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Tamils ordered to vacate lodges in Pettah
Friday, 1 June 2007 - 11:36 AM SL Time
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Tamil owners of 68 lodges in Pettah (Peaddai) Police Division in Colombo have been instructed by the Police Officer in Charge of Pettah to immediately expel around 5000 Tamil tenants from Northeast and Upcountry, currently staying in 68 lodges in Pettah, to their `native places` within 24 hours before the military is deployed to forcefully transport the inmates. Chief Inspector Jayaratne, the OIC, Thursday evening summoned the owners of the lodges on short notice to convey the warning, lodge owners told media. Tension prevails in Pettah as Tamil parliamentarians were trying to get in touch with the Sri Lankan government offiicals.
The OIC issued a 24-hour deadline to vacate tenants from Northeast and Upcountry.
People who come to Colombo from Northeast, stay in lodges. Individuals who have come for medical treatment from remote areas, individuals who were waiting to go abroad for education or employment, families on reunion staying in Colombo with their family members visiting from abroad and those who have come with military clearance are among more than 5000 Tamils who are instructed to vacate the lodges, according to lodge owners in Pettah.
Upcountry Peoples Front (UPF) and Western Province People`s Front (WPPF) parliamentarians who contacted the defence establishment in Colombo, said they have sought assurances from the government authorities that nobody would be forced to vacate or close down lodges based on their ethnic identity.
`Even those who were scheduled to leave Colombo to India on Sunday were not allowed to stay in the lodges after Friday,` a lodge owner told TamilNet.
`Are you from North, go back to Vavuniyaa. Are you from Hatton, go back to Hatton,` the OIC has told the lodge owners stating that he had clear instructions from higher authorities.
The chief inspector has given a strict warning, saying that he would not be entertaining complaints on missing persons if the lodge owners did not adhere to the instructions from the top authorities.
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Thambi
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 1 Jun 2007 04:46:02 GMT Report for Abuse
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| TAMIL NEEDS TAMIL EELAM ! FEDERAL type of solution now completely out of the question , good or bad , tamils should find own solution that will not make GoSL part of it in any form ! |
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 1 Jun 2007 04:46:34 GMT Report for Abuse
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Looks like they are slowly seperating the country on their own!!!
What about the Sinhala Tigers? |
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 1 Jun 2007 04:48:09 GMT Report for Abuse
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Sad to genuine lodgers but security is more important.
well LTTE will find sinhala cells to operate.
GOSL should handle this carefully.
Where should Tamils stay ?? |
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1 Jun 2007 04:56:33 GMT Report for Abuse
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Thambi
Tamils are, a part of the problem.
Tamils should understand there responsibility's to GOSL or they should find alteration.
Rights,Federal system,Eelam all comes after realizing that Sri lanka is a multinational country with a majority of Sinhalese. |
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1 Jun 2007 04:59:09 GMT Report for Abuse
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Chandra Bose - Open Letter
Political Leadership
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
Tamil Eelam
Dear Sirs,
............... it would be difficult to stop the killings of innocent Tamils. Remember, it was only after the LTTE devastating attack on the Katunyake airport that the Sri Lankan state was brought to its knees and subsequently agreed to the Norwegian brokered ceasefire in 2002. Whether the next round of peace talks will materialize or not, it not important for the LTTE. What is important is for the leadership to reduce the killings of innocent Tamils, and this could only be done not by appealing to the opportunistic and irresponsible international community, but by undertaking swift and strategic operations. Unless this is done, more and more Tamils are going to be targeted and bumped of.
It is not that I believe that the present conflict should be resolved by force, but unfortunately with no help from the international community, the Tamil national liberation movement has no other option. The longer the LTTE waits for some kind of benign intervention, more Tamils are going to be killed. I know it not an easy matter for the LTTE to launch a full-scale war, but the fact remains that war been thrust on Tamils both in the north and east. ...... |
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1 Jun 2007 05:00:42 GMT Report for Abuse
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Japanese American Internment was the forced removal of approximately 120,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans (62 percent of whom were United States citizens) from the West Coast of the United States during World War II. While approximately 10,000 were able to relocate to other parts of the country, the remainder roughly 110,000 men, women and other people were sent to hastily constructed camps called 'War Relocation Centers' in remote portions of the nation's interior. President Franklin Roosevelt authorized the internment with Executive Order 9066, which allowed local military commanders to designate 'military areas' as 'exclusion zones', from which 'any or all persons may be excluded.' This power was used to declare that all people of Japanese ancestry were excluded from the entire Pacific coast, including all of California and most of Oregon and Washington, except for those in internment camps.In 1944, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the exclusion, removal, and detention, arguing that it is permissible to curtail the civil rights of a racial group when there is a 'pressing public necessity.'
The catch word here is 'pressing public necessity.'
My mother told me that 'sometimes you might not hear it but you can feel it.' Looks like the GOSL is hearing and feeling something big is brewing underneath the surface. Otherwise they would not take such drastic actions.
Edited By - laliths - 1 Jun 2007 05:07:20 GMT |
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Very soon mass Sinhala / Muslim vacate will take place not only in North and East even in South.......GOSL Coolies and their forces who are unable to manage LTTE hamerring are adopting these petty tactics just to harras tamils.
Let us see what the International community's response on this issue........but in a way now we can start a clean up in north and east in a big way and say if GOSL can do this for its citizen why not we tamils do this in north and east...then we tamils can say that we have done this on Metta, Karuna and Muditta Buddhist concepts of JHU saadoos.......I mean without Killing..... chase out Sinhala & Muslim guys from North and East...jayawewa LTTE
Pakistan has been created as a pure Muslim country by seperating from India.....but all muslims have not been sent from India to pakistan.......India a Hindu country even now has the second largest Muslim community in the world next to Indoneshia.......same way we Tamils can separate North and east in sri Lanka and create Tamil Eelam....but Tamils can still live in south where necessary......also this was the concept of ruling prevailed in Sri Lanka before Europeans captured Sri Lanka...I mean North and East being ruled by tamils and south by Sinhala modayas
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 1 Jun 2007 05:11:17 GMT Report for Abuse
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Lalisths,
I remember reading somewhere, Buthan has expelled thousands of Naplaies dessendents living in Buthan when they agitate for equal rights.
Today Buthan is a peaceful country. Infact ONLY 3rd world country to place in 1st 3rd of the recently published peace index.
Cheers
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 1 Jun 2007 05:13:31 GMT Report for Abuse
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VERY GOOD DECISION to protect peace loving muslims and sinhalese in colombo. Tigers chased all sinhalese and muslims from north and east. Why dont we give the same medicine to them until they learn to live peacefully with others. I think this is very important decision b the GOSL.
Guys go and see this video::: This is the reality....This is how thoppigala we fight
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfqimW3xdgg |
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1 Jun 2007 05:14:24 GMT Report for Abuse
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Chandra Bose - ....
While tactical and strategic thinking requires the LTTE to engage with multiple actors in finding a decent solution for Tamils, the fact remains it simply cannot wait for the international community to act. The international will never act. |
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