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Sri Lanka`s moves to pluralism stymied by the Tigers - Peace Secretary
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27 Sep 2007 06:50:08 GMT Report for Abuse
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Berty,
FYI
Govt. recruits Tamils, Muslims to police in East
More than 500 applications during first two days
TMVP confirms its cadres likely to join in future
By Sunil Jayasiri and Easwaran Rutnam
The government over the weekend stated a mass recruitment drive of Tamils and Muslims to the police force in the Batticaloa district with more than 500 applications being received and the Thamil Makkal Viduthalai Pullikal (Karuna faction) confirming that in the future its cadres may also be recruited.
?During the last two days, more than 500 applications had been received and most of them were from Tamils,? a senior area police officer said. He said it was a major success and the police expected the drive to reach the required number of youth within a short period.
Meanwhile, TMVP Batticaloa area political head Thileepan told the Daily Mirror the party had not yet decided on formally merging its forces with the police but did not rule out the prospect in the future.
?In the future that might happen but at the moment a decision has not been taken, so our cadres did not take part in the recruitment drive by the police over the weekend,? he said.
The police official said the government expected to open more than 50 police stations in the newly captured areas including Thoppigala, Vakarai and Verugal. He said it was necessary to deploy Tamil officers in these Tamil populated areas to have a good rapport with the local communities.
http://www.dailymirror.lk/2007/08/20/front/01.asp
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Col Soosai said in addressing a public meeting that the reason for the failure of Sri Lankan leaders is that they always put their family before the nation.
Col. Soosai, Liberation Tigers special commander of the Sea Tigers, addressing a gathering in Puthukkudiyiruppu, on Wednesday, to mark the 20th death anniversary of Thileepan, former LTTE political head of Jaffna district, and the 6th death anniversary of the founder of Air Tigers, Col. Shankar, said that the southern polity in Sri Lanka has repeatedly failed to demonstrate the ability to transcend itself from the family centric power politics into the politics of statesmanship, pointing at Rajapaksa brother's 'family rule' in the south. |
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Berty,
And this is how your 'boys' prevent Tamils from working for the Govt
The LTTE has also been accused of killing moderate Tamils and other Tamils with whom it disagrees, such as:
* Sarojini Yogeswaran, mayor of Jaffna
* Pon Sivapalan, mayor of Jaffna
* Neelan Thiruchelvam, academic and TULF politician
* Kethesh Loganathan, political activist and second chief of Sri Lanka Peace Secretariat
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LTTE
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Col Soosai said in addressing a public meeting that the reason for the failure of Sri Lankan leaders is that they always put their family before the nation.
and guess y
A rift among the top leaders of the tiger organization has developed as Prabkaran is attempting to install his son Charles Anthony as his successor to the terrorist group. |
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ur not giving postions to tamils
Civil servants
* Sir Kanthiah Vaithianathan KBE CCS - First secretary to be the Ministry of Defence and External Affairs (1947 - 1952)1
* K.C.Kamalasabayson - Attorney-General of Sri Lanka.
* T.E.Anandarajah - Inspector General of Police of Sri Lanka.
* C. Loganathan - Chief Executive Officer of Bank of Ceylon.
edit Military officers
Major General Anton Muttukumaru O.B.E, E.D 09th Feb 1955 - 31st Dec. 1959 - First Ceylonese Commander
Major General Anton Muttukumaru O.B.E, E.D 09th Feb 1955 - 31st Dec. 1959 - First Ceylonese Commander
* Major General Anton Muttukumaru O.B.E, E.D - First native Commander of the Sri Lanka Army (then Ceylon Defence Force) and Chief-of-Staff.1
* Rear Admiral Ranjan Kadirgamar - First native Commander of the Sri Lanka Navy.
* Major General Y. Balarathnerajah UPS ndc - Chief of Staff, Sri Lanka Army (June 10, 1992 - September 30, 1992).1
* Brigadier E.G. Thevanayagam VSV - Commander, Sri Lanka Army Volunteer Force (1984 - 1986).1
* Brigadier R.T. Thambaiah 1
* Colonel R. Kumaranayagam E.D - Served Ceylon Light Infantry in World War 2 and was also Deputy Commandant of the Ceylon Volunteer Force.1
* Group Captain A. Kumaresan RSP,USP,psc.
* Captain S. Kadiragamar - One of the first two officers to attend Staff Collage Course in Camberley, UK.1
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The government over the weekend stated a mass recruitment drive of Tamils and Muslims to the police force in the Batticaloa district with more than 500 applications being received
What happened to the 500 applications that Eastern Muslims reportedly made to join the exclusive Muslim Regiment? Are they still processed or the idea did not materialise. 500 seems to be a magic figure our astrologers pick out of the air. It was also 500 policemen who surrendered to LTTE but murdered by Karuna who later became the 'friend' of military intelligence, army and Gotabhaya Rajapakse himself.
It was also 500 years that foreign colonialism reoriented the ethnic make up and the angient kingdoms into one administrative unit and left us in limbo.
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And how about The Former Foreign Minister..Luxman Kadiragamar. A Tamil that every Sri Lankan should be proud off. A Tamil of unparalleled intellect, shot down and silenced by an 8th grade drop out and bicycle thief. Tamils don't needs enemies when they have a 'Leader ' like 'Sun Goat' to bank their fate...
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How will LTTE block if there are Tamils who are willing to serve
how naive are these bootlickers...
The wife of the kidnapped Police Inspector, Jeyaratnam of Prevention of Terrorists Intelligence Unit of the Mount Lavania Police, had sent a letter to SP. Thamilchelvan through the ICRC, appealing for the release of her husband. The Red Cross Society has also confirmed this.
It is worthy to note that Inspector Jeyaratnam?s wife too believes that her husband was abducted by the LTTE. |
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Since 1999 only two Tamil speaking students are admitted yearly out of 262 admissions to the Law College.
99% of the army, 99% of the navy, 99% airforce and 95% of the police are Sinhalese.
Out of 11 Supreme Court judges only 1 is a Muslim.
Out of 10 Prime Ministers and 10 presidents none has even been from any minority community.
92% of the Govt Service is filled by majority community whereas they constitute 74% of the population.
In India, Sighs make up of just 2% and Tamils 7% of the population, yet there is a Sigh Prime Minister and 1 Tamil and 1 Tamil speaking Muslim have served as Presidents.
In Singapore Indian are 7% and out of which only 4.2% are Tamils, a Tamil Dr Nathan has been the President for the last 9 years.
What we do in Sri Lanka we go to musiums to find who and who held what and what positions once upon a time. Tamils and Muslims are ethnically cleansed and that is part of the problem and not what happened in the last decade or last century.
VP is a tyrant and we expect democratic leaders to behave better.
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Why?
Why cannot Prabhakaran think of the long term betterment of the Tamil people instead of thinking about his own glorification? The answer to this is simple. Prabhakaran is a Sri Lankan and he is acting like all other Sri Lankan leaders who think of their short term personal political survival and glorification, and not think about the long term future of his people!
Typical of Lankan political culture, Prabhakaran and his henchmen climb on top of the proverbial soap box and scream that ?They are doing all this to seek justice for the suffering Tamil people!?, and thereafter withdraw to the comfort of their Air Conditioned bunkers deep in the Wanni. It is the people in LTTE controlled areas that suffer the poverty, shelling, aerial bombing and the heat. It is the average Tamils? child that is forcibly recruited to fight for Prabha?s glorification, while the LTTE leaders? own son spent his childhood, not in the jungles of the Wanni, but in the relative safety of Sweden and Ireland. Meanwhile, other LTTE leaders are also sending their families and children abroad while they (the Tiger leadership) go from house to house forcibly inducting children into their baby brigades. This is typical Sri Lankan political duplicity, which shows that Prabhakaran is Sri Lankan after all and not ?Eelamese? as he claims to be!
If Prabhakaran was thinking of the long term future of his people, as an intelligent leader he would declare the LTTE?s willingness to discuss a power sharing deal which will be accepted by all communities. In pursuit of this, he would appoint a group of eminent Tamil scholars to get together with the intelligentsia of the Sinhala (and other) communities to thrash out a solution to the problem. Or else, Prabhakaran can order the LTTE proxies (The TNA) to join and contribute to the All Party Conference. Only through a prolonged session of brainstorming amongst scholars from all communities will a permanent solution be reached. And Prabhakarans? contribution to it is vital if he is genuine about seeking to ?realize the aspirations of the Tamils? - as he calls it.
And if Prabhakaran is a genuine Tamil Nationalist, then his cause lies in Tamil Naadu, which is the historical and traditional wellspring of Tamils. Not Jaffna.
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