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De-commissioning of the LTTE a must: Kadirgamar
Monday, 1 August 2005 - 2:44 AM SL Time
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Minister of Foreign Affairs Lakshman Kadirgamar said Friday, that a lasting solution to the country`s national question was impossible until the LTTE was fully decommissioned.
Addressing a function held at Wisumpaya to mark the launch of President Chandrika Kumaratunga`s Biography `CBK`, Mr. Kadirgamar said that little or no attention had been paid on this vital issue internationally, and at the previous rounds of peace talks between the Government and the LTTE.
Referring to Thursday`s landmark decision of the IRA guerillas to lay down arms, he said that they volunteered purely for democracy and peaceful means to end the armed conflict.
'Decommissioning is very important to put arms beyond any further use. The IRA Council strongly supports peace strategy. Though they think their armed struggle was legitimate,' he said.
The Minister showcased the similarities and dissimilarities in the country`s peace strategy compared to the Northern Ireland problem, said that reality was crystal clear that armed conflicts could be solved only through negotiations, not by war.
He also said that decommissioning an armed group operating for a long time, could not be achieved overnight and therefore we had a long way to go in the process.
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jay-r
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31 Jul 2005 21:20:20 GMT Report for Abuse
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| Democracy is not in the vocabulary of the LTTE or with their sympathisers.So Kadir,de-commissioning of the LTTE will not come voluntaraly as there is no life for LTTE without arms.Threfore De-comm has to be done in some other form? |
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31 Jul 2005 21:50:28 GMT Report for Abuse
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GOOD TACTIC JVP.
THEY use a tamil born person ,now a sinhala cotti traitor, to oppose the makaals.
How much did he cost to the JVP party ??...
Ltte decommissioned as that we will rebecome the slaves of /s/l/a/ who continue to harass and provocate fishermen and sellers.
No thanks ,Kadir rest in your side, i suggest you to never hope to return in your place of birth. Because you will have only ennemies.
I think if Kadir is sincere and honest he should present himself in a presidential tour in his place of birth, we will see if he represents his tamils... |
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31 Jul 2005 22:55:22 GMT Report for Abuse
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Sri Lankan Minister for Foreign Affairs Mr. Lakshman Kadirgamar says 'Decommissioning is very important to put arms beyond any further use. The IRA Council strongly supports peace strategy. Though they think their armed struggle was legitimate'.
When the Sri Lankan government reaches out to the Tigers to the extent the British government reached out to the IRA, then Mr. Kadirgamar has the authority to express the above view. Not until then.
Besides, there is no indication that the British would be safer after IRA lays down arms. Terrorists have just taken a different form in Britain, as we saw through the recent bombings. The British now have an enemy they know less about than they did about the IRA. The British need to question themselves and cure themselves of any unjust colonialism. Likewise the Sri Lankan government. Until then their return karma will continue to take different forms.
As a Tamil, Mr. Kadirgamar himself needs to express his 'advice' in Logical Administrative language and not in Political language. Only Sinhalese have the right to express political statements without logical analyses, on behalf of Sinhalese. Otherwise Mr. Kadirgamar needs to publicly renounce himself as a Tamil and declare that he is a Sinhalese through adoption. I came across such a person amongst the Tigers.
Gaja Lakshmi Paramasivam from Australia |
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31 Jul 2005 23:31:12 GMT Report for Abuse
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Gaja Lakshmi,
Could you pleas tell us the issues which discriminated Tamils and if they still exist as they were now and any attempt had been made to eliminate those discriminations by the GOSL over the last 30 years. Then we can discuss any similarity if so to the IRA laying down arms with Kadirgamar's request to LTTE rather than you opposing him just being a LTTE sympathizer despite their brutality, human rights violation ,assassination of unarmed political opponents, intellectuals and child abduction. We are also aware of the facts the war had caused many suffering to innocent Tamil lives of the North and East by the tactics of the SLF.
Thank you. |
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31 Jul 2005 23:52:14 GMT Report for Abuse
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Thank you Magha for responding.
As for the issues that Tamils feel discriminated against, they are no longer in the same form as they were before the war. Right now the major issue that majority Tamil relate to is through Tsunami Reconstruction especially through use of foreign funds. Tamils feel that they are not getting government controlled funds on the same basis as the Sinhalese. This was demonstrated by the restrictions placed on International dignitaries visiting the East where the damage was far greater than in the South. If your government has actually used the merit basis in education, they would have no difficulty extending it to the current Tsunami activities which could be assessed on project basis, using needs and merit.
As for the Tiger weaknesses, you as a Sinhalese are driven by media reports. I as a Tamil am driven by what I know from within. The weaknesses you see may be strengths to me. What I consider to be weaknesses, I try to remove and cure in my own way. I never support the Tigers blindly to put down the Sinhalese. By the same token I do not criticize the Sinhalese by blindly following media reports. I usually start with the statements made by the other side, as I have done with Mr. Kadirgamar.
Gaja Lakshmi Paramasivam from Australia |
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1 Aug 2005 00:28:33 GMT Report for Abuse
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Dear all,
Kadirgamar was hailed as the saviour of tne Nation by almost all sinhalese when he sought proscription of
LTTE in the western countries.
Everyone especially all sinhalese respect him for his education and other abilities( not knowing very much ).
When it comes to a Presidential candidate NOT A SOUL is prepared to commission him as a candidate to the least expectation.
Why is he trying to appease the ungrateful?. As I said before, He has just extended the club activities under the auspices of CBK. He does not expect anymore,because he knows the mentality of the sinhalese may it be from his own echelon,his friends JVP OR ANY COMMONER.
Mr.Kadirgamar enjoy your perks and privileges to the maximum.Don't worry we will beg,borrow or steal and keep you happy.Please make sure that you draw the attention of mass media in sri lanka very often. |
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1 Aug 2005 03:37:17 GMT Report for Abuse
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Gaja Lakshmi,
Thank you. I understood from your reply that the discriminations which were the initial reason for the Tamil separatist movement does not exist any longer . So significant progress had been made in this society unknown to the western world that Tamils are not being discriminated in Sri Lanka any more. So it shows that GOSL had done significant amount of work as the British Government to bring a solution to this country.
Tsunami was an unforeseen event. The suspicion about the Tsunami AIDS going in to the hands of LTTE by the Singhalese public was the fear that it could have been used for military purposes since LTTE has not been disarmed. If LTTE had been disarmed then what fear would the general public have ? The Tamils of North and East would have been easily benefited by now since Singhalese did not say not to give Tsunami AIDS to North and East BUT they were against it going through LTTE a military organization desperate to build up it's destroyed military hard wear by the Tsunami..
Kadirgamar is very right in saying that solution to the Sri Lanka's National Question is impossible until LTTE is decommissioned. Those who believe otherwise could stay funding LTTE as a militant organization continuing the Tamil misery in the North and East. |
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1 Aug 2005 03:54:38 GMT Report for Abuse
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WHEN YOU SEEK MI-26 HELICOPTERS FROM INDIA OR FROM USA
HOW CAN MR.KADIR ASK LTTE TO BE DE-COMMISSIONED?
This aged useless politician has no more brain whatsoever and he has to get retired before things turn against him t this old age. |
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1 Aug 2005 03:56:59 GMT Report for Abuse
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Mr.Fairplay,
If one gives a biased opinion then the person should not try this bogus acts of Fairplay.
There are many Sinhalese who believe that Mr. Kadirgamar is the most suitable person as the president of our country. Of course They are the highly educated intellectuals and to your absolute astonishment there are prominent Buddhist priests who think the same way too, but does not have a majority right now. But I think it is a real progress at least that we think about a person other than a Sinhalese as the president for our country. Do you have any other choice from a minority group to be nominated as the President or the Prime Minister other than Prabhakaran? Please do not ask me why not? |
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1 Aug 2005 04:10:17 GMT Report for Abuse
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Saintclair,
I am not so clear how you got your sainthood but holy father ,LTTE is still a terrorist orgarnization and Sri Lanka is a sovereign nation with a legitimate army. Failure to understand this basic truth by the Tamil Diaspora is what is causing the continous misery and the suffering of the Tamils of North and East for last 30 years and now after the Tsunami.
Your blessings are needed to disarm LTTE please listen to Kadirgamar.! |
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