Friday, October 21, 2011

Tactical Surrender

[Translated from my sinhala blog]

It happened during the height of war. War had extended its destruction beyond the best of imagination. Death was everywhere. The leaders responsible for the death were in hiding.

There is an expiry time for everything. No difference for hiding too. Victorious armies were surrounding the hideout. There was little to none hope of escape. Suddenly an enlightenment of "Peace" tingled the otherwise dogmatic minds of the leaders. It was a feeling that never rose until the death loomed over their heads - the very death they prescribed for many others.

Evading an inevitable death they came out. They thought of surrendering, which was their last option, in order for them to live for another day to lead the same war.

Victorious armies shot the leaders dead. They were unarmed.

"These deaths of leaders... Are they war crimes?"

We asked the elite panel of judges comprising USA, EU, Canada, Australia etc.

"Nop. These are fair killings. By all means these chaps are murderers. They have killed thousands. So it is fair. Therefore, we do not consider the killing of Gaddafi as a war crime"

"Gaddafi?"

We were confused.

"We're not talking about Gaddafi killing. We're talking about the killing of Tamil Tiger leadership, whom you allege to have come out to surrender, after sacrificing thousands, including kids in forced conscription, as cannon-fodder."

The communication channel went blank.

40 comments:

Moshe Dyan said...

good work SK!!

thanks heaps for sharing.

double speak of NATO goes unnoticed.

looks like NATO through agents and directly trying to copy what we did with the difference of killing SURENDERED terrorists which we never did.

sadam - done
OBL - done
MG - done
asad - not quite there yet
ahamadinajad - not quite there yet
who next??

regan - 0
bush senior - 0
clinton - 0
bush - 1
obama - 2 so far

Konnapu Bandara said...

Sujeewa, dear chap, there are indeed double standards when it comes to these fellows covering events happening in Sri Lanka. BBC and CNN are reporting breathlessly about joyous celebrations in Tripolli. If you remember back to the time when whole of Sri Lanka came out onto the streets in spontaneous celebration when we defeated terrorism, their coverage was about triumphalism and other such garbage, not about the happiness of the people finally freed of terrorist monsters.

Cheers!

Thusitha said...

Nicely written, and we should use this type of incidence to hit back when ever we can.
Total BS when NATO says that they did not know who was in the vehicle when they bombed it. Most likely reason that they killed Quadafi was that if he had gone to a trial, there would be lot of damaging information about his ties to the west.

Sam Perera said...

Duminda Silva the Social Cancer's sidekick (Karate Dammika) seems to be taken out from his hideout.

Our Mahason Brigade Warriors, we look up to you to preserve our hard earned freedom. Please take Karate Dammika's boss on a free scuba tour to Nandikadal.

Moshe Dyan said...

now all the MFs are creating trouble for SL in the international forum.

1. CHOGM crap
2. ofcom deciding C4 didn't violate any laws
3. TNA meeting US officials
4. terrorists are getting released

we knew this would come.

govt didn't do colonization and the price would be VERY HIGH.

at the end of it only the benefits of colonization will remain. if no colonization, no benefits of war victory.

looks like the govt busted a golden opportunity.

Moshe Dyan said...

colonization would have come handy as a bargaining tool as well against TEs abroad.

that is also not available now.

things are looking bleak for the country in the international front.

Pol Sambol said...

This is from ToiletNet i believe. Here's hoping this is true.

<<"The new Sinhalese division at Mullaiththeevu

The Mullaiththeevu district in Sri Lanka recently witnessed an invasion of racist Sinhalese regime by way of a Sinhalese administrative division operating under a Sinhala Asst Govt Agent.

A few weeks ago, Colombo has sent an urgent order to the Sri Lanka Government Agent for Mullaiththeevu district to immediately put into practice the functioning of the new Sinhala administrative division, with eight major villages. Colombo says there are 10,000 people of 2500 households in the new division. 3500 acres of land in the Mullaiththeevu district have been seized for the creation of the new Sinhala division.

Along with the recent Sinhala colonies, some ancient Tamil villages of the Karaithu raip-pattu division of the Mullaiththeevu district are also in the pipeline to become a part of the new division so that wedging north and east up to the very coastline will be possible. This move would impede direct Tamil communication between Mullaiththeevu and Trincomalee without passing through the Sinhala division.

The new Sinhala division will be at a greater advantage to enjoy international assistance given for the North for the resettlement and development of war-affected Tamils. The colonizing Sinhalese will enjoy a bounty while the Eezham Tamils in their land will face total neglect.

Speaking to media, the Asst. Government Agent for Karaithu raip-pattu division of Mullaiththeevu, Mr. C. Dayananda said that it is futile for the Tamil public to protest to the civil officials of the district, as the implementation of the Sinhala division is directly carried out by the Sri Lankan Governor for the North, Maj. Gen. Chandrasri and the Sri Lankan military top brass in the district.

Yet another recent instance of the swindling Sinhalese command is, an Eezham Tamil landowner in Kokku laay in Mullaiththeevu district sustained serious injuries when he was brutally attacked for refusing to give away his land for the construction of a second Buddhist stupa in the area. So sinister were the Sinhalese that he was even driven away from the hospital where he was admitted, after severe warning.">>

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Pol Sambol said...

With regards to OfCom and Channel 4its no surprise they waited till the stolenwealth gathering to "release" their "verdict". It also no surprise “eyewitnesses” who are all anonymous and behind the shadows are all credible. LOL. They are all LTTE cadres and or members of the Tamil diaspora (no difference between the two).

I understand the effort by the Sinhalese in the UK for trying every avenue possible to protect Sri Lanka (compared to Sinhalese in Sri Lanka who do everything possible to damage Sri Lanka) but it was greatly in vain going to OfCom? Their purpose is for solving “domestic abuse” not matters relating to international based broadcasts. People should realise OfCom is run by the British Government it is not an actual “independent” body.

1) It receives huge funds and support from the British Government.

2) The people who work for it come from Channel 4/ITN/ITV, basically Channel 4s friends.

3) People have gone to this mighty OfCom before (over Channel 4 back in 2009/2010 when the video was comprehensively proven a fake by Siri Hewa) and nothing happened. They “ruled” in favour of Channel 4.

4) OfCom drags its feet on issues like this because they, like the rest of the British media are part and parcel of the Foreign Office –receiving, funds, instructions and “guidelines” from them. They are part of the many Foreign Policy tools of the British Government. [When Marie Colvin the cyclops of the Times of London lied (as always) back in the 90s OfCom took two years to look at the issue and just gave a “condemning” with much regret and hesitation].

5) When it comes to Foreign reporting that is the domain of the Foreign Office and the British media (as well as “bodies” such as OfCom) not only tow the line they do not rock the boat.

So many times Sinhalese have gone to complain to OfCom before about the disgusting media coverage on SL and got nowhere because they are not going to castigate their pay masters or go against them and Britian’s national interests (one of which is demonising Sinhalese –history hurts these white fellows for we dared to fight for our freedom in 1818, 1848 and the 1880s).

Pol Sambol said...

Best of all are these frustrated losers at Channel 4 claiming “PR campaigns” have been done against them? Yeah ‘cos the victims they target for demonisation should keep quiet and nod at what they say especially when they come from the 3rd world. But nothing beats their BS that the protests against Channel 4 were “organised by the Sri Lanka Ministry of Defence”. Does it pain them that Sinhalese refuse to accept the racist hate filled bs they broadcast and expressed their right to condemn them and challenge Channel 4s disgusting “journalism” built on racism and hate? Do they honestly think Sinhalese are “shocked” at their “findings” and have “seen the truth” thanks to Channel 4 and are in agreement with them? Who on earth would take such racist hate filled garbage lying down?

Pol Sambol said...

With regards to Gaddaffi's killing the West wanted to kill him and his family/other leadership in fear of them creating an insurgency.

This is the very reason they wanted the LTTE leadership rescued (hence why they ordered the LTTE to create a human shield to engineer a humanitarian catastrophe to justify intervention to save the LTTE leadership) in hopes of them continuing the fight from abroad. So long as the core was alive the West hoped it would keep the fighters hiding elsewhere motivated. This whole “rehabilitation of LTTE cadres” is in fact part of that. SL is making massive mistake releasing these shits. We need to bump them off in “suicides”, “drunk behaviour” and other “accidents” or send them off to Australia. SL media should do its job (fat chance knowing those selfish SoBs) of demonising them as much as possible as violent, rapists, killers, molesters, torturers (they are all that after all) so enough psy-ops is done and that foreign press will eventually join in the chorus of how vile and dangerous these barbaric cretins are.

Pol Sambol said...

KB,

Back then Western media said things along the lines of “Tamils now fear for their lives” and “the vast majority of people in the country (they were referring to Sinhalese of course) are now deeply fearful of how powerful the Government has become” and quoted losers in the opposition as a source. Seriously it was the most bizarre reporting, underlying the Wests frustrations over the loss of their pet, they were fearful of “what now” in trying to control and dominate SL. Today when these clowns parachute in they say “the people are really happy the war is over” and as if that is a real shock. Did they think we enjoyed being blown up and hacked to pieces by their Tamils hit force?

Moshe Dyan said...

nathikadal-100 now played in australia.

the 100th attempt by TEs failed in australia when the attorney general refused the refuse!

so that's the end of the hype TEs had which was of course short lived.

these LOSERS love losing. await nathikadal 101.

Konnapu Bandara said...

Chaps, as most of you have stated it was very disturbing for us patriots to see defense secretary's good name sullied by this association with a known gangster. However after reading his interview below I now have a better appreciation for his position. His main argument is that this Duminda fellow was elected as an MP by the people of that area fully knowing his shady past. He had to work with the elected MP to clean up shanties in that area the same way government has to work with TNA thugs with their LTTE past. We can argue that TNA not only has a LTTE past but is the current LTTE. But regardless I think his argument has validity and he is the only person in the government taking these LTTE bastards seriously.

Cheers!

Konnapu Bandara said...

An Interview by Shakuntala Perera for “Hard Talk” with Defense Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa

QUESTION:

Is there a conspiracy behind Baratha Premachandra’s death? His family alleges against a move to obstruct justice from within the government, with a finger pointed directly at the President?

ANSWER:

These are political rivalries. I don’t know what this big conspiracy is; they should explain what this is. It’s not like he was a national leader.

These are purely political mud slinging moves by those who are disgruntled. Now that the President is moving very smoothly politically, there are those who will use these to distract the people. And also understandably Baratha’s family must be pained to think this way.

But those others are using this to create a misunderstanding among the people; some of these are really those who criticised him when alive-some even had court cases against him but are trying to take advantage of this. This is a very unfortunate incident that no one can approve of. These happen because of the present political system. People fight within a Party for preferences.

QUESTION:

How do you respond to claims by his family that requests made for security following threats to his life in February this year have gone ignored by the government?

ANSWER:

But nobody has written to me. He was in touch with people within the Defence ministry but he has never mentioned anything of this. He’s always with the President-in fact his office is in the Presidential Secretariat-he could’ve mentioned this. I don’t think he has ever written to the President. That is a very wild allegation. If he had a problem there was no issue of contacting anybody.

QUESTION:

Were you aware of the increasing levels of polls related violence between the two factions in the run up to the polls?

ANSWER:

This rivalry between these two groups was known-I’m not politically interested but the Party hierarchy knew this was going on. But because of this system this happens all over.

Unfortunately due to the environment of this area; where the underworld existed with a gun culture, it was not unknown that the politicians working there would have such connections. The politics they have to play in this area is such that they have no choice in it. If you looked at some of the representatives you can see this. But unfortunately they are the ones that can get the votes from these areas. That is the ground reality.

Question:

Is Duminda Silva a suspect in this case?

Answer:

That is not something even I should say anything about. This is a serious case-a high profile case. You have to allow the investigation to take place. Not only the CID, but also forensics, the Govt. Analyst have all to come in to this. I’m even thinking of getting foreign assistance in this. Once the real picture is there only can you talk about it. Till then no one can say. Someone supporting Baratha will say one thing-the other side another, but an independent person will say something different. We have to put this together-let them do that. But whatever assistance they need I will give.

Question:

Were you aware that a key underworld leader Dematagoda Chaminda was with Duminda Silva at the time of the shooting?

Answer:

When they said this Chaminda was involved in the shooting I asked the CID where he was and why he was not taken in. They said he had fled the country. I got angry for their failure to take precautions and I called the necessary people as well as the Indian authorities and got their help to arrest this man. They used over 60 people there to do this and by 10th evening they traced him there, and by 11th morning we had him here and handed him to the CID. I did that personally. This is the extent I go to for this. If I didn’t do that we couldn’t have got him. Then I deployed the army and the STF to arrest anyone else responsible.

Cheers!

Konnapu Bandara said...

cont...

Question:

You are not protecting Duminda?

Answer:

I’m not! Why should I?! I’m not protecting anybody but the truth must come out. Not what something someone wants to against someone but the truth. People question my visit to see Duminda-why shouldn’t I? I’m not a human being if I didn’t. The very previous day he was assisting me in this development work. So when I used him why shouldn’t I go and see him? In fact the first call I got about this incident was from Duminda’s phone by someone taking him to the hospital informing me of the shooting.

I knew Baratha for a longer period than Duminda because he was a close supporter of the President. I still wanted to go for his funeral but how could I?

When hooligans were shouting there, I didn’t want to get involved in that. In fact the President called me to go there, I said I couldn’t get involved. Duminda was an MP, why isn’t anyone going to see him? Till the truth comes out what prevents them from going? They are frightened. Of what I don’t know. They have things to hide. They don’t want to face the truth. They are weak people. I’m not a weak person-I do what I think is right in my heart. I don’t know whether Duminda is misunderstood-but the fact remains that he’s an MP, elected by the people. How can you just throw various allegations without proof? Until you are proven guilty why are they in a hurry to do this? These same people associate with certain MPs of TNA who threatened the sovereignty of this country. This shows poor quality of people.

Question

Were you aware of the use of personal armies like those used by Silva by politicians with such a large amount of arms?

Answer:

That is wrong. I’ve always said that was wrong. I always took action against this-this is a huge problem for the police. Not just MPs but businessmen keep such groups. Some even take them dressed in black suits to the Courts-this is very common thing.

But no one criticises it when the opposition Members do it. We try hard to stop this. I have given strict orders to stop this-but it is not an easy thing.

QUESTION:

Were you aware of his connections with Dematagoda Chaminda, a known underworld kingpin?

ANSWER:

Nobody has told me about this. Mind you I have done many operations without any soft pedalling anyone. If ever there was any allegation I have given the fullest cooperation to the police, the STF and the Army. I have never stopped investigations. I’m the one who gave my fullest backing to them.

Nobody can say that I haven’t taken any action-irrespective who’s who they were I have carried out this work. I have told the police, CDS and the IGP to this effect. No one can say I’ve tried to prevent such investigations. In fact I was the one pushing them with a clear focus. No one can say I protected anybody. I never protected anyone. That’s not how I do things. When I’m given a task I do it right.

Cheers!

Konnapu Bandara said...

cont...

QUESTION

What is your connection to Duminda?

ANSWER:

The beautification of Colombo is secondary to me-my primary concern is the security of this country. Maybe for the public and the politicians the concerns ended with the end of war but not for me. Day and night I work hard to prevent the LTTE from coming back. I’m not collecting preferences-I work for the country-no one knows the work I do.

I have a huge task in re-orienting the war time military machinery to suit the peace times. I have to keep the forces active-this is a serious challange. I have immense pressure from the international community to reduce military presence in the NE, or remove Emergency regulations. Creating a balance while bringing normalcy is a huge challange.

These are things I face daily. Those who pose these difficulties with ulterior motives must understand this. I’m not interested in politics-I will never get involved in these contests. Its not my line of thinking-so no one has to get worried about me! If they harm me it is the country they harm. Ultimately it is the country and these politicians who are benefitted by the work I do. It is very unfair to target me-maybe to harm the President, but who suffers in the end?

I don’t think even the Ministers know the work I do. This is a very minor area-but if they start attacking me on a hypothetical situation like this its unfair by me. I do things without propaganda because I’m not interested in that. But dragging me in to these is purely to sling mud with ulterior motives. People maybe doing this thinking I have other motives-I don’t. I don’t want to be the Prime Minister-I’m not interested in that. If somebody has any fear they must remove those from their minds. I’m not a threat to anybody. My agenda and work is different.

Everyone was trying to remove the shanties, but I realized that unless you solved it immediately you couldn’t do it. You can’t do it with 100 houses a year-you have to build atleast 25000 houses to have an impact. Yet, again the politicians started spreading rumours for petty political gain-this is why I had to get involved in this. This is where Duminda come in-this is where I used Duminda-for nothing else!

QUESTION:

But the claim is that an MP who functioned as a Monitoring MP of your Ministry is now alleged to have had drug and related dealings?

ANSWER:

Again this is a wrong picture given. That was wrong-he was a supervisory member for this UDA project. If someone tries to deny that then you have to go into detail and say if he has ever got involved in anything to do with the military or the police. Has he sat with me on any of these conferences? No! He had nothing to do with the military or the police.

Similarly he was not the only person. Keheliya was given the task of working with the media during the war-he had nothing to do with the Defence Ministry. Mahindanana was from war times given the task of handling the Civil Defence Committees.In fact Mr. Lokubanda’s son was also appointed with Duminda to this job of explaining to the people our development work. That was all they were to do-so it was not only Duminda. Now the people are trying create a different story to sling mud. They are trying to hide the truth. This is wrong.

Cheers!

Konnapu Bandara said...

cont ...

QUESTION:

But were you aware of the drug issues that Baratha was reportedly trying to bring attention to in the area?

ANSWER:

There are so many allegations against so many people. There is however no concrete evidence against anybody on this issue. There are allegations against both these people-but nothing is proven. But nobody has told me anything against anybody directly. These rumours that go on must be because of these associations with these people-but as far as I’m concerned my association with Duminda is purely official.

I’m not a friend-to be a friend he must be of my age group! I started associating him after he joined the Presidential campaign this time. Beyond that I don’t have a friendship with him. I associated him as an elected MP-he’s not a known underworld king pin or some drug dealer! He’s an elected MP-elected by the people. If I can’t work with him as an official as an MP then there’s something wrong with the democracy exercised! Then don’t blame us blame the politicians and change the system.

Let me give an example-when Ambassadors come and I explain our difficulties with working with some in the TNA due to their links with the LTTE, they speak of them being elected by the people! Then why the double standards? This is nonsense!

This is a person elected with a huge majority by the people and why I had to work with him was because after I took over Urban Development, my biggest focus was building houses to replace shanties. And in this there were issues I had to deal with politically-I had to counter misinformation spread by the Opposition.

Duminda was someone who worked directly with these people-he’s the person I had to use as a politician to go to the people. It was a completely official relationship. I don’t think anyone can blame me for that. Am I to select between MPs now-on what basis and principle

QUESTION:

There are fears that the Colombo development plan under your authority will face logistical difficulties before the CMC now under the UNP. Are you concerned?

ANSWER:

Municipality is at the lowest level but with a bearing on the peoplecleaning drains, collecting garbage etc. But utilization of land or town planning all are under the UDA-It is under me. No one can stop these things.

These are legally my functions. What is the meaning of UDA? They have to understand that the primary authority of this is under the UDA. They have to coporate with me-if they don’t they are working against the people, not me.

This is just politics-they must stop doing that and start working like me. This is under the UDA and I’m going to continue with it. The people have nothing to worry about.

I have within a short time removed the garbage that no one including the CMC could. The beautification and renovation of old neglected building for commercial use was started. From the time of JR Jayewardena people were complaining that the Army headquarters was in a wrong place but no one could do it. I leased it for a good hotel company for the correct value, while building a good defence complex in Battaramulla.

Cheers!

Konnapu Bandara said...

cont ...

QUESTION:

How much a threat does LTTE International remain to the peace and development moves in Sri Lanka?

ANSWER:

It is a big challenge. No one sees the work we do to counter this. We are confident of that but we can’t sit and wait. Nothing happens by itself-we are doing it. Although immediately after the war the morale of the LTTE died, over these past two years they started their funding and regrouping. Slowly they are collecting the remnents of the LTTE. If you sit doing nothing there is a huge threat. We are working very hard to counter this. We didn’t stop the work after killing Prabakaran-we captured KP and started dismantling the LTTE.

Politicians have forgotton this-both with the Party and outside of some fear! They must support me-I’m not a threat to them. Again if Duminda has used his position it is not my businessit is his business.

But purely because of that our people who know what I have done are trying to undermine what I have done by using this little thing over everything I have done. It is very unfair by me personally, and especially unfair when those within our own Party are trying to do this. It is very unfair to project this small thing as a big thing.

QUESTION:

What are the challenges faced by you now that the Emergency has been removed?

ANSWER:

This is a huge challange-this is where we need to create a balance. There is a requirement to do this. Unfortunately the diplomatic community and the international community are very keen to go very fast to achieve these things. They want to release the detainees and rehabilitees, or resettle them and , and take the military out of the security operations as soon as possible.

These are pressures coming from one direction. But it is those doing this who know the difficulties in doing these. It is only I and the President who know the difficulties in doing this. Even the government politicians are in an urgency to do all these things without understanding the challenge for the security.

We have to understand that though we have defeated the LTTE it was an oranisation that was there for 30 long years and it hasn’t only a local component but also the international. It has a Diaspora a huge financial base. courtesy: Daily Mirror

Cheers!

Sam Perera said...

KB,

It all sounds good. However, Duminda Silva is a social cancer that needs to be administered high dosages of radiation. Our Mahason Brigade is known to have the right source to treat Duminda Silva.

Konnapu Bandara said...

Sam, old boy, agree this Duminda bugger needs to be given the death sentence for his crimes. This is a golden opportunity for GR to declare another war on the underworld. These criminals work for money and can be easily bought by LTTE to create havoc again.

Cheers!

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Pol Sambol said...

KB,

A lot of the usual forces that are filled with hatred for GR capitalised on this event to smear him as much as possible (wrapped in language of “concern”) with Sundaymudslinger also getting into the fray and the likes of LeN and LNW spinning greater yarns than usual. OF course frustrated UNPers chiming in.

It is vital that the truth comes out (including GRs role in getting back the two who ran away to India) and details such as this being provided to the greater public. I hope Lankadeepa ran this story as well. The people have great faith and belief in GR, naturally the enemies of the nation and other scum want to crush this for whatever selfish, racist ideals.

Furthermore this “international pressure” by the West is done to find ways to interfere in the country and build more “pressure” to continually intimidate and control SL. As the Island Political Columnist said “if its not emergency regulations, its regional autonomy”. They just want reasons to interfere, threaten the Government and make themselves feel big + exert power control over a bunch of dirty brown people that makes them feel powerful and important –their egos are at stake here as well.

After loosing the LTTE they were at a loss on how to “get at” and control Sri Lanka as done before. The war & Tamils provided a great conduit of interference for them to “access” SL and manipulate us. They hurriedly created a new conduit after the war backed as always by the Tamil factor. Which is what the “war crimes” bs is all about, a way for them to access SL, scare SL, threaten SL and push SL around as they did so brazenly and happily before with the LTTE. (India is also stinking around behind them).

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Pol Sambol said...

This demand of the West and India’s to remove the Army and “rehabilitate” and release LTTE killers is part and parcel of creating more violence and insurgency in Sri Lanka at a later date.

Remove the Army, free the LTTE, hey presto we have the situation we had pre-2006 all over again. And when you rush things as the West seems to want, it creates room for massive problems to arise (as akin to the rushed re-settlement of civilians), which in turn gives them more areas to “pressure” SL on.

They’ve done it all before. First refused to assist SL with the IDP camps on purpose to make the situation in them as difficult as possible so they and their media could easily spin stories to attack us and “put pressure”. Then when we release them, they do the same saying “Tamils civilians released into hell holes, with no services, infrastructure” and other bs, again another way to attack us, and “put pressure”. The whole motivation here was to make things as miserable as possible for the 300,000 Tamils rescued (at immense sacrifice of our soldiers) from the human shield. Blame Sinhalese for the difficulties and keep the hatred boiling.

Same thing with LTTE cadres we have. First claim their “rights” are being violated by holding them in prison (because they are innocent people since they only killed non-whites and did what the West wanted them to after all) and thus demand their release, when they are released they accuse SL of “re-education not rehabilitation” and more bs about “no opportunities, infrastructure, rights still denied”. There is NO WINNING with these people because they are NOT motivated by genuine intentions, but the ideology of creating more conflict, violence, dominating SL and keeping this nation backward.

The most damning part of it all is that they are assisted by many Sinhalese who flock
to kiss their feet in a nanosecond as they are still mentally enslaved.

Moshe Dyan said...

thanks for sharing KB.

i don't like anti-SL jokers making good use of the opportunity to get at GR because they couldn't so far.

those ppl are far worse than DS.

anyway agree that this DS cancer has to be eliminated.

on the bad side of GR.....

i don't see why he can't remove these underworld gangs???? he says it is difficult. i think it is a joke.

does that mean we need another (pre-november 2009) SF???? he would have gladly done it.

Pol Sambol said...

"What was Prabakaran’s appeal to the Tamil Diaspora?

For more than 60 years we have suffered under the Sinhalese Regime. In this context we have to learn a lesson from Jews. For nearly 1800 years they were stateless having driven out of Israel. Hitler killed 5 million in gas chambers. The Jewish leaders without undue publicity purchased lands from the Arabs and created Israel in 1949. A barren land was converted into a modern state. Sea water was desalinated and vegetables were grown in plutonian bags. The area is smaller than Northern and Eastern provinces of Sri Lanka.

The number of Jews in Israel is lesser than the Jews in America, yet because they have a state for themselves the Jews are dictating terms to America. The foreign policy of America, financial institutions, industries and the media are all controlled by the Jews. What is the message Israel conveying to us? It is not the size of the country that counts, it is not the strength of the population that counts; it is the will and determination of the people that counts to shape the destiny of a nation. Singapore is smaller than Jaffna but it is a mini-power in South Asia. There are 192 nations in the UN of them the majority are tiny little nations, but world power respects them, because they are independent and sovereign.


Like the Jews, let us create land banks and save the land for the Tamils

Faith can move mountains say the Bible, so let us have faith in ourselves and act in the living present. We must learn to bury our petty difference, and raise our voices to influence world opinion. Time is running out, like the Jews let us open land banks to purchase lands snatched away by the Sinhalese. Without waiting for the time and tide to move in our favor, let us act without undue delay. Any procrastination will only result in a postmortem of how the Tamils perished. Prabhakaran’s appeal on the Maveerar Day in 2008 was a direct appeal to the Diaspora Tamils, specially the Tamil youths to come to the rescue. If we really value of what Prabhakaran said let us not waste time on petty quarrels."




http://www.tamilcanadian.com/article/6073

Konnapu Bandara said...

Pol Sambol, old chap, we should do exactly what these buggers are advocating except the people being settled will be from the majority community. Private trusts should buy up a lot of land cheap and develop housing for soldiers and landless from deep south. We should appoint Moshe as the commissioner of recolonization not just because of his passion for the mission but also his Jewish connections. If Jewish people could do it so can we.

Cheers!

Konnapu Bandara said...

Chaps, here is a video which will give Peelamists diarrhea.

Sri Lanka Air Force - 60th Anniversary Celebrations

Cheers!

Moshe Dyan said...

KB,

this is dangerous.

yes, we should do the same.

jews are jews because they have a nation. tamils are tamils because they DON'T have a nation.

Pol Sambol said...
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Pol Sambol said...

Intelligence expanded into six battalions


"The Sri Lanka Army has expanded the sole intelligence battalion of the Military Intelligence Corps into six battalions to face future threats and to make sure that a situation similar to what the country underwent in the recent past would not take place again.

If we have a stable and a strong intelligence network facing internal or external threats it will not be a difficult task. It can be from anybody but when our network is strong, we are more secure, Military spokesman Brigadier Nihal Hapuarachchi said.

He said that the Army is not 100 percent certain of some elements in the Tamil Diaspora as well as former LTTE cadres so therefore the threat comes from them also remain large.

We do not want to have the same situation we faced and dealt with in the past. The regiment commander is authorised to communicate with the intelligence officers under the directions of the head of the Military Intelligence Directorate, he said.

We have placed these battalions in Security Forces Headquarters that we have covering the country, Brigadier Hapuarachchi said.

When asked about the strength of the newly formed battalions he said that he cannot give a specific number. The battalions are represented by personnel from all the regiments.

Recently, Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa also speaking at the opening ceremony of the new Security Forces Headquarters Complex in Kilinochchi said the military intelligence apparatus has been expanded for external and internal threats.

Some LTTE cadres escaped capture in Sri Lanka. Those LTTE members as well as the Diaspora have teamed up together and are working to destabilise the country and resurrect their ruthless organisation, he said.

Because of these concerns, Military Intelligence Corps had to be increased to six battalions from the original one to two battalions. The surveillance therefore has to be sustained at all times, the Defence Secretary noted."

Moshe Dyan said...

"Confederation of civil groups formed in Jaffna
[TamilNet, Saturday, 29 October 2011, 18:01 GMT]
A confederation of people’s forums for humanitarian work was formed in Jaffna on Saturday morning, when representatives of various civil groups and civil activists met at the NGO Centre located at the Temple Road in the city. The decision to form the confederation was unanimously resolved at the meeting. President of the NGOs in Jaffna, Mr. CVK Sivagnanam and the Jaffna University Students Union President, Mr S. Thavabalasingham were elected respectively as Coordinator and Secretary of the confederation. Student union of the University of Jaffna took the initiative to convene the meeting. Such a confederation of civil groups to face human rights violations was formed in Jaffna on an earlier occasion too, when the ‘peace keeping’ force of India was occupying Jaffna."


counter insurgency strategy MUST kick in now. these terrorists should be eliminated.

Moshe Dyan said...

pol,

thanks for sharing.

that is a very good move. it should not confine to intel gathering. ACTING UPON gathered intel is MORE important.

Pol Sambol said...

From ToiletNet, i hope this is true, because its great news.

"SLA constructs cantonment in Mannaar causing fear among residents

Sat, 29 Oct 2011, 16:37 GMT

The occupying Sri Lanka Army in Maanaar is constructing a cantonment at Chelveari area situated along Mannaar - Thalai Mannaar Road. For the last four days heavy vehicles such as armoured cars and tanks had been seen transporting materials for this area is under the control of the Sri Lanka Navy for the last several years. The Sri Lanka Army has now moved into the area for the construction of a big new camp and repairing existing small camps.

Pol Sambol said...

An excellent and vital article by
Malinda Seneviratne

"Regraining the nation: We can and we must!
http://www.adaderana.lk/opinion.php?nid=2229

Sam Perera said...

Malinda is the new, no nonsense patriotic, editor of "The Nation." He knows the pulse of Sri Lanka pretty well. I wish him all the success at The Nation.

Pol Sambol said...

It is disgusting to see the comments by the UNP/JVP/Colombians/NGOs/Fonsekas on Adaderana condemning, attacking and insulting the Sinhalese in Australia who bothered to come out and defend the nation. These people and their supporters all have island syndrome and can only think of their short sighted political goals without giving a damn for the long term implications towards the country with their “today, now, hell with tomorrow” mentality coupled to huge amounts of jealousy towards these people who are abroad and who are defending the country.

Pol Sambol said...

Sam, when did Malinda become editor of The Nation?
That is excellent to hear as we all know what a true patriot he is driven by what is good for the country and nothing else, thus has no political ties/obsessions.

It is a shame TheNation is only a Sunday Paper. If only it could expand to an all week daily.