Sutton MPs demand protection for Sri Lanka Tamils (From Your Local Guardian)

If the media were more receptive to the stories coming from non-govt sides, the govt would not have embarked on HR violations on such a grand scale, for the UN commissioner to warn of possible war crimes.

Dear British public,

You all need to be more careful if you seek the truth and nothing but the truth.

Please do not believe any of these stories even if photos and videos are provided, without independent eyewitness accounts of members of organisations (www.hrw.org), UN (www.un.org ) and ICRC (www.icrc.org ) who is present in the areas. In the past, Tamil Diaspora and the LTTE have effectively attracted several non-governmental organizations to side with the LTTE struggle in Sri Lanka. Prominent examples include the Canadian Relief Organization for Peace in Sri Lanka; the International Educational Development Inc. (IED); the World Council of Churches; the Australian Human Rights Foundation; the International Human Rights Group; the International Federation of Journalists; Pax Romana; the International Peace Bureau; the International Human Rights Law Group; and the Robert F Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights. Gaining the support of such groups by playing the "peace card" has been extremely beneficial to the LTTE (http://www.csis-scr
s.gc.ca/pblctns/cmmn
tr/cm77-eng.asp), hence Sri Lanka government does not allow INGOs/NGOs into the war zone.

How can a person living in the UK have visibility to what’s going on in a war zone? The reason for these claims by Tamil Diaspora is because the majority of them strongly supports the Terrorist group LTTE and carryout LTTE propaganda, and fund raising through front organisations while members closer to the core carries out all sorts of crimes to raise funds (including skimming your own (British public) credit cards http://www.timesonli
ne.co.uk/tol/news/uk
/crime/article169041
5.ece ). Please don’t take my word, please read what the Canadian Security Intelligence Service says (http://www.csis-scr
s.gc.ca/pblctns/cmmn
tr/cm77-eng.asp).

From a human rights point of view the government of Sri Lanka has been elected through a democratic process and has the obligation to us to remove terror from our country and we the Sri Lanka public whether its Tamil, Muslim or other have the right to do so than Tamil Diaspora a majority of which are now not Sri Lanka citizens who are trying divide Sri Lanka into two separate states by Terrorist methods through funding the LTTE. In effect, LTTE and the majority of Tamil Diaspora who are trying this are violating Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

If the Tamil Diaspora really love the Tamil civilians, what they should do is demand the LTTE who are now cornered into a 40Km2 area protected from the Sri Lanka government forces from a human shield using innocent Tamil civilians created by the LTTE by force, to lay down their arms so that Sri Lanka government can grant them amnesty. Many LTTE break away groups (http://news.bbc.co.
uk/1/hi/world/south_
asia/7933561.stm ) have joined the democratic process and one has even become a minister of the government, but majority Tamil Diaspora and the LTTE call them traitors. Government only took 13 months to corner the LTTE, but now it’s been over a month because of the human shield and the government troops have to go from house to house.

The solution to the conflict will only come from reconciliation, love and compassion to each other in a united Sri Lanka. Geologically and demographically separate states not only will not work but also unjustified. Geologically, all the major rivers start from central province and flow down to seas. A separate state will only lead to more fighting for water resources. Demographically, for example Colombo the capital city of Sri Lanka has less Sinhalese (41.36%) than all the others (of which Tamils make over 31%) put together. This is what we should see all over Sri Lanka to make this country the world’s best multiethnic and multicultural society.

W Perera
Sri Lanka

What I hear from my NGO friends who worked but now chased way by Government as Terrorist, Sri Lanka was the worst nightmare in their whole experience. The worst part they said, no real sufferings of the people are coming out. Government ruled by the Rajapakse family is putting iron curtain to media and all outsiders. Even local media is forced to publish military censored news. For outside world, Government has a Tamil paramilitary team and they are planted, seems, everywhere to paint a distorted picture. I followed the Sri Lanka news afterwords, very surprised that Cluster Bombs were very often used but no one reported. The confirmation only came from Pakistan side where their military commanders accepted the sale. Now UN reported 2800 people killed just within 50 days, again I have not read anywhere. Just 1300 killed was the Live story in the Gaza conflict. My NGO friends reminded that the Sudan is doing exactly what Sri Lanka did - chased away NGOs and UN. I can imagine, if this family run Sri Lankan government can plant paramilitary and intelligence everywhere for their show, they definitely work / lobby aggressively around the world to paint a good picture. Here comes UK and Western world. We never accepted this kind of governments and always defended for the people affected. On that sense, I have to appreciate Paul Burstow and Tom Brake for deep understand and bold effort. MOST IMPORTANTLY THE EFFORTS SHOULD CONTINUE UNTIL THESE PEOPLE ARE RELIEVED FROM THIS GOVERNMENT.

If PereraW's verdict is true then Why the Sri Lankan Govt is not allowing the international media to visit the war zone, why are they chasing the international aid agencies. if the Sri Lankan Govt has nothing to hide then they should allow the international monitors to visit the war zone.

Peace loving people in UK knows this ethnic conflict started well before (in 1950s) Tamil tiger movement was emerged.

If PereraW's verdict is true then Why the Sri Lankan Govt is not allowing the international media to visit the war zone, why are they chasing the international aid agencies. if the Sri Lankan Govt has nothing to hide then they should allow the international monitors to visit the war zone.

Peace loving people in UK knows this ethnic conflict started well before (in 1950s) Tamil tiger movement was emerged.

PereraW of Colombo writes not mention anything without proof of activities in North Sri Lanka. There are affidavits from victims, actual video of action by the SLA with witnesses. There are medical reports of rapes, torture of Tamils by the SLArmy. There is even a video let out by the SLA where they strip Tamil women and show it to the nude body to the world. PereraW must be dreaming with his claim. Lte us hope he would wake up.

The Silent Genocide:
The Tamils of Sri Lanka fighting extinction



This is written to ask you to report on the war in Sri Lanka. It is with great heartbreak and sadness that we witness the genocide of the Tamil people at the hands of the government in Sri Lanka. It is shocking to those of us who know what is happening to find it underreported in the international news. We are appealing to you, to highlight the atrocities and suffering of the Tamils in this ethnic civil war. Ethnic cleansing by the Sri Lankan government is being conducted under the guise of “fighting terror”. This war has already killed thousands of Tamil civilians and scarred generations of young people over the last 25+ years.

Recent history:

The hatred by the Sinhalese people and their gove nment against the Tamils goes back hundreds of years. Ethnic violence has erupted against the Tamils by the government since the British left in 1948. Since then pogroms, state sponsored riots breaking and smashing homes and businesses, killing Tamils indiscriminately has occurred on a regular basis. In 1977, Tamils voted by more than 86% and elected representatives with a mandate to seek “self determination”. The government of Sri Lanka in-turn unleashed their military forces against the non-violent Tamil struggle for equal rights, justice and freedom in their own homelands. Thus arose the militant liberation struggle, the Tamil Tigers against the government’s suppression of Tamils struggle.

Since President Rajapaksa was elected in 2005, the government has stepped up its determination to extinguish the Tamil liberation struggle and under the guise of “fight against terror” the government has turned their forces against the entire Tamil people. He was elected on a platform of the “final solution to the Tamils”, and indeed his tactics and aggression against the Tamil civilian population, is hauntingly reminiscent of the NaziE2s killing the Jews during WWII.

Present Conflict:

The irrefutable evidence of the government of Sri Lanka’s genocidal actions against the Tamils is detailed below:

0. The Sri Lankan government is perpetrating massive human rights violations. Witnesses have testified the slaughter of Tamil civilians including indiscriminate bombings and torture of innocent civilians even in the so called safe zones. There have been more than 3,750 extrajudicial killings, over 30,000 Tamils suffering serious bodily injury, over 1.3 million displacemen ts, and in January and February alone 2,018 Tamil civilians were killed of which 700 were children;
0. Rajapakse government is holding displaced Tamil civilians in barbed wire concentration camps, like the Nazis did with total loss of privacy and basic human rights. Even in the Sri Lankan government controlled Tamil areas in the Eastern and Northern Provinces, Tamil civilians are at the mercy of the Sri Lankan government forces and their para-military cadres and live as virtual prisoners. The government continues to deny access to international journalists and relief agencies to visit these areas and controls the distribution of food and basic essentials.
0. The Sri Lankan government apologizes to no one. They do not say that it is “collateral damage,” nor do they apologize for shelling hospitals, aerial bombardment of Tamil areas including allegedly using cluster bombs on Tamil civilian targets, incendiary bombs on densely populated civilian areas, threatening doctors and their staff to leave the injured and wounded, ordering the UN and the international non-governmental offices to close and leave conflict areas, closing off the Tamil areas to international journalists and observers, and denying food and essentials and starving over 300,000 Tamil civilians who have done nothing wrong except to be born Tamil in the country of Sri lanka. The similarity to the Nazi treatment of the Jews is chilling;

The Sri Lankan government has shown a total disregard for the Geneva Convention in the treatment of Tamils in government cleared areas and refugee camps. They have refused access to the camps by most humanitarian organizations and they have not granted free access to the ICRC especially during the screening process. Dr. Neistat of HRW duri ng the Senate Hearing on Feb 24. Said, “All displaced persons, without exception, are subjected to indefinite confinement in de facto internment camps.
The government of Sri Lanka is making it their priority to ethnically cleanse an entire people. If anyone objects, they are immediately accused of being a terrorist sympathizer. In essence, they work very hard to silence any opposition. Sri Lanka has been labeled as one of the most dangerous places in the world for journalists and NGOs to work. There have been killings of both groups. Even a prominent Sinhalese journalist who criticized the government’s position was killed by government thugs. In addition to killing journalists, elected Tamil members of parliament were also gunned down by the government in places of worship. (Joseph Pararajasingham inside a Church during Christmas, and Maheswaran inside a Hindu temple)

The paramilitaries have been torturing, killing, kidnapping Tamils for years under the auspices of the government. No one has been prosecuted for the thousands of disappeared Tamil civilians. They act with impunity.

The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (Tamil Tigers) is the result of the fundamental problems of racial hatred that the Tamils have been facing in Sri Lanka for the last 61 years in the hands of the Sinhalese. There has been bloodshed on both sides. Presently the Tamil Tigers has been forced into a small area of land with 200,000 Tamil civilians. They have repeatedly stated their consent for a ceasefire, but President Rajapaksa and his three brothers who control the government of Sri Lanka refuses and continues with their plan to stifle the Tamils and their liberation struggle. The world is asking the Tamil Tigers to lay their arms down and ask for amnesty. On the other hand the Tamil Tigers have requested UN and International mediation to address the legitimate grievances of the Tamil people. Asking the Tamil Tigers to believe that there would be amnesty for them is ludicrous. There are videos of the GOSL forces dragging the nude bodies of female Tigers thru their armed camps.

The idea that evacuating these civilians and turning them over to the government of Sri Lanka is also terrible. There is no indication that turning these 200,000 civilians over to the Sri Lankan troops will end any differently than it does right now, every day. The government has a horrible track record of abusing the Tamils in the detention camps.
To deliver the Tamils into the government’s hands would be tantamount to killing them or subjugating them to years of slavery an d abuse. Today the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Dr Navi Pillay stated that certain actions undertaken by the Sri Lankan military and by the separatist Tamil Tigers could constitute violations of international human rights and humanitarian law.

This ethnic civil war must be brought out into the open. There needs to be an immediate ceasefire. The government can not be trusted with the safety and future of the Tamils. Very similar to our involvement in Kosovo, establishing two states to ensure the safety of the Tamils and their culture from annihilation is needed. We truly believe that a ceasefire and negotiating with the Tamil Tigers is the way to finally pave the way to some sanity and safety for the Tamils. Once that is accomplished there will be time for a dialogue with the Tamil people.

Genocide
Genocide Prevention Project has listed Sri Lanka on their Red Alert list.
“Remarkably, six genocides have major anniversaries in the month of April - a tragic testament to the international community's inexcusable failure to stop inhuman and barbarous acts.”

Recent Legislative action:
0. 38 US congressman signed letters to Hillary Clinton and Ambassador Rice to demand an immediate ceasefire and send humanitarian aid. March 11, 2009.
0. Rally at the white house with 10,000 Tamil Americans and their Friends on February 20, 2009 sending the message to President Obama to demand a ceasefire and a political solution to the conflict.
0. Many senators sign a letter March 11, 2009 to President Obama sponsored by Senator Casey urging an immediate ceasefire, international supervisions of refugee camps and asking him to mediate a political solution..


News Blackout
Sri Lanka is suppressing any dissent in the press. They do not allow any press into the conflict zone. Any journalist that reports a dissenting opinion is killed or missing. Recently the editor of a large newspaper was killed after writing his criticism of the government. Human Rights Watch named Sri Lanka as the most dangerous place for journalists to work.

We need help

We are pleading to all to,
• Please take a deep long look at the ethnic genocide in Sri Lanka.
• Help ask President Obama to appoint an independent envoy to Sri Lanka.
• Facilitate for an international monitoring presence immediately to protect the Tamils, their rights and their property from being destroyed.
• Propagate the need to mediate a long-term solution to allow the Tamils to live in peace and freedom in their own sovereign and recognized free state.
But first, the killings must stop and the aerial bombings cease. The hospitals have to be rebuilt, the concentration camps disassembled, and then the Tamils must be allowed to live free as they wish in their homelands.

Please help now, how can we stand by and see another holocaust?

Respectfully,
mano

Contact person
Dr Ellyn Shander
eshander@aol.com

Attached a powerful video from the Tamil20civilian areas that are being shelled
http://video.yahoo.c
om/watch/4631553?fr=
yvmtf as well as the following:

Interview with a mother & scenes of displacement
http://www.youtube.c
om/watch?v=dSc6tEprJ
TQ

Interview with a displaced Grandmother - 23 feb 2009
http://www.youtube.c
om/watch?v=_4Ejg0Znj
7A

Part ONE-Interview with Doctor Varatharajah (in ENGLISH)
http://www.youtube.c
om/watch?v=kFlU4cIis
6Q

Part TWO Interview with Doctor Varatharajah (in ENGLISH)
http://www.youtube.c
om/watch?v=cfBkmnOjq
O0


Pictures http://picasaweb.goo
gle..com/tamilnation
al

Dear Neighbours,
As a Tamil, I thanks for the Sutton guardian to bring this matter to the kind attention of my neighbours. It is very nice British parliamentarians lent their support for the Tamils suffering; it is inevitably going to attack some criticisms and misleading comments from oppressing parties.
IE: One of the commentators quote ‘ Please do not believe any of these stories even if photos and videos are provided’ then taking you to his selective web links.
When 4000 Tamils live in London borough of Sutton definitely there is one in your neighbourhood who have known to you years, but they may be hesitant to bring their sufferings to your attention as it they thing it may interfere with your freedom. If you are interested why don’t you talk to them for useful web links and testimonies rather than reads selective comments and incorrect facts from other side of the globe?
Commentator’s motive is clear when he separates blood brothers and sisters with their passport status.
Thank you in advance for your attention.
Siva from London borough of Sutton

Dear Siva,

An intelligent person who is really interested in the subject and wants to find out the truth will not go to YouTube, Sri Lanka Government Website, TamilNet or hundreds of other websites available because they have no credibility. The credibility of the source of information is determined by Reputation, Ability to see, Vested Interest, Expertise and Neutrality. The UN, HRW and ICRC have all these and I think unlike in Sri Lanka, UK public have high speed Internet. So why go elsewhere?

First of all thank you for the story. Even though we live thousands of miles away in a difference continent, the Tamils in various countries know exactly what is going on in north and east of Srilanka. Unfortunately people in Srilanka can only hear news stories from the Government. Srilanka can no longer hide behind the curtain of a called democratically elected government. The atrocities being committed by the Government is a serious war crime and all we need is a one independent reporter to go and see what is happening and file a report. That report will bring the whole Srilankan government to Hague to face war crime. Very soon the world will wake up and will see what is exactly happening.

Mr Perera, are you pretending to be sleeping or are you really sleeping? Are you, a Sinhala individual, trying to tell the world that millions of Tamils from across the world are lying? Are you calling all of us terrorists? Mr Perera, so be it. Let us work on the basis that all the Tamils are Terrorists - well, why are we terrorists? - is it because your Sri Lankan Sinhala State terrorists (and I am not just referring to the Rajapakse family)have been maiming, torturing, forcing, raping, sterilising, murdering (the list is endless) my Tamil sisters and brothers - yes, Mr Perera, this is the truth. If you are genuinely sleeping, please wake up and open your eyes and ears. If you are pretending to be sleeping, and I think you are, well I have news for you - do share this with the Government of Sri Lanka. YOU WILL NEVER DESTROY THE TAMIL ARMY/POLITICIANS - the LTTE as you correctly stated TAMILS ARE LTTE and LTTE ARE TAMILS. You raped my sisters, mothers and daughters. You aborted their foeteses and sterilised us. Well Mr Perera, we will not go anywhere. You can keep killing us, but we will survive and all self respecting Tamils will fight till our last breath - not just by picking up arms and ammunitions, but also in every way possible. We have not visited your Sinhala villages and cities and raped your women - and we have no intention of doing so, because we are human beings. We will fight with intergrity. The LTTE has invited the NGOs, journalists and international governments to visit the Vanni region - please visit us and talk to the victims. We are accusing the Sri Lankan government of genocide - is it a fair trial to just listen to their side of the story? WHo told you that the civilians are being held hostages? - is it the poor civilians who are now locked up in the camps? Come on, let us use our common sense. How can you just accept the evidence of one side which the entire Tamil Nation is accusing of Genocide. Please visit the victims and speak to them. We will not force our own interpretators on you - you can bring your own independent interpretators. The Pereras of the world are killing, raping and carrying out all kinds of heinious atricties against the Tamil Nation. My people are lying dying in blood. Please do not walk away from us or ignore us. Do not take my word - please visit the Vanni region and speak to my people. If you fear for your security and are wandering whether the LTTE will pose a danger to you - I will accompany you with my children aged under 5 --> and trust me, you will find millions of Tamils from across the World who are prepared to join the fact finding mission.

Why are the diaspora so involved in this? - becuase thanks to the Government of Sri Lanka, we had to flee our motherland and seek refuge abroad, because we carry the wounds that the Sri Lankan government unleashed and thankfully in the democratic communities we now live in, the respective governments do not shoot us for telling the truth. So Mr Perera, please wake up instead of advising the world to go to sleep.

Mr PereraW is at it again. He gets the news from British Regional newspaper before any British reads it – amazing, don’t you think? This goon employed full-time plus unlimited overtime by the Srilanka Daily News and the Propaganda department of the Terrorist Srilanka Government has a psychopathic tendency to hide a two-feet diameter pumpkin in a handful of rice. He is addressing the British Public to issue his poisonous venom. While belligerently refusing to address the issue of daily murder of hundreds of Tamil civilians by his Government Troops, he is talking using words like unity and peace that he does not know the meaning of. As I wrote earlier, PereraW should know once and for all that Eelam and Srilanka were two separate sovereign countries until amalgamated by foreign colonialists. I don’t know why this Sinhalese chauvinistic government is hell-bent in burying the truth and inventing new history for electoral victory by sheer propaganda. Truth will always prevail, you will learn this hard truth very soon Mr PereraW.

Srilanka is the only country in the world that has a military equivalent to the size of the British to fight a group of sixth form students after branding them as terrorists. Mr PaereraW is pleading the Tamil Diaspora pathetically to request the LTTE to surrender. His rhetoric has all the hallmarks of the government rhetoric. He doesn’t listen. I wrote in one of my replies that the LTTE was not created by the Diaspora but by the Srilanka Government that is pursuing an idiotic policy of bombing and killing the entire Tamil community hoping some Tigers will be killed without realising the LTTE hasn’t been touched by the maniacs in the Military. Instead they are killing the innocent civilians. Why this Government is preventing International Agencies and news media entering the war zones if they have nothing to hide Mr/Mrs/Ms PereraW?

Well said Shanthy.Please keep up the good work. Thank you.

http://www.theage.co
m.au/opinion/inclusi
on-the-way-to-real-p
eace-20090315-8yv7.h
tml?page=-1 Inclusion the way to real peace, Howard Debenham(former Australian ambassador to Sri Lanka), March 16, 2009:



''It is often overlooked that Tamil militarism was, in the first place, spawned by the deliberate demonisation of Tamils (both Hindu and Muslim) in the early years of Sri Lanka's independence from Britain.... For those trapped in the north during the current Government offensive, the risk of accepting a "haven" on the Government side must be weighed against the risk of putting themselves in the hands of Government forces....

The essential interest of Sri Lanka's Sinhalese political parties and personalities is still how to exploit the struggle with the Tigers to maintain power in Colombo....

Successive governments have more or less dressed up their intention to negotiate to assuage the feelings of the United Nations and donor countries, including Australia, but not nearly enough to fool any informed observer into believing that the underlying issue of rapprochement between Sinhalese and Tamils is any more on the government's agenda than it was 50 years ago.

There is little hope of an enduring end to Sinhalese victimisation of Sri Lanka's Tamils until Sri Lanka produces the kind of courageous and visionary leadership that can admit the errors of the past and reach out in a sustained way to all Sri Lankans, thus providing a sound basis for drawing all Tamils, including the Tigers, into the political process.

The Sri Lankan government did this with the murderous Communist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) back in the late '80s after its violent uprising had almost brought the country to its knees. But that, it seems, was different: the JVP was Sinhalese. Unhappily, the vision required today, free of the deeply embedded political and financial corruption that has plagued Sri Lanka for so long, is nowhere in sight.

Ordinary Sri Lankans, disempowered and cowed through decades of dominance by the business and political elite and effective exclusion from the rule of law, are still easily duped into believing that they will be better off once the Tamils have been crushed.

Having so loudly abandoned the peace process, the Rajapaksa Government is throwing everything into the military fray. ...

Should infrastructure, transport and even tourism become systematic targets in such a campaign, Sri Lanka could be brought to its knees. ...

When a small group of uniquely qualified Americans and a former Australian high commissioner quietly tried, working with the highest levels of the Sri Lankan Government, to build capacity for statesmanship and progress before peace talks with the LTTE scheduled for Geneva in October of that year, Sri Lanka's leaders only pretended to listen, and so doomed a country and a people once so full of promise to more mindless death and destruction, the worst of which may yet be to come.''

Mr Howard Debenham was Australian high commissioner to Sri Lanka from 1992 to 1994 just two years but he talks out of range of his period of visibility (from Independence to 1983 Backlash and current affairs) He also talks about conversation that he had with a dead (now) President JR Jayewardene in JR’s residence which is unverifiable. Mr Howard at least now seems to have the characteristics of one on the LTTE payroll or the above article may have not been written by him at all – see below for my reasons to think like this.


He says “ in 1983, thousands of Tamils were slaughtered” The official figure that was killed not by Sinhalese people only but political goons belonged to all ethnic groups was only 471 in numbers.


He says that “the risk for those trapped in the north during the current Government offensive, the risk of accepting a "haven" on the Government side must be weighed against the risk of putting themselves in the hands of Government forces”. Well, if there is any risk, the ordinary Tamil civilians will not flee from LTTE captivity risking their lives knowing that LTTE has gunned down over 30 Tamil civilians while fleeing during the last few weeks. (look in UN and HRW bebsites)


“There is little hope of an enduring end to Sinhalese victimization of Sri Lanka's Tamils” Can he prove Sinhalese victimization of Tamils? This is the hackneyed theme by LTTE and Tamil Diaspora. Even former Attorney General of Sri Lanka Shivapasupathy who held one of the supreme positions says he was victimized (may be because he was made the AG of the country). If Sinhalese victimization of Tamils persists, then, Tamil moderates Like Anandasangaree and other Tamil political parties would have supported LTTE which is not. Government has already proved to the world how Pillayan and Karuna who were once terrorists were made a Chief Minister of the liberated Eastern Province and a non-cabinet Minister in the present government respectively. Is he oblivion to these stark truths or that he is ignorant of what’s happening in Sri Lanka?


For his information, Sri Lanka is not crushing Tamils but only Tamils terrorists. If the Tamils are crushed, how 50% of the Northern population now live in the South with Sinhalese, Muslims and other small minorities?


Quoting the recent LTTE suicide bomb attack in Akuressa, he seems to have condoned the act instead of condemning faithfully hoping that LTTE will continue to do so. Sri Lanka is well aware of that situation and ready to face any eventualities to crush even LTTE transforms into guerilla warfare.

Mr. Debenham, thank you for shedding crocodile tears for the future of Sri Lanka... The Sri Lankan Government is fed up of listening to peace vultures that come in various facets and finally decided that “enough is enough” and ventured into defeat LTTE menace once and for all from Sri Lankan soil and will do so.

The Australians respect, mourn and cherish even a single soldier dies in the war zones in Afghanistan and Iraq. Despite they are fighting in another country, Australia still treat them as patriots. But for Debenham, Sri Lankan soldiers who are ready to sacrifice their lives to protect the country from brutal terrorists are “salaried soldiers”. How will the Australians feel if I say that Australian soldiers are working for a salary and ceremonial status and have not joined the forces to defend the country?

Therefore, I DON’T THINK THIS WAS WRITTEN BY THE FORMER AUSTRALIAN AMBESSADOR to SL unless he is out of order now.

Here we go again. Mr PereraW (I believe a man) says that he and his lunatic Government want to ‘Crush’ the Terrorists.Incidenta
lly LTTE are not terrorists nor pineapple for you and your cronies to crush. The only two incumbent parties claim that the LTTE are a group of Terrorists. There are over 50 groups of Tamil Diaspora claim that the Srilanka Government is the group that has been practising terrorism. Mr PereraW is in the minority. However, since the minority is in the ruling position they are able to manipulate the media and the foreign ministries of the foreign countries. Anyone dare to criticise his terrorist Government is immediately branded as terrorist or on the payroll of the LTTE, regardless of the accused is a foreigner, ambassador, High commissioner or a Member of Parliament. Cats usually close their eyes when they drink their mild thinking no one could see them. You and your Government have been repeating the same rhetoric over and over again but no one believes you Mr Prerera W (is the W stands for Wally?). You are the only one in the planet believes that Mr Howard Debenham has been on the Payroll of the LTTE. LTTE is not rich enough to pay people like Mr Debeham but your Government has all the Tsunami money, Overseas aid donated for the development of the ruined Tamil area etc.. Billions of rupees to splash about for bribery and corruption.

I suggest Mr Perera that you curb your venom before you utter anything on a libellous nature in future. Your paymasters will not last long therefore you seek another employment as journalist in an ethical paper before Mr Debenham sue you for libel.

We can see PereraW reflects the Sri Lankan government’s stands as he works for Sri Lankan government. Sri Lankan government is barbarically killing and wounding thousands of civilians everyday and they do all that behind an iron curtain as they already chased the ICRC, UN, and other independent non governmental organisations from the war conflict zone. For Sri Lankan government anyone who reveals their human rights violations and takes an independent stance is a Terrorist. No wonder independent journalists are fled Sri Lanka (those who didn’t, already been imprisoned or killed)
http://www.freemedia
srilanka.org/English
/

http://www.unhcr.org
/refworld/country,,F
REEHOU,,LKA,4562d8cf
2,4871f633c,0.html

http://news.bbc.co.u
k/1/hi/world/south_a
sia/7823729.stm

http://www.newssafet
y.com/index.php?opti
on=com_content&view=
article&id=11366&cat
id=314&Itemid=100077


http://www.bbc.co.uk
/sinhala/news/story/
2009/01/090109_hayes
_us.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk
/sinhala/news/story/
2009/01/090108_ranil
_lasantha.shtml

Britain, US and Indian governments, UNHCR and media watchdogs have already condemn Sri Lanka government for killings and attacks on journalists. They have ranked Sri Lanka as among the four worst places in the world to be a journalist. Yet Sri Lanka government is very paranoid about international journalist as they could not threat or kill them, thus they have hired people like PereraW to discredit any legitimate news.

Please Guardian, try not to give a platform for phychopath like PereraW to splash out propaganda material of the Terrorist Srilanka government

Mr PereraW, why dont you regurgitate your venom through the GoSL disinformation newspaper "Daily News" instead of contaminating our British News papers?

My dear friends,

About Media – I do not condone any immoral act of any side, but condemn them all. Many have demanded our government and the investigations are underway. As you can see from the reports of UN and HRW that LTTE has assassinated people in Colombo and elsewhere, it can be anyone trying to blame the other or genuinely an extremist element in the Sri Lanka population has carried out this criminal acts. I have seen a minority of ignorant extremists in the Sinhala population. We need to change them. Therefore, until proven guilty we cannot blame any one side for the killings of reporters. However, it is very important that the government do not condone these illegal acts whoever committed them because if it is not condemned and punished more will follow causing chaos. Opportunists will even kill their private enemies. Please don’t think I am supporting the government when I said what I had to say about the former Australian ambassador article. I did not say anything against the former Australian ambassador as a person but LTTE and Tamil Diaspora who supports LTTE are capable of something like that. If you tell me to shut up, then you are just acting like the way you think the GoSL is acting. Remember, given all the facts, the only solution is through reconciliation, companion and love. (One of you called me a psychopath – I cannot understand how he did that).

Conflicts can only be resolved through love and compassion and this, some understands, others takes long to understand while the rest never understands.

• But I tell you who hear me: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. (Bible Luke 6:27-28).

• Hatreds never cease through hatred in this world; through love alone they cease. This is an eternal law. Gautama Buddha (Dhamma Pada)

• It may be that God will ordain love between you and those whom you hold as enemies. For God has power over all things; and God is Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful. ( Qur'an 60.7)


• A superior being does not render evil for evil; this is a maxim one should observe; the ornament of virtuous persons is their conduct. One should never harm the wicked or the good or even criminals meriting death. A noble soul will ever exercise compassion even towards those who enjoy injuring others or those of cruel deeds when they are actually committing them--for who is without fault? (Hinduism. Ramayana, Yuddha Kanda 115)

• An Atheist who does not believe in gods or deities has love and compassion.

Mr PereraW, I see some sense and change of mood in your latest epistle. You should preach the same philosophy to your paymaster Government. For your information, I am one of the surviving victims of 'your' successive Terrorist Governments that have never been my Governments. We have never voted or elected the Governments therefore it is a blatant lie to claim the GoSL is a democratically elected Government. I personally witnessed your Army personnel gouging out the eyes of two young Tamil women before murdering them in Vavunia. the eyes were sold to Pakistan and Japan. Eyes were offered for sale in 1982 to the Malaysian University hospital where one of my friends was working as a surgeon.I also witnessed that some Sinhalese workers trying to bury a few Buddhist artefacts in an old ruins of a building in Neduntheevu (Delft) in 1957. There are ample evidence still available despite your GoSL's attempt to erase all evidence of all the systemetic plan of colonisation, ethnic cleansing, Sinhalisation of Tamil area. Mr PereraW, your Govenrments have failed. It may appear that you have conquered the Tamil eelam and defeated the LTTE but there is no concrete proof for this. The extreme frustration caused by your inability to defeat the LTTE is the main reason for the continuous and indisciminate bombing of innocent Tamils, denial of food, medicine and all other resources essential for human survival. High hope and promises built up through propaganda have come to the situation where they are about to be proved false, hence the concerted effort to put all resources together to eliminate the LTTE along with the Tamil community for the sole purpose of saving face and satisfy the self-fulfilling prophecy. GoSL will NEVER conquer the LTTE. therefore it is about time that the GoSL and people like you Mr PereraW to give up the arms and and start talking peace. You dont have to talk to 'OUR' LTTE but you can talk to the the TNA. It may be too late to talk about unitary State but it is still possible to talk about separation in a civilised manner.

Mr Rasalingam,
Did you have a good weekend? Looks like you have been working hard. I watched a great film – I am sure you have watched it too. I watched for the first time with my family at the cinema when I was a kid – it’s Kalyana Parisu. Thungavelu is funny.

You seem to embrace anger and hate Sihalese & Tamils in Sri Lanka, just because LTTE is losing and Sri Lanka could not be divided as planned. I am not surprised to see you say new stories that you have never said before, not on this posting or on the other Guardian. Maybe your anger against us will create more stories in the weeks, months and years to come, but what they bring you is only more suffering. For your information, the people in Sri Lanka reject separation. See former leaders of the LTTE are united in Sri Lanka and say “Tamil Tigers 'finished', says former leader” http://www.guardian.
co.uk/world/2009/mar
/21/tamil-tigers-sri
-lanka-karuna . Only LTTE and foreigners like you want a separate state. Leave us alone. Don’t make our people suffer too. How can LTTE philosophy bring love and compassion to each other when they at least don’t love themselves - blowing themselves up?

My mind is confused and paralysed thinking about what you the Tamil Diaspora who supports LTTE (remember there is Tamil Diaspora who does not support LTTE) wants? If I think rationally I am still puzzled why you need a separate state in Sri Lanka? You Tamil Diaspora is scattered around the world in well developed countries and still want a separate state. Are you ill treated over there my friend? But, surely they don’t do the things you said Sri Lankan did, do they? So, then why you want to fight and suffer for a separate state? Ok, say you are treated in those develop countries as second class citizens or racism makes you feel not like home, but then why not go to Tamil Nadu where there is a homeland for Tamils? Well maybe you have ill treatment there as well (http://reservationf
aqs.blogspot.com/200
6/07/racism-exposed-
in-aiims-hostel.html ). Well Sri Lanka got to be better than what you said. To me it looks like you prefer Sri Lanka more than anywhere else. In that case Sri Lanka cannot be bad as you claim. Didn’t you lie my friend to get a separate state because Sri Lanka worth it? But, now the world doesn’t buy lies. So, why not come and live here in peace and harmony by joining us lot? After LTTE provoked Sinhalese in 1983 and went on rampaging they have learnt to be patient thereby winning the hearts of the Tamils even when LTTE suicide bombers keep blowing them and us up and now rest of the Tamil population like Karuna are joining us. Only area left for separate state is 28Km2 and it is reducing…

So please join us you are always welcome! Do you know everyday when I go to sleep I say the following – my mother taught me. It makes one peaceful. Actually, it’s Gautama Buddha’s method.
I start with thinking let me be happy and free from anger. Then I say let my children and wife be happy and free from anger, then I think about my father and mother, then my relations then my friends, then my next door neighbours, and so on and extending to everyone in Sri Lanka, then comes all the foreigners, thereafter all the animal and it goes beyond our planet and applies to all the living organisms in the universe. I think you should do this and it will bring back good in all the creatures and that is compassion. It is the training that changes living beings. If one can train to be a suicide bomber then the same person can also train to be compassionate and loving person.

Mr PereraW

You have disappointed me with your latest twist. I really thought you could be an educated and intelligent person but somehow got hijacked by the Terrorist Government. You are in fact a hypocrite. The Tamil film you mentioned gave me some clue to your age, probably in your sixties. I will be 70 on the 9th of July this year and have 5 children and 5 grand children, never suffered racial or any kind of discrimination in UK, US, Canada or even Malaysia where I spent years. The only country where I suffered any kind of discrimination and harassment was in Ceylon. Incidentally, I have been visiting Srilanka at least twice a year until 2005 when my mother passed away in Jaffna. One more ‘thing’ I supported the former Vavunia MP Mr Suntharalingam to take up arms to fight the State Terrorism in 1962 but he passed away before anything materialised.

You blithely insinuated the word ‘lie’. What was the lie you implicated Mr PereraW? I know you probably have a PhD in Disinformation propaganda and you cannot see anything in black and white but there is a limit to anything. I have NEVER lied and am scared of no one. My profile is in the Internet and you can see it through Google.
Let me tell you something about LTTE. Your hoodlums used to carry out on an annual basis riots, robberies and killing spree of Tamil Businesses in the south from the early fifties. That has stopped since the birth of LTTE that was formed by the youngest son of a dedicated Civil Servant who was a vegetarian and a Trustee of a Hindu Temple in Valvettiturai. I had the privilege of working under him. You will NEVER find anyone more honest and dedicated than Prapaharan who will not be beaten by brute force, deceit or trickery. You mentioned the minion Karuna. This shows your inferior intellectual capacity. If you have heard about the King Kaddapomman and one his ministers Eddappan you would have learnt about traitors. Karuna and Douglas Devananda are blue blooded traitors who will have no place in a Tamil Eelam. Traitors cannot be eradicated from the world and I am sure your Sinhalese race also have traitors. Traitors will always have followers as well like the 700 followers of Prince Vijaya from Kannada State a few years back. Mr Rjapakse will learn his hard lessons soon for accommodating and entertaining traitors like Karuna and Douglas Devanada. Therefore I suggest that you wipe off your smile for mentioning the traitors as Tamils.

Finally, I would like to remind you of the path followed by Mr S.J.V Chelvanayagam who was subjugated to untold frustration and intimidations. He formed a Political Party called Federal Party. I hope you are educated enough to understand the meaning of Federal. The 1956 election was conducted with the pledge to drop the English Language, meaning Sinhalese and Tamil would have equal status. Do you know what happened Mr PereraW? I reiterated to you that Eelam and Srilanka were two independent sovereign countries before colonisation. Yet ‘we’ wanted to live as one country despite the cultural and language difference as Ceylon is an island and it would be prudent to exist as one country. Alas, the Sinhalese ‘POLITICIANS’ could not appreciate the good heart and intention of the Tamils, a race that outdates the Mohanjatharo Harrappa civilisation together with the outdating of the now dead languages like Latin, Pali and Sanskrit.

People like you Mr PereraW should advise bigotry morons like the Rajapkse siblings not only to withdrew the military but to disband it before asking the LTTE to give their fight.

let Mr Rasalingam be free from anger!

PereraW you are telling everyone should be living united in Sri Lanka. It is possible with a civilised community not possible with Sri Lankan government who Ariel bombs and kills Tamil civilians including the children. Government had bombed Schools in several occasions and killed many School children, neither Sri Lanka government nor Sinhalese populations sympathise for these innocent children’s dead. Several Tamil school children have been continuously raped by Sri Lankan Army which has only Sinhalese members; the government never prosecuted these culprits.

Hundreds of Tamil businessmen have been kidnapped for ransom by SL government supported paramilitary groups. Lots of Tamil businessmen had to leave Sri Lanka to save their lives. Tamil media organisations often came under attack by Sri Lankan army and they killed and imprisoned several journalists.

Sri Lanka government banned food and medicine supplies to Vanni where 250, 000 Tamils have been refuge due to the government war, this area has been continuously aerial bombed by Sri Lankan government and the government also barred independent Medias, NGO and Red Cross from this area so the killing are conducted behind an iron curtain without witness.

PereraW the issue here is everyday hundreds of Tamils have been dying in Sri Lanka, due to Sri Lanka Army’s shelling and areal bombing, and instead of saving these innocent Tamils you are intelligent writing skills. A UN document reveal 9,924 civilian casualties including 2,683 killings and 7,241 injuries since 20 January to 07 March 2009, due to Sri Lanka’s war on Tamils.


PereraW please come out of the racism against Tamils and stop justifying the Sri Lankan government’s inhumane acts, if you are really not one of the Sri Lankan government’s propaganda agents. Please remember the preaches of Buddha and open your heart and start seeing people behind their race and religion and accept everyone as humane beings.

http://www.minorityr
ights.org/?lid=3998&
tmpl=printpage

http://www.freemedia
srilanka.org/English
/

http://www.hrw.org/e
n/news/2009/01/08/sr
i-lanka-attacks-high
light-threat-media

http://www.kalakam.c
om/forum/viewtopic.p
hp?p=9852#9852

Mr Good_citizen, you can become a very good_citizen if you ask LTTE to let the innocent Tamil civilians to leave from the warzone.