The Young Diaspora
Following TamilDiaspora on Twitter is a guilty pleasure of mine. He recently linked to an actually sensible dialog on a Canadian TV channel. It’s striking how the young people from both sides have basically come around to a common place. A positive, forward looking place. Also striking that the older people still seem intent on fighting the old battles.
The old ones are asking for ‘truth and acknowledgement’ as a starting point, whereas the young people are saying just start. “I think admitting that you’re wrong takes a lot of guts and both communities are not at that point,” Romesh Hettiarachchi said. And he also pointed out that the economic concerns trump whatever.
I thought much of the Tamil diaspora was counterproductive and mad during the war, but at least the young ones on this show seem eminently reasonable. It was especially interesting to hear one Tamil girl saying why they protested, namely that they were in pain, and for her to talk about how they grew up and how they were raised into the war mentality. And how they’re now coming out of it.
I think it’s the Mosaic Institute organizing some of these young people. Good on them
Today on the 
Janith has updated 
This is highly dubious. Miss Travel is a travel/social networking site that connects ‘Generous’ and ‘Attractive’ travelers. To, like, travel together, I guess. It all seems a bit like arranged prostitution and trafficking. This is part of a broader online trend to connect rich men to younger, attractive women. Sites like 
Sri Lankan domestics never say anything, they just stop coming. My maid just stopped coming and when I finally pressed her she said I needed to get a washing machine. I was hoping to ride this one out, but I’ve run out of underwear and I have no choice. I finally caved and bought a washing machine, from 
Thanks for sharing. A meaningful discussion. Can grab a number of good quotes from this.
Interesting. Very. Shows evolution of attitudes.
Yawn.
The only reason we’re hearing the VERY VERY FEW “voices of moderation” from the Tamil community is because the LTTE got its butt kicked in Sri Lanka. Most of the young Tamil diaspora members are dumb fucks who have no clue about Sri Lanka, let alone stepped foot in it.
lol i find it hilarious when most of the tamil diaspora is being wooed by the srilanka govt to increase tourism. many have been to the island many times and have fam living there. and there r a lot more moderate voices but u won’t know unless u r involved. the ‘butt kick’ attitude is the reason why slk won’t get ahead …digging our own graves we r…isn’t that always the case. now in slk we hear more jvp and other voices too …now that the war is over no more excuses, we need to get things straightened out.
Zoid…hmmm so does that mean the Sinhalese are educated fucks?
ps. when I said Sinhalese I did not mean Sinhala Christians. :)
At least they aren’t blocking highways and running about breaking the laws of the countries they have migrated to.
The Tamil diaspora youth are by and large ignorant fucks. No doubt about it.
Once in a while almighty god creates morons like you!! Amen :D
That was for Dunce .. :D
Most Tamil Christians who licked Rayappu Joseph’s feet when the LTTE was around were and are morons. Dunce is no different. Basically Rayappu Joseph screwed the people of Mannar royally and had the temerity to hand out “God’s blessings.”
That other Tamil Christian fucker Jegath Gaspar Raj – yet another Catholic priest who supported the LTTE – is busy trying to whip up support for the LTTE in Tamil Nadu. He seems to be jobless since the LTTE was owned in Sri Lanka.
Why the fuck should SL admit to anything? just because the diaspora and the fucking west/UN and these NGOs tell us to? will the western countries admit to anything they have done? NO!
Cheran didnt even need to be in this debate….Prabakaran named him as the theological advisor/professor/whatever of the LTTE. He’s the guy who came up this useless Trans-national thing. Ya’ll should have seen his other interviews on the same TV show when the war was going on …nothing but a tiger….now he’s just trying to show as if he has shaved off his stripes! Biggest joker in the Diaspora!
aaanddd….they shouldn’t have even brought up the topic of a separate state, that shit was settled on May 18! That was the whole point of the war, to see if the LTTE will get a separate state or not. Now if the NGOs, westerners get tired of this reconciliation then they will say “….ahh wait wait …separate state is the only way to a permanent reconciliation solution”
Basically almost everyone on that show is a waste of space. Nothing they say is going to change facts on the ground.
These young people are actually come together of their own accord and organizing themselves. This group is called BuildChange. Check them out: http://www.buildchange.ca/
There’s another group called “Sri Lankans Without Borders” that are like-minded and doing similarly cool projects such as “Roots for Reconciliation”. Check them out here: http://www.srilankanswithoutborders.ca/
And there’s yet another group called Lanka Solidarity that is also doing some pretty amazing things.
Check them out here: http://www.lankasolidarity.org/
Finally, there’s the Sri Lankan Young Professionals Association, which has branches all over the US: http://www.slypa.com/
Don’t discount the Diaspora! :)
V.V Ganeshananthan of “lankasolidarity” was shitting her pants in anger when the NYT said Sri Lanka was the number 1 tourist destination to go for 2010 – she even wrote a long diatribe on sepiamutiny about it. It is nothing but a political organisaiton run by Tamils with a token Sinhalese thrown in.
Until you enter into an organization you are only talking from the outside. My philosophy is to listen to less gossip and take more action and get involved. Perhaps this would work for you too?
Thanks for posting these links. These are definitely worth looking into.
Jubbet and Zoid,
You certainly seem to have much anger issues to be resolved.
While I share in your sadness that the amazingness and the beauty of Sri Lanka is lost in many of the Tamil Diaspora, being blind to the realities facing much of the Tamil population living in the North and East is certainly not constructive. Neither is name-calling.
As for whether the actions of the Diaspora plays a role in the internal politics, I think the question is answered by looking at the recently ended military conflict. I dont think it is up for debate that the finances of the global Tamil Diaspora certainly enhanced the coffers of the Tamil Tigers. The question remains if the same finances can be use to create a safe, secure and just Sri Lanka for all.
Doing the latter means having difficult conversations; conversations which need listeners, more than talkers. Your contributions thus far remain pointless. Lets try and be more open to reason than just spouting emotion.
Romesh,
What’s wrong with getting angry? I think you NGOs have a real problem with sinhalese people speaking up and not listening to them. Who else will speak on behalf of the sinhalese? No one! Every time a sinhalese speaks ‘ooohhh nono those buggers are racists!…dont listen to them…its useless’ …give me a fucking break! No one fucking listens to us..the media only cares about the dias-poras views so that the can gain viewers and ratings, the white masters certainly dont care, the tamils dont give a fuck, same goes for the NGOs. Good on you guys for digging up wells in the north, but if u get a chance dig up a well or two for a village in the south as well ok?
I am not part of an NGO. I speak for myself. I also am Sinhalese.
And it isnt about North or South, its about servicing Sri Lankans, something you seem incapable of realizing.
When the British left, the country was in good shape. The Sinhala-Buddhists had 63 years to do what they want with the country. They completely messed it up. Put politics aside for a second.. will you hire a firm with a proven track record of 63 years of failure?
It’s time to hand over power to a different group – Tamil Hindu, Tamil Christian or Sinhalese Christian, at least temporarily, so things can get back in shape. There is no moderate Sinhala-Buddhist political party in the country right now.; although such a group may exist overseas, it will not receive enough popular support to win an election.
If things go on as they are, it will just be the non-Buddhists accusing the Sinhalese-Buddhists, which only put the latter on the defensive and cause them to strengthen their already narrow policies.
P.S: I am not arguing that one group is better than another; what I am saying is that sometimes *change* is good.
“The question remains if the same finances can be use to create a safe, secure and just Sri Lanka for all.”
It’s pretty obvious the answer is a big fat NO. The Tamil diaspora is too busy sulking and crying like scorned bitches ever since Prabhakaran got a bullet to his brain and died like a pig at Nanthikadal. The Tamil diaspora were more than happy to fund war and violence and bombs and child soldiers and suicide bombers etc etc but when it comes to helping out their own people live a better life after a war a few pennies seems too much :)
Prbhakaran got an axe to his brain not a bullet.
Cool. That would have been more painful.
@jubbet,
The media would have listened to the Sinhala Buddhists if the boot was on the other foot!
eg: If the Tamils had been the Majority and the Sinhala Buddhists were the minority, and for 63 years they (the Tamils) had discriminated, murdered, raped, tortured and abducted the Sinhala Buddhist minority. It’s that simple jubbet.
No one really cares about Tamils. Not the IC, not the west and certainly not any of the NGOs. Tamils are a lonely lot, that is why they spend a lot of time screaming and whining and stamping their feet. And Tamils have been busy murdering, looting, raping and torturing the Sinhalese for more than a thousand years when they invaded the island from time to time from South India and tried to steal the land. Tamils should have been happy with their Tamil Nadu. But their greed was never satiated and is still not satiated. But at least now they have learnt a lesson (well, one hopes :) )
Karma’s a bitch huh?
Fuckin’ racists.
What bugs me about the diaspora is that they seem far more interested in trying to get back at GoSL that to actually help people living in the north and east. Look at their rhetoric, all i hear is accountability this, war crime that. They’ve missed the whole fucking plot. Those people in vanni want jobs, water & education. if the diaspora really care about the tamils that are ‘alive’ and suffering in this country they should be fighting for more developmental projects and demanding more effort from the GoSL at reconstructing those parts.
I think it is because the Tamil diaspora feel as if they have been personally raped by the death of Prabhakaran and the LTTE. They feel as if a mammoth penis has been inserted into their collective anus and vigorously moved about without lubrication, leaving their posterior bleeding and exceedingly painful. They are livid, frothing at the mouth and ready to shit all over the place in order to get revenge against Sri Lanka. Mind you, they didn’t and do not really give a flying fuck about Tamil civilians on the ground in the Vanni. If they did, they would have spoken out about the abuses carried out by the LTTE and asked the LTTE to surrender for the sake of the people. So it’s a case of sour grapes I think. Just like you can’t help people who strap bombs onto themselves and blow themselves up into a million pieces, you can’t help the Tamil diaspora – they are fucked in the head.
For example, that chick with the glasses in the above video – it’s pretty obvious she wants blood; one can imagine her contorted face at all those diaspora rallies where they carried LTTE flags and ranted and raved like people infected with rabies.
It would’ve been great to see the Diaspora single-handedly rebuild Eelam or whatever…
All I hear about SL is that it’s corrupt, the people are poor, a great destination for pedophile tourists, etc. Would’ve been great to have at least one part of the island that was productive and prosperous .
Maybe the LTTE wasn’t the best path to reach the destination, but everyone deserves a chance.
Alas, now the Sinhala-Buddhist Nazis will royally fuck up the whole island.
Not really, Sri Lanka’s economy is doing extremely well, tourism is booming and the LTTE was raped and destroyed :)
The Tamil diaspora can go and shit in the corner.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJYicNFOhKs
If the Sri Lankan economy is doing so well, why are university lecturers demanding a higher salary, and the Government unable to provide it?
The Sri Lankan economy is doing well, but the value of a Sri Lankan life in the Middle East is 10,650 USD?
SR40,000 blood money given to kin of Lankan maid killed by sponsor’s wife (http://arabnews.com/saudiarabia/article435146.ece?comments=all#comments)
That woman is Tamil, but the same thing happens to Sinhalese housemaids as well. Don’t forget the housemaid who came home with dozens of nails in her body.
Perhaps in your imagination Sri Lanka is doing well, but it’s pretty clear what the outside world thinks… enjoy the kiribath party!
10 650 USD is a lot of money for a desperately poor Tamil no?
And if India’s economy is doing well, why are their beggars on the street?
Seriously, where the fuck did this racist fuck come from? Out of Rajiva Wijesinhe’s ass (pet donkey)?
@Heshan:
If you want to give a chance to terrorists,you can give it in Canada or UK. Terrorists will never have a chance in SL.
Why don’t you go out and protest against “rajapakistan”? UK and Canada will help you to create eelam in northpole, cos you guys are “winterproof”
@ Podda:
Mahinda Rajapakse is the biggest terrorist:
http://www.lankanewspapers.com/news/2005/9/3757.html
http://emarketlk.blogspot.com/2008/03/low-cost-airline-mihin-lanka-faces.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UB7XWVdN5w
http://www.cpj.org/awards/2009/js-tissainayagam-journalist-sunday-times.php
http://www.nowpublic.com/world/sri-lankan-army-rape-and-murder-idps
First of all, ask him to return the 83 million rupees in tsunami money…. lecturers are waiting for their raise!
Rajapaksa is sitting pretty.
Tamils, on the other hand, are crawling at his feet.
Quite a few Sinhalese are also crawling at his feet (both dead and alive).
Quite a few Sinhalese housemaids are also crawling at the feet of their Arab masters… unfortunately this Mid-East crawling is necessary to ensure foreign remittances, which make up a huge part of SL GDP, reach SL. Nivaard Cabral wants to make it 15%: http://remittancesgateway.org/index.php/press-clippings/other-news/800-sri-lanka-sl-should-target-15-gdp-thro-remittances-cabraal
Bottom line: Rajapakse is throwing kiribath and Lion-flag tamashas in Colombo, Muhammed is throwing Sinhalese housemaid gang-bang parties for his pals in KSA.
Personally, if it was me, I would fly that Lion Flag a lot lower.
You’re right, the UNP is crawling at Rajapaksa’s feet :)
And that Tamil girl must have suffered a lot when she died at the hands of her arab masters huh?
Most of the housemaids are actually Sinhalese. I don’t think Arabs differentiate betwen Sinhalese and Tamil.
(Reuters) – A Saudi couple tortured their Sri Lankan maid after she complained of a too heavy workload by hammering 24 nails into her hands, legs and forehead, officials said on Thursday.
Nearly 2 million Sri Lankans sought employment overseas last year and around 1.4 million, mostly maids, were employed in the Middle East. Many have complained of physical abuse or harassment.
L.T. Ariyawathi, a 49-year old mother of three, returned on Friday after five months in Saudi Arabia.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/08/26/us-srilanka-maid-idUSTRE67P17420100826
24 nails… that’s the kind of blood money Rajapakse relies on to keep the economy going. Most of the rest comes from pedophile tourists and the slave labor of estate Tamils.
This must be the Sinhala-Buddhist version of “economic miracle.”
“Most of the housemaids are actually Sinhalese. ”
Source?
Here’s a picture of a Tamil maid beaten up by her arab masters:
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2005/05/08/international/08maids.1842.jpg
Thangarasa Jeyanthi, 20 and emaciated, had arrived at a shelter from Lebanon one morning. She had a face as purple and puffy as a plum, eyes swollen shut, burn marks on her body and dried blood still around her ears.
The husband and wife she worked for had assaulted her daily, she said, speaking in the high, anguished voice of a little girl who cannot understand what she has done wrong. They had cut her with a knife, kicked and stomped on her, tied her hands with rope and denied her food.
“I never expected to be returned to Sri Lanka,” she said. “I always thought only my dead body would come back.”
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Tamil Christian power?
“A Sri Lankan maid, in transit on her way home from Kuwait to see her children for the first time in three years, hanged herself in a toilet at Dubai airport, an Emirati daily said on Thursday.
Kala Sangarapillai, 30, from the Batticaloa district of eastern Sri Lanka took her own life three weeks ago, the English-language Al-Khaleej Times newspaper said, citing a forensics officer from Dubai police.”
http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/NewsDetails.aspx?storyid=206824
Tamil Christians making it big?
It’s common sense. If the population of SL is 20 million, and 1.4 million Sri Lankans are employed as housemaids, the % of Sinhalese housemaids is likely to exceed the % of Tamil housemaids, since Sinhalese make up 73.8% of the total Sri Lankan population, while Tamils make up 3.9%. 3.9% of 20 million is 780,000. In other words, if every Tamil in Sri Lanka worked overseas as a housemaid, it still wouldn’t account for even 50% of 2.4 million, which is 1,200,000.
http://www.indexmundi.com/sri_lanka/demographics_profile.html (Although I used a population figure of 20 million instead of 21 million).
I don’t think there’s any point debating whether Sinhalese or Tamil housemaids take the brunt of abuse. The point is that Rajapakse has not created enough jobs within Sri Lanka. As Jack pointed out, privatization is on the decrease. If the private sector is shrinking, wages will not remain competitive, so people will continue going overseas to look for work.
Slight error there… if every Tamil in Sri Lanka worked overseas as a housemaid, it would barely be more than 1/2 of the total number of housemaids., 1.2 million, half of which is 700K, so 780K Tamils is barely more than half. But we know that every Tamil is not working as a housemaid, so the % of Sinhalese housemaids is obviously higher.
@Heshan:
Rajapaksha is the biggest terrorist for you guys. That is very true. He terrorized the Tamil Christian terrorists. All the Tamil terrorist leaders are dead. 10000 hardcore junior terrorists are in SLA custody. You fucking terrorists supporters can hide in Europe forever.
Majority of lankans support the present government. you can call them modayas, Sinhals Buddhist Racists, MR Boot Lickers, what not
But remember one thing. You guys are FUCKING LOSERS. You will never be able to see an Eelam on Sri Lankan soil. That’s it. :D
@ podda
The economic data suggests the majority of Lankans can’t afford 1 night at the Colombo Hilton. Rest assured, when His Highness Namal Rajapakse is occupying the throne in 20 years (as opposed to an AC cubicle for the LAW exam with *special assistance* from the lecturer), the situation will be exactly the same .
No need for Eelam. Sorry Lanka will be India and China’s slave for decades to come. The IMF will drop by every month to pick up the interest from the big loans.
Enjoy your premature ejaculations. Sri Lankan people will decide whether they want Gota, Sarath F or Namal as the next president.
The lankan forces will make sure not to allow any Tamil terrorist or their supporters to step in to Sri Lanka even after 100 years.
So enjoy your winter protests and make sure to chant “buddhists are racists, rajapaksha war criminal, rajapaksha tsunami hora, give us our eeelam etc etc”. You will get your eelam in Canada or UK.
With the abolition of term limits, and some other constitutional adjustments by Rajapakse, the Sri Lankan people are not in a position to choose whom they want for President. What you have right now is a dynasty .; I am guessing this dynasty will be around for at least another 50 years.
No one cares about the Lankan joker army; India can wipe out Sorry Lanka in one week, with a tactical nuclear strike. Just because some tin-shack soldier waves a Lion Flag and intimidates a Tamil at gunpoint, does not make Lanka strong. Strength is a relative comparison; Sorry Lanka would be on the bottom of the list of military powers.
I am not protesting, but perhaps you should be; after all, it’s your tax money that Rajapakse stole. Next time you pay 100 rupees for a carrot, ask yourself where the money is going.
You don’t get it do you podda. Most of us didn’t want to see an Eelam. But we neither want to see a Sri Rajapakistan either! Sadly Sri Rajapakistan is a reality today. Thats’s the difference between idiots like you, zoid and others here and around the country.
Just like their were Tamils who left this cunt ry not only because Sinhala government oppression but because they could not live under Praba’s totalitarian regime…there are people in the South who have left the cunt ry because it is impossible to live under the One Family Dictatorship.
Praba and Rajapaksa are nothing more than 2 sides of the same Hoomanitarian coin.
Sadly people like you and many other Sinhala Buddhists can’t figure out the truth when it’s staring them in the face just like they can’t tell the difference between their assholes and a pot hole on the road.
That is why you buggers have been known for many years as, “Sinhalaya modaya…kavun kanna sooraya!” And now to that kavun menu there are additions like kiribath, kurakkan and kola kenda…ha…ha…
They say that there is a sucker born every minute…In Silly Lunket we have around 69% suckers walking around thinking they are the greatest cunt ry and the greatest race on earth…ha…ha…
ps. every time you continue to support Rajapaksa or vote for him…all you are doing is cutting off your nose to spite your face…
Hey! Sri Rajapakistan is still better than Ranil’s island of doom. If we still had this fucking asshole running the country, LTTE’s fucking eelam would have been a reality.
At least Sri Rajapaksa is not some fucking coward or suck up who goes up the white masters of the west and suck their dick everytime he hurts his pinky. UNP supporters are a fucking joke! Many UNPers seem to forget that it was UNPs thatta grandfather Jayawardene who put us in this mess.
“Mahinda Apita …api Mahindata”
@Heshan & PresiDunce Bean:
There is absolutely no difference between you two. Why did you waste space to post two comments?
Heshan (LOSER1) : Tamil christian terrorist supporter lives in some european country, spent x*1000$$$ to fund the terrorists. Now crawling behind UN, India, UK and Canada. Still waiting for Indian army to come and rescue the fat pig prabha. Don’t want to believe the pig is roting in hell.
PresiDunce Bean (LOSER2) : Represents the anti sinhala buddhist, wanna be intelligent, dreaming to live in some European country-but have no skills to secure a visa, clan of Sri Lanka. Just go and bash anything and everything but still can’t secure a visa to say fuck off to Sri lanka. Frustrated moron.
If you don’t like SL, just fuck off.
Thanks for revealing the typical Sinhala-Buddhist mentality:
Anyone who opposes Rajafuckistan is automatically, a Tamil, Christian, or Western NGO. I am no Tamil, but that is irrelevant to the issue. I oppose thieves and crooks of any background, whether they wear red ribbons or batman costumes. I don’t care if one psychopath killed another psychopath; it doesn’t make the first psychopath any better. Rajafucksa will only bring DOOM and GLOOM to Sorry Lunket, end of story.
@Heshan:
Excellent . Now you know it. You cannot convince Sinhala buddhist modayas. You cannot get alone with them. You cannot live with them. You already live in some European country. There is no country called Sri Lanka anymore and you have nothing to do with Rajafuckistan.
So shut the fuck up and get lost. LOSER. ha ha ha :D
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But Sinhala-Buddhism cannot live without aid from the IMF, Japan, Germany, etc. That is the real joke; you want to be left alone when you’re not self-sufficient. It’s like the patients in a hospital ward that rely on nurses for assistance in eating, drinking, and shitting. Rajafucksa will increase the size of the war X1000. IMF & friends will send more doctors and nurses. Eventually the number of patients will exceed the number of staff, creating a life-threatening shortage. This is the future that Rajafucksan has in mind for you.
*increase the size of the ward
Are David BlockHead and The Yarn GobelesThilake minor staff in the “Can’t Be Developed Hospital of Sri Rajapakistan?”
I’m not sure “The Yarn Goebbelstilleke” is too fond of hospitals any more; ever since he was given a sound trashing by the Sons of The Deshaya (refer to his piece: “Apology to my mother for calling her a fascist and other Marxist terms of endearment”). Plus, in a hospital, sharing is essential… “The Yarn” would have to deal with UNP patients, Tamil patients, etc… a far cry from his present method of reinventing history while living it up in the Riviera. Plus there’s no such thing as politics in a hospital; what would “The Yarn” do to amuse himself – jerk off on wallet-size photos of Fidel?
As for BlockHead, no hospital in its right mind would willingly employ him. The only worthwhile job for that guy is gravedigger.
@LOSER1: Yes, SL takes loans from IMF, Japan, China etc. So what? Do you think you’re IMF, Japan or China? You still have nothing to do with SL. You are nothing but a LOSER. Get lost moron.
aday podda I thought an ASSchariya cunt ry Silly Lunket gives loans…not takes loans? I won’t be surprised if some day soon there is a headline in the “Daily Noise” which says, “Silly Lunket gives loans to IMF, Japan, China & the rest of the world!” Stranger things have happened here.
http://www.lankajournal.com/2011/05/veteran-historian-jackson-anthony%E2%80%99s-latest-findings-rajapaskas-from-giruvaya-related-to-lord-buddha-mahinda-and-gotabhaya-are-great-grand-sons-of-king-dutugemunu/
http://srilankalandoftheblind.blogspot.com/2011/04/truththe-whole-truth-nothing-but-truth.html
@LOSER2: I know you are a “wanna be intelligent” guy. But the reality is you are way too stupid. I’ll tell you what, let’s make a good case to apply for a refugee visa. You’ve been banging rajafucksa hard. Now go and tell the UK embassy Raja is after you. They will give you refugee status immediately.
That’s all you need do to say fuck off to Rajafuckistan. :D
@ Podda:
Ever wonder WHY the IMF likes to give loans to third-world crap nations? E.g. Sorry Lunket, Bangladesh, Congo…
Sachs is naive if he thinks he can get the fund to agree to an appropriate cure to Asia’s illness, they say, for IMF
programmes were, in fact, never meant to restore ”sick economies” to health. And while the fund’s programmes have
certainly bailed out the big Northern banks time and again, they have a strategic goal that goes beyond this.
In this view, with which this commentator agrees, the fund’s current approach toward East Asia is merely a continuation
of its policies since the early eighties, when, together with the World Bank, it imposed programmes of ”structural
adjustment” on over 70 Third World countries.
Taking advantage of the tremendous indebtedness of these countries to Northern commercial banks, the fund released
money to allow these countries to service their debts only on condition that they accepted programmes of radical
liberalisation, deregulation and privatisation, pushing structural adjustment through finance ministries that became its
virtual appendagas.
The Fund substantially transformed the economies in Latin America and Africa in a free-market direction, but it also
presided over a decade of economic stagnation from which these countries have never really freed themselves.
Central to the approach of the IMF has been the interests of its most powerful member, the United States. Ever since the
advent of the Reagan administration in the mid-eighties, the foreign economic policy of the United States has been to
aggressively promote US trade and investment globally.
http://focusweb.org/content/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=348
I suggest you read the whole report. The goal of the IMF is to remove barriers to trade with certain Western nations – barriers which are much more in favor of the Western nations – via a programme of carefully crafted structural adjustment. The end result, when the IMF leaves, is not economic growth, but economic stagnation .
*barriers which are not in favor of Western nations
@LOSER1: oooooooooooooo trying to educate sinhala buddhist modayas about IMF? Soo sexy. You tried to educate sinhala buddhist modayas many times. But failed, cos sinhala buddhists are born stupid. Here are some of your theories which sinhala buddhist modayas failed to understand and act as you expected.
1. Do not elect Rajafucksa as the presi dunce- Rajapaksa tsunami hora, he’s against christians, businesses will collapse, he will abolish Ponils peace accord(eelam), etc etc
2. Do not support Rajafucksa da terrorist’s war against “innocent tamil civilians”
3. Do not celebrate tamil “Genocide” and do not eat kiribath kevum and anamalu kesel
4. Rajaucksa is a terrorist, a war criminal. so help the campaign against him
5. Rajafucksa is a thief and steels poor peoples money, he kills everyone who speaks against him. So start riots like Libya and send him home
6. Economy is collapsing, people are starving, entire country is militarized, Gov cannot pay back the massive loans…. IS THAT WHAT YOU’VE JUST SAID???? Sinhala buddhists do not understand that you moron. Just get lost, you are a loser.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMDHKuXx0AQ&feature=related
LOL.. Jobless tamil terrorists.
We all know you are Tamil, Heshan
And we know that you are Christian as well.
Learn to accept who you are instead of trying to pretend to be someone else. Doesn’t the Bible teach you to be true to yourself? (I know it tells you to hate on non-believers – nothing new there).
I think that if Tamil Christians are lucky, they will get to wash the dirty laundry of the Sinhala Buddhists.
Folks like Rayappu Joseph are already on bended knee before the Rajapaksas :-p
I mean what % of the SL population is made up of Tamil Christians? Something like 2-3%?
LMAO. Even the Muslims own you guys several times over.
just watched that video. I must say the to ‘professors’ made clowns of themselves. while the three kids did very well. It’s good to know that there are people like that girl with glasses who are having a crisis of faith. The guy running the interview also did a really good job, he was appropriately sarcastic.
Sri Lanka’s 30 Smallest Books!
1. The Code of Ethics for ParleyMutts in Sri Lanka
2. The Truth, The Whole Truth & Nothing BUTT The Truth – by David BlockHead, Dr.The Yarn Jayathila Cur & other assorted Sycophants
3. Incorruptible Police Officers of Sri Lanka
4. How To Conduct Yourself In Public by Mervin Silva
5. The World Guide to Good Sri Lankan Beer
6. How To Make Your Relationships Last by Duminda Silva & Anarkali Akarsha
7. Safe Places to Travel in Sri Lanka
8. A Portrait of Integrity by Milinda Moragoda
9. Truth About The War by Brigadier Udaya Nanayakara
10. Contraception by Ellawala Medananda Thero
11. 100 Ways To Cook Beef by Ellawala Medananda Thero
12. The Wit and Wisdom of Mervin Silva An autobiography by Mervin Silva
13. My Wild Years by Ranil Wickramasinghe
14. Sri Lanka’s Most Popular Politicians
15. Career Opportunities for University Students in Sri Lanka
16. Slave Island – A Travel Guide
17. Collection of Motivational Speeches by Rathnasiri Wickramanayake
18. Everything Men Know about Women by Kolu
19. Guide to Etiquette by Mervin Silva
20. The Dambana Phone Directory
21. Great Women Drivers Of Sri Lanka
22. Beauty Secrets by Indrani Perera
23. How To Score A Test Century by Mutthia Muralitharan
24. Things I Love About Chinthana Mahinda by Chandrika Kumaranatunga
25. My Wonderful Life by D.B.Wijetunge
26. Things I Can’t Afford by Lalith Kothalawala
27. Things I Won’t Do For Money by the many MPs who crossed over to the Government
28. Free And Fair Elections by Mahinda Rajapaksa
29. How To Win A War With Zero Casualties by Gotabaya Rajapaksa
30. Solving Problems Through Dialogue by Vellupillai Prabahakaran
31. (LTCTE) Liberation Tigers of Cristian Tamil Eelam by PresiDunce Bean
Personally I think that Rayappu Joseph and the other Christian priests who were bunking in bed with Prabhakaran should have received the same fate that Prabhakaran did.
Well podda…
31. would be “Liberation Lambs of the Promised Land” (LLPL) by some author. But not by me.
32. would be, ” How to Make a 7 Course Meal with Only Kiribath, Kurakkan & Kola Kenda” by Publis
33. ” There is NO Victory Until You Bang Your Chest & Scream Maathrooboomeeeyaar” by Mahinda Rajapaksa & edited by David Blockhead
34. “Idiot Island & its 3 Brain Cell Majority” by PresiDunce Percy Jilmart Bean
35. “How to let readers leave invisible comments” – by Island Newspaper
36. “How to pass a bar exam AC cubicle style” – by Namal Rajapakse
37. How to educate Sinhala Buddhists – By Ponnaiya Heshan de Looser
38. How to apply for refugee and humanitarian visa – By Maria Magdalena Gay Don PresiDunce Bean de Looser
Dear podda, calling people names will not erase the fact that “The Government of RajaPasa” and the Sinhala Buddhist armed forces killed thousands of unarmed Tamil civilians while the Sinhala Buddhist majority just stood around screaming Jaya Way Waa! The whole world now knows that Silly Lunket is the piss drop under India…the Asshole of the sub-continent and the Sick man of ASSia…ha…ha…ha…
Dear Loser2,
It’s ironical that you had to seek protection of Sri Lankan forces (They are Sri Lankan you moron, there were Muslims, Malays, Catholics, Christians and also a few tamils in SL forces) when terrorists rip through the country.
Alright. Here is what I have to say about you.
There is no point of arguing with you or Loser1 on civilian casualties, rajafucksa dynasty, gov policies etc. Because your criticism is not constructive. You simply do not know how to respect other persons views and they way you present your facts is so unconvincing. When I started to counter attack using a similar theory, you guys simply did not know what to do. You’ve got to change mate. Otherwise no one is going to listen to your views.
Our priority should be the country. Rajapaksa, Sarath F, Gota etc are only actors. You should try to change this regime, only if you love your motherland. You should try to educate the people of this country, only if you wish them a better tomorrow. None of your posts have those two characteristics. If you want to see a change, you have to have a plan. Change will not happen overnight. First of all you’ve got to change.
Yes podda…why don’t you change and have the guts or the decency to admit that Rajapaksa, Sarath F, Gota etc were responsible for the deaths of thousands of unarmed civilians? Who let these bloody “actors” continue after the war? It was you the bloody majority! See what happened to Churchill after the 2nd World War…people did not vote for him. They were educated enough to understand that even though he was a good war leader…they needed somebody else to develop the economy! Did Churchill ask for a “Kruthagoona vote” aka gratitude vote? How many British Prime ParleyMutts and American PresiDunce’s have appointed one brother as Offense Secretary…another brother as Speaker of the House and yet another one as Economic Development minister..not forgetting 100s of relatives also appointed to plum posts in the private and public sector? If such a thing had happened in those countries the people would have got onto the streets to protest. But here In the Land of the Blind…all the idiots can do is shout Jaya Way Waa…we are the greatest nation and the greatest race on earth!
Winston Churchill opposed granting independence to India. He had a very poor opinion of the Indians’ ability to manage their own affairs. In a speech to the House of Commons in 1946, he castigated the Labour government for relinquishing power and handing India over to Indian leaders. He said: “Power will go into the hands of rascals, rogues and freebooters. Not a bottle of water or a loaf of bread will escape taxation. Only the air will be free, and the blood of these hungry millions will be on the head of Attlee. These are men of straw of whom no trace will be found after a few years. They will fight among themselves, and India will be lost in political squabbles.”
Churchill’s gloomy prophecy of India seems to have come true in Sri Lanka. And that was only possible because the majority were and are IDIOTS! Who keep voting in the same thugs, scoundrels, rapists and murderers at each and every election due to patriotism, ignorance or just plain stupidity!
ps. Having a couple of token muslims, catholics and christians in the armed forces doesn’t make it Sri Lankan!
http://groundviews.org/2011/06/03/people-are-not-a-flock-of-sheep-the-murder-of-a-21-year-old-by-the-police/
podda…got anything to say about 5 star DemoCrazy operating in the cunt ry?
@PresiDunce Bean:
“why don’t you change and have the guts or the decency to admit that Rajapaksa, Sarath F, Gota etc were responsible for the deaths of thousands of unarmed civilians? ”
“Having a couple of token muslims, catholics and christians in the armed forces doesn’t make it Sri Lankan!”
So this was sinhala buddhists war against tamil civilians ehh?? This is exactly your problem. You don’t even know where to begin. Do you seriously think you can convince anybody?
Presidence, you’re right; TAMILS GOT OWNED BIG TIME in Sri Lanka :)
Please don’t cry too hard.
I know it must be hurting you terribly.
@ podda,
see if this video convinces you? Ha…ha..http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2F7XswuBXjpcM&h=6eb10
Is this guy a Christian? He seems to be extraordinary.. Lot more intelligent than 3 braincell idiots!! Don’t you think loser2?
Whatever.. 7th king to hoist the lankan flag high in all parts of Sri Lanka. What a disaster for Tamil terrorists and terrorist asslickers?? LOL
@ podda
If you were talking about Michael Jackson Anthony, well like David BlockHead is a pseudo Burgher…Anthony comes across as a pseudo christian. And just like terrorist ass lickers…Jackson Anthony is a State terrorist ass licker.
ps. incidentally terrorist ass lickers are people who accommodate terrorists like Karun, KP and Pillayan in their government…while imprisoning people like Fonseka who fought against terrorists. Don’t ever forget…if Praba and his terrorists killed 20 people…Rajapasa and his state terrorists are also responsible for an equal number of deaths or more. Now Praba and Co. a resting in pieces in Hell! Rajapaksa’s and GoatPaksa’s time will come one day…just like Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic are facing the music many many years after the end of the Bosnian HOOmanitarian Operation…
The following books should be put into some list as well.
1. Professional Journalism and Ethics Involved by DBS Jeyaraj
2. Sanity and Skepticism by Indrajit Samarajiva
3. Evil of Ad hominem by Dayan Jayatillake
4. Truth & Free Speech by Sanjana Hattotuwa
5. Futility of Pessimism by Tisaranee Gunasekara
6. No Crime in Solecism by Rajiva Wijesinghe
7. Acting and Directing by Roshan Ranavana and Ranjan Ramanayake
8. Breasts.Soft and Supple by Frederica Jansz
9. Virtues of Democracy by Mahinda Rajapakse
10. IHL by David Blacker.
11. Free the General by Sajith Premadasa
12. Modern Economics by Ajith Nivad Cabraal.
13. Vahinne Vassaane by Ranil Wicremasinghe
Enough about books…how about a song?
You have heard of the ‘Doobie Brothers,’ and the ‘Bellamy Brothers.’ Now put your hands together Ladies and Gentlemen…for ‘Rogerproxy and the Righteous Brothers,’ who will perform their new ‘hit single,’ We Shot The Lasantha, And We Also Burnt The MTV (sung to the tune of ‘I Shot the Sheriff’) the harmonizing is done by the ‘Mahasone Balakaya Singers’ and the ‘K9 Choir of Vienna.’
We Shot The Lasantha, And We Also Burnt The MTV
(sung to the tune of ‘I Shot the Sheriff’)
By Rogerproxy and the Righteous Brothers
We shot the Lasantha, and we also burnt the MTV.
We shot the Lasantha, and we also burnt the MTV.
All around in ‘The Land of the Blind,’
They are blaming our ‘Gang of Four’.
They say they want to bring us in guilty,
For the killing of ‘Lasantha’,
And burning of the ‘MTV’.
But we say:
We shot the Lasantha, and we also burnt the MTV,
but we swear it was not in self-defense, (it was just to teach the media a lesson.)
We shot the Lasantha, and we also burnt the MTV,
and we say it is a minor offense…(an International Conspiracy)
Lasantha always hated us;
For stealing the ‘Tsunami Aid’ and ‘Crooked Arms Deals’.
He exposed are dirty deals in the ‘Sunday Leader,’
So we said ‘Kill him before he exposes more!’
So we said ‘Kill him before he exposes more!’
We say:
We shot the Lasantha, and we also burnt the MTV,
but we swear it was not in self-defense, (it was just to teach the media a lesson.)
We shot the Lasantha, and we also burnt the MTV,
and we say it is a minor offense…(an International Conspiracy)
Lasantha was on his way to the office,
To expose all our dirty deals.
So we shot, we shot him down.
We say:
We shot the Lasantha, and we also burnt the MTV.
We shot the Lasantha, and we also burnt the MTV.
What is Duncie’s regular day job?
he…he…he…shammi…you show me yours…and I’ll show you…Ooops…what I meant was, you tell me what your day job is and I’ll tell you mine… :)
Nah. He (he da she da kiyala sure nee meyaaaa..;) ) doesn’t do any day jobs. Anybody can meet him near bamba colour lights after 7pm.
Sonali Wickrematunge commences lankaindependent
Veteran journalist and founding editor of The Sunday Leader newspaper, Lasantha Wickremastunge’s widow, Sonali Samarasinghe Wickrematunge has commenced website named, http://www.lankaindependent.com.
A journalist herself, Sonali has said the website was commenced to highight social concerns. The website will be operated from overseas.
Sonali is the editor of the website while veteran journalist Uvindu Kurukulasuriya is the consultant editor.
We wish the all the very bet to http://www.lankaindependent.com that has commenced at a time
Ha ha Sonaliee ha ha Sonaliee..
You’ve got a new pimpeee
his name is dunceee
LOL :D
Veteran journalist? Lasantha? lol ….Sonali an editor? hahaha….Presidunce is living in the banana republic of Lasantha Land.
We all know his job, he’s the editor of Lanka News Web.
http://www.lankaindependent.com/mission-statement/
Any bets on WHEN this website will be blocked here in Silly Lunket?
To place your bets, go to the nearest Sporting Times bookie.
Guess the correct date and WIN Fabulous Prizes!
Ist Prize – Dinner for 2 at Wooly Mooly Why Call.
2nd Prize – A 2 day tour of Nandi Ka Dahl in a custom built “White Van.” (pronounced as “Unidentified Four wheeled Object”).
3rd Prize – A one way ticket to Boosa.
@jubbet
Sri Rajapakistan actually used to love white dicks. He went to Oxford to suck some but intead got sodomized. The taste he had developed for white dicks didn’t go away even after that. It took the giant white American dick of Times Magazine to put and to this repulsive dick-love. Now it seems he has developed a taste for the brown dicks of Indians. Who knows, they might even build a toilet for the first time in their sordid history and name it Toilet Sri Rajapakistan.
Did I ruffle some UNP pussies? Lefroy I had no idea you knew so much about dicks and sucking…I guess that’s what happens when you suck up to the ever loosing UNP god Ponil.
@jubbet.
Well, some of us have dicks that actually get sucked on a regular basis. I’m quite sure most buddhist monks would call oral sex to be a sin. So forget about ever getting sucked jubbet. Also, the way you’ve used the word “pussies” is a clear indication that you’ve never seen any. Don’t worry, you will never see any. Contrary to common belief, neither Sonia nor Jayalalitha have pussies. They will ass rape both you and your king no matter how hard you suck ‘em, just like the whites did to you.
We know you got raped by the local Catholic priest – there’s some in your family we know, but no need to show your frustrations online lefroy. Keep it for the confession box.
Zoid,
So in your gay rape fantasies, your name is Lefroy? Good to know.
Hashan Thilekaratne tells the President
Aravinda, Sanath and Thilanga involved in match fixing
UNP Western Provincial Councilor Hashan Thilekaratne has met with President Mahinda Rajapaksa and revealed to him that two former senior cricketers, Aravinda de Silva, and Sanath Jayasuriya and former President of the Sri Lanka Cricket Board, parliamentarian Thilanga Sumathipala have been involved in fixing international matches.
Former parliamentarian Ven Uduve Dhammaloka Thero had facilitated the meeting between the President and Hashan.
Hshan’s beautiful wife, Apsari who is possessed by a divine spirit has asked him to strike a friendship with the President once again. Hashan had immediately met Ven. Dhammaloka Thero at the Asapuva and requested that he be given an appointment to meet the President.
The Thero had called the President at once and had informed him of Hashan’s request. The President had asked Ven. Dhammaloka Thero to ask Hashan to meet him as soon as possible.
Hashan had visited the Temple Trees and the President had warmly welcomed him. The duo had been engaged in a friendly chat for over three hours.
During the discussion, Hashan had revealed many details about the cricketing scene in the country that have not yet been revealed. The President had continuously questioned about the fraud and corruption committed by Sumathipala when Hashan had revealed such details.
Hashan had explained the role played by De Silva, Jayasuriya and Sumathipala in match fixing, the role played by a Pakistani business in the whole matter and the involvement of many well known international cricketers. Hashan had explained all these details to the President by bringing out personal issues he has had to face as a Sri Lankan cricketer.
The President had called the IGP after the revelation and said, “IGP, Hashan malli is with me. Close the file on him.”
The President had then tapped Hashan’s back and had asked him with great affection while holding his hand as to the whereabouts of former Army Commander Sarath Fonseka’s son-in-law Danuna Thilekaratne.
Hashan had said he was unaware of any details about Danuna.
“That is good, it is bad to betray your brothers even if you know about them,” the President had said, adding that he was well aware of Danuna’s whereabouts as one Fonseka’s close confidants had revealed it to him.
The President had said that the person had informed him that Danuna was in the US and that he had met him on several occasions.
Many details about Fonseka had been discussed during the meeting between the President and Hashan.
taken from http://www.lankanewsweb.com which is blocked in Silly Lunket.
I don’t understand. Why should anyone’s priority be country? My priority is the well being of me and my kith and kin. I supported the war because I strongly believe that if someone wants to fuck with us, we need to fuck them back, because otherwise we’ll end up with sore asses. I thought an Eelam nation would never be a good thing for me, or anyone I care about. But that’s all. There’s no way you could make me go to the war zone and take a bullet right on the middle of the chest for the country. It’s just a fuckin’ country. I certainly don’t understand the mentality of mothers who proudly, to use a word of the Mahinda regime, “donate” their children to the country. What love could possibly be greater than a mother’s love for a child? Love for a country? Fuck
@Lefroy: I respect your view. I do not think there is anything wrong with it. But let’s look at your priority list. You said “My priority is the well being of me and my kith and kin”.
Here is your priority list;
1. You
2. Your kids
3. May be your wife
4. May be your parents
Let’s assume, other than the above list you have nobody else in your house. If you face a situation where one person in your house has to die to protect others, what will you do? Will you run away? Because your protection is more important than other persons protection?
Even for me, it is difficult to understand the true meaning of “sacrifice”. If I knew the true meaning of that word, I should not have been alive to type this.
A mother’s love for a child is only a result of some chemical stimulation. It’s a fact that when you eliminate the chemical mothers lose their nurturing instinct. Disgusting, isnt it? Some mothers are born with less of it, obviously. I even saw a video clip of a mother of a young female suicide bomber saying she was happy about her daughter’s sacrifice.
Love for one’s country is surely a throwback to that old territorial instinct. I suppose it would be ingrained in the male of the species.
So both seem to have their roots in evolution, which you love to talk about so much. We’re only a bunch of robots thrown hither and thither by some selfish gene, when we’re dying for our country or our loved ones .
lefroy, it could very well be that even for most people who ‘donate’ their kids to the country the priority is not their country. They just tell themselves this story
Well-said Lefroy. IMO: war is really class-warfare. The rich would never send their children to the front. Mahinda sent his son to the UK for navy training, Prince William never saw any combat in Iraq (though he had supposedly joined the Army), even George W. Bush found a way to circumvent heavy combat in Vietnam. You know if the Tamils had had their LTTE, it really wouldn’t have deprived the people in the South of much, other than an opportunity to wave a flag. But it would have deprived the politicians and big corporations of huge investment opportunities. Every “reconstruction” project comes with kickbacks and commissions attached. Winning the war was a great opportunity for the Rajapakse business empire to take off. Hell, while the morons were eating their post-war kiribath, Rajapakse’s were probably counting their unlimited future earning potential.
*should be “assessing their unlimited future earning potential.”
*if the Tamils had had their Eelam
It’s not as if Sinhalese people are going to flock to the North anytime soon. There is limited earning potential there, and MR is too dumb to know how to create new jobs.
Looser1: You can’t be a Jaffna tamil. You must be a low cast Tamil Christian. Cos Jaffna Tamils rent their houses to Sinhalese and earn in millions these days.
Ha…ha… ha…imagine a Somalian or an Ethiopian wanting to die for his cunt ry? Duh…there were a few Silly Lunkets who also joined the armed forces with the aim of sacrificing their lives by stepping on a mine….but the vast majority joined because of the salary…and some others who thought it was cool to strut around in uniform with a gun in ones hands…and then there were the natural born killers who joined because they enjoyed killing.
A Purse For My Salary
I joined because the salary was good.
They gave me an AK 47, a uniform and a helmet.
Everything except for a purse which I bought,
To put my salary in.
In the first fight I killed a boy.
Though I lost my helmet, I didn’t lose my purse.
Got wounded in the head,
But my salary was safe.
The second fight was worse.
We killed a few of them, and they killed a few of us,
I was wounded again,
But I didn’t lose my purse.
In the third fight I died,
I stepped on a mine which blew off both my legs.
As my eyes slowly closed, I cursed!
As they grabbed my purse from me.
The End
The moron has come out again. So what’s wrong with killing those stinky tamil christian terrorists ?
Podda,
Maybe I will. Maybe I won’t. But I’m dead sure that I won’t die to save the house or the furniture inside it.
I’m certain that I can sacrifice for a loved one. I will fly to a far away country to die for a loved one. I won’t do that for someone I don’t know. But in a situation like you described above, I might even die for someone I don’t know. But again, as I said earlier, I won’t die to save the house.
I understand people who go to war because they couldn’t find any other job good enough. But the rest of them do it for the country. They don’t do it for their wives, parents or kids. They don’t do it because they think that otherwise the LTTE nuts would ravish and murder his wife. They do it for the country. And I most certainly don’t understand the “Vihara Maha Devi Mentality.” I think it’s against everything that’s good and decent in the world.
Lefroy,
The question was not about the house, furniture, or the soil. It was about the future of your kith and kin.
You answered my question. In a situation like I described above you might even die for someone you don’t even know. I think you have bit of a “Vihara Maha Devi Mentality”.
I forgot about suicide bombers. “Brainwashed” is the first thing that comes to the minds of most Sinhalese people. Bullshit. In fact it is they who are brainwashed into thinking that those suicide bombers are brainwashed. Some of them may indeed be brainwashed using sophisticated psychological techniques. But it couldn’t be the case with all of them. Those people believe what they believe. A virgin Muslim boy crashing into a skycraper truly believes that his act of martyrdom would get him to heaven. (btw, I don’t think that Gamini guy falls to this category. His was a split-second decision) Something is seriously wrong with those people. At least soldiers go to war believing, perhaps naively, that they would survive. But these people just go to die for what they believe to be a higher purpose.
@ Lefroy,
I would agree that the average Sinhalese is misguided about the LTTE (mostly due to the press censorship), but I do think suicide bombers are brainwashed. You have to be brainwashed to willfully inflict injury upon people who have done nothing to you. You’ve basically “become” the ideology itself; which is not rational, because you can no longer question it. Soldiers are also brainwashed to blindly kill; there really isn’t much difference between a soldier and a suicide bomber. If a soldier disobeys, it’s considered treason, and he’s executed…. e.g. when the German 6th Army was starving at Stalingrad (very very cold), Hitler gave orders to Paulus to shoot any deserters. The only difference between the soldier and the suicide bomber is that the soldier is an expendable machine designed for repetitive use, whereas the suicide bomber is there for one time use.
Shammi,
Of course there’s nothing supernatural about a mother’s love to a child. It should be possible for biology and the theory of evolution to explain it. There’s nothing disgusting about that. Mother’s love is an evolutionary necessity. Patriotism is not. I think it is an side-effect of something else that is an evolutionary necessity, much in the same way that religious belief is a side-effect of something else. I think they are both just fucked up.
Shammi,
And I don’t think we are a bunch of robots. I think we have free will because unlike any other species, we are rational beings. We can reason before we decide. Anyway it doesn’t matter. Most people who cry out loud that evolution means that we have no free will are Christians who believe in a omniscient, omnipotent god. How can we have free will when he knows what we do next? He has designed us in a way that we will do what we do next. At least Calvinists had the courage to admit this.
Dodo,
It could be the case with some of them. But not all. Think about a Tamil boy (who isn’t forced) joining the LTTE. Most probably he thinks it’s worth dying.
i was thinking about the sinhala people who ostensibly ‘donate’ their kids.
Heshan,
I don’t think all people have to be brainwashed to willfully inflict injury upon people who have done nothing to them. I think there are evil people who derive some pleasure or satisfaction by simply hurting others.
As for Tamil suicide bombers, I don’t think they think sinhalese haven’t done anything to them. They believe some Sinhalese have done things to them and they hold all Sinhalese responsible for them. The one thing racists don’t do is discriminating.
I think there’s a difference between a normal soldier and a martyr. Of course they both die. But the soldier at least doesn’t want to die and hope he survives.
@ Lefroy
I think there are evil people who derive some pleasure or satisfaction by simply hurting others.
I think the word for that is “sadist.” A sadist can still the difference between right and wrong. I don’t think a suicide bomber can – he/she is beyond morals. The survival instinct is gone from the suicide bomber; he/she is basically an empty vessel, a void. He/she only exists for the final “mission.”
I don’t think the Tamil suicide bombers “hate” Sinhalese, or even despise them. If this were not the case, it would contradict my earlier statement that a suicide bomber is devoid of any personality and morals. I can understand how someone might hate another person enough to want to kill them, yet the ensuing sensation of “satisfaction” is missing, if the first person blows themselves up in the process. Again, my personal opinion is that it’s the ideology which completely subsumes any rational thinking on the part of the suicide bomber. In this case, the ideology is extreme, which is why the suicide bomber/martyr meets such a violent end.
I should clarify that when I say a person is devoid of any humanity, I don’t mean it’s permanent. It’s temporary, yet it can be suppressed long enough for the suicide bomber to execute his mission. The suppression aspect is what leads me to believe a suicide bomber is brainwashed. More specifically, that there is no limit on that suppression – a suicide bomber can be trained over a period of several years. We normal human beings cannot suppress our personalities, our emotions, desires, etc. for years and years, without undergoing some kind of major mental damage.
Soldiers – yes, they have a desire to survive. That’s a good point. I guess it’s inaccurate to compare to suicide bombers.
I think the word for that is “sadist.”
The act of murder is rampant in the Bible. In much of the Bible, especially the Old Testament, there are laws that command that people be killed for absurd reasons such as working on the Sabbath, being gay, cursing your parents, or not being a virgin on your wedding night. In addition to these crazy and immoral laws, there are plenty of examples of God’s irrationality by his direct killing of many people for reasons that defy any rational explanation such as killing children who make fun of bald people, and the killing of a man who tried to keep the ark of God from falling during transport. There are also countless examples of mass murders commanded by God, including the murder of women, infants, and children.
So is the Christian God you worship a “sadist”, Heshan?
Podda,
Not really. Vihara Maha Devi Mentality says that “this is your country, this is your buddhism, protect them. Give your life away if you have to.” It is similar to saying “this is your house, and this is your porn collection. Die for them.” I don’t have that mentality.
Heshan,
I’ve read somewhere that even though people can be made to do things by hypnotizing them, you cannot do it if they don’t want to. For example, through hypnosis it is possible to make one quit smoking, but for that he must want to quit smoking before he was hypnotized. It seems implausible to me that brainwashing techniques alone can make a person not want to live. I mean dying is a big deal. Even Jesus had a last temptation. But I don’t know, maybe it’s possible.
Dodo,
Yeah that makes sense.
The vihara maha devi mentality might be a lot more ingrained than we might think. Sacrificing a few to preserve the many looks like a awfully successful strategy, evolutionarily speaking.
Dodo,
A woman telling her son to go and die for something other than her genes doesn’t make a lot of evolutionary sense. That’s what Vihara Maha Devi all about.
genes don’t operate in terms of organisms. They could operate in terms of populations of genes. if a population has a gene that encourages vihara maha devi complex then that gene has a higher potential of surviving and spreading, provided the maths works out. Just look at insect behavior. There plenty of them who are more than willing to die for the colony.
Dodo,
What you’re talking about is sacrificing one’s own life. It’s not Vihara Maha Devi Complex(VMDC). VMDC can only be present among humans because a mother has to “ask” her child to kill himself.
Sacrificing one’s own life makes sense from the point of view of the species. If there are individuals who would die for that species, it is at an advantage. It makes some sense from the point of view of the individual as well: even though he dies, some of his genes would survive.
VMDC, is completely different. It makes no sense from the mother’s point of view. 50% of her genes are with her son, and he is her next generation. If he gets himself killed, instead of passing 50% of her genes to the next generation, she’s passing a very small percentage of them to the next generation. What will happen in the long run is all these sons would get killed before they reproduce, and most of their genes will cease to exist.
Lefroy,
Thats not correct. As per the VMD story, mother or father did not ask VMD to sacrifice herself. Soothsayers said that if a princess is sacrificed to the sea, the raging waves will stop. It was VMD who decided to sacrifice herself. The parents did not oppose her decision or may be they did not have any choice.
It doesn’t make a difference whether the son kills himself voluntarily or if the if the mother asks hims to die. If the mother shares enough genes with the rest of the populous in large enough numbers sacrificing the son is an advantageous strategy.
in anycase this is just silly theory of mine
Dont believe the VMD story. Some people believe that an ordinary subjectwas fed to the waves, while the princess was spirited away to Maagama. Too much of a coincidence for her to be washed ashore, straight in to the waiting arms of the most eligible bachelor of the land at the time.
shammi…nice to see that ur brain is in working mode unlike most of the other idiots here…
Much as I would like to claim a working brain, I think I picked that one up from Ven. Ellawala Medhananda.
So then you would be the venerable shammi…surname unknown. :)
Podda,
That’s not the VMD story I’m referring to. I’m referring to the story about VMD “donating” her son, Gemunu, to the country and buddhism. Of course Gemunu was a prince and the chances of him getting killed in war was perhaps even less than Mahinda’s son in the Navy getting killed by a torpedo. But still.
Never heard of VMD offering up her son. Her son was eager to battle Elara, against his father’s counsel. The queen just supported Gemunu.
Even though Gemunu would have been well protected, he actually marched with his army, camping with them at various points along an arduous trail., unlike modern princes.
The way I’ve heard it, upon meeting each other, Gemunu and Elara agreed to fight a duel to decide the matter, instead of sacrificing more lives in a final battle.
Shammi,
The son wanted to get killed. Mother didn’t stop him. She wasn’t the maternal type I guess.
I’m sure the son never intended to get killed. He was a cocky youth and had planned his strategy for years. About the mother, the common story would indicate that she cared more about the country than about her son, your VMD complex.
But there are many intriguing little details in the story. One is that Gemunu imagined himself to be illegitimate, and never forgave his mother for that. If that was the case, I would expect the mother would suffer enough guilt to cause her to agree with him whatever he said.
There’s a long story behind the tidal wave incident. It was attributed to devine retribution for the king’s cruelty, in punishing by boiling in oil, a monk, or someone posing as a monk, who was suspected of having an affair with either VMD or her mother.
VMD’s marriage to Kavantissa was a marriage of convenience of course, so she probably resented the whole circumtance of her marriage. Also, VMD would have been more popular than Kavantissa. In the people’s eyes she was beauty and a heroine, a celebrity in her time, and most of the tales about her may be mere gossip and make believe. I know all this is not relevant. But I find the story fascinating. Definitely good material for a movie, but not with Mervyn Silva playing the lead role.
Shammi, you said, “In the people’s eyes she was a beauty and a heroine, a celebrity in her time, and most of the tales about her may be mere gossip and make believe.”
Did the people in present day Silly Lunket perceive Anarkali and Paba as beauties and heroines when they gave these 2 thousands of votes and bought them into the provincial council and parliament? Gossip in Silly Lunket ultimately turns out to be the truth!
ps. I wonder if Merve the Perve is a love child or a test tube baby gone wrong?
Loser2,
Tamils are even better. They elected a retired old bitch as the toilet nadu leader. Not just once.. Many times.
And Yankies fuck.. The GOVERNER.. LOL
You can judge the level of intelligence of Silly Lunket when those bitches ask for votes next time.
Even paba and anarkali can win elections… what about Ponil? Can he ever win an election in Silly Lunket?
Shammi,
Very interesting indeed. I didn’t know Gemunu suspected him to be a love-child. It would piss Merv the Perv off if he knew about this.
@ Lefroy
Here is the proof you needed…
http://youtu.be/7XswuBXjpcM
Oh yea.. The guy who terrorized tamil christian terrorists…
Jackson Anthoney.. Alleluia!!! LOL
I think Indi likes these kids because he has the same background. Grown up far away from Sri Lanka; no first hand experience.
These kids find it easy to sit in the middle because they don’t have direct experience. On the other hand for a person like Cheran who spent decades serving the separatism cause would naturally find it difficult to do any self-criticism. ( I don’t understand how he got to occupy a space in this conversation because he is a well-known tiger supporter).
The irony is most of these diaspora kids actually benefited from this conflict. How many of do you think would have come to Canada and study in Canadian universities and prosper if there had not been a conflict. After spending couple of decades in Canada I don’t think they now consider Prabhakan’s Rajini Kanth style good enough to follow or support. They have seen the opportunities waiting for them. A few would still engage in western style “activism” because it’s trendy and might open further opportunities ( politics, diplomatic/public service INGOs).
Not true; a lot of the Tamil diaspora, of all age groups, were actively engaged in developmental projects in the North.
‘Development projects’, my foot! Damn shame they couldn’t be bothered for fight, no? I suppose they were just too busy doing development projects and breathing in the pure, free air of Eelam.. :)
The diaspora youth were more concerned perfecting their Pongu Thamiz dance moves in Europe rather than actually getting their hands dirty in the Vanni.
Eezahm youth dancing in London and not fighting in the Vanni: http://tinyurl.com/3p3scsn
Eezahm youth not dancing in Vanni and waiting to fight and die in the Vanni: http://tinyurl.com/4yk7pgh
White washed eelam youths dont give a fuck about the tamils in sri lanka. They would not survive in the wanni even for a second. All that fucking dancing, sucking up to the white masters, protesting …its a fucking social fad for them. Nothing but a bunch of hipsters protesting. Ungrateful cunts!
Hak Hak Hak… Develop-MENTAL projects???.. Yeah.. right.. They need some mental treatments. LOL
Sanjeewa,
I’m sure that most of those Tamils, Cheran included, would be glad to oblige if you ask them to burn your house and rape your wife so your children can prosper in a nice, Western country.
I said it’s an irony. Indirect benefits coming out of some really bad events.
Lefroy,
It does not have to be a very diplomatic invitation. The request can come in many ways.
“People prefer not to know and not to understand that something terrible is happening….” From ‘Occupation of the Territories: Israel Soldiers Testimonies 2000-2010’
Same story in Silly Lunket.
http://www.thesundayleader.lk/2011/06/05/impunity-on-rampage/
Loser2,
That’s a real good tactic to secure a refugee visa. Why don’t you try that technique?
“My house is occupied by SBA (“Sinhala Buddhist Army”)”
http://www.dailymirror.lk/top-story/11828-sanath-jayasuriya-recalled.html
I knew this would happen. Ha…ha…that is why I wrote this a couple of days ago. May 28, 2011 to be exact.
http://srilankalandoftheblind.blogspot.com/2011/05/sir-nut-jew-sorrya-plans-comeback-after.html
…don’t be surprised if Ashantha De Mel also makes a comeback. Any bets on Namal Rajapaksa one day becoming the head of the cricket board?
await…
http://srilankalandoftheblind.blogspot.com/2011/05/sri-rajapakistan-launches-own-t56.html
[...] A good conversation among diasporals. I got no beef. Sanjana (as Groundviews) has responded to my post on the war being over by bringing up personal email/phone conversations and trying to blacklist me with the Knight Foundation and Ashoka News. Which is, well, rather petty and besides the point. London Lanka, by contrast, has responded with something much more intelligent. [...]