I agree with you the human catastrophy in N&E is man made.

but only God can help to bring healing… or give the ‘will’ to the president to do what he can…. we continue to intercede in prayer on this behalf

As every one knows what happened , what went wrong , what can be corrected. But are we willing to forgive and forget and build brigdes between the communities?

The heartache of the victims of war is beyond my imagination. How can politics alone put these things right/ back to normal?

the problem with many Sri Lankans is their total dependence on politicians and political solutions…. which had brought us to this sad situ today.

take heart, go and visit these areas talk to the victims and try and help them in a meaningfulway than waiting for the politicians to deliver peace!!!

no human with all the powers of a SL president could adress them.
I don’t mean that these should be ignored but the problems are beyond politics & politicians.
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You have a defeatist attitude my friend, trying to palm off onto god what humans have created. These are not natural disasters like in Haiti. These problems were created by the leaders of the country since independence. So whoever accepts now the office of the president, it is his or her’s bounden duty to clean up the mess. If there is one person who has the experience, strength and skill to gradually clean up this mess it is Mahinda, but whether he has the will to do it i don’t know.

Thei’r problems are regional very differnet from the other provinces of SL which were relatively free of war.

These issues in N&E are not political its a human catastrophy. Only GOd can bring healing to these people. no human with all the powers of a SL president could adress them.
I don’t mean that these should be ignored but the problems are beyond politics & politicians.

Maybe he felt a bit secure having 400 guys and all the opposition leaders around him as soon as the elections are over. He coundn’t have done that in his house. Anyway he seems to be paranoid over an assasination attempt. I don’t blaame him from the track record of the government.

“The results are a piercing indicator of the Tamil pulse.”

I don’t think so Murugan.
Your figures look impressive on surface. But the number of Tamils who did not listen to the Fonseka Camp led by Sampathan is really astonishing.

700,000 registered Tamil voters in the Norther Province and 500,000 in the Jaffna district alone ,totally ignored Sampathan and the TNA.

The conclusion should be that the majority Tamils in the North are indipendent mined and they want to improve their living standards and catch up with the rest of the country.

They are not interested in the opportunistic and false promises dished out to them by failed leaders like Sampathan.

Or may be he prefferred the coffee and cake at Cinnomon Lakeside better than what is served at GFH?

Batticaloa: 69% Fonseka and 27% Rajapaksa
Vanni: 67% Fonseka and 27% Rajapaksa
Jaffna: 64% Fonseka and 25% Rajapaksa
Trincomalee: 54% Fonseka and 43% Rajapaksa
Amparai: 50% Fonseka 50% Rajapaksa

Parts of Trincomalee and Amaparai being amply colonized.

In the Batticaloa district in Padiruppu there was 80% support for Fonseka and 13% for Rajapaksa.

These election results are a remarkable vote of no-confidence!

It is quite generous of ruling government to publish the seemingly true results from the Northeast. Maybe these machiavellians thought it would add credibility to the election and discredit Fonseka as a traitor.

The results are a piercing indicator of the Tamil pulse.

The fact that the Tamils were able to rally around Fonseka with such success shows a lot. And this is despite voter intimidation.

The counter-insurgency tactics have clearly failed to win the hearts and minds. The short-term success of destroying Tamil military assets in a callous fashion is going to crash head-on with the long-term fact that people get pissed off when they are bombed and shelled.

Rajapaksa’s holding onto power does not bode well for nation building.

The truth is that he would have to radically change his ways and begin ruling as a statesman rather than a Sinhala King. Let’s see if he does this during his small window of time to build bridges and unity. Rajapaksa must exert significant effort in winning the hearts and minds of Tamils. He can’t bungle the peace by continuing to govern in favor of his Southern constituency. He needs to open his mind, using Colombo as a model for ethnic amity.

These elections show that Tamils at least had the strength left to try and usher in regime change. And that demonstration of strength is huge.

If the elections in the South were not engineered electronically, they may have been able to play king-maker.

Or maybe Tamil verbal support of Fonseka, discouraged Sinhalese to vote for Fonseka. typical of the Sinhalese.

A Bakers dozen retired Army Generals, Army deserters, the self appointed future Executive Prime Minister, and the cabinet ministers and their Western handlers couldn’t have been in the Hotel for a Paduru Party to celebrate the Election Victory.

The statements of Fonseka on record during the hustings clearly point to sinister moves.

He threatened to remove the uniforms of the current Army Commanders and send them to Bogambara.Infact he indicated exact numbers.

He threatened to mobilize the masses to riot on the streets.

He said the Army would teach Rajapaksas a lesson on the 27th if he was not elected.

The threats of this nature , by an Army Commander who was the most powerful person in the country a few months ago can not be taken lightly.Srilanka had never experienced this sort of behavior in any of the past elections.

If Ranil made these threats one could understand that he can only have the Green Shirt cadres to cause mischief, But Fonseka and his retired Generals are a different league.

I think we are witnessing the second coup attempt in the Srilankan history after the one in 62.

Sarath Fonseka is a man with a big ego but a small brain.If he was a genuine leader who cared about the country and the people, he should have joined hands with Rajapaksa and helped him to develop the country and clean up so called corruption which was the only battle cry of the opposition in this election.

Instead he fell into the trap set by Ranil, Mangala and Somawansa who were desperate to saves their asses knowing that they had gone well past their use by date.

Thinking people should get behind Rajapaksa who is a skipper with a proven record. He will serve the Nation well.

Aha!!!!!. Democracy, SL style. – And the Indian Tamils got what for Thonda’s petty politics? You mean saved their own from mass murders?