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Daisy
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 12 Sep 2008 20:22:12 GMT Report for Abuse
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I come here to study the varieties of mental disorders that
people are suffering through INTERNET surfing.
Go to the Yahoo Chat rooms!. u'll find better 'specimens' out there. :)
By the way... it should be, A4ArmyB4BombC4Crazy |
Mahawansaya
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 12 Sep 2008 20:23:36 GMT Report for Abuse
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So many bombs still no peelam.
His barbarism only steels this country to fight back. Else, he would have achieved his
goal a long time ago. There are no new targets for him to take. He has attacked almost
all nerve centres and killed a large number of political and military leaders including a
President, a foreign minister, a Navy Commander and an umpteen number of high
ranking military officers. He has bombed economic and military facilities even from the
air. But nothing worked for him! |
gonnamba
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 12 Sep 2008 20:25:27 GMT Report for Abuse
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Arumuga Navalar
Is a fictional character and was created by the singhalese to confuse and discredit the minority tamils.
You don't believe me? Ask Tiggy. |
Mahawansaya
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12 Sep 2008 20:26:09 GMT Report for Abuse
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Velu is forcibly recruiting children, men,
women and even the elderly people as cannon fodder. He is creating conditions for a
mass uprising against LTTE terrorism in the Wanni. |
Mahawansaya
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12 Sep 2008 20:27:13 GMT Report for Abuse
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The military and the police are never short of recruits. There are thousands of youth
willing to enlist and serve in the conflict zone. The national economy is far from ruined. It
is capable of absorbing defence expenditure and shocks. |
peacemakerSri
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 12 Sep 2008 20:27:49 GMT Report for Abuse
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Surely, it was a defining moment when the Colombo Tamil leaders decided that their dominant position would be threatened, unless they separated themselves from the Sinhalese, and call for a separate identity. G. G. Ponnambalam (GGP) in the State Council in 1934 declared that he was 'a proud Dravidian' and rejected the 'Ceylonese' concept of a polity of a single people. Natesan and others followed suit, as a reading of the political history of the times will reveal. Ponnambalam lent his voice to a movement which began to attack Sinhala Buddhists, and the Mahavamsa, their famed historical chronicle. Should I remind Mr. Kumaran that the first Sinhala-Tamil Riot occurred in 1939, in Navalapitiya, and spread to Passara, Maskeliya and to many other towns, when the Colonial government stepped in and stamped it out?
The riot was sparked by the inflammatory racist speech of GGP in Navalapitiya, attacking the Sinhala Buddhists and the Mahavamsa (see The Hindu Organ, June 1, 1939 and other newspapers of the time). It was then that S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike (SWRD) saw an opportunity, and went to every one of the cities touched by the riots, and established branches of the Sinhala Maha Sabha (see The Hindu Organ, June 19, 1939). It was in this extremely heated atmosphere that GGP developed his fifty-fifty solution as a means of safeguarding the dominant position of the Tamils. Far from bridging the gap between the communities, every action of GGP was designed to drive this 'difference' between the Tamils - descendants of the Dravidians, and the Sinhalese, a 'hybrid mongrel race split of from the aboriginal Tamils and mixed with Aryan invaders' (as stated by GGP in Navalapitiya in 1939).
The racism of the GGP et al was matched by the SWRD group. It would seem that SWRD the feudal aristocrat, and GGP the caste-conscious Catholic lawyer, were both power-hungry manipulators of the people for further their own interests. The elder statesmen of the times, i.e., Baron Jayatilleke, D. S. Senanayake (DS), Mahadeva etc. charted a reasonably non-communalist line. |
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12 Sep 2008 20:29:20 GMT Report for Abuse
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The Sinhala leaders refrained from public confrontation with GGP during the Soulbury period, and this led to a sense of healing between the communities. The state council approved the Soulbury proposals overwhelmingly. GGP leading the Tamil Congress(TC), as well as SWRD and other Sinhala nationalists joined the DS cabinet which believed in the 'ceylonese' concept (see Senanayake's Acceptance Speech in the Hansard 1947).
Meanwhile, dark clouds were gathering. The ultra-nationalist Tamil wing led by S. J. V. Chelvanayakam (SJV) was not happy. They grumbled about GGP's approach, and proposed that instead of 50-50, the Tamils must pursue the 'Two-Nation' concept, where the Tamils are equal to, and distinct from the Sinhalese. SJV said that Tamils should pursue their separate destiny. The opportunity to break from GGP arose with the Indian Citizenship Act. Most Ceylonese leaders and the Colonial government had become worried that the Indian Tamil workers and the Estate sector would fall into the hands of the Marxists who had began militant agitations. The new citizenship act required that only persons with seven years of residency could become citizens and vote in elections, thus eliminating transients. GGP and most other Tamils voted for it. But SJV declared that GGP was a 'traitor' to the Tamil cause and used the moment to create the Tamil Arasu Kachchi. SJV contended that the Citizenship Act violated minority rights, and challenged it, and the government, in the courts, and in the Privy Council in London. The unequivocal judgments were that there has been no discrimination before or after the Act, and that the citizenship requirements were as reasonable as in the most liberal European states at the time. |
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 12 Sep 2008 20:29:27 GMT Report for Abuse
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all nerve centres and killed a large number of political and military leaders including a
President, a foreign minister, a Navy Commander and an umpteen number of high
ranking military officers. He has bombed economic and military facilities even from the
air. But nothing worked for him!
he could be pretty frustrated by now |
gonnamba
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12 Sep 2008 20:31:59 GMT Report for Abuse
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The national economy is far from ruined. It is capable of absorbing defence expenditure and shocks.
Thanks in part, to the 'creative' accounting practices.. for now. This must be over and done with ASAP. Imagine how nice it would be if the defence expenditure got chopped by 50% ? That is a lot of dough for re-habilitation / development. |
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