Comments on: This Is A Cover-Up

By: Kalusudda

Kalusudda — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:49:30 +0000

did not mean to harm any Germans! Word stuck with me after the movie!

By: Kalusudda

Kalusudda — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:35:53 +0000

I was Just watching a Dutch movie called ZwartBoek (Black Book), see it if you like old resistance movies but it is not Perfume category. I was moved by seeing how people died for others. I was moved to tears by their (resistance) strength. I don’t know why I was sad. May be because I am a coward perhaps.
It is just sad all over no matter which direction one turn. F****** Krauts all over again.

By: L. Weerasinghe

L. Weerasinghe — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 06:23:06 +0000

The government has little to offer other than the war.

If the war is going badly then they fear that they may lose popularity. Not much info is available but things dont seem so rosy anymore.

Therefore there is a great incentive to hide the bad news.

In the process they would also like to camouflage the purchasing so that they can line their pockets unseen. If this was exposed then it might cause even more to turn against them.

Therefore the logical step is to stop the reporting. In order to consolidate power they may advance the election (as announed the Daily News in 1st week of June, election early 2009 or something) before the bad news gets out.

By: David Blacker

David Blacker — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 04:53:25 +0000

Much better post, this time around, Indi. It focuses much more on what’s really wrong with this administration than yesterday’s post.

Just a quick example of what I meant in my earlier response about inaccurate media reporting of the war. The Sunday Leader supposition that the fighting was still going on because of the continuing train of ambulances is just plain wrong, and comes out of a lack of knowledge of how the military casualty evacuation process works. Now this process isn’t unique to SL so there’s really no excuse. I guess they haven’t heard of triage. When casualties are taken, say in Vavuniya, the absolute emergency cases may be flown directly to Ratmalana according to the availability of aircraft, etc. Those that can’t be flown out, will be evacuated to regional hospitals in Anuradhapura, etc, where they’ll be stabilized, before being flown to Colombo at a later time. So casualties continue to move down the chain even days after a battle is over.