Even now, all we need is a government dedicated to developing the country and ridding it of the LTTE. “Impossible” is nothing especially in this day and age. At the moment, the JVP, SLFP, UNF, JHU and every political farce are screaming at the top of their voices at every incident. One thing is for sure, as long as the government remains recumbent the way it exists now, we can expect the LTTE to force Ealam from the backbirths in office, and then everyone will look up and wait.

pain doesnt need to be heroic and death doesnt have to be glorified ; they were still people and other people loved them.

what man?

the “south” does know about killing because as a result of the above the evil of suicide bombing came into existence. The south knows about war because the sourth sends it’s young, poor, rural men to respond to it’s racist infliction of brutality on a small group of people that it eventually wants to get rid of.

the south knows it’s power and the south uses it against it’s citizens all the time and uses it against all types of it’s citizens

thes man by all accounts was above that – hence he is admired and he will be remembered and so he should.

when the only thing you get taught day in and day out is religous bigotry, racial violence, discrimination and segregation – it is a wonder why anyone would stick their head above water and try and say something different.

even in the sri lankan blogsphere – we have a drunken self-pitying fools in the face of other people’s tragic family loss and those who are trying to rise above the tradgedy and deal with reality.

my mother knew many such sinhalese writers, teachers and talented people – before the JVP struck – she came back to Ceylon after just 5 years – and they were all, all gone. Yes, indi is right here. we have lost some very special people who I know (having met just a few of them) would have done their best to stop the “revoluion”

as for mines – remember only one thing, when a mine detonates – it cares not who you are, it only fulfils it’s purpose which is to make money for the country that manufactured it, to kill people for the country that bought it and to destroy lives that don’t deserve it.

RIP

mines are horrible and kill indiscriminately…

we’ll never know who laid this one… but the pain felt here in colombo is due to the fact that for the first time someone “famous” from colombo was killed… the whole of the NorthEast is covered in mines and THOUSANDS of civilians have been killed and maimed by them but you all in colombo never cared or did anything about it… it’s tough when it hits close to home though ain’t…?

the south hasn’t really experienced the war like the people of the NE have, except for a few bobs here and there and checkpoints… you all don’t really know what the war is about or the depth of the feelings in the northeast or the depth of the feelings amongst the tamils… and don’t think what the worthless “colombo 7 tamils” tell you about the “views of the tamils”… they know nothing

Please leave it out of this one…

Uncle Nihal’s sons read this blog too

i love you useless dickbags… talk, talk, talk… if there was a DRAFT (conscription) like there was in the USA during Vietnam and all you middle class useless f**ks had to go fight on the front lines there wouldn’t be a war

all your parents would be DEMANDING of the GoSL to sue for peace…

you’re a buncha pussys…

and all this bitching and moaning because of a couple of bombs… you never say anything about the thousands of tamil civilians who were killed by GoSL bombing and shelling during the war and the ones being killed now by the DEATH SQUADS supported by your tax rupees

you’re all useless idiots (or buggers – which ever you prefer)

Lets not kid ourselves as to who the real cuprits are.

The major factors in not been able to combat and weaken the LTTE are:
Corruption, Nepotism, Lack of accountability, Lack of transparency, lack of a genuine meritocracy

As members of the privileged elite there is a lot that you’ll can do. However awareness of the problem at hand and of the perpertrators of terrorism is essential.

Here I give a letter written by a close friend of mine who sacrificed a part of his youth to fight the LTTE in the jungles
of Trincomalee.

”
Social Elite; It is your call

The suicide bomber who blasted Army commander’s entourage didn’t get into a bus from Vanni and came to Colombo. She probably arrived in Colombo months ago, driven and guided by terrorist agents living amongst us, and fed and harboured by terrorist agents who receive the patronage of some top level businessmen, offcials and politicos and their thugs.

The countrys intelligence services who should be tracking, investigating and arresting these traitors have been neutralized to sheer ineffective levels. The junior officers who took any personal interest to trace the traitors have all been gunned down in the streets of Colombo itself. It is time to ask who is blocking the intelligence services efforts to track down these traitors.

There are scores of social, political, humanitarian and religious institutions, some funded by western organizations, who dare to openly campaign to protect the traitors, justify the terrorism, and have the incompetent and the corrupt to get to high places, including country’s intelligencve services, and make sure that the country’s capability to maintain national security is made ineffective while ensuring the terrorists have their way.

Sri Lankans connected with these institutions and the terrorists have linked up with the selfish and corrupt elements of the Sri Lankan society in mutually rewarding relationships. Most drug imports and distribution, major import and export smuggling businesses, prostitution rings, institutions and individuals tasked with the cultural destruction are all making their living thanks to the terrorist network.

In this scenario the politicos and political parties come to power, sponsored by some of these corrupt elements themselves, and pretend to do some work while pocketing in what is left of national resources, and retire.

National security can only be maintained if the system is cleaned up of corruption and treachery associated with the terrorism. The decisive war is in Colombo, not in the jungles of the north and the east.

It is the uncorrupt educated social elite who could save Sri Lanka by questioning and demanding what’s needed to be established and implemented. The poor cannot do this. Nobody would listen to them. The corrupt rich wouldn’t want to change the system. It is the hour of the educated uncorrupt social elite. It is time that they take interest in the governance and the continuity of the nation. Only they can make the difference for only they alone have the strength to question and expose the conspirators and the selfish corrupt elements who betray the nation. It is them alone who has what it takes to counter the propaganda spread by the foreign-funded traitors.
“

Uncle Nihal is dead. It doesnt matter whose mine it was. It doesnt make the loss any easier to bear. No war…no mines. If only it was that simple. I last met him at the Gratiens. Standing in a corner, quietly. It was to be the last time I saw or spoke to him. The thought makes me physically sick.

This is too close to home. We need to do something.

Ah, the violence committed on the English language by those whose fingers work faster than their brains.

But for the edification of those whose brains work faster than their fingers, Sir: please do tell why a ban of the LTTE in 2006 will give better results than the ban in 1998-2001?

For information: CBK did ban the LTTE in the aftermath of the Dalada bombing and this was lifted only after the ceasefire was signed in 2002.

Thousands died on the A9; Maradana bomb; Slave Island bomb; fall of Elephant Pass camp (where soldiers died of thirst, not gunshots); destruction of half the SriLankan fleet on the tarmac, other can fill in the blanks.

Those who do not know their history make inane blog comments.

Ironically, I finished ‘The Road from Elephant Pass’ only last week and the day he was killed, I was telling my friends and family how great it would be to go back to Wilpattu, since I hadn’t been in so long. When I finished the book, I wanted to meet him, for it seemed that we had such parallel interests. I guess the only consolation is that he died in a place he absolutely loved.

wouldn’t the energy be better spent exerting pressure on the GoSL and the LTTE to sign the Geneva Accord against landmines?

We are not in the courts to discuss a situation ‘until proven not guilty’. We are in a battle field. Whoever scores more will win. We need guys like Murali. Not sympathizers. I really do not wonder how LTTE terrorists became so strong over the years!!!

Haven’t you heard a thingy called make them isolated? Cut down all relations to LTTE aligned Sri Lankan companies operating in South (i do not have a list but CID has and you and I know some of them), Cut down all relationships with individuals who are talking about LTTE’s right to kill innocent people for the sake of a homeland. Another easy way to say this is, BAN LTTE in Sri Lanka first.

At least now, LET’s have the backbone to say the word ‘LTTE TERRORISTS’ instead of calling them with ranks and names in news channels and papers. They are a Terrorist Group all around the world with the existing Ban except in Sri Lanka. Just say it.

Also rollover negotiations/dialog with established tamil parties in Sri Lanka. Make it clear that the government will talk only with Tamil political parties but not with LTTE terrorists. How can you explain anyone the logic of asking a tiger to change its menu? I give you the jungle, you stop eating meat..

either way, it most probably wasn’t to target these poor people, or other tourists/civilians. but using the ltte as a scapegoat for attacks that they may not be responsible for doesn’t help the landmine situation in sri lanka. both parties lay mines, both are responsible for their repercussions.

As hard as i try i can’t even think of an incentive the army would have to plant a mine on the main road in wilpattu. Unless it’s those ghostly “paramilitaries” again (solid genuine honest buggers that they are). Where’s the evidence that the LTTE killed Premadasa? Ranjan Wijeyratne? Even General Kobbekaduwa? I mean that was a mine right? it could have been the paramilitaries. It could have been the communists!! (General McCarthy turns in his grave) It’s just coldminded bloody conjecture then and it’s the same now. And that’s all we have.