1. Where did it say “Permission WILL be given only to UPFA members”? Do you have a reliable new source for this claim?

2. Well why not now?
A minister can table a bill in parliament first to be made into law. So it starts there anyway.

As I know private staff of politicians are not government/ civil servants. In anycase, I do not know if they are ready to learn Tamil or not. You will have to ask him.

#146. TCK !

Answers:
1. Permission WILL be given only to UPFA members.

2. IMF pressure… This is just a ministers decision. Not a law. Why now? How many days needed to forget this? Will Champika Ranawaka’s staff redy to learn Tamil?

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“A circular issued by the Media Centre for National Security has forbidden the use of military victories as propaganda for the elections. MCNS director said in a letter that using images of the forces in posters, cutouts in print or electronic media by any candidate is illegal. He further added that ex-service personnel could with written permission use such pictures in election.”

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“Tamil language will be made mandatory from July 1 in the State sector, Minister of Constitutional affairs and National Integration DEW Gunasekara said today. He further added that from July, Tamil will be mandatory for employment to the sector and that steps will be taken to teach those who are already employed.”

if the tamils can live in colombo and wellawatte why cant the sinhalese be resettled in these homelands , people will live together when they have to . and they will have to when they are amongst each othere . in case you are not sure go ask LKW ..

But I don’t see this happening and I am loosing hope. Some of the Sinhalese folks are continuing to heckle the Tamils to help pay for the IDP camps. And some of them are even ranting that the Tamils are always complaining and it is never enough for the Tamils.

Most of the Tamils view “caging” the IDPs in the camps as a violent criminal act. We will not participate in this crime. This is why we don’t want to give money to setup infrastructure for these camps. Sorry, no money for the toilets.

None of my relatives or friends lived in Vanni; so, I have no relatives or friends in the camps and I have nothing to gain personally from shutting down these camps.

Over the years I have enjoyed giving generously towards helping the poor folk for food, clothing etc. I am a stakeholder for peace in Sri Lanka and will not condone or contribute towards violence as a means for sorting out our conflict. There are many people like me who will definitely help generously towards feeding, clothing etc. the IDPs if you free them from the camps.

We are given many excuses here for continuing to “cage” them in these camps. It has been more than a month and there is not even a master list of people in different camps so that the family members can find each other. There is no reason for 99% of the IDPs to be in these camps. This is a crime plain and simple.

Some of us Tamils who really feel the suffering of the IDPs are writing here with our “hearts on our sleeves”, so that the Sinhalese will get it. But I don’t see any move in the direction of shutting down these IDP camps.

We want you to shut down these camps ASAP and release the IDPs so that they can go and stay with their relatives, cry, heal, and put a closure to their lost loved ones and move on. It is very important we do this.

Thanks for the list. I would like to have a read of the rest, I am planning to be in SL soonish myself. Can you email the rest through to me. My mail is ravinwic@gmail.com

why i always ask the diaspora to involve with the gov is not because i’m sad or angry that you all are fighting with the gov from abroad. there are news regarding political solution for sri lanka and based on comments made by various gov ministers, it looks as if they will involve people like devananda, sangaree and those supporting the gov. the voices of the opposition is less heard, infact a part of UNP also likes to help gov. so even if there will be a poll asking for acceptance of the solution, the gov will win easily. if you won’t stress these tamil politicians about your hopes and aspirations we might end up with a solution which you won’t accept. then the struggle will continue.

The torture story has weight since it is reported by none other than the UTH(J). But their sources are Army officers who has natural talent in making war stories.

Few circumstantial evidence suggest that he was in custody and tortured :

Considering the highly secretive nature of LTTE affairs, it was imperative to capture top leaders live to extract information regarding inland/overseas operations, cash reservoir, weapons concealed, tiger sleeper cells etc.

But the govt did not take surrenders instead they preferred to eliminate leaders outright who walked with white flag very high in the air. (too high to irritate or unnoticed ?). Or the Govt already had the key with them ?

Prabhakaran’s face had black mark below the right eye and a bump on right side.

The fingers where whitish and were not stiff .

The was mud applied over the body.

The upper head part was blown off or teared. It was not a front shot or a shell. If it was a gunshot from behind , the entry wound was not shown anywhere in none of the images.

The Govt hurriedly destroyed the body – reported.

Finally, the defence.lk cooked an appropriate story to counter UTHR (J) report.

Most probably they had him live.

DBSJ may give clear accounts. Hope.

Or will it go as an enigma wrapped in mystery ?

To answer that, do a google search for Briggs Plan in Malaya or Chinese New Villages, Malaya and you will come to realize that keeping very large groups of population in fenced camps as a counter-insurgency technique is not the invention of Sri Lanka, but of the British.

In the 1950s, the British colonial adminstration forcibly resettled more that 500,000 ( about 10% of the population of Malaya then) mostly rural farmers in fenced camps far from their original homes, and guarded them round the clock, because the British suspected them of being sympathetic to communist terrorists that were trying to overthrow the government. Those in these camps were provided with education, health, water and electricity facilities.