Associated Press,  Sun Apr  1 15:31:00 EDT 2007

    KRISHAN FRANCIS  -   Associated Press Writer  -              COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -  (AP)  Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels gunned down six ethnic Sinhalese laborers at a construction site in eastern Sri Lanka -  on Sunday, the military said amid reports the government was looking for public support to formally back out of a cease-fire deal with the rebels.     
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Associated Press,  Sun Apr  1 15:31:00 EDT 2007

    KRISHAN FRANCIS  -   Associated Press Writer  -              COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -  (AP)  Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels gunned down six ethnic Sinhalese laborers at a construction site in eastern Sri Lanka -  on Sunday, the military said amid reports the government was looking for public support to formally back out of a cease-fire deal with the rebels.     
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If it is true I realy Condemn this attack. The innocent people should not be targetted by LTTE.
Otherwise no difference  from SL forces.
SL force are killing more and more tamil people in N&E every day. It is now usual. I dont know how many of you will accept this? But this is true.
It does not look nobody is interested these tamil innocent lives. Only you guys shouts when sinhalese are targeted. If you can please go to North & East and see the real situation. Then you will know the truth.

Sing-Song-Man,

Get a proper song... you are not in tune. The LTTE's business is murder... Rajiv Gandhi is dead. Why? The LTTE's leader is a meglomaniac. The LTTE can only exist by killing. Now the French are catching your extortionists in that country...


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singam wrote:

If it is true I realy Condemn this attack. The innocent people should not be targetted by LTTE

No need to condemn. This story is not true, but another propoganda effort by the GOSL to gain political mileage

LTTE have never massacred civilian villages, and will not do so in the future.
LTTE have never exploded bombs in public transport buses, and will not do so in the future.
LTTE have never exploded bombs in public places killing civilians, and will not do so in the future.

If there is any need of condemning, we should condemn the GOSL for spreading false information to tarnish the good image of the LTTE....

Political Observer wrote:

Sing-Song-Man,

Get a proper song... you are not in tune. The LTTE's business is murder... Rajiv Gandhi is dead. Why? The LTTE's leader is a meglomaniac. The LTTE can only exist by killing. Now the French are catching your extortionists in that country...

Hi Observer,
Why did not you observe when SL forces bombed Navali Church with over 200 tamils, bombed schools, bombed hospitals
and bombed orphanage ???

singam wrote:

The Academic wrote:

Associated Press,  Sun Apr  1 15:31:00 EDT 2007

    KRISHAN FRANCIS  -   Associated Press Writer  -              COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -  (AP)  Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels gunned down six ethnic Sinhalese laborers at a construction site in eastern Sri Lanka -  on Sunday, the military said amid reports the government was looking for public support to formally back out of a cease-fire deal with the rebels.     
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If it is true I realy Condemn this attack. The innocent people should not be targetted by LTTE.
Otherwise no difference  from SL forces.
SL force are killing more and more tamil people in N&E every day. It is now usual. I dont know how many of you will accept this? But this is true.
It does not look nobody is interested these tamil innocent lives. Only you guys shouts when sinhalese are targeted. If you can please go to North & East and see the real situation. Then you will know the truth.

As someone said, no need to condemn these attacks. It must have been done by Sri Lankan forces to tarnish the image of the well respected LTTE who never ever will kill innocent lives in Streets when travelling to work, while working or worshiping or or or ....

I am more than happy to go there to see whats going on but I need to do lot of things before going there. Here is a smaller list ...

1. Take all equipments to telecast the details live
2. Meet all my relatives for the last time
3. Say good bye to my kids and wife and parents
4. Prepare the will.
5. Pay for the cofin and make arrangment for the funeral (if may relatives managed to find the body)

This is only a part of the list. Since, when I am coming back, Sri Lankan troops will kill me. I and you and everybody knows, Sinhalese can go there and comeback alive unlike in other part of the country where no Tamils can't work. You know Tamils live only in North and some part of East not in Colombo/ Kandy/n_eliya or other part of the country.

I will let you know once I complete the above list.

PS: I need the euipments for live telecast as I will not be able to come back. So others can see whats going on.

singam wrote:

Political Observer wrote:

Sing-Song-Man,

Get a proper song... you are not in tune. The LTTE's business is murder... Rajiv Gandhi is dead. Why? The LTTE's leader is a meglomaniac. The LTTE can only exist by killing. Now the French are catching your extortionists in that country...

Hi Observer,
Why did not you observe when SL forces bombed Navali Church with over 200 tamils, bombed schools, bombed hospitals
and bombed orphanage ???

Unfortunately, Sri Lankan forces unable to identify the orphanage which was used to conduct weapon training as when their parents come they can use them for self defence not to attack the Sri Lankan troops. Also, LTTE never hide inside a temple/Church or anywhere and send misiles or motars flowers.

singam wrote:

Hi Observer,
Why did not you observe when SL forces bombed Navali Church with over 200 tamils, bombed schools, bombed hospitals
and bombed orphanage ???

Oh dear... please don't go on about the orphanage... everyone knows it wasn't one, so please don't even start on that narrow-minded garbage...

Hospital and Navali Church bombings were human shield incidents... if the LTTE take shelter in the hospital/church and use it as a fortress from which to launch attacks from, what is the army meant to do? Please answer this question... Are they meant to just let the LTTE attack and attack til they are bored and wait for them to come out of there, so then only to counter-attack...? The LTTE shows no concern for people in the hospital or the church, that is shown by the fact that they decided to use these places as war scenes... what are you going on about?

You think that the army has nothing better to do then to waste their bombs on civilian targets... like ignore LTTE propaganda, and seriously think, what's the point of that...??? If they wanted to waste resources like that, then isn't it better to randomly drop bombs in the Vanni jungles in the odd chance of hitting Fat Praba or destroy something useful there? Like just think about it…  So the army drops these bombs and then they sneak into these places and dress the dead bodies up in LTTE uniforms, and then take photos... like seriously, you have got given a brain to think for yourself, so please use it…

And as a side-note, the people stupid enough to stand in front of the LTTE and knowing "habour terrorism", must be held responsible for their decisions... if you know where the LTTE is, then it's your responsibility to inform GoSL  (if you want to be protected by the GoSL then you have to live by the laws of the GoSL)... if you habour or aid terrorism, then how can you be considered a civilian???  it's the "unknowing church-goers" that are the victims... even though it should be obvious when they see armed men in a church, that something isn't right...

All Sri Lankans need to stronger and more realistic in these matters… it’s like the LTTE can claim any garbage and Sri Lanka will consider it, even though how silly it sounds… it’s like a suicide bomber, gets arrested before he can explode and then claims that he was just innocently walking down the street, to visit the local library, and picked up a suicide bomber jacket by accident and didn’t know what it was, and was on my way to the president’s house to hand it in… like come on… there is a national threat to the nation of Sri Lanka, all citizens and visitors alike, and even future generations (with hits aimed at the economy)… Stop being so soft on terrorism…!

Sorry, I got passionately carried away…  

singam wrote:

If it is true I realy Condemn this attack. The innocent people should not be targetted by LTTE.
Otherwise no difference  from SL forces.
SL force are killing more and more tamil people in N&E every day. It is now usual. I dont know how many of you will accept this? But this is true.
It does not look nobody is interested these tamil innocent lives. Only you guys shouts when sinhalese are targeted. If you can please go to North & East and see the real situation. Then you will know the truth.

There is news today of detonating a bomb in a bus killing 15 people.  These people got to be very sick to do this kind of recreational bombing. Based on the track record, I am more than sure that this is not work of LTTE the ahimsa movement.

Singam says,

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If it is true I realy Condemn this attack. The innocent people should not be targetted by LTTE.

Singham, There is no IF.  This is true   Not only this blood thirsty Internationally Condemn Terrorists likked 6 Sinhala workers who came to build Tsunami affected houses for Tamils, LTTE also said to have killed Tamils too (just because they belonged to another political party).  

The people/LNGOs/INGOs who cried for the death of 17 NGO workers should also cry for this!

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Otherwise no difference  from SL forces. SL force are killing more and more tamil people in N&E every day. It is now usual. I dont know how many of you will accept this? But this is true. It does not look nobody is interested these tamil innocent lives. Only you guys shouts when sinhalese are targeted. If you can please go to North & East and see the real situation. Then you will know the truth

GOSL is a democratically elected one even with the support of LTTE.  If they kill Tamil People daily, this can be brought in to the focus of SLMM or even to the International Court of Justice.  Alternatively, you can contact the AI and ask them to lobby this matter at the Caribbean where, the World Cup Cricket is taking place at the moment.

singam wrote:

SL force are killing more and more tamil people in N&E every day. It is now usual. I dont know how many of you will accept this? But this is true.It does not look nobody is interested these tamil innocent lives. Only you guys shouts when sinhalese are targeted. If you can please go to North & East and see the real situation. Then you will know the truth.

Dear singham, less than 10 hours since you wrote your post, the Sri Lanka Army has exploded a bomb in a civilian bus near Ampara town killing 15 (10 women + 2 children + 3 men). No doubt the GOSL would put the blame on innocent tigers, but they will not be able to fool people like you and I with their false propoganda. Lets do our part and contribute more to the tiger funds to get rid of these terrorists called SLA and to create a peaceful life in the Tamil Ealam seperated by the oppressive Sri Lankan government.

Micheal wrote:

Please answer this question... Are they meant to just let the LTTE attack and attack til they are bored and wait for them to come out of there, so then only to counter-attack...?

Micheal, Why are "they" so far away from their homes causing death and distruction? If a bunch of men armed to the teeth were occupying an area in Matara, for example, going on the rampage against the locals, the Matara-ites would be justified in resisting, wouldn't they? There's a simple solution ... just leave, let the locals clean up the mess by themselves.

Har wrote:

Dear singham, less than 10 hours since you wrote your post

Har, In that same period of time the similar number of people have died at the hands of the "security" forces and the paramilitaries and have gone unreported. 4,000 persons have been killed since the 2005 elections, of those how many can you blame on the LTTE? It won't be hard, just go through all the media reports since then. Who did the rest of the killings?


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eeky wrote:

Micheal, Why are "they" so far away from their homes causing death and distruction? If a bunch of men armed to the teeth were occupying an area in Matara, for example, going on the rampage against the locals, the Matara-ites would be justified in resisting

eeky,

I can't speak for Michael.  I acknowledge that Tamil Sri Lankns have some legitimate issues need to be addressed urgently. However,  in case you don't get this clear, keep in mind that every bit of Sri Lanka belongs to everybody in SL. You ask for a part of it and you are not going to get it.  LTTE is a terrorist organization fighting against the legitimate government of Sri Lanka.  Therefore, the government has the legitimate right to use appropriate force to preserv the territorial integrity of the country and LTTE has no such right in return. If you like, you also can join the majority of peaceful Tamil Sri Lankans living in Sri Lanka.  Othewise, keep dreaming until Velu ushers Eelam with the final war.

Thanks Prasads, very true...

And I'll like to push this a little further... you either live with "the majority of peaceful Tamil Sri Lankans living in Sri Lanka", or if you don't like it, then you can always just leave...

eeky wrote:

Har, In that same period of time the similar number of people have died at the hands of the "security" forces and the paramilitaries and have gone unreported. 4,000 persons have been killed since the 2005 elections, of those how many can you blame on the LTTE? It won't be hard, just go through all the media reports since then. Who did the rest of the killings?

Hey man why are you asking these questions from me? I'm one of you guys. I truly beleive that LTTE are fighting to protect tamils from GOSL+SLA+SLN+SLAF. I also truly beleive that LTTE's primary tactic is civilian protection, and SLA's primary tactic is civilian destruction.

Due to continouos attacks+massacres+butchering on civilian villages the LTTE had to set up a special unit called the Home Guard Service ('gramarakshake blakaya'), mainly made up of the villages themselves. The purpose of this unit is to protect border villages from the continuous attcks of the SLA. Also the LTTE cam up with the novel idea of setting up sirens in these villages, so that when the SLA came to hack the villages one could set off the siren and warn the others so that they could run for their lives. The siren also serves the purpose of allerting the nearby LTTE camps to take quick action to come and chase the SLA away before they could hack the entire village to death.