By Muhammed Fazl –
Muhammed Fazl
“A hero is not coz someone puts on a uniform and picked up a weapon… but because he put it down and stood up for the truth” – Dahlia Wasfi, M.D.
Dear Sir,
Having gone through a period of self-induced hibernation for almost a year, let me first thank you for being that person who made me pick up my ‘pen’ again. Though I have chosen not to read your book due to your stoic silence in the last 7 years and assuming it was your solo effort, let me also congratulate you on your first attempt in the literary world. But before I delve deeper, let me start with the following questions:
1. Why did you even bother writing a book if you are not willing to tell the truth and nothing but the truth?
2. Based on your claim that you will never betray the SL Army under any circumstances, does it mean even if they had committed war crimes?
3. Based on your claim that you will take war secrets to your grave, being a military officer, can you please give a definition to the two words – ‘war secrets’? And do ‘rules of engagement’ have anything to do with this ‘war secrets’ that you talk of?
4. What were the real reason behind narrating a story about FM Sarath Fonseka berating you over your ‘failure to capture’ LTTE Supremo Prabhakaran a day earlier? Was it to spice up the contents and to sell more books?
5. On an interview a couple of days ago, you talked about doing a service for ‘Ratata & Jaathiyata’ while wearing Army uniforms for 35 years. Does it mean in addition to fighting for the country, were you fighting for the Sinhalese race as well? And if so, did it ever impair your judgement when on killing sprees against people belonging to a different race?
6. If the well documented killing of tens of thousands innocent Tamil civilians (Sri Lankans) has not been acknowledged by you, do you really think you have the right to talk about patriotism (love for the country and its people)? Or were you just being patriotic to the Sinhalese race only?
7. Were you in a coma or in a deep slumber when unnamed forces (allegedly linked to SL Army) abducted and killed many civilians extra-judicially under the Rajapaksa government and even before?
8. Did you not think of your poorly-thought-of decision to invite Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa to grace your book launching occasion being considered as an insult to millions of law abiding citizens who made their case against multi-million theft of public funds and murderous leaders on January 08, 2015? Or is it that you consider Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa to be the most patriotic leader Sri Lanka ever produced?
9. Having watched a recent interview of yours where you distanced yourself from politics while castigating negative remarks about army officials getting into politics on retirement, were the remarks intended at Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka as an indication of your deep-rooted resentment towards him?
10. Were you ever in a difficult financial situation which could have been the reason for you to cash in on selling out the war? Not expecting your replies, I think it is about time you acknowledge the fact that our countrymen are really tired of people of your kind and rank, listening to your ‘heroic’ fables, your killing machines and your self-glorifications over death and destruction of gigantic proportions. Seeing one retiring military top brass after another gloating over their tenure and their ‘victory records’, I seriously wish they seek psychiatric help in overcoming their hidden fears instead. For starters, you people claim to have eradicated the threat of terrorism once and for all and brought in an era of absolute peace…. Yet, seven years after the war has ended, half a dozen armored vehicles needs to be escorting you when you travel about and even after retirement. You claim to be brave and not fearful of death.… Yet, half a dozen soldiers hang around you round the clock protecting you. I mean, how long do you think you would fool the masses for in order to protect your ‘persona’?
Questions Surrounding The Death Of LTTE Leader Velupillai Prabhakaran
While you (or your Regiment) claimed to have killed LTTE Supremo Prabhakaran (or captured alive), what were you thinking when you decided to burn the body? Living in a generation where people at present times revere figures such Lenin, Karl Marx, Lincoln etc. long after their demise, did you honestly think you could change the minds of Prabhakaran’s faithful once the body is rid of? Or was it to hide torture marks on his body (covered with mud) from possible prying eyes of honest doctors in the event of an autopsy taking place? The coward that he was, if Prabhakaran was running away from you guys, how was it possible for him to have a bullet opening on his forehead? Whoever shot him, me think either he should have been a sharp shooter, or he would have shot Prabhakaran with a single shot to the head at point blank range. Unfortunately, I am no forensic expert, but you being present at the scene of the crime, I trust you would be better equipped to shed more light on this incident.
We both are soldiers on different fronts. While I consider myself to be a soldier of conscience and fighting for the rights of humanity, your world seems to be revolving around your uniform, your comrades-in-arms and the misguided war that you believe was just. To refresh your memory, it was a war instigated by racist Sinhalese political leaders and sustained blindly by people like you. There is no heroism in beating a rag tag army of under 10,000 by over a 300,000-strong well equipped army (tri-forces combined) as well as when you lacked military discipline to avoid innocent lives (over 40,000 as alleged). Not to mention the 27 odd years it took to end it. There is no patriotism when you kill your own countrymen over racist agenda of corrupt politicians…. and sure as hell, there need not be pride in taking the life of another over different political ideologies. So, please save your celebrations for your grandchildren’s birthdays or whatever. And then when you appear on national television giving interviews about not wanting to be part of the political process ever, I am naturally reminded about how our politicos promise or say one thing initially and act on the contrary eventually. So my final question to you Sir is, how hard would it be for a military man drenched in blood and known for distorting the truth all his life, to lie again? And from what I hear, you were forced to retire by the present leadership. But then, it would be only fair that I let you respond to that.
Hoping it will all end well, my advice to you Sir – Now that you have decided to take a break, do enjoy your retirement years and please stay away from the limelight to avoid rubbing salt on healing wounds of thousands of people who are grieving to date. There are many unanswered questions we need to seek answers for if we are genuinely interested in winning the peace. Hence, like you said, please take your stories to the grave…. SILENTLY & ALL OF IT! Human life is precious, and now that you have won the war, this just might be your time to help win the peace. And being scorned for not getting the SL Army Commander post is one thing, but aligning yourself with the Rajapaksas and taking out your frustrations on the Yaha Palanaya (Good Governance) government is another. Hence, moving forward, the need for you to think and act wiser.
Innocent blood has been spilled on all sides and wounds need to be healed. While the call for absolving the guilt of war criminals gets louder, in addition to recompensation for victims, addressing causes and rewriting discriminatory laws at the same time, just may herald a new beginning for some and closure for the rest. And for the sake of wanting our future generation to study that which is true in their history lessons, let us just hope that day when truth finally triumphs is not too far off.
The writer is an independent social/political activist and can be contacted at muhammedfazl@msn.com and through FB (Fazl Muhammed Nizar)
Diogenes / September 22, 2016
If the `Bloody war Hero` admits that he was a killer, he could be a murderer as well. Surely, there seems to be something fishy about the killing of Prabhakaran and his son!
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cholan / September 22, 2016
If there is any ethnic group in the world who can be easily taken for ride it is only Sinhalese.
2009 May 8 it was announced by card board Sinhala army ( Sarath Fonseka was in China on this day )
to all international TV that Prabaharan tried to escape and card board army fired missiles at the vehicle and killed him.
Now General Kamal Gunaratna say in his book the same vehicle transported injured card board sinhala soldiers .
Fantastic confusion.
Murdepaksas have taken all for ride. Who cares Modaya dance for free liquor.
A fake ,borrowed,artificial victory ,,is being celebrated without shame.
Cheers
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pujitha / September 22, 2016
Sour cherries! The LTTE chased the Indian IPKF not to come back!
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Caliph / September 22, 2016
The book by this Major General Kamal Gunaratne is more politically motivated. The book launching occasion was highly political one. None of his senior army comrades who fought the war beside him, attended his ceremony? The book is mainly to undermine FM Sarath Fonseka.
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jim softy / September 22, 2016
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Tamil from the north / September 23, 2016
Jim Shitty, fantastic comment and thanks for keeping it brief – ‘edited out’.
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mori / September 22, 2016
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Armchair / September 22, 2016
What a load of crap [Edited out] It’s thanks to HEROES like Gen Kamal Goonaratne and his men that you had a war and a country to talk about. Ofcourse you and your colleagues here are not Sri Lankans. Your ‘supremo’ is now NOMORE so wake up and be thankful that your brethren still live safely in Sri Lanka thanks to others who did the dirty work of fighting a bloody war as you guys ran away !
CT is fast undoing the good work done by a few of your better writers by allowing this crap.
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SinhalaPropaganda / September 22, 2016
“There is no heroism in beating a rag tag army of under 10,000 by over a 300,000-strong well equipped army (tri-forces combined) as well as when you lacked military discipline to avoid innocent lives (over 40,000 as alleged). Not to mention the 27 odd years it took to end it. There is no patriotism when you kill your own countrymen over racist agenda of corrupt politicians…”
Well said. Sinhalese have nothing to be proud of. They got help from terrorist nations of Pakistan and Israel who have experience with ethnic cleansing, war crimes and occupation.
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jim softy / September 22, 2016
Well said. Sinhalese have nothing to be proud of. They got help from terrorist nations of Pakistan and Israel who have experience with ethnic cleansing, war crimes and occupation.
It is the Tamils, muslims, christians decide every thing for Sinhala buddhists. How did you win when you were winning ?
The most important thing is mighty LTTE could not do it.
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cholan / September 23, 2016
@ jim softy
So this fake..artificial .borrowed .victory agree this
This happened with the help of 34 nations plus chemical weapons
what is there to celebrate ?? Only cowards dance for this.
The entire world saw the quality of your Sinhala cardboard forces and laughed or 30years .
Cheers
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Athul / September 22, 2016
That was no rag-tag army! The ‘mighty’ Indian Army of IPKF had to meekly pack things and back off in facing the LTTE after thousands of Jawans were killed and maimed by this ‘rag-tag’ army!
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gamunu / September 22, 2016
SinhalaPropaganda (or should it be Thamillian propaganda),
So you you decided down grade your revered LTTE to a rag-tag army eh? Isn’t it strange how things have turned out. LTTE was branded the most ruthless, well organised discipline army ever was by their friends You lot really believed and enjoyed it then. The west and the US labelled them as the number one terror group in the world.
Remember when the west and friends of LTTE (including you lot) said no SriLanka army would ever defeat the LTTE? What happened to that euphoria? It was the tactics that the LTTE used that made them ruthless. Using children as fodder once they have been kidnapped from their families.
Srilanka tri-forces were well disciplined and had to surmount immense amounts of barriers to overcome and ultimately annihilate the LTTE. So I (a sinhalese) am proud of what the forces did. That is why you are able to move freely these days without paying kappang to the LTTE. So if you have the balls reply to my comments.
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SinhalaPropaganda / September 23, 2016
They were disciplined yes, but there’s no doubt they were vastly outpowered and outmanned. Major nations backed genocidal GOSL not only by banning LTTE as a terrorist organization but also by providing training, arms and intelligence. Even with these shortcomings, they were able to control vast swaths of Tamil Eelam and grow as a conventional army by their own efforts without begging other terrorist states for help. Tamils have every reason to admire the bravery of their war heroes/freedom fighters while Sinhalese should be ashamed for having an undisciplined army of sexual predators who only showed their bravery to defenseless civilians after being humiliated by Tigers.
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gamunu / September 23, 2016
SinhalaPropaganda
Glad you responded. Did I touch a raw nerve? Discipline my A***. VP virtually terrorised not only sinhala, muslims he terrorised his own tamil people. No one could resist him. Any one who challenged him was killed. Some runaway and formed different forces. He chased all muslims from the north giving them 24 hours to leave. Deny that if you can. LTTE didn’t have to beg as it forced every tamil who settled overseas to contribute towards its terrorist activities. Tamils willingly or unwillingly had to obey to prevent repercussions. That money seems to have disappeared to some other accounts since demise of VP. That is the story. Ok explain where and how they got their weapons and ammo. Is it by legal tax revenue from the people of the north? Also remember the destruction of the arms shipments at sea? These were secured from illegal ways and at times used against his own Tamil populous. That is the truth. Yes they were able to control vast swathes of land by murdering innocent sinhala people who were living in the border villages. They suffered untold difficulties. Not the people in the metropolis. There were evidence of murder, rape by the so called LTTE with killing babies by smashing them on trees. They also killed pregnant women by opening their bellies. You say you are proud of this RAG-TAG army? Get some sense into your head. You are a disgusting being. We the sinhalese are very proud of the Tri-Forces that eliminated the scourge and we are forever indebted to the sacrifices they made. Also I feel for the innocent tamils, muslims, and the rest for undergoing untold harassment.
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SinhalaPropaganda / September 23, 2016
//Discipline my A***.//
Not only in my view, but also in the views of his enemies:
Maj. Gen. Kamal Gunaratne described VP as “committed, dedicated, disciplined” and went onto say, “He may have been uneducated but he maintained strict discipline among himself and also within the outfit. … There is no evidence to show that he abused those female cadres in the LTTE. … He was a loving family man. The SLA recovered over 10,000 photographs of Prabhakaran, his family and LTTE functions but we never found a picture of Prabhakaran with a glass of alcohol. He was a disciplined leader and he maintained a law deadlier than Sharia law. … He was a different kind of a man and he had some good characteristics for someone to learn.”
Jyotindra Dixit, India’s Foreign Secretary in Assignment in Colombo said of VP:
“The LTTE’s emergence as the most dominant and effective politico-military force representing Tamil interests was due to the following factors: First, the character and personality of its leader V Pirabaharan who is disciplined, austere and passionately committed to the cause of Sri Lankan Tamils’ liberation. Whatever he may be criticised for, it cannot be denied that the man has an inner fire and dedication and he is endowed with natural military abilities, both strategic and tactical. He has also proved that he is a keen observer of the nature of competitive and critical politics. He has proved his abilities in judging political events and his adroitness in responding to them.
Secondly, he has created a highly disciplined, and dedicated cadres, a manifestation of which is inherent in what is called the ‘cyanide cult.’ Each regular member of the LTTE carries a cyanide pill and is pledged to committing suicide rather than being captured by the enemy.
The third factor is the cult and creed of honesty in the disbursement and utilisation of resources. Despite long years spent in struggle, the LTTE cadres were known for their simple living, lack of any tendency to exploit the people and their operational preparedness.”
Marshall R Singer, Ph. D. Professor of International and Intercultural Affairs, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs – University of Pittsburgh:
“The Tigers are ruthless and authoritarian but they are not corrupt – they don’t tolerate stealing, bribery or rape, things other armies are famous for. In fact they are perceived as being single minded in their defence of Tamils. They are so disciplined that when captured, they swallow cyanide capsules that they carry with them at all times, rather than risk revealing anything under torture.”
Lieutenant General S.C. Sardesh Pande, IPKF Divisional Commander, Jaffna:
“I have a high regard for the LTTE for its discipline, dedication, determination, motivation and technical expertise.
Jane’s Sentinel, World Defence & Intelligence Information Resource:
“(LTTE’s) 43-year old charismatic leader and military commander, Velupillai Pirabaharan (whose nom de guerre is Karikalan), is a highly disciplined, dedicated, self-taught, military genius…In the LTTE, all members are fighting cadres and do not receive remuneration. The exceptions, only a handful, play an advisory or supportive role…Cadres are given responsibility not according to seniority but strictly on performance. Cadres are not promoted to a rank but only responsibilities of command. Cadres are ranked only posthumously by taking into account their service, as well as the circumstances of their death…”
Due to their discipline, LTTE didn’t rape or use sexual violence as a war tactic like the Sri Lankan Army did and domestic violence against women was lower in LTTE controlled areas:
“what is also well-documented is that women did not generally face sexual violence from their fellow Tigers. According to Elizabeth Woods, ethnic cleansing is “a classic setting for widespread rape.” Although the Tigers forcibly displaced 75,000 Muslims from northern Sri Lanka, there were no reports of sexualised violence. … Elizabeth Woods believes that it could be attributed to the Tigers’ ‘deep political training’ and that it is possible to train soldiers to abide by anti-rape policies just as they are trained to fire guns. Jo Becker, a child soldier expert at Human Rights Watch, was also surprised by the lack of sexualised violence in the Tiger ranks. She says, “Although girls recruited as child soldiers in other conflicts have routinely reported rape or being forced to become a wife/sexual slave to a military commander, the Tamil Tigers were remarkably disciplined in prohibiting even consensual sexual activity between their cadres.” Another researcher found that when a group of Tigers gang raped a 13 year old girl, their hands were tied and they were dragged behind a tractor, crying out for water as they died. … There has been an explosion of domestic violence. Women reported that levels of domestic violence used to be lower in Tiger-controlled areas because the Tigers had a de facto justice system to deal with domestic violence. “At the first complaint of domestic violence the abuser is given a warning, at the second he is fined, and at the third he may be put in an LTTE prison.” Tamil women are once again vulnerable to rape by the Sri Lankan army which has moved into the north to carry out ‘reconstruction’.” https://www.opendemocracy.net/5050/rahila-gupta/sri-lanka-women-in-conflict
//VP virtually terrorised not only sinhala, muslims he terrorised his own tamil people.//
Tamils who lived under his rule don’t think so. In fact many prefer LTTE rule over GOSL as many, especially women, felt safer and LTTE had civil administrations to deal with social problems. VP was and still is admired by vast majority of Tamils. You have misconception of his rule because you never lived under LTTE controlled areas and only relied on GOSL state propaganda. Speak to the Tamils that lived under LTTE rule, they have more balanced perspective than biased Sinhalese from the south.
//No one could resist him. Any one who challenged him was killed. Some runaway and formed different forces.//
LTTE was ruthless against traitors undermining the already asymmetrical Tamils struggle but which state isn’t. Those who ran away and formed different forces had their own agendas and VP felt they weren’t as dedicated to the cause of Tamil liberation as he was; after all, some were collaborating with Indian government to get rid of VP while other traitors became paramilitaries collaborating with GOSL to terrorize Tamil civilians.
//He chased all muslims from the north giving them 24 hours to leave. Deny that if you can.//
Don’t simply state facts, ask why they happened. Tamil leaders have always tried to be inclusive toward Muslims by championing the rights of “Tamil speaking people” instead of just ethnic Tamils (though I believe Muslims are racially descendants of south indian converts than few Arab settlers). See the Vaddukoddai Resolution for example. The proposed Tamil Eelam safeguarded the rights of minorities and religious freedom:
“the constitution of TAMIL EELAM shall be based on the principle of democratic decentralization so as to ensure the non-domination of any religious or territorial community of TAMIL EELAM by any other section. … TAMIL EELAM shall be a secular state giving equal protection and assistance to all religions to which the people of the state may belong. … the rights of Sinhalese speaking minorities in Tamil Eelam to education and transaction of business in their language shall be protected on a reciprocal basis with the Tamil speaking minorities in the Sinhala State.”
http://www.sangam.org/FB_HIST_DOCS/vaddukod.htm
But what did Muslims do? They opposed the creation of Tamil Eelam and collaborated with the GOSL and formed paramilitaries to terrorize Tamil civilians, although there were few Muslims in Tamil militant groups in the early days. There was intergroup violence and some accuse GOSL of inciting hostilities between the two communities. To prevent more violence LTTE expelled Muslims which I think prevented more massacres. LTTE did apologize to them and invited them back. VP said this of Muslims: “We don’t look upon the Muslims as a separate category; we consider them an integral part of the Tamils. It is a question of people united by language and differentiated by religion.”
VP said this to Sinhala people:
“We do not regard the Sinhala people as our opponents or as our enemies. We recognise the Sinhala nation. We accord a place of dignity for the culture and heritage of the Sinhala people. We have no desire to interfere in any way with the national life of the Sinhala people or with their freedom and independence. We, the Tamil people, desire to live in our own historic homeland as an independent nation, in peace, in freedom and with dignity.”
//LTTE didn’t have to beg as it forced every tamil who settled overseas to contribute towards its terrorist activities. Tamils willingly or unwillingly had to obey to prevent repercussions.//
Yes, it was all Tamil efforts by Tamils for Tamils, unlike Sinhalese who had benefited from the aid provided by terrorist states with history of crimes against humanity which proves Sinhalese have no problem with terrorists and often emulated their policies like colonization policies of Israelis in Palestine and Chinese in Tibet.
//Yes they were able to control vast swathes of land by murdering innocent sinhala people who were living in the border villages.//
State sponsored settlers were attacked because GOSL has been using such tactics to undermine Tamil claim to a homeland by diluting the Tamil majority demography of the north east and their voting strength since independence. These settlers were unwanted hoodlum from the south and were criminals who would kidnap Tamil women and gang rape.
T.D.S.A. Dissanayaka writes in his book, “War Or Peace in Sri Lanka”, p.13:
“In 1938, D.S. Senanayake did not offer land to the landless peasants in the Tamil speaking District of Trincomalee. Instead he brought in more Sinhalese roughnecks from Mirigama and Kegalle, also Balapitiya and Waskaduwa, where the Sinhalese are rather aggressive by nature. Thus the demographic pattern began to change in those districts as reflected in the statistics given overleaf
District of Vavuniya
1931: Sinhalese 8.1%, Tamils 82.7%, Muslims 9.2%
1946: Sinhalese 16.1%, Tamils 75.3%, Muslims 8.6%
District of Trincomalee
1931: Sinhalese 10.1%, Tamils 50.2%, Muslims 34.9%
1946: Sinhalese 20.7%, Tamils 44.4%, Muslims 30.0%”
According to a report published by the International Crisis Group:
“Under the auspices of various irrigation and development
schemes, Sinhalese peasants were encouraged from the
1950s through the 1980s to move into many parts of the
Eastern Province. The settlement of so many Sinhalese
in districts which were at independence almost entirely
Tamil-speaking was politically explosive and was one of
the major grievances expressed by Tamil militant groups,
including the LTTE.174
The expansion in the 1980s of the ambitious Mahaweli
irrigation project into the Weli Oya region in the northern
reaches of the Trincomalee district was particularly controversial.175
While designated as the “Mahaweli-L scheme”
and coming under the jurisdiction of the Mahaweli Authority,
the areas were always too remote to receive actual
water from the Mahaweli river. Instead, the administrative
powers of the Mahaweli Authority were used to legitimise
a largely military-led project to settle a Sinhala community
that could act as a buffer to the expansion of LTTE
control.176 Settling Sinhalese at the border of the Eastern
and Northern Provinces was also designed to undermine
Tamil nationalist claims on a contiguous north-eastern
Tamil homeland.177 The Tamil nationalists have maintained
that this is an attempt at bifurcating the north from
the east with a string of Sinhala settlements.
As Sinhalese were settled and armed villages established,
thousands of Tamil families were forcibly displaced by the
army from their traditional villages. Also forced out were
hundreds of Tamils of Indian origin who had settled and
worked on Tamil-owned farms in the area after fleeing the
organised 1977 riots in the south and central highlands.
Large numbers of Tamils were killed and thousands displaced,
some to India.178 The LTTE retaliated by killing
over a hundred Sinhala civilians and the army’s counterretaliation
was brutal in many parts of the north.179″ https://d2071andvip0wj.cloudfront.net/219-sri-lanka-s-north-i-the-denial-of-minority-rights.pdf
So there, blame your own government for intentionally placing criminal thugs from the south in a contested war zone.
VP on the attacks on Sinhala settlers: “they have got these Home Guard thugs who are armed and trained by the Armed Forces. They dress like civilians but are almost like death-squads let loose on Tamil civilians now and again-to loot, burn, destroy. In some cases we have attacked them. They look like civilians. In some areas there are Sinhalese-Tamil civilian conflicts. These conflicts take place when the Sinhalese are brought to the Tamil areas to forcibly occupy the land. Clashes do take place to protect the land. I know that the J.R. regime’s propaganda managers use the pictures of such incidents to ,say that the militants have attacked the civilians. But they don’t tell the truth.”
Some of these supposed innocent Sinhala civilians were in fact convicts:
“Jessi Nona, Hemasiri Fernando and others also spoke of harassment of Tamils living in surrounding villages by soldiers, prison guards and some convicts. Those from the settlement stole poultry, cattle and agricultural produce. They assaulted Tamil youths.
The UTHR (J) report quotes a Sinhala activist from a leftwing political group who went to Dollar and Kent Farms for humanitarian work following the LTTE attack thus:
The survivors had told them that the settlement of the prisoners was being used to further harass Tamils into leaving the area. They were told that young Tamil women were abducted, brought there and gang-raped, first by the forces, next by the prison guards and finally by the prisoners.
Winner of the Young Journalist Award for 2002, Amantha Perera of the Sunday Leader, in his On the Spot Report published in his paper of 19 May 2002, says:
The convicts, in fact, had been used to stealing from Tamil villages from the area and incidents of rape too had been attributed to the convicts.” http://www.sangam.org/articles/view2/?uid=633
//There were evidence of murder, rape by the so called LTTE with killing babies by smashing them on trees. They also killed pregnant women by opening their bellies. //
They did kill Sinhala settlers, as for rape and smashing babies on trees, I need evidence from neutral sources.
You might be confusing your sexual predator army for our freedom fighters:
“But the LTTE have reportedly not used rape as a tactic, despite sexualized violence being aimed at their own ranks by government forces. The Sri Lankan government has used rape against Tamil men and women suspected of being members of the LTTE, as Human Rights Watch and others report, but the Tamil Tigers have seemingly not used it in retaliation. Wood writes that her “review of press archives, human rights reports, documents of women’s organizations, and academic and policy literature revealed no incidents of sexual violence, in contrast to many detailed reports of robbery by LTTE cadre.”
While Wood researched the LTTE’s avoidance of rape against civilians, Jo Becker, a child soldier expert at Human Rights Watch and author of Campaigning for Justice, studied the group’s treatment of its own female fighters and found a similar lack of rape.”
http://www.womenundersiegeproject.org/blog/entry/no-war-doesnt-have-to-mean-rape
//You say you are proud of this RAG-TAG army?//
well, rag-tag army was not my phrase but I’d call them an outpowered group. Of course I’m proud, why shouldn’t I be, when you are proud of your genocidal army of sexual predators and necrophiliacs despite their crimes against humanity and an unjust war wages not for freedom but occupation and forced unity??? LTTE’s cause was just, fight for self-determination, yours was unjust and it’s your people that initiated violence way back in the 50s.
We Tamils should be proud of our national army because despite being an intentionally marginalized organization they showed their ability to adapt, grow and outsmart a superior army backed by other major states.
Major General Prasanna Dahanayake, of the Sri Lanka Army:
“Pirabaharan is a ‘military genius’ and his political power has given him an advantage to combat our political and military leaders. He has often outwitted, outmanoeuvred and outclassed our military and political leaders. Why is this so? Today after 18 years of battle, most of the victories, sadly, belong to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and we are continuing to fool ourselves… the man behind the weapon is always more important than the weapon itself and that this has been repeatedly proved by the LTTE forces….Pirabaharan has virtually beaten our forces on land and sea….” (Major General Prasanna Dahanayake in an interview reported in the Sinhala owned Sunday Leader, 6 December 1998)
//Get some sense into your head. You are a disgusting being. We the sinhalese are very proud of the Tri-Forces that eliminated the scourge and we are forever indebted to the sacrifices they made. Also I feel for the innocent tamils, muslims, and the rest for undergoing untold harassment.//
With the help of every major nation state on earth, you defeated a outpowered and outmanned group and it took you decades with thousands of civilian deaths and use of banned weapons! What’s there to be proud of? If you truly care about innocent lives lost you should pressure your government for accountability and justice. Barely any war criminal has been brought to justice because you people tolerate culture of impunity and when in rare cases perpetrators of crimes against humanity are brought to justice like Sergeant Sunil Ratnayake who slit the throats of Tamil children your people start crying “save our war heroes” in protest. There’s no justice to be expected from you subhuman unfeeling barbarians who for generations have been torturing, mutilating raping, displacing and burning alive Tamil civilians with impunity.
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Native Vedda / September 23, 2016
SinhalaPropaganda
“Tamils who lived under his rule don’t think so. In fact many prefer LTTE rule over GOSL as many, especially women, felt safer and LTTE had civil administrations to deal with social problems.”
Tamils would not have told you what they really thought about LTTE. During their misrule, people opened their mouth only to have meals.
Tamils were caught between the devil and the deep blue sea. They didn’t have much choice between LTTE and GOSL.
“With the help of every major nation state on earth, you defeated a outpowered and outmanned group and it took you decades with thousands of civilian deaths and use of banned weapons!”
I am told that VP was the one who defeated LTTE.
We have had enough of Mahawamsa myth now we have to put up Tamil Thambi myth.
Even after the end of the war, we are still caught between VP myth makers and Mahawamsa myth makers.
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SinhalaPropaganda / September 23, 2016
internationally marginalized organization*
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De Silva / September 22, 2016
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“There is no heroism in beating a rag tag army of under 10,000 by over a 300,000-strong well equipped army”
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I heard India struggling in Kashmir with similar problem.
Even yesterday something happened.
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Lakshman Perera / September 22, 2016
How do you rate Taleban, Al Qaeda and ISIS is my only question?
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jim softy / September 23, 2016
How Should Mohammad Fazi Rate Quran in which Every where say Kill Infidels.
How he should rate his own religion. Islamic killing hisotry and ISlamic killings today.
Mohammad can not understand even though he talk big here, he is living peacefully because those guys gave him a life by theyy themselves getting killed.
Here he shows muslims are thoppi pirattis always.
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Lester / September 23, 2016
He will never comment on those things. Easier to focus on some unfortunate mass killings of Tamils by Sri Lanka Army, after all talks with terrorist LTTE broke down.
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garawi / September 22, 2016
This write up is partly true and partly unacceptable! False is that there were intentional killing of tamils. True is that it is not the time to bring this up when the reconciliation is the main agenda for the future not to happen it again!
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thondamannay / September 22, 2016
FAZL…. oK. yOU ARE DONE. get back to hibernation.
War is all about killing. In the name of Terrorism, thats what America does on a daily basis. Justifies killing because they have killed a terrorists.
Each day some terrorists leader is killed by USA. Then it gets wide media publicity. BUT TERRORISM NEVER ENDS.
DUTERTE INSULTS & HUMILIATE OUR Sira’s NEW FRIENDS:-
How classic it can it get when one has the guts to call a Spade a Spade & has his photograph in the media showing the middle finger..
It is just what RODRIGO DUTERTE, The President of the Philippines did during the Month of September,2016 in Davao City.
Thank your stars, he was not SL President during the terrorists period.
On Tuesday 20/09/2016 reported by broadcaster ABS-CBN
After the European Parliament condemned him for extrajudicial killings,
Duterte delivered a profanity laced -tirade against EU parliament.
He punctuated his insult in a rude gesture in raising his “Middle Finger” and said ” I say to them F**k you.
On an earlier occasion, he reacted similarly to foreign criticism of his Drug War.
“he called Barack Obama ” a Son of a Whore” and Cursed Banky Moon’s UN.
He also also singled out France & Brittain and called their Parliamentary Members “HYPOCRITES”
Further, DUTERTE said, EU has the gall to condemn me? “so I repeat f**k you.”
Take him to geneva…. take him to Geneva…..No Western Block nations joing in this chorus..
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Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka / September 22, 2016
Can a book save a nation? World history says yes. The most important book on Sri Lankan matters authored by a Sri Lankan and published here or abroad in my lifetime of reading, appeared on September 6th. It was as a pair: a Sinhala original (The author has a gift of verbal and literary expression in Sinhala) and an English language version, which reads easily and arrestingly.
The launch was one of the most impressive, indelibly memorable and emotive events that I have attended in a lifetime of attending public events. It may turn out to be a true social “tipping point”, where the tide of public opinion turned.
I refer to Major General Kamal Gunaratne’s Road to Nandikadal (The Sinhala original is Ranamaga Ossey Nandikadal),and the event was the book-launch at Ananda College with an overflow crowd of well-dressed invitees constituting the elite of the generation that fought and won the Long War in the military and non-military (Political, administrative, diplomatic, ideological and legal) battlefields.
This patriotic elite has been overthrown and replaced by the puppet elite, the elite of the unworthy, the collaborator elite, the ‘ancien regime’ of appeasers and cowards (With the exception of Field Marshal Fonseka).
As Gen. Gunaratne unflinchingly testifies:
“During his lifetime, Prabhakaran had the power and capability to get almost all the leaders of Sri Lanka, such as Presidents J.R. Jayewardene, R. Premadasa, Chandrika Kumaratunga and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, with the exception of President Mahinda Rajapaksa, to kneel before him…Each of these the times, the Army was shackled and embarrassed in society which hurt us deeply. During the peace process initiated by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, it was no different and perhaps the worst.”(Road to Nandikadal, Maj. Gen. Kamal Gunaratne, Pp. 8, 463)
This is the book of our time, the true history of our times, a text to be treasured. A harrowingly authentic first person narrative, it is also a Great Chronicle.
With this literary long-range artillery, Major General Kamal Gunaratne has recaptured the most valuable strategic real estate: the moral high ground.
Road to Nandikadal should be in every Sri Lankan home and in the possession of every Lankan family here and overseas. Every library—municipal or school—should have copies. It should be a prize book at school prize-givings and a birthday gift. The author should be invited to speak at schools and civic associations. Anyone who wants the truth of our times to be known and transmitted down the generations and across borders, must buy, read and gift this book.
Ananda College was the product of the patriotic Buddhist revival under colonialism, while this massive tome is a chronicle of the cycles within the great cycle of the fall, revival and rise of the nation.Now the cycle is being repeated.
The assembly of the organic yet modern elite at the event, the re-invocation of heritage and tapping of the well-springs of patriotic discourse; the solidarity that Ananda College showed Gen. Gunaratne, whose book launch was shunned by the State institutions, which are disowning the war and the warriors; the example shown by this solitary soldier in exchanging his T-56 for a computer keyboard and taking the fight to the enemy in the “war of ideas” instead of surrendering to a silent retirement, may mark a new revivalism of the nation’s sagging spirit in these warped, wretched times of self-abasement and disgrace.
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KA Sumanasekera / September 23, 2016
Wow….This is Gold .. Thanks mate…
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Ajith / September 23, 2016
Doctor of Rogues Dayan,
The author has asked several worthy questions but you couldn’t answer any of them. Your motive is very clear. Your are an enemy of Buddhism and Truism because you are a fundamentalist Christian.You are an enemy of democracy because you were part of dictatorship which pocketed billions of public money. Your hands are with blood because you are part of a massacre of thousands of innocent civilians.
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Kumari / September 23, 2016
If the President Maithripala Sirisena offers this spin Doctor Dayan Jayatilleka a diplomat post in a western country, he will take a 180 degree turn and start writing everything opposite to what he has written now.
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Burning Issue / September 23, 2016
Kumari,
You mean to say that DJ is a true disciple of the mother of all opportunistic sponge Garmini L Peries?
I think DJ wants to emulate the father of all Sinhala fundamentalism the inimitable Mr Anagariga Dharmapala.
DJ = Anagariga Dharmapala
MR = Dhutagamini
What a pair!
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Agnos / September 23, 2016
DJ,
Moral high ground?
Ahilan Arulananthan, a young SL Tamil human rights lawyer in California, has
just been awarded the MacArthur genius award. It is like winning half the Nobel.
He has worked on SL refugee issues as well.
It is the Tamil victims of the war who have the moral high ground now. Wait for the war crimes investigations to begin sooner or later.
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Kettikaran / September 23, 2016
I read Dayan Jayatilake’s comments with sadness and disappointment. Here is a learned man, deeply knowledgeable in the politics of the times of the country, equal to anyone anywhere in contemporary history and yet tastelessly acquiescing to the politics of demagoguery. In the same calibre of yet another once-respected Professor of great learning also seduced by the razzle-dazzle of unethical political office. Both men sacrificed personal integrity and lofty principles merely to be at the beck and call of desperados in politics, now established thieves of the poor peoples resources, who find themselves rejected by the country – at least for now.
What an unfortunate legacy to that giant media man of our times Mervin de Silva – who chose to live a frugal, principled and unblemished life sans car, house or wealth but his fragrant name will remain in the minds of many a thousands of discriminating readers for long. The personal integrity of this now lost remarkable and brilliant writer was not for sale – although he was close to the throne – of men and women on both sides for decades. Giants such as Mervin do not succumb to filthy lucre.
Kettikaran
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Sam Fernando / September 23, 2016
It is your nature, if we would all see, the sky is blue, you would go on saying it is black.. that is your idiosyncratic nature. This is DAYANJAYATHILAKA – THE SILVA who has still been making efforts to play your tricks to stay in spot light. So long the stupid vulnerable would stay deaf andblind, this would be easier for you and wimal buruwanse
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Gama Kolla / September 23, 2016
Oh look who is here. The Dr who was somewhat respectable once upon a time! Before he became a shameless cheerleader of Sri Lanka’s worst dictator. Faithfully singing the praise of anyone trying to prop up hist current master
Look Dr! Many of us haven’t forgotten you publically supported Ealam not so long ago. So you are not a racist for sure. But you are even worse than that. An opportunist! Now you are so worried about us Sinhala people aren’t you? The problem is your master wasn’t very nice the the Sinhala People either.
Where were you Dear Dr when a poor boy was shot dead simply because people demanded that their drinking water should not be polluted? Where were you when a young man was shot dead simply because he set fire to the cut out of your highness? Where were you when the policeman who was blamed for the shooting was ‘punished’ by sending him to a foreign country and tax payers expense? Where were you when a Journalist was shot and killed in broad daylight because our kind didn’t like what he wrote?
As you know all those people are Sinhalese. Of course they are only a tiny fraction of the Sinhala community terrorised by your king. You don’t need a Phd in political science to know where the country will go under that kind of leadership.
Now why am I only talking about Sinhala victims. Of course I care about the Tamil victims too. But I know you have now moved on from your Eelam days and now you are one of the so called ‘defenders’ of us Sinhala Buddhists.
Now you are busy singing the praise of a ‘warrior’ who is making a big noise about ‘not getting into politics’ while inviting none other the corrupt former king of yours. Don’t you have any sense of Shame?
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James Chance / September 23, 2016
What a shame to see such a smart man reduced to worshiping the death cult of majoritarian ethno-nationalism. Good help mother Lanka if his “patriotic” crew ever come back to power. His murderous rhetoric of heroes and traitors (Prabhakaran’s favourite dialect) can almost (but only almost) make one feel sympathy for Ranil and his crew.
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nimal fernando / September 23, 2016
Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka,
Oh what a convoluted web of deceit and hogwash you try to weave.
Thanks for providing a window into your mind, it shows what grand delusions you suffer from. One can be ecstatic that you would carry them to your grave without any of them ever coming to fruition. You deserve no better. In spite of everyone who benefited from his mis-government trying to breathe life into him, Mahinda is a dead man walking. His time has come and gone. Like the LTTE dying with Prabakaran, all “smart-patriots” will die with Mahinda.
I say it again, the greatest act of Sri Lankan patriotism was not done by Kamal Gunaratne, Fonseka, Mahinda ……. or any other Sinhalese, but by velupillai Prabakaran by fighting the Indian army IPKF. If not today, North, East Sri Lanka would be controlled by India through proxies. Listen to Gunaratne, how the Indians treated President Premadasa.
Prabakaran was a principled man (unlike you :)) ) who took on enormous odds to fight the IPKF; all other “Tamil-insurgency” leaders were Indian lackeys. Take your head off Rajapakses behind and think of the fate of SL today if Prabakaran did not fight the IPKF or if there was no Prabakaran and only the leaders of TELO, PLOTE, ….. etc.
It’s a truth no Sinhalese can stomach or would ever admit! But it’s the truth if one is man enough to face it.
And you don’t have a honest cell in your brain to realise it even if it falls on your head.
“well-dressed invitees”
Reading what you have written, in spite of your pseudo-intellectual pretentions and stances, one is left with the feeling that the child has still not given way to the adult.
Nimal F — The only smart non-patriot still standing, writing from his last refuge.
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Seelawathie Jayasinghe / September 23, 2016
There should be a tail in making in Dayan- else I really dont know why the man – so called self proclaimed political scientist have been fallen to this deep ?Hope he will get well soon.
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Tamil from the north / September 23, 2016
Hey bugger Dayan, [Edited out]
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K. A Sumanawathie / September 23, 2016
Isnt this title should read as ” road to Nandikadal VIA Medamulana…”
Kamal G is not a Kobbekaduwa a cardboard hero who was groomed by SF and this man alone taking the credit for war victory?
There were so many actors that helped GOSL including India, USA with intelligence etc, who were later ignored by the Medamulana rogues.
This man KG has put his name on a book that is financed by Rajapaksas from ill gotten money and scripted by either Thadi Priyantha or DJ as he is backing wholeheartedly.
Good work, KG, if another General done in MaRa regime., you will be washing linen in Welikada by now..
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Myrna / September 23, 2016
this is not about school and elits..its about killing Sri Lankans. don’t forget the root that caused deaths.
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Mudson Silva. / September 23, 2016
DR. DJ MAY I REMIND YOU. MR WAS SURROUNDED BY 7000 SOLDIERS TO PROTECT HIM AND HIS BROTHER GOTA WAS SURROUNDED BY 4000 SOLDIERS TO PROTECT HIM. BASIL, CHAMAL,NAMAL, YOSHITHA, CHICHI,SHIRANTHI, THE WHOLE RAJAPAKSA EXTENDED FAMILY HAD A MASSIVE MILITARY COVER TO PROTECT THEM.MR MADE A DEAL WITH PRABAKARAN NOT TO KILL HIM AND HIS FAMILY AND GAVE HIM BUNDLES OF 5000 NOTES AMOUNTING TO MILLIONS THROUGH TIRAN ALLES AND EMIL KANTHAN.
CARD BOARD HERO DAYAN WHAT HAVE YOU GOT TO SAY ABOUT IT.!!!!.
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vishvajith / September 23, 2016
Another book to add to the war literature.
‘Every’ Srilankan, must read Cmdr. Ajith Boyagoda’s book ‘A Long Watch’. Cmdr Boyagoda was a LTTE prisoner for 8 years.
Happy reading All.
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Lester / September 23, 2016
CBK was genuinely interested in federalism, what did the LTTE do? Give her a glass eye and pullet a bullet in the foreign minister. Even when India showed up in the late 80’s, the LTTE attacked them. So it is questionable whether the Geneva Conventions apply to the LTTE, who were willing to execute Heads of State and civilians at a moment’s notice. Unfortunately, like all good terrorists, they used human shields to buy time. Solheim and friends swallowed the bait, but not Mahinda.
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KA Sumanasekera / September 23, 2016
Mahavansa Field Marshall who saw Fazi Hero Pirahapran and his mates waving the White Flag in Nanthikdal, got demolished by none other than our Rana Viru boss, ex Defence Sec.
That is after the Field Marshall said in Parliament that Gota killed Lasantha.
Will the FM issue court orders asking a few Billion in damages?, That is another story.
Looks like the FM now has taken cue from Fazi.
He wants to tell the Truth nothing but the whole Truth in his book .
Fazi can then know all those War secrets, which he seems to fretter not knowing about..
However, the FM will be hard pressed to find an Eye catcher like “Rana Viru March to Nnathikadal ”
Besides what can he write to please Fazi?..
I mean the Field Marshall.s only demand ( or command ) in Nanthikdal was turned down by the great General , Kamal.
Just imagine a Soldier in the front line disobeying a Field Marshall like Patton..
But then Patton could have never asked even a foot soldier to remove a dead Enemy’s uniform, even if the enemy was responsible for causing serious bodily harm to Patton at his own HQ..
I am glad Fazi didn’t buy a copy of Ranaviru March to Nanthikdal .
He can now buy two copies of Field Marsjall’s Book , one for him and one for his NGO boss.
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Old Soldier / September 23, 2016
Mr Fazi,
Before castigating General Gunaratne for failing to tell the truth why don’t you differentiate between fact and fiction. Has anyone seen seven armoured vehicles escorting any General let alone a head of state ?
Have you ever seen any battlefield casualties? If you did you would have seen more grotesque mutilated bodies far worse than Prabhakaran’s. Conducting an autopsy would have been a joke.
Have you forgotten that the LTTE used their own people as human shields to save their own skins. It is true that there were innocent Tamils killed in the crossfire resulting from this action but it is false to say it was genocidal.
Your sympathies may lie with the LTTE but do not ridicule and discredit the armed forces for defeating a ruthless terrorist organisation..As a soldier of conscience you portray a sense of ignorance in military matters when you say that there it took 27 years to end the war and there is no heroism in defeating (in your words) a rag tag army of 100,000 with a force of 300,000. Have you forgotten that it was a well equipped army with Armour,Artillery,Naval and Air capability and described as the best terrorist out fit in the world. Do not forget that the role of the armed services is Internal Security of the nation and that was what was achieved with great sacrifices and commitment.
In general It is sad that racist comments appear to dominate this forum.
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Native Vedda / September 25, 2016
Old Soldier
“In general It is sad that racist comments appear to dominate this forum.”
Remember it was a war without witness.
If you consider seeking truth and justice as racism, so be it.
Screaming racism, smart ass patriotism, Sinhala/Buddhism, NGO bashing, sovereignty, unitary state, ….. come handy when war criminals, crooks, criminals,politicians, corruption officials ………… want to hide their sins and continue with their right to impunity.
If you are a honorable old soldier you should take this opportunity and drive truth home.
“Have you forgotten that it was a well equipped army with Armour,Artillery,Naval and Air capability”
Come on old soldier, you can do better than this. Now I am beginning to doubt your former profession/vocation/career, ……
Did LTTE have an effective air capability? I know you are capable of knowing the difference between a fighter jet and a flying tin box.
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James Chance / September 23, 2016
What a shame that such a smart man is reduced to worshiping the death cult of majoritarian ethno-nationalism. Behind his intellectual veneer lies a good old-fashioned thug. God save Mother Lanka if his crew ever return to power. His murderous rhetoric of patriots and traitors (Prabhakaran’s favourite dialect) is almost – but only almost – enough to make one feel sympathy for Ranil and his band of merry robbers.
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Buster / September 23, 2016
” This patriotic elite has been overthrown and replaced by the puppet elite, the elite of the unworthy, the collaborator elite, the ‘ancien regime’ of appeasers and cowards “
I guess his view is that the bunch of thieves who ripped off the country and were responsible for horrendous human rights abuses that included the abduction and murder of journalists and others who opposed them, is “this patriotic elite”!!!
So what else is new with Dayan Jayatilleka??? What a specimen of a sanctimonious humbug!!!
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S. Makenthiran / September 23, 2016
Some misconceptions:
Are all Sinhalese in uniform war heroes?
Are Sinhalese war criminals war heroes ? What about Murderers ? rapists ? plunderers >
Is killing unarmed Tamils heroism ?
Is killing Tamil women and children heroism ?
From independence till Tamils took up arms after 1983, Sinhalese thugs and hooligans went house to house and street to street killing, raping, burning, torturing unarmed Tamils all over Sri Lanka.
Is that not genocide and terrorism ?
Sinhalese politicians and armed forces supported or connived at the cruelties of Sinhalese thugs and hooligans.
Is Prabaharan taking up arms against Sinhalese cowardly cruelties terrorism ?
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Lakpura / September 23, 2016
It seems this writer sympathize the murderous LTTE and Prabakaran in a big way. Who killed intellectual Tamils like Dr Rajani Tiranagama and Dr. Newman Tiruchllwam. Who planted bombs in civilian targets for indiscriminate killings. Ultimately Who assured the right of living of the all Srilankans including the author of that article.
In other way he is trying to undermine the victory of the Sri Lankan fores
foresees by comparing the numbers. It seems he is unaware of the time, money and the resources utilized by the USA to hunt Osama. But no one undermined that victory other than the lovers of terrorism.There are no ultimate winners of a bloody war. Meantime when you dragged in to such situations no other option also than facing it.
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mathi / September 23, 2016
we knew that the LTTE is fighting for Tamils fundamental rights in there own land of Tamil Eelam (the north & East part of Ceylon).
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watcher / September 23, 2016
What a retard !!! the Muhammed Fazl, the dimwit .
Are you a Sri Lankan or a Arab? or tamil muslim with no shame?
Do you know how many brave muslims that gave their life for the freedom of this country? Almost whole LRRT was consist of brave muslim soldiers and now you are denigrating those brave souls and also living general who wrote the terror war as he sees it…
SL Army is not corrupt and one of few institutions that has a great reputation and whole terror war was dragged this long, due to weak and corrupt colombo clans like ranil, chandrika and whole lots of stooges that has no SL blood.
We will never allow same mistake to happen again and president got until next January to fix the countries ills and lets see how he behave.
MR has his time and became a corrupt but he was a hero to country that finish this ugly war and stood for these ugly indians and corrupt west.
SL only got very handful of genuine politicians and there are people that watching this anti national govt. with grave concern. Gloves are already off and next round will be ugly unless ranil gets his act together.
Do not denigrate brave soldiers, past and present and you will be accountable for the insults.
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Ramani / September 23, 2016
Sour ! Why were you in hibernation
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Ananda Markalanda / September 23, 2016
Valiant Soldier tells the astonishing story of this period whose mission was so critical to a united country, information about it was only recently being published by a soldier who was there to lead. More than three decades later, these uniquely talented patriots can at long last take their place alongside the other honored heroes of our country. In a war many areas are important to remain as secrets.
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Devil / September 23, 2016
Good questions I adore them.
It is not 10,000 It is less than a 1000. I think at any one time it is under a 1000. During The Jaffna fall they lost around 150 of them and not many left with them to fight and the withdrew to Vanni. They built a bund with a smaller periphery so that they can defend it with the man power they had. They started building it much earlier in anticipation of what is going to happen in the years ahead. The tsunami was the reason for all espionage men against them to get into vanni. If not the Ananthapuram chemical attack army of few hundred would have won the final war which was drawn closer to avoid heavy artillery and bombing by much sophistication . All the big countries know this.
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The Oracle / September 23, 2016
This article, written at a time when there are serious attempts to bring about reconciliation between the two worst affected communities , appears to me to be a subtle attempt to stoke the fire .
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Muhammed Fazl / September 23, 2016
It is all his fault… Kamal started it all!
:)
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jen / September 23, 2016
Guess What… The Book was launched at ANANDA COLLEGE in colombo and the guest of honour was MR.
A school certainly is not a place to launch a book of this nature…
They are corrupting and instilling in this young sinhala buddhist kids.. With Racialism and Card Board Patriotism for generations to come.
Shame on you Kamal G
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jim softy / September 23, 2016
Jen:
Are tyou jealous.
His school was ananda.
So what is wrong except Mahinda Rajapakse wants to live on that.
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Sunane / September 23, 2016
Fazl please go back to hibernation. You people talk of human rights living in a cozy country like Switzerland or in Los Angeles,don’t get carried way with this HR thoughts living in another country far away from what we went through.I am nor fan of Mahinda, having seen and experiencing what damage and stealing the man indulged during the time. 17-18 of my school mates ended up as try forces offices and few were Major Generals and a commander in the Air Force. For them I write this quickly. Have you seen how US cops shoot people on the streets? Or killing a State official,by a simple tragic accident? They even give each other “high fives” after killing a black man.They preach us Human rights,my foot. As a third world small island in a strategic location we should not buy all what they sell. Do they speak a word on Kashmir,Afghanistan or Libya, Gaza? Never please don’t lift your kadhura( Arab dress) as a Moslem to the west.Here in Colombo so called self bloating elite community who gives f### for this country, will not even give you a glass of water when you are in trouble mate,so wake up. Go talk of Isis, also funded by US
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Nisanka Ratnayake / September 23, 2016
Mohammed Fazi; You are such a pathetic looser that you try to encourage an opinion that killing PARIBAHARAN was a crime. He is considered by the vast majority in the world as the most ruthless terrorist leader who has never sympathized no one who raised a voice against him. You such a dumb and selfish bastard for commenting in your poorly written article killing this terrorist leader was a crime. Just one question to your FAZI- How old were you when terrorists were killing innocent children and women and unarmed civilians. Again We sinhalese and our Generals in the Sri Lankan Army could and would always claim(rightfully) that we love our country and we love Sinhalese (not that we are racist) because you have proved and many of your comrades have repeatedly proved that you cannot be trusted when it comes to patriotism. We know you wear your hat inside out. We know why you do that- when one side is dirty you turn your hat. That’s not correct my friend, what we do is when one side is dirty we wash it.
You asked why Gen.Kamal Gunaratne hibernate right? You selfish bastard ask yourself where were you when General Gunaratne fearlessly fought a ruthless war and brought peace to this Nation few years back. If these Sinhalese leaders and Sinhala Kollo were not in the battle front You and your selfish parayo would be either sucking those terrorists Di.k or swap your name Mohammed to Mailvanagam. Shame on you.
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Muhammed Fazl / September 23, 2016
I think I was about 11 years when I saw Sinhalese terrorists killing innocent women and children in 1983. Then I also remember Sinhalese terrorists killing each other (over 60,000 me think) in 1987/88 or so.
As for the reason behind killing LTTE going on a killing spree, maybe your Sinhalese leaders since 1956 should be able to shed more light on it than I could.
Cheers
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Zaheer / September 23, 2016
This book is not advance compare to ‘Gota’s War’. ‘Thamilini’ also good attempt.
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