Comments on: United in Fear: Travails of Detainee families

By: jake milton

jake milton — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 03:03:19 +0000

Sam actually made a sarcastic comment. Read the last line of his comment.. I agree with him that the Sinhala (read Sri Lankan) forces have the same attitude as mad dogs… After all, Sinhalese boast they are the children of singha (animal). (my apologies to my Sinhalese friends)

Everyone seems to ignore the fact behind the prolonged detention of Tissa. They thought this poor guy must be rich because he was getting foreign funds.. No point in fighting the case on the basis of demorcratic rights.. Just start your bargain with their asking price and prepare to sell your property and family silver to pay them.Since you are a Tamil this is the only option in SL.
Mr. Percy Mahendra Rajapakse, the true Buddhist in the world will show mercy once you paid money to his guardians of justice (Sri Lankan style).

My kudos to Tamil diaspora for being too busy arranging prayer meetings for the deceased “Mamanithar”( great man). They really don’t have time to consider these minor things.

By: ilaya seran senguttuvan

ilaya seran senguttuvan — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 01:03:59 +0000

The continued unlawful detention of Tissa, many suspect, is to justify to the world there are many Tamils giving succour to the
“terrorist” (LTTE) innocously functioning as civilians. This is simply to mitigate the flood of accusations from the outside world about the excesses of the armed forces against non-combatant Tamil civilians and the many mass arrests of Tamils in Colombo along
Nazi Jewish scenes. This poor young man and his young family – not to mention the parents involved – are made to suffer for the Govt’s propagada purposes. Many people in the country probably are unaware international organisations are already collecting dossiers on potential perpetrators of “War crimes” from Sri Lanka. People placed very high in the political structure are providing the material to these agencies – as was speculated in the European Press, when a former VVIP from Sri Lanka recently visited
several international bodies the party, under normal circumstances, had no reason to nor would have been allowed to attend.

By: Venkai

Venkai — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 23:48:52 +0000

If we had more people like JeyP, Sri Lanka would not have decended to this state!!

Thyank you very much for the sensible statement!!

By: Venkai

Venkai — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 21:26:49 +0000

Comment #4

Either Sam must be working for TID, or he must be a stooge of the present Government!!

By: sivam

sivam — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:36:54 +0000

Is this another propaganda by LTTE? Unfortunately innocent children died in a bomb blast in colombo
cannot talk. Innocent chidren murdered by LTTE(cutting their throat) cannot have a voice. What a shame!!!

By: Harshana Somapriya

Harshana Somapriya — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:42:25 +0000

All sensible people call for the immediate release of Tissanayagam, if he is not guilty!
But, what if he is guilty?
All those suicide bombers didn’t come to Colombo alone without any other’s help.
It is not an easy job to keep Colombo safe for the ill equiped SL military/police when the bleeding Tiger has gone mad and taking civilian targets. (eg. Mount Lavinia bus bomb, bombs at Colombo & Dehiwala Railway stations…)

By: Seelan

Seelan — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:00:37 +0000

There is no race issue here.

The state was challenged by some Sinhala youth dring 1987-1990. State responded by detaining hundreds of thousands of Sinhala youth, buddhist monks etc and 60,000 of them were either killed or dissappeared. Not all of those died/dissappeared were insurgents/terrorists (whatever you call them).

Similarly, the state is challenged by some Tamils and what people experience is the same response from the state.

There is no distinction in the state’s response with regard to the two situations mentioned above. It is important to clearly understand it as it is upon all peace loving Sri Lankans (be Sinhala, Tamil or any other) to work together to find a way out.

Extreme regulations may be required to address extreme circumstances in discharging the state’s primary responsibiity in safeguarding it’s citizens. However, those responsible in implementing reguations should bear in mind that lot of innocent people could get cought in this and suffer. Therefore extreme care should be taken in discharging such duties. If the state attempts to abuse such powers then the nation should rise as one against such attempts.

To do that, the ordinary people (like many of us) requires to break barriers like race. Divided, we will perish. United, we will propsper.

By: Winston Martin

Winston Martin — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:07:37 +0000

Sam, you say Ronnate does not appear to have a touch for Journalism. It does not matter whether you have a flair for journalism or not. This is a story of a wife airing her suffering and anxiety regarding the plight of her husband. If you were in her position what would you say? Every day when she wakes up she is thinking and worrying about of her husband. In Sri Lanka when a person is taken in for questioning it is not normal for that person to be released after questioning. They can even kill the person and say; well after the interrogation we have released him. Probably he must have left the country with out tell anybody. It’s funny to hear this type of utterance coming from nobody but President of the country himself. So who do you believe? Every day it’s an agony for this poor woman. You are coming with garbage, you are really pathetic, you will not understand until something like this happened in your family. It could be your wife, mother, father, brother or sister if one of them under goes a similar trauma then only you will realize how hard is for the other members of the family. There are hundreds of innocent Tamils going thorough this type of harassments from the GOSL for only reason that they have a Tamil name. As long as people like you are over there our problem will never end. You will feel sorry for an animal not a fellow human being if he or she comes from a Tamil or Muslim family.

By: Ecvee

Ecvee — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:10:52 +0000

Requesting the people to a bus with tires deflated is a cruel joke.
This is ‘must read’ for all freedom loving people. This is very much like what the gestaopo did in Germany under Hitler.
Will the educated Sinhala now realize that seperation is the only solution to ethnic problem

By: ilaya seran senguttuvan

ilaya seran senguttuvan — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:49:47 +0000

This looks like a story along the lines of the movie Schindler’s List in the background of the Nazi persecution of WW2. The only
crime young Tissanayagam seems to have committed is to have
written a Column with the current war in the background. To learn he spent nearly 20 years earlier fighting to keep many others from the claws of brutal injustice and now he suffers the same fate reminds one of Pastor Marin Neimoller’s celebrated words. He may, very likely. be released like Parameshwari – after a few months. But his spirits will be broken; his faith to live as a Tamil
in a multi-racial society will be lost. He and his young family will carry the wounds of this horror for a very long time. Detention Orders – a very serious document in any society claiming to be civilised – are now those signed by very senior Forces officials in blank by the hundreds. That is democracy
for you and me. What this lovely country and society have come to? No wonder the distinguished ladies and gentlemen of the IIGEP seem to have concluded “Sri Lanka is a lost case”
I pray for young Tissa and his family.