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16 May 2007 10:21:39 GMT Report for Abuse
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whether special forces commandoes died at muhamalai/
srimal and dbs jeyaraj can confirm it |
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16 May 2007 10:25:00 GMT Report for Abuse
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whether special forces commandoes died at muhamalai/
srimal and dbs jeyaraj can confirm it
no wonder you dont have a clue, judging by the loads of crap you have spreading around |
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The Associated Press (AP) boasts of being the oldest, trusted, fastest and unbiased delivery service of global news. It has 243 bureaus in 97 countries and one of them is in Sri Lanka. It has a worldwide staff of 4,1000 journalists and two of them are Ruwan Weerakoon and Bharatha Mallawarachi, AP's Colombo-based correspondents.
These two names were picked at random from the bunch of foreign correspondents in Colombo to focus on the way journalists attached to foreign new services present the known facts. The following three examples are typical of the ?foreign correspondents?, as they prefer to call themselves.
First consider the two reports of Ruwan Weerakoon on the same incident. Readers are requested to notice the difference between the two opening paragraphs filed by the same AP writer on the same incident:
Bomb kills three passengers on bus in northern Sri Lanka
Associated Press, Mon April 23, 2007 16:58 EDT . RUWAN WEERAKOON - Associated Press Writer - COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - (AP) A bomb ripped through a passenger bus in northern Sri Lanka - on Monday, killing at least three passengers and wounding 35 others, the Defense Ministry said. The government has already ousted the insurgents from bases in eastern Sri Lanka - , and officials say they soon plan to make a push against the Tiger's heartland in the north, where the rebels run a mini-state state complete with border guards, schools and traffic police.
In third bus bombing of month, blast in northern Sri Lanka kills 3 passengers and wounds 35
Associated Press, Mon April 23, 2007 18:23 EDT . RUWAN WEERAKOON - Associated Press Writer - COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - (AP) A bomb ripped through a long-distance bus in northern Sri Lanka - late Monday, killing at least three passengers and wounding 35 in the third bombing of a civilian bus this month, the Defense Ministry said. The government, which is dominated by ethnic Sinhalese, has already ousted the Tamil Tiger insurgents from bases in eastern Sri Lanka - , and officials say they will attack the north, where the rebels run a mini-state complete with border guards, schools and traffic police.
There is, of course, the difference in time: nearly 2 hours betwen the filing of the two reports. But there is another significant change in the wording. In the second report the AP writer has gone out of his way to insert the additional clause to ?the government?. He introduces the clause: ?which is dominated by ethnic Sinhalese?.
This is a curious addition. Since the first report filed at 16.58 EDT is quite intelligible and since no meaning is lost in it, it is intriguing to know why the addition was made in the second report filed at 18.23 EDT.
The injection of ethnicity to the government would be acceptable if the AP writers in UK, for instance, report that the Blair government, ?is dominated by ethnic English?.
Nor do the AP writers focus on the ethnicity of the French, or German etc., dominating their governments despite the multiplicity of other ethnic minorities. They accept that as a legitimate factor in a democracy. But when it comes to Sri Lanka they report as if the Sinhalese have no right to be the numerically superior -- and hence the dominant -- force in the government. If the population of the Sinhalese, according to the provisional data of the last census held in 2001, is 81.89% do the AP writers expect the Sri Lankan government to be dominated by Zulus?
It is a fact of democratic norms that the majority community dominates the government in any country. But the AP writers emphasize the ethnic Sinhalese being in command of an elected government presumably on their kinky belief that there is something wrong with the Sinhala MPs representing the majority Sinhala community.
AP of course, boasts that they are unbiased and trustworthy in delivering their global news service. But AP is neither unbiased nor trustworthy in Sri Lanka because in giving an ethnic twist to a universally accepted democratic norm it is merely repeating the biased politics promoted by the anti-Sinhala propagandists. Since the AP writers in the 96 other countries do not pick on ethnicity of the majority community as something that is unacceptable or abominable it can only be concluded that the AP writers in Sri Lanka go along uncritically with the propaganda fed to them by the anti-Sinhala lobby.
Leaving this out for the moment, consider the following reports written by the other AP writer in Colombo:
Associated Press, Mon May 14, 2007 05:08 EDT . BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI - Associated Press Writer - COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - (AP) Tamil Tiger rebels attacked a group of Sri Lankan soldiers who had crossed into insurgent territory, sparking a battle that left seven guerrillas and a soldier dead, the military said Monday. The incident occurred in the Jaffna peninsula, which lies at the northern tip of Sri Lanka - and is the heartland of the island nation's 3.1 million ethnic minority Tamils, in whose name the Tigers are fighting for an independent homeland.
Tamils have faced decades of discrimination at the hands of the Sinhalese, the predominantly Buddhist ethnic group that accounts for more than 70 percent of the country's 20 million people and dominates its government and military. '
This is pure concotion and not factual. Let alone a foreign correspondent even a cub reporter knows that facts are sacred. If the facts and figures are wrong then this leads invariably to wrong conclusions. Mallawarachi's presents the figure of 3.1 million ethnic Tamils as an incontrovertible fact. Even if Mallawarachi was writing this report from the nearest pub, after downing several pints, he could not have got the figure of 3.1 million ethnic minority Tamils because on the provisional figures of the latest census the Indian Tamils consists of roughly 1.1 million and the Sri Lankan Tamil consists of 830,300. This AP writer should know that a nearly a million Tamils from the north and the east have migrated to greener pastures abroad. So from what cuckoo land did Mallawarachi pluck his figure of 3.1 million Tamils?
Another bizarre conclusion in his report states: ??.the Jaffna peninsula, which lies at the northern tip of Sri Lanka - and is the heartland of the island nation's 3.1 million ethnic minority Tamils, in whose name the Tigers are fighting for an independent homeland.? This may be news to the 1.1 million Indian Tamils who have never considered Jaffna to be their heartland. The present generation was born and bred in the central hills and the Jaffna Tamils have shunned them as low-caste ?coolies?. The first generation of indentured labour brought by the British never considered Jaffna as their heartland. They always considered Tamil Nadu as their homeland and heartland.
Obviously, neither Mallawarachi nor Weerakoon have read the laudable mission statement of AP which states: ?AP's mission is to be the essential global news network, providing distinctive news services of the highest quality, reliability and objectivity with reports that are accurate, balanced and informed.? The reports of these two correspondents fall far below every criterion mentioned in the mission statement. Their reports lack the highest quality, reliability, objectivity, accuracy, balance and informed opinion.
It may not be fair to accuse them of bias. But they certainly can be accused of abysmal ignorance. If they were better informed, or if they had bothered to check the available facts, they would not be bringing AP?s news service into disrepute.
The propagandist bias of the AP staff based in Colombo can be seen in the following statement: ?Tamils have faced decades of discrimination at the hands of the Sinhalese, the predominantly Buddhist ethnic group that accounts for more than 70 percent of the country's 20 million people and dominates its government and military. ?
The first part of this sentence ?Tamils have faced decades of discrimination at the hands of the Sinhalese? is highly contentious. Recently Radhika Coomaraswamy, UN Under Secretary for Children at War, told a BBC programme run by Zena Badawi, that the Tamils had not undergone economic discrimination.
Just to keep the AP writers informed, the first to probe this issue of discrimination was the Soulbury Commission in the pre-independent era. The thenleader of the Jaffna Tamils, G. G. Ponnambalam, had made representations for nine hours on this issue to the British Commissioners. In the end the Comissioners dismissed it as stuff and nonsense. Besides, every Tamil who cries discrimination came out of the free education (from kindergarten to the university) free health services, and the numerous social services provided equally by the ?Sinhala-dominated government?. So if there was no economic discrimination and if the Tamils got the same services of the Sinhala-dominated government where was the discrimination?
To cut short a long and complex controversy, Mallawarachi and Weerakoon have to provide evidence of the Tamils facing discrimination that the Sinhalese had not faced from colonial times. For instance, in suppressing two uprisings the ?Sinhala-dominated governments? have killed more Sinhalese than the Tamils. (The irony is also that the Tamils have killed more Tamils than all the others put together). To this day ? after 50 years of Sinhala Only ---- the government is run in English. The Sinhala youth took up arms also on the language issue. They climed that they have been deprived of their place because they were not armed with the English. The mass exodus of the Sinhalese began in 1970s when Badi-ud-din Mahamud introduced the standardization of marks which favoured mostly his community.
The duty Mallawarachi and Weerakoon is not to push the barrel of either the Sinhalese or the Tamils. Their duty is to stand by the code of the AP. If they can?t then the next best bet is to buy a trishaw and hire it to the LTTE suicide bombers for them to carry on with the indiscrimnate targeting of the Sinhala community. After all, this can?t be anything unusual to the AP correspondents in Colombo.. They are doing it already in their news reports. |
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16 May 2007 10:27:16 GMT Report for Abuse
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Srilankan1,
Read the bottom line,
Of these 71 has been against the Karuna group while 66 are against the LTTE and 10 against the EPDP.
SLA is there to ensure there are no LTTeers in the Govt controlled areas and constant cordon and search operations continue. How can there be LTTEers in Jaffna?
EPDP is the main group help SLA in Jaffna to kidnap and kill Tamil youths and 75 youths who surrendedred to HRC did so in fear of white vans.
This judge Jayawickemare is playing the record in Colombo without paying particular consideration to what happens in Jaffna. |
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16 May 2007 10:34:26 GMT Report for Abuse
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Of these 71 has been against the Karuna group while 66 are against the LTTE and 10 against the EPDP.
SLA is there to ensure there are no LTTeers in the Govt controlled areas and constant cordon and search operations continue. How can there be LTTEers in Jaffna?
until now i dint know, that karuna operates in jafna too, way to go |
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16 May 2007 10:39:52 GMT Report for Abuse
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Rasak,
In the second report the AP writer has gone out of his way to insert the additional clause to ?the government?. He introduces the clause: ?which is dominated by ethnic Sinhalese?.
In the UK all the major communities have equal chance, at lease in the statute book. All the major minorities are given 'right to self-0determination' and devolved power after having referanda in their contituencies, Scotland, Wales and N.Ireland. There is no armed conflict in the UK.
In Sri Lanka Sinhalese dominate the govt, all the armed forces and Govt services which is the result of having 'Sinhala Only' policy which was the main cause of the conflict.
After all, these AP reporters are Sinhalese and they are biased towards minorities in many of the news dispatches. AP receives constant complaints about these reporters and they have to pretend they are neutral in order to keep their highly paid job and work in their home country.
Edited By - nirupam - 16 May 2007 10:42:27 GMT |
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16 May 2007 10:44:34 GMT Report for Abuse
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In the UK all the major communities have equal chance, at lease in the statute book. All the major minorities are given 'right to self-0determination' and devolved power after having referanda in their contituencies, Scotland, Wales and N.Ireland. There is no armed conflict in the UK.
ok then why are the WE TAMILS oppose the devolution unit, lesser than a province.
isnt it contradicting, while your campaining for greate devolution, barberians also dont agree if it devolved to a more lesser unit, which is the essance of the devolution |
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16 May 2007 10:52:47 GMT Report for Abuse
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In the UK all the major communities have equal chance, at lease in the statute book. All the major minorities are given 'right to self-0determination' and devolved power after having referanda in their contituencies, Scotland, Wales and N.Ireland. There is no armed conflict in the UK.
ok then why are the WE TAMILS oppose the devolution unit, lesser than a province.
isnt it contradicting, while your campaining for greate devolution, barberians also dont agree if it devolved to a more lesser unit, which is the essance of the devolution |
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16 May 2007 10:53:09 GMT Report for Abuse
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Revy,
You are living in your dreams....
You need to realise the truth that the biggest enemy of Tamils is the LTTE.
Tamils should run as far away as possible from LTTE or destroy LTTE. |
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16 May 2007 10:56:17 GMT Report for Abuse
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In Sri Lanka Sinhalese dominate the govt, all the armed forces and Govt services which is the result of having 'Sinhala Only' policy which was the main cause of the conflict.
this clearly shows the utter ignorance of WE TAMILs
if all this happend after 'Sinhala Only' plicy, then why the hell WE TAMILS ask for 50:50 before that? |
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