Paithyan

What I wanted to tell in the comment which was edited by the Groundviews was that you can’t ask the readers of this forum to “trust” you because you are just an unknown person with a name;I can’t “trust” you because you a not a family member of mine! Please give your sources to verify what you say!

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Are all those 400,000 civilians were killed by the LTTE, who were holding them captive, just like that? Your figures just suck!

I cannot stop my laughter! Innocent Tamil Tiger cats who wagged their tails fan Sinhalese.

Thanks!

wijayapala:

“Dear jansee, I guess I was just wondering what you expected
Mahinda and Gotabaya to do in that situation where the LTTE was
using those people as human shields. Thanks.”

Just bomb them to pulp, you seem to suggest. So, whatever happened to the declaration of a “humanitarian operation”?

Despite resisting the feeling to the contrary, it is nothing more than Sinhalese chauvinism against minority Tamils. It is about time that the international community comes around to the idea of a separate nation for the Tamils, as what can be witnessed before and after the war, the SL regime has never been receptive to the pleas of the Tamils, rather they have been subjugated and what we can see is crude triumphalism through the power of the guns.

Paithyan Pushpalingam,
You are right, this article is flawed. Even more reliable sources from the MoD have come up with a figure of zero civilian casualty. In fact, our very own His Majesty confirmed that SL forces had carried a copy of universal human rights charter in one hand, while they carried out the humanitarian operation on the other.

How ironic 😉

I truly commend you for leaving out Gramsci, and not trying to drag him in this time!!
But I notice it seems you just can’t help yourself when it comes to pseudo-intellectual displays.

Do explain to us all how the writer depicts the President’s experience in London as a zero-sum outcome. That is, if you really know what a zero-sum outcome is!

And why did you bother with Dharmalingam Siddharthan when MR or GR would have done the job even better?

… still waiting for your erudition on zero-sum stuff!

Dear jansee, I guess I was just wondering what you expected
Mahinda and Gotabaya to do in that situation where the LTTE was
using those people as human shields. Thanks.

Paithyan Pushpalingam: In a matter as contentious as this,
trust is not the issue but the evidence. If, as you say, that such
large numbers have been allegedly massacred, by any or both the
parties, then the evidence from your “reliable source” must be
produced. Until then the “trust” you ask us to rely on is but just
a rhetoric.