Shimali Senanayake in Colombo,  Mon Jan 23 23:27:08 EST 2006

    An unidentified gunman on Tuesday shot and killed a reporter of a Tamil language newspaper in restive eastern Sri Lanka, police said.“He was shot on his way to work,”  said Rohan Abeywardene, police chief of the region.
S. S. Rajan, 37, worked for the Sudar Oli newspaper in the port-town of Trincomalee.


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Why is this "unidentified man" here?? Can't you just blame the tigers?

  Four explosions in and around Sri Lankan capital

 Where did The Lanka Academic got this news from.

blackcat wrote:

  Four explosions in and around Sri Lankan capital

 Where did The Lanka Academic got this news from.

It's true, happened around 8 PM local time.   Colombo correspondent wrote it.  This is a serious development.


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They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety - Benjamin Franklin

The breakdown of the society is evident, once again, with the murder of this journalist. When the Tamil community-at large  turned a blind eye, and even justify in some cases, to the immoral acts of the LTTE, they should have seen what lies ahead in the future.

When parents were killed in front of children (when LTTE started killing police officers and government servants.. way back in the 1980s), when school principals are killed in front of students (jaffna john's college principal), and worshippers are massacred in places of worship (A'Pura and batticalo massacres) (not during combats or periods of war- but during the supposedly 'peace times'), and the society starts to justify it, murders like the one in Trincomale are not going to stop. It will get only worse.

The Tamil socity-at large made this historic error long long time ago and continue this day, So they will pay the price for it for a long long time to come.

The killing of this journalist seems to be the handi-work of the Pottu Amma'n intel thugs. Nitharsanam.com , pottu's mouthpiece, had a chilling warning to Uthayam newspaper yesterday, for carrying an interview of Mahinda. The killing of this journalist might be a 'warning' to the publishers of this newspaper.

The first culprit in immoral killings is always the LTTE thugs.

Sudaroli and Uthayan are published  by the same people-

i can't even thing about the people like janet how they live in this world. These people live within the circle. They have to grow up. They think the world is small like they think and  write. They know that who done the killing and why they are killing but they could not write the truth. They think that the readers are foolish that is why they write like these. But they didnot know by writing these foolish comments provestheir foolishness.
 who is thug?. this words are used by the singalese government when innocent tamil are killed singalese people with the help of GOSL government since 1948. When the world asked about these massacres, GOSL created the word singalese thugs did it to protect them from the world's criticism.
 LTTE is a liberation force created to fight against so called thugs. Only way to deal with thugs are voilence(Thuggery). That is way they started their campaign after the peacefull protest failed.
 Janet think that people of GOSL are like her. Her comments get welcome from the same sort of people not with most of the tamils in north and east.
But we have to thank people like you make ourselves easy to get our course.
We can produce hundreds of massacres by the singalese government and their security forces than janet mentioned earlier.
KEEP IT UP
GUNS HAVE  TO BE USED TO DEAL WITH THUGS LIKE GOSL AND REAL SINGALESE THUGS.  BUT NOT " MULLAI MULLARL EDUKKANUM"

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The first culprit in immoral killings is always the LTTE thugs.

Janet you must be joking

The LTTE could learn a thing or two from military involved in massacre of JVP supporters (30,000- 60,000) in one shot!
What the military does to Tamil villagers is conveniently swept under the carpet in case it catches the eye of Special envoy Lunstead

Pandula wrote:

Quote:

The first culprit in immoral killings is always the LTTE thugs.

Janet you must be joking

The LTTE could learn a thing or two from military involved in massacre of JVP supporters (30,000- 60,000) in one shot!
What the military does to Tamil villagers is conveniently swept under the carpet in case it catches the eye of Special envoy Lunstead

Janet is a joke. He or she blames the Tamil community for the atrocities of the LTTE. He or she does not have the capacity or brains to see past his/her own bigoted views at the bigger picture.

The LTTE was fathered by Sinhala chauvinism and mothered by Tamil nationalism. Only if both communities acknowledge this fact and work together can all Sri Lankans live in peace and prosper.

I am afraid as long as there are Janets in both communities who cannot see past there own petty noses we as a Nation are doomed.


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'Anyone in a free society where the laws are unjust has an obligation to break the law.'

- Henry David Thoreau

rimfirejones wrote:

Pandula wrote:

Quote:

The first culprit in immoral killings is always the LTTE thugs.

Janet you must be joking

The LTTE could learn a thing or two from military involved in massacre of JVP supporters (30,000- 60,000) in one shot!
What the military does to Tamil villagers is conveniently swept under the carpet in case it catches the eye of Special envoy Lunstead

Janet is a joke. He or she blames the Tamil community for the atrocities of the LTTE. He or she does not have the capacity or brains to see past his/her own bigoted views at the bigger picture.

The LTTE was fathered by Sinhala chauvinism and mothered by Tamil nationalism. Only if both communities acknowledge this fact and work together can all Sri Lankans live in peace and prosper.

I am afraid as long as there are Janets in both communities who cannot see past there own petty noses we as a Nation are doomed.

rimfirejones:

You think  world does not know anything what happened in Sri Lanka and only you and other tamil diaspora know it. Grow up.

Tamil community as a whole may mnot be responsible. But tamils like you are definitely res;ponsible because you people support LTTE activities. You also identify Sinhala natonalism as chauvanism while tamil extremism, it is mostly communalism, greed and selfishness as tamil nationalism.

What LTTE does is fr more than that. Because Muslims are tamils, but they are not welcome in the so called  "tamil areas. The same way, LTTE is against only the Sinhala Buddhists and not Sinhala Christians.

Ask Norweigian Church and arm industry about that and former Norweigian NGOs helping tamils.

AnuD,

Do you know the meaning of Chauvinism or Nationalism? I doubt it.

Let me educate you... You are a Sinhala Chauvinist and anybody with half a brain can see that by reading your posts.

I think that it is you who need to grow up. Your posts reveal a lot of your thinking. People like you and Janet generalize Tamils and anybody that is critical of the GOSL or Sinhala Nationalism/Chauvinism as a LTTE supporter. I personally detest the LTTE and people like you who are both birds of a feather who cater to the lowest qualities of human nature. I think it is rich that you admonish my posts but at least I have the guts to be critical of my community. Now, to quote your own words... who is catering to communalism, greed and selfishness?


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'Anyone in a free society where the laws are unjust has an obligation to break the law.'

- Henry David Thoreau

I urge my Sinhala brothers and sisters to please assess the performance of the armed forces in the light of civil rights

Please look at yourselves (AnuD & Janet) Im afraid your comments are chauvinistic. My challenge to you is be as equally critical of Sinhala conduct as you would of LTTE.

You will discover the power that feeds LTTE is your own attitudes

rimfirejones wrote:

AnuD,

Do you know the meaning of Chauvinism or Nationalism? I doubt it.

Let me educate you... You are a Sinhala Chauvinist and anybody with half a brain can see that by reading your posts.

I think that it is you who need to grow up. Your posts reveal a lot of your thinking. People like you and Janet generalize Tamils and anybody that is critical of the GOSL or Sinhala Nationalism/Chauvinism as a LTTE supporter.

ho..ho..ho.
I never say that somebody is an LTTE supporter because they are critical of LTTE. Infact I like people who are critical of both the GOSL and LTTE. But I am not going to accept the lame excuse that the Tamils are supporting LTTE, or rather reluctant to oppose LTTE, beacuse of fear. That is a lame excuse. Tamils can't expect some angles will come out and rescue them, and kill the mosnter they nutured all along.

GOSL and the armed forces had done tremendous amonts of atrocities against the citizens, both Tamils and Sinhala in Sri Lanka. Tamil people have genuine problems that needs to be addressed. But LTTE is not going to solve any of these problems. However, the Tamil people wants to have the LTTE as a bargaining chip, and that is not acceptable. LTTE is simply a terrorist outfit. Do you thikn the Isrelis will talk with Palestinians if they say 'Hamas' is our sole representative, and you have to talk to them?

rimfirejones wrote:

I personally detest the LTTE and people like you who are both birds of a feather who cater to the lowest qualities of human nature. I think it is rich that you admonish my posts but at least I have the guts to be critical of my community. Now, to quote your own words... who is catering to communalism, greed and selfishness?

Get real. You are not going to eradicate greed and selfishness. These qualities are going to be there always, and they are not  bad things.

"Get real. You are not going to eradicate greed and selfishness. These qualities are going to be there always, and they are not  bad things"

Who said anything about eradicating these traits? I was just pointing out the double standards of the poster. It swings both ways Baby.

Read the post first, before reacting.


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'Anyone in a free society where the laws are unjust has an obligation to break the law.'

- Henry David Thoreau

Janet wrote:

.... greed and selfishness. These qualities are going to be there always, and they are not  bad things.

Maybe you can argue with us, but can you argue with lord Buddha?