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SRI LANKA: No Lessons Learnt From `Black July` of 1983
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bakamoona
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 24 Jul 2008 09:40:28 GMT Report for Abuse
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over 50,000 people who were evicted recently from what is called shanties in Slave Island, Colombo are tamils who had fled north east due to heavy bombing.
Rai-naattu-payyan has a thing with numbers -doesnt he?
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 24 Jul 2008 09:43:30 GMT Report for Abuse
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Rasak,
Even one-day matches don't attract a fullhouse these days.
Lets bring more cheerleaders and give them Montessori dresses (which they were wearing when they went to Montessori) |
raigamakolla
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Buddhist monks in Sri Lanka has history of killing people.
it would be more correct to say that buddhist monks have not prevented the killing of several hundred thousands of innocent sinhala and tamil youths (from 1972 to today) at the hand of governments which they support because of perks they enjoy. Nor have they prevented gross human rights abuses.
Keeping silence on such issues, is as culpable as doing those actions. |
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 24 Jul 2008 09:45:22 GMT Report for Abuse
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I challenge you to prove this fact...
SWRD Bandaranayaka was killed by a buddhist monk. is that correct? |
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 24 Jul 2008 09:45:32 GMT Report for Abuse
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Captain:
I challenge you to prove this fact...
Why don't you answer Thalaivar's question? |
Neverforget
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13 army being killd by ltte. that incident was used to justify riots. but the plan to attack tamils was prepared well before the jaffna incident.
Yes, you are right, the bodies of 13 army were not given to relative for family funeral. Government was holding to create riot with that excuse. Mean while bringing thugs from all over sorry lanka to Colombo. I never ever forget that day in my life.
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Trigger for July 1983 violence
Background of July 1983 - Reasons why 3000 Tamils were killed without any provocation in a week
2nd June 1983
MP Amirthalingam
I was again in Trincomalee on 2 June 1983 when organized Sinhala fishermen attacked Tamil fishermen. I was able to feel the mounting tension since morning. People were gathered in small groups intensely discussing the developments of the previous day. I overheard remarks like 'breaking of heads' and 'teaching the Tamils a lesson'. These two phrases had gained wide currency during those days, the first attributed to Lalith Athulathmudali and the second to the the very top man.
Over sixteen Tamil civilians killed. About forty people in hospital seriously injured by cutting and shooting. One hundred and fifty Tamil houses burnt. Nearly a thousand people dehoused and in refugee camps - not one Sinhalese. Services conduct search in Tamil areas terrorizing people and this followed immediately by thugs attacking the Tamil people and setting fire to the houses.
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raigamakolla
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Rasak,
Even one-day matches don't attract a fullhouse these days.
Lets bring more cheerleaders and give them Montessori dresses (which they were wearing when they went to Montessori)
Nothing doing. People are scared to go out for two things. bombs or white vans. Other thing is that people have no money after buying much needed food. When the economy goes down the drain the life goes through the window.
MR and junta government has made us a one-meal-per-day eating nation. |
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Ariyalai,
Thanks for the Hellava long post.
Such long essays must be consuming fairly large chunks of your erudite time, even though I can hardly motivate my self to read the bottom part of your post due to its sheer length.
Again, you have jumped in to a conclusion that militarily defeating LTTE tantamount to imposing a Sinhalese buddhist hegemonic rule over Tamils.
To us who have suffered untold misery in the hands of LTTE, defeating it (military or otherwise) means defeating terrorism...its as simple as that.
If you fail to understand this simple fact, and instead keep hallucinating on this non-existent religious hegemony then there's nothing much more I can say.
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How many hindu priests tacitly supported the LTTE by giving them refuge and letting the LTTE hide weapons inside Kovils? What about those actions?
Equally culpable. Be it poosari, monk, priest or muslim. |
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