THE WORLD KNOWS THERE IS GENOCIDE IN SRI LANKA.

SRI LANKA IS THE ONLY COUNTRY IN THE WAORLD THAT BOMBARD ITS OWN CITIZENS AND LATELY USING CLUSTER BOMBS ON CIVILIAN POPULATION.

OVER 1 MILLION TAMILS FLED SRI LANKA BECAUSE OF THE ATROCITIES OF THE SUCCESSIVE SRI LANKAN GOVTS. AGAINST THE INNOCENT TAMIL CIVILIANS. THIS IS HISTORY AND CANNOT BE ERASED OUT.

Anyway according to your logic any state not being in the council implies they are gross violators of human rights. Thus all nations other than 47 out of the 192 member states are gross violators of human rights. Given the fact that Asia only has 4 seats in this council, only 4 Asian countries are classified as “saint” nations at any given time. I am also quite certain media issues had nothing to do with it. It was simply because of some NGO's were shouting foul. We all know some NGOs actively engage in propaganda activities but that's there to be debated.

It is easy to twist facts and make it sound so bad in a propaganda scenario. Also writing it in all caps doesn't make an impact either.

I further explained that the Sri Lankan state spends about Rs 50,000,000 or US 500,000 to kill every Tiger combatant. This money is, if not for the war, would have normally been used for creating jobs and development in the South and not in the North East.

Therefore, the Tigers have successfully dragged the state into the trap of twin disaster, namely, economic disaster and no development for the South.

You and your 'revolutionaries' have missed several opportunities to bring about a negotiated settlement, not even hesitating to kill your own brethren who chose to dissent. In the hypothetical situation of Tamil Eelam becoming a reality what is the guarantee that you will not start fighting internally based on caste, regional animosity and revenge?

Anyway, though Kilinochchci may or may not fall by say year's end, my key disagreement with the author is that the LTTE will be forced to give up conventional warfare and revert to guerrilla tactics soon. To be able to fight a large army on about 5 fronts and hold on for so long suggests some depth in conventional military capability, logistics, command & control etc.

While I am not attempting to predict the eventual outcome, my considered view is that conventional warfare (prior to, if ever, a return to guerrilla attrition) will go on for quite a while more – maybe even an year or two. Then what next? Nobody can tell.

[Edited out - Sam please engage with the issue and kindly do not launch into personal attacks that go against the spirit and tone of debate encouraged on this site. Thank you]

Kichi,

your thinking is good and so is your intention but do not expect it to happen under the present hegemonistic anti Tamil Sinhala society.

Ajith,

I know that you search for broken and frustrated politicians and Sinhala mass media for your logic of "no genocide exists for Tamils". As I wrote earller you must change your glasses! Unless you learn to eeek the truth you will wall in deception and decieve others also..

Saha Samvada,

The reality is that Tamil Eelam should be granted as an independent sovereign state to stop gross human rights violations, collective punishment and genocide. Unless you come to this truth you are far from reality. You are dreaming !

Ifyou ever attend a school, can you compare this with suicide bombers dresslike mothers?
Would you win a freedom fight?
Is that What ML king did or Mahathma Ghandi did?

You may be one of those who has a direct debit from an offshore account , to LTTE .

I respect all tamil rights and thier right to control thier Native areas, with out Sinhalese impact.
After all they are all same Srilankans who carry the same NID card, and same certificates and logoes
I doubt you are…..

Obama, well ge has spoken out who he is and what he is, can the leaders so said representing tamils come out of the jungle and work for thier people as decent human beings, rather than destroying valueble tamil youths for his survival ?

A little bit of a reality check into your la la land. Kind of addresses the real motives of heart broken politicians in TN. It is coming from someone authoritative and knows what he is talking about. Also kinda highlights how moderate Tamils agree that there is no genocide while you repeat otherwise like a broken record player with no authoritative backing.

As for the real Obama’s plan of shutting down Gunatanamobay all he is doing is just taking off the tainted wrappings off and re wrapping it.

“Upon closer investigation, however, the proposals suggest that celebrations are premature. Under the Obama camp’s plan, a third group of prisoners from Guantanamo Bay would be placed in front of a new court system designed to handle so-called “national security” cases. According to Michael Ratner this more negative side to these proposals represents the continuation of a preventive detention scheme, “when you are put into a prison without being charged with a crime and without having a trial on that charge.” This amounts to a re-wrapping of Guantanamo in legal paper to make it more palatable.”
Source: http://www.opendemocracy.net/terrorism/article/security_briefings/181108

The world is in turmoil because there is no true democracy in any country including USA, Singapore and Sri Lanka.

If there is true democracy there would not be bribery, corruption, injustice and discrimination and these would not be tolerated to any extent. These four pillars of evil society – bribery, corruption, injustice and discrimination – must be demolished or eradicated if real and true democracy is to prevail and a just society to be established.

To establish a just society with real and true democracy, the present system of governance practiced in the so-called democratic countries with bogus parliaments must be changed. In these democratic countries full power ultimately rests in the hands of a single person – Prime Minister/President. All the others who are supposed to be having any power are the stooges and hangers-on of that one person. It is on the decision of that one person, the others become powerful or powerless. That is equivalent to dictatorship but indirectly with ‘rubber stamps’.

So the system of governance has to be changed. The system proposed is that the powers of Parliament must be split and separated and these separated powers must be administered by different sets of people’s representatives elected by different groups of people. The functions of one group must not overlap the functions of another group. All groups are directly elected by the people and as such all of them are equal and so one is neither above/below another nor important/unimportant, like the different organs of our body. In this proposed system power is not concentrated at any given point or to any one person. Power is distributed by the people and shared by the elected representatives. So bribery, corruption, injustice and discrimination would not have a place in the ‘just society’.
The above is the basic concept. Further details of the system are available and would be forwarded on request to

In my humble opinion this is the ONLY way of ending the turmoil in this country as well as in all the countries in the world.

SPLIT AND SEPARATE THE POWERS OF THESE DEMOCRATIC PARLIAMENTS WITHOUT DIVIDING THE COUNTRIES. You will have sustainable peace with everyone living with dignity and in prosperity and leading a pleasant life with serenity which is what you and I are yearning.

During his presidential campaign, Obama described Guantanamo Bay prison as a “sad chapter in American history”. He was very keen in granting justice to the inmates. John Mc Cain had also pledged to close down Guantanamo.

Last week, advisers of Obama were quietly working out a proposal whereby some detainees would be released and others would be prosecuted in Courts. This plan is being is being developed by legal scholars from both the political parties in the USA.

This move would be in contrast to the practice from the Bush administration, which established military trribunals to prosecute detainees.

This week, Barack Obama, in his first interview said that America would be dedicated to moral standards in the world.

It is immoral to treat people like animals by denying their human rights. When any state does it to its citizens, it is punishable. It is contrary to human conscience to practice ethnic slavery, collective punishment and genocide.

We do have a “Guantanamo Bay prison” in Sri Lanka(SL). It is in Boosa. Citizen Tamil detainees, after severe torture, are spending more years together there, compared to the detainees in Guantanamo. President Bush probably established Guantanamo Bay Prison after learning about the notorious horror chamber in Boosa.

Arbitrary arrest of Tamil youth, extreme torture, keeping them in continuous detention without trial, and deliberately denying justice with the intent to destroy youthful life and human dignity, are genocidal halmarks proving moral disintegration of the Sinhala society.

If the major political parties in the South; the UNP and SLFP were really and seriously concerned about granting life and justice to Tamil detainees, they would have openly and aggressively expressed serious concern at the events in Boosa, having identified the destruction of youth life of the detainees. Sinhalese are collective participants of this crime.

Dr Martin Luther King was kept in prison for his political belief. He was a prisoner of conscience. Obama knows the intensity of the abuse of a people and their agony when thrown into prisons.

Non violent Tamil political leader SJV Chelvanayakam was thrown into Welikada prison in SL in 1958. Along with men of his political party he was kept in prison for several years, much longer than Dr Martin Luther King. For the past 50 years since then, the Tamils have faced and grown with the pain of horror from such inhuman acts in prisons. And the Sinhalese have grown adversely to perpetuate such cruelty on Tamils, without any shame whatsoever.

Freedom is usually costly. But the struggle for Tamil freedom is proving to be extremely costly in SL. Yes, we are far from peace.