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	<title>Comments on: An exclusive interview with Eastern Province Chief Minister Pillayan after the TMVP&#8217;s arms decommissioning</title>
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		<title>By: Death to Eelam</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 04:20:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>haha &quot;friendly relations of JR Jeyawardene and Rajiv Gandhi&quot; lmao, that&#039;s what armed and trained the LTTE as well, the &quot;friendly relations&quot;... the Sri Lanka navy was protecting the territorial integrity of this country, and no way in hell are we gonna let your little psychopaths break our nation in two... and don&#039;t throw the genocide label at us, just because the trapped civis happen to be tamil, that doesn&#039;t make it genocide. Then you&#039;d say that just because all the people killed in an air raid in Iraq are Arabs that America is directing a genocide against the Arabs! If you wanna see genocide visit Dafur, coz what&#039;s going on here is certainly not genocide. </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>haha &quot;friendly relations of JR Jeyawardene and Rajiv Gandhi&quot; lmao, that&#039;s what armed and trained the LTTE as well, the &quot;friendly relations&quot;&#8230; the Sri Lanka navy was protecting the territorial integrity of this country, and no way in hell are we gonna let your little psychopaths break our nation in two&#8230; and don&#039;t throw the genocide label at us, just because the trapped civis happen to be tamil, that doesn&#039;t make it genocide. Then you&#039;d say that just because all the people killed in an air raid in Iraq are Arabs that America is directing a genocide against the Arabs! If you wanna see genocide visit Dafur, coz what&#039;s going on here is certainly not genocide.</p>
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		<title>By: Sam Thambipillai</title>
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		<dc:creator>Sam Thambipillai</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 11:50:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The failure of IPKF was mainly caused by the friendly relations of JR Jeyawardene, the then president, and Rajiv Gandhi. It interfered with peace keeping function. Violating the peace accord SL navy arrested about 21 LTTE combatants and Rajiv gave consent for the arrest within weeks of signing the accord. 
 
Strangely, though Tamils are presently suffering unspeakable agony, murder, bombing, starvation and rights violations, none of the countries in the region have called these atrocities what they are - genocide. 
 
Silence is support. Rhetoric of ceasefire is time wasting. Frozen UN action will result in more civilian casualties. realism is vital. Relief from the prsesnt genocide could come only by appropriate resolutions in the UN and multi national action. 
 
The UN has a covenant obligation to intervene with meaningful measures until human tragedy is stopped. Establishing a genocide Tribunal for SL, posting UN forces, arresting war criminals and doing justice should be facilitated with utmost urgency. Calls for ceasefire by the UN has only caused more defiance, dangerous bombing and brutal starving of civilians. 
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The failure of IPKF was mainly caused by the friendly relations of JR Jeyawardene, the then president, and Rajiv Gandhi. It interfered with peace keeping function. Violating the peace accord SL navy arrested about 21 LTTE combatants and Rajiv gave consent for the arrest within weeks of signing the accord. </p>
<p>Strangely, though Tamils are presently suffering unspeakable agony, murder, bombing, starvation and rights violations, none of the countries in the region have called these atrocities what they are &#8211; genocide. </p>
<p>Silence is support. Rhetoric of ceasefire is time wasting. Frozen UN action will result in more civilian casualties. realism is vital. Relief from the prsesnt genocide could come only by appropriate resolutions in the UN and multi national action. </p>
<p>The UN has a covenant obligation to intervene with meaningful measures until human tragedy is stopped. Establishing a genocide Tribunal for SL, posting UN forces, arresting war criminals and doing justice should be facilitated with utmost urgency. Calls for ceasefire by the UN has only caused more defiance, dangerous bombing and brutal starving of civilians.</p>
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		<title>By: Sam Thambipillai</title>
		<link>http://groundviews.org/2009/03/09/an-exclusive-interview-with-eastern-province-chief-minister-pillayan-after-the-tmvps-arms-decommissioning/#comment-5160</link>
		<dc:creator>Sam Thambipillai</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 11:49:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wheels of justice grind slowly but surely it does. ICC arrest warrent on Mahinda Rajapakse is also imminent. 
 
Trust is earned. The performance of governemnt itself and the political institutions such as parliament, judiciary and the army diffuse trust. Political trust therefore relates to how people feel and think about any government and its politics. 
 
For the past 60 years, the governments in Colombo have failed to gain the political trust of the people of North East(NE). Now the people of NE will not rust Colombo at all for their lives and future. Therefore, any internal solution for the prevention of genocide is impossible. It is criminal to handover victims to a genocidal state. 
 
Regional Peace Keeping Forces have normally proved to be ineffective in solving humanitarian and genocidal problems because of their friendly relations of the heads of state in the region. They even give tacit support for rights violations, to receive support in return. 
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wheels of justice grind slowly but surely it does. ICC arrest warrent on Mahinda Rajapakse is also imminent. </p>
<p>Trust is earned. The performance of governemnt itself and the political institutions such as parliament, judiciary and the army diffuse trust. Political trust therefore relates to how people feel and think about any government and its politics. </p>
<p>For the past 60 years, the governments in Colombo have failed to gain the political trust of the people of North East(NE). Now the people of NE will not rust Colombo at all for their lives and future. Therefore, any internal solution for the prevention of genocide is impossible. It is criminal to handover victims to a genocidal state. </p>
<p>Regional Peace Keeping Forces have normally proved to be ineffective in solving humanitarian and genocidal problems because of their friendly relations of the heads of state in the region. They even give tacit support for rights violations, to receive support in return.</p>
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		<title>By: Sam Thambipillai</title>
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		<dc:creator>Sam Thambipillai</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 11:47:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The recent history of SL and Sudan have parallels. Sudan refused to allow a UN force in Darfur, fearing exposure to rights violations. SL on the otherhand refused to allow UN Human Rights Monitors, denied access to their judicial system to a group of eminent persons appointed by the Commonwealth, Unilaterally called a Ceasefire Agreement brokered by the International Community in 2002 and recently turned down a request by Britain to assist with an experienced special envoy. 
 
International Criminal Court(ICC), issued a warrant for the arrest of Omar Al bashir, the president of Sudan, last Thursday. He is charged with war crimes and rights violations for the genocidal events in Darfur. In retaliation, he expelled some aid workers immediately. 
 
Also last week, Bruce Fein told a gathering in London that evidence for charges of war crimes and genocide, against Sarath Fonseka, the military commander, and Gotabaya Rajapakse has been presented to the US Justice Department. 
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The recent history of SL and Sudan have parallels. Sudan refused to allow a UN force in Darfur, fearing exposure to rights violations. SL on the otherhand refused to allow UN Human Rights Monitors, denied access to their judicial system to a group of eminent persons appointed by the Commonwealth, Unilaterally called a Ceasefire Agreement brokered by the International Community in 2002 and recently turned down a request by Britain to assist with an experienced special envoy. </p>
<p>International Criminal Court(ICC), issued a warrant for the arrest of Omar Al bashir, the president of Sudan, last Thursday. He is charged with war crimes and rights violations for the genocidal events in Darfur. In retaliation, he expelled some aid workers immediately. </p>
<p>Also last week, Bruce Fein told a gathering in London that evidence for charges of war crimes and genocide, against Sarath Fonseka, the military commander, and Gotabaya Rajapakse has been presented to the US Justice Department.</p>
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		<title>By: Sam Thambipillai</title>
		<link>http://groundviews.org/2009/03/09/an-exclusive-interview-with-eastern-province-chief-minister-pillayan-after-the-tmvps-arms-decommissioning/#comment-5158</link>
		<dc:creator>Sam Thambipillai</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 11:45:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Political puppetry will continue but rights for Tamils will never reach the people of North- East. Now what we need urgently for survival is the right to be free from state genocide. A Human right not political right. War criminaqls must bee arrested and brought to justice. 
 
Sri Lanka, like Sudan, is a &quot;wild buffalo on a rampage&quot;. Both internally and internationally, both countries are arrogantly defiant on matters of safety, security, justice and the rights, of a section of their citizenry, who are repressed constitutionally. 
 
Sri Lanka(SL) and Sudan resort to military solution to situations wanting a political solution. They know fully well that military force would kill more civilians, create more hunger, more displacements and make the situation more intractable. In other words, they deliberately prefer genocide under their militarys&#039; watch than a political solution. 
 
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Political puppetry will continue but rights for Tamils will never reach the people of North- East. Now what we need urgently for survival is the right to be free from state genocide. A Human right not political right. War criminaqls must bee arrested and brought to justice. </p>
<p>Sri Lanka, like Sudan, is a &quot;wild buffalo on a rampage&quot;. Both internally and internationally, both countries are arrogantly defiant on matters of safety, security, justice and the rights, of a section of their citizenry, who are repressed constitutionally. </p>
<p>Sri Lanka(SL) and Sudan resort to military solution to situations wanting a political solution. They know fully well that military force would kill more civilians, create more hunger, more displacements and make the situation more intractable. In other words, they deliberately prefer genocide under their militarys&#039; watch than a political solution.</p>
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