Comments on: Brief Visit To Menik Farm

By: coconaut

coconaut — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:31:08 +0000

Surely the govt would be hyping this up if it were true – I have seen no mention of any people who are free to leave, in the media. Would appreciate it if you could point me to a link.

If people ARE being cleared, why not process the people who have been asking (and even petitioning the courts) to leave, for weeks?

By: venura

venura — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 21:51:23 +0000

ha ha to electronic petition. or any kind of petition. What is needed is people who can help solve the situation.

The issue is that the resettlement areas need to be built at least to some extent.

The govt can release people whom they are 100% sure that are not LTTE. People do get processed each day but they are not released because the have no place to go at present.

The entire situation is complex and can only be dealt with time and money.

This is one of those real life instance where arm chair solutions will not work.

You have to be part of that slow moving machine to understand the complexity of the issue.

By: indi

indi — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 05:02:52 +0000

Electronic petitions are useless. They’re unreliable and make zero policy impact.

If you actually want to reach someone you can sign and send a letter to Major General Chandrasiri, the competent military authority for IDPs. Or Basil Rajapakse, really. Or the Ministry Of Social Justice. The furthest these guys go is fax.

By: David Blacker

David Blacker — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:07:29 +0000

I assume it’ll be a military interrogation under the Emergency Regs. Though I use the word interrogation, I guess the level of coercion will depend on importance of info and levels of cooperation.

By: N

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:59:06 +0000

sounds like an eminently reasonable suggestion.

By: rajivmw

rajivmw — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:27:49 +0000

Count me in. I believe there is finally a legal challenge under way spearheaded by the Centre for Policy Alternatives. Under the circumstances, this is heroic – and hopefully not quixotic.

By: coconaut

coconaut — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:08:53 +0000

I’ll sign.

By: fed up

fed up — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:01:41 +0000

and how r they going to extract this info? with or without lawyers? r they allowed in the camps to represent their clients? i thnk not to my knowledge…. anyone know about this fundamental right situation? wouldnt want it to be done us style either, or boossa style come to that….

By: David Blacker

David Blacker — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:24:39 +0000

I think 3 is applicable to most Tiger rank and file and even junior leadership. If charges are brought, it’ll probably be against higher ranking Tigers, and it will be terrorism-related ones. The bulk of LTTE personnel in the camps will be rehabilitated and repatriated. However, you must remember that there’ll be a lot of intelligence to be gathered from Tigers of all ranks (weapons caches, locations of minefields, bank accounts, logistical chains, whereabouts of personnel in the south, etc), and so interrogations will be done.

By: fed up

fed up — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 08:40:34 +0000

good one! u r a true patriot.

By: ying_yang

ying_yang — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 08:37:14 +0000

Is there really nothing that concerned patriot’s can do? Why can’t we sign an electronic petition to the following effect:

affirming our commitment to a unified nation, pledging our support for the Governments efforts to address Tamil grievances, but at the same time deploring not only the appalling conditions but the very existence of the IDP camps which diminish the Army’s hard won successes on a daily basis.

By: fed up

fed up — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 07:15:24 +0000

what is the purpose of these camps? what is the point of scrrening (it’ll take years) when the leaders are dead? if they “catch” an ltter these would b the options, imho,
1- shoot him
2- charge him and try him in courts (including lenghty investigations which are impossible, being the numbers so high)
3- release him (amnesty/pardon)
4- ?

so:
option 1= no go, i thought the shooting and unlawful justice are over (?)
option 2= what with this judicial “system” whihc is already a disaster, u wannna add thousands of court cases more??? insane.
option 3= the only viable solution, open the fucking gates u morons!