An open letter to His Excellency the President of USA Mr.Barack Obama,
Subject: Interference in to the government of Sri Lanka’s military operations against terrorism by the US Ambassador to Sri Lanka Robert Blake, the American Assistant Secretary of State Mr. Richard Boucher , UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband and French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner.
Your Excellency,
I hasten to write to inform you the injustice that is being done to Sri Lanka by some members of the International Community in its attempt to end the suffering it went through for over 30 years under a home grown group of ruthless terrorists. The group
is banned in 33 member states of the International Community including the United States of America. A short account of the terrorism in Sri Lanka is given below ,before giving the special reason for this personal appeal to you.
Sri Lanka consists of three main Communities, the Sinhala the majority community with about 81 per cent of the population, the Tamil about 12 percent and then Muslims, in a population of about 20 million people.
The Tamil Community is mostly in the North and East, though 55 percent of the Tamil population lives in the South among the Sinhala, Muslim and other Communities. Sri Lanka was Colonised by the Portuguese, the Dutch and the British. It became Independent from the British Colonial Rule in 1948.
Sri Lanka is a developing country. Different governments approached development in different ways, getting constantly into a spiral of never ending debts. Sri Lanka created a free education system after Independence and the country has a high literacy level. There was thus a large educated population of youth. In the wake of an economic crisis in the 1970s there was an increase in the numbers of unemployed among the youth.
The unemployed Tamil youth in the north thought that there unemployment was caused by the Sinhala majority Government due to their ethnic difference. A group of these unemployed Tamil youth took to arms to wrench off power from the government to form their own government to decide their own future. They formed a terrorists group calling them selves the LTTE.
The nearest neighbour of Sri Lanka is India, and the Southern Province of India is called Tamil Nadu . The population of Tamil Nadu is Tamils like the Tamils in the North and East of Sri Lanka, speaking the same language and having the same religion. India had always been scheming to attach Sri Lanka as one of its provinces not wanting it to be an Independent State at the tip of its southern sea coast. Hence, the terrorists group provided them with a golden opportunity for their expansionist ambition. Therefore, when the Tamil youth formed the terrorist group the Indian Secret Agency the RAW took them under their wing. They took them to South India, accommodated them in Camps in the Jungle of South India and gave them a training in terrorist war fare. These are facts that could be verified.
After training this group of terrorists were clandestinely sent to Sri Lanka. Hiding in Secret places in the jungles in the North they called for a Separate Homeland for Tamils, and recruited young children and the youths of both sexes into their own armed wing of terrorists.
In order to put the Sinhala and the Tamil communities distinctly apart, the terrorists in 1983 killed 13 Sinhala Police Officers and chopped their hands to remove their rings.
This was done purposely expecting a Sinhala backlash to seal the Sinhala Tamil difference under a hateful atmosphere of murder , assassination and arson. As expected these murders caused riots in the South where the Sinhala killed the Tamils and attacked the Tamil owned shops. The angry Sinhala crowds were hooligans and underworld elements, who killed, looted and settled old scores. The riots however, were quelled after two days.
Large numbers of Tamils made this an opportunity to migrate into foreign countries , such as Canada, UK, France, and Norway, as asylum seekers. The numbers have grown now and many of them are profitably employed and citizens of their respective adopted countries. They are called the Sri Lanka Tamil diaspora.
The terrorist LTTE group lured these Tamils of the “diaspora” , by a call to support them to create a Tamil Homeland. Some of them volunteered to make contributions for the cause, while others were forced to contribute under threat. The terrorists set up front organisations in these foreign countries to collect funds for the terrorist movement.
They were so successful in the collection of funds the Jane’s Defence Weekly Magazine in UK reported that the annual income of the LTTE terrorists of Sri Lank from these collections alone is between 200 to 300 Million Dollars. They dealt in arms sales, human trafficking and drug dealings increasing their annual income . The LTTE became one of the world's most efficient but a ruthless terrorist group. They owned a fleet of 12 cargo Ships
The terrorists used their considerable “wealth” not for the welfare of the people in the areas controlled by them, but to enhance their military power. They bought and transported into their areas ship loads of arms and armaments. Later they captured large territories of land massacred innocent villagers, assassinated government officials, murdered Army Officers and soldiers using a trained battalion of suicide bombers called black tigers.
Under a CFA sponsored by a Norwegian representative Eric Solheim, signed with the government, the terrorists were allowed to keep areas under their control. Thereafter, they captured army camps and the territories around the camps until they came to control a third of Sri Lanka's territory. They had an overseas fund-raising network and a lucrative shipping business.
The terrorist who were carrying out a ruthless terrorist campaign against the Government, murdering every one who opposed them, and liberal Tamil intellectuals. But they were friendly towards the foreign diplomats and Parliamentarians, American Senators and the Western media personnel and became their” friends”. The Diplomats, foreign Government Representatives, American Senators often paid visits to the terrorist in Kilinocchi, without even consulting the Government. The result is that these diplomats, politicians, and human rights activists, who had been entertained by the terrorists, do not see them as terrorists.
This was the situation with the Terrorists in Sri Lanka when Mr.Mahinda Rajapakse was elected the President of Sri Lanka in 2005. He had made the “end of terrorism” his election promise.
Immediately after his election, the President Mahinda Rajapakse invited the terrorists leader Prabhakaran to meet him for a negotiated settlement. When Prabhakaran refused the President arranged a peace negotiation with his representatives and the delegates of the Government. The negotiations ended when the terrorist delegation walked out refusing to continue the negotiations. Immediately after, the terrorists blasted a claymore bomb targeting a bus killing 87 innocent men women and children.
The terrorists informed that they are not willing for a negotiated settlement as they want nothing less than a separate Tamil Homeland. They showed their determination to set up a Tamil homeland by closing the sluice gate of a Tank providing water to thousands of Farmers. That was the beginning of the military operations by the government first to open the sluice gates and thereafter in retaliation for artillery fire of the terrorists.
Thereafter the President was determined to end the scourge of terrorism for good and set in motion the only solution open to him, which was the military solution.
The result is that the Armed Forces have now re- captured all territories held by the terrorists and pushed them into a small pocket of a land in the eastern coast of Sri Lanka, which was earlier declared a no-fire zone in order to allow the civilians held by the terrorists to escape into it to be rescued by the Army . The terrorists who are weakened as a fighting force, and reduced in numbers to a few thousands refuse to surrender., and keep the Tamil civilians as a human shield to deter the Sri Lanka Armed Forces from continuing its military operations.
In this small territory the terrorist leadership is keeping over 70,000 civilians as a human shield. They shoot at any group of civilians trying to escape into Army held areas. The Armed Forces have carried out a rescue operation to save the civilians, and within the first day of the operation 38,000 civilians out of about 70 thousand have escaped into safety ,and are temporarily housed in Camps for Internally Displaced Persons set up by the government.
The problem is now with the Tamil Diaspora who have become permanent residents in Canada, UK, Netherland and Australia. They have become an important vote base for the MPs of the respective Parliaments. Hence the UK foreign Minister is forced by the Tamil Voters in the UK to intervene in Sri Lanka to save the terrorist leaders. The Tamil diaspora in Canada is demonstrating demanding the Canadian Parliamentarians to stop the war in Sri Lanka.
The Labour Government in UK being unpopular at the moment do not want to loose the support of the voters of the Tamil diaspora, and thus the British Prime Minister and his Foreign Secretary David Miliband to please their Tamil vote base, are asking the Sri Lanka government for an immediate ceasefire.
They give as an excuse, that the Tamil Civilians who have been kept as a human shield by the terrorists are in danger because of the determination of the Sri Lanka Armed Forces to end terrorism at all cost. The Sri Lanka Armed Forces after two years of war are now well experienced and are capable of rescuing the civilian population without causing any harm to them. The deaths and injuries to the civilians are caused by the terrorists themselves who shoot at the fleeing civilians and explode suicide bombs among the crowds of civilians escaping from the grip of the terrorists.
The Human Rights Watch, and the Amnesty International who have no first hand information have leagued with the terrorists , and attempt to save the terrorists leaders, discrediting the Government, accusing that the Government Forces are intentionally causing damage to the Civilians. They rely on the terrorist Websites to quote numbers of deaths caused by the government forces.
The latest information is that the British Foreign Secretary Mr.David Miliband, the American Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher, U.S American Ambassador to Sri Lanka Robert Blake , the French Foreign Minister Bernard Koucher, and John Holmes, United Nations’ Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, and the Norwegian Minister of Environment and Development of Cooperation Eric Solheim are engaged in arranging with the American Armed Forces a Commando Operation to save the terrorist leaders. It is evident that the attempt is not to save the Civilians as they are scattered all over in thousands, but the terrorist leader are bunched together and could be easily lifted into a Commando helicopter.
The UNHighCommissioner for Human rights also seems to be helping the terrorists trusting any false information given by the terrorists website and accusing the Government of Sri Lanka for attacks on the Tamil Civilians, when the actual perpetrators of these acts are the terrorists themselves.
The Government of Sri Lanka is on the verge of ending terrorism in Sri Lanka but is hampered in the effort by the call of a cease fire by the British, French and the Canadians..
The IMF which was to give a loan of 1.9 million Dollars to the Government of Sri Lanka has now demanded as a condition for the grant of the loan the immediate halt of the military operations against the terrorists and declare a cease fire.
Finally, Please do not believe all what the Tamil diaspora recounts. They are not interested in the Tamil civilian population. They are those who contributed to enrich the terrorists, who promised a separate Tamil Homeland. They are still dreaming of that and do not want their dream to die with the end of Prabhakaran the terrorist leader, that is why they want to save him at any rate, so that terrorism will be revitalised and the dream of a Tamil Homeland would be realised. The Tamil Civilians in Sri Lanka do not want a separate Homeland. They are happy living with the Sinhala and the Muslim communities.
Hence Your Excellency the purpose of this letter to you is for your intervention to let the Sovereign State of Sri Lanka resolve its terrorists problem in its own way. The government Forces have not caused death and injury to the Civilians in its two year long military operations against the terrorists. There is too much of external interventions that delay unnecessarily the final stage of the termination of the military operations of the government Armed Forces against terrorism.
At this precise moment the Government of Sri Lanka is carrying out a successful operation to rescue the 70 thousand civilians kept as the human shield by the terrorists. It is a great success and well over 50 thousand civilians have already come into the safe areas and housed in temporary refugee camps. In a matter of few days the scourge of terrorism will be terminated in Sri Lanka.
We therefore appeal to your Excellency to please intervene to stop any rescue operations by American Commandos and request the US Ambassador to Sri Lanka Robert Blake and the American Assistant Secretary of State Mr. Richard Boucher , to stop interfering in to the government of Sri Lanka’s military operations against the terrorists.
I remain respectfully yours,
Charles.S.Perera.
Wednesday, 22 April 2009
Sunday, 19 April 2009
Straus Khan the French Socialist Manager of IMF should first answer for the neglect of the poverty of Guadeloupe, Martinique, Guiana, & Calidonie,
What has the IMF loan of US$ 1.9 billion to do with the implementation of the 13 and the 17 Amendments to the Sri Lanka Constitution ? Implementation or not of Amendments to the Constitution of Sri Lanka is purely an internal political issue, to which the IMF has no right to interfere.
This shows to what extent the IMF is still hackneyed and out moded dictating their own terms, barring progress and development of poor countries in the grant of IMF loans. We are in the 21st Century and yet the IMF or Nation providing loans to developing countries have not learnt to honour the Sovereignty of Developing Nations. They should allow developing countries to take their own decisions without having to adjust their plans of development to suit the conditions laid down by the donors. Otherwise there would be no progress, and the loans would be used as threats to make countries do what they do not want to do.
The implementation of the 13 Amendment as it had been reported, is to ensure that the Tamil people should have a greater say in the Administration of the Regions where they are in a majority. But such a decision is best left to the government to take without threat and harassment by the IMF. That would be a more progressive means. The IMF was expected to change its modus operandi from its old capitalist policies to a more modern liberal policy after the appointment of Dominique Straus Khan of France , a Socialist Politician, as the Managing Director of the IMF .
But IMF under the Direction of the French Socialist Straus Khan, demands Sri Lanka to give the Tamils in Regions where they are a majority the right to Administer the Region as a condition for IMF loans for development. In this respect one would like to ask the French Socialist that Straus Khan is, whether Straus Khan’s France is doing to its Overseas Departments, what IMF under his Management is pontificating Sri Lanka to do ?
If not Straus Khan who is the Managing Director of the IMF, is then responsible for the violation of the rights of the ethnic population in the French Overseas Departments. Therefore before his bank speaks of the implementation of the 13 Amendment, it should get its Managing Director to ask his own French Government what it proposes to do in Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guiana and Nouvelle Caledonia -the Overseas Departments the French political hot Spots where the majority ethnic groups have been denied autonomy which they had been demanding for ages.
The economy of these French Overseas Departments are in the hands of the wealthy French or the descendents of the former colonialists. The ethnic black people do not demand Independence but asks for autonomy . Why has it been denied to them ? These Overseas Departments are the poorest territories of the French Republic. The unemployment is on the increase, many workers have been laid off. Guadeloupe was the centre of unrest during the past month, where the workers had beenon strike asking for increase of salaries.
IMF demands the grant of political rights to the Tamils of Sri Lanka when its Managing Director’s France has denied Autonomy and failed to develop its Overseas Departments to eliminate the poverty of the black ethnic community. The ethnic community in these French Departments do not ask for Independence or political rights but better conditions of living and development of the infrastructure of their regions. When ever troubles erupt in these regions the French White Police Force is sent in numbers to quell the Manifestations.
Moment there is a Workers Movement rising against the administration they are called racial moments and the leaders are brought before the courts. It happened recently in Guadeloupe A judicial inquiry against “black” Elie Domota the Leader of LKP a Federation of Trade Unions and Leftist Group, was opened to inquire into allegation that he incited racial hatred.
In an interview Domota said , “ These accusations are, once again, based on nothing, The prefect and the prosecutor are trying to incriminate me to try to weaken the movement.” He further warned the employers that they, “implement the agreement or leave Guadeloupe. We are quite firm on this. We won't let a bunch of white bosses re-establish slavery."
This is how things are taking place in France , under the shadow of the European Union, which dictate terms to us on violation of human rights and denying GSP+ concessions for garments. Are they not violating or instigating to violate the human rights of the ethnic population of Guadeloupe, and other Caribbean Islands which are part of the French Republic ?
Another Overseas Department of the French Republic where the ethnic population is neglected and their political moments weakened is New Caledonia, which the local people call Kanak. French used the Island to send large numbers of French convicts. The French population was gradually increased to out number the indigenous population numbers of which diminished through deaths caused by contacting diseases brought by the white immigrants.
Kanak Independence moment began in 1985. Many uprisings for Independence were suppressed and finally it has been agreed to give independence to the Island in 2014. These are areas where the French had neglected and caused hardship to the ethnic community.
While politicians like Kouchner are fighting for the human rights of the ethnic groups out side France , the ethnic black population within its own Republic have been neglected. Kouchner who is quick to create Kosovos, has still not spoken out for autonomy to the Overseas departments of the French Republic.
This is the situation in France. But in Sri Lanka the ethnic population have integrated far better than those in the French Overseas Departments. Sri Lanka need no 13 Amendment to integrate the Tamils , Muslims in to the Major Sinhala Community and share in the political , social and cultural welfare and development of Sri Lanka.
If the IMF imposes conditions that is not directly connected to economic development, the Government of Sri Lanka should refuse the loans and perhaps turn to China, Russia, Iran and Libya for help. The implementation of the Constitution of Sri Lanka is purely a political issue and the IMF has no right to interfere in to that aspect of Sri Lanka in giving loans.
This shows to what extent the IMF is still hackneyed and out moded dictating their own terms, barring progress and development of poor countries in the grant of IMF loans. We are in the 21st Century and yet the IMF or Nation providing loans to developing countries have not learnt to honour the Sovereignty of Developing Nations. They should allow developing countries to take their own decisions without having to adjust their plans of development to suit the conditions laid down by the donors. Otherwise there would be no progress, and the loans would be used as threats to make countries do what they do not want to do.
The implementation of the 13 Amendment as it had been reported, is to ensure that the Tamil people should have a greater say in the Administration of the Regions where they are in a majority. But such a decision is best left to the government to take without threat and harassment by the IMF. That would be a more progressive means. The IMF was expected to change its modus operandi from its old capitalist policies to a more modern liberal policy after the appointment of Dominique Straus Khan of France , a Socialist Politician, as the Managing Director of the IMF .
But IMF under the Direction of the French Socialist Straus Khan, demands Sri Lanka to give the Tamils in Regions where they are a majority the right to Administer the Region as a condition for IMF loans for development. In this respect one would like to ask the French Socialist that Straus Khan is, whether Straus Khan’s France is doing to its Overseas Departments, what IMF under his Management is pontificating Sri Lanka to do ?
If not Straus Khan who is the Managing Director of the IMF, is then responsible for the violation of the rights of the ethnic population in the French Overseas Departments. Therefore before his bank speaks of the implementation of the 13 Amendment, it should get its Managing Director to ask his own French Government what it proposes to do in Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guiana and Nouvelle Caledonia -the Overseas Departments the French political hot Spots where the majority ethnic groups have been denied autonomy which they had been demanding for ages.
The economy of these French Overseas Departments are in the hands of the wealthy French or the descendents of the former colonialists. The ethnic black people do not demand Independence but asks for autonomy . Why has it been denied to them ? These Overseas Departments are the poorest territories of the French Republic. The unemployment is on the increase, many workers have been laid off. Guadeloupe was the centre of unrest during the past month, where the workers had beenon strike asking for increase of salaries.
IMF demands the grant of political rights to the Tamils of Sri Lanka when its Managing Director’s France has denied Autonomy and failed to develop its Overseas Departments to eliminate the poverty of the black ethnic community. The ethnic community in these French Departments do not ask for Independence or political rights but better conditions of living and development of the infrastructure of their regions. When ever troubles erupt in these regions the French White Police Force is sent in numbers to quell the Manifestations.
Moment there is a Workers Movement rising against the administration they are called racial moments and the leaders are brought before the courts. It happened recently in Guadeloupe A judicial inquiry against “black” Elie Domota the Leader of LKP a Federation of Trade Unions and Leftist Group, was opened to inquire into allegation that he incited racial hatred.
In an interview Domota said , “ These accusations are, once again, based on nothing, The prefect and the prosecutor are trying to incriminate me to try to weaken the movement.” He further warned the employers that they, “implement the agreement or leave Guadeloupe. We are quite firm on this. We won't let a bunch of white bosses re-establish slavery."
This is how things are taking place in France , under the shadow of the European Union, which dictate terms to us on violation of human rights and denying GSP+ concessions for garments. Are they not violating or instigating to violate the human rights of the ethnic population of Guadeloupe, and other Caribbean Islands which are part of the French Republic ?
Another Overseas Department of the French Republic where the ethnic population is neglected and their political moments weakened is New Caledonia, which the local people call Kanak. French used the Island to send large numbers of French convicts. The French population was gradually increased to out number the indigenous population numbers of which diminished through deaths caused by contacting diseases brought by the white immigrants.
Kanak Independence moment began in 1985. Many uprisings for Independence were suppressed and finally it has been agreed to give independence to the Island in 2014. These are areas where the French had neglected and caused hardship to the ethnic community.
While politicians like Kouchner are fighting for the human rights of the ethnic groups out side France , the ethnic black population within its own Republic have been neglected. Kouchner who is quick to create Kosovos, has still not spoken out for autonomy to the Overseas departments of the French Republic.
This is the situation in France. But in Sri Lanka the ethnic population have integrated far better than those in the French Overseas Departments. Sri Lanka need no 13 Amendment to integrate the Tamils , Muslims in to the Major Sinhala Community and share in the political , social and cultural welfare and development of Sri Lanka.
If the IMF imposes conditions that is not directly connected to economic development, the Government of Sri Lanka should refuse the loans and perhaps turn to China, Russia, Iran and Libya for help. The implementation of the Constitution of Sri Lanka is purely a political issue and the IMF has no right to interfere in to that aspect of Sri Lanka in giving loans.
Saturday, 18 April 2009
A Commando Operation organised by Holmes, Boucher and Blake, and the doctored reports by the Amnesty International.
Holmes, Boucher, Miliband trio, unknown to the American President Barrack Obama, seem to be planning a American Commando Operation to save Prabhakaran the terrorist leader. These three unscrupulous men make a big noise about violation of human rights but they will themselves resort to any atrocious methods to carry out their own Agendas what ever they may be. They seem to be in a bit of a hurry to save the terrorist leader Prabhakaran.
Sri Lanka is a Sovereign State and it has the right to defend its territory and its people against terrorists or any foreign violators of its Sovereignty. When the Somalian pirates defying President Barrack Obama’s warning against piracy, took an American cargo ship Captain as a hostage, the American Army promptly acted by killing the pirates by sniper fire to rescue the Captain. No body intervened and the American Army was free to carry out its operation the best way possible.
It should be the way with the Sri Lanka Government Armed Forces, who are planning a rescue operation to save the Tamil Civilians. The foreign Governments should keep away to allow the Armed Forces to carry out its military operations with discretion. The Sri Lanka Army with its experience knows how to plan and carry out a rescue operation. Holmes, Boucher, Miliband and Blake intervening to carry out a rescue operation of the terrorists is a violation of the rights of a Sovereign State.
The Amnesty International the most incompetent and most interfering of Organisations says that the official two-day ceasefire in Sri Lanka which ended on Wednesday has not helped to end the suffering of around 100,000 civilians trapped in the conflict zone. It does not seem to understand that it was not due to any fault of the government. It was the terrorists who would not allow the Civilians to budge.
And this incompetent Organisations which has done nothing to ameliorate the situation in Gaza, Palestine, Iraq , Afghanistan, Burma or Pakistan, tries to make out that the suffering of the 100,000 civilians( wrong figures) , trapped in the conflict Zone is the fault of the Government because the 48 hour ceasefire was not long enough.
What is the guarantee that even a month’s cease fire is going to ameliorate the condition of these people ? The terrorists do not keep their word being a ruthless blood thirsty group. The Amnesty International should inform the LTTE terrorists to release the people and ask the Tamil diaspora to stop their clamouring unnecessarily in the interest of the terrorists.
How can one put into the heads of these activists of the Amnesty International that it is not a truce that is going to help the suffering mass of about 50 to 70 thousand people in the no fire Zone ? It is the Sri Lanka Armed forces who could find a means to get these civilians released in its own way. For that the Armed Forces should be given time and left alone.
It is not the Amnesty International that is going to risk their lives to save these people . No amount of speaking to the terrorists will help to make them understand the necessity to release the civilians, because they are the shield that protect them from being annihilated. The government is aware of the hardships and the desperation of the civilians. The government has not turned away from its responsibility of looking after its people whatever are the difficulties, it has continued to provide food and medicine to the civilians , which are pilfered by the terrorists.
However, the Amnesty International confess that, “All reports from the conflict zone are impossible to verify as the area has, in effect, been sealed off by the Sri Lankan government, denying access to aid workers and independent human rights observers.”. Therefore, what they present to the public is based on third party reports which have not been verified. The situation not as bleak as it claims. It is not only the Amnesty International , even the UNHCHR, depends on the terrorist website for their information.
The Human Rights Watch that toots the exaggerated stories of the Tamil Diaspora are making their lopsided reports on unverified information on hear say evidence such as those from the “hospital workers” that gives figures of civilians wounded by the shooting of Armed Forces into the no fire zone, who had been treated in the hospital. The Amnesty International wails that "The human misery and desperation is rising and has now reached alarming proportion".
The Armed Forces are in place and hears and sees the reality and they have the answers. The only thing the Amnesty International could do for the good of the civilians if it really cares is to mind its own business and let the Sri Lanka Armed Forces do their duty.
Sri Lanka is a Sovereign State and it has the right to defend its territory and its people against terrorists or any foreign violators of its Sovereignty. When the Somalian pirates defying President Barrack Obama’s warning against piracy, took an American cargo ship Captain as a hostage, the American Army promptly acted by killing the pirates by sniper fire to rescue the Captain. No body intervened and the American Army was free to carry out its operation the best way possible.
It should be the way with the Sri Lanka Government Armed Forces, who are planning a rescue operation to save the Tamil Civilians. The foreign Governments should keep away to allow the Armed Forces to carry out its military operations with discretion. The Sri Lanka Army with its experience knows how to plan and carry out a rescue operation. Holmes, Boucher, Miliband and Blake intervening to carry out a rescue operation of the terrorists is a violation of the rights of a Sovereign State.
The Amnesty International the most incompetent and most interfering of Organisations says that the official two-day ceasefire in Sri Lanka which ended on Wednesday has not helped to end the suffering of around 100,000 civilians trapped in the conflict zone. It does not seem to understand that it was not due to any fault of the government. It was the terrorists who would not allow the Civilians to budge.
And this incompetent Organisations which has done nothing to ameliorate the situation in Gaza, Palestine, Iraq , Afghanistan, Burma or Pakistan, tries to make out that the suffering of the 100,000 civilians( wrong figures) , trapped in the conflict Zone is the fault of the Government because the 48 hour ceasefire was not long enough.
What is the guarantee that even a month’s cease fire is going to ameliorate the condition of these people ? The terrorists do not keep their word being a ruthless blood thirsty group. The Amnesty International should inform the LTTE terrorists to release the people and ask the Tamil diaspora to stop their clamouring unnecessarily in the interest of the terrorists.
How can one put into the heads of these activists of the Amnesty International that it is not a truce that is going to help the suffering mass of about 50 to 70 thousand people in the no fire Zone ? It is the Sri Lanka Armed forces who could find a means to get these civilians released in its own way. For that the Armed Forces should be given time and left alone.
It is not the Amnesty International that is going to risk their lives to save these people . No amount of speaking to the terrorists will help to make them understand the necessity to release the civilians, because they are the shield that protect them from being annihilated. The government is aware of the hardships and the desperation of the civilians. The government has not turned away from its responsibility of looking after its people whatever are the difficulties, it has continued to provide food and medicine to the civilians , which are pilfered by the terrorists.
However, the Amnesty International confess that, “All reports from the conflict zone are impossible to verify as the area has, in effect, been sealed off by the Sri Lankan government, denying access to aid workers and independent human rights observers.”. Therefore, what they present to the public is based on third party reports which have not been verified. The situation not as bleak as it claims. It is not only the Amnesty International , even the UNHCHR, depends on the terrorist website for their information.
The Human Rights Watch that toots the exaggerated stories of the Tamil Diaspora are making their lopsided reports on unverified information on hear say evidence such as those from the “hospital workers” that gives figures of civilians wounded by the shooting of Armed Forces into the no fire zone, who had been treated in the hospital. The Amnesty International wails that "The human misery and desperation is rising and has now reached alarming proportion".
The Armed Forces are in place and hears and sees the reality and they have the answers. The only thing the Amnesty International could do for the good of the civilians if it really cares is to mind its own business and let the Sri Lanka Armed Forces do their duty.
Friday, 17 April 2009
UN bands with Blakes and Milibands to save terrorists, to revive terrorism later on in Sri Lanka.
The Tamil Diaspora is or rather, had been supporting the Sri Lanka terrorists for the realisation of a Tamil Homeland. Having been used to the comforts and the luxury of living in their new homes in foreign soil, they would not want to settle down in a homeland in Sri Lanka even if it were to be established.
The second and third generation Tamil diaspora would have absorbed enough of the culture of their adopted countries that the Homeland in Sri Lanka will be furthest from their minds as a permanent place of resident. What they had been looking forward with their considerable financial contribution is to establish a Homeland merely for the sense of belonging to a land of their own, without having to share it with the Sinhala.
That is not the wish of the Tamil people who have been living in Sri Lanka for generations with Sinhala, Muslim and other communities. Therefore, what ever development projects be they political, social or economic after end of terrorism should be in consultation with the Sinhala, Tamil , Muslim and other Communities who are living in Sri Lanka. The Tamils of the Diaspora has done enough damage to Sri Lanka and its people by supporting the terrorists and continuing to do so with the sole of aim of dividing the country. Therefore, they should not have any say in the future development programmes of Sri Lanka unless they give up their support for a separate homeland concept and learn to help Sri Lanka for what it is as a multi ethnic , multi cultural society.
The UN and the International Community who have pulled up their trousers and frocks to jump in to the troubled waters to support the terrorists on the pretext of saving the Tamil Civilians in the no-fire zone, are hysteric hypocrites. In their own countries they hate the coloured men, dislike even their names, in selecting candidates for employment the leave out the candidates of colour or who have foreign sounding names to select their own. They come to our countries calling themselves great humanitarians, for their own profit, where they are better off than in their own countries with their Dollars, Sterling pounds and Euros to spend their holidays or run hotels and put up bungalows.
They do not care a “damn” for the poor Tamils or Sinhala or Muslims. Their humanitarianism only gives them a chance to dictate terms to governments and make it a stepping stone to climb into more influential political lobbies in their own countries.
The UN and the International Community with their rummy human rights activists, are hoping to break up Sri Lanka , as broken up they could be unquestioned masters. Blakes, and Bouchers are trying to join up with the UN to save the terrorists leaders, so that Sri Lanka which had succeeded to end the canker of terrorism through the military solution they all advised against, want to give a life line to terrorists to bring them back , to prove that they were right in proposing a political solution as against the military solution.
They want to break up countries, while the President Barrack Obama, has different , more progressive ideas, unlike the Blakes, Bouchers and Milibands. When Russia decided to recognize Abkhazia and South Ossetia as Independent States, President Obama was against it and promptly condemned Russia and asked other countries not to accord any legitimacy to its actions.
The President Obama when in Europe speaking to a gathering of Students said that he was opposed to recognising small states breaking away to seek recognition as Independent states , and said he would not interfere into the status quo of Sovereign States. Therefore the efforts of Blakes, Wilibands, Kouchners, and Bouchers to set up new states to please the “terrorists” will not receive the blessings of the President of the United States of America Mr. Barack Obama.
The second and third generation Tamil diaspora would have absorbed enough of the culture of their adopted countries that the Homeland in Sri Lanka will be furthest from their minds as a permanent place of resident. What they had been looking forward with their considerable financial contribution is to establish a Homeland merely for the sense of belonging to a land of their own, without having to share it with the Sinhala.
That is not the wish of the Tamil people who have been living in Sri Lanka for generations with Sinhala, Muslim and other communities. Therefore, what ever development projects be they political, social or economic after end of terrorism should be in consultation with the Sinhala, Tamil , Muslim and other Communities who are living in Sri Lanka. The Tamils of the Diaspora has done enough damage to Sri Lanka and its people by supporting the terrorists and continuing to do so with the sole of aim of dividing the country. Therefore, they should not have any say in the future development programmes of Sri Lanka unless they give up their support for a separate homeland concept and learn to help Sri Lanka for what it is as a multi ethnic , multi cultural society.
The UN and the International Community who have pulled up their trousers and frocks to jump in to the troubled waters to support the terrorists on the pretext of saving the Tamil Civilians in the no-fire zone, are hysteric hypocrites. In their own countries they hate the coloured men, dislike even their names, in selecting candidates for employment the leave out the candidates of colour or who have foreign sounding names to select their own. They come to our countries calling themselves great humanitarians, for their own profit, where they are better off than in their own countries with their Dollars, Sterling pounds and Euros to spend their holidays or run hotels and put up bungalows.
They do not care a “damn” for the poor Tamils or Sinhala or Muslims. Their humanitarianism only gives them a chance to dictate terms to governments and make it a stepping stone to climb into more influential political lobbies in their own countries.
The UN and the International Community with their rummy human rights activists, are hoping to break up Sri Lanka , as broken up they could be unquestioned masters. Blakes, and Bouchers are trying to join up with the UN to save the terrorists leaders, so that Sri Lanka which had succeeded to end the canker of terrorism through the military solution they all advised against, want to give a life line to terrorists to bring them back , to prove that they were right in proposing a political solution as against the military solution.
They want to break up countries, while the President Barrack Obama, has different , more progressive ideas, unlike the Blakes, Bouchers and Milibands. When Russia decided to recognize Abkhazia and South Ossetia as Independent States, President Obama was against it and promptly condemned Russia and asked other countries not to accord any legitimacy to its actions.
The President Obama when in Europe speaking to a gathering of Students said that he was opposed to recognising small states breaking away to seek recognition as Independent states , and said he would not interfere into the status quo of Sovereign States. Therefore the efforts of Blakes, Wilibands, Kouchners, and Bouchers to set up new states to please the “terrorists” will not receive the blessings of the President of the United States of America Mr. Barack Obama.
Thursday, 16 April 2009
Enough is enough. Set aside diplomatic niceties, and “ black out” military operations in Puthukudiruppu.
Give the Sri Lankan terrorists a finger, they will ask for the hand, give them the hand and they will ask for the arm. That is how it had been , how it is, and how it would be. Every sympathiser of terrorists called for a cease fire, when the government and those who know the ways of the terrorists in Sri Lanka said that the terrorists were only playing for time, and they care less for the humanitarian need of releasing the Tamil civil population they are keeping as their lifesaving shield, none of these “terrorist lovers” of the International Community cared to pay heed.
The International Community, the UN and the “stupidest” of humanitarian activists the Human Rights Watch , would rather believe the terrorists than the Government of Sri Lanka and insists that the government is carrying on a genocide of the Tamil people, with IDPs being holed up in concentration camps, unable or not wanting to differentiate between the terrorists and the Tamil civilians.
Sri Lanka Armed Forces were not bombing the Hospitals or shooting into the people gathered into the no-fire Zone, but the Tamil Diaspora managed to “pay” their way into influential lobbies of the International Community , the media, State Departments, Foreign Ministries, ex USAmbassadors, Senators, and jurists with their own highly dramatised stories of the atrocities perpetrated by the Armed Forces of the Government of Sri Lanka against the poor Tamil civilians. They made it out that the Tamil Civilians are being chased by the government Armed forces into the territory into which the terrorists are trapped, and shoot at them.
David Miliband , Robert Blake along with the Norwegians are also carrying the banners of the Sri Lanka terrorists, along with the Tamil Diaspora, doing their best to give the terrorists a life line. We cannot understand Miliband becoming a vociferous militant fighting in favour of the Sri Lanka terrorists. He had been to America to meet the American Secretary of State Ms. Hillary Clinton, contacted the French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner all to defend the cause of the “terrorist” and seeking to save them from their definite end, by demanding a ceasefire.
We can understand Robert Blake and the Norwegians as they had always been on the side of the terrorists calling from the beginning a political solution to the problem in Sri Lanka, and predicting a likely failure of a military solution. They were in “wining and dining” terms with the terrorists. But Miliband seems to be playing for a few votes to assure his continued political power. But is that a reason for Miliband to support the cause of terrorism in Sri Lanka ?
They are not alone in defending terrorism in Sri Lanka, after the shameful display of terrorist support attempt of the UN High Commissioner Navanetham Pillay, quoting figures from terrorist website, to condemn the Government of Sri Lanka for violation of human rights, the UN has now come forward once again demanding another cease fire, as the last one according to it was not long enough for a rescue operation of the Tamil Civilians trapped along with the terrorists in the no-fire Zone.
These UN Officials seem to be absolutely without “grey matter” to call for an extended period of a cease fire as it was seen from the very start of the two day cease fire the terrorists did not budge an inch to respect it by at least releasing a few hundred Tamil civilians. But on the other hand the terrorists butchered a family in a village in the south, and killed a soldier by sniper fire. Neither the International Community nor Blake, Miliband, Pillay trio had made a statement condemning the terrorists for those acts. They “see” only the exaggerate false “visions” of atrocities of the Sri Lanka Armed forces created by the “magiciens” of the Tamil Diaspora, not the reality of the ruthlessness of the terrorists.
The 48 hour ceasefire was good for the “dumb” pro LTTE Western Governments, and some Western Media if they could make a real mental effort to understand that the terrorists are not reliable and cannot be trusted
It was all the fault of the governments of Sri Lanka from the beginning to have allowed the foreign Ambassadors in Sri Lanka to meet the terrorists, and have powwows with them,, and sending the NGOs for humanitarian work in the territories controlled by the terrorists. Having learnt a lesson from the past, at least now there should be a complete “ black out” of information on the military operations in the north until terrorists have been completely eliminated from Sri Lanka.
The fight against terrorism is a global effort , and any action on the part of any member states of the International Community to intervene now to ask the government to resort to pauses and cease fires to slow down the military operations of the Armed Forces of the government contravenes the principle of the global effort against terrorism. Therefore, such demands should go unheeded as the exigency of the situation requires laying aside diplomatic ethics.
We must inform of such intentions to “ black out “ information about the military operations to our friends China, Russia, Iran, and Japan , and request the International Community and the UN to keep out of the way.
The International Community, the UN and the “stupidest” of humanitarian activists the Human Rights Watch , would rather believe the terrorists than the Government of Sri Lanka and insists that the government is carrying on a genocide of the Tamil people, with IDPs being holed up in concentration camps, unable or not wanting to differentiate between the terrorists and the Tamil civilians.
Sri Lanka Armed Forces were not bombing the Hospitals or shooting into the people gathered into the no-fire Zone, but the Tamil Diaspora managed to “pay” their way into influential lobbies of the International Community , the media, State Departments, Foreign Ministries, ex USAmbassadors, Senators, and jurists with their own highly dramatised stories of the atrocities perpetrated by the Armed Forces of the Government of Sri Lanka against the poor Tamil civilians. They made it out that the Tamil Civilians are being chased by the government Armed forces into the territory into which the terrorists are trapped, and shoot at them.
David Miliband , Robert Blake along with the Norwegians are also carrying the banners of the Sri Lanka terrorists, along with the Tamil Diaspora, doing their best to give the terrorists a life line. We cannot understand Miliband becoming a vociferous militant fighting in favour of the Sri Lanka terrorists. He had been to America to meet the American Secretary of State Ms. Hillary Clinton, contacted the French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner all to defend the cause of the “terrorist” and seeking to save them from their definite end, by demanding a ceasefire.
We can understand Robert Blake and the Norwegians as they had always been on the side of the terrorists calling from the beginning a political solution to the problem in Sri Lanka, and predicting a likely failure of a military solution. They were in “wining and dining” terms with the terrorists. But Miliband seems to be playing for a few votes to assure his continued political power. But is that a reason for Miliband to support the cause of terrorism in Sri Lanka ?
They are not alone in defending terrorism in Sri Lanka, after the shameful display of terrorist support attempt of the UN High Commissioner Navanetham Pillay, quoting figures from terrorist website, to condemn the Government of Sri Lanka for violation of human rights, the UN has now come forward once again demanding another cease fire, as the last one according to it was not long enough for a rescue operation of the Tamil Civilians trapped along with the terrorists in the no-fire Zone.
These UN Officials seem to be absolutely without “grey matter” to call for an extended period of a cease fire as it was seen from the very start of the two day cease fire the terrorists did not budge an inch to respect it by at least releasing a few hundred Tamil civilians. But on the other hand the terrorists butchered a family in a village in the south, and killed a soldier by sniper fire. Neither the International Community nor Blake, Miliband, Pillay trio had made a statement condemning the terrorists for those acts. They “see” only the exaggerate false “visions” of atrocities of the Sri Lanka Armed forces created by the “magiciens” of the Tamil Diaspora, not the reality of the ruthlessness of the terrorists.
The 48 hour ceasefire was good for the “dumb” pro LTTE Western Governments, and some Western Media if they could make a real mental effort to understand that the terrorists are not reliable and cannot be trusted
It was all the fault of the governments of Sri Lanka from the beginning to have allowed the foreign Ambassadors in Sri Lanka to meet the terrorists, and have powwows with them,, and sending the NGOs for humanitarian work in the territories controlled by the terrorists. Having learnt a lesson from the past, at least now there should be a complete “ black out” of information on the military operations in the north until terrorists have been completely eliminated from Sri Lanka.
The fight against terrorism is a global effort , and any action on the part of any member states of the International Community to intervene now to ask the government to resort to pauses and cease fires to slow down the military operations of the Armed Forces of the government contravenes the principle of the global effort against terrorism. Therefore, such demands should go unheeded as the exigency of the situation requires laying aside diplomatic ethics.
We must inform of such intentions to “ black out “ information about the military operations to our friends China, Russia, Iran, and Japan , and request the International Community and the UN to keep out of the way.
Monday, 13 April 2009
Eradicating the LTTE is a must . A reply to Vickramabahu Karunaratne.
Vickramabahu Karunaratne is said to be an intelligent and highly qualified individual- a professor. But reading through his article “It will be nonsense to think of eradicating the LTTE”, appearing in the pro-terrorist website Transcurrent makes one think that qualifications after all are one, and intelligence another.
On the contrary to what he asserts, LTTE is definitely not a movement that has captured the hearts and minds of the ordinary Tamil people. This man has a Sinhala name, therefore it is possible as a Sinhala he is unable to understand or evaluate the hearts and minds of the Tamil People. The Tamil people as we know are not cruel and given to criminality. They are a peaceful people, kind, friendly, and helpful.
The terrorists are just the other side of the coin. The cruelty coming from them is impossible to understand. We are born with different accumulated Kamma, and Prabhakaran’s mind is saturated with the accumulated bad kamma from his past lives that has made a devil of him in this life capable of making hell on earth for himself and others.
It is said that such people are born periodically. We had Hitler. We have Omar Ben Laden, and Prabhakaran. They are capable of whipping up the interest on an idea such as nationalism or religion every body is sentimentally attached to in some way or other. They make this idea an object to achieve. It is not the idea or the object itself that is inacceptable, but it is the method used to achieve that object which is reprehensible. An idea is after all a thought, that arises and falls away in all minds. Therefore, eradicating Prabhakaran along with the LTTE he organised to achieve his object, would be to eradicate the method –the terrorism, he used to achieve that object.
That is why there were attempts at a negotiated settlement, and the setting up of an All Party Conference to find out ways and means for devolution of power to dissuade the “terrorist method” to achieve that object.
Vickramabahu twists his ideas to win the applause of some sections of the people, possibly the Tamil diaspora who invites him for world tours. Therefore, pleasing them is assuring himself vacations in Australia, London, Canada etc at the expense of the Tamil diaspora. We do not blame him for that, but he has a greater duty to the country to bring the Communities together rather than put them asunder. For that end he should learn to condemn what should be condemned, and accept what should be accepted.
The people of the Tamil Community, as those of any other community may have the desire for a separate Eelam State where they have only their own people, religion and culture. But that desire is not born out of their opposition to Sinhala repression. The Ordinary Tamil people may not wish to have a place of their own where there are only Tamils people, speaking the same language, worshipping the same gods and having the same ceremonies and rituals. That is an ideal State !
The world is a mixed place with different people, speaking different languages and having different belief systems. That is how each Nation State exists. In such a place we have to learn to live together without inventing barriers to separate one from another, but by building bridges to bring one to the other and create an atmosphere of harmony and acceptance, to bring unity in diversity.
It is for that reason the intellectuals, spiritual leaders, the politicians and the media have to step in. Vickramabahu does not fit into that role. He proposes any method without exception- even terrorism, to achieve the object of separation or self determination.
To give credence to his point of view Vickramabahu gives I think a wrong example. He says that the then UNP thought “finishing” JVP by eliminating thousands of JVP suspects with Wijeweera, but today the modern dissidents of Wijeweera run the government of Mahinda. Vickramabahu makes meaningless assertions to justify his arguments. He does not seem to see that with the elimination of the militants of JVP, the moderates who have taken up the “idea” of Wijeweera are today toeing the democratic path, despite their old metal still showing beneath their garbs.
Vickramabahu pathetically prods on referring to the ghost of Wijeweera, and claiming that Champika Ranawaka and Wimal Weerawansa , do not represent the JVP past or present. He has jumped off rails and deviated from the trend of his thoughts. He does not seem to have grasped that with the elimination of Wijeweera and his more militant followers, the “terrorist” element of JVP had been eliminated, and what remains is not the old JVP “ method”, but only the idea of the old JVP- the “Same old wine, but in new bottles”. Nevertheless, the JVP is now more generous and human, even though they missed a promising political future by wrong decisions.
That is exactly where we are coming to with regard to events in the present context. The elimination of LTTE may not eliminate the idea or the object, but it will certainly eliminate the method, the tactics adopted by Prabhakaran to achieve that object. It will replace “terrorism” with more acceptable dialogue in a more calm, and a democratic atmosphere, without guns and bombs, as it happened in the East.
It is wrong to say that the LTTE represent the anger of the Tamil people for discrimination, humiliation or oppression of Sinhala chauvinism. All that is in Vickramabhu’s “fertile” mind. Ask a Tamil person like Anandasangaree whether he has anger towards the Sinhala for their chauvinism. I am sure he has none.
Because Sinhala people may be accused for any thing but chauvinism. Sinhala people had always been most accommodating and conciliatory. They have no sense of superiority over others, and they are always ready to extend their hands of friendship. The Tamil people who have lived with and come to know the Sinhala will not accuse them as supremacists or chauvinists. The emotions of anger may arise through a sense of inferiority. Prabhakaran may have suffered from that sense of inferiority. Vickramabahu’s assertion that the terrorists are the representatives of the Tamil people is a wrong.
The Tamil people are intelligent and peace loving. The vast majority of the Tamils living in Sri Lanka are different from the Tamils of the diaspora, because the local Tamils do not harbour hatred towards the Sinhala. They have unlike the Tamils of the diaspora, forgotten the “July,1983”. They have their likes and dislikes, like every body else, but without the canker of hatred that the Tamil diaspora carries like a crown on their heads.
Vickramabahu says that, “ ..the dream of Mahinda to eliminate the LTTE and brutal repression will be void in the coming period”. But he does not want to accept that the President Mahinda Rajapakse’s determination to eliminate terrorism from Sri Lanka was not a dream, but a purposeful resolution which he put successfully into effect, and came out victorious. The elimination of LTTE will definitely be the elimination of terrorism.
It is the harmful ideas of megalomaniacs’ that transform into destructive hatred. It was the hatred of Hitler towards Jews, and his desire to create an Aryan race that resulted in the death of millions in the holocaust, the destruction of Poland and many cities in Europe. It was the religious fanatism of Bin Laden that caused the deaths and destructions in New York, and London.
It was the desire to create a mono-ethnic Tamil Homeland of Prabhakaran that brought deaths and destruction into Sri Lanka which lasted for the last 30 years. The end of Hitler was the end of the holocaust, the end of Bin Laden will bring reason into the minds of the religious fanatics, and the end of Prabhakaran will be the end of terrorism in Sri Lanka.
Vickramabahu still with a mind full of old Marxist theories has not awakened to the fact that the old Marxism has been rejected , and its principles remain to be applied in a different manner in keeping with modern human attitudes, and technological developments. He again misses his point when he says that, “.. the JVP was correct to an extent , and wrong to the hilt in hating Tamil Society for its demand for equality and self determination”. The JVP cannot said to be right and wrong at the same time. JVP has shed its robe of terrorism and donned the garb of democracy. JVP does not hate the Tamil Society. Vickramabahu is only misconstruing facts for his own benefit.
Vickramabahu who sees no political future in Sri Lanka, like a drowning man holding on to a reed to keep himself afloat, holds onto his old Marxist theories hoping some one to come to hoist him and acclaim him as a leader. The statements made by the IDPs seeking safety of the army, while running away from their terrorist guardians, and that made by a terrorist woman Arulmathy , who saw 75 of her companions exploding themselves with hand grenades, refusing to die herself surrendered to the Army, paint a different picture from what Vichramabahu is trying to paint.
Most of the younger LTTE worriers are fighting “blindly” like automated robots, without any faith in the leadership or the cause for which they fight. “Arulmathy watched aghast as 75 women she had fought beside for so many months reached for their hand grenades, pulled the pins and blew themselves to pieces, as they had been ordered to do.
But Arulmathy had had enough of the Tigers' war. She had no wish to die for a cause in which she no longer believed. As the grenades detonated, she slipped into a supply trench and ran for her life. In January, as the Sri Lankan army intensified its campaign against the dwindling rebel force, she surrendered.” This is for Vickramabahu with complements from Arulmathy.
Vickramabahu then deviates from the subject, to begin a discussion on demons, neo Brahmanism haunting India, Hindu self assertion, global capital, Nazism and Hitler, Freud and the rise of Dravidians. He finally comes to the conclusion that the sacrifice made by the Tamils to-day is for the victory against neo-Brahmanism. That decoction is too difficult for me to swallow.
But then he puts me at ease, “Of course I am just speculating “, he says. He explains that the Tamil consciousness in the world has expanded due to repressive war of the Mahinda regime. He blames all global powers and India for their participation in the human suffering.
Vickramabahu who accuses global powers and India for human suffering , does not blame LTTE (terrorists) for not surrendering to the Sinhala army of the chauvinist regime- as he says. And puts the blame on the government for the deaths of thousands due to errant shootings by the terrorists. But he does not want to tell the LTTE that the only way to avoid continued suffering, hardship and death to themselves and the innocent civilian population is by laying down arms and surrendering to the army.
What does it matter even if it is the Sinhala Army of a chauvinist regime, if death and suffering could be avoided by surrendering to it. But Vickramabahu does not see it that way, and contemptuously waves it aside. In doing so, he allows the innocent Tamil people held as a human shield by the terrorists to suffer, and he sits to shed crocodile tears about the suffering of the people.
Vickramabahu seems incapable of having any sympathetic feelings towards those who suffer, if these people accept his programme of the left under his leadership, and were to become his followers, it would certainly be for them, a falling from the frying pan into the fire.
On the contrary to what he asserts, LTTE is definitely not a movement that has captured the hearts and minds of the ordinary Tamil people. This man has a Sinhala name, therefore it is possible as a Sinhala he is unable to understand or evaluate the hearts and minds of the Tamil People. The Tamil people as we know are not cruel and given to criminality. They are a peaceful people, kind, friendly, and helpful.
The terrorists are just the other side of the coin. The cruelty coming from them is impossible to understand. We are born with different accumulated Kamma, and Prabhakaran’s mind is saturated with the accumulated bad kamma from his past lives that has made a devil of him in this life capable of making hell on earth for himself and others.
It is said that such people are born periodically. We had Hitler. We have Omar Ben Laden, and Prabhakaran. They are capable of whipping up the interest on an idea such as nationalism or religion every body is sentimentally attached to in some way or other. They make this idea an object to achieve. It is not the idea or the object itself that is inacceptable, but it is the method used to achieve that object which is reprehensible. An idea is after all a thought, that arises and falls away in all minds. Therefore, eradicating Prabhakaran along with the LTTE he organised to achieve his object, would be to eradicate the method –the terrorism, he used to achieve that object.
That is why there were attempts at a negotiated settlement, and the setting up of an All Party Conference to find out ways and means for devolution of power to dissuade the “terrorist method” to achieve that object.
Vickramabahu twists his ideas to win the applause of some sections of the people, possibly the Tamil diaspora who invites him for world tours. Therefore, pleasing them is assuring himself vacations in Australia, London, Canada etc at the expense of the Tamil diaspora. We do not blame him for that, but he has a greater duty to the country to bring the Communities together rather than put them asunder. For that end he should learn to condemn what should be condemned, and accept what should be accepted.
The people of the Tamil Community, as those of any other community may have the desire for a separate Eelam State where they have only their own people, religion and culture. But that desire is not born out of their opposition to Sinhala repression. The Ordinary Tamil people may not wish to have a place of their own where there are only Tamils people, speaking the same language, worshipping the same gods and having the same ceremonies and rituals. That is an ideal State !
The world is a mixed place with different people, speaking different languages and having different belief systems. That is how each Nation State exists. In such a place we have to learn to live together without inventing barriers to separate one from another, but by building bridges to bring one to the other and create an atmosphere of harmony and acceptance, to bring unity in diversity.
It is for that reason the intellectuals, spiritual leaders, the politicians and the media have to step in. Vickramabahu does not fit into that role. He proposes any method without exception- even terrorism, to achieve the object of separation or self determination.
To give credence to his point of view Vickramabahu gives I think a wrong example. He says that the then UNP thought “finishing” JVP by eliminating thousands of JVP suspects with Wijeweera, but today the modern dissidents of Wijeweera run the government of Mahinda. Vickramabahu makes meaningless assertions to justify his arguments. He does not seem to see that with the elimination of the militants of JVP, the moderates who have taken up the “idea” of Wijeweera are today toeing the democratic path, despite their old metal still showing beneath their garbs.
Vickramabahu pathetically prods on referring to the ghost of Wijeweera, and claiming that Champika Ranawaka and Wimal Weerawansa , do not represent the JVP past or present. He has jumped off rails and deviated from the trend of his thoughts. He does not seem to have grasped that with the elimination of Wijeweera and his more militant followers, the “terrorist” element of JVP had been eliminated, and what remains is not the old JVP “ method”, but only the idea of the old JVP- the “Same old wine, but in new bottles”. Nevertheless, the JVP is now more generous and human, even though they missed a promising political future by wrong decisions.
That is exactly where we are coming to with regard to events in the present context. The elimination of LTTE may not eliminate the idea or the object, but it will certainly eliminate the method, the tactics adopted by Prabhakaran to achieve that object. It will replace “terrorism” with more acceptable dialogue in a more calm, and a democratic atmosphere, without guns and bombs, as it happened in the East.
It is wrong to say that the LTTE represent the anger of the Tamil people for discrimination, humiliation or oppression of Sinhala chauvinism. All that is in Vickramabhu’s “fertile” mind. Ask a Tamil person like Anandasangaree whether he has anger towards the Sinhala for their chauvinism. I am sure he has none.
Because Sinhala people may be accused for any thing but chauvinism. Sinhala people had always been most accommodating and conciliatory. They have no sense of superiority over others, and they are always ready to extend their hands of friendship. The Tamil people who have lived with and come to know the Sinhala will not accuse them as supremacists or chauvinists. The emotions of anger may arise through a sense of inferiority. Prabhakaran may have suffered from that sense of inferiority. Vickramabahu’s assertion that the terrorists are the representatives of the Tamil people is a wrong.
The Tamil people are intelligent and peace loving. The vast majority of the Tamils living in Sri Lanka are different from the Tamils of the diaspora, because the local Tamils do not harbour hatred towards the Sinhala. They have unlike the Tamils of the diaspora, forgotten the “July,1983”. They have their likes and dislikes, like every body else, but without the canker of hatred that the Tamil diaspora carries like a crown on their heads.
Vickramabahu says that, “ ..the dream of Mahinda to eliminate the LTTE and brutal repression will be void in the coming period”. But he does not want to accept that the President Mahinda Rajapakse’s determination to eliminate terrorism from Sri Lanka was not a dream, but a purposeful resolution which he put successfully into effect, and came out victorious. The elimination of LTTE will definitely be the elimination of terrorism.
It is the harmful ideas of megalomaniacs’ that transform into destructive hatred. It was the hatred of Hitler towards Jews, and his desire to create an Aryan race that resulted in the death of millions in the holocaust, the destruction of Poland and many cities in Europe. It was the religious fanatism of Bin Laden that caused the deaths and destructions in New York, and London.
It was the desire to create a mono-ethnic Tamil Homeland of Prabhakaran that brought deaths and destruction into Sri Lanka which lasted for the last 30 years. The end of Hitler was the end of the holocaust, the end of Bin Laden will bring reason into the minds of the religious fanatics, and the end of Prabhakaran will be the end of terrorism in Sri Lanka.
Vickramabahu still with a mind full of old Marxist theories has not awakened to the fact that the old Marxism has been rejected , and its principles remain to be applied in a different manner in keeping with modern human attitudes, and technological developments. He again misses his point when he says that, “.. the JVP was correct to an extent , and wrong to the hilt in hating Tamil Society for its demand for equality and self determination”. The JVP cannot said to be right and wrong at the same time. JVP has shed its robe of terrorism and donned the garb of democracy. JVP does not hate the Tamil Society. Vickramabahu is only misconstruing facts for his own benefit.
Vickramabahu who sees no political future in Sri Lanka, like a drowning man holding on to a reed to keep himself afloat, holds onto his old Marxist theories hoping some one to come to hoist him and acclaim him as a leader. The statements made by the IDPs seeking safety of the army, while running away from their terrorist guardians, and that made by a terrorist woman Arulmathy , who saw 75 of her companions exploding themselves with hand grenades, refusing to die herself surrendered to the Army, paint a different picture from what Vichramabahu is trying to paint.
Most of the younger LTTE worriers are fighting “blindly” like automated robots, without any faith in the leadership or the cause for which they fight. “Arulmathy watched aghast as 75 women she had fought beside for so many months reached for their hand grenades, pulled the pins and blew themselves to pieces, as they had been ordered to do.
But Arulmathy had had enough of the Tigers' war. She had no wish to die for a cause in which she no longer believed. As the grenades detonated, she slipped into a supply trench and ran for her life. In January, as the Sri Lankan army intensified its campaign against the dwindling rebel force, she surrendered.” This is for Vickramabahu with complements from Arulmathy.
Vickramabahu then deviates from the subject, to begin a discussion on demons, neo Brahmanism haunting India, Hindu self assertion, global capital, Nazism and Hitler, Freud and the rise of Dravidians. He finally comes to the conclusion that the sacrifice made by the Tamils to-day is for the victory against neo-Brahmanism. That decoction is too difficult for me to swallow.
But then he puts me at ease, “Of course I am just speculating “, he says. He explains that the Tamil consciousness in the world has expanded due to repressive war of the Mahinda regime. He blames all global powers and India for their participation in the human suffering.
Vickramabahu who accuses global powers and India for human suffering , does not blame LTTE (terrorists) for not surrendering to the Sinhala army of the chauvinist regime- as he says. And puts the blame on the government for the deaths of thousands due to errant shootings by the terrorists. But he does not want to tell the LTTE that the only way to avoid continued suffering, hardship and death to themselves and the innocent civilian population is by laying down arms and surrendering to the army.
What does it matter even if it is the Sinhala Army of a chauvinist regime, if death and suffering could be avoided by surrendering to it. But Vickramabahu does not see it that way, and contemptuously waves it aside. In doing so, he allows the innocent Tamil people held as a human shield by the terrorists to suffer, and he sits to shed crocodile tears about the suffering of the people.
Vickramabahu seems incapable of having any sympathetic feelings towards those who suffer, if these people accept his programme of the left under his leadership, and were to become his followers, it would certainly be for them, a falling from the frying pan into the fire.
Saturday, 11 April 2009
Blake , Boucher, Adams and All those who ask for a Ceasefire now want terrorism to continue in Sri Lanka. Why ?
In the Parliament Square in London two Tamils from the diaspora, one of who had come to London as recently as three weeks ago, are lying under the shade of umbrellas showing the terrorist Prabhakaran’s dreamed Eelam.
They are surrounded by terrorist sympathisers, with the Officers of the UK Police Force standing apart hopelessly incapable of handling demonstrators hoisting the flag which is the symbol of terrorism of a group of terrorists banned in the United Kingdom. The two young men are fasting unto their death demanding the intervention of the International Community to call for a ceasefire in Sri Lanka.
Between the two fasting men is a portrait of Prabhakaran the terrorist leader. This is a clear indication that the Tamil Diaspora in London, and the fast unto death sponsored by them are a last minute attempt to save their terrorist leaders , rather than defend the Tamil Civilians who are being held by the terrorists as a human shield. By the way the Tamil Civilians are now being slowly and steadily saved by the Sri Lanka Armed Forces and brought into the Army controlled safe areas, and provided with accommodation, food and medicine.
While this circus of fast unto death continues in the Parliament Square in London , in a small stretch of land in Puthukkudiyiruppu, some thousand s of Tamil Civilians are being held at gunpoint by the LTTE terrorists. Their presence in the area, is for the terrorists the only means to save their skins in an inevitable death or capture by the armed forces, in the final count down on terrorism in Sri Lanka, which has lasted for the last thirty years.
Unlike for those fasting duo and their supporters, it is not a dry clean broad stretch of road, medieval buildings , warm clothes, tasty short eats and fruit juices and fascinating onlookers for the Sri Lanka Soldiers, who weather the tropical rains, go even without food and risk the artillery fire of the terrorists to rescue the Tamil Civilians forcefully kept in the small stretch of land by their terrorist guards, and bring them into safety, food, dry clothes and medicine in the areas controlled by the armed forces. The food and medicine sent to this area by the government are squandered by the terrorists for their own use.
The Sri Lanka Armed Forces have reached the area which had been declared a no-fire zone in which the terrorists are now confined . To liberate this area from the last “vestige” of terrorists in Sri Lanka, the Tamil Civilian population detained by the terrorists have to be rescued to avoid death and injury, if caught in cross fire. The Sri Lank Government forces contrary to the adverse publicity by the terrorist sympathisers, are kind and human with a high moral standard.
Their armed passage through Poonery, Killinotchi, Mulative to the Puthukkudiyiruppu no-fire Zone, had been a long tedious march without brutality, with respect to human life, and material . It was and continues to be motivated first by a humanitarian desire to rescue a mass of Tamil people that had been made to suffer under the jackboots of terrorism, and secondly by their determination not to allow their motherland to be divided and mutilated. What matters to the valiant Armed Forces is not where they have come to, but how they came to where they are now. Their fight was against the terrorists and not the Tamil people , and that was the principle on which they had taken arms against terrorists, what ever interpretation the pro-terrorists lobby in the diaspora or the Western Humanitarian Activists give.
The Sri Lanka Armed Forces since they started their military offensive against the terrorists after the Mavil Aru incident, have avoided death and injury to the Tamil Civilian population. The Soldiers shed their uniforms when they captured the Madhu Church from the terrorists, and donned the garbs of manual workers to repair the damages caused to the Church by the terrorist. They even built roads and bridges. They made it possible after twenty long years for the trains to run from Colombo to Vavunia and from their to Jaffna. They made it possible for goods to be transported from Colombo to Jaffna and back on convoys of lorries. They changed the lives of the Tamil Civilians in the North, and the East.
It is NOT now that our great Sri Lanka Security Force, which has sacrificed large numbers of its Officers and Soldiers, and went through untold misery in the capture of the villages and towns under terrorist control, will resort to harming the Tamil Civilian population , when they have only a few square kilo meters of land to capture and end terrorism for good. If the International Community cannot understand that, they are “stupid” or they are determined to make the Government of Sri Lank fail in their attempt to end terrorism.
The Sri Lanka Armed Forces who are now within reach of the entrapped Tamil Civilian population in the zone which was declared a no fire Zone, determined to rescue the Tamil Civil population have opened several escape routes from the no-fire zone into the Army held areas. They have set up public address systems to request the Tamil Civilians held by the terrorists to come into the escape routes manned by the soldiers, to be taken into safe areas.
As result the Tamil civilians have decided to take the risk of being fired at by the terrorists and taken the escape routes to freedom from their captives. They are now coming in large numbers and received by the Sri Lankan Soldiers, and conducted into the Camps of IDPs.
Now about the Camps of the IDPs, the personal publicity seeking Brad Adams, Charulata Hogg, Anna Neistat and other activists of the Human Rights Watch, have begun to call the camps of IDPs’ concentration camps ( which by the way is a profanation of the memory of Jews and others who died in the Concentration camps of Hitler, in Gas Chambers, and in laboratories where Dr. Joseph Mengele “ the Angel of Death”, made medical experiment with live patients ).
They have “peanut” brains and cannot understand the tremendous impact of thousands of people that had been kept under gun point by brutal terrorists for years escaping in to areas controlled by the Armed Forces, seeking assistance, security and protection.
The IDPs have to be accommodated, provide food, clothing and medicine. The army has to sort out among them individuals who are terrorists, or terrorists with suicide bombs. Terrorism and terrorists are different from rebels or freedom fighters. Terrorists have no respect to life , be it that of men, women children, babies or pregnant women. The Army has to be vigilant if not all the victories against terrorism will be lost, and terrorism will come back with all its force. There are already more than 65 000 refugees in these camps.
The government cannot immediately provide individual homes to every ID family. The Sri Lanka government and its Army is doing a job that no government in the world has faced up to date.
The International Community and the humanitarian activists have no idea of the difficulties that the government and its Armed Forces are faced with. They have not only to fight the terrorists to their utter end, but also look after the interest of the refugees, their welfare as well as their security. Above all the Government and the Armed Forces have to bear the incessant criticism without any help by the International Community and their Agents, calling for a cease fire, and a pause. The Armed forces are not fighting against saintly angels, but crude ruthless terrorists.
Brad Adams is talking through his hat when he says that, “ Sri Lanka's so-called ‘no-fire zone' is now one of the most dangerous places in the world.” The intelligent readers should not let themselves be fooled by the false propaganda that is fed to them by the Human Rights Watch writing articles in favour of their favourite Sri Lanka terrorists. The Sri Lanka Government Forces have not and will not fire into the war Zone. The article , “Sri Lanka :Stop Shelling “No-Fire Zone” “, in the Human Rights Watch website comes out of their prejudiced minds without any verifiable fact.
One begins to wonder why this haste and desire on the part of Brad Adams to appeal for UN Security Council to act against the Government of Sri Lanka, when it is on the verge of terminating its military operations against the terrorists putting a final end to terrorism in Sri Lanka.
Any one who objectively follows the military operations of the Sri Lanka Armed Forces against terrorists, would have noticed that the government Forces had avoided death and injury to the Tamil Civilians through out its fight against terrorism during the last two years. The Human Rights Watch is depending on hearsay evidence to make accusations against the Government of Sri Lanka.
These false accusation of the Human Rights Watch against the Government Forces firing into the no fire Zone, and invoking the UN Security Council to intervene is by itself a denial of the human rights of a government to protect its people and territory without being interfered into by a third party, whose interests is to allow continued terrorism in Sri Lanka, which would keep them employed for good number of years to come. Brad Adams and the rest are seeking to feather their own nests, while pretending to show their human kindness for the suffering of the innocent people.
The Sri Lanka Army is by any standard one of the best, if not the best Armed Force in the world. In addition to its proven skill as a fighting force, it is experienced in fighting under all situation, and all conditions. They are well disciplined combatants. They need the applause of the world, not its criticism.
The International Community minimises the military operational victories of our armed forces against a group of ruthless terrorists- who had acquired most modern equipment and perhaps trained by foreign military personal. This failure of appreciation of the Sri Lankan Armed Forces by the International Community shows that it rather expected the Government and its Armed Forces to fail in its military solution against terrorism.
Blake and Boucher who now propose a political solution favourable to the minority community is in fact suggesting a means to divide Sri Lanka rather than help to Unite the Communities for an undivided Sri Lanka. This is an attempt on their part to divide Sri Lanka, which the terrorists failed to do.
The political solution after terrorism is some thing they should leave for the people of Sri Lanka to decide, as it is not for the International Community or the Tamil Diaspora to decide.
The proposal of Blake and Boutcher is quite opposed to President Barrack Obama’s foreign policy. Blake had been from the beginning favourable to the terrorists, and continued through out the military operations against the terrorists, offensively to remind the government to find a political solution to the problem. The political solution Blake thought would be a division of Sri Lanka between the Government and the terrorists. Because the terrorists accepted no solution other than the establishment of a separate Eelam State.
To Blake, Boucher and Adams , the terrorists of Sri Lanka are different from the terrorists they have in mind such as the Al Quaida, and the Talibans. They cannot speak, crack jokes and wine and dine with the Al Qaida terrorists or the Taliban terrorists, whereas the terrorists of Sri Lanka are their chums, with who they may have wined and dined, cracked jokes and laughed together. Therefore, they would like to perpetrate the cult of terrorism in Sri Lanka which is beneficial to them socially, and politically in the long run.
It is far easier to criticise than actually do, what the Sri Lanka Government and its Armed Forces are doing.
They are surrounded by terrorist sympathisers, with the Officers of the UK Police Force standing apart hopelessly incapable of handling demonstrators hoisting the flag which is the symbol of terrorism of a group of terrorists banned in the United Kingdom. The two young men are fasting unto their death demanding the intervention of the International Community to call for a ceasefire in Sri Lanka.
Between the two fasting men is a portrait of Prabhakaran the terrorist leader. This is a clear indication that the Tamil Diaspora in London, and the fast unto death sponsored by them are a last minute attempt to save their terrorist leaders , rather than defend the Tamil Civilians who are being held by the terrorists as a human shield. By the way the Tamil Civilians are now being slowly and steadily saved by the Sri Lanka Armed Forces and brought into the Army controlled safe areas, and provided with accommodation, food and medicine.
While this circus of fast unto death continues in the Parliament Square in London , in a small stretch of land in Puthukkudiyiruppu, some thousand s of Tamil Civilians are being held at gunpoint by the LTTE terrorists. Their presence in the area, is for the terrorists the only means to save their skins in an inevitable death or capture by the armed forces, in the final count down on terrorism in Sri Lanka, which has lasted for the last thirty years.
Unlike for those fasting duo and their supporters, it is not a dry clean broad stretch of road, medieval buildings , warm clothes, tasty short eats and fruit juices and fascinating onlookers for the Sri Lanka Soldiers, who weather the tropical rains, go even without food and risk the artillery fire of the terrorists to rescue the Tamil Civilians forcefully kept in the small stretch of land by their terrorist guards, and bring them into safety, food, dry clothes and medicine in the areas controlled by the armed forces. The food and medicine sent to this area by the government are squandered by the terrorists for their own use.
The Sri Lanka Armed Forces have reached the area which had been declared a no-fire zone in which the terrorists are now confined . To liberate this area from the last “vestige” of terrorists in Sri Lanka, the Tamil Civilian population detained by the terrorists have to be rescued to avoid death and injury, if caught in cross fire. The Sri Lank Government forces contrary to the adverse publicity by the terrorist sympathisers, are kind and human with a high moral standard.
Their armed passage through Poonery, Killinotchi, Mulative to the Puthukkudiyiruppu no-fire Zone, had been a long tedious march without brutality, with respect to human life, and material . It was and continues to be motivated first by a humanitarian desire to rescue a mass of Tamil people that had been made to suffer under the jackboots of terrorism, and secondly by their determination not to allow their motherland to be divided and mutilated. What matters to the valiant Armed Forces is not where they have come to, but how they came to where they are now. Their fight was against the terrorists and not the Tamil people , and that was the principle on which they had taken arms against terrorists, what ever interpretation the pro-terrorists lobby in the diaspora or the Western Humanitarian Activists give.
The Sri Lanka Armed Forces since they started their military offensive against the terrorists after the Mavil Aru incident, have avoided death and injury to the Tamil Civilian population. The Soldiers shed their uniforms when they captured the Madhu Church from the terrorists, and donned the garbs of manual workers to repair the damages caused to the Church by the terrorist. They even built roads and bridges. They made it possible after twenty long years for the trains to run from Colombo to Vavunia and from their to Jaffna. They made it possible for goods to be transported from Colombo to Jaffna and back on convoys of lorries. They changed the lives of the Tamil Civilians in the North, and the East.
It is NOT now that our great Sri Lanka Security Force, which has sacrificed large numbers of its Officers and Soldiers, and went through untold misery in the capture of the villages and towns under terrorist control, will resort to harming the Tamil Civilian population , when they have only a few square kilo meters of land to capture and end terrorism for good. If the International Community cannot understand that, they are “stupid” or they are determined to make the Government of Sri Lank fail in their attempt to end terrorism.
The Sri Lanka Armed Forces who are now within reach of the entrapped Tamil Civilian population in the zone which was declared a no fire Zone, determined to rescue the Tamil Civil population have opened several escape routes from the no-fire zone into the Army held areas. They have set up public address systems to request the Tamil Civilians held by the terrorists to come into the escape routes manned by the soldiers, to be taken into safe areas.
As result the Tamil civilians have decided to take the risk of being fired at by the terrorists and taken the escape routes to freedom from their captives. They are now coming in large numbers and received by the Sri Lankan Soldiers, and conducted into the Camps of IDPs.
Now about the Camps of the IDPs, the personal publicity seeking Brad Adams, Charulata Hogg, Anna Neistat and other activists of the Human Rights Watch, have begun to call the camps of IDPs’ concentration camps ( which by the way is a profanation of the memory of Jews and others who died in the Concentration camps of Hitler, in Gas Chambers, and in laboratories where Dr. Joseph Mengele “ the Angel of Death”, made medical experiment with live patients ).
They have “peanut” brains and cannot understand the tremendous impact of thousands of people that had been kept under gun point by brutal terrorists for years escaping in to areas controlled by the Armed Forces, seeking assistance, security and protection.
The IDPs have to be accommodated, provide food, clothing and medicine. The army has to sort out among them individuals who are terrorists, or terrorists with suicide bombs. Terrorism and terrorists are different from rebels or freedom fighters. Terrorists have no respect to life , be it that of men, women children, babies or pregnant women. The Army has to be vigilant if not all the victories against terrorism will be lost, and terrorism will come back with all its force. There are already more than 65 000 refugees in these camps.
The government cannot immediately provide individual homes to every ID family. The Sri Lanka government and its Army is doing a job that no government in the world has faced up to date.
The International Community and the humanitarian activists have no idea of the difficulties that the government and its Armed Forces are faced with. They have not only to fight the terrorists to their utter end, but also look after the interest of the refugees, their welfare as well as their security. Above all the Government and the Armed Forces have to bear the incessant criticism without any help by the International Community and their Agents, calling for a cease fire, and a pause. The Armed forces are not fighting against saintly angels, but crude ruthless terrorists.
Brad Adams is talking through his hat when he says that, “ Sri Lanka's so-called ‘no-fire zone' is now one of the most dangerous places in the world.” The intelligent readers should not let themselves be fooled by the false propaganda that is fed to them by the Human Rights Watch writing articles in favour of their favourite Sri Lanka terrorists. The Sri Lanka Government Forces have not and will not fire into the war Zone. The article , “Sri Lanka :Stop Shelling “No-Fire Zone” “, in the Human Rights Watch website comes out of their prejudiced minds without any verifiable fact.
One begins to wonder why this haste and desire on the part of Brad Adams to appeal for UN Security Council to act against the Government of Sri Lanka, when it is on the verge of terminating its military operations against the terrorists putting a final end to terrorism in Sri Lanka.
Any one who objectively follows the military operations of the Sri Lanka Armed Forces against terrorists, would have noticed that the government Forces had avoided death and injury to the Tamil Civilians through out its fight against terrorism during the last two years. The Human Rights Watch is depending on hearsay evidence to make accusations against the Government of Sri Lanka.
These false accusation of the Human Rights Watch against the Government Forces firing into the no fire Zone, and invoking the UN Security Council to intervene is by itself a denial of the human rights of a government to protect its people and territory without being interfered into by a third party, whose interests is to allow continued terrorism in Sri Lanka, which would keep them employed for good number of years to come. Brad Adams and the rest are seeking to feather their own nests, while pretending to show their human kindness for the suffering of the innocent people.
The Sri Lanka Army is by any standard one of the best, if not the best Armed Force in the world. In addition to its proven skill as a fighting force, it is experienced in fighting under all situation, and all conditions. They are well disciplined combatants. They need the applause of the world, not its criticism.
The International Community minimises the military operational victories of our armed forces against a group of ruthless terrorists- who had acquired most modern equipment and perhaps trained by foreign military personal. This failure of appreciation of the Sri Lankan Armed Forces by the International Community shows that it rather expected the Government and its Armed Forces to fail in its military solution against terrorism.
Blake and Boucher who now propose a political solution favourable to the minority community is in fact suggesting a means to divide Sri Lanka rather than help to Unite the Communities for an undivided Sri Lanka. This is an attempt on their part to divide Sri Lanka, which the terrorists failed to do.
The political solution after terrorism is some thing they should leave for the people of Sri Lanka to decide, as it is not for the International Community or the Tamil Diaspora to decide.
The proposal of Blake and Boutcher is quite opposed to President Barrack Obama’s foreign policy. Blake had been from the beginning favourable to the terrorists, and continued through out the military operations against the terrorists, offensively to remind the government to find a political solution to the problem. The political solution Blake thought would be a division of Sri Lanka between the Government and the terrorists. Because the terrorists accepted no solution other than the establishment of a separate Eelam State.
To Blake, Boucher and Adams , the terrorists of Sri Lanka are different from the terrorists they have in mind such as the Al Quaida, and the Talibans. They cannot speak, crack jokes and wine and dine with the Al Qaida terrorists or the Taliban terrorists, whereas the terrorists of Sri Lanka are their chums, with who they may have wined and dined, cracked jokes and laughed together. Therefore, they would like to perpetrate the cult of terrorism in Sri Lanka which is beneficial to them socially, and politically in the long run.
It is far easier to criticise than actually do, what the Sri Lanka Government and its Armed Forces are doing.
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