Suresh also said that the largest amount of killings and injuries were on that “black” day the catholic father says he was an eyewitness. On that single day 322 civilians were killed and 985 persons injured , Suresh says

This statement which went unchallenged in Parliament coonfirms what the father said about 300 killed on a single day

Yes the achievements would ‘ve been much more than a violent struggle. Please study the civil rights movement of USA in the 1950 s how violent the goventment came upon the non violent movements. But today 40 yrs after the assination fo MLK the changes are to the positive. But not so in SL after 30 yrs of violence & hatered.

I plead with both sides please get over your bitterness the root cause of inflexibility for unity & peace.

For years there has been war in the world, Iraq, Vietnam, Kosovo, Afganistan all don’t use cluster bombs but your government does.

We tamil people are suffering from cluster bombs, if we turned the tables on you how’de you like if you or a loved died by one of those.

Its hard to feel happy about the success of the war when you see these people returning in small parties on tv each night, without much they can call theirs any more. Its truly sad bcz they are our own people perhaps a generation that got drifted away in a different direction. But we find it so difficult to figure-out as to why these civilians cannot leave those conflict zones. There are large number of Northerners and Easterners who are living very peacefully with other countrymen in all other areas other than the Vanni and the world knows it. Is there any issue about their safety, security and what not in other parts of the Island?

To the Tamils: It is not unreasonable to expect an Army with vicotory within its grasp to overlook civilian casualties in ensuring that the anticipated victory does not slip away.

These things have happened in every conflict around the world. If either party is at all concerned about these civilians there is one thing they can do. And that is to climb down from their entrenched positions re. a settlement and make generous compromises to ensure a permanant solution to the ethnic conflict.

However knowing the mentality of Rajapakse and Prabakaran, neither of this is going to happen so prepare for a bloodbath, and then economic meltdown after that.

The Diplomatic community was also tagging onto these different media themes and latched onto whatever said in these publications and added fuel to the fire.

It was peculiar experience for the impartial readers to see an unbiased media or diplomatic mission clamouring against LTTE in the similar vein they did against the government or the Sri Lankan State.

It was always asking for both parties to the conflict to adhere to certain guidelines these foreign governments dictate would have been the maximum they would go whereas they would out rightly dictate the mantra of negotiated solution through peace talks or whatever being the Panacea or the cure for all.

At this moment of history the outrageous discrimination done against all known human rights and violations of the said at the worst level is being hoodwinked by the same media institutions and diplomatic missions brings the attention of impartial reader as to what is going on?

Do these missions or media institutions have to be attacked or their staff be victims of the LTTE terrorists has to happen to be outspoken about these blatant violations?
It is fare to be conclusive on the contrary and say these folks are bedfellows of the terrorists or the supporters to the least.

In this scenario it is unquestionable the long history of the stand taken by the Island Editorial and the reporting staff of the conflict which gobbled up the valuable human lives and resources of this country.
The Editorial on the 2nd of February 2009 is a case in point.

The so called free medial moguls who are clamouring for the freedom of wild ass should see the true meaning of impartial journalism always live with the reality, below the law of the land and nothing superior.

The humble but true picture of the Journalistic responsibility and how to go about it is the message of these editorials all these long history of reporting by the Island paper.
We are blessed to have at least one such News Paper in Sri Lanka.

To quote from today’s Editorial “Now that damning evidence has surfaced against them with the opening up of the Vanni, the government should conduct probes, expose errant envoys and urge their governments to have the pleasure of recalling them. As for foreign correspondents doing LTTE propaganda, the government need not worry. They have forfeited their credibility and exposed themselves as hirelings of terrorists. They need no other punishment!”

Ajith Boralugoda