Shimali Senanayake in Colombo,  Mon Jan 23 11:56:44 EST 2006

    The United States on Monday called Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels a
"reprehensible terrorist group," and warned it will have no
relationship with the guerrillas unless it desists from violence. "We
hope that the LTTE will understand that it will have no relationship
with my government and, indeed, no effective relationship with any
country in this world as long as it seeks to redress its own
grievances through the barrel of a gun, " U.S. Undersecretary of State
Nicholas Burns told reporters in Colombo.

Assuring support to protect Sri Lanka's territorial integrity Burn's
said, "the people of this country ought not to have to live for
another 15 or 20 years with this reprehensible terrorist group keeping
this country verged on the edge of war."
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Good sign for a lasting peace.  Norway and other servants can never go against the will of their master, the US.  Hoplefully, LTTE will come for peace giving up the Greater Tamil State which is nowhere within their reach.  They should now realse that they don't have an effective backing from other countries.


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Terrorists are terrorists whether come from east or west... There is only one way to teach these goons... In the language they know... No cuddling terrorists... Lesseons are learnet by the democratic community....

There may be shameless traitors eager to grab whatever cents from NGO's arranging piece picketings... who are blind to these rutheless killings by terrorists... Shame on them.. shame on them,, the petty NGO henchmens who think belly first!!!

Hello Everyone my first post at a forum

I must say since the news about oil in Sri Lanka came out U.S. seems to have taken an extra interest in the countrys politics
Used to be hands off politics, now they are offering more military assistance such as funds and training.
Sri Lankan government must act cautiously, rather than taking it as an opportunity to slam LTTEs face with.
They should welcome critism from U.S. to LTTE with caution.
We all know in the recent days what U.S. will do for oil, with increasing demand from India and China; also keep in mind the threat of shutting of oil to west by Iran.

Even if Sri Lanka does not have oil or gas, they should seriously analyse why U.S. helping, not just say "war on terror."
In the past, U.S. intervention has lead to the utter destruction; Korea, Vietnam, Somalia, Iraq Etc.

But LTTE will brush aside any threat from any country except India.
They know U.S. can only go so far with threats and assistance.
They also know that the military intervention of U.S. is not possible since U.S. citizens had enough of Iraq war and they certainly don't want their sons to fight some unknown group that has nothing in their perpective with 9/11.

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Terrorists are terrorists whether come from east or west

how about karuna. isin't he a terrorist. he is responsible for some of the worst defeats sri lankan army suffered, and also killed policemen during premadasa's time. now his is a good friend of the sinhalese even the JHU.

I guess in Sri Lankan politics you have to switch sides to decide whether you are good or bad

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The United States on Monday called Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels a
"reprehensible terrorist group,"

That comment is rich coming from a country that has itself carried out “reprehensible” acts and continues to do so today.  In the past it used the atomic bomb on Japanese civilians, it used agent-orange and napalm on the Vietnamese, it supported despotic regimes (who themselves murdered thousands) when it suited their interest (Augusto Pinochet of Chile, the Shah of Iran, etc).  Even today they are involved in a war (Iraq) that has questionable legitimacy in international law, it abducts and holds people it considers terrorists without due legal process, etc.  Indeed the Americans know that there can be grounds for their acts to be considered war crimes and it was the main reason behind the US NOT signing up to the International Criminal Court that other Western Powers have signed up to.  Given their single-minded determination to pursue their national interest regardless of the means used (even it involves civilians deaths – Japan, Vietnam, Nicaragua Iraq, Afghanistan, etc) I will caution against the use of the US Government as any barometer of morality!

JVP & JHU always howl about a white tiger. Did USA mentioned anything about the white tiger?

US has given the bitter medicine to the SL Govt covered with sugar. The bitter medicine is Praba is different from Bin Laden. Praba has a cause but the violent path he has chosen is not accepted.  The sugar is threats to LTTE.

As usual the sinhala racist licking the sugar coat happily...when they taste the bitter part they will realise that USA is not with them.

I can see that terrorist simpethisers are so upset about the strong comment from US. They are trying hard to dilute the strong messege by pointing the fingers to various directions,, but in vein..

Let me reiterete the strong wording against the rutheless terrorists by USA.

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Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels a "reprehensible terrorist group

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We hope that the LTTE will understand that it will have no relationship with my government and, indeed, no effective relationship with any country in this world as long as it seeks to redress its own grievances through the barrel of a gun,

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"the people of this country ought not to have to live for another 15 or 20 years with this reprehensible terrorist group keeping this country verged on the edge of war."

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the path to choose is peace instead of the LTTE's "reprehensible policies

These strong words may be an ache for terrorists... But these petty goons must be shown their due destiny, the dustbin of the history!!!!

Unite we all and lets defeat the terrorism..
Lets make a facist free Sri Lanka..

Good at least still both extreme camps are not bashing USA as Norway and going to the extend of reviewing the CVs.

Question to forum members who belongs to extreme camps of both sides.

Would you maintain this impartiality if your politician heros start bashing USA ?
I am waiting for that day.
The day Norway becomes India. USA becomes Norway.
It is not that far away...

I am little confused.  Can somebody give me some light on this.

many accuse Norway is helping LTTE and favour them as well.  On the other hand they say Norway is an agent for USA (I think it is well accepted too).  Then what is US doing or saying ?

Please keep in mind it is the US who gave funds and training to Taliban and a friend to Osama Bin Laden when Us wanted to chase Russians out of Afganistan.   It is the US who was a friend of Sadam Hussain and gave him chemical weapons and other stuff to keep Iran in check.

GOSL should be careful.  They should say yes to US to get involved in OIL in Mannar.  Or else they will divide the country and give it to LTTE after a deal with them for OIL in Mannar.

I don't know when people will learn about the true face of US.


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"These strong words may be an ache for terrorists... But these petty goons must be shown their due destiny, the dustbin of the history!!!! "

Good idea, can you tell me who will do it?  Are you counting on the USA to do it.  You will need Google search in your newspapers in the USA to search and hope to find this article!  

The crucial thing, if war was to begin, will be the Indian response. Knowing how strong the parties in Tamilnadu are in influencing the centre, there is very little chance that any overtly hardline stance addopted by the SLG will be tolerated very well in Tamil Nadu and with election period in May, each party will outdo the other to get the centre to intervene. So I would say there will be very little chances of SLA launching a full scale attack. The USA will do nothing to displease India in this region.

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Kunju wrote:
US has given the bitter medicine to the SL Govt covered with sugar. The bitter medicine is Praba is different from Bin Laden. Praba has a cause but the violent path he has chosen is not accepted.  The sugar is threats to LTTE.

As usual the sinhala racist licking the sugar coat happily...when they taste the bitter part they will realise that USA is not with them.

This may be true, but you have to admit that there seems to be some co-ordination of strategy between the US and the GOSL.  Remember, the overall strategy of the Sinhala government is to slowly strangle the rebellion.  They are doing this by making life intolerasble in Tamil areas.  This makes Tamils move away and deprives the Tigers of recruits.  Time is on their side.  This is where the bluster of Uncle Sam comes in.  They are hoping that the strong words will prevent the Tigers from launching an offensive.
Don't be misled by the apparently chaotic approach of the Sinhalese to the national question.  The Sinhala intelligentsia know exactly what they are doing.  Their strategy is to preserve the current situation and wait for the Tigers to run out of steam.

Reading the full report with questions and answers I am of the view that the US envoys points of view are very fair.

This report's headline by Shimali Senanayake is not appropriate. The headline is intended only to keep the LTTE bashers happy.

Nowadays people can read the same news from various websites and can get to know what really happened. So one can see different reporters' agenda in the way they write their reports.

US Envoy was able to talk privately with GOSL. So one does not know exactly what transpired. But the US envoy had given some indications during his press briefing. He of course cannot talk to LTTE privately. So all what he wants to tell hem has to be public.

Most of this website's regular forum contributers were hoping that US will treat LTTE also as Al Qaeda. They must be disappointed. He has publicly stated that the Tamils have genuine grievances and that they must be addressed by GOSL.

Cheerful Inca's hope of GOSL trying to fool LTTE/Tamils wll not work. Previous SL Govts have tried these tactics before and have not worked all these years. Cheerful Inca is talking of Sinhala Intelligensia. Does he mean .. Foolishness?
Furthermore now the International Community is watching with eyes wide open!

So GOSL should seriously address what the envoy had told them to do.

Cheerful Inca wrote:

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Kunju wrote:
US has given the bitter medicine to the SL Govt covered with sugar. The bitter medicine is Praba is different from Bin Laden. Praba has a cause but the violent path he has chosen is not accepted.  The sugar is threats to LTTE.

As usual the sinhala racist licking the sugar coat happily...when they taste the bitter part they will realise that USA is not with them.

This may be true, but you have to admit that there seems to be some co-ordination of strategy between the US and the GOSL.  Remember, the overall strategy of the Sinhala government is to slowly strangle the rebellion.  They are doing this by making life intolerasble in Tamil areas.  

During the peace time (2001-2005), Tamils could have developed thier areas without any hinderance. Who was the hurdle. The tax machine of the LTTE. With the LTTE controlling everything from macth boxes to Coca Cola to motor cycle business in Wanni and Jaffna, no Tamil wanted to invest in these areas and develop the region. Businessmen were reluctant to bring in new equipment, open up factories etc., only because LTTE wants a large sum of money from them, and chased them away. In the last five years, see the number of investments came through the BOI- there are lot of Tamil businesses. where they are investing ? In the South. Because they don't want to deal with the LTTE.
Heavy tax on the people,  even the day labourers such as farmers, and barbers (for each haircut the farmer pay 10 bucks to the LTTE; for each litre of milk the farmer pays 3 rupess tax to LTTE). All the lorries carrying stuff to the North spend 6-8 hours on average at LTTE check points, beacuse thier 'tax unit' inspect each and every piece. You can say the LTTE is very strict and uncompromising, but that is not going to bring in the dough needed for the development in the north.
 
So put the balme squarly on where it should belong.

Cheerful Inca wrote:

This makes Tamils move away and deprives the Tigers of recruits.  Time is on their side.  This is where the bluster of Uncle Sam comes in.  They are hoping that the strong words will prevent the Tigers from launching an offensive.
Don't be misled by the apparently chaotic approach of the Sinhalese to the national question.  The Sinhala intelligentsia know exactly what they are doing.  Their strategy is to preserve the current situation and wait for the Tigers to run out of steam.

You got that right. Wait till the Tigers run of steam, and when they get weak, eliminate the leadership. Tiger leaders will be hunted down and brought to justice. They will pay a heavy price for all the crimes they have committed.