Apey Rata
view from back of a moving trishaw
It’s nice to get out of the air-conditioning now and then. Actually, it sucks. Take a trishaw home at 1 in the AM, feeling strangely lucid. I’d like to put my headphones on and just drift but it’s just too uncomfortable two feet from another human being. My Sinhala puts rudiment to shame, though I’ve got my life story down. The conversation is always the same. I’m 23. No, I’m not married. Yes, I was at a girls house. No, she’s actually a friend. Yes, I like Sri Lankan girls. No no, I don’t want a girl right now, thank you. And of course – yes, the country is fucked. Sometimes you can shuttle from the pub to the resto to home and forget what’s going on. Read the New York Times, watch Star World, whatever. Sometimes you can’t.
Trishaw drivers are a rather random way to get your news. I don’t watch TV cause the advertisements make me naush. I don’t really read the papers cause the layout and english make me twitch. I still read the New York Times every day. I still watch the same shit TV. I tend to notice where I’m living mainly when it smacks me in the head. Hereabouts that’s far too often. It’s hard to have to have breakfast on top of some suicide bombers severed head or people crying over their dead family. This country is a paradox, civilization spread paper thin over raw muscle and bone. Like putting the skin back on a dead cow. Step out of the origami hotel and you can see the blood underneath.
The drivers at night never own the trishaw. There’s no way you’d be driving your own vehicle around at 2h15. They just rent it and keep what’s left over after gas. This one says Mahinda looks pretty and does nothing. Yeah, I know. LTTE this, LTTE that. I know. Kid’s finished A-Levels but hard to find work. Yes, I lived in America. Yeah, there’s good money there. What can you do. Same shit. Everybody’s got kids. Everyone wants just a little bit more money. Not even a lot. Just a little bit.
I had another driver, during the day. Said he was Tamil. Usually you can tell, people post religious markers in the cab. I wasn’t looking. I asked if he saw the Vesak lanterns and he said he was scared to go out cause he might get his ass kicked. That struck me. More than anything on TamilNet really. Just that this guy was scared to walk the streets of his city. It’s a stupid example, but it’s the closest I’ve come to understand that very normal people just don’t feel secure in their own country. But I don’t get any catharsis there. Mainly I just hang my head through the bars and wonder what the fuck. Then I go home and read Metafilter until the bombs ruin my breakfast.
I recently wrote about gay marriage, which is not even on the radar in Sri Lanka. But we have another type of marriage discrimination here as well. Foreign marriage. If you marry someone non Sri Lankan, they can never become a citizen. Their lives and their rights to even be in the same country as their children are permanently unstable, and it’s patently unfair.
When 
I started off not really liking General Sarath Fonseka, him being part of the aggressive war effort. I didn’t support the war (largely cause I thought it would fail), and I thought Gotabhaya Rajapaksa and Fonseka were gleefully stomping everything. Fonseka even came out and said “I strongly believe that this country belongs to the Sinhalese but there are minority communities and we treat them like our people,” in 2008 (
General Sarath Fonseka was arrested on a bunch of trumped up charges, but mainly for daring to threaten Mahinda in a Presidential election. Despite his poor health, Fonseka was arrested in February 2010 and sentence to three years. Word on the street now, however, is that he’ll be released soon. Like any day now. President Mahinda Rajapaksa has told 
“TRUST THEM OR NOT”
How do you know that three-wheel fellow is not a Tamil Terrorist? We have all reasons to suspect every single tamil living around us for our safety. Remember the former Chairman of the Sri Lanka Rupawahini Wasantha Raja? He is a Tamil Terrorist. The terrorists who represent LTTE in Oslo were practicing, registered lawyers here in Sri Lanka. If your boss is a tamil or your company is belongs to a tamil, you will not know whether the guy is a terrorist or not. You will not know whether he contribute part of his salary/profits to Tamil Terrorist network or not.. You will not know whether he is a spy or not..
If I were you, I will not take that taxi again.
I would rather walk or jammed in to one of our buses or hop around to find a Sri Lankan taxi. It’s fully worth the trouble.
I’m only here by chance. Well, mainly because I was referred here by Theena but having read everyone’s posts I just wanna say a couple of things.
* Surely, Mr Janapathi, it would be safer to take the three wheeler because it seems as though Tamils are less likely to blow up themselves? I mean, if you’re telling everyone who’s Sinhalese or non Tamil to take other forms of transport, it is easier for the LTTE to target them?
* I can’t say I know too much about the political situation of Sri Lanka apart from what I read in papers and see on websites so maybe I shouldn’t be making any kind of comments BUT it is because of people with such narrow minded ignorant views that Sri Lanka will never move forward from where they are now.
* Lastly, T, Ravana and Niroshan (not forgetting you Theena), thank you for making me laugh at work. :-)
“I would rather walk or jammed in to one of our buses or hop around to find a Sri Lankan taxi. ”
Your choice of words is a dead giveaway. So you think taxis that belo ng to tamils are not “sri lankan” ?
Like I said before, this is my personal view.
How do you know what was inside the taxi and who that guy is? What made him to be so scared?
Remember the Galadari, Central bank bombs? nicely fitted inside lorries. All of them were registered in Sri Lanka and owned by Sri Lankans.
I can not give a true answer to your question without taking a so called extremist point of view. Try to answer it by yourself.
Why would you risk yourself? Me.. nah.. I will walk..
My point is very simple.
It’s wrong to regard Tamils as being non Sri Lankan. You clearly implied this when you said that you would rather go in search of a a “sri lankan” taxi than travel in a “tamil” taxi.
Anybody who thinks that tamil people are not Sri Lankan is an Elamist!
What Janapathi has said above looks very racist, extremist when you separate it from the whole context.
It’s like eating sugar separate compared to diluting sugar with water. We mix the same quantity, but does it taste the same?
Ok.. forget about what janapathi said..
In the ‘perfect world’ that most of the bloggers here live and dream of, what you are saying is correct. I do not think anyone is stupid not to understand that tamils live in Sri Lanka and we all have same roots. If you read Janapathi’s blog itself you will see in one post explaining the similarities between Sinhalese and Tamils and how they all related to each other.
Now this is my question for you. I expect an honest answer.
Will you rent your house or your car to a Sri Lankan born tamil who came to colombo from North of Sri Lanka?
If you still say Yes, then tell us, whether you are going to ask him to take a police report of some additional document that you would not ask if that person was a Sinhalese.
If you answer this question honestly you will understand the problem.
If you do treat them differently (Which we obviously do but do not want to accept it), that means you treated them differently. Which means, whether you like to accept it or not, in your definition you will becomes an Elamist.
The problems Sri Lankan tamils facing today is, people like you, do not want to honestly understand the Problems they face. We always like to see.. oh! they all are Sri Lankan Tamils and we all are same. Until the day people like you do not put some effort to understand the problem, and simply label people who talk the problem as extremist, we will have a war.
We will also have enough bombs, people dying in Sri Lanka. Reason is, according to your definition, no one should suspect anyone as a Terrorist if we all are Sri Lankans. So if the guy next door is a tamil and u see something unusual is going on, you will keep your mouth shut. Why, because the tamils living next door is one of us? Now my friend, that is why innocent people died in Sri Lanka.
Each bomb, will create, have created more anti-tamil sentiments in our own backyards. No one can stop it.
It’s not extremists like Janapathi, JHU, JVP who put fuel to this war, it is people who call them moderate and stay in between the lines comfortably are the culprits.
Now I am sure, a troller here will say.. go and fuck off..
Actually I don’t have a house to rent anybody so your question is off the mark.
Leaving me aside, the example you brought forward is ridiculous and you brought it up only to avoid having to face the music for your slip of tongue in which you implied that tamils are not lankan.
Any landlord who asks someone to register with the police would do so only for his own protection should something go wrong and that in itself doesn’t mean he doesn’t consider his tenant to be non sri lankan.
Various people have various criteria for determining who they will accept as tenants. Some will take only married couples, some will take only those who have respectable jobs etc. Doesn’t mean that they consider unmarried people or those who don’t have respectable jobs in big companies as being non sri lankan.
In fact, some land lords prefer foriegners as tenants !
So your example of whether somebody might hesitate to rent to a tamil person from jaffna is no way related to whether or not tamils are sri lankan.
You are utterly SHAMELESS.
Having uttered the indifensible, you now defend yourself by trying to muddle the issue and talking about tenants and landlords.
Tamil lankans are as Sri Lankan as anyone else and those like you who think otherwise are as Elamists as Prabhakaran the Terrorist.
Janapathi/Final Blast, since you are obviously intent on making lame excuses for yourself instead of facing reality, I’ll just declare you to be an idiot and not waste any time arguing with you any further.
i’m curious Janapathi, since you see as all tamils as apotential threat, would you prefer if they left colombo?
if so how would you propose to get rid of them? through (violent) force? or through marginalising them in society and starving their economic welfare via boycotts (of their restaurants, taxis etc)?
where would they go? kilinochchi? tamil nadu?
do you think these actions would make sri lanka in general a safer place?
if not, what would you propose to do about the tamil ‘problem’ in the south?
Whose them?
Leave aside the notion that its attitudes like this that will prevent this country from ever attaining peace. What about the tamil speaking population that is not represented by the LTTE? The Estate Workers for example, they get the shittiest deals… They are poor, they are victimized for speaking and looking like Tamils, and they are marginalized out of the discourse. How about them?
Well, now that they have a hypnotized chicken speaking for them, I’m sure there lot will improve. :)
Dear Janapathi,
I am Tamil, not a terrorist.
I make a substantial salary for someone of my age, not a cent of which goes to the LTTE. When the A9 was opened, I didn’t travel to Jaffna to see my relatives because I refuse to allow a cent of my money going towards their ‘cause’ – it is not “our†cause.
I believe in harmony across all cultures, religions, castes, . I do NOT believe in Eelam.
I weep every time a brainwashed sheep (martyrs apparently) from the North go around blowing themselves up in the midst of a large crowd. I wept when I saw pictures of those who were murdered last week.
I wept when a man, unable to support his family, joins the military and doesn’t live to see his sacrifice rewarded. I weep every time a fellow Tamil comes to me and glorifies the acts of a psychotic barbarian; apparently he is ‘our leader’ and is fighting for ‘our rights’. I weep every time they call him and his band of maniacs ‘the sole representative of the Tamil people’.
I weep every time I see comments like yours, but I weep more because I don’t blame you – it is only natural to feel threatened and my initial anger at your comments is now replaced by empathy.
I weep because every time I feel empathetic to such comments, I am accused of turning my back on my own people. I weep every time a Tamil says such things, he is branded a traitor. I weep because such ‘traitors’ of greater substance than myself, such as the late great Lakshman Kadhirgamar, are murdered.
I see a soldier’s face change when he finds that the young lad in front of him is a Tamil. I weep as I hear his silent thought, ‘What if he is one of *them*?”
I weep because I am a Tamil. Not a terrorist. Like me there are others, Tamils not terrorists, who weep at the state of things in this country.
But I look around and I see the proverbial silver lining and I smile.
I smile because my two best friends – as Sinhalese and Buddhist as you can get – treat me like brothers they never had; not a potential terrorist.
I smile because it was a Sinhalese employee at my family’s establishment who willingly donated blood when my grandmother was gravely ill. I smile because we didn’t even ask him. I smile because my family’s establishment has employed people from all backgrounds, including Sinhalese from the south. I smile because they will be the first to tell you that we are Tamils. Not terrorists.
I smile because the love of my life – Sinhalese and Buddhist again – and I will prove people like you wrong. I smile because she was more offended by your comments than I am.
I smile because in us, and others like us, I see the very personification of Gandhi’s profound statement: “We must be the change we wish to see.â€
That we are. That we will be.
Dear Theena,
I understand your feelings over this. I can not help. I know many who call themselves moderate will not agree. Let me be an extremist. It’s ok. But we have come to an enough is enough situation.
I am not the only one who call “Tamil Terrorists”. Let me explain the basis for this generalization.
1. It is LTTE Terrorists who call themselves represent all Tamils. No tamil that I know except the ex-TNA and anti-LTTE tamil political parties have openly denied that statement or issued a statement saying not to generalize.
2. It is BBC and International Media published news, for example, Sri Lankan Army bombing TAMIL bases. Why didn’t you write anything at that time?
Anyway, you can think whatever you wish to.
It is LTTE who is claiming that they represent you. It is Tamils living around you who fund Terrorism in Sri Lanka. It is Tamils around you who killed people like Mr. Lakshman Kadiragarmer. It is Tamils around you who bombed central bank, It is Tamils like the publisher of Tamilnet who lived around you in Colombo who started the LTTE media network.
They all say that they represent Tamils in Sri Lanka.
If ask, all these pro-LTTE and anti-LTTE tamil political parties do say clearly that they are discriminated by SINHALESE. Now isn’t that a generalization? At that time I was wondering exactly like you.. why Tamils in Sri Lanka say that they are discriminated?
When LTTE claim that they represent Tamils and the same LTTE is a wellknown Terrorist Organization, where do you stand in this definition? I wonder!
I know.. getting labeled as a Terrorists is not comfortable.. Similarly, getting labeled as a Sinhala Chauvinist also not so comfortable. Don’t you agree?
Janapathi
wonderfully written theena, both moving and very true. i wish you the best and hope that one day all sri lankans will think and feel like you do. jayawewa!!!
[...] I was working on my international relations homework when my significant other pointed out a comment by Janapathi on Indi's blog. The comment goes as follows: [...]
I have never understood how people can call for national unity and demonize Tamils out of the same mouth. It’s like calling your fiance a bitch and wondering why the marriage doesn’t work out. If the country is united, who do you think we have to live with? We’re fighting to include Tamils, not exclude them. If you are for national unity you have to show some respect for the people you want to unite with.
Indi,
I do not agree with you on this.
We all like to include them. That is the perfect scenario. We do like to stop this war. But unfortunately, it is time to face to the reality.
Let’s say tomorrow, we hold a FREE AND FAIR Election for all Tamils in Sri Lanka to vote on who will be their representative to sort this problem.. do you think these ex-TNA MP’s or EPDP guys will win? Just think.. how to include them when the majority of them have chosen to disintegrate from us?
Theena don’t bother with Janapathi, trying to explain things to him is akin to smashing your head repeatedly against a wall… pointless and painful.
Within 10 seconds of reading his blog you will realise that:
a) He’s an idiot
b) He’s a boring, one note idiot
c) He can’t follow simple instruction – Sophist has asked him repeatedly to “shut the fuck up” and yet he keeps banging on about his “solution” to the “situation” in the country when things are not so striaghtforward – like I said… he’s an idiot
d) He’s a racist and like any racist he’s merely a coward hiding behind his own mediocrity and shortcomings
e) He’s an idiot – oh I mentioned that already… oh well it still holds true
f) People like him are a curse on this country, their narrow minded, racist, self serving ideology is what keeps this country stuck perpetually in 2nd gear.
Just reading his post made me laugh… he’s suspicious of all Tamils… that’s c.18% of the population – Great way to foster national unity… Jackass
Get a life Janapathi or better yet instead of jamming yourself into a bus do us all a favour and stand infront of one. This country will be a far far better place without the likes of your idiotic ramblings.
What a fucking moron…
You are welcome!
great comeback… did you think that one up all by yourself
I have my right to say what I think. I have explained the reasons. If you disagree, then why don’t you form a constructive argument without showing us your true colors?
Wait let me guess… you naturally assumed I was Tamil, you really are that stupid aren’t you. Honestly you should be ashamed of the way you think. The sooner you realise that it’s your chauvanist way of thinking that got us into this mess in the first place and continues to keep us here, the sooner you’ll (hopefully) realise the error of your ways.
I know people who were victims of the LTTE.. and yet I despise you and your thinking more than I despise the LTTE…
You are an embarrasment to this country
“you naturally assumed I was Tamil”..
So where did you picked that from? You are a Moderate Sinhalese. Sri Lanka is proud of you. That’s what you wanna hear.. don’t you.. ?
So you have taken this as a challenge and attacking me. What do you like to hear from me next.. to say I loose..? ok. Here it is.. I loose.. you won.. so now little boy.. you must be feeling very happy..
bye
“You are a Moderate Sinhalese”
Brilliant deduction… but wrong as per the usual… sadly you have yet again demonstrated your ability to plumb new depths of stupidity… Give yourself a pat on the back… or rather take a hammer to your skull.
I attack you not because it is fun (trust me it’s about as fun as the thought of getting a colonic irrigation).. but that’s the only way to get through to an utter fool.. Do you realise how harmful your way of thinking has been to this country? Can you imagine what it would be like to go through the day without the mistrust and contempt you have for your fellow countrymen? Is it difficult to call Tamils Sri Lankan? I bet you never think of these things when you make all your feeble attacks.
The thing is Janapathi you fail to realise that it’s not about winning and losing an argument… the difficulty the minorities face in their day to day existence as well as the inability for morons like you to see them as Sri Lankans is what fuels the divide… This country could be great, but people like you won’t let it and THAT JANAPATHI makes us ALL losers.
At first I thought that you were just racist… but I just feel sorry for you now… you are but an ignorant buffoon.
Great.. so can you name 10 Tamil leaders who oppose LTTE openly and talk for Government, apart from ex-TNA and EPDP groups.
Janapathi,
It would help to a great deal to achieve peace if people like you would just, SHUT THE FUCK UP!
You are welcome..
I echo what T has said above. Sinhala extremists like Janapathi and the JHU claim to speak in the interests of the majority when the sad mofos are too dense to realise that they don’t even represent 2% of the population. What a c***.
Hey… I am not a JHU or JVP guy. Crazy.. don’t just try to imagine things.
Just read why I said it? If you disagree, then say it why I am wrong? If I agree, I will accept. I am not here to win a battle over internet.
So this is what I said to Indi.
Let me paste it here.. so what do you think? Will Theena has a chance to prove her opinion?
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We all like to include them. That is the perfect scenario. We do like to stop this war. But unfortunately, it is time to face to the reality.
Let’s say tomorrow, we hold a FREE AND FAIR Election for all Tamils in Sri Lanka to vote on who will be their representative to sort this problem.. do you think these ex-TNA MP’s or EPDP guys will win? Just think.. how to include them when the majority of them have chosen to disintegrate from us?
How does one make the obvious even clearer? I’ll give it a try though, for your sake, Janapathi…
The LTTE are fighting for a separate state. Their core argumant is that Tamils and Sinhalese can never live side by side in a unitary state, because Tamils will be always discrimnated against and the Sinhalese will never accept them as deserving of equal rights. Therefore, the moment you exlude the Tamil civilians, the LTTE have won, because you are proving their point. This is what the LTTE strategy is at present, as it has always been. Is that clear enough for you?
Nitwit.
Yes, it is 100% clear and totally agree.
But isn’t that the truth? How many moderate Tamils who openly criticize LTTE is living today? Except for the EPDP and ex-TNA click, only other moderate well known Tamil that I can name is Muralidharan.
That is as per my limited, stupid and extreme knowledge. Now it’s your turn.. Enlighten me about the people you know…
If you can name atleast 10 moderate tamil leaders other than the 2 groups I’ve mentioned above, who oppose LTTE and living with us in South, I totally accept my stupidity in replying to this post.
In contrast, I can name you more than 10 Sinhalese Leaders who talk exactly like you without facts. But I do not want to lable them Stupid. I say, it’s their view, so I respect them.
Janapathi
First of all the ration of Tamils to Sinhalese is roughly 4 to one, so you’d actually have to name 40 Sinhalese if we were to play this stupid game of yours, but lets not, so don’t bother.
The reason that Tamil leaders do not speak out against the LTTE, is because the LTTE are a slightly violent organisation and they sometimes can get a little pissed off at other Tamils slagging them off. When this happens, they generally tend to kill the offending Tamil just a little bit.
Nevertheless, there are tons of Tamils that have spoken out against the LTTE, and who have all unfortunately been killed. I will name more than ten. This is the proof you wanted, so now kindly shut up and go find someone who’ll think you’re actually worth listening to… like a pet dog, for instance.
A T Duraiyappah SLFP Mayor for Jaffna
A Thiagarajah Ex ACTC MP for Vadokoddai who later joined the UNP
K T Pulendran UNP Organiser for Vavunia
A J Rajasooriar UNP Organiser in Jaffna
Mala Ramachandran UNP MMC for Baticaloa
Gnanachandiram Ex District Judge, Point Pedro and Government Agent, Mullativu
C E anandarajah Principal, St Jones College, Jaffna
B K Thambipillai President, Citizens Cimmittee
V Dharmalingam Ex TULF MP for Manipay and Father of D Siddharthan, Leader of PLOTE
Alakasunderam Ex TULF MP for Kopay
P Kirubakaran Primary Court Judge
Kathiramalai Sarvodaya Leader
Vignarajah Assistant Government Agent, Samanturai
Anthonimuttu Government Agent, Baticaloa
S S Jeganathan Assistant Government Agent, Baticaloa
Sinnadurai Assistant Government Agent, Trincomalee
M E Kandasamy Principal, Palugamam Maha Vidyalaya
S Siththamparanathan Principal, Vigneswara Vidyalaya, Trincomalee
S Wijayanadan Distric Secretary, Ceylon Communist Party
Velmurugu Master TULF Organiser and Citizens Committee Member, Kalmunai
Rev. Father Chandra Fernando President, Citizens Committee, Batticaloa
Rajjshankar President, Citizens Committee, Tennamarachchi
S Sambandamoorthy Ex TULF Chairman, District Development Council, Batticaloa
V M Panchalingam Government Agent, Jaffna
K Pulendran Assistant Government Agent, Kopay
A Amirthalingam TULF Leader and National List MP
V Yogeshwaran Ex TULF MP for Jaffna
Dr (Mrs) Rajini Thiranagama Lecturer in Anatomy at the Jaffna University and co-author of the “Broken Palmyrah” (21 Sptember 1989)
Ganeshalingam Ex EPRLF Provincial Minister for North and East
Sam Thambimuttu EPRLF MP
Mrs Thambimuttu Wife of EPRLF MP
V Yogasangari EPRLF MP in Madras
A Thangadurai TULF MP for Trincomalee
Mrs Sarojini Yogeshwaran TULF Mayoress for Jaffna
Pon Sivapalan TULF Mayor of Jaffna
Canagasabai Rajathurai EPDF Member for Jaffna
Veerahaththy Gunaratnam PLOTE member of the Pachchilaipalli Pradheshiya Sabha (PS) in Jaffna (5 May 1999)
Razick, Supremo of the EPRLF’s armed wing (30 May 1999)
Dr Neelan Thiruchelvam Leader of TULF (29 July 1999)
N. Manickathasan Vice President of PLOTE (Tamil Political party working with the Sri Lankan Government)
Kumar Ponnambalam President of All Ceylon Tamil Congress (5 Jan 2000) Refer to SPUR Media Release
Vadivelu Vijeyaratnam Point Pedro Urban Council Chairman (14 Jan 2000)
Anton Sivalingam EPDP’s Municipal Council members in Jaffna (1 March 2000)
Kanapathipillai Navaratnarajah TELO member of Arayampathi, Batticaloa – on 7 June 2000
Rajan Sathiyamoorthy Tamil National Alliance parliamentary candidate Rajan Sathiyamoorthy was killed by LTTE Tamil Tiger Terrorists on 30 March 2004
Bless me but you sir are dumber than dog shit… You’ve just defeated your own argument… you first agree with what Ravana said that… oh nevermind just follow the conversation thread (I’ve dumbed it down for you to understand)
- LTTE say they want a separate state because sinhalese cannot live side by side with Tamils, Sinhalese make life difficult for Tamils
- You agree that this what the LTTE claim
- You then claim that this the reality of life in Sri Lanka
You see the problem here… essentially you agree with the LTTE.. Life is so difficult thanks to the Sinhalese that theyneed a separate state.
I suggest you take a long hard look in the mirror and then go fuck yourself
Hi Ravana,
Good morning. Very good attempt. Not enough.
May be you have not read my question.
So let me copy it here..
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If you can name atleast 10 moderate tamil leaders other than the 2 groups I’ve mentioned above, who oppose LTTE and living with us in South, I totally accept my stupidity in replying to this post.
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May be you can also explain us,
why people like Teena missed out a post about the kabithigollewa killings? What do you think of the below situation yesterday. TNA do represent tamils, don’t they?
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Source: Colombo Page
June 20, Colombo: Parliamentary sessions were adjourned this morning as a heated argument broke out between JVP and TNA parliamentarians over the one minute of silence to express condolences to the families of the Kebithigollewa victims.
JVP parliamentary group leader Wimal Weerawansa made a special statement in Parliament in condemnation of the massacre in Kebithigollewa and requested MPs to observe a one-minute silence. All MPs agreed and observed the silence, but TNA MPs Eelavendran and Gajendran claimed that it was unfair to observe a one-minute silence only for Sinhalese victims.
All the TNA MPs then entered the lobby and started to protest, causing the government and JVP MPs to also enter the lobby. A heated argument went on for nearly thirty minutes.
Speaker W.J.M. Lokubandara subsequently decided to postpone sessions for 15 minutes.
I can’t name any who fit that criteria because you want people who are alive. I only know people who are dead that have spoken against the LTTE. I’ve posted a long list of them above. Maybe it is a possibility – all though this could be a stretch of your imagination – that the people who ARE alive don’t want to join the list of the dead. Do you think that this could be a factor, or do you think that all Tamils love suicide as much as the Black Tigers?
Having said that, however, I think a lot more Tamils should speak out against the LTTE. Even online where there is no danger of violence, we don’t see enough of it. The LTTE use Tamil children as cannon fodder, after all. Their own community should be as quick to condemn this practice as the alleged attacks against civilians by the military.
I think like Janapathi said, most tamils like to have a ‘Home Land’. To get to the home, LTTE has taken them to the gate. Anyway, this is a strange world and we do not know who is who.
Completely disagree with Janapathi.
My father in law was a Tamil , the coolest dude I have ever come accross. Wise and was anti LTTE as the LTTE were taking the children out of schools. He was not a terrorist.
My best buddy and neighbour is a Tamil. Not a terrorist. Anti LTTE as they damaged his business in Jaffna and ruined him. My friend at work , with whom I share office space is Tamil. Not a terrorist. He is trying to make a living in Colombo. The many Tamil people whom I played with, in the tea estates and who fed me when I was hungry are not terrorists. They were just Tamil poeple who were caring and treated me just as one their kids or better. The children whom I meet every day in the Tamil community are not terrorists. They are Tamil kids who want to learn and they would NEVER dream of living in Jaffna under the LTTE rule. There are millions of Tamils who are not LTTE. Many oppose LTTE for reasons best known to them. Not every Tamil is LTTE. Be anti LTTE by all means but do not forget to be pro Tamil as LTTE DOES NOT represent the entire Tamil community. Not every Tamil person is a terrorist. Tamil poeple just like Sinhala and Muslim poeple are peace loving, hard working and definitely are NOT TERRORISTS. I am no Peacenik but I most certainly know that majority of the Tamils do not agree with the LTTE . Your mistake is thinking that LTTE is pro Tamil. They are not !!! LTTE is only Pro LTTE.
Hi Priyanga,
I will copy here the same question I asked from Indi.
Let’s say tomorrow, we hold a FREE AND FAIR Election for all Tamils in Sri Lanka to vote on who will be their representative to sort this problem.. do you think these ex-TNA MP’s or EPDP guys will win? Just think.. how to include them when the majority of them have chosen to disintegrate from us?
These guys here can call me extreamist or whatever.. it does not matter.. face to the reality
thanks
Janapathi,
Sri Lankans as a whole have yet to experience a “FREE AND FAIR” election you moron… GET A FUCKING CLUE?
It’s because we have people like you around that makes it so much easier for the LTTE to justify that Tamils are not safe in Sri Lanka and elicit funds from around the world… the sad thing is you don’t even realise it…
YOU with your anti Tamil rhetoric and suspicion further their “cause” and “justify” their existence in the eyes of the world.
Face that REALITY…
You mean to say majority ofsri lankan tamils do not recognize LTTE as the Sole representative of them?
Dream on..
easiest way to recognize extremists of any political shade is their conscious or unconscious equating of tamils with ltte.
sinhala extremists who think defeating ltte means defeating tamils,
ltte who claim they are the sole voice of the tamils,
tamil extremists who think any criticism of ltte is criticism of themselves.
peaceniks who identify tamil interests with ltte interests, and justify appeasement of ltte on that ground, starting with recognizing ltte’s sole representative status
it also is a good indicator of bias in journalists and others who interchange words tigers with tamils frequently within news reports.etc.
opposite position, identification of all sinhalese as chauvinists ready to kill tamils at any moment (in spite of many examples to the contrary in the last 20 years)is also common with certain categories of same type of ppl. esp biased foreign journalists , ltte supporters in tamil diaspora, and it seems with the three wheel driver referred in indi’d post.
it is also the main basis of the current ltte strategy which aims to provoke a backlash by attacking military or civilians.
that these two assumptions are false for the vast majority of ppl is also why that strategy will fail.
Janapathi – Ref your 12.24pm comment today – it’s “lose” not “loose”… unless you’re talking about the screw in your head.
thanks.. I am still learning english..
so please excuse for the mistake..
BTW, I checked my head now.. could not find any screw in it.. may be it’s your turn
Knowing a certain Sam from the blogosphere. i Think the above last comment from him might be spoofed by someone else, or it’s another Sam.
Sam has a certain flow to his writing.
Janapathi, i usually try to ignore you. But i think that above comments sets a new low, even for you. obviosuly asking you to ‘fuck off’ doesnt seem to work. So lets try to answer your ill-logic.
The Reason why leaders of tamil origin dont issue a statement you refer to is because of the fact that apart from fucks like you, no official government or other political organization, JHU/JVP included, doesn’t make the generalization of all tamils are terrorists.
and nobody is labeling all Sinhalese as Chauvinists, so it isn’t really comparable to to ur racist comment of treating all tamils as terrorist.
i’m trying to be elementary here, hopefully it might go through your skull.
Racists, and extremists like you are the life and blood of the LTTE. without your-types they would have never come this far.
So congratulate your self, after your recent efforts , Prabha might send you a thank you note.
Janapathi. I keep telling you. You never listen. GO FUCK YOURSELF. Please for the sake of all Sinhalese people the world over.
Refer to Ravana’s blog post about ‘Give the Sinhalese a Fucking Break’. The most coherent discussion I’ve had with someone I’ve disagreed with.
Janapathi. You said you are still learning English. So perhaps this will be more appropriate. Gihilla Ammata Hukapang.
They exactly did what you have said in your above post in our parliment yesterday. You do have good writing skills…
Read and enjoy..
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Source: Colombo Page
June 20, Colombo: Parliamentary sessions were adjourned this morning as a heated argument broke out between JVP and TNA parliamentarians over the one minute of silence to express condolences to the families of the Kebithigollewa victims.
JVP parliamentary group leader Wimal Weerawansa made a special statement in Parliament in condemnation of the massacre in Kebithigollewa and requested MPs to observe a one-minute silence. All MPs agreed and observed the silence, but TNA MPs Eelavendran and Gajendran claimed that it was unfair to observe a one-minute silence only for Sinhalese victims.
All the TNA MPs then entered the lobby and started to protest, causing the government and JVP MPs to also enter the lobby. A heated argument went on for nearly thirty minutes.
Speaker W.J.M. Lokubandara subsequently decided to postpone sessions for 15 minutes.
So, Janafucky, if most of the Tamils are LTTE symapthisers, are you advocating that you ethnically cleanse all of us in order to defeat the LTTE?
Personally, I think the Kottu admins should take your mindless drivel off the site. If not we’ll wait for the destruction that the next war will bring – getting on-line will be the least of our problems.
Disagree with Charles_Anthony. Everybody’s opinion should be heard. It’s far more interesting (if a bit irritating) that way. And who knows for sure how many people out there think like Janapathi? Outside the blogosphere, it could be more than you or I would like to imagine.
Agreed with Ravana – that was a very interesting read. Agreed with C_A the war has began and it is going to tear us apart. So in some ways it gives me some hope to read all the counter arguments to Janapathi. A classic xenophobe – they are definitely out there.
Keeping the country united is fine but I do think we need an international peace-keeping force to come in and separate us for a good 5 years to help start a healing process. It seems any chance of peace now has dissipated, but one can only hope and dream.
In Colombo, poorer Tamils are definitely fearing the worst. I know that the general assumption is that the ltte are behind evey murder committed in the country but I still have to say why would they be ordering a bus bombing from the transit lounges of Oslo. It does not make sense. The timing was wrong & the target not strategic enough. We have to remember there are many sinister parties involved – it is the nature of war.
I think another thing to do would be to try and offer the poorer Tamils in the south some sort of shelter, refuge for when communal violence begins. You guys need to set something up & do it soon. These Tamils will get no justice from the Police. Throughout time it’s the Sinhalese in the south that have helped these Tamils – be prepared and formulate a plan to stop the comming violence. The well to do Tamils, know how to look after themselves and they can just hop on a plane and leave if things get out of hand.
Would be good to get rid of the Sam spoofs – that was quite obviously done.
Hi Ashanthi,
If you want more to prove your point.. then read this.. just happened yesterday..
Now help me to differentiate Tamils From Terrorists like the way you all separate yourselves as Moderate bloggers Vs extreme Blogger Janapathi.
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Source: Colombo Page
June 20, Colombo: Parliamentary sessions were adjourned this morning as a heated argument broke out between JVP and TNA parliamentarians over the one minute of silence to express condolences to the families of the Kebithigollewa victims.
JVP parliamentary group leader Wimal Weerawansa made a special statement in Parliament in condemnation of the massacre in Kebithigollewa and requested MPs to observe a one-minute silence. All MPs agreed and observed the silence, but TNA MPs Eelavendran and Gajendran claimed that it was unfair to observe a one-minute silence only for Sinhalese victims.
All the TNA MPs then entered the lobby and started to protest, causing the government and JVP MPs to also enter the lobby. A heated argument went on for nearly thirty minutes.
Speaker W.J.M. Lokubandara subsequently decided to postpone sessions for 15 minutes.
Janapathi got a point there. This war is against LTTE terrorists, Not Tamils. But LTTE terrorists are Tamils.
Hi all,
Unfortunately no one managed to list down 10 LIVING tamil leaders in SOUTH with us who oppose LTTE openly.
Instead, some of them showed the lack of facts by typing the 4 letter word to cover themselves in a shameful manner.
I already listed the incident that took place in our parliament yesterday. Now please allow me to express more facts to defend my stand on this. From here onwards, if any comments without facts or a logical argument will be ignored.
Let me start..
TNA is not LTTE.
LTTE is ALL TAMIL
TNA is ALL TAMIL
LTTE is a terrorist group
TNA support LTTE
Any tamil person is free to support TNA
Now can you say TNA is not terrorists? If TNA is part of a terrorist group, then what about the TNA members?
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TRO is not LTTE.
TRO is a registered NGO
LTTE is ALL TAMIL
TRO is ALL TAMIL
LTTE is a terrorist group
TRO fund LTTE
Any tamil person can fund TRO.
Now can you say TRO is not terrorists? If TRO is part of a terrorist network then what about the people who sent funds to them?
I will try my best to answer logical constructive comments to this. Agree or disagree, Extream or not, first we should learn to respent the views of others. Then we can call us Moderate. I expressed my opinion only.
Thanks
Janapathi
Thanks for that Janapathi. Very enlightening. Seriously. But I don’t withdraw my advice to you to go fuck yourself.
Ashanthi. Seperate us to facilitate the healing process?? Can you heal a wound when you keep the lacerated edges apart?
Mona jathiye modayoda machan mei ratey inne?
The TNA protest in parliament is a classic minority reaction. Why couldn’t they possibly have observed the minute’s silence and then asked for another minute’s silence for those killed in the airstrikes. I mean – WTF?
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Say what? Say what?
about the original post, indi, i can understand where you’re coming from. the day i found out that a lot of my tamil co-workers never left their home/office because they didn’t feel safe in colombo, was the first time i started crying in a public place in sri lanka. i can’t even imagine what it would feel like being treated like an outsider, a 2nd class citizen, or a criminal, in my country, nor what it would feel like to be ‘stuck’ in sri lanka – to have my only options be being treated with suspicion in the south, stuck between the armed forces, paramilitary and the ltte in the east/north, or to live under dictatorial control under the ltte.
it also made me really appreciate everything my parents did to provide me with social and economic security, and a foreign passport.
Oh well done Shimmi. A foreign passport. My heart bleeds for your patriotism.
i do love sri lanka, but i think that part of that comes with knowing that i can leave when i want to. plus, the foreign passport certainly helped a lot at checkpoints. i’ve never been a big fan of patriotism for the sake of patriotism (i am proud of certain things about NZ such as being staunchly nuclear-free & standing up to america about it, having an independant political conscience, & being a leader in the world’s anti-whaling campaign). i can’t actually think of anything that makes me feel particularly patriotic about sri lanka (apart from maybe that the people in general are a very friendly, generous, and helpful bunch, but that’s not really specific to sri lanka). i may be a terrible sri lankan, but at least i’m honest.
Yes you are a terrible Sri Lankan. So stop crying in public places. For fuck’s sake.
Have you met the All Blacks? What is your Super 14 team?
Shameless.