newindpress.com,  Sat Jan 14 13:44:39 EST 2006

    RAMESWARAM: The influx of refugees continued for the third day with five Sri Lankan Tamils arriving here on Saturday morning, raising their total number to 38, revenue officials said.

The officials said they had made arrangements to accommodate them at the Mandapam transit camp near here. The refugees, who arrived on Saturday, included two men, a woman, and two children. They belong to Jaffna.

They said they had paid Rs.3000 per head to a boat operator for ferrying them to India from Sri Lanka. A group of 24 Sri Lankan Tamils arrived here from Talaimannar on Thursday, the first after hostilities broke out between the Sri Lankan army and suspected Tamil tiger rebels on January 7 off Trincomalee.

Another batch of nine Lankan Tamils arrived here from Desalai in Mannar district on Friday.
Full Story


_________________
- The Academic

I understand with or without luxury, at least they will live and they can get up next morning to see the light again. Many people in Sri Lanka do not have that right.

Given the conditions of of the TN transit camps, these hardy souls must be seriously worried about prospects back in Jaffna to leave.

I doubt conditions will be all that great in the camps, The TN govt is still trying to house Tsunami victims and their families on the coromandel coast.

Shouldnt we offer assylum in the south if they are running form LTTE?

We all value our lives.  These are the lives that MR showed no concern for when he was blinded by LTTE atrocities.

The firs casualty of war is the truth. Those who are sinhala refuse to believe/accept that the SLA commits crimes against civilians. Those of us who are tamils refuse to believe the atrocities of the LTTE. It is the inncocent civilian, who just wants to live who are deprived of their most fundemental right - the right to live.

I am increasingly believeing that MR neither has the wisdom nor the maturity to lead us out of this mess. He is only street smart, which may not work in the big league.

It is tragic people living in only some part of the country face tragedy all the time.

The refugee factor in South India is going to work agianst MR and SriLanka and favour LTTE.
The confidence build up we had with India over last 3-4 years slipping away.
Too Bad........
I don't know what JVP had to say about this. (other than blaming LTTE)

Hey, j2k6,

Your remarks reflect your inner self.

I doubt if anyone with reasonable civility will take notice of whatever you say in the future.

Hi Priantha,

As i dont' know you, let me boldly say i do not care in the slightest what you or anyone else here thinks about my postings. this forum would be far more interesting (in my opinion) if people had real addresses and names to match. I doubt they would be so cocky then! But of course this is the beauty of free debate- the ability to say exactly what's on one's mind.

So in the spirit of outlandish "opinion wielding", i decided to spice it up a little with a piece of my mind. so what!? im sorry if that offends you, but that's what people need to hear: a difference of opinion (God knows this forum could do with more). Im not usually into abusing fellow posters, but i make an exception for peacenik traitors with accute "bleeding hearts" for everyone but the injured party. What annoys me even more is that you then have the audacity to pull the righteous card on me! If you want to play pretend and talk it up, then go ahead by all means! I wont stop you from pretending to be "politician", "military commander", "economist", "historian" and "foreign policy expert" all in a day. If thats what you're into, you're in good company here (you'll find plenty of other armchair specialists to play with). I dont give you rubbish about your "fun time", so id expect a little bit of the same from you.

As a rule i dont grass on other Sinhalese posters (however outrageous their postings), but it seems you're not from this school of thought. Really comrade! Going against one of your own? tsk! tsk! Dont you have anything called loyalty? It's precisely this sort of unreliability and backstabbing that lets the side down. Not all Sinhalese are like this of course, but there appears to be a growing band of "bleeding hearts" out there who seem to have completely forgotten who is killing who- and just as importantly- who is helping to kill who. We both know the answer to this question, but most of us can't come to face facts. As long as that remains the case no workable solution will come about either.  

Good luck in your future career as a full time peacenik traitor with the SLMM. SL would be a lot better off with more of you in the boat.


_________________
[j2k5]

When we go through the history of the conflict, it is not the JVP, it is the LTTE and the UNP should take much of the blame.  Who was behind barberic 1983 riots? A late UNP minister and UNP thugs. This was the best gift to LTTE that any government could ever offer to the LTTE. Who set fire to the Jaffna library? Again UNP thugs. Autrocities by SLA on civilians were at the highest levels especially during the UNP rules. Who gave arm and finantial aids to LTTE? Who saved VP from IPKF? Not the JVP, but UNP. Those were not confined to NE, but to south as well and further UNP unofficial militia also played a significant role.  Remember, the peace magician RW was one of the active partners of UNP governments during this time period. Has he ever brought the justice to the affected people? Has he ever apologize for the autrocities happened during UNP rule? The most rulenthless campaign of the LTTE were started after 1983 with a huge international backing.  However, RW later tried his best to achieve peace but he didn't seem to care about the cost and he repeated the mistake that all the provious leaders made - i.e., he totaly trusted LTTE.  LTTE exploited the weaknesses and the illprepared move by RW and unfortunately LTTE did never have intention for a peaceful settlement. LTTE was not at grateful to RW at least for what he did for them and they threw him to the bin after getting what they need from him.  Do you think that if the JVP, JHU, or any group keep their mouth shut, the problem is over? Problem will come to an end only when LTTE establish their GREAT TAMIL STATE adjoing Tamilnadu and Sri Lanka.  However, if they could even come to that stage, that will be a beginning of a much more complex problem.  Because, India's reaction will be disastrous.    
Riyugee issue is not a new one, that was there during UNP and SLFP rules as well. LTTE and the ruling government should take the blame but no one else.


_________________
agro

j2k6 said:

"........As a rule i dont grass on other Sinhalese posters (however outrageous their postings), but it seems you're not from this school of thought. Really comrade! Going against one of your own? tsk! tsk! Dont you have anything called loyalty? It's precisely this sort of unreliability and backstabbing that lets the side down. "

"this school of thought?" ....... do you mean 'racist'?  ........is that called loyalty?

and contradicting himself, having said earlier:    "..........that's what people need to hear: a difference of opinion (God knows this forum could do with more)"

Hi Priantha

priantha wrote:

"this school of thought?" ....... do you mean 'racist'?  ........is that called loyalty?

j2k5 does not belong to a "school of thought," as there is no evidence at all of "thought" in anything he writes.  I have no problems at all with racists as long as they have something intelligent to say, and unfortunately he has sorely disappointed me again and again.

Once again I encourage Sinhala nationalists/racists to post something intelligent and original, maybe a neat strategy to drive the Tamil interlopers out once and for all and make the island safe for baila and arrack.  If it is intelligent and reflects even a little knowledge of the cunning Tamil enemy who has seemed to outsmart the Sinhalese for the last 20 years, it will be hard for me to dash it to pieces and ridicule the writer back into his Australian gutter.  If it is the characteristic stupid crap which is the product of a dull, uninformed mind, then be ready for a whipping from Uncle Taraki!!!

I don't think the "Tamil enemy" has outsmarted the Sinhalese for the "last 20 years"......on the contrary what I have seen is the falling of the Jaffna Tamils and the Sri Lankan Tamils in general from the top position in Sri Lanka to the bottom. This community is now sadly torn apart, shorn of democracy (having been replaced with facism), a great number having fled overseas, a significant number languishing as internally displaced people, more languishing in refugee camps in India and now struggling with internal conflict and violence. Yes, perhaps the Sinhalese didn't "outsmart" them at all.... it was the stupidity and backwardness of the Jaffna Tamil "leaders" that took the community down the slippery slope of facism. Today, it is not the Sinhalese who are destroying Tamils, the destruction is happening from within. Unfortunately, most of the Tamil nationalists are blind to this fact.

I wonder what percentage of the total Sri Lankan population the Sri Lankan Tamils now form.

Quote:

Yes, perhaps the Sinhalese didn't "outsmart" them at all.... it was the stupidity and backwardness of the Jaffna Tamil "leaders" that took the community down the slippery slope of facism.

Well said member! Yes it seems to me the tamil leadership, when left to their own devices, does a remarkably good job of doing it themselves! It has been said time and time again here that what is needed is a change of policy, and the offer of something substantial to alleviate 50 years of tamil grievence. But what prevents this from happening right now? Is it not the stupidity of tamil ltte sympathisers here and overseas? We cannot be convinced tamils genuinely want peace until they break their longstanding pact with violent struggle. Show us you're serious, and things will change. Otherwise bugger off to chennai.
---


On an unrelated matter, one wonders why the good 'uncle' perennially refers to "whipping" fellow posters (mostly so called ".") on the forum. A little too much information perhaps?


_________________
[j2k5]

Quote:

Colombo, 15 January, (Asiantribune.com): Higher Education of Jaffna University students are to be suspended, until the birth of the Independent Tamil Eelam by 14 January 2007, on the next Thai Pongal Day. This is said to be the expected D-day the Tamils are suppose to joyously celebrate the dawn of an independent homeland, according to the Leaders of the Tamil rebel outfit – Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.

Confusion is prevailing in the midst of Jaffna University student population, as two student groups, on two separate occasions have already packed their bags and baggage’s and left the University temporarily. Another group of students are seen packing their things to leave after Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam has told them to suspend their higher education until next Thai Pongal, 14 January 2007, until an independent Tamil homeland is successfully wrested

.

they ruined the tamil culture and society,  now they are going to ruin the only hope tamils have got---the higher education. god bless tamil people.

Pathma Vigneshwaran wrote:

Colombo, 15 January, (Asiantribune.com): Higher Education of Jaffna University students are to be suspended, until the birth of the Independent Tamil Eelam by 14 January 2007, on the next Thai Pongal Day. This is said to be the expected D-day the Tamils are suppose to joyously celebrate the dawn of an independent homeland, according to the Leaders of the Tamil rebel outfit – Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.

This is a classic from JVP book as well.
JVP made all Universities close in 1987 to fight again Indian expansinism. JVP told the Universities will be opened under a JVP government. We were in Uni at that time and lost good two years because of JVP.
There is a saying in "Gahapu Beraykuth ne bere paluwakuth ne".
That's what happened at end.