Comments on: Fraudulent concept of a “fire-free, no-fire, safe zone”

By: THARINDU HASHAN

THARINDU HASHAN — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:21:05 +0000

hello

By: R S Wickramasinghe

R S Wickramasinghe — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:00:19 +0000

Fellow sinhalese, the UN reports 6500 dead, 14,000 injured, 20,000 casualties of war.

Keep revelling in the morality of the armed forces, and the cynicism of the Tigers holding human shields, and the imminent demise of Prabhakaran.

You may fool yourself only long enough to see a new wave of hatred unleash its terror in blood

By: eesan

eesan — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 04:04:04 +0000

Roshanth,
How can weall agree when I for one cannot even agree that you have read, leave alone understood, the above article.

By: nandasena

nandasena — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 04:26:10 +0000

Roshanth’s criteria for Great Tamil leaders is a joke.!! If Devanandan (I presume Roshanth is refering to Douglas Devananda) , a renowned criminal, who has several abductions, murder, all the crimes under the sun behind him can be called a Tamil Leader, a lot of people can be called as God!!
Kadirgamar can be called a sinhalese leader, definitely not a Tamil leader because he has done a lot of damage to the Tamils!! He even denied the bombing of the Navaly church by the government as falls!! All for the pittance and the perks provided by the Govt.
Karuna and Pillaiyan can compete for the title for criminal with Devananda .
Mano ganeshan is fit to be called a leader. It is a shame that Roshanth has put his name together with criminals!!
When will Sri Lanka be free from the sinhala Terrorists? Like MR & co. there are too many to mention. Once the war is over what will the ex-soldiers do? They are used to terrorising the population and has done rape, abduction, torture, robbery, extrajudicial killings and never inquired or punished, because the victims were mainly Tamils. Do you think they will suddenly become saints? The game will not be over so soon!!

I think Roshanth does not know what is happening in Sri Lanka or day dreaming!!

By: Roshanth

Roshanth — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:53:46 +0000

Can we all strongly agree that the LTTE are basically killing the Tamils ? If they care so much, they shouldn’t have entered the no fire zone !!

Can we also agree that we need to get rid of LTTE mentality and may be have the mentality of the great tamil leaders as Hon. late Kadiragamar, Thiruchelvan and the remaining few Tamil leaders as Devanandan and Mano Ganesha ??

Can we also agree that we will talk of the developments that happen in the east after it was freed from the LTTE and how a former LTTE child soldier went on to be the chief minister of the province and how Karuna, a right wing man of Prabhakaran has entered the main stream politics and is a minister now int he parliament ??

We all can agree that Sri Lanka will be free and a place to live for any person immaterial of race or religion once the LTTE is eliminated !!!

By: kadphises

kadphises — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:03:08 +0000

Is it not intuitive to assume that Tamils care more about their relatives in the NFZ than the average Sinhalese grunt manning the artillery?

So, if the Tamil diaspora really care about these civilians would they not try to encourage the LTTE (who assumedly have the Tamil interests at heart) to let them go and save their lives? I have not seen a single banner requesting Prabakaran to let them go and spare these lives. Instead they implore the Sri Lankan army end the campaign and go home. Could it be because at the end of the day they secretly believe that the Govt is more humane than the LTTE?

By: Saman

Saman — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:24:06 +0000

Tina, Fight against natinalism is applicable to western countries who doesnt have a history like us.You can ask them to forget their nationalism.But in Sri Lanka we have our values and everything depend on our nationalistic ideology.I am not only saying about sinhala nationalism.It is applicable to Tamil natinalism as well.Nationalism should be seperated from racism.Problem is not with nationalism, it is with racism.

By: Tina

Tina — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:39:21 +0000

Metha I am sorry, IF only there is no nationalistic leadership in SL that does not use the language ‘Tamils and Sinhaleese’, the problem will be solved. I do not envisage such a leadership in SL as the entire polity is poisoned by nationalism on both sides. What is now needed is a fight against nationalism, from the grass root level at both sides.

By: Rajiv Williams.

Rajiv Williams. — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 04:06:57 +0000

The inhumane attitude towards civilians by govt and tigers is well brought out in this article.Tragically for Tamils its continuing by both sides

By: A.Ratnapala

A.Ratnapala — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 02:58:38 +0000

DBS

I agree with you that both govt and LTTE have mistreated poor civilians. Govt fires on the “no – fire” zone and kills people but refuses to accept it. But now the people are being freed. At least now Govt must look after the people treated badly in past

By: Metha

Metha — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 02:19:02 +0000

Re Comment 99,
Don’t blame Both side.International community has approved-Carte Blanche- lions. Once civilians are with Lions they are better off, This what our respected countries including India expects.Without any casuality to civilians Lions have rescued more than 15 or 20 thousandas civilians in one day from Tigers. Who else on Earth can do this Miracle. UN Chief Banki Moon has immediately praised Lions for their brave achivement.Refer Daily Mirror Today.
Lionns have denied any civilians casuality even for three monts in Safe Zone. That is True. But Only thousands of Tiger Terrorists- Even 1 year to 75 years old- have been badly injured by Tiger Terrorists. and have been evacuated for treatments to Trinco by Ships many Times.
One Thing is sure. The Brave achivement so far gained against Terrorists not By lions. But Bby international countries, specialy Kandhi Desham.
We are fortunate to live in this World.

By: Nishanee

Nishanee — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 23:50:41 +0000

I agree whole-heartedly with Bandara. Nobody not even LTTE leader must be attacked for being diabetic