By Peter Fabricius –
Shavendra Silva
The Sri Lankan government’s controversial decision to appoint, as its deputy high commissioner to South Africa, an army general accused of war crimes serves – if nothing else – to highlight that country’s inadequate efforts to consign its recent dismal civil war to history.
Sri Lankan high commissioner Winithkumar Shehan Rantavale confirmed speculation in the Sri Lankan media that General Shavendra Silva’s appointment to Pretoria was “in the pipeline”.
Read more in the South African newspaper group IOL here
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Saman Wijesiri / November 28, 2012
A military junta in the offing? Coming events cast their shadows, they say.
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Tipu Sultan / November 29, 2012
Anything is possible in a Banana Republic where Kangaroo Courts are run by uneducated crooks from a parliament of goons and fools, who seek to impeach the Chief Justice – on the behest of a venal, uneducated and uncultured dictator named Rajapassa and his family of parasites who are looting and burning the nation’s wealth!
Lanka is indeed the miracle of Asia!
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Lion / November 28, 2012
Burma is fast becoming a democracy while SL is fast becoming a autocratic regime headed by a family.
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Native Vedda / November 28, 2012
Lion says:
“SL is fast becoming a autocratic regime headed by a family.”
Perhaps a autocratic theocracy of Rajathi Rajabakse dynasty.
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Wuliangguobinjiu / November 28, 2012
Shush! “Mugabe Loves Shavendra.” Soixante-Neuf ;)
Sri Lanka then New ANC led South Africa to become the next Zimbabwe.
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Leela / November 28, 2012
I cannot understand why you guys hate Shavendra like generals who helped free Tamils by putting an end to LTTE pistol gangs like the one that shot TULF leader Amirthalingam and the LTTE human bombs like the one that blasted Rajive Gandhi to pieces and all other LTTE terrorists.
Leela
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Wuliangguobinjiu / November 28, 2012
Leela: Quote”I cannot understand why you guys hate…” Unquote
A tyrant is a tyrant no matter his race, class, caste baby Lou!
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Lolita / November 28, 2012
LEELO, there are so many things that you would not understand .. but you will get them soon.. as many others would become clear.. .. we are on a failure state under the ruling killer/ murderous regime
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Kotia / November 28, 2012
Leela,
You are one of a few supporters of this family regime, as can be seen
in these blogs. This regime spends huge amount of money – even in foreign currency – maintaining PR firms like Bell Pottinger.
So the rewards to individuals like you is just peanuts for the regime.
The whole world now realises that LTTE was born out of attrocities by your racist Governments against Tamils, right from independence. This regime was responsible for the killing of innocent civilians under the pretext of fighting the LTTE, with help from 20 odd powerful nations including totalitarian countries- Russia, China Iran, Pakistan etc..
You are simply wasting your time in contributing to this blog.
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Raja / November 28, 2012
Tamils were very under LTTE except rogues and traitors. Shavendra silva killed 150,000 Innocent Tamils. EVen today your army with impunity damages teh vehicles of our elected MPs who has to understand you idiotic boot licker or the Tamils
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Native Vedda / November 29, 2012
Raja says:
“Shavendra silva killed 150,000 Innocent Tamils.”
Unacceptable in this civilised world, indeed too bad
Do you have an account of the number of Tamil people LTTE had killed over the past 30 odd years?
While Shavendra Silva was killing 150,000 innocent Tamils single handedly what did LTTE do to stop it?
I was led to believe LTTE was the vanguard of the masses. Now it seems not so.
Why did the stupid Tamil people fall for it?
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R.Kovian / November 28, 2012
Symply he try to rape keheliyas daughter in USA.. how come you defend this evil moron..
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Native Vedda / November 28, 2012
Leela:
Shavendra like generals who helped free Tamils by putting an end to their lives.
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Maj Gen Usama / November 30, 2012
We will all agree to nominate Velupillai Prabakaran as the personality of the year, Nobel peace price 2012, Mother Theresa Award 2013 etc etc.And accept Our President is HE DR Rudrakumaran VSV,WSW.
Shavendra the ruthless Killer one day just woke up like what happened in norway or usual occurring in USA schools armed himself and massacred everybody except the Rajapakses and a few idiots now who are the main contributors to CT comments column.
Come on wake up, dont forget what happened we are not a nation with amnesia. Yes its sad in a war the innocent are the main victims in any place.
Let us each one be a positive effect to the society and leave all backbiting, slandering , killings to the Shavendras, Fonsekas, Janaka peraras, Algamas, Denzil Kobbekaduwa etc etc
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Native Vedda / November 30, 2012
Maj Gen Usama
You are not even a fully fledged general.
Right Hounarable VP was a Field Marshall, Head of State and his armed forces, National Leader, who had met with many dignitaries at during his reign.
His good offices was sought after by India, the West, ….Premadasa and MR.
His achievements were and are the envi of men world over.
Do you think you can match him. Perhaps in your wildest dream, no chance.
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Lolita / November 28, 2012
Gone were the days where candidates that were appointed to foreign service were needed to have gone through all kind of exams. Now just having some good relationship – with the rulers – make it easier them to become able to work for diplomatic missions. I dont think anyone was posted inthis way under CBK or other regimes previoulsy. What bothers me most is – the head of the foreign ministry is a professor who once worked for facultry of law of an university – had got the high education on the west – but unlike late Kadirgamar- GL seems to have lost the control over his ministry. Kathawa dolawen gamana payin reminds me when seeing all these. :(
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Wuliangguobinjiu / November 28, 2012
Lakshman was very cannily conceived as FM by CBK (she and mum won power on the sympathy vote) but she had to go.
G.L. “Mischlinge” was a well know Sinhala “fundamentalist” during his days as Professor of Law at Colombo Campus.
Just think: You’ll just be another Sinhalese racist fker pounding his meat in anger and frustration.
On, contrariwise, those responsible for Ceylon’s demise should be shot and dumped into ground accommodations for their crimes.
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gamini / November 28, 2012
With all the accusations and vociferous opposition, how some of the Senior Forces personnel as Shavendra get away scot frree is because they were party to the ‘War Drama’ who knows the truth about the war, where some were sacrificed from both sides not as much as exagerated by both sides to end this war. The largest massacre was at the end with the ‘Surrender’. So these people have to be looked after and are helped by the power blocks, the US and India lest they spill the beans. If not they have to be terminated as well to shut them up.
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Sofia / November 28, 2012
This is very interesting. I also believe that. Gamini, pleaes try to pass this bit more precisely. All we the ones who re weary of ruling idiots – wanted UNO to investigate the final stage of the war against the Ltters and have them punished as the national and international laws impose it. This man Shavendra seems to have zero qualifications for the positions that he is engaged at the moment, but to occupy him in this way is more than suspicious.
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Bedrock Barney / November 29, 2012
He is quite well spoken. The war he was expected to fight was a dirty war. That was the job. That’s what he did.
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Oh my God! / November 29, 2012
Leela (a.k.a Leelaratne)’s vocation of commenting on blogs and white washing the regime will not yield any results when there is an avalanche of public dissent, as it appears to be building up now!
By the way, why are you masquerading under a woman’s name? Do you think people will believe you when those lies are uttered from a woman’s mouth?
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Merril / November 29, 2012
There is nothing in common with an army commander and a diplomat. Governemnt of Sri Lanka acts like a bully does not care what other people think, it is a contraversial decision.
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eureka / November 29, 2012
Who knows the next envoy may be Namal:
”That is, till early February 2012, when Namal Rajapaksa paid a pop-visit to the returned villagers of Kokulai”
– Returning IDPs in Kokulai, Mullaitivu, being robbed of land, ://www.lakbimanews.lk/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=52&Itemid=78
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janaka / November 29, 2012
Shavendra too dangerous to leave at UN new York?
Easier to get rid of him in murder capital of the world south Africa?
Did Gota order killing of surrendering tigers Shavendra?
No comment.
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Rama / November 29, 2012
[Edited out] sinhala war criminal black monkey shavendra should be [Edited out]
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Keerthi / December 1, 2012
The latest news in Asian Tribune? is that Sharvendra is to be back in New York as Deputy Ambassador for UN.
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