newkerala.com,  Sun Jan  8 13:14:09 EST 2006

    Colombo: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse Sunday said he was still committed to the internationally backed ceasefire with the Tamil Tigers despite continued acts of violence by the rebel group.

Rajapakse was reacting to Saturday's attack by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) on a navy fast attack craft at the eastern port of Trincomalee.

Addressing a religious public gathering at Horana, 38 km southeast of the capital, the president described the LTTE attack was "a blatant violation of the ceasefire agreement".

He said: "I am ready at any time to open talks for a negotiated peaceful settlement."

However, Rajapakse warned the LTTE that he would neither turn blind nor deaf in the face of violence.
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First president should deal with the parties that supported him to come to the power what should be the ultimate result of the peace talk if both agree. There will be a one point that both parties cannot come to a decision even before peace talk start, that is the location. JVP/JHU strongly oppose to have peace talk in European county and LTTE want to have it either in Norway or South Africa where they get lot of political support.
It will be clearly visible what would be the result of the peace talk with this initial step of the peace talk.
Presidents decision to go to peace talk should not be to please western countries but to find a permanent solution to the problem.

I commend President Mahinda Rajapakse for showing restraint despite continued provocation attacks on the Sri Lanka armed forces  by the LTTE terrorists. These attacks by the LTTE are not  attacks against a goverment or a political party, but attacks for the entire country of Sri Lanka. They are part of the countless violations of the so called peace treaty by the LTTE thugs. LTTE wants no peace. With peace they have no agenda. Peace will defeat the LTTE agenda. It is only war that will keep the LTTE going.
I appeal to President Rajapakse to ask U.S. and other world powers to "walk the talk" and help the Goverment of Sri Lanka eradicate these the LTTE thugs from our beloved mother land Sri Lanka and from the world.
Let the LTTE  fight for a so called "elam" in Tamil Nadu, if Jayalalitha would tolerate these thugs in Tamil Nadu,  but not in Sri Lanka.

Tissa Atukorala wrote:

I commend President Mahinda Rajapakse for showing restraint despite continued provocation attacks on the Sri Lanka armed forces  by the LTTE terrorists. These attacks by the LTTE are not  attacks against a goverment or a political party, but attacks for the entire country of Sri Lanka. They are part of the countless violations of the so called peace treaty by the LTTE thugs. LTTE wants no peace. With peace they have no agenda. Peace will defeat the LTTE agenda. It is only war that will keep the LTTE going.
I appeal to President Rajapakse to ask U.S. and other world powers to "walk the talk" and help the Goverment of Sri Lanka eradicate these the LTTE thugs from our beloved mother land Sri Lanka and from the world.
Let the LTTE  fight for a so called "elam" in Tamil Nadu, if Jayalalitha would tolerate these thugs in Tamil Nadu,  but not in Sri Lanka.

Dear Thissa,
First government should get the help from other political parties. With a political instability within the country, president cannot go out and ask other countries to help SL to fight with LTTE. I don’t know whether you had a chance to go through some of other discussion, there many pointed out what is the interest of USA and other western nation and India.
If there is a unification within the country  I bet there is 99.99% chance to finish this problem by war or peace very soon.
As SriLankan we should press our politician to unify first and make a united front against terrorism.
I am currently out of the country but I have very good touch with the country. But so far I haven’t seen any movement that press our politician to unify.
If they are willing to do  that irrespective of  their political ambitions I will worship all of them  three times a day.



Last edited by amaka on Mon Jan 09, 2006 1:41 am; edited 1 time in total

I think that was what we were witnessing since 2001 - 2003, US under the leadership of Richard Armitage "walk to talks". India and US was about to sign the defese pacts with SL. We had joint excersises with them. They access our army and navy provided advises on small size helicopter gunships and coast guard cutters. While Daya Sandagiri wanted to get old Aircraft carriers from UK with a commission for himself. Those things took time, there were killings by LTTE. We should have address them. There was a momentom for solutions. Mrs Roccha was a frequent visitor to SL those days.

BUT what happen, where are they NOW?

Seems like we have to start it all over. In Sri Lanka that is what we like to do start them all over.

mahinda should keep 100% faith on norways ranils peace treaty if he is to go for a U turn, but if he still critical of norway & ranils peace treaty theres no point saying that he is still commited to the peace to cheat the international community as they have got the clear picture of mahinda in their minds, but his election campaign already damaged the norway peace treaty & if he doesnt have clear view of the his future path in peace progress he could b end up the best joker in the history of SL politics. the best thing mahinda should try is to invite ranil to join wt him & form a national govt making ranil as a pm, then it will help to clear the doubts of all the factions & boost the SL econamy during peace path.in this endevour mr has to abandon his comrades jvp/jhu unless they r not in support of peace process. this is going to b a big challenge for mr govt.



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Tissa Atukorala wrote:

I commend President Mahinda Rajapakse for showing restraint despite continued provocation attacks on the Sri Lanka armed forces  by the LTTE terrorists. These attacks by the LTTE are not  attacks against a goverment or a political party, but attacks for the entire country of Sri Lanka. They are part of the countless violations of the so called peace treaty by the LTTE thugs. LTTE wants no peace. With peace they have no agenda. Peace will defeat the LTTE agenda. It is only war that will keep the LTTE going.
I appeal to President Rajapakse to ask U.S. and other world powers to "walk the talk" and help the Government of Sri Lanka eradicate these the LTTE thugs from our beloved mother land Sri Lanka and from the world.
Let the LTTE  fight for a so called "elam" in Tamil Nadu, if Jayalalitha would tolerate these thugs in Tamil Nadu,  but not in Sri Lanka.

It is absurd asking US for help to eliminate LTTE terrorists while SL with open arms is asking the terrorists to come for peace talks. US must be confused as to why SL is appeasing terrorists. They probably must be thinking GOSL has been unreasonable to LTTE demands and that's why GOSL is trying to embrace the terrorists. For US, this is like inviting Alkeida or Taliban to come for peace negotiations. Canadian Govt said, they are not going to ban LTTE as a terrorist organization in Canada as long as GOSL is trying to settle with the terrorists peacefully.
This is the biggest joke and whole world must be confused with GOSL.

dear bweera,
dont u feel ur comrades have betrayed u? when they in the govt they cant play the role they played in oppostion.jvp/jhu theory is very unpractical & when they in govt they have to eat what they said in during election infront of their voters.so honurable peace got end up in rani norway treaty & we have to accept that ranil is correct wt his peace treaty.

Tissa Atukorala wrote:

I commend President Mahinda Rajapakse for showing restraint despite continued provocation attacks on the Sri Lanka armed forces  by the LTTE terrorists. These attacks by the LTTE are not  attacks against a goverment or a political party, but attacks for the entire country of Sri Lanka. They are part of the countless violations of the so called peace treaty by the LTTE thugs. LTTE wants no peace. With peace they have no agenda. Peace will defeat the LTTE agenda. It is only war that will keep the LTTE going.
I appeal to President Rajapakse to ask U.S. and other world powers to "walk the talk" and help the Goverment of Sri Lanka eradicate these the LTTE thugs from our beloved mother land Sri Lanka and from the world.
Let the LTTE  fight for a so called "elam" in Tamil Nadu, if Jayalalitha would tolerate these thugs in Tamil Nadu,  but not in Sri Lanka.

I am sorry buddy that you a missing whole lot of points here as most Singalese elite in Sri lanka. Many Tamils see LTTE as their saviors and defenders. Do you think it's so easy to forget 1956-1992 cruelty from GOSL+ Singalese thugs??  How can you expect Tamils feel safe and respected from same thugs who killed their own family members only because Tamils???
Do you know there are around one million Tamils living in western countries who lost their country just because of our ethnic issue. Even if few percentage of them give money to LTTE it's equal to GOSL. So now tell me it's important to put forward a solution on the table or just war monkering like you??? When LTTE attack SL forces Tamils feels actually relieved because they see SL forces as occupants. Do you in Jaffna with 99% Tamil population GOSL placed 99% Singalese only forces??? If you have something between your ears you would immediately understand why we have a problem

rawana wrote:

dear bweera,
dont u feel ur comrades have betrayed u? when they in the govt they cant play the role they played in oppostion.jvp/jhu theory is very unpractical & when they in govt they have to eat what they said in during election infront of their voters.so honurable peace got end up in rani norway treaty & we have to accept that ranil is correct wt his peace treaty.

Rawana,
My point is if LTTE is refusing come for peace talks and not flexible in a compromised solution, there is no point in dragging this any further. MR should ban them first and ask for international help if we are weak or afraid to fight. It is the worse thing you can do is to show your weakness to your enemy. You can't have both ways. If you cant have peace with them and afraid to fight, then give them what they want and go on with your life. No use continuing this useless peace talks and allowing our young boys to die for nothing.

As president of the country MR has bounding duty to protect all citizens of the country.

First of all he must put his proposed solution to public debate.

what is the point of going to negotiation table if MR cannot declare the solution unilateraly. he is the president of the country.

VP is not the president.

  MR,JV P and JHU  should agree what they are going to propose. ......can the come to any realistic proposal for the problem  and make a joint statement.  ha ha ha

I think most of us agree on one special theory here. Mahinda/JVP/JHU should put forward a solution for good or worse. Otherwise what are they going to talk where ever it happen to be. Ranil had a federal solution. Kadirgama had a federal solution. Chandricka had a federal solution. All of them had ferderal but the devolution of power with provinces were different. Now Mahinda says he is commited for peace. He talked about honerable peace during the election. His ministers going around the world asking money selling peace commitment. But Mahinda do not have a agenda.

At the time it seems Mahinda/JVP/JHU has different opinons. Mahinda wants Indian model (federal with maximum devolution). He also wants US/India and EU to ban LTTE and TRO. He is willing to go anywhere for talks now JVP wants a solution but wants to have talks in Asian country. JHU wants to ban LTTE and wants to talk about unitary state concept. So these guys have no clear vision for this problem. So they should probably sit and talk in a Asian country and put forward a solution. We all know unlike SL, other countries do plan things. It was very clear with Tsunami aid. Most of those money collected in US, Europe buy different organizations are still sitting on bank accounts, while more than 80% of those have no proper housing. The reason is that those aid agencies are asking for proper management plan to distribute tsunami aid. We all know and hear what happened to some of the money, and how they ended up in private accounts. It seems like Mahinda is ready to move forward with the team that Ranil had with professional diplomats is still active. They were active under Chandricka as well.

dear bweera
no one  in SL side  are ready to  fight wt tigers.all r bogus fighters.only thing they did is they corrupted innocent rural voters& they have surrendered to the norway peace treaty.it is not we cant fight, it is not the best option now.

Anamaduwa wrote:

I think most of us agree on one special theory here. Mahinda/JVP/JHU should put forward a solution for good or worse. Otherwise what are they going to talk where ever it happen to be. Ranil had a federal solution. Kadirgama had a federal solution. Chandricka had a federal solution. All of them had ferderal but the devolution of power with provinces were different. Now Mahinda says he is commited for peace. He talked about honerable peace during the election. His ministers going around the world asking money selling peace commitment. But Mahinda do not have a agenda.

At the time it seems Mahinda/JVP/JHU has different opinons. Mahinda wants Indian model (federal with maximum devolution). He also wants US/India and EU to ban LTTE and TRO. He is willing to go anywhere for talks now JVP wants a solution but wants to have talks in Asian country. JHU wants to ban LTTE and wants to talk about unitary state concept. So these guys have no clear vision for this problem. So they should probably sit and talk in a Asian country and put forward a solution. We all know unlike SL, other countries do plan things. It was very clear with Tsunami aid. Most of those money collected in US, Europe buy different organizations are still sitting on bank accounts, while more than 80% of those have no proper housing. The reason is that those aid agencies are asking for proper management plan to distribute tsunami aid. We all know and hear what happened to some of the money, and how they ended up in private accounts. It seems like Mahinda is ready to move forward with the team that Ranil had with professional diplomats is still active. They were active under Chandricka as well.

May be this guy is the biggest con artist SL has ever seen. It looks like he is going to play this "I am for peace" card and stay in power as long as he can. I hope I am wrong.

SSSANTHI2 wrote:

As president of the country MR has bounding duty to protect all citizens of the country.

First of all he must put his proposed solution to public debate.

what is the point of going to negotiation table if MR cannot declare the solution unilateraly. he is the president of the country.

VP is not the president.

  MR,JV P and JHU  should agree what they are going to propose. ......can the come to any realistic proposal for the problem  and make a joint statement.  ha ha ha

What kind of proposal you are expecting from them. LTTE will fight until they are getting a separate land. Then what is the joint statement you want from MR/JVP/JHU. Something like” We are ready to give a separate land juts as LTTE want”
None of  a propose solution  work until all parties united. That is the only way that LTTE be defeated. As long as Sri Lankan is not united LTTE knows both major parties are ready to promise something related to this national issue and grab vote from people. So they always have the chance.