Comments on: “Chiran Jayathu” – “Aayubowewa”

By: justitia

justitia — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 22:38:26 +0000

With all above listed encomiums,one has to be optimistic about the future of sri lanka – even though General Shavendra Silva claims ZERO civilian casualties during the conflict.
But is the common man feeling the result of all above?
Millions still live below the poverty line, thousands of women in such households brave the known perils and go for employment in the middle east, but sadly return disillsioned,dispirited and with scars of mental & physical abuse. Why?
Many of samurdhi receipients do not deserve it, and many of those who deserve it do not get lt. Selection is strictly political.
Why are there robberies of banks and businesses? How do these gangs escape detection?
Anyone, including those with foreign passports can be taken into custody on a charge of “having had LTTE connections” and incarcerated without reasons being given to be produced before a magistrate after three months and bail is automatically refused and detention extended for next three months ad infinitum – the person is lost in the system. The defence secretary has no time to study individual cases. Thousands are thus in detention for months & years.This is the “Gulag” – the sri lanka version.
There are others occasionally discovered in prisons whose reasons for imprisonment records are lost.
The state appears unconcerned. But presidential parden is given to those with political connections. Is this justice? Is all this the ‘extension’ of the Humanitarian Operation a.k.a the War of Liberation?
Now the president has total control over the entire public service, judiciary and the military. But he appears to have little time to correct these injustices.
The plight of the IDPs is another serious erosion of civil liberties.
We will wait and see.

By: The Mervyn Silva

The Mervyn Silva — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 01:30:32 +0000

“The buzz word of today is Sri Lanka as a hub. Financial hub, maritime hub, shopping hub, knowledge hub and the likeâ€¦ so why not a creative hub?” Rohantha Athukorala

I am thinking this is very important word – Hub. Everybody is now talking hub. It is not just buzzword but also bus word. Even in bus they are saying hub, like how the bus is becoming hub of heat and dust and sweat so very much that the bus trip is feeling like great big hub of torture.

Even my wife is saying hub. You are the hub of my life she is saying every morning and I am telling her you better be having only the one hub in your life or everything will be the hubble and the bubble and the toil and the trouble! She is smiling and looking down to the earth, very shy like and promising I am her hub and nothing but the hub.

Even school children these days saying hub. They are saying school is hub of boredome but tution class hub of fun. Before government banning the pronography Internet was hub of excitement but now chidlren looking for other hubs to be exciting themselves.

I think we are having so many hubs that the Sri Lanka side is very fast turning into the hub of hubs. If president is popmpous like the Saddam I am sure he is saying mother of all hubs but president not like the Saddam. He is not bringing mother and the father into the hub only brothers and sons and nephews and friends. Some people are even saying he is turning family into hub of power but these are jealous people who cannot be having any hub at all.

I think if we are having so many hubs very soon we must be changing the definition ofthe Sri Lanka from country to big Hub or maybe even Hubbub.

By: Dilkusha

Dilkusha — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 18:00:46 +0000

Maybe the much respected Mr Renton de Alwis should be given the portfolio – Minister of Casinos, if I my recollection is correct he mooted or encouraged the concept. Also the distinguished DrDayan Jayatillake who has the good fortune of being the sole inhabitant in deprived Sri Lanka of having a doctorate welded to his cranium appointed the successor of the successor to the “imbecile”. Friends, then not only the little red dot Singapore but China in particular and the world in general will acknowledge that the growth rate of SL has been a “just” development rocketing way pass the milky way, consequent to the brilliant appointments of HRH Mahinda Percy, aka “thatha” to the nation.

By: anthony jones

anthony jones — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 06:23:34 +0000

This man should worship a statue of the late Velupillai Prabhakaran, whose stupid action brought this person into the royal throne.

If the Tamil people were allowed to cast their ballot, the nation would have had a gentleman president of the like of Ra nil Wickramasinghe.

What did he do, he increased the manpower of his armed forces, borrowed left, right and centre, used the innocent Tamil civilians as cannon fodder and also got rid of Man gala Samaraweera who along with Tiran All es negotiated with the once mighty LTTE.

Now they are on the streets, powerless.

There is a saying “what goes around must come around” and hopefully the UN war crimes tribunal will make amends for the sufferings thrust upon the innocents. a j

By: Mary Tony

Mary Tony — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 21:31:23 +0000

Humiliation generates anger.
Anger generates violence.
Tamils began to be humiliated
Within months of ”independence”.
It contoniues to this day
In ever-worsening ways …..
WHEN that stops, they may …..

By: Punitham

Punitham — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 21:15:19 +0000

1. “I am proud to announce that my country has succeeded in eliminating one of the most brutal terrorist groups in the world.”

Sinhalese are rid of the counter-terrorism of 1970s-2009. Tamils are not yet rid of the state terrorism of 1948-2010 and continuing ……

2.“It is time to build independent people not dependent on the world” ??????

Sri Lanka orders cuts in aid work, BBC, 9 July 2009: â€˜’The Sri Lankan government has told international relief agencies to cut back their activities in the country. â€¦ But it(ICRC) says an estimated 300,000 displaced people still need food, medicine and help to return home.”
Mission Report: Visit of Major General (ret.) Patrick Cammaert, Special Envoy of the Special Representative for Children & Armed Conflict, to Sri Lanka, 05-11 December 2009: â€˜’It should be noted that the problem of accessing camps for humanitarian personnel persists throughout the country.”
No funds to meet needs of nearly 200,000 Northern IDPs due to govt refusal to endorse 2010 action plan, http://www.transcurrents.com, 13 March 2010: ”The funding crisis follows the government’s refusal to endorse the 2010 Common Humanitarian Action Plan (CHAP). The UN and other humanitarian agencies are running out of resources to meet the urgent needs of internally displaced persons in the North.”

This is internal colonialism at its worst.

I’m hoping to prostrate before Narangoda at the earliest.