Ya, back in the day they used to stir and boil pots like Sri Lanka and destabilise countries just to keep them down. You know so they can import those cheap Nike shoes and clothes. Now some of those actions have had much unanticipated ramifications biting them right back on their ass.

These politicians who echo false genocide claims all have lot of Tamils in their constituencies and they happily take money – aka election contributions and bribes. It’s as simple as that and you all know it. And seriously once they’re in power they act upon their intelligence reports, not the community hall lobbyists. Because end of the day they love America, Canada, Australia etc. Not Eelam! They couldn’t care less after grabbing the vote.

I’m writing this because some people obtain tunnel vision in their determined hatred.

Comming back to the topic, Following are my suggestions; the process could be as follows;
1. First, we must get the commitment from the top, means the president.
2. Set up a complete data-base of Sri Lankan population
3. Every earner/worker/politicians/administrators, government or private, profit or wages should have a tax file, especially VAT and Income tax
4. Any person is traceable, identifiable at every police station and Inland Revenue branches under proper authority to access, online. Even from the Police patrolling car.
5. Surveillance system with cameras at all the public places

This can be done in one year if the president permits me, and the evils will be least and developments will follow with more tamed, behaved and disciplined people.

worf? you seem too scared to put down what you believe will happen.. rather than quoting the past and saying its too early to tell , go out on a limb and say what you think will happen… say upto 2 years from now? take a wild guess worf

If things can change so much in 20 months, imagine how they will change in five decades

He then asks: “Instead how is it possible that SL’S PRUNHRC in Geneva is happy to follow the military strategy of his defence secretary where the three steps to annihilate terror does not even refer to any democratic nuances.”

However, my whole point was that the Defense Secretary’s three phase military programme could succeed only if accompanied by Ambassador Blake’s three stage political programme, which is clearly and explicitly democratic…

I wrote: “When the conflict shifts back into the low intensity phase, the political and other aspects come to the fore. In point of fact the success of phase two and three of the military effort as outlined by the Secretary of Defense depends increasingly upon these non-military factors. We must develop the political corollary that facilitates and permits the achievement of the security objectives set out. More concretely, we must identify the political accompaniment or “superstructure” of each of the three phases.

Interestingly enough, I find the necessary political accompaniment of the three phase military programme, in the recent speech at the Foundation of Coexistence by Robert Blake, the US Ambassador in Sri Lanka.”

Clearly Suren either has a problem of reading or comprehension.

1. earlier was LTTE might, SL forces will never be able to capture..
2. also , VP was the leader – he will make true the dream of elaam state,,

3. LTTE are loosing the terrotary – but will come back in a unceasing wave…..
4. armed LTTE leaders will never be caught – have planes,,,

5.. our dream will persist – we can fight later, like gurrila’s we never wanted land…
6. democartically we will get our state,,,

so every one can see within a space of 20 months how things have changed,,,

This is my point exactly, that is a reading of the situation during the war, that was stated in the post-war period looking back. You are declaring a war’s end within the temporal confines of the war itself. Whether this particular phase or another phase was a decisive time is best determined in the post-war phase. Historically, a lasting analysis of an event is done post-event, anything prior is premature.

Apart from the fact that i think Fukuyama was essentially right and much misunderstood by those who either vulgarized his idea or misunderstood Hegel, I have never thought the conflict was over. Nor even that this is the last war. Why on earth do you think that in this very piece on which you are commenting, I have sounded the alrm on a fourth generation war? I agree with the ICG that this war is won, though not over. WW2 was won when the Soviet Army broke the back of the Wehrmacht at Stalingrad, but the war took more time to end. Got it?

I just want to say to Agnos. Yes of course I am ignorant of what is truly going on. Red Alert, Fein and many more are convinced there is genocide being praciticed by the Sri Lankan govt. Many say they are committing war crimes, which by the way should not be confused with Genocide. Genocide is a war crime, but war crimes may not include Genocide.
Also how does Fein learn anything about the conflict, while he sits in his comfortable office in Boston.
Then there are other non profit groups such as HRW, where some members of the group imply Genocide and others such as Charu Hogg, also of HRW who says the the govt. is not committing genocide, but rather it is the LTTE.
Anyway Agnos, I know nothing about you. I am unsure whether, you are a member of the Tamil Diaspora or not? My guess is at the very least, you are living abroad given the time of submission. Whoever you are, unless you are really Gotabhaya or Sarath Fonseka, the ones who would be directly issuing the ‘Genocide’ orders, I doubt you would really be any less ignorant than I.
The best we an do is to speculate based on whatever information we can get, biased as it is from either side.
I really don’t take too many comments made by the NGOs very seriously. Most of them are just as self serving as the two sides here and the diaspora elements abroad. How many times have the opinions of the UN and Red Cross flip flopped like a yoyo? I have witnessed simple examples of basic human kindness violations being committed by Red Cross personnel right in front of my eyes. Just last week I saw two Red Cross guys, having dinner in a fancy hotel in Nuwara Eliya, absolutely humiliate and bully the waiter for everyone to see, just because he got the order wrong. I have seen repeated simple bad behavior of this kind by many other NGO groups here, the very ones who are supposed to be monitoring human rights at the macro level? Please!!
Anyway Agnos, I will continue to be ignorant but I will talk to everyone I can from every side and opinion, and then try to speculate the best way possible.

Are you trying to imply that because the ICG, a think tank, is certain the SL forces have achieved their objectives the war is over? I am not saying the LTTE is going to come back with guns blazing and the turn the tables… no I am trying to remind you of the many premature obituaries the LTTE has had in the past. You have just pulled a serious Fukuyama.

The ‘Red Alert’ for genocide was issued by a neutral international group, which looked at the evidence and made a decision. So your getting ‘sick and tired’ has to do with your own ignorance of what has been happening in the North-East for decades, rather than any propaganda by ‘diaspora extremists’.

So you can continue to stay ‘sick and tired’ and stew in your own ignorance.

Now let me take Bob Casey’s words:
“The Government of Sri Lanka will not negotiate directly with the LTTE. But it does not appear as though the government has much interest in finding alternative Tamil interlocutors, nor have the Tamils presented a credible alternative to the LTTE.”
You phrased it only as “the Tamils have yet to throw up a viable democratic alternative.”
Nor did you address the harsh criticism leveled against your government at the Senate hearing by many people. Even yesterday, 35 congressmen wrote to Hillary Clinton and Susan Rice, saying that Sri Lanka is currently on “Red Alert” for genocide. You will hide when that is mentioned.
You have had a history of distorting other people’s words out of context to put yourself, your State and the Sinhalese in a favorable light.

First you argued that Tamil diaspora’s current actions are tribalist; I rebutted that and you brought up years old action by the LTTE in killing TELO cadre. When I rebutted that, you go onto distorting Senator Casey’s words… then you bring up the JVP.
The way the JVP insurrection was suppressed, far from being reflecting positively on the Sinhalese society, is a blot on them. I was in Kandy at that time and witnessed the barbarism of the State as well as the JVP–the beheadings, the bodies dumped on the roads, etc. It reflected something fundamental in Sinhalese society. Willingness to indulge in or tolerate extreme violence and brutality by the State; willingness to murder people in the thousands and discard basic tenets of democracy– individual rights, the rule of law, due process. It was a tribalist war if there ever was one.
The JVP’s totalitarianism could have been easily handled by strengthening democratic institutions while taking proper counter-insurgency actions defensively and offensively.
Indeed, the brutality of that conflict only reinforced my view that Tamils could never integrate with the Sinhalese society or get any justice from the State. That someone with an academic background and in a diplomatic position would hold the no-holds barred campaign of killings as reflecting positively on the Sinhalese society tells me only that, by indulging for so long in propaganda, that person has become ugly and lost his sanity.