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Act now! India tells Sri Lanka
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tamilcanuck
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 10 Jul 2006 18:25:46 GMT Report for Abuse
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Mother India and Eelam Tamils
http://tinyurl.com/ehgdt
India has harboured no revenge against the Sikhs, one of whom killed Indira Gandhi, nor against the Brahmins, one of whom killed Mahatma Gandhi. It is time for Mother India and the Eelam Tamils to forget the past and move forward together. The present Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, a great Indian Sikh leader, cautioned the Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse, a Singhalese extremist wolf in sheep?s clothing, to stop killing Tamil civilians. The beleaguered Tamils will not forget that. |
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 10 Jul 2006 19:08:33 GMT Report for Abuse
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Tamilcanuck,
What is the point of posting that website. Here's a taste of a better one then.
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2004/11/10/slanka9651.htm
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE, or Tamil Tigers) use intimidation and threats to pressure Tamil families in the north and east of Sri Lanka to provide sons and daughters for military service. When families refuse, their children are sometimes abducted from their homes at night or forcibly recruited while walking to school. Parents who resist the recruitment of their children face retribution from the Tamil Tigers, including violence or detention. http://hrw.org/english/docs/2004/11/10/slanka9651.htm |
tamilcanuck
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10 Jul 2006 19:19:35 GMT Report for Abuse
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What is the point of posting that website. Here's a taste of a better one then.
Jillball,
whats the point of posting this website!
its a two way street my friend!! |
Sintamus
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10 Jul 2006 21:28:00 GMT Report for Abuse
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Jillball,
Look around Sri Lanka. Sikhs make up of just 2% of the population of India. A Sikh is the PM, Hinduism is the majority religion and Tamils make up only 7% of the population, but, a Tamil Muslim is the President. In Singapore Tamils are a mere 3.5%, Tamil is an official language and a Tamil is the President for last 7 years. Soloman Bandaranayake had to convert himself to Buddhism in order to get elected as a PM. You want others to be practical and realistic but dream about Sri Lankan voters' behaviour and preferences.
Europe is a shabby union, the survival is so uncertain, no two countries agree on any one thing.
Here and in Canadian example you are against a union. No two countries agree on any one thing, that's is the beauty, finding unity in diversity.
Minorities in SL have a right for fair treatment. If not they will ask for a fairer system of Govt and if necessary for to get it. The leaders have failed miserably during the last 5 decades to find a solution. They would have opted for either 'Provincial Councils' or diluted 'District Councils' contained in respective BC and SC Pacts. They missed the boats and the country especially Tamils are paying the price. |
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10 Jul 2006 22:25:24 GMT Report for Abuse
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Tamilcanuck,
its a two way street my friend!!
Exactly. I posted a better one to maintain the balance.. |
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Sintamus,
I am not quite sure whether you mean what you say or just make up to round up a a story.
Sikhs make up of just 2% of the population of ??.
Manmohan did not fight like a mad dog. Instead, he worked with the main party in the country and worked hard to reach the post. In Sri Lanka, Tamil politicians are much closer to the governing parties than you and me but they never wanted to work with the governments. Those who did like Kadiragamar did walked the walk, but ruthless terrorism didn?t like him being a PM.
When you talk about minorities, I suggest you mention explicitly the group you mean, because muslims, burghers and many other small minorities have been working in close partnership with the governments. If Hameed was 20 years younger, he would have become a PM. He did not have that ambition at the beginning but when he realised he had a chance, he was too late. If Ashroff was alive, he had all the signs of becoming a PM too. Choksy is a powerful figure in his party.
Soloman Bandaranayake had to convert himself to Buddhism in order to get elected as a PM.
That is again your dream pal, SWRD made his own choice. If he stayed in the UNP, he was the next senior man to take over the leadership, he did not have to swap religions. Even if he didn?t change his religion, he still had the backing of the majority even in 1956.
You want others to be practical and realistic but dream about Sri Lankan voters' behaviour and preferences.
You have make a bit more sense.
Here and in Canadian example you are against a union.
What??? I was only saying what was about to happen, not what I wished. |
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11 Jul 2006 13:31:44 GMT Report for Abuse
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Jillball,
As you say there were many from the minorities who worked with both major parties. There were ministers from the minorities but the fact remains none of them were ever allowed to reach the top. You must wonder why only in SL minorities are kept or keep themselves away. You cannot be serious in saying that only in SL minorities do not work with the major parties. You cannot blame only the minorities for those short comings the majority community must bear the biggest responsibility. SWRD was a good friend of Mr C.Sunthalingam(Oxford uni) and the former sought the advice of the later whose memmoirs serialised in the Daily Mirror revelaed that the reason why he became a Buddhist was to succeed in politics. Sinhala-Buddhist nationalism is so deep rooted that will not permit people of different ethnicity to have power. When you blame the 'mad-dogs' for the ills, you must remember 2 things. 1. Why did not SL have a minority member at the top before LTTE was formed? 2. Not all Tamils/Muslims are in the LTTE - there more outside of it than in it.
Re. Kadirkamar, he was much older than either CBK or MR and was widely tipped and predicted to become PM just after 2004 G.election but the influntial Bikkus vetoed CBK's appointment of LK. Many ppl think that it was the work of the interlligence of SLA that killed LK as no viable clue is still found in spite of many CID and CCD personnels worked on the investigation. More over the area of the assasination was cordoned off with 1000 police and helis combing the area. His house was on 24 hr surveylance , still case was brought against the suspects to test the stories of the police in the court.
Sinhala nationalism alienates the minorities. That also explains why no solution is found to the ethnic problem or in sight yet.
You people in other Western countries are not shairing your experience in educating those left behind in SL about the wisdom of finding a system of union in diversity. Federalism is one such system.
In almost all countries which have multi ethnic communities federalism seemed to have reasolved their problems.
Edited By - Sintamus - 11 Jul 2006 13:54:29 GMT |
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