By Izeth Hussain –
Izeth Hussain
In a recent article I inveighed against the foreign presence in our ethnic problem, which I believe has been far too intrusive. A convincing illustration of my charge was provided by the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, who at the final stage of his recent visit surprised us all by throwing diplomatic decorum to the winds and kicking the rice pot. I must explain to non-Sri Lankan readers that my oblique reference is to the Sinhalese proverb, “The parting devil kicks the rice pot”. My reference I believe is peculiarly apt because what Moon said was not just surprising: it was also diabolical.
The Government claims that Moon was misinterpreted and that the impact on Sri Lanka of the Moon visit was entirely positive. But, as far as I am aware, the Government has not cited chapter and verse in support of its self-serving interpretation. What Moon reportedly said was, “In 1994, in Rwanda, there was a massacre. More than one million people were massacred. United Nations felt responsible for that”. It had not been able to take preventive action, but it had repeatedly declared “Never again, never again”. Yet the very next year another massacre took place, in Srebrenica, because the UN had not been able to provide adequate protection, and the UN repeated “Never again”. After that he went on to say, “How many times should we repeat never, never again? We did again in Sri Lanka. We have to do much more not to repeat such things in Sri Lanka, Yemen and elsewhere”. I must emphasize the words “We did again in Sri Lanka”. What on earth could he be referring to except a massacre in Sri Lanka? I regret that our Government is being disingenuous in denying that interpretation.
He is evidently referring to the alleged massacre by the tens of thousands out of the 330,000 Tamils who were used as human shields by the LTTE during the last days of the war. He is clearly implying that what occurred here was genocide of an order similar to that of Rwanda and Srebrenica. He failed to note a crucial difference: in Rwanda and Srebrenica ethnic minorities were massacred by dominant majorities whereas here the genocide is alleged to have occurred in the course of a war. Commonsense tells us that as our troops were on the brink of a total military victory there was no earthly reason why they should have wanted to perpetrate a massacre on a genocidal scale. Besides – and this is the point of crucial importance – there has been nothing like substantiation of that allegation that can be taken seriously: there has been no more than some dubious statistical material. Why, then, did a person in so responsible a position as the UN Secretary General virtually repeat that allegation? A perceptive editorial in the Island of September 8 suggests that the intent was to shock the Government into taking the war crimes probe seriously. That makes sense. It remains however that the method chosen by the UNSGA – that of blatant lying about genocide – was outrageous. The Moon visit turned out to be a visitation – something like a Visitation of the Fiend. The rice pot was kicked to pieces.
We must contextualize what Moon said to understand its full significance. The first fact to be noted is that as a diplomat he is well-seasoned timber, obviously a diplomat of great ability as otherwise he would not have been chosen as UN Secretary General. He is not the kind of person who will make indiscreet remarks. Why then did he make an allegation that cannot be substantiated – at least at present? My answer would be that he has been acting under instructions. It was obvious that after Boutros Ghali the US would not tolerate anyone with a will of his own as Secretary General. There followed Kofi Annan, a distinguished but not a difficult person to handle. Better still for the purposes of the US, and as befits its status as the sole super power, has been Ban Ki-moon, the South Korean national of one of the two remaining US satellites, the other being Taiwan. The UN Secretary General is a servitor of the American Empire. Behind his undiplomatic kicking of the rice pot was the might of the American Empire which was conveying a message to us: Don’t go to sleep over the war crimes allegations.
When Moon mooted his Panel of Experts I wrote an article in which I postulated a benign tripartite conspiracy involving India, the US, and Ban Ki-moon to move Sri Lanka towards a solution of the ethnic problem. Actually Moon was simply the servitor of a bipartisan Indo-US conspiracy. My postulate seemed to be given spectacular substantiation when almost totally unexpectedly India joined the US in backing a UNHRC Resolution against Sri Lanka, and furthermore it did so contravening it own hitherto consistent principle of never backing country specific Resolutions at Geneva. Since then the US seems to be going its own way over Sri Lanka. But Indo-US relations have been becoming ever closer, acquiring even a military dimension that is bound to cause concern, even alarm, among some of its neighbors. In my view India could now be in the process of abandoning its Non-Alignment in all but name, a development that could be very fateful for this region.
In this situation we need to do some thinking about American imperialism. I have in mind the theses advanced by two scholars, French and American. The first, Emmanuel Todd, in his brilliant book After Empire of 2004 argued that we were witnessing the decline and fall of the American Empire. I am not going to summarize his argument here for lack of space, but I must say that I found it very cogent. I will point to just one detail here. Our Prime Minister is regarded as having solid pro-Western credentials, but the Americans and the Indians have not been able to effect a diminution of the Chinese presence here to any significant extent. The reason is the economic power of China. That accords perfectly well with Todd’s thesis.
The other thesis is the one advanced by Chalmers Johnson in his equally brilliant book The Sorrows of Empire, also published in 2004. His thesis is that the Americans are the practitioners of a new form of empire, an empire of bases which apparently is flourishing. I am wondering whether the two theses are not really contradictory but are complementary. It may be that the US has to confine itself to an empire of bases because the peoples of the world are less and less willing to accept satellite status in the American Empire that has been largely evil. However the point that interests me most is Johnson’s notion that militarism and imperialism go together. He derives his idea from Eisenhower’s farewell address in which he warned against the growing power of the military-industrial complex. The idea is that under militarism the military acquires a certain degree of autonomy and tends to pursue its own interests rather than that of the nation, and furthermore it leads to imperialism. That makes sense to me, and that is why I see a sinister potential in the growing military dimension of the Indo-US relationship. I hope therefore that our Indian friends will re-think their relationship with the US and persuade our American friends to lay off Sri Lanka’s ethnic problem for a while.
Perriappa / September 10, 2016
I suppose like every muslim in SL, the anti Israeli bias (which is transferred to the US) this writer states the following
“American Empire that has been largely evil”
Yes, there has been evil but give me an American empire any than one promoted by the authors friends known as ISIS
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shankar / September 10, 2016
“In 1994, in Rwanda, there was a massacre. More than one million people were massacred. United Nations felt responsible for that”. It had not been able to take preventive action, but it had repeatedly declared “Never again, never again”. Yet the very next year another massacre took place, in Srebrenica, because the UN had not been able to provide adequate protection, and the UN repeated “Never again”.
where does he mention genocide izzeth?You are putting words into his mouth.
if tens of thousands died as you claim in the final days of the war,then it is a massacre and Moon is quite right to refer it as such.His main thrust seems to be not words such as massacre,but the fact that the UN had been ineffective in preventing the deaths.That is what he is moaning about and since he is leaving the job,probably wants the international community to bring in some mechanism to prevent such occurrences in the future.
what he is implying is hwther it is kofi annan or he himself, The Un seems to be helpless to stop massacres.It is a well known fact that it is a toothless,clawless tiger.So probably he wants his successor to be given more powers and the Un reformed in the future.I’am guessing that it is not srilanka particularly that he is talking about but the whole gamut of events that are taking place while the international community and UN just watches it happenning and can’t do anything to stop it.See syria,the amount of refugees.If some mechanism was there to stop the srilankan massacre then probbably the carnage in syria also may have been avoided.Now the refugee problem is too much for the UN and the world to handle and they are regretting that they did not stop the carnage in srilanka.
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CountryFirst / September 10, 2016
Shankar is quite right….the UNSG’s words are being interpreted by Izeth Hussain, and he is certainly “putting words into his (UNSG’s) mouth”. Sadly, IH’s interpretation demonstrates an unnecessary hypersensitivity and defensiveness when Sri Lanka does not need to be defensive.
Why should Sri Lanka be on the defensive and bend backwards in supplication as the current administration’s stance appears to be, when it is the only country in the world that has been able to counter a terrorist group successfully, especially when the LTTE was widely acknowledged as “the most ruthless in the world”?
Robert Blake who was US Ambassador at the time acknowledged the superbly disciplined and “professional” performance of the Sri Lankan Defense Forces up to January 2009 and the fall of Kilinochchi.
Post-Kilinochchi the LTTE’s adoption of the “human shield” tactic, which was a war crime in an “armed conflict”, changed the whole scenario, but drew little direct reaction from the UN. Previously,the UN had also done little to deal with the LTTE’s recruitment of child soldiers despite international law and UNICEF reports. All this pointed to UN failures in Sri Lanka which the UNSG acknowledged. Sadly, no apology was offered.
It had been the allegation of “40,000 civilians” (a statistic drawn out of nowhere) being killed in the last months of war that had caused the UN to come down hard on Sri Lanka, to the strange extent of establishing 2 panels of investigation, AFTER the GoSL had already taken steps to set up its own accountability investigations – the LLRC & the Paranagama Commissions. The latter, under its 2nd mandate had in fact 3 internationally recognized foreign advisors.
Despite all of the above, the UN/UNHRC has persisted in demanding that Sri Lanka’s Accountability be further investigated, which raises serious questions of selectivity and impartiality.
With the UNSG’s admission of UN failure in Sri Lanka, they too become accountable. In that background, how can Accountability be apportioned ???
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Native Vedda / September 11, 2016
CountryFirst
“when it is the only country in the world that has been able to counter a terrorist group successfully, especially when the LTTE was widely acknowledged as “the most ruthless in the world”
Are you sure this the only country to counter terrorist groups and LTTE was the “the most ruthless in the world”?
Please revisit history, that may not help you however in the years to come you shouldn’t regret for not learning geo-politics.
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CountryFirst / September 11, 2016
Native Veddah:
Admittedly, mine was a simple statement regarding modern day terrorism involving child soldiers and suicide bombers. It was specific to the context of that which has become the bane of the modern world, and which still remains unmanageable and a threat to the entire planet, even with the immense military and fire power available to the West.
Comments on threads such as these are not meant to be theses on the subjects at hand!
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Dankottuwa Manike / September 10, 2016
Short Sighted Izeth Hussain
It is time for you take permanent retirement or join Dayan Jayatilleke to keep yourself going.
Write something about Gnanasara Thera and Badiudin Mohamed who seeded the destabilizing war in Sri Lanka.
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Marrikar / September 10, 2016
“”after-the-moon-visit””
Walla..O…wackbar ..Boom, boom!
Isay, Hari close to dehiwala zoo.
after moon on 16th??
22 nd sept. autumn equinox –
the golden mean or 1/2 & 1/2 is a necessity for survival.
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jim softy / September 10, 2016
The way things go, there will be a time Monks Like Ghanasara and Virathu will be reauired to be in Sri lanka.
Sri lankan govt is stupid. foreign minister like people should not be there. He is an idiot. He always talk about screwing up Sri lanka. Power devolution then allowing them to tamilize, christianize, islamize will never work.
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Ajith / September 10, 2016
A real “Thoppy” plays its usual game. I never came across such as a nasty bloody crook like this islamist fundamentalist “Izeth Hussein”. He wants every country should come under ISIS and genocide of all other human beings.
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Amarasiri / September 10, 2016
Izeth Hussain
RE: After The Moon Visit
I hope therefore that our Indian friends will re-think their relationship with the US and persuade our American friends to lay off Sri Lanka’s ethnic problem for a while.
Thanks. So, this is the new Great Game of the 21st Century.IS Imperialism and hegemony joining u with Indian Hegemony and “Imperialism”?
During the 18th Century, it was the Old Great Game of carving out the Ottoman Empire between the Imperialists Great Britain and Czarist Russia.
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Bandula Senanayake / September 10, 2016
Rajash you surely are over the Moon with Mr Hussein’s pitch, English and all!!
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Rajash / September 10, 2016
not sure why I should be over the moon.
Izethmay be showing off what is in his book shelf.
But he fails to grasp the fact that genocide against the Tamils started soon after independence and is still going on. The task is not yet accomplished. Its a slow but a sure process meticulously planned as a long term objective of the successive Sinhala Govts.
UN, USA and the IC are onlookers.
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KA Sumanasekera / September 10, 2016
Did Bodhi Sira feed Bunky peanuts, with the Orange squash. !!!!!
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jim softy / September 10, 2016
Which govt in the world neglect the majority and change policies to suit the minorities. In every country in the world, when minorities arrive, they change thier lives to suit the majority culture.
Sri lanka should understand how the other countries in the world is doing.
Should not allow Tamils to tamilize North and Muslims to make KAthankudu a Saudi Arabian City.
No one has banned Muslims to practice their religion or christians to practice their religion.
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Amarasiri / September 10, 2016
jim softy
“No one has banned Muslims to practice their religion or christians to practice their religion. “
Do they want to create
1. Tamil Ghettos,
2. Wahhabi Ghettos,
3. christian Ghettos, and
4. Buddhist Ghettos?
Monk Mahanama of Mahawamsa wanted to create a Para-Sinhala “Buddhist” Ghetto, in the Land of Native Veddah Aethho.
It was all Monk Mahanama’s fault! Or, did they Learn from the Jews?
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Nuwan / September 10, 2016
US through this issue will always keep SL at an edge while pleasing the extremist diaspora. Otherwise, Tamil extremist interests can easily go rogue. Moreover, what if Chinese support the Tamil extremism? That would be extremely dangerous and would not help Sri Lanka or Indo-US interests at all.(This is highly unlikely as diaspora is very much nurtured within the West).
My thought is that it is always beneficial that US/West keep this issue alive and influence the government of the day in whatever the form or shape. Meanwhile the extremist diaspora is hamstrung from doing anything violent or unlawful. The US is, and must continue, keeping them under control (one or two show offs like what happened in KL last week doesn’t hurt). If they do not, almost immediately the current government will be in trouble. Then under a different regime people will go back to trusting 2009 allies, China and Russia. That is not the objective of the Indo-US strategy for the Indian Ocean.
In that sense I would not fret too much about Moon’s visit nor the statement of genocide in Sri Lanka. I’d rather welcome it with an open mind. As log as our foreign policy walks the tight rope, which is challenging, the extremist strategy of calling out a referendum for separation will be kept at bay.
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KA Sumanasekera / September 10, 2016
Kamal Gunaratna who was forced in to retirement by Batalanada Ranil and Bodhi Sira for liberating the country from Tamil Terrorists, will be a formidable candidate in any part of the country where there are no Elite, Anglicans and of course the Vellalas.
His speech at the book launch, brought tears to my eyes.
Where was Bunky Moon’s UN when Diaspora funded and Vellala TNA supported Tigers did Aranthlawa and Izeth’s own turf Kaththanakddy?.
Not to mention the half the Mil poor Izeth’s folks who were given marching orders by the current Vellala CM’s Hero Mr Pirahaparan?.
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Nathan Kataragama / September 10, 2016
//His speech at the book launch, brought tears to my eyes.//
I can imagine.
Nobody is better qualified than Kamal Gunaratna to describe the horrors the Tamil people were subject to during those last phases of the war. Perpetrator and witness, both in one, no?
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Mallaiyuran / September 10, 2016
The Devil is reading the Satanic Verses(Not Salman Rushdie’ but Wahabi) and coming here and repeating. There are million books on every subject. Sorry, Izeth, who have no common sense, falling into the rubbishes and expects us to be brainwashed by this satanic Wahabi preaching. A man worse than Hitler in racism is blaming America. His worry is ISIS is going to be push behind Mosul by America by the end of the year. So Izeth’s piles is jetting him up from the chair to the roof top.
I was looking for him to come forward his theory of the “ripen time of Lankawe to full fledged Democracy” which he mentioned in the last essay he has and waiting to post. Looks like the rice not yet cooked, so in the meantime, he is trying to posses UNSG. His theory of “there is no problem Eelam Tamils have; if there is one tell it me; Tamil Nadu is the only problem” was not going anywhere after he tried it for four months. Latest on that series is the one he is claiming that civil societies created the last victory for the New Royal Yahapalanaya Goverment and they are well and alive. Unfortunately the one man CC creator Sobitha Thero was killed by Appe Anduwa without Izeth knowing. The Old and the New Royals share the responsibility for his death. The remaining ones opportunities jackals organizations like CPA, NPC, Friday Falsedom….etc. The racist Women Network is built to work against the Muslims by the Royals governments. CT exposed how Saravanamuttu gangs are handling the donations. Jehan writes with the right the majesties of the Yahapalanaya New Royals and writes with the left hand about the majesties of the Old Royals. He is the definition of “Koolukkum Paadi Kanchikkum Paadi”. He is not the devil to kick any rice pot, but he saves the Old Royal’s pot and New Royals’ pot and enjoy the hat collection from both. Hakeem was Jehan’s Guru on his PhD. The monster devils Dhanapala and Radhika are no longer active there but the Friday Falsedom is the trendsetter for elites to take membership in corrupt organizations. They both are Izeth same from the same old Devil Land of Izeth, the corrupted, money laundering, womansing, cat fighting, privte businees muthalalis’s camp the Lanakwe’s Foreign Services. That is where all the war criminal commanders serves and served now. Now the criminal mastermind Ansar also is also from that camp.
Here is what a man, who does not accepts violence, has to say about the Lankawe’s Malaysian diplomatic services. Professor Ramasamy is a Malaysian politician who is currently the Deputy Chief Minister of Penang. He is the shadow minister of their Foreign Services too.
Second, while we do not condone acts of violence against anybody, but the assault against Sri Lankan High Commissioner to Malaysia, Ibrahim Sahib Ansar, had a background. According to reliable sources, when some Tamil youths approached Ibrahim at the KL international airport (KLIA) and asked about the whereabouts of Rajapaksa, he apparently replied: “We will wipe out the Tigers in Malaysia as we wiped out the LTTE in Sri Lanka.”
Such a hostile act, which is rather unbecoming of a diplomat, was responsible for the subsequent assault and detention of the five suspected assailants by the police.
Third, Ibrahim is no ordinary diplomat in Malaysia. He was allegedly sent to gather information of the activities of the Tamils especially those who are in support of the creation of an independent Tamil Eelam, a separate state for Tamils in the north and east of Sri Lanka. In the last few years he was allegedly responsible for coordinating information about Tamil refugees coming into the country and passing them to the Malaysian police.
Allegedly as a result, number of Tamil refugees have been deported back to Sri Lanka by the Malaysian authorities to face detention, torture and lengthy imprisonment in Sri Lanka.
Now one may understand why the LTTE asked Muslims to vacate the war zone. If Izeth is permanently going to Mecca, Eelam Tamils should but him the ticket. Further, in addition to the ticket, they can give him a clay rice pot to kick and show who he is before he leaves. http://m.malaysiakini.com/letters/355222
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len / September 10, 2016
Head of one of the most corrupt & useless organizations in the planet UN “I see nothing & I do nothing” lame duck Moon is taking the time to burn some more money by traveling around the world on his farewell tour to shake hands do a kissy kissy.
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Devil / September 10, 2016
You are right. Srebrnica and Ruwanda has been in Hague. SL follows That is the meaning.
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Anthony / September 10, 2016
Hi Izeth
Has SLG conducted an enquire with international standards to prove that Mr Moon was wrong? Do you know how many were died during the last phase of the conflict?
Anthony
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Thiru / September 10, 2016
Izeth Hussain, the IS sympathizer is denying that massacre of Tamils that happened in Vani. Not only that he denies that there were no wars in Rwanda and Srebrenica. Doesn’t he know the history and the truth?
He has become a true propagator of Sinhala racism after obediently working for the Sinhala racist state for many years.
May Allah punish him and send him to hell.
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Thiru / September 10, 2016
Izeth Hussain,
Do you think people are fools to believe your false statements? For example:
“Commonsense tells us that as our troops were on the brink of a total military victory there was no earthly reason why they should have wanted to perpetrate a massacre on a genocidal scale.”
In the history of human civilization it has been proved again and again conclusively that the so-called “common sense” or conventional wisdom of the time to be false, and lead the people to herd mentality until the truth was established by creative individuals.
I tell you die-hard anti-Tamil racist, Sinhalese have many earthly reasons in their pursuit of their genocide of Tamils in various forms since independence to reduce the population of Tamils drastically and establish unchallenged hegemony over the island.
Anyway, the war occurred as reaction to Sinhala state racism against Tamils for decades. Govt. withdrew all the foreign observers including the UN ones: Was it for fun? They did it, as Tamils suspected at that time that Tamils are planned to be massacred without outside independent observers. The Sinhala racist government and military used the war as cover to eliminate as many Tamils as possible.
Furthermore, consequent ongoing events confirm that the racist Sinhalese have not relented but continue even today the genocide in covert forms.
Izeth Hussain, you mind is warped and limited and may be senile too: Don’t try to pull the wool over peoples’ eyes.
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Pandaranayagam / September 11, 2016
Dear Thiru
That one act where the Rajapakse Govt – Gothabya, Sarath Fonseka and all – foolishly ordered all foreign correspondents, service organisations including the Red Cross out of the battle zone before the final thrust that killed thousands of civilians is proof of guilt, from which they cannot escape. This will haunt the guilty for a long time.
Pandaranayagam
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Thiru / September 10, 2016
“His thesis is that the Americans are the practitioners of a new form of empire, an empire of bases which apparently is flourishing. I am wondering whether the two theses are not really contradictory but are complementary.”
Izeth Hussain,
you keep on wondering but it is beyond your little bird brain: Here is my take on the matter, and I don’t claim to be wizard, the present form of empires, whether it is American or others, Soviet Union and Communist China helped dismantle most of the Western empires by their direct support – material, military and otherwise to liberation forces world over. This made Western imperialists to give independence to many third world countries reluctantly before they were evicted by force.
American empire is a mutation of imperialism which took a different form to survive and it is flourishing.
Under militarism the military acquires a certain degree of autonomy and tends to pursue its own interests rather than that of the nation, and furthermore it leads to imperialism. That makes sense to me, and that is why I see a sinister potential in the growing military dimension of the government-military relationship in Sri Lanka. For the Sinhalese imperialism that the Sri Lankan military foresees and implements by land grabbing and mass killing of Tamils in the past, etc. is a step towards the final extermination of the Tamil race- and after that it will be Muslim’s turn as BBS demonstrated to all and sundry.
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Manicka Vasagar / September 10, 2016
This full Moon seasoned diplomat should have realised then, with his experience, that when the UN, AI, HRW, Red Cross and the International Media were instructed by the SL Government to leave, the intent of the “never again principle” should have being applied, before the onslaught to prevent the planned genocide on the Tamils. SL regime had an open goal.
Mr Moon had another opportunity to put right his wrongs and fix the perpertractors with an immediate international independent investigation, for justice and accountability, and should have referred SL to the ICC, when he flew over to witness the devastation of the massacre, that he had never experienced before.
Never again was rewarded with a second term.
Author is now referring to human shields, ( seems to be a key witness ), without any independent international investigation and verification, with international prosecutors, judges and lawyers, and as per the UN HRC co-sponsored resolution. Keep praying but be honest, for reward after life.
We need to know the truth on how, by whom and why more than 100 000 were killed, including women, children and elderly, 146 000 still unaccounted for, resulting in 89 000 widows, 60 000 orphans and disabled, still 50 000 still refused entry into their own homes and lands.
Mothers, wifes and children are still waiting for their loved ones, and prisoners are hoping, but colonisation, sinhalanization and viharas are the agenda.
The souls need to rest in peace, before we can all retire.
Manicka Vasagar
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K.Pillai / September 10, 2016
Izeth is doing what Izeth does which is writing what a certain section of Lankans want to hear. He takes the opportunity to identify himself and Muslims with Sinhalese.
So Izeth does not like Ban Ki-moon visiting Lanka. How do we stop him? Simple. Settle the infamous Lankan problem. Izeth will not like this because Lankan Muslims are doing well because of the conflict.
On 07 September Lankan News Web carried some news about Rohingyas of Myanmar. Rohingyas are minority Muslims in Buddhist Myanmar. UN has referred to Rohingyas as the most persecuted humans. Following Aung San Suu Kyi’s request, former UNSG Kofi Annan arrived to look into the cause of the conflict. There is this outcry “No foreign intervention in our affairs”. Izeth will probably agree with the Wirathu led protesters.
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Mallaiyuran / September 10, 2016
“Izeth will probably agree with the Wirathu led protesters.” Real one.
We don’t know the in and out of everything. Leader Pirapaharan is not a nervous person just for the fear of losing military secrets to ask Muslims to leave the war zone.
Hakeem has been leading the Lankawe’s team that was trying to block investigation UNHRC 2012,2013,2014…sittings. Rishad, who is dead enemy of Hakeem is a partner of Hakeem on that only. Hakeem even went and met state secretary Hillary Clinton on that effort. He attempted to fool her with the LLRC report. Izeth’s twin brother Ashar is an ardent advocate against investigation. There not one single Lankawe Muslim leader or writer is supporting a sincere investigation by ICC, but many attempted to present the Aluthgama riots where three people died by the mistake of accused attack of a Buddhist Monk to UN. Many even against for that, but Indiran was the risking losing his DIG position and ending in prison for trying to save Muslims. The Malaysian diplomat Ibrahim Ashar said to have challenged to wipe out non existing LTTE from the soil of Malaysia when he was asked about the Old King.
Ranil, Mangala, New King and other Sinhalese are trying that. There is an accusation even of delaying UNSG’s trip to Jaffna so that he would be forced not to meet NPC Ministers. Everybody knows that they don’t want the facts of the war crime published on the international Media. The sesame seed are drying in the hot sun because they are going to become oil. Why the rats dropping are also drying with the seeds?
The Muslim leaders and writers, by over stretching the mice to mountain, are very keen on saving and protecting Old King not facing a genuine investigation. This is raising a doubt if the Muslims leaders played only spying roll in the war crime or Izeth like government servants who were inside that time participated in the war crimes more than that.
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Burning Issue / September 10, 2016
Izeth H,
The fact that the Reality of Tamil and Sinhala reconciliation moving positively forward sends a shiver down your spine! What a pity. Instead of orchestrating conflict you advise your community to re-learn to be Sri Lankas. Ask them not to follow the Arabs and their culture but re-embrace their original Indian Sub-continent culture to which they belong. Ask them to refrain from alienating them from the rest culturally. This is your task can you do that?
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Backlash / September 11, 2016
Burning Issue
Izeth H is a Preacher of Hate. He is comfortable doing the devil’s evil work. Don’t waste your time asking him to be a peace-maker. His DNA simply has no place for that.
Backlash
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Siribiris / September 10, 2016
Will Moon’s visit delay the sunrise in Sri Lanka?
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jim softy / September 10, 2016
Sinhala Only act was right. Only problem was SWRD did nothave backbone to eneact it.
Soulbruy commission di dnot give Tamils a separatr administration. english speaking sinhala -kalusuddhas are giving Tamil a priority when what Tamils should do it learn sinhala and coriprate into the majority culture. It is bedtter for Tamils to become buddhists too.
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Burning Issue / September 10, 2016
Jim softy,
Of course for a brain-dead plonker like you, the Sinhala Only is right! Soulbury commission endorsed a unitary constitution only because the Sinhala leaders promised that they would look after the minorities and replacing english was never on the agenda! There is nothing much can be expected from a complete fool like you!
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Mallaiyuran / September 11, 2016
Nnnnnaaaaaa
It is ok.
Duminda in prison. Softy had to change the supplier too. First let him used to the new stuff. He still alive even after taking it, thanks Buddha for it!
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jim softy / September 11, 2016
We are talking about politics and the sovereinity of a country. It is not what you decide as foolish or intelligent.
If you Tamils think that at the expense of the majority, Minority wishes should be promoted and fulfilled, that is something that does not happen anywhere in the world.
Take western Europe, Britain, North america, Australia and New Zealand,
Some of those countries are built by immigrents. Yet, itis the white eurpoean who dominate the country’s culture and not even that of the aborginial people of that country.
Even in small New Zealand, Tasmania, ……..it is the english culture and not hthe minority culture even though abogines own the country.
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Agnos / September 10, 2016
First, South Korean names are such that the correct way to address Ban ki-Moon is Mr. Ban, not Mr. Moon.
On the substance, Tamils were outraged, rightly, when the UN under Ban meekly agreed to the demands of the GoSL without ensuring protection of the innocent civilians caught up in the war. The claim that the LTTE held the people as human shields is only a half truth; anyone who knows the history of the country’s civil war knows that the SL military had a history of atrocities and war crimes, and while the LTTE had its own share of atrocities, in the past, the fortunes of war and control of territory changed several times; the people faced a great dilemma on where to run. It is in such cases, the UN’s services are especially important.
That Ban is at least now willing to acknowledge the UN’s failure to act more forcefully in Sri Lanka is a good thing, albeit too late to bring back lost lives.
Hussain and others of his ilk–the Colombo-centered charlatans who know nothing about what the people in the North-East had to go through–, who did nothing to stop or demand a credible local investigations of the GoSL and military atrocities in the course of 30 years of civil war visited on the Tamil people, can look at the mirror and shout all they want about loss of sovereignty, but the international community and the Tamil Diaspora should stay focused on one of the few things they did right: keeping the pressure on the GoSL for an independent, credible war crimes investigation. If such an investigation shows any under-reporting or exaggerations by either side, so be it.
The GoSL’s and the military’s reluctance to agree to such an investigation only reinforces the allegations by the victims who are citizens of Sri Lanka. It is irrelevant whether the US or someone else was behind the push; as long as citizens of Sri Lanka as well as their relatives and advocates in the Diaspora are insistent that war crimes happened, and the GoSL’s own history shows no credible local investigation is possible, the UN is right to stay involved.
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Backlash / September 10, 2016
Quintessential Izeth Hussain – again. But this time he focuses his endless ire against his new nemesis – the U.S. and the UN-SG, the universally popular Bank Ki-Moon. Also, unsurprisingly – he comes out against India, against whom he nurses extreme prejudice. This ageing, non-descript ex-diplomat, with much time to spare, leaves many faulty footprints in this article.
His record shows him as an irresponsible and dangerous diplomat in his days at the F.O. – with deep animus against countries who are our friends for centuries. I quote the man’s inexplicable rant against India in particular – viz :- “I see sinister potential in the growing military dimension of the Indo-US relationship….I hope our Indian friends will re-think their relationship with the US and persuade our American friends to lay off Sri Lanka’s ethnic problem” Mangala Samaraweera and Ranil W are unlikely to agree with this “scholarly conclusion” – the ravings of a much bitter man. His anti-American hysteria, in the lips of almost every Islamic man, woman and child in the world, will be rejected by all Sri Lankans simply because the USA and its people have been wonderful to the country and our people in hundreds of ways. Neither will the world agree with his poor conclusion “the American Empire has been largely evil” Many will surely argue in the opposite direction of a victor that sincerely and objectively helped Germany and Japan rise from the ashes of WW2, whereas they were bitter enemies during the conflict. This generous help and rehabilitation not only helped these two countries to recover but also advanced the cause of world peace that continues to endure after seven decades of relative universal peace. Both Germany and Japan, world powers again, are now close friends of the USA. Only if the USA practised what Hussain’s culture teaches him to be – intolerant, murderous of the conquered, revengeful and hateful. Hussain also is not forgetful of much good that has come to this country from successive US governments and their many institutions in education, medicine, sciences etc., to which flock many of our citizens regularly.
This dream of the intellectually sick about “the decline and fall of America” that Izeth speaks of is the swan song of leftists like Noam Chomsky, to name just one. These predictions have failed to materialise in decades. This despite the global financial semi-collapse about a decade ago where leftists and those with a strong anti-American bias were convinced was the end of the economy of the Free World. In fact, better employment figures, burgeoning retail sales, a fantastic services industry, improved industrial production in the USA have all given a new fillip to the US$ in a world where the economies of most other countries declined. Left-leaning Venezuela, sitting on an enormous deposits of oil and gas, was ruined on the anti-USA, socialist path mapped by the late Hugo Chavez. This once vibrant Latin American country is now virtually bankrupt with many in the country fleeing to neighbouring countries – merely in search of food and a living.
Predictably, Hussein continues to scare Sri Lanka – and Sinhalese in particular – with his customary bogey – “terrible” India. He mischievously warns “Indo-US relations have been becoming ever closer, acquiring even a military dimension that is bound to cause concern, even alarm, among some of its neighbors” But the Yahapaalanya walahs are unlikely to bite this poorly disguised Islamic guli.
“Why then did he make an allegation that cannot be substantiated” cries Hussein. I suspect BKM and the UN have far more material than Hussein possibly knows about the serious crimes committed from the Lankan side in three decades of war. This is bound to come out sooner than later. Hussein’s main charge is that BKM compared the Sri Lankan 2009 conflict situation to the massive War and HR Crimes committed in Rwanda-Burundi and Sebrenica. Serious crimes against Tamil civilians was not only committed in the weeks and months after May 2009 but even during the two decades plus of the war. BKM was entirely within his rights to compare the Sri Lankan debacle to that in these two other theatres – except, in the Lankan case, the Tamil LTTE committed massive HR/War crimes against Tamil civilians as well. As to “dubious statistical material” Hussein hints at, from what can be gathered so far the omissions have been more on the Lankan armed forces side in terms of actual numbers killed and taken into custody. It it common knowledge the latter resists independent inquiries into the war more to conceal these crimes coming to public knowledge. There is also a time limit in which the UN can hold matters in defence of GoSL. Despite Ranil’s boast to save the Rajapakses from the punishments set out in the Rome Treaty, the UN may have some ideas of its own to save its own integrity in the vexed issue. The fact Sri Lanka is not a signatory is not a guarantee the UN cannot proceed against us.
South Korea and Taiwan are friends of Sri Lanka and there is little reason to insult them by calling them “satellites of the US …” They are both fastly growing industrial and sovereign powers, who should not be alienated by the foolish utterances of has-beens. GoSL counts much on remittances from the increasing number of Lankans working in S. Korea is a factor that cannot be ignored or jeopardised by foolish talk.
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Agnos / September 11, 2016
Backlash,
Many pundits talk about the decline of the American ’empire’ based on the rise of China and other countries. But these pundits miss
But the fact is that during the cold war, many countries were willing to line up behind the US fearing communism; with the end of the cold war, these countries are more willing to pursue their own economic interests without regard to the US interest. For instance, Germany depends on cheap natural gas from Russia and is less willing to enforce the same harsh sanctions the US has placed on Russia.
In other words, when countries believed they faced an existential threat from Communism, they strengthened the Western alliance and in turn, the US. But with the cold war gone, countries do not feel the same way, and the US can no longer ask other countries to cooperate in everything it does. Even within the US, Democrats and Republicans, no longer unified by fear of communism, are at each other’s throats. That makes it appear as if the US has lost its power, but the real US power hasn’t changed much; it is just that earlier its power was magnified by the pro-democratic, pro-freedom alliance and the coming together of people within the US based on the idea of a common communist enemy.
The invention of the internet, much of it developed in the US, has made the world more open and transparent, and some of the mystique about the US power is gone, even though in actual terms the US power hasn’t changed much.
The economic rise of China and India, the re-emergence of Russian nationalism under Putin, etc., are all peripheral factors that make the US look even less powerful, but again, the real power of the US hasn’t changed much. The Russian economy is way behind the US economy, and the Chinese economy still depends a lot on US consumption. The US’s weaknesses on debt are common to all capitalistic countries, and given its GDP and the value of its assets, it is not really as much of a weakness as pundits make it out to be.
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Izeth Hussain / September 12, 2016
Backie – I read no more than a few sentences of your prolix drivel. I have better things to read. You may not be aware that not only the Island and the Colombo Telegraph publish me – now the Sri Lanka Guardian is also publishing me regularly.You may have seen the recent encomium on me by Hermes in the Island. If not, do so – and foam, foam, foam. – IH
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Backlash / September 12, 2016
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Backlash / September 13, 2016
Izeth Nana
I challenged some of your facts, opinions and poor analysis, quoting, as it were chapter and verse. You are, again, running
away repeatedly stating your articles are published by two other media outfits.
We know you have been disciplined by the Muslim leadership for irresponsible writing that harms inter-communal relations.
We cannot agree with those behind this more. As dozens of writers note here weekly, you are more a Preacher of Hate than an objective analyst. Your naked bias and prejudice will be resisted.
Backlash
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Izeth Hussain / September 13, 2016
Backie – your reply of yesterday was edited out. It would have been “foam foam foam” just as I had expected – the expected expression of “mad dog rage” that has been characteristic of Tamil Islamophobic racists.
I am certainly not going to waste my time replying to your drivel. The reason is that I decided long ago that no serious dialogue is possible with Islamophobic racists like you.
Backie old boy, you are hallucinating. No member of the Muslim leadership has contacted me. A Muslim practical joker must be having fun at your expense, Can’t blame him – IH
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jim softy / September 11, 2016
Mr. Hussein:
What you are saying is 1005 correct even though that can not go well with the Tamils most of whom are working to establish war crimes which they will trade for a homealnd.
Sri lankan was fighting with the Ruthless terrorist outfit while both ruwanda and Srebaniza were two ethinci groups salughtering each other.
In Ruwanda Hutus di dnot kill Hutus. Tutsis di dnot kill tutsis.
but, In Sri lanka, Tamils were killing tamils every way. Even a fraction of the govt soldiers were tamils and Tamils were at the front against LTTE.
Ban Ki Moon is a another corrupt politician. If he was honest why he mentioned Ruwanda and Yugoslavia, he should have mentioned Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Lybia. In all those countries human slaughter by invading armies.
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Real Siva Sankaran Sarma / September 11, 2016
Izeth is part of the generation of the largely southern Tamil Muslim elite, who for their own selfish economic and power hungry ends did irreparable damage to relations between the non Muslim Tamils and Muslims Tamils and he and many of them still want to continue to do this, as they feel that this is the only way, that they can maintain their advantage and power, by not allowing true reconciliation between the island’s two oldest communities the Sinhalese and the Tamils and also to maintain a permanent hold on the Tamil Muslims masses and never allowing them to reconcile with their non Muslims Hindu and Christian Tamil ethnic kindred, especially in the north and east, as they feel that if they loosen their greedy claws over the Tamil Muslim masses in the north and east, they loose their biggest trump card to gain favour from the Sinhalese.
To this effect they are now brainwashing the Tamil Muslims masses to give up every vestige of their original Tamil culture. Their Tamil Muslim caste names like Marrikar, Lebbai, Rawther, Thambi, Kutti etc the 1000 year old very tolerant form of Tamil Sufi Islam, The Tamil Muslim way of dressing, Eg. The women wearing the sari and only covering their head like they did a generation ago. The men wearing sarongs and a cap on their head, Tamil dance forms culture ETC and now closely identify and become some form of carbon clones of the extremist intolerant Wahhabi Islam Arab culture from the Arabian gulf. The irony is whist they and their children are still enjoying and dressing a nice luxurious western form of life style and dress mode. The Tamil Muslim masses are now increasingly brainwashed and forced to identify and follow this Arab Wahhabi Islam life style. If people do not follow this they are increasingly threatened with ostracization from the community. There have been many instances in the east where Muslim women have been threatened that unless they wear the Arab Gonibilla dress and properly cover themselves, they will face dire consequences. If any now visit Eravoor or Kathankudi in the east. You will think that you in some part of the Arabian gulf not in the ancient Tamil east,the scenery now complete with dale palms and Arabic signs. What has Arabic got to do in the Tamil east? Sinhalese I can understand. Even many ancient Tamil village names have now been changed to Arabic names. Vey soon we may see camels and not cattle roaming around there. What nonsense is this. They are not Dravidian or Tamil anymore but are increasingly made to look like some pathetic Gulf Arab Wahhabi/Salafist clones, so that southern Muslim elites like Izeth and their westernized ilk can be in power.
It is this generation of Muslim politicians and elite, Like Sir Razik Fareed, Izeth, Baddudeen Mohamed, many with small doses of distant Arab heritage, especially from the south, who brain washed the purely Tamil Muslim masses, who make up more than 95% of the Muslim population in the island to believe that they are Arabs/Moors and not descended from immigrant Tamils from South India. They also taught them to worship everything Arab and hate anything remotely connected to their actual Tamil origin and heritage. This despite speaking Tamil as their mother tongue and until recently having Muslim Tamil caste names and following Tamil customs. From Independence they had overtly and covertly supported all Sinhalese governments to marginalise discriminate and commit genocide and ethnically cleanse the island’s Tamil and are still continuing to do so. You can see than in the so called eastern provincial government. Despite falsely crying out discrimination, it is they who have ganged up with the illegal Sinhalese settlers to form a government that is very busy marginalising the largest community in the east. The Tamils who really own the east.
This is like a the microscopic part European Christian Burgher population, numbering around 40000, brainwashing the more than 2 million strong Sinhalese and Tamil Christians in the island to believe that they are not of Sinhalese or Tamil heritage or ancestry but are purely descended from the European colonials, who introduced Christianity into the island and to worship everything European and hate everything Sinhalese and Tamil.
Unlike these nasty selfish power hungry Muslim elite and politicians, who wanted to divide and rule the Tamils on the basis of religion for their own selfish ends, the island’s Burghers were more enlightened not so powerful and were really not interested in this power politics. All they wanted to was emigrate from the island to the west as soon as possible and more than 90% of them successfully did this. Also unlike the then extremely backward and gullible Tamil Muslims masses, the Sinhalese and Tamil Christians masses were far more educated and not so gullible to believe in such nonsense and lies. Now that they have been indoctrinated so much into this Arab origin myth by their elite, mullahs and politicians, that many of their educated younger generation cannot come to terms and will go to any lengths to deny their real Tamil origin, just like the recent article from a person with a typical Tamil name ending with Thambi. To them their only identity is Muslim closely associated with the Arabs. They do not want to or cannot realise that being a Muslim is only a religious identity and not an ethnic identity and most Muslims in the world are not Arabs but are from the Indian subcontinent and Indonesia. They are Tamils by ethnicity.
What war? There was no war. Was Sri Lanka fighting a foreign army and were the Tamils in the north and east foreign? The Sri Lankan government was fighting a guerrilla force, and had every duty and obligation to protect the lives and property of the Tamil civilians who are citizens of this land. They did not do so but under the guise of fighting the LTTE deliberately targeted them. Used banned weapons and chemical bombs on them. Raped looted and tortured many of them. Deliberately killed more than 70000 of them and chased of and displaced hundreds of thousands of them. The army is still being used in the north and east to steal hundreds of thousands of fertile Tamil lands on the pretext of needing High Security Zones. Wait and see within a few years you will see these rich fertile stolen Tamil farmlands will be settled by Sinhalese. Hindu temples are being destroyed and Buddhist temples and Budda statues are cropping everywhere. The Tamil population has been reduced from around 26-28% at the time of independence to a mere 15-16% at present. All these are signs of genocide and ethnic cleansing that has taken on a large scale and Ban ki Moon was correct to call is a genocide.
To Izeth and the rest of the selfish backstabbing Sri Lankan Muslim population the large scale killing and ethnic cleansing of their fellow non Muslim Tamils is not genocide but only when it happens in Iraq Palestine or Afghanistan it is and they will demonstrate and howl against it, as they now think that since they are Muslims they are not Tamils anymore but some form of honourable Arab or western/central Asian and should only identify with their causes and not with their fellow countrymen of Tamils. May be also because their fake Arab community from South India, overtly and covertly and actively participated and are still participating in the genocide and ethnic cleansing of the island’s Tamils, especially in the east and south. Given the chance even in the north, just like one Muslim Iblis from Mannar who was actively settling out of area Muslims in the north along the strategic coastal Wilpattu corridor with funds obtained from certain Gulf Arab states. We need an article about this Izeth
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ramona therese fernando / September 11, 2016
Well said IZH!
Guess we should cross our fingers and hope that Sarath Fonseka will not start spilling the beans and shooting his mouth off yet again. That ignoble liar is the reason we have this dog, Moon, coming in time and time again to make us nervy.
Lankan political situation has nothing to do with lying Fonseka and bad dog Moon. Rajapaksa went over his head with loans, and the current Gosl is, well, doing the same, but in another way. But no-one wants the interference of the UN and US in our home affairs.
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Real Siva Sankaran Sarma / September 11, 2016
Can you hear the drums Fernando. Well Said Izeth, Aunty Ramona Fernando will together we both will visit our ancestral homeland in Southern Tamil Nadu. You all the Dalit kupams from where your ancestors originated and converted to Island and me all the coastal fishing villagers of Southern Tamil Nadu from where my so called Sinhalese Karawa ancestors migrated from a few centuries ago.
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ramona therese fernando / September 11, 2016
No, not me at all……..but you Tamils have been coming in and out of Southern Tamil Nadu for thousands of years. The rest of us are Sinhalese or Sinhalese mix with Keralite and/or European or Arab decent. Time for your kind of Tamils to go back to your motherland and leave the Sinhalese alone. We don’t want your perverse racism
on our shores.
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Rohan / September 12, 2016
” but Tamils have been coming in and out of Southern Tamil nadu for thousands of years. I Am glad that you have realised this historical truth. 95% of these Tamils coming from Southern Tamil Nadu became Chingkalam over the centuries including your Karawa ancestors who came from Southern Tamil Nadu a few centuries ago.
Kerala was Tamil a few centuries ago. The ancient Tamil Chera Nadu. DNA analysis proves that there is very little Arab or European DNA amongst the Sinhalese and most Chingkalams are indeed descended from Indian Tamils. It is time that you pack up your bags and return to Tamil Nadu Karawa woman
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ramona therese fernando / September 12, 2016
Uh huh….not me at all. Fernando is my married name. Anyway too many Fernandos are Sinhalese. The Tamil Karawas you speak of, belong to your Northern province. All your Northerners come from the Southern coast of South India. If you can’assimilate with the majority race, go back to the Tamil Nadu Motherland.
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ramona therese fernando / September 12, 2016
And besides, there are many Burghers and Burgher mixes in Sri Lanka, and Arab and also Malay descendents. Most have assimilated with the Sinhalese population.
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Izeth Hussain / September 12, 2016
Real Siva- a couple of questions. According to you the SL Muslims are largely the off-spring of marriage with low=caste Tamils. You imply that they are therefore a degraded lot. Would you say that of Westerners who are the off-spring of marriage with low-caste Tamils?
As you know Muslims held high office under the Sinhalese kings. How come? – IH
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mama Sinhalam / September 11, 2016
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N. Rajanayagam / September 11, 2016
Izeth Hussain talks about American imperialism and Ban Ki Moon as a paid servant. Before we talk about America and Ban Ki Moon, we have to ask, if the behaviour of the Sinhala elites towards the Tamils is acceptable. It is a question like, the behaviour of the German Nazis towards the Jews in Europe during Hitlers time.
My comment shall only indulge in contemprory history and not Middle Ages and Ancient, otherwise it shall become too lengthy and not relevent with respect to todays economic, social and political development of Sri Lanka in the wake of post cold war period.
To cut short the long argument, Sri Lanka has antagonised India, the Tamils and the Americans today after the cold war. But even worst is SL’s cruelity and war against the Tamils since 1948. The author of the article could have saved his comments on the US and Ban Ki Moon if Sri Lanka had acted democratically towards the Tamils.
The Sinhala elites did just the opposite. Sinhala only act policy, driving a wedge between the Tamils and the Tamil Muslims had a detrimental impact on the Tamils and the country as a whole. Of course, some of the Muslim leaders played in the hands of the Sinhala cunning politics which was entirely useless and benefited non at end of the day.
As long as Sinhalese does not understand that SL is by nature placed in a geo-political position in Indian Ocean, countries like the US, China, India and Russia want to flex their muscles in Indian Ocean. SL should by learn to have a good and cordial relations with Delhi and Tamilnadu.
The Sinhala elites must get this point into their thick heads, as long as the Tamils do not have homeland of their own, there shall be an ever lasting tension between the Sinhalese and the Tamils. This is definitely not going to help the country called Sri Lanka.
Geographically India shall be always a neighbour and the visitors to Sri Lanka shall come and go. The Sinhala govt must learn to let the Tamils go. Only if the Tamils enjoy an acceptable and respectable federal system, can there be ever lasting peace among the two ethnic groups i.e. between the Sinhalese and the Tamils. This is the cardinal point Izeth Hussain has to realise and the rest shall fall in place automatically.
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Ranbandu / September 11, 2016
Izeth Naana,
You have stated;
….”I must emphasize the words “We did again in Sri Lanka”. What on earth could he be referring to except a massacre in Sri Lanka? I regret that our Government is being disingenuous in denying that interpretation.”….
I have been very critical of you in the past about your bigotry. Nevertheless, the above is the truth; The government is disingenuous. Thank you for saying that.
Moon and others in the UN have to please many different interest groups for their job security. However, this time Moon’s visit cannot be viewed as an event that promotes reconciliation between various ethnic groups in Sri Lanka. His comments and the GOSL’s passive response are highly counter productive.
Yahapalanaya is going to suffer further due to an incompetent Minister and equally incompetent officials in the Foreign Ministry. They do not have any plans or necessary tactical or strategic skills to deal with international diplomacy.
The PM and his cabinet of Ministers are well known to “Shoot from the hip” due to their nonchalant and noncommittal political activities.
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