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[G.Subramaniam]

satp.org

For instance, Sanjoy Hazarika’s fascinating probe into the turbulent politics of India’s Northeast has made a passing reference to visits by LTTE agents to Assam in the late 1980s, and to their attempts to establish an LTTE-ULFA (United Liberation Front of Asom) link. Special mention is made of a brief visit to Assam in 1990, possibly as a gesture of fraternal solidarity, by the LTTE operative Dinesh Kumar.

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a report furnished by Sharma (1997) to the Indian Express refers to meetings between the operatives of the two groups in Tamil Nadu, and of training in guerrilla warfare imparted by the Tigers to the Assamese in the early 1990s. Again, Debashis Mitra in his ‘Newsletter from Kohima’ for the New Delhi newspaper The Statesman dealt mainly with what he saw as an "LTTE-NSCN (National Socialist Council of Nagaland) nexus." More specific details have been furnished in the highly acclaimed study of India’s Northeast by B G Verghese, according to which: "... ‘Operation Rhino’ undertaken by the Indian government in September 1991 against the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) resulted, among other things, in the discovery of documentary evidence of links between the Kachin Independent Army (KIA) of Burma, the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN) and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)." Thuingaleng Muivah, one of the twin leaders of the NSCN, according to Verghese, admitted in a press interview the existence of links between the NSCN and other insurgent groups of Burma and South Asia including the LTTE. (Note that the KIA has been named in several writings as one of the main insurgent groups that control the flow of narcotics from the Golden Triangle). Thus, as The Hindu reported in its issue of May 17, 1998, "(e)vidence has now emerged clearly suggesting an unholy narco-terrorism alliance between drug traffickers and the underground insurgent groups of India and Sri Lanka. The LTTE and the Indian insurgent groups, especially those operating in the Northeast states, have close connections with the trafficking of drugs in the region."
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‘The LTTE is directly involved with the Burmese regime in making and distributing heroin,’ said the source. The investigation uncovered direct proof of close collaboration between Burma and the Tamil Tigers. LTTE forces are allowed to train at military bases in southern Burma. In return they supply couriers for the worldwide smuggling of heroin.

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A retrospect written in July 2000 by Raman on the general theme of ‘support for terrorist groups in South Asia’ contains the following information on subject of the Tiger links with Pakistan at this time:

The second (incident in 1993) was the report from the US intelligence officials that the arms and ammunition found on the LTTE ship carrying Kittu (see Text Box 4)... were actually given to the LTTE by Pakistan’s narcotics baron (sic) in return for the LTTE’s help in transporting narcotics consignments to western ports in its ships registered in Greece, and that these arms and ammunitions were loaded into the ship at Karachi under the supervision of the ISI and the Pakistan navy... Mr. Sharif (Pakistan’s then Prime Minister) was shocked when this information was brought to his notice by the US Embassy in Islamabad. The ISI had kept him informed of its terrorist operations in India, but not of its links with the LTTE

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A further report by the same author, focusing more specifically on the subject of the LTTE – Afghanistan/Pakistan connections, asserted:

In the second half of 1994, the LTTE had helped the Harkut-ul-Ansar (since renamed as the Harkut-ul-Mujahideen – HUM), the terrorist organisation of Pakistan run by the Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI), in smuggling at least two shiploads of arms and ammunition from Karachi for the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) of the Southern Philippines. In return for the LTTE’s assistance in safely carrying these items to the Southern Philippines, the HUM and the ISI gave to it an undetermined quantity of anti-aircraft guns with ammunition and surface-to-air shoulder-fired missiles... It (the LTTE) was also reported to have received replenishments of this (missile) capability in return for assisting the HUM in shipping to a port in Turkey consignments of arms and ammunition meant for the Islamic terrorists in Chechnya.

[G.Subramaniam]

In Summary the bulk of the LTTE consisted of the Karaiyar caste
Their caste occupation was fishing which later led to smuggling
and having a set of bases all over south east asia

Their smuggling skills gave them a head start over the other tamil groups

Hindus rarely fight for language, country or religion
But they will fight for their caste at the drop of a hat

This explains somewhat the large number of women and children cadre
and the willingness to fight to the death

The LTTE has fought bravely in a manner similar to the Japanese in WW2
with hardly any surrenders

[G.Subramaniam]

Dipavamsa the earlier version of the Mahavamsa - wiki

The Dipavamsa, or "Deepavamsa", (i.e., Chronicle of the Island, in Pali) is the oldest historical record of Sri Lanka. The chronicle is believe to be compiled from Atthakatha and other sources around the 3-4th century AD,


Regarding the Vijaya legend, Dipavamsa has tried to be less super-natural than the later work, Mahavamsa in referring to the husband of the Kalinga-Vanga princess, ancestor of Vijya, as a man named Sinha who was an outlaw that attacked caravans en route. In the meantime, Sinha-bahu and Sinhasivali, as king and queen of the kingdom of Lala (Lata), "gave birth to twin sons, sixteen times." The eldest was Vijaya and the second was Sumitta. As Vijaya was of cruel and unseemly conduct, the enraged people requested the king to kill his son. But the king caused him and his seven hundred followers to leave the kingdom, and they landed in Sri Lanka, at a place called Tamba-panni, on the exact day when the Buddha passed into Maha Parinibbana.

The Dipavamsa gives a fuller account of the arrival of Theri Sangamitta(daughter to Asoka), but the epic story of Dutugamunu is treated only briefly, in ten Pali stanzas, while the Mahavamsa devoted ten chapters to it.

[G.Subramaniam]

wiki

The Mahavamsa has, especially in modern Sri Lanka, acquired a significance as a document with a political message.[6] The Sinhalese majority often use Manavamsa as a proof of their claim that Sri Lanka is a Buddhist nation from historical time. The British historian Jane Russell[7] has recounted how a process of "Mahavamsa bashing" began in the 1930s, especially from within the Tamil Nationalist movement. The Mahavamsa, being a history of the Sinhala Buddhists, presented itself to the Tamil Nationalists and the Sinhala Nationalists as the hegemonic epic of the Sinhala people. This view was attacked by G.G. Ponnambalam, the leader of the Nationalist Tamils in the 1930s. He claimed that most of the Sinhala kings, including Vijaya, Kasyapa, and Parakramabahu, were Tamils. Ponnambalam's 1939 speech in Navalpitiya, attacking the claim that Sri Lanka is a Sinhalese, Buddhist nation was seen as an act against the notion of creating a Buddhist only nation. The Sinhala majority responded with a mob riot, which engulfed Navalapitiya, Passara, Maskeliya, and even Jaffna.[7][8] The riots were rapidly put down by the British colonial government, but later this turned through various movements into the current civil war in Sri Lanka.

[G.Subramaniam]

Incest and bestiality in Mahavamsa

At the beginning of the chronicle (see History of Sri Lanka) the King of Vanga is married to the daughter of the King of Kalinga. Their daughter, Suppadevi, was not only 'very fair and very amorous', but was also prophesied to consummate a 'union with the King of beasts'[1] - in the Mahavamsa, a lion. When this duly happened, she gave birth to two children - Sinhabahu and Sinhasivali. 'Sinhabahu' means 'lion-armed' and the young prince himself is described as having 'hands and feet...formed like a lion's'.[2] The family lived together in the lion's cave, blocked in by a large rock the lion had placed to prevent their exit. Eventually, however, Suppadevi and her two children flee the cave. Later Sinhabahu kills his father with an arrow. Then, marrying his sister, he establishes a kingdom based on a city called Sinhapura. Sinhasivali bears him a series of twins; their eldest child is named Vijaya,

[G.Subramaniam]

internet

However, unlike Mahayana Buddhism, Theravada (Way of the Elders) has fostered a rigid, inflexible way of thinking. The schism took place after the demise of Lord Buddha, when Theravadins would insist on a rigorous, fundamental interpretation of Buddha’s teachings as opposed to the Mahayanists more ‘pragmatic’ approach that blended with the culture of the land in which it took root - Tibet, China, Japan, Vietnam. Thus, we can witness the impasse with the military in Myanmar even in a moment of such calamity - negotiate and compromise is not fostered or cultivated in the way of thought of Theravada Buddhism

[dhu]

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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->When Pigs Fly–and Scold: Brits Lecturing Sri Lanka!
By Gary Brecher


Key fact: in Sri Lanka heroes were allowed to get fat, another reason to like the place.

You see some pretty sick stuff when you do my job, but I just read something sicker than any Congo cannibal buffet. It’s an article by a posh little limey named Jeremey Brown condemning the Sri Lankan government for being too messy in putting down the LTTE, and demanding that we stop buying the cheap textiles the poor Sinhalese make their living churning out.

What’s sick about this is that the British establishment destroyed the Sinhalese people completely. Completely and purposely, sadistically. Stole their land, humiliated and massacred their government, made it Imperial policy to erase every shred of self-respect the Sinhalese had left.  You can talk about the Nazis all day long, but for my money nothing they did was as gross as what you find out when you actually look into the history of British-Sinhalese relations. If you can even call them “relations”; I guess a murder-rape is a relation, sort of.

But nobody knows about it. Weird, huh? Nothing weirds me out more than the total news blackout the Brits have managed to put on all the sick sh1t they did to brown and black people all over the world. They had a system, and it worked. They’d grab some paradise island in the tropics, use the Royal Navy to wall it off from the rest of the world, and crush the local tribe. If the locals resisted, the Brits would starve them to death, shoot them down, infect them with smallpox or get them addicted to opium–whatever they had to do to gang-rape the locals so bad that they’d lose the will to resist.

And to this day, they don’t catch even a little bit of Hell for it. Everybody thinks the Brits are all cute and harmless. You’re all a bunch of suckers for those suave accents, you suckers! The truth is that compared to the Brits, the Nazis you’re always yammering about were a gang of eighth-grade stoners who ran around spraypainting swastikas on school property. The Nazis lasted one decade; the Brits quietly ran their extermination programs for three hundred years, and to this day they wouldn’t even think of feeling guilty about it. Wouldn’t cross their minds.

That’s what made me want to puke battery acid when I read Mister Jeremy Brown’s sermon on the naughty Sinhalese: this pig Brown has no clue about why Sri Lanka is so fucked up, no hint at all that it’s the result of British Imperial policy. Not “mistakes” or “a few bad apples” or “regrettable excesses” but clear, cold, ruthless British policy.

One of the funniest bits in Brown’s little Anglican sermon to the Sinhalese is when he mentions Arthur C. Clarke, the Brit sci-fi writer who moved to Sri Lanka. The reason that’s funny is that a few years back, when he was too senile and drunk to watch his tongue, Clarke admitted in an interview that the whole reason he moved to Sri Lanka is “for the boys.” As in, he liked to rape little boys, and they were cheap and pretty in the dear old ex-colony. The fucking Brits wouldn’t stop raping the Sinhalese even after their troops were forced off the island.

Jeremy Brown wouldn’t know that, of course. To him, Clarke is a wonderful example of all the wonderful things British people have done for po’ little Sri Lanka:

    “Britain has…helped to rebuild Sri Lanka’s tourist industry: Britons accounted for 18.5 per cent of the foreigners who visited the former colony’s famous beaches, wildlife parks, tea plantations and Buddhist temples last year. Only India sends more tourists. Many Britons also own property there, especially around the southern city of Galle, not far from where Arthur C.Clarke, the British science fiction writer who settled in Sri Lanka, used to love to scuba dive. [Is that what they’re callin’ it these days? GB]

So the question facing British shoppers and holidaymakers is this: should they continue to support Sri Lanka’s garment and tourist industries?

Don’t you love that last sentence: “Sadly, the answer must be no.” Anybody who can write a sentence like that without blowing his brains out at the monitor is a hopeless twit anyway, but let’s help Jeremy out a little bit, folks, let’s go back in time and take a quick look at all the wonderful things the Brits did for these rotten, ungrateful Sinhalese.

The pattern you see in the colonizing of Sri Lanka is a real familiar one, if you study the European naval empires: the Portugese, the greatest sailors and explorers, came to Sri Lanka long before the Brits, claimed the place, but couldn’t hold on to it. The Portugese lost the island to the Dutch, those up’n’coming Protestant go-getters, in the mid-1600s. That’s another pattern you see everywhere, the old Papist powers losing out to the Protestants, who were just faster and smarter.

The next stage was also totally by the book: the Brits, the canopy tree if you know what I mean, come along and force the Dutch out. There were times the Brits sort of liked the Dutch; they were Protestant, at least, and blonde/blue-eyed. But business was business, and the Brits realized, by the end of the 1700s, that Sri Lanka was worth taking. Of course they didn’t say that in public; the official reason was that they had to boot the Dutch to guard the island from the nasty radical Frenchies.

That way of stealing islands, making it sound like you had to take them for the greater good–that was classic Brit strategy. They always made it look like they were forced, against their will, to grab this or that colony. I dunno if y’all ever saw a movie called Erik the Viking, but it has a great scene with John Cleese playing this insane bloodthirsty warlord who orders people tortured to death in this tired, disappointed upper-class voice, and then whines, “It’s the stress that gets you”–all put upon and harrassed, like Attila the Hun meets The Office.  That’s a perfect image for the way the Brits booted the Dutch out of Ceylon, tsk-tsking while they stole every shed, cannon and bale of tea on the island.

With the Dutch trade rivals gone, the Brits had only one problem left: the damned natives, the Sinhala, or “Kandyans” as they were called back then. That dumb name, “Kandyans,” came from the fact that their main city was Kandy, up in the highlands in the south of the island, the fat part of the teardrop. The Sinhala lived in the highlands for the simple reason that it was a little cooler, not as totally malarial, up there compared to the stinking coastal marshes.

By all accounts, the Sinhala/Kandyans were harmless slackers, who didn’t need or want much from the outside world. All they asked was for people to leave them alone up on their big rocky highlands to do their Buddhist thing. Unfortunately that wasn’t British policy. It irked the redcoats that Kandy still had a king, an army, all this impudent baggage that went with independence. The British decided to break the Sinhalese completely, crush the whole society.

You have to remember that by this time, the early 1800s, the Brits have perfected their techniques in little experiments all over the world. Those Clockwork Orange shrinks were amateurs compared to the Imperial Civil Service. They had dozens of ways of undermining native kingdoms.

British administrators were trained to do a kind of rough, quick sociological sketch of the natives, get a sense of the fault lines and then figure out how to exploit them. The Brits saw fast that the Kandyans were a sluggish bunch of people divided into rigid castes in the classic subcontinent pattern. That made it easy: the Brits made two big castes their official pets and shunned the others, setting up a violent hate between different parts of Sinhalese society. That guaranteed that if the diehard Sinhalese/Kandyan nationalists ever revolted, the teacher’s-pet castes would have a good selfish reason to help massacre them.

Then there was the Kandyan king himself. The Brits weren’t dumb in the way Paul Bremer was dumb, “de-Baathifying” Iraq. They loved corrupt local rulers. Much easier and cheaper to bribe one fat old degenerate on a throne than negotiate with all the commoners. So the Brits started playing with the nervous, dumb-ass Kandyan royals, scaring them with the threat of losing everything and then teasing them with the possibility of the safe, soft life of a Brit puppet.

This was the major leagues of Colonialism. To give you an idea of how important Ceylon/Sri Lanka was back then, try this on: in 1802, when French armies were kicking British and Prussian and Italian and Russian ass all over Europe (weird how nobody remembers that, huh?), the Brits were so terrified they tried to give Napoleon all their colonies except Sri Lanka and Trinidad. Those were the two they needed to keep.

And this is where another standard Brit policy came into play–a real smart one that we ought to be imitating: use native auxiliaries, not homeland troops, as much as possible. For all kinds of reasons, but here are the main ones:

1. If you bring in troops from some remote part of the Empire to do your dirty work, it’s those troops, those faces and accents, the locals will remember, and hate, for generations. So you, the sly little pink Brit administrator, can stroll in later and commiserate with the locals as they show you around their burned huts, bayoneted kids, etc., and even say with a straight face, “Oh my, those auxiliaries from wherever, what ruddy heathens, eh? Outrageous, I shall certainly let Whitehall know about these abuses!” Then, of course, you get in your sedan chair, close the curtains and chuckle all the way home to where your little bum-boy is waiting.

2. Nobody back in London counts casualties as long as it’s Malay mercs dying. You can lose a lot of them–and a lot of Malays did die fighting the Sinhala, especially in the total rout of a malaria-sapped Brit/Malay force at the Mahaveli River in 1803–but nobody is going to make a fuss in the Times of London (Mister Jeremy Brown’s paper, as you may recall). If you’re lucky they’ll pop off before payday and you can keep their payroll for that estate in Shropshire.

3. Dropping hot-blooded feisty Malay muslims with guns far from home and making them fight Sinhalese bleeds Malay society as well as Sinhalese. Left in peace, Malays could be trouble–a proud, warlike people. So by sending them to die in Sri Lanka, you’re diverting all that young, angry Malay blood away from SE Asia and using it to bleed Kandy (bleed Kandy–I like that!). Two birds, one bloodsoaked stone.

You see why I get impatient with you gullible suckers yammering about the fucking Nazis? The Nazis were retards, a white-trash tantrum, an eighth-grade chem-class pipe bomb, a quick-fizzle flash in the pan, compared to the Brits, the scariest motherfuckers ever to butt-f*(k the planet.

The mercenaries the Brits sent to crush the Kandyans were Malays, muslims from SE Asia who didn’t need a lot of pep talks to slaughter South Asian Buddhists (and steal their chickens). That was life for the Brits back then, at the top of their game: picking up pieces from one part of the world and dropping them where they’d do the most harm, half the world away. “Ah yes, let’s ferry some Malay mercs to Kandy, that should give the bloody idol-worshippers something to think about!”

Destroying Buddhism was a big part of Brit policy. The Buddhist routine, the temples, begging monks, long boring prayers–it was the glue that kept Kandy together. So the Brits decided to destroy it. They even said so, in private memos to each other. They weren’t shy in them days. Here’s the Brit governor in 1807: “Reliance on Buddhism must be destroyed. Make sure all [village] chiefs are Christian.”

Up to 1818, the Brits had a blast messing with doomed Sinhala rebellions, trying out CI recipes like Frankenstein guesting on Rachael Ray. A good time was had by all, except the Sinhalese. They had a very, very bad time, and it was about to get worse.

See, another constant you’ll find in Brit imperial policy is that although they’re very sly and patient, they have a very good sense of when to cut the crap and just wipe out a tribe that’s been annoying them for too long. They were getting sick of the Sinhalese, with all their bickering and intrigues; the redcoats just weren’t enjoying the Col. Kurtz game the way they used to. So boom: the “kill’em all” era begins.

But they did it smart, not like the idiot boastful Nazis y’all love to obsess on. I bet every one on the planet can name the Nazi death camps, but I’d be surprised if more than, say, a half dozen people outside Sri Lanka can name the policy the Brits used to destroy the Sinhala for good.

Anybody? Didn’t think so. See, here’s another little tip for up’n’coming genocidaires out there: always pick the most boring name possible. Those fucking Nazis, with their heavy-metal jewelry and titles! Dopes! You want extermination programs with names that put everybody to sleep.

And that’s why in 1818 Britain brought “the wasteland policy” to Kandy. They could have called it what that Liberian wacko called his campaign: “Operation No Living Thing.” That’s what it meant: Brit-led troops “draining the sea” the Sinhala irregulars swam in by burning every hut, every field, and killing every animal in every village they suspected of harboring “rebels.”

Hey, that’s another key Brit CI techniques: that word “rebels.” Blows me away: how can a Sinhalese in Sri Lanka, fighting for the country his people have owned for a hundred generations, be a “rebel”? And the pipsqueak redcoat officer hunting him down, who was born and raised in fucking London–he’s not the “rebel,” he’s the forces of law and order, the rightful authorities. Quite a racket if you have the sheer, sociopathic nerve to say it with a straight face. (I’m talking to you, Mister Jeremy Brown!)

What does “rebel” mean, anyway? I’ve noticed that in English press it’s a bad word. Here it’s different, because we were the rebels in 1775 and proud of it. But see, people who know the American revolution think that the Brit policy against the Yankees, where (give or take a Banastre Tarlteton or two), the redcoats tried to avoid killing civvies, was normal Imperial policy.

Bullshit. The reason the Brits let us go, didn’t try scorched-earth on us, was that we WERE Brits, as far as they could tell: white protestant English-speaking humans. If you weren’t all of the above, you weren’t human. The only other war where English troops had the same restraint was–take a guess. Right: the English Civil War. In England, they fought clean. But when Cromwell marched up to subdue the Scots, who were Protestant (good) but non-English (bad), a lot of POWs never made it back to the holding pens, and a lot of crofts were torched, and a lot of girls were raped. When he moved from Scotland to Ireland, where the filthy locals were filthy Papist as well as non-English, well, you don’t want to know what happened there.

So in places like Sri Lanka, full of brown heathens, Brit policy had nothing to do with fucking Yorktown. More like Dresden, only lower-tech.

The “Wasteland” policy was smart and mean at the same time–another sure mark of the Brit Imperial Touch. It was designed to deny the “rebels” support in the short term, but in the long term it was pure punishment, taking away the land, livestock and other assets of all the Sinhalese who were even suspected of being “rebel”-lovers.

And it worked. To this day, 200 years later, the Sinhalese castes who backed the rebels are dirt poor, and worse: they’re hated by everybody around them and they even hate themselves. And nobody even remembers who did it to them, poor lab rats. They think it’s their own fault, that there’s something wrong with them.

There’s more, and worse, but to tell the truth, this is making me sick. I’ve tried to tell this story a dozen times and nobody wants to know. You just end up vomiting battery acid all night, and pigs like Mister Jeremy Brown of the Times of London never lose one second of sleep over all those bodies, and all those lies and sheer nastiness. What’s the use? I’ll just fastforward through a couple of highlight shots. Take reprisals. You know, like those bad ol’ Nazis used to do after a “rebel” attack? The Brits were there way before the Nazis. They took revenge for a half-assed Kandyan revolt by killing one out of every hundred Sinhalese. Like, at random. To keep it fair, you know, not play favorites.

And then the nastiest CI weapon of all, the demographic bomb. This was a Brit specialty all over the world (see Fiji for a weirdly similar case). The Brits ran India, so they had total control over millions of obedient Tamil peasants who were starving, desperate, and ready to go anywhere, just pile into the hold of a ship and get out to cut cane or plant rice in some place that may as well have been on the Moon for all they knew.

So along with the massacre/reprisals, the Brits came up with one of their classic two-birds-one-stone plans: to neutralize the Sinhalese, let’s import huge hordes of Tamils from India! They’re cheap and docile and they’ll give the Sinhala something to keep them busy even after we have to leave the island, haw! And meanwhile they’ll drive the price of labor down even further! Brilliant, chaps, absolutely brilliant!

And they did it. Worked so well it’s still working today. And when they were done totally destroying the poor Sinhalese, the Brits did what they do best, better than any other murder gang on the planet: they took that amnesia zapper from Men in Black and zapped everyone in Sri Lanka, then turned it on themselves and were suddenly so innocent, so damn virtuous and clean, that a pig like Mister Jeremy Brown can actually sit down at a computer and boast about all the wonderful times England has raped Sri Lanka, from olden times right down to Arthur C. Clarke buggering every little boy on the island. Heckuva job, Brownie! Satan himself is shaking his head, muttering, “Gotta give it to the fuckin’ limeys, damn it….they got no shame at all, ya gotta admire that. Damn, even I wouldn’t have had the gall to talk like that Jeremy Brown. I’m putting him down for CEO of the Hell Propagandastaffel the minute his liver packs up and he lands down here.”

OK, done. Now you can all pass around that amnesia gun.

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[G.Subramaniam]

The author ignores that Jaffna tamils were different from Plantation Indian tamils
Also ignores many sinhala racist provocations until 1983, such as burning Tamil library in Jaffna, roasting alive several brahmin priests and other buddhist monk activities

[Husky]

Sorry, missed this.
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One of Mahinda Rajapakse's (at least) 2 brothers is called Basil.
Question: is Basil an Indian, perhaps particularly Sinhalese, name? I know such a name definitely exists in Europe ("St Basil").
Anyone know what Rajapakse's parents were, or at least what their full names are? Particularly the mother.
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Lots of sri lankans both tamil hindus and sinhalese buddhists have xtian names

Rajapakse's wife is a catholic
The Bandaranaikes were xtians who converted to buddhism for political gain
Jayawardene was muslim converted to buddhism for political gain
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Even if they think they are stuck with a Portuguese surname, the first name at least is one of <i>choice</i>. Best to clarify my initial question then: <i>If</i> Basil is not a specifically Buddhist/general Dharmic name, why would any SL Buddhists choose to give it as first name to their child?

[Husky]

http://rajeev2004.blogspot.com/2009/07/tig...u-or-tamil.html
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yup, it is meant to be a semitic, monotheistic christist entity.

sort of like the maldives are entirely mohammedan, they want sri lanka to be entirely christist. they are prepared to kill all the hindus and buddhists for this, and will probably broker some kind of deal with the mohammedans, whom they are scared of.

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“LTTE Chief Prabhakaran was inspired by Bhagwat Gita; he was greatly enamoured of the principles enunciated in the Gita; his motto was ‘do your duty but do not expect any benefit from it.’ He found his ideology from the song depicting the discourse between Arjuna and Krishna in the Tamil film ‘Karna.’ The Itihasa-Mahabharata enthralled him. The characters he identified with were Bhima and Karna. He believed that in order to fight evil and establish dharma, it is essential to eliminate one’s enemies.”
(http://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/story.aspx?title=
Prabhakaran%20was%20inspired%20by%20Gita&artid=ItENrbNWK4I=&type)
(This is the 2nd article in the New Indian Express/Expressbuzz in recent times to be either promoting christianism or be anti-Hindu. Has there been any shuffling of the editors/owners of expressbuzz recently?)

“The Indian freedom struggle fascinated him. He read the Tamil version of Mahatma Gandhi’s autobiography “Satya Sodhanai” (Experiment with Truth) in his early teens but was not enamoured by it greatly.”

“His ideal and idol was Netaji or Subhash Chandra Bose. Netaji had ideological differences with the Mahatma about the mode of struggle for independence. At one stage he disapproved of Gandhi’s “non-violence” and went on to form the Indian National Army (INA) to launch an armed struggle against the British.”

“Apart from Netaji, Prabhakaran was also impressed by the Sikh freedom fighter Bhagat Singh and two other freedom fighters from Tamil Nadu namely Vaanchinathan and Thiruppur Kumaran” (http://www.merinews.com/catFull.jsp?articleID=15769930).

“Prabhakaran also read the Tamil translations of Swami Vivekananda’s writings and speeches avidly. Another spiritual person he looked up to was Thirumuga Kirupananda Vaariyaar popularly called ‘Vaariyaar.’”

All these informations, which were <span style='color:red'>not in the public domain for the last three decades,  have suddenly emanated from nowhere after his death.

The latest canard is that the LTTE represented the “Hindu” Tamils of Sri Lanka.
(http://online.wsj.com/article/SB12446628...ml).</span>

A serious analysis on Prabhakaran’s activities would clearly reveal that neither he nor his actions were anywhere near the impressive list given above! <b>Then why are such canards being spread?</b>

It seems that the western Christian nations and their paid agents in India, Sri Lanka and elsewhere are <span style='color:red'>bent upon giving a “Hindu” colour to the LTTE with the purpose of branding it as a “Hindu Terrorist” outfit, especially at a time when the Christian hand behind the Tamil Eelam and its full fledged support to LTTE has been categorically established in the geo-political arena.</span>


<b>Damaging Diaspora</b>
<b>An extremely devious game is being played by Christian hands which rally behind the Sri Lankan Diaspora while simultaneously aiding so-called Tamil organizations. Even after the defeat of LTTE and the liquidation of its top leadership, the Sri Lankan Diaspora, prodded by the western powers, has been harping on the demand for separate Tamil Eelam. The diaspora has gone to the extent of calling itself future “Tamil Tigers” and saying it would achieve the objective of “Tamil Eelam” at any cost. </b>

Wikipedia says, “The Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora is difficult to explain in one example. It was neither a continuous process nor a sudden one. It cannot be attributed to a single circumstance or incident. In fact, even the history of migration of Sri Lankan Tamils in each country is different and has to be read and understood separately.”

However, to simplify, it divides the Sri Lankan Diaspora into three distinctive periods as British Colonial Period, Pre-1983, and Post-1983. The most important observation by Wikipedia is that, ‘the Sri Lankan Tamils tended to differentiate themselves from emigrant Indian Tamils in the host countries by their caste, socio-economic status, unique Sri Lankan Tamil dialects, religious practices and food and cultural habits.’
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lankan_Tamil_diaspora).

This tendency to differentiate themselves from the Indian Tamil Diaspora, which integrated well with ‘Hindu’ communities from other parts of India, could have helped Christian establishments to influence them, as evidenced by the ‘Christian’ leadership of the Sri Lankan Tamil Diaspora in almost all countries, particularly in Canada, France, Germany, UK and the US.

The Sri Lankan Tamil Diaspora’s strength is considerable in Canada (400,000), UK (300,000), France (100,000) Germany (60,000), Australia (53,000), US (35,000) and Italy (24,000). It is rather painful to note that the Diaspora is in no mood of reconciliation, exhibiting its lack of concern for the millions of civilian Tamils suffering in Sri Lanka. The Sri Lankan Tamil Diaspora seems more bothered about continuing the terror legacy of LTTE and enjoying refugee status in the host countries, thereby allowing the present LTTE leadership to enjoy the wealth amassed over the years, than finding a peaceful settlement for the tormented Tamil community in the northern / eastern part of Sri Lanka.

The Sri Lankan Tamil Diaspora comprises Hindus and considerable numbers of Catholics and Protestants. <b>Christian organizations which support the LTTE covertly, take care to keep the Diaspora under its control through the LTTE.</b> Analyzing the widespread support enjoyed by the LTTE in the Diaspora, journalist Nirmala Rajasingham noted, <b>“The LTTE in the course of its military and political campaign decimated all other political opinion within the Tamil polity in Sri Lanka, in order to establish itself as the "sole representative" of the Tamil people. At the same time, it began to flex its muscles within the Tamil community in the west. In time its stranglehold over the diaspora communities - including through methods of intimidation, assault, and threats to families in Sri Lanka - became an accomplished fact.</b> Paris and Toronto were prime examples of the phenomenon, where unquestioning compliance was demanded and wrought.”

Regarding the fund-raising opportunities ‘created’ by LTTE, she said, “The Tiger lobbyists, fundraisers and propagandists in the diaspora are relentless in attempting to enforce submission to its command performances. Even for events such as ‘martyrs’ day’ celebrations or the funeral of the LTTE ideologist Anton Balasingam, thousands are mobilised and bussed in. Every tragic event is turned into a fundraising opportunity.”
(http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/the...-realities).

Meanwhile the death of Prabhakaran has caused divisions within the LTTE, one in support of K. Pathmanathan (KP), leader of LTTE’s international affairs including fund raising and arms purchasing, and the other against him. It is believed that KP has complete control of LTTE’s huge funds and assets like cargo ships, etc. The Sri Lankan government has sought international help to capture him. The LTTE’s intelligence wing led by Pottu Amman (it is not clear if he is dead or alive) is believed to be against Pathmanathan; the Sri Lankan Diaspora is also divided between these two, and this fight for power and leadership, and division in diaspora, have become a cause for concern for the Church, which has been the main force behind the LTTE.

In this connection, on 28 May 2009, Fr. Jegath Gasper Raj, a controversial Christian clergy and co-founder of the Chennai-based “Tamil Maiyyam,” sent an appeal through www.tamilcanadian.com to the Diaspora to unite so that a broader Tamil renaissance could be ‘ignited’. He said, “In the immediate next phase the Government of Sri Lanka will unleash a hidden war, more treacherous than the one it let loose in Mullaitivu, to break the unity and political consolidation of the Diaspora. I am sure the Diaspora has the moral capacities to withstand a dirty political war by the Sri Lankan Government. But what can shatter the hopes of a dignified political solution will be the unravelling of LTTE. Let’s concede that the massive military debacle would certainly have created serious gaps in LTTE’s command structure. I get a disturbing feeling that there is already an unseen power struggle among certain sections of the LTTE for the control of the organization and its vast resources. We can expect that intelligence agencies of various countries will welcome this development and do everything to hasten these divisions”.
(http://www.tamilcanadian.com/page.php?cat=357&id=5760

This letter clearly shows the Christian mind, which wants to keep the Diaspora under its control, worries about the power struggle in the LTTE, and doesn’t want the LTTE to unravel. Gaspar Raj is well connected with the ‘Dravidian’ politicians of Tamil Nadu, which goes to prove that the “Dravidian-Christian” nexus is the brain behind the call for separate “Tamil Eelam.” <b>While the Christian leadership successfully alienates the Sri Lankan Tamil Diaspora from the Indian Tamil-Hindu Diaspora, the Dravidian leadership, which travels abroad to the west quite often, always makes it a point to visit only the Sri Lankan Tamils and not the Indian Tamils, who are normally seen with other “Hindu” communities of India.</b>
("Dravidian-christian nexus": actually, Dravidian movement in TN is christian, it's cryptochristist. So it's just "TN christian and SL christian nexus".)


(To be continued…)
The author is a senior journalist; he lives in Chennai<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Shows that christos are onto damage control since they don't want "the LTTE is a christian terrorist outfit" to become known (also important for the Christo Rewriting History Archive, nor do they want christianist hold/puppeteering among the SL Tamizh diaspora to be exposed.

Can see first-hand the uses of <i>cryptochristianism</i> (in this case, that of Prabhakaran and LTTE):
1. cryptochristianism gives them deniability: "not a christian"
2. cryptochristianism enables them to pass blame, AKA christian lying: "LTTE is not a christian terrorist outfit but a Hindu one!"

Sri Lankan Hindu diaspora is largely infiltrated. Instead of avoiding christianism, they are duped into bringing in the christian poison to shared Tamizh organisations: by renaming orgs as "Tamil", Hindus from TN are also stuck with SL christians who tagged along with unwitting SL Hindus.

[Husky]

And:

http://www.srilankaguardian.org/2009/07/ta...s-on-tamil.html
via http://haindavakeralam.com/HkPage.aspx?P...889&SKIN=W
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Tamil Hindu Reflections on Tamil separatism</b>
01/07/2009 14:25:19 

By Arundhati Rajasingham - Vavuniya, Sri Lanka

<b>Tamil Hinduism versus Christianity:</b>

The Tamil Tigers under Prabhakaran repeatedly thrust war upon the Sri Lankan Tamils. It would be worthwhile to review our recent history, learn its lessons and endeavour to achieve a brighter future. The defeat of the LTTE offers us the space to change direction, revive our cultural traditions and our economic fortunes. I shall recount the Hindu foundation of Sri Lankan Tamil identity, the real nature of the Tiger ideology and salient points in the LTTE insurrection. <b>I argue that a return to Hindu fundamentals alone would secure Tamil cultural and economic interests in Sri Lanka on a sustainable basis.</b>

<b>The Tamil history in Sri Lanka is a Hindu one.</b> Those Tamils in Sri Lanka who adopted Buddhism in the early first millenium assimilated into the Sinhalese mainstream in a generation or two. Tamils in the Western and North Western Provinces who adopted the Roman Catholic faith in the 17th century likewise became Sinhalese. The Colombo Chetties are another example. The Sri Lankan Muslims view themselves a separate ethnic group despite speaking the Tamil language. <b>It was Saivite Hinduism alone that preserved the Tamil ethnic identity as we know it today in Sri Lanka.</b>

The Tamils featured in Sri Lankan history since at least the second century BC. The Hindu tradition defined and inspired the Tamil identity in Sri Lanka. Pallava era influence in the 7th century and the Chola interlude in the 11th century illustrates that in Ceylon.

The Jaffna kingdom existed between the 13th and 17th centuries AD. We are a people defined by Hindu tradition. Jaffna, often independent, intermittently paying tribute to the Vijayanagara empire and once loyal to Kotte under Parakrama Bahu VI, was a maritime and agrarian political entity that upheld Saivite Hinduism. The flag of the Kingdom of Jaffna was the Nandi kodi, not the Tiger banner. The Portuguese destroyed the Jaffna Kingdom in 1619 AD. The consequent devastation to our cultural heritage was immense.

Much later, Pandara Vanian resisted the Dutch and the British in the late 1700s. A devout Hindu, he built a Sivan temple in Kat-chilai-madu before he fell resisting a three pronged British assault on his forces in 1803 in Mullaitivu. Arumuga Navalar was born in Jaffna in 1822. He was known as the father of Tamil prose and popularized the Tamil printing press. He played a key role in the Hindu revival, printed several Hindu texts and started Hindu denominational schools.

C.W Thamotherampillai born in Jaffna in 1832 was one of the first Tamils on either side of the Palk Straits to get a university degree. A devout Hindu and high court judge, he followed Navalar's footsteps to  disseminate Saivite Hindu tradition and publish rare Tamil classics. Ananda Coomaraswamy,another Sri Lankan Tamil, was born in 1877 and was the first Hindu to interpret Hindu art to an international audience. His contributions to the Hindu aesthetic preceded Rabindranath Tagore's Shantiniketan and Rukmini Devi's Kalakshetra. Are we true to this vibrant Sri Lankan Tamil Hindu inheritance of ours?

The LTTE sought a separate Tamil state. But at what cost? The Sri Lankan Tamils are defined by two factors i.e. the Hindu religion and the Tamil language. The Tamil Tigers sought to defend the Tamil cause but intentionally weakened the Hindu identity. This explained their failure. The Christian influence on the top LTTE leadership was immense. This was despite the fact that Christians only constituted 14% of the Tamil population.

<b>An internationally-financed Christian evangelism was initiated in LTTE-held areas in the 1990s.</b> The Ceylon American Mission embarked upon a 'church planting campaign'. They opened new orphanages and new churches. The Methodist Church did likewise. The Roman Catholic church under its social service arm, HUDEC was not far behind. <b>The pro-LTTE 'TamilNet' website was unabashedly anti-Hindu, anti-Buddhist, anti-Indian and pro-Christian. 'Tamil Canadian' republished articles from Christian journals but failed to reproduce Hindu media clips. The 'Tamil Nation' in London even urged Tamils to jettison celebrating the traditional Hindu new year in mid-April.</b>

<span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>The LTTE discouraged people from following the time-honored Tamil Hindu custom of cremation. It supported the burial of the dead. <b>It attempted to jettison the traditional Tamil wedding ceremony introducing a civil ceremony instead. </b></span><span style='color:red'>It encouraged beef-eating.</span> It promoted the use of so-called Dravidian names that had no basis in our history. While Hindu temples flourished in Government-held areas, they were neglected in LTTE-held territory. <b>The LTTE strategy entailed a de-Hinduization of Tamil identity. Was this not Christian evangelization under the guise of a Tamil revolt?</b>
(Exactly. Christian pattern: de-Hinduisation, followed by christianisation.)

<b>The continuation of the war was only intended to facilitate a gradual Christianization of the Tamil people in Sri Lanka.The LTTE claimed that it was secular and neutral between the overwhelming Tamil Hindu majority and the better financed Tamil Christian minority. Religious dualism – the overt tolerance of two religions with the intent to undermine one while allowing the other to expand – was the ugly face of Tamil Tiger secularism. Its real intent was to weaken the Tamil Hindu identity under the guise of fighting the Sinhalese.</b>

<b>Ceaseless War</b>

Sri Lanka had experienced a Tamil insurrection since 1981. India facilitated the Indo-Sri Lanka Peace Accord in 1987 to help address Sri Lankan Tamil grievances. This entailed the 13th Amendment to the Sri Lankan constitution. The Sri Lankan Tamils were to enjoy far reaching autonomy through newly established provincial councils. This was a power sharing between the center and the provinces.

The LTTE undermined that peace accord and initiated hostilities in October 1987 by attacking Sinhalese villages in the Trincomalee district. Many Tamils perished with the resumption of the conflict, others fled the country and our livelihood took a beating.

The opportunity for a peace settlement presented itself once again. President Chandrika Kumaratunge mooted a 'Union of Regions' for Sri Lanka in 1995. This implied a radical restructuring of the Sri Lankan state. It proposed a confederal constitution. Prabhakaran however abrogated the ceasefire in April that year. President Kumaratunge responded by the recapture of the LTTE-held Jaffna district. She proposed a draft new constitution once again in 1999 that offered extensive devolution to the Sri Lankan Tamil population of the North and East. The LTTE rejected both the initial peace proposal and the subsequent one. It was unsuccessful in its attempt to assassinate President Kumaratunge.

The LTTE regrouped and won several battles thereafter. However, it failed to serve Tamil interests. Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe was voted into power in 2001 and entered into yet another a ceasefire with the LTTE. Life for us in the forgotten Sri Lankan North suddenly improved. We were free to cultivate the land, trade, travel and educate our children. The Hindu New Year in April resumed its festive air. People flocked to Hindu temples each April in joyous anticipation of a better future. The LTTE undermined that ceasefire through repeated violations and assassinations.

It prevented Ranil Wickramasinghe from winning the presidential elections in 2005. It enforced the elections boycott in Sri Lankan Tamil areas. Mahinda Rajapakse won the polls. The LTTE used that window to initiate hostilities with a succession of high profile land mine attacks that killed more than one hundred military personnel. The intention was to provoke. I need not recount the rest.

Is it not time for us Tamils to reflect on where things went wrong? What have we achieved in the political realm since 1987? <b>Shouldn't we change track by repudiating the battles of ethnicity and instead emphasize that which safeguards the cultural traditions that define us and the economic livelihood that sustains us?

Unless we rethink our politics, we would be obliterated as a civilizational unit. It is our Hindu identity that alone safeguarded out existence through the centuries. It is Hinduism that explained our vibrancy. Minus that, we stand prone to obliteration.</b>

The defeat of the LTTE offers us the space to change direction, revive our cultural traditions and our economic fortunes. The LTTE did not achieve what it sought to accomplish. Its time to change. The Hindu religious texts celebrate 'Sarvodaya' - the awakening of all. May that soon be a reality.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

[Husky]

http://www.srilankaguardian.org/2009/06/mi...-norwegian.html
via
http://vijayvaani.com/FrmPublicDisplayAr...spx?id=674

Look through it for the words "christian", "catholic", "church", "1983", "early eighties".


For instance, like these bits:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Asiantribune
The above site presents an article called ‘LTTE has so far killed 25 parliamentarians’. Funny thing about the list is all those murdered are Hindu Tamil parliamentarians except one. And the Catholic MP was killed by the breakaway Karuna fraction.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Jeebus creepus, I wonder why this was.... Could it be because the LTTE is ... um... what's that word again... christian?

And it provides a list of diplomatic Norwegian <i>christists</i> (clearly labelled as being <i>christians</i>, so that the secular audience does not confuse itself):
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Then the man who wanted good Christian values implanted in the Norwegian psyche, Kjell Magne Bondevik, has somehow crept into the Prime Minister slot in Norway.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Indeed one needs stretch one’s imagination to gasp what these Christian mafia’s ulterior motives were! Was it eradication of Buddhism from the Island? The reason why <b>Christians</b> such as Kjell Magne Bondevik, Arne Fjørtoft, Jon Wesborg, Vidar Helgesen, or Erik Solheim should be questioned as to whether they have pledged the <b>Jaffna Tamil Catholic church (Synonymous with LTTE)</b> to build a Tamil state upon the ruins of Lanka.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->They mean "a christoterrorist state upon the ruins of Lanka". There's nothing Tamizh in christianism.

Eelam is intended to be christian, they want to carve out a "christistan" as Rajeev Srinivasan puts it, and as a VV article also explained it.
ChristoDMK is part of it, part of the christianisation of the subcontinent. Hence DMK's christist LTTE-supporting 'lawyer' goons who successfully sidetracked protection of TN's Chidambaram Natarajan Kovil.

The catholic church is very good at fingerpointing while playing the innocent bystander (part of its PR): "those new fundy evangelicals are the ones that are doing all the forcible conversions, we are just as much victims of their evangelical poaching as everybody else on the island". Meanwhile, catholic church has bigger, long-term plans of course. There's a reason it's famous for its holy inquisitions, crusades and calls for 3rd millennium conversions of heathen nations.


The article also makes a passing reference to the catholic-controlled angelsk-language media in the island and how it carefully censors anything exposing the christist terrorism:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Instantaneously I grasped the direction of Helgasens thrust in the Island. I countered his propaganda ploy with a piece of my own, which I appropriately called ‘Are you ready to be taken for another ride’. For I have grasped their ‘Game plan’ and followed it up every step of the way. The Catholic action controlled English news in Lanka was UD friendly, and working in unison, hence blocked my article for some time. Finally on Sunday 18th of April 1999 I managed to get it printed in ‘The Sunday Island’ thanks to a fair minded editor. I pointed to the glaringly obvious fact there. “Owing a history of partisanship to this conflict, asking Norway to negotiate is like asking ‘a fox to mind the chicken coop’ I declared”. But Lankans were in a deep slumber and failed to grasp the subtlety of the message.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

[Guest]

<b>Rajaratnam Surfaced in U.S. Terrorism Probe</b>?

[Guest]

<b>Sri Lanka shares tumble after US fraud charges</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->In a carefully-worded statement, the Central Bank said: "investigations are yet continuing in relation to the funding allegedly provided by Raj Rajaratnam to the TRO (Tamil Rehabilitation Organisaton).  Accordingly, any reports that suggest that such investigations are concluded or that Rajaratnam has been cleared of possible involvement are incorrect and misleading."

<b>At one point, he was possibly the largest single investor in the country with stakes in NDB and DFCC banks and the John Keells company among others. "He still owns 7 per cent to 10 per cent in at least 10 top Lankan companies,’</b>’ a broker said.

A Tamil from Colombo, Rajaratnam’s home was in the fashionable 'Colombo 7' area. His father was the country head of the MNC Singer and had transferable job. <b>Rajaratnam studied in schools in Sri Lanka, India and the UK and is married to a Sikh from Philippines with whom he has three children. Two Indians arrested along with Rajaratnam were also from the Wharton Business School.</b>

Friends said Rajaratnam was deeply involved in charity. "Rajaratnam gave millions of dollars in charity here and not to Tamil-dominated areas alone. After the tsunami, he carried out housing projects in Hambantota, Galle in the south and Kalmunei in east where the Sinhalese and Muslims are in majority," friend and broker Murtaza Jafferjee said.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

[Husky]

http://rajeev2004.blogspot.com/2009/11/sri...an-islands.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Sri Lanka Claims Andaman Islands</b>
nov 9th, 2009

no doubt emboldened by the hans, sri lanka wants the andamans. manmohan singh will give them away, just like the wise jawaharlal gave the cocos islands to the burmese, who then gave them to the chinese.

nobody respects the neighborhood village idiot and sissy.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: sri


<b>Lanka moves in on India's Andaman Island</b>

http://www.lankanewspapers.com/news/2009...space.html

Thursday, 5 November 2009


by Saman Indrajith
India`s Andaman Islands will come within the area which Sri Lanka is hoping to claim in keeping with its sea bed rights from the UN Commission on the limits of the continental shelf.

Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama yesterday told parliament that Sri Lanka`s claim would be discussed with India before making final submissions to the UN Commission. He was responding to a query raised by UNP MP Ravi Karunanayake.

He said that Sri Lanka had a right to claim approximately around 25 times the size of the country`s land mass (1,725,800 square kilometres of the sea bed).

But the precise outer limit would be determined on the basis of technical and scientific data provided by Sri Lanka to the UN Commission.

He said Sri Lanka`s submission was expected to be taken up for consideration around 2025.

The minister said that many countries, including Sri Lanka, had been unhappy about the long delay in scheduling UN hearings.


Source(s)
the island

Posted by nizhal yoddha at 11/09/2009 09:55:00 AM 1 comments Links to this post <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

[Husky]

I suspect the treatment meted out would have been quite different had the SL Tamils been a largely Buddhist rather than a largely Hindu ethnic minority.



nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10613094

Strict rules for Tamils on break from camps

By Andrew Buncombe

Dec 3, 2009



Internally displaced Sri Lankan ethnic Tamils look on as soldiers stand guard at a camp in Vavuniya. Photo / AP



Thousands of Tamil civilians yesterday streamed out of the controversial refugee camps where they have been detained for months after the Sri Lanka Government told them they were free to leave temporarily.



[color="#0000FF"]But the bar on international monitoring of the camps and the refugees' movements remained in force.



A full six months after the end of the country's long-running civil war, officials said the civilians were able to leave the overcrowded camps for up to 10 days, although they would have to register with the authorities wherever they went.



Major-General Kamal Gunaratne, the officer in charge of the biggest of the camps, Menik Farm, said that anyone who failed to return would be "tracked down".[/color]



Human rights groups said it was a positive step.



"It's good that they are out of the camps but there is another entire set of problems that will come up if these people are not properly monitored and protected," said Brad Adams, a senior spokesman for Human Rights Watch.





"And then there are also the reports that up to 11,000 Tamils are still being held as security suspects.



"That could be higher than the number of [rebel fighters] who were fighting in the last stages of the war."



[color="#FF0000"]Up to 300,000 Tamil refugees were forced into camps in the aftermath of the fighting which saw the remnants of the once powerful Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) crushed and its leadership killed.



Conditions inside the camps, which were surrounded by armed guards and barbed wire,[/color] were widely condemned by aid groups.



[color="#FF0000"]The civilians complained of lack of water and insufficient access to information about their fate.



Journalists were only permitted access on occasional, escorted trips.[/color]



[color="#0000FF"]Under international pressure, the Government pledged that most of the civilians would be returned to their homes by the end of the year[/color], once mine clearance operations had been completed and all those held in the camps had been thoroughly vetted by security.



An estimated 127,000 civilians are still in the camps and officials now say all the facilities will be closed by the end of January.



Six thousand were reported to have left by yesterday lunchtime.



[color="#FF0000"]Those taking the opportunity to leave the camps yesterday said they had received no help in getting where they wanted to go.[/color]



The authorities have been widely criticised for failing to allow aid agencies proper access to the camps.



Concern has also been raised about providing the civilians with adequate help to allow them to resettle.



Senior UN relief official John Holmes, who recently visited Sri Lanka, said it would be years before normality returned to the north of Sri Lanka, an area that was held by the LTTE until the Army launched the operation that drove them out.



- INDEPENDENT

[Husky]

http://rajeev2004.blogspot.com/2009/12/s...-cold.html

surrendering tamil tigers shot in cold blood: army chief

dec 13th, 2009



what we suspected all along. the sinhalese have been brutalizing the tamils during and after the war.



via brahma chellaney.



http://ow.ly/LzEy

Posted by nizhal yoddha at 12/13/2009 10:27:00 AM 2 comments Links to this post

[Husky]

http://rajeev2004.blogspot.com/2010/01/w...crime.html

Saturday, January 09, 2010

[WARNING: DISTURBING VIDEO] war crime: tamils being summarily executed by sri lankans

jan 9th, 2010



will india have any response to this atrocity -- [color="#FF0000"]naked tamil prisoners being shot dead point blank[/color]?





Chellaney UN Special Rapporteur: Video of summary execution of Tamil prisoners in Sri Lanka (CNN report http://ow.ly/Uv6a ) is "authentic," wants probe



Posted by nizhal yoddha at 1/09/2010 09:56:00 AM 0 comments Links to this post

[dhu]

[url="http://http://www.vijayvaani.com/FrmPublicDisplayArticle.aspx?id=1096"]Kerry Report and the Fonseka debacle in Sri Lanka[/url]

J Jayasundera

Most major problems of the world are planned on Pentagon drawing boards. The guiding light for these plans is the western interest. Not humanity, not compassion nor morality. Only plans don’t work perfectly. It is said that if you wish to make God laugh, just tell Him your plans. From Congo to Afghanistan, the mayhem has been instigated by the dictum: Western Interests. They have the arrogance to believe they have the god-given right to interfere in the lives of what they consider inferior civilisations to achieve their ends. To this end, all western countries and the new recruit, Japan, play different roles, but the aim is the same.



It is in this light that we need to asses the present situation in Sri Lanka. Just as Oil has been the curse of the Gulf region, so its geographical location is the curse of Sri Lanka. The perception that the country that controls Sri Lanka will control navigation in the Indian Ocean is the basis of western interest. There are two major issues on which their plans have failed



LTTE invincibility: Tamils are king-makers in the present democracy in Sri Lanka



Stunned by the defeat of the LTTE and fearing a grave threat to US security, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee sent Senator Kerry and two others to report on the situation in Sri Lanka. His visit emphasised that the fortunes of the LTTE had a direct bearing on American policy on the Island and its geo strategic interests. This explains the part played by the West in the terrorist movement in Sri Lanka. His assessment and recommendations throw light on the intricacies of US interests in Sri Lanka. The following are its main observations:



1. Kerry emphasised the need to change US foreign policy pertaining to the Island in the light of the defeat of the LTTE. This gives credibility to the notion that had LTTE won, America would have enjoyed access to two-thirds of the coastal belt of Sri Lanka to dominate the Indian Ocean.



2. The ability of Sri Lanka to destabilise India by communal conflict be it Sinhala-Tamil or Muslim-Hindu.



3. The geo political interests of India and China in the Island.



4. Free flow of trade - half the world’s container ships and shipments of Oil to China and Japan pass through Sri Lanka.



The West and the LTTE-Tamil rebellion



Till 1977, Sri Lanka and India had an excellent relationship, each respecting each others’ sovereignty. But with the election of JR Jayawardena in 1977, the Americans laid the foundations of conflict between the two nations through the servility of JRJ. On the pretext of helping Sri Lanka achieve economic development, the seeds of instability were laid.



Initially, Washington got JRJ to allow a Voice of America station to be based on the Island. Then they attempted to influence JRJ to give them a long-term lease of Trincomalee Harbour. Then came the 1983 riots, instigated and carried out by the ruling UNP, against the Tamils. To this day, no one really knows if a foreign hand was involved in the riots. By this time Indira Gandhi had enough reasons to instigate a Bangladesh-style insurrection as Sri Lanka was a threat to Indian security. She ordered RAW to organise, arm and train Tamil militants. What she did not realise was that she has fallen into a trap of destabilising the whole sub-continent, nor could she realise her son would one day be killed by the LTTE.



At this time the Israelis were helping and training the Sri Lankan Army. In fact, the Israelis were training both the Army and Tamil rebels at the same time, as mentioned in the book by Mordechai Vananu, an Israeli dissident who was imprisoned for 18 years (11 in solitary confinement) for going public about Israel’s secret nuclear arsenal. Israel, as we know, works hand-in-glove with the CIA.



Large numbers of Tamils were accepted as refugees in the West, to give it more justification to interfere. Millions of dollars were collected by the Diaspora to arm the LTTE. Drug trafficking, Human Trafficking were ignored. Thus the financing of the LTTE was set in motion. Whilst arming the LTTE they were also arming the Sri Lankan army hoping to keep the conflict alive.



From the Kerry report we can now come to the conclusion that there was a risk of the destabilisation of India. This may be a credible aim of the West.



In this programme, every anti-national group within the country was used to support the LTTE and propagate the myth that the LTTE can be never defeated. NGOs, mainly Christian, and the Catholic churches in Sri Lanka and Chennai were used to propagate the myth of gross discrimination against Tamils. The Tamils still dominate the economy and the professions. At Independence, Tamils comprised more than 80% of the public services and the professions, a colonial legacy. Tamils are only 12% of the population and 60% live among the Sinhalese. Unfortunately it is the powerful that dominate the propaganda. Reality and myth have to be separated.



Ceasefire agreement and American interests



Sri Lanka is unfortunate in having another American lackey in Ranil Wickremesinghe, the present leader of the opposition. In 2001, during a brief period as PM, he signed an agreement with the LTTE, giving it power in the North and East within a unitary state, at the behest of the so-called International Community (a designation high-jacked by the West). Prabhakaran, a megalomaniac, would never accept anything short of a separate state.



This was a window of opportunity for the Norwegians (part of the Western front) to infiltrate and arm the LTTE to achieve her ends. Prabhakaran did not trust Ranil Wickremesinghe and so helped Rajapakse to win the election in 2005, hoping to instigate a war and defeat the Army with the sophisticated weapons he had acquired. Had the CFA worked, the West would have achieved influence in both the south and the north.



Final War



It was the final war and defeat of the LTTE that brought to light the hand of the West in the internal affairs of Sri Lanka. On the verge of defeat, the West wanted to save Prabhakaran and the LTTE leadership to fight another day.



Initially the Americans wanted the war stopped and to evacuate Prabhakaran and the LTTE leadership. When that failed, they sent the Foreign Ministers of UK and France. The arrogance with which the Foreign Minister of UK treated the President made him retaliate and remind the UK minister that Sri Lanka was no more a colony of the British. They then sent in the Puppets from the UN. Mahinda Rajapakse deserves full credit for withstanding the pressure from the West and bringing the war to a successful end.



With the end of the war and disappointed by the failure of the LTTE, human rights violations and war crimes allegations were brought against the Rajapakse regime to scare it with a view to achieving their objectives.



Help for winning the war materially and internationally came from China, Russia, Pakistan and India. Not from the West which wanted to isolate to Sri Lanka.



The West brought economic pressure to isolate the country and pushed it more and more into the arms of the Russians, Chinese, and Iranians.



Fonseka Factor



Gen. Sarath Fonseka was said to have been influenced by previous American ambassador Blake to apply for the Green Card lottery to help him to educate his daughters in America. Lo and behold, he won the lottery, and in fact when the fighting was going on in the East he was visiting the USA.



Rumour has it that Blake encouraged him to request for an enlargement of the army after winning the war. President Rajapakse vetoed the idea, fearing an enlarged army. Rumour also has it that the same source warned Rajapakse of an impending army coup. Thus the seeds of conflict were laid.



In November 2009, Fonseka visited the USA in spite of many allegations against the army of war crimes. There were rumours that the State Department was going to question him, but nothing happened. It may well be that this was the time Fonseka was counselled to contest the Presidential election.



Presidential Election



The greatest achievement of British colonialism is the servility of the middle classes. Sri Lanka is as blessed as the other sub-continental countries with such traitors. UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe is one such. Unelectable and lacking in charisma, he served only one purpose - to divide the vote of the majority so that the minorities control the government. This gives rise to the myth that Tamils are the king-makers. Give into the demands of Tamils to stay in power and you achieve division of the country. Division of the country on ethnic basis will be the start of instability as the 75% majority will never accept it. It is this instability that the West wants.



The only obstacle to the plan was Rajapakse. Therefore Regime Change was the answer. The Presidential election was the opportunity. Non-charismatic leaders were asked to keep out of the fray and support Gen. Fonseka’s candidature. An egoistic General who shoots from the hip was presented as the alternative candidate to fight the Presidential election.



A meeting of all the minority parties was arranged by the Americans and the British in Zurich to discuss the future of the minorities. As expected, they all decided to support Fonseka who, in return, agreed to their requests, i.e., to achieve what LTTE could not win by war. Fonseka in his first long interview stated that Gotabaya, the President’s brother, had given orders to kill the LTTE leadership, precipitating the UN to demand an investigation for war crimes.



This went down with the Sinhala electorate as treachery. The demand for investigation of corruption failed to gain ground as the General’s son-in-law was alleged to be an arms dealer whilst he was commander. It soon became apparent that this was a ruse to give in to the demands of the Tamils and divide the nation to achieve Western aims.



Sinhala perceptions of Tamil demands



Sinhalese do not accept the concept of a homeland based on acquiring Sinhala land. The British divided the country into 9 provinces based on a structure which reduced the Sinhala majority representation. The Eastern province was a part of the Kandyan Kingdom. The British also brought in Tamils from southern India and located them in such a manner as to reduce the percentage of Sinhalese people in those provinces. This was a mechanism to disenfranchise the Sinhalese people, the native majority. The Sinhalese feel it is unfair to base a solution on the British provinces and worse, to give one-third of the land and two-third of the coast to 12% (even less now) of the populace.



Election



The election on the 26th of January was in fact viewed by Sinhalese as a fight between the West against Sri Lanka. No patriotic Sinhalese could vote for Fonseka; hence the massive win for Rajapakse. That is not to say that they wholeheartedly approve of Rajapakse, but they had no option. This is another clear case of the West interfering in the rights of ordinary people. The theory that the Tamils are king-makers has been debunked.



Having made allegations of great consequence, Fonseka now languishes in jail. The question that needs to be answered is whether the Rajapakse regime can let Fonseka out and risk him giving out war secrets and carrying out his threat to give evidence in any war crimes investigation. The unity achieved eight months ago after the war is now over. Will Sri Lanka get embroiled in a protest movement instigated by the West as in Iran is the question.



Failure of Indian foreign policy



Sri Lanka’s predicament cannot be addressed without addressing India’s foreign policy failure. India has ignored the rights of the Sinhalese people and favoured a solution based on pandering to unfair Tamil demands, catering to narrow nationalistic demands from Chennai. In fact, India is aiding and abetting the geo-political interests of the West knowingly or unknowingly. To the West, instability in Sri Lanka is the first phase of destabilising India.



For India, alienating the Sinhalese is not an option. It will only create a situation whereby the Sinhalese will be naturally attracted to countries that are anti-Indian. This will not only destabilise Sri Lanka, but also India, and lead to a re-start of the geo-political war fought by Tamils and Sinhalese in Sri Lanka, instigated from outside.



India should not allow Sri Lanka to be the next Pakistan. Indian hegemony and imitating of the Western philosophy of might is right and divide and rule is not the answer. It needs a Vision, a Vision for a Greater Asia.



The author is a citizen of Sri Lanka

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They are heading again for civil war.