Comments on: Perspectives on Politics and Prabhakaran in Sri Lanka

By: Saravanaraj

Saravanaraj — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 14:03:23 +0000

N Fernando ,
Can you please explain why our Sri Lankan army Comprise 98% Sinhalese ?
Answer to Murali & Kadiragamar.
Ask Murali about the discrimination against Tamils
Do you know Kadir lived and died as a Sinhalese then Tamil? Do you want all Tamils live and die like Kadiragamar? Why Kadir denied Primership by SLFP?

By: Thaya

Thaya — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 05:34:05 +0000

Mr. Fernando,
You are totally in illusion or brain washed by successsive sinhala politicans. Your are representing the sinhala mass in the south.

The ground reality is “Genocide of tamils” simply continuing by MR & Brothers. Tamil politicians, intellectuals and journalists who let the outside world know the suffering of tamils are continuously eliminated.

Tamils never took arms to protect them when they were attacked and killed by govt supported sinhala thugs in 1958, 1977, …. and till 1983.

LTTE is a product of Sinhala state terrorism.

Time is running out to protect your unitary state. Wake up!

“Every action has an equal and oppsite reaction”

Newton’s third law.

By: One Man

One Man — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 04:17:24 +0000

It is important to note that Rajapaksa’s Power remains
in the battle field victories. Any Major debacle could be devastative ti his Regime. On the International community, This Rajapasksa clan made great strides with deceptive promises and impressions. This Regime Uses US, China, India, UK, EU, Pakistan, Russia, Israel and Iran very cleverly for its ethnic cleansing of tamils very cunningly.
It is hard to believe everyone fall for this regime.
India is making a policy suicide by supporting the party which least likely to support India’s favor. It has proven that China and Pakistan are well established in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka openly opposed in commonwealth action to rogue regime of Pakistan. China does every thing as planned and keeps a low profile. Indians are making a historical mistake which will set them back in every thing in the future by wrong policies of Supporting the wrong hand in this Island. India also has Tamil Nadu support in helping Eelam people. This would only strength the Indian feeling by Tamil Nadu people rather
will hate the Hindi dominated Central Govt of India.
Evey way you slice it, India only gain by Supporting the Eelam in SL. If not India will lose totally in Sri Lanka.
There is no other way about it. Indian Policy makers, Think for sake of your own country…..
USA has a unique part to play as well. Do not want to
Lose the Sri Lanka to China, Russia and Iran, Support Eelam people. They will never betray you. Eelam Will be a great working partner South Asia.
This is a repetition of Jeysikuru. Politically motivated.
VP will teach again the Sinhala aggressors a lesson again. Jaya weva VP.

By: Daran

Daran — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 13:00:43 +0000

Fernando is totally wrong. I lived among the sinhalese for many years and I faced the real face of sinhalese. The sad thing of is,majority of the Sinhala people don’t understand the reality. They think that people who are fighting for freedom is from another planet. Still they try to covert their angry on innocent people.

By: tulasi

tulasi — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 21:51:14 +0000

Once again, we have a spokesman (in the form of N. Fernando) for the those among the majority community who fool themselves by thinking(or even pretending!) that the problem in Sri Lanka is a terrorism problem. Wake up folks, before Sri Lanka becomes another puppet state in the world arena. By stating “there is no severe discrimination against the Tamils” the writer clearly implies that there is discrimination after all. I guess, it all depends on which side of the wall one is on. As far as the minorities are concerned, EDUCATION and EMPLOYMENT were and still are, areas where there has been blatant and instituitionalized discrimination against the Tamil-speaking minority. Mr. Fernando does not have to admit he is an extremist.

One cannot see much hope for the country when those among the majority community have this kind of distorted and myopic view of the whole situation.

There is a lot of damage-control to be done before any grass roots changes are constituted.

By: Sam Thambipillai

Sam Thambipillai — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 09:05:41 +0000

While talking of carrots,sticks and the guns, it is interesting to note what was said yesterday by president Mahinda Rajapakse in the South.

As usual he played the political game of “fooling the foolish in the South”. But this time he was also trying to take the people of North East for a comfortable ride.

He said “we will first eliminate terrorism and then grant the legitimate rights of Tamils”.

He was definitely misleading the masses into a misbelief that violence arising from the armed resistance of Tamils, which he likes to call terrorism, could only be eliminated militarily.

Rajapakse is seriosly wrong. Armed resistance violence from Tamils in the North East could only be eliminated by first stopping state terror against the people of North East and granting the legitimate right to sovereignly rule themselves.

Anything else will bring poverty to the people, bankrupcy to the country and disgrace to the island, regardless of the “Budget gimmicks”.

A Tamil proverb says “it is easy to wake up a sleeping man but is difficult when he pretends to sleep”. Rajapakse may be appearing to be snoring but he is definitely not asleep !!

By: N Fernando

N Fernando — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 15:30:48 +0000

Mr.Hariharan,
I’m a sinhalese, but not an extremist in that. I feel the ground reality in Srilanka is totally different from views of so-called non-srilankan experts. The simple fact is that the a minority cannot rule the majority in any scenario. If I come to India & with another group of Srilankans ask for a township with our own rule, would you grant that? Over the years so-called experts have complicated a simple issue. There’s no severe discrimination in SL against Tamils, there may have been some instances which in any country would be the case. Simply because of that if someone takes up arms against the majority & go on a killing spree, what do you expect the majority to do? Just keep quiet..is it? If there’s so much discrimination to an extent that you have to take up arms..how come prominent tamil figures like Muralitharan & Kadiragamar…are worshipped by all the Srilankans….Don’t twist the reality, just keep your lively hoods running..There are chain reactions due to ill-facto comments from people like you..whereas Srilankans as a nation will have to suffer..just because you wanted keep your livelihood alive. Rgds

By: surya

surya — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 13:23:26 +0000

Dear Writer
We all have to accept that Prabakaran is a
by-product from supression of Tamils by Singhalese chavunists. We can’t treat the plaque before find the cure. But what shortsighted and militaristic LTTE did is to make the Tamils much weaker position and fearful group around the world. If LTTE supporters think still they can go on with this ’suicidal’ war without finding the realities and dynamism of the 21 century it would be a disaster for the Tamils of Sri Lanka. The pity that still LTTE only rely on arms without any kind of the knowledge about world which is on the move. Look at the picture of Sri Lankan Tamils? We are reduced to dwindling numbers and scattered around the world. We have no good leaders understand the realities of the world to and can lead us.
Prabakaran’s barking to the International community and India is a stupidity of high calibre. Is this any help for our struggle to find a just solution to our problems? What we need is a soul search for why nobody want to be our friends or helping us. A man choose not to have the best safety net and accepable solution by India for his people already in 1987, today crying foul to everybody. He should never underestimate what he did for Indians and it’scoming Prime Minister.
Today Singhalese leaders been helped by the LTTE to escape to answer the atrocities commited against the Tamils. Because LTTE killed most of the capable leaders of Tamils beside committed equal cruelty against Tamils on par with the SL military. Now it’s really interesting to see what will happen in Vanni next few months. I hope in case of defeat of the LTTE, India should come back to the central stage of peace process. It’s India’s duty as a regional and coming world super power. It’s afterall help a huge way with economic progress where the bulk of it coming from It’s South.

By: s.k.sundaram

s.k.sundaram — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 12:04:02 +0000

Dear Sir
I have already sent a mail to you…………I am a regular reader of your articles not for –the content is honest ,just and is the truth but to know the inside thinking and attitude of Indian government,army and it’s intellegence wing.
That way your recent articles are clearly bringing out the same to readers like me.
I kindly request you to come out more frankly so that even a common person understands the real thinking and motive of Indian government in general and in particlular of indian intellegent agents.

thanks®ds
s.k.sundaram