NYT,  Sat Mar 21 21:37:34 EDT 2009

    BATTICALOA, Sri Lanka — The homeless Tamil refugees camped in shanties here provide a hint of the difficulties and divisions that lie ahead as the Sri Lankan government fights what it says is a final battle to end a 25-year separatist insurgency. Ethnic Tamils who fled an earlier round of fighting three years ago, the refugees still live in uncertainty, surrounded by barbed wire, and their resentment against the majority-Sinhalese government has grown.

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Obviously they are not listening to perl's pearl of an advice to all Tamils of Sri Lanka:

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Tamils of Sri Lanka who is interested in sharing power must learn to wait in line.

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kkk123 wrote:

Obviously they are not listening to perl's pearl of an advice to all Tamils of Sri Lanka:

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Tamils of Sri Lanka who is interested in sharing power must learn to wait in line.

kkk123
Can you explain how you understood that quote you are using out of the context?

I don't understand the rationals of Tamils in camps in liberated regions.
I assume our military leadership knows what they are doing.

The western style freedom of living had been Terrorist's breeding grounds where they come in and kidnap children at will. Perhaps it is an attempt to limit recruiting potential of LTTE.

Tamils living elsewhere Sri Lanka are not in caps with barbed wire.

Why the two different standard?
Has Tamils living outside the war zone provided willingly or unwillingly children to LTTE?  Perhaps not.

Can the LTTE recruitment potential explain the barbed wire 'concentration camp' theory?  

The truth is under privileged Tamils have been suppressed by both LTTE and the government.  
Media and LTTE Tamils with their .  give the impression that it is OK to oppress Tamils by Tamils.

However it makes nice eye catching sexy headline news.


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kkk123 wrote:

Obviously they are not listening to perl's pearl of an advice to all Tamils of Sri Lanka:

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Tamils of Sri Lanka who is interested in sharing power must learn to wait in line.

Obviously they are not listening to TNA either. Is he a traitor?
http://www.thecolombotimes.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3361:sri-lankas-pro-ltte-party-mp-to-back-upfa-&catid=3:defence-news&Itemid=4


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Sri Lanka's Pro-LTTE party MP to back UPFA

There is good and bad news in this story.

Good news is they are with SL politicians.
Bad news is that they are as bad as them.

LTTE said TNA is representing Tamils and looks like they are since they justify the treatment of IDPs.
It is possible this is a friendly way of grabbing power since that could go to people like Douglous and Anandasangaree.


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"What is left when honor is lost?"

Have you heard of a single TNA member expressing any remorse for suicide attacks on innocent civilians and murder of pro government Tamils by LTTE at any time? Now they are trying to hang in there by playing a different card knowing LTTE's days are numbered. I would begin to trust him only when he quits TNA and join UPFA or UNP.

>> The truth is underprivileged Tamils have been suppressed by both LTTE and the government.

Actually, "underprivileged Tamils" have long been suppressed by the "non-underprivileged Tamils" (such as those who live comfortably and thrive in Colombo) and the government (whose policies of the 50s to 70s, such as language, university quotas, resettlement schemes, etc hurt them badly), rather than the LTTE, which just use them. This is why so many of them in fact joined the LTTE and provided their fodder. One of the challenges facing the govt will be how to settle them in a meaningful way so that they don't feel the need to support any LTTE clones in the future. Unfortunately, even in the rest of the country, development is proceeding only at an arthritic snail's pace, hardly visible in fact, so the prognosis isn't good.