The Sri Lanka Army’s Adjutant General Major General Jagath Dias who is strongly implicated in the war crimes allegations against Government forces during the final phase of the war in 2009, was ordered to return to Ground Zero last week.
Jagath Dias
A spate of high profile military transfers that came into effect last week also saw Major General Dias’ transfer to the former LTTE stronghold of Mullaitivu as Security Forces Commander of the District. Mullaitivu was also the final theatre of battle where the UN estimates some 40,000 civilians perished and some of the worst allegations of war crimes against the military have surfaced.
Dias has been transferred to the Wanni amidst continued claims of heavy militarisation in the North and oppressive surveillance of residents in the area by military personnel. Jaffna Security forces Commander Mahinda Hathurusinghe who has been on a collision course with the recently elected Chief Minister of the Northern Province on several occasions was transferred out of the district.
Dias was also controversially put in charge of the army inquiry into a violent military crackdown against civilian demonstrators in Weliweriya on August 1. Late last year Dias was rejected for military training programmes on account of his role in alleged violations of humanitarian law as Commanding Officer of the 57 division that was instrumental in eliminating the LTTE in the last months of the war.
Dias who was rejected by the United States for training programme on account of his implication in alleged war crimes in August last year was also denied a visa by the Government of Australia – firm friend of the Rajapaksa Administration – to attend a ICRC workshop due to the allegations against him. Dias was initially asked to withdraw his application for the programme by the Australian High Commission in Colombo, the Island newspaper quoted a senior official as saying.
Don / January 2, 2014
This war criminal Jagath Dias is too hot to handle it seems even at the head office in Colombo with so many attempts to ship out of the country having failed!
Guess only Mullaitivu can accommodate him?
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Rattaran / January 2, 2014
Only strong military leaders and national heroes like Major General Jagath Dias can prevent the bloody terrorists getting up to their old tricks again in the north. He should tackle premachandran and Sritharan and other criminals.
Isn’t it ironic that the same dogs barking against this hero wanted to make Sarath Fonseka, his boss during the war the country’s president.
How do you explain that? “Kanna on wunama balu masuth harak mas wenawalu” neda?
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Punchisingho / January 2, 2014
Heroes become traitors when they don’t toe the line of the rulers. Today’s hero is a traitor tomorrow and yesterday’s traitor becomes a hero.
When robbers are with the government they are no robbers but when good people are not with the government they are called robbers.
So your hero , Dias will be called a traitor in case he contests at the next elections as an Opposition candidate.
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Rattaran / January 3, 2014
Yah, know where you are coming from.
First change your name. ‘Singho’ is a corruption of Sinor, a Portuguese honorific givento their lackies.
Are you proud of it?
Ignorance is bliss, we suppose.
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Kumar / January 4, 2014
YOU A LACKY OF THE VADDHA KILLING INDIAN INVADERS DO NOT UNDERSTAND.
TECHNOLOGY, ENGLISH, COMPUTERS, INTERNET NOT FOR YOU.
YOU GOT SHUDRA MENTALITY.
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Rattaran / January 4, 2014
And hope your mother still remembers!
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Native Vedda / January 4, 2014
Kumar
“YOU GOT SHUDRA MENTALITY.”
Could you clarify what you meant by SHUDRA MENTALITY.
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Rattaran / January 5, 2014
I can tell you.
He is a hymie ‘untouchable’ trying to smear others.
His mother told me.
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Maveeran / January 5, 2014
What else did his mum tell you? Didn’t she also tell you that your face looks like a donkey turd?
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Native Vedda / January 2, 2014
Rattaran
“Isn’t it ironic that the same dogs barking against this hero wanted to make Sarath Fonseka, his boss during the war the country’s president.”
No it is not ironic, it was cunning plan on the part of LTTE and TNA.
VP helped immensely to elect MR who now turned out to be bane on Sinhala/Buddhists. Though stupid Tamils suffered VP had wreaked revenge on the Sinhala/Buddhists.
TNA supported Fonseka for the same reason.
Sinhala/Buddhists are now stuck with VP’s choice.
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M.Sivananthan / January 3, 2014
How did VP help Mahinda “immensely”?
Tamils and UNP morons proved they are coolies of the WHITES. That is the fact.
No cunning plan but a lost plan originated by WHITES!
Mahinda is a real hero for millions in Sri lanka for defeating USA/UK backed LTTE criminals as well as Fonseka!
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Burning_Issue / January 3, 2014
“Mahinda is a real hero for millions in Sri lanka for defeating USA/UK backed LTTE criminals as well as Fonseka!”
How does this impostor square the fact that both UK and USA banned the LTTE and prosecuted the fund raisers? It seems that talking nonsense is second nature to this imbecile!
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M.Sivananthan / January 3, 2014
When are you going to Sri lanka again to “explore” business opportunities?
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K.A Sumanasekera / January 4, 2014
Has he applied for a Dual too….
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Palmsquirrell / January 3, 2014
GOSL for decades received help from the Whites to fight LTTE, so why are you complaining now.
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M.Sivananthan / January 3, 2014
Buying guns from the WHITES is not a help from the whites.
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Maveeran / January 5, 2014
Licking white arses is your real trait isn’t it? You sinhala bastard.
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Palmsquirrell / January 2, 2014
Support for Fonseka from Tamils was purely a case of the lesser of 2 evils, i.e. Fonseka was a lesser evil than Mahinda.
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M.Sivananthan / January 3, 2014
Are you joking?
Mahinda never be in uniform but Sarath Fonseka was accused for many disappearances in Jaffna but you bark Fonseka is a better person than Mahinda.
Further Fonseka told National post of Canada, the Tamils are second class people.
Mahinda never do such things against Tamils. But Mahinda was the first political leader to speak in Tamil in the UN.
Tamils proved they are slaves of WHITES by supporting Fonseka a real moron! Tamils who are the slaves of Whites, find a common ground with Fonseka because Fonseka is also an American stooge.
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Palmsquirrell / January 3, 2014
It is Mahinda’s ideology and what he will do , as proven by what he has done, that made Tamils pick Fonseka.
For decades you Sinhala begged the West for help in defeating LTTE and without foreign help you would have lost . So who was [Edited out] (and the Indians and the Pakistanis) all these years.
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M.Sivananthan / January 3, 2014
Tamil LTTE diaspora morons like you are shameless creatures. Fonseka was voted by Tamils because he is also an American stooge! That is the “UNITY” the Tamil donkeys have with Fonseka but he publicly barked the Tamils are second class!
Mahinda never say like damn Fonseka! You Tamil donkeys cry because You are under the Catholic/christian white morons. You dont care any thing about the killings by Fonseka.
How did LTTE morons get the GUNS and land mines from the WHITES? LTTE criminals got the weapons from the WHITES, so the government tried to buy from the same WHITE morons.
Now the GUN business down. That is why the same WHITES are crying so much in support of LTTE goons!
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Palmsquirrell / January 4, 2014
The bought them on the black market; thats how they got guns and landmines. There was no direct dupport from a White nation. With you lot, you went begging directly to White nations and institutions for loans and weapons.
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shankar / January 4, 2014
“Tamils pick Fonseka.” palm squirrel,tamils did not pick him.Stupid emotional decision made by sampanthan due to his anger against mahinda for the defeat of LTTE and slaughter of civilians..Anyway most tamils did not listen to him and stayed away from the election.For them it was tweedledee and tweedledum.
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RajasH / January 4, 2014
what is worse…to be slaves of whites or slaves of saffron robed racist/sexual perverts who are high on heroin all the time and who want your children to sexually abuse them!!!!!!!!!!!!11
I ask all Sri Lankans
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Fathima Fukushima / January 3, 2014
Well said.
Tamils voted for “war criminal” Fonseka in millions!!
Tamils LOVE what Fonseka did to them. Especially Tamil women.
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Palmsquirrell / January 3, 2014
Tamils retain their ancestral culture while you follow the culture of those who raped or subjugated your ancestors. So at the end of the day Tamils are still better off than you lot.
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M.Sivananthan / January 3, 2014
Tamil foot licking logic is so funny. They voted Fonseka even after he degraded Tamils as second class.
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Kumar / January 4, 2014
MENTALLY RETARD SHUDRA DONT UNDERSTAND THAT WITHOUT WHITES HE WOULD NOT BE PRESENTING AN OPINION IN THIS WEBSITE. AS FOR THE DON DAVITH DON HENRICK FAMILY NOW KNOWN AS RAJAPAKSAS, THEY WERE BIG WHITE LICKERS, WIFE IS ALSO HALF WHITE, CHRISTIAN, SONS ALSO WHITES CHRISTIAN SCHOOLING, BROTHERS ALSO SETTLED/WORKING IN WHITE AMERICAN COUNTRY PRACTICING WHITE MAN’S MEDCINE.
MAHINDA DONT SAY DAMN TAMIL, HE DO DAMNING THINGS TO TAMILS, AND WITH A SMILE, HUGGING THE INDIAN IMPORT BO TREE. 4 YEARS AFTER THE WAR WHAT IS THIS RABBID DOG BARKING ABOUT.
IF NOT FOR THEM PROSCRIBING, FREEZING ASSETS, IMPRISONING AND SUPPLYING THE MOST VITAL INTELLIGENCE ON ARMS SHIPMENTS, THE WAR WILL YET BE RAGING.
IF THE WHITE MAN HAD NO ISSUE AGAINST TERRORIST AFTER 9/11 YOUR MAHINDA WOULD NOT BE A NOBODY, NOT EVEN ONE WHO HAD FACED THE BATTLE FIELD, ONLY A LIP FIGHTER. THE WHITES GAVE HIM THE FREEDOM TO ENGAGE BUT HE DID NOT GIVE A DAMN WITH AN ONLY 70 000 TAMILS IN THE NORTH BS. IDIOT WAS WILLING TO KILL 250 000 !!!. THANK GOD THE FORCES WERE DISCIPLINED ENOUGH TO GET AWAY WITH 40 000. WE ALL KNOW THAT THE SHAMEFUL CRIMES AT THE END WERE ADVOCATED BY THE WHITE VAN GOON.
IN THAT WAY, THE FAMILY GUNTAS NEW FOUND TIGER BUDDIES HAVE TO BE THANKED FOR SPLITTING FROM THE GROUP, FALLING FOR THE GREEDY PONNA LOSER RANILS TRAP !!
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M.Sivananthan / January 5, 2014
Hey donkey!
If you know the numbers and other issues, tell us the number of LTTE morons killed in the war.
What is Shudra mentality? Do you know anything about the KSHATRYA mentality?
You are a foot licker of whites. If they invent something we cannot become their slaves for life.//THE WHITES GAVE HIM THE FREEDOM TO ENGAGE // This is another joke. Slaves like you always think others are living because of your MASTERS. That is the SLAVE MENTALITY you are exposing here.
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Don Davith / January 8, 2014
WHEN TOU SLAVES WERE LOSING THROUGHOT THE 90’S, TOU WERE BLAMING THE WHITE MAN, HIS OPINION ABOUT CASUALTIES.
YOU SLAVE NOT ONLY DONT UNDERSTAND, YOU ARE NOT APPRECIATIVE.
AS I SAID SHUDRA, ENGLISH & COMPUTERS NOT FOR YOU, GO WRITE A KALE PATARE !!!
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Rattaran / January 5, 2014
Kumar (or whatever!)
There is only one cure for your condition.
Find a two foot long iron rod, hold it over a hot fire for about anhour until itturnsblood red, plant it on the ground with the cool end and sit on it.
Before you do that, as an English educated, computer literate elite, you may find it worthwhile spending some time finding the “Caps Lock” key on your key board – It is to the left, and press it “once only”, before yo try to express yourself here again.
And don’t forget to fook y’self with the iron rod as per the above instructions.
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Maveeran / January 5, 2014
Why a sinhalese bastard like yourself come up i a Tamil name? Unless your dad a Tamil? No matter how much u want to be part of the Tamil race, you’l never can. You a lame Sinhalese looser its already tattooed on your forehead.
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Max Silva / January 4, 2014
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Maveeran / January 5, 2014
Tell your wife to stop calling me max. She says that you call yourself max but you have a tiny oecker good for nothing. She wants a Tamil high performance like mine ;)
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Bebon / January 3, 2014
I dont ask much questions.. Can you google and find what is a war crime?
if you found read it and compare with what was happened in Sri lanka since 1983…
PS:Major General Jagath Dias is an one of greatest war hero.. LTTE supported tamils cannot tarnish his fame…
Do you need war.. we are ready…. Dont waste till march to get results. Geneewa is a place to time waste for diplomats.. nothing else ..
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Thiru / January 2, 2014
He may be tasked to erase any left over evidence of genocide of Tamils during the war .
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Thiru / January 2, 2014
Who knows if this war criminal is cornered he might blow the whistle on the Rajapkses!
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Ben Hurling / January 2, 2014
Thiru,
How many LTTE leaders have you branded as “war criminals” so far?
Let me answer for you. None!
Cheers!
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srilal / January 2, 2014
Ben why do you worry about LTTE leaders now ? aren’t they branded as terrorists ?
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Ajith / January 2, 2014
Ben,
You should ask this question from Gotapaya and Rajapakse. Karuna, Pillaiyan,Douglas, KP are still alive along with those war criminals including Dias. Do you know killing of a surrendered war criminal is also a crime. Do you have any other name to called those criminals who killed over 40,000 people.
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M.Sivananthan / January 3, 2014
“Kaakam thitti Maadu saakaathu”. This is a famous Tamil saying. You or any of your White masters cannot prove anything against our war hero Jagath Diaz.
Further no country is prepared to level any war crimes against our mighty soldiers because they cannot ask Fonseka to support them!
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Maveeran / January 5, 2014
Unna mathiri Naai kulatchu sooriyan marayathu. You dirty inbred your Tamil dad must be feeling terrible for sexing your sinhalese mum
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M.Sivananthan / January 6, 2014
hahaha Donkey Maveeran:
You are also a stupid LTTE supporter. You talk about your mother. That is not the story of others.
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Bebon / January 4, 2014
Nonsense, in 2010 you all (north Tamils) voted for General Fonseka..
He was the supreme commander of the Army & Mjr. Gen. jagath Dias under his supervision.. What you have to tell about that.. by voting Gen. Fonseka you all accept that there wasn’t a war crimes.. if so how did you vote for him ?/
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Native Vedda / January 2, 2014
Ben Hurling
“How many LTTE leaders have you branded as “war criminals” so far?”
If you really want to know, here is the list;
KP, Karuna, Pillayan, Douglas, ……. VP, Mahathya, Kittu, Pottu Amman (who I suppose sharing a bed with Gota) Pottu Ammans’s operatives who now work for Gota and report directly to MOD …… and many thousands.
I am sorry I cannot remember rest of the names. Please help me.
Now it is your turn to honestly name the war criminals including members of JVP, Patriotic Liberation Organization (Deshapremi Janatha Viyaparaya), UNP, SLFP, Armed forces, Policemen, home guards, …… hired killers who were involved in crimes against humanity since 1971.
I hope you would do justice to those were wronged.
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srilal / January 2, 2014
NV ,
could you please elaborate on Pottu Amman’s story little bit more , this is the guy who went missing during the finale show down at nandikadal, where did you get this latest information ?
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Native Vedda / January 2, 2014
srilal
Both stupid parties to this brutal war have been maintaining a deafening silence on Pottu Amman.
If indeed he was killed in the war the Sri Lankan media would have had a field day, every other day since 2009. Not one word on him.
LTTE supporting English organs also has surprisingly been keeping quiet.
Where do you think he is?
Where is KP now?
There have been news about Pottu Amman’s operatives now working for Gota, this is according to sources close to Armed forces in the North and obviously they are worried.
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srilal / January 3, 2014
thanks NV , i often take few of the commentors seriously here , NV you are one of them !.
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crazyoldmansl / January 3, 2014
No Pottu, No Kp then no satellite you see.
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Ben Hurling / January 3, 2014
Native
Your list is pretty good. And does justice to our bloody recent past.
PS: Pottu Amman stuff is news to me.
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M.Sivananthan / January 3, 2014
Veddah leaders dont cry like you. Did any of our soldiers wage war with Veddaahs?
Why are you vomiting the usual LTTE propaganda?
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Romesh / January 4, 2014
You mean the 3000 left over from the genocide and take-over???
go back to India you beast loving, illegal imigrant of a racist invader. All troubles started after you excomunicated kallathonies started coming over, dont care from north, south, east or west, dark or white skinned, which Indian religion, middle eastern or whatever.
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Kumar R. / January 2, 2014
All LTTE leaders have been declared terrorists – that is not sufficient?
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Tamil from the north / January 2, 2014
@Ben Hurling, terrorist outfit like the LTTE do not fight by certain principles or by the books. Anything is game for them. But government forces need to play by the books. LTTE is not a government, but created by the government. Tamils did not elect these fools into power. They steamrolled their way to the top and every Tamil who spoke against them was wiped out. So, before you post something think!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Siva Sankaran Sarma / January 2, 2014
And yet the terrorist diaspora continues to wave their flag and venerate Thalaivar’s corpulent form. But at least you’re trying to wash your hands of them, so that’s something :D
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Tamil from the north / January 3, 2014
@Siva Sankaran Sarma, I have never been a supporter of this group or any other group. These fellows have done immense damage to the people of the North and East. Now as you said, the diaspora is supporting them, I agree. These are fellows who don’t give two hoots about the poor Tamils in the North and East who are suffering in the hands of this horrible government. They have sent their children off to great universities and colleges to be educated and have a lot of free time. So they come up with these creative ideas to keep themselves occupied at the expense of these poor souls in Sri Lanka.
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Sarath Fernando / January 3, 2014
The point is, the Internationals condemned the terrorists for what LTTE did. Similarly the internationals should condemn the Government if the Government had committed war criimes.
The internationals did not give a free-hand to LTTE and it is not the internationals who are waving LTTE flags.
But certainly, LTTE supportive diaspora should have the right to continue to wave LTTE falgs, just as much as Sri Lankans supportive of the regime should retain the right to wave Sri Lankan flags even if investigation confirm the regime indeed committed war crimes.
LTTE supportive diaspora’s waving of LTTE flag should not become the excuse for not holding Sri Lanka government responsible for any war crimes it may have committed, and a credible investigation is needed to ascertain that. Throwing in LTTE flag waving concern is nothing but a convenient red-herring.
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srilal / January 3, 2014
David Blacker ,
i’m just wondering , why do you continue to use this Tamil pseudonym ” Siva Sankaran Sarma ” , is there a special reason behind this particular name ?
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shankar / January 5, 2014
He wants to be a brahmin instead of burgher.Macabre deviant who likes to undress dead women and is suffering from an inferiority complex wants to climb up to the highest point in the caste ladder at least in his dreams.
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Duhwood Blocker / January 3, 2014
@Siva Sankaran Sarma
Hey Blacker, raped any Tamil girls in the new year? Your boss Goatapaiya will get what he deserves one day.
ps. why don’t you write under your real name anymore? :)
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Palmsquirrell / January 2, 2014
Living LTTE leaders now support Rajapaksa.
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shankar / January 4, 2014
Even the dead ones did when they took 700 million rupees from him and made him the president in 2005.They don’t regret that because it gave them an opportunity to attain veera maranam which is coveted by tamil warriors.
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J.Muthu / January 3, 2014
Cheers Ben hurling fool, Why dont u ask your sinhala modayas. How many ltte leaders protected by your sinhala modaya leaders ? how long you fools going to accept fooling your modayas…as long as you educated fools fooling u r people srilnaka never be peaceful country….carbon foot print in my land never going to change as long as sinhala budhist modayas live with guns…
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Rajini Kulatunga / January 2, 2014
Don, don’t talk bullshit. Whether it is in SL or any other country, an accused has to be proved of the wrong doings. Until such time he/she is innocent.
Of course media can always make an accused a saint or a devil in the public eye.
In the case of Jagath Dias, no one has come up with evidence to prove that he is a war criminal. For your information (and others), during the time Dias was serving as the Dep.Ambassador of Sri Lanka in Germany, the German government did an investigation on their own and found no substantial proof at all made against Jagath Dias.
This was publicly stated in the German Parliament (Bundestag) on the 13. July 2011.
So, just don’t hit at someone just because you have the opportunity and don’t call it hot when there is nothing hot at all.
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Native Vedda / January 2, 2014
Rajini Kulatunga
“Whether it is in SL or any other country, an accused has to be proved of the wrong doings. Until such time he/she is innocent.”
I applaud your concerns.
However this applies only to those countries which revere law and order.
Since 5th April 1971 many people had been arrested no fault of their own and been killed by the armed forces.
JVP Rohana was captured and killed. LTTE VP surrendered and subsequently hacked to dead.
If you want to apply it should be applied consistently through out the island. All or nothing should be the principle which must guide when applying Law and order.
“In the case of Jagath Dias, no one has come up with evidence to prove that he is a war criminal.”
He is the witness, probe him.
“German government did an investigation on their own and found no substantial proof at all made against Jagath Dias.”
Then why was he asked to vacate his position?
The question is does the state really want to find out what Jagath and his fellow members of armed forces did or did not do since 1971?
If you thought otherwise you are kidding yourself.
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Ben Hurling / January 2, 2014
Agree.
Police and Military top brass in Sri Lanka have been bathing in the blood of innocent Sri Lankan citizens. Sinhalese, Tamils, Muslims & others. All the ways since Independence.
We are yet to see a Police or military leader who would bluntly refuse to implement orders given by corrupt, blood thirsty politicians, if such orders are deemed inhumane and against the law.
Instead, we have had highly decorated officers dancing, at any given moment, to tunes of politicians. As long as they receive bread crumbs falling of political dining tables. Hardly honourable.
This shameful practice and abuse of official uniforms of Sri Lanka must be ended.
That is the daunting challenge we face as Sri Lankans.
Cheers!
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Palayang yako! / January 3, 2014
Ben Hurling:
Your memory of past heads of the security services is selective in the extreme, to be polite.
There were certainly honest and honourable people in those positions in the past, but ever since SWRDB, that ceased to be the case and those appointed were those willing to do the bidding of their political bosses.
Of course the current situation under the Rajapassas is beyond anything anywhere except perhaps in North Korea and it is interesting that till very recently, you were a great supporter of that lot and changed your tune a little bit only when you thought they were on a downward trend!
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Sirimal / January 2, 2014
NV@,
Great you have put it very clearly.
We in thecountry today, dont have systematic law and order for any kind of crime investigations. Forgetting all these, they seem to be raising the question.
Fully agree with you quoting from yrs: ” The question is does the state really want to find out what Jagath and his fellow members of armed forces did or did not do since 1971?”
As my info are concerned, none of the soldiers have been committed sofar by any trials held since the post war episodes. So how would MR regime convince the lies further to UNHRC sessions in 2 months now in Geneva ?
I believe just to eyewash IC and the locals, MR has invited Wigneswaran to his office today – and the headlines were – urgent issues will have been addressed urgently. All these are just as excuses – to produce before the HR session. I hope Sumanthiran will focus on these issues whether or not being implemented as promised – in the days to come, since the issues of urgent kind should be kept the word as MR reiterated.
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Rajini Kulatunga / January 3, 2014
Native Vedda
“Since 5th April 1971 many people had been arrested no fault of their own and been killed by the armed forces”.
You simply have forgotten the ruthless punishments and killings done by the JVP. It is the duty of security forces to counter coups and revolts. Further you seems to forget that It is the JVP who introduced this cancer of terrorism (grabbing the power by the gun) to SL.
“LTTE VP surrendered and subsequently hacked to dead”.
What proof do you have to say VP was surrendered. Were you there in the battle front ?
“He is the witness, probe him”
Why should be probed ? Even to do that, bring the proof for all the accusations. Have you got any ?
“Then why was he asked to vacate his position?”
Jagath Dias was never asked to leave. He came to Germany for 2 years and left at the end of his term.
“If you thought otherwise you are kidding yourself.”
If I am not mistaken Dias is with the SL forces for 32 years now. So how can he be answerable to things happening since 1971 ? I have read lots of your comments on CT, but I never know that you are so silly.
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Native Vedda / January 3, 2014
Rajini Kulatunga
“You simply have forgotten the ruthless punishments and killings done by the JVP.”
Please bear with me, I not going to ask you to produce what JVP did or did not do. According to one unofficial body count 18,000 youth perished in 1971, all in the hands of police and army. You may be too young to have met those families who had lost their relatives.
Again you may have been too young to have met the victim’s relatives whose kith and kin were mercilessly massacred by armed forces, home guards, UNP thugs, JVP…… between 1987 and 1990. Please make an effort to meet them, listen to what they have to say to you and then make up your mind.
Have you ever travelled through out this island between 1987 and 1990?
Please do your home work then could we have a useful conversation.
If you want to learn more about disappearance please refer to
A LEGACY TO REMEMBER;
SRI LANKA’S COMMISSIONS OF INQUIRY
A Reference Guide to Commission Reports
with a Tabulated List of Recommendations
LAW & SOCIETY TRUST
SEPTEMBER 2010
Edited by Kishali Pinto-Jayawardena
1963 – 2002
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Tamil from the north / January 3, 2014
@Native Vedda, I agree VP surrendered and hacked to death. This Rajini Kulatunga fool does not understand or has not seen dead VP. A bullet wound fired from an AK-47 (or the Chinese version T56), M16, or the HK G3 would have never caused an opening so wide. When the bullet exits, it will leave a circular hole, not an opening like that. So, I agree with you.
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srilal / January 2, 2014
Rajini Kulatunga ,
can he return to Germany/Switzerland ever again ?
wasn’t he asked to leave Germany/Switzerland ?
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Rajini Kulatunga / January 3, 2014
srilal
Jagath Dias came to Germany for 2 years. He was Dep. Ambassador to Germany and Switzerland. He left at the end of his term. Jagath Dias was never asked to leave Germany.
He can visit Germany and Switzerland. Read the original statements of the German as well as the Swiss government correctly !
It seems like you’ve been reading the wrong news websites.
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srilal / January 3, 2014
https://www.colombotelegraph.com/index.php/mej-gen-jagath-dias-enough-evidence-to-open-a-criminal-investigation-against-you/
http://www.trial-ch.org/fileadmin/user_upload/documents/affaires/SriLanka/DiasMPCDecision16.09.2011.pdf
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Tamil from the north / January 4, 2014
@Rajini Kulatunga, he was kicked out of Germany as Srilal said. Check your facts before you state your rubbish as facts. There are people on this forum who can read and they are going to dispute if you put garbage.
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aratai / January 2, 2014
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Dias, Fonseka’s………why are these Portuguese visitors are so blood thirsty?
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:-)
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Levi / January 2, 2014
aratai
Why not add Percivel, Basil & Co to your list?
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Abhaya / January 2, 2014
Dias is a Hero and one off the best generals produced by Sri Lanka . He does not need stupid training programs from the US or Australia . What war have they won recently ?
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srilal / January 2, 2014
” He does not need stupid training programs from the US or Australia .”
who nominated him for those stupid training programs ?
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Ben Hurling / January 2, 2014
Abhaya,
Agree actions of USA & Australia are laughable. Given their own blood soaked military track record.
Most US Generals who served in Iraq and Afganistan should be kciked out of US military training. if they apply the same hypocritical standards they aplly to Sri Lankan officers.
Nevertheless, building a humane, law abiding & professional Military is not a matter Sri Lanka can leave to Uncle Sam or Crocodile Dundee. It is our duty. First and foremost.
Sri Lanka has 2500 years of civilized history. We ought to be teaching others how to deal with military matters in a civilized way.
It is an established fact the Sri Lankan Police and military are inhumane and brutal.
Police and military are there to protect you and me. The citizens. Not to brutalize us.
Pointing the finger at USA and Australia is fine. But very tiring.
Sri Lanka must deal with the issue at once. At least before passionate Ealamistas exploit gravity of our HR situation to their advantage.
Cheers!
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Sirimal / January 2, 2014
It is REALLY funny that you guys STILL see it in that way- boasting about a folk with 2500 years of history.. can we at all be proud of our nation frech grins.
The followings can only be agreed with
“Sri Lanka has 2500 years of civilized history. We ought to be teaching others how to deal with military matters in a civilized way.”
those who have no memories at all.. WERE THERE NO SERIOUS CASES THAT LANKEN SODIERS WERE CAUGHT TO HAVE RAPED YOUNG WOMEN DURING THEIR DEPLOYMENT TO TAHITI?
Dont forget that through google, you will see how we the srilankens have been famous to this day.
If you google FOR CURRENT human rights violations:
Srilanka about 163,000,000 results (0.63 seconds) (Population, just 22 mio)
India about 4,890,000 results (0.29 seconds) (Population,1300 mio or more)
Brazil about 1,780,000 results (0.35 seconds) (Population,170 mio)
Germany about 4,020,000 results (0.31 seconds) (Population,81 mio)
Uk about 6,000,000 results (0.25 seconds) (Population,60 mio)
USA about 5,060,000 results (0.56 seconds) (Population, 315mio)
These figures reveal us the ground reality of the wonderland :(
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Brad / January 3, 2014
Sri Lanka Army in Tahiti? That’s a new one, what are they doing there anyway?
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Palmsquirrell / January 2, 2014
If the US behaved in Afghanistan like GOSL did against the Tamils, the US would have obliterated the Taleban long ago. It is precisely because the US does not slaughter civilians in Afghanistan by the tens of thousands that the US has to put up with the Taleban.
What is it with this claim of 2500 of civilized SL history? Vijaya colonised Lanka 2500 years ago but neither he not his followers were civilized as evidenced by their genocide on the Veddah.
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Ben Hurling / January 3, 2014
Palmsquirrell,
Know anything about how Fallujah in Iraq was taken by US Forces?
Do you know how Swat Valley was clared of taliban by PAK Army? With tacit backing from USA & UK.
Heard about use of the chemical Agent Orange by US Army in Vietnam?
Want something more? Remember how WWII was ended in Dresden, Hiroshima & Nagasaki by allied forces?
World shall never learn or progress. Coz’ history is forgotten way too easy by idiots such as yourself. As long as you got something to gain. Even though you may end up selling your soul.
Cheers!
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Palmsquirrell / January 3, 2014
Falujah has never seen tens of thousands slaughtered like GOSL did in 2009.
SWAT valley was Pak operation and the Pak government created the Afghan Taleban and continues to double cross the US. Even so there has never been a Coalition operation that deliberately and intentionally singled out tens of thousands of civilians for slaugther like GOSL. GOSL slaughter is without comparison in recent years.
Why are you bringing up WW2 and Vietnam when the previous post was about Afghanistan and Iraq. The US has changed from Vietnam and WW2 era. Only a biased hack like you will not give them credit for it.
The US can takeover Iraq or Afghanistan and colonize it but they aren’t , that is the difference between the US and GOSL. US has the means but refrains from doing so while GOSL does everything it can to wipe out Tamil existance.
Let me reiterate, there has never been a single case of the US in Iraq or Afghanistan slaughtering tens of thousands of civilians in designated no fire zones. GOSL stands unique in this mass slaughter in contemporary times. Even the drone attacks are as accurate as attacks can be. If the US was like GOSL, they would carpet bomb and wipe out entire villages in Pak’s tribal areas.
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Brad / January 3, 2014
It really will be interesting to see the USA ‘colonizing’ those countries. They may be able to nuke the places off the map like they did Hiroshima and Nagasaki but colonizing …. really!!
They can’t even hold their few fortified camps and are waiting for the time to ‘exit’. It is only due to the fact that the Afghans and Iraqis are patient enough to wage a long war that the USA has not been made to do an unceremonious panic stricken withdrawal like in Vietnam.
Even the former National Security Advisor and Secretary of State of the USA doesn’t believe what you believe.
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Palmsquirrell / January 3, 2014
The US is fighting with one hand tied behind their back and velvet gloves because the US is concerned with PR and image.
If the US fought like they did during the Indian wars (Native American Indian) or WW2, they could take over that region.
Some of you are colored by your knee jerk opposition to anything American or Western and pat yourself on the back thinking how the US can’t win when the reality the current zeitgeist is against blatant mass slaughter of civilians. This is what is holding the US back.
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Banana / January 5, 2014
Wrong. The US carpet bombed Vietnam committing mass genocide, but still lost that war.
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Native Vedda / January 3, 2014
Palmsquirrell
“It is precisely because the US does not slaughter civilians in Afghanistan by the tens of thousands that the US has to put up with the Taleban.”
Oh please, you can do better than this.
Your hatred for Sinhala/Buddhist state is forcing you to lose your perspective and sense of proportion.
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Palmsquirrell / January 3, 2014
So how many Iraqi or Afghan refugee camps and or villages has the US carpet bombed or destroyed with artillery fire.
You can’t find a single contemporary instance whether the US has deliberatly bombed tens of thousands of civilians seeking refuge in a specified area. GOSL did just this, they intentionally adjusted their mortar trajectory to bomb Tamils in no fire zone.
US is not colonising or trying to wage genocide against Iraqis and Afghans. This is the big difference between GOSL and the US.
I am disappointed in you as I figured you to be relatively fair but this post you sound like someone who knee jerk dams the US.
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M.Sivananthan / January 4, 2014
Idiota!
GOSL did not invade any other country!
US invasion of Iraq created more than half million widows there. US invaded Iraq with false propaganda of weapons of mass destruction but found nothing.
On the first day of bombing of Iraq US killed more than 100000 people there.
I think you are a half baked potato and knows nothing or try to hide the facts.
Can you tell why LTTE morons went inside the No Fire Zone created by the GOSL?
Former TNA MP S.Kanagaratnam is still alive in Vanni to tell the horrors of LTTE inside the NFZ. Not only he, many other eye witnesses are there to tell how LTTE morons killed the fleeing Tamil people.
Further any army will fire at the direction of the attack only. I hope you have no idea about war.
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Banana / January 5, 2014
The LTTE placed their heavy weapons adjacent to civilian camps to draw retaliatory fire from SL forces. Retaliatory fire is not a war crime.
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Palmsquirrell / January 4, 2014
One more thing
I don’t hate the Sinhala/Buddhist state, it the Sinhala Supremacists I don’t like.
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Banana / January 5, 2014
Then don’t propagate false propaganda.
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Banana / January 5, 2014
You are wrong. The US carpet bombed Vietnam, committing mass genocide, but still lost that war.
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Palmsquirrell / January 7, 2014
The US committed a lot of atrocites and mass slaughter there but they didn’t go all the way; and by that I mean nuclear and indefinitely staying in Vietnam until the North surrendered.
The US started a negotiated pull out after the Tet Offensive. The NVA was defeated by US and South Vietnamese forces in the Tet Offsensive but the war was unpopular in the US at this point and the Tet Offensive was the last straw.
What you have to understand with Vietnam is that the US pulled out because Americans were fed up with the war. It’s not really because the US did not have the firepower to win, it is that when the public and media turns against a war, the war is over.
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Banana / January 11, 2014
US had to evacuate it Saigon embassy from the rooftop via helicopter.
Use of nuclear arms against Vietnam???? Come on…..
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Abhaya / January 3, 2014
while I agree about the passion of the eelamists I think you are being alarmed for no reason . UNHRC is a joke of an organization . and the countries that preach to us have no financial clout that will really affect us . There is not carrot that they really have to do anything of real value .
These countries by their very nature cannot dictate to their own multinational as to where they invest . and since they give no significant aid to sri lanka theirs is a barks with a puny bite .
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JULAMPITIYE AMARAYA / January 2, 2014
“Jaffna Security forces Commander Mahinda Hathurusinghe who has been on a collision course with the recently elected Chief Minister of the Northern Province on several occasions was transferred out of the district”
.May be that is not the case,
Hathusingho is shipping all the War debris and Steel to Colombo for selling to Indians.
and may be he cheated MOD BIG MAN?.
So checkmating is possible.
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ela kolla / January 2, 2014
War HERO from mother Ananda
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Thondamanaru / January 2, 2014
A real war heroes never blow the whistle but gently fade away into the twilight like the very many heroes of WWII……..
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Native Vedda / January 2, 2014
Thondamanaru
“A real war heroes never blow the whistle but gently fade away into the twilight like the very many heroes of WWII…….. “
Rats do jump ships.
Look at KP the merchant of death and VP’s favorite war criminal Karuna both jumped ships long before the war had started.
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rushmi / January 2, 2014
Jagath Dias is really a hero who fought against bloody prabakaran. we salute you sir,still sri lanka need your leadership there are tiger mufets here and there,please give them a lesson too.
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Maveeran / January 5, 2014
VP is a real hero, unlike any of your Sinhalese Military monkeys. VP is an ever living Legend no one can argue about that.
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Fonseka / January 6, 2014
Yes yes. VP was hero when he was hidden omong the innocent tamil people. finnally surrendered to the army like the dog who put it’s tail between leg. u bloody [Edited out] demala worship pinpiya like VP.what a shame
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Lal / January 2, 2014
Those accusing are the very perpetrators of war crimes. They think they can shield themselves by accusing those fought against terrorist. Beside, those who cry for an international investigation should also cry for an investigation to find out which international organisations, countries, and individuals helped LTTE and their supporters to carry out atrocities of LTTE against Sri Lanka and its people, Sinhalese, Tamil, Muslims and other communities.
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Palmsquirrell / January 2, 2014
LTTE was a product of Sinhala supremacy and living LTTE leaders are supporting Rajapaksa now. Also don’t forget that Rajapaksa paid VP to stop Tamils voting, so for all you Sinhala Natioanlists exhibiting faux righteous indignation, remember your leadership supported VP when it suited them and continues to support ex-LTTE leadership now.
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M.Sivananthan / January 4, 2014
So, LTTE was fighting to make money and not for EELAM. Thanks for the info!
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Maveeran / January 5, 2014
Read what PalmSquirrel wrote you mug. Why tge hell are you here if you cant read or right. And don’t come to this site with your half English.
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M.Sivananthan / January 6, 2014
Donkey!
Read well before you cry like a fool.
//Also don’t forget that Rajapaksa paid VP to stop Tamils voting//
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Maveeran / January 6, 2014
[Edited out]
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Piranha / January 3, 2014
The war criminal returning to the scene of his crimes!! I hope the relatives of those who he killed get together and put a grenade under his arse to blow him to smithereens.
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Fathima Fukushima / January 3, 2014
War crimes for Tamils are war chimes for other SLs.
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Tamil from the north / January 3, 2014
Seriously Fartima? It is time you came up with some creative ideas to attack the Tamils with, same crap you write is tiring to read for many. Did you go to school beyond maybe Gr3?
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Kaputa / January 3, 2014
Piranha, you are exactly right. his return to the Mullative , we hope, must be his ends.
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commando695 / January 3, 2014
The worst war criminals are those in the Tamil diaspora who funded the LTTE’s murderous campaign against their own people. They have donned sheeps clothing now – and pretending to be human rights defenders.The earlier they are exposed – the better for the Tamil people.
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Ben Hurling / January 3, 2014
Absolutely correct.
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Palmsquirrell / January 3, 2014
You are forgetting the Sinhala governments and Sinhala masses who waged all those anti Tamil pogroms.
This whole conflict started because you Sinhala Nationalists are xenophobic, paranoid and driven by a genocidal ideology to make Sri Lanka a Sinhala Buddhist only nation.
Ofcourse all of you Sinhala nationalists have selective memory and ignore the violence and state sanctioned persecution against minorities by GOSL.
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Abhaya / January 3, 2014
heavy militarization and oppressive surveillance .,
in my view not heavy or oppressive enough !!!
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Tamil from the north / January 4, 2014
@Abhaya, you are one of the reasons these uneducated VILLAGE BUFFOONS are governing this country. Even CBK called these fellows uncivilized rascals.
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Native Vedda / January 4, 2014
Tamil from the north
“Even CBK called these fellows uncivilized rascals.”
Abhaya does know how to read and write which he believes sufficiently qualifies him as a Civilised Sinhala/Buddhist.
Do you think he is also an uncivilized rascals?
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Tamil from the north / January 4, 2014
Abhaya is simply a fool who may easily pass to be an uncivilized rascal just like his hambantota cousins.
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Abhaya / January 5, 2014
No Im not I voted for Obama and Not Mahanda Rajapakshe , a vote that I an rather ambivalent about now
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email / January 3, 2014
Who writes these articles for colombo telegraph??? Tamil parasites who still dreams of a separate state in sri Lanka?
We will make sure that all ethnics can live in peace in the north just like in the south of the country!!!That’s Justice!!!
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Banana / January 3, 2014
If Jagath Dias is a war criminal, then all the US, UK and Nato commanders in Iraq and Afghanistan are bigger war criminals.
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Tamil from the north / January 4, 2014
@Banana, Yeah sure every time the U.S/Brits or whoever kill another, we will also kill each other in Lanka. Give another year or so we will only have the wildlife in Lanka. Amazing logic you have!!!!!
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Banana / January 5, 2014
The SL forces had to take action to prevent the murderous LTTE from taking over the northern province. Peace negotiations were only a show for temporary rest and regrouping for the LTTE.
Because of people like Jagath Dias, Tamils from the North can now live peacefully without the constant sound of bombs going off. Further, Tamils from the north now have 24 hour electricity, water, rail and road transport, a provincial government etc. etc.
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Tamil from the north / January 6, 2014
@Banana; Tamils in the north live peace……..???? Are you bloody mad? Have you been to the north and stayed there at least a year? Go and see the Tamils there and ask them how they are being treated. Even though I hate these LTTE supporting diaspora, without them the entire Tamil community would have been wiped out.
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email / January 6, 2014
The Tamils (north, south, estate Tamils)have to accept that they are a minority citizens in Sri Lanka!!!
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Bensen Burner / January 3, 2014
Mullaitivu will be falling from the frying pan to the fire. Hathurusinghe played a major role in the State sponsored pogrom against the Tamil people in 1983, a picnic compared to the massacre of tens of thousands of non combatant innocent Tamils in the final war against the Tamil militants 2009. Jagath Dias, we are informed had mastered the art of torture and rape making them a fine art in the most barbaric forms giving them an authentic Sri Lankan form. Bensen .
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Fathima Fukushima / January 3, 2014
If Tamils have any dignity left, LEAVE SL now.
Alas! Tamils have no dignity.
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Palmsquirrell / January 3, 2014
Tamils retain their ancestral SubCon identity unlike you Sinhalese . You lot are just dark skinned / Sudra Indians speaking the language of Aryan conquerors while Tamils have steadfastly refused to be assimilated into the Aryan fold.
So Tamils have more dignity than you could ever fathom.
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Rama / January 3, 2014
shenali [Edited out]
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Maveeran / January 5, 2014
If you have any dignity you can fly back to Afghanistan you turd.
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K.A Sumanasekera / January 4, 2014
Ranil the Cunning linked LTTE proxy Sambanadan to Fonny’s caravan, when Fonny was getting ahead in popularity polls.
Wasn’t it a master stroke to stop Fonny’s on its tracks and drive away the Sinhala Buddhists who rallied around their hero Fonny..
Does anyone believe that Ranil wanted Fonny to win ???????…..
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Romesh / January 4, 2014
JAGATH DIAS HAS TO BE CAREFUL HERE, NOT JUST THE TAMILS, BUT THE JUNTAS.
HE IS NOT CUT FROM LOINCLOTH, SO ITS NOT JUST THE JUNTAS BUT THE COUNTRY, WELL THE LOIN-CLOTHS THAT WILL BE READY TO CUT HIM.
EVEN THOUGH HIS CATHOLIC/CHRISTIANTY HELPED SAVE MADHU AND RESULTING ALLEGATIONS, IT WILL NOT HELP WITH THE MASSES PREFERING THE INDIAN’S BUDDHISM. HE WILL GET USED, ABUSED, BLAMED AND SIDELINED.
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Fathima Fukushima / January 4, 2014
What is a war crime for Tamils is a war chime for other SLs.
Sweet sweet music!
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Fathima Fukushima / January 4, 2014
Great job Jagath Dias, but not all Tamils are killed yet!
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Rod / January 4, 2014
Maj. General Jagath Dias is a great military leader who fought a terrorist outfit with bravery. We salute you, sir.
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Native Vedda / January 5, 2014
Rod
Good
Make few bronze statues of Jagath Dias and place them in temples, churches, mosques, vihares, schools, street corners, junctions,public places,…. .
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M.Sivananthan / January 6, 2014
Good idea! He deserves not only a statue in bronze but in gold also for destroying your Tiger criminals!
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shankar / January 4, 2014
Wasn’t this the guy who was supposed to have given VP or his body double the chop with the axe.Or was that just a rumour?There was definitely an axe wound in the head from what i could see.
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Native Vedda / January 5, 2014
shankar
“Wasn’t this the guy who was supposed to have given VP or his body double the chop with the axe.”
Where did you get this wrong idea? He was holding UN charter in both hands through out the war years, no axe.
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M.Sivananthan / January 6, 2014
Gen.Jagath Diaz tried every possible way to save the Tamil people who were taken by LTTE criminals and used as human shields.
Check the videos from ILANKAINET!
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M.Sivananthan / January 6, 2014
The LTTE goons must be chopped in to 1000 pieces for the crimes they committed against tamils.
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Fathima Fukushima / January 4, 2014
Jagath Dias….Please kill the remaining Tamils! Some are left out.
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shankar / January 5, 2014
especially those who converted to bhuddhism but are not allowed to get into the main bhuddhist sect due to their “aapu minissu”status.
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JimSofty / January 6, 2014
JAGATH DIAS IS A SRI LANKAN WAR HERO.
He is of the calibre of people like TEN GIANTS OF KING DUTU GEMUNU.
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M.Sivananthan / January 6, 2014
Jagath is not only a hero but also a humanitarian. He saved Tamil civilians as well as 12,000 LTTE morons as well!
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Dawn Dale / January 8, 2014
winning the war against LTTE was the best thing that happened to SL. what happened/ is happening after a disaster. proper investigations on war crimes should have been done so that these general can keep their head high. Now lies(channel4) and truth is mixed together no one knows what really happened.
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BBS Rep / January 9, 2014
No doubt this this new posting is a demotion. I wonder why??
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