Thank you writer. I am Jaffna (sri lanka) born tamil. Been living in Australia for the last 15 years. I was in the civil war over there for the first 15 years of my life. War is not a nice thing to be in. I know the feeling. When the fighter jets bombing, ships from the ocean bombing and the army on the land bombing, what do you do? I have lost 2 of my cousins, 2 uncles killed by the Sri Lankan army. I can tell you right now they were innocent as you and me. One of my cousin who came from SL to Aust a year ago, brought a grade 3 school photo of me and him in the same class at a school in Jaffna (sri lanka). We looked through the picture and i asked my cousin ‘i remember this guy, i remember this guy’ cousin’s answers were ‘he is dead, he is dead. Finally, i found out that out of 30 boys on the picture 20 of them are dead, we know 2 of them are here in Aust and he didnt know where the other 8 of them are. Thanks to the SL army.

Well, all said about the ongoing genocide in Sri Lanka, can anyone judge how many of our fellow tamilians in so called tamilnadu are aware of present situations. How many of them are really interested to know about or else slight eagerness for that information. The so called national media is not ready to give any hindsight on this issue as no foriegn media is allowed in the war zone. Even international human rights commision is not allowed. Everyday what is being reported in the media is the case of EELAM fighters being killed and the advancement of army troops. I really doubt whether the media is wantedly avoiding to disclose information on the civilian causualties. i have been closely watching the national media reports, so less information is being given on the civilian deaths and causualties. So far the count of deaths have crossed more than 4000 in the past three months and equal number of casualties, no national media in INDIA reported on the deaths of civilians. All is being reported is only deaths of LTTE. How come tamil diaspora around the world are staging demonstrations, hunger strikes where IT tamilians are still unaware except a few. “I would say the national media is bribed”

Satwa,
the IPKF also subjected Tamils to extreme atrocities including RAPE!!! The IPKF raped Tamil girls.

They IPKF killed more than 6000 Tamils. (you’ll find some of these crimes documented on http://www.tamilnation.org

That’s very true about the attitude/view of Tamil Nadu Tamils that North Indians have. I say this from some personal experiences of mine and my friends.

The ‘Hindustani’s (North Indians) think they are a Superior race, that they are better. One main reason is because of the colour of their skin. They are from a different race (Aryan) anyway. They think of Tamils as uncivilized, dirty, not ‘fashionable’ (not trendy like them), loud, uneducated, etc.

Its a great loss to the third world with the assasination of the then prime minister. Did you ever question why it did happened.
http://www.rediff.com/news/2000/mar/23lanka.htm. please go through this.

It’s true that some North Indians have a severe inferiority complex – they don’t realise that they are the descendants of an unbelievably “mongrelised” people, an incomprehensible mix of Indo-Aryans, Indo-Iranians, native tribes of the north, Parthians, Scythians, Gandharans, Persians, Arabs, Afghans, Muslim tribes, Turks and other invading tribes from the west of the Hindukush mountains. That’s because North and West India (including Pakistan) was always subjected to raids, plunders, invasions, occupations and attacks by invading hordes and tribes of every kind, resulting in such a population. Therefore people with such an inferiority complex (not all north Indians) try and try hard to believe that they are “whites”. That is until they go to the West and find out that they are referred to as “muds”, “pakis” and “curry people” and are seen as loud, uncultured, smelly and uncivilised by the racist types in the West. That is when they get the shock of their lives when they learn the truth about themselves.

It’s quite amusing to read the utter ignorance of the average north Indian character in that book about Tamils being “negroes” and thinking of themselves as “aryans”.

In any case, this does not explain the lack of concern about Lankan Tamils among non-Tamil South Indians and non-ignorant, non-racist North Indians. The main reason is the sheer sewer journalism that the Indian “mainstream media” indulges in. What is shocking and disgusting about the entire genocide is that only a handful of non-Tamil Indians like Arundhati Roy, L.K.Advani have spoken out against the genocide of civilians. It just goes to show that Indians live in a typical Third-World pseudo-democracy that has to go a long way before it can even call itself democratic.

@Nithyananthan

Your conviction and belief need not have any relationship with the truth and the perception of the larger part of india.

You prove to be a moron as brahmins are no more a force in todays politics whether it is central [ sonia is a christian ] or state [ mk is a non brahmin ] .

I think you have no idea about history. It was the elam tamil who sought the indian intervention which brought rajeev gandhi on a good will trip to tamil elam / sl

I think you had not read the confession of the political face of ltte and the quick withdrawal of the same “Killing of rajeev gandhi was a mistake”

For every fun you will have to pay the price and the penalty. Both are paid with interest by LTTE / SL tamil. Precisely the crying woman [ sonia curse ] has taken the LTTE to dogs from being the ruler of half of srilanka. That is the final proof that god gives the punishment proabably late.

@jaiganehs

Pleaes read the part two heading : ” ON TO PART 2 Don’t worry about the LTTE, they are our boys, they will not fight us”

Great reward was given by LTTE then in collaboration with the then president of SL, returned with thanks by india through the same president of SL.

* LTTE held hostage about 100,000 Tamils at gun point and use as a human shield, when try to flee, they cut their legs if captured, or indiscriminately shoot at them

* SLArmy rescued 35,000 hostages and you know that LTTE even used Artillery to stop the Tamils fleeing from LTTE grip.

* The Sri Lankan Government made “Pillayan” former terrorist (A Tamil)whom later came to mainstream politics as the Chief Minister of the Eastern Province, and Karuna as a Minister in Sri Lankan Government.

* LTTE killed one of the most bright Tamils in Sri Lanka Hon. Lakshman Kadiragamar whom had most possibiliti to become the Prime Minister in Mahinda Rajapaksha Government.

* LTTE even Killed Jeyaraj Fernandopulley another prominent Tamil whom had the confidence of Sinhalese and Tamils as well.

So it is clear that LTTE will never allow a Tamil to come to a prominent place in Sri Lankan governance, because they only believe in guns, Bombs, and Suiciders.

LTTE brought nothing but, Destruction, Misery and Pain to Tamil people except for few diaspora people who depend on the war to continue their refugee status.

US, EU, UK wants to continue this war, because they want to destabilize the region as much as possible, and thus influence India’s Super Power Status and get the diaspora votes in their constituencies.

>>That is the reason nobody is bothered in tamil nadu or any part with regard to what is happening in sl – satwa gunam

Yes Sir, 10 people immolated themselves to celebrate the killings of Tamils. Media only has reported wrongly.

Please tell us more respected satwa gunam sir…

@Nithyananthan

Proved to be a perveted tamilian. You cannot expect better than that from the ungratefull bunch of ltte B. Correct india / tamil nadu is minding its business for LTTE to handle itself. Neither tamilian but for maximum of 100 guys are screaming in the road for a population of 4 crore people is bother about neither SL nor LTTE.

Erstwhile friend premdasa is waiting to receive their one time friends in the other world.

@Shotgun Murugan

1986 the whole tamil nadu was down from three months due to protest by all on the road. Truth of the matter is that after rajeev killing and the pompous nature of LTTE once they became powerful and no regard from tamil politicains, people started moving away.

Do u think 10 people dying has an impact on tamil nadu, you are fooling urself, in this democracy so many farmer die and nothing happens and the state moves with the politicans.

At this juncture jaya and his croneis including mdmk wants to come to power [ mdmk has taken four seats thrown by jaya ]

MK wants the dmk to be converted to a private limited company. Hence LTTE is not in the agenda.

Waste of timing pinging the tamil nadu server.

As srilankan tamil who live in Australia. I know what most srilankans think of North Indians – Taxi drivers, 10 of them live in a 2 bedroom unit or flat, dont know how to talk to people and curry shops. The south indians are more educated than the north. The rate is 1 in 14 have a dgree in south india compare to 1 in 37 in the north. The south indians per family per child rate is lesser than Australia and/or USA. Child per family in Aust is 1.44 compare to the south indian 1.30. North Indian 4.33. Pakistan 5.7 and Afganistan 7. I think this alone shows who is more educated. One in 3 sri lankan who live in Australia have a dgree as well. For more information http://www.senses.com or au.

satwa gunam is a fag.

Let me refer to the last two lines in the above Mr.Satwa Gunam’s response to Mr. Jai Ganesh. Here I am tempted to say something to open a different angle of telescopic view in order to enable the average people to contemplate on the puzzle and connect the dots from all levels and corners; but something in mind stops me to proceed further, I’ll open it at an appropriate time and venue / forum.

Its a shame we regualarly discuss in circles on who is right and wrong and ultimately forget the issue. The issue is not about LTTE – it is about human beings, dying horrible deaths in SriLanka. The only solution is a UN conducting a plebiscite to decide the future of Tamils.

Funny right, India founded by peace lovers like Gandhi, Nehru blah blah, is supplying arms to SriLanka to kill our own race – Tamil! Jai Hind!

Hi

Wake up. No country in the world wants to encourage these type of hipshooting so called freedom fighters.

If sl tamil refugees make too much noise they will also received the descimination which is being given to muslim in westeran world. If the violance in other part of the world continues inthename of protest, they will become dog of the dobi, neither house or nor the refugee country.

Offfcourse all of them can protest contiuuosly and all the politiicans of the world will be ready to offer ocnsolation consolation consolation ……

Because of hte behaviour of LTTE no government is in link with them to present their case in the wrold forum. Urudam pakaipin veradum kedam. Best example is ltte.

Defeat of LTTE is the victory of Freedom, provided if people think and takes the result of the LLTE defeat in a right way and implement that correctly.

LTTE is marked as a terrorist and also it is labeled as a representative of Sri Lankan Tamils.
With the above 2 points, it’s not easy to win the freedom struggle against Sri Lankan Govt.

Result of this war:
1. The whole world started knowing the ground problem in Sri Lanka.
2. The negative side of Sri Lankan govt is healed to the international community and media.
3. Tamils got their world sympathy.
4. LTTE terrorist group is no more.
5. International media and sources will be keenly looking on how Sri Lankan’s govt is going forward to settle the Tamils and their problems in Sri Lanka. I am sure that time international community and media will regret sincerely.

Keeping all these in mind and some more which I can not think of, If people continue their freedom struggle, I am sure world will listen and Tamil Eelam will be formed. Second attempt for freedom struggle will not be looked as a terrorist group (LTTE group) and will be purely looked as a people freedom struggle.

Note:
Please don’t focus on India and TN (These both are fit for nothing, I am a Indian and Tamilan)

I agree that the LTTE is marked as a terrorist organization. Perhaps most of you are aware that “Poor man’s war is terrorism and rich man’s terror is war”.
All the rallys, all the protests, self-immolations, etc., fell in deaf ears of the so called “International Community”. So, it does not really matter what the world think now because according to British, “George Washington” (father/founder of America), was listed as a terrorist himself. Now, this same pathetic world is worshiping the United States and fearful of it. Just, imagine the outcome of the second world war without the United States saving these useless Europeans?
Well coming to the point… I sincerely think that the Rajiv’s case be put in rest. There were so many unsolved mysteries and some speculated high-profiles involvments including that of Subramanya Swammy. No one knows for SURE, the LTTE was responsbile for this. What puzzle me is that when a member of the Singh community assasinated the most beloved prime minister of india, Indra Gandhi, the ruling party has rewarded the Singh community with a Prime Minster post. Whereas, Rajiv was responsible for the thousands of the innocent Tamil civilians death in eezham. Punishing the whole Tamil community for the “suspected involvement” of the LTTE in Rajiv’s assasination is simply unjustice; not just to the Tamils in Eezham but also to the Tamils in TN.
How many voices has been raised in TN? How many heroe’s self-immolated themselves? What sort of answers the central government gave so far?
Can you see the pattern? Can you see the Tamils lives are worthless here?

Prem

I agree. TN and India no use to Ealem Tamils. India is against Ealem Tamils and supports Sinhala regime. India is a party aiding genocide.

Ealem Tamils should conduct freedom struggle without depending on TN and India.

A similar hot debate is in progress in vaadvivaad.com. Voice your opinion now – http://www.vaadvivaad.com/arg.php?id=71 and show your support for our fellow tamilians in agony.

@ satwa gunam, you have a gay name……….Tamil Tigers will rule again.

Dear Thev,

Your Point is…

“When They did wrong, you accepted and rewarded. If we do the same why you see us as a terrorist?”

Here “They” is Aryan and “WE” is Dravidian (Paticularly Tamil) and “You” is the one to whom your raising your voice none other than (Aryan).

“Kakaiku thaun kunju pon kunju”

Basically Aryans are compartevily more united people than Dravidians (Paticularly Tamil).

This is my point of view on your comment’s

Correct me if anything is wrong…

Premkumar:
I agree with you on that. They are very united especially when cornering the other communities. It is the curse upon us that we are not very united as “they are” because they use the tactics left the by British (aka Brutish) to divide-and-conquer the Dravidans. For that they use various tactics …

@bobby

History repeats itslef when they donot learn lesson from it. Following situaiton has changed :

India is not going to support whether it is bjp / congress
Tamil politicians are interested in getting their offsprings to power and they dnot have any concern for sl
after 9/11, even the liberal countries are strict. Canada has thrown out all the support for tmailian.

Offcourse nothing is stopping in having a day dream. Go Ahead

@bobby

LTTE is bunch of morons. They have been cornered and screwed. Did you see the latest ndtv picture showing the world how lette is getting support from peopel [ They are held hostages ]. Latest weapon in the armour of india, satellite which can picture everything

So nothing is going to get support for ltte. Offcoure for diplomacy all will lend lip service for ltte.

To the originator and to all Tamils, Karnan was wrong to stay in with Gauravas, he should have given up his kingdom and left to jangle for good but he couldn’t give up the kingdom, he was selfish. He could not stand on the right side of the history what is the use of his knowledge, skills and welfare? Finally he did not fight honestly for Gauravas.

The author describe the relation between Tamils in Tamil Nadu and India son and mother, when your mother not treat you like a son, is there any obligation for son to treat the mother in a way it should be?

Tamil Nadu contribution is the 3rd/4th largest to Indian economy but you still have been treated worst than a step son by your mother. Your opinion has no value in the union, is this justice?

Wake up before you loss everything you have, act before it is too late. Mother and son relation is not one way relation it has to be both way.

Sasi!

Please leave / ignore him aside.
You can not straighten a straying dog’s tail.
Good breed of German Sheperd’s is somewhat acceptable – not curled. This gentleman (?) doesn’t want to understand.

Satwa gunam:
Let the world tighten the screw on LTTE. Meanwhile, you go ahead and tighten your own screws in your head. There seems to be so many loose screws in your pre-programmed head.
Tell us one thing; how is it possible for the 500 LTTE cadres to hold more than 200,000 civilians hostages? Do you realize how pathetic that argument is? Fortunately for you, the Sinhala educated elites can believe this “logical” argument of yours. Sorry, we are not that smart enough to understand that logic.

So, you saw the “human shield” of LTTE via satellite right? You were able to see from the satellite images that they (LTTE) are guarding or holding these civilians as human shields? Can you provide us with that link?

Have you seen some letters written by the “hostages” in Sri Lankan concentration camp run by the ruthless Sinhala regime and the bootlicking Karuna’s cadres? Well, if not read those and see what they are saying. They said they made a grave mistake by moving from the LTTE controlled areas into those S**T H**E camps. At gun point, you can make them say anything but when they write letters, they are expressing their true emotions and realities.

Here is the link for you if you like:
http://www.yarl.com/forum3/index.php?showtopic=56696

BTW, are you getting your paychecks on-time from the terrorist government of sori lanka for your relentless work?

@Thev

Please people are not kept in the sea shore for protection. They were bundled like cattles which are herded for sacrifice.

You are talking as though you are standing in the spot of action to defend. why is that the propoganda savy ltte keeping its mouth and as shut.

For bobby and thev, it is not time to pray for satwagunam. He is rocking and he is not a fool to blindly follow a sadist. Pls pray before that for the ltte / prabhakaran. Probably he will face the same fate of saddam hussain. There is a similarity both tried teach the guru and guru told them back “what you know is what i taught”. For saddam it was usa and for prabhakaran it is india.

I think u get your pay check from the LTTE drug mafias. I donot require the same.

@Kalanithy

I love my mom & brother – our love is unconditional to both the relations (India and Tamil Eelam); Current generation Indian Tamils and Tamils Diaspora will make balanced act to realize Tamil Eealm with the support of India and World.

However Eelam Tamils should believe in their own strengths (It includes all Tamil speaking people in SL).

We have confidence in Eelam Diaspora that will put up a strong case in western world. Formation of Eelam is inevitable. One should not forget that Israel was formed after 2000 years. Indian freedom struggle took more than 100 years. It had both components – Armed and non-violent.

Mr. Martin Luther King Jr – Dream is walk side by side – Blacks & Whites.
Mr. Jessie Jackson – Dream is to become President of USA (He stood in the election but lost in the primary)
Mr. Barack Obama – Called blacks and whites to “walk tall” by elect him as President of USA. He has succeeded in not only his dream, his predecessors dreams also.

bobby says:

SATWA GUNAM
Hi everyone, i just found out through a internal channel that SATWA GUNAM is crazy (not normal in his head) pls forgive him for his nasty thoughts. pray for him pls

Thank you brother Nithyananthan!

Great day dream. Have it.

Tamil film industry worths 12000 crore INR out of which 4000 Crores belong to LTTE and their aides here. that money is enough to rebuild the tamil areas in Srilanka.

Definitely i feel for the Tamil people there, not for the oppurtunistic, sadistic, terrorist LTTE.

Ethically worst person is Prabakaran, whose 1st wife died, he took Mathivathani away from a college protest even though she was married to another person and made her his.

LTTE will be eradicated, in just another 1 or 2 days. Soora Samharamm will happen, Demon Prabakaran will be killed. People will be liberated from the clutches of terrorism.

Tamils in Tamil Nadu must be with India but they should be there as a partner with the rightful rights not just blindly in love. It is sad to see Tamil Nadu’s opinion has not been given the weight it deserved. It is not the first time this is happening and will not be last time.

We will continue our fight for freedom for Tamils in Sri Lanka but we want to see Tamils take stand for their right not just in Sri Lanka also in other part of the world including India and support Tamils struggle in Sri Lanka.

It has been analysis well that creation of Tamil Elam, is no harm to India and Indian interests. It also well know that Sri Lanka never been a trusted neighbour of India. A lot of Indians anger with LTTE because of Rajeev Ghandi’s assassination but they failed to understand the ground work to assassinate him has been done by someone else (including some Indians) and LTTE pull the final tiger. It was a terrible mistake by LTTE but I am not sure if some LTTE members acted alone in this without the command from head of LTTE.

Martin Luther Kings, Nelson Mandela, Barack Obama words and action can work with people who respect the human rights and accept other human being, it will not work with Sinhalese in Sri Lanka who does not respect any of the above. Monks in Sri Lanka run fanatic schools and they keep creating fanatic and fundamentalists.

KARTHIK AND SATWA GUNAM,
–edited for in-appropriate content– we understand ur lack of education and lack of knowledge in Sri lankan politics. Stop wasting your time over here cause not many of us think anything worth of you two. Why dont you find a job for the first time in ur life? We know you are in ur last years of your life. Cool boys!

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http://secular-hindu.sulekha.com/blog/post/2009/04/ltte-sl-tamil-rajeev-assassination.htm

Any body who want to read

I AM BACK!

TAMIL TIGERS RULZ!LONG LIVE OUT TAMIL LEADER! WHAT THE TAMIL TIGERS ACHIVED IN THE LAST 30 YEARS IS UNCOMPAREABLE TO ANY OTHER ORG IN THE WORLD! JUST A KICKUP RIGHT NOW. ALL THE REAL TAMILS AROUND THE WORLD ARE BEHIND YOU. MONEY IS NOT A PROB OR SUPPORT!

Well come back into action. Atleast you have come back to action. We all will wait for ltte to come back to action in a sensible manner. Come back to the nego table

bobby says:
April 20, 2009 at 9:06 AM
Thank you writer. I am Jaffna (sri lanka) born tamil. Been living in Australia for the last 15 years. I was in the civil war over there for the first 15 years of my life. War is not a nice thing to be in. I know the feeling. When the fighter jets bombing, ships from the ocean bombing and the army on the land bombing, what do you do? I have lost 2 of my cousins, 2 uncles killed by the Sri Lankan army. I can tell you right now they were innocent as you and me. One of my cousin who came from SL to Aust a year ago, brought a grade 3 school photo of me and him in the same class at a school in Jaffna (sri lanka). We looked through the picture and i asked my cousin ‘i remember this guy, i remember this guy’ cousin’s answers were ‘he is dead, he is dead. Finally, i found out that out of 30 boys on the picture 20 of them are dead, we know 2 of them are here in Aust and he didnt know where the other 8 of them are. Thanks to the SL army.

@bobby

Proof of the pudding is eating. Hungry man wants food and not description of food or bunch of nuts screaming that other nuts have to give food.

The same applies to the screaming crowd and the non-reaction of all. What did these rallies achieve either in india or in UK or in canada. If something please update probably i am out of touch.

SL Army action is continuing. SL is taking aid and assistance from china and communist countries to continue their efforts to eliminate ltte. Even in tamil nadu, when the election date was due some noise were made by the politicins. after election what ???????????????????????/

@ Nithyananthan

Dear Brother, All good. I understand what you mean. Thank you for you support. Thank YOu. Brother You cant change the world, you can only change your self. Thank you for your advice.

http://www.colhariharan.org/2009/05/media-bytes-questions-on-ltte.html

http://www.colhariharan.org/2009/05/why-did-ltte-fail.html

Read the observation of a person who has been observing ltte.

‘Powers have to repent for what they are doing’: Vickramabhu Karunaratne
[TamilNet, Tuesday, 14 April 2009, 00:17 GMT]

It will be nonsense to think of eradicating the LTTE,
writes Vickramabahu Karunaratne in a recent article highlighting the need for alternative thinking. “In the case of the LTTE, it represents the real anger of the Tamil people against discrimination, humiliation and oppression by Sinhala chauvinism. [...] It was and is wrong to the hilt in hating Tamil society for its demand for equality and self-determination. [...] All global capitalist powers including India will be forced to repent in time to come for their aggressive participation in human suffering of this order. [...] The LTTE cannot be blamed for not surrendering to the Sinhala army of the chauvinist regime,” he writes.

Full text of the article by Dr. Vickrmabahu Karunaratne, general secretary of the NSSP and the president of the Left Front in Sri Lanka, follows:

Vickramabahu Karunaratne
The government, while discarding all appeals for a ceasefire is hell bent on finishing the LTTE. The LTTE cannot be finished as it is a movement in the hearts and minds of the Tamil people. It represents the strongest commitment to the Tamil right to self determination and Tamil freedom. Even those who disagree with the LTTE`s violent methods or with its political programme for Tamil liberation, still hail it as the most formidable opposition to Sinhala repression. So, it will be nonsense to think of eradicating the LTTE. UNP leaders led by the then defence minister thought of finishing the JVP by eliminating over fifty-thousand JVP suspects with the leadership. It is claimed that Wijeweera was burnt alive by a military group. But today modern dissidents of Wijeweera and other JVP leaders virtually run the government of Mahinda. The ghost of Wijeweera is behind the president at all times. Champika Ranawaka and Wimal Weerawansa today, represent the last political message of the Deshapremi Janatha Viyaparaya, the brainchild of Wijeweera. In that sense both Champika and Wimal are legitimate political children of Wijeweera. The rump JVP is left in the ditch without being able to go along with these two. It does not represent the JVP past or present. While howling for a better war it is barking at the government for repression! So we can count it out. But the real JVP represented by the chauvinist duo, Champika and Wimal, is doing great. So, the dream of the UNP leaders to eliminate the JVP has not been fulfilled.

Tamils will never forget what they received when asked for justice: LTTE The LTTE on Monday recognized and welcomed a refreshing attitude in US, different from the other countries. It pleaded the Sri Lanka government to listen to international opinion, to stop the war and enter into negotiations. But at the same time it warned Colombo of dire consequences if the war is continued. “The LTTE and the fight for our freedom will also continue. The methods may vary but Sri Lanka will never be able to live in peace as it imagines a military victory will bring. However, for the record the LTTE would like to emphasize again that it is always ready to explore peaceful means to resolve the conflict”, the LTTE statement issued from the political headquarters in Vanni, read.

@ satwa gunam

I hope you are reading, bro ther

@bobby

It does not matter where i am. What matters is what is being told. “aporul yar yar vai kethpinum ap porul mai porul kanbathu arithu”

Dear Sunderanpandyan Anna, You understand the suffering of other human. God bless you and your family. My prayers are for our people and you. Not for Gunam, not in this life time. I hope a tree falls on him to know the suffering and pain of our people.

My beloved sisters and brothers, mothers and fathers, grandmothers and grandfathers of Tamil Nadu,

THE WHOLE WORLD IN INVOLVED IN THE GENOCIDE AGAINST TAMILS – ONLY THE TAMILS OF TN CAN HELP OUR BLOOD BRETHREN – PLEASE GO OUT THERE AND VOTE – ANNIHILATE THE CONGRESS BASTARDS AND THRASH THE DMK TRAITORS, PLEASE!!!

@bobby

Unfit to be called as a tamilian. This is thirukural. The meaning of that is it does not matter who says what ? What matters is the value of the content.

@bobby

I donot stand for alms. Pls see the tv, LTTE leader prabhakaran has made the sl tamil stand like a beggar on the body of their kith and kin.

He can be called the kaliyuga ravana, who is sacrificing his kith and kin for his ego trip. i.e to be the dictactor of sl tamil land and he is facing the end of ravana.

Bobby,

Instead, please convey a few thanking words to Messrs. Alien Raj, S Pandyan, Prakash, Malarthamil, Ronin and others; and exchange ideas and constructive discussion. Please don’t waste your time and energy on this scum – leave them alone. Without their voice our struggle is not going to suffer. Bearing Mango tree is always stoned. Moon on the sky is not at all worried about the dog’s barking from earth.

satwa gunam:

I could not control myself from commenting, after observing for quite sometime your comments.

I think you are able to enjoy the freedom to talk outside your country – SriLanka.

Continue.

Satwagunam Sir, Just more curious. Are both of your parents Tamilians Sir?

You say outside Tamil Nadu – is it Colombo/Sri Lanka sir?

@murugan

It does not matter. Learn the meaning about my name that could be useful toyou and what i feel.

@bobby

Thank god, you have some sense of learning. Hope this perculate to your moronic leader vp, then there is some hope for sl tamil.

@bobby

http://dbsjeyaraj.com/dbsj/archives/510

Pls read the views of 100 of tamilians

Sorry Sir. I know the meaning of gunam in Tamil. But what does Satwa means? Also Sir since you did not answer my two questions, should i take it as an Yes. Just curiosity sir.

@Murugan

satwam, rajas and tamas are the three gunas of the human being as described by hindu philosophy. Satwam myself, rajas as yourself and bobby as tamas as the best example.

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[Note:Sattwa = Goodness, Rajas = Passion, Tamas = Darkness]

Brahma (the Grandsire Prajapati) said:
Darkness, Passion and Goodness–these are called the three qualities.

Darkness should be known to have the night (or obscurity) for its essence. It is otherwise called Delusion. It has unrighteousness (or sin) also for its indication, and it is always present in all sinful acts. This is the nature of Darkness and it appears also as confined with others.

Passion is said to have activity for its essence. It is the cause of successive acts. When it prevails, its indication, among all beings, is production.

Splendour, lightness and faith – these are the form, that is light, of Goodness among all creatures, as regarded by all good men.

The true nature of their characteristics will now be declared by me with reasons. These shall be stated in aggregation and separation.

http://www.hinduism.co.za/sattwa,.htm

Prakash,

I agree. I strongly suspect that this creature has changed his name – on some earlier posts, he was commenting under a different name, but since his lowly character was exposed from the nature of his evil comments and other commenters treated him like the scum being that he is, he shut himself up for a while. Now he is back, the shameless creature that he is, and is commenting under a different name.

Let the creature keep spewing out his vile filth. Once we give him the treatment that he deserves, he will shut up again, until his vile, shameless nature forces him to come back after some time under yet another name.
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Editors,

I believe this creature was commenting under a different name before, like Kalki or even some other name. If you compare the IP addresses of the two, they would be the same – at the very least, they will be very similar, with the same place and ISP.

Now, to paste something that will hopefully shut up the troll:

This is a a statement made by a Hindu priest who has been in prison for nearly a decade in Sri Lanka.

The actual names of those affected are replaced; places and dates are deleted to safeguard their safety. This is only a condensed part of the full statement from him in order to avoid undesirable consequences to him.

Sri Sankra Iyar Shivaguru Sarma
Jaffna

I have (Deleted) children. My wife is Sankari Sarma Shivaguru Sarma age (Deleted) . Our children are now aged (Deleted) .

Since 1992 my wife is mentally affected. Doctor (Name Deleted) treated her. Due to Sooriya Kathir attack, we were displaced from Jaffna loosing all over properties and we moved to Kanthasamy Temple in Kilinochchi. Again we were displaced from Kilinochchi due to the Jeyasikkuru attack to Vavuniya from there we went to Colombo in search of a job.

I got employed in a temple (name and address of the temple deleted) as a priest and I was getting my wife treated. On (date deleted) people from TID (6th floor) arrested me on suspicion of having involved in the suicidal attack on (name deleted). In spite of knowing that I am a Hindu priest yet they stripped me naked and started whipping me with wires and hit me with iron rods, S-Lon pipe filled with cement and with broomstick. They cut me with blades, scorched me with burning cigarettes and applied chilly powder and salt on the wounds. This was totally a horrifying and disgraceful experience. (With difficulty he controlled his emotions)

They hung me topsy-turvy by my toes and put chilly powder and petrol in a shopping bag and pulled it over my head thus suffocating me. They snapped my holy thread (Poonool) from my body and crushed it under their boots. They crushed my penis by pressing it into a drawer and scorched it with burning cigarette butts. Even though I am a Hindu priest, they forced me to drink alcohol and eat meat. This caused me to vomit blood. Later they forcibly got my signature against my will on a document written in Sinhalese on (Deleted) and I was handed over to the CID on the 4th floor.

The CID kept me there for 07 months and tortured me severely. It was worse here than before. They inserted a piece of barbed wire through my anus and moved it up and down. Lot of flesh and blood came out. They beat me with a baton and I was bleeding from my head. I felt faintish and became unconscious and when I regained I noted the joint on my left elbow was broken. Here too they tied both my hands behind, hung me upside down by my toes and beat me. I was beaten with 1.044 wires.

ICRC was not permitted to meet me. ICRC was tossed between TID and CID offices. When I said that the ICRC would be reporting to their Head office in Geneva saying that I had been killed, they agreed to allow the ICRC to see me. This was told to me by Ms. Linda from the ICRC. She recorded the details of my wounds.

The temple I worked for threw my wife and children out of the temple and it was her brother, who took care of them and placed them in a lodge. The CID arrested my mentally derailed wife and our two children [then aged (Deleted)] from the lodge on (date deleted). I was stripped and tortured in front of my children and wife. My wife was also tortured without considering that she was a mental patient. Both our children screamed on seeing this. Our children were released after three months and since (date deleted) they are staying in an orphanage. (He broke down when he mentioned the word “orphanage.”)

I was again handed over to the TID for inquiry. I was tortured by them. On (date deleted) a representative from the UNO took my confidential statement, which lasted for five hours. They photographed the wounds on my body. It was a doctor from the UNO who took the photos. On their instructions the DMO of the (Deleted)] Hospital recorded the wounds on my body. I was again handed over back to the CID.

My wife and I were taken out with a 72 hours prior permission from the magistrate on (Deleted) and we were tortured. We were taken out on several occasions for “inquiry” which meant more torture. We were then put in our respective prisons. I came to Kaluththurai prison on (date deleted). We were taken out on the following dates (4 dates deleted) and tortured. When we were presented before the magistrate on (date deleted) and on (date deleted) he ordered that protection be provided to us.

Ms.Linda from the ICRC, when she came to see me at the Jail, informed that I should not be tortured. All details of my wounds are with the ICRC.

The details of the torture to my wife:
1. They inserted a banana pod inside her vagina after applying chilly powder on it.
2. They inserted barbed wire inside her vagina and the anus.
3. Women officers stripped her while the males were watching.
4. They slashed all over her body with blades.
5. She was whipped with 1.044 wires.
6. She was beaten with clubs, S-Lon pipe filled with cement, and belts.
7. Her face was covered with a shopping bag filled with chilly powder and petrol.
8. Her head was ducked in a water tank thus suffocating her.
9. She was scorched with cigarettes.
10. They inserted pins under the nails of the fingers.
11. They pushed her on the floor and trampled her with their boots while standing on her.

I too got the same treatment except that I was beaten more severely and brutally.

Names of those who tortured me at the TID:
O.I.C – TID Pirasanna D Alvis,
Sub Inspector (S.I.) Rasik, S.I.Thulukkoda,
S.I.Upali S.I. Wennapuli

Those who tortured me at the CID :
O.I.C. CID Kumarasinga,
I.P.Ampawela,
S.I.Hareem,
S.I.Wikramasingha,
S.I.Sathik,
S.I.Perero,
S.I.Peris,
S.I.Hemachchanthira,
S.I.Fernando, Director Evan,
S.I.Vijayaratna

Those who tortured my wife at the CID:
O.I.C. CID Kumarasinga ,
I.P.Ampabala,
S.I.Wickramasinga,
W.S.I. Dayani Kamage,
W.P.C. Santhima ,
W.P.C. Kumary ,
S.I. Perera

When the torture on me was established, the crown council was trying to drag the case by bringing in new witness, which is illegal. There are five solicitors conducting the case on behalf of the state. This is the forth judge conducting my case. In our case the Crown has no proof to establish the allegations against us. They have cross-examined for one and half years. My case number is (deleted). The Human Rights and Development Centre has appointed the solicitor Mr.(deleted) to conduct our case.

I am attaching herewith the following:

1. Reply from the leader of the opposition.
2. Reply from him when he was the P.M.
3. Reply from the head of the Norwegian Peace Community.
4. Letter from the UN in Geneva.

(The letters are withheld)

“Where can we stay when we are released? Under the present circumstances killings and abductions are going on. Some also die in the prison.

Both of us have become utterly sick of the tortures. We are at a loss to know where to go with our children. Because we were in Jail, no Temple will admit us as priests. No relative will accept us in their fold. My wife who is already mentally ill and our two children will be psychologically affected due to this. We do not know if we can live in peace. Only God can help us” said the Priest.

Why has the troll gone silent? Where is his reaction to the comment on the inhuman nature of the SinHELLa state that I posted above? Why doesn’t he praise the filthy scum creatures of the barbaric SinHELLa state who meted out the shocking, inhuman treatment to the poor, unfortunate Mr. Sarma and his wife and children?

@an alien earthling

I am not supporting the sihale action at no cost. However it does not mean i have to only support LTTE terror.

Even i would say that the armed struggle start by LTTE was valid, till it reached a level to say that they will be the dictator and nobody else shall have any right to represent tamil

sl tamil are living beings, however ltte had reduced them to the state of breed animals for achieving its convuluted perversed objective. In the process, it antagonized the whole world against it. Please read objective jayaraj site. NO western world is interested in supporting the ltte cause. [ yes lip service has been given by all but nothing into action which will force sl like a sanction ]

Golden opportunity was lost when IPKF came to SL at behest of sl tamil. Argument was it will fail but never tried. If LTTE and other parties would have allowed the federal structure for five years and then if they would have resume the struggle due ot failure of the federal structure, then i would have been the first to support to erase sl army.

However truth of history is that LTTE colluced with SL president at that time and asked for the humiliating exit of india army. People write in blogs [ it is up to them ] of excess of IPKF. I am not defending them nor justifying them but DID ANY IDIOT thing why it started. LTTE started using [ impotent bastard VP ] women as sucide bomber and attackers against IPKF when they were supposed to disamr themself to participate themself in civil government. Once again, the argument was that SL army would have erased LTTE. LTTE forgot that they grew under the patronage of indian army and if they saw something similar of what LTTE would have projected, it would have stepped in once again to support.

But what did LTTE do ?

Joined SL to throw IPKF out.
Killed then the ex-pm of india

However the current happening has clearly vindicated the stand that ltte could not stand the rampage of sl army with support from outside that is india.

Now that LTTE has been decimated and today they live by holding civilian as human shield and no international organziation to support them, SL army will erase the position of ltte in sl.

People all over the world instead of supporting the ltte [ say so dbsjayaraj.com ] must support the suffering tamilians and ask for equal rights as citizen and a federal state.

I feel that in case bjp comes to power [ sonia will never give a single assitance ot sl tamil and the sucker dmk ] and sl moderate leader prevail over bjp and its allies, it could work out for the federal structure [ so be the will of god ]

I have some sinhale freinds and they have their own horror stories of being victim of ltte terror. Violence is a double edged sword and must be used only at the extreme end and negotiate peace at the earliest.

Hmm! this whole argumentative affair of calling names leaves it bad taste..We need to keep our community livable..that is the evidence of presence of collective wisdom in the cultures we have learned from or represent..How do we self-regulate and self-govern this citizen journalism community.

And for continuous provoking comments encouraging or condoning killing of ethnic groups including Sinhalese, LTTE…How do we self-regulate and self-govern this citizen journalism community against such comments?

Any ideas? I feel it is a waste of the valuable time of all of us to moderate some comments, if we have responsible reader/writers.

This is a challenge to citizen journalism, as intelligent people with wide international experiences, I seek your ideas.

Alien:

I did not mean your comment specifically.. Even I have done that a few times. But we need to work in Kalugu above the level of Indian politicians in communications..

In the absence of reviewers, How does one commenter or writer, keep a check on the other and vice versa, to make this ecosystem healthy and encourage healthy communication, views, alternate views and reduce politics and prejudices..

LONG LIVE THE TAMIL TIGERS! LOVE THE TAMIL TIGERS!

Looks like Tamil racism was slapped severely today.

Typo: It should have been The cowardly filth beings of the government and army of SinHELLa Lanka, the lowliest scum of South Asia…

Trying to run away in an ambulance is not great. It is cowardly and that is how Prabhakaran died.

Contrary to the lies being spewed out by the filth beings of the SinHELLa state, duly reproduced by the Rajapaksas’ ass-licking sewer journalists of many Indian newspapers and channels, the fearless braveheart Tiger VP did not die in an ambulance. That is a mere lie dished out by the barbaric SinHELLa scum beings to cover up the fact that the inhuman, filthy SinHELLa scum army blasted an ambulance carrying patients with artillery – a heinous, barbaric war crime. The mighty Tiger, one of the greatest rebels of all time, died a hero’s death, fighting the filthy scum beings of the genocidal SinHELLa army of cowards.

OUR LEADER IS LIVE AND WELL! tamilnet.com

YOUR leader?
Are YOU a terrorist too?
Do you support the forced kidnapping and conscription of children. Do you support the killing and maiming of tens of thousands of innocents?

Were YOU there when 2 boys had their home broken into on Sunday night, and were maimed while they slept in their beds.

I suggest you seriously reconsider you place in this world.

@sylvia Bennet, OUR LEADER IS GREAT! OUR LEADER IS ALIVE AND WELL! tamilnet.com. I AM BACK, JUST LIKE THE THE TAMIL TIGERS!
TAMIL TIGERS WILL RULE AGAIN! LTTE HAVE LOST AND NO WHERE TO BE SEEN IN SL 5 TIMES IN THE LAST 30 YEARS SO ITS NOTHING NEW TO THE TAMILS AND/OR TO THE TAMIL TIGERS AND/OR TO OUR HON.LEADER. DEATH TO THE SHIT SRI LANKANS. LONG LIVE THE TAMIL TIGERS. WE WILL SEE THEM SOON. THANK YOU TO OUR BROTHERS AND SISTER OVER IN TAMIL NADU FOR YOUR KIND SUPPORT TO YOUR TAMIL BROTHERS AND SISTERS. LETS ALL UNITE TOGERTHER.

@sylvia Bennet, ******************beauty sleep you need it badley.

Sasikumar says:
May 18, 2009 at 9:16 PM
Today I lost my 30 years of guru, philosopher, leader and inspiration of my life. Although I am sad / depressed/ crying that Tiger leader left us, I am proud that he fought like Great warriors until the end. He is one of the great legends of Tamil warriors – More than 1000 years Tamil race has never saw such a great character. After Rajendra Cholan, Pirabhakaran has achieved such a peak in glory, fame and war victories.

His fame and name will never die. He will be remembered as Great Pirabhakaran.

Here is a piece on the LTTE strategy of forcing children to become their soldiers.

http://duckrabbit.info/blog/2009/02/innocence-the-child-soldiers-of-sri-lanka/

Can anyone on here support that?

@ SYLVIA BENNET, Why dont you listen and learn as you are a baby in this matter. you are just a grass that grew yesterday.

@sylvia bennet,

IF YOU THOUGHT THAT I HAD TO RECONSIDER MY POSITION ON SUPPORTING OUR HON. LEADER. yOU NEED TO RECONSIDER YOUR THOUGHT AS YOU DIDNT SEE 200 000 TAMILS PROTEST IN CANADA AGAINST THE SIN HELL A GOVENMENT. YOU KNOW WHAT THOSE POPLE WERE CARRING? MASSIVE SIZE OF TAMIL TIGER’S FLAG AND OUR LEADERS PICTURES. I AM SURE YOU NEVER SEEN IT ON NEWS. IT SHOW YOUR LACK OF KNOWLEDGE SO YOU DONT YOU START LEARNING HOW TO SPELL SUCH AS SIN HELL A OR YOU NAME FOR THAT MATTER.

….LONG LIVE THE TAMIL TIGERS! LOVE THE TAMIL TIGERS!

OUR LEADER IS ALIVE AND WELL!

Stating that the leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)Hon. Mr. V. Pirapaharan is alive and well, Mr. Selvarasa Pathmanathan, the head of LTTE’s international relations, told TAMILNET.COM Monday that it was very unfortunate that many of its senior members and leaders have either given up their lives or have been treacherously killed.

OUR LEADER IS ALIVE AND WELL! tamilnet.com

NOTE:

Readers – Please avoid using unparliamentary terms while commenting. Repeated use of offensive language will lead to you being banned based on the spam settings.

Dear Bobby!

At an hour like now, as we all are mourning and grieving for all those thousands perished in genocidal attack during the six days, we should refrain from using sluggish and abusive street languages and degrading ourselves stooping to such low level. I have pleaded in so many occasions. Yes, at times we happen to go such forbidden areas – still we should control ourselves and be mindful. Now, the symbol of our nationalism is there. He has lost his son and many of his … a Herculean task is ahead of him to rebuild. You don’t have to respond to insults. Hope you will heed my plea.

No one will support child soldiers.

The question also is, are you supporting any of the following:
1. Raping Tamil girl children by SriLankan army
2. Burning Tamil pregnant women by SriLankan army
3. Killing of the young Tamil generation by SL army
4. Burning of hospitals in Tamil areas
5. Burning of temples in Tamil areas
6. Burning of libraries in Tamil areas

The link what you have mentioned is certainly touchy. The author of the article has clearly stated his mission and blogged his experience. He has not seen the other side.

May be if SriLanka had allowed international journalists into their country, we would have seen the “handsome” face of SriLanka & “peaceful” Buddhism ?

here is another ‘private’ email sent to me by the noble and honourable ‘bobby’

Author: bobby
Comment:
@sylvia bennet,

PRIVATELY?*** UNDERSTAND, YOU BETTER….

Apart from the ‘non-parliamentary language’ do i take the last few words as a terrorist threat, and inform the police?

HERE’S THE LATEST EMAIL I RECEIVED FROM bobby:
(EDITOR:- expletives deleted this time):

Author: bobby
Comment:
@ SYLVIA BENNET
I AM A TAMIL TIGER! INFORM THE POLICE PLEASE, LOOSER!

I think someone should tell him that supporting a terrorist organisation is now a serious crime in Australia. Perhaps someone should also tell him how to spell ‘loser’….

@sylvia bennet loser,

SUPPORTING TAMIL TIGER IS A SERIOUS CRIME IN AUSTRALIA? STOP ACTING LIKE YOU LIVE IN AUST. I KNOW YOU LIVE IN PAKI. IN SYDNEY WE HAD OVER 20 PROTESTS, IN MELBOURNE OVER 20, IN BRISBANE 5 WE HAD A PROTEST AGAINIST THE SL GOVERNMENT YESTERDAY HERE IN BRISBANE. WE ALL WERE CARRING TAMIL TIGER FLAG AND OUR HON. LEADER’S PICTURES. visit lankasri.com to see pics. THIS SHOWS YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHATS HAPPENING AROUND AUST OR OUT SIDE AUST. SO WHY DONT YOU LEAVE MATURE STUFFS TO MATURE PEOPLE AND YOU GET ON WITH YOUR DISHES, LOUNDRY AND LAWN HEY?

I’m beginning to wonder whether Sylvia Bennet is really the Sylvia Bennet that she claims to be, or if someone with a name like Sirima Bandaranayake is masquerading as Sylvia Bennet. The reason for my suspicion is that while she spells her name as Sylvia Bennet on this blog, on my blog, she spells her name as Sylvia Bennett – with two ts in Bennett and she has done it twice on my blog. A native Australian (and I don’t mean a person of Aboriginal descent), being a native speaker of English, would spell her name either as Bennet or Bennett and would NOT use two different spellings for Bennet in two different places, since I’m sure that she would know how her name is spelt. One the other hand, if someone with a name like Sirima is using an Australian sounding name (just lke we have so many Sinhalese commenters disguising themselves with Indian sounding names, she may not be sure of how her assumed name is spelt.

Would Ms. Sylvia Bennet/Sylvia Bennett/Sirima Bandaranayake explain this discrepancy, please? Or should we conclude that Sylvia is an assumed name and a name like Sirima is her real name?

Sylvia,

Thanks for your reply :-)

I agree that I have used unparliamentary words on the posts in my personal blog – I apologised if they offended you in my reply to your comments.

Yes, my posts certainly seem to be “biased” in favour of the Tamils, and that’s not just because I’m a Tamil myself (a Tamil Indian, unlike the butchered and battered Tamils of Sri Lanka). When the entire world media, with a few noble exceptions, is biased in favour of the war criminal terrorists of the SinHELLa government, I see nothing wrong in being biased in favour of the Tamils. Mind you, even if one is a Sinhalese who dares to question SinHELLa state terrorism, one would be murdered in cold blood as the most fearless journalist of South Asia, Lasantha Wickrematunge, found out. And if one is a foreigner who dares to expose the condition of Tamils, they would be arrested and kicked out by the state terrorists, as the British Channel 4 team found out.

You do not seem to be sure of whom my venomous comments (and my foul language – which I regret) are directed at. Let me state clearly that all my venom is directed at the notorious war criminals who make up the SinHELLa army and government and their blind supporters.

I have no problems with most ordinary Sinhalese people. They are also victims of the crooked thugs who run, and have run, Sri Lanka. Most Sinhala soldiers are drawn from the poor rural Sinhala communities in Southern Sri Lanka. They are used as cannon fodder by the Sinhala elite and pseudo-Buddhist monks to kill and maim the Tamils. However, that does not absolve them of heinous war crimes that they commit, especially the gang-rape of women and girls, which are too numerous to document. The SinHELLa army, completely made of ethnic Sinhalese, is the most indisciplined and barbaric armed force in the world. They were thrown out of a United Nations peace-keeping mission in Haiti for the numerous cases of sexual violence that they committed against minor children. You can imagine their war crimes in this genocide (yes, it IS a genocide) without witness. You can hear it from the very same reporters of Channel 4 who were kicked out of SL by the notorious thug, Gothabaya Rajapaksa:

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56rBn3XdSA4&hl=en&fs=1]

Tell me, what kind of “beautiful” people would commit such heinous crimes?

Yet again, you seem to be confused with ordinary Sinhalese people and the rogue SinHELLa state and army. I have no hatred towards the Sinhalese. My aunt is a doctor who works for a hospital in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, where several Sinhalese patients come for treatment that they cannot get in their own country and which is too expensive in other countries. Even several Sinhalese journalists, who fled the country fearing for their lives at the hands of the rogue Rajapaksa brothers have sought, and received, refuge and protection in my city, Chennai.

Will you spare a few minutes and listen to this video, please, Sylvia? The person speaking is Dr. Brian Seneviratne. He is not just an ethnic Sinhalese, but is related to several former Presidents and Prime Minsters of the terrorist state of Sri Lanka, and he was speaking in your own city, Sydney. He clearly describes the GENOCIDE perpetrated by the notorious barbarians of the SinHELLa state:

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDFyCJ1MRS8&hl=en&fs=1]

Make no mistake, I condemn the horrible attack on those Sinhalese students. It should not have been done and such acts cannot be condoned. But what the SinHELLa state and army is committing is ONE MILLION TIMES WORSE. Just because it is deliberately hidden from most ordinary people who don’t know much about this GENOCIDE, like you, does not mean that it does not take place.

So instead of shooting the messengers, like me, why don’t you citizens of the First World, which has moved away from such barbaric acts after World War II, ask your governments to take action against the genocidal war criminals who run the terrorist state of Sri Lanka?

I apologise if you were offended by the foul language that I used :-( I was outraged and expressed my anger in words and I regret it.

Okies Alien, have read your email (thanks again) and also checked the youtube links.
I have also watched the BBC4 journalist report, and even contacted the “Tamil activisits” in Sydney, who were responsible for maiming those boys.
This is now my take on the situation:
1. Yes, there is no doubt that Tamils in Sri Lanka have been marginalised for a very long time.
2. However, it was not until the terrorist violence began that any force was used by the Sri Lankan Government.
3. As you know, the Government force was ineffective for nye on 25 years, during which time the LTTE became powerful as it also grew in cruelty, and the situation had become almost a civil war – certainly in the North, where the LTTE were strong
4. However, a determined effort by the Government to rid the country of the violence that has almost turned it into a ‘basket case” over the last 18 months or so, has finally got rid the at least the architects of this terror campaign.
5. Because of the lack of respect for human life by mostly the LTTE, innocent citizens – mostly Tamils because of the geography – have been used as human shields, and many have died – especially over the last 6 months or so. As you know, similar events are currently being played out in the Swat Valley – where Taliban are using innocents to shield themselves.
5. For the Tamil diaspora to call the determination of Sri Lanka to rid itself of one of the most atrocious terror groups the world has ever seen, as “Genocide” is clearly an untruth – and one designed to evoke the sort of blind, unthinking response as happened in Sydney, when 2 boys were blinded by Tamil diaspora as the slept in their beds.
6. The current situation in Sri Lanka desperately needs help from the International community – 200,000 displaced people in camps need aid. I can fully understand the Government not wanting to let everyone out of the camps until the remaining terrorists have been weeded out (the United Nations has agreed wth this too).
7. If you really do care about the plight of the people displaced by this conflict, I believe you should be raising funds to send back, or perhaps you can give-up your work for 6 months, and go and lend a real hand over there.
8. The continued attempts to maintain the divisions (eg. using words like sinHELLese), will only prolong the return of peace to this beautiful Island.
9. Please do recognise that this is a opportunity for Sri Lanka, and stop trying to continue to tear it apart.
Peace to you my friend
Sylvia
5. The ‘end-play’of this

Ronin: Good point.

As in: one mans freedom fighter is the other man’s terrorist, you mean?

Well, I agree that ‘terrorist’ is a politically charged word, and you therefore deserve a well considered response.
If you don’t mind, I will think about this shortly, as I’m up to my waist in work right now.

I will get back to you, I promise

:) Sylvie

Sylvia,

Unfortunately, you have been mislead by the notorious “mainstream media” and have got the cause and effect mixed up.

Nithyananthan, in his comment below, has given a much better explanation than I’m capable of.

The LTTE were not the first ones to use violence. That dubious distinction goes to the racist Sinhala state, which used state terrorism to crush peaceful, democratic protests. I believe you have never heard of things like “Black July” and “Jaffna public library burning” and the numerous state sponsored POGROMS that preceded it. I still prefer to call it SinHELLa state, however beautiful the land may be, since the crooks who run, and have run that rogue state will never behave in a civilised manner.

What’s happening there clearly IS GENOCIDE – the crooks who run the racist Sinhala state have, and have had, only one thing on their minds for the Tamils and that is GENOCIDE! Had it not been for the LTTE, the racist Sinhala state would have wiped out the Tamils long ago. It was only because of the fact that the LTTE chose to fight the violence of the terrorist Sinhala state with violence and terror of its own that the Tamils felt safe in their own land. Now, all the rogue states of the world have chosen to back the state terrorists of the racist Sinhala rogue state in their fight against the LTTE, but neither these rogue states nor the rogues of the UN can even think of asking the racist Sinhala rogue state to address the root cause of the conflict – the violent oppression of Tamils, because they know that the rogues are not prepared to do so.

I’m shocked that you have fallen for the propaganda of the rogue Sinhala state – why should a country confine its own citizens to CONCENTRATION CAMPS and prevent any access or aid from reaching the people detained there if it does not have GENOCIDE on its mind? Especially, now that they claim the “war” is over and that the LTTE have been wiped out?

I thought Aussies were an enlightened lot when it came to human rights, since Australian civil society rallied behind one man who was falsely victimised and detained by the state (Dr. Mohammed Haneef, citizen of India, resident of Britain) but after reading your support of the rogue Sinhala state’s barbaric actions, reminiscent of the Nazi regime’s atrocoties, it looks like I was guilty of jumping to conclusions, my friend.

I would love to go out there and help the people being detained in CONCENTRATION CAMPS by the rogue state in whatever way I can, but do you think that I would even be allowed anywhere near them, since the rogue SinHELLa state has decided to forcefully keep away journalists, aid workers and even Red Cross and UN workers???

Back again:
Found this report in the Australian, which I thought was relevant, as well as balanced. She sounds like quite a lady!

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,25524990-2702,00.html

Also came across 2 quotes from my favourite philosopher: Friedrich Nietzsche, which you may consider also relevant:

1. Be careful when you fight monsters, lest you become one
2. Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

:) sylvie

Alien:
now it is I who is ashamed. I apologise from the bottom of my heart for the bashing of Indian students in Melbourne. :( :(
I know you think that australians are racist, and as in any nation, it is true that some are… but please believe me when i say that we generally are a fair and kind people, and we accept and respect all other nations, religions and races. In fact, we are in effect one of the most multi-cultural nations on earth.
I, and everyone I know love Indians, their love of life, of peace and the intense curiosity about everyone and everything.I even think that they are pretty good at cricket :)
But I do feel absolutely terrible that these hard-working Indian students, who trusted us to protect them in a foreign country have been so badly let down. I pray that the increased policing will prevent any more of these terrible attacks, and that the people who did them will be treated as harshly as the law allows.
Please forgive us?
sylvie :(

Sylvie,

The attacks on Indian students in Australia are terrible things, but I certainly don’t think all Aussies are racist. Aussies are less racist than Indians – India is one of the most discriminatory countries on the face of the Earth, though the discrimination isn’t in the form of “racism” as such, but occurs in several other disgusting and nauseating forms.

In any case, how can I accuse Australia of being a racist country? I have not forgotten the case of the Australian preacher and social worker, Graham Staines and his two little boys, who were burned alive by a gang of thugs in India some time ago. Or the few women tourists (mostly white) who were sexually assaulted by barbarians in some backward parts of the country. Or the racist abuses heaped on Andrew Symonds by some uncivilised goons.

No, I don’t think all Australians are racist. If Australia were a racist country, its Prime Minister would not have apologised to the Aboriginal people for the pathetic treatment meted out to their forefathers, and Kevin Rudd did just that.

That is so unlike a rogue state that happens to be a neighbouring country. That rogue state has butchered more than 20,000 civilians it claims as its own in cold blood within the span of a few days with the full backing of several notorious rogue states like China, Russia, Iran, Israel, Pakistan, India etc. Take a look at this and decide for yourself:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6383449.ece

Most of the time public opinion is based on preconceived notions for words such as “Terrorism”, Religion, ethnic group etc..

There is an underlying laziness and lack of imagination behind it..and public opinion is based on it-as many are careless behind their opinions..

So we just have to live with this..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SjSTGlMPp8

World powers and the incompetent baboons of the UN stand by and watch as a rogue state’s barbaric army, backed by different Third World shit-holes around the world, massacres more than 20,000 civilians in cold blood:

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYwq_4nzMQE&hl=en&fs=1]

Sylvia:

Have you heard any Tamil leaders speak ? I believe you have to listen to the other side as well to understand a situation.

You talk about emotions, but you took the reference of an emotional presentation by a photo journalist. Why is that ? :)

Sylvia said this – “The Tamil diaspora that supported the LTTE and it’s cruel leader financially and morally must now look into themselves, and wonder how much their own actions have indeed put back the cause of the Sri Lankan Tamils”

Sylvia, I have read your posts and more often than not they give credence for one to believe that you are indeed a Sinhalese hard-liner in the guise of ‘some’ ordinary citizen from Australia who seemingly knows a ‘tad’ more of one bias than the other. All of your posts are as such directed against Tamils, there exists no criticism of the Sinhalese from your rhetoric. You are in fact reluctant to criticise neither their government nor them as a people for their unwavering support of their government thus in turn you clandestinely support their support for tens of thousands of ‘Tamil only’ civilian casualties amongst a displaced ‘276000000’. And yet you relish at any opportunity to attack the Tamil diaspora for funding and supporting the Tamil Tigers movement against a tyranny that has beseeched their Tamil brethren. Your goal is both clear and two-fold :- firstly an attempt to dissuade Tamils from further supporting any form of resistance and secondly to ascertain your own sense of rectitude by emphatically dictating unto us your mundane victory celebrations at your assumptions of the demise of our ideology.

I can tell you right now, that not less, but more Tamils are involved in this quagmire in Sri-Lanka.
I can tell you right now, that not less, but more Insurgencies will occur in Sri-Lanka.
I can tell you right now, that not less, but more Tamils will not want to be part of Sri-Lanka.
Now finally, I must inform you that the Ideology of a separate State for Tamils is not dead, it is not more important to us than it ever was.

I have grown up as English, save the colour of my skin, and I am now fully aware of who and what I am – British Tamil. I am not the only one of Tamil heritage to have woken from my slumber. There are many others, who support a just cause on behalf of the Tamils of that wretched island of Sri-Lanka. Some are not even Tamil or Sinhalese and so have no vested interest in the conflict in the first place.

Please note, unlike your posts, I have not attributed the word “terrorist” to every mention of the Sri-Lankan state, I have not mentioned “genocide” of the Tamils even though there is ample evidence to warrant such labelling.

Even if you’re not Sinhalese, my reply still holds to you. For you cannot claim to those of us who follow this blog, that you are rationally discussing issues relating to the conflict, when you yourself have not discussed the atrocities that have occurred to the Tamils. Your bias, is one sided and is consistent with those Sinhalese bigots who only say:

“Tamils are Sri-Lankans, the LTTE are terrorists, they recruit child soldiers, the Tamil People outside Sri-Lanka support the tigers, the tamil people outside Sri-Lanka lose now, the Tamil tiger supporters attacked Sinhalese outside Sri-Lanka.”

The aforementioned is actually taken from pacifist Sinhalese forum posts. Now in retrospect to your posts on this lovely site, one can clearly see that your submitted comments do in fact cover the same aforementioned statements.”

Sylvia Bennett, Tamils have suffered greatly. They do not need to suffer any more, your quest should be to ascertain release of the Tamils from their camps immediately with unfettered access to UN aid teams as opposed to insidiously charging the Tamils for causing the destruction in the first place.

Sylvie:

The context of history when the revolution started and in the post 9/11 period is very different. Even though most of the western countries agreed in principle the need for change in SriLanka, they were forced post 9/11 to retract – everyone with a gun is termed a terrorist – excluding armies.

So in my opinion, even though LTTE did make strategic mistakes, their goal was right and that is the reason they are still enjoying the support of Tamils. I do agree the tactics needed to change. Well, keeping in mind literally no support for LTTE from any country and their just goal for freedom, lets not become overly strict with them.

BTW, your posting here is certainly good for us, as our next generation need to learn the history and I believe discussing can bring out lot of facts & mistakes. So do continue, however I would suggest you to do the analysis more. Let it be progressive.

Dear Mr. S Pandyan, Greetings to you!
I appreciate you very much for your comments on Jeremy Page’s investigative report on the ‘Timesonline’ and your response to Miss. Maathavi. Thanks – May God bless you!

Sylvie,

Though I’m hurt by your insensitivity towards the suffering of the Tamils and your support for terrorism as long as it’s perpetrated by a government, you are certainly welcome here, please continue posting!

I’m amazed that you completely fail to mention a word about the war crimes and crimes against humanity of a rogue terrorist state and instead keep writing the same thing about the LTTE. According to the terrorist state of SL, the LTTE is completely destroyed. So why does it still prevent access and aid from reaching the CONCENTRATION CAMPS in which it confines and tortures civilians? Why does it block media access to the GENOCIDE ZONE? Is it to prevent the world from knowing about MASS GRAVES in which civilians who were butchered are thrown into? There is enough evidence in the form of satellite imagery but the notorious international media (with a few exceptions) and the criminals of the UN deliberately ignore it because they know they are guilty of playing a passive role in this genocide. You mentioned no one wants to support the LTTE. But can you explain why so many Third World rogue states and misinformed individuals like you are bent upon backing a terrorist government of a rogue state that has committed the most heinous crime of the 21st century – murdering tens of thousands of civlians in cold blood and throwing their bodies into MASS GRAVES apart from detaining the displaced civilians in Nazi-style CONCENTRATION CAMPS???

I can only hope your search for truth leads you to the truth instead of trapping you in the incredible web of lies, deceit and propaganda of the terrorist state of SL.

Kumar – I do not respect your opinion and that is that.

LES: I am a 22 years old, daughter of a Sussex-born Englishman and a Sydney-born Australian. I was born and live in Sydney. I am not Sinhalese, probably more’s the pity because they are indeed a beautiful race of people (As are the Tamils ).
Sylvia, I am slightly older than you, grandson of a man who comes from a place he cannot call home. I was born in rural Sussex and brought up in London. It is debatable as to how you define a race as being beautiful. It reminds me of a contra positive comparison whereby one states “the Germans are a beautiful race of people” after the Nazi’s committed genocide on innocent jews, russians and gypsies.” Sylvia, your ‘putting words into my mouth.’ I just lost parts of my family and your choice of words may not be the best.
“Nowhere have I said that I am anti-Tamil”.
If you do not acknowledge the atrocities committed by the Sri-Lankan government on a people who are all of one ethnicity then you are only pretending to be neutral.
“if you do not I suggest that you look deeply into your bias. The psychology of bias (sorry to lecture ;;) ) is interesting – it often has the tendency to interpret new information in such a way as to confirm the one’s prior beliefs – even to the extreme of denial (ignoring that information altogether).”
I’m sure white slave-owners said the same thing to the black slaves. Sorry to lecture you too..

“I AM anti-LTTE, but certainly not because of their cause or the people they represented, but because of their methods, and in particular the methods of its leader, who even murdered other LTTE members who he thought were a threat to him…. thereby weakening the LTTE itself.”
What proof is there of what you say? The Sri-Lankan government alleges that the LTTE assassinated most of the individuals you have in mind. In fact can you name any of the individuals you believe the LTTE assassinated? Do you know them? Do you know of them? Do you know who they are even? I doubt that you know of any but a mere couple of names. Perhaps you might google now, and pertain that your new founded names are in fact the ones who are assassinated by the LTTE. My point is, you’re only repeating propaganda that I have read on Sinhalese sites. My relating point is that the Sri-Lankan government claimed the LTTE killed those individuals. The same Sri-Lankan government that claimed that “Not ONE single civilian was killed in the battle.” The same Sri-Lankan government that claimed there is only 100 tamil tigers left for each day of each week of each month. The same Sri-Lankan government that nominated their candidate to be Kofi Ananan’s successor despite heavy criticism, the same Sri-Lankan government whose former president once stated “I don’t give a dam about the rights of the Tamils” to the telegraph news paper here in London. The same Sri-Lankan government which HRW, ICHR, UNHR, MSFSS, NGO all claim to ‘grossly’ abuse human rights. Please do not try to misinform me with misinformed information being presented by a dictatorship just because they have the words ‘government’ followed after its name. If the Newspaper editor of the ‘Sunday Leader’ had not written a letter to British newspapers claiming that if he died it was the Sri-Lankan government that got to him, then the government would blame the LTTE for that too. Please understand I am not taking the stance that the leader or the tigers did not do anything wrong. I am asking you to look at where you get your information from.
“ He was a megalomaniac – even Hitler-esk at the end, both in their bunkers still denying the situation around them.”
Were you in the bunker? Did you see him? Do you know what and how he felt? In fact I probably know more than some Tamils do. He was not what you referred to him as. He can’t even be remotely compared to Hitler. So I will not even attempt to point out differences between him and Hitler. What I will say is that, the leader handed over sri-lankan soldiers, both dead and alive to the red-cross on numerous occasions. The leader listened to many views, and was considerably influenced by the Tamils from India, Britain, Canada and the US.
“This is not the same as denying any Sri Lankan Government atrocities, or even supporting the Sri Lankan Government. Very far from it.”
How are you far from it? A minimum of 25000 Tamils have perished and you’re squandering your time over pedantics. You have not acknowledged the atrocities, so your silence induces me to believe otherwise.
“I can understand your frustration, as it is indeed very hard to get blue-chip evidence of any kind, but I have my methods and am working on it . If you like, I will post what I find as it comes to light.”
I am not frustrated in any way, because there is some good that has come out of this atrocity. There is already plenty of information, photographs, and news http://www.tamilcanadian.com http://www.tamilnational.com http://www.times.co.uk http://www.bbc.co.uk
and so forth. I do not know what evidence your trying to get hold off?

“I note the strong pro-Tamil feelings of all the Tamil diaspora who have posted here.”
No comment

“But I do not detect anyone understanding the need to change tactics.”

There never were any tactics. The LTTE did not try to invade or take over any Sinhalese town. The Tigers only defended the land the Tamils lived on. Their goal has always been the same from the very beginning, to have a separate state for the Tamils who were oppressed. There is no way that the Tamil Tigers could have controlled 1/3rd of Sri-Lanka if the Tamil civilians living in those areas did not assist the movement.

More of the same will lead to more of the same. Don’t you think?
Yes I agree, but not how you’re trying to put it to me. You’re attempting to convey your hidden message to me. “Fighting the Sinhalese is useless, you will never win, just accept it otherwise next time there will be more Tamils killed.”
Do you know what Bloody Sunday is? The British Army killed numerous unarmed Irish Catholics. That only swelled and moulded the IRA to a formidable force. If the British government could turn back the clock, and I am sure they would, they would show restraint. As they have recently done so over a recent IRA proxy attack.

“If you really do love the Tamils living in Sri Lanka, and have their well-being at heart, please think more deeply about a solution, than more violent protest.”
You’re doing it again, what is this violent protest I am doing? Furthermore, there has been no violent protests by Tamils. Not in any western country that I know off. No petrol bombs, no knifing or stabbing of police officers. Nothing like that.
The IRA finally began to make headway when they introduced a non-violent political wing, able to gain respect with civilised negotiation and reason. The IRA continued to bomb the British government until, Gerry Adams was released from Prison. He then formed the political wing and even then the IRA still attacked Britain and N.Ireland with such ferocity, that peace would only be possible when the British government sits down for Talks. Your not old enough to remember, but Margaret Thatcher said that she, nor her government would ever talk to the IRA. Years later this all changed. The British government had to change and back down from their demands. Also note, that the British did not bomb the Irish dissidents. The British Army did not assassinate their leaders, and they did not horde all the Irish into concentration camps. The British army acted as a government looking after the interests of all its people.

“Just as a start… don’t you think that this may be a more fruitful approach for the Tamil community in Sri Lanka, than allowing the diaspora who do not even live in Sri Lanka trying to drum up the ‘more insurgencies’ you speak of?”
Astonishing, you truly are. This is why I refer to you as a Sinhalese person. One need not have to be White to be an Australian and this holds true with you being Sinhalese. Your behavior and manners is similar to theirs. Absolute denial. Astonishing.
The Tamils were chased from Sri-Lanka on several occasions, the bulk of which occurred in 1983. Just because the Tamils were forced to leave Sri-Lanka, it does remove their inalienable right to express their views of the island. If I leave Britain tomorrow and live in a Hut in Pakistani, I am still British. No matter how many years elapse. As for the insurgency, its already underway in Sri-Lanka. It has never stopped and it’s not the diaspora that is “trying to drum” them up as you like to put it. Tamils have been caged on a small strip of land. How do you think they will react? But if you’re asking me to stop members of the Tamil diaspora from supporting any protest or any insurgency then you’re mistaken.

“Now, I am not entirely insensitive, and note that I am irritating some people on here, I know I can be a pain in the bum! … so if anyone wishes me to stop posting, please do say so, and I’ll stop.”
You are insensitive, how about showing the dead bodies of Tamil Children who are much darker than your skin colour to people in your country. How about joining the Tamils in solidarity, condemning the Sri-Lankan government, demanding war-crimes investigations and demanding for independent access to the camps.
Otherwise I care not if you stop posting or not. I have met your ilk before.

Kuamr:

All your statements are read, rest in peace sir!

Mr. Les: Your first sentence is good enough. It is a rebuking, still more snubbing statement. It sends a crystal clear message.
People who have good sense of morality and self-respect should know to grasp it. Such people usually have the feeling of shame. Once they feel that they are not welcomed any longer they try to keep away because of their in-born sense of shame. In this case, even after sensing your message, only those shameless with bad ulterior motives are interested to jabber and pulling you to the ring. They don’t know what they are talking. Meticulously crafted assignment and embodied cardinal task of these immoral evils is to fabricate logical and illogical accusations and arguments against Eelam Nationalism and disseminate; and its purpose is to disparage, discredit, demonize and dissuade our struggle for liberation, restoration and survival. Their masters are on both sides of the Palk-Straight.

Therefore, I believe that you are not obliged and don’t have to respond to foul-smelling skunks obstinate with anti-Tamil and anti-Eelam rhetoric. Please don’t stoop by electing to respond. May God bless you!

LONG LIVE TAMIL TIGERS. I AM AND ALL THE TAMILS ARE TAMIL TIGERS AND SUPPORTERS. LONG LIVE THE TAMIL TIGERS. SEE THEM SOON.

OUR LEADER IS LIVE AND WELL!
My Tamil brothers and sisters, Our leader is live and well. The ambulance storey was to take the search off the leader at the same time to move the leader to another location. Dont loose hope as tamils we need to be strong and fight on. THE WAR IS NOT OVER, IT WILL NOT BE OVER TILL WE GET OUR FREEDOM AND ELAM.

Sylvie:

If you can not think for the other side even after reading all this, I think you should stop trying..

I appreciate your enthusiastic opposition to Prabhakaran. I have written against his practices too..But I see that you are unable to condemn Srilankan army with the same vigor..Although they are beginners of all this stuff..

May god bless you..I suspect you wont be able to think fairly because of your background..Your duplicity shines through as plainly as truth would..

May god bless you..And People like you solidify my resolve to fight against oppressors everywhere..Trust me..Eelam will be born. If it has truth on its side! And you dont have to be afraid of such an outcome, if you have truth on your side..

So you have problems with US independence from UK using violence, Algerias independence from France using violence, Pakistan from India, or even birth of Israel, or Palestine state..

Yes, you have problem living with something..others right for self-determination..

Your kind will hold on to the borders and right to rule others until cold hands can not hold them anymore..and may be you should try taking them to the other worlds too..Good luck!

Cheers..I don’t know why am I even discussing this with you..

Sylvie,

You say: So, do I believe that Sri Lankan Government forces committed acts of terrorism, murder, rape and intimidation?… yes I do

Do I believe the same of the LTTE?.. yes I do.

You’ve got one thing certainly wrong there! The LTTE does not commit or tolerate rape – even the most racist, Tamil-hating Sinhala will tell you that. Rape is something that is only filthy scum beings commit and the barbaric rogue army of the terrorist state of Sinhala Lanka is well known for the large number of lowly, filthy rapists in their ranks. Not just in the rogue state of Sinhala Lanka, but thrughout the world. A bunch of cowardly rapists belonging to the Sinhala army were thrown out of a UN mission in Haiti for raping minors. Of course, I don’t think you will condemn the Sinhala rapist barbarians despite being a woman yourself, because you seem to be a Sinhalese woman masquerading as an Aussie. You may be an Australian citizen with a Sussex-born English father, but I guess your mother (or at least one of your grandparents) is of Sinhala descent.

It is obvious from your shocking bias. You keep writing the same thing over and over again about the LTTE (which, according to your beloved rogue state of Sinhala Lanka, is completely destroyed now) and yet you simply go silent when the heinous CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY like the GENOCIDE of 25,000 children, women and men using banned CLUSTER BOMBS and CHEMICAL WEAPONS, confining displaced people to CONCENTRATION CAMPS without any access etc. of the rogue Sinhala state is pointed out to you.

Of course, it’s not just your bias that makes it obvious that you have some Sinhala blood in you. There are several other reasons as well:

1) The initial way in which you spelled your surname, though you offered a somewhat convincing reason for that.

2) The way in which you keep repeating: The Sinhalese are a beautiful race of people, SL is a beautiful country etc.. We are talking about heinous crimes against humanity committed by a rogue state here, and you keep writing something that you took out of your beloved rogue state’s tourism website!

3) You once said: They should go to Sri Lanka, and kneel and put their foreheads on the ground before the parents of these boys and beg their forgiveness. The method in which you wanted the guys (who committed the horrible attack on the Sinhala students) to seek forgiveness is something highly unusual for a native Aussie (or anyone brought up in a Western culture, for that matter). On the other hand, it sounds very sub-continental.

4) On more than one occasion, you have spelt the word Sinhalese with a ‘g’ – again, it’s highly unusual for a native Aussie to do that.

5) Your reaction to the attack on Indian students in Australia. While any civilised Australian would be ashamed of the ‘racist’ attacks on defenceless foreign students and would hope such things never happen again and the deviant attackers punished harshly by the law, they would not go to the extent that you have gone. A native Australian would know that there is more to this than what the notorious Indian media keep mentioning. A native Aussie (I don’t mean an Aborginal person) would be aware that while there definitely is an element of racism involved in these sordid attacks, the attacks were also a part of the general (but rising) incidents of crime in Australian cities. Anyone could have been targeted and the Indian students were highly vulnerable because they worked as cab-drivers and in late-night part-time jobs that required them to use public transport and walk through deserted areas late at night.

6) You say exactly the same things about the GENOCIDE by the rogue state of Sinhala Lanka that the filthy war criminals – the Rajapaksa brothers and Fonseka, keep spewing out. A native Aussie would read neutral sources of information, and NOT the lies, falsehood and deceit that the barbaric war criminals of the terrorist state of Sinhala Lanka keep vomitting out.

It’s not too difficult to conclude that you are either a racist Sinhala woman living in Sydney writing under an assumed name or that you have at least one Sinhalese parent or grandparent!

Sylvia:

I guess you are just discussing for the sake of discussing. You have not given any heed to our cry for learning the other side. Can you by any chance, look up the attorcities of SL government in the last 50 years ?

The basics of democracy is: people are the kings. When we have different ethnic groups as its “citizen”, a country “must” take steps to protect each of the group – like what Singapore is doing. Some things are personal like God, Mother tongue, Culture etc.

If we want people to live along as brothers & sisters, both the parties must ensure they go forward first without waiting for the other one to take the first step. That is what is civilized & cultured people will do.

Hey, BTW, it looks like we are here talking about basics, when you are keen only on LTTE :) Go back, read and then write.

Reg your point:
“My point exactly. Tamils have been living in Malaysia for a millenia. why are you not advocating self-determination for them.. or are you?”

Do you know the fate of aborigines in Australia ?

Malar,

While research may go on in several fields and theories may be thrown up by researchers, let us not jump to any conclusions about the origins of the Australian Aborigines or their supposed links to the Tamils. Unfortunately, such a theory contradicts several other credible theories about the origins of the Dravidian languages, for which there is more proof than a new and untested theory.

Also, I believe we Tamils have to give up Tamil-centric views of the world that many of us have. Yes, Tamils are an ancient people with a rich culture and an immensely beautiful and fantastic language that is our greatest treasure. We are a people who look upon the whole world as our place and all the people of the world as being related to us. This shows that we are a cosmopolitan people with the equality of all as one of our core beliefs since time immemorial. However, it doesn’t mean that we can go about claiming diverse peoples from different parts of the world as being descended from Tamils or their languages being a descendant of ours without widely acknowledged proof.

I agree with your reply to Sylvia about the Tamils of Malaysia. They migrated there (not all are Chettiars) and are not many in number. Also, though they face discrimination of some kind in Malaysia due to the Malay-Islamic policies of the Malaysian government, it is nothing on the scale of the heinous genocide and ethnic cleansing policies being perpetrated on them by the rogue terrorist state of Sinhala Lanka in their own homeland of Tamil Eelam.

Sylvia simply does not understand that the question of self-determination arises only when people are treated unfairly and terribly by people of a different ethnic group, language etc. The question of self-determination for the Kashmiris or the self-determination of the Tibetans arises only because of the gross, inhuman and barbaric policies of the Indian and Chinese governments with respect to Kashmir and Tibet respectively. Of course, all that pales in comparison to what the barbaric rogue state of SL is doing to the Tamils. Sinhala Lanka has always been clear in what it wants to do with the Tamils and that is complete genocide and ethnic cleansing. Different rogue states and Third World shit-holes back the terrorist state of Sinhala Lanka because they are guilty of heinous crimes as well.

Alien, I am not concerned about origin of tamil or any monkey. I invited a reference only for the purpose of requesting Sylvia to read more on history anthropology sociology linguistics geography (of migration) and development of civilisation Government etc before commenting on the issues regarding Tamils.

http://antonyloewenstein.com/2009/04/08/tamils-block-sydney-street-in-protest/

“your use of the word brutal with regards to the the Sri Lankan governments”

and

“Please get you facts correct if you ever wish your blogs to be taken seriously.”

The above is what Sylvia wrote. For someone who claims to be a peace-loving person, accusing a NON-Tamil of calling the Sri-Lankan government Brutal. It should be clear to you all the whoever Sylvia is, she is terrified of the strong solidarity the tamils show.

Thanks for the links, Les!

Now, I’m completely baffled :???:

The blog does seem to belong to an Australian called Sylvia Bennett who lives in Sydney. But is that the same as the person who has commented here and on Mr. Loewenstein’s blog? I doubt it.

So, Sylvia (the person commenting here) is upset and angry with a non-Tamil, Mr. Loewenstein, for expressing his solidarity with Tamils who were protesting the mass murder of 20,000 civilians in cold blood by the rogue army of a terrorist state? Why should the “queen of goodness” be angry with a fellow Aussie for exercising his democratic right to protest against a genocide and for referring to the worst war criminals of the 21st century by a mild word (brutal)?

Let’s recall, On May 30 th, this same shameless fellow who has no initials, may be not knowing, posted something to this effect.

Sylvia bennett, talks crap. you got no idea whats goin on over in SL or in any part of world. Why dont you bloody do something you are good at? Maybe you can try something new, some education? hay, i am still waiting for the cobs to come around! you talk rubbish, its proved.

unbelievable the length that pro-Sinhalese government supporters go to.

You have been trying hard to portray yourself as an independent, unbiased, just-thinking, peace-loving and self-righteous young individual doing research; whereas you have unknowingly unmasked and exposed who you are! and how biased you are! You are pretending to be something that you are not and have no intention of being so.
Let me quote your assertive query ‘Tamils have been living in Malaysia for a millennia. Why are we not advocating self-determination for them…or are we going to?’
In other words, you are asking us why it is in Sri Lanka why we are not asking (Advocating) self-determination in Malaysia where we live for a millennia.
Your sentiments and the direction of accusations and arguments are typically one-sided and conspicuous characteristics to average Sinhalese chauvinistic Nationalists. There is nothing wrong being a nationalist. We, the oppressed, too are nationalist so we do respect others feelings of nationalism but not the oppressors barbarous chauvinism.

Sylvia, hope you have pets at home – a dog or cat. You are the master of it. While you are relaxing the dog is lying-down next to your sofa. You happen to trample its tail. It just waits. You start playing with him and you trample again. The dog raises the head and looks at you – and realizes it’s his master and just waits. You keep-on trampling the tail. The dog looses temper and gently barks at you as a sign of protest. Still you continue to disturb and test his patience to disturb his sleep. Dog becomes completely annoyed and feels its ego is hurt and beyond control he jumps at you forgetting you even as his master. You are hurt.
Sylvia, what you learn from this dog’s behaviour? I am sure of that you are a Christian.
Genesis: Ch: 9 – 2: ‘All the wild animals, large and small, and all birds and fish will be afraid of you. I have placed them in your power’. Such powerless dog, man’s friend, too has feelings and self-respect – possesses unbelievable ego!
Dog won’t tolerate beyond limits even his master tramples his tail. Are you saying let the dogs have ego and we shouldn’t have it? And we are not human beings and we don’t deserve to have ego – even simple feelings? Ah’ please go and fly kite around the slums of Sydney.

You still got to learn a lot from your tutor or the mentor who is influencing. We know you are simply a mouth-piece. We are not such people to dodge questions. Let’s answer to your dictated quizzes; for those the answer is already, orderly and clearly given in our postings – please do some homework to analyze in sequence then you will find whether the methods adopted were right or wrong! We doubt you have the capability, capacity and willingness to scrutinize.

A. Tamil Nadu is a Self-Governing State within the Indian Union of States. They enjoy everything all what they want – except Finance, Security and Foreign Affairs. There is no need for them to go for ‘Self-Determination’ unless they are driven to that extent.
B. No. A Big No. Tamils are not like their Sinhalese brethren. If there had been at least a Self-Governing System in place, your question of ‘Muslims*’ would not have emerged in the first place.
Sinhalese and Muslims would have been in equal status in their own units – unlike in Sri Lanka.
C No Tamils are / were critical of LTTE. What do you get out this assumption? Methods- Armed struggle? Yes it’s justified. Those of your examples we never heard of – may be in your beautiful carnivorous Sri Lanka. Malicious fabrications don’t call any attention.
• Let’s ask you, on the street when someone tells you that he is keeping fine; what would do? You will ignore him. Won’t you?
• But when a stranger on the street greets you ‘Good Morning’; you too will greet him in return. Won’t you?
• If a stranger tramples your toe what you would do? You will turn your other cheek to kiss! Will you? You may since you are portraying as preacher. But we will never. This is what is going-on now.

Sylvie,

Okay, you are an Australian. But I still cannot believe you can be so biased and blind to the truth! You seem to be more of a Sinhala chauvinist than some Sinhala chauvinists themselves! You are angry that two Sinhala students were attacked and are ashamed that some Indian students were attacked and robbed, but you wholeheartedly support the COLD-BLOODED MURDER of more than 20,000 children, women and men and the forced internment of more than 300,000 civilians in CONCENTRATION CAMPS by the terrorist state of SL! Terrible double standards! Like brother Nithyananthan says, you seem to be a mouthpiece for some person or organisation!

Take a look at what the Chief Justice of your beloved rogue state has to say [oh, he is an ethnic Sinhala by the way, since the top posts, as well as the entire "defence" (genocide) forces, are only for the Sinhalese]:
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Vanni IDPs live under appalling condition: Sri Lankan Chief Justice

“Vanni IDPs sheltered in transit centres in Cheddiku’lam cannot expect justice under the Sri Lanka’s law. Law of the country does not show any interest on these IDPs. I openly say this. The authorities can penalize me for telling this,” said Sri Lanka’s Chief Justice Sarath N. Silva when he addressed a public meeting which followed the ceremonial opening of a court complex at Marawila in Negombo district Tuesday. These transit centres are described as internment camps by human rights activists.

Sarath N. Silva further said:

“I visited ‘relief villages’ where Vanni IDP families are sheltered. I cannot explain their suffering and grief in words. It is an utter lie if we continue to say that there is only one race and no majority or minority in the country. I visited Cheddiku’lam camps where IDP families live. I cannot explain the pathetic situation they undergo. I was unable to console them. They survive amid immense suffering and distress.

“We construct massive building on our side. But these IDPs live in tent-shelters. Ten IDPs live in one tent-shelter. They could stand straight only in the centre of the tent shelter. Their neck will break down if they move to aside of the tent-shelter.

“IDPs are seen waiting in queues, extending from 50 to 100 yards to take their turn to answer a call of nature. This is the life of Vanni IDPs in Cheddiku’lam camp

“I attempted to smile at these IDPs. But it was without success. I failed to express my feeling towards them. I was unable to tell them that we also were crying with them for their suffering. I was unable to tell them that I would supply new clothes to them.

“They should be provided with enough relief. We would be blamed if we fail to supply them with enough relief.

“They cannot expect justice from the law of the country. Their plight and suffering are not brought to the court of law in our country. I openly say this. I will be penalized for telling this”, said Mr.Sarath Silva who is to retire from the post of Chief Justice at the end June when he reaches 60 years of age.

Sarath Silva’s address was aired with Tamil translation Wednesday night in MTV News bulletin.
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So, even the ethnic Sinhala Chief Justice of Lanka (at great risk to himself), is pricked by his conscience to speak out against the condition of the civilians in the concentration camps and expresses the truth that Tamils cannot get, or even expect, justice under the current terrorist state of Sinhala Lanka! But an ethnic Aussie like you, who lives in a free society and has access to neutral sources of information, cannot look at the situation from a neutral or humanitarian perspective. And yet, you claim to be a neutral person who is searching for the truth!

I’m terribly disappointed with you, lady, to say the least! I don’t think you will ever understand the suffering of the Tamil people, battered and butchered by the rogue state of Sinhala Lanka for decades and now subjected to this century’s most horrific war crimes and crimes against humanity. And it is only getting worse for them, not better.

That doesn’t mean I’m going to wish ill upon you, like you did for me (which I have forgiven). I can only hope the truth dawns upon you and leads you out of the unbelievable web of lies, deceit and falsehood in which you’ve been trapped. May God bless you, Sylvie!

Alien,

I have reproduced below a comment from a lady on the blog of DBSJeyaraj. This may give you an idea why I refer the diaspora as mad.

//Good ones. Really nice and thanks to the two authors. But IMHO the reconciliation proposed in these emails is somewhat easy. After all, I have been in all-Tamil gatherings of my husband and friends cheering on Jayasuriya, Sangakara, Jayewardena and Muralitharan. That gathering of Jaffnese (cannot be accused of being Colombo middle class, by the way) didn’t see one of the above four players as Tamil and the other three as Sinhala; these cheering fans saw them all as Sri Lankan (was the gathering that progressive, or was it the Mendis special they had drunk?).

The challenging reconciliation to contemplate is with the Tamil expatriates who were funding the Tigers and bullying whoever who had a different view (the lucky ones escaped with verbal abuse). On a visit to the UK some years ago, I met a doctor in London who asked me for a financial contribution. “These boys are sacrificing for our cause” she said. Her two children were both in medical school at that time. “Would you ask your children to go and bomb the Central Bank?”, I asked. “Traitor”, she shouted. How am I to reconcile with her? How is DBSJ going to reconcile with the goons who assaulted him in Toronto and shut down his paper?

Right from the early stages of the war, we had hit an equilibrium in which the social class that wanted to keep the war going was distinctly different from the social class from which the cannon fodder kids were being recruited. (To a large extent it was true for the Sri Lankan armed forces as well — how many of our parliamentarians had their children fighting in the front line?). Hence a forward looking peace programme could not be put forward early in the game and have all this nonsense nipped in the bud.

No imagination from one side, no willingness to compromise from the other.

The demonstrations in Europe and Canada, waving Tiger flags and screaming “genocide”, which actually made the SL government ever more determined to win, whatever the cost, are clear evidence of this on the Tamil side. The demonstrations were mainly by people who had nothing to lose. Comfort living for themselves and private education for their own kids, liberation and sacrifice from some poor kid in the Vanni — forced into it with a short hair-cut in recent days. Such hypocrisy! Thank goodness the events of the final days of the war exposed much of this hypocrisy (leadership protecting itself and clinging onto dear life, while recommending cyanide to the lower ranks)!

Someone tell me how we are to reach out and reconcile with the residual hypocrisy in Europe and Canada? What would it take to reform this lot? //

Kumar – As long as people try to make exceptions into examples, they may not be able to see reconciliation. Give equal status to Tamils as a neighboring nation and you will be able to heal the wounds.

The quotation about wealthy sending their kids to the army has been well debated in “Fahrenheit 9/11″ and everybody including USA stand accused.

Kumar,

>I won’t risk the life of my kid” Is this your notion of moral correctness?

Unfortunately Yes. That is the case with all wealthy people in the world.

I do agree with you that the Diaspora could have played a larger role, rather than saying every thing will be taken care by somebody.

However, the prospects of peacefully carving an Independent state now is a positive sign. Lets wait and see.

“However, the prospects of peacefully carving an Independent state now is a positive sign. Lets wait and see.”

Unfortunately for you, this will not happen. The powers that be and forces that matter do not wish to see a separate nation in that small island. And it makes proper geopolitical sense too to not have a teeny weeny state. You can continue to remain in a state of denial like the mad diaspora but reality is bitter. For your information, the infighting has already started in different factions of the overseas factions of ltte to control the 42 million dollars of cash that’s left as of now. The turf war for controlling the immovable assets began in April itself once it was clear that defeat was near. There are about 20 shops in the London area and about 45 shops in Canada and US owned by ltte. In addition, three ships are still left. In the coming days, there may be some unidentified cases of homicides in any of these cities uncovered by the police.The lure of money is very powerful.

Ronin, yes I agree with you, but there exists a slight distinction here. The Africans Americans, since the moment they were bonded into slavery, lost their language, their identity, culture and religion. Whether they pertain to it or not, they largely became Christian, spoke English and lost their culture. Most of which, were all by force. There was no UN back then to accuse the Americans of genocide. In fact there was no world organisation to accuse the Americans or British of genocide.

In retrospect, now there are governments, organisations and individual minds to contend with. Much of which will play a crucial role in the future of Tamils of Sri-Lanka.

This is not the Armenian genocide or African genocides that can be hidden away under the carpet because it happened before the creation of a United Nations. This is the 21st century and we should therefore expect mankind to be wiser than it has ever been.

I doubt that in a few hundred years, the Tamils and Sinhalese will become one people. The reason partly attributed to my assumption that the world is presently more educated than it was back during the time of empires and colonialism. Albeit some organisations like the UN lack “teeth”; but given time their strength and wisdom will hopefully grow.

With all due respect the Tamil situation is different as Tamils are not centralised in one region. It will be interesting to see how potent the voice of Tamils will become when the State of Tamil Nadu turns over that 100million Tamil milestone. Imagine the size and education levels of the Tamil population outside of SL! Now couple that fact with a wiser world. We only need to hang on to our ideology and culture, I am sure of a Tamil Elam. We will not end up like the African-Americans or American-Indians or Australian Aboriginies. I am not saying that any of these people are at a disadvantage, but they did indeed lose their culture and their unique identity by force.

Sylvia bennett , you are no better than anyone. you need some education. thank you. where are the cops?

SUNDERAPANDYAN:
Thank you for your rational and even response. You correctly understand that i am using this blog to search for truth… which is why I have been challenging.
However, I do genuinely strive for an open mind
As you say, it is essential if we are to progress as individuals as well as a species.
I do respect the grief that many thousands are experiencing as a result of this conflict… but please remember too, this grief is being felt by both sides.

Attached below, is a link to the subject concerning problems of Sri Lanka. It is a good, in-depth and unbiased factual analysis written by an independent and well-informed intellectual observer who is believably neither Tamil nor Sri Lankan.
Despite my disagreement with some of writer’s assertions and conclusion, still I am pleased to recommend, it as a typical presentation, to those who are still interested to know; and especially to those who are pretentiously doing research and enabling them to get familiarize with performing theoretical analysis of a disturbing situation and preparing presentation of their observations.
Yet, it is not at all recommended to those gentlemen / ladies who are unwilling to learn and allergic to Tamil, Eelam Tamils and their struggle for liberation. Thank you!

http://www.countercurrents.org/sagar040609.htm

Sunderapandyan,

How can you be sure that Rajapaksa will be tried for war crimes? Let’s not forget that the Rajapaksa rogues have a vice-like grip over Sinhala Lanka and have the backing of an array of diverse rogue states like China, Russia, Pakistan, India, Iran, Israel, Libya, Saudi Arabia etc. Moreover, he has the full backing of the self-styled “gentleman”, that bloody blue-turbaned thug – (inhu)Manmohan Singh and the vile coterie of scum beings like M.K.Narayanan, Shivshankar Menon, Alok Prasad etc. Even the highly incompetent, worthless Ban Ki-Moon is “advised” by a devil-incarnate like Vijay Nambiar, the brother of the lowly mercenary loafer, Satish Nambiar, who has received loads of money from the Rajapaksa rogues to assist them with the genocide as a “consultant” :-x

I don’t share everyone’s optimism about Obama, either. There is no doubt at all that President Obama is an outstanding individual and good human being who has a genuine desire for peace in the world. But is Obama really in charge of the USA? I don’t think so. Though he is an executive President with a lot of power, the USA (like so many countries) is virtually run by a powerful cabal of vested interests. These vested interests don’t have the slightest desire for peace in the Middle-East or the world, don’t have the slightest concern for Human Rights anywhere and don’t have the interests of the USA at heart, either. President Obama is no more than a glorified puppet in their hands, a puppet who is a brilliant speaker and has a great deal of charisma and is a great individual in his own right. But in the end, he has no option but to toe the line of his puppet masters. They will tolerate his speeches and his deviations in policy only to a certain extent. If he begins to apply his own policies or begins to act against those vested interests, keeping the best interests of the American people and the world in mind, the poor chap will be thrown aside, or worse, be assassinated like some Presidents before him.

President Obama has tried to reach out to the Islamic world and make peace with them. This has not gone down well with that notorious, powerful cabal of vested interests. Surely, they have something in their minds to disrupt it. If they don’t plan to assassinate the President (I hope this will not happen, as it will tear America apart), they will carry out a false flag terror attack, put the blame on some non-existent enemy and keep up the violence and create more violence in the Middle-East and elsewhere in the world.

Thank you, brother Nithyananthan! As we know, unfortunately, there are enough traitors and worthless people in Tamil Nadu/living elsewhere, but hailing from TN. Even if these people cannot help, they can do some good by just remaining neutral/shutting up. Instead, they are bent on causing harm. As a Tamil brother from TN and an Indian, I apologise that some of these people hail from my Senthamizh Nadu. They are a real disgrace to humanity. I’ll take your wise advice and leave them alone, even if they decide to write provocative comments in the future.

Kumar:

I have no words for your out of the way, Killing-supporting loyalty for your minority group..And if you feel killing others seeking their rights is the best way to protect the interests of your group, do you think the Alien or the other diaspora dont need to have at least that certain amount of loyalty to ask for their rights of their constituency..

Relatively If you think they are mad, how mad in chauvinism is it for a person to suppress the rights of others to bargain for the benefit of his group?

Calling people you don’t know personally as mad is overstepping one’s right to communicate..is my humble opinion

Kumar

Sorry for loading you with information. Most of what you perceive might be right from your view point. I understand your position and your argument. Its like a survival game for all.

In my opinion, the Diaspora has a bunch of smart brains who will make the right move at the right time. Nothing will happen tomorrow or next month.

There is a saying: Indians plan for the days living, the Chinese for a week, the White man plans for a year. Sri Lanka has chosen its friends and Tamils have also made some friends. The Tamil diaspora now have some good support and advice to draft a strategy. They will soon win the trust of India (hopefully, otherwise we Indians have to bear the brunt of a Chinese strike).

As I said, emotions aside (for all), lets not break our heads with limited information that is available in the public domain. Peace will prevail and at the same time Justice will be delivered.

We have nothing more to debate now. Everyone needs to have patience. “Poruthaar Boomi Aazhvar”.

Alien, there is much work to be done. Don’t waste your time responding to Sinhalese bigots like Sylvia and Kumar. They’re not worth your time. They are here as I said before, not to discuss, but because they are fearful of a United Tamil front. Please continue with writing artcles for your blog and doing all that you can to help the Tamils back home.

Tamils living in the UK were largely a divided community until the war began. Everything has almost changed overnight. I have handed out leaflets to Tamils with a list of good Tamil websites. Knocked on them door to door, “Good evening I am a Tamil like you and can I have a few moments of your time.” I was supprised at how many Tamils live around me that I never knew. One gentleman in his late eighties said, “normally I do not open the door to anyone, because that is the way now, but ever since what happened to our people I was waiting for a sign to make me get up and do something.” Many of these people supported the Tamil resistance only in mind. Many of these people People do not realise this, but the dispora largely supported the resistance in mind. They had their own lives and wellbeing to go into. It is actually people like Sylvia, Kumar that we should be thanking. When I showed some of the Tamils that have lived a very western life with no knowledge of the conflict back home this blog, they read the comments written by Kumar and his ilk. That is what keeps them asking me questions. “How can he write that?” “He cannot be Tamil.” I let the people decide, the more Kumar writes the more Tamils understand. Because we here in western countries, do not write with such venom.

This site is on one of them. We are running Seminars and schools at London Universities to explain the conflict.

My colleague has asked his parents to teach his 8 year old son Tamil when he can barely understand it himself.

Alien, I would like you to know, many Tamils that I have spoken to do indeed support. It is not the Tamils themselves who were pleading with western government to stop the war. The former president of Sri-Lanka and Ranil were both urging western countries both overtly and covertly to put a stop to the bloodshed. They do not want to see a dictator control the government for the next 40 years.

Alien, if we do not do something, the Sri-Lankan government will put another Karuna in the North along with a dubious

Indian history shows that Subash Chandra Bose and Baghat Singh had to happen before Ghandi was taken seriously. For hundreds of years India was occupied. People must have given up all hope. But then it resurfaced again 200 years later. Now India has its independance, but it should never forget its roots. Its roots were in

Even if all the Tamils were forced to speak Sinhalese, forced to be integrated into Sinhalese society for jobs and economy the Tamils would still ask for independance even if its 200 years later. Why did India ask for independance, the British government India better than India is governing itself. There are multiple insurgencies, bitter wars, human rights violations in India. The oppressed has become the oppressors. The Tamil Tiger leader is Subash Chandra Bose and the world is a much easier place to bargain in.

I am glad that the few Tamils that do oppose us, are extremely old. I also want you to know Alien that there is large support from Tamils inside Sri-Lanka for us to continue to press along. Tamils don’t just want equal rights, we want our own freedom with our own rights.

A moderate Sinhalese from Credit Suisse frustrated with my efforts asked me, “why are you doing this, give peace a chance.”

I said to him, “Don’t wriggle with me like a snake, if you genuinely believe my way is the wrong course of action then help me.”

And I told him how:-

Ask the Sri-Lankan president to prosecute officers who had committed crimes to the Tamils and see to it they are actually sentenced. Not let off the hook as had been done in every other case.
Ask the Sri-Lankan president to erect a memorial for the Tamils who were killed in Colombo during the riots explaining it as a Massacre of them for being nothing other than Tamil.
Ask the Sri-Lankan president to have a reconciliation where Tamils can go to court to explain the ordeals they went through and for it to be televised on all Sinhalese major channels.

He then said to me, “What about removing check points, don’t you want that.” I asked, “why”. He said “because they stop Tamils to check if they are a terrorist.” I still said “no”.
He then said to me the following, all of which I said no to:- “Do you want the 13th amendment implemented” “Do you want autonomy” “do you not want federalism” “do you not want Sri-Lanka to be renamed to Ceylon” “Don’t you want a genocide enquiry” etc..

He asked me why I did not want all the aforementioned as like other Tamils do. I said to him quite simply, “You ask me a lot, I ask you very little, but can you give me the very little I ask?”

I asked him to agree with me that my requests were very humble. He agreed. I asked him to do this, to write a personal letter to his president with my requests and take it as his mission. He said to me he can’t do this for one his president will not listen and secondly that the Sinhala masses from the south would never agree to this. He looked disappointed when he told me this, barely making eye contact with me.

He then reiterated to me, that he feels I should stop what I was doing and give peace a chance. He was asking me to do nothing, and for other Tamils to do nothing. He said that the Sinhalese people need time to realise what has happened was wrong.

I informed him that what he is trying to do is actually make a mockery of me. I explained to him that he agreed with all my requests and thought it was more than fair, but he wants me to stop all of my peaceful activities in exchange for nothing.

Believing me to be a moderate he gave me all the “ha-hooey on Tamils as being the most educated and wealthiest in Sri-Lanka, living together in peace already in Colombo.”

I requested he stop and told him that I knew he is one of those few Sinhalese people who wants to live with us not as a conquered people but as equals. But I told him, if you can give me nothing, and ask me to bow down for decades before your people even decide. He then resorted to pleading with me. Its hard for Sinhalese people to find moderate people like me he claims.

I told him I am not moderate as he believed. I explained to him that I do believe in an independent Tamil Elam, but I am willing to sacrifice that ideal if the Sinhalese people can rise above and admit what they have done to the Tamils.

With that note, he continued on. This is a message I want to give to all. I do a lot of things for my Tamil community from running seminars, to schools, to free private tutiton. Yes I do give the Tamils the truth, and that may be propaganda on my part but I am a rational individual. If Sinhalese want me to stop my efforts and teach Tamil children about being Sri-Lankan, then they must first understand the narrative of the conflict. I have been to the mainland, worked with the NGOs and support staff. I only know my side. Us Tamils are capable of great compassion and forgiveness, we only want to live in peace.

I totally agree with your post and feel humbled by it.

I have been in contact with Matthew Lee a couple of times and I suggest that if you have anything you want brought up, to speak to him to.

But you are right, perhaps we should be focusing on explaining those open minded non-tamils of our plight. For now, I had been working to make Tamils more united. I mean, speaking informally here, we do not get this opportunity all the time. I am ashamed to say that even I was sleeping whilst all these issues were going on. I kept telling myself “India” will never let anything happen to the Tamils in SL. I was terribly wrong. I do not blame Tamil Nadu tamils. We are one. But I think let myself believe that the Tamil Nadu Tamils would ensure safety for all Tamils. I do not understand the political situation in South India which is why I do not comment on it. Your the expert in that area not me. But I can tell you alien, that you have a lot of fans both Tamil and non-Tamil. So please continue your good work. I’ll try my best here, but I cannot sleep without thinking of it. I just cannot stop thinking about it. The despair I feel, as if I let all my people down. It is not just me, an overwhelming number of Tamils from all age groups have felt it.

Because of this, it has made me determined. The Sinhalese believe that the war has made those in the dispora radicals. It is not true, its our young who had no inclining of what Tamil Elam was who have become radicalised. Its our job to to explain to them what is happening in a more controlled fashion. Today I spoke to a doctor who just qualified last year. He was overwhelmingly angry and full of hate towards the Sinhalese. I tried to calm him, even though I could understand his anger. He can’t even understand tamil let alone speak it. This is a young man who has enjoyed everything Britain has to offer. It is these Tamils that are vulnerable. They do not understand, they look at the lifestyles and freedom we have in the west and cannot understand for the life of them why our relatives are oppressed in SL. Because of this reason, and this notion alone, how can the Sinhalese ever expect the Tamils in the west to stop supporting the a seperate Tamil Elam. Unless Tamils are given their own rights, to determine their own future and live without fear of the Sinhalese; I can safely speak for the Tamil despora in that, we will get our Tamil Elam first by politically engaging and if not then it will be by war.

In anycase, we win.

Great rhetoric there ‘An alien Earthling.’ But being a keyboard warrior is not going to help anyone in Sri Lanka, especially the Tamils. The LTTE has been taken out and any dreams of a separate Tamil state have been quashed. Now is the time for Tamil moderates to rise to power to save the Tamil community from the fascists who have destroyed it from within.

ALIEN, BOBBY, LES,
The only people you will hurt by continuing to inflame the hatred between these peoples is the Sri Lankans generally, and the Tamil Sri Lankans in particularly. You have let the evils of hatred and violence into your hearts, and don’t know how to let them out.
If you care about the well-being of Sri Lanka and the future respect of all Tamils everywhere, then understand the situation has changed and mediation with peace is the only way forward.

The ONLY people who have to understand that mediation with peace and justice is the way forward are the Sinhala fascist extremists backed by their virulently racist, violent pseudo-Buddhist “monks”. It’s they who harbour the evils of violence, racism, hatred, discrimination, fascism, oppression in their hearts and are not willing to let it go. Not only has the rogue terrorist government of Sinhala Lanka butchered more than 20,000 civilians in cold blood in a few days, but has detained 300,000 civilians in CONCENTRATION CAMPS, prevented any kind of access to them, and worse, has seized a humanitarian ship loaded with relief materials and food:
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Despite repeated appeals by the Directors of Mercy Mission, a humanitarian project with a ship loaded with relief items donated by expatriate Tamils in Europe to help Tamils caught up in the war in NorthEast, Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) has been detaining the Mercy Mission ship the MV “Captain Ali,” for more than three days, and is refusing to allow the 884 metric tons worth of relief items to be unloaded, sources close to the project said. Latest information indicates Colombo is moving towards returning the ship back to international waters, and force the ship to return to its origination port.

An ex-Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) monitor, Mr. Kristjan Guðmundsson, from Iceland, doctors, and humanitarian workers have accompanied the humanitarian relief on board the ship.
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To expect “Sylvie” to see the truth, or to expect civilised behaviour from the rogue Sinhala terrorist state is like expecting a fish to run a full marathon on land. Simply impossible!

“Sylvie” is like a fish that can only live in the ocean of lies, falsehood and deceit of the rogue Sinhala-fascist, pseudo-Buddhist, terrorist state of Sinhala Lanka run by that bunch of nauseating war criminals, the Rajapaksa loafers.

Sunderapandyan

“In my opinion, the Diaspora has a bunch of smart brains who will make the right move at the right time. Nothing will happen tomorrow or next month.”

Yeah, right. Nothing will happen tomorrow or next month and next year and next decade too. Yes,the diaspora has a bunch of smart brains but don’t forget the sinhalese diaspora also has a bunch of smart brains. Btw, all these smart brains were around in the last 20+ years, weren’t they? What then is the net gain now? 280K people behind barbed wire fences?

The LTTE were responsible for a bloody, ruthless, terrorist campaign which served no good to anyone, least of all the Tamils of Sri Lanka.

The LTTE were an illegitimate organization who usurped the voice and aspirations of more moderate Tamils who had some valid claims for redress.

The LTTE murdered the president of Sri Lanka and the president of India and thereby abandoned any claim to legitimacy and any right to speak on behalf of any community.

The LTTE basically wrought destruction on themselves and the entire Tamil community in Sri Lanka and their supporters bear a large measure of this responsibility.

I find no justification whatsoever for support of any further armed insurrection on the part of Tamils in Sri Lanka. So many of the Tamil diaspora community are sadly and dangerously delusional. There is far more balance among Indian Tamils who better understand multiculturalism.

Sri Lanka is not a Tamil/Sinhalese/Muslim nation. It is a single, united country of people who share a common heritage and who have equal claim to a united Sri Lanka. Please leave them to work toward this and if there are any further aspirations for a Tamil Eelam, then make your own Eelam in London, Toronto or Madras and leave the Sri Lankan alone.

The blame of the suffering of Tamils in Sri Lanka rest with the LTTE. May they now rest in peace so that Sri Lanka may develop as a peaceful multi-cultural society. I hope the Tamils of India will support this, rightful cause.

We’ve got another of those notorious, shameless creatures trolling this site :-x

The liar exposes his lies by his own self-contradictory statement – it is the notorious Sinhala-fascist, pseudo-Buddhist criminals who claim that the Sinhalese are the original people of Ceylon and that the Tamils came from outside.

It is well known to the whole world that the rogue state of Sinhala Lanka is a paedophile and sex-tourism paradise. Such is the shameless nature of a few filthy creatures of Sinhala Lanka that they sell their own daughters and sisters to foreign paedophile scum beings :-x not to mention that it is an “export industry” as well – some filthy scum beings even sell their own women to traffickers and other lowly scum beings throughout the Middle-East.

Paedophilia and the “tourism industry” in Sinhala Lanka

In Sri Lanka an estimated 36,000 children are believed to be victims of prostitution, according to a study by UNICEF in 1998. Although girls are sexually exploited both in the sex industry and by sex tourists, many nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) believe that it is boys who face greater abuse by foreign sex offenders. The full extent of child sex tourism and exploitation has been difficult to investigate and document because of its covert nature. However,
PEACE, a Sri Lankan NGO, estimates that some 10,000 children, especially boys, may be involved in child sex tourism.

Local organisations argue that child sex tourism exists because of the level of poverty and unemployment in the areas where it is prevalent. Poorer families are unable to send their children to school and also depend on their labour as a contribution to the family income. The problem of child
prostitution and sex tourism appears to be a major issue in coastal areas, particularly in the South and South West. In these areas it is places such as: Hikkaduwa, Negombo, Colombo, Mt. Lavinia and Galle that report the highest incidence of abuse.

All children from poor coastal and rural communities are vulnerable to sexual abuse. Those between the ages of eight and fifteen living in coastal areas of the country are particularly vulnerable. Others who are from inland rural areas, including street children and child domestic workers are also easily tempted by false promises of employment into situations of abuse.

The children, both boys and girls, are often introduced to sex tourism by a ‘trustworthy other’ who may be community members, neighbours, or known foreigners. In many cases the abusers are older foreign tourists, mainly from Western Europe, who often reside in Sri Lanka for some period of time and travel there frequently. One reason offenders give for seeking children in Sri Lanka is because they perceive them as being submissive compared to children from other countries. However, offenders are also known to ply children with drugs and alcohol, thus making them dependent on them.

Child prostitution in the country is organised through brokers or pimps, although there are some beach areas, such as Hikkaduwa, where the children appear to approach tourists themselves. Sex offenders also search for and approach children themselves when residing or travelling in the centre
of the country. However, Trishaw (three wheeler) drivers are the main and often first point of contact for sex offenders when procuring children for sexual purposes. In some cases, these trishaw drivers are the brokers, but often they work as intermediaries between the sex tourists and pimps.

Many of the sex tourists lure children into sexual abuse by giving them gifts and promising them travel abroad or a better life. Research suggests that most offenders groom the children in this way to gain their trust and then go on to abuse them. It is this grooming that lures many children to the beach
resorts to seek out tourists. Many of the sex tourists are frequent visitors who travel to the same area and visit the same child or children each year. They have been known to gift children with increasingly expensive gifts in order to maintain control over them. Some of these children then go on to become pimps themselves once they have grown older.
Much of the abuse remains undetected and unreported because of its covert nature. A favoured location by sex tourists to abuse children is in village guesthouses and there is some evidence to suggest that the managers of such guesthouses either provide children for sexual abuse or tolerate
the practice in their establishments. Additionally, unscrupulous tour guides are also known to cater for
the demands of sex offenders.

You all the tamils bear in mind that you’ll never receive any damn thing you dream from srilanka. if you cannot live in sri lanka and if you cannot do another war with your disabled population, pls feel free to commit suicide or self immolate.

Banda,

We don’t need any thing from Lanka. What we want is our land Tamil Eelam.

Hi everyone, All real Tamils love the Tamil Tigers and Tamil Eelam. We will fight again and we will. Its just a matter of time. I want to see 20 000 SIN HELL A S KILLED. I want them killed the way they killed my family, brothers and sister. Tigers are in North and East and having a hit and run battles with the SIN HELL A army. The radio ‘Tiger Voice’ is up and back running in SL. I am not talking about revenge, i just want to get even with SIN HELL ESe.

LONG LIVE TAMIL TIGERS!

@BANDA, why dont you go and chat in ur shit, insted of our. Did you read the heading? you dumb poniaya! heheheheh

Alien: as you rightly say – you have a deep bias.
here is a piece from a Doctor in the North East of SL, treating victims of this conflict right now:

http://www.lankanewspapers.com/news/2009/7/46030.html?CH881248217420093&lnprnd=1248217420140&skipcache=y

When, my friend Alien, are you going to really contribute to the well-being of the people of Sri Lanka, and give money for medical aid, housing – or even better, visit and offer whatever skills you have to reconstruction, education or wherever you may be most positively useful.
I am going after the rains for 3 months, to teach in an orphanage which was set-up for children who lost their parents in the Tsunami.

ALIEN: My trip is humanitarian, not political…. although I believe I will learn more from the children than I will be able to teach… I am thrilled, not ashamed to have the opportunity.

Alien, Sylvia is a Sinhala man.

“When, my friend Alien, are you going to really contribute to the well-being of the people of Sri Lanka, and give money for medical aid, housing – or even better, visit and offer whatever skills you have to reconstruction, education or wherever you may be most positively useful.”

This is what the Sinhalese in Australia are saying at the moment. They are self deluded. If you DO NOT REPLY to the Sinhala man Sylvia, then Sylvia will go away.

Ignore Sylvia like all the other people do. The Sinhala badly want the Tamils to stop asking for a seperate state and be part of their country. The Sinhala people need us badly to say this. Your never going to convince sylvia. Sylvia is here to try and convince you. Sylvia is trying to make himself believe his own bag of lies.

Where in the world do you find 300000 in a concentration camp surrounded by barbed wire. Even the Israelis do not do that to the Palestinians. Alien you know the facts more than I do. For the love of Elam ignore this fool. Look how much you write for that peasant.

We have a chance now to politically demand for an independant state. It took India a couple hundred years before it could become independant! I promise you it wont take the Tamils that long.

Sylvia is saying nothing but reiterating those Sinhala views. Let Sylvia imagine that he teach at those orphanages. What chance do 15 million Sinhala stand against the strong Tamil world population plus EU + US.

Hi my Tamil brothers and sisters, Dont worry about Sylvia, she is stuffed in her head. I know her for a long time. She need to be admitted at a mental hospital. She is a danger to our community.
LOVE TAMIL TIGERS, THEY ARE REGROUPING IN SL AND AROUND THE WORLD. WILL BE BACK TO START WAR 5 SO JUST A MATTER OF TIME. THIS TIME ITS NUG. THE WAR WONT LONG TOO LONG.

BOBBY

Can anyone with expertise in Tamilnadu, please try to hack the fake, racist and slanderous Sinhala website :
http://www.tamilnet.tv
[its the fake of the original tamilnet.com]

Thambi Bobby! Don’t get yourself be upset so much. Be calm and read the message carefully. The commentator has observed so carefully and found the fakeness and exposed it to the public and asking someone to hack and disable it. His good intent is admirable. The fakeness is all about the ‘Website’ only – not about the contents and the exposure or authenticity / validity of the exposed crime. Fakeness is between the original website ‘Tamilnet.com’ Vs ‘Tamilnet.tv’. Keep the flag flying!

The action taken to local and national disasters is great but it’s a damn shame that so many people take advantage of the sad situations.

I mean everytime there is an earthquake, a flood, an oil spill – there’s always a group of heartless people who rip off tax payers.

This is in response to reading that 4 of Oprah Winfreys “angels” got busted ripping off the system. Shame on them!
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/08/19/crimesider/entry5251471.shtml

Please point me to an encyclopedia for such massacres, not a site that begins with the name of your community??? It is like saying that if I want to see the massacres of all the afghans I should go to http://www.,afghanrus.com..

Please your your loaf.

In a grievous insult to We Thamizh everywhere, the Sinhaloids have once again celebrated the exclusive TAMIL ONLY™ new year by audaciously calling it the ‘Sinhala and Tamil Avurudu’! Eww!

Every good Thamzih kazhuthai knows that the April new year celebration is a wholly Tamil affair and it was copied by all south and south-east Asian cultures such as the Sikhs, Nepalese, Assamese, Bengalis, Oriyas, Malayalis, Thais, Laotians and others because We Thamizh are obviously the most superior race in the world (which is why we are still stateless).

But it is the Sinhaloids who have a serious lack of originality and copy us even more! This is COPYCAT GENOCIDE™! To make things worse, the Sinhaloids have totally gone on a wholesale bout of COPYCAT GENOCIDE™ by copying our TAMIL ONLY™ food like kokis, kavum and other cheap copies they call ‘rasa kavili’ in their inferior language. This not only proves that Tamils are superior to Sinhaloids (as we’ve mentioned many times before) but that the whole of Sri Lanka should be Tamil Eelam because our influence is islandwide!

What’s more, this year’s TAMIL ONLY™ new year rubs more salt into our wounds because our wonderful Maveerars aren’t there to share the joy with the Sinhaloids anymore. This is an absolute abomination in what should be a time of great mirth and we demand a UN investigation into this!

Rome: An Indian priest who confessed to sexually abusing a 10-year-old girl in the central Italian province of Abruzzo could face up to 12 years in jail. Under Italian law, the penalty for sexual violence against a child under the age of 14 ranges from six to 12 years. The 40-year-old priest, who has been named as ‘David’, comes from the southern city of Madurai in Tamil Nadu. He was released from prison in the town of Teramo, 175 km northeast of Rome, Thursday and remains under house arrest in an undisclosed location, believed to be a local convent. “He is feeling relieved now that he is under house arrest,” said Davide Pagnottella, a priest and friend from the Teramo diocese told AKI. Pagnottella said it was not clear when the priest’s court hearing would be held since the timetable was up to the judiciary. He it should be recognised as “an isolated case” and justice should be allowed to take its course. “He has suffered a great deal because he understands the seriousness of what he has done,” Pagnottella said. “Naturally he is part of a culture that is very different to our own,” he said. “He is having trouble with the language, and this has created more problems on top of his psychological pain.” Pagnottella said the priest had not had any contact with his ailing mother since he returned to Italy from India Monday. The priest Wednesday admitted to visiting the girl at her home Dec 19 last year and after offering her a Santa Claus doll placed her hand on his genital area. His defence lawyer Giovanni Gebbia could not be contacted Friday but previously declined to discuss the potential sentence his client may face. He said his client had been singled out because of the “current climate” after a wave of sexual abuse allegations by priests has shaken the Catholic Church in the US, Germany, Ireland, Italy and several other countries. The Vatican is now strongly urging bishops to report abuse cases to civil authorities if required by local law.

Sylvie. We Thamils have suffered enough. We tried to teach the Singalese a lesson although we did not succeed. You don’t know what our “boys” are capable of. So you are either with us or against us. Already your prime minister is against us and we should teach his people a lesson. That is what our beloved Thalaivar told us – we must teach those who are against us a lesson even if it means bringing misery to them! We Tamils are a great people – the oldest civilization in the world and we deserve respect from everyone else. Do you know that the aborigines in Australia are our cousins. They too are Dravidians like us. You see, therefore we Thamils deserve Australia better then those who were put there as British prisoners. If we don’t get what we deserve peacefully, then we have to take it by force.

Sylvie. Who are you to question our intelligence? You have no right to do that. We know what our capabilities are. You offend us and insult us like the Singalese fellows. We shall find you. We are all over. You will regret tormenting us. Thamils are great people. We can be good friends but can be bad enemies too. So don’t talk like that unless you are looking for misery. You will regret it.

Thamil Hero = patriot (sinhala fool)

So good to see Sinhala fuckwits live and kicking pretending to be Tamil.

Wanna be us, too bad….

Sylvie FO. You stupid bit ch. I love tamil tigers. I sinhala fuckwits. I will also teach my kids and my dogs to hate and kill sinhala fucks. you shut your hole and suck some abos cocks.

thamil hero, thanks brother. fu ck the white people if they dont like us. Tamil tigers will come back once they get rid of the SL Presedent his bro and rahul gandi until then lets all unite and help our people in sri lanka. I know sylvie, she use to be on this site. I use to tell her off so she disappered. I am back now.

Yes Bobby. We shall show the whole world what Thamil people are made of. We were warriors in the past and will be warriors always – like our beloved deceased Thalaivar.

What a load of rubbish Nithy. You mean to say when the Singalas are treating us like this we should have turned the other cheek and been polite to them without taking arms against them? You seem to imply that only when we encounter a white bitch that we have to be polite and be gentle like a newspaper vendor? So you are saying we should discriminate between our own enemies? These white people are the ones who have created all these problems for us in our countries. They are our no.1 enemy – whether they are in UK Australia USA or Norway.

Sylvie or whatever your bullshit name is I dont give a shit about you or your ideas. You can fu ck your self you little white wh ore. You have no Tamil friends in Sydney. I use to live in sydney so dont bullshit. I would give you some enlightening down there to you if you dont make any sense next time. TAMIL TIGERS RULES. WE WILL BE BACK TO KILL ME OF YOUS AND SIN HELLAS FUCKERS. TIME WILL SPEAK. SOON THE NEUK COME THE BETTER.

LOVE THE TAMIL TIGERS.

what is happening in the world muruga? now the netherlandans are arresting our boys. why are they doing this to us? everywhere they are harressing us. this is genocide. we must all fast until death. i will live as an indian but will die for thamil eelam.