US Foreign Relations Committee to Hold Hearings on Sri Lanka

The entire world knows that the LTTE Terrorists are responsible for the mass murder of civilians by suicide bombings, ethnic cleansing of non-Tamils, using innocent civilians as human shields, recruiting children as soldiers, narcotics trade, assassination of political leaders, extortion, sea piracy, credit card fraud, money laundering, identification fraud, arms trafficking, counterfeit trade, attempting to bribe U.S. State Department officials and the systematic murder of moderate Tamils. The same terror group established bogus human rights organizations as an effective front in UK, Canada, Norway, Australia and the US. Their ability to mislead us is quite impressive and hopefully this letter can help expose them and elicit an appropriate response from the Committee and the US government.

Let us now discuss the true nature of the current humanitarian crisis. The Tamil Tiger Terrorists are holding a small group of Tamil civilians as hostage to slow down the advance of the brave and efficient Sri Lankan armed forces trying to liberate the last of the terror-held areas. This is a gross violation of human rights by the Tamil Tigers against their own. The generous Sri Lankan government created a safety zone for civilians and asked the terrorists to release these hostages. The LTTE Terrorists only released a few and fired shells at the civilians when they reached the safety zone. As an American citizen, I expect the US to severely condemn and do everything to eliminate these terrorists. But we don't and we expect other nations to respect human rights and help us stop terror against the US. Why is that?

Then there is a huge problem with the number of trapped civilians itself. Amnesty International website said that there were more than 300,000 civilians, just to grab headlines. That was proven to be false. Then the Medecin Sans Frontier said that there were 250,000 civilians. Fortunately, this was proven to be false too but it did give a small boost to the LTTE lobby around the world. Your statement says approximately 250,000 internally displaced persons are trapped. Then a Catholic Priest who had escaped from the area puts the figure at 50,000! I am concerned as to where you got your figures since the most reasonable number I have seen that makes sense is a maximum of 50,000. How did we go from high 300,000 to 250,000 to 100,000 to 50,000 civilians? Is it possible that the actual number is even lower since this is a very small area to house even 50,000 civilians? What are we doing about bringing the LTTE to justice for holding an innocent civilian population hostage? How can we get an honest account of this when the human rights groups, citizens such as the terror-loving lawyer Bruce Fein, lawmakers and the media are blatantly misled by LTTE-fed propaganda and money?

Here is an open letter to Dr. Anna Neistat who is to testify on the 24th.  You can read it at http://vosl.blogspot.com/

Dear Dr. Anna Neistat,
I came to know about you thru a story about "US Senate Foreign Relations Committee to hear on Lankan crisis" (http://www.dailymirror.lk/DM_BLOG/Sections/frmNewsDetailView.aspx?ARTID=40598) that is scheduled for the 24th of February.
I realize that you have a very difficult job to do; finding a grain of truth among a web of lies and making the right decision with a clear conscience, knowing fully well that the words you speak can have profound impact on the life and hopes of millions.  Mistakenly supporting the wrong idea can leave you with a guilty conscience, but supporting the wrong idea knowingly would be a far, far worse blow to your conscience.  A story I have read has had a profound effect in my life, and I want to share that with you.
It is said that an enlightened Islamic mystic was to be put to death by stoning due to an unsubstantiated claim by the people.  With each stone that struck his body, spilling blood, he started laughing louder and louder.  Among the stone throwers was one that knew he was innocent, and threw a rose instead of a stone. At this, the mystic started crying.  Seeing what had just happened, the king asked the mystic why he was laughing when stoned and started crying when a rose struck him, to which he replied; I was laughing because these people are stoning me because they are unaware of the truth, but when I was struck by a rose, I knew there is one among them that knows the truth.  So I started crying for his soul.  Your role is a similar role.  Your testimony can stop a genocide or allow it to be continued.  I know you know the truth, but will you speak the truth?
Yes, there is a genocide going on in Sri Lanka, but it is certainly not that of the Tamils by the Sinhalese!  Sinhalese maybe a majority in the island, but if you look just over 25 miles to the North of the island, there is no doubt that Sinhalese are the minority in the geographic region. The Tamil population of India has overflown into the tiny island nation and the Sinhalese have been the target of systematic eradication by the Tamil LTTE to the tune of the rabbit and the porcupine story.  LTTE has ruthlessly attacked, bombed and massacred people in public gathering places, cars, buses, trains, planes and even in sacred religious sites.  It is such a ruthless group that is being protected by the Amnesty International and the Human Rights Watch.
Here are the facts from Wikipedia.  The amil population of India is well over 62 million people (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_population_by_nation")  and overshadows the Sinhalese population of 14 million (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinhalese_people) by a factor of 4.  Any one claiming genocide of the Tamils by the Sinhalese is simply lying and twisting the truth.  It is akin to the Moslems of the world claiming they are being genocide by the Jews!  In addition, well over a half of the Tamil population of Sri Lanka lives in peace, harmony and prosperity in the government controlled areas, and have succeeded as successful businessmen in the Sri Lankan economy.
The civil war in Sri Lanka has been fought because the of the LTTE's selfish desire to divide up a country that has been called the "melting pot of Asia," out of self serving greed of a few power hungry megalomaniacs that are NOT supported by the majority of the Tamil population in Sri Lanka.  LTTE wanted a large part of the country and about 70% of the coastal part (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_Eelam) of the island for less than 15% of the island's population.  If the African Americans or Mexican Americans in the USA started a similar stunt, I don't think the rest of the country would stand idly by.  Sri Lanka has been doing just that; trying to make a UNITED COUNTRY FOR THE GOOD OF ALL ITS CITIZENS; nothing less, nothing more.
Sri Lanka is a small country about the size of West Virginia and we cannot afford to be divided in to separate countries.  We have to learn to live with each other, but that is not possible for as long as there is terrorism in the country.  It took a modern, civilized country like The United States of America, a long time to over come racial tension and social equality.  It wasn't too far off in history where the blacks were lynched by the whites for what would be considered minor offenses today.  The Tamils of Sri Lanka has fared much, much, much better.  There never existed any form of segregation in Sri Lanka.  The Sri Lankan economy is mostly controlled by the minorities, including Tamils and Moslems and live in peace and harmony in the government controlled areas.  Tamil have always had representatives in the government, and some of these courageous people were assassinated by their own LTTE for supporting a UNITED Sri Lanka.  I realize that we have to walk far in search of a solution.  When the peaceful negotiations are not honored by the LTTE and blows up bombs in populated civilian areas, why do you still defend them and ignore to speak of the LTTE atrocities, only pointing out what LTTE claims are those of the government?  Are you so blinded by those that surround you, that you take their word instead of looking at it objectively?  We are a small country about the size of West Virginia, and clearly there is no room for division and we have to learn to live with each other.  However, this is not a reality untill we stand united as one nation.  Your actions are for nothing other than dividing up a country for the benefit of a few megalomaniacs.  Could it have a hidden agenda, such as the discovery of oil???
I was born a Sinhalese, Buddhist, and my parents brought me up to do the right thing, to have the right thought, not to hate or be blinded by greed.  Though I've had prejudices of my own, I have tried my best to over come most of it, and I try to treat each person as a person, not as Sinhalese, Tamil, Buddhist, Christian, Moslem, Black, White, Sri Lankan, American, Arab, Japanese, Chinese, etc, etc.  Yet I see how people go on dividing themselves into subgroups for the benefit of their own subgroup without thinking about the others.  Open your eyes and see it for what it really is.  The genocide going on is that of the Sinhalese by the Tamils, aided by the western world thru the Amnesty International and the Human Rights Watch that has been misled by the LTTE propaganda.  We are the ones without a voice.  We are the ones that have no where else to go.  The little bit of land we have in the form of an island is being looted from us by force, aided by the western world!
It is the life and culture of the Sinhalese that has been under attack throughout the centuries, and more recently thru the violence, pretense and propaganda of LTTE and its supporters.  The threat of extinction of the Sinhala race/language is documented and is well known to the world, yet no one has chosen to speak for the Sinhala people; only against them.  The culture, the language and religion of this endangered Sinhalese must be protected, lest the world may witness the slow genocide of these people by the LTTE Tamils under the blessing of the Amnesty International, the Human Rights Watch and its supporters.
Oscar Wilde said, "The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple." The truth of which is quite apparent in the web of lies and propaganda surrounding the human rights issues of Sri Lanka, woven by the LTTE and its supporters.  Finally, please dont forget, it is the one who knows, yet stands idly by, or worse, promotes the wrong doers, that is the worst kind of offender of his own self conscience and that of human justice.  May you have the courage and the wisdom to speak the truth, whatever it may be, not out of self interest, but out of a clear conscience.

It must be also noted that nearly 10,000 Tamils had been killed by Sinhalese thugs, police and soldiers in Sri Lankan long before the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) came into existence to fight back against the racist Sinhala Sri Lankan government.

Yet, the world stood by as state-terrorism from the Sri Lankan government rained down on the Tamils who had no help from anywhere until the LTTE emerged formed by a majority of students who had been denied education, lost family and their homes.

Even though the Sri Lankan government had committed and is comitting severe genocide against the Tamils as is evident by HRW, AI , NGO reports.. the world sits on its hand but has enough energy to get up and label the Tamil peoples Liberation force the LTTE as terrorists based on hear-say.

Great injustices are happening in Sri Lanka under the cover of fighting "terrorism".We must not forget Nelson Mandela and the ANC was branded terrorists by many countries based on the lies and propaganda the apartheid and racist regime in South Africa had released.

When will this world learn from history?

http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2009/02/03/sri-lanka-disregard-civilian-safety-appalling

I think it is time that U.S abandons its friendship and military relationship with the Genocidal regime of Sri lanka under dictator Mahinda Rajapakse and his brothers.

Sri lanka is the world's prolific killer and torturer of innocent minorities like the Tamils of North and East of Sri lanka.

 

Sri lanka is committing mass Genocide against the Tamils.

 

 

Sri lanka is committing Genocide against the Tamils.

 

The U.S.A and the world should stop the Genocide of Tamils in Sri lanka.

we got to be more educated on this conflict. In a way we got our selves involved when we labelled Tamil organisations based on hearsay and the failed doctrine of war on terror, they were terror supporters. That I think was a bad move on our part since our government doesn't know how to distinguish terrorists who pose a threat to us and other organsiations lile the LTTE rebels fighting for freedom and justice. Read into it, I was surprised myself.

The bans we placed on these aid organisations has only help te Sinhalese dominated government of Sri Lanka carry out its ethnic genocide of the Tamils there.

Also, whatever that government says, it is complete nonsense, since it bans all aid organisations, media, UN monitors and now recently asked ICRC to leave since it reported that the Sri Lankan military was shelling hospitals.

How can we trust such a government? I think we owe it to our Tamil-Canadian countrymen to really put an end to that genocide.

I was shocked that a government doesn't give damn about its people, just because they are of another race.

http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2009/02/03/sri-lanka-disregard-civilian-safety-appalling

cheers,
Peter, M

It is time U.S.A start economic and military sanctions against Sri lanka.

 

 

U.S.A should Stop the Genocide of Tamils in Sri lanka

Sri lanka is committing Genocide of Tamils in Sri lanka.

The world should stop it . U.S.A should stop it.

I am glad finally US is taking steps to discuss the conflict in Sri-Lanka. As a person who have lost families to the war that is Sri-Lankan government  waging on Tamils, I would like to plea with you to stop the Sri-Lanka from ethnic cleansing of Tamils. Sri-Lanka has involved in Tamil genocide for years now even before LTTE was born. The war is not about LTTE, but to bring Sinhalese dominance in that island where Tamils will be forced to live like slaves. Already that is what happening in Sri-Lankan military controlled areas.

Sri-Lanka does not allow journalists and aid workers to function in Tamil areas. In last 2 years alone 100of local aid workers have been killed by the Government and more than 15 journalists have been killed with no investigation whats so ever. In every Tamil  city, people are being abducted and go disappeared without any trace. And now they are using cluster bombs to kill the Tamils in LTTE controlled area. Everyday on average 100 Tamils including children have been killed with no witness.

It is time US bring sanction against Sri-Lanka to stop this madness and remove LTTE from list of banned organizations. For the Tamils around the world, LTTE is the only hope.

 

 

Thank you for taking up this important issue and  its outcome may determine  thousands of innocent Tamil civilians fate.

Please understand the root causes of this crisis is that the Srilankan govt and its Sinhala forces terror against the Tamils aspirations for equality and its failure to implement the accords it signed with the Tamil political leaders since inependence in 1948.

I strongly feel the divisions between these communities are very very deep and very long standing and the ideal solution for them is to have 2 seperate states.Also only the United states of America has the power to solve this problem and save thousands of lives.

 

A watershed event in the escalating divisions between the Sinhalese and Tamils occurred during the 1983 pogrom, now known as Black July, in which orgiastic riots in Colombo left Tamil neighbourhoods ablaze, businesses looted, and over 2 thousand Tamil civilians murdered by Sinhalese mobs. Though then President Jayawardene’s administration was not officially blamed for the slaughter, the connection was never formally investigated and is commonly viewed by the Tamils as deeply suspect.

Suspicions were likely reawakened last month when Lasantha Wickrematunge, editor of the Sri Lankan independent newspaper The Sunday Leader, successfully predicted his own murder in an editorial. Citing the newspaper’s fiercely critical investigative coverage of the current Sri Lankan government, Wickrematunge said that his murder would be politically motivated, part of a wider effort to suppress and control the country’s media. A personal associate of President Rajapaksa, he addressed him personally: “In the wake of my death I know you will make all the usual sanctimonious noises […] But like all the inquiries you have ordered in the past, nothing will come of this one, too.”

The governments of Srilanka never had any meaningful solution to the Tamils aspirations for equal rights and the governments have deepened the divide between 2 communities to the level that this crisis can'be resolved by the government alone and the international community should force a solution or accept a 2 state solution.

 

The persecution of the Tamils by the Colombo government began almost as soon as the British left in 1948.  Armed resistance did not begin until 1983, after decades of government abuse and the failure of all attempts at peaceful resolution of these abuses.

The Bush administration called this Sri Lankan civil war a war on terror. I think this is incorrect. This war started with a campaign of government terror; the Tamil Tigers arose as a justifiable resistance group. While I disagree with some of their tactics, I maintain that the committee should state that the Tamil Tigers are an opposition group to state terrorism.

 

 

Thank you for taking up this important issue and  its outcome may determine  thousands of innocent Tamil civilians fate and we hope this may stop the  “Tamil genocide” happening in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 />Sri Lankan Nazi Armed forces..

As you may aware the Biggest, Bloody and Worst Ever humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding in Sri Lanka against Tamil citizens. The World at large, yet again prepare itself to talk about similar to post ‘Genocides’ in RWANDA like situation in north of Sri Lanka where ‘Genocides of Tamils’ are well underway without any witnesses. Planned genocide by Sri Lankan Government that has reached its climax in recent weeks.  Over two thousand Tamils (all civilians) have been killed by Sri Lankan aerial and artillery bombardments and hundred of children and infant are being killed everyday..

 Sri Lankan government openly and explicitly expelled (even massacred and assassinated) independent journalists, local and international aid agencies’ representatives including Red Cross and UN agencies, health workers and religious leaders  and prosecuting the genocidal war against Tamils while the world silently watching.

 

Sri Lanka clearly and explicitly violating all the norms of the international laws of war situation as it is shelling, bombing, attacking and killing civilians in hospitals, schools, religious places even self designated ‘safe zone’. Extensively uses even internationally banned ‘Cluster Bombs’& 'White Phosphorous shells' against civilians according to UN agencies maiming even children, infants, elderly and women. Still and video images emerging from battle zone too much bear as even a fellow human being let alone as their brethren.

 

It is unfortunate that not a single media personals in the world asking the very pertinent question of why Sri Lanka is not allowing the  international observers, independent journalists and aid agencies to operate in the Vanni area  to monitor, report and provide assistances to the needy people in the area. Even worse, how one can report information disseminating from the very people (Sri Lankan Government) banned independent observes, journalists, and aid agencies.

 

Presently, Tamils in Lanka is in the situation worse than Jews under Nazis. Tamils  came from war zones to government controlled area is kept in concentration camps where  hundreds of young men got killed and women are raped and killed by  Sri Lankan security forces. Most of the civilians are kept in fear so they can’t communicate to anyone including their relatives.  There are no INGO or media to report the truth.  Simply Tamils civilians are not safe anywhere in Sri Lanka.

 

What needed urgently now, exerting decisive pressure on the Sri Lankan Government to accept an immediate UN sponsored ceasefire to halt mass killings of civilians and push both warring parties towards a political solution based on Tamils right to Self-determination to end this genocidal war against Tamils.

  

USA has  moral obligation to reverse the wrong doing of President Bush. Early indications are that President Obama has removed Washington policy on "War on Terror". Would the U.S be prepared to treat both sides of the conflict equally and force them to arrive at a political solution that is acceptable to the Tamils? This is a sure way to bring back permanent peace to the island nation.

 

  

Meena Dasan

 

Please see the videos by following the links below, these videos will help you understand the problem from the very start.

 

Part 1 - http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=2151064219162771887&hl=en-GB

Part 2 - http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-8359054759762167876&hl=en-GB

Part 3 - http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=8525097473807918744&hl=en-GB

Recent attack on ICRC office in Colombo is typical tribal behavior of a section of Sri Lankans. What worse is the government police and armed forces do not make an effort to stop this kind of incidents. This pattern of incidents has been happening from 1948, and cause for the birth of LTTE. Even today at the time when Sri Lanka’s forces enjoying the upper hand in war, this behavior of sections of Sri Lankan has not changed. How anyone in the world can expect a person with different view whether be a Sinhalese, Tamil or ect.. to live safely in Sri Lanka?

 

LTTE was a creation of the problems faced by the Tamils in Sri Lanka, to date there is no change in the problems faced by the Tamils. Successive governments used these problems to come to the power and did not make genuine efforts to remedy the situation. If Tamils grievances in Sri Lanka are address properly and a confidence developed among Tamils about their safety, LTTE will have no one to recruit.

 

Warring parties in Sri Lanka had lots of opportunities to do good to their people but these parties did not choose or have the will or vision to seize those opportunities that would have helped the people they are representing and continuing to act in ways that damage their people and country as a whole.

 

At this point in time, Tamils in Sri Lanka are under immense threat this include TNA, TVMP, EPRLF, ect... People who are under threat cannot negotiate for equitable solutions. Further the cream of the Tamil population is not in Sri Lanka. Most of the Tamil Diasporas were forced out the country or fled the country for safety reasons. But they still care about their homeland more than the people who are in Sri Lanka. So it is imperative to involve the Diasporas actively in finding solution to Sri Lankan problem.

 

In trying to help Sri Lanka to find solution to its problems, we should not think that there is legitimate government in Sri Lanka and leave the responsibility of looking after their own affairs. Legitimate governments have been in Sri Lanka for 60 years and if they had looked after their own affairs properly the carnage of today never would have happened and thousands of people around the world and senators like you will not waste the precious time discussing about it.

 

To correct any problem parties must first be aware that there is a problem then try to understand it without defending or blaming other side and finally they should recondition themselves to solve the problem.

 

Together we can make the difference.

What is happening in Sri Lanka is a GENOCIDE of its minority Tamil population. The whole world is standing idly by. I wonder why? Recently, the sri lankan defense minister (an American citizen) said, to cheer up its armed forces, that the civilian Tamil women held (separately from men) in the concentration camps are for the sexual pleasure of the sri lankan soldiers and that the Indian ocean will soon be red with the blood of civilian Tamil men. Also forced abortions of Tamil pregnant women have been ordered. So, is this is the country with whom US should be associated with? Please think for a moment!

I  Please allow me to make two major points that are so obvious in the middle of news reports controlled and fabricated by Sri Lankan government for many years: 1)      Ethnic cleansing of Tamils began long before the formation of Tamil Tigers (LTTE). LTTE is a product of ethnic cleansing by Sri Lanka and Indian foreign policy.

2)      According to LTTE, Sri Lanka and major news organizations,  at least one member from each family from LTTE controlled area must join LTTE. If so, will LTTE ever kill its own mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, daughters and sons who are becoming refugees right now as the Sri Lankan government and major reporters claim?

I am glad that US is paying attention now.

You may read the following if you have the time.  But, there are many more cruel stories.

Ethnic cleansing of Tamils by Sri Lankans began (around 1956) long before formation of LTTE around 1972 or so.

World was in general silent during all previous ethnic cleansing except for the Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

Several articles have been written by various scholars to explain how Ethnic cleansing took place in 1956 when the country’s Prime Minister was Bandaranayake who introduced measures to make Sri Lanka a country for Sinhalese only.

Several articles have been written by various scholars with respect to ethnic cleansing in 1983 when J R Jayawardene was the Prime minister.

The following content (according to one such scholar) was part of the speeches given by then president J R Jayawardene two weeks prior to July 23rd when one of many ethnic cleansing began:

Another Presidential speech two weeks prior to 23 July 1983 had paved the way for the pogrom: “I have tried to be effective for sometime but cannot. I am not worried about the opinion of the Jaffna (Tamil) people now… Now, we cannot think of them. Not about their lives or of their opinion about us... The more you put pressure in the north, the happier the Sinhala people will be here... really, if I starve the Tamils out, the Sinhala people will be happy."  

 

July 28th, 1983

As Tamil families were being hacked to death or burnt alive on the streets, in their homes, their workplaces and temples, President Jayawardene came on radio for the first time on the 28th July to give his now infamous broadcast.  

Instead of either apologizing or promising protection to the Tamil people during the pogrom, he chose instead to talk about the “suspicion between the Sinhala and the Tamil people” which, he said, began in 1956 and to blame the pogroms on the desire of the Tamil people for separation which he said began in 1976.

He concluded his broadcast by promising to the (Sinhala-Buddhist) nation that “We will also see that those ... who advocate the separation of the country lose their civic rights and cannot hold office, cannot practice professions, cannot join movements or organizations in this country. We are very sorry that this step should be taken. But I cannot see, and my Government cannot see, any other way by which we can appease the natural desire and request of the Sinhala people to prevent the country being divided, and to see that those who speak for division are not able to do so legally.”  

Some Sinhala leaders openly admired Hitler.

LTTE, the product of above proven racism, also allegedly committed assassinations of its traitors as well as certain politicians during their early days.  Also allegedly killed some innocent Sinhalese civilians.  However, LTTE was considered by many Tamils as the necessary evil that protected from any additional ethnic cleansing by Sri Lankan government for many years.  Further, LTTE's attacks on several Sri Lankan bases demonstrate its goals to protect civilians and attack military targets while Sri Lanka has been simply focusing  more on killing innocent Tamils instead of fighting LTTE.

If Tamils are treated equally by Sri Lankan government, LTTE will probably realize that they no longer need to protect Tamils and there is no cause for arm struggle. But, that will be just a dream.

Urging International Community to effect a ceasefire and initiate a political solution as a priority than insisting LTTE to NOT LAY DOWN ARMS and Tamils are without LTTE? and LTTE without TAMILS?.  No way. Why LTTE lay down the Arm and also GoSL army back to their boundary peace agreement on 2002 Dec 05. "when a permanent political solution is reached for the Tamil people, with the support and the guarantee of the international community, the situation will arise where there will be no need for the arms of the LTTE." The Tamils and TamilTigers are one

A lady was talking on a Tamil TV phone in show. She was in tears, describing the ordeal her cousin had gone through with the SL Army after she arrived at the safe zone. The 44 year old sufferef every atrocity you can think of and was raped. Now tell me how perfect your army is. The lady's word of wisdom is for the people to stay and die in the warzone than arrive into the area controlled by the army and be raped/murdered. No matter how much you try your best to convince the Tamils, we will NEVER EVER trust the government or its forces. The Singhalese only go on about the atrocities of the LTTE, never about their own army. The LTTE is the way it is, because of the army and the government. As much as they are not perfect, they are the only forces representing the Tamils. If they don't, the Tamils will be treated like dogs and THAT is a fact. But no, the singhalese will never know, because they have no clue what is going on up North/East. Because the picture perfect government has a tendency to cover the truth.

Dear Sir, I am, one of the tamil representatives from Sri Lanka presently living in USA kindly requests you higher officials to intervene the present government of Sri Lanka and stop the genocide of tamils. The present government is progressing the path of the tamil genocide by using a faulty name of the war against terrorism, which is very wrong, what is terrorism? that is done by the present government. Tamil girls and women are being raped in the  security camps by the military forces and the men were brutally killed and buried.
I am a living victim of 1983 riots against tamils. In 1983 the tamils were brutally killed by tyring and burning, we were robbed out, we had to go back to jaffna penniless and diseased from colombo.
The present defence minister  Gothabaya has mentioned that whoever tamils coming to the refugee camps, the ladies are for the military forces to rape and the men to be culled and thrown into the hindu ocean. How can this type of government will bring us a political solution?
LTTE is not a terrorist organisation, they are fighting for our freedom, the tamils freedom.
My father was denied promotion in his job at Inland revenue just because he was a tamil.
Tamil discrimination has been occurring for a long time, this was the cause of the emergence of LTTE.If the cause for its origin is false this organisation wouldnt have survived with few cadres this far till now,it is our shield.
The reality and the truth is always concealed by various governments of Sri Lanka throughout. Tamils are deprived of food, drugs, medical care right now.No freedom for the press.We need our freedom, why we cant live in our motherland in peace, why is it because we are tamils and minority? We want ourland to live, we dont want the panhandling political solution of the present government which is a mask they use to wipe out tamils.
Please accept our reality and our inspiration to live in our homeland tamil eelam. Please do not support the government to pursue this genocidal war. Please follow the link to see whether am telling you the truth...
these are few examples..
 http://truth.tamilnational.com/  http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=28449 will you still consider the goverment is democratic??? no they are uneducated brutal chauvinists. Please see the reality and help us obtain our freedom. Thank you for your attention

 

Sri Lankan govt is shelling and bombing to the targetted areas such as hospitals and residences where innocent people live. Everyday nearly hundreds of people are dying.But the govt has made it point to conceal their barbarian act by putting the blame on LTTE. The displaced people who move to the army controlled area are tortured- men are being secretly killed saying they are LTTE and women are being raped by the so called SL armed forces. If this is the sort of protection that the govt can provide, should Tamils still rely on them to bring peace to the Tamils. The goal of LTTE is not in finding joy in raping singhalese women or killing innocent people. There is no history saying such a barbarian act(raping singhalese women) pertaining to LTTE..?Still the inhumanitarian act of forces to Krishanthi will let them keep their mouth shut.The funniest thing in the world is that the defence minister is encouraging his forces to engage in such activities.Hope he will be punished by god at some point of his living. It is the curse from an affected Tamil. LTTE's only goal is to get freedom for Tamils which is possible only by getting a separate land. What is being explained(lie) by the so called government is accepted by the whole world. What is happening even in the army controlled area-abductions, killings and burial of innocent tamils(UNO..) is not brought to the light of world or the so called world policemen is showing indifference because its all politics and no gain if they do so, is it? Every begining should have an end and looking forward to that horizon...

http://truth.tamilnational.com/

For those who would like to know what the unspeakable truth, please log into the above web site and you will realize what Singhala government has done to Tamils ever since Sri Lanka got independance.

Dear sir

I am a tamil member from srilanka living in usa.Tamils have been killed and elimenated from there home land by srilankan government.I would like to tell my own experiences to express what our people faceing every day in srilanka.I was born in jaffna, north part of srilanka but i couldnt stay there .We were displaced and kept in a refugee camp but it is like a jail for years and i lost my studies and my parents .My experence should be a very tiny portion of what people now faceing .I plead u to help tamils and bring freedom to them .please i beg u.

 

 

Please save innocent tamil civilians life. Day by day people in vanni are dying .Can anyone give a parent to a child who lost both parents or vice versa. Why don't you guys check the type of injuries those people have. Can they lead their life without two legs? Don't forget they are also human beings like you all. I really wonder whether srilankans  lost human values and keep continuing war for a land without people.In this case animals are better than human.  

Well I knew this was going to happen any day. didint knew when and where.

So it has started in France, http://www.bbc.co.uk/sinhala/news/story/2009/02/090223_paris_ltte.shtml

It will be a matter of time before they report the first death of a canadian and a US officer by a LTTE

I just feel bad for those who sympatyses who will end up digging their own grave.

I feel bad for the Tamil people, but i wish the GoSl will whipe out the LTTE from the planet and USA join SL to celebrate elemenating one terrorist group.  I think it truly be a one small step for USA and SL and a gint step for the man kind.

Then, we can go look at how the GoSL handle tamil people in north east sri lanka and act accordingly.

The prestigious Wall Street Journal, published in the United States, has offered Sri Lanka as evidence that a military solution to conflicts is possible. In an editorial it has said, "For those who argue that there is no military solution for terrorism, we have two words: Sri Lanka."

I think, If the Americans believe the stories published in this interactive section, they will definitely think that there is no tamils living in Sri lanka.

This section clearly indicated that how the Tamils are hating Sinhalease living in Sri lanka. But they simple forget that they are also living with you all in the west.

It is disgusting to see distorted news in this section. There were 70000 death due to terrorism related massecurs. Some said 97% tamils. Sad my brother, 20000 army personnal killed by LTTE. This is vell documented. In the  eastern and North more than 25000 sinhalease killed by terrorists. They are well documented.

So please do not agrevate the problem. about 50% Tamils living in the south and about 25% in the east now. There is no problem for them since 1983. That was a very bad incident and all sinhalese (moderate) people express thare sadness for the. They saved many lives during that riot. You may have garded by some of your sinhalease friend to escape from those thugs.

Don't tell international communities that Sinhalease are thugs. They mostly know about the Sinhalease and Tamils living in Sri lanka.

Try to bring peace and harmony to the country. Do not put oil to the burning fire. You al are safe in the west, but poor tamil brothers and sisters have to live with them. Every offencive word pass from your mouth will hit both sinhalease and tamils  living in my country.

Like you I lost my whole family when they stop 3 busees including Trincomalee - Kandy bus at  kantale and killed about 300 people by point blank shooting. But I never hate my tamil friends. Because they are also morned with me at that time.

Both side has similar stories to tell. We do not know when this stuggle has started and when this will stop. But one thing is sure that protracting violence could hurt poor Sri Lankan but not for the people living oversease or leading those violence.