US engagement irks Sri Lanka, Norway ousted from peace mission.

by Tamiya | April 13, 2009 at 10:24 pm

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Sri Lanks booted Norway out from the peace talks process that has been put forth for over a decade now.

Colombo's action effectively terminates more than ten years effort by Norway as a peace facilitator between the Government of Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers.

Norway has been facilitating peace with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) rebels since the year 2000.

However their role has come under scrutiny by the majority Sinhalese nationalist groups and political parties who accuse them of being biased towards the Tigers.

Sri Lankan foreign minister Anura Bandaranaike in late August accused the Norwegians of misleading the European Union on the LTTE rebels.

Norway's role in the Sri Lanka peace mission seen crucial in the international communities:

Norway brokered a 2002 ceasefire between the Tigers and the Sri Lankan government, but the truce was shattered by renewed violence in 2006. Colombo pulled out in January 2008, with Rajapaksa vowing to destroy the LTTE.

In diplomatic circles, Norway's role is valued because it has the best direct links to the Tiger leadership, and is usually the channel through which the mediators and international community make their positions or requests known.

That, however, has infuriated Colombo, which says Norway has no business contacting leaders of a group that the European Union lists as a terrorist organization, along with the United States, Canada and India.

The government of Sri Lanka made the decision while the world is anxiously looking for a long term ceasefire solution in the Tamils regions.

US engagement irks Colombo, Norway ousted from Sri Lanka peace mission [TamilNet, Monday, 13 April 2009, 15:30 GMT]
Sri Lanka in a formal letter handed over to Norway's ambassador to Colombo, Tore Hattrem, Monday, has stripped the peace facilitator of its role in the Sri Lankan process, AFP said in a report Monday. "The government of Sri Lanka perceives that there is no room for Norway to act as (peace) facilitator," AFP quoted an official as saying.

The announcement comes following recent reports leaked in Colombo press suggesting that the United States had contacted the LTTE leadership through a third party and that the LTTE, concerned of the security of the civilians, had proposed a longer period of ceasefire.

Diplomatic circles in Colombo said that Sri Lanka's action was precipitated by the revelation that the United States Government was using Norway as a third party to facilitate a week long ceasefire.

Sri Lankan announced a "ceasefire" but continued to shell the "safety zones" in a reduced fashion; 23 Tamils civilians are killed since the "ceaesfire" was announced.

Starvation remains a harsh reality to many in the "safety zones".

Escalating numbers of Tamil civilians killed in the Safe Zone by Sri Lanka Army (SLA) shelling from January, and sustained protests in World capitals including London, Paris, Ottawa, Mebourne, Washington and Norway where Tamil expatriates gathered in large numbers, more than 200,000 in London this Saturday, have brought enormous pressure on the Government of Sri Lanka to accept a ceasefire arrangement as a relief to the more than 250,000 civilians crowded in the Safe Zone.

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israeli.agent

at 22:53 on April 13th, 2009

The Truth....

Since Norway failed to give adequate protection to the Sri Lankan embassy in Oslo and the resultant attack of pro-LTTE supporters prompted Sri Lankan Government to eject Norway from the peace process.

Oslo had failed in discharging its obligations under international law, consequent to its sheer neglect in the provision of adequate security to the Sri Lankan mission.

COLOMBO: Angry over the failure of the Norwegian government to prevent an attack on its mission premises in Oslo by a pro-LTTE group on Sunday, Sri Lanka on Monday announced that it was “no longer feasible” for Norway to act as a facilitator in the engagement with Sri Lanka.

The decision to de-recognise Norway as the official facilitator of peace talks came even as the LTTE ignored the 48-hour pause in the offensive by the military. On Sunday night, President Mahinda Rajapaksa directed the security forces to halt the offensive in the North to facilitate safe passage of an estimated 50,000 to 1,00,000 civilians trapped in the No Fire Zone (NFZ).

* * * * * * * *

Recent reported moves by Norway to facilitate contacts between the LTTE and U.N. Secretary-General Special Envoy and the Sunday attack seem to have proved to be the last straw. The Foreign Ministry said here in an official protest lodged with the Norwegian Ambassador the government deeply regretted that Oslo had failed in discharging its obligations under international law, consequent to its sheer neglect in the provision of adequate security to the Sri Lankan mission. It said Sri Lanka expected Norway to act swiftly to provide adequate security for the mission and its staff. Separately, in a statement the Norwegian Embassy here said Oslo strongly condemned the attack and had instructed the police to strengthen security at the premises. “The police are investigating the crime and will do its utmost to bring the culprits to justice. The police express regrets that they did not have enough personnel present when the demonstration came out of control”.

Meanwhile, the Defence Ministry said the LTTE, which continued to occupy the NFZ keeping entrapped civilians as hostages, directed sniper gunfire towards troops on Monday killing a soldier at a distant defensive position in the general area of Puthukkudiyiruppu. It said another soldier was injured in artillery gunfire.

sudharaka

at 01:25 on April 14th, 2009

Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 18th April 1961.

Article 22(2) of the Convention casts a special duty on the receiving State “to take all appropriate steps to protect the premises of the mission against any intrusion or damage and to prevent any disturbance of the peace of the mission or impairment of its dignity.”

These apply in the civilized world.

sathyajith

at 01:28 on April 14th, 2009

"Norway ousted from peace mission."
Norway has to prove at first that they are in a Position to Govern

israeli.agent

at 05:35 on April 14th, 2009

Just happen to read the 1977 Eelam decleration based on A "Tamil Kingdom" and stuff.

Reminded me of this Proclamation of another nation..

It is to be noted that the representative of those same "Aryans" who invaded and destroyed "Thiravida" culture etc as per LTTE's "gaadfathrs" declared another nation and "Kingdom" or Reich on racial purification cultural superiority basis , the same ideology, methods and tactis are used by the modern era "Draryans" here in Sri Lanka. It cannot be coincidence at all.

Sieg Vazhga...!!! Eezham Heil...!!!!!

Hitler's Speech.

BERLIN: PROCLAMATION TO THE GERMAN NATION

FEBRUARY 1, 1933

MORE than fourteen years have passed since the unhappy day when the German people, blinded by promises from foes at home and abroad, lost touch with honor and freedom, thereby losing all. Since that day of treachery, the Almighty has withheld his blessing from our people. Dissension and hatred descended upon us. With profound distress millions of the best German men and women from all walks of life have seen the unity of the nation vanishing away, dissolving in a confusion of political and personal opinions, economic interests, and ideological differences. Since that day, as so often in the past, Germany has presented a picture of heartbreaking disunity. We never received the equality and fraternity we had been promised, and we lost our liberty to boot. For when our nation lost its political place in the world, it soon lost its unity of spirit and will....

We are firmly convinced that the German nation entered the fight in 1914 without the slightest feeling of guilt on its part and filled only with the desire to defend the Fatherland which had been attacked and to preserve the freedom, nay, the very existence, of the German people. This being so, we can only see in the disastrous fate which has overtaken us since those November days of 1918 the result of our collapse at home. But the rest of the world, too, has suffered no less since then from overwhelming crises. The balance of power which had evolved in the course of history, and which formerly played no small part in bringing about the understanding of the necessity for an internal solidarity of the nations, with all its advantages for trade and commerce, has been set on one side. The insane conception of victors and vanquished destroyed the confidence existing between nations, and, at the same time, the industry of the entire world.

The misery of our people is horrible to behold! Millions of the industrial proletariat are unemployed and starving; the whole of the middle class and the small artisans have been impoverished. When this collapse finally reaches the German peasants, we will be faced with an immeasurable disaster. For then not only shall a nation collapse, but a two-thousand-year-old inheritance, some of the loftiest products of human culture and civilization.

All about us the warning signs of this collapse are apparent. Communism with its method of madness is making a powerful and insidious attack upon our dismayed and shattered nation. It seeks to poison and disrupt in order to hurl us into an epoch of chaos.... This negative, destroying spirit spared nothing of all that is highest and most valuable. Beginning with the family, it has undermined the very foundations of morality and faith and scoffs at culture and business, nation and Fatherland, justice and honor. Fourteen years of Marxism have ruined Germany; one year of bolshevism would destroy her. The richest and fairest territories of the world would be turned into a smoking heap of ruins. Even the sufferings of the last decade and a half could not be compared to the misery of a Europe in the heart of which the red flag of destruction had been hoisted. The thousands of wounded, the hundreds of dead which this inner strife has already cost Germany should be a warning of the storm which would come....

In those hours when our hearts were troubled about the life and the future of the German nation, the aged leader of the World War appealed to us. He called to those of us in nationalist parties and leagues to struggle under him once more, in unity and loyalty, for the salvation of the German nation. This time the front lines are at home. The venerable Reichsprasident has allied himself with us in this noble endeavor. And as leaders of the nation and the national Government we vow to God, to our conscience, and to our people that we will faithfully and resolutely fulfill the task conferred upon us.

The inheritance which has fallen to us is a terrible one. The task with which we are faced is the hardest which has fallen to German statesmen within the memory of man. But we are all filled with unbounded confidence for we believe in our people and their imperishable virtues. Every class and every individual must help us to found the new Reich.

The National Government will regard it as its first and foremost duty to revive in the nation the spirit of unity and co-operation. It will preserve and defend those basic principles on which our nation has been built. It regards Christianity as the foundation of our national morality, and the family as the basis of national life....

Turbulent instincts must be replaced by a national discipline as the guiding principle of our national life. All those institutions which are the strongholds of the energy and vitality of our nation will be taken under the special care of the Government.

The National Government intends to solve the problem of the reorganization of trade and commerce with two four-year plans:

The German farmer must be rescued in order that the nation may be supplied with the necessities of life....

A concerted and all-embracing attack must be made on unemployment in order that the German working class may be saved from ruin....

The November parties have ruined the German peasantry in fourteen years.

In fourteen years they have created an army of millions of unemployed. The National Government will, with iron determination and unshakable steadfastness of purpose, put through the following plan:

Within four years the German peasant must be rescued from the quagmire into which he has fallen.

Within four years unemployment must be finally overcome. At the same time the conditions necessary for a revival in trade and commerce are provided.

The National Government will couple with this tremendous task of reorganizing business life a reorganization of the administrative and fiscal systems of the Reich, of the Federal States, and the Communes.

Only when this has been done can the idea of a continued federal existence of the entire Reich be fully realized....

Compulsory labor-service and the back-to-the-land policy are two of the basic principles of this program.

The securing of the necessities of life will include the performance of social duties to the sick and aged.

In economical administration, the promotion of employment, the preservation of the farmer, as well as in the exploitation of individual initiative, the Government sees the best guarantee for the avoidance of any experiments which would endanger the currency.

As regards its foreign policy the National Government considers its highest mission to be the securing of the right to live and the restoration of freedom to our nation. Its determination to bring to an end the chaotic state of affairs in Germany will assist in restoring to the community of nations a State of equal value and, above all, a State which must have equal rights. It is impressed with the importance of its duty to use this nation of equal rights as an instrument for the securing and maintenance of that peace which the world requires today more than ever before.

May the good will of all others assist in the fulfillment of this our earnest wish for the welfare of Europe and of the whole world.

Great as is our love for our Army as the bearer of our arms and the symbol of our great past, we should be happy if the world, by reducing its armaments, would see to it that we need never increase our own.

If, however, Germany is to experience this political and economic revival and conscientiously fulfill her duties toward the other nations, one decisive step is absolutely necessary first: the overcoming of the destroying menace of communism in Germany. We of this Government feel responsible for the restoration of orderly life in the nation and for the final elimination of class madness and class struggle. We recognize no classes, we see only the German people, millions of peasants, bourgeois, and workers who will either overcome together the difficulties of these times or be overcome by them. We are firmly resolved and we have taken our oath. Since the present Reichstag is incapable of lending support to this work, we ask the German people whom we represent to perform the task themselves.

Reichspräsident von Hindenburg has called upon us to bring about the revival of the German nation. Unity is our tool. Therefore we now appeal to the German people to support this reconciliation. The National Government wishes to work and it will work. It did not ruin the German nation for fourteen years, but now it will lead the nation back to health. It is determined to make well in four years the ills of fourteen years. But the National Government cannot make the work of reconstruction dependent upon the approval of those who wrought destruction. The Marxist parties and their lackeys have had fourteen years to show what they can do. The result is a heap of ruins.

Now, people of Germany, give us four years and then pass judgment upon us. In accordance with Field Marshal von Hindenburg's command we shall begin now. May God Almighty give our work His blessing, strengthen our purpose, and endow us with wisdom and the trust of our people, for we are fighting not for ourselves but for Germany.

Tamiya

at 04:35 on April 14th, 2009

How many voices to support and justify a hindered peace mission. Amazing the thirst the Sinhalese extremists have for Tamils' complete demolition in Sri Lanka.

If a peace facilitator listens to LTTE and try bring in a conclusive and all around solution to the peace mission, they are attacked as "supporting" LTTE?

There is only one rule in Sri Lanka: If you voice or even discuss (as the case in Norway's part in the peace mission) Tamils' autonomy, then you are branded as LTTE.

However Tamils have decided on autonomy in a political conference in 1977, in the Vaddukootai resolution under the leadership of MP SJV Chelvanayakam, and that is what Tamils want in Sri Lanka to live with freedom and rights.

VADDUKODDAI RESOLUTION

THE RESOLUTION
Unanimously adopted at the First National Convention of the
TAMIL UNITED LIBERATION FRONT
held at Vaddukoddai
on May 14, 1976
Chairman S.J.V. Chelvanayakam Q.C., M.P. (K.K.S)

Whereas, throughout the centuries from the dawn of history, the Sinhalese and Tamil nations have divided between themselves the possession of Ceylon, the Sinhalese inhabiting the interior of the country in its Southern and Western parts from the river Walawe to that of Chilaw and the Tamils possessing the Northern and Eastern districts; And,
Whereas, the Tamil Kingdom was overthrown in war and conquered by the Portuguese in 1619, and from them by the Dutch and the British in turn, independent of the Sinhalese Kingdoms; And,

Whereas, the British Colonists, who ruled the territories of the Sinhalese and Tamil Kingdoms separately, joined under compulsion the territories of the Sinhalese and the Tamil Kingdoms for purposes of administrative convenience on the recommendation of the Colebrooke Commission in 1833; And,

Whereas, the Tamil Leaders were in the forefront of the Freedom movement to rid Ceylon of colonial bondage which ultimately led to the grant of independence to Ceylon in 1948; And,

Whereas, the foregoing facts of history were completely overlooked, and power over the entire country was transferred to the Sinhalese nation on the basis of a numerical majority, thereby reducing the Tamil nation to the position of subject people; And,

Whereas, successive Sinhalese governments since independence have always encouraged and fostered the aggressive nationalism of the Sinhalese people and have used their political power to the detriment of the Tamils by-

(a) Depriving one half of the Tamil people of their citizenship and franchise rights thereby reducing Tamil representation in Parliament,

(b) Making serious inroads into the territories of the former Tamil Kingdom by a system of planned and state-aided Sinhalese colonization and large scale regularization of recently encouraged Sinhalese encroachments, calculated to make the Tamils a minority in their own homeland,

(c) Making Sinhala the only official language throughout Ceylon thereby placing the stamp of inferiority on the Tamils and the Tamil Language,

(d) Giving the foremost place to Buddhism under the Republican constitution thereby reducing the Hindus, Christians, and Muslims to second class status in this Country,

(e) Denying to the Tamils equality of opportunity in the spheres of employment, education, land alienation and economic life in general and starving Tamil areas of large scale industries and development schemes thereby seriously endangering their very existence in Ceylon,

(f) Systematically cutting them off from the main-stream of Tamil cultures in South India while denying them opportunities of developing their language and culture in Ceylon, thereby working inexorably towards the cultural genocide of the Tamils,

(g) Permitting and unleashing communal violence and intimidation against the Tamil speaking people as happened in Amparai and Colombo in 1956; all over the country in 1958; army reign of terror in the Northern and Eastern Provinces in 1961; police violence at the International Tamil Research Conference in 1974 resulting in the death of nine persons in Jaffna; police and communal violence against Tamil speaking Muslims at Puttalam and various other parts of Ceylon in 1976 - all these calculated to instill terror in the minds of the Tamil speaking people, thereby breaking their spirit and the will to resist injustices heaped on them,

(h) By terrorizing, torturing, and imprisoning Tamil youths without trial for long periods on the flimsiest grounds,

(i) Capping it all by imposing on the Tamil Nation a constitution drafted, under conditions of emergency without opportunities for free discussion, by a Constituent Assembly elected on the basis of the Soulbury Constitution distorted by the Citizenship laws resulting in weightage in representation to the Sinhalese majority, thereby depriving the Tamils of even the remnants of safeguards they had under the earlier constitution, And,

Whereas, all attempts by the various Tamil political parties to win their rights, by co-operating with the governments, by parliamentary and extra-parliamentary agitations, by entering into pacts and understandings with successive Prime Ministers, in order to achieve the bare minimum of political rights consistent with the self-respect of the Tamil people have proved to be futile; And,

Whereas, the efforts of the All Ceylon Tamil Congress to ensure non-domination of the minorities by the majority by the adoption of a scheme of balanced representation in a Unitary Constitution have failed and even the meagre safeguards provided in article 29 of the Soulbury Constitution against discriminatory legislation have been removed by the Republican Constitution; And,

Whereas, the proposals submitted to the Constituent Assembly by the Ilankai Thamil Arasu Kadchi for maintaining the unity of the country while preserving the integrity of the Tamil people by the establishment of an autonomous Tamil State within the framework of a Federal Republic of Ceylon were summarily and totally rejected without even the courtesy of a consideration of its merits; And,

Whereas, the amendments to the basic resolutions, intended to ensure the minimum of safeguards to the Tamil people moved on the basis of the nine point demands formulated at the conference of all Tamil Political parties at Valvettithurai on 7th February 1971 and by individual parties and Tamil members of Parliament including those now in the government party, were rejected in toto by the government and Constituent Assembly; And,

Whereas, even amendments to the draft proposals relating to language, religion, and fundamental-rights including one calculated to ensure that at least the provisions of the Tamil Lanaguage (Special Provisions) Regulations of 1956 be included in the Constitution, were defeated, resulting in the boycott of the Constituent Assembly by a large majority of the Tamil members of Parliament; And,

Whereas, the Tamil United Liberation Front, after rejecting the Republican Constitution adopted on the 22nd of May, 1972, presented a six point demand to the Prime Minister and the Government on 25th June, 1972, and gave three months time within which the Government was called upon to take meaningful steps to amend the Constitution so as to meet the aspirations of the Tamil Nation on the basis of the six points, and informed the Government that if it failed to do so the Tamil United Liberation Front would launch a non-violent direct action against the Government in order to win the freedom and the rights of the Tamil Nation on the basis of the right of self-determination; And,

Whereas, this last attempt by the Tamil United Liberation Front to win Constitutional recognition of the rights of the Tamil Nation without jeopardizing the unity of the country was callously ignored by the Prime Minister and the Government; And,

Whereas, the opportunity provided by the Tamil United Liberation leader to vindicate the Government’s contention that their constitution had the backing of the Tamil people, by resigning from his membership of the National State Assembly and creating a by-election was deliberately put off for over two years in utter disregard of the democratic right of the Tamil voters of Kankesanthurai, and,

Whereas, in the by-election held on the 6th February 1975, the voters of Kankesanthurai by a preponderant majority not only rejected the Republican Constitution imposed on them by the Sinhalese Government, but also gave a mandate to Mr. S.J.V. Chelvanayakam, Q.C. and through him to the Tamil United Liberation Front for the restoration and reconstitution of the Free Sovereign, Secular, Socialist State of TAMIL EELAM.

The first National Convention of the Tamil United Liberation Front meeting at Pannakam (Vaddukoddai Constituency) on the 14th day of May, 1976, hereby declares that the Tamils of Ceylon by virtue of their great language, their religions, their separate culture and heritage, their history of independent existence as a separate state over a distinct territory for several centuries till they were conquered by the armed might of the European invaders and above all by their will to exist as a separate entity ruling themselves in their own territory, are a nation distinct and apart from Sinhalese and this Convention announces to the world that the Republican Constitution of 1972 has made the Tamils a slave nation ruled by the new colonial masters, the Sinhalese ,who are using the power they have wrongly usurped to deprive the Tamil Nation of its territory, language citizenship, economic life, opportunities of employment and education, thereby destroying all the attributes of nationhood of the Tamil people.

And, while taking note of the reservations in relation to its commitment to the setting up of a separated state of TAMIL EELAM expressed by the Ceylon Workers Congress as a Trade Union of the Plantation Workers, the majority of whom live and work outside the Northern and Eastern areas,

This convention resolves that restoration and reconstitution of the Free, Sovereign, Secular, Socialist State of TAMIL EELAM, based on the right of self determination inherent to every nation, has become inevitable in order to safeguard the very existence of the Tamil Nation in this Country.

This Convention further declares -

that the State of TAMIL EELAM shall consist of the people of the Northern and Eastern provinces and shall also ensure full and equal rights of citizenship of the State of TAMIL EELAM to all Tamil speaking people living in any part of Ceylon and to Tamils of EELAM origin living in any part of the world who may opt for citizenship of TAMIL EELAM.

that the constitution of TAMIL EELAM shall be based on the principle of democratic decentralization so as to ensure the non-domination of any religious or territorial community of TAMIL EELAM by any other section.

that in the state of Tamil Eelam caste shall be abolished and the observance of the pernicious practice of untouchability or inequality of any type based on birth shall be totally eradicated and its observance in any form punished by law.

that TAMIL EELAM shall be a secular state giving equal protection and assistance to all religions to which the people of the state may belong.

that Tamil shall be the language of the State, but the rights of Sinhalese speaking minorities in Tamil Eelam to education and transaction of business in their language shall be protected on a reciprocal basis with the Tamil speaking minorities in the Sinhala State.

that Tamil Eelam shall be a Socialist State wherein the exploitation of man by man shall be forbidden, the dignity of labor shall be recognized, the means of production and distribution shall be subject to public ownership and control while permitting private enterprise in these branches within limit prescribed by law, economic development shall be on the basis of socialist planning and there shall be a ceiling on the total wealth that any individual of family may acquire.

This Convention directs the Action Committee of the TAMIL UNITED LIBERATION FRONT to formulate a plan of action and launch without undue delay the struggle for winning the sovereignty and freedom of the Tamil Nation;

And this Convention calls upon the Tamil Nation in general and the Tamil youth in particular to come forward to throw themselves fully into the sacred fight for freedom and to flinch not till the goal of a sovereign state of TAMIL EELAM is reached.

(This is a translation of the Resolution Unanimously Adopted at the 1st National Convention of the Tamil United Liberation Front, held at Pannakam (Vaddukoddai Constituency) on May 15 1976, Presided over by Mr. Chelvanayakam, Q.C, M.P. The TULF went to polls in 1977 with this and received an overwhelming mandate from the Tamil electorate. This was the last time Tamils of Eelam were able to express their wish freely at a democratically conducted poll.)

sudharaka

at 05:19 on April 14th, 2009

Tamia
Thank you for posting this, which aptly shows who are the racists who cannot integrate into the social fabric of the country. Where have your mono-ethnic dream taken you all. Sit back tight and think.

Tamiya

at 05:57 on April 14th, 2009

Sri Lanka emerged in 1948.

Tamils have been oppressed for 30 years before Tamils and their political leaders decided that autonomy is the only solution to live freely in Sri Lanka.

Why Tamils have endure oppression ? and if Tamils in Sri Lanka ask for freedom and rights, then you would say that "they can not integrate with the social fabric of the country"?!! When the "integration with social fabric in Sri Lanka" means to be killed, raped and tortured and agonize over freedom and rights everyday, I think Tamils don't want to "integrate with the social fabric of Sri Lanka".

Actually, you are right in that, because Sinhalese extremists will see to that Tamils can not integrate with the social fabric of Sri Lanka ever.

It is a political decision supported by Tamils in Sri Lanka in 1977 to live freely in their own state as before the British came to Sri Lanka.

The ignorance you are showing right now in your reply was the similar mentality and swaying propaganda carried out by the Sri Lankan Government to deny the political aspiration of Tamils in Sri Lanka.

Our inspiration to live freely in Sri Lanka comes from the great leaders like Martin Luther King:

Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends.

And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. ...

And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:

Free at last! Free at last!

Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

and... Tamils will have that day too.

sudharaka

at 06:28 on April 14th, 2009

Lolz...
How about a deal. First let the trapped civilians go. Then you can happily cramp the lot of you into that 15kmsq.
Then you all can enjoy the infamous hospitality of the V. Pirapaharan & Co. while screaming at the top of your lungs.

Tamiya

at 06:39 on April 14th, 2009

If the Sri Lankan government stops shooting and shelling during the "ceasefire", and brings in International community aid agencies to work to bring the Tamils civilians out, the Tamils civilians will come out.

Now in the self-served "ceasefire" of Sri Lanka, and the Sri Lankan Army still shooting and shelling at the Tamils civilians, how would they feel safe to come out ?

Let International community aid agencies come in and work with the situation. Let international media come in and talk to the Tamils civilians.

Once the Sri Lankan Government let's in international community and media monitor the "ceasefire", then only the real "ceasefire" will starts in Sri Lanka.

Until then, the Sri Lankan Government will self-serve "ceasefire" as it sees fit.

sudharaka

at 06:54 on April 14th, 2009

Ask your V. Pirapaharan refrain from shooting the fleeing civilians for a couple of hours. Shall we see where the trapped civilians ends up.

israeli.agent

at 09:14 on April 14th, 2009

All these "ifs" and "onces" can be compressed into one request from Sri Lanka. (We should not waste words in this global recession time).

Give us Piraphaaran.

Shubhasya Sheekrhram Phalam. (the earlier, the better).

.Agent.

sathyajith

at 10:20 on April 14th, 2009

"Let International community aid agencies come in and work with the situation. Let international media come in "

yes so that ltte terrorists can take them also as hostages!

LTTE 'forcibly recruited' UN staff

UN says civilians in Vanni, many of whom are not allowed to leave by the LTTE, are facing a serious shortage of food and medicine

The United Nations in Sri Lanka has accused the Tamil Tigers of forcibly recruiting one of its staff members.

It is among many incidents of LTTE forcibly recruiting civilians and children as young as 14, the UN said in a statement.

"The LTTE continues to actively prevent people leaving, and reports indicate that a growing number of people trying to leave have been shot and sometimes killed," the statement added.

It said fifteen members of the UN staff and 75 of their dependents including children and women are among those prevented leaving by the LTTE.

Source: bbc.co.uk

sudharaka

at 15:19 on April 14th, 2009

A great reply Sathyajith. Really well done.

Tamiya

at 16:00 on April 14th, 2009

Wow, now the Sri Lankan Government is worried about the lives of foreign aid workers and this is the same government which issued a note to BBC and other journalists to "play by the rules or face serious consequences" ?

Does the following report jolts your memory ? The Sri Lankan government booted out the foreign aid workers and media to hide its own human rights violations and terrorism.

From Committee to Protect Journalist:
Sri Lanka special report: Failure to Investigate By Bob Dietz/Asia Program Coordinator
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, February 23, 2009

Sri Lanka’s journalists are under intensive assault. Authorities have failed to carry out effective and credible investigations into the killing of journalists who question the government’s conduct of a war against Tamil separatists or criticize the military establishment.

Three attacks in January targeting the mainstream media drew the world’s attention to the problem, but top journalists have been killed, attacked, threatened, and harassed since the government began to pursue an all-out military victory over the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in late 2006. Many local and foreign journalists and members of the diplomatic community believe the government is complicit in the attacks.

The lack of credible investigations into these crimes is in keeping with a long history of impunity for those who attack journalists in Sri Lanka. With a failure to investigate and a realistic suspicion that government actors are complicit in the violence against journalists, the time has come for the international community to act.

Does the above report sounds like a "saintly" government worried over anybody' wellbeing?!

israeli.agent

at 17:04 on April 14th, 2009

"Does the above report sounds like a "saintly" government worried over anybody' wellbeing?!"

Yes it does. But the terrorist supporters like you won't understand because you people are only intersted in the well being of your master terroist body and the self body. No other body, even if it is the bodies of the innocent Tamil civilians trapped there by LTTE.

.Agent.