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US urges EU to ban LTTE
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saleemtariq
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22 May 2006 11:12:40 GMT Report for Abuse
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P007,
Just look at what US did by its might in other countries. They are always on the side of the aggressor, no different in Sri Lanka.. Why cannot US ask GoSL a simple question, ?why couldn?t you solve this problem before 983, before LTTE come into the scene?
1947-49 Greece
1950 Puerto Rico
1953 Installed Shah in Iran
1954 Guatemala because of nationalising US business, Vietnam invasion and invaded Laos and Cambodia. Subsequently Pol Pot massacred millions of Cambodians.
Not sure which year Patrick Lumumba was killed by CIA in Congo.
1961 Cuba invasion
1964 Panama to prevent the Canal being nationalised
1965 CIA assisted coup in Indonesia
1965-66Invasion of Dominican republic to get favourable election result
1973 CIA toppled democratically elected Marxist Allende in Chile
1976-92 CIA helps white aparthied govt and help rebels to attack Angola
1981-92 El Salvador
1081-90 Air to Contras in Nicaragua
1983-84 Granada invasion
1986 Air strikes on Libya to help to overthrow the Govt
1989 2000 killed in canal protection in Panama
1994 Blockade and troops to prop up Aristide in Haiti
1998 Bombed a chemical factory producing medicines in Sudan
1998 Bombed Iraq and killed 1 million troops
2003 Invaded Iraq and subsequently more than 100,000 killed.
Many times used veto in UN to support illegal regime Israel. Israel is illegally occupying Arab lands but US helps it with money and arms to suppress Palestine. The Palestinians are kept in camps and let to die. In Sri Lanka too US is supporting an extremist Government without any indication that it works to resolve the ethnic problem.
Edited By - saleemtariq - 22 May 2006 11:14:50 GM |
p007
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22 May 2006 15:11:18 GMT Report for Abuse
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Saleemtariq
True US has an apalling record when it comes to intervention in other countries. But it doesn't apply to Sri Lanka where it has adopted a basically hands-off policy.
Even now, the few tough statements issued against the LTTE cannot be considered as involvement/intervention but as a feeble attempt to impress the world that its so-called war on terror is not limited to countries that are opposed to US but to all countries where terrorists operate.
Only LTTE diehards will say US is supporting GOSL without reason. If at all, US statements warning the LTTE are too little too late. |
saleemtariq
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23 May 2006 04:30:28 GMT Report for Abuse
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P007,
so-called war on terror is not limited to countries that are opposed to US but to all countries where terrorists operate.
You must know Colonel Karuna was portrayed as a terrorist when he killed Sinhalese police and army. His wife deposited 25m rupees in a Colombo bank as reported by the Daily Mirror. SL Govt was a signatory to the UN Convention on Terrorism, thereby it undertook the responsibility of arresting anyone suspected of money laundering. Until today no police or GoSL took no action to apprehend Karuna or his wife. One has a simple question, how or where did he get the money? The US knows about this but hitherto took no condemnation or action, letting GoSL off the hook.
Another incident, ex-MP Joeph Pararajasingam was shot dead in the HSZ ,US, a supposedly champion of democracy, didn't condemn this cold blooded murder until SLN fast boat was attacked with a loss of 9 sailors, to issue a statement condemning first this boat attack and in the same report mentioned about that killing. So much for its neutrality and the respect for an MP.
How can you say US is wrong in other countries but right in the case of SL. |
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23 May 2006 05:55:41 GMT Report for Abuse
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Saleemtariq
As a Tamil diehard LTTEer hiding behind a Muslim name, for you any action/inaction unfavourable to the LTTE is partiality towards GOSL.
LTTE was banned by the US as a terrorist organisation in 1997/8. Did they take any action against the LTTE the way they were doing against Hamas or Alqaida or Taleban? Even now, they are treating the LTTE with kid gloves in the US.
If only the US went after the LTTE from the day it was banned, the way it went after other Muslim groups, Sri Lanka would be a peaceful country today with thousands of lives saved and billions worth of resources diverted to profitable economic activity. So, as far as SL is concerned, the wronged party is GOSL not LTTE which has greatly benefited by US inaction.
The moment Karuna broke away from the LTTE, he ceased to be a member of a banned terrorist organisation. Whatever organisation he subsequently formed is NOT a banned terrorist organisation. Neither US nor GOSL is under any obligation to take any action in terms of its obligation to fight terrorism. Even otherwise, what is the justification for GOSL taking action against Karuna whose organisation is not banned, while giving VIP treatment to the LTTE terrorists? |
saleemtariq
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23 May 2006 07:18:05 GMT Report for Abuse
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Abdulsalam,
Did they take any action against the LTTE the way they were doing against Hamas or Alqaida or Taleban?
As an extreme nationalist Sinhalese hiding behind a Muslim name, don't you know Hamas, Algaida and Taliban are a direct threat to US and Israel but LTTE's activities are confined to regaining Tamil rights in Sri Lanka. The supremacist SL press such as The Island and Asiatribune.com tried to blame LTTE for bombings aimed at US targets by above Muslim organisations but CIA could never link LTTE to any of them. Moreover any threat to Israel by any organisation is taken seriously by US As if aimed at itself. Even when Israel sell offensive armaments to SL, that are used directly on LTTE the latter took no action against the former.
There is a common factor in all these militant organisations that they react to the terrorism meted against oppressed communities they represent. But the underlining factor influencing US foreign policy is that its economic, strategic interests and maintenance of supremacy all over the world. LTTe has never done any action to undermine US interest nationally or internationally.
US knows very well that SL oppressed minorities for last 50 years and LTTE came into the political scene only 23 years ago. It also knows that the ethnic problem remains unresolved because of Southeren political parties and not due to any action of any of the minorities. |
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23 May 2006 22:45:39 GMT Report for Abuse
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Abdulsalaam,
In 1996 US State Department listed in its Country Report that Sri Lanka as the 2nd worst country next to Iraq as the offender of human rights and in enforced number of disappearances, yet let it continue with those barabaric acts whereas it invaded and ensured a regime change in Iraq.
When it comes to Sri Lanka ICs and US issue statements to urge it to do that and this but never take any action against it though human rights violations and CFA violations continue.
Edited By - Sintamus - 26 May 2006 03:29:58 GMT |
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