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The Sinhala Buddhist chauvinists and other non Buddhist Sinhala racists often use the word `SRI LANKANS` in this forum. Even the Sinhala president used the word Sri Lankans to deny the existence of minorities and their grievances in Sri Lanka. I think the Sinhalese in this forum use the word Sri Lankans and fancy phrases like `Sri Lanka for all Sri Lankans` etc to deny the rights of minorities in Sri Lanka. Many of them use the word` Sri Lankan` to try to hide their anti Tamil racism and pretend like they are peace loving humanitarians.

In ancient times, especially in Republican Rome, IT WASN`T CONSIDERED SEEMLY TO PUT THE PORTRAIT OF A LIVING PERSON ON A COIN. Sometimes gods were depicted bearing a marked likeness to the actual ruler, but to boldly place your own likeness on the coins was to risk BEING SEEN AS A KING. In fact, it was Julius Caesar`s likeness on his own coins that helped foment the insurrection against him.

The monarch`s portrait was a guarantee of the coin`s value in ancient societies, sort of an assay mark. However, the ancient republicans, the pro-democracy philosopher sort who formed the Senate in ancient Greece and pre-Imperial Rome, felt very strongly that a living man`s portrait did not belong on the coinage of a Republic. In fact, it was Julius Caesar`s audacity in putting his living visage on his silver coins that helped spark the rebellion that resulted in Julius Caesar`s Assassination. The early Amercian Patriots were anti-royalists by definition, and royalty have always, since ancient Greek and Roman times, taken pride in putting their image on their coins.

When we think of martial arts, we usually think of China or Japan. Only recently, people have discovered that martial arts had its roots in India somewhere . The location of what part of India martial arts came from still remains a mystery to a lot of people.

Let us take note that India is a sub-continent with roughly 18 languages and various dialects of certain languages. Each state has its own language and writing script. Moreover, there are three major ethnic groups which are the Indo-Aryans of the Northern part, the Mon-Khmer of the Eastern part, and the Dravidians (Thamizhars) of the Southern part. The Indian sub-continent is more comparable to Europe geographically even though it is a country in itself created by the colonial British for their own economical achievements.

JUSTICE BEFORE RECONCILIATION. NOT ONLY THE TAMILS, EVEN THE HAITIAN CHILDREN ARE WAITING FOR JUSTICE.

HLLN Letter to the UN asking for investigative reports, specific actions taken and punishment metered, reparations provided to Haitian victims of rape and sexual abuse by UN soldiers in Haiti.

In 2007, it was discovered and reported that girls as young as 13 were having sex with U.N. peacekeepers for as little as $1 in Haiti. Moreover, Sri Lankan soldiers were accused of systematically raping Haitian women and girls, some as young as 7 years old.

UNKNOWN SOLDIER

Valiant Canadian Son,

Did you know the ridge was taken when you fell? Could you have died aware of the importance of the victory wrought by you and your fellow soldiers of the Canadian Corps? Were you alone, in that mud, where now the twin spires of a glorious monument to your sacrifice and your contribution to Canada`s maturation as a nation now dominates the skyline? The mournful statue of Canada, weeping on the northern edge of the monument remembers, as do we, the great gifts of freedom you have given us. Now, at home on Canadian soil you rest, under the stolid gaze of soldiers of the Great War on the monument above, as they too strive towards a victory, seemingly visible to them but eternally beyond reach. And every November the nation will lay its thankful tribute at your resting place. You are the Canadian, stalwart patriot of Dominion and Empire, representing us all as you did in the mud of that hotly contested ridge. Our father, brother, son, uncle, cousin - we miss you, we mourn you, we thank you for our freedom and the years of peace your death and so many, too many, others won for us.

FOUR CATEGORIES OF SINHALESE POLITICIANS

These are as follows:

(1) SCHEMERS: This breed pretends to dispense justice to Tamils but practices only opportunistic politics e.g: all the past and present leaders of the UNP and the SLFP, who became the prime ministers and presidents of the island.

(2) SCREAMERS: This vocal breed (mostly originating from the non-Govigama castes among Sinhalese) pretends to be the patriots of the Sinhala nation. Since they could NOT ASPIRE to the top echelons of power, they vented all their frustrations on the Tamils with demonic intensity e.g: K.M.P. Rajaratne, C.P. de Silva, I.M.R.A. Iriyagolle, Philip Gunawardena, Rohana Wijeweera, Cyril Mathew and Merril Kariyawasam and Sarath FONSEKA.

The Singapore-based terrorism expert who asserts Tamil terrorists were aboard a ship that brought 76 Sri Lankan migrants to Canada will be called to explain his allegations under cross-examination.
Rohan Gunaratna, who heads a terrorism think tank at Nanyang University in Singapore, has been the chief adviser to federal investigators trying to determine the identities of the migrant men, who arrived off Canada`s West Coast in a decrepit cargo ship on October 17.

The Srilankan flag, the state and its Mahavamsa ideological role in promoting RACISM, HATRED, and GENOCIDAL ACTS against TAMILS

` If you are of the opinion that the Sri Lankan flag and the state glorify Racism Hatred and genocidal acts , then please explore legal prospects of banning the state and the flag under racism and hatred law in UK and other relevant countries.`

Please see the link:
http://site.ofapsuk.com/Home.html

The ethnic problem was largely due to the Tamil people feeling alienated particularly over the language issue and lack of equal access to the public service. It has become an urgent need to implement the language policy, says Chairman of the Official Languages Commission Raja Collure.

The Sinhala government did not magnanimously include Tamil as an official language of Sri Lanka in the constitution. But the Tamils of Sri Lanka spilled their blood for that to happen. The Sri Lankan Tamils are proud of their proper Tamil language usage and they have produced more than their share of Tamil scholars. The Eelam Tamils have been in the forefront of the protection of Tamil language and culture. Now the Sinhala government is corrupting the Tamil language on government websites, name boards and publications etc with unnecessary Sinhala words.

`Canada is a country with laws and there has to be a due process`. Sinhala White Van Justice system does not exist in Canada. The Sinhalese have a hard time understanding this fact.

Canadian Tamil Congress organised a press meeting for the Tamil media, with regards to the 76 Tamils who arrived on `Ocean Lady` Ship at Vancouver. Following is the speech delivered by Mr. LORNE WALDMAN, a LEADING IMMIGRATION LAWYER from Toronto.

There have been several questions that I have been asked. First of all, it`s been said and indeed there was an RCMP officer who stated that they were checking people with the Sri Lanka authorities. I have been asked whether it is illegal?

Predictably, Washington lobbyists are making out quite well from the war. In January, the firm of Patton Boggs was retained by the Embassy of Sri Lanka, with a fixed fee of $35,000 per month, payable quarterly in advance, according to the contract. Democratic lobbyist Tommy Boggs is helping run the account, which calls on Patton Boggs to provide guidance and counsel to the Embassy of Sri Lanka regarding its relations with the Executive and Legislative Branches of the U.S. Government. In other words, to sanitize the government`s conduct of the war and make it look good with the Obama administration.

-JUSTICE BEFORE RECONCILIATION-

On October 25, 2000, twenty-six persons (twenty-nine by some estimates), were chopped to death, while about fourteen others were seriously injured, in a rehabilitation detention centre at Bindunuwewa, Badulla, Sri Lanka. According to the National Human Rights Commission, which inquired into the incident, `the police officers, approximately 60 in number, were present at the place of massacre at the time of the massacre` and they `were fully armed`. At least two of the detainees were shot by the police while trying to escape their attackers. Clearly these officers were participants in the massacre and have committed an even graver crime than the actual perpetrators. The armed police presence encouraged and enabled the attackers to engage in the massacre they were assured that their crimes would have no legal consequences.

The Sinhala `Perehera` on the streets of Jaffna is a slap on the face of Tamils. This procession is nothing but a sheer provocation. Sinhalese are using the Buddha for the purpose of hate mongering. The Sinhala Buddhist chauvinistic state is using the Buddha to humiliate the Tamils who lost the war.

The occupying Nazi forces did the similar, German cultural festivals and parades on the streets of Paris to humiliate the French people and to show the German Dominance over the French people in their beloved capital and the heartland of French history and tradition. The Sinhalese are doing the exact same thing in Jaffna - the Heartland of Eelam Tamils.

`I hope we will have sense to deliver a political solution, because without the political solution, we will continuously face tensions. And it will be very discriminatory towards minority community, mainly the Tamils and the Muslims of this country. For people to begin to think that this country belongs to them, the Tamil people Sinhala and the Muslim people to be united to create a new governance in Sri Lanka. Its time WE END THIS DEPENDENCY ON INDIA, CHINA and PAKISTAN.