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gajan99
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 28 Jun 2007 06:10:53 GMT Report for Abuse
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EEEEElamayooo....
Gota is not harrassing thamils, he is just helping a bunch of mad freedom fighter guys to enter EALAM early. |
EEELamaya
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28 Jun 2007 06:10:59 GMT Report for Abuse
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we have not spoken much but i have watched you in the forum and i have recommended you along with Lalith and Rasak and dauntless..
Thanks, brother, Berty...
You will have rain-check for the party, when Mr. B shows his diligence!
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laliths
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 28 Jun 2007 06:13:10 GMT Report for Abuse
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Berty,
looks like rules are made as we go along.
man why not me..i can be a bachelor for a day lolz
No, No, That is not allowed. If you insist I am going to email to your beautiful wife. You will be sleeping in the veranda for a week.
Buddy you are in the wrong boat! |
Kaliamma
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 28 Jun 2007 06:15:43 GMT Report for Abuse
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I can be a bachelor for a day?.
I do not think it is a good idea, but depends on what are you going to do after become a bachelor.
Hi Berty Aiya, how are you I got all your jokes and other stuff, keep sending them
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EEELamaya
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28 Jun 2007 06:18:12 GMT Report for Abuse
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Gajan, pal:
Gota is not harrassing thamils, he is just helping a bunch of mad freedom fighter guys to enter EALAM early.
I see .... thats why he dragged sleeping Tamil kids and 'deported' them in the dark of the night from Colombo?
These 'London Tigers' had not done anything like that!
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 28 Jun 2007 06:20:12 GMT Report for Abuse
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| 'six tigers including a major has got caught to a claymore in Mannar' |
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28 Jun 2007 06:23:29 GMT Report for Abuse
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I see .... thats why he dragged sleeping Tamil kids and 'deported' them in the dark of the night from Colombo?
some thing to think about to idiots like this makeing such statements..
Some time ago, an ill-informed and obscure organisation with even murkier objectives issues character certificates to the world?s states. Sri Lanka, accordingly, was supposed to be on the verge of becoming a ?failed state?.
The litany of ?grievances? that is supposed to substantiate the failed-state argument is pretty predictable. Top on the list is ?human rights?.
This is why there was a lot of this ?fantastic-old-chap? stuff when someone dished out report cards on human rights. Sri Lanka was ranked 111. What joy!
Facts not rosy
They didn?t mention that the USA was ranked 98 and Russia 119, which are hardly ?failed? or ?failing? states, but that?s ok. The extrapolations are in a word, wild, I would say, but the facts are not all that rosy either. Let us take just two examples, ?white van? abductions and the recent eviction of some 300 plus Tamils living in lodges in the city, both not consistent with a healthy democracy where rule of law reigns supreme and fundamental rights are sacrosanct.
In short, in a black and white world, which is a world that people inhabit as and when it suits them, the situation in Sri Lanka is worrying to say the least. Things are not exactly black and white anywhere in the world, but let?s focus on Sri Lanka?s ?grey? for a while. Let us start with white vans. There are a few facts we need to consider. First, ?white vans? happen. Two, not all abductions lead to killings. Three, the numbers have been highly exaggerated. Four, there were no bombs in Colombo after ?white vans? entered the lexicon of humanitarian issues. Five, after ?white vans? took a break (we assume) there were at least 4 explosions in and around Colombo, not to mention several foiled attempts. Now what do we make of all this? That ?white vans? are ok? Certainly not. That white vans are a necessary evil? ?Perhaps? is a legitimate answer, I believe. That the government is at the wheel of white vans? That has not been established but on the other hand if the government doesn?t know anything about it, it is seriously ignorant that ?white vans? should be nothing more than vehicles carrying people who have the authority to arrest suspects, bring them before a court of law after which established legal procedure takes over?
Prevention better than cure
Yes. Ideally. We don?t live in Utopia, however. We live in a country where suspected terrorists have been released by courts and have later turned out to have been ?sleepers? who came alive, paradoxically as suicide bombers. People have died as a result.
Children. Pregnant mothers. Very few who take offence at ?white vans? and such, were brave enough and pragmatic enough to say that prevention is better than cure and that in the case of terrorism, there is only one way to prevent. Put behind bars or kill. Let us be brutally frank here.
Someone can say that governments cannot and should not act like terrorists, but then again, nothing that this government or any other before has done in countering terrorism can hold a candle to the kinds of atrocities dreamed up by Prabhakaran and executed by his mindless followers.
There is no neat, clear cut, There are costs involved of course. Evacuating Tamils from lodges in Colombo was, even by the government?s admission, a mistake and a stupid one at that. Some people went to court. They won a decision to stop the move and to allow those who were bundled away to return to the lodges. Is this consistent with the notion of a ?failed state? or of a country where ?genocide? is taking
place? Or are we talking about a nation where there are countervailing forces at work, where democracy is anything but dead?
There are other aspects to the issue, though. If the LTTE was not using lodges for terrorist-related work, if there were no bombs going off in Colombo, if the government didn?t have to deal with arguably the most ruthless terrorist the world has ever known, then the highhanded eviction of even a single Tamil (or anyone else for that matter) outside of established legal procedure would be unwarranted. It would be, so to speak, a black and white, open and shut case. Given that there are no ?ifs? here, I would still argue that the move was wrong. One could say ?the Tamil people should thank Prabhakaran for this? but that is too easy. Nevertheless it is by no means a black and white case, given the context. I believe there is grey and those who are unwilling to admit this are basically hypocrites, for we know that they not only salivate whenever a bomb goes off in Colombo, but blame the government for security lapses.
Again, I repeat, it is silly to think that a war against terror can be fought clinically, i.e. without getting one?s hands bloodied. Those who take the moral high ground don?t have to deal with the pieces of flesh and the pools of blood that follow an explosion. They don?t have the right to pontificate.
The term used liberally was ?ethnic cleansing?. ?Ethnic cleansing? is the wording used by a reporter for The Times. It is what a lot of opposition MPs used.
Many commentators, journalists and so-called humanitarian activists threw around that term quite a bit last week. Let us talk about ethnic cleansing. Let us talk numbers here. At the last count (in 2001) there were 117,510 Tamils in Colombo, against 117,090 Sinhalese and 120,109 Muslims. Some 360 Tamils were evicted from the lodges.
Even given the realities that surround this move, I repeat that grey or no grey it was a blunder. To call it ?ethnic cleansing?, however, is irresponsible, uneducated, sensationalist and downright moronic, why mince my words? Those who use it, I am forced to conclude, are two-bit politicians, two-bit activists, two-bit diplomats and two-bit journalists. |
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 28 Jun 2007 06:24:12 GMT Report for Abuse
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Gaja:
Yes. I have genuine concerns for the tamil communmity in my country. That is what I don't observe in you living in Australia.
All that you are concerned is about your being arrested in Australia for standing outside the NSW University to meet the head.
they were right in arresting you for having mistaken you for a stalker or or a mad woman.
You are fortunate that you did not end up in a psychiatric unit in some remote place.
Your actions further goes to prove you have used the LTTE as a convenient vehicle to gain entry into Australia and forced NSWU to recognise you.
The University officials smelt a rat in your ulterior motives that they did not entertain you or else by today had you been in the staff you would have been Internationalising the Terrorists cause in SL through unsuspecting staff and students.
You are like some of the members in this forum who speakput for the benefit & future of SL with sarcastic intentions at the back of your mind. Cleanse your thoughts and let go of the past and think about the future of your grand children and those in SL and their future. You want to leave a unsolved legacy in SL that may be fine by you but not with me.
Timely intevention. Good riddance of bad rubbish. (GROB). |
laliths
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28 Jun 2007 06:25:54 GMT Report for Abuse
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Berty,
Man there was a guy who was giving you $hit in Tamil. I know
$hit in any language. What was his beef?
Man, you are a marked man. Be alert!
If I am not mistaken, Mr B pulled the plug. |
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28 Jun 2007 06:31:07 GMT Report for Abuse
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Berty anna
its heavily raining again today!! Where is imperator...dont know whether he reached home after visiting Kings Cross!! |
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