If I ever see any Tamil in Sri Lanka with a Canadian, British, Australian, etc accent, I’m going to ask directly, whether he/she funded the LTTE or not! I have known Tamils in Canada, who refused to fund this murderous LTTE!

http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Liberation-Tigers-of-Tamil-Eelam-Velupillai-Prabhakaran/photo//090526/481/aa03cf76a55b48ce96efbbfaf4801531/

I would mention that the Japanese went on trains to the “internment” camps. Here you can see them getting off the train. At least two people are easily seen to be smiling.

http://www.library.wwu.edu/ref/images/japanese-evacuation.jpg

As far as comparisons go, I think the point has been sufficiently made.

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Now, let’s see Rajapakse visit an internment camp. Does he have the guts to face the IDP’s face-to-face? I think not.

Basically, the US Government apologized for camps set up in the 1930’s, where no one disappeared, starved, tortured, or was killed…….. why did it apologize… to tell the world that such camps would never be set up again. Of course, you say, the apology does not justify the existence of the camps themselves… that is correct, but the point is that the US Government would never set up such camps again, certainly not in the year 2009. So Sri Lankan racists should not use mistakes made in the 1930s to justify their own fallacies in the Millenium.

I doubt the accuracy of that statement. The largest Government voter-base is the rural South which is overwhelmingly Sinhala-Buddhist. Apart from the rural South, the UNP has a significant following in Colombo and up-country areas.

Let me repost the statistics again:

Government: 99.9% Sinhala Buddhist

Military: 99.9% Sinhala-Buddhist

Police: 99.9% Sinhala-Buddhist

So the Sinhala-Buddhists should definitely take prime responsibility for the pathetic state of Lankan affairs. After all, every President since Independence has been a Govigama Sinhala-Buddhist from the South. Just about every President has come to power promising to crush Tamil political aspirations with an iron first. Similarly, the Buddhist monks (Sangha) have been used as a tool by the same Government to rouse up the masses. The only non-Buddhist VIP Sinhala racist who did any damage is Cyril Matthew, and that was limited to a few statements.

“First, these people were piss poor and forced to march onto the Beaches like the Bataan March by the Tamil Tigers.”

These people were living perfectly normal lives in areas under Tamil Tiger control until Rajapakse decided to engage upon his total war using 260,000 soldiers and the weapons and blood money supplied by rogue countries.

“Their conditions were always bad just like that of the southern Sinhala JVP people’s lives. So there are bad conditions in the camps.”

What kind of perverse logic is that? Do Southern Sinhalese people have to wait 10 minutes in line to use the bathroom? Are Southern Sinhalese stuck behind barbed wire indefinitely ? Are Southern Sinhalese families separated from camp to camp?

“Sadly there has to be restrictions to filter out the Tigers.”

Do you mean restrictions like allowing EPRFL, PLOTE, and other paramilitary groups to torture random individuals at will? Do you mean restrictions like keeping old grandmothers and 10 year children waiting in long lines for a slice of bread? Do explain how such restrictions help to “filter out the Tigers.”

“It will take time to process them..”

You mean it will take time to kill off and torture a significant percentage of the youth population to prevent any major reformation of the LTTE… to colonize the Tamil lands with Gal-Oya type schemes… to cover up the massacre of the 20,000 who surrendered after the “Final Battle.” Of course, the longer this takes the better, because it will provide maximum opportunity to obtain aid money from naive Western charities. Aid money that can then be siphoned off to the personal bank accounts of Government ministers, just like during the Tsunami.

“But at least there are no bombs falling on them..”

You mean bombs from the same Government forces that are now in charge of the camps?

“Afterall, Christian US rounded up all its Japanese citizens without any cause during WW-II”

The camps were not run by the military, they were run by CIVILIAN agencies and the Border Patrol. The target was first-generation Japanese. There were also some camps for Italians and Germans. Families were not separated while at these camps. Detainees were free to often move around OUTSIDE the camps. The US Supreme Court declared the camps illegal before the war ended… the camps were CLOSED before the war ended. The US Government later APOLOGIZED for the camps, admitting they were a MISTAKE. All of these camps were funded by the USA alone. On the other hand, the Sri Lankan Government set up its camps AFTER the war, using FOREIGN money. It has given the military total control over these camps. Anyone can see the difference between these camps and the ones set up by the Americans.

What was that last thing about fully analysed data?

Where you kids when the JVP was wiped out? Did you write poems and blogs crying the demise of the JVP who were wiped out using any and all means necessary including taking Wijeweera to Kanatte and executing him ? sheesh boys…and gals.. this is oh so typical sophomoric lamenting devoid of reality and hard facts of war.

Show me a war fought by Christians that was “humane” . Please note the US is still covering up evidence of systemic torture. Jayaweywa

Chandrika told the world she had lifted economic embargo on the North but the occupying army didn’t. Ranil thundered on the election platformin 2001 that the first appoitments would be teachers for the Northeast schools. Did he manage to convince the bureaucracy?

It’s an internationally accepted fact that intrastate conflicts are very very very vicious and needs third party intervention.

Folks, let’s stop kidding ourselves. Let’s base out action on fully analysed data and conclusions. We can’e go on any more like this.

First things first please.

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