An impartial investigation will have to be done on the Kilinochchi bodies. It is difficult to conduct a proper investigation when the authorities are frightened of its outcome so that truth is suppressed. One report said that the bodies are about one year old. the Tamil press may reveal more in time to come. Both the Sinhala and English press have kept silent.

It is obvious that crimes have taken place. It is common knowledge and common sense. You seem to dismiss the descovery of the bodies in the same way the Government dismisses war crimes charges.
The truth will eventually come out, but it may take a number of years(take the killings during the Spanish civil war for example-the skeletons in the closet are coming out now). I know the LTTE was occupying Kili for awhile, but that does not mean the Sri Lanka army was not there.

If you want evidence go to Kilinochchi and look around. You may find some. But bear in mind that evidence would have been destroyed or may currently be in the process of been destroyed after the descovery of the bodies.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
– Abraham Lincoln

evidence coming out? where? please point me.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
– Abraham Lincoln

Let us face it as long as some countries are vastly rich and some dirt poor as one commetator aptly put in an otherwise unremarkable comment, there could be wars financed by rich adventurers from the rich countries willing to set up terror cells in poorer countries to amass yet more money and power. Latter in particular, seems to be an aphrodisiac for new rich narco dealer or stock market manipulator class of immigrant, who dream of becoming politicians gaining further mileage from insecure parliamentarians of host countries.

Sri Lanka faced many coups from ’61 onwards, and similar events are increasingly frequent. We saw another short attempt to take over Equattorial New Guinea where the one who got caught came out with the whole story.

Aided by shady elements of the NGO community, arms traders, all sorts of vendors of dubious goods and services add their might to unsettle war torn or crisis hit countries. THe process continues even after the defeat of the military wing of theLTTE as we saw in the half a million in dollar notes saga.

Let us hope the investigation will be thorough, and those who set up the bogus hunger strikers in the metropolitan cities with ‘no surrender’ slogans will be exposed.

And I thank God/s that we still have moderate Tamils who are not averse to rational thinking.

Extremism led to annihilation of innocent civilians both Tamils and dirt-poor Sinhala sodliers who only came forward to fight a war not based on their entrenched Sinhala nationalism but on the promise of a reward of just a few lakhs of rupees for their family if they became martyrs to the whims of ruling powers sustainability as the new rich royalty.

Successive sinhal politicians exploited the masses with their rehetoric of Sinhala supremacy and in turn the Tamil politicians held ordinary Tamils including those lower castes they would not invite to their dinner table to fight a war so they could enjoy a comfortable position among the majority.

Pirabakaran tried and turned the tables on the Tamil elite who nurtured his ilk.

Now Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation in the form of commission would fatten up the commissioners and nobody else.

It is upto the learned and enlightened Sri Lankans to see through this folly and put an immediate stop to this toothless commission.

Let us have a full war tribunal accountable to donors.

Being patriotic or nationalist is nothing wrong. Next to God, any sensible human is always concerned firstly about his wellbeing, self-respect and dignity. When such sensibility is disproportionately exposed / demonstrated by undemocratic means – it’s categorized as deadly virus ‘Chauvinism’. When the same senses trying to oppose and defend, preserve and uphold by and beyond peaceful means and their limits – it’s classified as ‘Terrorism against Democracy’. Jingoism of the stronger delivered to nationalism of the weaker! Anything in excess is bad.
In Lanka, excessive arrogant exaltation of one’s language, extreme loyalty to his ethnicity and aggressive devotion to his religion and national consciousness, -all these four pillars of chauvinistic excesses-, combined together and led to irreversible blind extreme jingoism – that displayed its ugly face of ferocity and furor of momentous tragic events of tremendous misfortune culminated in …. A fair observation and conclusion, I suppose, may be!
Mr. Shiv Visvanathan, a well known Indian political theorist and social scientist observed it as – in my words “Linguistic Chauvinism is a craving for homogeneity as a form of exclusion or assimilation of the weaker. Linguistic Chauvinism is the tyranny of language which destroys its own plurality and popularity as is happening in our little land. It appears in times of economic crisis or political hostility. It becomes a way of creating an artificial community which claims to be pure. Linguistic Chauvinism is the sibling of electoral democracy, where the dominant or majoritarian group uses language as a strategy of exclusion”’
The likes of some of the commentators argue that they represent and safeguard social & national interests. But more than their violent writings, it is their illiteracy and their bullyboy sociology appears pathetic. Thank you Sir, Mr. MCM Iqbal! Nithy!

We need a lot more voices to resolve the extremely vicious conflict in Sri Lanka.

http://transcurrents.com/tc/2010/06/vanni_northern_sri_lanka_where.html#more
Vanni, northern Sri Lanka, where war has never ended, 1 June 2010:
”The area is still actually in the hands of the military, which allowed the return of the population but force them to live in absolute poverty. The military blocks any attempts to improve their lives, but does not stop abuse and violence”

Dead bodies in bags are being unearthed in Kilinochchi. Only the Tamil papers reported this. Perhaps the Editors were afraid to publish them in the English press. The Leader may carry a story on Sunday. The Leader is the only paper that will carry it if at all even though Lasantha is dead.

In addition Channel 4 has come out with more war crimes pictures. The evidence is coming out all but slowly.