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Tamil Rehabilitation Organisation(TRO) Cheif amd his wife arrested in USA
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Berty
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 20 Nov 2007 07:43:43 GMT Report for Abuse
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Flintoff (Freddie) lolz
Can you please answer this honestly?
I always answer Honestly SIR!! I do not lie !! lolz
You are/you may know or have contacts within senior members of the LTTE.
No sir..I am the senior member..
Are you still after an Eelam or something else these days? Why cant LTTE articulate
we are together with MR and his bros..decided to Screw the people..if you have a problem sir..we will give you a FREE ride on one of our newly imported White vans..
I will wait for your reply sir..lolz |
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 20 Nov 2007 07:45:30 GMT Report for Abuse
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Dr. Rajasingham Narendran
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Who is the enemy?
Who is the enemy in Sri Lanka?s ethnic conflict and civil war? To the average Tamil, the Sinhala people are the enemy. To the average Sinhalese, the Tamils are the enemy. This is the perception fostered by the politicians on the Sinhala and Tamil sides and the Tamils who bear arms against the Sri Lankan State. Is this perception accurate? At the level of the common person, whether Sinhalese or Tamil, the need to fight for their daily bread and other necessities, assumes greater importance than their ethnic, linguistic or religious identity.
The Sinhala politicians who exploited the differences between the Sinhalese and Tamils - in language, religion and culture - to drive a wedge between the two peoples, were intent on diverting the attention of the Sinhala people from their inefficiencies, ineptitude, inadequacies, corruption and self-seeking politics. Tamil politicians, by failing to avoid the trap of communal/ethnic politics, have led the Tamils to their present plight. Tamil politicians by failing to articulate the problems confronting the Tamils in a national context, rather than exclusively in an ethnic context, failed their people miserably. The inability of the Tamil politicians to reach out to the Sinhala masses and identify with their problems, while making them aware of the problems of the Tamils in the language they understood, was a historical tragedy.
?Sinhala Only? has been bad for the Sinhalese and worse for the Tamils. ?Sinhala Only? has been like the pot of water in which live turtles were to be cooked, for the Sinhalese. As the water warmed, the turtles initially enjoyed the coziness. However, as the water heated up further, they struggled until boiled to a painful death. ?Sinhala Only? has made the Sinhalese what they have become - functionally illiterate in a global context and open to manipulation by their so-called leaders. Were the Sinhala people inherently incapable of gaining proficiency in both Sinhala and English?
Did the Tamil politicians emphasize to the Tamil people the need to acquire proficiency in English and Sinhalese, while learning their Tamil better, in order to be able to deal with their fellow citizens and become more receptive to the world around them? There was a greater need for the Tamils to learn Sinhalese, than the Sinhalese to learn Tamil. Learning Sinhalese would not have made us lesser Tamils. We would have become Tamils equipped to carry on our affairs better within and outside Sri Lanka. The people in South India have acquired a fair competency in Hindi, because it was in their interest to learn it, to be able to interact socially and economically with the Hindi-speaking north. The South Indians are also learning English in increasing numbers, because of the necessity to be proficient in it. Being a Sinhalese or a Tamil extends beyond speaking the languages and into living the cultures they represent. Culture by definition is the refinement of mind, morals and taste. Statues, structures and literature from the past only point to a culture of the past and do not represent what we are at present. Can we call ourselves ?cultured? at present?
Both the Sinhalese and Tamils have been made ?frogs in the well? by their politicians, who have not hesitated to send their children abroad for an English language-based education which exposes them to the developments around the world - in politics, economics, literature and culture.
Unfortunately, the children reared by such ?immoral and unethical? parents, cannot become a better people because of their ?foreign ?education! We are a people living in a small island, who have been made to think we are bigger than we really are, in terms of our importance and relevance to the world, by our narrow minded, barbaric, cunning and short-sighted leaders.
The majority of the people being not English-literate, have not been able to comprehend the world except in terms of consumer goods, lifestyles and unattainable material expectations. We are raised by such men and women, and taught and led by such men and women. Our leaders have evolved out of this base. Could our leaders become better than we are? What our leaders in their dastardliness made us into, they have become now. No wonder we have become a nation of people being buried in our own excrement! It is important for the Sri Lankan government to adopt measures to capture the Tamils and other Tamil-speaking peoples? minds and loyalties through gestures directed at winning their confidence, political solutions directed towards meaningfully including them in governance at the national level and according them the right to ?self-rule? in areas where they are a majority.
The Sinhala misgivings and misunderstanding about the Tamils have to be systematically confronted and weeded out. The Tamils have to convince the Sinhala people of their loyalty to Sri Lanka, their respect for them as a people and interest in their welfare.
This a two-way process that has to be taken forward immediately, in the interests of Sri Lanka. If our so-called leaders are incapable of taking us on this path, we, the Sinhalese, Tamils and the Muslims have to take this path as individuals and groups. The people have to be ?Educated? to see the world as it is and understand its complexity, its beauty and its ugliness.
The people have to understand they are only one part of a very much larger whole and are not any more or any less important than the other parts. This process has to begin now. Only a country that considers every citizen a valuable asset and her most important resource can remain civilized and progress. A nation cannot be united and sovereign if the component people perceive themselves as enemies engaged in a historic mortal conflict.
(The writer, having obtained his Ph.D from the University of Guelph in Canada, was a Lecturer at the University of Peradeniya and Associate Professor at the King Faisal University in Saudi Arabia.)
Edited By - rasak - 20 Nov 2007 07:46:21 GMT |
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20 Nov 2007 07:47:19 GMT Report for Abuse
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To the average Tamil, the Sinhala people are the enemy. To the average Sinhalese, the Tamils are the enemy.
UTTER Rubbish....he is promoting Hatred..!! |
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20 Nov 2007 07:48:40 GMT Report for Abuse
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UTTER Rubbish....he is promoting Hatred..!!
man read the whole article! without taking lines out of context!
Edited By - rasak - 20 Nov 2007 07:49:16 GMT |
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20 Nov 2007 07:50:51 GMT Report for Abuse
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MarkLevinson sir,
A little bird from NZ told me that you could be one MP from St. Anthony's or one of his friends callled LPS and asked me to pass his regards.......
Thank you kindly.
Please give my regards to the 'lil bird' in NZ
Cheers
PERA
Edited By - Pera - 20 Nov 2007 08:05:21 GMT |
LankanWay
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 20 Nov 2007 07:52:53 GMT Report for Abuse
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Tamil Rehabilitation Organisation(TRO) Cheif amd his wife arrested in USA
Spelling mistake by MrBrown.
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EEELamaya
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 20 Nov 2007 07:53:39 GMT Report for Abuse
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Rasak:
Thanks for the article, buddy.
If our so-called leaders are incapable of taking us on this path, we, the Sinhalese, Tamils and the Muslims have to take this path as individuals and groups.
It is clear that the country cannot rely on the leaders. Ceylon was a model country in Asia. Then, the so-called leaders made it to Sri Lanka, somewhat unilaterally, and took it to the bottom, where it sits today.
So, as this article says, individual groups must take care of their own affairs. This is exactly what Tamils are trying to do. They are saying enough is enough... we want to go our own way!
What would Sinhalese gain by shackling Tamils in a leash called Sri Lanka? |
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 20 Nov 2007 07:53:57 GMT Report for Abuse
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FL
Why isnt anyone chanllenging/capturing the leadership? Doesnt the party rules allow it?
What choices do the UNP have? Kiriella, Tissa Attanayeke..all bunch of jokers and yesmen.
Velu destroyed the creme of UNP leaders. Ranil just buried the UNP.
Only one that have a semblance of leadership is Sajith...but I think he's under Ranils' 'kepilla'
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 20 Nov 2007 07:56:48 GMT Report for Abuse
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I only have to say 'BUSTED'
many more to come.. and first time tigers have no control over east and vulnerable in north....
by the way I am gonna start a new charity for north east tamils so please do send in money, so i can purchase some sophisticated weapons & eqpt: to tigers lol |
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