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LTTE fails again- Jaffna
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Ariyalai_SB
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 12 Aug 2006 12:58:21 GMT Report for Abuse
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Forest,
You haven't answered my question! |
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12 Aug 2006 12:59:42 GMT Report for Abuse
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Sintamus,
You are not the only minority I know in Sri lanka. You guys are making non-existent situations to justify your causes.
The driving licenses are not something everybody wants in Sri lanka. They may have designed them for Sinhala people , perhaps only they were the people who applied for licenses those days. But things have changed. In Birth, marriage, death Certificates, as well as in many other application forms you will find all three languages. If the license forms are not in Tamil, (which i am not sure about), it will always be included soon. Somebody has to point it out to the authorities,just like we did in slbc.lk website. If you keep finding silly points like this to justify your discrimination claims, beware, very soon you will run out of sources.
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Sinthamus,
I like to ask you again, what has the LTTE done during the past twenty two years to start a serious dialogue, not with the govt but with the different 'peoples' living in this island to promote peace?
Have they ever, I mean ever, had a dialogue or any kind of plan to promote peace during these past two decades, especially with the sinhalese?
What about a political solution which takes all the different peoples concerns into account?
What is the future plan of the LTTE to promote peace?
What is their strategy in terms of bringing relief to the tamil people who are suffering due to their violence?
What about their obligations to south asia and to the wider world to stop this two decades pointless conflict and have a long lasting peace in the island? |
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 12 Aug 2006 13:38:56 GMT Report for Abuse
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No Fresh news has come through for quite a while now from any source in SL.
I wonder whether the whole NorthEast is wiped out. I mean NOBODY at all.Like the ARIZONA D. |
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 12 Aug 2006 13:51:48 GMT Report for Abuse
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Jillboll,
What sinamus pointed out are not silly point although it is not justification to kill innocents. How can you say that a countries driving license designed only Sinhalese. which means you agree that GOSL did not mind the minorities. It's a general knowledge that you shouldn't have given to Jaffna people the same application forms used in Colombo.
If you have suffered from a headache only, you know pain of it.
I my self approached the National Youth Center in Maharagama for particular training cause 15 years before. but non of them are in Tamil Medium. NYSC was a gift of the Japan Government in 1988. you guys enjoying everything but not minorities. |
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 12 Aug 2006 13:52:54 GMT Report for Abuse
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Specialforce,
Thank you for your update. It's always gives the right picture of the current situation.
Looks like allout war in the North now. So, what's happening there? (I've already read your post in page 18)
What about the story saying that LTTE aircraft was firing rockets at Palaly? Doesn't look real to me this time.
How's the situation in Mandathivu now?
Please inform us about the current situation in the battle field.
May the triple gem bless you and the brave sons in the three forces. |
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12 Aug 2006 13:56:19 GMT Report for Abuse
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FOREST.
The fact is if you are not strong enogh, your enemy will not give you what you want. you have to take what they give. |
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12 Aug 2006 14:03:00 GMT Report for Abuse
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Jillbal,
In Birth, marriage, death Certificates, as well as in many other application forms you will find all three languages
Your hypothesis that everybody else also imagine and make accusations for the sake of it. In 2003 my daughter got married in Galleface Hotel. A sinhalese lady did the registration, we requested her to do in English. She said the registration forms are only in Sinhalese. I had no reason to suspect her words as she was recommended as being honest and good mannered. She enabled the counple took the vow in English but the registration form was in Sinhalese. If you want I can give you her name and tel no. to check. We then had to find an official translator to get it translated into English and got it stamped by the office in Colpetty.
I tell you things are much worse for Tamils than one could imagine.
You think we can get those things done, may be where you are. We are talking about just application forms that are not available in Tamil. But you people are telling us that more than 50% of Tamils live in the South. Why then the govt make those forms available in other languages. This is after 50 years of Sinhala Only and the act that made Tamil an official language in 19788. |
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Isn?t CFA violated when tigers strike? - Army Commander asks Bauer
12th August 2006 -16:35 S.L.T
If retaliation by security forces to curb the attacks carried out by tiger organization is considered as violation of ceasefire agreement, don?t the attacks carried out continuously by tiger organization against security forces harm that ceasefire agreement asked Army Commander Maj. Gen. Sarath Fonseka from Norwegian special envoy Jon Hanessen Bauer.
He had asked this question from Bauer when he visited him at the Army Head Quarters.
It is surmised that Norwegian special envoy had decided to visit Army Commander to get likely military operations against tiger organization halted as the tigers suffered heavy losses during the Mavil Aru operation. Bauer had inquired from Army Commander what actions the security forces would take regarding the present situation. Army Commander had said the operations would be continued as long as tiger terrorists would not be able to interfere in the operation of Mavil Aru anicut.
?Tigers attack ships at will. They attack security forces. Civilians are killed with mortar and artillery fire. We are not prepared to allow tigers to maintain camps at Sampur to carry out their atrocities against civilians in the area and attack security camps,? Army Commander had told Bauer.
Then Norwegian special envoy had pointed out that such attacks would violate ceasefire agreement. Army Commander had said that ceasefire agreement had ceased a long time ago. He had asked whether CFA was not violated when security forces were attacked with claymore bombs. ?Tigers attack security forces using ceasefire agreement as a shield. After the attacks they say civilians had carried out the attacks. We are not foolish enough to believe these things. We would take maximum effort to safeguard the country,? Army Commander had answered.
According to internal sources of security forces Bauer had been disappointed for not being able to fulfill the reason for his visit to Army Commander and had to leave empty handed without being unable to take anything for the tigers.
Bauer also had asked Army Commander why members of Red Cross had not been allowed to go to Muttur. He had pointed out that security forces had not allowed Red Cross to go to Mutur to meet the displaced civilians.
In response Maj. Gen. Sarath Fonseka had said security forces were unable to mediate in taking them to areas where there were clashes. He has also said members of Red Cross were not willing to go to such areas with security from the forces. Army Commander had asked when the members of Red Cross were unwilling to go with security forces how could they go to those areas. However, Norwegian special envoy Jon Hanessen Bauer had refrained from answering questions posed by Army Commander.
According to internal security sources Army Commander had visited 22nd Battalion at Trincomalee and 222nd Battalion at Kanthale on the 7th of this month as his first official visit after the suicide attempt on his life by tiger terrorists. |
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Fierce fighting in Sri Lanka kills 127 as truce appears in tatters
12/08/2006 13h53
A Sri Lankan naval rating watches over pedestrians
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COLOMBO (AFP) - Sri Lankan war planes have bombed Tiger rebel positions as the fiercest fighting since a 2002 ceasefire left at least 127 people dead, the military said, amid mounting concern for civilians.
The government said Saturday that the new fighting was undermining a Norwegian-backed peace initiative and accused the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) of seeking to return the island to full-scale war.
'The LTTE has intensified its terrorist activities to such an extent it appears that they want a full-scale confrontation,' government spokesman Keheliya Rambukwella said.
'It may appear that we are at war,' he said.
Sri Lankan war planes pounded Tamil rebel gun positions at Pooneryn near the Jaffna peninsula in the country's north with heavy shelling reported throughout the night, the defence ministry said.
Fighter planes also bombed rebel positions in Trincomalee in the northeast, sending hundreds of civilians fleeing to schools and churches while troops and rebels traded artillery fire for an hour, officials and residents said.
The fierce fighting Saturday in the north and northeast from the bombing and the clashes left at least 100 Tigers and 27 security personnel dead and another 280 on both sides wounded, military spokesman Athula Jayawardena said.
'We estimate at least 100 to 150 Tigers were killed and 200 to 250 were wounded,' Jayawardena said.
'We had our share of casualties too with three officers and 22 other rankers (non-commissioned soldiers) and two sailors killed. Eight officers and 72 other rankers were wounded. They have all been evacuated for treatment.'
A Sri Lankan military helicopter release flares as it flies over the naval base in Trincomalee
©AFP - Lakruwan Wanniarachchi
Sri Lanka's key foreign aid donors expressed serious concern over a growing humanitarian crisis stemming from the worsening ethnic conflict and called for an immediate halt to hostilities.
The United States, Japan, the European Union and Norway said they were 'deeply concerned' by the continued violence which they feared was 'seriously unraveling' the 2002 ceasefire agreement.
The Tigers and the Sri Lankan government have blamed each other for the upsurge in violence, which has claimed over 1,200 lives by official count since December, despite the February 2002 truce arranged by peacebroker Norway.
The bombings ended a brief lull in fighting between the two sides which have been pounding each other since July 26 with artillery and mortars in a bitter battle for a waterway in Trincomalee district.
International relief agencies have urged the government to allow them access to deliver aid to people most affected by the latest fighting.
The Tigers said 42,000 people have been displaced in areas under their control on top of 30,000 people who in the past two weeks had moved away from troubled areas in the northeast and sought shelter in government-held towns.
Saturday's fighting in the north lasted nearly 10 hours as the guerrillas fired heavy artillery towards military bunkers as well as the main airfield in the northern edge of the Jaffna peninsula, Jayawardena said.
An airforce Bell 212 helicopter as well as other equipment were damaged, he said. He dismissed a report on the pro-rebel tamilnet.com website that the guerrillas used an aircraft to attack the Palaly airbase on the peninsula.
A Sri Lankan military helicopter flies over the naval base in Trincomalee
©AFP - Lakruwan Wanniarchchi
'We didn't see even a kite of the Tigers,' he said, adding that the military repulsed the guerrilla offensive and carried out aerial attacks against Tiger gun positions in the north.
The guerrillas also used boats to land their fighters at Kayts near Jaffna, but army commandos attacked them, Jayawardena told reporters.
The Tiger rebels blamed the military for starting the fighting on Friday and keeping up the attacks till Saturday.
An estimated 60,000 people have been killed since the Tamil insurgency began around three decades ago.
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