AFP,  Sun Jan 10 22:21:02 EST 2010

    COLOMBO (AFP) - For decades, Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels fought for an independent ethnic homeland. In May they were defeated, but observers say Tamil voters could now be key to who becomes the next president.The two main candidates -- incumbent Mahinda Rajapakse and former army chief Sarath Fonseka -- both claim credit for crushing the Tigers and ending the island's .. ethnic conflict.
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- The Academic

The Tamils have been scarred for life not only once but many times in the past several decades.
Is anybody out there who can give us a clear analysis of why the Tamils should play a key role in voting
for either of the two contenders.?

Tamils have always voted and taken the promises made very seriously.
Once the election was won,the promises vanished down a large awning pit
and the Tamils were back to square one.

We also took the brunt from the losing party who went on the rampage,looted murdered
raped and pillaged our homes and yet again threw the Tamils into the refugee camps.
This has happened every few years while the ones who woed he Tamils sat and watched.
They were our biggest traitors.

It would be advisable for the Tamils to take a back bench and let our singhala brothers and sisters
vote to get the lesser of the evil.After all thats what they have.
Why not the singhalese vote for one or the other and have the winner bring PEACE to the
country.
He should know what should be corrected to make Sri Lanka a better place to live.

The Tamils will watch,before they put their trust in the man and work together for a better Sri Lanka.
Please say no more--King,Dutugemunu and God.
Get the President to work hard towards a better Sri Lnka.


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R.Gnanaratnam wrote:

Tamils have always voted and taken the promises made very seriously.

What about November 2005 election?


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R.Gnanaratnam wrote:

The Tamils have been scarred for life not only once but many times in the past several decades.
Is anybody out there who can give us a clear analysis of why the Tamils should play a key role in voting
for either of the two contenders.?

Because it is only when Tamils participate in elections in large numbers ( percentages ) that the Tamil vote will be taken seriously by whichever of the 2 main parties that come to power, not for a separate state, but for development, job and educational opportuniities, on par with the rest of SL.  In other words Tamils have power by using their vote bank leverage to be kingmakers and be the ultimate deciding factor on which of the two parties will win.

The reality in SL is that it will still be one of the two main parties that will dominate politics in many years to come, and hence Sinhala vote will always be split.  Fringe parties such as JVP, JHU and TNA cannot hope to participate in ruling the country unless they link up with either of these 2 parties.

You will have noted that both candidates have visited the North, very actively attempting to woo Tamil votes.  The real danger of Tamils either boycotting the elections or voting in very poor numbers election after election is that eventually both the mainstream parties will come to the conclusion that " its is not worth wasting time and money on Tamils, as they are not interested in elections"

no Money has ever been wasted on Tamils.

neither, money allocated squandered.

2005?

The Tamils proved the fraud of the Mahintha chinthanaya
and the weakness of Ranil.

decades of voting by the Tamils has not brought any Pezce to the country because the winner
was no more intrested in the real issues of the country which you all know what it is.


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R.Gnanaratnam wrote:

2005?
The Tamils proved the fraud of the Mahintha chinthanaya and the weakness of Ranil.

How?  The LTTE prevented them from voting, and as a result Mahinda won the election.  So the LTTE should get the credit for the current outcome, no?


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Emil Kanthan (Bald head), the LTTE man who tried to assassinate Doulous Devananda at Kaluthara Prison. The same man who arranged the election boycott for Rajapaske in 2005.

  Namal meets Emil Kanthan in London

- How the deal was done -


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Sin no! Praba got killed.   


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Athos wrote:

Emil Kanthan (Bald head), the LTTE man who tried to assassinate Doulous Devananda at Kaluthara Prison. The same man who arranged the election boycott for Rajapaske in 2005.

  Namal meets Emil Kanthan in London

- How the deal was done -

Most electronic media institutions are affraid to publish this picutre. Apperently Sirasa has shown it yesterday with the picture of Namal blured. If it was someone connected to the UNP then ITN will be showing this picture every few seconds. Wonder what weerawansa has to say about this?


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"A nation is a collective enterprise - outside of that it is a gambling hall for the opportunism and adventurism of power."-Wole Soyinka

votercooray wrote:

Most electronic media institutions are affraid to publish this picutre. Apperently Sirasa has shown it yesterday with the picture of Namal blured. If it was someone connected to the UNP then ITN will be showing this picture every few seconds. Wonder what weerawansa has to say about this?[/quote]

VC said in another thread

Quote:

Frankly i cant make out a single person in the video. They should have used a better camera to get such a expose and it would have been a hit. It either shows lack of brains or that it was a fake home video or both.  

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This has deviated from the original thread.

So,if the Tamils voted for Rajapakse does it mean he has to
encourage corruption,fraud,encourage money baggers,kidnappers and murderers and
muzzle the free media and etc?
Why is he muzzling the south.
What is the south going to do.
Where is Democracy?

South was running wild with excitement of the King maker
now they are all in the dumps because we still have the home grown smiling assasins,
grim assasins,balheaded assasins.mustache assasins,uniform assasins,common assasins.
wake up and clean our country of these vermins.
Unable to do this.?
What happened.?


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Taraki wrote:

R.Gnanaratnam wrote:

2005?
The Tamils proved the fraud of the Mahintha chinthanaya and the weakness of Ranil.

How?  The LTTE prevented them from voting, and as a result Mahinda won the election.  So the LTTE should get the credit for the current outcome, no?

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votercooray wrote:

Athos wrote:

Emil Kanthan (Bald head), the LTTE man who tried to assassinate Doulous Devananda at Kaluthara Prison. The same man who arranged the election boycott for Rajapaske in 2005.

  Namal meets Emil Kanthan in London

- How the deal was done -

Most electronic media institutions are affraid to publish this picutre. Apperently Sirasa has shown it yesterday with the picture of Namal blured. If it was someone connected to the UNP then ITN will be showing this picture every few seconds. Wonder what weerawansa has to say about this?

I had a feeling this whole picture with Namal was a fake. But then i read this on Island.

Quote:

A government spokesman told The Sunday Island that Namal Rajapaksa obviously could not have known the true identity of the person identified as Emilkanthan at the time they met in London.

http://www.island.lk/2010/01/17/news1.html


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"A nation is a collective enterprise - outside of that it is a gambling hall for the opportunism and adventurism of power."-Wole Soyinka

To rm7000

as someone mentioned on a thread on LA

English is our third language.

I cannot make my observations any simpler.
Kindly read mine and you will get my point.

Thanks.


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Every man has a train of thought on which he rides. His happiness depends on the direction in which that train is going,the baggage it carries,and the scenery through which it travels.

R.Gnanaratnam wrote:

To rm7000

as someone mentioned on a thread on LA

English is our third language.

I cannot make my observations any simpler.
Kindly read mine and you will get my point.

Thanks.

Which point you were referring to,  Gnanaratnam ?

Taraki observed that the current situation
came about because of l.t.t.e's boycott call in 2005.
Apart from boycott, they initiated and provoked with Mavil Aru dam breach.
Apparently, even the most intelligent make mistakes,
and l.t.t.e led by VP is no exception. One-man shows end
up like this.

However, now is a new, different ball-game.
I think the worst is over and it will be a new kind of
churning, whoever wins.


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