28 March, 2024

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Winds Of Change In Jaffna

By Noel Nadesan

Dr Noel Nadesan

Dr Noel Nadesan

The war radicalized Jaffna and it was inevitable that we could never again return to the good old Jaffna we knew.  There were signs of a new Jaffna emerging imperceptibly even during the war years. I have visited Jaffna 13 times in the last five years.  But nothing signified the change better than  the international symbol I saw in Jaffna when I visited the place last in January 2014. For the first time ever I saw one of the best international symbols in the heart of Jaffna. It was the face of the bearded Colonel of Kentucky Fried Chicken. It was a giant leap for Jaffna to abandon the traditional  “porichci koli”  and go for KFC. To me it was like our people abandoning betel and opting for chewing gum. This to me is the ultimate symbol of Jaffna breaking away from the feudal past and arriving at last in the 21st century.

Talking of climate change one cannot feel it better than in Sri Lanka. We travelled from north to south and east to west. There is a palpable change that you can feel and see. Just not the roads but the attitude and the new spirit that is visible in the faces.

One bright evening, as I was walking with my wife on a narrow street in Wellawatta, Colombo, — a predominantly Tamil suburb —  I received a mobile call from a young widow in Kilinochchi. I have sponsored her for last three years. I was to meet her on the way to Jaffna. She rang to regret that she would not able to meet us at Kilinochchi as she had begun teaching voluntarily at a local school. She thanked me profusely for the financial help given to raise her family.  She informed me that her children were doing well at school. I was happy to learn of her progress which I took as a general indicator of the progress made by the twelve other widows who had lost their husbands during the war.  I have been helping them for the last three years.

The widow who spoke to me was Lakshmi.  She has two children below the age of ten.  Just a year after the war I saw her in a rebuilt house, which was built with government assistance, but did not have any door. She did not have any money to install a door. Nor was any financial support forthcoming.  With the backing  of a local friend I was able to organize some help to  her family and I was happy to learn that the domestic situation had improved.

In March 2009, I went to Colombo with likeminded 25 expatriate Tamils from Europe and North America on the invitation of the government. It was a critical time when the war had reached a climactic moment. The goal was to engage the Lankan government to help the Tamil people who were taken by LTTE as human shields for the protection of LTTE leaders.  We were in discussions for two days with some of the key government officials, though our mission was a failure due to LTTE obstructions and obstinacy. We were not involved in the politics of the time. We were continuously engaged with the government in rehabilitation of post-war situation such us regularly visiting refugee camps and submitting our observations to the government for improvement.

There are many important facts that need to be put on record.

Thirty years of terror and violence perpetrated by LTTE were brought to an end by President Mahinda Rajapaksa. Whether we like him or not we have to concede to this hard fact.The  ending of a war is a defining moment which opens up new possibilities.  This is not a small achievement. Ending a war proved to be as difficult as waging a war. The frustrated Tamil Diaspora who financed Prabhakaran’s  futile war decided  to pursue the war through other means. They went on the war path from abroad. They decided to fight from the safe shores.

After financing all the violations of international humanitarian law committed by LTTE , they became human rights champions overnight.   It was the war in which more Tamils were killed by our “liberators” than all others put together.

Considering the suffering, the deaths and destruction caused by the futile war of Prabhaharan and his “liberators” the attempt of Diaspora to carry on as if nothing has changed is as futile as the war. We have to recognise the gains of peace if we are to move forward. Politics can cloud the issues and make us easily forget the bloody past.

LTTE was not a small outfit. It claimed that it had defeated the world’s fourth largest army when it forced the IPKF out of Sri Lanka. LTTE claimed that it had a state with an army, navy and air force not only to threaten the Government of Sri Lanka but even to kill Indian prime minister as well. But in the end they lost everything. During the last days of war, knowing the inevitable military defeat, the LTTE took cover behind 400, 000 Tamil civilians hoping  to raise an international cry. Taking cover behind unarmed civilians is a shameful act not worthy of our so-called heroes. It was a cowardly act. The “liberators” gave cyanide pills to the brain-washed youth and they took cover behind the civilians. They shot the Tamil civilians running away from them.  In addition, they killed all the captured army personnel. The Sri Lankan army not only defeated LTTE but also rescued all these captured people. Of the displaced people 95% were able to resettle within three years and infrastructures were rebuilt in the Northern Province. Almost 95 % of active LTTE cadres were rehabilitated and released in the society.

I agree there are a few areas that still need remedial measures that could speed up the process of reconciliation among the communities. But our political Tamil leadership is bankrupt. For this the entire blame is to borne by LTTE for eliminating not only political leaders but also potential social leaders in last thirty years.

What we need is a new leadership that can read the sign of KFC in Jaffna and move with the times. Going back to confrontational politics can only lead us tortuously to political turmoil again. What we need is a pragmatic leadership that brings relief to the war-weary people of the north and east. Our people cannot live on a diet of politics forever. We need economics to raise our heads from the depths of misery. We have to postpone politics for the time being. With politics we will be forced to spill only blood. With economics we can move forward to regain what we lost during the past 30 years in useless politics.

The choice before us is simple: it’s either politics or economics. If we opt for politics  we are going back to Eelam which we lost. If we opt for economics we have a chance of regaining the future we lost in May 2009 Historical examples justify this. Take, for instance, the case of the Germans. If after losing the war, had they returned Hitler’s fascist politics where would Germany be today? It was because the pragmatic Germans opted for economics and buried their politics for good they were able to rise from the ashes of defeat.

The Germans and the Japanese won all what they lost in their futile wars. We can do better than them if we can get our politics right.

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    The author may have visited Jaffna for 13 times in the past five years. I am sure all of visits are sponsored by Rajapakse regime. Why he couldn’t go to Jaffna before 2009? Why did he tell about KFC? Why didn’t he tell about the brothels run by Rajapakse and Co? Why didn’t he tell the arrests of the poor mother and daughter by Rajapakse regime? Why didn’t he tell about the rape of Tamil women by sinhala military?

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      because he is a stooge of the EPDP and Douglas the thug. r j.

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        .
        Author says,
        “Take, for instance, the case of the Germans. If after losing the war, had they returned Hitler’s fascist politics where would Germany be today?”

        What an idiotic comparison by a Dr.!

        Is your 14th trip ready and paid for?

        :-)

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          A rather silly article to boast about it author’s charity! No wonder the beneficiary of his charity did not want to meet him! Most people who do charity but do not write articles in praise of themselves and their charitable work!

          Also, the choice is NOT between economics or politics!
          As all good economists point out, you cannot have good economics without good politics and governance. Economic enterprise in Jaffna is military business run by the local war lord and his cronies with the Rajapaksa regime.. and there is merely a KFC BUBBLE..

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          This celebration of KFC – oily JUNK and fast food that is bad for one’s health – as a sign of progress in Jaffna is really pathetic!

          Today Sri Lanka has very high levels of none communicable diseases like diabetes and heart attacks and this is due to the consumption of burgers, fried chicken and local and imported junk foods..

          This so-called Dr Nadesan’s notion of development seems to be very similar to Basil Rajapaksa’s notion of economic development. The fact is that Basil like Noel Nadesan knows nothing about economics or development!

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          He is a veterinary surgeon. He does not know either politics or economics. He is opportunistic. If he loves Sri Lanka why he was settled in Australia? Why can’t he join Rajapakse along with Karuna and Douglas? He wants some publicity.

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            Spot on! There is a lot of work a Veterinary Surgeon can do in the Vanni and the East. It is time Noel take some time off and improve the livestock of the North and East.

            Instead of KFC, he can teach people to eat some simple, healthy, wholesome alternative. By the way is the KFC run by the army?

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              Truth,
              “By the way is the KFC run by the army? ” Everything is run by the armed forces. Gotabaya Rajapakse

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          aratai

          You are sadly mistaken.

          Prior to 2009 Tamils chanted

          We want Tamil Eelam

          Our Leader Prabaharan.

          Noel Nadesan wants you chant

          We want Kentucky Fried Chicken

          Our Leader Mahinda Raja.

      • 9
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        This could be one reason he more worried about KFC than the people still looking for the loved ones missing, drugs and prostitution creeping into the society.

        I think it was US embassy that once said Douglass was selling innocent girls to prostitution and boys to slavery, may be he went as his pimp.

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        This guy Dr Noel Nadesan is an idiot, I wonder whether he bought the degree.

        He is like the 14 Conservative MPs from the UK who made several visits to Sri Lanka as guests of Sri Lanka government and paid with tax payers money who went to UK parliament and defended SL.

        There are quite a few Tamil opportunist quislings like him, who talk as if they know everything – shallow empty vessels.

        If he takes a miss-step or say something wrong, does he know he will go to hell on a white van from Gota?

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      So you visited only yhe Brothels Right !!!!, Good on you…

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        K.A Sumanasekera (Vellala)

        Noel Nadesan writes

        “It was a giant leap for Jaffna to abandon the traditional “porichci koli” and go for KFC.”

        ඡය වේවා! – Jayawewa! – Cheers!.

        “Just not the roads but the attitude and the new spirit that is visible in the faces.”

        ඡය වේවා! – Jayawewa! – Cheers!.

        “I have been helping them for the last three years.”

        ඡය වේවා! – Jayawewa! – Cheers!.

        “We have to recognise the gains of peace if we are to move forward.”

        ඡය වේවා! – Jayawewa! – Cheers!.

        The ending of a war is a defining moment which opens up new possibilities.

        ඡය වේවා! – Jayawewa! – Cheers!.

        What we need is a new leadership that can read the sign of KFC in Jaffna and move with the times.

        ඡය වේවා! – Jayawewa! – Cheers!.

        “The Germans and the Japanese won all what they lost in their futile wars.”

        I like to learn more from Noel Nadesan about the politics behind Marshall plan.

        K.A Sumanasekera (Vellala) could you find out from him what exactly did happen just after the conclusion of second world war?

  • 16
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    I could not have explained the status quo any better myself.

    Nandikuddal signifies the fatal end to GGP and SJV “Who is the biggest biggot” competion. One outdoing the other to become biggest Tamil biggot. The remanats of the two camps TNPF and ITAK still surive still yapping on the same old.

    Tamil narrow mindedness, casteism and nationlaism must end for a new begining.

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      You better concentrate on Sinhala caste discrimination and ethnic hatred before advising the Jaffna people. Why are you so pre- occupied with caste. I am sure there must be a skeleton in the cupboard.

  • 15
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    Thank you Sir .

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      Abhaya

      “Thank you Sir .”

      What for?

      Did he buy you two pieces of chicken and a portion of hot wings?

      You are being so cheap, thank him for some thing substantial not for pieces of chicken and hot wings.

      You ought to be ashamed of yourself.

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    Hi Noel,
    what happened to the MOU signed by the 25 likemined expatriate Tamils from Europe, Australia and North America with GOSL?. Of the 25 you and Dr.R.Narendran started writing comments in favor of GOSL. Gradually you disappeared for a long time until this thread. However Dr.RN continued to write in favor of GOSL and for some time now he writes against GOSL. Dear Noel could you please comment on the link
    https://www.colombotelegraph.com/index.php/video-the-way-sri-lankan-military-treats-women-recruits/

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      Sri Lankan,

      I reply to your reference to me. My positive and negative observations on the government were in the context of my proposed road map published in 2009. These were in terms of what I thought the government should do in a given time frame. The link to the road map is:

      http://transcurrents.com/tc/2009/05/post_365.html

      Further, please note that the KFC outlet is not ment6ioned in my road map, as I consider fast food, retrograde and not progress! It is a novelty that most Tamils in Jaffna cannot afford in terms of money and should not eat in terms of their health. It is a disservice to Jaffna.

      Dr.Rajasingham Narendran

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        So Dr Raja is another one of ‘them’ bought over – branded moderate Tamil!

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          Thiru,

          Apart from the insult and insulation in your comment, can you take your time to study the road map I have cited, and produce a score card in terms of what has happened or not happened in the north and east over the past five years?
          We can then have an informed discussion or debate that will help clarify many matters that are of interest to the Tamils and others living in Sri Lanka.

          Dr.RN

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            RN mahathaya,

            Road maps and plans are fine, actual reality is another matter. Have you said anything about these liars and cheaters in power doing the opposite of what they say?

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              Thiru,

              Indicate the current realities you are talking of, in terms of the road map I have cited, without resorting to even cheaper tactics .like addressing me ‘ Mahataya’.

              Dr.RN

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        Lest we forget this guy was ‘ lauding’ the regime.

        Once the regime had enough they cast him aside
        Along with Noel .

        Now with Geneva they need people. The oldest
        Profession lives on …..

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        Dr RN,

        Did Rajapakse follow your road map? If yes which steps accomplished? How long it took to accomplish? Perhaps it would be nice for you to write another article with reference to the steps you put forward.

        Thanks

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          Anpu,

          I have cited the road map and it is in point form. Please prepare the report card as per your knowledge and perceptions. I look forward to reading your report card in CT.

          Dr.RN

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    “It was a giant leap for Jaffna to abandon the traditional “porichci koli” and go for KFC. To me it was like our people abandoning betel and opting for chewing gum. This to me is the ultimate symbol of Jaffna breaking away from the feudal past and arriving at last in the 21st century” _

    Do we need to read the rest??????

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      Well said!

      Having KFC is not an improvement in the quality of life. I cannot understand what Mr Nadesan trying to say but that’s the trouble most supporters of the regime have – because they are trying to defend the indefensible.

      Most Tamils from the West(he doesn’t seem to consider himself part of Tamil Diaspora) want their families and friends back home to have what they take for granted, living in the West, Freedom. Freedom to be who you are not being forced to be something that you are not out of fear.

  • 4
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    Dr. Nadesan,

    If you have a choice between,

    -living in a prison cell with three good meals a day and no work, a TV to watch all day

    OR

    -living free, unemployed, working part time with one meal a day.

    Which one will you choose?

    :-)

  • 15
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    A rational piece from a rational gentleman. Defeating terrorism was hard but bringing the Jaffna Tamil population into the 21st century is even harder. This is mainly due to the competition between the hard core caste conscious elite and the fanatical Christian clergy. The poorer Tamils will rise against these bigots and join hands with their Sinhala bothers and sisters and build a prosperous nation for all. This will become more apparant after the circus in Geneva ends. Nazi Pullai can join another circus, as the chief Clown.

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    Noel. Totally agreed.I too am greatly amused how the backers of the most racist facist LTTE become guman rights champions over night. Tamils have to thank Mahinda Rajapaksa for ridding the of racist cancer. It came with a terrible price – which the offshore backers did not have to pay.But this is the price for Tamil raciscim. The Sinhalese have to accept respibsibily and accept the gift the Tamils have confeted upon them. Thier very own Prabakaran.

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      Kirri Yakka

      “Tamils have to thank Mahinda Rajapaksa for ridding the of racist cancer. It came with a terrible price”

      Now Mahinda Rajapaksa is infected with the same racist cancer.

      It appears that racist cancer is a contagious disease, Anagarika,… to DS S to SWRD Banda, Mrs Banda …… to JR, ,,,,,,Ranjan Wijeratne, Dingiri Banda Wijetunga, ……… to now from VP to Mahinda Rajapaksa.

      In between there have been many who suffered from racist cancer, including JVP, I can’t be bothered to list them all. Please bear with me.

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        Exactly Native Vedha. They are both inflicted with the same terminal disease.One is not in a better condition than the other. Time to get off each others throat and prepare for their own cultural funerals. Racist cultures will not survive.

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          Kirri Yakka

          Both these stupid racists have a choice.

          Both can go back to their motherland Tamilnadu.

          What do you say?

  • 7
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    This pity sole, Noel Nadesan is a Jerk. He does not know culture, politics, economics, politeness…. Thinking this type of jerky writing will annoy his enemies and make them retract. Actual skunk’s behavior.

    It seems he does not know where the Kentucky Fried Chicken comes from. How many times he bought, at least Kolli Poriyal” gave to the family he was supporting?( I do not know if there was any truth in that story).

    The big country India is opposing Wal-Mart, which can induce lot of internal production. He does not know that Kentucky Fried Chiken is selling Chicken Buriyani, not really fried Fried Chicken. He does not know to bring a metaphor, so he is sighting chewing gum and fried chicken, but those business understand culture, marketing and economic and trying to get along with the people they serve. Without knowing that part and sighting Kentucky is real stupidity.

    Just because he has learned to wear suite, is that how he has been going to the beach too. His talk suggest he might me having business partnership with the Prime Minister and James Parker. Those are in his taste.

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    Good article, need of the hour is to get back to normal life & progress like what Germans & Japanese did. Call all the Tamils to think way this writer does, be positive & march forward.

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      Big heart:
      “March forward….?” To what? Your idea of a new civilization based on KFC? You are one of those idiots following the pandankarayas like this Col. Sanders fan and trying to prove what geniuses you are and ending up showing what idiots you really are!

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      You better concentrate on Sinhala caste discrimination and ethnic hatred before advising the Jaffna people. Why are you so pre- occupied with caste. I am sure there must be a skeleton in the cupboard.

  • 0
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    Let me begin where the writer Noel Nadesan points his finger!

    The entire blame is to be borne by LTTE for eliminating not only political leaders but also potential social leaders.

    What was charitable of LTTE was that they let Noel Nadesan live to tell us ‘his’ story. And, what a story he is telling!

    – What we need is a new leadership.

    … Hello Noel Nadesan, Are you castigating Tamils who voted for CVW and team to NPC?

    – The choice before us is simple: it’s either politics or economics

    … What else do you think that we would expect you to tell. For you, it is your economics, not ours! Do you have the guts to tell GR that the economy -farming etc- in the North should be left to the people of region and not ‘robbed’ by the SL army in the pretext of national security. If you with your notoriety can make 13 trips safely, perhaps security is not the problem!

    – Thirty years of terror and violence perpetrated by LTTE were brought to an end by President.

    … Oh! You are such a generous man! Do not give the entire credit to MR & Bros. Take something for yourself, as well. In fact you and your ilk deserve not just a part but the whole credit!

    – LTTE took cover behind 400, 000 Tamil civilians

    … See the intimacy you have with MR. MR told us that there were around 60,000. We believed him. He never told us what he told you!

    Hello Noel Nadesan, Have the like-minded 25 people who travelled to Colombo with you in March 2009, endorse this story of yours. I like to have it ‘framed’.

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    The only noticeable change that this stooge of the EPDP could note was the KFC! What a pity! He has not made any comment on the disappearances, torture, other human right violations etc., etc. what a shame for an educated stooge!

    Sengodan. M

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    Dr Nadesan,
    You are right about politics and economics. You are right about pragmatism. You are right about Germany and Japan. You are right about the president deserving credit for ending the war. But we must admit that he has done nothing rational after the end of the war. He has refused to work with a pragmatic leader, the NPC chief minister Wignesharan. The end of the war was a golden opportunity to bring about reconciliation. That needed magnanimity and statesmanship, which the president did not have. Despite enormous damage, it is not too late to change the path the president has been treading. You, Dr Nadesan, seem to be in a position to tell the president that. As a patriotic Sri Lankan, I think you should do so. Thank you.

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      HL Seneviratne,

      I am completely in agreement with you. NPC elections are a manifestation of Tamil sentiments and dissatisfaction of the status quo. If Mr Nadesan is a democrat he will know that the Tamils need a space to express themselves; he would have accommodated in his article an urgent need for demilitarisation of the N&E and honouring the 13A to it’s deeds.

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      Prof Seneviratne,
      President,
      Would not listen to any one. If the president cannot follow Buddhism what can you expect from him. He is using Nadesan kind of people to show the world that Tamils are on his side. Nadesan kind of people are supporting the murderous regime for their own benefits.How many tamils are on his side?

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      While at it – making the request of MR, please include the ad-hoc hold
      placed on Dual-citizenship, an hidden agenda of structured genocide –
      if you understand it?
      You conveniently forgot to mention Gotas ruling that no raids be
      undertaken in the North for Narcotics/Drugs, at a recent discussion.

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    At least there is a Tamil gentleman who talks sense !!! Diaspora listen to this Doctor who wants the Tamils to prosper.

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    Dear Dr Noel Nadesan,

    there are majority innocent Tamils who need to educate their children and get better life for them. There are people who still believe in Ellam myth..they still think some one will start fight for eelam again..

    I think problem with Tamil politics, Tamil politicians never speak to Sinhalese community in regard to ground situation of Tamils living north. TNA trying to solve the problem by themselves or via international community..It is less speedy and fruitless effort..

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      “there are majority innocent Tamils who need to educate their children and get better life for them. “

      Show them how to go to KFC and eat ‘porichcha koli’ in Amrican flavour?

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      Bebon,

      If the NPC elections are anything to go by, the Tamils have voted overwhelmingly to a solution within one Sri Lanka. If you still harp on about “There are people who still believe in Ellam myth”, it is completely self-defeating! The bottom line is that you and your ilk are devoid of common sense and egalitarianism; you want to subjugate the Tamils totally and deny their democratic right to self-govrn. This is what you want to do and all efforts are afoot to achieve this. Instead of being honest and express your real intentions, you prevaricate and use the Tamil Diaspora elements to hide your undemocratic activities.

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    Is this doctor for real? KFC is his yardstick to measure progress? Wasn’t it KFC who recently served chicken with worms at an outlet in Negombo? See http://www.bbncommunity.com. Unless you are prepared to live in Jaffna yourself Dr. Nadesan, best not preach to the people who live there.

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    The lack of nationalistic rhetoric and human rights jargon shows the writer is down to earth and pragmatic. His concern for the war-affected people seems genuine. His positive view of KFC reveals he is an unpretentious and uncomplicated person.

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    “It was the war in which more Tamils were killed by our “liberators” than all others put together.”

    WOW…. Noel Nadesan has grown a backbone by the looks of it. He is attacking the government here!!!!

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    “It was the face of the bearded Colonel of Kentucky Fried Chicken. It was a giant leap for Jaffna to abandon the traditional “porichci koli” and go for KFC. To me it was like our people abandoning betel and opting for chewing gum. “

    So, the Sinhala people is Colombo have given up kawung for donuts! Such is your generalisation Noel Nadesan!

    “The Germans and the Japanese won all what they lost in their futile wars. We can do better than them if we can get our politics right.”
    Which model? Douglas model, Pillaiyaan model, Karuna model, KP model, Thonda model, Hakeem model, Rishard model, Aswar model…..??

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    Noel Nadesan lives in Melbourne. He is a Vet doctor who knows more about non-human animals. Ignorant on human policy issues this guy sucks the Rajapakses for a few crumbs. He reads Rajapakse’s speech in Tamil at the local independence day ceremonies and feels big doing such stooge jobs.

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      In Melbourne he is a non practicing Vet who whiles away his time publishing an obnoxious Tamil news paper.

      In real life, he is nothing but an all f..t And no s..t. R j.

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    Dr Noel Nadesan is a veterinary surgeon living in Melbourne. In the 80s, he was a member of a movement and was against LTTE. He wan a paper full of anti Tamil sentiments and stopped it when funding was cut, of course after the war .
    What can u expect from his Doctor.

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    I am surprised that Dr. Noel Nadesan considers the patronage of a KFC outlet as an “ultimate symbol” of progress of the Jaffna people. Isn’t this silly and utterly superficial? KFC is just another junk food outlet. Jaffna people had been used to consume nutritious meals and if they have switched to KFC it is sad; they are a very wise population. If Noel wants to examine progress let him research on the numbers unemployed, the numbers attending school, the average per capita income etc of the Jaffna people. Instead of undertaking a serious study he prefers to bring up anecdotes and utter frivolous statements based on them.

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      How Nadesan failed to note the fear and insecurity of almost the entire population in Jaffna is striking. Most people are worried about the continued excesses of the unnecessarily large army presence – that is used to intimidate, abduct and in other ways force the people as an occupied people to give in to the dictates of the regime. He should have expressed regret about the NPC being starved of
      resources and power to function to carry forward the unprecedented
      mandate over 85% of the local people entrusted the NPC with. He should have, to offer balance, also written more about the “achievements” of the Rajapakses in the development of roads, bridges, electricity et as well about Indian support for housing, rail links and so on.
      The previous cringe efforts of Nadesan and his friends to join government ranks earlier and offer them undue validity; his many failed efforts to champion the cause of Tamils in Australia are far too well known for his comments to be considered in the good of the Tamil people.

      What Jaffna needs today is not KFC and other moves to increase the propaganda value of the regime but steps to normalise the lives of the
      people there – who suffered under both sides in the war. It is time Nadesan writes another piece focussing on the needs and the apprehensions of the Tamil people there.

      Kettikaran

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    Which Uni offered you the Doctorate? or is it a ‘doctored’ doctorate from a private university on-line?

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      He is a veterinary surgeon graduated from Peradeniya.

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    Dr.Nadesan must have gone to Jaffna to ascertain as to the direction in which the wind was blowing. Bensen

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      Dr NR
      it looks like you are more worried than MR brothers about Geneva.
      Do u want the North to embrace the MR regime just to avoid the security harassment
      By the way, your masters want to revive the LTTE just to keep them in power and to justify their actions against humanity, it seems.
      Don’t you have any concern about these reports.
      What did you really achieve by writing against your own people?
      Dr NR, are you taking any revenge against the Tamil People thinking that LTTE will be punished further?
      No such entity after May 19th, Dr NR

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    Stronger ‘Winds of change’- ‘Cyclone Gopi’- has been seeded in the Northern province! Please read the report in ‘Ceylon Today’:

    http://www.ceylontoday.lk/51-59410-news-detail-security-tightened-in-north-manhunt-launched-to-catch-terror-suspect-gopi-all-vehicles-entering-and-exiting-north-are-checked.html

    Await the damage this will cause. The eye of this cyclone by all accounts and surmises is located in Geneva and its effects will be felt only in the north of Sri Lanka, with scattered showers in the rest of the island!

    Dr.Rajasingham Narendran

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    Noel [Edited out],

    Answer for the below;

    https://www.colombotelegraph.com/index.php/brutal-tactics-of-post-war-sri-lanka-exposed-in-new-investigation/

    Do you think people are fools, you stooge, Report after report surfaces out on everyday about the regime atrocities. You twist your tongue in bad wind! Even reasonable sinhalese will not accpet this except few MR foot lickers like you!

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      Manisekeran

      His article is a good one. Tamils in Sri Lanka need to emphasize economics although politics is also important. There is no need for the sheer venom and condescension in your comments. Live and let live. Have you been to Jaffna recently? I am not talking about KFC! There has been significant progress – because of peace that led to the investment of diaspora Tamil money in property, merchandise and consumption! Of course, there is poverty – but there is poverty in Tamil Nadu and in South Sri Lanka too. The key point is that we can do without non-resident extremists like Paul Newman and you!

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        Anonymous

        “The key point is that we can do without non-resident extremists like Paul Newman and you!”

        You may be right.

        However you were happy to have the support of USA, India, China, Pakistan,and other foreigners to kill innocent people.

        How interesting you haven’t noticed the obvious that the entire war machine is under the control of a Yankee Gota, citizen of USA.

        Absence of war does not mean presence of peace.

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        Have a decency to appear in your original identity first even before proclaiming how people live there. A person who want to state the truth will always be himself not an anonymous nor amoeba.

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    Missing Tamils have turned into KFC chicken!!

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      Oi you shameless f%@! Where are you from? Are you still searching for your dad?

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        Maveeran

        “Are you still searching for your dad?”

        He could be your dad too.

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          Native scum, the rodiya imbred. Your wife forgot to take her jangi last night, tell her to come and get it please. Srilankan vedhhas weren’t hunters they were just scavengers who ill their stomach from leftovers. Why do you think the vedhas are skinny and filthy? A real hunter is more physically fit unlike the filthy vedhas. Rodhiya people who ate the leftovers from the community later became the scavengers and came to be known as vedhas.

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            Maveeran

            Thanks for your comment.

            Yet again your comment does not say anything about my people but it says a lot about you and your people, particularly your parents and teachers.

            When Tamils have people like you on their side they don’t need MR and his army to destroy them.

            Please join the Sri Lankan army, Tamils will be better off.

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    Thiru,
    a correction:

    Insinuation and not insulation.

    Dr.RN

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    13 is a unlucky number. That is why you are writting this crap.
    You should make a 14th visit and eat fried chicken from an authentic Jaffana Restaurant. I can assure you its more than finger licking good.

    You may then get back your sense

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    Noel Nadesan discovered that LTTE compelled pregnant female cadres to jump from trees,to obtain abortions.
    Being a veterinarian,did not detract from his discovery.

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      Meet the victims and ask them whether this happened or not. Dr. Nadesan and I reported what the victims told us. What can possibly happen to a pregnancy in a human female, a bitch, she buffalo or cow, after a fall, is known to even a illiterate village women! Unfortunately the tigers knew it too!

      Dr. Rajasingham Narendran

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