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SLMM blames Sri Lanka Government
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MarkLevinson
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 18 Jun 2006 13:03:35 GMT Report for Abuse
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Berty,
Nothing fancy like Imperial, simply could not afford it!! Though I know some guys from there mostly PhD students....guess I'm too old to KNOW your son :-)
What? I am not going with Kamani...gosh hope TCK is not around!!!
anyway gotta go catch you later guys and girls,
Forest,
Don't step out.. I am coming to Angel shop and Ilford, got to buy some Rathu Loonu.....if there are some baby bana flowers left... I'll let you know LOL :-)
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18 Jun 2006 13:06:04 GMT Report for Abuse
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Hey Captain My Captain,
You owe LTTE Rs. 160,000....
Pls pay bfore you get a red notice LOL
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18 Jun 2006 13:09:47 GMT Report for Abuse
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ML,
Next time, saturday or sunday only! when you go to Angel shop in Ilford, let me know. I can go there as well and then we can have a chat about the grave situation in SL! |
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18 Jun 2006 13:27:17 GMT Report for Abuse
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Sirisanga,
sound so confused in here.. Firstly SLLM is not Norway,please update your self...
For you 'international community' is AnuD, Pachaya, Jillball & co... 4 your info. SLLM is the IC when it comes to SL. which scool was that SACK
Your confusion doesn't warrant a reply the way you wrote it. International community is a term that is well understood, your explanations may only satisfy you byut don't make any sense.
Norway is the key factor in both but in Eric's behaviour as well as SLMM's press releases at times undermine the intelligence of the Sri lankans. It is just a matter of fitting the mediators in the right frame.Otherwise the peace process may not go anywhere, which will be sad. |
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18 Jun 2006 13:28:06 GMT Report for Abuse
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Sinthamus,
About what you said, yes, unjust laws should be challenged and must be disobeyed! You are right about that! I would be the first one to do that, believe me! However, the language act has been changed for a loooooooong time! Sinhala and tamil are equal and official and national languages. About implementation, it is upto all parties to implement anything by co-operation.
About majority govt. passing unjust laws, that is why federal system/devolution has been suggested for the NE, to address these very concerns of the tamil people living there.
About the rule of law, everyone must go by, at least by the substence of the rule of law. The law is the last resort and like I said both the redeemer and the saviour. No matter how important someone thinks they are, how great they are, they cannot get away breaking the rule of law. They might think that they can, but in the end, the law will catch up with them. The law, in most ways, is the only resort of the powerless against the powerful.
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18 Jun 2006 13:35:49 GMT Report for Abuse
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Ariyalai_sb,
take a look at the official media site
http://www.slbc.lk
Good point but two other points..
1. The first in the schedule tables is the tamil service and 2. What do the tamils who work at the 'Tamil Service' do there? Why haven't they noticed it? |
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 18 Jun 2006 13:47:39 GMT Report for Abuse
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Forest,
I agree with your observations except on About implementation, it is upto all parties to implement anything by co-operation.
It's the duty of the Govt which passed the laws to implement it, otherwise having a law is as bad as not having it at all.
The reason given by the minister responsible for not implementing the Tamil Official language act is that there aren't Tamil translators and type-writers. He conceded that the law is in the statute book for last 18 years.
If we had this law in 1956 and implemented it we would have saved at least 70,000 lives and made this country an envy of S'pore. |
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 18 Jun 2006 14:00:08 GMT Report for Abuse
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TC/Jillball:
About the SLBC thingy, lets wait for another week. This time I wrote to Director General as well.
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18 Jun 2006 14:10:10 GMT Report for Abuse
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Sinthamus,
That is the very point I am making, the law is there and it is upto both tamils and sinhalese i.e. civil society to implement it.
Instead of implementing laws and adopting new laws and structures like federal system/devolution to address the concerns of tamil people in the NE, the LTTE has resorted to war and violence, of course as expected! So that is what I am saying that it is the LTTE which the main culprit!
At the same time, no matter what violence and counter violence and attacks and counter attacks happen between the LTTE and the SLGovt, if there are any civilian casualties by renegades of the SLA, SLN etc. the SLGovt should immediately punish the culprits concerned. |
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18 Jun 2006 14:27:05 GMT Report for Abuse
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Forest,
In your postings with points mostly agreeable you leave one without explanation or disagreeable.
I just do not understand how on earth the ordinary Tamils and Sinhalese or their civil society implement the act?
That is the very point I am making, the law is there and it is upto both tamils and sinhalese i.e. civil society to implement it.
It's the Govt that must employ translators to translate, say for example a letter written in Tamil translated to a higher Sinhalese officer to reply and translate back to sent the it to the Tamil person (public). This is not happening, how can the civil society get into the Govt office to do the work of Govt employees?
The Govt employs 120,000 soldiers and pay them regularly. Why cannot it employ say 1,200 Tamil translators? Because Tamils are dipensable, no Sinhalese voter who elects the govt ask the Govt why no Tamil translators were not employed? Tamil friends of the Govt understand Sinhalese language. |
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