Shimali Senanayake in Colombo,  Sun Mar 19 12:47:40 EST 2006

    The Tamil Tiger rebels say they intend to reopen political offices,
which were shut down in Sri Lanka during a surge in violence late last
year.The Tigers' intention was conveyed during a meeting with Norway's
ambassador to Colombo Hans Brattskar and Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission
chief Hagrup Haukland on Thursday.Subsequently, the government was
informed that the guerrillas planned to re-man offices in the island's
north and east, some of which had been shut for more than three months.

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Since the day, CFA was signed they expanded their Enclave from 30% to 70%.

Is this attmept to expand it further more until they claim the whole 100%.

At least, Diaspora will give them more money for that decleration.

But, it ramins to be seen how they convert it to an  efective eelam.

Good. Now Karuna's men can pay a 'visit' to LTTE offices.

Janet says:

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Good. Now Karuna's men can pay a 'visit' to LTTE offices.

Janet, what you describe as good is exactly what the LTTE wants. Do you see how you are feeding the LTTE and keeping the monster alive?

The LTTE wants Karuna's men to attack their 'political offices'. Most probably, these offices will be manned by innocent civilians who have no option other than to obey the LTTE orders. Then the LTTE will highlight these attacks and proclaim to the world that Karuna is attacking them and that the GOSL is violating the CFA by not disarming them.

Wherever the offices are not manned by innocent civilians, they are likely to be defensive fortresses geared to defeat any attack by the Karuna faction, thus demoralising the breakaway group.

This decision by the LTTE puts the GOSL in a tight situation and a carefully thought-out counter-action is needed rather than a knee-jerk reaction like 'Karuna paying a visit'.

Theoretically, allowing the LTTE to operate these offices should contribute to bringing them into mainstream politics. This is what the international community will think. But, in practice, the LTTE will use these facilities to strengthen the 'political' campaign to achieve Eelam while making use of every available loophole to expand their military activities. Intelligent thinking is needed to counter this move.

One approach is to create the environment for Karuna to open his own 'political offices', preferably across the road.

What KKK123 says is right.

Even without anything happening, LTTE complains non stop saying Karuna is attacking.

KAruna should never change his stand in that he is not handing over weapons.

But, for the time being he should open political offices in the same locality of the LTTE political office. That is an urgent need.

That can create a different  environment.

SLA can increase thier patrols.

hi my friends i trust the sinhala people will always sing the priise of karuna for the contribution he is commiting to keep the tamils and sinhala people together by fighting the tigers.please dont let him down.

SRICANADA wrote:

hi my friends i trust the sinhala people will always sing the priise of karuna for the contribution he is commiting to keep the tamils and sinhala people together by fighting the tigers.please dont let him down.

Politicians always double cross politicians. Karuna is not in Sri Lanka. On the other hand, KAruna's people, I do not think SLA ever will be harmful to them, but army may be careful, we do not know when Tamils would double cross us. LTTE is good at it.

Other than that, Sinhala people never were barbarians. I do not agree with that. I do not think even ethnic unrest would come again. People have learned.

Besides, we understand, that we need to help the East to come out of their problems. Earlier, we did not know differences between tamils. Now we know far better.

EVen in my life, tamils were better friends than Sinhala people.

Only thing is Karuna chould change his rhetoric to include all the people in the east and not just one group. Under those conditions, if you want become the president, we do not care.

kkk123 wrote:

Janet says:

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Good. Now Karuna's men can pay a 'visit' to LTTE offices.

Janet, what you describe as good is exactly what the LTTE wants. Do you see how you are feeding the LTTE and keeping the monster alive?

The LTTE wants Karuna's men to attack their 'political offices'. Most probably, these offices will be manned by innocent civilians who have no option other than to obey the LTTE orders. Then the LTTE will highlight these attacks and proclaim to the world that Karuna is attacking them and that the GOSL is violating the CFA by not disarming them.

Wherever the offices are not manned by innocent civilians, they are likely to be defensive fortresses geared to defeat any attack by the Karuna faction, thus demoralising the breakaway group.

This decision by the LTTE puts the GOSL in a tight situation and a carefully thought-out counter-action is needed rather than a knee-jerk reaction like 'Karuna paying a visit'.

Theoretically, allowing the LTTE to operate these offices should contribute to bringing them into mainstream politics. This is what the international community will think. But, in practice, the LTTE will use these facilities to strengthen the 'political' campaign to achieve Eelam while making use of every available loophole to expand their military activities. Intelligent thinking is needed to counter this move.

One approach is to create the environment for Karuna to open his own 'political offices', preferably across the road.

I agree with kkk123. Karuna group has already opened offices in the East, and are in the process of opening 1 or 2 in the Jaffna peninsula.

The funny thing is that whoever at one point were hard-core supporters of LTTE has turned out to be the biggest threat to the Terrorists now. Karuna in Sri Lanka and the
Temple-guy in London among the Tamil diaspora.

Begining of the end of the glory days of the Sun-goat??

I agree with kkk123's explanation on Janet's comment.
Opening political offices can be a carefully calculated move by LTTE

Deep penetration group of LTTE work through LTTE political offices!!
Beware of another round of brutal killings by facists...

"we do not know when Tamils would double cross us"

I read the whole of the above mentioned comment. I understand the sentiment behind it but we must be careful how we word our comments. Sentences like the above clearly show the distance that must be travelled before there is peace in Sri Lanka. How would we feel if someone said.."don't know when the Singhalese would double cross us"...


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Here are some quotes from some generals

General Lionel Balagalla
I don't think that there are other armed groups operating in the area, except the Karuna faction. At the time of Karuna broke away from the mainstream Wanni leadership, LTTE Leader V. Prabhakaran announced not to intervene in the matter, as it was an internal issue and said he will control it. So the question of a disarming of the Karuna faction does not arise as far as the government is concerned, as the LTTE itself claimed that it was an internal matter.

General Hamilton Wanasainghe
There is only one group actively operating in the east, that is the Karuna faction.

If we try to disarm the Karuna group, there will be a war. Unless we come to an agreement with that particular group and if we try to disarm them, they will definitely resist us, which means again we are heading back to a war.

Karuna was very much part of the LTTE when the Ceasefire agreement was signed.

By that time there were only references to PLOTE, EPDP etc. as armed groups. They handed over their weapons.

It is the responsibility of the LTTE to disarm this group. I don't know why we should disarm the Karuna faction. It is not our responsibility.

General Gerry Silva
If we are going to disarm the Karuna faction, that will definitely lead to another war.

Karuna is the LTTE's product and played a big role in that outfit.

He defected from the Wanni group due to the discrimination meted out to the eastern Tamils. It's a case of a minor Tamil community discriminated by the dominant group.

It is not advisable to disarm Karuna.

General Rohan Daluwatta
Disarming such groups by force needs a military operation and conducting a military operation is a violation of the Ceasefire Agreement. The CFA has clearly mentioned that the military cannot launch any military offensive. If one wishes to disarm the Karuna faction operating in the uncleared area the military has to go to these areas. But that is also not possible right now


If the Army doesn't have the guts to figh and disarm Karuna's group, what are they going to do with LTTE.  They will run away as they did at Elephant Pass camp and other camps.  Damn shame


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Another sooraya from JHU says he will send coffins of 4 lakhs Tamils, if LTTE sends 40,000 coffins of army.  This show another cowardness of these people.  You want ti kill innocent people for the revenge of killing army.  

Is this you preech in Buddha Dharma ?.    It is not Hela Urumaya it is HELL Urumaya.


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JHU and LTTE are the same-  
But  JHU doesn't claim to be the 'sole representatives' of Sinhala people while LTTE claims to be the one for Tamils

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JHU and LTTE are the same-

How many Tamils, or Sinhalese, has the JHU killed?

Perhaps it would be more accurate to compare the JHU to the TNA, in that both are often shameful apologists for atrocities by their own sides.