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Black July `83 cannot be forgotten
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tamilcanuck
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26 Jul 2006 17:15:58 GMT Report for Abuse
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Fairplay wrote,
Mr. Rae has visited the North several times, meeting with the President to all levels of government including teaching our constitutional team about WHAT FEDERALISM IS.
yes there is even a small talk that he can run for the federal liberals. I remember Rae when he was the NDP premier. |
karnava
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26 Jul 2006 18:24:25 GMT Report for Abuse
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Athos
?The number of deaths registered during that quarter is 377. This includes natural deaths.?
Wijeyesinghe
?And again no one should forget the 66,000 killed by the LTTE and its activities?
I would advise you to read the speech made by the ex-president
http://www.satp.org/satporgtp/countries/shrilanka/document/papers/BlackJuly2004.htm
http://www.priu.gov.lk/news_update/Current_Affairs/ca200307/20030723july_83.htm
I think you are quite wrong with your conclusion. It is estimated that about 66 thousands were killed as result of the conflict. They are not all killed by the LTTE. The army, the police, the thugs have contributed to the destruction of innocent lives. When I hear that a child was killed, the last thing I want to know is if it is Sinhala or Tamil. It is child and human life is being destroyed.
Bonggo
'Even one person was killed just because he belonged to another race thats a heinous crime.
This was indeed a sad day for Sri Lanka, cannot be forgotten and should not be forgotten.' -That's how I feel.
'All Sri Lankans regardless of race, creed and colour are paying the price up to now.' - indeed
You forget the fact that all the people who died were Sri Lankans. You are building walls instead of brides. Why not send 5000 children to Tamil homes in Jaffna, Batticoloa and Tricomalee and invited the same amount children to live in Sinhala houses. The idiotic politicians don't even think of it. When there is real peace- which is of course a utopia now- and real understanding among Sinhalese and Tamils most of these opportunist politicians wouldn't have chance. There wouldn't be any terror organisation.
I'm not a Sri Lankan. I'll be the last person to live in a place where a terror organisation such as LTTE rules. But on the other hand LTTE is result of the Sri Lanka politics. If Sri Lanka had followed the Indian political system and created a federal states in Sri Lanka allowing bother major languages Sinhala and Tamil as equally recognised and along with English playing a vital role, sri Lanka would have become a united prosperous peaceful country. Two official languages and one united Sri lanka. So many innocent lives are lost, disasterous economy of the country, The racial division which is core of the ethnic conflict, could have been saved.
It is bad for any society tohave a political parties based on religions and race. Why has Paranoid nationalism become such a powerful part of mainstream political
It was also a Sri Lankan Tamil(Mr S. Rajaratnam) who was in fact born in Jaffna, who helped to create multicultural and racially harmonious society in Singapore.
The Tamil people on the Tea plantations would prefer to live among Sinhalese than among Tamils in the North. They have no access to proper schools, no proper medical care, some of them are third generation without a citizenship. Who cares ?
I am so scared about the rise of paranoid nationalism throughout the world. May Peace prevail on earth !
Edited By - karnava - 19 Sep 2006 10:56:37 GMT |
Bonggo
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27 Jul 2006 04:46:25 GMT Report for Abuse
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Nale,
I did not compare LTTE to JVP or JHU. What I said said was people (with a grouse or afflicted, oppressed or even misled) get satisfaction by looking up to such movements as their saviour. |
niranjana
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27 Jul 2006 05:30:50 GMT Report for Abuse
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In 1983 killing 13 soilders made garden path to a massacare in Sri Lanka. As Sri Lankans we did not agree at all, but you can't just think about this incident, as it was lead up to a distruction in the country, communal disturbances, racial discriminations, hate each other community. While going thro' comments of people you can imagine their anger, their attitude what a humiliate to the mankind. Will those things make solution to us. Never........ever........
More killing more hate will not a solution and it will not partly solution even if you represent your people you have to stand on them and try to do something for their betterment.
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Sintamus
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27 Jul 2006 09:10:04 GMT Report for Abuse
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Niranjana,
In 1983 killing 13 soldiers made garden path to a massacare in Sri Lanka. As Sri Lankans we did not agree at all, but you can't just think about this incident, as it was lead up to a destruction in the country, communal disturbances, racial discriminations
Commemorations of past atrocities are organized to learn from history the horrors of organized atrocities of the states. For example the following massacres in South Africa and Northern Ireland (a part of UK) were remembered every year though the problems are almost resolved. But in Sri Lanka remembarance is more important as the conditions for civilian massacres by the state still exists as it was in 1983.
1. Bloody Sunday in Ireland, UK.
On January 30, 1972, soldiers from the British Army's 1st Parachute Regiment opened fire on unarmed and peaceful civilian demonstrators in the Bogside, Derry, Ireland, near the Rossville flats, killing 13 and wounding a number of others. One wounded man later died from illness attributed to that shooting
Though the British appointed Widgery Tribunal found soldiers were not guilty of shooting dead the 13 civilians in cold blood, continued agitation and with more enquiries British government admitted that the the army opened fire without any provocation. But that is the way in cover-ups - the big lie always seems to work
2.Sharpville Massacre in South Africa
75 policemen opened fire on the peaceful marchers against Apartheid killing 69 Black South Afrcans all of whom unarmed on 26th March 1961.
This turned the history of SA upside down, prompting the ANC to take up arms for the first time.
Edited By - Sintamus - 27 Jul 2006 09:14:24 GMT |
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