26 April, 2024

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We Will Continue To Push For Full & Independent Inquiry On Sri Lanka’s War Crimes: Ed Miliband

Ed Miliband has vowed to continue to push for a full, independent, international inquiry into the alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Sri Lanka.

In a video message for “Tamil New Year”, the leader of the Labour Party reiterated his support for accountability in Sri Lanka and promised that he would advocate for the Tamil cause – “we, in the Labour Party, know our responsibility to the Tamil community.”

Miliband took the opportunity to thank the Tamil people for the immense contribution they had made to British public life and said that the Labour Party will always be a friend to the Tamil community.

Transcript of Ed Miliband’s message:

“I want to wish everyone in the Tamil community a Happy New Year.

And I want to take the opportunity to thank the Tamil community for the incredible contribution you make to our country, across every walk of life.

The Labour Party has always been a friend of the Tamil community and will continue to be so.

And we will continue to push for the full and independent, international investigation into alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka.

It is something I raised with President Sirisena when I met him. We will continue to push this forward and continue to advocate for your cause.

We, in the Labour Party, know our responsibility to the Tamil community.

So let me reiterate my wishes for a Happy New Year and I look forward to working with the Tamil community, in the months and years ahead.”

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    This is why West wanted and did a regime change in Sri Lanka. West, especially UK like to see Eelam become a reality. It is the high time for Sri Lankans to realise the mistake they made and kick Sirisena and Chandrika out. Sinhalayani Avadi Veyaw!

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      L Raja – Australia

      “West, especially UK like to see Eelam become a reality.”

      Why, How, When, What for, Why Not, ?????????

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        To native vedda
        Why : They are against Sinhalese specially Sinhalese Buddhists. How : by fueling anti Sinhala feelings in Tamil racists. When : At least since the year 1833. What for : Divide SL in order to appease Tamil chauvinists.

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          max

          “Why : They are against Sinhalese specially Sinhalese Buddhists. “

          You mean Sinhala/Buddhists are against Sinhalese and Buddhists.

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            vedda, why because 1815, 1818, 1848. and lately in 2009.

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              The English Company needed sepoys to run their mercantile enterprises not idiots of race/religion. As far as the Brits were concerned they were white and human.The British Raj takeover came later on in the 19th centenary though it was still Anglo Dutch ownership of shares and stocks.
              Ceylon was ruled from: Madras via Bengal
              (Government of India Acts, succession of measures passed by the British Parliament between 1773 and 1935 to regulate the government of India. The first several acts—passed in 1773, 1780, 1784, 1786, 1793, and 1830—were generally known as East India Company Acts. Subsequent measures—chiefly in 1833, 1853, 1858, 1919, and 1935—were entitled Government of India Acts.
              The act of 1773, also known as the Regulating Act, set up a governor-general of Fort William in Bengal with supervisory powers over Madras (now Chennai) and Bombay (nowMumbai). Pitt’s India Act (1784), named for the British prime minister William Pitt the Younger, established the dual system of control by the British government and the East India Company, by which the company retained control of commerce and day-to-day administration but important political matters were reserved to a secret committee of three directors in direct touch with the British government; this system lasted until 1858. )

              Recent research carried out by William Dalrymple has brought to light a period full of intermixing and cross-cultural marriages. Wills made in the 1780s show that more than a third of British men in India left their possessions to one or more Indian wives and their children. From 1830, however, in Victorian times, mixed relationships became less common.
              The Indian Rebellion of 1857
              The rebellion led to the dissolution of the East India Company in 1858. It also led the British to reorganize the army, the financial system and the administration in India.[7] The country was thereafter directly governed by the crown as the new British Raj.[4]
              After the turn of the 19th century, Governor-General Wellesley began what became two decades of accelerated expansion of Company territories.[10] This was achieved either by subsidiary alliances between the Company and local rulers or by direct military annexation. The subsidiary alliances created the princely states or native states of the Hindu maharajas and the Muslim nawabs.
              Punjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir were annexed after the Second Anglo-Sikh War in 1849; however, Kashmir was immediately sold under the Treaty of Amritsar (1850) to the Dogra Dynastyof Jammu and thereby became a princely state. The border dispute between Nepal and British India, which sharpened after 1801, had caused the Anglo-Nepalese War of 1814–16 and brought the defeatedGurkhas under British influence. In 1854, Berar was annexed, and the state of Oudh was added two years later. For practical purposes, the Company was the government of much of India.

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          Max the mulla, salām!!

          “”by fueling anti Sinhala feelings in Tamil racists. “”

          there is no smoke without fire!!

          Mahawamse the half animal very kind hearted begging bowl Sinhalese-
          shape shape shape.
          Chavez was better- ask Red Ken and the school kids of London during his Presidency.

          Tsunami funds only a Sinhala Buddhist could rob like that from the dying to end up killing and robbing the island particularily the dead tamils.
          What is your commission MAX factor pol thel??

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        “”“West, especially UK like to see Eelam become a reality.” Why, How, When, What for, Why Not, ????????? “”
        How did you fight – hiding behind your women with a bow and arrow or Porawa (axe)???

        Only the Natives of the Deccan had the horses and elephants to fight the invaders.
        Painting of a Sowar of the 6th Madras Light Cavalry, circa 1845
        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_cavalry#/media/File:Madras_cavalry.jpg
        Maratha horse warrior of India
        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_cavalry#/media/File:Maratha_Horse_Warrior_of_India_(colour_litho).jpg
        The early weeks of World War I saw light cavalry attempting to continue its long established function of being the “eyes and ears” of the respective main armies. However, despite some early success, the advent of trench warfare and aircraft observation quickly rendered this role obsolete, except to an extent in Eastern Europe where light cavalry mounted actions on a diminishing scale continued to occur until the revolution of 1917 took Russia out of the war.[5]
        26th King George’s Own Light Cavalry[edit]
        The 26th King George’s Own Light Cavalry was originally raised as the 5th Regiment Madras Native Cavalry on 23 October 1787 as part of the Madras Presidency Army. In 1788, it was re-designated as the 1st Madras Native Cavalry and in 1816 its name was changed to 1 Madras Light Cavalry. The Regiment was yet again renamed as the 1st Regiment of Madras Lancers in 1886, and was known by that title till the turn of the century, when it was changed to 1st Madras Lancers.
        In 1903 it was renamed as the 26th Light Cavalry and three years later it became the Prince of Wales Own Light Cavalry and then in 1910, it became the 26th King George’s Own Light Cavalry. During this time it participated in the Third Mysore War, 1789–1792, the Fourth Mysore War, 1793-1798. Campaigns against Dhoondia Wagh and the Polygars, 1799-1830. Campaigns in Afghanistan and Burma, between, 1880-1914.

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      L Raja – Australia,

      Leading political hypocrites in the UK, including this guy in this video clip (not to mention his brother of WikiLeaks fame) are a blessing to Sinhalese paranoia. As amply demonstrated by your “fears”. You ought to thank him for supplying fuel to the fire.

      Miliband forgot to mention the Sinhalese people in his clever message. Sinhalese vote bank in the UK is not big enough to capture his attention, I presume.

      It is all about delivering to Tamil people. While the Island has 20 million people. More than 85% are not Tamil. Miliband is a very smart hypocrite. Through and through.

      Cheers!

      PS: Sinhalese paranoids can now go to town once again. Citing how Brits helped the Zionists, by grabbing the land of Palestinian people. Which created a festering sore that continues to this day. That is hardly the only example where Miliband’s kind of British help to other people have messed the world. Both Sinhalese and Tamils be aware!

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        Ben Hurling

        “PS: Sinhalese paranoids can now go to town once again. Citing how Brits helped the Zionists, by grabbing the land of Palestinian people. Which created a festering sore that continues to this day. That is hardly the only example where Miliband’s kind of British help to other people have messed the world. Both Sinhalese and Tamils be aware “

        Recent British Help to Americans to mess up the World.

        2003 invasion of Iraq

        “I went back through the Pentagon in November 2001, one of the senior military staff officers had time for a chat. Yes, we were still on track for going against Iraq, he said. But there was more. This was being discussed as part of a five-year campaign plan, he said, and there were a total of seven countries, beginning with Iraq, then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Iran, Somalia and Sudan.”[23]” General Wesley Clark, the former Supreme NATO Allied Commander and Joint Chiefs of Staff Director of Strategy and Policy

        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_invasion_of_Iraq

        The 2003 invasion of Iraq lasted from 19 March to 1 May 2003 and signaled the start of the conflict that later came to be known as the Iraq War, which was dubbed Operation Iraqi Freedom by the United States (prior to 19 March, the mission in Iraq was called Operation Enduring Freedom, a carryover from the conflict in Afghanistan).[20] The invasion consisted of 21 days of major combat operations, in which a combined force of troops from the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Poland invaded Iraq and deposed the Ba’athist government of Saddam Hussein. The invasion phase consisted primarily of a conventionally fought war which concluded with the capture of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad by American forces.

        Four countries participated with troops during the initial invasion phase, which lasted from 19 March to 9 April 2003. These were the United States (148,000), United Kingdom (45,000), Australia (2,000), and Poland (194). 36 other countries were involved in its aftermath. In preparation for the invasion, 100,000 U.S. troops were assembled in Kuwait by 18 February.[21] The coalition forces also received support from Kurdish irregulars in Iraqi Kurdistan.

        According to U.S. President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, the coalition mission was “to disarm Iraq of weapons of mass destruction, to end Saddam Hussein’s support for terrorism, and to free the Iraqi people.”[22] General Wesley Clark, the former Supreme NATO Allied Commander and Joint Chiefs of Staff Director of Strategy and Policy, describes in his 2003 book, Winning Modern Wars, his conversation with a military officer in the Pentagon shortly after the 11 September attacks regarding a plan to attack seven Middle Eastern countries in five years: “As I went back through the Pentagon in November 2001, one of the senior military staff officers had time for a chat. Yes, we were still on track for going against Iraq, he said. But there was more. This was being discussed as part of a five-year campaign plan, he said, and there were a total of seven countries, beginning with Iraq, then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Iran, Somalia and Sudan.”[23] Others place a much greater emphasis on the impact of the 11 September 2001 attacks, and the role this played in changing U.S. strategic calculations, and the rise of the freedom agenda.[24][25] According to Blair, the trigger was Iraq’s failure to take a “final opportunity” to disarm itself of alleged nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons that U.S. and British officials called an immediate and intolerable threat to world peace.[26]

        In a January 2003 CBS poll, 64% of Americans had approved of military action against Iraq; however, 63% wanted Bush to find a diplomatic solution rather than go to war, and 62% believed the threat of terrorism directed against the U.S. would increase due to war.[27] The invasion of Iraq was strongly opposed by some long-standing U.S. allies, including the governments of France, Germany, and New Zealand.[28][29][30] Their leaders argued that there was no evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and that invading the country was not justified in the context of UNMOVIC’s 12 February 2003 report. On 15 February 2003, a month before the invasion, there were worldwide protests against the Iraq War, including a rally of three million people in Rome, which is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the largest ever anti-war rally.[31] According to the French academic Dominique Reynié, between 3 January and 12 April 2003, 36 million people across the globe took part in almost 3,000 protests against the Iraq war.[32]

        The invasion was preceded by an air strike on the Presidential Palace in Baghdad on 19 March 2003. The following day, coalition forces launched an incursion into Basra Province from their massing point close to the Iraqi-Kuwaiti border. While the special forces launched an amphibious assault from the Persian Gulf to secure Basra and the surrounding petroleum fields, the main invasion army moved into southern Iraq, occupying the region and engaging in the Battle of Nasiriyah on 23 March. Massive air strikes across the country and against Iraqi command and control threw the defending army into chaos and prevented an effective resistance. On 26 March, the 173rd Airborne Brigade was airdropped near the northern city of Kirkuk, where they joined forces with Kurdish rebels and fought several actions against the Iraqi army to secure the northern part of the country.

        The main body of coalition forces continued their drive into the heart of Iraq and met with little resistance. Most of the Iraqi military was quickly defeated and Baghdad was occupied on 9 April. Other operations occurred against pockets of the Iraqi army including the capture and occupation of Kirkuk on 10 April, and the attack and capture of Tikrit on 15 April. Iraqi president Saddam Hussein and the central leadership went into hiding as the coalition forces completed the occupation of the country. On 1 May, an end of major combat operations was declared, ending the invasion period and beginning the military occupation period.

        The 2003 invasion of Iraq was the most recent armed conflict between standing national armies causing at least 1,000 battle deaths,[33] until the outbreak of the War in Donbass between Ukraine and possible involvement of the Russian military in 2014.[34]

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        A foolish comment that may lose him many votes, even from the more intelligent Tamils. Yes, this “clever” comment, by a man whom it would still suit us best to have as the next Prime Minister of Britain, is disappointing.

        I am sure that it is ignorance rather than evil that has led to Miliband spouting such rubbish but the comments already made by listeners/ readers testifies to the damage already done, to us Sri Lankans. This is our most important cultural event that ought to make us aware of how much speakers of Sinhala and Tamil have in common.

        Does that last sentence sound odd? I’m trying to say that it is just those two languages that ought to matter to us in social and political terms, although I’m saying this in English. And I’d like to see every effort being made to teach English to all Sri Lankans; we are a small country, and we do need a World Language. I’m also trying to say that followers of the various religions, plus the Veddah community should understand that there have to be two, and only two, languages that we must regard as equally important National Languages – i.e. Sinhala and Tamil. I’m almost totally ignorant of Tamil, and am probably most fluent in English, but I don’t consider that abberational situation to be a model for future generations here.

        As for Miliband, let us hope that somebody on his election campaign staff sees all these negative comments, and helps educate guy. As for us Sri Lankans, let us try to come to terms with the fact that we are a relatively less important country, and forgive this man his ignorance. This is not easy for us, but it would be best.

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        “”It is all about delivering to Tamil people. While the Island has 20 million people. More than 85% are not Tamil. Miliband is a very smart hypocrite. Through and through. “”

        Ben Hurling ,

        The `West has lost trust` in the nation of the corrupt beggars just like you have lost faith in the government of pick pockets only you could have voted in by being cowards on Commonwealth meet when Cameron led the way for a full protest and spring to get the best you have.
        Typical Sinhala mix Ben Where were you hiding behind a woman’s skirt ???

        Of the 64.1 million inhabitants in the UK the Lankans (Sinhalese Tamils etc) who hold the British right to vote are merely 0.3% and the same voting % live at London.
        Why burn fingers in a small pie without colour or creed??
        except it being humanitarian like Audrey Hepburn (Anglo Dutch) who saw it all and collapsed with the end of war when she first saw food and ate a can of condensed milk- she made flour with tulips to keep them alive.

        So how come you compare Sinhalese with Tamil??
        Is it the Portuguese `Estado Novo` António de Oliveira Salazar
        effect of `DE` silva fascist fashion??

        Cameron & Hague presented the Tamil business community as professionals who have made it like the Kenyan Gujarati’s (they had British citizenship while at Africa) in a short span of time.
        Where are the Sinhalese exporters after confiscating the British Companies still playing hide and squeak???

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      Raja, do not just post anything that comes to your mind without any proof, why UK need to see a Eelam in Sri Lanka when they provide military equipment for the war?

      Not only UK, any country that belive in democrac and liberal values wanted a regime change as the Medamulan rogue and his family was robing the country.

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        First of all, yes we needed a Regime change in Sri Lanka due to Ex.President Maninda Rajapakse’s bad Governance, family bandyism, dictatorship and pillage of Sri Lanka and we got it due to educating the voters during the last Presidential elections.

        At the moment these’s internal investigation going on as to what happened during the last phase of the war and the report will be published somewhere in September.

        Second I prefer if Mr.Ed Miliband first investigate and arrest ex. PM Tony Blair on war crime charges against Iraqi people murdering over one million including women and children and creating over five million homeless refugees on false allegations that Saddam Hussein having weapons of mass destruction.

        Now Tony Blair is one of the richest people in London. How come.

        Also he need to investigate who gave weapons to LTTE and how they acquired lethal weapons to fight a 30 year war.

        We need your answers Mr.Ed Miliband.

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          Milipede and others need to haul Blair and Bush before the IC.

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            The Tamils should beware of DPU norther Ireland.
            (romancing with the Irish for long brings out the fishy catholic smell)

            Sharma did what he did for DPU because that is where his clout is not Punjabi Indian.

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        Raja and similar people want Mahinda to return because Mahinda donated Billions to LTTE and worked against democracy in Sri Lanka. all Anti-LTTE forces, all anti-racial forces in the UK, all those who want to protect the world from international wars and internal conflicts must think twice before voting these two-tongued people.

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          Doesn’t matter, Mahinda or someone else, Sri Lanka need a leader who has guts to handle anti Sinhala leaders like Miliband.

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            L Raja

            “Sri Lanka need a leader who has guts to handle anti Sinhala leaders like Miliband.”

            There are difference between anti Sinhala leaders and being anti MR.

            Do you know the differences?

            Not to be confused between

            Sinhalese and Sinhala/Buddhists

            Buddhists and Sinhala/Buddhists

            Sinhala leaders and Mahinda

            Sinhalese and war criminals

            Buddhists and war criminals

            Sinhalese and crooks

            Buddhists and crooks

            Buddhists and smart ass patriotism

            Sinhalese and smart ass patriotism

            Do you want a wise leader or a leader who has guts?

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          Andare is an insult to the real Andare who made entire country smile in the by gone era. “Mahinda donated millions to Ltte….” What a great story Andare has come up with! And if it was so, not a bad deal. Give money and finally take the murder’s life! The present rulers should learn that type of tactics from MR because they brought good for the people of Sri Lanka.

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      Raja
      Well said mate….
      Only sympathy for Tamil minority

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      why u crying wolf from Australia? come back to SL and show ur true patriotism… like the Tamil diaspora are u part of the Sinhala diaspora? what ever it is ALL diaspora is interested is to show that SL has problems so they can continue their agenda. NONE of u were boots on the ground on either the LTTE side nor the Army’s side.. YOU lot are in the luxury of ur basement n are arm chair and keyboard warriors… who were instrumental in the war being prolonged…

      Er have peace in SL ..so you lot do ur thing leaving SL to the citizenry of SL…

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    Pathetic!!!! Ed milibad will do anything to get the Tamil votes. On a New Years day he is talking about war crimes…. Cheap.. Not a good leader. Wonder if the right minded British Sri Lankans will vote for labour…

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    Miliband should know this is not only Tamil new year Sinhalese new year as well. It is a shame he is talking about only tamils in a day like this. He has no proper leadership qualities . Why he is not supporting IS, they also doing what Tamil Tigers did. It’s time UK politicians come to their sense and behave sensibly instead of resorting to cheap tactics.

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      It is Tamil new year. Sinhalese copied it from Tamils, after Anagarika Dharmapala whipped up Sinhala nationalism. If you go through archives, in the old days the holiday in April was for Tamil New year.
      This new year is only celebrated by Hindu Tamils and Buddhist Sinhalese, and not by Christians of either racial group. In Buddhism there is no place for astrology. Therefore how come a day decided by astrology to be the new year be called a Sinhala new year.

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        Get your facts right Mr RAJA (spelt with capital letters).
        Sinhala New Year is a Sinhala cultural event and is not a Buddhist event. It could be celebrated by any Sinhalese irrespective of religion.

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          I agree, Raja. Never mind all this stuff about Anagarika Dharmapala and astrology.

          Our country desperately needs a National Festival. When the New Year starts is calculated astroLOGICALLY. I have never, in my long life, known when to “nonagathe”, eat, bathe, anoint with oil etc. I have only known that the country comes to far too much of a standstill on the 13th, and doesn’t usually wake up until the 20th of April every year, and that we have to be afraid of Bak Maha Akunas!

          I know that this started off as a SOUTH Indian festival, and that is where most of our ancestors came from. Yes, a DNA test should be compulsorily administered so as to rid us of racism.

          A word about religion: the Christians have integrated reasonably well. An appeal to Muslims: keep your identity, most certainly, but don’t overdo it. Your language was Tamil (Malay for a few?), but many are allowing Sinhala to become their first language. I wish we could have Sinhala and Tamil media students together in schools; but can’t we limit it to those two language groups? Can we please NOT have separate Tamil-medium Muslim schools? I know that the Ramadhan fasting season is important, but, … isn’t peace, harmony and and integration more important? As a child, I do remember strange Afghans on motorcycles, but not so much purdah.

          Mind you, I am strongly advocating that where-ever possible, Tamil be taught so well to Sinhalese students that they become really fluent in the language – but do not try to force it on anybody. As for English, with every passing day I realise the importance of teaching the World Language to everybody, but I keep getting more and more, – and more – disgusted with the attitudes of the English-speaking elites. Selfish louts!

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            Apologies for writing astroLOGICALLY, when I meant astroNOMICALLY – a -la Galileo Galilei.

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            If you believe Sinhalese are from South India based on DNA of a few, then one could say North Indians are British, or Sinhalese are Portuguese or the British Queen is German or the French are English, Germans are Russian etc etc. So my friend we must not go by the DNA or the colour or the features of a few, as then there wont be a single pure nation as the races in the entire world are mixed with many other races through inter-marriage. A nation in my opinion is based on the language spoken and their cultural values and events.

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        If I were to take your point Sinhalese copied the new year from Tamils, could you kindly enlighten me with the details of Tamil Nadu celebrating this particular “Tamil New Year”?

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          max

          “If I were to take your point Sinhalese copied the new year from Tamils,”

          Nopes Sinhalese didn’t copy new year from darker skinned Dravidian people who are considered to be mentally and physically inferior to the Aryan Master race.

          Actually Aryan race itself originated from this island and spread to North India and then to Europe. Helsinki is named after Hela people.

          There are evidence to suggest that Champika’s ancestors carried with them the racially pure gene, knowledge of genetic engineering (Deutsch Technik) and Astronomy, their discovery of Zero, ………. and other cultural elements, out of this island and towards the West, to propagate their gene and ideas, language religion, …. etc.

          Indians copied New Year celebrations from Champika’s ancestors.

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            I like your sarcasm vedda. but um not a chamipika follower. i only follow the history with proven facts.

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              max mulla troll,

              “”i only follow the history with proven facts. “”

              like a frog in the well in an island of villagers where they run for voodoo magic to have the rains fall all on a summers day.

              Go listen to the sound of crickets on a hot summers day.
              You won’t regret it- its better than croaket and drinking hot croako

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    UK Citizen of Sri Lankan origin – Both Miliband and David Cameron are hypocrits they are only after the Tamil vote bank in marginal seats becuse current opinion polls show both parties at 33%. Also this New Year is for both Sinhalese and Tamils of Sri Lanka .They should be promoting reoncillition on this important day for both communities

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      I would guess that 95% of British people think policy should give priority to the interests of national citizens before outsiders should the two conflict, but that does not mean you cannot be an internationalist or think it’s a valuable part of our tradition to give a haven to refugees.
      The bigger point here is the most basic insight of welfare economics. Just as the marginal extra pound is worth more to a poor person than to a rich person, so the educated and ambitious person is worth more to a poor country that has few of them than to a rich country that already has many.

      What’s so idealistic about that?
      A HUGE surge in migration has caused the number of foreigners living in the UK to almost double to 7.5 million in just 10 years.At London where most lankans are.In London the figures are even more dramatic – with white Britons in the minority for the first time.And the top countries of birth outside Britain were India, Pakistan – and Poland.

      Does SL vote matter NO. They are in total votes : sinhalese +tamili +muslim 0.3% of total of London and UK.

      “Nothing could more clearly demonstrate the need to get immigration back under control so as to allow times for integration to occur.”

      When you cheer at the Lords cricket match we wish you were not here but in your poor country with your cultural baggage.

      Defense League.UK/EU.

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    That just cost Ed Miliband my vote…

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    Why don’t the rich and powerful Tamil Diaspora help the poor Tamil Brothers and sisters back home to build their lives up?

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      They will, if the military releases their lands.

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    Another British hypocrite – why not investigate and prosecute the killing of innocent Iraqis?

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    Tamil community /votes;Tamil community /votes?????????its like a poem send this guy back to school learn history (how British divided countries and ethnic communities) Don’t let the history to be repeated? This is why former president Mahinda Rajapaksa work so hard to protect our country and the whole nation from foreign enemies. We still have time to bring him back and continue the work he started to bring the country prosperous.

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    Miliband Cameron are of the same shameful charcters who want the Tamil diaspora to vote them in to powr

    Just mind your business and look after your country which is in a mess at present

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    Ed Miliband is stirring up the old wounds to create more trouble in Sri Lanka when the new Maithreepala Government is trying his best to reconcile with Tamil people.

    Why don’t Mr.Miliband help reconciliation effort and help some Tamil people in North to re-build their families, damaged houses and trade.

    There’s already internal investigations are going on an UN is aware of it.

    Reconciliation and to re-build inter communal harmony is what we need now and not another communal violence.

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    does any of the writers know about war crime.

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    What this man Miliband talking, go to your recent past Blair era before you are pointing your finger to Sri Lanka.

    Sri Lanka can manage her affairs with out your advice.

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    So you will follow your idiot brother and prat Cameron to poke your ugly nose in SL, do you. You have all been fed false propaganda by the LTTE diaspora who somehow get the biggest say in everything internationally. Do you not know that the Sinhalese suffered casualties not only by the LTTE Tamils but also by the SL army due to a Sinhalese uprising by the JVP? The Sinhalese therefore lost more innocent people than Tamils by three prong attacks but they have no voice. Why? And why didn’t UK help SL in the 30 year war against a horrible terrorist group worse than Taliban? What is your game, boy?

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      mel

      “You have all been fed false propaganda by the LTTE diaspora who somehow get the biggest say in everything internationally.”

      Oh yes they did have humongous say in their self destruction. Assuming they did have as you imagined they had why could not they stop the war and save VP and LTTE carders from total destruction at a colossal human costs?

      You have been suffering from psychosis.

      Psychosis meaning:

      psychosis in Science

      A mental state caused by psychiatric or organic illness, characterized by a loss of contact with reality and an inability to think rationally. A psychotic person often behaves inappropriately and is incapable of normal social functioning.

      psychosis in Culture

      A severe mental disorder, more serious than neurosis, characterized by disorganized thought processes, disorientation in time and space, hallucinations, and delusions. Paranoia, manic depression, megalomania, and schizophrenia are all psychoses. One who suffers from psychosis is psychotic.

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    Vote catching stunt. We all know about the politicians. Why are most politicians lawyers?

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      why u crying wolf from Australia? come back to SL and show ur true patriotism… like the Tamil diaspora are u part of the Sinhala diaspora? what ever it is ALL diaspora is interested is to show that SL has problems so they can continue their agenda. NONE of u were boots on the ground on either the LTTE side nor the Army’s side.. YOU lot are in the luxury of ur basement n are arm chair and keyboard warriors… who were instrumental in the war being prolonged…

      Er have peace in SL ..so you lot do ur thing leaving SL to the citizenry of SL…

  • 10
    49

    It is unfortunate that Miliband is still trying to divide the Sri Lankans in UK by greeting only Tamils in UK . Is he still like divide and rule rule like colonial era? After listening to his message I happen to read the massage from David Camarone which he mentioned the Sinhala and Tamil both communities. is Miliband going after only Tamil votes in UK.Has he forgotten that legitimate Sinhala speaking Sri Lankans too living in UK?

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    Another opportunist nig nog looking for Tamil diaspora votes. Actually Tamils should ask for a part of Britain as their homeland.

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    45

    Miliband is a DEAD POLITICIAN WHO HAS NO VOTER BASE TRYING TO GET LTTE TAMIL TERRORISTS SUPPORT!!! IS THAT NOT CORRECT???
    THESE [Edited out] KILLED THOUSANDS AND THOUSANSA OF INNOCENT PEOPLE,POLITICAL LEADERS IN AFAGANISTAN,IRAQ,SYRIA,LIBIYA,AND WAY BACK IN VIETNAM!!!
    NOW UK IS STRUGLING FOR GETTING UP ON THEIR FINANCIAL STABILITY!!!
    WHY IS THAT??? THATS BECAUSE< BRITISHERS KILLED HUNDREDS THOUSANDS OF INNOCENT SIRI LANKANS AFTER THESE BLOODY HUMAN KILLERS INVADED THE ISOLATED SIRI LANKA!!!
    NOW THEY R PAYING BACK!!!
    BUT [Edited out] MILLIBAND WANTS TO INVESTIGATE TAMIL KILLINGS BY GOVT BUT THIS BLOODY RASCA NEVER MENTIONS THAT THEY KILLED THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF INNOCENT SINHALESE CHILDREN AND PEOPLE AND DESTROYED MANY GOVT INFRATUCTURE GOVT BUILDINGD AND MEN!!!
    NOW THE DITTA DHAMMA VEDANEEYA KARMAYA IS COMMING AFTER ALL THOSE WHO SUPPORTED TAMIL LTTE TERRORISTS!!!

  • 12
    46

    Yes Mr. we will begin since from 1815 then we can bring your royal family front of international court what they mascara innocents civilians in Sri Lanka.

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    44

    Hello “meat head Miliband”

    You make my blood boil, your forefathers ripped off my country royally and now you try to teach how to do our business, get the hell out of our country politics, Tamils in my country are good people and Prabhakaran was brain washed by meatheads like you British, and we Sri Lankans now way smarter than you bozos.
    The Tamils now in our country are decent people who understand how to get along well with all communities, it’s a long hard road ahead and we sri Lankans are determined to make it like we did in the past.
    This small country is too small to subdivide for every ethnic group. we have to unite and rebuild this to be shinning nation island in the Indian Ocean.
    Please do not let that Milband [Edited out] come to Sri Lanka, I [Edited out]
    Sunil

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    I have been living in uk for over 35 yrs. Never heard any politician has mentioned our newyear. Uk politics also becoming very dirty. Now as sinhalese srilankans we have to think about our vote

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      melony

      “Uk politics also becoming very dirty. Now as sinhalese srilankans we have to think about our vote”

      Thinking of going back to your ancestral homeland Venga? You will get good compensation and one way ticket to wherever you want to return to.

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    48

    You have just lost another few Sinhalese. Go ahead and get votes from the members of the most ruthless terrorists in the world. They are like venomous snakes. They cannot be trusted unless they are pictures on th wall. Shame on you Miliband and Cameron. You will get bitten. One day!!! And we will have the last laugh.

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    Yes Mr Ben Hurling, the Sinhalese should ask for probes into war crimes in Iraq, Libya and a dozen or more war crimes committed by the British and the US. How is invading and destroying independent countries without any reason other than getting hold of their riches OK, but defending one’s own country against terrorism a war crime. The two faced fork tongued white barbarians keep preaching to the rest of the world, eh? ‘Do as I say, but not as I do’ is the name of the game, huh?

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      mel

      “Yes Mr Ben Hurling, the Sinhalese should ask for probes into war crimes in Iraq, Libya and a dozen or more war crimes committed by the British and the US.”

      Why hadn’t the little islanders arrested Cameron when he roamed the streets of Colombo and Jaffna and dragged him all the way to ICC?

      Why didn’t the cardboard hero MR tell him off when Cameron met him in this country?

      Too much hot air and no action, typical of little islanders.

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    you just lost my vote, shame on you.

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    Miliband you are not might. You are only benifiting from Tamil Diapora who are paying you handsomly to bark. British voter rejected you. Do your politics in the UK. If you feel so much for the Tamils intervene with India to sort out the fishing controvacy with Tamil Nadu and ensure that the Tamils of Sri Laka are not deprived of their livelyhood.Build some decent living quaters for Estate Tamils exploited and left behind by British Colonial rulers as slaves. Promote some investment to the North and East of the country where ecnomic development is badly need to redress the suffering people in those areas. What are you doing instead. Barking for Tamils in your elctorate to capture/retain political power. You fraud. Leave Sri Lanka alone.

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      He is not might at all – just one another who cant be without the few hundreds to thousands votes if to be in power further. Thre he is scared and that is the reason him to raise the issue again and again. This has nothing to do with his beloved affinity towards the grievances of tamil community of the country.

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    it is also a Sinhalese & Tamil new year, why wishing only the Tamils what a shame cant get your facts rights and you want to govern England???

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    Hey Ed- A nice try mate BUT you’re still going to lose. At the end of the day you are the brother of David. Remember the banana he showed up when trying to set up the political coup against Gordon Brown and lost in big style. Now you’re following the same foot step, and guess what- it’d be the same results, sorry you’re the weakest link. Good Bye!

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    terrorist money speaks well. this man even came to sri lanka to secure terrorist leader life but could not do it. so he may be get terrorist leader last will for his next election’s bill payments. this nature of Politian are very bid liability to entire world in future. just keep fight for cause rest of your life.do not cry too much for Tamil votes.

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      laksiri

      “this man even came to sri lanka to secure terrorist leader life but could not do it.”

      This man? Or was it his brother?

      If the west wanted to secure terrorist leader UK and USA could have done it anyway. Don’t forget the support UK provided to Sri Lankan state between 1979 and 2009.

      What the British did for the Sinhala/Buddhist state fighting terrorism:

      MI5 Jack Morton 1979, practical recommendation for the total reorganisation of the intelligence apparatus.

      Senior Sri Lankan police officers invited to Belfast in 1983

      1984 – 87 British Mercenaries KMS Ltd were in active service with Sri Lankan security forces.

      1988 – 89 Major General Richard Clutterbuck provided advice on defeating JVP uprising.

      Early to mid 1990s, KMS (Saladin Security) worked in this island, Officer corps trained in UK, British Defense attache in Colombo was an expert on counter insurgency (Ireland and Oman).

      1997-98 British Officers played a crucial role in setting up Sri Lanka’s new Army Command and staff college. British colonel permanently attached to the college.

      2001 UK bans LTTE, Special forces veterans were sent to the island to advise on port security.

      2002 Britain begins to advise Sri Lanka on its Defense Review.

      2003 Britain sells substantial amount of arms

      2004 Britain started a comprehensive training and development programme for the armed forces.

      2005 European Ban on LTTE, UK holding the presidency of EU.

      2006 Sri Lanka request UK Higher Defense Management, Security Policy development and intelligence and policing.

      2007 Consultancy firm Libra Advisory Group, enhanced Sri Lankan Intelligence Services.

      2008 Security Development work on going in Sri Lanka.

      2009 Top UK diplomat maintained that Sri Lanka should not be on the UN security Council’s Agenda. Foreign Office sends senior Northern Irland policeman as a “critical friend”.

      Arms supplied 2003 – 2006, pages 28 & 29.

      Source:

      Britain’s Dirty War Against the Tamil People 1979 – 2009.
      By Phil Miller.

      June 2014.

      Read the complete book:

      http://sangam.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Britains_dirty_war.pdf

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    What do you really know about our Country? You are acting like a corrupt bankrupt Politician begging for Tamil votes to stay in politics. Suggest you mind your own business and leave our Country alone. We would have even agreed if the Corrupt Regime continued in power, but not any more.

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      Namal Perera

      “You are acting like a corrupt bankrupt Politician begging for Tamil votes to stay in politics.”

      Didn’t Fonseka, MR, and Maithiri campaign for the Tamil votes?

      “Suggest you mind your own business and leave our Country alone.”

      ED’s brother played a crucial role keeping the coalition intact that supported the war and did nothing to stop war crimes being committed in this island.

      ” We would have even agreed if the Corrupt Regime continued in power, but not any more.”

      Brilliant.

      However why Cut off the nose to spite the face?

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      Namal Perera
      Stop chewing name sake gum- there is nothing jaw dropping in your substance-
      `WE`will continue ….its a statement from the man who stopped the air raid over Syria.

      The pending general elections for may 7:

      IT IS NOT WARD FOR COUNCIL OR MAYORAL WHERE
      COMMONWEALTH AND EU NATIONS `DO NOT VOTE` (ONLY ONE VOTE IN PREFERENCE FOR DUAL NATIONALS OF EU)
      BUT THE NATIONALS FOR NATIONALS ONLY – TAMIL VOTES HARDLY COUNT IN ANY ELECTORATE
      WHEN THE WHITES GO OUT (OVER 70% IN MANY) TO VOTE FOR A GRAND COALITION.

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        Maratha or maraya do not try your smoke & mirrors rubbish here ,

        this is the correct info
        To vote at the Parliamentary election on 7 May 2015 you must:

        be 18 years or over on polling day and registered to vote, and be:
        British or qualifying Commonwealth citizens (those citizens who have been granted entry to the UK (for a limited period only) and those that have an unrestricted right to live in the UK): even if it is for Ward,council or mayoral its the same
        the “whites- bit racist dont you think ” as you say only 55% + of eligible voters will vote like previous time, where as The Tamil votes will cont as they will go out in their drones to vote atleast 98% with out a doubt .
        and no need to shout in CAPS
        stop selling your false propaganda here as well we are neither milliband or cameron to be fooled by the like of you ,
        and qouting the that rag “daily mail ” ?? oh please…

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          Buddy [Edited out] simon is what comes to mind- you are hora oru wich was governed by British Raj from madras presidency. Now in 48 you got your ambude known as national dress.
          I hold dual British and Spanish nationality before your generation knew england.
          Where I vote at the elections is law within europe and UK and Spain.
          Dont tech me how to drink clean bottled water.
          Go clean your sewers fist and the floods.

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            54

            Ha ha ha , Maratha ..Maraya is showing true his /her true colors after getting caught Red- handed lying his/her guts out by trying his “pro -koti- poganda ” lies about his re-written UK election Laws (now known as Maratha UK Election Law)
            now resorting to insults & filth ..dont worry we know its typical of your kind.. wouldn’t expect anything else we know its typical
            no one cares about your “Dual Nationality” since you declare your self very Old I advise (yes I have the nerve to advise you) you get checked out for dementia ,not for your own good of course but for others , if you can think about others that is!! and please do stay away from a keyboard of any type for the sake of others of course (i cant say for your loved ones as that would only be you)
            I look forward to your reply,you know you surely would reply, down vote this as much as you want i know it makes you happy , but please do get checked out .
            btw i am cleaning the sewers & the toilet oh i forgot i use both for the same purpose ..hope that makes you happy

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              what a moron and bigot with not the slightest imagination.
              anu the village idiot in an ambude??

              How did you fight – hiding behind your women???
              Only the Natives of the Deccan had the horses and elephants to fight the invaders.
              Painting of a Sowar of the 6th Madras Light Cavalry, circa 1845
              http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_cavalry#/media/File:Madras_cavalry.jpg
              Maratha horse warrior of India
              http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_cavalry#/media/File:Maratha_Horse_Warrior_of_India_(colour_litho).jpg
              The early weeks of World War I saw light cavalry attempting to continue its long established function of being the “eyes and ears” of the respective main armies. However, despite some early success, the advent of trench warfare and aircraft observation quickly rendered this role obsolete, except to an extent in Eastern Europe where light cavalry mounted actions on a diminishing scale continued to occur until the revolution of 1917 took Russia out of the war.[5]
              26th King George’s Own Light Cavalry[edit]
              The 26th King George’s Own Light Cavalry was originally raised as the 5th Regiment Madras Native Cavalry on 23 October 1787 as part of the Madras Presidency Army. In 1788, it was re-designated as the 1st Madras Native Cavalry and in 1816 its name was changed to 1 Madras Light Cavalry. The Regiment was yet again renamed as the 1st Regiment of Madras Lancers in 1886, and was known by that title till the turn of the century, when it was changed to 1st Madras Lancers.
              In 1903 it was renamed as the 26th Light Cavalry and three years later it became the Prince of Wales Own Light Cavalry and then in 1910, it became the 26th King George’s Own Light Cavalry. During this time it participated in the Third Mysore War, 1789–1792, the Fourth Mysore War, 1793-1798. Campaigns against Dhoondia Wagh and the Polygars, 1799-1830. Campaigns in Afghanistan and Burma, between, 1880-1914.

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              anu the [Edited out]

              Bird Brain from the village in the agricultural colony sinhal/tamil/muslim all the same idiots.
              Here in the EU we are outside of politics and whoever comes does not matter to us the least.
              Democracy from Motherland of Democracy: One head one vote.
              Check it out with any local council of London. (criminal offence worse than social fund, medical, fraud)
              We are outside of politics and whoever comes does not matter to us the least.
              A dual citizen of EU (means 2 different eu passports not residency) who voted twice in the EP election faces prosecution
              Published on Monday, 26 May 2014 16:43
              The editor of the respected newspaper Die Zeit Giovanni di Lorenzo, who has both German and Italian citizenship, boosted on a prime time talk show that he has voted twice in the elections for European Parliament last weekend. Dual citizens generally can vote in the national elections of each of their home countries. However, it is illegal to vote twice for the European Parliament, even though its members are allocated on a per country basis. The prosecutors in Germany promptly opened investigation while di Lorenzo claimed he was unaware of his wrongdoing.
              Dual citizenship is especially salient in Germany at the moment as the Bundestag is debating an amendment to the ‘option model’.

              Read more in Spiegel (in German) and Chicago Tribune.
              Read more about dual citizenship in Germany.

              That is it, voting twice to elect MEPs in both the Italian constituencies and in other EU constituencies attracts penalties of 1 to 3 years of jail time and £45 to £225 fine. (the price may have increased in the last decade)

              The Italian authorities explicitly reference the “Council Directive 93/109/EC of 6 December 1993 laying down detailed arrangements for the exercise of the right to vote and stand as a candidate in elections to the European Parliament for citizens of the Union residing in a Member State of which they are not nationals” as the source of this prohibition, specifically the article 4, which is pretty clearly stating:

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          Buddy,
          “”Maratha or maraya do not try your smoke & mirrors rubbish here ,””

          you were born in coconut shell –
          coconut-head, pick_pocket government and people running for refuge status having filled maid and young boys advertisement in EU magazines.

          control freak keep eating parripu- preek preek preeeeek!

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            Goodness me there are some mentally unstable freaks here like the above, most from the Labour/LTTE camp some from MaRa both deserve each other , iam outta here

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              Davidcamoron,

              Unpalatable because you have never read beyond your scope of a frog in the well. enjoy free education-pinnata is never good for health you get – preeek preeek preeeeeek.

              “”Goodness me there are some mentally unstable freaks here like the above, most from the Labour/LTTE camp “”

              Wah! Wah! Kya Baat Hai! from begging bowl Islamist Sinhalese colony folk.
              Buruvas, lazy rice starch eating idiots.

              Cannibal what are you in the UK as even an immigrant??
              ‘Lanka Reserves Expected to Boost from Indian Currency Swap’

              The richest man living in the UK is an Indian national Mittal whose company is registered in the USA. Indians are 7.0% of total London population of 8.5 million.

              British Indians are socioeconomically affluent and are primarily members of the middle class.[2] A study by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation in 2011 found British Indians have among the lowest poverty rates among all ethnic groups in Britain, second only to White British.[3]

              The United Kingdom Census 2011 recorded 1,451,862 residents of Indian ethnicity, accounting for 2.3 per cent of the total UK population (not including those of mixed ethnic backgrounds).[1] People born in India are the UK’s largest foreign-born population, totalling an estimated 734,000 in 2013.[16]

              According to the 2001 UK Census 1,053,411 people (1.8% of the country’s population) was of Indian descent. Between 2001 and 2009, National Statistics has released estimates for the number of Indians in England only. They were as follows: 2001 – 1,045,600, 2002 – 1,074,700, 2003 – 1,109,100, 2004 – 1,156,000, 2005 – 1,215,400,2006 – 1,264,200, 2007 – 1,316,000 2008 – 1,366,400 and 2009 – 1,414,100.[17]
              Today there are considerable numbers of Indian Britons who have ancestry via theCaribbean, South and East Africa as well as the Pacific Islands. See also: British Indo-Caribbean community, Ugandan British, Kenyan British, South African British andTanzanian British.

              Now please clean your smelly toilets-
              they are a disgrace and only fit for weirdo tourist.

              Remember the TEA Baggers war by US we in the EU are used to without tea nowadays as we go for French/Italian coffee it tastes better.

              Send your tea to the camels or Russian’s for free.

              India has given your begging bowl $1.5 billion to well NaMo gave the bait on his visit- a $1.5 billion restructuring so that the Lankan rupee may not fall. So we said that he meant `lankans stay in your brood` no float sams no jet sams with drivel of war with self.
              …..
              The Central Bank said the inflation, on a year-on-year basis, declined to 0.1 per cent in March 2015 from 0.6 per cent in February 2015. The annual average inflation also declined to 2.5 per cent from 2.9 per cent recorded in the previous month. http://www.newindianexpress.com/world/Lanka-Reserves-Expected-to-Boost-from-Indian-Currency-Swap/2015/04/15/article2765683.ece

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              Davidcamoron,
              Agreed this maratha idiot is a kohoda-yanne-malle-pol bombay looking calcatta retard freak , but everyone has to admit the fellow is certainly entertaining giving us all a good laugh with his coolie heritage is he not? .
              Coolie heritage though methinks he could be GOD everyone with a different opinion than this freak seems to be a bigot, a moron, afrog, birdb brain and what ever not, ironic that a moronic bigot calling another a moron and a bigot . But we do love you for the laughs you provide, you are a wonderful example of indian citizenery if you are an indian modaya that is , methinks you are a kotiya , btw ask mittal to build more toilets to your citizens .
              keep the torrents of comments coming .btw time to come out from hiding behind your women, you say it so much it must be you you are talking about I know you hide behind your children so no need to go there , more moronic comments from your paranoid sociopathic self please (yes I do know know what that mean)…. waiting……

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                [Edited out] trying to talk of pedigree.
                [Edited out]

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    Namal Perera ,

    HERE IS WHAT YOU ARE MISSING – SHOWS THAT YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT A FRIEND IS FOR.

    Just 3% of the Chinese have passports- 42 million and they spend Euros 2.0 billion in France alone for `Chinese New year high street shopping` and UK with its visa restrictions a Euro 1 billion.

    What you are missing is the trust certificate in gold of brand and product.
    Chinese consumers, who have become the world’s powerhouse nationality propelling the global luxury sector in 2012 also represent the world’s number one market for luxury goods.

    So why DO the Chinese fly 5,000 miles to shop in the West End?

    These tourists have no time for Beefeaters, Big Ben, or cream tea at the Ritz.
    They have no truck with the changing of the guard and little interest in the Queen or embryonic royal babies. Indeed, many speak not a word of English.
    But who cares? They’re just here for the shopping.

    They have flown over 5,000 miles from their homes in mainland China, brandishing gleaming new credit cards and lugging empty suitcases.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2253966/So-DO-Chinese-fly-5-000-miles-shop-West-End-Asks-Jane-Fryer.html

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      Maratha

      “But who cares?”

      China’s population is aging. Think about the implications.

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        every sec one stalk is being born screaming- NeHa.

        to top it they are into the age of robotics with active German Assistance- Seen the Robo TT in Auto industry?? Why did Gordon Brown hand over £3 billion to TATA to build a 50/50 partnership for Rover/Jaguar??? they the British are aging and the Indians are crawling.
        The no of children in the cities has increased to 2 from one child policy same as village (remember the blind refugee from village he had 2 so where is he But frustrated like another refugee journalist in the US Texas)

        Chines think outside of western box (education) are smarter than western imposed `human rights` and diversity with out caps. If you notice the number of Japanese experts in Chinese industry it would shock most commentators on western media coverage. The script is more or less the same and these guys innovators dislike Japanese rigidity.

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    Please investigate both sides. The Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam, if they are legitimate should also be called for war crimes.

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