Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Pirabakarans state of the Terror adress

prabakaran will in few hours time deliver the ,LTTEs version of 'state of the Union adress' called the State of the Terror address. what is accepted as the LTTEs annual terror policy speech where Prabakaran will spell out the steps and direction the LTTE will take in attaining their terrorist aspirations.normally this speech has attracted a notable amount of interest from all quarters of interested parties in Sri Lanka and rest of the world and most notably the Tamils who sustain Prabakarans reign of terror from oversease will look in to 'new' rays of hope and vision to expand the war  while , Tamils living under oppression of the LTTE will see this a another sounding of their death knell.
 
Tamilnet reported the SLAF attacking the LTTEs voice of tigers radio station in Vanni just few hours ago and i guess this time it will not be a live broadcast like last times and most probably this time it will be more of a pre recorded message , aired from a overseas location and not from the deep hope where Prabakaran is holed up, somewhere in the deep jungles of Vanni.
 
whats ironic is Prabakaran is more close to the burning Magma crust of the earth than the suffering Tamils of Vanni on the ground, and i guess in a way Prabakaran must be feeling the heat from the hell , being still alive.
 
for the rest of the people of Sri Lanka , this event is on not so much significance let alone the hustle they face on such a day as successive governments tend to take the particular day as a high threat day , thus increasing levels of security.
 
although till recently governments paid some attention to the content of the speech , but since last few years that had changed as more and more the LTTEs real interests keep coming into light.
 
considering the message delivered in the last couple of years, any one can come to the conclusion that this much envisaged speech of Prabakaran is nothing but simply giving on the stand that theirs is No Hope for Peace- War is the only option kind of rhetoric and only last year Prabakaran declared they had 'exhusted' all options for peace and are giving last chance to the Sri Lankan government to come up with a 'solution' .
 
but what solution they want? after four or more Peace efforts from successive governments and the last Peace Accord where a CFA and a number of rounds of peace talks under Ranil Wicramasingha and Mahinda Rajapaksha governments , LTTE opted to walk away from talks when they realised the Governments efforts were serious and the International Community was hell bent on supporting any solution that would have come out of talks.
 
so back to the question of the what solution, well as i see it there can be no solution to this problem in the eyes of the LTTE as for them the only solution is the continuation of war and noting else.
 
so today in few hours only thing Prabakran can say is that they are ' fed up with the MR government and they see no reason to continue with search for Peace'  and may take the opportunity to pull out from the CFA , thus ending the presence of SLMM and the Norwegian Peace meddling ( ooops , sorry Mediation).
 
few other options Prabakaran can take up is -
 
1.declare a Unilateral declaration of Independence ( we've gone through a UDI before.. and know what happened to Mr.Perumal afterwards..)
 
2.call international community to accept LTTEs right to self determination ( dah...!!!! )
 
3. declare all out war on the Sri Lankan state ,claiming that the state is waging a full scale war against them ( they have seen noting yet..)
 
either way , I'm not surprised, and will not be. one thing that I'm certain is that , Prabakaran will never never opt for a another chance of peace talks.
 
all Prabakaran wants is war , destruction and death. that's the only way of life he knows and he is comfortable of . so today in few hours time , from a very deep hole somewhere in Vanni ,he will go on air (if he can get to do that ) or may be its already recorded and ready to go off, from a overseas location to spell out whats next in store for Sri Lanka and Tamils of the world over.
 
either way, all he can say is 'Sinhala government is hell bent on waging war' ' our peace efforts are being ignord' 'Tamils have no future under the current Government' etc.
 
Prabakaran might go forward and declare independence unilaterally or may be call the International Community to accept the LTTEs right to self determination, but all this he will do to ensure one thing..
 
WAR and CONTINUATION OF WAR .
 

Monday, November 26, 2007

26 November - day of Patriots and Monsters

26th November is in many ways monumental to Sri Lanka. it was the day in 1818 the British crushed Sri Lankas first war of independence ( although somehow we were being taught to call it a 'Rebellion' by the same masters who re-wrote the history of Sri Lanka) , when they executed Monarawila Keppetipola , Dissawe of Uva. it was Keppetipola Dissawa who led the first war of independence against the British ,following the transfer of sovereignty to the British after the capture and the end of King Rajasingha II and the Kandyan dynasty.

where as the first monumental event was of a historical and national significance , the second monumental event is the birth of V.Prabakaran in the Jaffna Hospital. V.Prabakaran rose up to be the leader of LTTE, the Tamil terrorist organisation who for the last 30 or so years had been waging a war and reign of terror to curve out a separate state for minority Tamils in North and East of Sri Lanka.Prabakaran is nothing but a monster in human form , wielding a reign of terror , death and destruction not only in North and East of Sri Lanka , but also in every corner of the Island, beyond the seas in India and and many other un named , unknown places and at high seas.

not only Prabakaran had killed many hundred thousands of Sinhaleese and Muslims of Sri Lanka but he has a wiped out several generations of Tamils , including Tamil academics, religious and community leaders , elected representatives and politicians.The LTTE, under the leadership of Prabakaran has done more damages to the cause of the Sri Lankan Tamils than any other .

The LTTE has sabotaged every attempt to a reasonable political solution to the ethnic problem of Sri Lanka. The sole aim of the LTTE is the establishment of a one-party fascist regime by the name 'Tamil Eelam' in the North-East of Sri Lanka.

hence , November 26 th is a monumental for Sri Lanka.

on one side there is Keppetipola Dissawa , a man who fought for the freedom of his people, who was killed in the hands of a colonial oppressor and then there is Prabakan who continues to kill people in the name of establishing a separate state for the Tamils of Sri Lanka.Prabakaran has hijacked the Tamil cause with his gun totting terror tactics.he leads an organization with a fascist tendency. Its only aim is to establish a fascist regime in the North and East of Sri Lanka.

Due to its fascist leaning, it has made a self-proclamation as the sole representative of the Tamils. To maintain the status-quo of the sole representation, it has eliminated all the democratic Tamil leaders or subjugated their parties through their terror tactics.

To name a few Tamil leaders, brutally murdered by the LTTE are, A. Amirthalingam MP and Tamil National Leader, V.Yogeswaran MP, A.Thangathurai MP , Mrs. Sarojini Yogeswaran Mayor Jaffna , Dr.Neelan Tiruchelvam MP and S. Sivapalan of Tamil United Liberation Front the TULF Mayor Jaffna , Kumar Ponnambalam of the All Ceylon Tamil Congress the ACTC, Sri Sabaratnam Leader of the TELO, K. Padmanabha Leader of EPRLF, Sam Tambimuttu MP and his wife Kala Tambimuttu of the EPRLF and recently Luaxman Kadiragama, MP and former Foreign Minister of Sri Lanka.

The leaders who succeeded them were cowed down and compelled to be subservient to LTTE. it was Douglas Devananda MP , a Tamil from Norhtern Sri Lanka who once led a Tamil Separatist group against the Government of Sri Lanka, who denounced violence and joined the mainstream democratic politics ,who as a Minister of the current government went on record recently and said " in the four decades of confrontation, not a single Tamil leader has been murdered by the Sri Lankan security forces" .

There are only a handful of democratic Tamil leaders who have still escaped the LTTE death trap, him being one amongst them and one who had escaped at least four attempts on his life.

Prabakaran's reign of terror extended its tentacles to our neighbouring Indian soil and globally as well. In the Indian soil, they killed former Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi and Sri Lankan Tamil leaders. They murdered those who opposed them in the European countries. For example, T. Sabalingam, one of the founder member of the Tamil militant movement in Sri Lanka, was murdered in France.

LTTE extort money from the expatriate Tamils by threatening that their kith and kin, living in Sri Lanka will have to face the consequences, if they do not meet their demand.They also assassinated President Premadasa and attempted on the life of President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, who as a result, lost her sight in one eye.

Prabakaran thrives on the Tamil cause and has stood in the way of negotiated settlement within the frame work of united Sri Lanka, fearing, such arrangement would not give room for his fascist rule of law. LTTE aspire for a separate piece of land 'Tamil Eelam' to impose their fascist rule. As a result, the Tamils' aspiration for a power sharing arrangement in the areas of their habitation, remain unfulfilled to date. This is a vicious circle which the LTTE cleverly manipulates and thrives upon.

Further, the LTTE survives on the frustration of the Tamil people caused by the after effects of the war they initiate. In an environment of war, people undergo a lot of hardships such as; large scale displacements, non-availability of essential goods and services, black marketing, non-availability of proper educational, health and infrastructure facilities.

The LTTE capitalizes on this situation to win over the support of the Tamil people locally as well as internationally, This is also another vicious circle, the LTTE rides on.

so different to what Keppetipola Dissawa had envisaged , and ultimately brought to an end of his life.Keppetipola not only took personal responsibility for the acts of war and violence that we committed in the name of free Sri Lanka but also yielded to British use of terror tactics against the civilian populace of the Uva province in particular during the ensuring battles against forces of Keppetipola in 1818.

Keppetipola never used the collective suffering of his people to further his war , nor quelled dissension within his ranks.

his war was to attain freedom and restore rights and liberties of the common man of Sri Lanka and not curving out a separate state. it is sad that remembering Keppitipola Dissawa today , for somehow rests with the JVP and not the common man , while the so called 'Civil Society' of Sri Lanka and some pseudo 'free' media elements gather around to silently ( not so long a ago , very openly ) celebrate the birthday of Prabakaran , a monster of our times.

rest assured , come 26th November, next year I'm not going a write a word about V.Prabakaran nor about his LTTE , and way the things are going its also not sure if Prabakaran might make to the next years birthday , but will concentrate more on the first war of Independence and remember Keppetipola Dissawa and the rest of the patriots who had given life for a noble cause and not a cause that surpasses any myth.

Sunday, November 25, 2007

Sri Lanka's hour of shame

its been few days since Pakistan got chucked out of Commonwealth and our countries pussy footed approach to the whole saga.looking back i see so many rhetoric against the move and even UNP has gone out hard on the decision and also heavily criticised the Foreign Minister ( who is a MP of their party , by the way ..) and the government in general. President it seems made some noise at the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting against the Pakistan being suspended from the Commonwealth.
 
there is now more and more statements and comments coming from all quarters of the government, including the Foreign Secretary Kohona, Deputy FM Husain Bhaila , FM himself , Prime Minister Wicramanayake and the President himself, but as i see it damage has been done.
 
when Pakistan needed us most as friend not only to voice against the sinister moves against Pakistan but also to stand up for a friend who has over and over and over the times had stood for us, Sri Lanka irrespective of who was on power in Pakistan , which party or which General in power , when all the so called friends and International Safty nets and so on failed us.
 
when Sri Lanka faced grave threat to its freedoms and security in the face of terror it was not the Commonwealth nor its Secretary General or its nominal head the Queen of England who stepped in to help us , it was the Republic of Pakistan,very Pakistan we betrayed on 22 November 2007.
 
its true that there is a serious crisis in Pakistan in terms of governance , and there is emergency rule , which is stop short of Marshal law and the judiciary and the opposition parties are under threat, but its also a fact that Pakistan had seen its fair share of turmoil and there is moves within Pakistan to come to a settlement on this continuing crisis.
 
having being suspended from Commonwealth is , in fact for Pakistan is not a big deal, after all Commonwealth is nothing but sort of a glorified club to celebrate the now defunct British Empire and its gathered in the expenses of the UK taxpayers money so that that UK government and its head of state the Queen ( and what ever remnants of the Royal Family) gets to go on a nostalgic trip of a 'once a mighty empire we had ' sort of thing, where they get  a chance to tell their former colonies 'how bad' they are doing and ' what they must to ' to fix things up, the British way of course.
 
its irrelevant what the Commonwealth has to say about Pakistan or about any other country or the suspension of Pakistan from Commonwealth. however,whats relevant is that we have betrayed a friend , a friend who had been there for us in our time of need and had been many times over . therefor , the Government including the President and the FM must somehow do its best to rectify this grave error.
 
may be the best place to start is the up coming Parliamentary sitting where the Budget of the Foreign Ministry will be taken up. FM Bogollagama can explain what made him to take the pussy footed approach and Deputy FM Bhaila can explain what went wrong with the 'breakdown of communication ' which he seems to be repeatedly referring to and on the top of it , MP Basil Rajapaksha , being the Governments Viceroy in Parliament can say what they are going to do to fix the problem and also remedies in terms of not repeating the same mistake.
 
let us all hope that Pakistan doesn't experience a 'break down of communications' when they have to deal with a crisis facing Sri Lanka, if it arises in the future. 

Monday, November 5, 2007

Fwd: LTTE admits committing mass murder-Nitharsanam 05.11.07


LTTE website Nitharsanam.com , in an article today (05 th November 2007 ) on the arrest of Karuna Amman in UK has admitted to LTTE committing mass murder.
 
in its article, Nitharsanam.com states:
 
" Karuna has to be tried for the mass murder on 11 June 1990 of the 600 Sinhala and Muslim police officers in the jungles of Thirukkovil.They were all blind-folded, with their hands tied behind their backs,and made to lie down before they were shot in the back of their heads"
 
we need to understand that during the 1990s Karuna Amman was the LTTE's Ampara-Batticaloa Area leader and was under the direct command of LTTE leader V.Prabakaran.considering the power structure of the LTTE then and now, its cristal clear who gave the order to carry out such an act of mass murder.
 
there for not only its important that Karuna Amman be tried of Mass Murder but also V.Prabakaran,along with the rest of the LTTE leadership must be tried for Mass Murder and acts against humanity.
 
LTTE website http://www.nitharsanam.com is believed to be run by the LTTE's intelligence wing , under the direct supervision of LTTE Intelligence and Assassination wing leader Pottu Amman.
 
following is a screen shot of the article as it appeared in Nitharsanam.com and the link to the said article.