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Also, get rid of the racist TNA. Sinhalese people are very fair. Just look at Colombo. How many tamils live in peace with lots of money? If you go to the north and east you can see how much development is taking place. Also, what country release most of the prisoners so fast?

Racist TNA....why because they ask for the rights of the tamil people?

he Tamils in colombo are not colonists brought by the GOSL in buses and lorries and dumped there

Racist TNA....why because they ask for the rights of the tamil people?

No but they have not shown any sympathy for thousands of sinhalese people killed by LTTE. They were supporting LTTE which is a racist outfit.

Reject US Sponsored Resolution A Response to Jehan Perera

http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2012/03/16/reject-us-sponsored-resolution-a-response-to-jehan-perera/

Israeli war crimes on Palestinians UN ignored its own reports and resolutions?
By Latheef Farook

Why does the United Nations remains silent on its own report on Israeli war crimes on dehumanized and starving Palestinians in Gaza? Where are United States and its UNHCR resolution on Israeli war crimes? These are questions no one dare ask. Raising such questions means paying heavy price- be it UNHRC Commissioner Navi Pillay, UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon or even US President Barack Obama-as former US President Bill Clinton paid his price in the form of Monica Lewinsky scandal when he confronted the Jews during his so called peace talks between Palestinians and Israel.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/03/12)

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.The Island: The second UK documentary made four specific allegations against the GoSL on the basis of what it called new evidence. The GoSL was accused of deliberately targeting the civilian population taking refuge in three separate no fire zones, denying them food and medicine, carrying out a full scale attack on NFZ in the guise of conducting hostage rescue operation and lastly executing those surrendering LTTE personnel and civilians. Could you explain the circumstances leading to the establishment of NFZs after the liberation of Kilinochchi in the first week of January 2009?

Defence Secretary: Having liberated Kilinochchi in the first week of January 2009, President Rajapaksa offered an opportunity for the LTTE to surrender. With the success at Kilinochchi, the military had the full control of the area west of A9, thereby the overland main supply route to Jaffna came under our control. Mullaitivu, too, was in our hands. The LTTE forced civilians to vacate their homes and move towards the northern Mullaitivu coast. We never established NFZs to accommodate civilians. Instead NFZ were declared to areas, where civilians moved to under duress. None of those human rights champions urged the LTTE to give up human shields, and accept defeat. Instead they gave the LTTE hope that a fresh lifeline could be arranged if it managed to hold on to their positions at any cost. A section of the media in Dec 2008/ early Jan. 2009 speculated that the LTTE retained powerful striking capability and access to Mullaitivu seas to bring in fresh supplies of arms, ammunition and equipment. The media suggested that the LTTE had in its reserve, the best fighting units under experienced commanders and the SLA was no match for them. The LTTE felt civilians could provide them the required cover until foreign elements intervened on its behalf.

.Defence Secretary: The documentary showed an undamaged trailer truck painted WFP on the background, at the scene of an alleged artillery attack. Since the army lost a stretch of road along the A9 north of Omanthai in June 1990, successive governments moved essential items, including medicine to Jaffna in ships. At an earlier phase of the conflict, the LTTE blew up a ship carrying medicine under ICRC flag to Kankesanthurai. Despite severe difficulties, Sri Lanka provided food and medicine to those living in LTTE-held areas. The global community cannot deny us that credit. Throughout the eelam war IV, we moved supplies to all areas, with the assistance of the international community. If we had decided to deny food to civilians, that WFP vehicle wouldn t have been there. The C4 can easily contact the WFP in Colombo or its headquarters overseas to get a firsthand account of the situation. The WFP received substantial assistance through embassies in Colombo to rush food convoys to Vanni east. The WFP played a critical role in moving supplies in spite of great difficulties. Once ground fighting made it impossible for food convoys to move overland, we launched a two-pronged relief operation to send food ships and evacuate those wounded civilians from Puthumathalan to Pulmoddai. Overland food convoys were terminated on Jan. 23, 2009. The C4 can get in touch with the ICRC and also the government of India regarding how India helped those being brought to Pulmoddai by the ICRC. A fully fledged Indian medical mission operated at Pulmoddai before being moved to Menik farm to provide relief to thousands of internally displaced persons. Although we believed even wounded LTTE cadres took advantage of this arrangement, we allowed all those wounded people to receive medical care.

In fact we involved the Colombo-based diplomatic community in the relief efforts. The UN, US and several missions knew exactly what was going on in the Vanni.

If Jayalalithaa et al had had an iota of compassion for the war victims of Sri Lanka, they should have helped those unfortunate people by building a few houses or sending some dry rations. They haven't even donated a measure of rice

she is now bashing Sri Lanka full time to distract her voters' attention from their burning problems and her broken promises