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Forget the `unfortunate` past: Rajapaksa tells people of Jaffna Sri Lanka
Wednesday, 31 December 2008 - 2:26 AM SL Time
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Vowing that his government would restore `all that was lost due to terrorism`, Sri Lanka`s President Mahinda Rajapaksa has asked the people of the northern Jaffna peninsula that it was time to forget `the unfortunate developments of the past`.
President Rajapaksa made these remarks Monday night while addressing the people of Jaffna via satellite transmission on the occasion of an `educational and industrial exhibition` organised by the Sri Lanka Army.
`It is time for us to forget the unfortunate developments of the past. We shall take action to restore to the people of Jaffna and the north, all they have lost in the past,` Rajapaksa said.
The president`s office here said it was for the first time that a Sri Lankan head of the state has spoken `to the Tamil people in their own language`.
`All that was lost to you due to terrorism will be restored. It will not be long before your brothers and sisters who are trapped in areas such as Kilinochchi and Mullaitivu can be happy. That is when, just like the new dawn in the east, there will be the new spring in the north,` Rajapaksa was quoted as saying.
The ruling coalition of President Rajapaksa is determined to capture the rebel-held districts of Mullaitivu and Kilinochchi and the government troops are said to be operating on the outskirts of Kilinochchi town, 350 km north of here.
Despite shrinking territories, the LTTE has been putting up heavy resistance against the advancing troops, slowing down the progress of the government troops.
President Rajapaksa last week threatened to outlaw the Tamil Tigers as a terrorist group if it did not allow Tamils living in its control to move to government-held areas with the dawn of 2009.
The LTTE has been fighting against the Sri Lankan government for a quarter century to carve out a separate state for Tamils in the northern and eastern parts of the island.
Thousands have died in escalating fighting since late 2005.
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Thambi
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 30 Dec 2008 20:38:42 GMT Report for Abuse
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The Sinhala lokku mahthaya must allow the
1. Traders to take their lorries with food and medicine and other essential to the North
2. Dis-arm EPDP and PLOTE to let the civilians lead a normal life without the fear of abductions and extra-judicial killings
3. Allow the UN conduct a fair and free referendum to determine what sort of government and whom to lead it.
Instead of talking through the back.
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Thambi
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30 Dec 2008 20:39:40 GMT Report for Abuse
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4. Stop bombing hospitals
5. Allow educational institutions to function without hindrance
6. Allow judiciary to function independent of the military
7. Hand back the land taken over by state or provide compensation..
8. ...../
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30 Dec 2008 20:39:49 GMT Report for Abuse
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After all you have done now you are saying its UNFORTUNATE.
Its not that easy to gorget the past......MR |
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 30 Dec 2008 20:40:55 GMT Report for Abuse
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Thambi,
All that will happen as soon as Tamil loku mahathanya lay down the arms.
Edited By - parakumB - 30 Dec 2008 20:44:00 GMT |
Parasuram
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 30 Dec 2008 20:43:14 GMT Report for Abuse
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If MR genuinely spoke like that then it should be welcomed but every politicians in the past had said something similar.
Jaffna people had very high hope in Chandraika the pitch,
but our powerful neighbour gave wrong ideas to her and she end up killing Tamils in name of war for peace, her terms were one of the bloodiest period in Jaffna history. |
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30 Dec 2008 20:45:20 GMT Report for Abuse
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2. Dis-arm EPDP and PLOTE to let the civilians lead a normal life without the fear of abductions and extra-judicial killings
IT is like
DISARM TMVP karuna and Pillayan cadres, so that LTTE can kill them easily.
GOSL should ask PLOTE, EPDP and other groups to communicate and not to fight among them. |
piranha
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 30 Dec 2008 20:54:36 GMT Report for Abuse
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What a nerve. This sinhala racist is asking the tamils to forget the past misdeeds of the sinhala state and its machinery that has and continues to try to subjugate the tamils under its jackboot.
All that is lost due to sinhala oppression will remain in the minds of tamils for generations to come.
If Modapakse thinks that he is on the verge of totally suppressing the tamil struggle he is badly mistaken. The sinhala state and the sinhalas have to suffer enormously and then only the tamils will gain their freedom. Twenty five years is not enough. Massive bloodshed among the sinhalas at the hands of the tamil fighters is the only way the sinhalas will learn to respect the tamils as equal citizens of the country.
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30 Dec 2008 20:58:43 GMT Report for Abuse
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Jaffna people had high hopes with Chandrika
Tamils almost managed to dupe Chandrika in to giving a
Interim government for LTTE. Fortunately for SL, Chandrika
had little brain in her huge head, and sanity prevailed. |
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30 Dec 2008 20:59:18 GMT Report for Abuse
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| Well if people are not willing to compromise to forget the past and build a united country equally important to all,then the conflicts will continue at regular intervals...:-) |
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