In the photo above, why is his chest blurred out? There is no sign of a bullet wound, but you can see a rash or burn around his neck and the blurred area, plus his skin is peeling off on many places.
Why did the Sri Lankan government blur out the faces in the top row, but not the faces below:
What are they trying to hide by blurring out the faces? There are no signs of bullet wounds there, and they obviously aren't hiding their identity, because other faces are being shown. It is possible they are trying to cover up signs of peeling and burnt skin, which would be most visible on the exposed faces.
What are they trying to hide by blurring out the faces? There are no signs of bullet wounds there, and they obviously aren't hiding their identity, because other faces are being shown. It is possible they are trying to cover up signs of peeling and burnt skin, which would be most visible on the exposed faces.
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«Oldest ‹Older 2001 – 2200 of 2454 Newer› Newest»m.q.k said...
THE REPORT THAT SLA MADE CIVILLIAN WALK THROUGH MINEFIELD TO CLEAR IT SEEM TO BE TRUE
YOU CAN INVENT MORE BS LIKE THIS BUT NON OF IC IS LISTNING
SAD :-(
FreedomFighter said...
You sigle cell forms have killed atleae 7000 tamils in 3 months. This is the twice the much as in 83 riots. Not even Budtha will save you country from you sins.
EXACTLY FF! NOW WHY PRABHA HATE TAMILS SO MUCH? 'COS HE IS LOW CAST TAMIL?
Gloomy days are ahead for all the Tamils as "eddappan" kuddam aka TMVP inside the NFZ helped SLA to make the break through in the NFZ.
FOR VIEWING PLEASURE
http://www.army.lk/images/map1.gif
Bhairav said...
Gloomy days are ahead for all the Tamils as "eddappan" kuddam aka TMVP inside the NFZ helped SLA to make the break through in the NFZ.
ITS HELPED BY NORMAL CIVILIANS. YOU CAN CALL ANYBODY OPPOSING LTTE AS TMVP. BUT THESE ARE NORMAL PPL WHO LIKE TO LIVE A NORMAL LIFE STYLE.
GLOOMY DAYS AHEAD FOR LTTE AND FAT PIG AND FEW BRAIN WASHED TOILET CLEANERS.
FOR VIEWING PLEASURE
http://www.army.lk/images/map1.gif
ADDITIONAL INFO: YOU CAN ENLARGE THE MAP BY CLICKING ON IT. (IN CASE YOU CANNOT LOCATE WHERE FAT PIG IS)
Peter, where are you? Give us some update. These days Badri stopped giving us updates.
Bhairav said...
Peter, where are you? Give us some update. These days Badri stopped giving us updates.
FINALLY HAVE THEY GONE TO KILL MORE TAMILS?
HAVE THEY LEFT YOU ALONE??
[I am not the reporter of the article hehe. According to timesonlne article the 4000 is the actually number by red cross.]
You or Tamil ICRC workers can say anything they want!
But the foreign ambassadors have been shoen all the proof they need and Ban-Ki-Mun has given his statement appriciating the military effort to free the civilians!
That is all the world needs to confirm the truth!
[Peter, where are you? Give us some update. These days Badri stopped giving us updates.]
Probably became a victim of 'SURRENDER GENOCIDE!' like Daya master or a victim of 'WHITE VAN GENOCIDE!'!!
For all the despora.. READ THIS..
Eyewitness: 'I thought, I won't survive'
[Eyewitness: 'I thought, I won't survive']
Malin, there is nothing to read. Obviously SLA is shelling NFZ day and night that tells whole picture. When people struggle for daily meals and safety, they always look for safety place to survive whether it is friend's place or foe's place they hardly care at this point since the amount of struggles they faced is unmatched by any mankind in this 21st century. Why LTTE prevents these folks going int hands of SLA barbarians is not secret to any Tamil that SLA who often rape the women and kill the Tamil youth who take refuge with them.
Bhairav said...
"eddappan" kuddam aka TMVP inside the NFZ helped SLA to make the break through in the NFZ.
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Definition of TMVP member - Any tamil who opposes LTTE. According to this definition about 80% of all tamils living in Sri Lanka, 20% of tamils living in England and 10% of tamils living in Canada are TMVP members
We were trying to escape for the past month. We packed a few of our belongings and tried to escape at an opportune moment.
But we were prevented by the LTTE from escaping from the area.
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The above comment was given to the BBC by a TMVP member
Clinton says Shit Lanka is causing 'untold suffering'22 Apr 2009 16:08:26 GMT
Source: Reuters
WASHINGTON, April 22 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka has caused "untold suffering" as it fights Tamil Tiger rebels in what is believed to be the endgame of Asia's longest-running war, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday.
"I think that the Sri Lankan government knows that the entire world is very disappointed that in its efforts to end what it sees as 25 years of conflict, it is causing such untold suffering," Clinton told lawmakers, referring to the thousands of civilians trapped in the war zone
i'm not,
It is known fact that 95% of diaspora Tamils support LTTE and 90% of Tamils in SL will support them if their safety is guaranteed. In Colombo or Jaffna or East, you expect Tamils will come out and say that they support LTTE? If they do so, next day day they will be disappeared by your killer squads.
no one can kill the spirits of Tamils.
Im not
You cant ever enlighten these Dunbos. itll take another ten yrs for them to understand the truth.
SLA will kill another 5000 to 10,000 innocent Tamils in next one week or two in NFZ on their quest of capturing VP, and it won't be too long to find out that they will become empty handed.
[It is known fact that 95% of diaspora Tamils support LTTE and 90% of Tamils in SL will support them if their safety is guaranteed.]
Who told you that "fact"??
Thalaivar?? Padesan??
LOL
[no one can kill the spirits of Tamils.]
It is already dead!! You yourself killed it!!
gladiator said,
[You cant ever enlighten these Dunbos. itll take another ten yrs for them to understand the truth.]
You are right! We can't enlighten these dumbos.
And it'll take a lot more than ten years for them to understand that.
Maybe, in their death bed they'd realize they have been fighting for a worthless lost cause!!
Crying wouldn't help Peelamists then!!
we dont want to kill ur spirit or watever, lern to live with sinhalies like other minorities doing .adopt to the environment or face to the 'Natural selection' of the nature .we cant fix ur DNA
m.q.k said
"I am not the reporter of the article hehe. According to timesonlne article the 4000 is the actually number by red cross."
So both you and the reporter will ignore the fact that the ICRC report was more than a month old.
When the facts to not fit your reality just distort the facts.
http://www.puthinam.com/full.php?2b1VoUe0dKcYK0ecKA443b466Dr4d3f1e3cc2AmS3d424OO2a030Mt3e
324 people are killed and another 423 wounded by SLA today.
[324 people are killed and another 423 wounded by SLA today.]
More bs by Padesan!!
But any punnakku is good enough for die-ass-pora Tamules!!
Clinton "Sri Lanka is causing 'untold suffering". Diaspora Tamils’ voices are being heard. The truth will comme out eventually.
Gladiator's Natural selection applied to Singhalese: Once Tigers are finished, Singhalese will ever live slaves of Indians. The beauty is that they will definitely accept it, having no sprit of "being free".
போர்நிறுத்தம் வலியுறுத்த பிரதமர் இல்லத்தில் ஆலோசனை தொடங்கியது
இலங்கையில் போர் நிறுத்தத்தை வலியுறுத்த பிரதமர் மன்மோகன் சிங் இல்லத்தில் ஆலோசனைக்கூட்டம் தொடங்கியது.
இக்கூட்டத்தில் பிரதமர், ஏ.கே.அந்தோணி, மத்திய வெளியுறவுத்துறை அமைச்சர் பிரணாப் முகர்ஜி, தேசிய பாதுகாப்பு ஆலோசகர் எம்.கே., நாரயணன் ஆகியோர் பங்கேற்றுள்ளனர்.
Let us see what these morons say at the end..
Another victory for SLGO & its multiethnic community.
SL winning the battlefield, IC, & harts & minds of Wanni people.
The following is from Tamilnet.
"Nambiar reluctant to brief UN Security Council on Sri Lanka humanitarian situation
[TamilNet, Wednesday, 22 April 2009, 11:08 GMT]
Ban Ki-moon's chief of staff, Vijay Nambiar, who was sent to Sri Lanka as the United Nations envoy to report on the humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in the beaches of Mullaiththeevu has expressed reluctance to have "even a closed door briefing" on the crisis, Inner City Press reported Tuesday. Nambiar's refusal to brief is likely have been influenced by Indian officials during Nambiar's stop-over in India after his three day visit to Sri Lanka, political sources in Colombo said.
Earlier Saturday, LTTE political head, B. Nadesan said that he had already expressed his willingness during recent deliberations to receive the UN Chief of Staff in Vanni, but the GoSL sabotaged Nambiar's visit to Vanni.
ICP further reported all 15 members of the UN Security Council, including China and Russia had agreed for an "informal interactive dialogue" with Nambiar.
Nambiar has argued that as a "mediator," what he discussed with Sri Lanka's president Mahinda Rajapaksa and his brothers was "confidential," even from the Security Council, ICP reported.
"Council and other UN sources expressed amazement that in this Sri Lanka case a UN Under Secretary General would attempt to rebuff a request to brief the Council, on one of his few pieces of public work during Ban Ki-moon's administration. Perhaps the Security Council needs to serve Nambiar a subpoena," ICP report further said"
"Daya Master and George seek refuge with Army
Two top LTTE leaders, Velayuthan Thayanithi alias Daya Master and Kumar Pancharathnam alias George have sought refuge with Sri Lanka Army.
According to defence sources, the two LTTE leaders along with their family members arrived at the army defence line at Puthumathalan area this morning (Apr 22) and surrendered themselves to the Army officials.
Daya Master, a former private English tutor later joined the terrorists outfit is known to be one of the most senior member of the LTTE. He was the head of the LTTE media and propaganda machinery for years until he was sacked from his position.
George, a former postmaster in the government postal department is also known to be one of the most senior LTTE cadre. He is also a language translator of the outfit and once performed as the English translator to Thamiselvam, former LTTE "political head".
" April 22, 2009 12:32 PM
Bhairav said...
SLA will kill another 5000 to 10,000 innocent Tamils in next one week or two in NFZ on their quest of capturing VP, and it won't be too long to find out that they will become empty handed.
"
SLA either will capture VP or not.
What SAGO is doing is to liberate poor civillians.
"China backs Sri Lankan fight against LTTE
China has come out strongly in support of the Sri Lankan Government's efforts to wipe out the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and apprehend its leader Velupillai Prabhakaran.
China supports the efforts of the Sri Lankan government to safeguard national integrity while ensuring security and political stability, said Jian Yu, spokeswoman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry at a press briefing on Tuesday (April 21), in Beijing.
She was responding to a question about the end of the24-hour deadline for surrender given to Prabhakaran by the Sri Lankan government, the Hindustan Times reported April 22.
"
It seems it is just only the tamils who are wondering why the UN is impotent in preventing the genocide that is underway in sorrilanka. Almost all the NGOs couldn't do anything and couldn't say openly for the fear of losing whatever the access they have right now. I hope this situation changes before it tooooo late.. Read the full article..
http://www.innercitypress.com/ngos1srilanka042209.html
UNITED NATIONS, April 22 -- The lead-up to the "bloodbath on the beach" in Sri Lanka was the barring from the northern part of the country of not only journalists but also non-governmental organizations. Wednesday several prominent NGOs had a briefing at the UN, and they were asked why not only the UN but also they had not said more. Joseph Cornelius Donnelly of CARITAS International replied that fear of losing all access to the country, as with the UN, weighed on the side of keeping quiet.
Read "It seems it is just not only the tamils who are wondering"...
இதற்கிடையே விடுதலைப் புலிகளின் கட்டுப்பாட்டுப் பகுதியை செயற்கைக்கோள் மூலம் எடுக்கப்பட்ட புகைப்படங்களை அமெரிக்க உள்துறை அமைச்சகம் வெளியிட்டுள்ளது.
அதில் புலிகள் பகுதிகளில் ஆயிரக்கணக்கான மக்கள் இருப்பதும், அவர்கள் தங்குவதற்காக 25 ஆயிரத்துக்கும் மேற்பட்ட கூடாரங்கள் அமைக்கப்பட்டிருப்பதும் தெரியவந்துள்ளது.
So, US is watching over the no fire zone. If things go really badly, expect the images used against mahinda moron on war crime court.
"The two LTTE translators who surrendered to the Army are expected to make statements to the media shortly. Of them, George, the translator for Thamilselvan, is fluent in both Sinhala and English, in addition to Tamil. The Army was also amazed at the skill demonstrated by three LTTE doctors who also surrendered today. They all expressed amazement at the exceptional treatment they received at the hands of the officers and soldiers of the SLA."
Daya Master and George were arrested when they were treated in Puthumathalan hospital.It's Srilankan government's propaganda that they surrendered to the Army. No LTTE fighters were allowed to carry cyanide and weapons when they are treated.
[It seems it is just only the tamils who are wondering why the UN is impotent in preventing the genocide that is underway in sorrilanka. Almost all the NGOs couldn't do anything and couldn't say openly for the fear of losing whatever the access they have right now. I hope this situation changes before it tooooo late.. Read the full article..]
What can we expect from the UN korean(Ban Ki Moreon) and indian(Dum-biar)?
[Daya Master and George were arrested when they were treated in Puthumathalan hospital.It's Srilankan government's propaganda that they surrendered to the Army.]
Nonsense! Did you know they came with their families??
They came among other civilians who fled LTTP grasp!
NOW WATCH THIS..
Escape from rebel stronghold (AlJazeera)
India says LTTE should stop its barbaric against civilians
(By Walter Jayawardhana)
India said the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) should stop its barbaric acts to hold civilians leaving from its last foothold in Sri Lanka .
India also expressed its discontentment over the continued killings of innocent Tamils in Sri Lanka . The statement was released after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh reviewed the current situation in the island nation.
When over 100,000 civilians held hostage by them started to seek refuge with Sri Lanka Army since Monday (Apr 20) , LTTE terrorists have been spaying bullets on the fleeing civilians in a desperate bid to protect the human shield they once enjoyed.
On the first day itself, LTTE exploded three of its brainwashed suicide bombers killing 17 people including infants. So far , Sri Lanka Air Force has air lifted 238 others injured in the LTTE attacks to the government hospital in Anuradhapura. Army medical personnel also have treated hundreds of others for gunshot injuries before being admitted to the hospitals.
An agency report said, "A special meeting, attended also by External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee, Defence Minister A K Antony, National Security Adviser M K Narayanan and Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon was convened amid mounting pressure from Tamil Nadu parties on the Centre to stop war in Sri Lanka.
"We are very unhappy at the continued killing of innocent Tamil civilians in Sri Lanka . These killings must stop," Mr. Mukherjee told reporters after the hour-long meeting called to discuss the situation in the island nation."
for somebody who can’t see way to live till tomorrow only thing important is to survive, it does not matter who wins the war, or how many years they have gone through hardship, ONLY thing that matters is staying alive, this is only objective of all those innocents caught in the NFZ. All the bloggers here (including me) if were in the situation would feel the same.
What is unacceptable is in knowing that LTTE cannot hold on against SLA, why they are sacrificing the innocent even now. Its one thing to fight by the most Nobel thing is to do is save these lifes, as you say SLA is nothing but killer squads, so can’t expect them to do anything, but at least if the does ltte have the balls to scarifies themselves so the innocent can be safe..
There are times when decisions have to made not for your self’s but for your sake but for people who they represent. IF your own kind are not willing to save your people who will…
Air Force assists in hostage rescue mission
Air Force spokesman Wing Commander Janaka Nanayakkara said the Air Force has contributed to the largest hostage rescue mission by using its close surveillance and air transport.
Addressing the media yesterday at the MCNS , Wing Commander Nanayakkara said that the Air Force has airlifted over 238 sick and wounded civilians from the NFZ to the Anuradhapura hospital in their hostage rescue mission. He said the Air Force supported in the hostage rescue operation by providing close surveillance of LTTE activities and civilian movement in the NFZ, as well as air transport.
Wing Commander Nanayakkara noted that 20,000 packets of dried food items were being airlifted from Anuradhapura to Killinochchi daily.
Another 6,000 cooked meal packets were dispatched yesterday by MI-17 helicoptors from Colombo to Killinochchi on the direction of President Mahinda Rajapaksa and Air Force Commander Air Marshal Roshan Goonatilake.
Navy spokesman Commander Mahesh Karunaratne said around 6,000 civilians escaping the LTTE were rescued by naval troops.
"Special arrangements have been made to treat and provide essential at two naval points in Point Pedro and Pulmodai upon the arrival of displaced civilians," he added.
He observed that naval troops were facing obstacles and difficulties in rescuing civilians who are coming by sea, though LTTE suicide cadres were coming posing as civilians. A special naval vessel has been deployed to identify LTTE suicide cadres", he added.
Meanwhile, he said civilians are taking a risk to reach the safe area by taking the sea passage.
They have to spend at least seven hours to reach the shore.Commander Karunaratne pointed out that throughout the humanitarian mission, the Navy has kept in place special arrangements to assist civilians fleeing the LTTE.
Naval personnel and vessels along with stand-by rescue and medical teams have been on special deployment for this humanitarian assistance mission in the North-eastern seas.
[Another 6,000 cooked meal packets were dispatched yesterday]
So how is that going to fead the 100,000 people who came in army section in fear of being kiled by the same army if they do not come. Basicly ARMY is pointing gun at tamils civilions and asking them surredner to the army. Nor army in world ever did such thinkas capturing people at gun points.
FF the moron..
both sides are holding guns even a small kids know what side is safe and wants get to that side, so who's holding them by force?
Preventing the tamils from leaving or forcing them to leave with deady wepons is worst crime ? which is causing the most deadths ?
You sihalese mercyless people have no moral value. Your hands are socked in blood of innocent tmails.
All deaths can be avoided if the LTTE let the civilians choose what is best for them.. not best for the LTTE.
You LTTE supporters are the ones who's hands are stained by the blood of thier own kind..
My comment is for today's Globe and Mail's article on SL.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090422.wlanka23/CommentStory/International/home#comment
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While $69M, which is allocated by Government of Sri Lanka for its propaganda work for this year to hoodwink the International Community, is at work, the truth may not reach the average reader in any western country. Latest reports say Srilankan high commissioner for Canada, Mr. Dayan Pererra, reportedly paid $10,000 to the talk show host of 580 CFRA News Talk, Mr.Lowell Green, to say something in his yesterday's show in favor of Government of Sri Lanka. $10,000 for his 2 hour work is not bad for a person like Mr.Lowel who obviously surpassed his client's expectations with new lies. Money talks my friend, but god has to answer the cries of 6,000 innocent Tamil kids and women who are mercilessly massacred by Srilankan army in last 3 months alone.
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[All deaths can be avoided if the LTTE let the civilians choose what is best for them.. not best for the LTTE.]
In you own wards you are threadtning that civilion do not choose soemthing other then staying in safe zone they will be killed. Is that the free choise for the tamil ?
[In you own wards you are threadtning that civilion do not choose soemthing other then staying in safe zone they will be killed. Is that the free choise for the tamil ?]
If they are in the NFZ for long, the civilians will surely die of starvation/malnutrition or at the hands of LTTP idiots!!
The SLA is only trying to save those lives!
You must be blind not to see the most obvious!!
FreedomFighter said...
[All deaths can be avoided if the LTTE let the civilians choose what is best for them.. not best for the LTTE.]
In you own wards you are threadtning that civilion do not choose soemthing other then staying in safe zone they will be killed. Is that the free choise for the tamil ?
There shouldnt be any free choice whether to divide a sovereign country or not. Not only tamils but even sinhalese didnt had that choice during JVP era.
Its not a choice
WHERE IS PULI GIRL? AT EFT ?
FF
You do not like to live in SL. So do not worry about SL. You can live in EU, US or CA.
All these problems are from the LTTPiers living in other countries. Tamils living in SL do not want Eelam in SL.
LK [They all expressed amazement at the exceptional treatment they received at the hands of the officers and soldiers of the SLA]
Amazed , Stunned. spellbound , flabbergasted, shocked , awed... hmm anything more for me to add. I too "express amazement" how the invaders are treating the captured Tamils.
Dearest Puli Girl,
We only have defence.lk punnakku if you are not there? Don't be like Mahen. Please come back !!
Heard that the invaders are praeparing to "capture" VP very soon like in a few more hmmmm .... so how many civilian Tamils the invaders plan to massacre oops I mean "liberate" ...
Roy Muller said...
Heard that the invaders are praeparing to "capture" VP very soon like in a few more hmmmm .... so how many civilian Tamils the invaders plan to massacre oops I mean "liberate" ...
Looks like someone is worried of his refugee status oops I mean about innocent "civilians" ..
Already under fire from the opposition, the DMK-Congress combine is beginning to feel the heat as the Lanka siege threatens to cast a shadow over the elections. Party managers are already in a tizzy over whether candidates should file their nominations tomorrow after the ‘bandh’ call.
April 24 is the last date to file nominations for the last phase of polling in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry on May 13. Congress and DMK nominees are yet to file their papers.
CHENNAI: Five women who were on an indefinite fast for over a week protesting the alleged ‘killing of Tamils’ in Sri Lanka and demanding an immediate ceasefire were arrested on Wednesday and admitted to hospital.
According to police, the five females Thangamani, Chitra, Lokanayaki, Jeyamani and Sumathy were admitted to the Kilpauk Medical College Hospital (KMCH), after their health deteriorated.
The women were on an indefinite fast at the MDMK headquarters after party founder Vaiko allowed them to use part of the premises for the purpose.
http://www.adaderana.lk/news.php?nid=2812
[April 24 is the last date to file nominations for the last phase of polling in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry on May 13. Congress and DMK nominees are yet to file their papers. ]
Tamilnadu! Late as usual!!
Viva la Peelam!!
LK I do not worry about Sri Lanka. why. I worry about tamils and my home land. Wher I belong, where i would like to live free one day.
[All these problems are from the LTTPiers living in other countries. Tamils living in SL do not want Eelam in SL]
since you now talking about all diaspora being supported of eelam, 1st part is very true becuase we are free to express our supporteto LTTE every one support them.. but the tamils is sri lanka can't do that with out risking their lives.
[charaty]
If you can't divide the country then sinhlaese should
have put forward to acceptable solution whicch satisfy the tamils. The did not in last 60 years. What that leaves tamils no other choice then sepearate. World is witnessing the barbaric nature of sri lanka. Their are realising that it is in best inteset these fighting people should be seperated for ever.
The sum of all fears for LTTP!!
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_iaQNzTlUFlA/SdjiNoGLkZI/AAAAAAAAABY/irFVX027nks/s1600-h/image004.jpg
Warning to Peelamists,
The above content may freeze your blood in fear and send you to a coma of no return!!
Peelamists,
Don't watch this!!
It'll probably kill you and empty your bowels at the same time!!
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_iaQNzTlUFlA/SdjkWr_93CI/AAAAAAAAABw/vw3SAO_7Vvg/s1600-h/image003.jpg
FreedomFighter said..
[charaty]
If you can't divide the country then sinhlaese should
have put forward to acceptable solution whicch satisfy the tamils. The did not in last 60 years. What that leaves tamils no other choice then sepearate. World is witnessing the barbaric nature of sri lanka. Their are realising that it is in best inteset these fighting people should be seperated for ever.
Why did LTTE fade away from the last peace talks, if you are willing to negotiate?
Remember what happened to last round of peace talks?
பிரபாகரன் இருக்கும் இடத்தை கண்டுபிடித்துவிட்டோம்:சிங்கள ராணுவ தளபதி
விடுதலைப்புலிகள் தலைவர் பிரபாகரன் இன்னும் போர் பகுதியிலேயே இருப்பதாகவும் அவரே முன்னின்று போரை நடத்துவதாகவும் தகவல் தெரிவிக்கின்றன. அவர் வெளி நாட்டுக்கு தப்பி சென்று விட்டதாகவும் இலங்கை செய்தி நிறுவனங்கள் கூறி வருகின்றன.
இந்த நிலையில் சிங்கள ராணுவ தளபதி சரத் பொன்சேகா பி.பி.சி. செய்தி நிறுவனத்துக்கு அளித்துள்ள பேட்டியில்,
பிரபாகரன் எந்த இடத்தில் பதுங்கி இருக்கிறார் என்பது எங்களுக்கு தெரிந்து விட்டது. அவர் கடற்கரையில் பதுங்கு குழிக்குள் இருக்கிறார். அவரை விரைவில் அழித்து விடுவோம்.
பெருமளவு விடுதலைப்புலிகளை நாங்கள் கொன்று விட்டோம். தற்போது 300-ல் இருந்து 400 விடுதலைப்புலிகளே இருக்கின்றனர். மேலும் 700 பேருக்கு கட்டாய ஆயுத பயிற்சி கொடுத்து வைத்துள்ளனர்.
இனி போரை நிறுத்த வேண்டிய அவசியமே இல்லை என்று தெரிவித்துள்ளார்.
(source:Nakkheeran)
LTTE could be finished by Friday: Reports
According to news reports, the Sri Lankan Army has tracked LTTE chief V Prabhakaran near Mullaitivu.
Reports coming from Sri Lanka suggest that the Sri Lankan Army’s operation against the LTTE could be over as early as Friday. According to a private news channel, Sri Lankan Army has tracked the LTTE Chief V Prabhakaran near Mullaitivu. Although the Spokesperson of Sri Lankan government has refused to confirm reports of any deadline set by the Army to get Prabhakaran it is being widely predicted that with the army closing in on LTTE chief, the gun battle could be over by Friday.
While speaking to a Private TV channel in India, Lakshman Hulugalle said that his government’s top priority was to ensure the safety of over hundred thousand civilians who are still trapped in the war zone. Sri Lankan government is also trying to settle those rescued before provincial election which happens on Saturday.
As reported Sri Lankan army is merely 6 to 8 Kilometers away from LTTE. Government official revealed that only 200 to 300 LTTE cadres are left with Prabhakaran.
Sri Lankan Army commander has said that Prabhakaran might be, in South around no fire zone, hiding among the civilians and is unlikely to by the sea. There are 10,000 civilian are still held by the LTTE.
Hi Vimo
"vaima said...
Dearest Puli Girl,
We only have defence.lk punnakku if you are not there? Don't be like Mahen. Please come back !!
"
Puligal still analysing photos.
"m.q.k said...
Already under fire from the opposition, the DMK-Congress combine is beginning to feel the heat as the Lanka siege threatens to cast a shadow over the elections. Party managers are already in a tizzy over whether candidates should file their nominations tomorrow after the ‘bandh’ call.
April 24 is the last date to file nominations for the last phase of polling in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry on May 13. Congress and DMK nominees are yet to file their papers.
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Who cares TN mate?
Hah! You think that MR needs to beg TN parties to file nominations.
They can file or not.
We are Sri Lanakns. We do not care about a state in other country.
"Charity said...
CHENNAI: Five women who were on an indefinite fast for over a week protesting the alleged ‘killing of Tamils’ in Sri Lanka and demanding an immediate ceasefire were arrested on Wednesday and admitted to hospital.
According to police, the five females Thangamani, Chitra, Lokanayaki, Jeyamani and Sumathy were admitted to the Kilpauk Medical College Hospital (KMCH), after their health deteriorated.
The women were on an indefinite fast at the MDMK headquarters after party founder Vaiko allowed them to use part of the premises for the purpose.
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Hi Charity
Who arrested them ? TN police or Sri Lankan police?
Hi FF
"If you can't divide the country then sinhlaese should
have put forward to acceptable solution whicch satisfy the tamils. The did not in last 60 years. What that leaves tamils no other choice then sepearate. World is witnessing the barbaric nature of sri lanka. Their are realising that it is in best inteset these fighting people should be seperated for ever."
SLGO discussed 4 times with LTTP in the past. LTTP ran away at the last moment. They need a seperate country.
UN demands LTTE to lay down arms and free civilians immediately
The United Nations Security Council has demanded LTTE terrorists to renounce violence, lay down arms and to stop using civilians as human shield immediately.
"The LTTE is a terrorist organization and should be condemned for its use of civilian as a human shield. The LTTE should immediately lay down arms and renounce its terror tactics", said Ambassador Claude Heller, the President of the UN Security Council summing up the views expressed by the Members of the Security Council at an informal briefing on Wednesday (April 22).
According to defence observers this is a strong message to the LTTE terrorists and a denial of any breather what so ever expected by its sympathizers and its paid henchmen.
The informal briefing to the Council was a follow-up to the visit of UN Under-Secretary General Vijey Nambiar to Sri Lanka earlier this week. The Security Council unanimously agreed that the LTTE's holding civilians hostage was unacceptable and welcomed the movement of large numbers of civilians out of harms way. They called on the international community to extend all assistance to the Sri Lankan Government to deal with the influx of civilians who are fleeing from the LTTE's hold.
Significantly, the Security Council did not call for a ceasefire or a humanitarian pause believing that this would only provide a breathing space for the LTTE and prolong the civilian suffering. They concluded that the quickest way to end this conflict was for LTTE to lay down arms, surrender and let the political process proceed as there was no military solution.
At this informal interactive session held yesterday, the members also urged the government to be cautious about the civilians when taking military action to secure a safe passage for civilians. They also called on the Government to work closely with the UN in providing humanitarian assistance to the displaced civilians including those in transit.
Sri Lanka's Permanent Representative to UN, Ambassador Palihakkara gave assurances to the Council Members that the military was not planning any final assault that could endanger the lives of civilians. He also recalled the assurances given by the Government that it was not firing heavy weapons into the safe zone
Declared by the government and stated that if these allegations were true the civilians would not have left in such large numbers seeking safety from the Government. He gave a detailed account of the steps taken by the Government to address the humanitarian situation in close collaboration with the UN and other humanitarian agencies on the Ground.
Meanwhile, China, Russia and other countries view that Sri Lanka's fight against terrorism as an internal problem rather than a situation for any international intervention.
Bhairav,
"It is known fact that 95% of diaspora Tamils support LTTE"
I'm not very convinced Bhairav. Most of the Tamil diaspora's response to this article by DBSJ show a lot of criticism for Thalaivar and the LTTE."and 90% of Tamils in SL will support them if their safety is guaranteed"
This is a very dangerous and yet idiotic statement at the same time.
Idiotic, because the entire purpose of a liberation struggle is to put yourself in danger to safeguard your rights!!!
Dangerous, because you are basically telling the Sinhalese that the best way to keep the Tamils quiet is through terror- which is a total lie.
DBSJ's hilarious response to a half-witted Eelamoid. Required reading for all uneducated Eelamoids everywhere:
DBSJEYARAJ RESPONDS: Dont give me this sanctimonious nonsense. Dont blame the postmen for bringing bad news. You are utterly wrong in calling me indifferent or you dont know the meaning of the word. Is there ANY journalist who has written so consistently about the Tamil cause as I have? Not LTTE but Tamil.But then how many of you supported me publicly when I criticised the LTTE openly and urged them to change course?
Dont blame others for the Tamil predicament. The current crisis is mainly due to Velupillai Prabhakaran. How many times have I written urging the LTTE to do “this” or not do “this”in the interests of the Tamil people? What did I get? Continuous bashing by tiger supporters, physical assaults, intimidation, threats, abusive telephone calls, emails, anonymous letters, vilification campaign, the stopping of the newspaper I edited etc.How many of you sanctimonious cats expressed solidarity then?
My right of free speech and free expression was severely curtailed by the LTTE and goons. Except for a few souls (For whom I have the greatest regard) no Tamil sympathised let alone supported me. Now you guys are preaching to me about “journalism” and how to practise it.
In the open letter I wrote after my paper was stopped I stated that the LTTE is causing the greatest harm to the Tamil people and challenged tiger stalwarts to a public debate. No response but for threats, vilification and intimidation.
Yet when Anton Balasingham approached me in 2000 and requested my support to get the LTTE ban lifted I responded positively. I did so ONLY because he PROMISED me that the LTTE will enter negotiations and opt for a settlement within a UNITED Sri Lanka. So I backed the LTTE despite angering many friends. I did so ONLY because I wanted the tigers to settle politically thereby emancipate the Tamils. But they DEFAULTED and I resumed criticising the LTTE
Did I not ask the LTTE to give up an unwinnable war and go in for a negotiated settlement umpteen times? Were people of your ilk supportive then? You guys mortgage your minds and souls to the LTTE and now cry out for the people? Yet you go and demonstrate with tiger flags and chant “our leader Prabhakaran” How hypocritical and stupid.
Did I not argue strongly that the LTTE should mend fences with Karuna in the long term interests of the Tamils? Did I not repeat again and again that the LTTE should stay the course and not abandon the negotiating table? Did anyone listen? Even on Mahinda government’s ruthlessness did I not plead with the LTTE not to enforce a boycott and enable a racist regime to emerge?The shameless LTTE got just 180 million rupees from Basil.This is the price of betrayal. So who is responsible So if you are in the blame game start with Prabakharan and do so under your own name.
I am like a father who warns his son that he would crash his exam if he keeps on playing instead of studying. But he passes with flying colours. Will the father be sad that what he predicted did not happen. No he would be happy to have been proved wrong. On the other hand if the boy does crash will the father be happy that what he said came true. No he will only be sad at what has happened notwithstanding his warning coming true. I am in that position.
Even on the current crisis it was I who WARNED of a forthcoming HUMANITARIAN CATASTROPHE long before all the media and human rights organizations and NGO’s did. But did anyone pay heed? You tamil supporters of LTTE thought the Thalaiver was going to let the army in and whack them. Now you run around like headless chickens.
If the Tamil people are to extricate themselves from this morass they must first recongnize and acknowledge that Prabhakaran has brought them to disaster. That will be the beginning of redemption and renaissance. Instead if they persist in supporting this man who has done the greatest damage to the Tamil people I can see no way out. The comic scenes of waving tiger flags and shouts of our leader with Praba’s portrait makes me think that we have no future at all.
THE LION SHARE FOR TAMIL TROUBLE LIES WITH THE TIGER
“Theethum Nandrum Pirar Thara Vaaraa”.
Usually I keep these thoughts bottled up inside me and remain passive to all the bullshit said about me by all you so-called Tamil patriots but somehow you succeeded in making me erupt. God bless you
DBSJ
dbs jeyaraj is male whore... enough said. he will play the tune of whoever pays for him.
"Upul said...
dbs jeyaraj is male whore... enough said. he will play the tune of whoever pays for him.
"
Play is about to end.
What happenned to all these peelamists. They all vanished foe last 6 hours.
Finally Upul appeared.
Are there any more hunger strike happenning now around the world?
Over 100,000 Wanni civillians were rescued for last 3 days. They are now getting good food.
Those DIS_POO_RRA supporters sending money to LTTP created all these sufferring to Tamil Civillian.
It is better now DIS-PPO-RRA supporters also feel the pain by having hunger strike while liberated civillians are now having good meals.
Sri Lanka under pressure as humanitarian crisis mounts
Source: Agence France-Presse (AFP)
Date: 23 Apr 2009
COLOMBO, April 23, 2009 (AFP) - Sri Lanka was under pressure Thursday from the United Nations and aid groups to allow humanitarian access to tens of thousands of sick and injured civilians who have fled Tamil Tiger rebel areas.
The island's government has been blocking most aid agencies from working in the war-torn north for months, and has herded escaping Tamil civilians into closely-guarded internment camps so it can weed out suspected rebels.
The UN's top humanitarian official in Sri Lanka said the situation was disastrous.
"I saw infants with dysentery, malnourished children and women, untended wounds, and people dressed in the ragged clothing they've been wearing for months," said Neil Buhne, the UN's Humanitarian Coordinator in Sri Lanka.
"We need funds for all the basics like food, medicine, water, sanitation, nutrition, shelter, and clothing," Buhne said after managing to visit the northern town of Vavuniya where over 80,000 people are stuck in makeshift camps.
Above all, however, the Sri Lankan government has been told by UN chief Ban Ki-moon that aid workers must be given full access to the north. The European Union and United States also pressed the same demand again on Thursday, diplomats said.
Over 102,000 civilians have crossed over to government-controlled areas since Monday and Sri Lanka estimates between 15,000 to 20,000 people still remain inside the warzone -- meaning the demand for emergency aid is certain to rise.
French medical aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres said the small number of aid workers allowed to work in the north were unable to cope with the crisis. It also painted a grim picture of life in the camps.
"They arrive, wounded, lost and skinny and then they are put in a camp where they can't leave and they can't call their family," an MSF mental health officer said of the fleeing civilians.
"They have no communication, they have nothing. There can be a husband and wife in two separate camps and they would never know."
Sri Lanka in September asked international aid agencies to leave the conflict zone, saying it could not guarantee their safety in the face of the military onslaught against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
But the government also regularly accuses UN agencies and NGOs of colluding with the Tamil Tigers, especially when the conduct of the Sri Lankan armed forces is called into question.
Sri Lanka's Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama said the government has since relaxed access and has allowed 14 international aid agencies to work inside the camps -- which he referred to as "welfare villages".
Still, he signalled the government remained suspicious of foreign aid groups.
"Access is dependent primarily on the security situation on the ground and also the government does not wish to encourage... tourism by allowing unstructured visits to the welfare villages," he said.
Journalists and human rights workers are also subject to tight restrictions, with travel to the north and contact with fleeing Tamil civilians invariably blocked.
Sri Lanka's Human Rights Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe also told AFP that while the camps were "certainly not five-star accommodation, we are trying very hard."
According to the UN, some 4,500 civilians have been killed in the past three months of fighting. The UN's rights chief has also said both sides -- the Tamil Tigers and the government -- may be guilty of war crimes.
The International Committee of the Red Cross also said its staff had reported "many civilian casualties" in recent days as the Tamil Tigers lose ground.
Peelamist are hiding. I am awaiting for the next report from Badrinath to start laughing.
No reports for last 20 dyas.
Sri Lanka seeks int'l aid to care for displaced
By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI – 42 minutes ago
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka pleaded for international help Thursday in what it called an "emergency humanitarian situation," after a medical relief group warned that civilian casualties are rising rapidly in the country's war zone despite the exodus of more than 100,000 in recent days.
Red Cross spokeswomen Sarasi Wijeratne said Wednesday about 1,000 badly wounded people were in desperate need of treatment or to be evacuated to better hospitals outside the conflict zone. Only two ill-equipped makeshift hospitals function in the tiny zone.
What sort of aid are they expecting, i hope if they get some it wound include intependent aid agencys as well as media people to cover the situation. not just free flow of money which will be spent on its military adventeure.
IMPORTANT !!
http://www.undispatch.com/node/8121
[What sort of aid are they expecting]
Any aid to screw your Thalaivar is welcome!!
LTTE simply failed to protect the innocent civilians from Sinhala barbarians. If there was a critical blunder militarily made by LTTE, that was right there in Paranthan where they should have put all their resources to stop the SLA from further moving into Kili town. Look what have happened now.
LTTE miscalculated that IC won't allow GoSL's indiscriminate bombings of Tamil civilians, but it turned out to be a big gamble for LTTE. We witnessed an unprecedented human catastrophe in Wanni, and even the Indians simply looked back and watched this carnage. This will go down as the darkest chapter of Tamil history in terms of traitorous acts and barbarism. One thing i can guarantee you the history will repeat.
It is better that we leave discussion on DBS just there.
Let us see what happens to the plan of the Srilankan government to declare holiday tomorrow...
Srilankan miister says to NDTV that they may complete the current phase of operation in the NFZ may be in few hours or at the maximum within 1 or 2 days.
Finally it may turn out into an anti- climax like their Killinochi entry, if at all they complete it. They may not get much of what they are looking for..
சிறிலங்கா அரசாங்கம் பாதுகாப்பு வலயப்பகுதியில் 70,000 தமிழ் மக்களே உள்ளனர் எனவும், இராணுவத் தளபதி 40, 000 தமிழ் மக்களே உள்ளனர் எனவும் கூறியிருந்த நிலையில், பாதுகாப்பு வலயப் பகுதியில் மூன்றில் ஒரு பங்கு மீட்கப்பட்டு 103,143 பொதுமக்கள் அரச கட்டுப்பாட்டுப் பகுதிகளுக்கு வருகை தந்துள்ளமை சுட்டிக்காட்டப்படத்தக்கது.
[Let us see what happens to the plan of the Srilankan government to declare holiday tomorrow...]
Actually killing the fat pig is not the best thing at all!
Watching him die a thousand times experiencing the bitterness of defeat and fear of death is much better cause he needs to suffer for the misery he put all Sri Lankans through!!
So, suffer Velu!! Suffer!!
இன்றும் அகோரமான எறிகணைத் தாக்குதல்: 87 தமிழர்கள் பலி; கியூடெக் பணிப்பாளர் உட்பட 300 பேர் படுகாயம்
[வியாழக்கிழமை, 23 ஏப்ரல் 2009, 06:12 பி.ப ஈழம்] [வவுனியாவிலிருந்து த.சுகுணன்]
முல்லைத்தீவு மாவட்டத்தில் உள்ள புதுக்குடியிருப்பு பகுதியில் சிறிலங்கா படையினர் இன்றும் நடத்திய அகோர எறிகணைத் தாக்குதல்களில் 87 தமிழர்கள் படுகொலை செய்யப்பட்டுள்ளதுடன் கியூடெக் கரித்தாஸ் நிறுவனப் பணிப்பாளர் அருட்தந்தை வசந்தசீலன் அடிகளார் உட்பட 300-க்கும் அதிகமானோர் படுகாயமடைந்துள்ளனர்.
வலைஞர்மடம், அம்பலவன்பொக்கணை ஆகிய பகுதிகள் மீது மீது சிறிலங்கா படையினர் இன்று வியாழக்கிழமை செறிவான எறிகணை, ஆர்பிஜி உந்துகணை மற்றும் துப்பாக்கிச் சூட்டுத் தாக்குதல்களை நடத்தியுள்ளனர்.
இத்தாக்குதலில் காயமடைந்த கியூடெக் கரித்தாஸ் நிறுவன பணிப்பாளர் அருட்திரு வசந்தசீலன் அடிகளார் தனது கால் ஒன்றை இழந்துள்ளார்.
சிறிலங்கா படையினரின் தாக்குதல்களில் படுகொலை செய்யப்பட்டவர்களில் 87 பேரின் உடலங்கள் முள்ளிவாய்க்கால் மருத்துவமனைக்கு கொண்டு செல்லப்பட்டுள்ளன.
கடந்த மூன்று நாட்களில் கத்தோலிக்க திருச்சபையின் முன்று அருட்தந்தையர்கள் காயமடைந்துள்ளனர் என்று புதினத்தின் வன்னிச் செய்தியாளர் தெரிவிக்கின்றார்.
[Srilankan miister says to NDTV that they may complete the current phase of operation in the NFZ may be in few hours or at the maximum within 1 or 2 days.]
Too short time to savor the sweetness of victory!!
Let the fat pig Velu suffer alone after the civilians are liberated and safe!!
[இன்றும் அகோரமான எறிகணைத் தாக்குதல்: 87 தமிழர்கள் பலி; கியூடெக் பணிப்பாளர் உட்பட 300 பேர் படுகாயம்]
අනේ නිකන් පලයන් බන් යන්ඩ!!
උඹලට හම්බවෙයි පීලම!!
බලන් හිටපල්ලා!!
දෙමලෙන් පච කෙලියා කියල රටවල් දෙන්නෙ නෑ බන් උඹලට!!
හී හී!! හූ!!
good news!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
UN to send team to Sri Lankan "no-fire zone" 23 Apr 2009 15:02:21 GMT
Source: Reuters
(Adds quotes, details)
BRUSSELS, April 23 (Reuters) - United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon said on Thursday he was concerned about the situation in Sri Lanka and was sending a humanitarian team to a "no-fire zone" where civilians are trapped.
He urged all sides to respect a U.N. Security Council appeal on Wednesday which also expressed concern about the humanitarian situation and the plight of civilians.
"I am most concerned at the rapidly deteriorating situation in Sri Lanka," Ban told a news conference in Brussels after attending an international donors conference on Somalia.
"I intend to immediately dispatch a U.N. humanitarian team to the no-fire zone. The purpose of this humanitarian team would be to first of all monitor the situation and support humanitarian assistance and try to do whatever we can to protect the civilian population who are caught in the fire zone."
He said the U.N. team must be allowed into the no-fire zone as quickly as possible and asked for strong support and speedy assistance from the government
Mgk: Good news indeed, Diaspora Tamils’ voice is being heard. But, how GOSL is going to react ?
Guys, i doubt that UN aid group will reach the war zone any time soon. Intense battles are reported for last two days from Wanni and it might delay the claim of GoSL's deadline of Friday for reaching the military victory. More civilian casualties are no the way.
Guys, i doubt that UN aid group will reach the war zone any time soon. Intense battles are reported for last two days from Wanni and it might delay the claim of GoSL's deadline of Friday for reaching the military victory. More civilian casualties are on the way.
[More civilian casualties are no the way.]
P.Pirapaharan and all you Mootans who supported him are to blame!!
50000 CIVILLIANS IN SHIT LANKA "KILL ZONE""We are negotiating with the parties in terms of having a safe area around the boats to allow the fishermen to bring the wounded to us," ICRC spokesman Simon Schorno said in Geneva.
The Tigers and the military traded blame over the incident.
The ICRC lowered its estimate of civilians still trapped in a narrow coastal strip on the island's north to less than 50,000.
It is better that we leave discussion on DBS just there.
Ooops... it looks has DBSJ Screwed the eelam boys so badly.dont just blam him try to counter his arguments.you all r living in a dream world boys.just read the body language of army whos recieving the rescued ppl.are they look like hiding any evil intention in their mind.everybody trying to help the ppl.you guys are brainwoshed up to the bone.
we cant do anything other than laghing at or insulting you.
I better delete the comment of cheap shots on DBSJ.
The Diaspora Monkey circus at Puligal is becoming very boring with a number of entertaining monkeys missing. Badri, Navindran, Peter, Turtle G..to name a few...
Come on monkeys come here and dance more...entertain us...
hey Pete
did you buy the GAP shares?? to force them to prevent buying garments from modalanka.
A good businessman knows when to withdraw his investment from a bad business. you are the complete opposite of it.A dumb businessman, or a investment banker or whatever.Use common-sense man like poor moda bandas .
Mother's Tear - No medical facilities - 23rd April 09
Dear Bhairav
"One thing i can guarantee you the history will repeat."
Are you saying that 100,000+ Tamil civilians will get trapped like this AGAIN?!?! Haven't they been through enough already??
Why don't you just keep your warmongering away from them?
Sri Lanka's true nature is being slowley revealed.
Diplomatic statement being made by people on face might look like they put both paties on equal footing but in the background its sri lanka which facising serious consequances and intese presure.
West knows certin thing by experiance with world conflicts. They are asking to end this conflict by peacefull means.
Why becuase, LTTE beeing considered the most powerfull, recourcefull insurgent groupe. It will keep fighting what ever means.
Looking at the re entry of Taliban in Afgan & Pakistan, people should start think seriousely about what the west telling sri lanka.
Well actually wijayapala , your rupee is in collapse mode almost hitting 121 rupees. Its sad, you guys come here to say that you have won but the fact that you keep comming back to this site shows that you have lost. Eelam is a reality. Its sad that you do not realise the chaos and ruin comming to Sri Lanka. I guess you would stop comming to this blog once you get RETRENCHED.
Friday, April 24, 2009
1 US Dollar = 120.107 Sri Lanka Rupee
1 Sri Lanka Rupee (LKR) = 0.008326 US Dollar (USD)
Interbank rate +/- 0%
This means:
You buy 1 US Dollar : 120.107 Sri Lanka Rupee
You sell 1 US Dollar : 119.823 Sri Lanka Rupee
You buy 1 Sri Lanka Rupee : 0.008326 US Dollar
You sell 1 Sri Lanka Rupee : 0.008346 US Dollar
Median price = 119.823 / 120.107 (bid/ask)
Minimum price = 119.100 / 119.425
Maximum price = 120.725 / 120.970
I am posting some articles so that you fools can get educated.
Congress deserves to lose India's elections
By Razeen Sally
Published: April 16 2009 03:00 | Last updated: April 16 2009 03:00
Today Indians begin heading to the polls in a month-long election for a new government. The Congress party is standing on the record of the government it has led since 2004. But polls are taking place when the Indian economy has taken a sharp turn for the worse, in a climate of global economic crisis. This exposes the do-nothing, zero-reform record of Manmohan Singh, prime minister, and his government. More generally, it lays bare India's huge reform gaps and its brittle, decaying institutions. Finally, it deflates the "India hype" peddled by smooth-talking upper-caste politicians, ambassadors, businessmen, management consultants and some academics.
A word about India hype. It highlights high-end services, and now manufacturing sectors, with their globalising, world-beating companies. But it overlooks reform deficits in agriculture, services and manufacturing. It talks of "Chindia", the notion that India plays in the same league as China as an emerging superpower - which is pure myth. Not least, it glosses over the record of the present Congress-led government.
There have been practically no market reforms since 2004, save for the opening of domestic civil aviation. Nothing has moved on privatisation, the reduction of government equity in banks and insurance companies, pensions, competition regulation or the administration of subsidies. Industrial tariffs have come down, but otherwise external protection has not been reduced. India remains the most protectionist large emerging market.
Worse, there has been reform backsliding and reversal. Fiscal restraint, written into law in 2003, has been thrown to the winds. Now, with an economic downturn, the consolidated government deficit is projected to rise above 10 per cent of gross domestic product. Funding for much-needed infrastructure projects will suffer. Controlled pricing of petroleum products was reintroduced in 2008. Off-budget expenditure has increased significantly, especially through populist measures to support rural employment and the energy sector.
The government's response to the present global economic crisis was to introduce further market-distorting restrictions, including higher tariffs, anti-dumping duties and assorted non-tariff import barriers.
Finally, the Congress party entered the general election campaign with pledges to expand its hugely wasteful rural employment guarantee programme and increase food subsidies.
The government has squandered the boom years, left the country more vulnerable to malign global economic conditions and compromised prospects for a healthy recovery. But Manmohan Singh and his "dream team" have been given an easy ride: they have escaped blame, especially outside India. The conventional excuse is that their hands are tied by Sonia Gandhi and her Congress coterie, and by coalition politics.
This explanation just does not wash. Mr Singh has impeccable academic credentials and is by all accounts incorruptible. He deserves credit for his performance as finance minister in the 1990s - although credit should also go to Narasimha Rao, then prime minister, who took the tough decisions.
But Mr Singh has proved a hopeless decision-maker as prime minister. Sadly, he proves the rule that academics should generally be "on tap" but not "on top".
The whole reform programme relies on the prime minister himself. Mr Rao and A.B. Vajpayee proved their mettle, despite heavy political constraints. Mr Singh has failed; he should bear much of the blame. The Congress party does not deserve to be re-elected and the dream team does not deserve to continue in office. An alternative BJP-led government may do better if it has a decisive leader with a core of able reformers. It will not if its leader follows the dictates of short-term opportunism and messy coalition politics.
Nevertheless, the failures of the Congress-led government should be put into a larger institutional context. The Indian state, led by a venal political-bureaucratic elite, remains unreformed. State institutions - the political class, political parties, parliaments, the bureaucracy, the judiciary - have got worse at both national and state levels. Since the late 1980s, "stealth" reforms have taken place outside the state. But India cannot be expected to grow fast with such shaky foundations. The upshot is that much-needed market reforms cannot continue to skirt round the reform of the state itself. Politically, that is the hardest nut to crack.
The writer is director of the European Centre for International Political Economy
IMF Says Recession Will Be Deeper, Recovery Slower (Update3)
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By Timothy R. Homan and Simon Kennedy
April 22 (Bloomberg) -- The International Monetary Fund said the global recession will be deeper and the recovery slower than previously thought as financial markets take longer to stabilize.
The Washington-based IMF said in a forecast released today that the world economy will shrink 1.3 percent this year, compared with its January projection of 0.5 percent growth. The lender predicted expansion of 1.9 percent next year instead of its earlier 3 percent estimate.
The fund’s latest outlook highlights the precarious state in which the world economy remains, even amid signs the worst slump since World War II may be easing. Recovery isn’t assured and will depend on policy efforts to cleanse banks’ balance sheets and craft measures that spur demand, the IMF said.
“The key factor determining the course of the downturn and recovery will be the rate of progress toward returning the financial sector to health,” the fund said in its semi-annual World Economic Outlook. At a briefing in Washington, IMF Chief Economist Olivier Blanchard said while a recovery will start early next year, a “return to normal” will take much longer.
Having said this time last year that the world economy would grow 3.8 percent in 2009, the IMF tied its more pessimistic assessment to a “recognition that financial stabilization will take longer than previously envisaged.” Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn foreshadowed the prediction of a contraction a month ago.
Credit Losses
The revised outlook comes a day after the fund calculated worldwide losses from distressed loans and securitized assets may reach $4.1 trillion by the end of 2010 as the recession and credit crunch exact a higher toll on financial institutions.
“Financial strains in the mature markets will remain heavy well into 2010,” that report said.
U.S. regulators are putting some of the largest U.S. banks through so-called stress tests to determine the amount of capital each needs to withstand a further economic slide. Morgan Stanley today reported a bigger-than-estimated $177 million loss and slashed its dividend to 5 cents as real estate and debt- related writedowns overwhelmed trading gains.
Even as the IMF acknowledged “tentative indications” that the rate of contraction is moderating around the world, the fund said output per capita would decline this year in countries representing about 75 percent of the global economy.
Output Gap
The rebound will be slower than usual because the slump was caused by a financial crisis and is synchronized around the world, the fund said. The report included a table which showed the so-called output gap, the excess of world supply over demand, will remain negative for the foreseeable future.
Advanced economies will continue to lead the slump by shrinking 3.8 percent this year and failing to grow in 2010, the IMF said. The fund cut its forecasts for this year and next for all the Group of Seven economies and said Germany, Italy and the U.K. will still be shrinking in 2010.
The U.S. economy will slide 2.8 percent this year before stalling next year and the euro area will contract 4.2 percent in 2009 and 0.4 percent in 2010, the report said. While Japanese gross domestic product will fall 6.2 percent this year, it will then rise 0.5 percent next year.
Speaking ahead of their April 24 meeting in Washington, finance ministers from G-7 nations today said that even given signs of stabilization, their economies are still in trouble and that they would continue to pursue policies designed to restore growth.
U.S. Role
U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner cited the IMF data as reason for officials “to strengthen the basis for recovery.” Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said while he sees “small, encouraging signs” in the global economy, it remains “in the midst of” the crisis.
Blanchard said in a Bloomberg Television interview today that the U.S. will play a “major role” in determining when the global economy and key nations start turning around. “The rest of the world is not going to recover unless the U.S. recovers.”
Emerging and developing economies will grow 1.6 percent this year and 4 percent next year, reductions of 1.7 percentage point and 1 percentage point respectively from previous forecasts, the IMF said. They will suffer net capital outflows of more than 1 percent of GDP this year and only the highest- grade borrowers will be able to tap new funding.
The risk of corporate defaults in such economies is also “rising to dangerous levels,” the IMF said.
China, India
Growth in China, where the IMF said there is scope for further easing of monetary and fiscal policy, is forecast to slow to 6.5 percent this year before climbing to 7.5 percent in 2010. India’s economy will grow 4.5 percent in 2009 and 5.6 percent in 2010, compared with 7.3 percent last year.
While stopping short of predicting deflation, the fund said the risk was greater than during the last such scare earlier this decade. Consumer prices will drop 0.2 percent in advanced economies this year before rising 0.3 percent next year and there is a risk of a steeper initial decline, the IMF said.
Policy makers were urged to “act decisively” and not delay their responses to the financial crisis. Balance sheets should be revived by removing bad assets and injecting new capital, the IMF said.
Monetary and fiscal policies should be “geared as far as possible” to bolstering demand and where flexibility remains for more monetary stimulus, such as at the European Central Bank, it “should be used quickly,” the fund said.
Measures’ Impact
“In advanced economies, scope for easing monetary policy further should be used aggressively to counter deflation risks,” the fund said, forecasting interest rates will remain near zero in major economies. Governments should not prematurely withdraw stimulus measures and perhaps add to them, it said.
At the briefing after the report was released, Blanchard said “strong” fiscal policies thus far have made a “gigantic difference,” while urging governments to resist complacency.
“Things are not great, they could have been extremely bad,” Blanchard said. “To the extent that more can be done, it should be done.”
Exit strategies also should be outlined for when recovery takes hold, the fund said. “Acting too quickly would risk undercutting what is likely to be a fragile recovery, but acting too slowly could risk a return to overheating and new asset- price bubbles,” it said.
Downside Risks
Risks to the outlook remain skewed to the downside and include the possibility that policies will fail to stop weakening economies and financial conditions from feeding on each other. “In a highly uncertain context, fiscal and monetary policies may fail to gain traction,” the report said.
Meanwhile, the fund said confidence and spending could be revived faster than expected should investors endorse policy steps by authorities.
Global trade is forecast to plunge 11 percent this year after expanding 3.3 percent in 2008, undermining economies that rely on exports such as those of Germany and China, according to the report. The crisis has prompted a “flight to safety” which boosted the major currencies.
The slowdown is hurting companies such as Caterpillar Inc., the world’s largest maker of bulldozers and excavators, which yesterday posted its first quarterly net loss in 16 years as a result of the global recession.
Peoria, Illinois-based Caterpillar said it expects the world economy to decline about 1.3 percent this year. Chief Executive Officer Jim Owens has already cut more than 24,000 jobs since December.
Unemployment
Such cutbacks will propel unemployment to 9.2 percent next year in the advanced economies from 8.1 percent this year, while in the U.S. the jobless rate will jump to 10.1 percent in 2010, the IMF said. The Labor Department said this month that unemployment in the U.S. climbed to a 25-year high of 8.5 percent in March.
Yahoo! Inc., owner of the second-most popular U.S. Internet search engine, announced payroll cuts yesterday, citing a slowdown in online-advertisement sales. The company, based in Sunnyvale, California, said it will cut 5 percent of its workforce or 700 jobs.
The IMF also issued a new definition of a global recession based on a drop in real per capita world GDP alongside changes in industrial production, capital flows, trade, oil consumption and unemployment. Under this measure, the current recession is the world’s first since 1991 and the fourth since World War II. The new interpretation supersedes a rule-of-thumb that declared a downturn when growth was less than 2.5 percent or 3 percent.
“It’s going to be a while before a report is going to say there’s clear signs of an economic recovery,” said Colin Bradford, an economist at the Brookings Institution in Washington.
To contact the reporters on this story: Timothy R. Homan in Washington at thoman1@bloomberg.net; Simon Kennedy in Washington at skennedy4@bloomberg.net
SRI LANKA: Economic Crisis Ramping Up, As War Winds Down
By Feizal Samath
COLOMBO, Apr 15 (IPS) - Government troops are closing in on the last remnants of Tamil Tiger resistance in northern Sri Lanka as an upsurge of more that two years of fighting winds down. But, the country’s economic woes aren’t over. More and more pressure it being put on President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s cash-strapped administration.
Even a planned 1.9 billion dollar bailout package from the IMF may not ease economic stresses. National growth is projected to fall to 2-3 percent from 6 percent in 2008 due to the world economic crisis, and many major development projects may be suspended temporarily due also to high military expenditures.
The Central Bank (CB) in its 2008 annual report released last week warned that a string of hydro and coal power projects, new port development, and a modern oil refinery may have to be postponed or slowed down this year due to the financial crisis.
The CB said revenues are seen falling and suggested that it would be "prudent" to postpone the implementation of new projects till the recovery of global financial markets.
Adding to the government’s problems is a new campaign by rights groups opposing IMF intervention without the ‘people’s consent.’ Sarath Fernando, a veteran Sri Lankan campaigner of peasants and farmers’ rights, last week launched a new campaign, saying, "We strongly insist that no loan agreements should be signed without a wide and participatory process of discussion on all relevant aspects not only of the loans but also of the process of development."
Sri Lanka’s crisis is two-fold. First, there is sagging export income and the CB is using the few dollars it has to intervene in local money markets to defend the rupee from depreciating against the U.S. dollar. On the other hand, the government’s access to cheap commercial borrowings from foreign sources to fund the costly war against separatist Tamil rebels has dried up with the global financial meltdown.
The country’s gross official reserves by the end of December 2008 stood at 1.7 billion dollars, sufficient just for 1.5 months of imports, compared to more than 3.5 billion dollars in December 2007.
Exports are down and garments - the biggest earner - are getting squeezed out in other markets, while jobs are being shed across other employment sectors. The Employers Federation, an umbrella group of employers, has asked the government to reduce the number of working days per week to five from five-and-a-half days in a bid to cut costs.
Last week, the Labour Ministry agreed to allow temporary lay-offs for a period of three months, and shorter working days in factories.
Fernando, coordinator for MONLAR, which represents people’s organisations in fisheries and plantations, says they are alarmed that the government is going back to IMF loans under possibly "destructive conditions."
"The country is facing serious problems of foreign reserves and of debt. The government is so bankrupt that the foreign reserves currently available would be sufficient only for one month's imports and the IMF bailout package will materialize only if the government fulfils a set of conditions, one of which is to devalue the rupee which would result in the cost of living going up further by 50 percent," Fernando said.
Following the pledge of billions of dollars by the G20 of non-conditional aid to needy countries, the IMF has indicated that it may dole out money in this fashion to Sri Lanka without the conditions of the past. But, suspicion that such aid would come with strings attached, continues.
Sri Lanka’s main opposition United National Party (UNP) admits that ‘conditional aid’ would be a good thing, as it would ensure the government puts the money to good use instead of wasting it. UNP parliamentarian Kabir Hashim, familiar with the country’s economic issues, told IPS that the government has wasted millions on extravagant projects like a second national airline - Mihin Air - which cost nine billion rupees (more than 90 million dollars) and has reported two years of losses.
"The government has been taking foreign commercial loans to pay off the debt," Hashim said, adding that the IMF needs to ensure that the aid money is channelled in the right direction.
In Sri Lanka the economic crisis began in 2007, soon after the government began pumping billions of rupees into the war effort against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). The aim has been to crush the rebels, oust them from their eastern and northern strongholds, and clear the area for development and government control.
More than two years later, Rajapaksa’s administration is now on the verge of eliminating the military and conventional capabilities of the Tigers who are boxed in, in a small area in the north - reportedly using the civilian population as a shield against government incursions.
Hundreds of people, including combatants and civilians, have died and scores wounded or maimed. The international community has urged the government to act with restraint, while urging the Tigers to free the civilians. Military analysts expect government troops to seize control of the last remaining areas by the first week of May.
At the end of March, an IMF delegation returned home after an 11-day visit aimed at reviewing the CB’s request for balance of payments support. A flexible exchange rate policy - reduction of imports and increasing export revenues to ensure a surplus (of dollars) - is what the IMF would ask the government to do in the event the 1.9 billion dollar bailout package is approved.
Economists said the team met CB and Finance Ministry officials and also had a meeting with Opposition leader Ranil Wickremesinghe.
The visiting team is expected to submit a report to the IMF board by the end of April, and if a board decision is announced, the first tranche of funds will be received immediately. "There is no doubt the IMF will lend this money. It has a moral duty to help countries in need," said Saman Kelegama, Executive Director of Sri Lanka's Institute of Policy Studies. He said for the past three years the IMF has been dormant and has built up a lot of reserves. "The current crisis [across the world] gives it space to assert itself again."
The last IMF facility was a 567-million-dollar loan given in April 2003 to support the government’s 2003-2006 economic programme. The first tranche of 81 million dollars was immediately received but the loan was suspended in November 2003 due to political problems and in April 2006 it expired. In 2007 the IMF closed its Colombo office after the government decided not to accept conditional aid.
(END/2009)
ONE GUY I REALLY RESPECT
Nouriel Roubini, a professor at the Stern Business School at New York University and chairman of Roubini Global Economics, is a weekly columnist for Forbes. (Analysts at Roubini Global Economics assisted in the research and writing of this piece.)
Doctor Doom
The Global Economy In The Next Year
Nouriel Roubini, 04.23.09, 12:00 AM ET
The global economy is in the middle of a synchronized contraction that will push global growth into negative territory in 2009 for the first time in decades. This will be the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression and the worst global economic downturn in decades. Global trade volumes face their sharpest contractions of the postwar era--trade is expected to contract 12% in 2009 due to the severe and prolonged slump in global demand, excess capacity across supply chains and the continued crunch in trade finance.
Many analysts and commentators are pointing out that the second derivative of economic activity is turning positive (i.e., economies are still contracting, but at a slower rather than accelerated rate) and that the green shoots of an economic recovery are peeping out. My analysis of the data suggests that the global economic contraction is still in full swing with a very severe, deep and protracted U-shaped recession.
Last year's economic consensus forecast of a V-shaped short and shallow recession has vanished. While the rate of economic contraction is slowing compared to the free fall rates of the fourth quarter of 2008 and the first quarter of 2009, we are still a long way away from the economic bottom and from a sustained recovery of growth. In particular, in Europe and Japan there is little evidence of a positive second derivative of economic activity.
However, by the end of the first quarter of 2009, there were some signs that the pace of contraction had slowed in many economies, especially in the U.S. and China, where policy responses have been more significant and leading indicators in the manufacturing sector may have bottomed before they did in Europe and Japan. However, major economies, including all of the G7, will continue to contract throughout 2009, albeit at a slower pace than at the beginning of the year.
Moreover, the global recovery might be sluggish at best in 2010 given the overhang of the credit losses of financial institutions, the lingering credit crunch, the need for retrenchment by overstretched and over-indebted households in current-account-deficit countries, and a slow resumption of demand prompted by extensive government stimulus.
Some key elements of my outlook include:
--Global economic activity is expected to contract by 1.9% in 2009. Advanced economies are expected to contract 4% in 2009. Japan and the eurozone will suffer the sharpest downturns. U.S. gross domestic product will continue to contract, albeit at a slower pace throughout 2009, with negative growth in every quarter.
--Emerging markets will slow down sharply from the stellar growth rates of the past few years, with the BRIC economies growing at half their 2008 pace.
--Deteriorated terms of trade, slower capital flows and tighter credit will push Latin America into recession from the 4.1% growth of 2008. Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela will all shift to negative territory on a year-over-year basis, while smaller economies, like Peru, will experience a significant slowdown.
--Countries in Eastern Europe and the sphere of Russia will experience some of the sharpest contractions given the withdrawal of foreign credit and the risk of a severe financial crisis. The reduction in oil revenues and financial stress will contribute to a 5% year-over-year contraction in Russia, and some countries--especially in the Baltics--are at risk of double-digit contractions
--Export-dependent Asia's growth will slow significantly to less than 3% in 2009. China will have a hard landing with GDP growth falling to 5.5% while India will slow sharply to 4.3%. All four Asian Tigers (Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea and Hong Kong) as well as Malaysia and Thailand will experience recessions.
--The Middle East and Africa will mark much slower growth, at half of their 2008 pace, given the reduction in capital inflows, reduced demand from the U.S. and E.U., and decline in commodity prices and output. Israel and South Africa will suffer slight contractions.
--The unprecedented fiscal and monetary stimulus may help alleviate the substantial contraction in private demand and reduce the risk of a global L-shaped near-depression. Debt financing may be a challenge for many countries though, especially emerging markets or the most vulnerable Western European economies.
--Job losses during the current global recession might exceed those in recent recession, contributing to increases in defaults and posing additional risks to banks. The unemployment rate in developed countries will reach double-digits by 2010 (as early as mid-2009 in the U.S.) and push more people in developing countries into poverty. Moreover, despite new funding from multilateral institutions, severe contractions will raise the risk of social and political unrest.
--Commodities, as a class, are likely to come under renewed pressure in 2009, despite some support from production cuts. I expect the West Texas Intermediate (WTI) oil price to average about $40 a barrel in 2009, as demand destruction continues to outweigh crude supply destruction.
All I will say now that it is evident that things are still going as planned to achieve EELAM. So unlike you ladies, I am enjoying your circus acts.
With support of Tmails diaspora, Tamils in tamil nadue LTTE will be back with vengince. This is 100% gurentee, they have done it many more times before.
This considering the current phase of the war is not yet over, there are still tigurs conventional capabilitys in tact.
When Rajapaksa was elected he wanted peace with dignity, becuase at the time it LTTE which had the upper hand. Now the Sri Lanka
has upper hand and pleased many sihala nationalist (gayan & co), srio lanka should solve this conflict once and for all.
Otherwise many more tamils will die conflict become irreversible.
I've lost my 7th relative 2 days back in Wanni. It's relative or another Tamil, all precious lives are taken away by Sinhala barbarians.
Look at the girl's bewildered face on the second picture-287 Tamils are massacred by SLA today
Desperate Tamil civilians are trying to flee to India in small boats to escape intensifying fighting between the Sri Lankan military and Tamil Tigers.
As Sri Lanka called yesterday for international help in dealing with tens of thousands fleeing fighting, the Guardian has learned that boat-loads of refugees have arrived in Tamil Nadu – and others have attempted the trip – to avoid internment in government-run camps. Aid workers say some boats have sunk and children have been washed overboard.
UN SENDING SOMEONE CLOSE TO GOV
Buhne, who has been described to Inner City Press even by senior Ban Ki-moon advisers as having gotten far too close to the Sri Lankan government, has been approved by the government to head a "technical" mission to the conflict zone. Inner City Press asked Ms. Bragg if anyone other than Mr. Buhne had been considered. Ms. Bragg insisted that the UN had chosen Mr. Buhne. But there are senior UN officials who are embarrassed by him.
I am not sure these team will enter the safe zone, they will go on a guided tour of govenment controll area's and camps.
Then when they return they will just act like Num'biar.
"«Oldest ‹Older 2201 – 2210 of 2210 Newer› Newest» Navindran said...
I am posting some articles so that you fools can get educated.
Congress deserves to lose India's elections
By Razeen Sally "
Hi Navindran
It doesn't matter to SLGO or SL people.
Navindran said...
All I will say now that it is evident that things are still going as planned to achieve EELAM. So unlike you ladies, I am enjoying your circus acts.
Yes in the moon.
"FreedomFighter said...
With support of Tmails diaspora, Tamils in tamil nadue LTTE will be back with vengince. This is 100% gurentee, they have done it many more times before.
This considering the current phase of the war is not yet over, there are still tigurs conventional capabilitys in tact.
When Rajapaksa was elected he wanted peace with dignity, becuase at the time it LTTE which had the upper hand. Now the Sri Lanka
has upper hand and pleased many sihala nationalist (gayan & co), srio lanka should solve this conflict once and for all.
Otherwise many more tamils will die conflict become irreversible.
"
I am happy now because you start to undestand. I also say that we need a solution for tamils within Sri Lanka.
I believe that it would be delivered by MR & the current government.
"FreedomFighter said...
I am not sure these team will enter the safe zone, they will go on a guided tour of govenment controll area's and camps.
Then when they return they will just act like Num'biar.
"
It is SLGO's responsibility to protect UN VIP's. Since LTTP is killing civillians SLGO cannot take them to unsafe places like NFZ where LTTP is hiding civillians. If something happens, all peelamist like you start to blame the government.
Wow! Navindran is such an expert at cutting and pasting :-D
He will be made the first Eelam minister for cutting and pasting.
Navindran/FreedomFighter cum terrorist,
What happened to your application for making Tamil an official language in Canada/UK/Australia given the size of the Tamil voters? Have you heard from these governments yet?
Did you flag them in your application that a request for an Eelam within those countries will follow soon?
Did you also tell them that you Tamils are top class ghettoes and really can't live with other people in multi-racial societies and that's why you need a separate State?
Srilanka couldn't declare holiday today. Reports say that the army is facing severe resistance at Valaignarmadam.
A press briefing was just done at Killinochi by the army, NDTV reporter had talked 'live'from there.
Daya Master has reportedly said that Prabhakaran is still at Vellamullivaikal and there is only a possibility of him leaving the area though sea.
Some other reports have also talked about some civilians having spotted Charles Anthony in the NFZ.
They say that the army's version of just 10-15, 000 civilians left in that area is false and the number is several times above that.
UN says nearly 6,500 civilians dead in Killer Lanka COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — The United Nations says nearly 6,500 civilians have been killed and 14,000 wounded in fighting in Sri Lanka over the past three months.
The figures are contained in a U.N. document circulated among diplomatic missions in Sri Lanka in recent days and given to The Associated Press by a foreign diplomat Friday. The U.N. has declined to publicly release its casualty figures.
The quarter-century civil war has flared in recent months as government forces pushed to crush the Tamil Tiger rebels in their remaining territory in the north.
According to the U.N. figures, 6,432 civilians have been killed in the fighting since Jan. 20 and another 13,946 have been wounded.
taken from expressbuzz.
NEW DELHI: The game’s almost up for the LTTE. It appears that the Government of India is giving the separatist organisation not more than a week of survival
[NEW DELHI: The game’s almost up for the LTTE. It appears that the Government of India is giving the separatist organisation not more than a week of survival]
Viva la Peelam!! :-)))
Nisan , what's matter with you ? no holiday today ? truth hurting you ?
I hear that upto 5000 SLA kiled in 1st week April battles. Is sla really winning or are they being let to belive they are winning ?
sinhala gays and whore's you people think this some kind of cricekt match to have an end ?
no end to this until sri lanka's army leaves our home land. Dead or Alive.
The same Government of India had planned to finish off IPKF operations within 3 or so many days in 1987.
The same India has not tackled insurgency at Nagaland ,Manipur, Mizoram, Meghalaya and Assam even after 62 years.
Kashmir is still being infiltrated inspite of the presence of 5 lakh Indian troops.
Naxalites have their own small state inside Chattisgarh, and nothing could be done so far.
They can give a deadline for the current phase of operations, that's all.
Do not trust the visit to Shiv Shankar Menon and NSA M K Narayanan to Colombo. This to put tamils off gurd before any final push by SLA. The current congress gov is back stabing tamils.
Congress is desparate now, because their allies like Mulayam Singh, Lallu, Paswan, Communists, PMK etc have deserted them. Even Sharad Pawar talks of selecting PM after the elections. They are in deep trouble.
Tamilnadu contributes roughly 10% of the seats and if anything happens to Prabhakaran, they will be wiped out there.
That's why they are doing all drama suddenly, like sending emissaries to hoodwind people.
Srilanka fears that Prabhakaran may escape using a submarine -CNN IBN.
Emissaries in colombo and Srilanka says so...
[Tamilnadu contributes roughly 10% of the seats]
bull $hit!!
Out of 550 (limit) Constituencies only 39 is given to Tamilnadu! that makes up to a rough 7%.
when that 7% is divided between 2 main parties in Tamilnadu and one party gets 3.5% or so!!
Thank god due to Indian election system no govt. gets a powerful majority to do anything influential!!
You TN idiots have been taken in rides by every Indian government!!
Well gay i just did not hear from them its actually from colombo circules this is comming.
Any way tamil media is only been asked highlight human suffering at the moment.
[Srilanka fears that Prabhakaran may escape using a submarine]
That will only mean more suffering to Tamils!!
P.Piraba must die!!
well last ellection UPA had extra of 85 seats of which 31 came from tamil nadue, now rulling party is going do worse in other parts and even worse in Tamil nadu. BJP and Comnunist like are tearing the UPA vote.
[Well gay i just did not hear from them its actually from colombo circules this is comming.]
Colombo what???
proof please!!
I'm sorry! I know you can't give proof cause this is all a Peelamic wet dream you had today!!
More bs from FF!!
[Any way tamil media is only been asked highlight human suffering at the moment.]
By whom?? Your dying Thalaivar??
What happened to the eradication of SLA and achievement of Peelam??
Gone with the wind like the rest of your dreams?? LMAO
[well last ellection UPA had extra of 85 seats of which 31 came from tamil nadue, now rulling party is going do worse in other parts and even worse in Tamil nadu. BJP and Comnunist like are tearing the UPA vote.]
More lies from FF!!
check these links out!!
http://www.indian-elections.com/india-statistics.html
http://www.indian-elections.com/resultsupdate/genele2004.html
Now admit you lied!!
I'm really amazed at you fools!!
Why do you want Pirapaharan who has killed more Tamils than Sinhalese to curvive??
You must really hate Sri Lankan Tamils!!
Tamils being killed by Rajpaksah and Sartah Fosaka
and those are the poeple we hate. its shells' from Sri Lankan army cauing most of the deaths. Can you accept that simeple fact ?
UN saying 6500 tamils 3 months 12000 injured ?
Who do you is killing them ? all reports indicating that its shells which are doing the job for rajapaksah.
After this Rajapaksha Brother and Sarathfoska will face genocide crimes in war crime court.
Be ready for that.
LTTE has full support of the tamils, prove was TNA win in lankan election.
Tamil National Alliance Election Manifesto 2004
".....Accepting LTTE’s leadership as the national leadership of the Tamil Eelam Tamils and the Liberation Tigers as the sole and authentic representatives of the Tamil people, let us devote our full cooperation for the ideals of the Liberation Tigers’ struggle with honesty and steadfastness.Let us endeavour determinedly, collectively as one group, one nation, one country, transcending race and religious differences, under the leadership of the LTTE for a life of liberty, honor and justice for the Tamil people...." Click for Manifesto, 2004
Tamil National Alliance Election Manifesto 2001
"........unless meaningful negotiations are held with the L.T.T.E. no just solution can be found to the Tamil national question and that such negotiations should be held immediately only with the LTTE. This Alliance further states that in order to ensure that the negotiations are properly focussed and are purposeful and successful, no parallel negotiations should take place with any other Tamil political formation....."
Election Manifesto 2001
"FreedomFighter said...
LTTE has full support of the tamils, prove was TNA win in lankan election.
Tamil National Alliance Election Manifesto 2004
".....Accepting LTTE’s leadership as the national leadership of the Tamil Eelam Tamils and the Liberation Tigers as the sole and authentic representatives of the Tamil people, let us devote our full cooperation for the ideals of the Liberation Tigers’ struggle with honesty and steadfastness.Let us endeavour determinedly, collectively as one group, one nation, one country, transcending race and religious differences, under the leadership of the LTTE for a life of liberty, honor and justice for the Tamil people...." Click for Manifesto, 2004
"
When the election was held, all other tamil parties like PLOTE, TELO, EPRLF, etc had been chased away from the North & East. The voters were threaten by LTTE only to vote for TNA.
LTTE did the same thing at the presidential election threatenning People not to vote, which has been backfired now. If LTTE allowed people to vote, it would have been a win for Ranil Ponnaya.
"FreedomFighter said...
Tamils being killed by Rajpaksah and Sartah Fosaka
and those are the poeple we hate. its shells' from Sri Lankan army cauing most of the deaths. Can you accept that simeple fact ?
UN saying 6500 tamils 3 months 12000 injured ?
Who do you is killing them ? all reports indicating that its shells which are doing the job for rajapaksah.
After this Rajapaksha Brother and Sarathfoska will face genocide crimes in war crime court.
Be ready for that.
"
All those were killed by LTTE. SLGO has video's to prove it as we saw just last few days how LTTP shoot at Civillians who were fleeing.
[ashokkumar2103 said...
Congress is desparate now, because their allies like Mulayam Singh, Lallu, Paswan, Communists, PMK etc have deserted them. Even Sharad Pawar talks of selecting PM after the elections. They are in deep trouble.
Tamilnadu contributes roughly 10% of the seats and if anything happens to Prabhakaran, they will be wiped out there.
That's why they are doing all drama suddenly, like sending emissaries to hoodwind people.]
Even BJP comes to power, BJP is not a support of VP. Recently BJP mentioned that LTTP is a ban terrorist group. They also need VP & Puutttu Amma for Rajive's assasanation.
Whatever happens in India, there is no chance of LTTP to survive.
[FreedomFighter said...
Do not trust the visit to Shiv Shankar Menon and NSA M K Narayanan to Colombo. This to put tamils off gurd before any final push by SLA. The current congress gov is back stabing tamils.]
FF
You always purposely mix up Tamils & LTTP terrorists.
The world so as SLGO are not against Tamils. The world is against LTTP terrorists. The world banned only the LTTP terrorists movement. The world hasn't banned Tamil civillians and other tamil parties.
Is it clear to you now?
"ashokkumar2103 said...
The same Government of India had planned to finish off IPKF operations within 3 or so many days in 1987.
The same India has not tackled insurgency at Nagaland ,Manipur, Mizoram, Meghalaya and Assam even after 62 years.
Kashmir is still being infiltrated inspite of the presence of 5 lakh Indian troops.
Naxalites have their own small state inside Chattisgarh, and nothing could be done so far.
They can give a deadline for the current phase of operations, that's all.
"
India & other countries including US will get advice from SLA very soon how to erradicate terrorism.
Civilians expose LTTE treachery: Foreign media stunned with revelations
Foreign media crew and journalists who were provide access this morning (April 24) to the recently liberated Puthumathalan area inside the declared No Fire Zone have expressed their surprise on what were cited as 'startling revelations' made by civilian hostages rescued from LTTE clutches since Monday(20).
The reporters were taken from Kilinochchi to Puthumathalan and provided with necessary assistance to gain first hand information of the unfolding ground situation, with LTTE nearing total defeat after 3 decades.
The group of journalists also witnessed rising smoke in distance caused due to explosions from LTTE mounted heavy mortar bombs further south. According to latest military reports, LTTE terrorists are now boxed inside a 10sq.km swathe land further South of the NFZ at Vellamullivaikkal.
Hostages rescued from LTTE have expressed their disdain over the terrorist outfit, which was earlier proscribed by the EU and many countries including the US for the use of child soldiers, women suicide bombers, village massacres, bus bombings, systemized genocide of both ethnic Muslims and Sinhalese. Civilian escapees have unfolded the bitter truth with the media persons of brutal assaults, torture, forced arms training, child conscription and many more crimes perpetrated by LTTE.
The media crew also confirmed that security forces have exhibited utmost restraint from any indirect fire, heavy artillery or mortar attacks at LTTE now cornered in a 10sq.km swathe of land in the Southern tip of the NFZ.
LK
[When the election was held, all other tamil parties like PLOTE, TELO, EPRLF, etc had been chased away from the North & East. The voters were threaten by LTTE only to vote for TNA.]
At the time of ellection did not army control at least some parts of north east ? (if not then eelam was achived long ago)
How then PLOTE TELO EPRL did not get any vote ? How were they thredten when in the presensce of lankan army ?
You belive any bull shit form you own people, open you eyes and see the suffering of tamils.
(CNN) -- Two senior Indian officials met with the Sri Lankan president Friday in Colombo to address the humanitarian crisis in the war-torn island nation.
Shiv Shankar Menon, the Indian foreign secretary and M.K. Narayanan, the national security adviser, met with President Mahinda Rajapaksa, according to A.M.J. Sadiq, a foreign ministry official in Sri Lanka.
He did not provide further details.
"The Indian message was just short of reading the riot act," a source told CNN.
Disappearances going on in full swing:
["There are also increasing concerns that the newly escaped civilians are being submitted to screening by government-backed paramilitary groups. At the Omanthai checkpoint in the North, for instance, where people are placed on buses to be taken to Vavuniya, paramilitary members are reportedly present, pointing fingers at those they believe to be LTTE members or sympathizers."]
Diplomats said they were frustrated by intransigence on both sides, but that Colombo would be the focus of more pressure since it was a sovereign country and there was no leverage with the LTTE now that they are near a conventional defeat.
"This whole thing is now moving to a new level. You have a lot of things coming together at one time, and the numbers are climbing and cannot be ignored," said a Western diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity.
If the indians ask for a cecefiire and if the give a notice of X days or something sri lanka might press hard to take the remaing parts of the safe zone, and it will rise casualty leve even high, its at 20,000 now by UN report leaked to the AP.
"Foreign Secretary Palitha Kohona said the government took special care to avoid civilian casualties, and said many of those killed were combatants dressed in civilian clothing."
Oh well even the tamil babys are now terrorists.
And Sri Lankn's have develpped new kind of shell which
strik at the terroist with pin point acuracy.
Congress has a personalized vengence against LTTE, which the BJP does not have.
Lal Kishan Advani had even addressed the protest meet against Tamil's genocide at New Delhi organized by the MDMK.
Bal Thackrey, a major ally of the BJP is a open admirer of Prabhakaran and LTTE.
Entire Tamilnadu unit of the BJP supports the formation of Tamil Eelam.
And if at all the BJP has to form the government at the centre, they need the support of Tamil M.P.'s without which the next government will never be formed because of the hung parliament.
BJP has no presence in any other southern state except Karnataka and they don't mind using 'Eelam card' to get a foothold in Tamilnadu.
Some hardcore fundamentalists in BJP look at this as Hindus vs Buddhists. BJP is well known to be non secular at its heart.
Even otherwise, in the worst scenario, they may keep away from the whole crisis but not do the active & tracherous military involvement which the Congress did.
Tamil killing Bandas have become intelligent and the IC cowards have become modas by pretending believing all what Bandas say. Well done Tamil killing Bandas !
is there any exit poll published by any indian media ?
CNN: "The Indian message was just short of reading the riot act,"
Can anybody explain "reading the riot act"? CNN's diplomatic gimmick ?
Idiom:
read the riot act
To warn or reprimand energetically or forcefully: The teacher read the riot act to the rowdy class.
Word History: The riot act has been read to far more people than the disturbers of the peace the Riot Act was intended to control. The official Riot Act was enacted by Parliament in 1715 to discourage unlawful assembly and civic turbulence, although the first recorded use of the term Riot Act to refer to this legislation does not appear until 1731. The act provided that if 12 or more people gathered unlawfully or for purposes of disturbing the peace, a portion of the Riot Act would be read to them, and if the assembled did not disperse by one hour after this reading, they would be guilty of felony. The Riot Act, which was not repealed until 1973, became a part of the public consciousness and developed an extended sense in the phrase to read the riot act, meaning "to warn forcefully." The first use of riot act in this way is found in a work published in 1819: "She has just run out to read the riot act in the Nursery."
About 1,500 Germany-based Tamils demonstrated Friday near the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin for a halt to the fighting in Sri Lanka, where civilians are caught in the cross-fire in a government offensive against Tamil rebels.
A spokeswoman said: 'We are demonstrating again to press for the German government to do more to help Tamils in Sri Lanka.
The Brandenburg Gate is a central-city landmark which is much visited by tourists.
The Tamils have previously demonstrated outside Chancellor Angela Merkel's Berlin office and in the western city of Dusseldorf.
But the question is will they listen ? since they have the bcking of china ? unless some one is prepare to take serious actions agisnt SL.
they will not listen...the shit lanka demons have been released by india...only jai hanuman can stop them..shit lanka has become a hell cos of barbaric SLA...
and shit lanka is blocking UN Team..
Thanks FF. "Warn forcefully" to no avail. The same old Indian congress sh$$ to win some seats !
If SLA stops its Tamil killing-spree, MR will be killed by LNP educated devil dancers on Tamil blood!
http://www.globaltamilnews.net/tamil_news.php?nid=8749&cat=5
Colombo news says that "Eddappan", Karuna, will be given vice chairman post of SLFP that tells GoSL want to steal Tamil homeland by using these EDDAPPANS - Karuna and DD.
The United Nations says nearly 6,500 civilians have been killed and 14,000 wounded in fighting in Sri Lanka over the last three months, according to a UN document circulated among diplomatic missions.
Two UN officials privately confirmed the figures to the Guardian today. At least 2,000 people are understood to have been killed in the last month but the death toll does not include all of those killed in this week's intense fighting. The UN has declined to publicly release its casualty figures.THAT MEAN THE CASUALTIES ARE HIGHER...
UN TO SCARED TO EVEN RELEASE THE FIGURES OFFICIALY...
I need a translator who translate Tamil to English. There are a billion sites in Tamil for 70 millions Tamils. But there are just 7 sites in English about Tamil Eelam. wft.
http://www.tamileelamonline.com
Need help...
"The Government has been saying for a long time that there were only about 70,000 people inside the no fire zone," said Gordon Weiss, the United Nations spokesman in Sri Lanka. "That was clearly wrong."
THEY ARE BORN LIARS...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6AoL4WxHV0
CHECK OUT THE LYRICS....GREAT STUFF...
KILL ZONE IS BETTER THAN IDP CAMPS!!!We have no food to eat. Compared to this, in some ways the living conditions in the rebel areas were better. In Vanni there is a shortage of food but still we managed to eat. Here I stayed under the trees for the whole night along with my children. The toilets are not in good condition."
UN is such waste of time, they have budget estimated at $4.19 billion dollors. can't do any shit right. Worse then the fat cats. How can these people watch a genocide ? sit tight all this time.
m.g.k. yes thats right you can add that the Army and pra military group are checking on these people picking chosing as whoe ever they wish to satisfy their blood thurst.
All these singalavan pretenting of helping out to tamils is only for the media. becuasde they know camera is present. We know what thes sin'hales are like from interacting here in the blog.
FF... UN is useless!!
SINHALESE PEOPLE EVEN PRAY TO OUR HINDU GODS!!! CHANGING HINDU GOD NAMES TO SINGHALESE YET THEY KILL TAMILS!! THEY PRAY TO HINDU GODS BUT THEY KILL TAMILS
Badri and eelam boys,
your sun gods human tax at work.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIATYLvEPBM
u must be the most shameless diaspora on this planet
SHAMELESS SINGHALESE PRAYING TO OUR GOD BUT KILLING TAMILS...
m.g.k
1. If god exists he can not be owned by anyone.
2.y dont you watch the abow vid and desid who kill who. tamil kill tamils.
LTTE - Leading Tamils To Extinction(OaOA)
The Security Council urged Sri Lanka on Friday to cooperate with a U.N. humanitarian mission..
according to informed sources Indian congress and dmk are in total panic. all of the mp from tamil nadu, including couple of ministers like chidambaram stand to loose their jobs very soon.
members from both camps also sense mortal danger to high level members due to an enraged general population in tamil nadu.
congress fears if anything happens to vp, india itself may face a new insurgency in the south.
congress after having secretly directed sri lankas war has now decided to call a stop until the polls close (May 13th).
Hope you diaspora donkeys are proud of what your dollars has achieved for your brothers and sisters.
Untold misery to thousands of innocent Tamils. That is your money at work, Tiger barbarians hoarding people to save their coward-asses. 100,000 people escaped when the wall was penetrated - so much for staying with the 'protectors'. And then the protectors shooting the fleeing civilians.. you bastards have their blood on your hands.
Upul brother, while your dollar buys bullets for the tiger barbarians, Singalas from the south are feeding your Tamil brothers and sisters.
Tigers use rice bags to fortify bunkers, and feed porridge to the human shields.
You know the truth inside, you will pay this life or next.
Obama White House urges halt to Sri Lanka fightingSat Apr 25, 2009 1:10am BST
WASHINGTON, April 24 (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama's administration on Friday urged the warring Sri Lankan government and Tamil Tigers militant group to halt their fighting immediately and allow civilians to evacuate.
"The United States is deeply concerned about the plight of innocent civilians caught up in the conflict between the government of Sri Lanka and the Tamil Tigers, and the mounting death toll," the White House said in a statement.
"We call on both sides to stop fighting immediately and allow civilians to safely leave the combat zone," it said.
The Sri Lankan military has said more than 108,000 people have poured out of the dwindling rebel area since Monday, when troops blasted through an earth barrier the Tigers built to block movement in and out of the zone.
Diplomatic pressure over the war has boiled over this week with the U.N. Security Council, the United States, India and others demanding Sri Lanka stop its offensive and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam surrender to avert civilian casualties.
The White House urged Sri Lanka's government to stop shelling the safe zone and preventing international aid groups and media from gaining access to civilians who have escaped the fighting.
"International aid workers should have access to all sites where internally displaced persons are being registered and sheltered," the White House said. "The United States is working with international partners to attempt to care for those civilians who can be reached."
The White House called on both sides to "strictly adhere to their obligations under international humanitarian law."
"We are very concerned about reports of violations, and take these allegations very seriously," the statement said. (Reporting by David Alexander; editing by Todd Eastham)
A must see video for all you terrorist Mootans!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Benod38M9hk&feature=channel_page
NY TimesCOLOMBO, Sri Lanka — An average of 70 civilians have been killed each day since late January in fighting between the Sri Lankan government and ethnic Tamil separatists, according to the latest tally by the United Nations.
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The Sri Lankan military on Friday distributed food at refugee camps set up to the northeast of Colombo.
Despite international calls for a cease-fire, including a visit here on Friday by senior Indian officials, the government is pushing ahead with its plans to destroy the remnants of the Tamil Tigers, now confined to a narrow strip of land about four miles long off Sri Lanka’s northeast coast.
More than 100,000 civilians fled the combat zone earlier this week, but the United Nations estimates that 50,000 to 100,000 civilians remain trapped on the sandy spit of land. The assessment is based on satellite images and reports from United Nations workers in the conflict zone.
“The humanitarian conditions in the conflict area are very grim,” said Sarasi Wijueatne, a spokeswoman for the International Committee of the Red Cross, which has evacuated 11,000 sick and wounded by ferry in the past three months.
“There’s a lack of medical staff, supplies and drinking water,” she said. “The people who remain are completely reliant on humanitarian aid, and as far as we are aware no food has gone in there since the first week of April.”
Sri Lanka’s Defense Ministry said Friday that 15,000 to 20,000 civilians were caught in the conflict zone. The government, which by its own admission has underestimated the number of trapped civilians in the past, says that Tamil rebels are shelling the area and using the civilians as human shields.
Relief agencies and the United Nations blame both sides for the civilian deaths.
As the military cordon around the separatists has tightened, the rebels appear to be forcing an increasing number of civilians to take up arms, said Gordon Weiss, a United Nations spokesman in the capital, Colombo.
“They’ve been recruiting civilians to fight, handing them AK-47s,” he said. “Increasingly, they’ve been recruiting children. We hear as young as 12.”
Some 6,432 civilians, many of them children, have been killed in the past three months and 13,946 have been wounded, according to a United Nations document obtained by news agencies.
The toll was compiled by the United Nations, based on information from government doctors and its own workers, and was corroborated by the Red Cross. The tally may already be out of date. “Hundreds more civilians have been killed or wounded in recent days,” said Ms. Wijueatne, the Red Cross spokeswoman.
The sharply rising death toll worsens prospects for an eventual political reconciliation between the ethnic Sinhalese majority and the Tamil minority that has long strived for greater autonomy. The casualties will also embitter the influential and wealthy Tamils living overseas who have been major backers of the insurgency, according to Alan Keenan, an analyst for the International Crisis Group.
“The levels of anger among Tamils and the sense of humiliation — as well as a desire for revenge — are unprecedented,” Mr. Keenan said.
“The levels of anger among Tamils and the sense of humiliation — as well as a desire for revenge — are unprecedented,” Mr. Keenan said.Tamils' hatred level against racist Sinhalese are tenfold up. Even the Tamils who were sitting on the fence want to have revenge now.
By systematic genocide of Tamils, GoSL thinks that they can steal Tamil homelands and create the Sinhala settlements in Wanni and Jaffna. The indigenous peoples of Wanni and Jaffna will become minority in coming decades as what happened in East where Tamils were forced to become minority in last few decades.
Wake up call to all the Tamils. We can't no longer be peaceful Tamils.
Bhairav,
you guys are a still a primitive tribe, that can found in Amazon, bornio etc, even though some are educated thorough schools.
When the day you spare worshiping strange looking creatures, penis, dick-heads etc, as a race you will come out of violent thinking to more civilized and realistic world.
Leading Indian magazine 'The Week' has published an interesting article 'Reading Prabhakaran's mind' by Anita Pratap.
It laughs at the media hype about the 'end game for LTTE' and says it is just based on sinhalese propaganda.
It says that prabhakaran will never give up and Tigers love fighting. These setbacks are nothing for them and they are capable to carry on for atlest another 20 years.
It further says that acquring territory is one thing but retaining it for long is not possible for the army and Tigers will strike back.
Nadesan has told in another interview given last week, that the Tigers have a chain of commanders and replacements are always kept ready to take over at any given point of time. Loss of some does not affect the operational capability.
The reality is that no peace in srilanka till Eelam is achieved.
Puligalin Kural is updated till 23rd. These people are amazing.
Andare, what is your culture in fact? Such as you get some pleasure writing those disgusting stuffs ?
The White House has urged an immediate ceasefire in Sri Lanka and voiced deep concerns over alleged violations of international humanitarian law.
Who is getting trapped, I wonder...
Bhairav the diaspora donkey says:
[By systematic genocide of Tamils, GoSL thinks that they can steal Tamil homelands and create the Sinhala settlements in Wanni and Jaffna.]
Tamils are living happily in Jaffna now without the LTTE monkeys prowling the streets.
[The indigenous peoples of Wanni and Jaffna will become minority in coming decades as what happened in East where Tamils were forced to become minority in last few decades.]
Indigenous people of Sri Lanka are veddhas.
[Wake up call to all the Tamils. We can't no longer be peaceful Tamils.]
Yes! At last have some guts to stand up to the LTTE massacre of your own brothers and sisters.
INDIA vs CHINA New Delhi, Apr 25 (ANI): Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram has said that Indias response to the Sri Lankan crisis has been impacted by China which is using this issue to expand its sphere of influence in the island nation.
Chidambarams comments are important as Lankas importance for Beijing is in the sea-lanes of communication in the north Indian Ocean through which Chinese trade and energy supplies flow.
The world, including India, has called for a cessation of hostilities to enable civilians to escape from the war zone, but China is still encouraging the Lankan offensive against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
China is fishing in troubled waters. That is a lone, discordant voice among all of the global community, The Hindustan Times quoted Chidambaram, as saying.
China is acting with a clear agenda. Our policies take account of the Chinese calculations, he said.
Hi m.q.k
China & India both want to crush LTTE.
"Veeran said...
Gayan Monkey,
Why dont u shut ur stupid ass & stop farting ?
your Modayans have rekindled the fight on 80 Million tamils, u will face the consequences.
"
Puh !!!!
What consequences !!!
India is on our side (SLGO). Once all SL tamils are liberated they all on our side.
"ashokkumar2103 said...
Leading Indian magazine 'The Week' has published an interesting article 'Reading Prabhakaran's mind' by Anita Pratap.
It laughs at the media hype about the 'end game for LTTE' and says it is just based on sinhalese propaganda.
It says that prabhakaran will never give up and Tigers love fighting. These setbacks are nothing for them and they are capable to carry on for atlest another 20 years.
It further says that acquring territory is one thing but retaining it for long is not possible for the army and Tigers will strike back.
Nadesan has told in another interview given last week, that the Tigers have a chain of commanders and replacements are always kept ready to take over at any given point of time. Loss of some does not affect the operational capability.
The reality is that no peace in srilanka till Eelam is achieved.
"
Puh !!!!
It was before. When no-backbone Ranil & Chandrika were on power. SLGO has a 20 year plan to tackle insurgencies. Not like other eelam wars, tigers military power almost destroyed. 95% cadre already destroyed.
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