The Global Tamil Forum (GTF) has written to Amber Rudd, Home Secretary, UK, demanding that the visas granted to family members of Brigadier Priyanka Fernando be cancelled.
Fernando, former Minister Counselor (Defense) of the Sri Lanka mission in London, was asked to return to Sri Lanka following an incident at a protest organized by expatriate Tamil organizations.
The GTF argues that the family member’s visa statuses were dependent on Fernando’s and since the GTF believes that the latter has no status as of now their statuses ‘should also fall’.
However, in a letter that the South Asia Department of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London, had written to the GTF in response to a letter by the latter, what is intimated is just that the Sri Lankan Government has ordered Fernando to return to Colombo ‘while the incident is thoroughly investigated’. This follows, according to the South Asia Department, serious concerns being expressed to Sri Lanka by UK authorities.
Both letters are given below in full:
Jim softy / February 24, 2018
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perera / February 24, 2018
This chap priyaka f’do thought he was in b. sri lanka. to behave like a hooligan not behave like , he is one. he is a thug.
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Champa / February 24, 2018
How dare is this terrorist to make this request?
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Suren Surendiren is LTTE’s biggest life supporter after Anton Balasingham. He should be in jail.
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LTTE diaspora in the UK is “marketing their votes” to chicken-hearted British MPP to sustaining their terrorist outfit. That is the only reason for their survival in the UK. GTF has properties in Sri Lanka. They all should be confiscated. EU blacklisted Sri Lanka for terrorism financing. GTF plays a big role in that.
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Pathetic British Government has no backbone to halt any activities carried out by members of LTTE which is proscribed as a terrorist organization in the UK. They overtly display LTTE’s symbol and flags in protests against sovereign Sri Lanka and openly admit that their leader is bloodthirsty barbarian Prabhakaran and that they carry forward his separatist ideology.
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All other terrorist outfits in the world were gone once their leaders were killed.
Only LTTE is survived even after Prabhakaran’s death, entirely due to British government’s, their leaders’ and some of their Parliamentarians’ (then and now), direct political patronage to LTTE terrorists in the UK.
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Enough is enough! SRI LANKA “SHOULD NOT” SIGN “ANY NEW TRADE DEALS” WITH THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT. When opening new trade deals, in addition to Asian-Oceanian-and-Australasian countries, we should give priority to other European countries where LTTE terrorists are not promoted in their soil.
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At a time even a Swiss-Court recognized LTTE as a criminal (terrorist?) organization which killed civilians/recruited child soldiers and, imposed tougher jail terms to terrorist supporters, the spineless British Government surrendering to the demands of LTTE terrorists is pathetic.
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LTTE diaspora regard Switzerland as their biological mother and the United Kingdom as their adopted mother. British government’s double standards in condemning ISIS terrorists while nurturing LTTE terrorists in their own soil is despicable.
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Champa / February 25, 2018
The British government allowed a proscribed terrorist outfit, LTTE’s supporters armed with LTTE symbol and LTTE flags to protest right in front of our High Commission in London, of all the days, on the day of our 70th Anniversary of the Independence! They protesters were told to stay far away from the Chancery but they broke the law and came very close to the Chancery Building. No action was taken. Now the British Government take Brigadier’s gesticulation to show the protesters that LTTE is done, very serious! What type of diplomacy is this? Jungle Diplomacy?
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Real Revolutionist / February 25, 2018
Champa
supporting your comment
Wonder whether Tamil diaspora has the ability to bribe directly or indirectly the related British officials; unless how to develop such an unimportant gesticulation to a such serious one?
However this military officer should not have done the latter part of it, pointing to the neck, not of fear but it may be interpreted differently as happening now.
Why don’t the British people take the pride of a successful patriotic military official in a positive way rather than bowing down to the debris of beaten terrorists set.
How can supporters of proscribed terrorists hold such an intimidating demonstration on the independence day?
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Champa / February 25, 2018
Real Revolutionist
The latter part, the point to the neck is the best silent answer given to LTTE diaspora in the 30 year war and aftermath of 2009!!! I admire his courage to do that.
The only weapon LTTE diaspora has is their VOTES. I believe around 300,000. Apart from that they have billions of black money to offer for election campaigns, funding, bargaining and blackmailing British parliamentarians, officials and other organizations. Remember David Miliband, former Secretary of State who came all the way from London to get Prabhakaran out from the jungle in the middle of the war. Now the current man is also a puppet in the hands of LTTE diaspora.
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Thappu / February 25, 2018
Dear Champa, I admire your audacity. You hesitate not to make bizarre allegations against the powerful GB.
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You begin by asking, ‘How dare is this terrorist to make this request?’
Your insinuation that GB is harbouring a terrorist is no less audacious.
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You say, ‘Suren Surendiren is LTTE’s biggest life supporter after Anton Balasingham. He should be in jail’. Don’t you realise that you are challenging the legal system of GB.
(By the way, you are making those minds which believe and scream that they come right after AB, sick and sad.)
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Let sanity prevail.
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Stay within your rights and limits. Give no chance for your very adjectives to boomerang on you!
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I am no lover of Suren Surendiren. In fact, I am happy to see that he is being taken to task.
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Dr. Gnana Sankaralingam / February 25, 2018
Champa just because your mind is bigoted, UK is not going to dance to your tune. They took the correct action in deporting the offender as he breached diplomatic etiquette and violated hospitality accorded to him. If an ordinary Sinhalese had done it, by now he would have been in jail for threatening British citizens. Whether you like it or not, all protestors are UK citizens, and they are entitled to exercise their democratic right. They had not committed any offence for police to disperse them. Please remember that UK legal system is very fair, unlike kangaroo courts in Sri Lanka where the judicial system is institutionally racist.
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Eagle Eye / February 25, 2018
“They took the correct action in deporting the offender as he breached diplomatic etiquette and violated hospitality accorded to him.”
Sri Lankan Government should deport Ambassadors of USA, UK and India because they openly violate diplomatic etiquette but I do not believe PM or the President has guts do do that because they have become poodles of these countries. These two are in their positions because of the ‘Regime Change Project’ of these countries. We heard rhetoric of the President at election rallies but at the end he had to put his tail in between his hind legs. President Premadasa had the spine to kick out British Ambassador.
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Shenal / February 25, 2018
Why do British citizens need to meddle in Sri Lankan affairs? Infact why did British citizens sported a banned terrorist organization flag infront of Sri Lankan embassy? Are they supporting the so called LTTE group? In that regard can’t they also be regarded as terrorists?
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Real Revolutionist / February 25, 2018
Shenal
They’re terrorists too because they keep Tamil diaspora members; the well skilled boot lickers as instruments to maintain their interests in the Indian sub continent.
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Native Vedda / February 25, 2018
Shenali
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“Sinhalese want Sri Lanka exclusively because their ancestors have made this island to be what it is today.”
” From Anuradhapura to Colombo you can see the handy work of the Sinhalayas to prove it.”
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Mostly artisans were brought from South India.
Even as recently as in 2013 the rock-cut Samadhi Buddha statue at Rambadagalla was carved out of rock by South Indian team of Sculptures, under the guidance of Master sculptor Muthiah Sthapathi.
Read the article:
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A lasting symbol of communal harmony
Wednesday, 1 July 2015
http://www.ft.lk/article/439491/Www.aquavista.lk
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Go thank Master sculptor Muthiah Sthapathi and his crew. Go thank late Deivanayagam Eassuwaren who facilitated the entire project.
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Why are you so stupid, ignorant, dumb ass?
We know why, you don’t have to explain.
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Remember “You can run, but you can’t hide from truth”
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thrishu / February 25, 2018
Yes UK govt is harboring terrorists that align with their foreign policy of dividing countries and ruling. They are the western terrorists. Every political party is trying to get the tamil votes for themselves at elections, especially in those marginal constitutions. This is the fact of the matter and common knowledge.
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Champa / February 25, 2018
Thappu
Of course, clearly and directly I am challenging the legal system of the Great Britain which allows the supporters and exiled cadre of a proscribed terrorist organization in the UK, namely; LTTE to show their political power gained through the support of British government/Parliamentarians, to diplomatic officers and a diplomatic mission of a sovereign country.
Every Tamil in the diaspora who supports/supported, collects/collected funds and raise/raised funds through ransom, drug smuggling, human smuggling and weapon smuggling directly or indirectly for LTTE is a terrorist. Suren Surendiran is a terrorist who should be in jail for life time and Adela Balasingham who tied cyanide capsules around the necks of child soldiers should be prosecuted.
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Dr. Gnana Sankaralingam / February 25, 2018
Champa did you hear that a bunch of Sinhala jokers had demonstrated on Downing Street demanding that activities of LTTE to be curbed, and UK government is giving privileges to them where other such organisations do not receive such. I will take a bet with you that these idiots will be asked to go to hell. First of all LTTE is no more listed as a terrorist organisation, and secondly PKK a Kurdish group which has been branded as terrorists and Tibetans who are branded as terrorists by China are also active in UK.
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Percy / February 25, 2018
Bunch of Sinhala jokers seem to annoy you.? Were you happy with para demala jokers who demonstrated in front of the Embassy? The latter should not be allowed entry into Sri Lanka.
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Dr. Gnana Sankaralingam / February 25, 2018
They are not annoying me as they have the right to demonstrate in a peaceful manner in UK which upholds democratic values. I am calling them as jokers for which you seem to be annoyed because they are wasting their time. I do not think that any of the LTTE supporters want to come to Sri Lanka, which is a failed state. In contrast to it, if any of these Sinhala jokers misbehave, they will be deported.
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John / February 25, 2018
Dr. Gnana,
So you cut all ties with Sri Lanka forever then.
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Edwin Rodrigo / February 25, 2018
GROBR
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Dr. Gnana Sankaralingam / February 25, 2018
Family of the expelled criminal is being allowed to stay to educate the children on humanitarian grounds, as SL government begged UK government for this in order to save face. Therefore asking to expel them also is not fair as they should not suffer for their fathers offence. This is in contrast to how SL government and its security forces behaved, when a member of a family had joined LTTE, rest of the family were taken into custody, tortured and some of them killed. In certain occasions houses of the fighters were bull dozed to the ground. Tamils in UK have scored a victory and therefore they have to be magnanimous to the losers. What they could ask is that the diplomatic immunity given to the family to be removed, and be brought under UK law, in order for them not to misuse their privilege and commit crimes on Tamils. Also they should not use any diplomatic vehicles for transporting them, because the driver can run over a child at school or meet with accident while taking the family shopping, and go unpunished.
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Rajash / February 25, 2018
Dr Gnana….you have made some great contributions on CT. but this one is out of character..
If there is a delete facility on CT I bet you wan to deleted this on hindsight..”.
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Amila W / February 25, 2018
“SL government and its security forces behaved, when a member of a family had joined LTTE, rest of the family were taken into custody, tortured and some of them killed”
LTTE to SL, and LTTE to UK are 2 different things.
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Edwin Rodrigo / February 25, 2018
Begging: Gnana, “SL government begged UK government for this in order to save face. “ You mean the way VP begged for life when Pvt Nimal was pointing his gun at him? I ask you, when you compare the British Govt and Nimal, who is more humane?
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Champa / February 25, 2018
Dr. Gnana Sanakaralingam
Yes, I know our brave Sinhalese held a well attended demonstration in front of British PM’s office. My salute to them.
Prove me when and where Kurdish PKK and Taliban who are not proscribed in the UK protesting right in front of any diplomatic mission in the UK by waving their terrorist flags openly.
You should update your rusty records. LTTE is a proscribed organization in the UK.
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Dr. Gnana Sankaralingam / March 2, 2018
What well attended demonstration. I made it a point to see it and only about 100 of them, all well known racists, were there shouting like mad fellows. They will not achieve anything, as UK government cares too hoots for these bunch of idiots.
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Tamil from the north / February 25, 2018
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K.Pillai / February 25, 2018
Champa ~ “…….LTTE diaspora in the UK is “marketing their votes”…..”
Unfortunately voting has become a tradable commodity. In our own beloved Lanka recently SLPP sold the language/religion-divide. People were made to forget ‘corruption’!
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Tamil from the north / February 26, 2018
Ugly whore Champa, tell me what is a LTTE diaspora?
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Burt / February 24, 2018
Shouldn’t this happen even without anyone asking for it as the family did not receive visa on their own merit or that of Priyanka but based on the office held by Priyanka at the embassy. With the termination of the individual and perks coming with the office.
I know the Sinhala Buddhists have a different standard like we have see when thrown out of office refusing to give-up vehicles, residences and perks.
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Tamil Daispora Activist / February 24, 2018
This is utterly outrageous! As someone who campaigned to expel the attache while the 4 man insolvent bucket shop in South London that calls itself GTF were asleep, the logic applied here is the same as that applied by Sri Lankan soldiers when they executed children of LTTE leaders for their parents action. Punishing the children and wife for the errant acts of their parents is spiteful! It reinforces every negative stereotype the Sinhala alt-right have of the diaspora.
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Mallaiyuran / February 24, 2018
Yes, our target should be on those who commited war crimes, and follow up crimes. Sinhalese are not the enemies of Tamils, though the inverse is preached all over the South.
One month ago Father Emmanuel was posing with Reginald Cooray to photo op. Two days before that Corey cited “Ninaippadhellaam nadandhuvittaal dheyvam aedhumillai nadandhadhaiyae ninaiththirundhaal amaidhi enrumillai mudindha kadhai thodarvadhillai iraivan aettinilae” Tamil Song and made a speech that Tamils should stop the calls for missing ones and other investigations. Father Emmanuel needs serious mental check up.
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sach / February 25, 2018
No we are enemies…
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Dr. Gnana Sankaralingam / February 25, 2018
Sach you may be an enemy of Tamils, but we will treat you as a friend. Remember what Buddha said , make your enemies change their minds by doing good to them.
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Burt / February 25, 2018
There is no reward or punishment at issue. There are some perks that come with a job and you lose those perks if you lose the job. End of story.
Is this difficult to comprehend?
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Taraki / February 24, 2018
Why doesn’t this miserable palanaya write to the British government saying that they take terrorism very seriously and ask for the extradition of Mrs Balasingham?
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Burt / February 25, 2018
The state can say anything but the proof is in the pudding. There is enough evidence that the state (Military) terrorized the population through torture, murder, rape of men, women and children and no action has been taken to date. After the war Muslims and Christians have been terrorized in their places of worship, UNHRC safe house was terrorized with no action. So how much weight will it carry just saying that they take terrorism seriously?
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Native Vedda / February 25, 2018
Taraki the smart aleck
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“they take terrorism very seriously and ask for the extradition of Mrs Balasingham?”
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Why didn’t you suggest this to Dr Gotabhaya (DSc) when they were reigning from 2005 to 2015? Why didn’t it occur to the all powerful national hangman that either Adele’s prosecution in the UK or expatriation to this island?
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Are you saying you were so stupid it didn’t occur to you then or your liberators who caught KP in Malaysia and brought him to this island and let him live a free life who is being protected from Interpol’s red alert?
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Its not too late to make a complain against her at the nearest police station and charge KP in Vanni.
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If you want to say some clever stuff you ought to think hard and fast.
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Taraki / February 25, 2018
24/7 Veddah, surely you are more intelligent than that? Did you have help moving those heavy goalposts? Are you really some kind of moron defecating the odd platitude?
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Native Vedda / February 25, 2018
Taraki
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“24/7 Veddah, surely you are more intelligent than that?”
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Don’t bet on that, most of the time I am thick.
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“Did you have help moving those heavy goalposts?”
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You don’t unilaterally set the rules of the game and expects others to abide by them.
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” Are you really some kind of moron defecating the odd platitude?”-
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Its up to you to decide whether you want to shut your mouth in time or catch it in your mouth for want of more.
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Mallaiyuran / February 24, 2018
There are 10 richest Lankaweyans listed. With the stolen money, $18B Old King Standing on the top. Still I saw last week the guy was standing on Sirimavo’s bread queue. We predicted the New King will be at $36B at the end of his term. It has not been reach, but still rice muthalali is not too below to the target.(Too sad, Forbes doesn’t employ Sinhala Jury Only Verdict)
Beyond all crimes, these guys’ total wealth has to be estimated and confisticated. In that situation poor people money is spent on their Generational learning needs.
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Buddhi Perera / February 24, 2018
British govt. ignore the gathering of members of a banned organisation on a public road and seriously consider a gesture made within a building.
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Jim softy / February 24, 2018
Tamils are still mourning their loss of the investment. I heard the american govt is not helping and only the sirikotha is helping tamils. Paw da Tamils.
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Jim softy / February 24, 2018
Is rthis ti support the new refugee claims of Tamils.
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Fathima / February 25, 2018
Very cruel people, going behind destroying the dreams of a mother and kids for a father’s mistake.
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Isharath / February 25, 2018
Fathima,
When the same thing happens in Arab countries, they don’t even consider like what British govt did humanely.
So the Tamils are asking the same applied here. Practically how many Sri Lankans in such a situation or job termination being sent back to SL from Arab countries. Do they get a privilege for letting their families to stay there untill schooling is finished, even when the wives earn there?
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Burt / February 25, 2018
You had no problem when children were murdered in cold blood for their parents political stand or women tortured and raped for the stand their husbands took.
Having selective sympathy is advertising to the world that your a fraud and hypocrite.
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Rajash / February 25, 2018
GTF has gone too far here and making them selves a fool.
They lecturing the British Govt and immigration authorities about the immigration laws?
Further may be the children are in the critical stage of their education and may want to stay on until a convenient time to break. End of term or end of academic year. For which the Sri Lankan govt may have already stumped up the cost?
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Native Vedda / February 25, 2018
Rajash
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“GTF has gone too far here and making them selves a fool.”
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Remember they do share their stupid gene with Tamils and Sinhalese as well. It didn’t come as a surprise.
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I do understand your concern, will you bear the cost of their up keep?
Be the do-gooder help the family but not the smart ass brigadier. May be the kids won’t forget you. If you are caught in the next riots in Colombo they may help you hide you from the mob, hide you from somass, max, Hela, ………………… srinathan, ….
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Rajash / February 26, 2018
Native – I am sure the British Govt is not going to let the family stay beyond a reasonable time …..
…]]and the idiot Suren should have known this. He could have made capital out of this by perhaps stating that GTF understand that the Family will leave in a reasonable time considering the kids are at school…etc etc ….
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Native Vedda / February 26, 2018
Rajash
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We are talking about his children’s British Education up to PhD and beyond. Is the wife wife willing to come back and settle down in this primitive island? Its too hot, dirty, smelly people, bumpy roads, ………….
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Would your wife consider settling down in Sri Lanka?
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When push comes to shove she could always apply for asylum in the UK, basis of claim bartered wife subjected to regular mental cruelty, the husband’s bothering two fingers, threat from LTTE, threat from you, ……………………
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sach / February 25, 2018
And UNP foreign ministry is in bed with GTF
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Mallaiyuran / February 25, 2018
If an employee loses his job for misconduct, many of his benefits go too. So the same with the paid family resident & educational Bills, which are part of the benefits. That is Lankawe Yahapalanaya’s matter. It has nothing to do with us. Further who get visa is British government’s decision. We have our problem only with Brigadier Goon. As this guy is persona non grata, British government has to sent INTERPOL red notice and get the guy back to face a trial for war crime.
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sach / February 25, 2018
UNP sinhala idiots…..see the reality..this is your UNP government’s pal
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Mano / February 25, 2018
Let the entire family return to Sri Lanka and complete the throat cutting in their precious paradise Home land that Lord Buddha had bestowed on the Divine Ariya Sinhala Race.
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Velupillai Coom / February 25, 2018
Sri Lankan govt should ban the Global Tamil Forum and not grant any of its members who are not SL citizens entry visa. Of course it is futile expecting YAHAPALANAYA to do it because it no longer represents national interests but only the interests of Tamils and Muslims who Form its voter base.
The country has to await the return of Mahinda Rajapakse for justice to its national interests.
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Burt / February 25, 2018
Most Tamils that left rarely come and if they do they come for a vacation and spend good pounds or dollars. They can always fine another country equal or better to spend their money and have a good time.
Exception would be for those who have immediate family.
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Agnos / February 25, 2018
It is legitimate to pursue justice for war crimes, but that should be done carefully, only from a moral high ground. Asking that the Defense Attache be recalled for undiplomatic conduct is legitimate, but to go beyond that to ask about his family is simply unacceptable.
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Kalu Albert / February 25, 2018
Did Mangi draft this letter for Suren?
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Native Vedda / February 25, 2018
KASmaalam K A Sumanasekere
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I doubt Mangalan wants to put his neck out now to be chopped out by the “formidable” Lotus bud SLPP.
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I think Bandula Jayasekara could have done a better job. What do you think? Is he available on short subcontract basis?
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kolla / February 25, 2018
Global Tamil Forum is taking Tamil values, Tamil ways and Tamil ideas to London ! They look different, eat different, smell different . The price the English have to pay for colonizing South Asia !
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Lakshman Keerthisinghe / February 25, 2018
The British Government has failed in its duty to disperse the supporters of a proscribed organization who were raising Tamil Eeelaam Flags and banners with the photograph of their diabolical leader Prabhakaran who led the most brutal murderous terrorist organization in the world responsible for the killing of innocent children ,women and Buddhist priests lvcing in border villages by slitting their throats mercilessly as they did not wish to waste their bullets. As Champa has very correctly stated the British MPs are dependent on the votes of these persons to come to power.Lord Naseby has analysed the situation well in his speeches to the British Parliament.
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Native Vedda / February 25, 2018
Lakshman Keerthisinghe
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Will you tell us the reason as to why the British Government would/should disperse a peaceful protest?
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We see Terrorist and psychopath Rohana Wijeyweera’s portraits on a regular basis, waving red flags with foreign hammer and sickle, some wearing military berets, ………… silly protests almost everyday, ………………… I think you should remind the Sri Lankan government to uphold its responsibilities.
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“Lord Naseby has analysed the situation well in his speeches to the British Parliament.”
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Could you summarise his speeches and let us have his salient and relevant points if you really have access to and understood what the Time Lord had said and meant.
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By the way what is Time Lord Naseby’s opinion on the smart ass patriotic Brigadier?
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Champa can say anything and everything however its for you to seek the truth. Aren’t you ashamed of yourself for being misled by a supporter of our only intellectual mathematician Wimal Sangili Karuppan Weerawansa?
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You should join a meditation circle/group rather than hanging on to whiteman’s amude or Champa’s skirt.
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Kugan / February 25, 2018
This gesture shown by a senior military personnel who involved in the war,this show it to the GB govt how capable and how far extream they can take
If it’s GB soldier he would have been stripped down ,it’s make the other good soldiers bad,and overall for SL
How my3 and fellow countrymen praising this coward soldier
This was happened in London,if it’s Pettah he would have slit the throat
I would encourage the this sort of fathers children to study in the west to learn the human value,how the law apply ,equal rights,moral values
See how Indian prospective hoe many religion,how many languages but they stay as Indians.
We Slanksns got long way to go
Bless mother ellankai(Lanka)
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thumpane gamaya / February 25, 2018
Army should look for family connections of Suren Surendran in Sri Lanka? Surely this Suren fellow should know that he will also have some family attachments in Sri Lanka. Family of Brigedier Priyanka has noting to do with what he did in UK. GTF is trying to over step their limits.
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Kugan / February 25, 2018
Why to send white van?
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Jim softy / February 25, 2018
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Kabaragoya / February 25, 2018
Actually Suren Surendran is married to a Sinhalese. So, he must be having plenty of Sinhalese relatives. Go get hold of them. But, this is not going to help anyone. Suren Surendran does not do the Tamils a favour. Tamils can discriminate between Sinhalese children and their cutthroat father. Surendran’s move that will find favour with all Tamils. Many of us think that the sins of their father should not be visited on them. But, that having been said, the issue is how the visa system in UK works. If the kids’ visas are dependent on their father’s, they will probably not have a legal basis to stay. If this is so, they will have to leave. Let this sin not be visited on the Tamils despite Suren Surendran. If the children will have to leave, it will not be because of his efforts but because they have lost their status due to the unhappy gesture of their father. Let us hope that the father does not go on to cut more Tamil throats.
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Burt / February 25, 2018
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Park / February 25, 2018
Who the hell is GTF? They are a bunch of LTTE members. There is no way the Government of SL listen to them. They are just trying to poke their finger in matters that does not relate to them so that they can say that the family was removed because of them. People in the North and East do not want GTF advise, they have suffered enough because of LTTE, now these jokers who sit comfortably in USA, Canada and European countries, who will never come to live in SL or their children will never come are trying to poke their fingers. The Government of Sri Lanka should cut the fingers that are poking! GTF BUNCH OF IDIOTS.
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Jim softy / February 25, 2018
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Good Sense / February 25, 2018
Obviously, the so called Defense Attache from Sri Lanka did not account for the political realities. The Sri Lanka has to think twice on the role of Defense Attaches of either countries placed in the other. I do not see a role for a Defense Attache whether a Sri Lankan one in UK or UK one in Sri Lanka.
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Punchi Point / February 25, 2018
The loser Tamils gangs with their plethora of associations, organisations, forums and councils with all sorts of fancy names ! There is a Tamil gang organized as an association for each of the words in the English and Tamil dictionaries that there are virtually more Tamil organisations than there are Tamils. *LMAO* The British government should send all the Tamils who participated in the mob attack with their Tiger flags back to Tamil Nadu, where the British first imported them into Sri Lanka.
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Native Vedda / February 25, 2018
Punchi Point
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I hope you stick to just one pseudonym/avatar rather than more than one to highlight your state of distress.
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Could you list all those associations associated with Tamil Gangs.
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“The British government should send all the Tamils who participated in the mob attack with their Tiger flags back to Tamil Nadu, where the British first imported them into Sri Lanka.”
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Could you let us have a detailed list of people killed, injured, properties destroyed, women and men raped, …………………. compare them to the 1983 riots and see how stupid you are.
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Burt / February 25, 2018
“The British government should send all the Tamils who participated in the mob attack with their Tiger flags back to Tamil Nadu”
You know this is never going to happen. There was no mob attack. British value the freedom of expression its not a dictatorship. It values its citizens way more than failed country. Most of all they know they are responsible for the plight of the Tamils.
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nalmen / February 25, 2018
why do we put up with this nonsense from the uk govt
why dont w e leave the commonwealth asap
we dont get any aid from it even now
only india and china give us any aid
and in wartime it was pakistan and israel
send uk high com home like premdasa did earlier to one of his predecessors
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Velupillai Coom / February 25, 2018
All Tamils do not agree with the GTF. We in Colombo are ashamed of their antics.
Most of them are from VVT and are fisherfolk and not from respectable areas of Jaffna like Manipay. We don’t agree with the GTF as they are unreasonable and antagonistic.
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Native Vedda / February 25, 2018
Velupillai Coom
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“All Tamils do not agree with the GTF.”
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Any Tamil agrees with himself?
Any Tamil agrees with herself?
Any Sinhalese agrees with himself?
Any Sinhalese agrees with herself?
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These are argumentative Sinhalam/Demelas ill informed and ignorant .
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Percy / February 25, 2018
Naimen
The reason why we have to put up with this nonsense from the British Govt is because we have a bootlooking,asinine,government.If Mahinda was in govt he would have asked for the UK attache to be withdrawn. It has been done in the past. Today we have a Govt that crawls to the west, and the more they crawl the more they get kicked in the teeth.When the ethnic war was on did UK help us.? NO
We were helped by China, Russia, Pakistan and Israel who are our true friends. These British bastards are an ungrateful lot. Having robbed,plundered, and exploited the country, they still want to tell us how we should run our country.
There is only one solution to this Shameless episode – CHANGE THE GOVT. ,!
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Thiagarajah Venugopal / February 25, 2018
It is a shame British Government is not encouraging the Sri Lankan diaspora “be it Tamils or Sinhalese” to return home to contribute to nation building with their wealth of knowledge. Specially now the war is over and the government of Sri Lanka has allowed all to return irrespective of their political believes. If choose to live overseas then perhaps focus on joining hands with all other Sri Lankans overseas who reside in the respective countries… execute some exciating engineering/science and technology study work/ development projects to Sri Lanka via the respective consulates and the government departments in Sri Lanka please.
Instead If we continue to fight our perceived battles elsewhere be it in the form of protests/descends or the provoked behaviour of the soldier in foreign lands we will strip every bit of dignity left in the 21 million innocent souls (sufferers enough for all our collective ignorance since independence) who call Sri Lanka their home. One has to realise we have all lost something and no one spared of suffering too if this is of any comforts to those still looking to settle scores. So it is time we do act in the spirit of “peace and reconciliation” in everything we do (and I see trust is at a premium here) and move forward. Is it possible not just the main oppositions in the country but also all the politicians/parties form a unity government to put our country back on track please.
Please remember(specially the ones who look for so much of perfection) the countries we settled during this unfortunate turn of events too went through the same miserable process as us in the past and now resorted to “give and take culture and found “out of the box” thinking solutions to their problems. This was the one and only main reason we were able to go and make home in these “well to do” countries and enjoy their hospitality/respect for human rights too?.
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Burt / February 25, 2018
does anyone need more proof as to who is protecting the thieves and murders.
“Political sources close to both sides said that Sirisena at the last minute refused to give the Law and Order ministry to Field Marshall Sarath Fonseka and Wickremesinghe stepped in to take the portfolio on a temporary basis. Much of the anticipated major changes did not take place.”
Sirisena is more harmful to the country than Rajapaksa as Rajapaksa is an open book.
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