Shimali Senanayake in Colombo,  Tue Jan 24 11:15:28 EST 2006

    At least five explosions took place in and around the Sri Lankan
capital Colombo on Tuesday, the military and police said.There were no casualties but police
believe the explosions were synchronized."The blasts appear to be organized," said military
spokesman Brig.Prasad Samarasinghe."We can't say immediately who is responsible."
One explosion in the heart of the city took place in a garbage dump, he said.
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I suggest that people should not panic and should go on with their daily lives. I assume DIG Kotakadeniya is already preparing to arrest another 5000 people in colombo for not having National ID cards and then release an equal number few days after. Then we can live safely for another 2 months.


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http://today.reuters.com/News/CrisesArticle.aspx?storyId=COL136424

It is said that there was a poster campaign carried out by National Movement Against Terrorism last night. What a coincidence!  The sinhala extreamist forces have stated to experiment in colombo! wonder who is going to be their first victim....


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Wonder why the sole representative of the news media the venerable Tamilnet is not reporting
about the explosions?? tsk tsk I wonder whether the transmissions between the "peace secretariat"
and Colombo are getting jammed by the DMI? Kind of feeling let down cause TamilNet and Nitharshanam
normally reports Todays news Yesterday!! Always with a head start "on news that matters"


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Sootiya wrote:

It is said that there was a poster campaign carried out by National Movement Against Terrorism last night. What a coincidence!  The sinhala extreamist forces have stated to experiment in colombo! wonder who is going to be their first victim....

I earnestly suggest that all members of the NMAT head to the nearest recruiting center for immediate
enlistment to the Sri Lanka Army. I also suggest that given their proclavity to engage in above mentioned
activities that they be given the onourous task of defending the frontlines at their earliest opportunity
so that the current soldiers who are sweating it out can take a break.


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Well said “namdev” I think the arms-dealers and politicians (that stand to profit from the bribes) should provide free food and transport for the potential recruits. I am sure the deputy defense minister would be happy to provide the lionsshare.

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I earnestly suggest that all members of the NMAT head to the nearest recruiting center for immediate
enlistment to the Sri Lanka Army. I also suggest that given their proclavity to engage in above mentioned
activities that they be given the onourous task of defending the frontlines at their earliest opportunity
so that the current soldiers who are sweating it out can take a break.

What frontlines are those namdev? Currently our soldiers are defending piles of sand and areas destroyed by Tsunami wainting for aid our government has witheld. I dont see why this is an urgent task, but it certainly is an onerous and intensively nationalist one with no clear benefits.

Lets assume we succeed in destroying the LTTE. We kill a few thousand Tamil civilians along the way. The incumbent government will have no political incentive to address long term grievances of the Tamil population and thus we are back to situation we had in 1956. At some point in the future our politicians will (and I assure you they will) raise the spectre of "tamils" in our midst as the cause of our problems. The next generation of Tamil youth will grow dissatisfied and regenerate a LTTE clone.  

Perhaps you should spend some time among tamil villagers and see this through their eyes.  What serious alternatives do you offer?



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When everything was put together by the Govt to re-start the talks extremists on the Sinhala side want to disrupt.

God save Sri Lanka!

priantha wrote:

When everything was put together by the Govt to re-start the talks extremists on the Sinhala side want to disrupt. God save Sri Lanka!

When will Government take action against the gangs? Is it becasue it is easier for the Government to blame someone without taking any responsibility?

When underworld gangs can place bombs for money it is easier for anyone to do anything in Sri Lanka.

I think Pabakaran is a prisoner of Norwegian Arms Industry and the Norwegian church. Because of that, What we talk, it will not be easy to handle LTTE unless pabakaran was not involved directly.

But, that does not mean Norwegian govt, is involved in it.

OK uncivilised terrorists have executed another series of explosions to terrorise the civilised citizens. Lets go back to the drowing boared and analyse this incident against the definition of terrorism...

rom Wikipedia:

Terrorism is a way that some people use to try to get what they want. A person who uses terrorism is called a terrorist.

Terrorists attempt to achieve their goal by killing people. They do not only kill people that are in the army. They kill anyone they can. They often kill people by putting bombs in public places to kill lots of people at once. They kill people so that other people will be afraid. Then the terrorists say that they will stop killing people if they are given what they want. Terrorists think that if others are afraid, they will give them what they want.
Ref: http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism


So LTTE carders (these are petty goons having cynide capsules in neck ) is justifying the first part (in red) of the definition by terrorising the people.... And some of the people (they are white collar terrorists who can write and argue and pretending to be intelectuals ) in this forum is asking the civilised people to full fill the second part of the definition (in brown).. For me both are terrorists executing different phases of terror...

So are we democratic Sri lanken gonna manure this vicious cycle of terrorism or work in all possible ways to break this cycle in all possible links?....

Talking about subjects on the topic of this forum, namely that five bombs went off in Colombo, there are two theories currently making the rounds.

1. That the LTTE has set them off to "mock" the government security attempts and to scare the government into initialting talks.... this would be in line with their minor strikes in teh N/E.

2. That GoSL or other pro-nationalist (read JVP/JHU/Sihala Urumaya) group are behind the attacks. Supportive evidence is the areas of the strike and the result that there were no casualties. Also, it stands to reason that if the LTTE were indeed making their presence felt, they would not blow up dustbins.

The mere fact that  #2 is considered by the man on the street speaks volumes for the LTTE propaganda effectiveness. Also a minus for GoSL.

If this has been carried out by the GoSL, I hope they have the plans and the guts to carry them out. If it is an extremist group that is carrying out these attacks, it is an extremely stupid move.

But if it is the LTTE, then the situ is much more serious. There is no point in rounding off all youth without ID cards, or even with ID cards. The government should have been working long ago on ilfiltrating the LTTE, with the peaceprocess in place, let's hope they have done that. According to many forum participants here, there are lot of tamils who are dissapointed/hate the LTTE. If this resource could be harnessed (I hope to god it is being harnessed) it would be a definite plus.

Sootiya wrote:

It is said that there was a poster campaign carried out by National Movement Against Terrorism last night. What a coincidence!  The sinhala extreamist forces have stated to experiment in colombo! wonder who is going to be their first victim....

Poster campaign is democracy,,, blasting bombs is terrorism.. Those who do not have enough personality to face the pen (chalenge ideas and defend their mith of elam in academic way) use bombs.. Thats why we called terrorists are goons!!!! There are enough goons (even in this forum) use pen to justify this terrorist acts shamelessly!!

LankanExile wrote:

priantha wrote:

When everything was put together by the Govt to re-start the talks extremists on the Sinhala side want to disrupt. God save Sri Lanka!

When will Government take action against the gangs? Is it becasue it is easier for the Government to blame someone without taking any responsibility?

When underworld gangs can place bombs for money it is easier for anyone to do anything in Sri Lanka.

yes we must wipe out the under world gang together with terrorists.. Both are goons that doing curse to this country...

I wonder why some of the TNA politicians(I wonder politicians is a correct word for terrorists proxies) get upset when police rade underworld gangs!!!