Associated Press,  Sat Feb  3 14:41:14 EST 2007

    COLOMBO, Feb. 3 (Kyodo)  Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse on Saturday appealed to the Tamil Tiger rebels to lay down their arms and rejoin peace talks.
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Well…I can see MR following someone else footsteps here.  Who are we trying to fool here? SLG the one who violates the CFA here and telling to the world (I mean his own world) that SLG are genuine and still interested in political solution for this prolonged ethnic trouble. ….Good luck MR...

enation wrote:

Well…I can see MR following someone else footsteps here.  Who are we trying to fool here? SLG the one who violates the CFA here and telling to the world (I mean his own world) that SLG are genuine and still interested in political solution for this prolonged ethnic trouble. ….Good luck MR...

Know your facts before you talk. Who violated CFA over 7000 times? You know the answer.

Yah…LTTE broke 7000 times and you people have record for each and every time when LTTE broke the CFA.  But they are REBEL, TERROIST etc… etc…..But who’s SLG? Democrately elected government who supposed to protect its own citizen.  Are they doing it? Countless disappearance, murder every day not only in North and East, even in Colombo.

Mawrata, unless u expand your wisdom, it’s very hard for you to understand the struggle of those people.  If LTTE continuously breaking the CFA and your democrately elected government done nothing!!! Then why there is CFA?  The SLG should tear the CFA and pronounced to the donor countries rather fooling everyone.  That’s the fact you should know.

[quote="enation"]Well…I can see MR following someone else footsteps here.  Who are we trying to fool here? SLG the one who violates the CFA here and telling to the world (I mean his own world) that SLG are genuine and still interested in political solution for this prolonged ethnic trouble. ….Good luck MR...[/quote]

I fully agree with you sir.

The SL forces should have been kept in the camps when the LTTE started blowing claymore mines soon after MR came to power. Furthermore they should acted in restaint (by keeping themselves to the camps) while the LTTE murdered our foreing minister, Intelligence chielf, Army's 3rd in command, the attempted murder of the army chief, the Kebethigollwa bus bomb massacre, blocking water in maawil aaru, sea tiger attacks on ships  etc etc etc etc..

Eantion you are a genious man. Simply a genious. If only the country had a few more people like you.. sigh sigh...

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If LTTE continuously breaking the CFA and your democrately elected government done nothing!!! Then why there is CFA? The SLG should tear the CFA and pronounced to the donor countries rather fooling everyone. That’s the fact you should know.

What CFA ?
how can one tear of a defunct document ?
looks like a lot of folks, now miss the opportunity to blast off this legend document..

Yes, power sharing with the Tamils of Sri Lanka is not in anyway linked with LTTE. This is how everyone initially thought and went after it begging to negotiate. They have shown time and time again, the purpose of their existence now has become just economic reasons as demonstrated with the closing of A9. The Tamil freedom is just a convenient excuse to make more money out of racists who just cant seem to fathom the futility attempting to forcefully carve out a pure Tamil ‘homeland’ in the island. It would be an insult if the govt had to be forced into granting equality to minorities using terror. Why does the govt need LTTE terror to remind Tamils need to be treated equally? Isn’t it a shame that our country has come to this point where even now the language policy is still not fully implemented? This is why the LTTE must be disarmed first and then found a solution in keeping with everyone’s including Tamil aspirations. Furthermore, why is everyone busy looking at Indian models and Australian models of power devolution when there are successful unitary examples we usually love to compare ourselves with? Why doesn’t anyone consider Singapore of all places as a good constitutional model to emulate? With federal system, you are merely wiping the problem under the rug. With federal, Tamils in NE will have a greater share of the power but the Tamils in the rest of SL will continue to suffer the inequality. Surely we are not trying to really fix the problem by a federal constitution?


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enation wrote:
"Mawrata, unless u expand your wisdom, it’s very hard for you to understand the struggle of those people.  If LTTE continuously breaking the CFA and your democrately elected government done nothing!!! "

Have you been sleeping all this time and just woke up?? For your information SL armed forces have liberated East and your LTTE goons are on the run. Civilians are happy and enjoying their freedom after years of harassment and domination by LTTE thugs. Don't worry GOSL will liberate the North soon and help those innocent civilians. Sorry to disappoint you, you will have to find another country for your Eelam.

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enation wrote:

Well…I can see MR following someone else footsteps here.  Who are we trying to fool here? SLG the one who violates the CFA here and telling to the world (I mean his own world) that SLG are genuine and still interested in political solution for this prolonged ethnic trouble. ….Good luck MR...

Know your facts before you talk. Who violated CFA over 7000 times? You know the answer.

According to the CFA, SLAF were to allow 94,000 people to return to their homes taken over for the HSZ, would you count that as one violation or 94,000 violations?
That's on the first day alone that the SLAF did not vacate HSZ there were 94,000 violations. Multiply that by the number of days that just this part of the CFA wasn't implemented. 4yrs X 365 days X 94,000 . Add to this the number of days the paramilitaries were allowed to opperate, multiply that by the number of paramilitary cadres under arms.

You would probably count these as just 2 violations, others might see the 7,000 violations like a drop in the bucket compared to the violations by the GOSL. On top of that there is the thousands of IDP displaced by Govt. offensives in violation of the CFA, is that just one violation or are there thousands of violations there alone?

Mawrata, since you seem to have the facts(I certainly don't), would you give us just a few of the 7,000 violations you talk about? and those by the GOSL?

Don't get me wrong, I don't think the LTTE is blameless. What I am saying is GOSL is as responsible, if not more, for the CFA being in tatters.
Since, the benefits of the CFA was asymetrical, i.e GOSL & the people of the south benefitted more from the CFA than the LTTE or the people of the NE, those who elected this Govt. should be asking 1.why they didn't implement the CFA fully? and 2. why they allowed it to become defunct?


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har, great comment...

I also think enation is a very wise and intelligent person... he should run for the presidency of the LTTE... education will be high on his agenda...

enation wrote:

Well…I can see MR following someone else footsteps here.  Who are we trying to fool here? SLG the one who violates the CFA here and telling to the world (I mean his own world) that SLG are genuine and still interested in political solution for this prolonged ethnic trouble. ….Good luck MR...

The call by MR for LTTE to come to talks is the 'name of the game' now. Taking out LTTE's military assets (this would include 'personell') is also declared by the GOSL. So you could imgaine what would the 'stratergy' in the coming months..
(Keep on targetting LTTE assets, and telling the LTTE/world that the GOSL is ready for talks..)

SL armed forces are determined to engage the terrorists.

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har, great comment...

I also think enation is a very wise and intelligent person... he should run for the presidency of the LTTE... education will be high on his agenda...

Fair enough.

But, don't the school children in Tamil areas deserve better than this?

http://www.dailymirror.lk/2007/02/06/front/03.asp