28 March, 2024

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‘After We Did So Much For You – You Voted For TNA’ – Military Tells Wanni Residents

Days before the military decided to destroy the bunker of LTTE Leader Vellupillai Prabhakaran security forces personnel repeatedly chased away Tamil residents arriving to see the site admonishing them for having voted for the Tamil National Alliance at the September 21 poll.

Commander Daya Ratnayake

“We have done so much for you people, still you went and voted for the TNA,” the soldiers told residents, chasing them away from the bunker.

The four storey bunker in Puthukuduirippu in the Wanni had become a major tourist spot in the four years after the war. The most frequent visitors to the bunker were Sinhalese war tourists from the South. It has long been considered to be the most sought after attraction on the LTTE tourism trail in the North.

Sources told Colombo Telegraph that the military had denied ‘tourists’ official permission to view the bunker over the past week.

Residents reported smoke rising from the bunker after they heard the sounds of a massive explosion at the site last evening.

Some sections of the TNA believe that the removal is related to the TNA victory at the provincial election which removes the military’s technical writ over the former LTTE strongholds of the Northern Province.

Military Spokesman Brigadier Ruwan Wanigasooriya has said the bunker was destroyed because it was on the verge of collapse and said there was no reason for it to remain standing.

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    “We have done so much for you people, still you went and voted for the TNA,”

    Had the army registered itself with the Election Commission and contested the NPC elections under its own party banner, people of North would have specifically known as to whom they were voting for and voted for this benevolent chaps.

    The people did not know whether these chaps were contesting under the UPFA banner.

    It was a mistake on the part of the Armed forces.

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      You’ve got a very good sense of humour NV :) Even though I dont agree to your points at times, I enjoy reading your comments :)

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        Election commissioner himself told that there are 3 parties contesting in northern provincial council. 1. TNA 2. UPFA 3. SLAP (Sri Lanka Army Party)

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          After doing so much for you, ever after we relieved your population pressures by eliminating 147,000 in Vanni, how can you not vote for your president’s party? Have you forgotten the milk we fed to your school children? Have you forgotten that we liberated you from the terrorists?

          We are stationed in every street junction: If you want help or advice we are ever ready to help you. Don’t you know we Sinhalese have the same blood as you Tamils – it is red?

          We even came to your houses, weddings, funerals and to schools too. We offered to marry your widowed women, whom we met casually, despite the fact we are already married with children to feed. We have shops for you to sell things cheap.

          We even brought Sinhalese brothers and sisters in large numbers to help out your problems, but you don’t show any gratitude. We brought Buddha to your villages to bless you with triple gems day in and day out.

          Don’t forget the tourist hotels we built for you on borrowed money, brought Yarl Devi to your door steps with stupid Indians help but you still betrayed us. Don’t you remember the carpeted roads which our grand children will be paying for?

          We will leave you para Demalas to rot with no development hereafter.

          Ask your wig-less Wiggie to beg for aid from our king, Mahinda!
          He will throw you some crumbs.

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      I was always under the impression that armed forces are government servants paid by the tax payers! Only now I realise that in Sri Lanka thy are a political party!

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      Tamils are never Grateful people.

      they only like to lick the as3es of the colonial master.

      See how they did to India.

      So, native vedda can ask questions in order to hide the ungratefulness and the shamelessness.

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        In a Democratic country Military should not have made such an statement……Because it shame to the country. And it is very clear that military works according to the MARAISM theory………………….World is watching at you fools.

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          @ Alan
          Democratic country? Were you living on another planet for the last couple of years? In a Democracy ONE FAMILY does not run the country…that only happens in a monarchy or a dictatorship. Do not be fooled by the regular elections held here since the end of 2005. You are now living in a full blown family dictatorship that functions for the benefit of the world and the majority idiots of the country as a democracy with rigged elections. :-D

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            Percy Jilmart

            By name: Sri Lanka is a Socialist Democratic republic.

            But practically dictatorship….it is because of poor opposition leadership.

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        JimPissa:
        The over-crowding at Angoda has ended and they might want you back there again, even with your handlers paying for your champagne and caviar.

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          what champagne and caviar?????. for jim soththy, [ Rohuna Ferdi]

          only Kassippu like his masters.

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        What exactly did they do in India? As far as I know it was Brahmins who wiggled their way into civil service jobs working under the Brits and other Indian groups like Sikhs and Parsees who sided with and in the case of the former fought with the Brits.
        Tamils never sided militarily with the Brits in any meaningfull way against other Indians.

        Now speaking of kissing colonial ass, how prevalent are Dutch and especially Portugese names amongst Singhalese and how prevalent is it with Tamils.

        Lanka Guardian carried a recent article on Rajapaksa origins ; the article stated that Rajapaksa was a name given by the Brits to those Ceylonese in the South who served the British well.

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          Tell me there are no dutch, portuguese or any other eurasian descendents among Tamils ?

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            Ofcourse there but the numbers are far less compared with the Singhalese even after adjusting for the greater numbers of Singhalese. It is rare to find a European surname amongst Tamils.

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          Well Said Palmsquirrel….we all know Jim does not have an intellect…it is worthless to expect him to know about the facts and statistics where most of the ruling elites from Sinhala community derived from our colonial masters…In fact, he will search one last Tamilian who has Caucasian surname as people search for black swans to prove all swans are not white…

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        you mean they should vote for the ARMY ?i didnt know they were contesting machan!

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        Questions Jim Softly, 01) whom should they be grateful? And Why? Whom are the Sinhalese grateful and why?

        Sin Hela

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        Jima set back after set back for your idol MR, Isn’t it? After the Americans and the Indians presented VP’s head on a platter to MR, to boast of a War Victory, garnering KP to assist MR in the North and Karuna to handle matters in the East, not only MR has lost the North but now the East also have defied MR. Jima the coming colour does not seem to augur well for your Tsunami Embezzler. 2014 as RW said will be a very decisive year for the Country.

        It is not that the people are ungrateful as you think, but only have begun to identify who MR really is, the Biggest Fraud ever in the History of Man kind. I know it is very painful for you Buggers, the Katu Kana Ballo to stomach the Truth, But what to do?

        By the way you still have not responded your feelings to that ‘Buddhist Kiss’?

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          2014 may be a very eventful year for the loser RW. He may actually win something. Imagine that. These green buggers won’t know how to run the country. Just ask any UNP stalwart what their Education/Economic/agricultural policy is. They will say “Eh? What policy? Give us power first then we will have policies”. MR has already won the next two elections. But RW has a comfortable and respected job as Leader of the Opposition, surrounded by sycophants and cronies. Dream on Gamini.

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            Suren why are you so skeptical? Why do you sound so worried that RW will become President? Whom did you ask about the Education, Economic and Agriculture Policy of the UNP? Is it from MR or Mervyn? I honestly feel sorry for people like you, who are so totally blind to reality.

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        WOW… that explains why Sinhalese are ungrateful. They have at least 50% Tamil blood. Then, the blood of ungrateful Vijaya and his mates who dumped the tribal queen and her people who harboured them and comforted them. Then, some animal blood, which is not known for gratefulness….

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        Jim Softy,

        “Tamils are never Grateful people.”

        “We have done so much for you people, still you went and voted for the TNA,” the soldiers told residents, chasing them away from the bunker.

        Yes. They have long memories.

        1956, 1958, 1977, 1983, 1987-1989, 1990-2009.

        We Sinhala Buddhists helped eliminate close to 100,000 Tamils, helped you form the LTTE, and caused you people to leave the country as refugees as asylum seekers, and yet you voted for TNA.

        By the way you may say,

        “Sinhala Buddhists are never Grateful people. They got the support of the Muslims, and after defeating the LTTE, they are turning against the Muslims. Did Buddha teach that in the Tipitaka, or is it simply Sinhala Buddhist Racism”

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          Amarasiri,

          Well said….This JumNutty is a BBS fanatics

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      Dear Native, The disappointment of the Military in this bread and rice democracy is not at all a shock !! But the real shock is … The Tamil diaspora seems to have finally found a loophole in the TNA through TELO, to push MR.Sivajilingham to a portfolio in the NPC !!
      I read your applauding comment on the CVW’s and THA’s decission with regards to taking oaths, and with which I agree with you…..but…Siddhardan and sivajilingam – the professionals in the cabinet of the NPC !!? Especially Sivajilingham…how do you feel !!?…and at the end of the day, are we back to the beginning again !!?

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        Regret the error THA’s decission…..pl. read…as,TNA’s decission…

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        Rev.Devil

        “The Tamil diaspora seems to have finally found a loophole in the TNA through TELO, to push MR.Sivajilingham to a portfolio in the NPC !!”

        Tamils and Sinhalese don’t need enemies as they are their own worst enemies.

        NPC’s destruction starts before its inception.

        My Tamil friends tell me that EPRLF is biting its time and ready to contribute to the destruction of NPC if its leader’s brother is not allocated a portfolio.

        So the business is as usual as before in the Northern front.

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      Bloody shame. Its clear that they do politics under UPFA banner.

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      Native Vedda,

      “We have done so much for you people, still you went and voted for the TNA,” the soldiers told residents, chasing them away from the bunker.”

      Thanks for clarifying for the Military. Was there a pact between the UPFA and the Military that was publicly announced? No.

      There appears to be a military communications problem.

      The Tamil people did not want to vote in support of the Malinda Rajapaksa Family Hegemony. The military should be happy about that.

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      NV

      With apologies to the former President Kennedy here’s what all Tamils should ask themselves:

      All ye Tamils, ask not what the army has done for you but what you have done for the army!

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        Sin Hela

        “All ye Tamils, ask not what the army has done for you but what you have done for the army!”

        Tamils gave them two fingers. Do you think it was not enough?

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        Sin Hela , you seem too have the qualities to replace the then Attorney General and present Cheap Justice Mr.Mohan Pieris at the UNHRC !!? The Council misses a class one Joker for quite sometime. What do you say !!?

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    ““We have done so much for you people,..”

    Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.

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    if you guys leave NE and form a political party perhaps Tamils may vote for you

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    This piece of news is just like TAMILNET news.

    title is something, story starts with something and talk something completely different.

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      or Daily News

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      JIM SOFTY, YOU UTTER RUBBISH ALL THE TIME, JUST LIKE MODA MERVYN, & PISSU WANSA.

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      …and the people who start commenting on it jump to another thing… like you, who uses every opportunity you get, related to the article or not, to speak about vellalas and such.

      pots calling kettles black, jima?

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    So much for reconciliation,it goes on and on.

    Only the southern singhala tourists were allowed to visit the site and they who hated the LTTE leadership paid the big bucks to the goverment.

    They should have demanded a ‘free entrance’ ticket.

    Here too they got fooled by these chaps and by Gota.

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      They came to see first hand the Tamil brilliance ….Tamil brilliance keeping Sri Lanka afloat…

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    These Sinhala Buddhist criminals must be ejected by tamil areas. Only way forward in tamils live in peace…

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      Most of the low cast Tamils are suffering due to humiliation done by high cast Tamils , there is no equality among Tamils , prabhakaran is a Christian Tamil and one of his objective was to wipe out those who said to be high cast tamils. low cast Tamils will never get peace if not Sri Lankan government is there after the prbhakaran.

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      J Muttu,

      You mean what they did to the Muslims during the Pesbakaran LTTE era? You want to do that to the Sinhalese as well?

      Evicting 100,000 Muslims from the Northern Province? They spoke Tamil?

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr-y_C8YVhc

      Tamil speaking Muslims who were forcefully evicted by Northern Sri Lanka

      Uploaded on May 7, 2010
      The 29th of October is historic for the Northern Muslims of Sri Lanka – on this day, in 1990, the Tamil Tigers(LTTE) forcibly evicted some 75,000 Muslim residents of the Northern districts of Sri Lanka – Jaffna, Kilinochchi, Mullaithivu, Mannar and Vavuniya. Today, the lives of these Muslims, who have been displaced for 20 years, have changed drastically but for better or worse?

      Twenty years on and hundreds and thousands of Muslim IDPs who were forcefully evicted by the Tamils from the north, continue to languish in Puttalam. Still living in temporary shelters, they speak of their plight, fears and the hope for a better future.

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    Well further proof that the Army / GOSL absolutely did not want Tamils to exert even a small measure of self determination, rather wanted them willingly be under a Singhala jackboot.

    They would have rigged or scrapped the elections altogether were it not for international pressure.

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      Of the three million or so Tamils that live in Sri Lanka one million cannot have ‘bantu land’ type self determination in one part of the country. Whatever is called ‘Rights’, it must be there for all equally.

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        Right now all the power is wholly with Singhalese elites, Tamils have no say . Provincial Council is a small step towards bringing about a more just allocation of power, and not as you imply special priviledges for Tamils.

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        Banda

        “Of the three million or so Tamils that live in Sri Lanka one million cannot have ‘bantu land”

        You are right they cannot have their “Bandu Land”. Therefore let us have our Vedda land. You and your Tamil brethren can go back to your ancestral land which is in North and South India.

        The South Asian population is about 1700 millions where as your Sinhala/Buddhists number about 17 million. Hence one cannot allow a Sinhala/Buddhist “ghetto land” in one’s ancestral land. A tiny minority constituting less than 1% of the population should not be allowed to have their ghetto in the Indian ocean, which some say may lead to instability.

        Therefore you should open up Sri Lanka for others to come and settle in my ancestral in order to achieve your secular credentials and strengthen your selective principle position by reversing all immigration and land laws.

        You cannot have your Sinhala/Buddhist ghetto in this island. Rather you can have your Bandu land in Bangladesh or Tamilnadu. The choice is yours.

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        Banda

        You sound like a typical stupid Tamil.

        Are you a descendant of Banda-ra Vannian?

        You also sound like a typical stupid Sinhalese.

        Are you a descendant of Pandara- Nayakar?

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    Now these chaps know that they are not wanted by the Tamil people. They have simply told them to f*ck off.

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    We are not against the Sinhalese. It is the Sinhalese politicians with the Military who were acting under the unwanted influence of some myths behaved arrogantly. It is time for the Sinhalese politicians to know about self-determination. Self-determination is not separation. For a moment imagine what will happen to the South if it gets affected by some natural disasters, when it had recently affected a part of Pakistan. Surely the Tamils will come to the rescue of the Sinhalese.

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      Citizen:

      You are crying out loud about your aspirations. Sinhala people also have their aspirations. They are not yet aware about what they are missing except BBS or Ravana Balaya like organizations.

      So, just wait and see.

      Remember what happened to Prabhakaran. He played tough guy mentality.

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    Tamils are ungrateful racists.

    STOP wasting money on them. At least now the army should have learnt the lesson. Modayas!

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      Fuckshima speaks

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      If by “wasting money” you are talkin about infrastructure like roads, you realise the Rajapaksa regime simply used the guise of infrastrucute:
      to move in thousands of Singhalese to chancge the Northern democgraphics
      loot the taxpayers to fill theirs and their friend’s pockets
      did what they wanted to do with token consultation from the locals

      Also the quality of infrastructure building is average to subpar, but I suppose that’s par for the course in all of SL .

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    Hitler bunker was located under the streets of East Berlin. Victorious Red Army attempted to blow it up afterwards in 1947. Though the effort destroyed only a part of the bunker, no free press at the time discussed it in the open like here now.

    But many an allied soldiers and curious Berliners said to have frequented it during the first years after the war. All of them took souvenirs just like from Pirapakarans’ bunker. It was mostly southerners who visited Pirapakarans bunker. Whether they did so in awe of the man or hate, the readers can decide.

    After 40 years after the red army attempt to blow it, a construction project began over the Hitler bunker in 1986. But there was nothing in the free press in the west about a monumental bunker vanishing under a new housing project. By 1989 dirt have been dumped into the bunker to cover it and a new housing scheme to built on top of it. From then on its a new residential neighborhood.

    Tamils that talk about reconciliation but some wanted to venerate the megalomaniac terrorist Pirapakaran in secret by lighting candles and oil lamps and etc. Such people may relate bunker bursting as an outcome of the TNA victory. Who cares, good or bad job, most would forget it sooner than later just like what had happened to Hitler bunker.

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    To Spite the Tamils,they continue to cut their own nose.
    Too bad for them,attracting undue attention to themselves,getting more into the violation syndrome.

    Aren’t there any right thinking men among the Singhala polity and people to advise?Its a shame this hatred continues.

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    The soldiers are from remote villages without any basic understanding of common sense or general knowledge. Two soldiers go to each and every house in Tamil areas to check their identities. When a visitor replied that he is a lecturer in a university they asked him if it was a bank, such, is the calibre of soldiers.

    In UK the buildings and churches bombed during the WWII are still maintaied for dual purpose of earning from the tourists who come in their millions to see hem and a reminder of Nazi brutality. But Sri Lankan government are led by barbarians who react to low instincts of revenge and rage. Look at how their boss Gota reacts when questins are asked about the army or his behaviour.

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    The TNA and more so the Tamil people are going to learn the price of international pressure when the time comes for payback to the ‘internationals.’ Remember the IPKF?

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    What Tamils expect of state officers is not “doing so much” and then calling for vote in return. What they want from the military is professionalism and the top rungs have to transmit same to the rank and file. Field Marshall Montgomery’s Reminiscences and Field Marshall Rommel’s Diaries should induct them into modern approaches.

    Closer home is Dutu Gemunu who showed the world how to honour a fallen adversary. That was a mark of civilization and of culture displayed even in ancient times..

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    Now the people have the opportunity to go and see Araliya Gaha Bunker with given a free dana rice packet.

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    If Tamils want to chase everyone from the North – particularly as J.Muthu calls Sinhala Buddhist criminals you should be ashamed of yourself and it is true you people are the most ungrateful and dominating despicable lot.

    I am a Sinhalese who took food for Tamils during the riots. We help Tamils because we are human. I also happen to be a Buddhist. You want to chase everyone from the North, then all your people deserve to be chased to the North. Tamils who are rich and posh don’t want the “Thala Thel and Banana leaf life” they themselves laugh at the Jaffna people. You all are Racists and criminals. Now you live in peace after 90% of Sinhala Buddhist Army blood that saved you people when the LTTE treated you all like dogs. GO TO TAMIL NADU AND LIVE IN FILTH. WHY STAY IN SRI LANKA AMONG BUDDHIST RIMINALS. GO WHERE YOU HAVE 70 MILLION LIKE YOU AND LEAVE THE SINHALESE ALONE. SRI LANKA IS THE ONLY COUNTRY FOR THE SINHALESE. THEY ARE THE MINORITY IN THE WORLD. BE GRATEFUL THAT IT IS SHARED WITH YOU PEOPLE WHO HAVE THE BEST LIFE IN SRI LANKA. GO TO TAMIL NADU AND LIVE THERE —- GO GO GO GOOD RIDDANCE OF YOU UNGRATEFUL CRIMINALS WHO ARE IN PRISONS ALL OVER THE WORLD FOR DRUGS CRIMES – RAJARATNAM’S FRIENDS WHO CHEATED THE STOCK MARKET IN THE USA– THAT’S WHAT YOU ARE GOOD FOR.

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      Outspoken or dumb spokesman!

      We tolerated the Sinhalese all these years and now we have stationed the army to supervise matters and the sinhalese are not at all grateful, the biggest minority just like in Myanmar killing first Bandaranayke by shooting him in the nuts… now buddhists are so nice… why would you hurt the feeelings of such nice peoople who burnt people in cars, anne sin no!

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      I doubt you help Tamils with the hate you display here, since you have pretty much lumped all Tamils into one groups to demonize.
      If Tamils go back to Tamil Nadu, will you Singhalese go back to Bengal?

      Lastly, typing in All Caps does not make your argument any better, rather it only further undermines your comments .

      What positves SL Army did was minor compared to the genocidal slaughter and past and present torture, rape and persecution. You sound just like Rajapakse Public Relations with your attempt at spin.

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      Outspoken Sri Lankan

      “If Tamils want to chase everyone from the North – particularly as J.Muthu calls Sinhala Buddhist criminals you should be ashamed of yourself”

      J.Muthu is wrong.

      I want to evict all of you Sinhalese as well as Tamils from my ancestral land.

      J.Muthu is wrong again.

      Sinhala/Buddhist are stupid just like their Tamil brethren.

      J.Muthu and you should be ashamed of yourselves for occupying my ancestral land.

      “I am a Sinhalese who took food for Tamils during the riots.”

      If the Sinhala/Buddhist thugs didn’t riot, there would not have been a need for you to feed the Tamils. You ought to be ashamed of yourself and your people for letting your people riot.

      “You want to chase everyone from the North”

      J Muthu only wants to chase the Sinhalese from the North. In my case I want to chase all of you (the Tamils as well as Sinhalese) from the entire island.

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        Native Vedda,

        Now you are beginning to convince me, it is the Sinhalese Buddhists and Tamils, who are are the curse and cause of problem in your Native Land, Lanka.

        Since the Sinhalese Buddhists are not practicing True Buddhism in Lanka, making a mockery of Buddhism, mixing it up with Sinhala Racism, yes, the Sinhalese and Tamils should leave Lanka for India, and leave the Land for the Native Veddah.

        Let the Veddah decide, and not the Kallathonis, Sinhala and Tamils.

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          Amarasiri

          Thanks for your support.

          One of these days we must meet up and share a peace pipe.

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          If a genie asked me whether Tamils, Singhalese and Moors should go back to India and Arabia (respectively) and leave SL to the Veddah , I would agree.

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            PalmSquirrell

            “If a genie asked me whether Tamils, Singhalese and Moors should go back to India and Arabia (respectively) and leave SL to the Veddah , I would agree.”

            The non existence genie may not be of any help to us but you can be.

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              I have wanted to for a long time help the Veddah, especially preserving their culture and involve them in partaking in DNA testing to further our understanding of their heritage. With how Veddah have been culturally and racially assimilated (forcefully and pressured to do so), time is running out fast for DNA testing to be of use.

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              PalmSquirrell

              Thanks for your concern.

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    Although the Army Commander wears a white glove, his hands are blood soaked. Daya Ratnayake should be held responsible for blowing up this Bunker which even VP did not do, when he handed over all the bunkers intact to the Army before they vacated. Phew! What a War it was? It had all the hall marks of American Intrigue. A War with no witnesses, the Stage set by the Americans even moving out the UN, where the Tamil Civilians protested but not VP and the LTTE. The irony is the LTTE burying all the heavy artillery and decamping without a fight, only to be massacred on a Beach Front with no where to hide when they tried to surrender.

    The Army tried a fast one, being nice to the civilians in the North expecting them to vote for some of the LTTE, nominated by MR under his wing like KP is kept by MR. But the Tamils were too wise to it and elected Wiggy and the TNA. MR got played out in his own game, just because MR was successful in fooling the Sinhalese in the South to vote for him, claiming that he defeated the LTTE at War, which was never the case. Therefore I have to concede the Tamils in the North are more INTELLIGENT than the Sinhalese in the South without a doubt.

    Now that the Tamils in the North have turned their backs to MR, all MR’s supporters including the Servile Forces are smarting. This is the first retaliatory action and the Army will resort to more harassment of the Tamils in the future. Little they know what Wiggy has in store for all these fools including for MR.

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    Yes, Fathima Fulushima that’s what the problem is here. Tamils being racists. Your racism shows through with a statement like this.

    Sri Lanka s problems will continue if those in power do not recognise the need for ‘truth and reconciliation’ No, instead they have decided that ensuring the military are involved in all parts of life in the North intimidating anyone who talks to any sudda. The people of the North are as much victims of the Tigers as the rest of the country.

    Look at places like Rwanda, South Africa, and how have they managed to rebuild societies after civil war and apartheid. History in Lanka has shown that we are not heeding these warnings and will make the same mistakes again. BBS and the other groups, attackes on Muslim and Christian churches elsewhere in the country so soon after the war ends tells us this.

    The president being interviewed by Al Jazerra the other day just wanted to talk about $3 billion in infrastructure projects. These mean nothing without trying to heal mental scars. Wat use is a road if you are harassed, if you are made to feel you are not part of the country?

    Great people like Nelson Mandela realised this. What he went through to then lead his country the way he did tells you everything about the man.

    Compair that to what we have, a president that thinks that taking out huge loans and builds large infrastructure projects (which he and his family take large fees for) will fix our countries woo’s.

    Ending the war gave them political capital which they are using to fill their pockets not fix the country.

    They think that the defeat of the Tigers and suppression of anyone who disagrees with them benefits Lanka, it only benefits themselves.

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    Noted some of those comments. Briefly, the concern of the Army personells
    is a kind of their imaginatives and miserably failed to recognise the realities behind.

    You the army or the security forces as a whole is an unwanted presence and if you claim that you have done anything towards those of victims is unacceptable and they did not appreciate and will not at all appreciate.
    You should recognise this.

    Your presense – security personels -in those areas is a daily torture of those who lost their relatives and they belive that they were killed by you – the so called security forces.

    The residents of those areas in particular areas in vanni would not appreciate your presence for every but you diguise as having helped them.

    If you want to help them, please leasve the area and allow them to look after themselves.

    Thank you if this comments makes any different/

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    This just goes to show, that the Tamil people don’t want the military do all this for them. They want safety, security and their fundamental rights, before they get roads, bridges, railway lines built and handouts etc given

    A good lesson for the Army to learn from, if they’re willing to see their own back sides.

    Also a good lesson for the Sinhalese south to note, that the Tamil people, are thinking voters, who don’t cast their vote based on short term gain.

    Hail to the Tamil people….

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    Tamils are the worst racists in the worls after Nazi. Mrs.Amirthalingam once said that she will remove skin of Sihales and use for drums.

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    Blind can only lead blind. But people in the North not only proved that they are not blind like the armed forces in Sri Lanka they also proved that they have a heart and believe in democracy and united Sri Lanka. For this Commander to show his ignorance and take for granted that people in the North will follow him blindly shows how shallow he is. This is the type of leaders Sri Lankan government has, so there is no doubt we will get into more trouble in the future.

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    Minimaru the paid “Ranaviruwas”who kill people from far away by using long range weapons will do everything for MARAs regime.(“Ranaviru” means the real soldiers during kings time who fought face to face and killed enemies by using swards but not paid for the work) They are very much famous in destroying Tamils and their properties.Well done go ahead but don’t forget that people will teach lessons whenever they get a chance to do so.

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    This is just the newspaper making sensationalism – dare them to put this comment. This is not an official military statement but some comments made perhaps by the lowest rank in the military those who come to clear refuse…………. what a fuss for nothing

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    we saved you from the clutches of LTTE Terrorism and gave you GOSL approved Sri Lankan state terrorism
    we fought for you with one hand holding the UN Charter, it was in English so we didn’t understand a word of it.

    Now vote for us

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    http://www.sundaytimes.lk/130929/news/tna-victory-ride-on-tiger-trail-64215.html.

    All these Mental scars and reconciliation are BS.

    Northern Tamils are still the terrorists. Read the above link to see how they clapped when TNA political meetings sounded the LTTE name.

    Govt should not develop the north thinking Tamils would in turn be grateful.

    Tamils loves casteism. Tamils love to lick colonial masters. LEt them live as they want to.

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    There is more than one way to skin a cat.

    Vigneswaran is going like a pussy cat to the feet of Rajafucksa (army commander in chief) to take oaths.

    The oath says he will worship the genocidal constitution, the unitary state, etc., etc.

    Even the Governor is a military man! So the army won, again.

    So Vigneswaran is a servant of the military governor and the military commander in chief!

    Just like Israel. Israel top politicians are former military men. When Palestinian leader Abbas or Arafart worship them, they are worshiping the Israeli military.

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      The beauty of an educated person is to respect the constitution and rule of law. This is exactly what Justice Wigneswaran is doing. He has to take oaths so he is hitting two birds with one stone. One he is showing the entire world that Sri Lanka is a united single country and that TNA respects it, secondly he is showing not only the regime but the entire world that he is open and willing to work with the regime. This is the smartest second move Chief Minister Justice Wigneswaran has taken. First being the decision to give a seat to a Muslim. He is showing you and the rest of the world politics should not be nasty and he is a “Sri Lankan Gandhi”. One day TNA will change its name and will contest elections all over Sri Lanka, this day will come sooner than later as Sri Lankans will realize what clean politics means.

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    How is the military going to account for the murder of thousands of innocent civilians and disappearance of a large number of Tamils. How is the military going to account for forcible acquisition of land after chasing the Tamils. Unless the IAF drops another ten food parcels in the North, the Military will not realize. It is utterly useless to talk with the Military.

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