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		<title>By: Observations on the LTTE from a Kurdish Comrade &#171; UNCEASING WAVES</title>
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		<dc:creator>Observations on the LTTE from a Kurdish Comrade &#171; UNCEASING WAVES</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 11:20:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Christie Irudayanathan</title>
		<link>http://dbsjeyaraj.com/dbsj/archives/643#comment-26115</link>
		<dc:creator>Christie Irudayanathan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 02:42:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I am so proud that LTTE has inspired the Kurds, however I am not for violence but I guess we need to find a way to live with the Sinhalese people without fighting. 

By violence we cannot build anything. Lets find ways to unite. 

Bye ............</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am so proud that LTTE has inspired the Kurds, however I am not for violence but I guess we need to find a way to live with the Sinhalese people without fighting. </p>
<p>By violence we cannot build anything. Lets find ways to unite. </p>
<p>Bye &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Moidu</title>
		<link>http://dbsjeyaraj.com/dbsj/archives/643#comment-23608</link>
		<dc:creator>Moidu</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 11:35:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>No common man in India wud ever pardon Prabhakaran for killing Rajiv Gandhi. That single incident has done irreparable damage to LTTE image. it wud be follish to expect Indian support to LTTE, and those who speak up for it. this is certain</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No common man in India wud ever pardon Prabhakaran for killing Rajiv Gandhi. That single incident has done irreparable damage to LTTE image. it wud be follish to expect Indian support to LTTE, and those who speak up for it. this is certain</p>
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		<title>By: DW</title>
		<link>http://dbsjeyaraj.com/dbsj/archives/643#comment-7911</link>
		<dc:creator>DW</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:08:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dear DBSJ, Why Prabhakaran and the LTTE lost was because they turned against their own people. Much like how Rohana Wijeweera&#039;s downfall came after he turned against the Sinhalese. This is a simple truth of the Universe. They both deserved what they got.

The Tamil diaspora in the comforts of their safe heavens abroad can  talk spitefully, but the fact is that it is the people on the ground who bore the brunt of Prabakaran&#039;s megalomania and their refusal to support the brutal Dictator that caused the LTTE&#039;s demise.

I just cannot understand why the LTTE spurned the possibility of a Federal Political structure in the Ranil Wickremasinghe era. Obviously it wanted more and  got what it deserved. The Tamil nation&#039;s natural homeland is in Tamil Nadu and that is where the diaspora need to start its next campaign for seperation.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear DBSJ, Why Prabhakaran and the LTTE lost was because they turned against their own people. Much like how Rohana Wijeweera&#8217;s downfall came after he turned against the Sinhalese. This is a simple truth of the Universe. They both deserved what they got.</p>
<p>The Tamil diaspora in the comforts of their safe heavens abroad can  talk spitefully, but the fact is that it is the people on the ground who bore the brunt of Prabakaran&#8217;s megalomania and their refusal to support the brutal Dictator that caused the LTTE&#8217;s demise.</p>
<p>I just cannot understand why the LTTE spurned the possibility of a Federal Political structure in the Ranil Wickremasinghe era. Obviously it wanted more and  got what it deserved. The Tamil nation&#8217;s natural homeland is in Tamil Nadu and that is where the diaspora need to start its next campaign for seperation.</p>
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		<title>By: B. Sumanadasa</title>
		<link>http://dbsjeyaraj.com/dbsj/archives/643#comment-7896</link>
		<dc:creator>B. Sumanadasa</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 06:46:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dear Mr. Jeyaraj, I have read all your articles on the Sri Lankan problem, and have appreciated some of your views.  I would like to state here that as a child(I am now 69 years old) I got my education in a missionery school where we Sinhala, Tamil and Muslim as well as a lot of Burghers obtained our education in the same class-room, and the brotherhood at that time was beautiful. I was heart broken when SWRD tried to create a Sinhala nation within 24 hours, and I personally and strongly believe that was the cancer seed planted amongst us. On the part of the Tamils their aspirations have been unreasonable and beyond all proportions, resulting in the death of thousands of our youth. Let us take the case of the Tamils who live in all parts of the Nation, and ask them whether they would opt to live in an ethnically divided country.  In fact a very close friend many many years ago, when the war was going on brutally, told me that he would never go to Jaffna for permanent residnece, yet wanted to have extraordinary previliges for Tamils in Colombo. When you consider all these things, an armed struggle would never have succeeded, since the Tamils are greedy and wish for privileges that the majority community does not enjoy.  Let us all advocate one nation and  one community identity and live with equal rights and privileges for all, and promote brotherhood amoung all communities.  I truly wish I could turn the clock back and bring the brotherhood of the good old days. Sumanadasa</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear Mr. Jeyaraj, I have read all your articles on the Sri Lankan problem, and have appreciated some of your views.  I would like to state here that as a child(I am now 69 years old) I got my education in a missionery school where we Sinhala, Tamil and Muslim as well as a lot of Burghers obtained our education in the same class-room, and the brotherhood at that time was beautiful. I was heart broken when SWRD tried to create a Sinhala nation within 24 hours, and I personally and strongly believe that was the cancer seed planted amongst us. On the part of the Tamils their aspirations have been unreasonable and beyond all proportions, resulting in the death of thousands of our youth. Let us take the case of the Tamils who live in all parts of the Nation, and ask them whether they would opt to live in an ethnically divided country.  In fact a very close friend many many years ago, when the war was going on brutally, told me that he would never go to Jaffna for permanent residnece, yet wanted to have extraordinary previliges for Tamils in Colombo. When you consider all these things, an armed struggle would never have succeeded, since the Tamils are greedy and wish for privileges that the majority community does not enjoy.  Let us all advocate one nation and  one community identity and live with equal rights and privileges for all, and promote brotherhood amoung all communities.  I truly wish I could turn the clock back and bring the brotherhood of the good old days. Sumanadasa</p>
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		<title>By: jeyjey</title>
		<link>http://dbsjeyaraj.com/dbsj/archives/643#comment-7413</link>
		<dc:creator>jeyjey</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 23:46:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>To Ariya,
Yes Tamil girls are pretty that’s why SL army was s rapping them during the war and even after the war in the in the concentration camps. 
Go to SL villages and see what happens there in fact the SL Army too did the conscription and also the most of the Families of SL Army still believe that their sons are fighting in the war which is not true. If you say SL Army lost around 10,000 of its men then those families must be dreaming that their sons will be retuning home</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To Ariya,<br />
Yes Tamil girls are pretty that’s why SL army was s rapping them during the war and even after the war in the in the concentration camps.<br />
Go to SL villages and see what happens there in fact the SL Army too did the conscription and also the most of the Families of SL Army still believe that their sons are fighting in the war which is not true. If you say SL Army lost around 10,000 of its men then those families must be dreaming that their sons will be retuning home</p>
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		<title>By: jeyjey</title>
		<link>http://dbsjeyaraj.com/dbsj/archives/643#comment-7410</link>
		<dc:creator>jeyjey</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 23:35:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It was dictatorship of Prabaharan which leads to demise of the freedom fight. This time he has underestimated the SL power. 
All Tamils lived outside SL who funded and pushed LTTE to create the momentum for the struggle should be blamed as they did not have any control over LTTE.  Any organisation when it is funded by people should have a say which never existed in LTTE as Prabaharan was taking his own decision.
He was not willing to compromise nothing less than a separate home land which I presume because of the promise he had given to all suicide (Black Tigers) carders just before they went for the mission
I should rather say his dedication instead of the arrogance may have cause demise of his dream for separation.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It was dictatorship of Prabaharan which leads to demise of the freedom fight. This time he has underestimated the SL power.<br />
All Tamils lived outside SL who funded and pushed LTTE to create the momentum for the struggle should be blamed as they did not have any control over LTTE.  Any organisation when it is funded by people should have a say which never existed in LTTE as Prabaharan was taking his own decision.<br />
He was not willing to compromise nothing less than a separate home land which I presume because of the promise he had given to all suicide (Black Tigers) carders just before they went for the mission<br />
I should rather say his dedication instead of the arrogance may have cause demise of his dream for separation.</p>
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		<title>By: Ariya</title>
		<link>http://dbsjeyaraj.com/dbsj/archives/643#comment-7348</link>
		<dc:creator>Ariya</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 10:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Shexmus Amed, No brother, I don&#039;t agree with you. I knew lot of Kurds as a student and later. Your Kurdish problem is that you don&#039;t have a country, and your people are everywhere in other countries bordering Kurdistan, if there was one.

Tamil people have a country, called the land of Tamils, Tamil Nadu. But that doesn&#039;t mean that we are ready to give OUR Sri Lankan Tamils to Tamil Nadu. 

This what Prabakaran missed. He was used by the Rich Vellala Tamil politicians living in quiet comfort in Colombo&#039;s best suburbs. then he was used by the Indian politicians.

Prabakaran missed that fact that we in Sri Lanka CAN&#039;T live without OUR Tamils. He wanted to prove that he is the sole agent of Tamils (not the LTTE), but only him. So, he killed everyone, who opposed to him.

If you were living in Turkey, or Iraq,did you have a Kurdish Foreign Minister? We had a very honored Tamil gentleman named Lakshman Kadirgamar as our Foreign Minister, and he was murdered by Prabakaran.

We have world famous cricketer named Muttaih Muralidaran, who is a Tamil, and if anyone in th e world ever say or do anything to him, the whole country would cary &quot;blue murder&quot;!

We have Tamil schoolmasters, who we venerate.  

No, brother Shexmus Amed, you are wrong. You may have fallen in love with Tamil girl soldiers, for Tamil girls are very pretty, but did it ever occur to you that, these beautiful Tamil girls should have been in school, like the Tamil schoolgirls in Colombo, or in any other city, away from Prabakaran? 

Shexmus Amed, I believe, if a man wants to fight , then he should fight like a man, without involving women and children.

What the use of having a war, if women and children have to die? 

No, Shexmus Amed, that war was a useless venture. It only destroyed the economy of the country and destroyed the lives of staggering amount of Tamil people, and it destroyed the dignity of the Tamil people.

Prabakaran should not have been born in Sri Lanka, he should&#039;ve chosen to be born in USA or anywhere in the West.

He didn&#039;t allow the Tamil youth, he had under him to have the harmony and camaraderie we had in our younger lives with all ethnicities in Sri Lanka (or Ceylon)!

Prabakaran didn&#039;t allow the tamil youth under him to mix with the youth of other ethnicities, for if he did allow that, he wouldn&#039;t have any LTTE.

You, brother Shexmus Amed, either in Iraq, or in Turkey, would never have had the feeling of togetherness we had, before this Prabakaran was created, so you won&#039;t know what we lost.

But we&#039;ll re-build this again!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Shexmus Amed, No brother, I don&#8217;t agree with you. I knew lot of Kurds as a student and later. Your Kurdish problem is that you don&#8217;t have a country, and your people are everywhere in other countries bordering Kurdistan, if there was one.</p>
<p>Tamil people have a country, called the land of Tamils, Tamil Nadu. But that doesn&#8217;t mean that we are ready to give OUR Sri Lankan Tamils to Tamil Nadu. </p>
<p>This what Prabakaran missed. He was used by the Rich Vellala Tamil politicians living in quiet comfort in Colombo&#8217;s best suburbs. then he was used by the Indian politicians.</p>
<p>Prabakaran missed that fact that we in Sri Lanka CAN&#8217;T live without OUR Tamils. He wanted to prove that he is the sole agent of Tamils (not the LTTE), but only him. So, he killed everyone, who opposed to him.</p>
<p>If you were living in Turkey, or Iraq,did you have a Kurdish Foreign Minister? We had a very honored Tamil gentleman named Lakshman Kadirgamar as our Foreign Minister, and he was murdered by Prabakaran.</p>
<p>We have world famous cricketer named Muttaih Muralidaran, who is a Tamil, and if anyone in th e world ever say or do anything to him, the whole country would cary &#8220;blue murder&#8221;!</p>
<p>We have Tamil schoolmasters, who we venerate.  </p>
<p>No, brother Shexmus Amed, you are wrong. You may have fallen in love with Tamil girl soldiers, for Tamil girls are very pretty, but did it ever occur to you that, these beautiful Tamil girls should have been in school, like the Tamil schoolgirls in Colombo, or in any other city, away from Prabakaran? </p>
<p>Shexmus Amed, I believe, if a man wants to fight , then he should fight like a man, without involving women and children.</p>
<p>What the use of having a war, if women and children have to die? </p>
<p>No, Shexmus Amed, that war was a useless venture. It only destroyed the economy of the country and destroyed the lives of staggering amount of Tamil people, and it destroyed the dignity of the Tamil people.</p>
<p>Prabakaran should not have been born in Sri Lanka, he should&#8217;ve chosen to be born in USA or anywhere in the West.</p>
<p>He didn&#8217;t allow the Tamil youth, he had under him to have the harmony and camaraderie we had in our younger lives with all ethnicities in Sri Lanka (or Ceylon)!</p>
<p>Prabakaran didn&#8217;t allow the tamil youth under him to mix with the youth of other ethnicities, for if he did allow that, he wouldn&#8217;t have any LTTE.</p>
<p>You, brother Shexmus Amed, either in Iraq, or in Turkey, would never have had the feeling of togetherness we had, before this Prabakaran was created, so you won&#8217;t know what we lost.</p>
<p>But we&#8217;ll re-build this again!</p>
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		<title>By: Mythily</title>
		<link>http://dbsjeyaraj.com/dbsj/archives/643#comment-6928</link>
		<dc:creator>Mythily</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:50:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thank you very much for publishing the Kurdish Journalist comment. 

Many many thanks for expressing our true heartfelt emotions which have been shut with guns. 

Our salutations to all Great Leaders of LTTE who fought till their last breath for the cause they started this organisation for. 

Mistakes are part of humans and time is against us on this occassion. 

Hoping for a peaceful solution where Tamils in Srilanka atleast can go to bed without fear of whether will he be alive to see tomorrows sunrise.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you very much for publishing the Kurdish Journalist comment. </p>
<p>Many many thanks for expressing our true heartfelt emotions which have been shut with guns. </p>
<p>Our salutations to all Great Leaders of LTTE who fought till their last breath for the cause they started this organisation for. </p>
<p>Mistakes are part of humans and time is against us on this occassion. </p>
<p>Hoping for a peaceful solution where Tamils in Srilanka atleast can go to bed without fear of whether will he be alive to see tomorrows sunrise.</p>
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		<title>By: Priya</title>
		<link>http://dbsjeyaraj.com/dbsj/archives/643#comment-6834</link>
		<dc:creator>Priya</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 07:56:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This is from an American about our leader Prabhakaran - I love them both. 

&quot;For all Tamils sorry to hear and confirm the death of a fighter of a free and equal society. As a firm believer of freedom n equality I followed his story for long, escaping several attempts to his live from rumours of his death in the tsunami to rumours of His death by Indian troops. Sad we lost a fighter. Though followers might have deviated from his ambition of a free society to sometimes committing malicious acts(Which wasn’t his goal) he was no different from the likes of Nelson Mandela, MLK, Soyinka, and many other great men. He has his critics and down sides just like any other man but his goal set him apart and dignified him. He might be dead but his legacy stands and hopefully that’s enough to lift his tribe n ambition up. A hero he was and will remain. A sad conclusion from a fighter for a free society. A day that pushes me harder to fight for what I believe and stand for in the continent of Africa and beyond. May his soul RIP.&quot; By C.Warderh


Message From a Dutch:
No greater love has a man than to lay down his life for his family, his friends, his countryman, his beliefs. He strived tirelessly to bring relief to the oppressed, the down trodden. May those that remain have the same courage and determination, to strive for freedom, to carry on and rebuild the Tamil nation. To work together with a united cause. To make his sacrifice worth it. - R. Huysmans</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is from an American about our leader Prabhakaran &#8211; I love them both. </p>
<p>&#8220;For all Tamils sorry to hear and confirm the death of a fighter of a free and equal society. As a firm believer of freedom n equality I followed his story for long, escaping several attempts to his live from rumours of his death in the tsunami to rumours of His death by Indian troops. Sad we lost a fighter. Though followers might have deviated from his ambition of a free society to sometimes committing malicious acts(Which wasn’t his goal) he was no different from the likes of Nelson Mandela, MLK, Soyinka, and many other great men. He has his critics and down sides just like any other man but his goal set him apart and dignified him. He might be dead but his legacy stands and hopefully that’s enough to lift his tribe n ambition up. A hero he was and will remain. A sad conclusion from a fighter for a free society. A day that pushes me harder to fight for what I believe and stand for in the continent of Africa and beyond. May his soul RIP.&#8221; By C.Warderh</p>
<p>Message From a Dutch:<br />
No greater love has a man than to lay down his life for his family, his friends, his countryman, his beliefs. He strived tirelessly to bring relief to the oppressed, the down trodden. May those that remain have the same courage and determination, to strive for freedom, to carry on and rebuild the Tamil nation. To work together with a united cause. To make his sacrifice worth it. &#8211; R. Huysmans</p>
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		<title>By: Priya</title>
		<link>http://dbsjeyaraj.com/dbsj/archives/643#comment-6830</link>
		<dc:creator>Priya</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 07:43:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Great piece of writing! Thanks for your opinion</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Great piece of writing! Thanks for your opinion</p>
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		<title>By: G</title>
		<link>http://dbsjeyaraj.com/dbsj/archives/643#comment-6753</link>
		<dc:creator>G</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 01:07:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Nitharshan,

last time i checked Ghandhi was not a SL idealistic individual.  But i agree with u.  He played a pivotal role in INDIA.  we are all for the Ghandhis, the nelson Mandala’s &amp; the martin luther king’s.  Today people don&#039;t talk about them with a split in opinion…..they were good people who genuinly understood the requirement to “get along”.  Unlike the the Malcolm X&#039;s or the VP&#039;s who took up arms.  

some tamils say they were very patient for 30 odd years after independence &amp; took up arms because it was the last option.  It is a FACT that tamils in SL had it 100 times better than black amaricans who had every right to take up arms in the 1960&#039;s.  Now that Obama is in power we all know the difference!  and it is that point i want to drive home.  SL is a corrupted country as much as india, Thailand or even amarica.  Politicians will make false promises because that is what politics is about, be it inflation, jobs or discrimination.  I will be the first person to admit this was and is the case in SL.  But i don&#039;t agree with the notion that SL is a bad country because they have caused unimaginable discriminations to tamils. Tamils and Sinhalies are a very proud and emotional races with rich culture and history.  So this is a very sensitive topic and  if either side is provoked a handful of people will take matters to their own hands.  (again this is not something debatable as I am telling you FACTS).   These are the thugs that created the riots and this includes certain SL governments who stood quietly not taking action against them.  But the whole nation should not be judged by actions taken by a handful of thugs.  why isn&#039;t anyone talking about the majority sinhalies who protected tamil brothers and sisters when rioting took place?  

the truth is that one uneducated man who didn&#039;t have the patience took up arms and held 20,000,000 others to ransom for 30 years.   we can only hope that both sides have learned from their mistakes.  

as for the arm struggle in Turkey, i hope they learn from SL too.  the leader of the Kurds is now in Jail.  At least he doesn&#039;t use innocent children to fight his war.  Personally i believe that creating a separate state for the Kurds will not solve anything.  if this happens it will only be a problem very similar to what Isreal is facing today.  The problems will not stop there, the conflict will go on.  what they should do is learn to get along.  taking up arms is not the solution!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nitharshan,</p>
<p>last time i checked Ghandhi was not a SL idealistic individual.  But i agree with u.  He played a pivotal role in INDIA.  we are all for the Ghandhis, the nelson Mandala’s &amp; the martin luther king’s.  Today people don&#8217;t talk about them with a split in opinion…..they were good people who genuinly understood the requirement to “get along”.  Unlike the the Malcolm X&#8217;s or the VP&#8217;s who took up arms.  </p>
<p>some tamils say they were very patient for 30 odd years after independence &amp; took up arms because it was the last option.  It is a FACT that tamils in SL had it 100 times better than black amaricans who had every right to take up arms in the 1960&#8242;s.  Now that Obama is in power we all know the difference!  and it is that point i want to drive home.  SL is a corrupted country as much as india, Thailand or even amarica.  Politicians will make false promises because that is what politics is about, be it inflation, jobs or discrimination.  I will be the first person to admit this was and is the case in SL.  But i don&#8217;t agree with the notion that SL is a bad country because they have caused unimaginable discriminations to tamils. Tamils and Sinhalies are a very proud and emotional races with rich culture and history.  So this is a very sensitive topic and  if either side is provoked a handful of people will take matters to their own hands.  (again this is not something debatable as I am telling you FACTS).   These are the thugs that created the riots and this includes certain SL governments who stood quietly not taking action against them.  But the whole nation should not be judged by actions taken by a handful of thugs.  why isn&#8217;t anyone talking about the majority sinhalies who protected tamil brothers and sisters when rioting took place?  </p>
<p>the truth is that one uneducated man who didn&#8217;t have the patience took up arms and held 20,000,000 others to ransom for 30 years.   we can only hope that both sides have learned from their mistakes.  </p>
<p>as for the arm struggle in Turkey, i hope they learn from SL too.  the leader of the Kurds is now in Jail.  At least he doesn&#8217;t use innocent children to fight his war.  Personally i believe that creating a separate state for the Kurds will not solve anything.  if this happens it will only be a problem very similar to what Isreal is facing today.  The problems will not stop there, the conflict will go on.  what they should do is learn to get along.  taking up arms is not the solution!</p>
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