The LTTE should release all the Tamil civilians it is holding hostage. That would be the first step in reducing the suffering.

“Nazi-style concentration camps” ?

‘Facilities much better than those provided for refugees in India’

A press release from the office of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar clarifies that following his visit to IDP welfare centres in Vavuniya in Sri Lanka’s Northern Province, “Sri Sri acknowledged that the facilities in the camps are much better” than “those the Indian Government has provided for the Kashmiri pundits and those provided for Sri Lankan Tamils in Tamil Nadu.” He was also of the view that “the relief materials sent by India to Sri Lanka are completely insufficient” and regretted that “Indian businessmen have not rushed to support the people there.”

http://www.hindu.com/2009/04/27/stories/2009042759991100.htm

I express my heartfelt gratitude to the renowned maker of classy films, Mr. Shekhar Kapur. In an outrageously misinformed world, where a deliberate genocide is being hidden from the world by the worthless “mainstream media” and Tamil civilians are subjected to inhuman treatment in Nazi-style concentration camps, he is one of the very few prominent Indians (non-Tamil), and indeed a true global citizen, who is really concerned about the shocking and dire humanitarian situation in Lanka. It’s due to a small group of individuals like Mr. Kapur that one still gets the feeling that humanity is not dead in all human beings. Thank you very much, Mr. Kapur!

The filthy toilet paper The Hindu and its sewer journalist N.Ram are paid for by the same bunch of criminal scum beings who murdered the courageous Sinhalese journalist, Lasantha Wickrematunga. A CONCENTRATION CAMP is a CONCENTRATION CAMP, no matter what the filthy criminals in the Sinhala regime or their ass-lickers may say:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article5721635.ece

CONCENTRATION CAMPS are a fact no matter what that filthy swine N.Ram and his coterie may lie to the world:

http://uk.truveo.com/BBC-News-Concentration-camps-in-Sri-Lanka/id/6499056

More proof of CONCENTRATION CAMPS where inhuman atrocities are being perpetrated by the bas****s in the filthy Sinhala army:

http://www.nowpublic.com/world/sri-lankas-refugee-concentration-camps

And who is the main supplier of filthy weapons to the stinking rats in this Sinhala regime? The nototious criminals in the Chinese Communist Party, of course, the very same criminals who butcher their own prisoners to sell their organs. A sewer journalist like N.Ram, in the pay of both the filthy CCP regime and the stinking rats in the Rajapaksa regime has to remain loyal to both his masters and therefore publishes vile, filthy lies in his toilet paper called The Hindu:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6207487.ece

Proof that the lowly Sinhala war criminals have bombed the “safe zone” with heavy weaponry, something that the paid sewer rats in The Hindu will never tell you:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/02/sri-lanka-bombs-safe-haven

AHA! Feedjit tells us that someone from Negombo in Western SL has just visited this page recently. Proof of cowardice! Someone with a name like “Rajanayake” or even “Rajapaksa” is disguising himself as “Raj” on this post!

Tamils living outside Sri Lanka know the truth. -because they have relatives who have been killed/injured in the North-East of SL. Many in the Tamil Diaspora have been victims of Sri Lankan State terror / Army atrocities.

ALL OF THESE SRI LANKAN STATE ATROCITIES HAVE BEEN DOCUMENTED WITH FULL EVIDENCE WITH HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANISATIONS. You can check with them yourselves. Or check the reports published on Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and the Red Cross.

International Media should not become a mouthpiece of the Sri Lankan govt. Please report the TRUTH or atleast publish the reports from Tamil Journalists, Politicians and Medical Staff.

I remind you, the Sinhala people are NOT SUFFERING!

But the Tamil people ARE SUFFERING!!!!

- Tamils are living in fear in Sri Lanka. They have a miserable life.

- Tamils are afraid of the Sri Lankan Police & Army.

- Tamils are living in fear of Sinhala Thugs, Criminals: ex-Sinhala Army Soldiers who deserted SL Army, Drug Dealers and other criminals.

- Tamils are living in fear of Kidnappers. Most are kidnapped at random by Sri Lankan Intelligency Agency (Secret Police) and tortured for information on LTTE.
- many innocent Tamils languish in Prisons today
- many innocent Tamils have been brutally TORTURED?

- many Tamil girls have been RAPED by the Sinhala SL Army. (Yes, the same army, more than a 100 of them, who got caught red-handed in Haiti on their UN mission)

Would the Sri Lanka Govt/Army (Sinhalese) have fired artillery/mortar shells, indiscriminate Aerial Bombardments, Cluster Bombs & Chemical Weapons if the civilians were actually Sinhalese? (No! ofcourse not!)

HELP SAVE TAMILS

> website >

sites.google.com/site/helpsavetamils

INDICTMENT AGAINST SRI LANKA: WAR CRIMES, GENOCIDE

> website >

TamilNation.org/indictment/index.htm

HIGLY RECOMMEND read >>>

http://www.tamilnation.org/intframe/tamileelam/index.htm

Read the ‘International Frame’ section (USA, UK, India, China, Pakistan, Israel & Iran involvement in SL)
on website >>> TAMILNATION.org

Kids recruited by LTTE surrender, reveal horror stories

VK Shashikumar / CNN-IBN

Even as the Sri Lankan army claims that the LTTE is counting its days, thousands of children in the island who were recruited by the terror outfit have surrendered. Forcefully recruited by the rebels, the children and survivors recount horrific tales of the LTTE’s brutalities.

One of the child soldiers who surrendered, Sasi Kanakariga Pillai says, “We used to go to school, but were always in hiding. If the LTTE found out that we were at home they would catch us. They would give some training and deploy us as LTTE fighters.”

LTTE forcefully recruited thousands of children like Sasi to bolster its strength.

“They caught me. I trained with them for two months. I managed to escape,” he adds.

There are many such shocking revelations which have come to fore in the refugee camps where LTTE’s forced recruits and their parents are taking shelter. They are happy to have escaped the clutches of the rebels.

Principal Bhartiya Vidyalaya Kilinochi, Rajendra says, “I am a principal in a school where we lost 100 students in the war. They were recruited by the LTTE and used in the war. I also ran away on March 18 at midnight to save my 18-year-old daughter. If I was there, they would have taken her away. I saw most of the children being taken away by the LTTE.”

Visuals of the LTTE stealing and hoarding UN supplies is now telling the world how ruthless this terrorist group was to its own people as the Tamil civilians who escaped the fury of the war tell tales of the atrocities meted out to them by the rebels.

Assistant Director of Eduction in Mullaitivu, K Selvarasan says, “I think they are in a small area. I think they will be toothless soon. They have to run away to escape. But people are not with that side. For the past few months, sugar was Rs 1000 per kg and rice was Rs 500 per kg. People died of poverty and hunger because they could not purchase anything.”

It was known for three decades that LTTE recruited child soldiers and stories of survivors will make it difficult for the LTTE to re-establish itself as a guerilla force.

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/kids-recruited-by-ltte-surrender-reveal-horror-stories/91553-2.html

With blessings secured from around the world under the unimpeded support and patronage of scavenging Indian Congress party, the Gang of three embarked on their patriotic mission since, November 2008, to liberate the herded Tamils from their homes and lands. Slipping through a number of targeted of dates of accomplishment, the liberation struggle is still going on without an end in sight! Mr. Raj, as the cheer-leader with his likes, is calling, pleading and begging the LTTE Terrorists, at regular intervals, to release the civilians – branding them as hostages – as the wolf is shedding crocodile tears looking at the goat wetting in the rain. What a pity? How foolish are these! Don’t they all feel shame of begging the Terrorists? On one hand, they may pat on their back thinking that they are giving a helping hand to the undertakers, but on the other they fail to realize that it is also giving wrong signals to both the interested and uninterested parties and be seen as mission impossible – a futile attempt turned utter failure! A simple solution to put an end once and for all is the Nuke. Ask the Congress led government before it retires into oblivion for one or two. No one is going to question! Now is the right opportune time. All the planets have joined hands and dance together to the one and only tune Anti-Tamil Theme. It’s an unusual, unbelievable and incredible occurrence – it happens once in a blue moon. Never miss the opportunity make hay while Sun shines!

How about the 150, 000 Tamils the Sinhalese military is holding hostage in internment camps?

Will they even be allowed to telephone their relatives?

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar has become a world authority?

Why are relatives, media, aid groups and even UN banned from free access to these detention camps?

We, the Eelam Tamils, are so pleased to read a few soothing words of sympathetic attention, care and concern that are characteristics to a true son of Mother-India; especially a person from an illustrious Indian Iconic, silver-screen family and currently an international celebrity in film industry Mr. Shekhar Kapur. Than you very much, Sir! May God bless you!

A State Terrorism – LTTE Tigers and Khalistanis
By Balbir Singh Sooch, Advocate, Ludhiana
The similarities and dissimilarities

1. In the both cases, let me first bow my head before the warriors who sacrificed wittingly or unwittingly for the cause though their sacrifices were/are cashed by the Indian government sponsored and named militants. The people acted under the garb of different names like parties, committees, associations, organisations, intelligentsia etc of either form submitted to follow the dictates of central agencies especially trained and meant for achieving the desired results.
2. The LTTE Tigers used their own Tamils i.e. the civilians as human shields in Sri Lanka as always the breaking news and reports coming in, whereas in the past and during the real encounters, Sikh militants never did so.
3. Then, only the Indian security forces used the civilians especially villagers as human shields but the Sikh warriors died or escaped unharmed bravely after proving their skill in such encounters which is a matter of record and they (Sikhs militants as warriors) will always be remembered in the history.
4. But, the Sikh Vichar Manch could not restrain and appealed, “Please don’t inhumanly treat ‘LTTE Tigers’ in custody as were Sikhs treated and eliminated in India and the maltreatment to Sikhs continues though tactically. Presently, the civilians and ‘LTTE Tigers’ including Sri Lanka forces involved are facing very hard and the worse situation in the specific field area and they need all humanitarian help. Please all concerned must intervene for help, peace and justice.” UN actively provided the same and continuing to do so.
5. The LTTE Tigers were prepared to fight for the liberation of their people in order to control and disintegrate the other country i.e. Sri Lanka whereas the Sikh struggle planned to weaken the Akalis and degrade Sikhs religiously for the political reasons and also for the elusion of Sikh Sovereignty in connivance with the traitors.
6. The LTTE Tigers used their own Tamils i.e. the civilians as their human shields and continuing so, whereas, in the real encounters with Sikh militants, the Indian security forces used the civilians especially villagers as human shields but Sikh warriors died bravely after proving their skill in such encounters and they (Sikhs militants as warriors) will always be remembered in the history.
7. The surrender of LTTE Tigers is real and when the Sikh fighters were always first captured then shown their surrender in stage managed dramas.
8. At the end, the LTTE leadership no longer has the option of fleeing to another country whereas the remaining Sikh militants named most-wanted, black listed and Cats made to flee to other countries with an understanding and, they and their associates-supporters were/are being supported and rewarded out of Gurdwaras offerings-Khalistan funds by the central agencies.
9. The LTTE Tigers and so named Sikh militants misbehaved with the civilians and both kept the respective population terrorised at the instance of their masters.
10. Both were taught to adopt undemocratic means and kill opponents and innocents whenever instructed or directed to do so.
11. Whereas LTTE Tigers are in process to be destroyed by the government of Sri Lanka, making them incapable permanently to revive for the nefarious designs and the future of the survivors is uncertain. But, so named Sikh militants fallen in lap of central agencies and are kept reserve.
12. Prabhakaran and his comrades were prepared only to continue the war and that they never stood for peace on the other hand main functionaries of “Sikh movement of Khalistan” were assigned specific task to do, for specified period then surrender as posing ‘Sikh Heroes’ now being identified as most-wanted, black listed and Cats within and outside India.
13. LTTE tigers would always be used as Tamil card in the democratic process in Tamil Nadu. The main functionaries of “Sikh movement of Khalistan” as existing today will never participate in democratic process to harm the main central parties as presently congress as a ruling party is being considered the only genuine national party for them or they would be asked to be away from the democratic process for fear of their exposure. However, they will or some individuals out of them may be kept in the field harming Sikh interest and showing them supporting democratic process if they appear to be an effective alternative to the Akali party and the SGPC.
14. LTTE tigers were trained initially to be sincere and sympathetic with their people i.e. Tamils. The surviving named Sikh militants including most-wanted, black-listed and cats among modern Sikhs “true Sikhs”, as they are directly or indirectly dealing with ‘Guru’s Golak’ i.e. ‘Guru’s Charity Box’ and were asked to carry on grinning but must look like militants in behavior and actions especially with the Sikhs as I personally interacted with such militants and experienced.
15. The LTTE Tiger’s main functionaries were sincere to their cause i.e. to fight for the liberation of their people in order to control and disintegrate the other country i.e. Sri Lanka. But on the other hand, named Sikh militants i.e. main functionaries were reverse to it.
16. Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal’s party, Akali Dal shall never or may occasionally project its fundamentalist and unpatriotic face for political bargaining only. The Chief Minister will only say the “Khalistan” movement was also the creation of the Congress (may not be ready and willing to name and blame Indian central agencies in this case and thus shall always suppress the truth and similar is the case of ‘The Great Sikh Hope’ men like Dr Manmohan Singh within Sikhs) which had specially invited Ganga Singh Dhillon etc from the US to launch the movement to defame the Akalis and CM shall always stress more on communal harmony in Punjab to influence the voters without naming insiders, so named Sikh militants with the idea, to bring them in main Sikh mainstream. That’s why, they (Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and Dr Manmohan Singh) would always be known as the wonderful personlalities.
17. The militants, who survived have shameful future in the eyes of law abiding and the people appreciating democratic process of respective communities/state. However, Indian State can misuse them anytime as they will never have independent living and the decision makes power.
18. That in both cases, the control was centralized, the LTTE tigers seem to be functioning directly under the centralized command of expert intelligentsia (generalists) whereas Sikh struggle was centrally supervised to achieve the fatal results, functioning under the specialists as modern Sikhs “true Sikhs” as stated, not generalists. They also include some illiterates along with trained imported intellectuals from other states to Punjab in the garb of Sikhi and the administration was/is mainly controlled by all means by Non-Sikhs with a different mask.
19. LTTE Tigers communication network was more effective as they were fighting for to disintegrate the other country. But, on the other hand, after the warriors, the dummy protests were allowed by Sikh named militants who participated openly and silently in the genocide of Sikhs in India. Are they being projected so deceptively and by whom? Why?
20. After LTTE Tigers defeat, the role of surviving LTTE cadre is yet to be seen but the protests by surviving named Sikh militants are being taken non-seriously by government for the maltreatment of Sikhs since long in India. Indian state has provided the elements a space to function, issue pamphlets, organise seminars etc. In fact, it is generally known that many of these so called panthic organisations are routinely used by the police to issue statements…… In many cases, the press hand-outs are prepared by the police and merely distributed to the selected media in their name for glorifying them. They are taught to observe teachings of Sikh religion more in breach than in practice.
21. For the reasons, it is rightly said, “The thieves, bad characters, rascals, rouges, ruffians and gangsters are headmen of communities (Chor Uchakke Te Chaudhary Gunde Ne Pardhan) said by Daler Mehandi, the prominent singer who faced police brutality for refusing to pay a heavy sum of bribe to the police in bargain for not involving him in criminal case(s)”.
22. Finally, it seems the whole world knew and India realized in particular that it was wrong and deceptive to kill and wipe out Sikhs inhumanly on one side, for the elusion of their Sikh sovereignty, and on the other hand, encouraging and supporting the liberation movements in neighboring countries and within by all means to cause unrest and disturb peace there always as per choice and option. For example, as India acted so far in the case of LTTE tigers in Sri Lanka etc. Was India not exposed and isolated in the world for the reasons of her deceptive and inhuman policies since long? Now, Indian coastal security agencies are on high alert. What for?
23. Now, that the war in Sri Lanka is coming to an end after the hardships the armed forces and the country faced. The double standard politics was/ is at its peak. The LTTE Tiger faced defeat after a 26-year fight for a separate Tamil homeland in Sri Lanka and had only small number of fighters holding out in a strip of land on the northeast coast at the end but Sikhs were and are facing defeat daily in India.
24. Is it a well known fact that at one time Europe in general and Sweden in particular were instrumental in supplying arms to LTTE as India did? Similar, remained the suspense in case of Sikh militants so far, as to who was supplying arms to them.
25. There is no dearth of good people on ‘Earth’. But, we expect always more than geology and divinity like scientists and theologians. After the ceasefire, the political situation in Sri Lanka and elsewhere should prove better than India. Please link to read the Related Articles: The maltreatment to Sikhs and the Politics in India and more…..:
http://www.sikhvicharmanch.com/Content%20Page.htm
http://www.sikhvicharmanch.com/Books-Sarkari%20Zabar%20di%20dastan.htm
http://www.sikhvicharmanch.com/Religiou%20Politics-Slow%20poisining%20in%20Punjab.htm
http://newsblaze.com/story/20090422052915zzzz.nb/topstory.html
http://www.sikhvicharmanch.com/Personalities-Dr%20Manmohan%20Singh,%20Prime%20Minister%20of%20India.htm
PRAYER:
Will UN, US, UK and other powerful countries take a notice all of these highlights including the similarities and dissimilarities to bring peace and provide the justice in the true sense in the world?
Submission by Balbir Singh Sooch, Advocate, Ludhiana
May 2, 2009
http://www.sikhvicharmanch.com
svmanch@gmail.com

Raj Sir, to complete your story: Many that did not join LTTE, were shelled and killed by Sri Lanka in thousands.

Surprising that a fellow Indian is able to see things clearly.

Kill or be killed: 11-year-olds forced to fight for Tamil Tigers

Matt Wade

May 5, 2009

IT IS hard to imagine Christine* in combat. But the diminutive 14-year-old with a cheeky smile and dancing eyes knows how to handle a Kalashnikov and detonate grenades.

A Tamil speaker from northern Sri Lanka, Christine says she was abducted by Tamil Tiger cadres in March and forced to undergo military training. She performed drills using dummy weapons in preparation for battle and, as with many female recruits, her hair was cut short.

“I was full of fear when they came and took me,” she said. “I was crying every day.”

http://www.smh.com.au/world/kill-or-be-killed-11yearolds-forced-to-fight-for-tamil-tigers-20090504-asm4.html

Oh well! Rajanayake/Rajapaksa from Negombo disguising himself as “Raj” is back on this post to do some paid propaganda work for the SinHELLese rogue regime.

I wonder if Rajanayake/Rajapaksa from Negombo has heard of Lasantha Wickrematunga, the most fearless journalist in all of South Asia, who was brutally butchered by a government death squad? Of the editorial “And then they came for me”, a letter from the grave in which the late Lasantha exposes his murderers from the rogue Rakapaksa regime? Or of his equally fearless wife who now livws in exile fearing for her life from Rajapaksas’ death squads? Here is what she has to say:

“The free Sri Lanka in which I was born no longer exists. Our country has entered a Dark Age characterized by tyranny and state-sponsored terror, where the government publicly, cynically and unapologetically equates democratic dissent to treason,” it said.

“The sinister white van in which the state abducts its perceived enemies including journalists, many of them never to be seen again, has become a symbol of untold dread.”

“Yet, we need to remember that violence against journalists is only the tip of the iceberg. Tens of thousands of ordinary Sri Lankan civilians-men, women, children, and the aged-have been herded into concentration camps where they are held against their will.”

“That this is a racist war is not a secret. I would not go so far as to use the word genocide, but it would not surprise me to see it used in future international legal action against the government.”

“The government itself has plastered the countryside with enormous placards lauding the military with the slogan, in Sinhala, the language of the Sinhalese majority to which I too, belong, stating: ‘Soldiers, our race salutes you!’ Not ‘the people’, not ‘the country’, but the race.”

“Interestingly, none of these hoardings are in Tamil, the language of the people the government claims it is seeking to liberate.”

“It is urgent and important that the world realizes what is happening in Sri Lanka before it is too late.”

“I beseech you and anyone who will listen not to allow Sri Lanka’s government, under the cover of a war against terror, to engage in acts of terror or crimes against humanity. Soon it will be too late, and history will not forgive us if we do not act now.”

Joe Thloloe, President of the jury and Press Ombudsman of the Press Council of South Africa, said “Lasantha Wickrematunge continues to inspire journalists around the world.”

“Jury members were moved to an almost unanimous choice by a man who was clearly conscious of the dangers he faced but nevertheless chose to speak out, even beyond his grave,” said Thloloe, referring to the laureate’s posthumous editorial.

That powerful editorial, which was reproduced in newspapers in other countries, Mr. Wickrematunge blamed the Rajapakse regime for his murder, which he situated in the wider disintegration of the country’s processes of democracy, press freedom and so on.

I wonder if Rajanayake/Rajapaksa reads The Sunday Leader or has even heard of it? Or does he just read the SinHELLese toilet papers and the one published out of Chennai that exemplifies sewer journalism which calls itself The Hindu? Here is what The Sunday Leader has to say about the rogue Rajapaksa regime:

As the world celebrates World Media Freedom Day today, the Sri Lankan media is compelled to record 29 months of horror and counting.

The year 2009 had a horrifying beginning with state oppression of the media at its highest. The first incident was an arson attack on MTV/MBC networks and the culmination of violence was the brutal slaying of The Sunday Leader Founder Editor Lasantha Wickrematunge on January 8.

It did not stop there, soon after Rivira Editor Upali Tennakoon was assaulted together with his wife causing them to leave Sri Lanka.

Since the ascendancy to power in November 2005, the Rajapakse regime had made every attempt to regulate and prevent the emergence of dissenting opinion in a country that suffers from the spillover effect of an intensified, protracted war.

In a period of gloom for media freedom, perhaps the only heartening recent development was the release of Sudar Oli Editor N. Vidyatharan. Yet, his arrest which originally had tell-tale signs of an abduction that marked an all time low in Sri Lankan media freedom, with regulations to curb terror being used in the arrest of the senior journalist finally culminated in his unconditional release.

Amidst the latest developments of a murky kind is the sudden and unexplained recalling of former editor of The Nation, Lalith Alahakoon from Sri Lanka’s mission in Islamabad within days of being appointed.

Alahakoon, a veteran journalist counting nearly three decades in journalism was virtually forced out of his newspaper when he was not assigned any duties, following a change of hands at the newspaper’s management level.

The Nation too had suffered shocking violence when its Deputy Editor and defence columnist Keith Noyahr was abducted and assaulted allegedly for insightful reporting on the conflict. Noyahr is among the journalists who fled the country and is lucky to be alive. The beleaguered paper’s former CEO, Krishantha Cooray continues to live in exile following repeated threats to his life after the assault on Noyahr.

The Sunday Times defence columnist and contributor to Janes Defence Weekly, Iqbal Athas has been publicly branded a terrorist by this government who had his name on many occasions listed in government websites saying as much, as well as verbally referring to him as a pariah.

State sponsored terror campaign

The terror campaign against Athas has forced the highly respected veteran journalist into taking refuge overseas and in similar vein to Krishantha Cooray he currently lives overseas and does not write his popular column, The Situation Report in The Sunday Times.

In the past few months, if a singular group of journalists have come under more serious threat than others, in the south, it had been the defence writers. Noyahr and Athas are but the tip of the iceberg with many opting not to write their columns fearing reprisals.

The other vulnerable group of journalists, are those of Tamil ethnicity, hounded and viewed with suspicion due to their ethnicity in a country that boasts of a multi cultural identity with a constitution that denounces discrimination of all kinds.

In a list of 11 journalists killed, seven are of Tamil ethnicity.

So far, the incidents document 28 assaults, 13 arrests and five abductions.

It is natural in such an oppressive climate to experience less visibility of dissenting opinion with the unwritten rule appearing to be that silence is not just golden but also life saving.

It is in this backdrop that Reporters Without Borders ranked the island 165th out of 173 countries in the 2008 Press Freedom Index, the lowest ranking of any democratic country while the International Federation of Journalists (IJF) has named Sri Lanka ‘one of the five most deadly places for journalists.’

Rajapaksas’ blatant killings and abductions of journalists

On February 8, The Sunday Leader published some 40 incidents of killings, assaults and abductions of journalists and referred the list to various police stations that were supposedly investigating into the incidents. The police authorities had no information to offer about any of the incidents.

And the statistics have increased with more harassment being recorded, including the arrest of Vidyatharan, the assault and knifing of a Batticaloa based editor Rahmathulla and the abduction of Dr. Dhammika Dissanayake, a senior lecturer at the Sri Jayewardenepura University.

When the list of these horrendous crimes against the media was referred to Police Spokesperson SSP Ranjith Gunasekera, he always had a standard response. “Investigations are continuing.” There is no need to over-emphasise police inaction and the lax attitude of the authorities.

If the truth be known, there is a pattern to these killings, assaults and abductions. The victims have been largely defence correspondents, those critical of the manner in which the war is being executed, and those such as Wickrematunge clamouring for good governance.

The media coverage on some of these aspects appeared to have enraged the state that openly advocates a policy of crushing opposing views.

The lawlessness experienced when Richard de Zoysa was murdered is now being experienced many fold with systematic elimination of dissenting voices taking place.

Sheer lawlessness in SinHELLa Lanka

It is also significant to note that media practitioners and activists together with civic organisations have been clamouring for the liberalising of the media through the introduction of a new act granting access to information. Despite agreement between the two main parties, the 2004 draft of a Freedom of Information Act collects dust in a closet. Instead there is unabashed violence unleashed against the media.

The Sunday Standard suffered tremendously when Chairman Tiran Alles and Managing Director Dushyantha Basnayake were arrested and kept in custody for months for alleged LTTE links, only to be released later without charges being framed. But the vilification of the institution commenced when a Tamil translator cum reporter, Parameshwary was arrested by the TID on uncorroborated charges only to pay her compensation later when the Supreme Court declared her rights were violated through an arbitrary arrest.

When compiling this gruesome report that signifies Sri Lanka’s sheer lawlessness and the safety concerns of the media practitioners, we have been liberal in not make passing references to the dozens of journalists threatened, harassed and intimidated, sometimes by top defence officials, ministers and military or police spokespersons.

We have also ignored recording arson and grenade attacks, closure of institutions, economic pressure being applied and attempts to introduce repressive laws.

Such details appeared inconsequential given that human life had lost its value in this country.

Rogue SinHELLa Lanka makes life impossible for journalists

As the world speaks of access to information and national legislation to that effect, UN resolutions calling for safety of journalists be given expression to, in Sri Lanka, it is about right to life.

As for the Media Minister Anura Priyadarshana Yapa’s statements, nothing less than milk and honey flow in this land. Addressing the South Asia Free Media Association (SAFMA) conference in 2008 held in Colombo, Yapa declared that there were 14 TV stations, 32 radio stations and 23 newspapers with immense circulation with private media institutions outnumbering the state controlled. What he forgot to mention was the frightening record during his period of three years as Media Minister.

RSF in a report titled Press Freedom Round Up 2008 released on December 30, 2008 added a note of caution: “When governments are challenged, their most frequent response is imprisonment. And the dozens of murders, in which the involvement of the security is often almost certain, rarely lead to trials, whether in Sri Lanka or Burkina Faso.”

And that’s the question. So many killings, assaults and abductions. Where are the investigations? How many cases have been committed for trial? And how many more to become statistics?

Despite all the international focus and pressure to conduct speedy investigations, Sri Lanka’s experience has been one of pouring water on a duck’s back. The escalation of violence against the media is similar to an unceasing wave.

Tamils reap what they sowed

Posted: May 05, 2009, 12:16 PM by Jonathan Kay

The conflict between the Sri Lankan government and the Tamil Tigers has deep, tangled roots. But to a rough order of magnitude, the moral stakes can be reduced to a single act of terrorist savagery that took place on July 29, 1999 – the day Neelan Tiruchelvam was blown out the side of his Nissan sedan by a female suicide bomber riding a moped.

Tiruchelvam was a Sri Lankan Tamil, but not the kind that makes excuses for terrorism, or for the nihilistic death cult led by Tigers chief Velupillai Pirapaharan. Instead, he sought to bring justice and self-determination for Sri Lanka’s Tamil minority through negotiation and constitutional reform. In Sri Lanka, he was an elected parliamentarian and the founder of two major think tanks. In the United States, he taught at Harvard University, enlightening Western students about human-rights abuses committed in Sri Lanka – by the nation’s military and the Tigers alike.

He was a moderate, in other words – the Tamils’ answer to Yitzhak Rabin or Nelson Mandela. And that’s why he was assassinated: The Tigers despise any Tamil who does not share their commitment to war and terrorism. Tiger propaganda – including the terrorist group’s own “poet laureate” – spent years vilifying Tiruchelvam as a traitor prior to his assassination. Muzhakkam, a Tiger-controlled newspaper here in Canada joined in the campaign.

The act serves as a grim metaphor for the war itself. Much as many Tamil-Canadians claim that the Sri Lankan government is engineering a “genocide,” the greatest threat to the country’s Tamils has been their professed protectors. The Tigers are the ones who have assassinated moderate Tamils, erected a murderous mini-dictatorship in the northern part of the island, abducted Tamil children to serve as terrorists and soldiers, and stolen tsunami-relief money to fund military operations. Now that the Tigers are cornered in northeastern Sri Lanka, the Tigers are holding tens of thousands of Tamil civilians as human shields – shooting them in the back as they seek to flee.

Tiruchelvam’s sacrifice is remembered in the highest places – including right here in Canada. In fact, it helps explain why Michael Ignatieff has decisively reversed the Liberal party’s traditionally soft stand on Tiger terror.

In the late 1980s, Tiruchelvam and Ignatieff were Harvard colleagues, preaching human rights from the same hymn book. When Tiruchelvam was blown up, Ignatieff traveled to Sri Lanka to deliver a lecture in the man’s honour. A year later, he described the experience in a speech at the Canadian Journalists for Free Expression awards dinner in Toronto.

Neelan Tiruchelvam, Ignatieff declared, was “a man whose memory I revere.” But that wasn’t the prevailing view among many of the noisiest members of the Canadian Tamil community: “When the word got out that I was going to give a lecture in Colombo in his honour, I began to get very extraordinary bits of Tamil literature, mailed to me with a Canadian postmark. And the sum and substance of these newsletters was basically to say that Neelan, my good friend, got what he deserved. This was a man who’d spent his entire life seeking peace and reconciliation on that bloody and tragic island. And it shocked me deeply to discover that the people who wished and rejoiced in his death were fellow citizens of [Canada] … Don’t think it doesn’t put a chill down your spine when you get mysterious little missives like that.”

A decade later, with Igantieff leading the Liberal Party, those hatemongers are now reaping what they’ve sown. And so are the Tamil Tigers themselves, whose last-ditch positions are now set to be overrun by Sri Lanka’s military. Ten years after the group killed Neelan Tiruchelvam, an opportunity to implement his vision of peaceful reconciliation may finally be at hand.

http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=1566206

Here we go again:

Sri Lanka: Brutal slaughter of Tamil civilians

Sean O Floinn & Emma Clancy
2 May 2009

A largely defenceless people struggling to survive and hemmed in on a narrow strip of land, facing indiscriminate airstrikes, assault from gun boats and cluster bombs by a well-equipped army, conjures up the image of the recent Israeli invasion of Palestine’s Gaza Strip.

However, since the start of this year, Sri Lankan government forces have stepped up their campaign of wiping out the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), which has fought a 25-year war for Tamil independence.

The situation has culminated with the brutal slaughter of thousands of Tamil civilians trapped in the war zone.

Bloodbath

UN figures said 2000 people had died in the fighting in April — not including its last week, the most brutal. The civilian death toll has passed 6500 since the end of January.

About 200,000 Tamil civilians are trapped among the LTTE rebels on a tiny sliver of northern coastline measuring 10 square kilometres.

They are surrounded by the Sri Lankan Army (SLA), which continues to pound the area with air strikes and heavy artillery fire.

The result is a growing humanitarian crisis. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has accused Sri Lanka of “causing untold suffering”.

The vast majority of aid workers have been refused access to the so-called no-fire zone (regularly bombed by the SLA), and journalists are totally banned.

Makeshift hospitals are crumbling under the demand. People are reportedly dying of malnutrition.

Tamil civilians “rescued” by government forces are being rounded into internment camps.

The international community has been pathetic in its response. Although the LTTE announced a unilateral ceasefire on April 26, the government insists it will push for a complete LTTE surrender at any expense.

The International Committee of the Red Cross has described the war zone as a “catastrophic bloodbath”.

Background

Sri Lanka achieved independence in 1948. The Tamils, an ethnic minority making up 24% of the island’s population, are mainly concentrated in the north and east of the island.

After independence, the Sinhalese government introduced discriminatory policies including: stripping Tamil plantation workers of their citizenship; unfair education laws; anti-Tamil employment rules; and making Sinhala, the language of the Sinhalese majority, the island’s official language.

Initial Tamil resistance to these policies was peaceful, but met with repression. Three thousand Tamils were slaughtered in government-instigated Sinhalese programs in “Black July” in 1983.

In the armed conflict that followed, at least 70,000 people have died.

Big LTTE military gains, and the dire state of the Sri Lankan economy due to the ongoing war, forced the Sri Lankan government to respond positively to unilateral LTTE ceasefires in 2000 and 2001.

The February 2002 Norwegian-mediated ceasefire agreement has been the longest-lasting attempt to bring peace.

In negotiations, the LTTE sought an interim self-governing authority for Tamils in the north-east. This could facilitate human rights protection, as well as “resettlement, rehabilitation, reconstruction, and development in the north-east”. A process towards reaching a final settlement would be ongoing.

The government failed even to implement the provisions of the ceasefire agreement, much less any other Tamil demands.

As a result, the LTTE suspended its participation in negotiations in 2003.

The government pulled out of the ceasefire agreement in January last year, opting for annihilation. The SLA unleashed a huge military operation, winning back almost all LTTE-held territory, where the latter had established administration structures.

The Sri Lankan regime is dictatorial. Human Rights Watch labeled the Sri Lankan government as one of the “world’s worst perpetrators of enforced disappearances”.

It is the second most dangerous place on Earth for journalists.

The international community must act to force the Sri Lankan government to halt its bloody offensive. Tamil civilians must be granted freedom of movement and given adequate humanitarian aid.

The government-run internment camps (CONCENTRATION CAMPS), housing fleeing civilians, are horribly overcrowded, surrounded by barbed wire and controlled by government troops. They should be shut down. Those civilians escaping the violence deserve access to adequate food, shelter and health care.

The time has come for not only peace, but also prosperity and social justice for this majestic island and all who inhabit it.

On Sri Lanka, UN Responsibility to Protect Cited, Abuse of IDPs Surfaces
Byline: Matthew Russell Lee of Inner City Press at the UN: News Analysis

UNITED NATIONS, May 5 — When former Australian foreign minister Gareth Evans came to the UN Security Council stakeout about the nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty on May 5, he looked surprised to be asked a question about Sri Lanka. But Evans wrote a book about the Responsibility to Protect, a UN doctrine enshrined in a consensus General Assembly resolution. Inner City Press asked Evans if R2P, as it is known, applies to the situation of civilians in Northern Sri Lanka. Video here, from Minute 7:57.

Evans asked that all nuclear questions be asked and answered first. This happened, touching as the U.S. statement on NPT did not, on Iran, as well as North Korea, Israel, China, Pakistan and India. Then Evan asked that the question be posed again. Inner City Press referred him to the bombing from the air, civilians trapped, as they are in internment camps even outside the conflict zone.

“I’ve got no doubt this is an R2P case,” Evans answered, calling it the “most alarming… atrocity crime we’ve seen in years.”

He went on to say that the UN Security Council must get more involved, and chided those blocking the Council’s consideration for going against the R2P resolution they agreed to in the General Assembly. But he does not favor “sending the Marines in,” but rather diplomacy to find a way to surrender. Video here, from Minute 14:55.

Some point to the situation in camps of those who’ve left the conflict zone, exposed most recently by Channel 4 in the UK with allegations of rape and disappearance, as another atrocity, and one that makes resolution less and less possible. There are increasing reports of young men chained naked for interrogation, and young women disappeared. The UN is saying little about this, and even so the government now threatens to expel the strikingly pro-government UN Resident Coordinator Neil Buhne.

The effects of Sinhalese Buddhist extremism

- Dr. Brian Seneviratne

Sinhala Buddhist extremism has done serious damage to the settling of the ethnic conflict, to democracy in Sri Lanka (e.g. the violence unleashed by the JSS and now the JVP on the dissenting voice) and, above all, to Buddhism itself.

Reference has already been made to the sabotage in 1957 of Bandaranaike’s important pact with the Tamils which promised a degree of devolution of power to the Tamils. Dudley Senanayake’s pact in 1965 went the same way because of the same group. Jayawardene’s attempt in 1984 (the All Party Conference) was sabotaged by the same forces. Now, the 1987 GandhiJayawardene Peace Pact is under attack and those who support it are being assassinated. Until a Sinhalese leader is found who can stand up to the Buddhist clergy and Sinhala extremists, the chaos will continue. The problem in Sri Lanka is not Tamil terrorism but Sinhala extremism.

Serious damage has been done to democracy in Sri Lanka. In the first 7 years of the present government, JSS hoodlums prevented Sri Lankans of all ethnic groups from expressing an opinion which differed from that of the government. JVP extremists now threaten those who express an opinion which goes against Sinhala Buddhist chauvinism.

Enormous damage has been done to Buddhism. This great religion has survived for centuries without the need for sponsorship by hoodlums, terrorists and religious extremists. It is time that true Buddhists took some effective action to rescue their religion from these hooligans and thugs.

Lankan President should be Tried for Crimes against Humanity – Sinhala Academic Appeals for War Crimes Tribunal

Toronto:Speaking in the main auditorium of the Health Sciences Building to a mammoth gathering of students, lecturers, professors and other members from the faculties of Law, Medicine, Arts and Science from the three campuses of the University of Toronto, Professor Dr Brian Seneviratne, a prominent, Sinhala academic and educationist from Australia charged the government of Sri Lanka of blatant and banal violations of the Human rights (HR) of the people of the Tamil nation in the North and East of Sri Lanka.

Unreservedly advocating a permanent separation of the island as two nations namely Sinhala Lanka and Tamil Eelam as the only viable and long term solution to the current ethnic imbroglio, he outlined the prospects for development and lasting peace in post- partition Sri Lanka. Referring to the mass graves at Chemmani where more than 600 Tamil young women, men and children were murdered and incinerated in April 1996 under the personal supervision of the Sinhala Military general Janaka Perera dubbed as ‘Janaka the terrible’, Dr. Seneviratne gave a long list of numerous concrete examples of HR violations that went unabated with the covert support of many foreign governments including Australia, Great Britain, Canada and the USA. He said that in 2002, the International Criminal Court (ICC) was established in The Hague (Netherlands), following the principle of universal jurisdiction.

The “Rome Statute” provides for the ICC to have jurisdiction over genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. Article 7 of the treaty stated that: “For the purpose of this Statute, “crime against humanity” means any of the following acts when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack[6]:

(a) Murder;

(b) Extermination;

(c) Enslavement;

(d) Deportation or forcible transfer of population;

(e) Imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty in violation of fundamental rules of international law;

(f) Torture;

(g) Rape or any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity.

The Sri Lankan army under its Commander in Chief, namely Mahinda Rajapaksha has repeatedly violated all these norms in the Tamil territory or what is designated today as Tamil Eelam. The international community cannot have double standards when it comes to the Tamil population of Eelam because they are poor and vulnerable. It is unfortunate he said that Human Rights Watch and other so called advocates of Human Rights have continued to turn to the other side when it comes to the Tamil nation or its people. Their agenda is set by the government of Sri Lanka who provides them with data as much as with resources thereby stifling their neutrality and fairness. Dr. Brain Seneviratene was given a standing ovation for over five minutes for his honesty, courage and forthrightness.

Independent news channel – Channel 4 exposes the truth in SinHELLa Lanka’s CONCENTRATION CAMPS, DEATH CAMPS, something that the filthy bas***d, N.Ram of the toilet paper The Hindu will deliberately lie about:

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

PLEASE GO OUT THERE AND CAST YOUR VOTE! DO NOT WORRY ABOUT THE HEAT! OUR LANKAN BRETHREN ARE BEING BURNED ALIVE BY WHITE PHOSHOROUS AND CLUSTER BOMBS BY THE SinHELLa scum beings! YOU HAVE THE POWER TO ALLEVIATE THEIR SUFFERING, BY MEANS OF VOTING! DO NOT abstain, DO NOT VOTE for independents, DO NOT CHOOSE 49(O)! ANNIHILATE THE CONGRESS scum beings and thrash the traitorous thugs of the DMK! PLEASE DO NOT WASTE THIS OPPORTUNITY!

Watch this video where a BRAVE SL government doctor describes the massacre of patients in a hospital in the GENOCIDE ZONE, PLEASE!

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GO OUT THERE AND ANNIHILATE THE CONGRESS BASTARDS AND THRASH THE DMK TRAITORS, PLEASE!!!

Terrorism and State Terrorism
By Balbir Singh Sooch, Advocate, Ludhiana

Terrorism has always an end but State terrorism never ends. Both are co-related. The State Terrorism is always being justified to counter terrorism which is wrong due to various reasons. Such justification raises a many eyebrows on account of bringing and developing the situation by the particular State to compel people to be ready to carry arms and revolt within or outside. For example, LTTE supported in Sri Lanka and Taliban and other militant groups in Afghanistan from outside initially by India and Pakistan respectively.

The freedom movements could be justified but not terrorism. The effected State mingles with or intrudes in the freedom movements to give them violent color to fulfill her ulterior motives. It is being named as diplomacy of terrorism to inhumanly rule. Rest all are the terms like State terrorism (Organized) and Terrorism (Un-organized) or crossbreed terrorism and so on.

The freedom movements made to enter into such a directionless phase when it becomes difficult to know the real motives behind such movements or differentiate them in relation to any specific terms to justify them.

I have a very limited knowledge about the terrorists groups in the world. I see terrorism in the context of my country and accordingly express my views and mostly conclude that any freedom movement as a spent force was suppressed by the manipulated violence i.e. State Terrorism. America is the most powerful countries of the world and can’t be exception to it and without its knowledge.

As already said, the diplomacy of such terrorism to inhumanly rule within or outside may end soon and I pray for it to safeguard the humanity from the inhuman elements and characters.

As far I could understand the behavior of my country with regard to all this, you may refer my article, State Terrorism – LTTE Tigers and Khalistanis and again my submission will be before UN, US, UK and other powerful countries take notice of the highlights including the similarities and differences mentioned in the article to bring peace and provide true justice in the world.

During WW-II, even the draconian Adolph Hitler, the one who peerlessly master-minded and executed the 20th century’s horrendous holocaust, ordered his airmen not to attack the Educational, Archeological, Ecclesiastical and Healthcare institutions; and thus he spared such noble foundations and saved them from devastation. That is how and why today the centuries old grandeur of Oxford, Cambridge and St Paul Cathedral among others majestically stand to say something to the world – No accusations of destruction are leveled or heard against Hitler. Gesture of his order, especially from Hitler at a time facing eminent defeat, symbolizes his dormant passionate mindset driven beyond his control – A quality that is characteristic to people of gentle birth.
Today, in Tamil Eelam no Schools, Libraries, Churches, Temples, Hospitals and even makeshift facilities are spared, repeatedly bombed to ensure complete demolition and raising total casualties, by the barbarians’ ‘War Orchestra’ conducted by the trio; whose monstrous objectives molded by Buddhist monks’ vampirism and patricides; and guided and directed by the Italian vampire in the next door; have surpassed the minimum moral standards set by demonized Hitler and thus supercede to set Sinhalese’ hallmark for ‘1st Genocide of 21st Century’. May God bless Wisdom!

Prabhakaran or the LTTE are only important milestones in the road to self-determination and the creation of a seperate tamil homeland.

Eelam is the final solution. It will be won by peace or by war, only time will tell. The Tamils are an ancient and peace loving people. We had a civilsation and culture long before the world was ruled by barbarians.

Get ready for change.

Tamils are everywhere, you cant stop us.