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Gen. Fonseka`s real letter

Here is the full text of the real letter General Fonseka sent President Rajapaksa seeking his retirement,
His Excellency the President
Through the Secretary, Ministry of Defence,
Public Security, Law and Order
Presidential Secretariat
COLOMBO 12th November 2009
Your Excellency

REQUEST TO RETIRE FROM THE REGULAR FORCE OF THE SRI LANKA ARMY

1. I, General G S C Fonseka RWP RSP VSV USP rcds psc presently serving as the Chief of Defence Staff, was enlisted to the Ceylon Army on 05th Feb 1970 and was commissioned on the 01st June 1971. On the 6th Dec 2005 due to the trust and confidence placed on me, Your Excellency was kind enough to promote me to the rank of Lieutenant General and appoint me as the Commander of the Sri Lanka Army in an era when the Country was embroiled with the menace of terrorism and was in a stalemate state after having toiled for a solution politically or otherwise for over 25 years without a success.

Sri Lanka is joining Israel as a country facing a war crimes investigation for effectively fighting back against terrorism. America should support the Sri Lankan government or keep its nose out of Colombo`s business.

Last week, Stephen Rapp, U.S. ambassador-at-large for war crimes issues, filed a report to Congress on incidents during the recent conflict in Sri Lanka that `may constitute violations of international humanitarian law or crimes against humanity.` The report focuses in particular on January to May 2009 when, after 12 years of conflict, the Sri Lankan military surrounded and destroyed the major armed formations of the Tamil Tigers and killed the terrorist group`s leaders.

This article is based on a presentation made by the author at a round table conference organised by the Control Arms Foundation of India in collaboration with United Nations Information Office, New Delhi on `Armaments, Disarmament & Non-Proliferation` on 23 & 24 September 2009 at New Delhi.]

By Col R Hariharan

Introduction

(October 27, Chennai, Sri Lanka Guardian) Thanks to the three revolutions knowledge, technology, and communication during the last three decades new global paradigms are emerging with far reaching effects on the lives of nations and peoples. Positive effects include economic liberalisation, improved global networking of peoples, emergence of information technology as change agent, and increasing global awareness among people. Negative fall outs include changes in the nature, scope and intensity of conflicts, increasing consumerism, erosion of family values and increasing criminalisation of societies.

The United States is upset. That country, with the worst human rights record over the past 100 years and especially during its post-9/11 adventures in Afghanistan and Iraq, has urged Sri Lanka to take steps to thoroughly investigate what are credible claims of atrocities committed by government forces and rebels. These are claims (my emphasis) contained in a new State Department report.
The report states, `not enough food, medicine and clean water reached a no-fire zone and civilian camps even though the government had pledged to guarantee sufficient supplies there`. This is true. The Tamil civilians held hostage by the LTTE in the no-fire zone had to make do with one cup of rice-gruel a day. That is not because the Government wanted them to starve or did not try hard enough to get food to them. It was because the Government just could not on a consistent basis and this too only in the last days of the war. The State Department knows fully well that the LTTE systematically robbed food convoys and all materials sent to areas they controlled with the help of international NGOs and some UN agencies who cannot plead ignorance.

The report on Sri Lanka`s (SL) war that was to be forwarded to the US Congress has been postponed indefinitely . According to sources in America , this postponement is engendered by the need to garner more information in connection with the report . However , some sources say ,this is the result of a successful `Diplomatic operation` of SL. It is Israel which is being employed to execute this operation . Israel is playing a major role in the operation to soften the American pressure.

Campaign by GG Ponambalam to subjugulate Sinhalese by robbing representation (1940s)
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GG Ponambalam demanded that 50% of the seats be reserved for the minorities in the country which added up to less than 30%.and the other 50% of seats to be decided by an election.if this system was activated 65% of seats will go to the minorities who make up 30% and 35% of seats will go to the majority which made up about 70% of the population at that time.This is a clear plan to subjugulate the Sinhalese majority by Tamil extremist politicians like GG ponambalam

By Latheef Farook

It is heartening to note the swift international response to the misery of Internally Displaced Tamils. There is no doubt that every country ,every organization and every individual should make every effort to ameliorate the conditions of about 280,000 unfortunate Tamil IDPs who were herded and used as human shields by the LTTE against advancing Sri Lankan forces.

Here is a communiqu issued by the Presidential secretariat.

`UN must understand our problems, I understand the SG`s`
`De-mining won`t take 16 years as in Croatia`
`Journalist`s offences include being agent of LTTE`
`Sri Lanka is an equal member of the UN`
`If big countries bully us we will bring it to the UN`
- President Rajapaksa

Sri Lanka has a better story than is getting out to the world on matters of concern to the United Nations such as Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), Human rights and Post Conflict Development was the view of B. Lynn Pascoe, United Nations Under Secretary General for Political Affairs, following his meeting with President Mahinda Rajapaksa earlier today.

That Channel 4 video.
As somebody said, it`s a topic that should be squarely flung in the garbage. However, people such as Kumar David insist that the issue needs some sort of airing.
He shall get his wish.
If somebody says Kumar David is a fool``, I don`t see any reason why we should consult an IQ expert to ascertain the veracity of the claim. (Unless of course he insists.)
Likewise, I don`t see why a discredited TV channel airing obviously doctored videos should be given any credibility. Does this mean that each time some TV station in the West airs something about Sri Lanka, that we should scurry to see if it`s authentic, as Kumar David suggests? Would we have anything else to do with our time?

What are sovereign ratings?

Sovereign ratings attempt to measure credit worthiness of sovereign nations: That is, the ability of a country to pay back its debts. The mechanism of assigning a sovereign rating is somewhat complicated as variety of factors is taken into consideration. These include labour market, internal and external trade, balance of payment, strength of banking sector, and political stability. They are not limited to structural factors such as demographics, education, health etc.
Currently there are three major rating agencies: S&P, Fitch and Moody`s. Long-term ratings of S&P varies from AAA to D with AAA indicating excellent capacity to service and repay debt and D denoting debt in default. Countries who wish to raise debt in global capital markets tend to get themselves rated as these ratings signal the quality of the debt that is being issued. Obviously, highly rated debt carries low interest rates and they progressively increase as the ratings go down.

grate work by Ficcichella,and force india yesterday.
lets hope they can come on top today at least with a point so that the millions starving in the poopland will have some thing to be proud of than the sub sahara countries who r doing better than them :)))))

Peace Frame

Poongkothai Chandrahasan learnt the meaning
of resilience while making films involving war-affected people. In conversation with Papri Sri Raman

Peace is the dividend Harvard-trained filmmaker Poongkothai Chandrahasan, 28, seeks after 25 years of the conflict between the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the Sri Lankan government which recently came to a gory end in her homeland. Poongkothai, who hails from an illustrious family of lawyers and peace activists, is a woman with a vision for her war-torn nation.

while..
[Despite sustained high GDP growth in India, latest estimates of global poverty by World Bank suggest that India has more people living below US$ 2 than even sub-Saharan Africa. These new figures should compel political leaders and policymakers to devise fresh strategies to reduce poverty.

None other than the World Bank (WB) has busted the hype about India s post-liberalisation success. According to the Bank s new estimates not only is India home to roughly one-third of all the poor in the world, it has a higher proportion of its population living on less than $ 2 a day than even sub-Saharan Africa.

For by wise guidance you can wage your war, and in abundance of counselors there is victory

The original motto of Mossad, the Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations of Israel

Tropical Malaysia could easily be Argentina. The man who was hiding in Argentina posed off as Ricardo Klement while the one caught in Malaysia had dozens and dozens of names. The modus operandi of the operation to bring the much wanted man home was more or less the same. Bundle him up into a vehicle, then transfer him to a commercial or chartered flight and bring him home.

sri lanka is progressing without the ethnic boundaries, for peelamists this is genocide :)))))))