Associated Press,  Thu Mar  2 08:31:40 EST 2006

    BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI  -   Associated Press Writer  -              COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -  (AP)  A top Japanese envoy on Thursday urged the Sri Lankan government and separatist rebels to take a practical approach to resolve their differences and stop ``tirelessly arguing formula or conditions.''        On Thursday, students of a university in Sri Lanka - 's troubled northern peninsula said they will return to classes starting March 8 because violence had subsided following the Geneva talks.

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If Japan can send some kamakazi, Haragiri and samirai Ninja - soldiers job will be very easy.

Great news! More counties should pressurise Mahinda to solve this on going war.

Sri Lanka needs overseas aid to survive.

It is time the other donors to follow Japan.

This is the story of modern Sri Lanka. If not Japan, Norway or Britain or the US or the World Bank or now Harvard or a foreign international lawyer has to step in. Sri Lanka is teeming with so-called foreign experts telling the Sri Lankans what to do and how to do it in almost every field and economic activity. It is absurd and verges on the comical when I see the Sri Lankan politicians and officials strutting around the world capitals unabashed and financed by the self sacrificing hard working maids in the middle-east. Even Ceylon tea has lost ground against the poor maids as the biggest export of Sri Lanka. The refusal of the tamil refugees in India to return to Sri Lanka under the present circumstances is evidence of what intelligent people really think of the outcome of the meeting in Geneva. It makes for a comic opera if not for the pain and suffering of a whole people affected by the incompetence of their leaders.

When the big nations fight against Terrorism, they don’t negotiate and try to eradicate the problem from its roots.

The poor nations have to negotiate and their Terrorists are allowed to fly first class on British Airways.

Sri Lankan Terrorism has a 5 minutes solution – if anyone is really interested in eradicating it.


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We don't need to beg now, if he had solved the ethnic problem by implementing anda-Selva pact.  We are digging our own graves now.


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SL problem will never be solved unless the governments of SL stop asking for foreign aid and thus becoming the slaves of the so-called donor nations.  Those donors do not really care for democracy or human rights.  If they had, then they would not be pusing the SL government to talk or negotiate with the LTTE.  They all very well know that the LTTE's agenda will benefit their own interests in the region in the long run.


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bairavi wrote:

SL problem will never be solved unless the governments of SL stop asking for foreign aid and thus becoming the slaves of the so-called donor nations.  Those donors do not really care for democracy or human rights.  If they had, then they would not be pusing the SL government to talk or negotiate with the LTTE.  

There comes another simple solution from another reader. "SL should stop asking foreign aid!!".

In business you need cash flow and a good balance sheet to run the business. In Government you need to balance the budget to survive and printing money is not a solution.

So far according to the ceasfire agreement and the Co-donors it is understood that in Sri Lanka, there is a problem and this will need a resolution based on political solution. Solving this is easier and the first step required, before SL get a budget surplus so that they can reject all donors.

hardX wrote:

When the big nations fight against Terrorism, they don’t negotiate and try to eradicate the problem from its roots.

That's not always true. The IRA was negotiated with.

hardX wrote:

Sri Lankan Terrorism has a 5 minutes solution – if anyone is really interested in eradicating it.

Terrorism rarely has a 5 minute solution, as the world's best army is finding out the hard way.


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Peevee wrote:

hardX wrote:

When the big nations fight against Terrorism, they don’t negotiate and try to eradicate the problem from its roots.

That's not always true. The IRA was negotiated with.

[size=18]Bad Negotiations. YAsser Arafath always negotiated forIsrael's advantage[/size]

hardX wrote:

Sri Lankan Terrorism has a 5 minutes solution – if anyone is really interested in eradicating it.

Terrorism rarely has a 5 minute solution, as the world's best army is finding out the hard way.

If Allowed Sri Lankan Army may prove that they are not the same.

   

Nick says:

Quote:

Great news! More counties should pressurise Mahinda to solve this on going war.

Correction: Great news! More countries should pressurise Mahinda and LTTE to solve this ongoing war.

[quote="kkk123"]Nick says: [quote]Great news! More counties should pressurise Mahinda to solve this on going war. [/quote]

Correction: Great news! More countries should pressurise [b]Mahinda and LTTE [/b]to solve this ongoing war.[/quote]

kkk.. you hit the nail right on the head. Both parties are not showing commitment to a negotiated settlement. Both sides are trying to point fingers at each other and tell the world community that the other side is wrong and that they should stand by the side that is not in the wrong. MRs problem is the rable he roused before the election by painting an unrealistuc picture of how the problem could be solved. That in turn has become his curse

kkk123 wrote:

Nick says:

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Great news! More counties should pressurise Mahinda to solve this on going war.

Correction: Great news! More countries should pressurise Mahinda and LTTE to solve this ongoing war.

Equals, aren't they? For the pressure to be effective, they should also start giving aid and loans to the LTTE too, so that, they could tell them, that the loans and aids wouldn't come for ever if they do not yield for their pressure. Why not, let them give a seat to the LTTE in UN, and recognize their Eelam too, so that they could have equal effect on both parties.

TLA is a good place to check the twisted news:

"COLOMBO (Reuters) - Japan warned Sri Lanka on Thursday not to take hundreds of millions of dollars' in aid for granted, saying future assistance will depend on the government tackling policy inconsistencies and reform delays"

the report is mainly discuss about the reform which is not carried out by GoSL. It reads few lines about the ongoing talks. Japan asks both parties to take positive measures. Usually the south media acts when an appreciation come form outside it goes to SL and if someone makes  pressure it goes to LTTE or both.
Also I am surprising how they are relating the Jaffna University re-open with this news....

THE_ACA_USR wrote:

TLA is a good place to check the twisted news:

"COLOMBO (Reuters) - Japan warned Sri Lanka on Thursday not to take hundreds of millions of dollars' in aid for granted, saying future assistance will depend on the government tackling policy inconsistencies and reform delays"

the report is mainly discuss about the reform which is not carried out by GoSL. It reads few lines about the ongoing talks. Japan asks both parties to take positive measures. Usually the south media acts when an appreciation come form outside it goes to SL and if someone makes  pressure it goes to LTTE or both.
Also I am surprising how they are relating the Jaffna University re-open with this news....

Do you have a link to the above item, preferrably on reuters ?

Here is the Reuters Link.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/COL231974.htm

The link was provided under the AP article in the related news links in yesterdays TLA.
http://archive.lacnet.org/2006/2006_03_02/

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