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    LONDON, March 8 (UPI) -- British concerns over the escalation of the ongoing conflict in Sri Lanka is mounting.

In a meeting with Sri Lanka's foreign minister Rohitha Bogollagama Monday, British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett said violence came with too high a price for all the people of Sri Lanka."

"I stressed that there can be no military solution alone to the conflict," Beckett said.

The Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, known also as the Tamil Tigers, have been in an unending crisis for many years.
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I wonder why everyone is telling GOSL that a military solution is not acceptable.

OH Wow! The British are concerned about the lives of people in Sri Lanka. Did they forget that it is they who created the whole crisis? Who used split and conquer techniques in Sri Lanka? Who gives wide media coverage to Tigers? Who allows them to raise funds in open fund raising events? Who sent a UAV hidden inside a container of Tsunami aids bound to East? And, now they come to play the civilised boy with us. They don't have to teach us that the war is not a solution. We all know that and we don't need war. Only thing is we don't want terrorism in our country.

karu_007 wrote:

I wonder why everyone is telling GOSL that a military solution is not acceptable.

May be (former)Foreign Minister him self delared that Sri Lanka is in crisis ?
Police Chief him self cry for help or complaining about his own men ?
Or TamilChelvan's warnng about bloodbath ?
May be they reliased that MR bros, nothing but baffoons with full of lies ?
Like CALL, Rambukeelle wont come out with anti brit solgons as they all looking for their retirment villas there !!

Abby wrote:

karu_007 wrote:

I wonder why everyone is telling GOSL that a military solution is not acceptable.

May be (former)Foreign Minister him self delared that Sri Lanka is in crisis ?
Police Chief him self cry for help or complaining about his own men ?
Or TamilChelvan's warnng about bloodbath ?
May be they reliased that MR bros, nothing but baffoons with full of lies ?
Like CALL, Rambukeelle wont come out with anti brit solgons as they all looking for their retirment villas there !!

These are some of the reasons why other world governments advice GOSL not to start a war.
Fair enough.

I wonder then what a military solution means. Does it mean wiping out LTTE?
If so why not US/British support that?

Call wrote:

Only thing is we don't want terrorism in our country.

But they want us to have it.

Mr Rambuttanwella will come out with his next newsbrief and state that Britain is thoroughly misled.
He would say " We don't advise Britain how to handle terrorism in their country", - meaning that they should mind their own business.

And this matter would end there.

He is MR's greatest find.

mudface wrote:

Mr Rambuttanwella will come out with his next newsbrief and state that Britain is thoroughly misled.
He would say " We don't advise Britain how to handle terrorism in their country", - meaning that they should mind their own business.

And this matter would end there.

He is MR's greatest find.

His name is Rumbukwella, not RambuttanWella nor MangustanWella.
You probably think he is a fruit seller, but he is GOSL's defense spokesman,
and a cabinet minister, too.

The .. British are absolutely right. In 80s they came to a negotiated settlement during the Falkland crisis.  I remember Margaret Thatcher going to Argentina to settle the dispute and agreed amicably to take back the island. HMS "Hermes" and other ships were turned back without firing a single shot.   I also have a faint recollection of BBC going all out to give airtime to IRA and they were almost all time on the BBC programs during the IRA activities. There were no fights or even bombs in Northern Ireland and they all sat in a pub had a "pint bitter" and solved the problem. Take the advice from the colonial ruler and hand over North and East to 7 % of the population. The other areas must be multi ethnic, multi lingual, multi religious, multi cultural and MULTI VITAMIN where as North and east is mono everything.

People get a mental picture in image form of each other.

See your two popping out eyes.

I see some others like 'rambuttan'. What is wrong with rambuttan? It is sweet but you should not swallow the large pip inside.

Have you seen a photo of your defence spokesman. What do you think?

Yes, sweet words but must swallow the substance.

Both Lankan and these other govts agree LTTE has to be defeated militarily. The difference of opinion is only whether the political solution should come before or after LTTE is defeated. There is no question everone understands the need for genuine power sharing after having to endure terrorism for 5 decades.  However after years of dealing with this issue, most Lankan leaders have realised without LTTE more options become available. This option is explored in detail by Mahindapala in the following article.

Tamils leaving Vanni without waiting for a constitution By H. L. D. Mahindapala.

Besides, assuming that the new military offensive is successful in effecting a regime change in the Vanni, it is axiomatic that the new dynamics of the post-Prabhakaran politics will open up democratic and rational political alternatives which are not available now because of the intransigent ethnic extremism of the one-man regime. [More...]


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Quote:

.. terror plot getting bared; five bodies found at Muthurajawela identified

A .. plot to tarnish the good image of the government before the international community is getting bared as the bodies of five Thamil Makkal Viduthalai Puligal (TMVP) members found in the Muthurajawela swamp were positively identified by one of their comrades.

http://www.defence.lk/new.asp?fname=20070307_09

Those +$$$+ crows lead by (Jayalath, Joseph, John, Johnston, Ravi) who cried , caugh and shout cling in to these bodies, Now what they have to say?
 
They have two options;
1. smile like monkeys (As Mr Hemakumara Nanayakkara mentioned in the parliment yesterday) in naked
or They should appologise from the nation (or atleast UNP'rs) !!!

http://lankarising.googlepages.com/

Statement by  Prime Minister of UK , Tony Blair about the series of explosions in London on 07 July 2006.

" I think we all know what they are trying to do, they are trying to use the slaughter of innocent people to cow us, to frighten us out of doing the things we want to do, of trying to stop us going about our business as normal as we are entitled to do and they should not and must not succeed.

When they try to intimidate us, we will not be intimidated, when they seek to change our country, our way of life by these methods, we will not be changed.

When they try to divide our people or weaken our resolve, we will not be divided and our resolve will hold firm.

We will show by our spirit and dignity and by a quiet and true strength that there is in the British people, that our values will long outlast theirs.

The purpose of terrorism is just that, it is to terrorise people and we will not be terrorised. "

Watch the statement...

Ref: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4659953.stm

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"Mahath waruni dannawada suddo awe rata karanna...

Mahathwaruni dhannawada danuth enne rata karanna..."
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Within the world political arena, there is no military solution.   They will never proclaim that in public.  However we don’t have to take that answer.  The diplomacy has to be creative enough to get necessary support for certain actions.  For example, after a terrorist attack, the government can unload a mini shock-an-awe stating it is self defense.  There are certain world events where you can carry out certain operations without getting much publicity.  Just after 911 was the perfect window.  Chinese stock market crash was another.  

The govt and the non-LTTE community and Sinhalese hasn’t made their case well over LTTE propaganda.  If you look at the way SL government has functioned over the years, why on earth any foreign organization support them?
I personally believe a political solution does not exist.  The only way out is militarily.  Do we see a SL government genuinely interested in a military solution?  I don’t think so.  There is one thing saying going to war and another on the behavior of the high level govt officials.  There is no vision and unity among any group in Sri Lanka regardless whether terrorist or non-terrorist.    

The responsibility is on the expatriates to organize, create political connections and pushing foreign government to take actions against LTTE and pressuring the SL govt to be clean.


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These are our innocent children, when will they be rescued from these barbarians LTTE !

Tigers abduct children!
Parents commit suicide!
 
[07th March 2007 - 09:00 S.L.T)  
  
A father and two mothers who were depressed as a result of their children being abducted by tiger terrorists committed suicide by taking poison. Another mother who had drunk poison is lying in a critical stage at Mannar hospital.
  
A group of tiger terrorists had broken into Pandirichchan village in an un-cleared area.  
  
in Mannar District and had taken away four children for armed training. The parents of the children had asked tiger leaders several times to release their children. However, the tiger terrorists had chased the parents away and in their distress they had taken poison.