Comments on: Blast from the past: Praba Interviewed by Anita in 1984

By: Jenn

Jenn — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 02:48:30 +0000

What a sin to be born in sri lanka or to be known as a sri lankan…either a tamil, singalese, muslim, buddiest, and etc…

That is how Sri Lanka is known…..a country thats been having wars ffor years.

Both parties have to realize…sri lanka is a small island….the population is not stable……it suppose to be a great tropical country, friendly people, a great tourist place. But unfortunately….it sounds like hell(or worse than that). No offence to anyone…. I am afraid that one day sri lanka will not be in the map. it’s almost getting there….

God created people, place, animals and etc to have a good and simple life. All we need is each other’s help and support. NOT WAR. We are to treat everyone as how we would like to be treated. Treat everyone equally, with respect, love and care and be great friends. Proof the world that finally we’ve decided the war is not the answer for the lives. Imagine all the lives that has been lost……from a baby to an elderly…we they born to see the war…..no they were born to see and prove how great their country is and to welcome tourist.

It is time to think straight….forget war….think of the future….how great can the country will be….how to increase the population…..what a great place for foreigners/tourist to admire…..there are many great places in Sri Lanka but it’s being destroyed….why……who is achieving what?

No one is achieving anything but a bad name for both sides. Guns/wars are not the asnwer. talk and listen and compensate…… just like life…..

All i can do for not being born in SL is pray for it to be a peace country.

God Bless All

By: raj

raj — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:19:18 +0000

Karuppu, terror is very well welcome in SL. That is infact the business of the government. You know the statistics. Astin Martin for MR’s son and a kick in the butt for the poor man.

By: Karupiah

Karupiah — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 02:26:38 +0000

#24
I’m all for Canada to give them Toronto or UK to give them Tooting or India to give them Tamil Nadu, perhaps you can help to get such a movement of the ground based on compassion.

But Sri Lanka will never give in to terrosits and give land they have no right to, live in peace or leave for the Tamil homeland in Tamil Nadu where terroism is welcome.

By: Some one with Compassion

Some one with Compassion — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:35:24 +0000

It is better for the country to divide now than later. Atleast some lives can be saved.

I am not the one to support killing.

One thing is for sure that tamil eelam will prosper with funding from tamils everywhere. Will there be internal fighting? yes. But it will also die down. When Tamil Eelam prospers Singhalese will realise why SL is not prospering. Their politicians will cleanup their act and SL also can proper.

WIN WIN for everyone. IS IT WRONG TO DREAM? But I am not dreaming.

BUT FOR SURE THE COUNTRY WILL SPLIT within TWO YEARS. Not because of one side getting beaten but for the simple reason of not being able to over power. Remember KOSOVO. UN intervention……

By: Ramya

Ramya — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:02:22 +0000

As a Indian Tamil, I was a supporter of the eelam cause till LTTE decimated TELO. As a tamil, I was shocked to see the gruesome pictures of TELO cadres being burnt alive with tires around thier neck.

I think VP’s LTTE would have killed more tamils than the sinhalese thugs.

Even after all the violence, the basic facts remains, that is the majority sinhalese feels that the tamils are second class citizen and does not have any rights.

When the majority sinhalese has this mind set then a megalomanic like VP will thrive and will be seen as a hero in the eyes of his people.

By: Ram

Ram — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 10:34:14 +0000

Opinions my differ as to the nature of LTTE, but al agree they are a terrorists, how many more of our leaders and Indian prime minister need to be killed before we arrest Prabha and his goons.

Send him to India for trial.

By: vije

vije — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 14:38:11 +0000

Opinions my differ as to the nature of LTTE and the leader. But there can be no question on their sincerity to their commitment.
Until LTTE became active Tamils were considered demalas who would run to refugee camps when attacked and return to be yours obedient servants to the rulers. Now they are feared or respected as Tigers. Which do you prefer demala or tiger?
Definitely the Tamils would prefer neither. But these are the only choices given to them by singhala hegemony.

By: Naga UK

Naga UK — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 06:50:12 +0000

VP is a monster created by the so called Sinhala Buddhists. It is patently clear that the clergy has an inherent fear that there is a strong possibility that it would be taken to task like in the case of 3000 rowdy monks being rounded up and beheaded by the then King having come to the tether’s end of enduring their atrocities and replacing them with real ones from Siam. They presumably have a premonition of what might be in store for them if they continue playing God and commit the very sins they have been expected of to preach against. The ploy then would be to create hatred between communities in the name of safeguarding Buddhism or territorial integrity, sovereignty etc in order to divert the attention of the followers in a different direction. SWRDB acted in this context as a catalyst through his opportunistic politics. The politicians to come later lost no time on picking up the loose ends for their personal gains which later became tantamount to organized crime in the name of Party Politics with the Advent of JRJ.

The UNP headed by JR Jayawardena receiving a landslide victory had gone a step further. Declaring that the President under the new constitution had so much power only he cannot turn a woman into a man or vise versa had enshrined a proportional representation system thinking and openly suggesting that the mistake of a Tamil Party becoming the opposition party would only be a dream. He also thought he was foxy enough to presume that given the past election results UNP would always be in power. Obviously he was wrong. The truth of the matter is that the UNP had done more lasting damage to the minority communities appearing to be more democratic on the surface. JRJ availed himself of a convenient holiday during the 1983 riots which was obviously engineered by him and executed by his goons like Syril Mathew. That perhaps sealed the deal with the Tamil moderates and the Sinhala governments. Of course there were Tamil politicians poaching in the dust-bins of the Sinhala governments least realizing this opportunity was being seized by Tamil extremists.

When the so called Eelam groups took to arms there was wide disapproval from the Tamil public. But the Governments (UNP or SLFP) did not come to their rescue. Instead, people like Athulathmudali openly declared that if the forces kill 10 Tamil youths there will be one terrorist – not necessarily the LTTE for it was non-existent per se at that time. In the action field based on that theory at that time the Tamil youths, 9 out of ten (not involved in terrorism) were at a loss. They had the inevitable choice of sitting ducks-dying in the hands of Security Forces or joining the terrorists there were so many groups not second to the Sinhala community. VP was in the right place and time with wrong ideas and the rest is history. The biggest sell out he made of the Tamil community is the pre-election accord he is reported to have had with MR with large amounts of money changing hands almost admitted by Thamilchelvan who paid a supreme price.

The long and short of the story is that several mafia like setups in politics have come into being and all of them have got the tiger by the tail. The stark naked fact is that there is absolutely no animosity between the Tamils, Muslims and Sinhalese. The politicians and the terrorists including Tamil factions opposing them have heavily invested into this problem – some of them with their lives, they cannot get out of it.

M/s Pratab was only expressing her opinion. Do not shoot the messenger!

By: Randy

Randy — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 02:40:43 +0000

To the Tamils who support the GOSL,
1) It is acknowledged by everyone that Tamils in SL have genuine grievance but the political parties in SL do not have solution for the last 50 years
2) Until mid 1975, all the non-violent protests by Tamils were met with violence from Govt.
3) As mentioned before, several riots (58,78,83) were created by the Govt.
4) India has to force a solution with 50,000 troops but now the Govt went back and demerge NE
Why are you supporting the GOSL?

When you choke a person and when that person kicks, you can’t complain “foul” (I think it is quote from M.IA)

Reddy, It is not Pirbha, blame S W R D, J R, Srima and he southern party politics

By: Jack Ranasinghe

Jack Ranasinghe — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 23:34:51 +0000

Prabhakaran is a symptom.