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• 1. roshann wickremesinge  |  March 12th, 2008 at 3:10 am

  Where is Mr Dayan jaydilleke? Are you still alive, what you going to say about this brutality against Tamils? Are they all tigers? Please do not defend this? You will pay for this one day?

• 2. samuel  |  March 12th, 2008 at 8:58 am

  This video confirms what was said by the earlier video documentary of the BBC Channel 4 team - that the armed forces are involved in disappearances and murder.
  But the government couldnt care less.
  The government is terrified of a UN Human Rights Monitoring Commission - which will most probably confirm the disappearances.
  Though the government says that “most of those who were presumed to have disappeared” had “returned” it refuses to identify these “returnees” ! !
  These disappearances appear to be part of the unofficial government strategy to terrify the tamils into complete subjugation wthout any protest against perceived injustice being perpetrated under the Emergency and the pernicious “anti-terrorist” legislation.
  It is now evident that international Rights Groups are perceiving the truth of the situation as portrayed in the two videos. The scathing latest report by the US Human Rights forum confirms.

• 3. Athos  |  March 12th, 2008 at 7:25 pm

  You start the problem, then blame the Sinhalese
  The govt tried to negotiate, you did not come
  The govt put in ’solutions’ you spoil them
  The govt uses the military to force, you scream genocide!

  You are a burden to us, the region and the world. This is the only way left. Have some integrity to accept responsibility for your faults.

• 4. Janaka  |  March 13th, 2008 at 1:44 am

  The government of Sri Lanka needs to take control of this situation and make sure there is some accountability of the present context. But everybody should understand that the Government is dealing with a ruthless terrorist organization like the LTTE and there is the need to deal effectively to protect the general public of this country. Especially with suicide bombings and road side bombings which could create ethnic unrest in this country.

  It is a well accepted norm all over the world that in dealing with terrorism, you cannot follow general rules. That is why even the US operates detention centers such as Guantanamo Bay to hold the same and operates secret cells in Europe to hold these terrorist. If these are accepted by the world, why cannot some drastic steps taken by the Sri Lankan Government cannot be accepted by agencies operating to monitor such activities.

  As a civilian living in Colombo, I would express my honest opinion on how we are afraid to go out at our will due to the threat of suicide and claymore bombs. The Sri Lankan security forces are doing a marvelous job in protecting the general public. Bear in mind more than 500,000 of the Tamil population in the country live in the Government control areas mainly in Colombo and not in the Tiger dominated areas. If they feel so insure to live in the Government control areas, the best option is to move into the areas dominated by the LTTE - so called the protectors of the Tamil population. Why are they not doing it? It is simply because if they do it, they will be in a worse situation where even their children would be taken away as child soldiers. Even the women will not be spared.

  I invite the Amnesty International to walk into so called Wanni, (Killinochi, Mulativ) and observe the situation there and give a detail report to the world of what happens there. You could do the same either in Bagdad and Kabul or Kandahar.

  Just because you belong to the minority and kills yourself by detonating a bomb against the majority, you will never become and matr and the majority kills a terrorist who is trying to create destruction, you don’t become an oppressor.

• 5. Lakshman Gunasekara  |  March 13th, 2008 at 7:13 am

  I am surprised that those making comments seem to think that this kind of ‘massacre of the innocents’ is something new to Sri Lanka.

  While there is hardly any record of the killings (despite CRM’s good work) by the armed forces during the First JVP insurgency of 1971, there is much written and recorded (including hundreds of court cases) about the huge numbers of atrocities by the State armed forces during the second JVP insurgency of 1987-92 and during the entirety of the Tamil nationalist insurgency of 1975-to date. The counter-insurgency operations in the South against the JVP (thanks to the ready support by India) amounted to at least some 60,000 civilians dead - that is, 60,000+ SINHALAS killed by the SINHALA State and SInhala soldiers. The truly sick irony is that the current JVP is supporting this very same Armed Forces without even moving for an investigation and is knowingly unleashing these forces on the people of the North East. As Marx said: the second time round, history becomes farce! (to paraphase)

• 6. Sam Thambipillai  |  March 13th, 2008 at 8:44 am

  Substantial evidence presently placed by Human Rights Watch(HRW) and Amnesty International(AI) at the UN Human Rights Council, proves beyond any doubt whatsoever, that the government of Sri Lanka is utterly criminal in its behaviour in the North East of the island.

  With “most disappearances in the world” taking place in the island, the Sri Lankan state has become the worst criminal country in the world, as far as disappearances are concerned.

  The criminality against the tamils is highly orchestrated by the government and is well supported by the Sinhala law makers, the mass media and the Sinhala masses.

  The entire Sinhala nation now has an arrogant attitude, rendering support to the extent of about 80 percent to the criminal behaviour of the state. So we do have a state and its majority citizens involved in the criminality against the Tamils. They are like a pack of coyotes waiting to accelerate the extermination of Tamils in the North.

  A criminal should be treated as a criminal. He should be isolated, tried, punished and rehabilitated. As the Sinhala nation is criminal and is becoming more criminal daily, the people of the nation should be also treated likewise.

  Therefore, there is an urgent need firstly to isolate the criminal state from the Tamil victims in the North East. And then the culprits should be arrested and tried in a court of law. This should be followed by the rehabilitation of the entire Sinhala nation to live with moral values.

  A remorseful criminal could be easily rehabilitated but not the one who justifies his criminality with untruth and fabrication. The government of Sri Lanka is untruthful and defensive instead of repentance about its acts of murder and disappearnce. the job ahead would therefore would be arduous.

  Pakistan, China, India and Japan are accomplices of the criminal government of Sri Lanka in the midst of “Darfur type destruction”, disappearances and displacemets in the North East. Human Rights and values appear to be less important for them than their monetary gains. This ttrend is dangerously disastrous.

  State terror is escalating aggressively and Tamils are paying in blood to live in the North East. The UN should neither repeat “Rwanda mistake” nor allow “Darfur type destruction” in the North East.

  The UN and the UN Human Rights Council should therefore be seriously and urgently committed to action against the criminal government of Sri Lanka, to prevent any attempt by it to accelerate genocide in the North East of the island.

  Bishop Desmond Tutu, the South African born Nobel Peace Prize winner once said ” if you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor”.

• 7. Argonot  |  March 13th, 2008 at 12:52 pm

  Reluctantly, I have to partly agree with ATHOS 3# comments.
  This is Chicken/Egg situation as to who came first.The LTTE have always used kidnapping and murder as their main weapon.
  It is really sad that the SLA have stooped to the same level as LTTE. SLA represents the country and as such must treat all citizens equally and set an example .

  Unfortunately, the SLA is viewed as a Sinhalese army fighting the tamils rather than a bunch of terrorists. This view is encouraged and supported by sections of Buddhist clergy,some elements in the governement and the influential Sinhalese elite.

  The same army can one day turn against the Sinhalese pupulation and the Buddhist clergy to mainatin its power and position like what happened in Burma.

• 8. rod raja  |  March 14th, 2008 at 4:36 pm

  This has been going on for more than thirty years in the history of Sri Lanka. The international community has paid a blind eye to the conflict in SL. SL is of no significant importance to the growth of western countries. Only the Scandinavian countries has tried to help. The President down all the way to a basic soldier is responsible for the killing of these innocent. People should stop blaming the LTTE (Tamil Tigers) for the carnage and should look at what caused this unrest. Three major genocides were conducted by the majority on the Tamil minority in 1957, 1958, 1977 & 1983 and it still continues on.

• 9. Carrlos  |  March 15th, 2008 at 9:49 pm

  Tamils/Sinhalese/Muslims or burghers all are Sri Lankans. I am sure all communities want to live in peace. What we need is simply Justice and the oppression of all communities to cease. Sadly the democratically elected government does not support this. Therefore very little could be acheived. The country just needs on Lee Kwan Yew to be on the right track. I hope it happens sometimes soon. God have mercy on Sri Lanka and Bless our Land.

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