAGANDA‏

Please check the two pictures of the following two article
links; One is in Iraq and the other is in Mannar. But the catch is the
second one; Tamil Editors copied the Iraq one and expressed that was in
Mannar. This is indisputable proof that the lengths the LTTE will go to decieve the world for its goals
http://www.worldproutassembly.org/archives/2006/06/the_medias_bloo.html
now check this
http://www.tamileditors.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2035&Itemid=1

I was born in Sri Lanka. I am now a U.S. Citizen. ...

2008-01-05T07:52:00.000+05:30

I was born in Sri Lanka. I am now a U.S. Citizen. I was going to vote for Hillary as I am a strong Democrat. But, after I saw her supportive comments of Prabha led LTTE, I have decided NOT to vote for her.

Go Obama or Go McCain!

I will do my very best to spread the word, in toss up states like PA where I have many American friends, that she supports certain Terrorist groups.

By the way, Mr. Dump Ass SL. why did you leave SL,...

2007-12-17T01:28:00.000+05:30

By the way, Mr. Dump Ass SL. why did you leave SL, go to US? what happened to you? Any problem with you or with your country?

Mr. Stupid SL. You can't even post your name. Yo...

2007-12-17T00:57:00.000+05:30

Mr. Stupid SL. You can't even post your name. You call yourself a US citizen, and still you are talking like a uncivilized man. I know 80% of sinhalese are brain washed by the Extremist Sinhala goverments, and they don't really know the real situations in the Eelam. It's not sinhala people fault. It's your govement which never tell the truth. I asked every Sinhalease to come out of this extremism and racism and think as a civilised man, what the root cause of this problem.

I don't think Hilary needs your vote to win as she is the one who is going to win.

You guys are calling LTTE a terrorist, then why 99% of the people are supporting LTTE. Then 99.1% of the Srilankan Tamils must be LTTE. Isn't it true?

Didn't the whole world called Nelson Mandela a terrorist 30 years ago, put him in jain 25 years, and got Nobel prize 30 years later. So what do you say Mr. Stupid SL? If Nelson Mandela got killed that time, would he get the Nobel prize now? No. but the whole world would still call him a terroist died 30 years ago. RIght?

same situation is happening in Sri Lanka now. You guys are calling LTTE terroist now. Why SL goverment arrested all Tamils in Colombo? because they don't know who is LTTE and who is not. I am telling you they are all LTTE. You know one thing that All the LTTE are Tamils, now I am telling you that All the Tamils are LTTE too. what can you do now?

Come on, and come out of sinhala extremism and think in general...Look at the SL politics .what exactly the SL goverment is doing? Goverment is kidnappiping Tamil MP's Relatives and asking them not to vote against the gov. Does this happend anywhere in the world??? Rajapakse govement has the largest number of Ministers mor than 100 in the world and world record...even china with 1.3 billion population has only 25 ministers.

An there is NO freedom for news media. SL Government is killing journalists if they report the truth. More than 10 journalist has been killed by the government with in the last 2 years. They killed the 17 French NGO workers in Trinco, and 2 UN workers in Colombo. Tell me a journalist that LTTE killed.

Government is bombing Tamils' houses in Vanni. every single day for the past 20 years, you have killed about 10 000 Tamil people but only 10 LTTE so far. what is the point of doing all these is just you don't care about Tamils. Rajapakse is the biggest terrorist in Sri Lanka. You should bring him to the international court for killing 5000 Tamils in the last 5 years during the Peach talk, and hang him like Saddam Hussein.

Who is breaking the peach agreement and capturing places? it's the sinhala forces....why. If any international human rights or NGOs speak the truth, the sri lankan goverment call them LTTE. are you stupid? Yes, you guys are the dummiest people in the world. Just look and count the number of ministers in the parliment. you know how stupid the government? then do I have to tell about just other people who is voting to them....ha haha

Even today the UN said Sri Lanka is most dangerous place to live, just because of the goverment. They all know govenment is the terrorist now. not the LTTE. LTTE is only asking the military to leave our land and go back. we are only killing the Sri Lankan military not the Sinhala people. Why are you occupying our land? our temples? our schools? does that happened to you sinhalese?

Tell yor state terrorists government to respect international human rights.

All LTTE or Tamil people are asking is freedome to live in our own land. Sinhalse and tamils never go to gether different language, different religin, and diff culture so only way is to separate eelam and freedom from the Sri Lankan state terrorism.

You sinhalse have to realize one thing, that LTTE will never be defeated regardless of who is helping you...giving you arms. And there will be a Tamil eelam soon with in next few years.

Hilary Clinton supports terrorists as she does not...

2007-12-16T23:29:00.000+05:30

Hilary Clinton supports terrorists as she does not understand who truly LTTE terrorists are. LTTE is worse then Al Qaida. Terrorism anywhere is terrorism. At least George Bush understood that. Hilary Clinton will not get my vote.

look how many pro LTTE terrorists are in here. All...

2007-12-16T23:27:00.000+05:30

look how many pro LTTE terrorists are in here. All these tamils that are supporting LTTE are none other then Indian tamils who was never born in Sri Lanka. We sinhalese as well as muslims, and true patriotic tamils of sri lanka knows that LTTE is a terrorist organization and soon together the LTTE will be defeated so that sinhalese,tamils,muslims,burghers,germans can ALL live peacefully in ANYWHERE in SRI LANKA without harssmenent by tamil terrorists. END OF STORY. I am a U.S. Citizen and I will NOT VOTE FOR HILARY. A person who doesn't understand terrorism and tries to justify it anything other then terrorism or justify by saying there must be a true reason is an ignornant, reverse thinking person and should not be elected.

To all the crazy tamil indians, no such thing as tamil eelam, now or never or there ever was the last two thousand five hundrered years ago nor will there ever be as long as Sinhalese live! So you can go back to tamilnadu and ask for tamileelam there. You will get good beating from the punjabi and new delihi indians lol. Go fund more toilets in tamilnadu as the people there are doing worse then sri lankan tamils and stop spreading misinformation and false propaganda. We all know LTTE has killed more tamils then anything, and Sinhalese have been killed due to this bullshit LTTE terrorist. Sinhalese can only take it so much for giving the right for tamils to migrate and live in our country. But as human beings we are all human beings and we will eliminate terrorism so we can live peacefully with different types of people in sri lanka.

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