Britain with Europe to take stronger position against Sri Lanka at the UN Human Rights Council
At a meeting organised by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on Monday, 25 February 2008 at the Houses of Parliament, chaired by the Foreign Minister Lord Malloch-Brown, the Minister stated that Britain with Europe will be taking a stronger position against the Government of Sri Lanka at the forthcoming UN Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva next week. This meeting will be attended by the Minister in person. Lord Malloch-Brown acknowledged that the Sri Lankan delegation would seek to maintain status quo. His Lordship further stated that they will be demanding and pressing hard for wider access by John Holmes, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Radhika Coomaraswamy UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict. They will also demand that all recommendations made by Louise Arbour, Head of UNHCR and Radhika Coomarasamy be implemented in full.
When questioned by Barry Gardiner MP the Minister confirmed that if the recommendation is to maintain a permanent UNHCR office in Sri Lanka then Britain will support such a recommendation.
The purpose of the meeting was to engage with the Tamil Diaspora and understand their perspective to the conflict in Sri Lanka that has already claimed more than 70,000 lives. The meeting was attended by Parliamentarians from the three major parties and members from the House of Lords. Mr. Gajan Ponnambalam-Tamil National Alliance elected Member of Parliament in Sri Lanka (One of the 22 of the 23 Tamil MPs) who is also the Foreign Relations Committee Secretary for that Party was also in presence and spoke as part of the community.
Minister said that all immigrant communities in the UK should know that UK Tamils are a ‘model’ for being organised so well politically and that he sometimes mentions to other such communities that they should follow the Tamil’s approach and establishment. “It is extremely important and absolutely correct for you as British citizens to organise and demand sympathy and support for your objectives from your local MPs. This is how the British democracy works. I wish the Sri Lankan democracy also worked that way. I want to register that point.”
“The British Tamils Forum has been labeled ‘terrorists’ and there had been some smear campaigns. I can draw parallel to my own experience. I have lived in the US for 21years. My wife is Irish American. We have been in the same position as you are. How do we support the change that we want in Northern Ireland while making sure that one doesn’t actually support violent acts against the British or the British Army?”
“You should be able to put hand on your heart and say that you are not contributing to arms to the LTTE but you are contributing to peace and justice. There is always a case for freedom struggle and self determination. Violence does not justify violence. I acknowledge the Norwegians who played such admirable role were wrong footed by the changes in Sri Lanka. We all believed that there was a political process on the way and there was negotiation. Election happened. Unfortunately the last government fell and we ended up with the current government in power. This government made political process secondary to military process. I have told the President, Foreign Minister and visiting Sri Lankan delegation that we do not find the political process credible or serious. You are all aware how Tony Blair tried to share the Northern Ireland experience. We feel that we really sought to push for a political negotiation as a way forward. There is no military solution to this problem.”
His Lordship stated that this meeting today has enormous importance in the message to indicate to the Sri Lankan Government via the Sri Lankan High Commissioner and her staff in London.
Lord Malloch-Brown observed that there are two core issues. Namely,
Prosecution of war and failure to enter into serious negotiation
Human Rights issues
He said that there was vicious attack by the government press of Sri Lanka, on UN Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs recently. We are going to go on pushing hard to put the political negotiation back on track. This he said will not be done from a bilateral position but by working closely with Europe, UN and the Commonwealth to push this forward. However, he further noted that expelling Sri Lanka from the Commonwealth is not that straight forward. Its not that Sri Lanka has breached election rules like the recent examples of Fiji or Pakistan, he explained.
-Britain will support political solution with major devolution of power to the Tamil areas
-Britain with its partners will take aggressive action on human rights
-Minister would take personal responsibility to ensure that Britain does not issue any defense related licenses that would facilitate the conflict
-However, Britain cannot support Independence for Tamils, Lord Malloch-Brown said as part of his concluding statement.
Other speakers included many UK Parliamentarians from all major parties, Lords, UK Local Councillors, Tamil Member of Parliament of Sri Lanka, A former Commissioner of the Commission for Racial Equality in the UK, A human rights lawyer from a reputable UK based company, members of British Tamils Forum and many other members of the Tamil community in the UK with varied backgrounds and political affiliations.
Below are extracts and quotes from a sample of such speakers:
Tamil Parliamentarian Gajan Ponnambalam
“..even though I am an elected member of parliament I cannot espouse the wishes of the vast majority due to the 6th amendment of the Sri Lankan constitution..”
He further restated contents from a memorandum that was handed over to the Minister last summer when he met the Minister as part of a Tamil National Alliance delegation. UK should make its development assistance conditional on human rights, progress in the political negotiations and implementation of the ceasefire agreement, UK should seriously consider trade and travel ban and the international community must renunciation the position that if the right to internal self determination of the Tamil people is going to be denied any further, the right to external self determination of the Tamil people will have to be inevitably recognised.
Former Commissioner of the Commission for Racial Equality in the UK–Dr Rajchandran
“…over a million Tamils fled Sri Lanka, they fled because of being discriminated in their own country…”
A practicing General Practitioner
“A political problem turned into a military problem turned into a terrorist problem. Not only are the Tamils in the North and East are suffering but also the Sinhalese in the South because the cost of living is crushing them and they cannot speak. All the Tamils want is peace and justice permanently guaranteed the same way as what a Sinhala person from South of Sri Lanka would enjoy”.
Simon Hughes MP
British Government, EU and the Commonwealth must make representation to Sri Lanka condemning the militaristic approach. Sanctions (”I use the general term sanctions”) could be a way to protest against a Sister Government not following international rules. Unfortunately Sri Lanka doesn’t value overseas involvement. However, that should not stop the international community progressing with the constitutional debate. Foreign Secretary indicated that there may be possibilities to progress the constitutional debate from outside Sri Lanka if that doesn’t come from the Presidents Office then we must sought where best within Sri Lanka can we take this in selling it to the communities within Sri Lanka. Commonwealth Secretariat could possibly be a good starting point.
Barry Gardner MP
There is systematic abuse of human rights in Sri Lanka. International community will not stand and watch such abuses without making representations through the UN Commission for human rights. The APRC (All Party Parliamentary Committee) that was to devise a political solution to the Tamil grievances was not represented by all parties.
Jeremy Corbin MP
“The way forward is through a long term UN presence in Sri Lanka”
Lord Naseby (Life Baron)
The Lord said that there are no indiscriminate aerial bombardments in Sri Lanka. I am well informed as I returned from Sri Lanka only two weeks ago. I am a trained fighter pilot. Sometimes people get killed when you bomb from the air. British Tamils Forum is not the sole representation of the Tamil Diaspora.
Joan Ryan MP
One cannot say that British Tamils Forum is not representative of the Tamil Diaspora in the UK. There were thousands and thousands of Tamil people who attended the Remembrance Day function held at the Docklands last November. “I am pleased that the Tamil community is organised this way and have engaged with the British Establishment this way”.
Susan Kramer MP
“people are constantly referred to as terrorist even though they are looking for peace…Menacing is an understatement”.
“LTTE is a complex organisation..It is cut off…to make any progress LTTE must be recognised in the process…Abrogation from the Ceasefire Agreement by the Sri Lankan Government was not incidental or accidental and the economic strangulation of Tamils by blocking of the A9 highway and yet the international community is not willing to speak…”
A leading human rights lawyer from a leading Law Firm in the UK
At independence in 1948 Sri Lankan State was entrusted with all minorities’ rights. They have abused the trust against Tamils, human rights, free speech, pluralism and denounce the demand for statehood. In 1977, long before the arms conflict ever began more than 90% of Tamils voted for an Independent State.
At the beginning of the meeting Suren Surendiran of the British Tamils Forum presented a short presentation. Through this presentation five main demands were made by the British Tamils Diaspora to HM’s Government.
INDEPENDENCE–Tamils safety and political future can only be guaranteed if the Sri Lankan state is restrained by international law. Therefore support & sponsor the Tamil’s demand for Independence, just as the Kosovon’s demand
-British Government & the International Community must EXPLICITLY state that their support for unity & territorial integrity CONDITIONAL on the Tamil people collectively being satisfied with the State’s sharing of power and its governance
-British Government must formally echo the same sentiments as the German Economic Co- operation and Development Minister Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul (e.g. EU Sanctions, Freeze all development aid, withdraw the GSP (General System of Preference) offered to SL) to bring economic pressure on GoSL to abandon the militaristic approach to a fundamentally political problem
-Creation of a ‘Safe Haven’ by enforcing a ‘No Fly Zone’ to protect the Tamil civilians (similar principles adopted to protect the Kurdish population from Iraq’s indiscriminate bombing)
-British Government sponsored EU/UN Security Council/Commonwealth resolution condemning the militaristic approach by GoSL to a fundamentally political problem, particularly condemning the indiscriminate AERIAL bombardment
[This is the text of a press release issued by the British Tamils Forum]
Thamil said,
February 27, 2008 @ 5:41 pm
Well done British Tamils Forum, also thank you for all the British parliamentarians supported and shared the Tamils sufferings in the hands of the draconian Singhalese governments bloody oppressive hands.
There is absolutely no safety for Tamils all over the island regardless of the age and gender, people are rounded up like cattle and intimidated in public places also jailed in overcrowded unhygienic conditions.
Extrajudicail killing committed by state intelligence services, roadside bombs in Tamil areas and the indiscriminate aerial bombardment are the order of the everyday, and Tamil people are living in fear every day.
This Srilankan government is fully dependent of the British and the other European countrys aid, if they want their aid they have to behave and learn about rule of law, democracy and good governance.
Otherwise western counties should impose severe sanctions and attach conditions for improvement, this has to implement without any further delay, and this would be a lesson to other rough states as well.
Dayan said,
February 27, 2008 @ 8:46 pm
Tamil Diaspora has to work hard to convince the Lord Naseby to understand the ethnic genocide in Sri Lanka. It is important to take all legal steps to bring the people who directly participate in the genocidal programme to account for the innocent civilian killings by supporting the GOSL.
Help said,
February 27, 2008 @ 9:00 pm
Who gave permission for Tamil MPs who are supposed to be representing Sri Lanka to travel to the UK to try to coax the Great British parliamentarians in what is tantamount to conspiring to commit terror and excusing even more terror. Britain can do the favour of arresting them there for perverting the cause of justice and colluding to incite terrorism, their Sri Lankan passports taken away and sent to Tamil Nadu to face war crimes.
However, finally the British Government will send the Tamils to Tamil Nadu, the Tamil homeland. Compensation for Sri Lankas Sinhalese will be discussed in Geneva in view of the more than 20 years of terror activities brought about by funding raised by Tamils overseas including those who now claim to be British citizens. Something Britain and UN will take action to end these sorts of activities. There has to be a UN office in Tamil Nadu, not Sri Lanka to help the repatriation of Tamils to their homeland. They must be helped and all those who are not happy in Sri Lanka to find happiness by setting up in Tamil Nadu.
Sri Lanka can takes no responsibility for anything that the Tamils say especially about Sri Lanka, because they as we all know have been killing and terrorising those who have been living there including killing Buddhist pilgrims and worshipers in the actual temples. Sri Lanka has had to live with horrendous events and wish these events to never happen again or at any place of worship.
The Tamil terrorists funded by those who live in Britain and other places, who claim to be Tamil Doctors and Lawyers are more dangerous then those who carry guns or bombs, because they feel they can hide overseas and not face any type of punishment. All this is going to change, and I hope those who were sending blood terror money know that they must not do this and look to the future as being Tamils from the Britain or elsewhere but not from Sri Lanka as the pain you have caused the peaceful people there has created a very larger wound that will take a lot to heal. Unfortunately something money is unable to fix.
I tell you this because soon the if Tamils do not take things seriously then this is what the Tamil community will hear –
Actually they (Tamils) hate everyone including other Tamils, what chance have they got of living anywhere in peace?
It is nice to hear that they are doing well in Britain so everyone in Britain must let them forget Sri Lanka and think instead of staying in Britain or staying in Tamil Nadu it makes sense.
Jey P said,
February 27, 2008 @ 9:13 pm
Sri Lanka is for Sri Lankans. Who gave you the right to say Tamils dont belong there but in Tamil Nadu? From the comment I take it that you are a Sinhalese. Were pray is the compensation for the villages who lose their homes from SLAF bombing? Dont even go into discussing compensation. People want their rights to be recognized. If a Government does not or is not capable of responding to this these people have an inalienable right to demand a new Government capable of respondin to their needs. Read the american Declaration of Independence. Terrorism has root causes, which have not been successfully dealt with over a long period of time. 50 years now? Now it might be too late. Time will tell whether the monster has grown too big.
Lankan said,
February 27, 2008 @ 10:18 pm
How many votes did these “MPs” from Sri Lanka get to be elected in the last election? They are not representatives of Tamils. They are just mouth pieces of LTTE terrorists.
Why doesn’t LTTE contest in the Eastern polls? Instead they are killing the candidates by using suicide bombers. It is a shame that MPs of the British paliament are even meeting with these agents of LTTE – A banned terror organization that is bleeding to its death.
Why did the Britian send troops to Iraq and Afganistan and ask Sri Lanka to surrender to terrorists? There is a democratically elected government in Sri Lanka to look after its business. We don’t need imperialists who invaded other contries to teach us human rights and how to govern. Sri Lanka is not their colony anymore!
Thamil said,
February 28, 2008 @ 12:18 am
Mr Nesby have the rights to express his views but I would like to remind you one thing, the srilankan states aerial bombardments is against it’s own people if they care about them they should take utter most care, but that is not the case, instead after all the civilian casualties government of Srilanka releasing provocative and baseless allegations against those dead people without any ground verification, either saying the children young as 3 months old killed is a LTTE member and the civilians shouldnt have lived near by LTTE, if they are living near by they will be considered as a legitimate target, they deserve death.
You would never find any condolences from the SLG’s part or any further investigation of the incident; do you think this is a responsible government? Or are you justifying the killing of the innocent lives is acceptable?
By the way Srilanka is trying to justify the killings by comparing or using the same terminology used by western military commands during their operations without going in to the depth of it, this is not acceptable every incidents happening in Iraq or Afghanistan is investigated, any body responsible for any wrong doing is punished or accounted for but unfortunately that is not the case in Srilanka.
Thamil said,
February 28, 2008 @ 12:27 am
Mr Nesby have the rights to express his views but I would like to remind you one thing, the srilankan states aerial bombardments is against it’s own people if they care about them they should take utter most care, but that is not the case, instead after all the civilian casualties government of Srilanka releasing provocative and baseless allegations against those dead people without any ground verification, either saying the children young as 3 months old killed is a LTTE member and the civilians shouldnt have lived near by LTTE, if they are living near by they will be considered as a legitimate target, they deserve death.
You would never find any condolences from the Slgs part or any further investigation of the incident; do you think this is a responsible government? Or are you justifying the killing of the innocent lives is acceptable?
By the way Srilanka is trying to justify the killings by comparing or using the same terminology used by western military commands during their operations without going in to the depth of it, this is not acceptable every incidents happening in Iraq or Afghanistan is investigated, any body responsible for any wrong doing is punished or accounted for but unfortunately that is not the case in Srilanka. The culprits are rewarded and celebrated as heroes.
KTR said,
February 28, 2008 @ 12:34 am
We have heard many such statements in the past, I don’t have any hope from this Lord or his words
Dias said,
February 28, 2008 @ 2:16 am
#3 Help does need help – lots of it!
Grow up for heavens sake – those extremists on both sides. SInhalese-Buddhist extremists must stop this nonsense that Sri Lanka is the exclusive domain of the Sinhalese, and reach out and respect Tamils as equal citizens not an iota less than the SInhalese themselves. Tamil Separatists on the other hand must stop their demands for a separate ethnic Homeland and reach in to meet the SInhalese – so together they can build a winning nation.
Ram said,
February 28, 2008 @ 2:36 am
British Tamil Forum, are these the same thugs who steel credit cards at petrol sheds and coerce expts to fund the umpteent ‘final war’ ?
Karupiah said,
February 28, 2008 @ 2:38 am
this forum doesnt see a problem with the tigers blowing up buses with civilians, must be a forum of hate !
All Tamils in Sri Lanka are hoping that the tiger terroism machine is dismantled once and for all, the tamils forum is looking to give them breathing room, shame.
harshana somapriya said,
February 28, 2008 @ 3:10 am
Rohitha Bogollagama must be sacked. He is not doing enough to educate the western countries about the real situation in Sri Lanka including why the govt. abandoned CFA.
Something so vivid in the statements by these western deplomats is their ignorance on the attrocities committed by LTTE & the fact that it is LTTE who made CFA defunct. It is clear that they are dancing to the drum beat of the vocal section of Tamil Diaspora who are directly or indirectly controlled by LTTE terorists.
neutral said,
February 28, 2008 @ 4:29 am
#3 is the typical sinhala attitude, anybody think they can live together with these kind of people?
Tamil homeland is the one and only way a head.
Dayan said,
February 28, 2008 @ 5:47 am
Comment 3#
It is a threat from a Sinhala or GOSL to the Tamil Diaspora as a whole. This type of tactics used in Sri Lanka since Independence to make the moderates to live with fear. The Tamil community of North & East, Sri Lanka are still migrating to other countries to form the Diaspora community. The freedom stuggle is an important factor in their daily lives. The Dream of Freedom is in the heart of every Tamil even if they work with the GOSL.
Watch out for GOSL terror tactics in UK,USA and Western world.
nilame said,
February 28, 2008 @ 6:07 am
Old, ugly and wringcled ,the so called lords, are you not ashamed of being duped by the Tamils? Look who you are listening to. By the way who are you to decide democracy for other countries. Indeed you can be critical of human rights violations anywhere in the world if you have the right understanding or the knowledge, but not just listening to a bunch of Tamils who are prepared to lick your boots for favours. By the way do not forget that you created divisions among the peace loving Sri Lankans and you are known as the trouble makers all around the world, not as peace makers. At least to rectify your past blunders keep away from other countries. Do you know how many times the LTTE has violated human rights of Sri Lankans, how many mothers have shed rivers of tears. Find out who is unwanted in the country. By discouraging government’s resolve you are encouraging carnage. You talk about a government change in a negative tone. For 4 years during ceasefire did the Tamils stop violence. Do not talk crap that you do not know. Get some advice from India, the regional boss.
dingiri said,
February 28, 2008 @ 6:25 am
Lord Naseby (Life Baron)
“The Lord said that there are no indiscriminate aerial bombardments in Sri Lanka. I am well informed as I returned from Sri Lanka only two weeks ago. I am a trained fighter pilot. Sometimes people get killed when you bomb from the air. British Tamils Forum is not the sole representation of the Tamil Diaspora. ”
I’m afraid I have to agree. What would be the point in wasting expensive guided bombs to bomb indiscriminately if the only intention is to harm civilians? If the SLAF indended to win the war through indiscriminate bombing it is going to cost billions. Each of these aircraft carry only about 2-4 bombs under their wings. If they are not dropped accurately on identified targets you might as well keep the aircraft in their hangers and save yourself the money. The carpet bombing that LTTE lobbyists allege can only be carried out by B-52, or B-1 type strategic bombers that can carry hundreds of bombs in their hold. Sri Lanka does not posses any such aircraft even if they wished to carpet bomb.
Some of the alleged civilian casualties are highly suspect. Take for instance the 60 killed in the “Orphanage” who were following a “first aid” course. An Orphanage in the middle of the jungle? Norwegian observers found 5 or 6 bodies of 18 – 20 year olds. Now where in the world do you find 18 – 20 year olds in orphanages? Wouldnt any 18 – 20 year old without the protection of a parent be pray to LTTE recruitment? A few months later a nother van full of “children” was bombed on their way to another “first aid course”. There surely must a lot of these “first aid courses” going on in the Vanni.
Civilians or not ,18 year olds ot 35 year olds. These deaths are equally tragic and nothing to gloat over. I’m sure most of them are decent human beings and most Sinhalese and Tamils in this forum would find themselves in the same situation were they living in the Vanni.
Its time the LTTE lobyists realise that if Tamils civilians are dying. Its because of this war. You cannot expect the Govt to sit with its hands in its pockets while the LTTE continues to shut off water to comunities, shell towns, assasinate leaders and deliberately target civilians in bus bombings and massacre rural peasants.
If the Tamils and Govt want all civilian deaths to stop They need to stop blaming the other and realise that they both need to make big compromises so the war could end. Both LTTE and Govt possitions are grossly unfair by other community and therefore untennable. We need to meet in the middle to have any chance of ending this.
LSinha said,
February 28, 2008 @ 8:08 am
Why don’t you tamils ask a piece in Britain
Sam Thambipillai said,
February 28, 2008 @ 10:07 am
I agree fully with Jeremy Corbin MP . He said “The way forward is through a long term UN presence in Sri Lanka”.
The past 60 years have shown clearly that there is absolutely no possibility at all, of any government of SriLanka, ever granting the legitimate rights of the people of North East.
Solely because the Tamils ask for their legitimate rights they are collectively being punished, murdered, raped, abducted, made to disappear, displaced and bombed.
If Britain, the former colonial power does not lead in the campaign to protect the people and bring the gross human rights violations under control, one day, Britain with the world community would bow its head in shame for not taking timely action to prevent genocide of a people.
I really admire the Foreign Minister Lord Malloch-Brown. The Minister stated that Britain with Europe will be taking a stronger position against the Government of Sri Lanka at the forthcoming UN Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva next week.
During the last council meeting Sri Lanka was given the last chance. Now the time is right for serious action because the government of Sri Lanka has proved its desire only to kill Tamils and more of them ruthlessly.
This time, the long term UN presence in Sri Lanka should be achieved to bring peace and stability.
Chris Edwards said,
February 28, 2008 @ 12:37 pm
Decent people do not bomb civilian buses and trains nor deliberately kill groups of schoolchildren as was done at Colombo Railway Station recently by a suicide bomber who was able to select her targets and thus knew well she was about to kill children.
Once again, our ignorant British Government not only permits foreign terrorists to openly espouse their lies and false propaganda (and raise funds to enable more innocent civilians to be killed) on the streets of London but then offers these terrorists it’s full support.
For the sakes of the good people of Sri Lanka it is good that they have a President who will crush these killers of innocent civilians underfoot rather than crawl to them like Tony Blair did to the IRA.
The real truth is that the British Government says it supports the ‘worldwide fight against terror’ BUT ONLY where it has it’s own interests at heart. In Iraq the target was and is oil and in Afghanistan it is the opium crop they seek to destroy rather than the Taliban. Whilst the British cared enough about what they could get out of Sri Lanka prior to it’s independence, nowadays it sees no economic benefit in supporting the Sri Lankan Presidents’ legitimate struggle against the LTTE so instead demonstrates it’s true hypocritical nature by offering support to the LTTE terrorists instead.
Once I was proud to be British – these days being British is embarrassing.
Hieth said,
February 28, 2008 @ 4:36 pm
Hallo mate Chris, I appreciate your anguish but don’t forget making peace with IRA have saved you a lot of British and Irish human lifes, it is such a shame you comparing Great Britain with a third class country in the world.
You should really understand the root cause of the problems in Srilanka, before you embark on the noble cause of commenting on a complicated crisis in public domain.
Thank you very much.
2ndClassTamil said,
February 28, 2008 @ 5:52 pm
It is said that there is a history of 22 years of aerial bombing in the north. Schools are digging trenches for the children to take cover from bombing. So, what is going on?
Maybe GoSL should allow media, including TV networks, free access to the war zones if they have nothing to hide in that black hole.
selva said,
February 28, 2008 @ 7:07 pm
British sanctions will not work because inreturn if Sri Lanka sanction the Tea where the britishers will go for the Ceylon Tea. Only option is to capture Sri Lanka again and give freedom separetely to the Tamils and Sinhalese at different times.
Suresh M said,
February 29, 2008 @ 10:06 am
Excellent job! British Tamils Forum (BTF).
You have rallied parliamentarians from all three major parties that representing the U.K. You are the role model for Tamils living in other countries like USA, Canada, Australia, Germany, France and India too.
Tamils all over the world should organize themselves and keep the pressure on Sinhala regime.
Way to go guys!!
Dinesh said,
February 29, 2008 @ 2:01 pm
If Sri Lanka ban the Tea export to UK, India will supply the Assam Tea or Dargiling Tea for competitive price. Similarly, India invited the car companies and major multinational companies to her free trade zones, following the JR Jeyawardena’s policy. At the same time, India promoted the ethnic problem to get the benifits of the Free Trade with western World. The Indian policy will continue to harbour the ethnic problem in Sri Lanka, until all the Sri Lankans including the Tamils to depend on India economically.
India misguided the Rajapaksa government to withdraw from the CFA. Also, India obstructed the full implementation of the main article of the CFA, withdrawl of Armed Forces from the North & East except Trinco Harbour.
India is happy to supply electricity to Sri Lanka or export the Tea to UK or control the fuel supply to civilians and armed forces. The cat is peacemaking between the two monkeys, Sinhala Racist and Tamil extremist.
Devinda Fernando said,
February 29, 2008 @ 4:18 pm
*** It is said that there is a history of 22 years of aerial bombing in the north. Schools are digging trenches for the children to take cover from bombing. So, what is going on? ***
2ndClassIdiot – even TamilNet does not even have the kind of Atrocities you describe…and we know if something like that were to happen they would miraculously get photos and the Exclusive story form their writers in the Wanni and Killinochchi. Where are you getting your information from? Does P. Nadesan send you Text Messages to your Cell Phone?
2ndClassTamil said,
March 3, 2008 @ 7:46 am
It is sad the link (video) I supplied along with my comment at #21 was edited out. It would have answered some of those scoundrels in the South who are hell bent on keeping the reality in the north away from the Sinhala people.