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ThinKing,

The Sinhala-Buddhist mentality is racist.

You must know in 1972 Constitution the safeguard that guaranteed to linguitic and religious minorities from discriminatory legislations are removed, I refer to Clause 29 (a nd b) of the Independent Constitution. Sinhala Only is racist and discrimatory as it puts those who speak Sinhalese above others.

Tamil official language bill ws passed in 1988, but, it has never been implemented, as confessed by the minister in charge and published in the Daily news, the reason is that there are no Tamil translaters or type writers. What good is there in an act if that is not implemented.

Don't tell us 18 years is not enough to train translaters, the will is not there.

How is that Tamils have to sign police reports writted in Sinhalese only in NE?

Those police officers are not prosecuted for not abiding by the law of the land?

How is that there are no application forms not available in Tamil. Even The Island published a news to say an upcountry Tamil driver was told in Kandy that Driving Licence Forms were not available in Tamil.

( How come Simgapre which got independence in 1957 (not 1948) have all the forms and sign boards in Tamil as well?).

remember you telling me that LTTE didnt wanted any tamil police officers in N&E. (ofcourse for there own safety!)

Those police officers are not prosecuted for not abiding by the law of the land?

So you are telling me these sinhalese police officers should learn Tamil? Wasn't this is want tamils were against in 56? Having to learn Sinhalese to work in south?

Qatar court passed death sentence on 5 LTTE killers who killed Kuruvi ? former bodyguard of Colonel Karuna
Wed, 2007-01-31 05:06
By Walter Jayawardhana

Doha, 31 January, (Asiantribune.com): Five cadres of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) were sentenced to death in the Persian Gulf oil rich capital of Doha in Qatar for murdering a Tamil political opponent by bludgeoning his head with iron rods.

The person who was murdered is said as a supporter of Colonel Karuna Karuna and for sometime one of his personal bodyguards.

The five Sri Lankan LTTE killers were sentenced to death, including one in absentia, as they were found guilty of killing the compatriot in Doha last February. Originally from Sri Lanka many of them were migrant workers in Doha.

Four of the accused were nabbed immediately after the murder, while the fifth suspect, considered the mastermind, is believed to have come to Qatar shortly before the murder and left a few days later.

Quoting legal sources a local newspaper said Qatar would ask the Sri Lanka government to extradite him. The case will be automatically directed to the appeal court.

Qatar authorities believe the murder of Sri Lankan Tamil Manokaran, 25, was a case of ?political assassination? as he was a former member of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and later probably a member of its break away faction, of Karuna, the local newspaper said.

Manoharan alias Kuruvi (Bird), a native of Eravoor, near Batticaloa in Sri Lanka?s eastern province, succumbed to his wounds seven days after he was attacked at his labor camp on Street 49 in the Industrial Area, the reports said. The breakaway group?s leader Karuna hails from the same area.

The charge-sheet said the main suspect supplied his accomplices with iron bars and face masks to carry out the crime.

The fifth suspect, who lived in the next room, supplied the group with information about the victim?s movements while the third stood guard outside his room.

?The first, second and fourth accused sneaked into Manoharan?s room and repeatedly hit him on his head with an iron rod,? the charge sheet said.

A police officer said the suspects failed to kill Manoharan outside his accommodation, so they decided to murder him inside his room.

?On the day of the incident, the unidentified suspect was monitoring the stairs to ensure that no one was around, while another one stood in the corridor.

?The others went inside the victim?s room and hit him many times on his head while he was sleeping,? the officer told the prosecution.

?Though two of his roommates woke up after the victim started to scream, they were forced to remain silent as the attackers threatened them,? the witness said.

?The attackers stopped the assault only after they thought that the victim was dead,? he said.

Iron bars, two gloves and two face masks were found in the car of the fourth suspect. The police dog, which sniffed the bars, led the investigating officials to the second suspect.

A Sri Lankan roommate of Manoharan, who was summoned as a witness, said that he saw three men, two of them near the victim?s bed and the third standing near his bed.

?I saw a man hitting the victim on his head with an iron bar. They threatened to kill me if I opened my mouth. They told me that they belonged to the Tamil Tigers and I knew they would not hesitate to kill their detractors,? he said.

The witness said that one of attackers shone the beam of a torch in his face to prevent him from seeing them.

Another roommate of the victim corroborated his statement, the police said. The medical report said Manoharan sustained bleeding in the brain and fractures as a result of the attack.

- Asian Tribune -

COLOMBO, Jan 31 (Reuters) - Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels ambushed a police bus with a roadside bomb outside a university in eastern Sri Lanka on Wednesday, killing six officers as they headed on leave, the military said.

The attack in the restive eastern district of Batticaloa came after the government vowed to wipe out the Tigers militarily, a development analysts say would open a new chapter in a two-decade civil war.

When will the east be liberated?