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Wigneswaran & Northern Council Detonate ‘Genocide’ Resolution

By Dayan Jayatilleka

Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka

Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka

For personal reasons that would be too painfully obvious to state, I can well remember a time that Sri Lankan newspaper Editors would be unforgiving with their newsroom, if the biggest political story of the week had failed to make it to their front page or any page at all, especially if the story was big enough to be reported in the respected Indian newspaper, The Hindu.

Only two Sri Lankan English language newspapers (Ceylon Today and Daily FT) and a single TV website (Derana) caught the dramatic story of Chief Minister Wigneswaran and the Northern Provincial Council’s 11 page “Genocide” resolution. The intrinsic important of the story was captured by the fact that the Hindu ran it with a quote from Indian officialdom. Thus it was that the Indian Government had already reacted appropriately to a Sri Lankan story which had not, for the most part, made the Sri Lankan media. Then again, this speaks not so much to the state of the Sri Lankan media but to the larger state of Sri Lankan society, which is or has been rendered – one can only guess by whom and to what end—far more concerned about Wele Suda than Wigneswaran. It seems a classic case of what Noam Chomsky termed the manufacturing of consent, which is, at bottom, a term for collective hypnosis or brainwashing.

The Hindu story captioned ‘Sri Lanka’s Northern Province Resolution: India Officials Wary’, with Suhashini Haidar’s byline and datelined New Delhi February 11, 2015 opens thus:

“The Indian government took note of the resolution by the Sri Lankan Northern Provincial Council internally, but officials said it was too early to gauge its importance to the reconciliation process already initiated by President Maithripala Sirisena’s new government. Officials are studying if the genocide resolution would affect the Geneva conference of the UNHRC, where the U.N. special rapporteur is due to submit a report on a U.S.-sponsored “war crimes investigations” that could also lead to a resolution against Sri Lanka being tabled…Any attempt to challenge the new government in Colombo with an international genocide investigation at this point could “complicate matters,” sources in New Delhi have said. The U.N. special rapporteur is expected to submit a report on a U.S.-sponsored “war crimes investigations” and a resolution on Sri Lanka’s ‘genocide against Tamils’ could also be tabled then…”  (The Hindu, Feb 11, 2015)

That the Northern resolution cannot be dismissed as insignificant is best evidenced by Delhi’s entirely appropriate reaction, which is in sharp contrast to the reported refusal of the Sri Lankan Prime Minister’s Office to comment.

The TAMILNET report of the “key development” as it calls the resolution, is captioned ‘Wigneswaran calls for international investigation on genocide’. It states as follows:

“In a key development, the Chief Minister of Northern Provincial Council (NPC), Justice CV Wigneswaran, on Tuesday called for real international investigations on genocide against Tamils committed by the successive governments since Ceylon’s independence from the British in 1948. Passing a resolution in the council that demanded international investigations on genocide, the Chief Minister has called for criminal prosecutions at the International Criminal Court (ICC) and urged the on-going OHCHR Investigation on Sri Lanka (OISL) to investigate the claim of genocide and recommend appropriate investigations and prosecutions by the ICC… 

The case of genocide in Sri Lanka is unique among genocides in history because it occurred over several decades and under different governments before intensifying into a no-holds-barred war for nearly three decades and culminating in the mass atrocities of 2009, the resolution further said. The concluding paragraphs of the resolution passed in the NPC follow:

The obligation to prevent and punish genocide under the Genocide Convention is not a matter of political choice or calculation, but one of binding customary international law. This Council urges OISL to comprehensively investigate and report on the charge of genocide in its submission to the UN Human Rights Council in March 2015. The UN Security Council should refer the situation in Sri Lanka to the International Criminal Court for prosecutions based on war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. Alternatively or concurrently, domestic courts in countries that may exercise universal jurisdiction over the alleged events and perpetrators, including but not limited to the United States, should prosecute these crimes…” [TamilNet, Tuesday, 10 February 2015, 08:22 GMT]

The full text of this outrageous and dangerous affront of a Resolution is available at Colombo Telegraph. Click here to read the full text.

While I have little doubt that Sri Lanka’s new administration can deal with this and any such challenge in Geneva with New Delhi’s help—which the Rajapaksa administration absurdly reckoned it could do without—that is not the main issue. Far more important are (1) the fact of the resolution (2) its content and character (3) its authorship and agency and (4) its timing.

Firstly, the fact is that the Northern Provincial council has passed a resolution which is far outside its Constitutional mandate. The subject of the resolution is, it is hardly necessary to say, well outside the list of subjects and functions devolved to the Provincial Council. The very fact of the resolution on a matter so utterly contentious and intensely political, with major diplomatic and sovereignty implications for Sri Lanka, reveals the self-image of the Northern Council and gives an insight into its political consciousness and ideology, its political project and probable trajectory.

Secondly, the resolution is not a token one, in which case it would be short. It is an eleven page document. It also represents an escalation, in that the charge leveled constitutes a moral and legal indictment which cannot be surpassed. It is not limited to a mere lamentation and contains a specific call to international action. It calls for Sri Lanka to be charged under international customary law, both at the international level as well as by domestic judiciaries throughout the world under the doctrine of universal jurisdiction. It alleges that the worst of crimes that can be committed against any people, has been committed against the Tamil people of this island, and that is the crime of genocide. It does not allege that such genocide has been committed or attempted in the last stages of the war. It claims that such genocidal acts were committed by all Ceylonese/Sri Lankan administrations since 1948. (This would make it the slowest, most inefficient ‘genocide’ in human history).

Thirdly, this is not a resolution moved by a Tamil diaspora secessionist lobby such as the TGTE, or a radical Tamil nationalist fringe such as that led by Mr. Gajan Ponnambalam, or a radical dissenter within the Northern Council such as the effervescent Ms. Ananthi Sasitharan. On the contrary, this extreme resolution is moved and endorsed by the respected Chief Minister and former judge of the Supreme Court, Mr. Wigneswaran and voted through with an enormous margin, by the Northern Provincial council itself. This is a Tamil nationalist mainstream move, which demonstrates that Tamil nationalism remains within the paradigm of the Vadukkodai resolution. This ‘Genocide’ Resolution 2015 could be dubbed the Son of Vadukkodai Resolution 1976.

Fourthly, there is the timing. A new reformist government of liberal pluralist leanings is in office. The Northern Provincial council and its respected Chief Minister decide to escalate at this time, notwithstanding the assumption of office by the new Government. The Genocide Resolution gives the lie to the interpretation that the Northern Council gets understandably radicalized because someone like Mahinda Rajapaksa refuses to devolve power. The election to the Northern Council had not been held when in in the last days of the campaign, Mr. Wigneswaran called Prabhakaran a “great hero”. Mahinda Rajapaksa has been sent home and so has Gen. Chandrasiri, the Governor. Maithripala Sirisena and Ranil Wickremesinghe are in office, as is Governor HMGS Palihakkara, respected ex-diplomat, former LLRC commissioner and distinguished ‘dove’. What do the Chief Minister and the Council do? Help the moderates by extending a hand and building bridges, or at the very least observing a political ceasefire for a hundred days? On the contrary, they escalate. They explode a political claymore under the new administration.

If an elected, i.e. representative body of an ethnic community is of the view that the community has been consistently subject to genocide, then nowhere in world history does such a community decide to stay with the larger community or its leaders which have perpetrated such a heinous atrocity against the very existence of the collective. Thus it is very clear that the political consciousness that produced this detailed resolution is dead set on a destiny which is independent of the Sri Lankan state; of Sri Lanka as a country. The charge of genocide cannot be other than a buildup of the case for sovereignty and independence.

How can so irresponsible and anti-national a Provincial Council and Chief Minister be conferred the full panoply of power contained in the 13th amendment, when there is no guarantee that they will be exercised responsibly? How can it even be countenanced that powers beyond the 13th amendment be vested in such a Council? How can the Sri Lankan state fail to retain and emphasize its unitary character when faced with such political behavior by a Council which is dangerously adjacent to a hostile Tamil Nadu?

How will an enfeebled, post-Constitutional reforms Presidency, shorn of most executive powers and no longer the Head of Government, deal with an obviously restive Northern Provincial Council which is ratcheting up the pressure? How will a UNP administration which is dependent on the TNA in parliament do so either? How can the citizenry trust Prime Minister Wickremesinghe who gave away the store during the Ceasefire Agreement and has made the most curious appointments to sensitive posts in recent times (sparking fears of a stealth takeover by Diaspora proxies), be trusted to keep the lid on the increasingly radical Northern Provincial Council?

What could possibly have emboldened the Northern Chief Minister and his Council to gavel this ‘Genocide’ Resolution through, while deflecting the term with due circumspection just a few months ago when it was mooted by the TNA’s Mr. Sivajilingam? What could make them quite so impatient? Is it a sense of entitlement deriving from the arithmetic of the election results and the feeling that the time has now come to pay the Piper?

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    “Wigneswaran & Northern Council Detonate ‘Genocide’ Resolution”

    Dayan the great, is putting facts on record a crime?

    You have warped thinking mate. You need psychotherapy to think straight!

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      The Truth of Sinhala state genocide shall set Tamils free. Middle finger to Dayan.

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        Typical Thiru. Fortunately all Tamils are not shameless racists like you. You and the much mentioned ‘Mahavamsa mentality’. Have you ever heard a Singalese mention the Ramayana mentality?

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          What a load of rubbish this fellow has written. An internal war crimes inquiry will only be a farce. Tamil genocide took place and continues to take place. We cannot let the war criminals escape scot free. International war crime investigation and punishment is the one and only option for the Tamils. This Tamil Genocide resolution has nothing to do with the powers of the provincial council or the Vadukkodai Resolution and neither does it has anything to do with LTTE or the Tamil Diaspora. Right from 1956, the Tamils were killed by the Sinhalese (with the support of the prevailing government). In 2009 alone, 40,000 innocent Tamil civilians were killed.

          This fellow Dayan is not only crying foul but also twisting, turning and manipulating it.

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            @Kumar ‘neither does it has anything to do with LTTE or the Tamil Diaspora’ and in the same Breath you state, in 2009 alone, 40,000 innocent Tamil civilians were killed. Please tell us if it hasn’t to dpo with the LTTe thn what were Civilians doing in a Battle Field??? Surely who emptied the Towns out????? And this is the Double standards of SOME Tamils.. Many sinhalese know that a Huge injustice was commited politically againt the Tamils. Hnece after bombing of the scared Holy Temple in Kandy there was no revenge against Tamils as the LTTE and the LTTE emigres wished for, and During the final stages of the war It wasn’t call for the Buddhist Land and race that made Young people from all races join the Armed forces (where mass desertion had depeleted the forces) it was ‘Api Wenuwen Api’ Together for all which got all sri Lankns to defeat the LTTE Terrorist. So its maybe the Some Tamils who need to sit and Examine their politics. These games played by the TNA are simiar to when the TULF headed by Amirthalingam played these kind of games only to loose to the Racist Terrorist. One cannot call for justice with out looking into the role of Tamil Militants, the same militants who once took Arms from SL Government to Fight the Indians And put more tamil civilian at risk, rather than agree to the IPKF Accords. The same Accords that help create this council. and have not called the Indians to account during the war. This is not justice.

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              Nuwan
              The Tamil genocide started taking place in Sri Lanka very much before the LTTE. Innocent Tamils were massacred right from 1956. The LTTE was branded as a terrorist organization in several countries around the world. Let the government bring a resolution or persuade the international community to prosecute the left over LTTE leaders (some of them are in Sri Lanka) for the crimes they committed against humanity.

              During the 2009 war, the government forces killed much more innocent civilians than the LTTE and that is why the Sinhalese are afraid of an investigation. An investigation will expose the truth to the entire world that the Sinhala government has committed genocide. The Northern Province’s genocide Resolution is not about Eelam, it is only to prosecute those who committed crimes against innocent Tamils. We cannot let the war criminals escape scot free after killing tens of thousands of innocent Tamils.

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                @Kumar ‘During the 2009 war, the government forces killed much more innocent civilians than the LTTE’ ARE you a General??? Ever Heard of the Term Human Shiled??? WHy are you in a state of deniel.. When it came to the LTTE they used the Tamil civilians as cannon fodder. They didnt give a dam about Tamil civilians.. From the 80’s to the IPKF and through to 2009 the LTTE used to fight among civilains wearing civilian clothes, They Used Civilains as Human shileds.. A unfair fight. Just as in the west when they are fighting In Afganisthan where the Taliban have used Civilians as Human shileds. How many INT Military personal are in this Pannel to investigate the Military and LTTE fighting tactics???? NONE.. when did these Human rights become Battlefield experts.. Thats why the Notorious goldstone report of UNHCR was thrown out as it did not have the experts FACT.. we know the Riots of 56 and 58. they were bad and 83 was the worse and a stain in Sri Lankan hostory. We as sinhalese Can admit that and say it happend. BUt you Tamils can never admit LTTE crimes even against the tamils they claimed to defend let alone the rest of the Civilians in sri lanka.. They Crime of the past are drop in the ocean compared to the LTTE 30 years BRUTAL crimes upon this nation and people.

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                  If a terrorist organization use civilians as human shields how come a responsible government and its forces kill the civilians in tens of thousands along with the terrorists? Only a country ruled by uncivilised barbarians will do such a thing. Human rights should be maintained even in battlefields but the Sinhala government behaved even worse than the terrorists. The Tamil Genocide resolution brought forward by Wigneswaran to investigate and prosecute/punish those who massacred the Innocent Tamil civilians is the right thing to do. Now that the war criminals have lost their immunity, this is the right time to send them to Hague. When the USA and UN are trying to delay the war crime investigation, it is very important and it is the right time to bring such a resolution.

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                    @Kumar ‘ responsible government and its forces kill the civilians in tens of thousands along with the terrorists? ‘ Well The Western Forces such as the USA and UK have been doing the same Fighting where civilians have dies when used as Human shileds. Are they ‘barbarians’???? They help draft the same resolution You now condem for trying to delay.. There is a Reason why these people are called Terrorist.. They are Cowards.. YES the LTTE those TAMILS were COWARDS hiding behind Civilians and TAMIL Civilians. I never understood who SOme Tamils Light Candles for these COWARDS who hid with women and children and FIRED. But these ‘SELF GENOCIDE’ delebirate tactics used by the LTTE so they can Publish these images to get support from Stupid Int Emigre Tamils and put pressure to stop their group from been destroyed cost many lives in the Long run. During operation liberation in 87 they used the same tactics, then with India, and during the Capture of Jaffna. It only prolonged the war and caused the death of many civilians. I mean it was the LTTE taht decalred war againt the EASTERN TAMILs and decimated villages and civilians there. Not a mention and During the 58 riots lets not forget the Sinhalese Civilains who lived in the North many Bakers were also killed in equal measure. And the then Governor Sir Oliver Took stern action againt all EQUALLY.

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                      Nuwan

                      “Well The Western Forces such as the USA and UK have been doing the same Fighting where civilians have dies when used as Human shileds.”

                      Could you confine your discussion to this island. What USA and UK do outside this island and elsewhere is not our concern. Are you suggesting we should follow the the west in a competition and hit the bottom?

                      Whether LTTE was hiding behind civilians or Sri Lankan armed forces were deliberately targeting Tamil civilian is for an independent credible investigation to establish as the often quoted phrase succinctly explains

                      “The first casualty of War is Truth”

                      “It only prolonged the war and caused the death of many civilians.”

                      Premadasa arming and financing the LTTE and Rajabaksa paying a tidy sum for LTTE’s services during 2005 elections did really helped to prolong its unnecessary existence.

                      If indeed you are a concerned citizen of this island you should acknowledge the fact that LTTE was a product of the Sri Lankan state, its rulers and their voters. It didn’t just fall from the sky.

                      People cannot have selective memory of sordid history if they are indeed honest and also concerned about war and peace.

                      “Not a mention and During the 58 riots lets not forget the Sinhalese Civilains who lived in the North many Bakers were also killed in equal measure. And the then Governor Sir Oliver Took stern action againt all EQUALLY”

                      Could you cite your source a credible one, of course not another well spun old wives’ tale.

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                      @ Native Vedda.

                      ‘Could you confine your discussion to this island. What USA and UK do outside this island and elsewhere is not our concern. Are you suggesting we should follow the the west in a competition and hit the bottom’

                      It very silly to confine the discussion to the island. where We see the same Kind of Terrorism world wide and where the Said nations are using the same methods we used to fight the Terrorist, without any Critisism. But with civilian casulaties. The USA terms it ‘collateral damage’. They didnt send the Human rights Groups or the UN to talk about peace, As with certain Terrorist you will eventually come to the Hard conclusion Force will need to be used.

                      CAn you please tell us how many Times did the Various Governments sit with the LTTE for Peace??? And Why and WHo broke this peace discussions to prolong the war???

                      Why did the Indian come to the ISland??? why did they fight the LTTE??? which resulted in more civilian deaths????

                      Who Financed the LTTE over the years and for what purpose?? and why did they continue even after the LTTE walked away from peace deals?????

                      why did Premadasa Arm the LTTE???? And why did the LTTE enter talks with Premadasa for peace??? after the Indians left why did it fail???

                      And as for the 58 Riot incidents they are not ‘well spun old wives’ tale’ From The Hansard, Old News papers of the time both Int and domestic and Police reports (The Poilce could be trusted at the time)

                      I never said ‘Did S.J.V. Chelvanayagam’s hit man kill S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike in 1959?

                      I know i was a Buddhist who did not even care about Sinhala let alone buddhism, but to do with The usual Business deals. The real motive behind the Bandaranaike assassination.

                      I fully know the Sinhala politicians Was Part of the problem of the Ethnic tension. Yet it did not start overnight in 56 but went to the days of the Jaffna Youth Congress. Tamil Nationalism was boen in the early 1900’s. I rather say we should habe been more like Sir Arunachalam who wanted a Cyloneese Nationalism rather than Communal politics. Yet i hopw and will work for Sinhalese, tamils and bughres to be sri Lankans rather than belong to tribes of ethnic nationalism.. BUT For sections of Tamil to point fingers only at others and not highlight their own role in this brutal civil war and to now pretend as victims is a joke. Let me remid you the LTTE held at bay the 4th largest army in the world and they did not do that by convetional fighting methods.

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                      nuwan

                      ““Not a mention and During the 58 riots lets not forget the Sinhalese Civilains who lived in the North many Bakers were also killed in equal measure. And the then Governor Sir Oliver Took stern action againt all EQUALLY”

                      Please cite your source.

                      “CAn you please tell us how many Times did the Various Governments sit with the LTTE for Peace???”

                      Do you think successive governments really wanted to address the core issues? Lets go back to 1956 Sinhala only language law which should not have been enforced, but because of your hardliners Aryan Sinhala/Buddhists (has nothing to do with Buddha’s teaching) even the provision of reasonable use of Tamil was scuttled by the state, due to Kelania to Kandy Yatra by JR.

                      Intention is more important than judgement. Did any of the government actually want to solve the problem without the fear of losing elections. More atrocities against all minorities and bashing them helped to sustain their vote bank and increased it share.

                      Why are you on mute mode about Jaffna Library and police killing of 11 people at a cultural conference which was held in 1974? On both cases did the state investigate and punish the perpetrators? Have you forgotten the 53 Tamil prisoners massacred inside the Welikada prison in July 1983? Did the state found anyone guilty of such atrocities?

                      “Yet it did not start overnight in 56 but went to the days of the Jaffna Youth Congress. Tamil Nationalism was boen in the early 1900’s.”

                      Cite me the source, please avoid OTC’s garbage.

                      The Sinhala/Buddhists are allowed to celebrate their racist nationalist while their Tamil brethren are forced to keep their mouth shut. The JVP is allowed to publicly remember its fallen terrorist as heroes while Tamils in the North East are forced to forget their innocent kith and kin who died through no fault of their own.

                      Sinhala/Buddhist racism did not start with Jaffna Youth Congress which had already taken root and manifested itself physically in 1883 in Kottehena.

                      For clarification please read my previous comments on DBS Jeyaraj, Transcurrent, Tamil Canadian and in CT for my position on LTTE, JVP, State, Hindians, ………… the war, Independent Investigation, war crimes perpetrated since 5th April 1971 to date, ………… etc.

                      If you really want to discuss the issues please leave your Aryan Sinhala/Buddhist Agenda at home and have a fresh look at the island where it started and and where it ended up.

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                      @ Native Vedda

                      PPlease dont avoid answering my Basic questions. Instead you have tried to divert to a sBookish history lesson. I have fully responded to your original comment answering your poinys with FACTS, yet you keep avoiding my questions. And Just to add Dudley sen Government in whoich JRJ was finance minister tried to solve the ethnic problems, Hence for the First time Chelva and his FP joined the Government. It was the DDC issue and the koneswaran temple that made them give outside support. I admit Ms Bandaranaike was the worst leader who actually damaged the Realtions between Sinhala and Tamil (she was bread for having children and not politics back in the old days) But Mr bandaranaike was very successful in trying to resolve the issue. Had he lived we would have not had a ethnic problem. I rather see myself as Sri Lankian not sinhala Buddhist agenda as you say. But I will point out to the Tamils when they now pretend about justice for the crimes the LTTE commited in this nation for 30 years every single day.

                      1883 Kotehena sinhala buddhist Ane Bunda

                      April 1883 Kotehena IS THAT WHEN THE CATHOLICS (native and European) attacked the Buddhist perahera?

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                    @Kumar and also to add .. How do you know thery are criminals??? have you seen the evidence??? and i suspect like many LTTE emigre tamils who were working to save the LTTE leadership rather than Civilians want revenge for the destruction of those TAMIL LTTE COWARDS, those COWARDS who HID with women and CHILDREN. Nothing to do with justice. and like many EMIGRE LTTE tamil groups have already judged them. If the INT Investigation does not name the former president and Family. Then the LTTE emigres will cry foul

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                      Nuwan

                      Did S.J.V. Chelvanayagam’s hit man kill S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike in 1959?

                      DID LTTE burn down Jaffna Library?

                      Did the Tamils cause the first terrorist act on 5th April 1971? I suppose Rohana Wijeweera learned the art and science of terrorism from VP.

                      Did the Sinhala/Buddhists armed forces fight the Hindian IPKF between 1987 and 1990 or were they hiding behind their women folks?

                      Were Sirs Pon Ramanathan and Arunachalam Sinhalese who fought the Brits while Sinhala leaders were either behind bars or behind their women folks?

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                      Nuwan

                      “How do you know they are criminals??? have you seen the evidence???”

                      That is why there should be an independent investigation to establish the truth. Why are the Sinhalese so scared of an investigation? Only an independent investigation will prove if they are criminals or not.

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                      @ Kumar.. We the sri Lankan state said if INT Investigation is forced upon SL, then that investigation should be ‘Transparent’ which is a Right in every nation’s court room. Yet the UNHCR have said not and other Human rights grupos that gave it evidence. WHy because thay said safety.. WHich it totally Bull. As now the Government has changed. But the previous Governmnet said Let them have int Protection as long as we can see who these so called witness are.. We all saw what happend with the Notorious Goldstone report by the UNHCR.. Its witness were politically plants. Its only fair to meet the nation half way, yet the UNHCR said no.. WHY???????? not the First time UNHCR investigations been on suspect witness. You can see many cases such as the lebanese Rafic Hariri Investigation. Where the Local lebenese politicians who wanted the UN investgation said it was totally bias, they did not interview other actors in the region and found later certain nations interfere with that report. Thats why we want Transprancy if Int Investigation is required and Extend the period of the Entire war not only the last months

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          Taraki,

          Ask the North Indians about Ramayana mentality, not the Tamils.

          Tamils don’t favor Ramayana!

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            Thiru you have never heard of Ravana etc?

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              Tapraki tallapath, Dal`It eat preek, preek, means parrippu buddhist it takes precedence to ravana or rama. Northern Hari Hari.

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          again you have exposed half baked Mahavamsa knowledge …RAMAYANA is a Hindu epic it has nothing to deal with TAMILS…

          But this fake con book Mahavamsa with all lies have changed Sinhala mentality …

          Even the Kandayan kingdom was started after the migration of MANAWADUS from South India …later because of political resons all these Manawadus embraced Buddhism

          Kandy-British agreement was signed by Sri Wicrma Rajasinghe in Tamil why not in Sinhala ?

          This king` s descendents are still receiving pension from British government and living in South India.

          NOW THE BIGGEST JOKE IS… BSS… SAY RAVANA IS ALSO A SINHALESE how is this?

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            Yes saying a non existant person as sinhala or tamil is stupid…between if Mahavamsa is wrong, why do you base arguments on that

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          Taraki
          The Ramanaya is a legend about Rama killing of a Lankan demon called Ravana from which the Ravana Balu Sena has sprouted, ask your Thero Gandasarahe to give you a talk about that demon.
          Dayan is a modern version and that is the difference.

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          “Have you ever heard a Singalese mention the Ramayana mentality?”

          I didn’t know so far that the Ravana Balavegya is a Tamil Hindu extremist organization. Comedy thamai.

          Did you Sinhala Intellectuals forgot not to abuse even one Tamil and Sinahale name, including Taraki? Then why are you talking about Ravana?

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      @Thiru You are a Backward Racist no different from LTTE terrorist or the Sinhala racist.. Tamil people and justice is like asking to seperate Milk and Black oil. If they the NPC are after Justice why leave the INDAIN PERIOD THE IPKF OUT??? simple. They the same Tamils who sit in the NPC were once calling the Indians Genocide. And through the London Tamil Information spread the Properganda of Indian shelling Hospitals, Bombing Jaffna civilians Ares, Rape etc etc the USUAL.. SO why not call for Justice for those crimes and name the IPKF… Exactly like i said to say Tamils espically the NPC where most were fromer LTTE supporters want justice is like trying to seperate milk oand black oil.

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    Thiru – you asked for it (https://www.colombotelegraph.com/index.php/full-text-npcs-resolution-on-genocide-of-sri-lankan-tamil/comment-page-1/ ) and chameleon ( who reduced 40,000 to ZERO) has given it to you.

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    I think as a staunch opponent of Tamil self determination, Dayan’s response to the NPC resolution is very telling. Note that his criticism isn’t directed at the NPC or Justice Wigneswaran. It is directed at the government, and in particular at Mr.Wickremesinghe. The argument is that the NPC is becoming assertive only because the UNP is now in power. The predictable response from the UNP is going to be that it is the fault of the Rajapakses that the country is in this mess to begin with. I think this petty squabbling is excellent news for both the Tamil people and the United States. The US can move forward with the planned international intervention without any misgivings. The Sinhalese are not going to offer any resistance; instead they will predictably point fingers at each other and play the blame game.

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      Patriot,
      “The predictable response from the UNP is going to be that it is the fault of the Rajapakses” It is the FAULT of all PMs and presidents – DSS, Dudley, SWRD, JR, Premadasa, Kumaratunga, RW

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      Dont twist…it is very clear

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    Well,

    A Tamil attorney General was appointed. The Central Bank Governor is also a Tamil. The treasurer Ravi K is a Tamil. A ministry portfolio was offered to TNA. Then the 13th amendment was no longer a problem. The NPC secretary and governor was replaced as long requested. 60,000 acres of land released from armed forces to the public. 100,000 Tamils who should have been given citizenship in India is begin shipped back here again. Tamil Nadu Tamils back in their hundreds liberally poaching fish again.

    I thought everything was hunky dory. All of a sudden this happens. WTF is wrong with these Tamils? Apparently the army wasn’t withdrawn. No one promised to withdraw the army.

    The Jaffna bus stand and market still in a dilapidated condition. The only development there is those completed by Basil Rajapaske. TNA keeps passing dud resolution and resolution without doing any work for people there.

    This is why Mahinda R. treated them the way he did. The moment you treat them with any dignity they turn feral and keep asking for the next thing. It never stops.

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      Well,

      I call you an Imbecile for a reason; you have proved me 100% right in my assessment of you; thank you!

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      Villabushana,

      You cant wash massive crimes of the past with few carrot buddy, then start another riots suitably at another interval, then precahing Tamils to move forward?

      daya?

      Who the fuck the delhi to react to tamils problem in Srilanka? Is teh hindhian are the gods for srilankan tamils to decide what they need to plead for?

      CVW Sir,

      Well done!

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        Buddy Manisekaran,

        You cant wash massive crimes of the past with few carrot buddy,

        I agree with you. The biggest crime is not what you think however.

        The biggest crime is a bunch of Tamils who were brought to Ceylon as labourers terrorising the country to carve a ‘traditional homeland’.

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        Well said. AS VIBHUSHANA SAID, If gov can apoint tamils to CB gov, CJ, AG etc etc. But tamils know who are those carrot buddys and what they did during the successive govs. Nothing new. Who the hell to release the land to their owners? they must vacate their lands because they are forcefully keeping others land. Forces dont need to give or grand the lands to tamils. Its not a military lands to give it to tamils.its tamils lanks and actualy military should be kicked out of the lands rather begging to vacate the land. Its a much needed resolution.

        As we all know. Nothing new in indian involvement. They reacted even before sl gov. Indian gov has to protect sonia for their dirty war in sl. otherwise people wont call thrm as biggest democratic country. They yet to complete the investigation on their own hands in rajiv gandi’s murder. Sonia revenged tamils because of her husband but she didnt even care about what indian writers and intelligent are writing about her husband’s murder. There are lot of authors wrote about their own involvement. She didnt even order to get a single statement from theM if she really wants to punish the masterminds.

        So funny india is giving us our land and tell us what is genocide. Hindu paper can list down what is genocide and then reject on which basis it is not genocide.

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      Vibhushana

      “A Tamil attorney General was appointed. The Central Bank Governor is also a Tamil.”

      The Tamil people are not interested in any such appointments. By appointing a Tamil as even a prime minister in Sri Lanka is not going to solve the decade’s long Tamil issue. It will only be a showcase to fool the world. The Tamils have a problem from the day the British gave independence to Sri Lanka. A Tamil becoming a Chief Judge or an IGP is not going to solve the Tamil Problem.

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    Dayan, as usual you go at a tangent with your convoluted arguments:

    Your arguments don’t need a Diogenes to outwit as he did to Plato.

    You are so stupid that you don’t dispute the truthfulness of the resolution but arguing about all the irrelevant things.

    Can you honestly rebut the resolution? You cannot!

    It’s time you and the Sinhala ruling elite hang your heads in shame.

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      Looks like Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka de Silva has taken the place of (replaced) Dr. Nalin de Silva.

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    “How can so irresponsible and anti-national a Provincial Council and Chief Minister be conferred the full panoply of power contained in the 13th amendment, when there is no guarantee that they will be exercised responsibly? “

    Responsibility to the genocidal Sinhala state?

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      Dr Dayan – As freedom of expression is now gurentted you must publish these articles in sinhale for the benifit of general voters – majority of the tamil nationalist and Tamil racist do not posses correct mind set to read them with an open mind – now they and TNA racist are becoming suspsious – because the American sponsored UN resolution will be delayed this March – they are now suspecting whether the resolution will disappear forever – Hopefully if this Gov. manage understand the gravity of the situation – good for the country – it is necessary to show Tamil racist where they are belong – then only the normal tamils will be able to live in harmony with sinhalese

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    “How will an enfeebled, post-Constitutional reforms Presidency, shorn of most executive powers and no longer the Head of Government, deal with an obviously restive Northern Provincial Council which is ratcheting up the pressure? How will a UNP administration which is dependent on the TNA in parliament do so either? How can the citizenry trust Prime Minister Wickremesinghe who gave away the store during the Ceasefire Agreement and has made the most curious appointments to sensitive posts in recent times (sparking fears of a stealth takeover by Diaspora proxies), be trusted to keep the lid on the increasingly radical Northern Provincial Council?”

    So bring back my hero Mahinda in April to complete the genocide of Tamils?

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    Of course in Dayaks world of absolute sovereignty States should be allowed to carry out mass atrocities against its own citizens from a specific ethnic group and be subject only to its own internal sham proceedings where no one is ever brought to account. Very good. Of course as usual there is no engagement whatsoever on the issue of accountability for the long list of crimes – that would be ridiculous wouldn’t it. More nationalist drivel.

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    “What could possibly have emboldened the Northern Chief Minister and his Council to gavel this ‘Genocide’ Resolution through, while deflecting the term with due circumspection just a few months ago when it was mooted by the TNA’s Mr. Sivajilingam? What could make them quite so impatient? Is it a sense of entitlement deriving from the arithmetic of the election results and the feeling that the time has now come to pay the Piper?”

    It’s not all the above stupid:

    It is simple but for your Mahavamsa mind set it is incomprehensible.

    it’s the agonizing truth of Tamils’ genocide in the island of Sri Lanka, for which justice is long overdue.

    Tamils of NorthEast have inhabited for more than three millenniums and enjoyed freedom until Britain took it away in 1832 with the annexing to Sinhala ratas.

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    If the northern tmil are going to rock the boat let them realy have a dose of genocide.

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      You mean another dose of genocide to finish them off?

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    The humanitarian point here is whether such a huge mass of 40,000 Tamils were culled end of the war? If this is true and proved true, this is a gigantic proportion by all means and no reasoning or comment can pacify this disaster. If this gigantic genocide happened on the Sinhalese (instead of Tamils), would Dayan feel the same way? This is where we Sinhalese need to be ashamed of heinous comments made by our so called educated.

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    For a man well versed in the laws and an educated person the late SL Gunasekera, seeing there was no accommodation for him in either of the two main Sinhala political parties viz:- the UNP and SLFP – joined the
    Sinhala supremacist forces albeit its anti-Christian posture. The anti-Tamil and anti-Indian senior lawyer he was yet stood in the way of every possible and potential arrangement to accommodate the Tamils into the mainstream and move the divided country towards reconciliation.

    Dayan, son of the liberal Mervyn de Silva. who at all times refused to toe the racial line, now plays the SLG game perhaps to retain some lost validity in our delicate but mixed-up political landscape. His personal vitriol against Ranil is pretty palpable here. If his piece here is translated into Sinhalese and let loose in the vernacular media, it can create havoc – far lethal than the claymore he uses here to scare the Sinhala South. This, significantly prior to months before a key General Election mid-year, carries with it its own story.
    If Mahinda Rajapakse enters the fray again the content and language Dayan uses will be his swansong.If Dayan has plans to be the blue eyed boy of the anti-Tamil Sinhala supremacist cabal, he may rest assured he is almost there.

    Forgive me – but is it not the ideal role of the learned and the talented in the art of politics and governance more to bring conflicting political ideologies and players together so that the cause of peace, reconciliation and patriotism in our shattered society is better served.

    R. Varathan

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      what has Dayan stopped here? Did he stop the resolution? Did he stop any arrangements?

      Dayan is raising very valid points that every Sinhalese should take into heart.

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      R Varathan

      You speak of Mervyn’s non racial line. Have you forgotten his strong sponsorship of STANDARDISATION for university admission. He wrote this in 1972.

      He was among the first if not the first, to write like this. He quoted the stance of Malaysia’s Bhoomiputra Policy in support of his stance for marginalisation of Tamils.

      Herein Tigers had their genesis.

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        Thank you Chanakyan for your intervention. I do not quite know the article you refer to. But if you will allow me, the idea of Standardisation from the bigger picture – worked out by men like Dr. Premadasa Udugama, who I think was Dr. Bad-iu-din Mahmud’s Secretary (1970) – was aimed at providing a level playing field for students – Sinhalese, Tamil and other – in rural/outstation schools with disadvantaged facilities to gain the benefits of higher education. However, Dr. Mahmud, widely believed to be anti-Tamil and disproportionately anxious to please his political bosses and Mrs.B, used this as a tool to harm Tamil students.
        You will note, immediately after the initial uproar among Tamil students they not only accepted the amended features of the Standardisation Bill but also benefited then and continue to do so till now from this controversial piece of legislation. I do not deny there may be some features where Tamil students may feel the Bill was calculated to their disadvantage. But this can always be engaged in the usual course of debate in Parliament and elsewhere.

        In our many years of personal friendship with the late Mervyn de Silva, we found him eminently liberal and free of communalism in outlook on socio-political issues. I must add, however, he had no qualms in being identified as a supporter of Mrs.B and may have, now and then, offered cause to have his socio-political analysis suspected to contain some bias towards Mrs.B and her regime.

        R. Varathan

        R. Varathan

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    What happened during 2009 May was a GENOCIDE by Sinhala government using all military facilities
    even prohibited chemical weapons were used.

    Next stop INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT at The Hague

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      yes it is a GENOCIDE….problem?

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        …be prepared to face the consequences …China will not to help you anymore ..if Indian and US try to influence SL China will change the tune …

        China never helped for Sinhalease they have their own military agenda….

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          What consequences?

          Tell me more….

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            not only SL Modayas will be completely isolated by the world …….but also you won’t be able to travel with SL passport…..just one of the punishments…read and learn what happened to Serbia..

            where on earth you live ? during 2nd century Mahavamsa con book fabricated story time ?

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      The LTTE were positioned among the civilians in May 2009. There were no Japanese soldiers in Hiroshima or Nagasaki. Both attacks ended long wars quickly. If you bastards ever get to the Hague you will lose to our lawyers. Then you can start complaining about something else.

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        Tagaran Rakine Raki,….:-p ….no way!

        HYENA, තරච්ඡයා Crocuta crocuta, Duff, bluff, buff,

        Rats live on no evil star!

        Its the walls of Inner temple that still resonate to as far as New Zealand that Jt’s are a class act at Lincolns Inn. Sihala can only dream. Law comes in numbers first then Latin so the studious win. Seen Enron the Chandigarh boy perform both directions of law yet at the top and in demand- son of professor of Maths from Thirunavali the heart of Tamil Resistance. Sihala good at medecine and as writers of stories look at TG tops on newsroom ct.

        MIA started with Tarrare -tarra podu da… a colombo song and music of cheer; its on video of 2000 event at an art gallery London. Same AE Manoharan our own Wada Baila.

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        Yes…even your favorite MR spend billions of tax payers money but this joker couldn `t stop UN resolution now new ministers are running up and down to beg UN to postpose this investigation report due in March why?

        Even the current President of Kenya as well as his Deputy went to ICC at the Hague and participated in the inquiry why then your favorite MR is crying if his clean. ?

        When rebel hit hard you will touch their feet and beg for mercy ..shame 30 years your governments and army couldn’t touch them only after the support of 36 nations only after using chemical weapons you have managed to silence them..

        and still dancing for this borrowed,artificial ,hollow victory for free liquor…

        Already Geramn,Netherlands and the New Zealand courts have clearly declared that LTTE is not a terrorist ( invented by emperor J R Jayawardana she he left the post he told Sinhalese to guard themselves) organization…are you all bigger than this court.

        Still believing in fake Mahavamsa stories …

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          Cholan, realpolitik always wins in the end.

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            I for once agree with you. Realpolitik does win. That is precisely why anti-West,anti-India and pro-China Mahinda should come back to power. It will benefit the Tamils in the long term.

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        Taraki,
        To bring the world war argument you first have to accept the Tamils as a different nation and if your lawyers will do that kudos to them.I think Kosova, East Timour and South Sudan stand as modern day examples of state sponsored genocide on ethnic groups.

        Also the Geneva convention was passed after the nuclear bombings to stop attacks like that not to imitate it you fool. So bring on your so called “lawyers”.

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    Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka Your a Funny man

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    It is now abundantly clear why police and land powers should not be given to NPC and what requires is further limiting the given powers. They have already acted beyond their constitutional mandate.

    And as dayan says this further proves “the Genocide Resolution gives the lie to the interpretation that the Northern Council gets understandably radicalized because someone like Mahinda Rajapaksa refuses to devolve power.”

    The SL government as it showed has taken a lot of steps for reconciliation and to make NPC workable. This government went further by giving important posts to tamils which made every moderate sinhalese happy.

    The Sinhalese were made to think that it is because of their faults that NPC is not working. Now we have removed MR and put a more docile man in it with RW as PM, who were too gracious for LTTE..

    But NPC shows the Tamil racist policies which fathered LTTE is moving ahead without any change.

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    Can Mangala Samarasinghe find even a messenger job at any SL Missions for this guy in any European capital …he is crying ….he he he

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    Now now Dayan, this might just be chance for you to get your job back – war crimes denial.

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    The facts are facts.
    1. There was a violence attack on Tamil political leaders in 1956.
    2. There was a massacre of Tamil civilians in 1958, 1972, 1977, 1983 and 2009.
    3. The Jaffna library was burnt in 1981 and sevearl cultural and economic destruction.
    4. There was a well planned attack of political prisoners in 1981.They drilled eyes of prisoners
    5. Economic sanction in various occassions.
    6. Massacre of civilians in the no-fire zone. Hospitals were bombed. schools, Temples were attacked.
    7. Continued Sinhala militarisation of Tamil areas.
    8. Forced Sinhala colonization.

    All these happened by the Sinhala state and Sinhala military. None of the crimes were investigated, charged or punished. These are not war crimes. These are well planned acts of the state and its military in order to eradicate Tamils and destroy their economic and cultural identies. How do you call this act of intentional violence using methods that are not acceptable to humanity? It is genocide!

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      Why do you always forget

      0. 1939 ethnic riot after GG Ponnambalam started racist politics in this country?

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        sach

        “1939 ethnic riot after GG Ponnambalam started racist politics in this country?”

        Please cite your source

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        sach

        “1939 ethnic riot after GG Ponnambalam started racist politics in this country?”

        Could you shed some light on this Navalapitya riots.

        Let me jog my memory if there had been any riots before or after 1939.

        Riots

        April 1883 Kotehena

        June 1903 Anuradhapura

        May 1915 Kandy, neighboring villages, Colombo and Chilaw.

        July 1931 Malayalis were assaulted in Colombo

        December 1948 Ethnic cleansing bill passed in the parliament.

        1981 Galle and Puttalam

        People

        Anagarika Dharmapala (the Homeless one),

        A E Goonasingha (trade union leader),

        Migettuwatte Gunananda (Panadura Vadaya 1873)

        Piyadasa Sirisena (Novelist & editor of Sinhala Jathiya)

        Walisinha Harichandra (1877 – 1913)

        Media

        Lakmin (Sinhala daily)

        Dinamina

        Ceylon Nation

        Viraya

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    Hey Dayan, you are one thick skinned bugger. [Edited out]

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    DJ how come you have conveniently forgotten what MR said in his home town on the 9th January after his defeat.It is in record what he said but what he said did not get to the front pages of the national media news papers.
    He did thank the southern voters for voting him but said the minorities made him lose and the Tamils will never get anything. He ignored the fact that the percentage of minority votes he got was higher than in 2010 presidential elections and did not thank those voted for him at all from his home constituency.

    He forgot the fact he was a President of all the citizens from 2005 to 8th Jan 2015.

    Those days Colvin R de SILVA used to say at the election rallies that the two main political parties of t of SL takes the voters on merry go round at the carnivals.

    The voters of SL are becoming more and more intelligent be it Sinhalese, Tamils, Muslims or others.
    So do not use racial or religious card to inflame the situation with the aim of bringing MR back through the office of Prime Minister after the April elections.
    C.M Wigneswaran’s and his team made the legitimate motion in a transparent way and the CM wants the motion he wrote in English to be translated into both Sinhalese and Tamil so that all Srilankans can read understand and solve the national issues.
    There is nothing wrong with the timing because UNHRC sitting was fixed even well before MR ‘ S premature calling of the presidential elections.
    The current regime and the IC can handle the situation in a civilised manner at the March UNHRC session. So please do not stirr up things and make Mother Lanka suffer again.

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    Only the Tamil people and those who ordered and carried out the killings know what went on. The Tamils in particular know what they lost and how their loved ones had perished. The TNA that represents that Tamil people is only echoing the sentiments of the Tamil people democratically. If GOSL or the fake political scientist DR DJ were to refute the accusations then they need to substantiate their stand by agreeing to an investigation with international involvement. It is no good just saying that Genocide or mass killings did not take place. The Tamils are democratically entitled to know as to what really happened to their loved ones.

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    I dont normally read or respond to your posts, but this time could not resist the temptation…

    This is the situation you and your other MR acolytes were eagerly awaiting after that infamously biting the dust on the 8th Jan. You jumped on the band wagon straight away.

    The fact that the NPC government needing to pass a resolution on behalf of the affected people is morally important, let alone any political reasons aside. All the well minded peoples of this country know that. This is a dilemma that the TNA and NPC had to face and this was the right resolution. They were elected by those people. As CM Wignes rightly pointed ‘Genocide’ is a debatable use there. But it is a legal term and can only be decided by a legal institution.

    Now, for the government’s part, they have to deny and condemn this resolution especially the word ‘genocide’ and they will do that. It is expected the majority of this country will deny it. That’s natural. The resolution to this conflict of interest and interpretation will be reached on a common forum and will most likely be that it is not genocide. NPC and TNA are well aware of this outcome, but that should not stop them voice for the people they represent.
    This conflict of interest does not mean that the government and the TNA are going to fall out and that the coalition is going to fall over. We all know that’s what you’re wishing for, but the people in the government and in the TNA are far more matured than you think they are.

    If I were you, i’d hang my boots.

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    When I saw the news, I had mixed reactions. One was what exactly Dayan has pointed out – Wigneswaran could have given some time for the new government to act on its promises. I don’t understand what motivated him to blow this now; he could have delayed it by a few more months and if he was dissatisfied, if the tamils of north (and east) were dissatisfied, he could have proposed this resolution.

    However, there is another side to this – what happened in 2009 is a genocide. It is not the genocide of the entire tamil people – but genocide of those who stood up against a racist State which refused to treat the bhoomi-putras of NE as equals. In that way, the structured genocide targeted tamils who wanted to live as equals, with self respect, following their own culture, in their own traditional home lands.

    I also admire the courage and resilience of the Eelam Tamils. After undergoing all these, any other community would have become dhimmies – an Islamic term for half citizens, living constantly under pressure and slowly losing the will power to resist genocide.

    If you lament that this reinforces the trajectory (of an independent Eelam), then remember that this is due to the racist idealogues like you who indirectly indicated that Tamils are a different nation when you frequently compared USA-Vietnam example to that of Sinhalese State – Tamils or when you compared the decimation and subjugation of Germans during World War-II by other Nations.

    I still wish that Tamils and Sinhalese live as equals and as one nation. I wish that the sinhalese modify their attitudes and become friendly with Tamils of Tamilnadu. But, by the way you whip up insecurity and racist hatred, it seems that racist ideologues like you wouldn’t let them become normal.

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      “I still wish that Tamils and Sinhalese live as equals and as one nation.”

      That is not tamils here wish for. They say they are not a minority but a nation.

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      Dear Indian Tamil, if you visited Sri Lanka the JTs would not sit at the same table to eat with you. They do not even sit with their own up-country Indian Tamils. Their Vellalas would rather their daughters marry a Goigama (upper caste) Sinhalese than a ‘low caste’ coolie. There is much that you do not understand or appreciate. This is not a simple Tamil v Sinhalese issue. It runs far deeper than that. As for the Western MPs who support the diaspora for their ghetto votes, they understand nothing at all.

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      Hey Indian Tamil, since you care so much about We Eezham (sic) Thamizh, can you please stop genociding Eezhamish fish stocks? We Thamizh are crying about it again since the navy has stepped back and let Thamizhs be Thamizhs :D

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    In the news, Lord Nesby visited
    Puthumathalan a place where use of chemical weapons is suspected.

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    Yes Dayan and Hindu give lot of publicity to the resolution.

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    It is nothing significant. Sampanthan wants to win more seats in the coming elecetion. They need the support of Gajan Ponnambalam group, Ananthy and Sivagi That is all. Without these TNA can not win enough.

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    Compared to your release of methane gas daily them detonating the genocide resolution is much better.

    Your methane gas stinks.

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    Dayan has written some sense finally. Devoid of any bias ness. I shall endorse the view that media in this country lacks credibility and what exists is only a gossip culture. It has been reduced to rubble during the Rajapassa era. The audience has grown accustomed to glorified stories lacking any real content and a story such as this is not worthy.
    NPC strategy must be to bring this war crimes issue back in to the limelight when there are signs westerners are backing away suddenly when the geo political balance has shifted to their advantage with repositioning of our foreign policy. Tamil population should be wiser enough to realise the so called western friends of theirs have no genuine concern for them but rather had made them a pawn in global politics. Their grievances are best addressed locally and settle for something within a unitary state. There is no other better chance than now!!!

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    DJ

    This is what you say smart patriotism, writing explicit racially insinuating rebuttal. You are prepared to accommodate news about Wele Sutha in a corner but want the NPC resolution at front pages.

    You are not looking at the matters raised in the article nor prepared to dissect and analyze it, but bloody good at picking on the people and writing nonsense, it nothing but gossip, whether is about Ranil or Wigneswaran. Your smart patriotism is all about bring in MR, so you might get another chance to get posted in an embassy. If you can write rebutting the matters or claims raised?. I am not all that comfortable with the timing of the resolution, but there is little doubts about what described is true. And, if the accused are thinking they committed no offence, they should not be unnecessarily perturbed by an inquiry. They should endeavor to clean their name.

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    Damn fool, what can I say…Sinhala Buddhist gene….filthy brainless mongrels….

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      The Tamil contribution to the discussion. If only you could write like that Sinhalese Dayan eh?

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