Associated Press,  Thu Jan 19 07:58:50 EST 2006

    KRISHAN FRANCIS
 
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) _ Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels exploded anti-personnel mines twice in eastern Sri Lanka on Thursday, killing four people and injuring 25 others, the Defense Ministry said.
Twenty soldiers and police and one civilian were injured when suspected Tigers triggered a mine against their truck in Batticaloa, 220 kilometers (135 miles) east of capital, Colombo, the military media unit said. Three police died in the attack, as did one civilian.
Separately, three sailors and a police officer were injured in a suspected rebel mine attack in the eastern town of Trincomalee, 230 kilometers (140 miles) northeast of Colombo, navy spokesman Cmdr. D.K.P Dassanayake said.

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i think if mr cant prevent these things he should resign from the post of president. this is shame for us. mr has become a shame for us.

if mahinda value the lives of these soldiers, he better quickly decide what the “southern consensus” is going to be. lord knows why you need another 3 months for further discussions. Its not like this problem started overnight. Surely, there must be people who have studied this in length. Presently Mahinda looks like he is waiting for someone to make the hard decisions for him. He is either waiting for a foreigner to solve the problem, or waiting for LTTE to start the war. I guess, this is understandable considering he is armed with a  brain he probably is clueless where to even begin.

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Nimal Siripala De Silva, minister of health and government spokesman, said "the government will have a positive approach" about a scheduled visit next week by Norwegian Minister of International Development Erik Solheim.

    He is the Norwegian peace envoy in Sri Lanka's internationally backed peace process with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) rebels.

    Solheim is expected here on Jan. 23 along with the LTTE's top peace negotiator Anton Balasingham.

    De Silva said that the government was also looking forward to the visit by the London-based Balasingham and that all current outstanding problems on efforts to revive the talks could be resolved through "mutual cooperation."

A government that villified Solheim and Balasingham is now rolling out the red carpet for them!  Sadly the carpet is 'red' because of the blood spilt by the soldiers and innocent civilians.

systemx wrote:

if mahinda value the lives of these soldiers, he better quickly decide what the “southern consensus” is going to be. lord knows why you need another 3 months for further discussions. Its not like this problem started overnight. Surely, there must be people who have studied this in length. Presently Mahinda looks like he is waiting for someone to make the hard decisions for him. He is either waiting for a foreigner to solve the problem, or waiting for LTTE to start the war. I guess, this is understandable considering he is armed with a  brain he probably is clueless where to even begin.

SystemX;

It is like JW bush attacking Iraq, VP's only choice is war. That way he has so many things to gain only if he gain. Otherwise, if he comes out he will not live ver long.

On other hand, for GOSL, it get AIDS from IC for not going to war. For GOSL, war is NO,NO and all disadvantsages.

Besides, that for a strong leader there is nothing to talk with LTTE. Only solution is eliminating them. Simple reason is LTTE is not willing to talk. What LTTE is asking never going to happen. Because, LTTE is not the only deciding dactor. Because of that even if RANILW comes he will not do what we thought he would do. It is just a different definition.

Didnt you all know? These are random attacks by "people" angry at the occupation of their homeland.  IT is not the Tigers but some Kondey Bandapu Cheennu who are attacking the military.  VP is like Mother Theresa and Balasingham is like Pope John Paul-II

systemx wrote:

if mahinda value the lives of these soldiers, he better quickly decide what the “southern consensus” is going to be. lord knows why you need another 3 months for further discussions. Its not like this problem started overnight. Surely, there must be people who have studied this in length. Presently Mahinda looks like he is waiting for someone to make the hard decisions for him. He is either waiting for a foreigner to solve the problem, or waiting for LTTE to start the war. I guess, this is understandable considering he is armed with a  brain he probably is clueless where to even begin.

Systemx:
You couldn't have said any better.
How can we call him a "Leader"

systemx wrote:

if mahinda value the lives of these soldiers, he better quickly decide what the “southern consensus” is going to be. lord knows why you need another 3 months for further discussions. Its not like this problem started overnight. Surely, there must be people who have studied this in length. Presently Mahinda looks like he is waiting for someone to make the hard decisions for him. He is either waiting for a foreigner to solve the problem, or waiting for LTTE to start the war. I guess, this is understandable considering he is armed with a  brain he probably is clueless where to even begin.

MR does not value anything other than his bank account not least Tamils or Singalese. He does not know how to obtain peace or conduct a war. It seems MR is the best friend of LTTE. No wonder, LTTE wanted MR to become the president.

Unfortunately there is only one leader in SL at the moment and that is Prabhakaran.  This isn't surprising since he murdered as many strong Sinhala leaders as he could (Ranjan Wijeratne, Gamini Dissanayake etc).  Other nations produce Churchills, Roosevelts and Nehrus but when the nation is at its darkest hour since 1988 the best we can come up with is a guy from Hambantota with a dubious financial record!

(The 1988 refers to the time when the JVP were on the brink of seizing power)

Veritas wrote:

Unfortunately there is only one leader in SL at the moment and that is Prabhakaran.  This isn't surprising since he murdered as many strong Sinhala leaders as he could (Ranjan Wijeratne, Gamini Dissanayake etc).  Other nations produce Churchills, Roosevelts and Nehrus but when the nation is at its darkest hour since 1988 the best we can come up with is a guy from Hambantota with a dubious financial record!

(The 1988 refers to the time when the JVP were on the brink of seizing power)

Veritas:

Other nations produced Chruchills, Roosevelts and Nehus. You do not like to accept sinhala leaders.

But a RUTHLESS KILLER WHO IS ALSO THE BEST COWRD IN THE WORLD WHO HIDE IN A BUNKER AND BEHIND INNOCENT CIVILIANS, is a leader.

Because EVERY peaceful tamil leader WAS killed. Even a KILLER IS OK.

WELL SAID. This man has only been President for less than 2 Months. CBK never even included him in NSA meetings or briefed him on negotiations or the status of the security forces.  He is trying hard to comprehend the situation so we dont foolishly rush to a retaliatory war; WHY? Because that is exactly what the SunGod in the Bunker (whose children benefit from SRI LANKA's FREE EDUCATION System and will never become suicide cadres) wants. He will send innocent poor Tamil kids as young as 12 years old, brainwashed and forced, to blow themselves up as liberators while SunGod cowers in a bunker and his Goebbels in London will utter hateful obscenities and still enjoy the luxury life in the West while we get killed.  Bala loves  his scotch and his women and he will never lift a finger to fight for Eelam while his Oz wife will tie cyanide capsules on the necks of little brown children going to certain death because eventually the SunGod is enamoured by the great white lady.

AnuD, RogerThis, I didn't say he was a good man or a truthful man or a nobleman, in fact I agree with you that he is a monster.  But I just said he was a leader.  He knows what his goal is and will let nothing stand in his way.  Where is GOSL's equivalent?  

This is from today's Island, even they call him a leader -

'LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran’s achievements are unparalleled. His exploits both here and overseas are legendary. He survived two armies and a few assassination attempts. He is believed to have survived the December 2004 tsunami, although it wiped out Mullaitivu coast where the elusive LTTE leader was at the time giant tidal waves struck the villages'

I ask again, where is GOSL's equivalent?

Question by Veritas - "I ask again, where is GOSL's equivalent? "
 
The answer is :
Ranil W the great leader of Sri Lanka was made to remain in the opposition side by the false propaganda of JVP-JHU during last election. 4.8 milion people wanted MR whose (alliances') policies are for war.

Veritas wrote:

Unfortunately there is only one leader in SL at the moment and that is Prabhakaran.  This isn't surprising since he murdered as many strong Sinhala leaders as he could (Ranjan Wijeratne, Gamini Dissanayake etc).  Other nations produce Churchills, Roosevelts and Nehrus but when the nation is at its darkest hour since 1988 the best we can come up with is a guy from Hambantota with a dubious financial record!

(The 1988 refers to the time when the JVP were on the brink of seizing power)

I see parallalism in viewing Prabhakaran as a leader and tying no leadership after 1988 JVP terrorism by Rohana Wijeweera.
I can guess where this is heading.
This also sets up JVP master plan as protracting them as the leadership who can match LTTE.
JVP has started slowly distancing from MR as per their plan.
Later they are going to tarnish MR image (once peace negotiations starts) as a traitor as they did for CBK & Ranil.

If we get another set of terrorists or former terrorists to rule SL that would be our next disaster.

Dear rawana:
Except Dudly Senanayake, can you name any politician who quit the post for failing to protect human lives? Did JR or RW quit from their posts in UNP government even after 1983 riots created by them selves? Did RP or CBK quit theor posts after bombings by LTTE? We remember how Ratwatta quit after the attact on temple of tooth.  Did RW quit after betraying Intelligence unit to LTTE? So don't expect any resignations from MR government because they are also in the same bunch. Do you think that the killing spree of LTTE started only after the recent election?

Do you believe that the JVP and JHU are so powerful to dupe educated (under intertional standards) voters in SL? We can hear from Kauru's group the reason why UNP lost the election. What about LTTE's role?


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