Sri Lanka News Updates with Discussions

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Farewell my General. I wish you all the very best for the future. I know the word `Thank You` does not do enough justice to the great service you have rendered to this country, so may the silent bliss of peace for which you so selflessly fought, the peace that resonates pure and deep from heart of this beautiful nation of ours be the unspoken gesture of our heartfelt gratitude towards a General unmatched in the annals of our history.

We are not crying anymore. Thank you my General!

Even as the Indian government meets a Lankan delegation to decide on the fate of MV Ali, a ship carrying aid to Sri Lanka - the ship`s crew have made a plea in public for the ship to be allowed to deliver its cargo of relief supplies to war-torn Lankan Tamils.

Kristjan Gu mundsson, a former member of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission, who is onboard the vessel said though the vessel had no permission to anchor off the Chennai coast, it was in India`s best interests to address the concern over MV Ali`s cargo as India was involved `directly and indirectly`.

Captain Ali`s fate to be decided

June 24, 2009 10:29 am

The Indian Central Government will take a decision today (June 24) on the MV Captain Ali - a ship which is on a mercy mission to Sri Lanka. A high level delegation of Sri Lankan officials will be meeting External Affairs Minister S M Krishna later today. A decision is expected to be taken after that meeting.


MV Captain Ali is a ship that is carrying around 884 tonnes of aid including food, medicine and other relief materials for internally displaced Sri Lankan Tamils. The Sri Lankan government has accused the NGO sending the aid of helping the LTTE and hence has sent back the relief ship.

The Colombo Stock Exchange creates history today (June 18) by recording the highest number of transactions in a single day (15290 trades). This is the fourth best performing trading markets in the world (in US dollar terms) after Peru, Brazil and Russia.

It started by Tamils killing Tamils, it ended as Tamils killing Tamils

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Michael Moore in his bitingly satirical book `Dude Where`s My Country?` refers to Osama bin Laden and asks Who`s his travel agent? Well, the same can be asked about Kumaran Tharmalingam alias Kumaran Pathmanathan alias KP who was appointed head of `LTTE International` by Velupillai Prabakaran in January 2009. Michael Moore asks the question a bit late in the day and considering what has happened because it was not asked and answered at the proper time, I believe there is little time to dilly-dally with regard to this man. So I ask, Who`s KP`s travel agent? Since he is on Interpol`s most wanted list and still on the run with no sign of getting caught he obviously has the right contacts in high places. I offer that the USA`s Bruce Fein (who will tell any diabolical lie without batting an eyelid if paid by the hour) and UN`s Vijay Nambiar (who ducked into an airport toilet at Katunayake, Sri Lanka to answer KP`s call to rescue his beleaguered boss) could very well be two (of the several?) travel agents used by the man.

The following is an e mail written by Prof Gerry Pieris, (the former Chair Prof of Geography, Uni of Peradeniya) to Prof S.N.Arsecularatne, Former Chair Prof of Microbiology, Uni of Peradeniya, in response to the `Us and Them` email that`s been circulating around recently.

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Surely, this type of photographically embellished contrast between the `rich` and the `poor` could be drawn in virtually any country. In the context of the fact that the `api` (we) refers to the Sinhalese and the `owun` refers to the Tamils`, several fairly obvious questions could be asked. One is whether the quality of life among the `api` could have been illustrated with photographs from the Wanathamulla area or the `squatter settlements` found all over Colombo. Likewise, wouldn`t pictures from palaces of the nouveau riche in Wellawatte, or the traditional Tamil `Brahmin` clans and the Tamil business moguls in the city - those who never allowed the likes of those in the northern IDP camps even to step into the verandas of their manorial homes illustrate the `api` life-styles. Most important of all, aren`t the `owun` immensely better off now than they were a month ago?

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Jangi Misses Seat

June 8, 2009 01:11 pm

Independent candidate in the European Union elections in London, Ms. Jan Jananayagam, failed to secure a seat. Out of the eight London seats, the main opposition Conservative Party took three (and almost 480,000 votes) and the ruling Labour Party two (with almost 373,000 votes). One seat each went to the Liberal Democrats, the Green Party and the UK Independent Party.
Her campaign was carried out on a Stop Genocide` call alleging that the Sri Lankan military was on a campaign of ethnic cleansing in the island.

Sri Lanka just presented an expanded resolution to UNHRC aimed at arriving at a promoting consensus among UNHRC members. Sri Lankan Ambassador to UN in Geneva Dayan Jayatilaka called it the best synthesis of the sentiments of the human rights council . The original draft which had 17 paragraphs have been expanded to 29 paragraphs.


Sri Lanka`s expanded draft resolution titled assistance to Sri Lanka in the promotion and protection of Human rights to the UN human rights council was just adopted with 29 votes in favor of it. 12 countries including the EU, Mexico, Japan and Chilie voted against. 6 countries abstained from voting.

Worn by the Sole representative of Tamils, Rt. Hon. Velupillai Pirabaharan, while filming `Blue Lagoon Part 3` at Nanthikandal.

Slightly muddied due to scene in the film where Hon Thalaivar was made to grovel in mud like a miserable squealing fat pig just about to be slaughtered.

Perfect for gender confused Tamil Naadu hijara`s, for Dog food sellers in HK or for a pro-LTTE Tamil doctors in New Zealand

Color : Tamil Blue

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JOKER - It was in these circumstances that the two political leaders trapped, hopeless and with no other options made their final desperate attempt to save their lives. The Norwegian minister, Mr Solheim, said he had spoken with Mr Pulidevan and later gone to bed. `The next morning I heard they were dead,` he said.
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Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran`s death circa May 19, 2009, in circumstances we would never quite get to know, concludes a morality play.

As the curtain comes down and we leave the theatre, the spectacle continues to haunt us. We feel a deep unease and can`t quite figure out the reason. Something rankles somewhere. And then we realise we have blood on our hands.

Not only our hands, but our whole body and deeper down, our conscience -- what remains of it after the mundane battles of our day-to-day life � is also dripping with blood.

May 19, 2009

Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran`s [Images] death circa May 19, 2009, in circumstances we would never quite get to know, concludes a morality play.

As the curtain comes down and we leave the theatre, the spectacle continues to haunt us. We feel a deep unease and can`t quite figure out the reason. Something rankles somewhere. And then we realise we have blood on our hands.

From The Island (Main Article)

Butchers slaughtered

by Shamindra Ferdinando

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Although the Army had the opportunity to mount a heavy artillery barrage and call in the Jet Squadrons to zero in on the LTTE-held area, the ground commanders had favoured a ground assault. The LTTE had left several small groups to face the Army as the leaders attempted to reach the dense Mullaitivu jungles.