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Sri Lanka President looks good to rule for another 15 years - UNP MP
Friday, 16 July 2010 - 10:15 AM SL Time
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Sri Lankais finding its feet a year after the rout of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the death of its leader Velupillai Prabhakaran.
The sesssionist struggle for a Tamil homeland in the north and east of the country by the Tiger rebels may have come to nought, but many Tamils are happy about the government s reconciliation efforts with the minorities. With development projects in full swing, there is no indication of the dreaded outfit regrouping, according to a senior MP.
Political will and military muscle may have ensured there are no more tears from terrorists in the tiny tear-drop shaped country, south of India. Critics, however, accuse the government of human rights violations and for the plight of thousands of refugees displaced by war. There is no room for violence in the new Sri Lanka, the focus is on growth and civil harmony, said Muslim Member of Parliament Abdul Cader of the opposition United National Party, a political veteran of over two decades.
Speaking to Khaleej Times, he dismissed reports of an LTTE revival, and of funds flowing in for the group from sympathisers in Canada, the US, India, Britainand Australia.
The leading politician, who has never lost an election, said the Sri Lankan government under Mahinda Rajapaksa was reaching out to the minority Tamils, who make up about 10 per cent of the population. The Sinhalese are in majority with 82 per cent, while the Lankan Moors comprise a little over eight per cent of the populace.
Only on Wednesday, Sri Lankan President Rajapaksa chaired a cabinet meeting in Killinnochi, where ironically, the slain Tamil Tiger leader held his first and only press conference in April 2002.
Speaking in the town, the president, said: If not for terrorism the district would have developed long ago. The terrorist who destroyed the northern railway line. We have to obtain foreign loans to restore all this devastation. Who will pay for them? The entire nation will.
The country comes first, it belongs to everyone, and the president is sending out a message that unity is paramount and we should progress together -- Sinhalese, Tamils, Muslims, Buddhists... said Cader, who lauded efforts by the government to resettle Tamil refugees.
The IMF predicts a growth rate of 5.5 per cent for the country this year. It attributes such growth to improving domestic demand and potential export growth after the end of the war and the global economic recovery, which is now taking hold.
President Rajapaksa has been facing the heat in recent months from the United Nations, which recently set up a three-member panel to probe war crimes purportedly committed by the army on Tamils in the last days of the conflict in May last year. Over 7,000 perished as troops made a final push for Tamil leader Prabhakaran, who met his end on May 19.
Cader, who claims to be a nationalist above all else, said Tamils and the Muslim minority were fed up by the gory past and the lack of development, a price the country paid during decades of conflict.
The LTTE began its ruthless struggle for a Tamil state and carried out a series of attacks from the early eighties. A largely defensive Indian Peace Keeping Force was deployed on the island in 1987 to disarm the rebels, but made a hasty exit after three years. Former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi was killed by a female suicide bomber in 1991. This turned Indian sentiment against the group, which had backers in the state of Tamil Nadu. Then Lankan president Premadasa met his end in 1994, again at the hands of a suicide bomber, a killing strategy the group had perfected. More political assassinations followed and a Norway-brokered peace deal in 2002 didn t last.
Rajapaksa s ascent to power in 2005 changed the dynamics of the game. The gutsy leader matched the LTTE firepower with more guns and ammunition for his troops with Chinese help, as a wary India watched, until the denouement last May. We don t want to see such violence again. There s work to be done and countries in the region like Indiaand Chinawill play a major role in reconstruction efforts, said Cader.
As for the president. He looks good to rule for another 15 years.
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saleemtariq
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 16 Jul 2010 22:16:43 GMT Report for Abuse
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It's a prelude to be appointed as a minister.
the president is sending out a message that unity is paramount and we should progress together -- Sinhalese, Tamils, Muslims, Buddhists... said Cader, who lauded efforts by the government to resettle Tamil refugees.
Muslim Member of Parliament Abdul Cader of the opposition United National Party (In August 2004, he was arrested on corruption accusations. In November 2004, he was granted bail ), a political veteran of over two decades.
Let Cader speak for his Kandy electorates and the Tamil MPs speak for their constituents most of whom do not have a place of their own to sleep on. Sinhalese army forcibly seized their houses and this MP unashamedly vouch for the president who detained 300,000 Tamils behind barbed wires without allowing their MPs or rights groups or independent journalists talk to them. |
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 17 Jul 2010 00:31:16 GMT Report for Abuse
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Saleemtariq
Let Cader speak for his Kandy electorates and the Tamil MPs speak for their constituents
If you, seemingly as a muslim ( are you actually????? I have my doubts!) champion the rights of eelamists what's wrong in Cadre speaking about the tamils?????
Muslim Member of Parliament Abdul Cader of the opposition United National Party (In August 2004, he was arrested on corruption accusations. In November 2004, he was granted bail
So was Cadre found guilty and sent to prison????? For you to attack Cadre's reputation there has to be substance. A person being arrested means nothing and here in the context you have mentioned you are portraying Cadre as an unreliable person because he was arrested on suspicion of corruption BUT Frederica Janz who was proved to have published fibs and hauled up before the Supreme Court is held in high esteem by you to accept all her fibs as Gospel truths by you! What double standards!!
Sinhalese army
Yet again you have proved yourself as a racist! You are refering to the Sri Lanka Army as a 'Sinhala Army' when it's not only sinhalese who are in the rank file of the Sri Lanka Army.
300,000 Tamils behind barbed wires without allowing their MPs or rights groups or independent journalists talk to them
NONSENCE! It was a temporary measure until the people were screened to ascertain whether they were eelamites like you. More than 75% of the 300,000 have now been released and are out of those camps and are free to talk to anyone or go anywhere. PROVE ME WRONG. Several NGOs and Diplomats have visited these camps and accepted that fact.
You HAVE proved yourself and ARE proving yourself AMPLY that you are hell bent on writing fibs to distort the truth and conceal the reality for none other than a purpose of propelling your extremist seperatist racist ambition of achieving eelam by whatever methods available to you.
Try doing anything, your dream of eelam will NEVER be a reality in Sri Lanka.
Edited By - kiwikanga - 17 Jul 2010 00:35:29 GMT |
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17 Jul 2010 03:56:16 GMT Report for Abuse
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| Hey! What is good for darling of the Sihalese pretty boy LTTE 2 I.C. Hon Col Karuan good for all. Only disappointment is why only fifteen years should be for life. |
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17 Jul 2010 09:27:32 GMT Report for Abuse
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Kiwi,
what's wrong in Cadre speaking about the tamils?????
There is absolutely nothing wrong but he doesn't know what is the IDP's are going through. Has he tried to talk to them or inspected the conditions under which they are languishing in camps and roughing out in the overcrowded dwellings of their friends and relatives. I also take the same hostile view when Douglas Devananda speaks. This Cader is not an honest man as he was arrested for corruption and got bailed with the help of influential politicians.
Cadre found guilty and sent to prison?
Nothat won't happen in a country that flourish on institutionalised racism. Dr. Priyantha Seneviratne of Velanai was arrested on murder charges only after the co-workers of the victim protested and later he was admitted to the ICU of a hospital and the high court gave him bail. The murderer of a BBC journalist (Nimalrajan) who exposed EPDP Devananda was arrested only after repeated protests by locals and Reporters Sans Frontiers but the police let him abscond. This is how polticised police and some judges/magistrates behave in SL.
Sinhalese army
Nothing wrong in calling a spade 'a spade'. If it hurts you ask the Rajapakse brothers to recruit members of the minorities on an unbiased way.
It was a temporary measure until the people were screened to ascertain whether they were eelamites like you. More than 75% of the 300,000 have now been released and are out of those camps and are free to talk to anyone or go anywhere.
It is a deliberate lie. Nothing wrong for an individual to have his/her opinion like ppl are entitled to your racist views like 'no ethnic problem', 'unitary government', 'parai Demala', 'Sinhala-Buddhist country' and so on.
Even now foreigners including descendants of SL origin parents have to take MoD clearance to visit Jaffna. This is also racism in that one rule to the South and another to the North.
I am here to expose the racist policies of racist brothers who destroy the country. Your charges are baseless and based on your obsession with supporting this racist government. You are guilty of the charges you fabricate.
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17 Jul 2010 13:00:40 GMT Report for Abuse
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If you can introduce pure democracy, freedom of speech,human rights, fair election, fair judicary, stop of corruption,we dont care if you rule for life time.
But If you abuse human rights, curb media freedom& civil liberty, then there is no point of destroying beloved sri lankans future. |
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 17 Jul 2010 15:41:35 GMT Report for Abuse
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I totally agree with nimal500. I would like to add that the blatant disregard for the Constitution must stop and the rule of law established.
As for Cader, it seems that he has many skeletons in the cupboard and his obvious attempts to ingrain himself with MR is to save himself from litigation with the additional bonus of enriching himself. This is the same story of the many who crossed over. A case of Bribery and twisting of the arms. |
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17 Jul 2010 16:08:55 GMT Report for Abuse
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If you can introduce pure democracy, freedom of speech,human rights, fair election, fair judicary, stop of corruption,
Wishful thinking.. |
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17 Jul 2010 18:18:22 GMT Report for Abuse
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| Leader should not think about his sons future or his future.Because he is the elected leader.He must think about future of 20million people under his care,there well being & future.That is what leaders for. people should come before self. |
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