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LTTE will `never be defeated` - Says Nadesan in Sri Lanka
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 16 Jan 2008 21:36:00 GMT Report for Abuse
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| Twenty 2010 sounds good. WE got the winter Olympics too. It should be a fun year. |
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you are a clever boy, but some of us are not that clever. please give some examples |
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16 Jan 2008 21:36:34 GMT Report for Abuse
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JVP finds itself unable to come to power ever by Parliamentary system.
Now their armed groups ( Many JVP strong men in SLDF) are in Jungles getting ready for another arms struggle just like before.
Soon we will see JVP cause Mayhem in Sinhala rural areas just like last time.
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16 Jan 2008 21:41:32 GMT Report for Abuse
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In his laudable and forward looking article , Bhikkhu Walpola Piyananda reports the story of a Sinhalese boy who in a previous birth was a Tamil girl.
Bhikkhu Piyananda is, quite rightly, trying to show how meaningless, and perhaps, in Buddhist sense, how ephemeral, labels like Sinhala and Tamil are.
While in no way detracting from the nobility of Bhikkhu Piyananda's intentions, we can say the same thing more empirically, without venturing to invoke the ultra-mundane dimension of Samsaric rebirth. For example, a significant proportion of the inhabitants of the southwestern seaboard are descendents of Tamil Hindus who arrived in the island during the Dutch era. Within a generation they became Sinhala Buddhists, and as new settlers in an alien territory commonly do, over-identified with the host ethnic group, becoming some of the most virulent bearers of Sinhala Buddhist extremism.
We can see this in varied expressions, some broad and general and others more circumscribed. In the broad perspective, one look at the ethno-demographic spread of peoples in the subcontinent makes it quite obvious that the Sinhalese are a variety of Tamils, as are other ethnic and linguistic groups of South India. It is because of the twentieth century Sinhala-Tamil rivalries that this fact is forgotten or explicitly denied. In particular, it is striking that the Sinhala Buddhists have forgotten the fact that it is in South India that Buddhism survived centuries after its disappearance from the north. It is very likely that the great Buddhist commentator Buddhaghosa was a Tamil monk, although Sinhala monastic tradition is keen to place him in North India.
In his autobiography, the great mid twentieth century scholar monk and social worker Hendiyagala Silaratana mentions a village, Kohombana, in the Vavgam Pattuva of the Eastern Province, in which the inhabitants speak Tamil, but their names, like Ratnayaka Mudiyanselage and Disanayaka Mudiyanselage reveal that they are Sinhalese, representing a creative mixture, and perhaps a journey towards Tamilisation. There is a fishing community in the Negambo area which speaks Tamil at night and Sinhalese in broad daylight. Many of us have personal experiences of people who have changed their identity from Sinhala to Tamil or vice versa, that is, in this birth itself.
Dr. Sarath Amunugama once mentioned to me of two villages in what might be called the border between the areas occupied by the Sinhalese and Tamils respectively where the one village was formerly Tamil and now Sinhalese, and the other exactly the opposite. During riots each fought the other tragiccomically, imagining itself to be the other.
Most of what goes as Buddhist ritual is actually derived from the Hindu rituals particularly of Tamil South India. This is true of the rituals both of the Great and Little traditions. And the Sinhala language, considered Aryan, is Tamil in its grammatical and syntactic structure, with a vocabulary of about twenty or more percent Tamil.
It is common knowledge that about half the Sinhala aristocracy signed the Kandyan Convention in Tamil. Not so well known is the fact that some signatures combine Sinhala and Tamil characters about fifty fifty, a remarkably creative synthesis to which both the Sinhala demagogue murderers and Tamil liberator murderers are blind.
-H. L. Seneviratne-
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 16 Jan 2008 21:43:59 GMT Report for Abuse
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u don't have to agree but accept the truth
lanka loosing the grip on WAR and the IC as well as the Economy
what else you need to pay high price for powder milk and fuel
think ( well, you guys have that power.. this war wouldnt last this long .. ) comming to the end soon . with Tamil nation Raising sun in the tamil land Dark sun and blood bath for the sinhala land
Way to go VP.... no one can stop you ... but they can say
I am not sure this guy still alive to take that kind of courage to express stupid ideas, that culprit terrorists do. Both dead terrorists and kind of mad idiots say that killings are a pretty joy. I had my SLA friend long time ago (still I hate him), He said killing a man/ or women is a hard thing. I still love people and spend my own time for social works ( in my free time as I need to survive also)rather than my main determinations as I suffered so much when I was in Sri Lanka about these dabates. We were the pioneer students, at that time when Tamil/ Sinhalese violence began in Sri Lanka in 1983, and rescued all my Tamil friends against UNP thugs in University of Peradeniya Engineering crowd as on a humanitarian aspect rather a manner. |
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16 Jan 2008 21:46:08 GMT Report for Abuse
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I truly suspect JVP in the Nugegoda, Railway and other small bombings, may be they graduated and did the bus bombing too.
No one will know if they don't properly investigate. GOSL is taking the easy way out by just blaming LTTE but this could come to haunt them later. |
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 16 Jan 2008 21:49:02 GMT Report for Abuse
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If terror is born in the mind then the terror can also be defeated using the mind. Today people do not think cause and effect that Buddha told more than 2500 years ago.
If someone gives me money, people think he likes me rather questioning within the mind why he gave money. This is the beginning of terrorism. This is the beginning of bomb blasts. If we as people would not be slaved to the money, then we can defeat terrorism. Nadesan says LTTE will never be defeated, but I say he will be defeated physcially mentally and even life after life before LTTE hihihihihi! |
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16 Jan 2008 21:51:48 GMT Report for Abuse
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The sanctions regime
Sri Lanka has now been listed as a nation which kills its journalists, abducts its citizens, and where impunity reigns supreme. In the liberated East armed groups are running amok, killing citizens at will, abducting children and extorting ransom from the cash strapped population. These armed groups have the protection of the military. In Batticaloa they are now preparing for local government elections where the votes will be rigged and the current favourite of the military Mr. Pilliyan will be the only person allowed to contest. Liberated Jaffna is now seen as an open prison where the population lives in fear.
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