No more fancy hats
The more I get to know about Sarath Fonseka, the less I like him. I’ve heard the rumors of his vindictiveness and callous behavior towards women, but those are still rumors. What I find weird is his public statements which seem more about hurt ego than national concern. I read the interview in The Sunday Leader and it seems like his biggest issue is the loss of perks. That sucks, but I don’t think that’s a very compelling platform for a national leader.
Even in his letter of resignation it was all about how he got screwed over and marginalized. Only the last few points were of issues that mattered to me, or anyone besides him really. Frederica’s interview was even worse, with him going on about his house and security arrangements. These are important, but not necessarily to anyone else. If he wants to be a national candidate he might want to rise above his personal problems and hurt ego.
If he wants to be a common candidate based on common issues I could support him, but so far he just seems to be demanding uncommon privilege. It’s not even that I don’t support this, I just don’t really care. You don’t have a house, OK, I’m sorry. What would you do about the economy?
Agree. Apparently he has no good idea on ‘election marketing’. I too noticed he’s been nagging more on his personal issues than anything else.
He needs to rise up above the personal issues and address the issues that concern the people of the country. Going on about how he has been victimized or marginalized may make for good gossip, but certainly doesn’t make a platform for a future presidency.
Its always into the fire from the frying pan when choosing political leaders for Sri Lanka. I still believe that Ranil must go for it as a UNP candidate without bastardising his party. UNP is after all still the one party that has not done this.
I find it sad and somewhat amusing that the UNF, a bandwagon of misfits, is trying to rope in Sarath Fonseka into their unfortunate coterie.
You’d want a loooooooooooooooooot of people to change your system there. A lot of bold & young people, who are ready to take the pain.
Indi,
Pl’s read the analyis by D.B.S.Jeyaraj on Fonseca factor. Very interesting facts. I think known devil is better than the unknown angel for Sri lanka.
The RANIL Clan is so bankrupt, they had no exit but to piggy back on the General. Looks like General’s option is the best to clean the country from both Greens and the Blues.
Surely self-serving politicians are the only kind we know?
On another point – will you link http://azraelswords.blogspot.com/ to Kottu?
RANIL SHOULD BE THE CANDIDATE , WIN OR LOSE, EVEN ARMY GUY GOING TO LOOSE ANYWAYS,
SO SHOW THAT UNP PARTY IS STILL ALIVE..
I think the existing status quo is so bad that the UNF thinks introducing any other candidate who shows the remotest sign of having a spine might help them win. The sad thing is their ploy might actually work. I have heard so many people who ordinarily would not have given SF the time of day; now spouting about how great he is, simply because they are so fed up of seeing their hard earned tax money go straight into the pockets of the first family. We all need to take a step back and assess if having SF as the leader of this country would become a case of jumping from the frying pan into the fire!!!
1. The hullabaloo surrounding Sarath Fonseka(SF) is symptomatic of the bankrupt society that we are.
2. Our people do not follow rules, they like shortcuts. From such a group of people what can you expect?
3. SF is similar to the Rajapakse’s and most other politicians of this country, self first!
4. Ranil is not perfect, but he is a more principled politician than most. The fact that people don’t find a man of principles attractive shows what kind our society values.
5. Ever since the British handed over power to the sinhalese (no stereotype intended) this country has been going down the drain. Why? A significant reason, No rule of Law, No equality before the Law!
6. SF could be a good candidate as long as the UNP backs and coaches him in the fine art of political campaigning
7. Mahinda was never a good speaker, he has improved only after becoming president, he won thanks to the LTTE
8. Agreed SF needs to come up with a good economic plan. That’s key, since economics affects everybody.
take it easy,
Some of you are talking as if Mahinda didn’t do it for personal gains, as if he’s a saint who does the right things expecting nothing in return.hah hah hah haa. First, Mahinda had no idea as to what to do about the LTTE while the CFA was on. Did he voice against it? hah. It was the JVP, Hela Urumaya and Nalin de Silva who dragged him to the war. The LTTE wanted to war as well, to get rid of the CFA. That’s why they supported him in the 2005 election. Once he became the president he warred, and then realised he could win it, and kept doing it, and finally won it. I think after sometime into the war, he started to believe his own rhetoric, his own propaganda. That’s how an ordinary guy with no political convictions became an extraordinary guy with strong political convictions. But still, there’s 300 Rajapakses in high ranking government positions. So don’t tell me he didn’t do it for personal gains. Sarath is doing this because he’s bitter. I can’t see him trying to usurp the people and become rich or putting 300 Fonsekas in gov jobs.
myil selvan.hah.what did tamil guys do with tamil nadu? It’s stinking like hell. It’s one big shit factory. From a train you can see women shitting under trees. Eelam could have been the tamil nadu toilet i think.
It never ceases to amaze me how some SL Tamils think they are genetically smarter than everyone else. I thought Sinhala politicians were idiots until I came across the Tamil ones. From that senile old fool Karunanidhi to that fat has-been Jayalalitha to Nedumoron, Tamil politicians actually make the Sinhala ones look ok.
if you’re talking about if you’re talking about the second most prosperous state, and the most industrialised state within an emerging superpower, then er, yes, it’s one big shit factory Comrade.
If it’s such a paradise why don’t all SL Tamils move over there? Why do they run all the way to the UK, USA, Australia et al? Paradise is only a short boat ride away from Sri Lanka. Answer? It’s a shit factory, where people still literally shit on the streets of the capital Chennai, caste plays an incredibly prominant role, where baby girls are killed for being, well baby girls, and with a literacy rate of around 60% – I guess the superior Tamil brain (all 60 million + over them) was unable to turn it into another Singapore? What a suprise! :)
Answer – it’s harder for an outsider to get a work permit, or citizenship in India. Much easier in the Western countries, Australia etc because of their lenient and more humane immigration policies. If India had the immigration policy of the West, no one would be trying to get to Australia.
Oh, if this is a shit hole, then I’m guessing you’re in love with Burma and North Korea ;-)
Tamil Nadu is the eleventh largest state in India by area (about the size of Greece) and the seventh most populous state.[2] It is the fifth largest contributor to India’s GDP[3] and the most urbanised state in India.[4] The state has the highest number (10.56%) of business enterprises in India,[5] compared to the population share of about 6%. It is one of the foremost states in the country in terms of overall development. Tamil Nadu’s gross state domestic product for 2007 is estimated at 275,000 crores (70 billion USD) in current prices.[81][82] The state experienced a GDP growth rate of 12.1% for this period.[59] Possessing the third largest economy (2007-2008) among states in India,[83] Tamil Nadu is also the most industrialised state in India.[84] The per capita income for the period 2007 – 2008 for the state was Rs.43,000 ranking second among the South Indian states.[85] It ranks third in foreign direct investment (FDI) approvals (cumulative 1991-2002) of Rs.225,826 million ($5,000 million), next only to Maharashtra (Rs.366,024 million ($8,100 million)) and Delhi (Rs.303,038 million ($6,700 million)) and the State’s FDI investment constitutes 9.12% of the total FDI in the country.[86] Tamil Nadu was the winner of fDimagazine’s Asian Region of the Future award 2005/06 in terms of FDIs, surpassing Australia’s New South Wales.[87] Chennai was ranked the top metropolitan city to invest in Asia Pacific and Tamil Nadu was ranked 9th region to invest in 2008.[88] Unlike many other states, the economic resources are quite spread out, rather than concentrated in a small industrialised area. The overall unemployment is relatively low with 2.8% rural and 4.8% urban from CSI.[89] The graph at right shows how the Per capita income of Tamil Nadu has grown steadily keeping above the national average.- wikipedia
It’s pretty easy for Tamils to sail across the Palk straits and into Tamil Nadu. But most Sri Lankan Tamils love taking banana boats to sail away to places half way across the world like Canada and Australia. Clearly, they don’t want to live in the “paradise” that is Tamil Nadu. I wonder why, seeing as Tamil Nadu is seems to be such a fuken’ amazing place according to you.
So let me get this straight, little Sri Lanka with a quarter of the population of Tamil Nadu, half the land area, AND a brutal war for the last 25 or so years has a GDP more than half of Tamil Nadu at around 45 billion US dollars?
Keep gushing about Toilet Nadu, it’s amusing.
… and a better literacy rate
… and a better per capita income
… and better equality between males and females
… and a better life expectancy
… and a better infant mortality
You would have thought that Toilet Nadu, without a war for the last 25 years and with all its Genetically Superior Tamil Brains (60 million+ of them!) would at least trump Sri Lanka on any of the above but whaddaya know…
kadavulei!
I don’t think there’s any point bashing Tamil Nadu. It is a great place, a large place and it has its share of good and bad.
Aadhavan. The fact remains that Tamil Nadu is still a shit factory. You are lying if you say you can’t smell shit in the towns of Tamil Nadu. Damn. It’s the best place to grow crops and vegitables and so on. You have free shit-fertilisers. India maybe emerging as a superpower. But the fact is, the guys in the North, those hindi speaking beautiful nutcases, they don’t give a shit about you guys. I don’t think you are part of the consciousness of the New India. (is it Jayalalitha who promised 1kg of gold to every woman when they marry?)
No wonder you guys don’t have a country of your own.
Oh but there is a point. The emergence of Tamil Nadu as an engine of growth within the Indian economic miracle irks some Sinhalese of the ilk of Lefroy and Whimsical. It’s something that they find hard to stomach, and thus fall back on “oh the streets smell of shit”, and laughable stats that SL’s GDP is one half of that of TN. It’s a manifestation and a justification of their racism towards Tamil at home. Little do they realize that most SL Tamils don’t even come from what is now known as TN. The Malabar inhabitants of the Province of Jaffna, as the Jaffna Tamils were called, and are still called in our country’s law books, are just that, people from Malabar – in Kerala.
Seriously, I don’t give two hoots about Tamil Nadu, although I have often thought Sri Lanka would have been blessed if it was further away from that toilet bowl. And you would hope a state which has not been at war, with 4 times the population and much larger land area would have a GDP larger than that of SL. But it’s not even twice that of backward Sri Lanka. How is that possible when we hear stories of the superb intellect of Tamils that apparently dwarfs everyone elses?
Sri Lanka, whatever its faults is a lovelier place than Toilet Nadu, leagues ahead of Toilet Nadu when it comes to human development and per capita income and over taking the Toilet Nadu economy wise will happen sooner rather than later, now that Tamil terrorism has been crushed :) Sri Lanka already has the second best performing stock market in the world, only six months after the death of thalaivar.
It’s not only the sexy North Indians but the Kannadigas and Mallus (Malayalis) who don’t give two hoots about Tamils. Tamil Nadu has been fighting with Karnataka and Kerala and trying to do the same with Andhra Pradesh. Hatred for North Indians, Hindi language, Brahmins, Kannadigas, Mallus, Sinhalese, Sri Lanka runs deep in Tamil Nadu. Tamils are referred to as “Madrasis”
I really don’t think ignorant racism and hatred towards millions of people is a winning argument. Sri Lankans and Sinhalese have historically had a rich exchange with Tamil Nadu and Tamil people there. I personally have many friends there and look forward to visit again. It’s also a good market for our businesses if we tap it.
This line of argument frankly makes the Sinhalese look petty. No population of millions of people can be stereotyped so baldly, it’s just patently ignorant. Trying to score points against Aadhavan is one thing, but insulting millions of people generally doesn’t get you anywhere.
Don’t spoil the fun. C’mon! Let it flow baby, let that racism flow!!!
This is not about stereotyping millions of people (Don’t know exactly how much. They breed like rats). This is about the fact that no one gives a rat’s fart about Tamil Nadu or the right for self determination of Tamil people. The fact remains that Tamil Nadu still stink like dog shit but this discussion isn’t about that (as I recall). I just say, tell the New Delhi administration that you want to break off, that Tamil Nadu should become a separate state (That’s what you want right). Will they just give it to you like a piece of cake? If anything, sinhalese care a little bit more about the Tamils than the North Indians do (We don’t really care. But still care more than they do). Those Aryans chased you away to the tip of the subcontinent, didn’t they? To the nipple.
Aadhavan. You sound like that Indian guy in Van Wilder movie. Wack it wack it guy
Ah. Actually it’s I who’s gone off the topic. Sorreeee. Sarath Fonseka’s ego.hih.
Lefroy & other shit-eateing racist SOBs,
Just chanced this blog now.
Don’t you guys ever ever ever let a word on Tamilnadu or India. it makes my blood boil.
As far as we Indians are concerned, Rajapaksa winning is the best outcome. Because, Fonseka is a pro-pakistan hawk. If Fonseka had won again, SL can be made to undergo another Eelam war in no time by the Indian intelligence.
Well, I am not a racist, but you tempt me. You pathetic little dick.
Your country’s peace is the alms we threw at you. And if you wag your dog tail so much, well, get ready for another 30 years of bloody bombs.
India wants to be a friend of SL, even, at the cost turning a blind eye to your war crimes. But if voices like you can be heard in India, well, better get a visa & get out of it, cause SL is going to go back to the stone age, brother.
INDI, i respect you. Can’t you moderate rascist comments? I can’t get the heat out of my head reading these fucking comments
Stop cribbing please. Start by getting the retards in Tamil Nadu to stop with their hate campaiagn against Sri Lanka and the support for terrorists. Then come and speak to us. It is Tamil nadu that is the single biggest block towards improving Indo-Lankan relations. The other one – the LTTE – was destroyed (they were armed and funded by India). And please end your BS rhetorical threats. You ain’t sitting with the Mandarins in New Delhi, and if ‘mighty’ India can’t do anything about Kashmir or Pakistan or Assam or China what is it going to do against Sri Lanka. Heck even the LTTE gave your army a hiding that it is still getting over.
V,
I think you have never travelled out of SL. Grow up.
Read some newspaper. RAW trained LTTE & nearly split your country.
RAW engineered the split of Pakistan (bangladesh was once Pakistan, FYI)
All the 4 pak wars (including Kargil) have been won decisively.
I agree, IPKF was a disaster & we had our asses kicked royally by China in ’64.
The reason for ’64 was Chinese attacked when the ink for the Panchasheela agreement (peace on 5 fronts) bet’n China & India was drying. Intelligence failure. We were not prepared. 64’s failure was the reason RAW was founded.
Times & equations have changed now with global status for India. Still, our people may be shitting on roads in villages. But it takes a paint change to convert our GLSVs into ICBMs that can hit any part of China. In the US, there’s awe for India’s growth, which Obama referred y’day in state of union address.
You guys better stop the Chinese in Hambantonta (or whatever).
You can kiss the chinese ass how much ever u want, but, if the strategic direction & politics of training another LTTE are favorable, then we’ll do it. Besides, sometimes it seems the right thing to do, given the treatment of Tamils as 2nd class citizens.
Every lankan head of state has to be in our good books.
You may be a some keyboard warrior. But Rajapksa is a practical & shrewd politician. He knows the Chinese angle and Indian strategic interests & stops well short of inviting India’s anger.
That’s why he’s respected in New Delhi.
And if you are not a pauper, get a plane ticket out of SL and look at some places on earth & talk to different people.
Thanks for accepting that India armed, trained and funded the LTTE. So then you will agree India is a state that sponsors terrorism (but whines and cries about Pakistan). When the attacks on Mumbai were happening I was watching it on TV thinking “and India is getting what it has been giving.” I hope Pakistan funds more militants in India, seeing as you guys treat Muslims as second class citizens. Let’s see whether more bombs will blast through your cities, whether the naxals expand their control (they already control upto 30% of India) and China takes Arunchal Pradesh. I support China in its campaign to thwart Indian hegemony.
BTW Hambantota’s going ahead full speed, whether you like it or not :)
And oh, YOU won’t be doing anything there champ, you’re just a powerless, jingoistic little twerp sitting in front of a computer typing furiously and making dumb ass threats about how you’re going to bomb everyone on the planet and teach the Chinese a lesson. Go eat some jalebi and have a lie down. It’s a good thing not all Indians are as mentally deranged as you are.
Personally, I think India’s leadership is pretty enlightened at present and I envisage Indo-Lankan relations to grow even further. The leaders in Tamil Nadu, however, are total twats and I think a lot of Indians themselves recognise that fact.
Fucking sicko
LTTE wouldn’t have got any sort of Indian support if you had not torched 3000 tamils in ’83.
You are sick to support attacks on innocent civilians. We were with you when your buses were blown up. We were fully with you during your forceful elimination of LTTE (though not the collateral civilian deaths).
Though we armed LTTE , we regretted it in the late 80s & fully hated LTTE after Rajiv assasination.
But you fucking bastard.
How can anyone even support the mindless killing machines? A minority of right-wing politicians wronged muslims in 1994/2002 condemned by 99% of India. But it’s nowhere the discrimination you mete out to the tamils in SL.
You are TOTALLY lost. Get a life. Get a family.
How the fuck in the world can one have such a sadistic mentality.
Well, I know it’s always better to wipe the shit off one’s ass before finding fault with others. But you are a hopeless pile of horse manure.
If you take your head out of your ass, you can see some light.
Well then I guess it is totally OK for Pakistan to fund terrorism in India as you guys butchered and burnt thousands of Muslims in Gujarat and Ayodha, massacred Sikhs after Indira Gandhi was assasinated, butchered them at their Golden Temple and slaughtered Christians in Orissa, raped and looted Kashmiris, besides of course your oppression of Dalits and treating them as slaves. People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. You threaten to revive the LTTE and I hope more Mumbais happen in your country, I hope the naxals rip your country to shreds so people like you will be brought to your senses and end your support for terrorism.
You were fully with us? What a laugh. Most of the arms and ammunition came from Tamil Nadu and India did jack all about it. Did not sell SL any offensive weapons yet cried like a baby when SL went to Pakistan and China. Only when Sri Lanka was winning with Pak + Chinese support did India come running like a whore wanting to side with Sri Lanka. But Indian support AT THE END was important I will admit. You only hated LTTE after Rajiv Gandhi got blown to a million pieces, otherwise you were happy as they went about terrorising Sri Lankans. But just remember that more than 1200 Indian soldiers made good fertiliser for Sri Lankan soil.
Canards, how cute! I think the indian secret service needs to figure out how to secure their hotels before trying to take over the world.
I think some of the folk across the Palk Strait have some serious delusions of grandeur. When paupers get some money in their hand they ofen behave this way, you see it in Sri Lanka as well.
This is what happens when frogs remain in their wells. Get out and get some fresh air.
Get some perspective. You reap what you sow.
Before you die, you will find the truth of this argument.
First, travel to some country outside SL. Even Tamilnadu could throw you some surprises.
I’ve been out of SL plenty of times, thanks. Have been to Chennai aka Madras and it is a stinkhole. And I thought Colombo was dirty. “You reap what you sow.” – I agree, and India will pay for arming, training and funding the LTTE. When I hear news reports of bombs blasting through your cities this axiom comes to mind.
V, you can try better.
Even NewYork has places I know that stink.
Can’t help but smile how somebody from a place that has no transparent democracy, no tolerance for diversity, no secularism, no free press, no jobs for anyone, no internet freedom, no independent judiciary, no equal growth opportunities for tamils, no independent police, no fcking nothing & couldn’t defeat a guerilla group for 30 years (w/o begging other countries) can even think of standing up to make a mockery of the regional & emerging global superpower.
So Pitiable.
(ha, there’s the satisfaction of ego !)
*Yawn* keep believing that India has all those you listed… before you go and burn alive some Christians/Sikhs/Muslims/Dalits/Witches etc, pass more anti-conversion laws, kill more journalists, put folks in jail for suggesting separatism, rape and plunder Kashmiris, kill your baby girls. Have your politicians have criminal records. Most of your people are worse off than the people in subsaharan africa. Your country is the HIV capital of the world. And BTW LTTE wiped the ass with the world’s 3rd biggest army and China and Pakistan are doing it right now… and I support them :) Keep trying.
Gall to talk about equal growth opportunities where 40% of the country is illiterate.
Now why don’t you write about Mahinda Rajapaksa’s ego?…that is if your unbowed and unafraid…