Razia Iqbal: Why (did) the Govt of Sri Lanka want the UN to go? Was it because you couldn’t protect them or did you have another reason?
Rajiva Wijesinha: Well in fact we didn’t want them to go. In Sept we asked the NGOs to leave, one of them had actually been supplying vehicles to the Tigers.
We specifically asked, and that letter is available, UNFPA and UNHCR to stay along with the Red Cross. I’m afraid the then UNDP rep was galvanised by some people who wanted almost to blackmail us to say “No no, if we can’t all stay them we are going to leave”. So the Sec Defence said then leave. But the ICRC stayed right through and we have got all the details of the ICRC interventions during that period. We also have the UN interventions …
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqLa6WFzZ2w&feature=plcp
RI: We’re not talking about the ICRC Sir, if I, if you wouldn’t mind …
RW: Hold on let me finish. The UN was there through convoys right through January, and its nonsense to say the UNDP rep didn’t bother – they were very concerned. I remember my Minister (Mahinda Samarasinghe) being rung up one morning and told that the people in the No-Fire Zone were being fired on, but in the evening they sent us an sms saying their information was that the firing came from the Tigers – I don’t think they were lying, but unfortunately junior members of the UN have complained about their bosses and lied about them
RI: Sir, this internal report of the UN says that under intense pressure from the Sri Lankan Govt the UN did not make clear that a large majority of deaths were caused by govt shelling, and that you put the UN under that pressure
RW: The panels of inquiries have not been transparent. We have got the letters through which the UN dealt with us and I think this is an attempt to undermine senior members of the UN. I am sorry you can’t share the leaked report with me, but recently I saw something by a Britisher Julian Vigo which quoted young people in the UN – they are liers – for instance I checked with IOM about the person called Suzanne – they said there was no such person called Suzanne …. I’m afraid these people are not only determined to push a political agenda, but they are not truthful – I mean I don’t mind people being anonymous but don’t claim to have a name which turns out to be false. Why don’t you check with the senior leadership of the UN? I have to say that the Sri Lankan govt has failed because when the Darusman report came out I personally checked – Sir John Holmes had not been contacted, except very briefly initially, Neil Buhne was the UNDP head and worked very well with the Sri Lankans, was not contacted. He can testify that the Tigers did not allow something like 600 Sri Lankan (UN) workers to leave, but at the end of the war all of them were safe – so this is hardly indiscriminate attacks.
RI: Well let me ask you about the issue that both sides in this conflict have been accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity. What do you as a representative of the Sri Lankan govt have to say about that – that there was widespread indiscriminate shelling of civillians.
RW: Well who are the people who make these attacks? For instance in the East, where I followed very carefully, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said “indiscriminate attacks on civillians” but their report recorded only one instance of civillians being killed and that was because of mortar locating radar. We took full responsibility and said we are sorry but we had mortar locating radar, and HRWgranted the Tigers had been with weapons in a refugee camp but said they were not heavy weapons. How dare they allow these people to shoot from amongst refugees.
RI: Do you not Sir take responsibility …
RW: I was head of the peace secretariat, I monitored TamilNet every day and I would ask for explanations
RI: How do you account for tens
RW: Let me finish please
RI: You are not answering the question
RW: Of 425 sorties by the air force, in only 29 of them were there allegations of civilian deaths
RI: How do you account for tens of thousands of civilians being killed?
RW: It is not tens of thousands because even the UN report – which the UN then said we cannot talk about because its not verifiable, Sir John Holmes said that, he was accused of suppressing but he was trying to be accurate – said 7,000. The larger figure is obviously exaggerated, and you’re relying on people like the Times who started this figure of 20,000. They first said it was on the basis of extrapolations. When I pointed out that it was not true they said it was on the basis of graveyards. The graveyards were looked at aerially by the American Association for the Advancement of Science and their report was suppressed because they said the graveyards barely expanded during those days. So why don’t you look at a few facts instead of mentioning the exaggerations of people who simply cannot cite dates and times.
RI: Is it not also the case Sir that you do not allow journalists to, have not allowed journalists to report on this story freely which makes it very difficult to verify some of the things that you are claiming?
RW: Don’t be ridiculous. During the war I was head of the peace secretariat – I kept asking journalists to come in. The Indians came and reported very fairly and I must say in fairness to the BBC it was not outrageous, they tended to cite people but they always said they were citing – it was Channel 4 and the Guardian that came out with such outrageous lies and when I questioned the Guardian guy he sort of said to me ‘I now realise that source was not reliable.’ This is the source that told him there were 13 women with their throats cut – there was not 1, I checked with all the protection agencies.
RI: OK OK Sir we have run out of time. Thank you very much indeed for joining us.
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Rama / November 16, 2012
i just can’t stand this yeknom.
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Ben Hurling / November 17, 2012
Yet, you tolerated blood thirsty LTTE terrorists for 30 years. Didn’t you?
You only have a problem with RW? He has no blood on his hands. Unlike your hero VP, terrorist king.
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Rama / November 18, 2012
don’t get excited man. vp was a freedom fighter. he may have made a few mistakes i agree. he shouldn’t have killed tamil leaders. he should have treated the tamil population in a civilised manner. apart from these two i totally agree with his policies.
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Mango / November 19, 2012
Ummmm, genius Rama, the policies you disagreed with were his policies! Un-believable :) :)
A typical conversation in VP’s bunker went like this:
LTTE minion: “Thalivar, the kids from Sencholai orphanage want you to come to their combat drills… er… I mean school dance.”
VP: “Kill them to achieve Eelam”.
LTTE minion: “Thalivar, the Chingalam racists want to talk about peace talks”
VP: “Kill them to achieve Eelam”.
LTTE minion: “Thalivar, the Sea Tigers only managed to catch one small turtle for your lunch”
VP: “Kill them to achieve Eelam”.
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Wuliangguobinjiu / November 18, 2012
Professor of the Lankan Gravy Train- He sounds something like the dyke in the story of the little Dutch boy – a barrier that prevents the nation from being flooded.
He translates emotions better when he stops typical tittle tattle.
Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself and his family.
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David Blacker / November 19, 2012
Inconvenient, isn’t it, when someone can tell you in detail where you’re wrong. :D
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Leela / November 18, 2012
You can’t stand him because you cannot hear the truth.
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Rama / November 18, 2012
surely truth can’t come of the mouth of a notorious liar. when was the last time sinhala people spoke the truth. i have heard only lies, complaints , denials and blaming everyone else but themseves. in short sinhala race is a barbaric and uncivilised race.
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Native Vedda / November 20, 2012
Rama says:
“surely truth can’t come of the mouth of a notorious liar.”
Can truth come from a barrel of a gun?
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Wuliangguobinjiu / November 16, 2012
LIAR; Liar;liar………………………liar.
Abattoirs; Abattoirs; Abattoirs;
Achtung rajapakistan! Que pasa; ;) :)
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Dominique / November 17, 2012
It’s pathetic that you cannot resist a well versed response by a Sri Lankan government official.
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Wuliangguobinjiu / November 17, 2012
You mean the petty bourgeoisie jerk uttering pseudo verse?
Ah ha! Suffice to say he tries to answer without answering the question. ;)
I don’t believe that racist Sinhala Buddhists are even human.
There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist. :)
To be or not to be! “Of entrance to a quarrel, but being in, bear’t that th’opposed may beware of thee. Take each man’s censure, but reserve thy judgement……….This above all: to thine own self be true, …………Thou canst not then be false to any man.” –Hamlet
India has a sordid history of electing thugs and crooks. In 2009 alone, over 129 of the elected people had criminal records, several with murder convictions. Among those running for office, Congress–114 with criminal records, BJP–113, BSP-105 and so on. So talking about law and democracy is an exercise in futility. :):) :)
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latif / November 18, 2012
Your humanitarian Hindu Tamils even had a Muslim barbeque in Eastern province.. Try that again if u dare…
We are having a Hindu Tamil Humanitarian barbeque in Eastern province, come be roasted just like Pilliyan.
Pirabha digged you own grave darling. Now you are the roast of our toast.
Boast until we finish it all..
Good luck at your new homes in Canada & Europe.
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Leela / November 18, 2012
latif, binjus are waiting to be assimilated into larger societies of the west.
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Wuliangguobinjiu / November 18, 2012
Leelo:Quote”binjus are waiting to be assimilated “Unquote.
I don’t live for others or let others live for me. I am I and that’s the way we grew up.
You “wait” because you are not the person to have breakfast with at Tiffany’s. There is nothing like a conversational my fair lady you would of course despise. Remember it’s just that breakfast.
Not you poof. :)
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Leela / November 18, 2012
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David Blacker / November 19, 2012
As usual, when faced with an articulate and informed response, the comments here degenerate into an incoherent hysteria of name calling :D Pathetic.
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latif / November 17, 2012
Darling,
Come to Munneswaram Kovil animal festival next year to see your Hindu Tamil Humanitarians having a barbeque…
Transport free from Katunayaka, my new Lamborghini is just been shipped…
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Wuliangguobinjiu / November 17, 2012
Ho ho! Illegal Abattoir owner looking for a contract no way.
Its location is Den Hauge beside the incinerator.The vast majority on barbeque are known to be Sinhala Buddhist and your shipped load may be high jacked by your Islamist brothers of Somali- take care.
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Rama / November 18, 2012
i would have thought that it does happen everyday in dumbulla mosque. i suppose the only difference is that it has to be a halal goat.
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Rama / November 18, 2012
i still think prabhakaran was a bit of a softy. if i were him i wouldn’t have let th******s complete their journey to puttalam.
modi and thackeray are my heros.
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watcher / November 17, 2012
Well done Rajiva… Those nut cases will have to shut their mouth for time being…
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Niv / November 17, 2012
LOL.. never answered the questions. RW should start his primary again to learn how to answer the questions first. When he answers his mouth and facial expression are telling how liar he is…
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Dominique / November 17, 2012
The first LOL is an indication that you are psychologically incapable of countering RW with facts. 3.5 years have gone, but you still cannot get pass this individual.
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Upul / November 17, 2012
We all enough psychologically capable to understand RW and why he is talking all nonsense. We are psychologically incapable only for people like you and RW that is why you give interview like this.
People like you are incapable because still you like and enjoy what he says.. That’s the biggest LOL
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David Blacker / November 19, 2012
If he is talking nonsense, why don’t you counter his points instead of just throwing insults?
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Native Vedda / November 18, 2012
Niv
“never answered the questions”
It is his job not to answer any questions. What are you complaining about?
My complain is that RW is not doing his job properly.
Let MR find some one who is like his brother GR to disarm all inquisitors, permanently.
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BunkerRat / November 18, 2012
Why should we answer questions on our national security to some foreign media hellbent on creating divisions among communities in third world countries? Are you (still) frightened of the white men (or women)? We are not.
Why are we answerable…. WHY? why should we give details? Why should we allow them in our country… why? why?
NOPE… if I were Rajiv… I would have made sure they would never interrogate us on the Tamil terrorists again… I would simply tell her to go to hell in such a way… she would look forward to the trip.
(In a way Rajiv did that. I was so happy to see the woman getting furious!… Well done.)
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Paul / November 18, 2012
you are rat, so no need to wait for white van. but real humans in this country has concern. your name tells that why you were so concern about telling the real name.
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Leela / November 18, 2012
You mean like Gota taking BBC hard-talk man Sarkur for a sucker.
Leela
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Wuliangguobinjiu / November 18, 2012
Bangladesh was created in 7 days and it takes just 3 days to recreate Ceylon.
Rajive made a mess with simpleton John Snow and he is having sleepless nights. You see even the Oxford birds have flown away because he does not have selfrespect thats what he exhibited.
Tsunami coming you won’t have white man’s money then you won’t even have the kunu bakki pissu kollo.
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Leela / November 18, 2012
Well, came out with facts didn’t he.
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Wuliangguobinjiu / November 18, 2012
You mean the actor carried out the act!- not much of an act from the responses.
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Rama / November 18, 2012
good enough for sinhala layabouts.
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gamini / November 17, 2012
To quote this Pudding Basin, ‘RW: Don’t be ridiculous. During the war I was head of the peace secretariat – I kept asking journalists to come in. The Indians came and reported very fairly and I must say in fairness to the BBC it was not outrageous, they tended to cite people but they always said they were citing – it was Channel 4 and the Guardian that came out with such outrageous lies and when I questioned the Guardian guy he sort of said to me ‘I now realise that source was not reliable.’ This is the source that told him there were 13 women with their throats cut – there was not 1, I checked with all the protection agencies’.
This bugger has lost all prominence of postions held, as MR has realised his real potential. Rajeeva Wijesinghe is a BLUFF. Where are the blue eyed children? Who are the Protection Agencies with whom he checked?
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Leela / November 18, 2012
You are ducking away from his point gamini.
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David Blacker / November 19, 2012
If he is a bluff, why can’t you call the bluff and counter his points? :D
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Native Vedda / November 20, 2012
David Blacker says
“the comments here degenerate into an incoherent hysteria of name calling “
They are learning from you, ideal guru. You have a good number of followers. Its time you started a cult.
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David Blacker / November 22, 2012
You seem to be my only follower; therefore I appoint the task of quoting me being incoherent as you claim.
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Randy Mathew / November 17, 2012
As always lies, lies & more lies from Rajiva. He has to continue to sing for his supper or else he could get white vanned too.
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suryagamage nilan / November 17, 2012
Kalu Suddha is being sent to boru the english man at a critical juncture!
MR knows that Kalu can speak queens english to bluff the white man! so uses him at critical times and then relegates Kalu to shut up like our friend in Paris!
Lets see what happens to kalu suddha once MR’s son learns english and then kalu wont have a job…and will have to go begging to his real english master the queen! and hold a spitoon for her.
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Wuliangguobinjiu / November 17, 2012
What about this classification of Queens English eh? Is it when the piece of meat called Channel 4’s simpleton John Snow a jerk?
Well Queens English does not point the finger like that; the piece of meat is truly a “Singlish” speaker.
Local English news readers at SLBC do better than him any day I suppose so.
On the other hand the English lass Oxford qualified Mathematician Kath Noble ditches him after the UNHRC meeting is more like it Oxford English.
England considers the piece of meat as none existent trash from a former colony gone wild.
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Sukumalie / November 20, 2012
You are right.
But I believe Rajiva is excellent at explaining things – though mostly beating around the bush. He should be like that because his being is clear that he has to defence the rulers.
I wish he could sit on the other side making the picture clearer for the international communities. That could speed up the process of toppling the current regime.
As itis the case with indians, south africans or australians – srilanken English has lot to do with our culture and the tradition. Some the british would not use are being used in SL even in colloquial expressions. That is just typical to lankens.
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Wuliangguobinjiu / November 20, 2012
Sukumali: Quote”As itis the case with indians, south africans or australians – srilanken English has lot to do with our culture and the tradition. Some the british would not use are being used in SL even in colloquial expressions. That is just typical to lankens”
There is something that the adversaries of the British don’t want to see but the common Chinese see even on the street of China. That the Brits are realistic, have a humor and are dreamers. One said even if you look up and spit it falls on you but then do you see that manmade bird in the sky its wright brothers like everything else.
The British are by nature always on the side of the underdog. Look at the number of refugees from all over the world that have come to Britain for centenaries and Britain questioning the oppressing nation. They have an old culture. They don’t forget the invading Vikings and Spanish- Gulliver in the land of Lilliput’s :)
During the Tsunami in SL little children broke their piggy banks to donate and Sir Paul McCarthy called Bush a stingy man to the effect of Bush turning red in shame. Later Lakshman K came to London and at the interview with BBC he said “We have not received even one cent” and this shocked every kid because the collection was history at £1 billion and the government had to stop it at that. Now try to understand who and why LK was assassinated. Folk will still give to Indonesia which has since done much even with a war like SL but not SL because they are not kids anymore.
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Peter / November 17, 2012
“RW: It is not tens of thousands because even the UN report ……. Sir John Holmes said that, he was accused of suppressing but he was trying to be accurate – said 7,000. The larger figure is obviously exaggerated, and you’re relying on people like the Times who started this figure of 20,000. ……. When I pointed out that it was not true they said it was on the basis of graveyards. ….. So why don’t you look at a few facts instead of mentioning the exaggerations of people who simply cannot cite dates and times.”
How interesting! What a bout those “zero casualties” you came up with? What is your figure now?? I couldn’t figure out why you were described as “a snail” until it was pointed out that they always leave a trail of slime.
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David Blacker / November 19, 2012
You have quoted his figure already. And I don’t believe Rajiva ever said there were zero casualties.
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Peter / November 20, 2012
David – I can’t quote Rajiva exactly, however, this was the GOSL’s stance early in the piece AND since RW was/is the mouthpiece of the GOSL, this would have been his stance (by extension) as well. Hence the question
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David Blacker / November 22, 2012
He has never been the only mouthpiece, Peter. Therefore to attribute a claim made by some GoSL officials as being from this spokesperson is unfair, unless you can quote him. However, you’ve asked him what he says the figure is now; and that he has already stated.
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Peter / November 22, 2012
David – you say “However, you’ve asked him what he says the figure is now; and that he has already stated.”
I don’t see where he has in this interview. As I understand him, he is quoting others, which is why I asked him in the first place. And his not “being the only mouthpiece” is irrelevant in this instance. And then about being “unfair” – his job is to be a “spokesperson” for the GOSL and ‘advisor’ to the president, which means he is duty-bound to answer for the “GOSL officials”, don’t you think?
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LOL / November 17, 2012
RW should have got million dollars just only for this interview to tell the lie and again pointing finger at UN. This poor guy doesn’t understand that what will happen when fingering more and more on UN.
On the other hand, we knew moon and countries representing UNHR and it’s so called chiefs are liars and living luxury life in donor’s money. these donors are pumping people’s tax money in to so called UN representative’s entertainment not for what UN suppose to do.
Moon somehow saved his 2nd term by keep on silence when war crimes taking place in Sri lanka. He knew that if he open his mouth, china, Russia India, japan and EU countries who are backing the war (though war crimes and genocide are happening) will put a full stop to his next term. If we really speak about the truth, moon used unarmed innocent Tamil civilians, women and children for his next run as chief of UN. He used these people as a human shield to run his 2nd term.
UN representatives in SL were working as SL gov employed employees not like employed by UN. They didn’t do what they suppose to do as a UN representative but didn’t do anything as a human. They must ashamed to tell the world that they were/are representative of UN and/or in Sri Lanka. when people begging for them not to leave them they just left by telling those are LTTE supporters.
This is the time for international community (most of them were backing the war when genocide and crimes happening, and no option we need to ask them for justice though they supported) investigate that UN head and mission in Sri lanka was bribed and they get money or other luxury gifts in other countries to leave the war zone and not to publish the death counts received from reliable sources in war zone.
Though this report blames his own org UN’s actions during the war that doesn’t mean Moon can save his UN member country Sri lanka and its supporters who provided cluster bombs and other banned weapons to use on civilian population within the safe zone. UN was aware that SL bombarded civilian areas to force everyone to move into safe zone and then bombarded safe zone. I believe Moon is thinking that he can drag this issue and divert world’s attention towards UN so the whoever committed crimes including supporting countries and individuals like Nambiar can escape from the charges.
Not only UN mission in SL was failed to tell the truth but Moon him self told lie to the world after he visited war zone (over the sky like a tourist) and concentration camps in Vanni and then praised SL gov. this clearly tells what was the entire mission of the UN in the SL war. definitely mission wasn’t humanitarian but only political.
Moon can’t bring 70000+ thousand lives of women, children, unborn babies, young boys and girls, live of people who surrenders and then executed. Still UN is in SL, but
1. Do they have figures of injured people? No. because wounded people are far less (even that should be 50000+) than the people killed by UN and its member countries.
2. Do they have a statistics for people who sexually assaulted by SL? NO
3. do they have statistics for the boys&grls who are without parents? No.?
4. Do they have statistics for the people who were hospitalized? NO
5. Do they have the statistics for the people who were resettled inside the jungle? NO.
more than that, UN didn’t get an access to concentration camps (so called rehabilitation camps for UN) for many many years and give the relief directly to the affected people. This is what UN could do maximum in Sri lanka. to do this, they have a mission in Sri Lanka, luxury vehicles, houses, security, etc etc. really ashamed. I think this is the time for world’s peace lovers to decide on needs of UN mission in their countries.
Lets see the output of this report. One day we will get a honest person as chief of UN and he will take this issue and give justice to innocent civilians who killed only for political reason. Nothing else.
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Dominique / November 17, 2012
Well done Rajiva! Keep kicking their asses :D
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Wuliangguobinjiu / November 17, 2012
Oh yeah, while the two of you keeps “licking everyone’s ass” just like the racist Sinhala Buddhist eh? How’s that begging bowl thinge?
Big Brother is Watching!
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BunkerRat / November 18, 2012
Someday… honey… some beautiful sun-shiny day… somehow… by someone else… somewhat similar to the shape of a toilet bowl… somewhere… the Elaam will be created… EXCEPT IN SRI LANKA.
Happy, now?
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Upul / November 17, 2012
You mean MR’s a*s*s?
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Leela / November 18, 2012
In the same time licking the asses of GOVT – as it s been seen to us all.
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Native Vedda / November 18, 2012
Dominique says;
“Well done Rajiva! Keep kicking their asses “
Instead he is kicking his own ar.e.
Please let him know that he is supposed to kick MR’s ar.e not his own.
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Piranha / November 17, 2012
This man has verbal diarrhoea like no other apologist of the Rajapaksa regime. He is excellent at not answering the question but beating about the bush with vague quotes from nameless sources. Deftly changed his earlier mantra from “zero casualtis” to “a few thousand” without batting an eye lid. Typical political opportunist enjoying the perks for being an apologist for Rajapaksa. The man is educated but utterly shameless.
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monkey / November 17, 2012
So now it is 7,000 civilians more like a few hundred civilians and almost 7,000 combatants i.e. Sri Lankan forces soldiers and LTTE terrorists. The BBC would next want us to believe that no SL army soldier or LTTE terrorist died in this war but all the deaths were ‘civilians’. This 7,000 are the number of SL soldiers and LTTE terrorists combined who died or would the BBC want us to believe that all LTTErs were ‘civilians’ and our SL Army soldiers were superhuman that none of them got killed when in reality thousands of the SL Army soldiers died as did thousands of LTTErs. What nonsense is this why do people even bother listening to the BBC?
Judge the BBC by what their country has done in Iraq Afghan wars. The US used cluster bombs in Iraq and carpet bombed Afghanistan. In Libya 50,000 bombs were dropped on that country. Even yesterday some civilians have been killed in Afghanistan I think Rajiv should ask the BBC why war crimes are being committed in Afghanistan and was committed in a gross scale in Iraq and Libya and why the UN is doing nothing. He he he this is a comedy drama I think.
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Wuliangguobinjiu / November 17, 2012
Why is it that only the Sri Lankan Monkey of the South is a Polygamist?? Look up the 50 minute video of the one and only Sri Lankan monkey as narrated by Sir Richard Attenborough
The day the racist Sinhala Buddhist of the south stop going to war Sri Lanka would become civilized.
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M Y Foote / November 17, 2012
Monkey, I have a few simple questions-
Do we have a government elected by the people and answerable to the people?
If so do we not have the right to know the number of people who died because of the conflict?
Do not the kith and kin have the right to know if their dear and near ones are dead or alive?
Shouldn’t they bring to a closure and attend to the religious rites of those who have departed?
These are questions that monkeys may find difficult to answer! I like to think of this country as an “idiocracy” run by idiots for idiots. If not we wont have mind boggling answers to simple questions of accountability!
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monkey / November 17, 2012
This UN report which said 7,000 even this is an exaggeration and really a figure plucked form thin air. I remember this so called UN report again it is just a figure plucked from thin air. The absolute truth is only a few hundred civilians died however thousands of combatants died which includes thousands of SL Forces soldiers and thousands of LTTE terrorists. This is very consistent with all evidence on the ground. The UN staff and the BBC are making things up for their own gross reasons. They should be sued for tarnishing the image of Sri Lanka by the Sri Lankan people for billions of dollars I think. This is the only language they will understand. No amount of facts on the ground will satisfy them.
The problem is some people just believe anything coming from the BBC or other western sources as the gospel truth. Are we such fools and idiots?
Look at the conduct of the US and the UK in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya. These countries committed mass murder, massacres, war crimes and crimes against humanity in these countries and the UN did nothing. So BBC please first sort out your own problems without harrasing innocent peoples and countries for no reason and get lost.
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Jay Ranaweera / November 17, 2012
What a pathetic lot of comments against RW who could not gulp the TRUTHS POINTED OUT ABOUT FALSE PROPAGANDA.
They all look like illeterate LTTE SUPORTERS.
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Upul / November 17, 2012
Another so called SL supported who has no brain? or sponsored by racist Sinhalese Buddhist criminals?
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Mark / November 17, 2012
Hey Upul you must be a yet another Blood succing LTTE supporter I guess!!!!
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Upul / November 17, 2012
Blood sucking? LOL. who’s sucking blood and money of this country and people? Do you know? you want SL people to tell exactly who is doing this?
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latif / November 18, 2012
Upul my dear,
Buddhists & Muslims & Christians don’t have racism but Hindu Tamils started it… War is over…
It was South Indian so called ahimsa terrorists who kept on invading this island…
& they planted their seeds, those seeds did it again…
This island is so small, why keep on saying Buddhist racists?
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Wuliangguobinjiu / November 18, 2012
latif:Quote”racism but Hindu Tamils started it”Unquote
Religion and race are totally different concepts. It was SWRD who used Ra.Re.Rg. to come to power that he did not deserve therefore his fate.
Latti pukka your slip is showing. Swami Ramakrishna a Bengali in his very first speech at the House of Religions mentions about how the Hindu Guajarati’s welcomed the Parse refugees who were fleeing the Muslim crusade in Persia. It was also the Guajarati’s who took Islam as far as Indonesia. Why blame the Hindu religion when Gautama himself was a Hindu and did not forsake it as a religion and saw his message Buddhism as a philosophy of life not a religion. :)
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Rama / November 18, 2012
invaders in fact have taught you a lesson that you can never forget. mind you there will be more and more invasions to come in the future. be prepared for it. go to red china with your begging bowl and plead with chinaman to give you arms to fight and loans to feed the starving masses. bbq will start soon in viharis and mosques and the range of animals will be from sheep to pigs. special flights also have been arranged to transport maids and toilet cleaners to the middle east , italy and south korea. when the south koreans saw the black faces they se fire to the building. when arabs see the black faces they send in needles after needles.
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Native Vedda / November 18, 2012
latif says:
“This island is so small, why keep on saying Buddhist racists?”
You are right. It is precisely for this and other reasons that I want the Tamils and Sinhalese to leave my ancestral island and go back to their homeland which is in India.
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monkey / November 17, 2012
I would like to say that the entire northern Sri Lanka every square inch is being de-mined not just by the SL Army but also by British NGOs like the Halo trust and thirty other International NGOs and even the UNDP. If thousands of civilians died have they even found even a skeleton. Where are the skeletons? Not a shred of actual ‘evidence’ have been found to substantiate these utter lies.
I think the BBC, Channel 4 News should be sued for billions of dollars for spreading these lies with not one little bit of actual evidence. Why should Sri Lanka suffer these insults? This is the only language these liars will understand.
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monkey / November 17, 2012
You can imagine how much these so called UN (not really these are private reports of the secretary general) since neither the UN, UNHCR or the UNSC authorised such a reports. These liars say for certain that such and such a number of civilians were caught in the last stages of the war. In truth no census has been carried out in northern sri lanka for over thirty yrs since 1981. Since then some civilians were thrown out by the tigers, some left for the south, some left for India, some to the west due to the terrorist activities of the tiger. In fact in 1995 tigers forced entire pop. of Jaffna into the vanni region and afterwards some of these people went back to Jaffna again. My point is nobody on this planet earth can know how many people were there with the tigers not even the tigers themselves. There was a constant flux of people due to terrorist activities of the tigers. It is based on these false notions that this so called reports were written what nonsense!!! Are we fools?
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monkey / November 17, 2012
In fact nobody on this planet earth could know or can know how many people were in the northern sri lanka since since 1981 no census has been carried out in this area for over thirty years! It is only in 2012 after more than thirty years that now at last a census has been carried out. So how can anyone on this planet earth say with confidence that there were 330,000 people or any other number for that matter as stated in this UN report actually private report of the UN secretary general not a UN report!!! talks about? The Sri Lankan govt did send food medicine and all the basics to the people in the northern province who were suffering under the vicious tiger terrorists for over thirty years and the tigers always had a habit of inflating people numbers just to get more of the govt supplies for their own destructive purposes. These LTTE terrorist sympathisers of the UN who are appointed by US lackey UN secretary general are plucking numbers from thin air. They should be sued for sure.
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monkey / November 17, 2012
The UN sec gen thinks the world are fools and maybe they are to believe such nonsensical clap trap not based on any facts but based entirely on ‘evidence’ provided by the LTTE terrorist supporters in the west. May be the world are fools since the world gullibly believes anything spewed out by Channel 4 UK News, BBC, UNSG private expert panel reports (based on ‘evidence’ provided by the LTTE terrorist supporters in the west). Anything that is generated from the west is taken as the gospel truth without scrutinising to see what facts if any these so called reports are based on (actually they are great works of fiction). There is another character called Gordon Weiss who has also written a fictional novel about sri lanka and I am wondering are the Indians really fools to believe such fictitious nonsense. Please verify anything coming out of the west. verify, verify and verify!!! What have they done in Iraq and Afghanistan for example? We must be idiots and gullible fools for sure.
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monkey / November 17, 2012
Please judge these news sources and their countries of origin not by what they say but by what they themselves have done. The Channel 4 News, BBC are from a country which has attacked Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya and turned them into humanitarian disaster areas. Even cluster bombs were used in Afghanistan and carpet bombing and God knows what else. The UNSG and his so called experts are the ones who watched while the US and the like imposed ‘sanctions’ on Iraq which are thought to have killed half a million Iraqui children due to malnutrition. I don’t need to say whether they were on the side of the civilians or on the side of the bomb dropping US, UK and the like in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya. Over 50,000 bombs were dropped on Libya. On Sri Lanka it is this same set who were supporting the tiger terrorists who after not being able to bear the defeat of the tigers are now writing fiction. So now they are on the side of the ‘civilians’? Why should this lot take us for fools?
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Kabi / November 17, 2012
As per you it appears that Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan were Five Star democracy countries that were destroyed by USA and UK. Iraq was a rogue country by capturing Kuwait. Libya was a under a dictator for more than 30 years. In Afghanistan there were no rights for women.. even they cant go to school and men cant shave themselves. So as per you these are five star democratic countries whose governments were toppled by USA and UK.??
You mention LTTE as terrorist… then how about the government. How do you call those people;
– who attacked tamils in 1956
– who attacked Tamils in 1977
– who burned jaffna Library in 1981
– who killed more than 3000 tamils in 1983
– who burnt tamil properties in 1983
– who raped tamil women in 1983
– and finally killed more than 40000 people in 2009
ARE THOSE WHO DID THESE SAINTS IN YOUR DICTIONARY????
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DJ / November 17, 2012
Hikz.. I am from nowhere.. Just mate shed some light on me.. Were the saintly Tamils happened to be the majority before all these events in Sri Lanka?? Because when you add all these figures coming from heaven they easily surpass other communities.
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kabi / November 17, 2012
your comment itself shows your literacy… so I don’t need to answer your question.
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Wuliangguobinjiu / November 17, 2012
It’s impossible to work under conditions where they confused negativity with objectivity. You can’t fool the media fans and the journalist alike.
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Wuliangguobinjiu / November 17, 2012
Kabi His I.Q. is below par at 50 I suppose so.
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Mark / November 17, 2012
Yes you seem to be literate supporter of the LTTE. Have you fogotten the brutal killings of the sinhala and muslims as well as some eminent tamil leaders like Lakshnam Kadiragama? The list would have been endless why not include them as well rather than being BIAS on your comments..
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Wuliangguobinjiu / November 17, 2012
Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar was a Gotaporkistan arranged affair. How about all the journalist; even the ones operating CT left due to the animal.
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kabi / November 17, 2012
What I was doing is replying to a comment of “Monkey-November”. Please read his comment before reading mine :). I have not denied the killings of LTTE in my reply. I’m against that as well. Government and Sinhala terrorism in the past was worst than that of LTTE’s. I would have appreciated your question if you had ask the same question from “Monkey-November” about the government terrorism.
Terrorism started from the government not from the LTTE. Until early 1984s no Sinhala civilians were targeted by LTTE or any other Tamil militants. But the history tells who started terrorism before 1984 on innocent Tamil civilians and continued to date. One of the bad things LTTE did was to target innocent Sinhalese here and there which lead them to being banned in many countries as terrorists. But the same thing did not happen to the killers from the government side.
AS YOU MAY BE AWARE A SINGLE SINHALA WOMEN WAS RAPED BY LTTE OR ANY OTHER TAMIL MILITANTS DURING THE 30 YEAR OLD STRUGGLE.
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Native Vedda / November 18, 2012
Mark says:
“Have you fogotten the brutal killings of the sinhala and muslims as well as some eminent tamil leaders like Lakshnam Kadiragama?”
So you do care about the Tamils. Your love for the Tamils is limited to Lakshnam Kadiragamar.
Have you fogotten the brutal killings of the Sinhala, Tamils and Muslims by Sinhala/Buddhist armed forces and party sponsored thugs?
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Leela / November 18, 2012
Who started the mother of all riots in Nawalapitiya in 1935 with racist remarks? If you do not know, Google and check out.
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Wuliangguobinjiu / November 18, 2012
Leela:Quote” If you do not know, Google and check out.” Unquote
So Google that can be edited is your God now and the yellow robed terrorist your spirit. But anyone can edit a google database its not rocket science and you cannot quote it in a court of law maybe in rajaporkistan’s “monkey court” that goes after women.
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Kabi / November 20, 2012
According to my Understanding Sinhalese started the violence without facing one’s opinion with another opinion. GG Ponnambalam had one opinion Sinhalese had a right to reject it and raise their opinion without resorting to violence. Instead Sinhalese too violence in their hands and attacked Tamils in 1939.
So mother of all riots was also started by Sinhalese and not by Tamils. Tamils were the saviors of your community in Sinhala vs Muslim riots… remember that.
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monkey / November 17, 2012
The BBC would like us to believe that no LTTErs died in the fighting and no Sri Lankan forces personnel died in the last phases of the Sri Lankan civil war and all these combatants were somehow ‘civilians’! What nonsense is this. We are not idiotic fools.
About Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, it doesn’t matter if these countries were or were not five star democracies or not. US, UK does not have a right whatsoever to bomb these countries to smithereens, massacre and mass murder civilians and carpet bomb these countries to the stone ages and create massive humanitarian disasters. Libya was a very prosperous country by the way. The world is full of countries who follow different cultures, traditions that one model of democracy as preached by the US, UK does not fit all.
Where was these so called UN experts and the UN sec gen when such massacres were taking place I wonder sleeping? The BBC better take care of the culpability of the UK in all this instead of harassing Sri Lanka for no reason whatsoever regarding various scenarios and rubbish they themselves have concocted up from nowhere.
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Wuliangguobinjiu / November 17, 2012
Buruva, burrito boy you have run away from Channel 4 to BBC for a laugh. OMG
Whatever you mentioned about the west is under investigation by westerners alike and you don’t need to worry even the dead will be brought back to life and investigated like the BBC affair.
“Mass murdering your Own People is a war crime against humanity” much worse than Fallujah by the foreign forces.
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kabi / November 17, 2012
Anything happened in Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan have come out through media unlike in Sri Lanka. If you have followed BBC, CNN and Al-Jazeera you may know. In Sri Lanka everything happened in secret way but little by little coming out.
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Rajiv / November 17, 2012
Absolutely correct. According to BBC, UN and the INGO’s only civilians died in this war. The LTTE terrorists somehow magically swam across the ocean to safety. What a bunch of croc.
All you LTTE supporters said nothing when the LTTE killer machine was in full force. In fact, all of you were cheering from the comfort of your homes in the US, Europe, Canada, and Australia every time they killed. Now, you are all crying because you lost this war.
As for the zero civilian casualty policy, the government did not target civilians. I am sure civilians died. This was a brutal war. Collateral damage(a US & Western coined terminology) was inevitable in any war especially with a brutal group of terrorists who did not hesitate to kill their own people for political gain and publicity. If the government targeted civilians, how do you explain 294,000 people running in to the safety of the Army?
Why is it that no one opens their mouth to give the government credit for saving 294,000 people from the clutches of the LTTE?
How about saving the lives of thousands of children?
How about the demining of thousands of acres of land belonging to the people?
The list goes on but not a word of appreciation from any of these LTTE supporters.
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Wuliangguobinjiu / November 17, 2012
The day the racist Sinhala Buddhist of the south stop going to war Sri Lanka would become civilized.
“Mass murdering your own people is a war crime against humanity” much worse than Fallujah by the foreign forces.
Why is it that only the Sri Lankan Monkey is a Polygamist?? Look up the 50 minute video (mamels) of the one and only Sri Lankan monkey as narrated by Sir Richard Attenborough
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Upul / November 17, 2012
294K people came to worst area than LTTE control area. before the war your uneducated leaders told only 74K people in the war zone. you want them to open their mouth and give the credit or expect to lick your …. when you point someone similar to what are your leaders in south do? . Let the international community to go and see, they will open their mouth. but this time not to lick what you point but to tell what happened. may be you can re-word separated 1000s of children from their parents because you slaughtered their parents. agree they are 1000s of children like that without parents. regarding the mines, your so called decent military walked through the jungle and all over the places to reach the final killing field to kill innocent civilians and children. They were not satisfied with the killing people by shelling hospitals, schools, safe zone etc etc. hope they just walk without touching anywhere so didn’t see any land mines. so now only de-mining the lands. i think you are referring the land belongs to their people before the war? because now the land owners are different than pre-war situation and actual owners are now in jungles. don’t betray your gov by writing your comments in public. what you are writing here is totally different from what your gov claimed during the war and what is happening now. be an intelligent..
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Raj / November 17, 2012
RW was correct that the Indian journalist were allowed. Of course only the ones that talks favorably of the SLG. It was un open secret that India was dead against the LTTE.
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Rajiv / November 17, 2012
Upul,
Too bad you didnt feel this way about the people when LTTE was doing the hunting.
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Upul / November 17, 2012
Rajiv… this is not about what LTTE was doing. No one can take advantage on their own people because of LTTE was doing the same. if you do the same don’t try to hide it and act like an innocent. Either you have to accept it and apologize for the brutal attack on the people or face the international community and prove your hands are clean and you are not guilty. If you are not guilty 2nd option is very simple. you don’t need years to prove it.
Just pointing fingers on UN like RW is doing or denied access and keep denying as you didn’t do anything wrong will not help in anyways.
Any criminal will not accept his crimes. Once he arrested or behind the bars it’s all about finding an evidence against him and prove that he is guilty. criminals will not provide evidences against him self. This is common for anyone including LTTE.
You or my self writing comments here will not punish anyone or bring lost lives, but that doesn’t mean we can write anything here. if you respect humans and you are honest then write who is doing what. Don’t insult people who killed by ** in mullivaikal or through out the war by just labeling them as LTTE or don’t act like nothing happened in Wanni or no one was killed there.
You can blame LTTE for killing their own people. Will you accept when LTTE say Army killed their own people to blame LTTE? Before you say 294K people rescued by you, see the Government agent’s census. Simple math will give you the fact. But before the war you said only 74K people in the war zone. This gave the first picture of your true face and we all know the reason why you came up with the figure.
You can save 294K people, but question here is why you wanted to kill 70K+ people within few days?
– Did 294K people ask you to rescue them by killing their kin and kith? – Did 1000s of children ask you to save them by killing their parents/mom/dad?
– Did Tamil girls ask you to rape and video them to save 294K people from LTTE?
– Did Tamil boys ask you to make them naked and then killed? Did Tamils ask you to bomb hospitals so injured people will not survive so they can rescue by you?
– Did Tamils ask you to bomb schools so their children can’t go to school so you can save them?
– Did unborn babies and infants ask you to kill their mums and don’t allow milk foods so you can rescue 294K people?
– Did Tamils ask you to deny medicines so they can do surgeries without anything?
– Did they ask you to stop everything so they can drink sea water?Did they ask you to shell them when they lineup for food and water?
– Did Tamils ask you to bomb safe zones so people will come to your control area?
– Did Tamils ask you to keep in the concentration camp for many many years without any access to out side world?
– Did Tamils ask to resettle them in the middle of jungle?
– Did Tamils ask to takeover their land which they owned generation by generation by the name of high security zone?
– Did they ask A9 road should be carpeted therefore rescue them?
– Did they ask need a train service from south to north as no issue you can do anything to their children and parents?
– Did they ask to setup a military camps around them even after the war?
based on my questions your humanitarian operation was meaningless. but you can realize who benefited from the war. you started the war to rescue people but entire world know what they got. Even they don’t have their own land now. living in jungles. This is the outcome of the war.
I do have lot of Tamil friends, when you speak to them you will realize the real pain they have.
If you are honest and writing your comments from bottom of your heart, your answer should be NO to everything. If you say YES to any of my questions, means you are not a real human. Before blame someone you should have a mind set to openly accept what is correct and what is wrong. FYI, i’m not justifying LTTE’s wrong doings. but that doesn’t mean you can do anything by the name of LTTE.
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BunkerRat / November 18, 2012
There are no Tamils in Sri Lanka… only Sri Lankans. We were kind enough to give you illegals who swam to north Sri Lanka from Tamilnadu… do not bite the hand that fed you.
Just swim back to Tamilnadu and create your Elaam there, without f***ing up our lives.
Tamil terrorists were cold blooded murderers created outside Sri Lanka. If any Sri Lankans were affected… there would have been demonstrations and protests by them… there was none. That means only the TTD, the Tamil Terrorist Diaspora, wants this “Tamil Issue” to continue.
We cannot a find solution for a problem that is not there.
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Upul / November 18, 2012
Let wait international community will f*** you very soon but don’t worry they won’t rape your mum and sisters..
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Niv / November 18, 2012
As a rat, where did you come from? are you swimming in your politician’s p**? you don’t have a rights to ask Tamils to swim back to india because they didn’t come form there. so suggesting Sinhalese to swim back to burma and other Buddhist countries because those country’s main religion is Buddhism? don’t be proud that you are Sinhalese Buddhist, now this is the worst religion committed more crimes against humanity.
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Paul / November 18, 2012
joke of the year. you gave illegal immigration to Tamils? do you know at least the history of your so called religion and race? do you know at least your great grand father? your comments tells the world that you don’t know even your mother’s name. just shout up.
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Rama / November 18, 2012
sewer rat, you are one of those sewer rats born to a karave parents who can of course swim. tamils must be good swimmers if i have to believe your word. unfortunately no one swam palk straights but for one tamil guy who belonged to karve family like you.
not a single medal has ever been won by a tamil for swimming in olympic games. i wonder why. sewer rat, we are not planning to swim back to tamil nadu for the simple reason that we can’t swim.
tamil nadu has nothing to do with eelam. tamil nadu is part of the indian union and as far as i know they are quite happy to stay in the indian union for the time being at least. it’s we tamils of the northeast are not happy to stay with you lot. we simply don’t like you. we don’t like your interference in our internal affairs. you are different to us and we don’t get along. we consider you as uncivilised and barbaric. why do you want our land. our land belongs to us and you have no right to annex it. why are the 100,000 baboons stationed there. baboons will be evicted sooner or later from our soil. you know what the baboons did in haiti. now they are doing it in northeast. black weerawansa you know who holds the world record in fasting. he made history in fasting by not having nibbles between lunch and dinner. he should be in prison for groping women. ranawake is another ignorant idiot who doesn’t know what he is talking about most of the time. rajapaksa a man who never lies. absolute gem. then you have these bikkus oh dear oh dear. very religious lot. if you believe that you will believe anything.
anyway sewer rat, don’t prolong the agony. let’s part company. may be that way we can even remain friends.
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Native Vedda / November 18, 2012
BunkerRat
“Just swim back to Tamilnadu and create your Elaam there, without f***ing up our lives.”
Where did you lot come from? Did you hitch a lift on their back.
Whether you are a stupid Sinhalese or a stupid Tamil does not matter to us. Both were Kallathonies from India and both share the same stupid gene with Tamilnadu Tamils, according to genetics.
When the Tamils swim back to Tamilnadu please hitch a ride back to your ancestral land, Tamilnadu or Sinhapura. The choice is yours and you are free to decide on your final destination.
When you are back please do continue your war with the Tamils. My people may miss your stupid wars but we can have our ancestral land.
When are you leaving?
I congratulate for your obseration say:
“Tamil terrorists were cold blooded murderers”
I hate to agree with you.
So were the Sinhala terrorists and the Sinhala/Buddhist state. So what is your point?
You succinctly say
“We cannot a find solution for a problem that is not there”.
I agree with you totally.
When you are the problem what do you suggest we do?
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Jayantha / November 18, 2012
Karave ancestors came from Kerala India which is a South western indian fishing coast . Since most Kerala’s were fishermen, when they came to Sri Lanka they settled in coastal areas for fishing. Some of the Sinhala alphabet closely resemble kerala alphabet. Also the life style, behavior and the complexion are much similar. Kerala became Karave the Sinhala version.
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Native / November 18, 2012
@Bunker, its really funny that you were so kind to let Tamils to came from India. As paul said, do you know at least your ancestor’s names before talk about Tamil’s history? Seems you don’t even know your mother’s name. better find your dad and then talk about Tamils.
The term Eelam wasn’t given by Prabaharan. Go and check Tamil’s history, term Eelam was part of their life. take a Tamil school text books, you can see word Eelam in many places. Don’t cry now, school text books were not written by Prabaharan, rather translated by your so called educated people from south. Don’t run and appoint a committee to remove word Eelam from text books.
There is a lord shiva temple in Kayts. This is a military controlled area and do you know how history refers the temple even now? it’s called Eelaththu Sithamparam (Eeelam + Sithamparam). Probably you don’t know anything about this temple. otherwise you could have changed the name of this temple years back. we know you prefer the following names ‘Bhodhi Sithamparam’/’Sithamparam vihara’/’Bho-Sitha’/’Sithapara’ etc etc . may be waiting for a bo-tree to appear so you can tell Tamils built temple on top of your Vihara?
For Tamils, we see Bo-tree in the every corner of the roads even Hindu gods are under bo-tree. This is common in Tamil’s homeland and now we see your god is visiting all the bo-tree and sitting under the tree. no matter how old the tree is. your god is now even under the 1 month old tree and you are claiming your god was there 1000s years before but the fact is, now only the tree is growing.
your ministers like chambika and ellawala thero can speak like nothing. People like you only brought them to parliament. so we don’t need to worry about them and you. if they don’t speak like that, they don’t have a life at all and probably they will become beggar in front Sri Dalada Maligawa.
Bunker, Don’t forget to find your dad and share with us. then we can think about whether you are really capable to talk about Tamils.
My other Sinhalese readers and friends, I’m not insulting your religion, but people like Bunker and politicians are really insulting your religion and telling Tamils are not part of this country.
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Wuliangguobinjiu / November 18, 2012
Bleached Rat from the“Grease Devils hole of Asia” backed by ChiCom
The gravy train rodents from the bunkers are being wiped of Colombo’s streets Whoopee
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Jayantha / November 18, 2012
Native, check the names Sunil, Rohan,Pradeep,Nimal,Baratha, Luxman,Anil, Rani, Mala,Raja,Roshan,…I can go on for ever ..where these names came from….except Vanniye Atto. You inherited Indian first names with either European or Indian Last names. Check your early music both Lyrics, instruments and tunes…where they came from. Check the first Sri Lankan film..Kadawunu Poronduwa. Everything from the script, screen play, producer, music and filmed in India.Check the early instruments. Don’t boast much. we are a half baked mixed blood society which including the Buddhism,Portuguese,Dutch, English, Malay etc..etc.. from outside.Check the food Indi appam, Roti, Pittu,Appam, Dosai …where they came from. Can you tell what was our national dress then…Please be frank and don’t boast much. I am a Sinhalese but not a fake boru show off one. We all same. Nothing special. All from one Father’s and Mother’s children.
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Don WIjewardana / November 17, 2012
When the 7000 estimate was used for UN internal purposes Sir John Holmes, Under secretary of UN said he did not release that figure publicly because it was drawn from the TamilNet which often provides exaggerated numbers of casualties. When the Times produced a figure of 20,000 casualties it justified the number by saying they added 1000 for each day after the date on which the number 7000 was released. (Don’t know why they stuck on 1000 and not 500 or 2000). It was Gordon Weiss, who was asked to leave Sri Lanka for filing false reports, who firs cooked up the figure 40,000. As someone asked if that many were killed in that sliver of land how did they get rid of the bodies? where were they buried? Also censuses have not shown there were that many people to kill in the first place. So, before any enquiry the first thing that needs to be done is to clearly establish how many died on the basis of actual evidence.
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Sadreality / November 17, 2012
Not many have left the country after the war. So in a census, if at all made sofar, should have revealed how many have been killed. Families that lost their lovely ones should be clear how many of them went missing during the last phase of the war. Since many were under the clutches of Ltters, very families cant issue whether they survive or not. Howeever it should be possible to make rough estimates. Just saying few hundreds, then 7000, then again 20 000 and then 40 000 from the point of view of International community… ?
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Lester / November 17, 2012
The graveyards were looked at aerially by the American Association for the Advancement of Science and their report was suppressed because they said the graveyards barely expanded during those days.
Rajiva is one of the foremost liars serving GOSL, and there are many. For example, given the above statement, Rajiva should explain why the Sri Lankan Army spent many months building giant miltary cantonments and other facilities on top of the mass graves of dead Tamil civilians. Meanwhile, those who could identify such graves were prevented from talking to the outside world.
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BunkerRat / November 17, 2012
Hats off to Rajiv for professionally tackling the angry interviewer.
These interviewers are trained to create divisions, violence, chaos and wars through their questions and talk. They would certainly not sound so angry and arrogant when they interview or question their own, would they?
Watch for that next time. Tamil Terrorist Diaspora, the TTD, is praying hard and would be so happy if divisions and violence come back to Motherlanka.
These reporters are the ones to watch because they use their media cunningly to create havoc in the third world. That’s the BBC’s agenda. Keep cool and cut these interviewers at the right time, so they would shut up.
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Dubdoc / November 18, 2012
Thanks to Prof. Rajiv for this interview.These reporters know how to make someone angry and wait for mistakes to capitalize.The late hon Kadiragamar was great at interviews and we can learn a lot from him.These reporters are very polite when they interview pro UK, USA people.Just watch BBC’s hard talk and you will see the difference.Their tone becomes unbelievably soft then.
Rajiv, do not worry you are free to talk now as LTTE is dead.Please do not give in.
“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Rama / November 18, 2012
why do humans look like monkeys? i would thought that humans have evolved enough to lose monkey looks. may be some races are too slow to evole and my guess is it may take another bogus 2,500 years.
it’s not only looks but actions speak for themselves if you look at the last 64 years.
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Upul / November 18, 2012
Really? you are really a bunker.. Still under sea level and didn’t read the comments made by humans not by rats cats or dogs.
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Jayraj / November 18, 2012
The best solution is to reconcile genuinely and reconstruct as fast as possible. It is not easy to admit crimes done, but 100% efforts for reconcilation and development must be given. Nobody can forget what happened, but I am sure if the Sri Lankan government is genuine now in their efforts, the Tamils will forgive them, maybe not all. You must start somehwere,even if the SLGovt says sorry to the innocent victims, I am sure they will appreciate it. Remember youre not saying sorry to the LTTE. Dont wait till the so called western democraties, dictate when you should say sorry.
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Wuliangguobinjiu / November 18, 2012
Practically the only way to dry the swamp of radical Islam is through economic development and an improved standard of living.- Yitzhak Rabin
What has happened to the above development?? The answer is blowing in the wind.
Gone are the days of Democracy unfolded by the Greeks and made into a model by the west.
It’s “Hypocrisy in practice” by politician’s world over.
Kindness is considered to be a weakness by different cultures :)
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BunkerRat / November 18, 2012
You seem to be a brand new doorknob, still under wraps.
How do you compare problems in a country created through war, stealing others land, with Sri Lanka?
When did Sri Lanka steal others land?
When you are starting a project with misinformation, lies and fabrications, are you expecting it not to fail in the long run?
There are no Tamils in Sri Lanka… and nothing special is on the menu to any Sri Lankan because someone is wearing a ‘Tamil’ baseball cap.
You obviously living in the west in comfort trying create violence in Sri Lanka…. have extremely good chances in opening the door to Elaam in Arctic, than in Sri Lanka.
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Native Vedda / November 18, 2012
BunkerRat
“have extremely good chances in opening the door to Elaam in Arctic, than in Sri Lanka.”
Its a fantastic idea. Why didn’t I think this in the first place? May be I am bit thick.
I do think the Sinhala/Buddhists should have their own country and land in Sinhapura and become naturalised Sinhapurians.
I am working on it.
You have a choice, in case if you do not like Sinhapura we can arrange you to go to Terai plains of southern Nepal.
Or would you like to spend rest of your life with your brethren? We can arrange ships to Arctic. You can’t live with them at the same time you can’t live without them.
Please let me know.
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Wuliangguobinjiu / November 18, 2012
BunkerRat:Quote”You seem to be a brand new doorknob, still under wraps.”
Hey biscuit boofer seated on razor blades we have drones that can do a rat and its entire family anytime. Former colony boy what’s up with you which tamil are you talking of moda pabaya get into your national dress the amude that suits you better yellow robed terrorist.Understand constructive critism before pointing fingers wrongly you kudu bunker.
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Rama / November 18, 2012
some people think by shouting and lying they can win the argument. someone here thinks that gothabhaya and wijesinghe were the winners. what that person doesn’t realise is that it’s not 100 meters race in olympic games. when the reporter realsises that the other person is saying a pack of lies they simply don’t press further as they are gentlemen. liars think they have won. some people here who walk about with a chip on their shoulder feel the same way.
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Native Vedda / November 18, 2012
Native
Whether you have a bo tree or a temple named Eelaththu Sithamparam should not stop you from leaving my ancestral land. The sooner you leave it would be better for us. When you go back to India please take your Sinhala brethren with you.
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Native / November 19, 2012
LOL… yes, when we go there we also will take Sinhalese as well. Because we all from same place.. So on only MR family will be here with wild animals…
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Native Vedda / November 19, 2012
Native
November 19, 2012
6:42 am
“LOL… yes, when we go there we also will take Sinhalese as well. Because we all from same place.. “
Agreed
“So on only MR family will be here with wild animals…”
If you are going to leave him behind then we will leave.
Please take him with you.
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Native / November 19, 2012
So you are not Sinhalese? if you say we are from India, i said, then we will need to take you back to India. Because end of the day you also from there. Therefore, no worries you wont get a chance to live together with MR. may be JHU people will be here. They just came from heaven and they are the owners of entire Ceylon. sorry Shri Lanka. sorry Sri Lanka. so they can sing national anthem in Sinhalese and will have a nice entrainment here with wild animals under bo-tree. They will be a king of their self and wild animals. luckily we don’t have a lion (Real animal) in our jungles to claim he is a king of wild animals. Otherwise there will be a humanitarian operation to save innocent life from jungle lion. Because two kings in one county (one in city and one in jungle)is not a good idea. sooo interesting… good part is, when honest Buddhist people like you leave the country and go back to your country India, Lord Buddha also voluntarily join with you.
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Native Vedda / November 19, 2012
Jayantha – November 18, 2012
10:35 pm
So everything came from India.
Don’t you agree it is reasonable everything must go back to India?
We want our land back. We want you to go back to your mother country. When you go take your
Tamil brothers,
music both Lyrics,
instruments and tunes,
film, script, screen play, producer, music
half baked mixed blood society
food Indi appam, Roti, Pittu,Appam, Dosai
Sinhala Buddhism
Tamil saiva
We lived without them for many thousands of years and we will live without them for another thousands of years.
As long as this island is infested with Tamils and Sinhalese there won’t be peace. The best possible solution for both of you is to continue your war in your mother country.
Just because everything came from India it is not a very good excuse for both of you to remain here.
The Tamils complain that they have been displaced due to war. The Sinhalese complain they were displaced by LTTE from North East. The Muslims mourn they were ethnically cleansed from the North.
None of you lot bother to look at suffering of my people.
My people were the first to lose their land and displaced several times. Even the small area allocated to my people is being encroached by the state.
My ancestors were happy to eak out a living with minimum need and less exploitation. Living in the nature also taught us the need to care for the environment. Increasingly the state is denying my people’s right to a descent livelihood.
You have a “me” society that always demands more. We have “us” society which demands less. Even the “less” is denied to my people. The idea behind one nation is the biggest fraud I have ever heard of.
MR claims to have built a one nation yet it belongs to his clan. What are you going to do about my people’s problem.
Please don’t twist to mean Veddas’s problem as if Vedda is the problem.
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Jayantha / November 20, 2012
Hi. Nativa Vedda,
Yes before I go let me come to your land and taste some Turtle soup, dear wild boar and tiger meat. They are prohibited in my area. Let me know when to come.
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Don Quixote / November 19, 2012
My god Rajiva, I hope your 30 pieces of Silver last you for the rest of your life ! Once this circus is over you will find it hard to survive.
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