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 21 Jun 2006 17:10:40 GMT Report for Abuse
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Tarquin,
Our great literary history was destroyed in the Jaffna library by sinhala thugs....
YOU are insulting Tamils man!!
Come on man......WHAT kind of a literary history is that?
Do you think if Mr. Bin Laden decides to blow the British library, the whole English literature would be gone forever???
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 21 Jun 2006 17:13:24 GMT Report for Abuse
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Experiences of a journalist who witnessed Kilinochchi aerial attack
(LeN-June 19, 3.00 pm) In the aftermath of the Kebilthigollewa carnage on the 15th, the Air force carried out an attack on Kilinochchi. A veteran journalist who was in Kilinochchi during the attack recounted his experiences to 'Lanka e News'. We will present in his own words this experience gained for the first time by a Sri Lankan Southern journalist. We truly regret our inability to divulge his name.
' Around 6.00 in the evening, something exploded a little distance away from Kilinochchi with a deafening noise. Then the skies of Kilinochchi were filled with sounds of Kfir jets. I've never experienced aerial bombing before. The hotel I was staying Kilinochci shook with the sound of explosion. As the sound of jets came only after bombs had landed there was no way of knowing an aerial attack beforehand. Kilinochchi residents told me that during earlier attacks the sound of jets preceded sound of bombs.
But the attacks were more advanced now. Now aerial photographs are used to identify the exact location and direct bomb their using computer technology. That is why the sound of jets was heard after the bombs had exploded. So there is little chance of missing the target.
As bombs started landing our hotel owner dragged us into a bunker. They have renovated old bunkers. Poor people were still digging bunkers in the rock hard land. They too ran into bunkers. These bunkers were about 4 feet wide and 10 feet deep. People who are well off have covered them with concrete and got electricity supply as well. Even United Nations offices in Kilinochchi have built bunkers. They have drawn huge letters UN on roof tops of their offices may to prevent a bomb being dropped their accidentally.
There were about seven sorties until 6.30 in the evening.
The LTTE too had fired six anti-aircraft missiles. Though they said they were missiles I did not think so. When dusk fell we came out of our bunkers. Kilinochci residents told me that aerial attacks do not take place after dark.
Air raids began again the following day, 16th around 7.00 in the morning. There were about 5 explosions. Kilinochchi was shaken by each explosion. These attacks had taken place about 6 kilometers away from where I was staying in the Kilinochchi town. After about 30 minutes, the sorties came to an end.
The LTTE said that the Air force had dropped bombs to a jungle. But we were not shown the places. Earlier they had shown where the bombs had landed in Sampur. I too witnessed those places and even took a photograph. The crate created by bombs was about the size of small tank. Trees had got uprooted. The damage was huge.
Kilinochci attacks would have hit the targets. Otherwise the LTTE wouldn't have been so reluctant to show the places. I visited Kilinochcki to see whether there were any casualties of the bomb attacks. But there was none. It was an indication that bombs had not landed in civilian areas. Experiences of a journalist who witnessed Kilinochchi aerial attack
(LeN-June 19, 3.00 pm) In the aftermath of the Kebilthigollewa carnage on the 15th, the Air force carried out an attack on Kilinochchi. A veteran journalist who was in Kilinochchi during the attack recounted his experiences to 'Lanka e News'. We will present in his own words this experience gained for the first time by a Sri Lankan Southern journalist. We truly regret our inability to divulge his name.
' Around 6.00 in the evening, something exploded a little distance away from Kilinochchi with a deafening noise. Then the skies of Kilinochchi were filled with sounds of Kfir jets. I've never experienced aerial bombing before. The hotel I was staying Kilinochci shook with the sound of explosion. As the sound of jets came only after bombs had landed there was no way of knowing an aerial attack beforehand. Kilinochchi residents told me that during earlier attacks the sound of jets preceded sound of bombs.
But the attacks were more advanced now. Now aerial photographs are used to identify the exact location and direct bomb their using computer technology. That is why the sound of jets was heard after the bombs had exploded. So there is little chance of missing the target.
As bombs started landing our hotel owner dragged us into a bunker. They have renovated old bunkers. Poor people were still digging bunkers in the rock hard land. They too ran into bunkers. These bunkers were about 4 feet wide and 10 feet deep. People who are well off have covered them with concrete and got electricity supply as well. Even United Nations offices in Kilinochchi have built bunkers. They have drawn huge letters UN on roof tops of their offices may to prevent a bomb being dropped their accidentally.
There were about seven sorties until 6.30 in the evening.
The LTTE too had fired six anti-aircraft missiles. Though they said they were missiles I did not think so. When dusk fell we came out of our bunkers. Kilinochci residents told me that aerial attacks do not take place after dark.
Air raids began again the following day, 16th around 7.00 in the morning. There were about 5 explosions. Kilinochchi was shaken by each explosion. These attacks had taken place about 6 kilometers away from where I was staying in the Kilinochchi town. After about 30 minutes, the sorties came to an end.
The LTTE said that the Air force had dropped bombs to a jungle. But we were not shown the places. Earlier they had shown where the bombs had landed in Sampur. I too witnessed those places and even took a photograph. The crate created by bombs was about the size of small tank. Trees had got uprooted. The damage was huge.
Kilinochci attacks would have hit the targets. Otherwise the LTTE wouldn't have been so reluctant to show the places. I visited Kilinochcki to see whether there were any casualties of the bomb attacks. But there was none. It was an indication that bombs had not landed in civilian areas. I thanked god, had the bombs landed in civilian areas the destruction would be unthinkable.' |
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 21 Jun 2006 17:21:19 GMT Report for Abuse
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RAPAPOT,
Thanks for giving insights. Funny thing is world is not sticking finger not accuse the SRI LANKAN government because government had a reason to bomb after LTTE terrorist bus attack! Hurayyyyyyy!
Prabakaran having fun while poor tamils suffer. Is not that fair? LTTE terrorists kidnap poor tamil children because it is easier for them after that to brain wash. Do you see how smart these rabbits are? |
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21 Jun 2006 17:24:21 GMT Report for Abuse
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Rapa,
do they have smart bombs?????????
I mean SLAF?
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COBRA,
You are extactly correct brotha. When we are too little, somone can put something bad to our mind and make our mind cruel. THat is what exactly LTTE terrorists doing. I saw Kevin Sites interview 4 tamil cadres. Those people just going to fight just because government bombed somewhere in the village. They do not understand the reason and they do not understand why? They just go against the government because top dog Prabakaran in another country, brain washing those people using another idiot who is already brain washed |
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21 Jun 2006 17:35:23 GMT Report for Abuse
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Cobra:
A great Tamil civilization is being destroyed by a cheap third class terrorist. My heart goes to innocent children
You can sympathaize. But most of them need what ever they want, not only land, over your dead body.
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 21 Jun 2006 17:40:56 GMT Report for Abuse
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'Do they have smart bombs'
The bombs are smarter than the idi_ts that drop them. At least it explodes as supposed to. But the target depends on the idi_ts that drop them. So far the casualties are civilians. |
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LTTE pleads that aerial attacks be stopped
(LeN-June 16, 6.00 pm) The LTTE which is in a state of panic over the attacks carried out by the security forces on identified LTTE targets since yesterday have pleaded with Colombo based diplomats to exert pressure on the government to stop these attacks. Defence sources have intercepted pleas made through radio messages by Eastern Province LTTE leader Elileelan to several foreign embassies.
Air force Kfir jets had carried out several aerial sorties on identified LTTE facilities at kilinochchi and Iranamadu this morning and afternoon. It is reported that the Kilinochchi town was rocked by these attacks. However no one has been admitted to the Kilinochchi hospital. Meanwhile the LTTE had said that Air force bombs had landed jungle areas. |
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I am not sure if Air force has smart bombs. But now the attacks are more precise and the bombs are more sophisticated! Like the above article on page 16 mentions the bombs are heard before the Jets!
But i know two Night Vision KFIRS are on their way from Israel very soon! Then Night Bombing will be another problem for Consti Velu (Constipated Velu)! |
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Terror-Terror, Trigger-Terror, Prabha-Terror, Tiger-Terror!
Kandiah Karunakaran, Analaitivu, Sri Lanka
The actions of Velupillai Pirabaharan, the leader of Tamil Tigers prove he is real tiger, four-footed but two of them hands. The only business he knows is killing. He killed Kalvian Kaadu Chetty, the person who named the group 'Tamil Tigers' and the original leader of the Tiger group.
Then Pirabaharan tried to kill the next leader of Tigers, Uma Maheswaran in a shoot out in India. He killed the founding members of the Tigers, Michael and Pat Kunam. Pirabaharan himself tipped off the Police about the then leaders of Tigers, Kuttimani and Thangathurai and their whereabouts. This incident led to Kuttimani and Thangathurai?s incarceration until their terrible deaths in the Welikade jail.
Pirabaharan killed all the persons he worked with before he became the leader of the Tigers. He even killed the last surviving Tiger group founding member Sabalingam who was residing in France, because Sabalingam started writing about Pirabaharan's power hungry killings.
After Pirabaharan became the leader of the Tigers, he started killing all Tamil political leaders, elected mayors, university professors and many innocent Tamils who had criticized Tigers. Pirabaharan banned all Tamil political organizations for the last twenty years and finally the international community including USA, Canada, European Union, India and Australia have banned the Tigers, mainly due to Tigers' continuous use of child soldiers and their terror activities.
Pirabaharan also killed hundreds of people who were members and supporters of Tamil political organizations. Pirabaharan killed the Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. He even killed the Sri Lankan President Premadasa who had provided helicopter loads of weapons and money to Tigers and the ministers Wijeratne, Athulath Muthali and Dissanayake.
Pirabaharan clearly knows that under any circumstances except at gunpoint, majority of Tamils won't accept his leadership. That's why he killed all other Tamil Political leaders, to become as the so-called 'Sole Leader of Tamils'.
Ramachandran a.k.a MGR, former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, a South Indian State, gave Pirabaharan more than 1.25 billion rupees in 1985. Tamils provided their support to Tigers at gunpoint only and never helped Tigers to grow to this extent. Without MGR massive financial support and Premadasa's supply of weapons and money, Tigers won't exist today.
Tigers are terror loving trigger-happy killers, created by MGR and Premadasa. Tigers' killings are severely affecting the future of Tamils since the killings created a huge political vacuum.
Most of the young people who are younger than 35 years, do not know the history of Tigers. They believe that, Tigers became so powerful, because of continuous outpouring support from majority of the Tamils,
If Tamils like Tigers, why is Greater Colombo flooded with Tamils from Tiger controlled areas? If majority of Tamils like Tigers, Tiger controlled areas should be flooded with Tamils from other areas. Why are Tamils trying to escape Tiger controlled areas, rather than migrating to Tiger controlled area?
If Tigers lift the exit pass system and allow free movement in the Tiger controlled areas, except the people on Tigers' payroll, every body else will leave Tiger controlled area. The only supporters of Tigers are that they either do not know anything about Tigers or gain benefits from Tigers.
Why are even Pirabaharan's daughter Thurga and wife Mathi Vathani living abroad, rather than in Tiger controlled areas? Why are none of the Tamil business people investing in Tiger controlled areas? Why are even farmers leaving Tiger controlled areas? Why are Tamils living abroad trying to help their relatives to leave Tiger controlled areas? In Tiger controlled areas nobody can express any political opinions or different ideas.
Only things allowed to say are those that support Tigers. No way can anyone criticize Tigers and live the next day in a Tiger controlled area. Tigers that do not care about human lives will never understand even the basics of human rights. Even the hardcore Tiger supporters are not willing to relocate to Tiger controlled areas.
Majority of the Tamil refugees, who claimed asylum in western countries, told the authorities that they were running away from Tigers. If majority of Tamils who live abroad support Tigers, why do they have to be threatened to collect money for Tigers as reported by the Human Rights Watch?
If majority of the Tamils who live abroad support Tigers, those Tamils would line up in front of the Tiger branch offices to drop off money. The major serious problem Tamils are facing right now is there are hundreds of very young terror loving trigger happy Tigers who know only one thing, which is killing another human. Last thirty years, Tigers killed more Tamils than any body else. Also more Tigers were killed by Pirabaharan than any body else.
Majority of Sri Lankan Tamils are patiently hoping, praying and waiting for a new young democratic political visionary as a leader. Until then, gunpoint Tiger culture and never ending killing spree by Tigers will grow and continue.
Kandiah Karunakaran could be contacted on email: my_peter_tosh@yahoo.com
Editor?s Comment:
This highly poignant, deeply touching and heart rending account by Kandiah Karunakaran from Analaitivu, one of the outer Jaffna islands, expresses most pointedly the utterly destructive features of Prabhakaran. Written by a man who evidently was educated in Tamil, his obvious limitations in English were not a barrier to express his feelings, which must truly be that of thousands of Tamils forced under the terror rule of a madman.
This heart-crushed person broke the barriers of language to communicate effectively the terror-trapped dilemma of his community. We commend his concern for the community, his guts and courage. We are sure, and it is also obvious to us, that in the horizon there is a surge developing and the waves are beginning to roll and roar and it is just a matter of time, before a kind of tsunami will hit Wanni with such force, the rule of the utterly sick man will come to an end with one hell of a wave.
We also like to make a note here that the so-called fund help for the Tigers from M G Ramachandran was a cover-up. This fund was launched in 1987 in the US by a group of Sri Lankan Tamil expatriates led by three doctors who met in Connecticut. Mr Amirthalingam who was at that time the Leader of the Opposition was present at that meeting.
It Mr Amirthalingam who carried the first contribution which included a donation of US$50,000 from a Tamil doctor, the son of a Jaffna school principal, banked it in Geneva on his way into an account that was opened in the name of Mr Ramachandran. It was into this account, funds flowed from the US.
Mr Amirthalingam who along with his wife were the earliest of Prabhakaran?s supporters, called him 'Thambi' affectionately and even encouraged him to become active in the movement from the time Mayor Alfred Duryappah was murdered near their home in Ponnalai.
True to his image, the Tigers killed him as well. Those who are familiar with the story of the Russell's Viper will understand the agony of Mrs Amirthalingam. Even if we feed the viper with milk, it is bound to strike you back with it's poison.
If the Government of Sri Lanka consider him as the leader of the Tamils and still insist on talking to him to settle the ethnic crisis, then they are only setting a viper on the Tamils.
Edited By - Rapaport - 21 Jun 2006 17:59:10 GMT |
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