Now Sinhalese, Tamils, Muslims Burgers and all other races can live in harmony in Sri Lanka.

As president Mr said, there are no minorities here after,, only patriots and non patriots.

Lets protect our motherland… Sri Lanka.

Do you think Prabhakaran knows that innocent fleeing tamil people were shot by LTTE cadres?

If he knows would he stop it?

My first impression about the LTTE changed when they assassinated a number of Buddhist monks in Aranthalawa and when they attacked Sri Maha bodhiya and and Kandy. I personally experienced LTTEs brutality when I witnessed Maradana bomb blast form a couple of hundred meters. There was a gush of sand on my eyes and I fell out of my motorcycle. I had to bring a young Tamil women whose leg was half chard to accident service in Colombo. I witnessed most things there as a medical student. I can still remember how she asked me for some water, and what her eyes told us before she was taken for surgery. I met her 2 months down the line, with a leg amputated, having 3 children to care for.

Right for life comes on top of every ethics. As western humanitarian agencies assert do we need to negotiate with LTTE psychopaths? Can moderate Tamil intellectuals open their mouth in the presence of these brutal extremists? So why do we need to negotiate with them?

Some times one has to learn compassion from their own brutalities. I wonder if LTTE yet has achieved this. I would not know if the day will ever come.

As government is taking a militaristic stance to the problem, rightfully they have a huge responsibility on their shoulders to listen to the Tamil concerns and remedy this with a package which they would not feel further discriminated. These decisions should not be influenced by maniac south Indian politicians or some Diaspora who had lived abroad for donkey’s years. We have to take personnel responsibility to what had happend in 1983 riots which changed the tamil perception on sinhalese. We should not support politicians who fueled the crisis who did not act rightfuly both in terms of politicaly and militarily at the inception of the LTTE brutalities. So many sad memories have added up along the 3 decades of war futher traumatising and mistrusting each other. Representation should come from Sri Lankan Tamils whose choice is to live in Sri Lanka. Every body should have respect for life and humanity to prevent sri lanka converting to another Iraq. When further traumatized and stressed, everybody tend to act like headless chickens. For the moment lets hope that rest of the civilians be rescued with minimum damage either by government or by an impartial agency with out giving further breath to LTTE.

While you find seelans comment disgusting , I feel there is a lot of merit to his sentiments . When I was in uni two of my group mates were from jaffna and batti . They fell over them selves to find fault with each other all the time .

So I question your judgement of Theepan was the great fighter/commander . My knowledge of the LTTE commanders is minimal but I think since karuna left LTTE has been on the run . So may be , just may be he was the best military man they had and not theepan ?

DBSJ RESPONDS: I said Seelan’s comment was disgusting because he was harping about northern dominance and how as an easterner he was not interested in what was happening to northern civilians. Any person who trivialises or ignores suffering by a section of humanity for petty reasons is disgusting. You are now rushing into areas where Angels fear to tread. By the way I have never said Theepan or anyone else was the Best commander or otherwise. Please dont waste your and my time with assumptions.

You are wasting your talents by writing truthful journalism on Lanka politics and getting lambasted by idiots who dont realise your value.

Stop writing on Sri Lankan politics and start writing novels and stories which would suit your immense potential best. You may be another Leon Uris or Frederick Forsythe

It would seem that the lesser of two evils, at least in the short term is for the GoSL government to prevail.

we given autonomous councils to bodoland gorkha hill council to respect ethinic groups , But where as in case of srilanka the majority people looking Tamils with suspicious . This trend is not good DO u know The Bangladesh is bornt with Indias effort. . Remember …

“I am not worried about the opinion of the Tamil people… now we cannot think of them, not about their lives or their opinion… the more you put pressure in the north, the happier the Sinhala people will be here… Really if I starve the Tamils out, the Sinhala people will be happy.”

J.R.Jayawardene, Former President of Sri Lanka – Daily Telegraph, 11th July 1983

Have the Sinhala people changed or is just the leader that has changed?

Is JR’s dream finally coming true?

I always wonder at such statements. The Tamil Eelam as it existed during the CFA was flourishing. Everything was working. There were no “IDP” camps. There was a good exchange of commodities between the North and the South. Had the CFA gone on, perhaps there would have been an exchange of ideas as well. And with that, the Sinhalese South might have accepted the Tamil need for self-determination. Unfortunately, the Mahavamsa impulse was too strong and all hell came to break loose. Now we are back to square one.

Please write an article on Indo-Srilankan Accord of 1989 – and under the then circumstances that is what the Tamils could have hoped for. Also, what are the political-administrative possibilities for the Tamils today in Srilanka. What is your take on the India-SL Accord, then and now?

Regards

DBSJ RESPONDS: Dear Vijay, I have written many articles of such nature . I recall one for FRrontline on 10th anniversary of I-L accord. Another one I wrote was on 15th death anniversary of Rajiv Gandhi for “The Sunday Leader”. I am sure you would come across these if you google & searcg

First Who is making sure that the people who have come to the Govenrment Controlled area are not being killed by the SL’n Forces?

Out of the 100,000 came only 15,000 is being counted
After a week. To say this is a concern is an understatement.

I also know from some one who called had called directly from NFZ that they are down with chicken pox and unable to leave. The same way some people want to leave but are sick or don’t have the strength to walk even a mile.
Then there are others who have children who are in there late teens or 20′s don’t want to leave because of fear that army will kill/Rape their children.

This is why we need 3rd party to receive these people with the Army. If the army has nothing to hide why is it then the SL Gov’t is not allowing 3rd party?

GOSL & SLA should realise that most of the young people teens and early 20′s were forced recruits. Then the rest who are under 35 didn’t have any other choice other than to join LTTE. So they should look at these people differently than they look at VP or Pottu or Soosai……..

GOSL should open the door to rehabilate these young ones. It is not their fault. PLEASE DON’T KILL THEM. If GOSL kill these people then they are trying to wipe out the tamils in the name of fighting terrorism. GOSL should show us that they care. Other wise the problem is not going to go away and GOSL will be prooving to this people that VP & LTTE were right.

WHo is going to VOICE THESE to the IC/UN.

DBS I hope you can take this to world. PLEASE .
Because of VP we have come to this state.

Like Hiroshima let North & East develope form the ruins.

You know the LTTE why bother with appeals to them when you know they will be ignored . The international community is mistaken . They are dumb enough to believe having a pause will allow the civis to escape . They dont know the LTTE .

In the previous article you were pooh poohing the govts figures and stating only 4000 were released . Now you have to admit that the Govts figures are true .

By the way the one of the most touching scenes I have seen is the youtube videos of how the army is interacting feeding and playing with the Civillians . These boys have paid a horrendous price to save these people . I hope this good will created now will continue and allow Sri Lanka to heal as a nation .

My belief about MR and his brothers is that they will provide a good solution to the problem . even though this solution may be more important to the Diaspora my belief is the economic development will actually be more important to the wretched on the Wanni earth as you put it . And also security (to be free of the LTTE diktat).

I have been repeatedly asking you to throw some lights on Karuna – Pillayan factor.

We easterners, not much bothered about what is going on in the north. They are awful dominance people.

Even you glorified Theepan. I am sure you won’t do the same for a eastern fighter.

DBSJ RESPONDS:

Dear Seelan

Your regionalism is repulsive and disgusting

I write whenever possible o0n something which I think is important or what interests me. I began this blog to write mainly on non – political topics reflecting my diverse interests. But the situation in Sri Lanka is so bad that I am unable to write on other topics in the way I would like to write on

Currently it is the situation in the Wanni that is most important to me. I have always been worried about the civilan plight and warned of a humanitarian catastrophe long before all others in the media

I am therefore focusing whatever time, energy and space I have on that topic. The Karuna – Pillayan factor is less important to me now.

I have written extensively on the Karuna split and later the Pillaiyan factor. I have urged the LTTE to patch up with Karuna because letting the split widen would increase the North – east divide and not be in the interests of the Tamil people. But I was only attacked and vilified by the tiger acolytes.

Why have you forgotten the long series of articles I wrote about the Eastern province civilians being driven from place to place from Sampoor to Verugal to Vaaharai and later the Paduvaankarai displacement. How many articles would I have written about eastern displacement.

But now can I not or should I not write about Wanni displacement?

Are Northern civilians different from eastern civilians? Are they not human too?

Your nasty innuendo about Theepan was unwarranted and only exposes your closed mind.

I have written about so many people from the East both fighters and others. The brutal killing of TRO employees by the Karuna group that was ordered by Pillaiyan, the deaths of Chandranehru Ariyaratnam, Joseph Pararajasingham, Kingsley Rajanayagam, PLOTE MOhan, EPRLF Razeek,Ramanan,Kausalyan, the Kattankudi killings, Ashraff,Taraki and Nadesan the journalists etc………………………………..the list is l

Your dirty remarks smacking of regional bias are unfair.