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TNA: Keep Hoole out of Jaffna campus
Monday, 13 March 2006 - 3:41 AM SL Time
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The TNA on Friday warned of `dire consequences` if President Mahinda Rajapakse did not reverse his decision to appoint Prof. S. Ratnajeevan N. Hoole as Vice Chancellor of the Jaffna University.
`This is unacceptable,` Jaffna district MP M. K. Elelaventhan told the Sunday Island, demanding immediate cancellation of the appointment scheduled to take effect today. Nidarsanan, a website believed to be linked with the LTTE, BBC Thamil Oasai and MTV Tamil news bulletins reported TNA opposition to Hoole`s appointment. Thinakural, too, reported such opposition.
Hoole said, `I am making inquiries to see whether they have any valid reasons` adding he is talking to various people regarding this. Working with the Sri Lankan university system since 1996, he is senior professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Peradeniya.
Possessing a higher doctorate (DSc), Hoole had been in the US for 17 years before his return to Sri Lanka in 1996.
`I am only trying to serve my people,` he said, adding that he was recommended by the Jaffna University Council.
Elelaventhan emphasised that Hoole would not be welcomed in Jaffna. Speaking on behalf of the TNA, he acknowledged that they don`t dispute Hoole`s academic qualifications. `He is academically qualified. No one will challenge that,` he said, but accused him of being blind to the suffering of the Tamil people.
Both Hoole and his brother are intellectual `sell-outs,` he said, dismissing them as collaborators whose thinking is not in tune with the Tamils.
The MP said the University Grants Commission recommended Dr. K. Kumaravadivel, a senior professor of physics to head the highest education institution in the northern region. Kumaravadivel and K. Kandasamy, another professor of physics, both based in Jaffna are better suited to take over the post, he said. The President should not have ignored the recommendation of the UGC, the MP said, insisting the appointment is a recipe for disaster.
UGC sources said that the respective university councils recommend names of three candidates to the UGC and the UGC recommend one of them to the President.
The MP claimed there was virtual unanimous agreement in Jaffna academic circles that Kumaravadivel was the ideal candidate. `Let me make it clear. This appointment would not go unchallenged,` the 75-year-old politician warned, claiming the appointment was part of the political-military strategy to undermine the Tamil people`s struggle.
Asked whether the LTTE would oppose the appointment, he said, `definitely`. `They are anti-Tamil, anti-LTTE,` he said, expressing the belief that the President would not aggravate the Jaffna situation by sending a collaborator there.
This comes in the backdrop of Jaffna Security Forces Commander Major. General G. A. Chandrasiri seeking to crush legitimate student protests in the peninsula, he alleged.
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AnuD
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12 Mar 2006 22:32:24 GMT Report for Abuse
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Is hoole not a tamil ?.
Can some one enlighten me ? |
Kumara741
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12 Mar 2006 23:06:16 GMT Report for Abuse
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| Hoole is a Tamil. But for a Jaffna man ' If he is not our people ', he will be kicked out. Mr. Hoole has better education than TNA MP. He is educated in US. That's the problem. Mr. M.K. E does not understand that children of tiger cheif, SP are all studying in Western countries. What a shame!!! Wake up Jaffna, this is not the way to build unity amoung Tamils..... OOOle |
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13 Mar 2006 00:08:42 GMT Report for Abuse
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YES, THE GOSL SHOULD NOT APPOINT WHOME THEY TRUST, THEY MUST APPOINT WHO I WANT, THAT WAY MY FUNDING IS SMOOTHER. I DONT LIKE ANY FREE THINKING TAMILS IN MY EELAM. FREE THINKING TAMILS LIVE IN THE SINHALA NATION, OBIDIENT TAMILS LIVE IN MY NATION. (I GENERALLY GET RID OF FREE THINKING TAMILS, PREFER OBIDIENT ONES, SLAVES EVEN BETTER.)
I AM THE ALPHA AND THE OMEGA OF INTELLIGENCE, ANY ONE DISPUTING THAT, IS NOT IN TUNE AND IS AN INTELLECTUAL 'SELL-OUT'.
(p.s.- my children studying and enjoying in europe are not intellectual 'sell-outs', i'm not intellectual 'sell-out') |
MaKaSo
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13 Mar 2006 00:25:31 GMT Report for Abuse
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| Simple solution...appoint Thamil Selva as VC and shoot the other professors :) |
tamilcanuck
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13 Mar 2006 01:34:25 GMT Report for Abuse
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If this Hoole is connected with R. Hoole then i guess TNA has a point. quiz time before i call it a night so how many sinhalese know who R. Hoole is and about his activities.
answer tomorrow. |
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13 Mar 2006 03:43:23 GMT Report for Abuse
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TamilCanuk,
Not many Sinhalese and not many tamils even know who Rajan Hoole is. But both Sinhala extremists and Tamil extremists know him well as the co-author of Broken Palmyrah along with Rajini Thiranagama who was brutally killed by LTTE. Both of these extremists groups hate Rajan Hoole and others for uncovering the bitter truth. In that sense both LTTE and JHU are in the same boat. |
MaKaSo
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13 Mar 2006 03:51:51 GMT Report for Abuse
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Dayapala: Welcome to the forum....
'In that sense both LTTE and JHU are in the same boat.'
What has lead you to write about JHU here?
Did you miss the ship?? |
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13 Mar 2006 05:02:10 GMT Report for Abuse
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As far as I know Rajan Hoole is one of the strongest advocates of Christianity in Sri Lanka.
So naturally I expect Waruna to enter the thread and give some comments on Hoole. |
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13 Mar 2006 05:13:21 GMT Report for Abuse
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MaKaSo,
LTTE, JHU and JVP are always on the same boat.
Don't you find strange that LTTE, which had killed thousands, had not killed even a single JHUer or JVPer?
Why my dear why?
Don't you find strange that LTTE brining some catalogues and mine lamps to the Katunayake Airport in their luggage from Dubai? Why cannot they simply smuggle them through other channels? Why do they want to expose the info their arms to the SLA and SLAF officers at the airport?
Haven't you seen how JVP and JHU immediately jumped the gun by this event?
To LTTE that daily smuggles tons and tons of arms what few catalogues can add? (you and me too can download them from Internet)
Have not you ever notices that LTTE, and JHU/JVP very conveniently give ammunition to each other?
JHU and JVP are the instruments LTTE uses to achieve their objectives in the South.
LTTE?s objective is to create a hatred between Tamils and Sinhalese, so they can easily show the world that these two communities can never live together, so give us a separate land. By every one of their moves JHU and JVP make it easy for LTTE to achieve this objective. |
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