Desecration or destroying a place of worship of any religion is sacrilegious.

Desecration or destroying a place of worship of any religion is sacrilegious.

It is even more sacrilegious when a Cemetery is desecrated.

What happened in the Auschwitz concentration camp yesterday is despicable.

Whether it is a simple case of theft or politically motivated act, the authorities will have to find out soon.

Many restored to such acts when they have miserably failed to prove their own hypothesises with hard facts than fictional ones.

History cannot be obliterated or changed to propagate ones’ own political agendas by destroying or desecrating historical sites.

Some historical facts are very stubborn and hard to swallow to many but unless you have learn to live with those facts and take guidance from the lessons learnt, then only they would be able to move forward in pursuit of whatever.

But by opting to take the low road of vandalism, only exposes what you are really made of and the history would also not be very kind to such perpetrators too.

Sasanka De Silva Blogging from Oman.

Le Cheat

Knowing the truth very well, neither Bush nor Karzai flinched.

Maradona had the audacity to call it “Hand of God”.

History is littered with such incidents in every spheres of life.

So why call Thierry Henry as “Le Cheat”.

The moral of the incident is “You cheat You will” and if you do not, then you are a looser.

Stop calling people names.

It is our own individual choice to decide to which camp you wanted to be belonged to.

SRI LANKAN WAR CRIMINALS HIDING IN WEST

The life sentence handed down yesterday in Canada on Desire Munyaneza for the war crimes he committed in Rwanda would, I am sure send a clear messages to many.

After his killing spree, he went to Canada and sought political asylum and it was granted without any back ground checks.

This is not a new phenomenon in Canada or in the west.

Anyone who manages to reach their boarders and claims that he or she is being prosecuted in his or her country, because of their ethnicity or any other reason, those countries are happy to oblige.

There are thousands and more who have either actively participated or have helped in various other ways in mass killings, genocides and other war crimes are still hiding behind in Canada and the West, milking their systems on the guise of seeking asylum.

The mass rallies held, hungers strikes and havocs caused in those countries during the latter part of the three decade old war in Sri Lanka, where a democratically elected government was fighting a bunch of terrorist is a very good example that those who have blood in their hands and in their consciences are still roaming freely in those countries.

The sentencing of Desire Munyaneza, I am hopeful would set a precedent and that the authorities in Canada and in the West would open their eye now and start dealing with those bogus asylum seekers the same way soon.

Kithsiri Sasanka De Silva,

Sultanate of Oman.

The grass is not so greener on the other side.

Boat loads of people are stranded in some parts of the world trying to reach countries which are economically prosperous.

If the figures reported in some of the press are correct, the people now stranded in Indonesia have promised to pay or have already paid the smugglers in excess of two million American Dollars for the passenger of 250 people.

This translates in to over a million Sri Lankan Rupees for each head, which is a very large sum of money for someone like me who is presently employed in the Gulf even.

Looking at the pictures it is evident that the average family cluster on that boat is about four per family.

I was wishing if I can raise that kind of money (Rupees 4 million), not to pay some slave trader but to start up something of my own back in Sri Lanka.

Some may try to take political advantage on the predicament of those people still stranded on those boats.

These people neither political nor economic asylum seekers but a bunch fools who always believe that the grass on the other side is much greener only.

I have travelled enough in those countries where some think the grass is much greener and have met, spoken and visited many of those who have thought so earlier and ended up there.

Many of them are living in appalling conditions in attics, go-downs etc and doing some works that they would not even think of doing in their own mother land, even if they do not have one square meal a day.

We have a Sinhala saying which goes “Even if you make a living by slaughtering cats, the money you get in return for that work will not mew when being spent”.

But when they return to their motherland for a short holiday or looking for a prospective life partner to take back along with them, they do not tell the whole truth.

Instead, they flaunt a little to impress the others.

A couple of designer ware, a rented out car and a few extravagance parties to impress their other family members, neighbours and friends send a wrong message.

“The grass is much greener on the other side”.

Many who are living in their native lands are unable to see through the false facade and willing to gamble on their health, wealth and most importantly the peace of mind looking for greener grass.

It is not even worth the try.

If you can raise that kind of money, (I am talking about four million Sri Lankan Rupees) as your start up capital, then you do not need go anywhere but start something of your own in your own country.

The stories are galore in medias of many (mostly from the south and the north) have come to cities from their tiny hamlets with only cloths on their backs and have made money and a name for them.

If that is not a dream then what about someone with a disposable four million Sri Lankan Rupees as a start up capital?

Unless we learn to ask the right questions and willing to change to looking glass, the stories of such boat people will be repeated.

The parable is “the grass is not so greener on the other side”.

Kithsiri Sasanka De Silva,

Sultanate of Oman.

Terrorism and Rules of Engagement

Ever since man decided that the only way to achieve a solution to a dispute between two of them is to take up arms, the rules of engagement have changed.

They have evolved in a much slower pace that one would be able to keep abreast with it and be prepared for any eventuality.

However, the 9/11 incident has changed the whole scenario.

What is going on around in many parts of the world today are sufficient ample examples of the changes that have taken place in the rules of engagement.

The conventional wisdom and the old school rules of engagement become lead weights, especially when a country where democracy prevails tries to fight off a terrorist outfit, threatening the stability of the country as well as in the region.

The terrorists have only one objective and that is to terrorize and they would go to any extent to achieve their objective.

Unless the democratically elected governments change their tactics and approach to the issue of how to deal with the terrorists, the hope of having a Win is a total impossibility.

The best and the most recent example is the Sri Lankan Armed forces victory over the one time most dreaded and feared terrorist group.

Had they been listening to the hypocrites’ and old school pundits, as they have done for more than two decades, the terrorist menace would have gone for many more decades.

They were ready to change their rules of engagement and the success came within a few years.

The conventional wisdom and old school rules of engagement have to be abandoned if to achieve success in war especially between a democratically elected government and a foreign-funded terrorist outfit.

The staunch old school guards and especially the hypocrites’ will try to place one obstacle after another to stop you from changing your stance but the sure recipe for success is to abandon the conventional wisdom and old rules of engagement.

Having a threat of isolation, sanctions and withdrawal of trading privileges’ etc are better than having to live in constant fear of a terrorist attack.

One has to be Free first to be able to enjoy the other social and economic benefits.

Kithsiri Sasanka De Silva,

Sultanate of Oman.

Ethnic cleansing in Sri Lanka?

Where is ethnic cleansing?

Written by a Sri Lankan, but the true author is unknown but the facts given below are 100% accurate.

Hence, decided to publish this in my Blog, so the World can stumble on it and get the correct picture.

Tamils –

How many Tamils are employed in southern Sri Lankan companies?

(See the number of high caliber Tamils in Sri Lankan banking sector, see hotel trade, film trade and other industries)

Do they experience any hardship professionally due to ethnicity?

If so, how come they hold such high positions?

See how many Tamil kids are getting educated in International schools?

They have outnumbered other ethnicities.

Royal college has Tamil medium, DS has Tamil medium.

So many Sinhala major government schools have Tamil medium and they share equal opportunities.

How many Tamil major schools have Sinhala medium?

Private schools like St. Thomas, Trinity etc have quite a large number of Tamil students.

Travel to Wellawatte, Dematagoda, Dehiwala, Kotahena etc and see the number of Tamils sharing the comforts.

Go to Pettah market and Fort.

Walk along the streets and see how many Tamils are doing business there.

Start from Kotahena and travel passing Dehiwala.

Sinhala shops are outnumbered by Tamil traders.

I don’t see any hardship put on them.

Get into a bus and listen how many speak in Tamil.

Try to find a single Sinhala board in Wellawatte.

All are in Tamil and English.

Go to a government campus.

Let’s say Colombo campus.

See the number of Tamil students.

See the number of Tamil lecturers.

They share equal opportunities.

I never saw them being humiliated except they themselves had divisions saying Batticaloa Tamil, Jaffna Tamil and Upcountry Tamil.

They have a separate Tamil Union for their cultural events, their religious events.

How many kovils are there in Colombo?

See the number of Sinhalese visiting kovils and Tamil shops.

Doesn’t it display the harmony?

How many Tamil representatives are in the parliament?

See the number of Tamil youth musicians in Colombo.

Please consider these statistics.

If somebody can come up with numbers and percentages, it would reveal the truth.

This is what we should call rational.

Our generation should not waste time on arguing what’s unknown to us and what’s not experienced by us.

Live today, not yesterday.

Jaffna and Trincomalee have ports, heavy industries, bus stations, railway stations, radio and TV broadcasting stations, universities and so many other facilities.

Now Sinhalese -

How many Sinhalese are in Northern and Eastern part of Sri Lanka?

(North none, East, 25%)

How many Sinhala medium schools are there in Northern Sri Lanka?

(None)

How many Sinhala employees are in Northern Sri Lankan offices and industries?

(None)

How many temples are there in Northern and Eastern Sri Lanka?

(Two, one at Nagadeepa & the other at Trincomalee)

Can a Sinhalese travel unharmed in Northern Sri Lanka?

(Only now, after the defeat of the LTTE)

How many Sinhalese are in Northern and Eastern universities?

(None)

Now, answer me. Where is ethnic cleansing?

Now, for the US Congress and the British Parliament:

It is up to you to analyze and understand the real facts, rather than just believing propaganda like “GENOCIDE” that is just “invented propaganda” to mislead your tiny minds.

Americans didn’t know they were under attack by Osama Bin Laden, until it happened!

The British forces started shooting innocent people; mistaking them for terrorists.

(They couldn’t notice the difference!).

(Try convincing the loving mother of Charles Menezes!).

So, as a matter of fact, how on earth could they understand what’s happening thousands of miles away, in Sri Lanka?

First of all, stop what you originally started, by “clearing off” from Iraq and Afghanistan! Even with all the power and money you posses, you have proved beyond doubt, that you are still unable to solve your own problems!

Sri Lanka can do without dumb, swollen headed Yankees and heartless brutal killers of Britain ,who had slain millions of innocent Sri Lankans of former ” Imperial Ceylon” they pillaged and plundered!

If you cannot understand basic facts and wish to display a total lack common sense, we suggest you MIND YOUR OWN BLOODY BUSINESS.

You are still working on the “theories” of Terrorism, whilst hundreds of innocent folk are being killed by ruthless, fanatical sons of bitches.

BUT LOOK MATE….

Here we are in a relatively poor country, with no oil and other commodities that all of you worship, but went on to prove that to admit that we in Sri Lanka destroyed “Terrorism” once and for all!

This is what the Sri Lanka’s (less than 0.03% of the World’s population) contribution to World peace.

Kithsiri Sasanka De Silva from Oman.

INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY'S CROCODILE TEARS

This letter appeared in one of the Dailies in this regieon (Khaleej Times) today.

Sri Lanka’s Pledge

22 September 2009

The world Tamil community and human rights groups are suspicious of the new Sri Lankan pledge to resettle about 280,000 civilians with over 60,000 children within this year, citing that this could be another attempt by the authorities to satisfy IMF loan conditions and European Union.

The notable difference between the Swat Valley relocation and the Sri Lankan crisis is the level of participation of international organisations which have expertise on the projects of similar nature.
In Sri Lanka, the conduct of war and the incidents following the war were carried out in complete media blackout, and aid agencies were expelled. The areas from where the civilians were herded during the two-year war is said to be going through a major change, demographically. 
In Kilinochchi district 
alone, the buildings of cultural importance to Tamils have been demolished and replaced by military complexes.
Sri Lanka has been denying every human abuse allegation insisting that no civilians were killed by its security forces. It will be interesting to see if the visiting UN political chief, Lynn Pascoe will be able to match the high sophistication of the Sri Lankan authorities to achieve anything more 
than just pledges.

Sandy Vadi, 
New Hamburg, Canada

And below is my rejoinder sent to them.

This is in response to the letter under heading “Sri Lanka’s pledge” appeared in the Letters to the Editor column in the today’s paper (22^nd September 2009).

The writer tries to compare the Swat valley situation to the crisis in the north of Sri Lanka, conveniently forgetting the fact that most of the areas in the north of Sri Lanka are still laden with land mines, booby traps, IED etc, sowed by the terrorist who were trying desperately to stop the advancing Sri Lankan troops and to bar the Tamils held captive by them as a human shield leaving those areas.

Unless the areas are clear and declared safe, no sane government would allow innocent people to resettle on those lands.

Writer was further bitter that not much international organizations’ participation in those resettling and clearing areas, which have expertise on projects of similar nature.

To be very frank that many Sri Lankans do not trust those so-called international experts knowing well what they did when the terrorist were holding certain parts of the country north of the country.

All what those experts did were to provide monetary and emotional support to a group of terrorists and supply international medias with wrong information purposely to prolong the war as well as to discredit a democratically elected government.

So many international NGOs had been working in those areas for the last three decades but yet they could not build a single school, hospital, play ground in those areas.

All they did manage to build were luxury mansions and bunkers for terror group’s elite leaders and light aircraft and air strips to enable terrorist to terrorized innocent civilians in other parts of the country too.

Finally the writer cries about buildings of cultural importance to Tamils are being replaced by military complexes in Kilinochchi district.

It is sad to note that when the terrorist were running those areas, they have destroyed numerous Sinhala Buddhist archaeological sites and expelled non Tamils from those areas to create a hundred percent Tamil areas thus changing the demography existed before, but no international community crying foul now for every action taken by the government, never ever dared to open their mouths in protest then.

If someone is interested to know the true demography existed before the fishermen turned smugglers turned terrorists started wagging their tails and totting their gun, I recommend them to see the 1971 census records to enlighten them on those issues.

Finally, I am as confused as anybody else of the claims of culturally important buildings they have in that country when those people who first came to Sri Lanka a few centuries ago were in fact looking for horses to trade than anything else.

They may have their cultural heritages in the land from where they first came to and definitely not in that land.

Even the much feared and dreaded word “Eelam” in Tamil means the “land of the Sinhala” and not anything else.

Kithsiri Sasanka De Silva from Oman.

TIGERS IN SHEEP'S CLOTHS.

The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) securing a majority in the Vauniya district election is a worrying sign.

The TNA was the LTTE terrorist’s puppet and pseudo democratic voice in the past and even after the terrorists were defeated completely, why and how they managed to secure the majority is something the authorities have to dig in and find out soon.

The authorities will also have to keep a very close eye on their (Tigers in sheep’s cloths) activities from now on or they will again try to take us back 30 more years.

The ruling alliance’s win in the Jaffna district was something that was expected, after all what the present government did to liberate the peace loving Tamils from the terrorist’s dictatorial fist.

Some pro terrorist commentators were trying to link this magnificent win in Jaffna to the recent lifting of fishing ban in the north and east as the main livelihood in Jaffna, according to them was fishing.

The terrorist for sure and perhaps some of those commentators may be representing that particular segment of the Jaffna society but fishing is definitely not the main lively hood of the people of Jaffna.

The one sided landslide victory recorded in the Uva district is another clear endorsement from the people of the government’s present policies.

Kithsiri Sasanka De Silva from Oman

Last nail on the Eelam coffin.

Getting the self appointed LTTE leader, Selvarajah Pathmanathan also known as KP by the Sri Lankan authorities in Malaysia is a great achievement and this would be the last nail on the Eelam coffin.

This also proves another important point that the peace loving international community is still behind the democratically elected Sri Lankan government.

Until the biggest murderer was killed, many in the Diaspora, languishing comfortably in many developed countries supported the idea of achieving Eelam only by military means and the following day many have changed their tune and prefer to enter the democratic means.

KP, a man with blood on his hand is one of them.

Unfortunately this opportunity was given to them many times in the past by many Sri Lankan governments but all what they did was go back on their words and restored to military option.

I am sure getting KP in a foreign land by the Sri Lankan authorities would send a loud and clear message to those who are languishing in developed countries and still advocating an Eelam that the long arm of the justice can reach anybody, no matter where and do not have a pseudo sense of security.

And the same warning goes to many Sinhala KPs (not used in derogatory sense) living in Sri Lanka and also in other countries and dreaming of establishing an Eelam in Sri Lanka.

The need of the hour is to work with the government (who has achieved something that many believed impossible to achieve) and not to work against the government.

“Api Okkoma Rajawaru, Okkoma Vessiyo, Thun Sinhalayama Nedeyo”

Let us join hands together to rebuild our own motherland.

Kithsiri Sasanka Chulanie De Silva.

IT IS TIME TO ACT.

With the crushing of the LTTE militarily recently, the local Medias are in a dilemma now of not knowing as to what to do to attract readers and viewers in numbers to them like the final few days of the battle.

The war was a curse for the country as a whole but for few it was a blessing.

The media too benefitted immensely during that time.

Now the war is over and development works that were moving at a snail pace would pick up wind and the benefits’ would trickle down soon to where they are mostly needed.

Despite the calm and the promise for a better tomorrow, there is one illegal business still flourishing in Sri Lanka.

Human smuggling is a very lucrative business and those who have ventured in to it were benefitted and made millions during the war times.

This was another venture funded with blood money by the LTTE with two broad intentions in mind.

Knowingly or unknowingly, many of the “Anti LTTE” and “Anti War” people too have got involved in such activities that have helped to tarnish the image of our motherland in the eyes of the world.

Having as many Sri Lankans as possible seeking refugee status in many countries was helping the LTTE’s cause immensely.

First, with those figures they were easily able to influence the international political opinion to sway towards to support their cause and secondly they were able to extort more money from the Tamil refugees in those countries.

I think now it is time for the Medias to educate the general public of the adverse effects it would have on the country as a whole by participating in such activities.

Many of whom I have spoken to believe that by doing that they are trying to have a secure future for their off springs.

But very few are unaware that some subtle changes are being taking place in the world, as far as opportunities and possibilities are concerned and soon the direction of the wind would be from West to East and not the other way around as most of us were made to believe.

Stringent Rules can be drawn up to curb such activities but unless the mindsets of the people are convincingly changed, they would be good only in the books.

There is a remarkable change in attitudes towards smoking and drinking in the younger generation and it was only possible thanks to wise and bold leadership and Media’s active participation in those campaigns.

I am hopeful that soon the lawmakers’ attention will be drawn to the human smuggling issue too and media too will do their bits as they did in programmes like “Mathata Thitha” (full stop to intoxicants) to educate the general public of the negative effects it will have on the image of the country as well as the innumerable possibilities and opportunities, the East has in store for the brave and the bold.

This reminds me of an old Sinhala saying “Pilime Gilla (Ethata, but now read) Rajata, Aggalawath maha kajjakda?

(Having a sweetmeat ball is not a difficult task for someone who has already swallowed up something as big as a statue).

Kithsiri Sasanka Chulanie De Silva Blogging from Oman.

SRI LANKAN ARMED FORCES FOR THE NEXT NOBEL PEACE PRIZE.

My sympathies are with the people of Pakistan for having being subjected to endure atrocities in that magnitude day after day.

However, you can take courage and solace from the recent Sri Lankan experience that any terrorist can be defeated, if you stick together as one.

But my only word of caution is to beware of those international agencies that have lately taken moral high grounds and started calling for investigations in to human rights violations and war crimes, when a country is engage in a battle with a bunch of terrorists.

In fact, the real violators and perpetrators’ of such heinous crimes are only found in the lands, where most of such frequent calls are coming from.

Some of the officials who are going places and pledging so many because the talk is cheap but unfortunately none is yet to be able to show to the world that they can even  “Walk their talks” as well.

Take the case of Sri Lanka’s recent victory against a bunch of terrorists who had been dubbed as the most feared and invincible.

All what the Sri Lankan government did as a democratically elected government was to deploy its armed forces to defend its’ territory.

They did not use Nuclear bombs, Agent Yellow or White phosphorous on innocent civilians.

Neither sends troops thousand miles away from their shores to fight a someone else’s war nor to export democracy, our values and beliefs.

Indeed, all what we did was to crush a bunch of terrorists and rescue innocent civilians being held under threats and to use them as a human shield.

Instead of contemplating of nominating the Sri Lankan armed forces for the next Nobel Prize for Peace for carrying out the world’s biggest rescue mission so successfully, they are now being accused of many crimes simply by listening to sympathizers and acolytes of the crushed terrorist organization.

All what those officials who have taken moral high grounds do is to travel around the world in first class, stay in five star hotels and enjoy many other perks  and not to mention their hefty salaries and a pensions.

What their cheap talks instead do is to propagate discord, give encouragements, political endorsements and clout to banned terrorist organizations all over the world.

Instead of helping democratically elected governments to fight terrorism, they are helping terrorists.

Judging from the yard stick of that simple and infamous quote “either you are with us or with them”, they are definitely not with the democratically elected governments.

Hence, they should also be investigated not only for misappropriation of funds of the organization as they are mainly come as contribution fees from many poor nations like Sri Lanka and Pakistan but also for openly giving emotional, intellectual and much needed political endorsements to terrorists organizations who are trying to destabilize democratically elected governments in the world and the world peace in a very broad sense.

Over to you Mr. Ban Ki Moon and show us that you are someone who is able to “Walk the Talk”! and also that you really got what GOD has not given to people like Ms. Pillai.

Sasanka De Silva,

Blogging from Oman.

 

LTTE VANDALES AND THE MEDIA

For the majority of those who are living in Sri Lanka and abroad the war is finally over.

When the final victory was announced, people spontaneously came out on to streets to celebrate.

Though it was tersely reported in many international Medias, among them were many Tamils living in and around cities too have voluntarily joined the frolicking crowds.

They too lit crackers, cried, laughed, sang, danced and enjoyed communally cooked “Kiri Bath” and “Lunu Miris”, with the other merrymakers.

An identical incident happened, some years back but that too was only reported tersely.

When the Indo-Lanka peace treaty was announced in 1987, the Tamils who were living then in the north of the country too came out in thousands on to streets to celebrate, when they heard that one of the preconditions of the treaty is to, all armed Tamil groups to surrender their arms.

All groups were surprised and only a few were annoyed and angered.

I do not think that I need to go in to details of what happened after the treaty was signed and how the LTTE terrorists turned their guns on the other Tamil groups who have surrendered their arms, because the atrocities are well kwon and well documented.

Unfortunately but not surprisingly, after the Sri Lankan Army announced its victory over the terrorists, some of the supporters the defeated terrorists living in places like the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, France and Italy have gone berserk and have started to taking law in to their own hands.

They have started attacking and vandalizing Buddhist temples, shops and other establishments run by the Sri Lankans and even gone to the extent of throwing Acid on some Sri Lankans students following higher studies or gainfully employed in those countries.

Again, the international media deliberately and conveniently failed to report these incidents, instead wasting their time, money and energy harping on a looming humanitarian catastrophe in Sri Lanka, when the government assures everyone that it is capable of handling it along without the medaling of so-called international aid agencies.

If the supports of this defeated terrorist organization are behaving this badly in their defeat, the onus of determining how they would have reacted, I leave with your good conscience to decide, if they have won.

They would have put Cambodia and Rwanda in to shade.

“Hadawathin Apa Yuda Bime Oba Thanikale Netha Kisi Dine”.

Just before I sat down to write, the tune of the famous song “Puthune Me Ahaganna Puthune” was playing over and over again in the mind and then I thought, why not for a change, let me start with a song and try to end also with another.

When compared to the total land mass of the world, Sri Lanka is just a speck with just over 25,000 square miles and also with a population of even less than a three percent of the world population.

Yet, if anyone asks you tomorrow, what was Sri Lanka’s contribution to the world; this is what we all have to be proud to tell.

Yesterday, we militarily defeated a terrorist organization fairly and squarely in the battle field that was up until then was dubbed as the most feared and invincible force in the world.

We, Sri Lankans, have proven to the whole world that with the political will, correct and determined leadership and brave and determined army, any country can overcome any form of terrorism, irrespective of whether they are the most sophisticated or the most ragtag outfit in the world.

With the new found determination and spreading emphasis on the efforts of eliminating terrorism totally from the face of the earth, any country can look at our unique experiences and achievements and deals with such terrors, knowing well that if you have those three important ingredients, there is no terror outfit in the world, no matter how sophisticated they are that you cannot beat.

That was our contribution to the world.

With hearts swelling with pride, happiness and elation, now it is time for us to pay back to those who have sacrificed so much to make it possible.

The guys and the gals in the armed forces!

So from the bottom of my heart, I say,

 “Deshaye Mura Devathauni ”!

 “Hadawathin Apa Yuda Bime Oba Thanikale Netha Kisi Dine”. 

Sasanka De Silva

Blogging from Oman

The ultimate act of ungratefulness.

Yesterday, they were pinning their hopes on Miliband and Kouchner to rescue their terror outfit and its leaders.

But today, they started pelting Miliband with eggs and other projectiles when they heard that their leaders were killed by the triumphant Sri Lankan Army when they were trying to flee with their tails between their legs.

What happened to their much prescribed and infamous Cyanide capsule?

Not only Miliband is young, brash and inexperienced but unimaginably naïve too to believe a bunch of terrorist and their acolytes and supporters for his own political survival.

Perhaps, Miliband and other western leaders are conveniently unaware of, who these terrorists really are and what they are made of, but it is not a secret to any Sri Lankan.

Those Podians, first turned their gun on their own senior peoples those who gave them the much needed initial emotional support.

Then they turned them on the very country that provided them safe refuge, monetary support and terror training during their infancy.

When things were not going the way they wanted to, they turned them this time on their very own people, whom they have claimed a few years back that they are duty-bound to protect.

So pelting Miliband with eggs is not an isolated and rare incident but this has been the way they have been operating from day one.

The refined, educated and most importantly the peace-loving Sri Lankan Tamils living in Sri Lanka and other parts of the world very well know about those fishermen turned smugglers turn so-called freedom fighters and they will never ever allow such a lot either to represent or even to speak on their behalf.

After all what one can expect from fishermen turned smuggler Podians?

Nothing but only destructions and chaos.

Wesak the “Month of Renaissance”.

Tonight, I go to bed with a very peaceful mind, knowing well that from now on, my family will  be safe in Sri Lanka and Bomb blasts and suicide bombings will only be a thing in the past.

I consider we have been lucky to have narrowly escaped two incidents in the past.

First, when a bomb exploded on the Air Lanka flight at the Katunayake Airport and then Brigadier Paramee Kulathunge’s life was taken by a suicide bomber in Kottawa.

But some families have not been so lucky and many of their loses and scarifies are unimaginable.

However, today we all can take solace and have a big sigh of relief, knowing well that the bloody war is finally over.

Wesak is a very important as well as an auspicious month both historically and religiously for the Sri Lankans and with the latest military achievement; I think it is most appropriate to name it as the “Month of Renaissance”.  

Sasanka De Silva,

Blogging from Oman.

Why some International Aid Agencies are so desperately want to go back to the Northeast of Sri Lanka

I am in complete agreement with everyone saying that there is a catastrophic humanitarian situation is unfolding in the North-east of Sri Lanka.

Interestingly, some of the international aid agencies and the states backing them are still calling the government to allow them unimpeded access to those areas.

Those international aid agencies, for more than two decade have had an unimpeded access to those areas but what have they done during that time and who is really responsible for the present crisis are the questions only they  themselves have to provide answers?

Unfortunately, what I cannot fathom is that how they are going to resolve this issue, which they have stealthily but greatly contributed to expand to this kind of unimaginable proportion.

First, with their backing and blessings managed to secure safe refuge in their backers’ territories to many murderers who had been waging a war against a democratically elected government.

Then they started not only by providing those murders their emotional support but also monetary and their expertise surreptitiously, so the war can be prolonged and subject the people in the country to abject misery but their economies would thrive.

The advancing Sri Lankan Army recently exhibited to the World Medias, some of the very sophisticated and heavy weaponry in pristine condition captured from the fleeing murderers.

Those captured weaponry are surely not assembled in those areas held by the murderers but brought in by Lock, Stock & Barrel.

Many of the heavy weaponry the murders had to abandon without even being used on the advancing Army or on the fleeing innocent civilians is because that they were still not very conversant with their operation, as the experts who came in guise of humanitarian works to teach the murderers how to use them had to leave those areas in a hurry when the Sri Lankan Army started its final push.

For many decades, the access by land to those areas which were under the control of the terrorist have been closely monitored and access by air was limited to a few European built crop-duster two seater aircraft with limited payload capacity and the only possibility was by sea routes.

In the past, many of the international aid agencies have had an unimpeded access to sea routes to ferry necessary humanitarian aid but now with those new revelations, it is more than obvious that they had been too busy in the past ferrying some other no so humanitarian items on their ships instead.

It is said that the past behaviour of someone is a good yard stick to forecast or predict his future behaviours and this argument is no difference to those bonhomie international aid agencies’ too.

I do not think that I need to reiterate, what would happened if the Sri Lankan government allows those insatiate aid agencies crying foul an unimpeded access again to those areas now, at a time the murderers are scarping the barrel and hoping for a miracle.

There are only few steps to take, which will surely have a rippling effect, if any international aid agency or other external entities is genuinely interested in seeing to an end to this conflict.

First, stop quoting unsubstantiated, unverifiable and biased information said to have been obtained from murderers, who have done white coats and robes now.

Force the governments and states providing such entities with financial and logistical support to expel those murders and their supporters who are comfortably languishing in those countries and are still carrying on with many illegal activities without impunity to support a ban terror outfit.

Support the democratically elected government of Sri Lanka in their endeavours to rehabilitate the internally displaced peoples due to this crisis.

But, if they only want to propagate their own believes and values and prolong the war so their economies can thrive, then support the murderers.    

However, with or without their help, this time the Sri Lankan government is determined to wipe the murderers out, once and for all from the island forever and they have the support and backing of all the masses who believe in ONE United SRI LANKA.

 

Sasanka De Silva,

Blogging from Oman.

 

Clemency and rehabilitation to the surrendering LTTE.

The Wesak celebration is just a couple of days away and it is the most revered and celebrated day in the Sri Lankan calendar.

It marks the birth, enlightenment and the passing away of the Gautama Buddha.

Amidst the very chaotic situation in a narrow strip of sandy land in the northeast of the country, this day will give all of us an ideal opportunity to ponder on some of the teachings of the Exalted one.

One of his teachings that come to my mind is that “Hatred will not cease hatred, love will”.

More than six decades ago, former Sri Lankan President Late Mr. J.R. Jayewardene (then he was a Minister in the government of Ceylon) used exactly the same quote in San Francisco to plea clemency for Japanese people, after their defeat in the Second World War.

His plea was not gone unheeded and I am sure that no one today will regret the decisions taken at that summit.

“A tooth for tooth and an Eye for eye” sort of justice system was imposed on us, more than five hundred years ago by the invader and ever since then, we are stuck with it.

I think this is an ideal opportunity presented to us in the month of Wesak, to break free from such alien justice system and start having our very own ways of dealing with such issues.

I am confident and hopeful that soon the President of Sri Lanka will extend his promise of clemency and rehabilitation not only to the surrendering LTTE soldiers but also to any top notch leader too, now trapped in that narrow strip of sandy land.

WHY WESTERN COUNTRIES ARE SO KEEN TO HELP A BANNED TERRORIST ORGANIZATION?

The LTTE terrorists have hitherto been dubbed as the most feared and invincible fighters in the world

But when cornered from all sides and after losing 2/3 of the forcibly held human shield, the invincibility has evaporated and now turning to western powers’ to help, at lease to prolong the impending sure defeat until if they can find an escape route.

Mind you that this is a banned terrorist organization even in most of the western countries, yet they still manage to carry out their nefarious activities in those countries without impunity.

How and why are very interesting questions?

Knowing the answers fully to those questions, I strongly believe that those powers will soon use all their economic might to twist the arms of the Sri Lankan government to help a banned terrorist organization this time around too.

Despite their openly declared desire to see that all forms of terrorism is to be wiped out in all corners of the world, when it comes to money, such lofty principals are easily forgotten.

Having a war in some part of the world and especially in a poor country is much productive to them than such gilded proclamations.

WHAT IS "LTTE" AND THEIR SUPPORTERS SO AFRAID OF AND DO NOT WANT THE REST OF THE WORLD TO KNOW?

First, they started hacking innocent civilians who were trying to flee from their side to the government side.

And now they have started hacking government and other Sri Lankan websites giving correct picture to the rest of the world of the ongoing situation in the north east of Sri Lanka.

What is it that the terrorist, their acolytes and sympathizers living in developed countries are so much afraid of and do not want the rest of the world to know?

Like General C.H. Grosvenor once said, “Figures won’t lie but liars will figure”. 

THE REAL TRUTH ABOUT TAMILS LIVING IN CANADA & OTHER PARTS OF THE DEVELOPED WORLD.

At least the Canadian Federal minister for Immigartion seems to have a backbone.

He has said the demonstraors are carrying an LTTE flag and the Government of Canada does not talk to terrorists.

Well said & well done minister.

I wish a lot more western politicians were like him.

Canada's Immigration Minister Jason Kenny lost his cool yesterday, when 5,000 tamil protestors blocked all roads to Canada's parliament at Ottawa, carrying flags with the LTTE Logo.    When the media requested him to speak to the protesters, this was what he replied,    I have nothing to say to them.They are a bunch of terrorists only , if not they would not be carrying flags with the Tiger logo. They should be carrying black flags,  if they are really mourning for their kith and kin and they should be asking the Tamil Tigers to surrender to the victorious Sri Lankan Army immediately without any preconditions and save the lives of the tamil civilians still held by the terrorist as a Human shield, instead of asking us to request the Sri Lankan government to stop the war . I  indeed,  have nothing to say to terrorist. Well done Jason Kenney, at least you see the truth now !

The Real Truth about the Bonhomie European advances.

It was interesting to read the comments made by the visiting foreign ministers from France and the United Kingdom, after their failed mission to secure a ceasefire in Sri Lanka.

They claim, this was requested to help the innocent civilians but many of us know that their modus operandi.

It was definitely not to help innocent civilians still held by the terrorists but to help the trapped terrorists give more time and enough diversion to help them to escape.

Mr. Kouchner says that we pleaded with the government to allow international relief agencies and NGOs immediate access to those areas.

Mr. Miliband says that we were here not to save the terrorists but to help innocent Tamils.

But how and why only now are the questions that they failed to answer.

First, let us not forget that this terror outfit is a banded organization in many of the countries including United Kingdom, yet they still manage to operate openly and without impunity.

Secondly, many of the international aid agencies and NGOs had been operating for many years under the guise of providing humanitarian aids to civilians in those areas when they were under the control of the terrorist.

But those in the south believed that they were not helping the civilians but the terrorist by siphoning off money and also providing the necessary know how to prolong the war.

But they had no way of proving those allegations as most of the areas that they were operating were under the control of the terrorist until few months back.

Until they were driven away from those areas by the advancing Army only the suspicions of the southerners had before were proven correct.

Those so called international humanitarian agencies and NGOs have not built a single school, hospital or even dug up a drinking water well for those innocent civilians.

Those innocent people still use schools, hospitals, roads etc built by the democratically and legitimately elected government and not those bonhomie international aid agencies and NGOs.

Instead all what did they manage to build were underground bunkers for terrorist top shots and submarines, aircraft etc to wage a war against a legitimately and democratically elected government.

Those light aircraft, the terrorist used to defecate over Colombo and other areas were European built aircraft and did any one bother to inquire how such equipment ended up in terrorist’s hands?

No and then why not?

Simply because, having a war in some part of the world especially in a poor country like Sri Lanka is good for their industries and their economies.

The longer it drags, it is better for them.

With the present economic difficulties that they are in, they do not want this three decade old war to end this soon.

That is what their ulterior motive is and that is why the pair is in Sri Lanka and that is why many still desperately trying every trick in the book to come.

Surely it is not for the benefit of any but for their own good.

  

Bonhomie European advances in Sri Lankan affairs.

The latest news to hit the news wires is that The British and French Foreign Ministers are rushing to Sri Lanka to ensure an immediate ceasefire.

This move is said to ensure the safety of the trapped civilians but what I am unable to understand is how they would ensure that by having a ceasefire?

The civilians are trapped in the zone still held by the terrorist, not because of the fighting but they are held against their will by the terrorist to use them as a human shield.

The recent mass exodus witness by the rest of the world, of trapped civilians from the terrorist held area, when the Sri Lankan Army breached part of the erected earthen wall is a clear indication to prove this point.

This terrorist organization is a banned organization, all over the world which had been fighting an unjust war against democratically elected governments for the last three decades.

If any wants to gauge the backing of the people for the present government’s policies, the recent poll results of the western province election is a very good yard stick.

The ruling party had managed to secure more than 2/3 of the votes and this was not because someone held a gun at voters’ heads but they endorse the policies of the present government.

Instead of helping a terrorist organization banned even in most parts of the civilized world, France, United Kingdom and the other European nations should assist the democratically elected government to end this war as quickly as possible by forcing the few remaining terrorists to surrender unconditionally.

That is if their claims are true that they want to see democracy and social justice flourish in all parts of the world.

But with their economic might, if they are ready to twist the arms of democratically elected government of a poor nation like Sri Lanka, then who would not believe that they have some other hidden agendas to propagate.

I sincerely hope and pray two (Rajapakse) brothers to have enough resolute to deflect the latest bonhomie European advances.   

LTTE's Dream turn in to a Nightmare

A few days back, during the festival times, Sri Lankan government declared a 48 hours ceasefire to allow trapped civilians a peace of mind as well an opportunity to cross on to the safe areas.

The LTTE who ridiculed this ceasefire arrangement then has hacked and shoot during that period, many of the trapped innocent Tamil civilians, one time that they claimed that they are duty bound to protect, simply because they too want a better life has decided to crossover to the government side has suddenly decided to have an unilateral ceasefire today.

The interesting question here is why now?

Is it because that they fear the inevitable, the dream turn in to a nightmare and soon they will have to owe up to their own misdeeds?

I hope the Sri Lankan government would not easily give in to the Arms twisting tactics of some western influences, who have had many other hidden agendas in this protracted bloody war this time and finish the terrorist once and for all.

I am sure The world would be a much better place with one less who has been engaged in drug trafficking, gun running, extortions, kidnapping and killing for the last three decades.

The yesterday’s western province election results are a good indication go by that the rest of the country endorses and behind the government’s efforts to eradicate terrorist menaces this time at any cost.

 

Armchair adventures "SILENT CONQUEST"

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

April 22, 2009

Armchair adventures
Reading the exploits of Vladimir Yarets in “Silent Conquest” (Issue 318 in TheWeek, dated April 8, 2009), stirred the insatiable vagabond in me from its slumber a little. Unfortunately, it was short-lived.

I am a coward in a very broad sense and my nature of procrastination, like in the past, has gotten the better of me this time also.

I hope the guy can write, despite his other disadvantages, and one day he will put his experiences on to paper in the form of his memoirs or whatever you call it.

While wishing him good luck in his pursuit, I urge him to put pen to paper soon, so that my insatiable vagabond can be satisfied, even without having to leave my cosy reading chair to mount a monstrous-looking two-wheel contraption like that. 
Sasanka De Silva, on email

SILENT CONQUEST

It is impossible to get Vladimir Yarets, who has been travelling the world on a motorbike for nine years, to sit down and have a conversation. Not only because the irrepressible 68-year-old from Minsk, Belarus, can’t sit still even for a minute but also because he’s deaf and dumb.  Acting as our interpreter is Angelica Akenteva, manager of the Harley-Davidson shop in Al Khu-wayr, where the traveller is getting his bike serviced. Angelica, an Estonian, scribbles our question in Russian on a piece of paper and shows it to Vladimir, who then replies in sign language.  Angelica appears to understand most of it and conveys his response to us in English. But Vladimir is not helpless without an interpreter. His BMW-650 is covered with stickers and photographs that say it all. He points to a signboard in English that announces his plan of entering the Guinness World Records as the only deaf and dumb individual who has travelled all over the former Soviet Union, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and the Americas on a motorcycle. Vladimir’s current trip began in Minsk on May 27, 2000, and he has so far been to 48 countries.  According to a poster on his bike, he logged 2,86,210km till 2008. After reaching Muscat on March 28 from the UAE, he identified himself to some people with the help of his laminated signboards. He then handed over to them the contact details of Angelica, whom he had met recently at a bike show in Dubai.  He had taken her number and let her know that the sultanate would be his next stop. One week later, she could not believe her eyes when he showed up in front of her shop. So are people helpful when he lands up in strange lands? Angelica puts the question to him and relays the answer.  “According to him, 90 per cent of the people in any country are indifferent. But the remaining ten per cent are always helpful.” When it becomes too hard to get contributions to meet his expenses, he plays his guitar to attract people’s attention to his mission.  On being asked where his journey will end, he takes out his map and points to Abu Dhabi, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait and Jordan. Is that all? He then points to his muscular arms before looking skywards implying that the journey will continue as long as there is strength in his limbs. During his tour of the US, in a small town called Peoria, he met with an accident. “There were 29 fractures in all,” he conveys, showing a mark on his forehead.  He spent seven months in a hospital but once he recovered, he was back on his bike. The first of Vladimir’s many journeys was in 1967, when he went around the former Soviet Union on a bike, that too without a valid licence, according to his web site, www.yarets.com . Apparently, the authorities had denied him a driving licence because of his disability but relented when he approached them again after the trip, armed with reports of his adventure in the local press. If Vladimir’s family thought his passion for travel was a passing fad, they were obviously mistaken.  But he keeps in touch with his two sons whenever he can. “He passed on their phone numbers to me and I told them that their father is in Muscat and in good health,” says Angelica.  Vladimir lost the ability to speak and hear after he had a fall as a one-year-old. He wasn’t outstanding as a student but one subject that fascinated him no end was geography. “I dreamt of seeing different countries,” he says. It was after retiring from his job as a mechanic that he turned to full-time travelling.  He admires Mikhail Gorbachev and believes that it was the former Russian president’s liberalisation initiatives that helped people like him travel abroad freely.  As for Lenin and Stalin, Vladimir conveys his opinion of them with a thumbs down The adventurer has but one regret – China refused him permission to include it in his epic journey.