I’m happy to note in your comment that esteemed intellectuals like you too make lists and label people who do not agree with your views! That may be what you “Human Rights Activists” call “tolerance” in adding two new names to your “list”! So, you practice what you preach,it seems!

By the way,have I included your name in a “list of Tamil Racists”?

You may furnish that list to a furture terrorist group in order to find and destroy the “Sinhalese Racists”.Unfortunately the late leader who died in the lagoon couldn’t pass his legacy to his offapring as they too got killed in the mud,so you can give it a try with his nephews and nieces,perhaps!

If you don’t like the sarcasm in my writing it is your problem,Mme.Pearl.When the pro-LTTE Western media practice gutter journalism based on hear-say and gossip,it is perfectly acceptable to refined,old-school immitators like you,may be because they too,express your view.Then,it doesn’t matter whether it is from the gutter or not!

Have you ever thought why Salman Rushdie got the booker prize for “name-calling” Prophet Mohammad by mis-spelling his name?-a crime in your refined mind!By the way your Western Master “sees no evil;does no evil”He is FLAWLESS!

I have posed my arguments about the satelite picture analysis in my previous posting !

In his abyssmal failure to counter arguments put forward he descends to the lowest levels of brandishing his opponents with mis-spelt names. Gutter journalism at its best.

I’ll add his name to the list of blind racists such as Susantha. I do not place much credence on these racists who have nothing intelligent to say. They do not know what they are talking about because they are ignorant.

I don’t know about the case that Tmama is referring to but there is the burning to death of 900 Sinhala policeman when the LTTE took over the Mullativu base. Remember?

Let those Iqbals and “Perils”investigate the skeletons in Angels’ closets in far away heaven first, before poking their noses into Sri Lanka’s victory against terror.I can understand how you guys feel for your beloved militants….

Dear burning_issue:I regret your amnesia or ignorance of the recent past!The LTTE butchered 750 odd policemen who surrendered to them on Presidential orders in 1990 in the Eastern Province.You think they died of natural causes?

you said:

“Actually these may be the bones of 600 policeman axed to death by LTTE. THe facts werehushed by the Premadasa government then.”

Please tell this forum as to where exactly those 600 policemen were killed and which year.

May be the Western human rights guardians didn’t see the Sinhalese youth who got killed as HUMAN BEINGS,the sameway that they didn’t see the 100,000 civilians who got perished in Hiroshima and Nagasaki as HUMAN BEINGS!

If you read the section E of the satelite picture analysis it is stated that there is no conclusive evidence to say there were motar launching points in the said pictures,to say that those motars were launched by the government troops.It is obvious that thousands of LTTE combatants got killed in the final phase of the conflict and there should be some way of disposing of their bodies-by the LTTE.

So what’s the big deal the AI is crying about?

We will be failing as democratic and rightful citizens of Sri Lanka if we failed to act on the evidence we have which leaves the government with no alternative but to acquiesce to demands that it responds to the allegations made from every quarter with substantial evidence and justify its actions.

My email is pearltheva@hotmail.com

I will not rest easy until justice is done.

The lack of interest in mass graves in the past does not mean that mass graves should not be investigated now even if reports of such investigations end up on a shelf.
There is more awareness of issues related to war crimes and mass graves now than there was in the past. This is due to developments in technology and communication not forgeting education with a human rights focus.
One example is the University of Colombo’s IR degree that has a HR component in it.

For decades successive governments have been successful at damage control at the UN and have been ”appointing commissions” to buy time. Amnesty International and the UN reports were full of recommendations to address the human rights violations of 80s and 90s too.

JRJ hoodwinked the world by spinning lies, eg. naxalites, naxalites, …

Rajapakses : terroists, terrorists, ….

UN began to appoint Special Rapporteurs(eg. Philip Alston) only within the last 10/12 years ago when oppressive governments have gone too far…

When parliamentarians stop lying, we’ll have peace.

You have lead us through the main Tunnel of Horror and spared us the journey through the other branching Tunnels. We can hear the screams of victims and their begging for their lives. All we have done is to close our eyes and plug our ears helplessly. The newest Tunnel of nightmare has no end in sight. How many more will be there in years to come. The latest BBC “Hard Talk” commentary and interview show us the Tunnels of Horror yet to be dugged.

It seem our judicial and democratic systems have no credible independent process to bring all of the perpetrators in the line of command to justice nor to establish credible safeguards to prevent such crimes against humanity. The question we need to ask is whether the people who elected successive Heads of State, from the two main parties, should ultimately bear the responsibility?

“mass graves new? whole of colombo used to be a grave! burning tyres, bodies in diyawanna oya. where were the Navi Pillais/Phillip Alstons then? where was channel 4? was it the lack of bank rolling?”

It is because there weren’t the likes of Pillais, Alstons, and Channel 4 when the south was brutalised, such events happened again! If there had been accountability for all those killings and answers to many Sinhala mothers who are still waiting as to what exactly happened to their sons and daughters; Sri Lanka would not have gone through such turmoil again! At least we can put things right now!

Even now the President and his coterie call people to lodge complaints of breach of violation of Human Rights or war crimes to the proposed local investigation Commissions. Unfortunately there is no complaint received as said by Mr.Gottabaya and the President.

One cannot help but tug his tounge in his cheeks.