Which I think is the point.

That was 60-odd years ago. The whole world knows better now, or should. Just because stupidity happened in the past doesn’t mean there should be stupidity now, ESPECIALLY as we are all aware of it.

Dear friend, this to our mutual “friend” – Off the Cuff–who is afraid of the truth and running away like a coward , when exposed.

Readers will gauge from the acidity of the remarks, is a canard of Sri Lanka failed state.

The sheer chutzpah of these creatures is nothing novel.

It’s in fact an arm of what transpires in that so called ‘socialist republic’ today.

Morally bankrupt and regrettably, nothing social!

Such persons are paid to paint the GOSL in all its squeaky clean purity.

So have some pity, it’s a taxing job!!! 🙂

When I read through any shameless canards comments I realized they‘ve lost the plot and not responded to at all apart from some gibberish.

For the sadly deluded minions of the Mahavamsa (and pitiable stooges of Bloodthirsty Sri Lankan Regime).

Shameless Canards play the same record over and over again:

Mahinda’s stooges have been given a biscuit to endorse their master verbatim.

The barking will cease when the bowl is empty (IMF anyone?)

Truth does not need a patron!

May the Triple Gem save poor Sri Lanka

Some words of enlightenment for the not-so literate, you’d be wise to heed it:

“A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker.
A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.”
Buddha

According to XYZ, and a lot of Sri Lankans, things are bound to go wrong for Tamils & muslims, what ever anyone does. Where is the empathy, compassion, loving kindness preached by the great teacher the buddha ? Is it confined to the walls of the temple, churches, mosques and kovils ? Come on Sri Lankans let’s RE-HUMANIZE ourselves.

But then, the government has had lots of time already. OK, so maybe they weren’t prepared for the huge numbers, but surely someone was thinking ahead about the care of IDPs, and how they were going to be released? Or were they not thinking that far ahead?

It’s not like the IDP problem suddenly happened out of the blue, out of all expectation. The government knew well ahead of time that there would be IDPs, although, again, they didn’t know just how many.

It’s been four months since the end of the fighting. Surely by now the IDP officials have figured out a way to get 17 people home? Or is that asking too much?

Yes Germans were interned in the US, Canada, UK, etc., and many did do work on farms and on public works projects. However, they were Prisoners Of War (POWs); soldiers who had been captured or surrendered during battle. That gave them a legal designation, and a degree of protection from abuse.

They NOT were civilian populations, as is the case here in Sri Lanka.

In general they were not mistreated, as they were all kept according to the Geneva Convention, which the US, Germany, etc had signed. This, in part, included monitoring by the ICRC, easy communication with loved ones, albeit censored, and a level of care sometimes better their rural civilian neighbors had. None of these standards are being carried out today in Sri Lanka as the IDPs are not legally POWs.

No, it wasn’t freedom, but it was a far cry from what today’s IDPs are experiencing.

After the war, most POWs were quickly repatriated. However, this wasn’t done merely by opening the door and saying “OK. Go.” In fact, some opted to stay in the countries of their internment; hardly a sign of cruel treatment.

This was very different from the Russians and Japanese, who treated their prisoners, even enemy civilians such as expat women and children, with extreme brutality. Of course they hadn’t signed the Geneva Convention, and so there was no one to keep an eye on things. The Germans treated Russian prisoners brutally, in retaliation for the Russian treatment of German POWs.

So I’m afraid that in this case you’re comparing apples to oranges. The situations are in no way similar.