Sri Lanka News Updates with Discussions

Fact is, that tourism isn't gonna happen. Just take a look around.

i am simply against the killing of civilians in any part of the world.

Freedom1 is smoking Tigerforces' weed!

How do you get comfortable with political risk in the country after a three-decade war?
Outsiders, especially Westerners, don t understand that over the last six years, Sri Lanka has grown faster than all ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) countries except Vietnam. Now imagine what you can achieve without the war. The war thing has always been a perception issue. Unlike the situations in Iraq, Afghanistan or Israel, what happened in Sri Lanka over the last two years is that the Tamil Tiger rebels have been largely removed. The political risk is not the resurgence of the Tigers movement, because there are no Tigers to resurge. The risk instead is fighting the economic war, and putting in place the right economic policy.

Killing innocent applies to the west. I don't think Sri Lanka does that.

AfteWhile the Colombo celebrates 'victory parades' over the demise of freedom fighters of Tamils, the intent to narrow the gap between the Sinhalese and Tamils could not have been more impossible.

The LTTE cadets who were tortured and shot down while white flagged and surrendering were the sons, daughters, brothers or sisters of a Tamil. The political wing leaders Nadesan and Pulithevan were tortured and shot down, which constitutes a war crime. Over 2000 LTTE cadets were slaughtered in the UN brokered surrender of LTTE.

The silencing of LTTE's gun should not have be so horrendous and costly of human lives by the same Sri Lankan government who sheds crocodile tears over 'child soldering of LTTE' and 'liberating Tamils' especially not when the UN, the infamous Viay Nambiar informed the Sri Lankan government of the forthcoming surrender of LTTE cadets and Political wing leaders. Remember, this is same LTTE that the Sri Lankan government sat down for a peace talk for over 4 years, and consequently weakened LTTE due to lack of focus on fight and penetrating to weak links such as Karuna.

Close to 30,000 Tamils civilians killed in 3 months, according to Innercity press and Times online UK. More than 5000 LTTE cadets, who are considered to be freedom fighters of Tamils, are slaughterd while surrendering and were killed used banned chemical weapons.

Regardless of the loss of lives of Tamils civilians and LTTE cadets, the Sri Lankan government has not shown an ounce of good will towards the 300,000 Tamil IDPs or Tamils in Sri Lanka.

Dan McDougall reports in his article 'The Disappeared.: