Comments on: Jayantha Dhanapala responds to erroneous and selective media reports of his submission to LLRC

By: longus

longus — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:29:18 +0000

ModVoice

You call it the same thing as Israel calls the West Bank and Gaza, when they engaged the terrorists, bro!

By: ModVoice

ModVoice — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 03:50:54 +0000

longus,

Do you think Tamil Eelam is a “soverign” nation and LTTE a “national” army? What do you call it when a government bombs its own civilians?

By: longus

longus — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:03:13 +0000

OK jansee!

I thought they (the LTTE ) were holding the civilians in the Tamil Eelam, and they never consirded themselves to be Sri Lankan citizens then, right? (I wonder whether you did, either!)

You can have big, fat, “salaami” hopes of bringing the Sri Lankan leaders to Hague! It will never happen, bro!

By: jansee

jansee — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 11:31:40 +0000

longus:

Sometimes it is just between ignorance and innocence. While innocence can and should be excused, ignorance reveals abundantly the stupidity in a person. Let me tell you why:

The wars Japan and Germany fought were with foreign nations. The SL regimes ruthless bombed its own civilians in the name of a humanitarian operation, what more one that air-bombed ruthlessly and mercilessly its own citizens.

Well, the Rajapaksa brothers are trying all the tricks to escape international condemnation and punishment. The loops around their necks are looming large for their dastardly crimes. Their was should have been with the LTTE and a military option to take the LTTE out was a right the SL regime exercised, but annihiliating 40,000 innocent civilians is a shame and crime. Hiding behind the facade that the LTTE held them as human shields is but a pathetic attempt to wash away the blood-stained hands and, as it has become evidently clear, the fates of Slobodan Milosevic and Radovan Karadzic await these blood thirsty tyrants.

By: eeurekaa

eeurekaa — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:51:00 +0000

1. So far people have been comparing Sri Lankan problem with those in Northern Ireland and South Africa. With the introduction of the eighteenth amendment, things can only get worse ….

2. With increasing population and decreasing resources, people who hold power can do anything and the oppressed have no chance of seeing a better life in this world.

By: eeurekaa

eeurekaa — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:41:44 +0000

what happened in the 30 years before LTTE was born and what happened during the existence of the LTTE and what has been happening in the 16 months after the LTTE was dead remains the same. it is set to worsen hereafter.

By: longus

longus — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:46:51 +0000

It’s great to see the plethora of Tamils and some Heshans with bleeding hearts and broken dreams after the demise of the LTTE,crying foul at everything,once again!

You guys fought and lost! So bear it up like Japan and Germany did!

By: Groundviews

Groundviews — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:49:56 +0000

In reply to Shamindra Ferdinando. It's already up, in case you didn't notice or comprehend.

By: Shamindra Ferdinando

Shamindra Ferdinando — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:52:40 +0000

http://www.groundviews.org should post Ambassador Jayantha Dhanapala’s comment on International Humanitarian Law. Let people decide … (IHL).
Shamindra Ferdinando

By: Pandukabaya

Pandukabaya — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:30:44 +0000

All this hot air in cyberspace is relevant only for few people. The issue is simple. if the Island had published a wrong report of Amb. Dhanapala’s submission and his responses to the most honourable Commissioners, Amb. Dhanapala should have resorted to a simple demand for a correction the next day. This is ordinarily what people do when the media misreports. Instead, we are told that he is waiting for the transcripts to come. is it that Amb Dhanapala could not remember what he precisely said in response nto as important an assertion attributed to him, that humanitarian law should not apply in internal conflicts such as Sri Lanka’s?

As of now, in the minds of many people who do not spend time in cyber space, the Island report is all that they will recall. Did Amb. Dhanapala believe that the Island, of all paper, would not seek to misrepresent what he said? Should he not have adequately guarded himself against this at the outset by handing out written submissions accurately reflecting what he said? This simplicity on the part of our purported intellectuals is harder to take than the misdeeds of the government and its media apologists