Jansee, the Darusman Report made no claim that the GOSL killed 40,000 civilians.

Arulanantham Sivarajah,

“My wife was killed in a shell attack, when she went to the shop on 28th of April 2009 in Mullivaaikkaal. She got injured in her waist, and died on the spot” says Apputhurai Arumainathan with pain in his heart”

Unable to read and understand English?

Dont you have any sympathy for the man?

Have you read the UN Panel Report? I know you guys and the SL regime try to discredit that report. Of course, you would. After all, a thief doesn’t admit to his theft. But it reinforced our claim that thousands of lives were lost during the last stages of the war – through the high handedness of the LTTE and the widespread bombing of civilians.

Dear jansee

“Truth, as it now emerges is a very rare commodity”

Are you speaking for yourself as well?

“For a regime that did not give a hoot in murdering more than 40,000 lives”

On the topic of the truth, what is your evidence that 1) 40,000 people were killed and 2) it was the regime alone who murdered them?

wijayapala:

When the SL regime forced Tamils from Colombo into buses to be forcefully sent to the North, everyone looked like Tigers to them. So, the ignorant talk of yours is not surprising.

Truth, as it now emerges is a very rare commodity – finally the SL regime moved from a position of zero casualties to “justifiable” casualties. Even then there is no admission on the numbers. Now you know why I referred to the word “pathetic”? For a regime that did not give a hoot in murdering more than 40,000 lives – the word pathetic is grossly inadequate. You could see the measured and controlled tones of GR compared to his wild shots of his mouth those days. How pathetic!

“You mean to say we have to teach this regime how to manage the many facets of its administration? How pathetic?”

But is it also not pathetic that you cannot answer my question?

“For a govt that caged 300,000 of its own citizens with no regard to respect and human dignity,”

What should the govt have done instead to find the remaining Tigers hiding among the population? Especially given that the people’s homes had been landmined by the heroic LTTE?

myil selvan:

For a govt that caged 300,000 of its own citizens with no regard to respect and human dignity, expecting to entreat their psychological is obviously too much. Tamils and their suffering has never been on their radar. It is only in terms of votes and elections that the Tamils are “spotted”, otherwise in SL the Tamils are a non-entity and expendable.

wijayapala:

“What is more important, these counseling services for war survivors or having war crimes investigations? Which one should we devote all our resources and time for pressuring GoSL?”

You mean to say we have to teach this regime how to manage the many facets of its administration? How pathetic? A govt has the responsibility, for instance to run its health programmes and its foreign office and just because of funding problems tell the people to stop seeking medical treatment ought to be provided by the govt.

“Are you going to go on a witch hunt?”

No, I simply suspect that you don’t know of any such NGOs and just made this up.

“But war crimes investigations could put pressure on the GoSL to ease the restrictions. I think an example of that probably is the travel opening of the North(not entirely)to foreign passport holders.”

I think that the opening of the North was because there hasn’t been a single explosion for over the last two years, not because of foreign pressure.

Dear Wijayapala,

Which ones?

Are you going to go on a witch hunt? There definitely are those willing. But we don’t live in a free country. Make it free and equal to the law then we’ll talk more on this.

“What is more important, these counseling services for war survivors or having war crimes investigations? Which one should we devote all our resources and time for pressuring GoSL?”

We don’t need to put all our eggs in one basket. We can do a dual track approach. War crimes investigations will take time. The more immediate need is counselling for war affected people. But war crimes investigations could put pressure on the GoSL to ease the restrictions. I think an example of that probably is the travel opening of the North(not entirely)to foreign passport holders.
So we don’t need to devout all our resources but rather a majority of our resources to get psychosocial programees like counselling for war affected. And a minority to war crimes investigations, which would have a knock-on effect of easing restrictions in the North as well as creating a freer environment in the rest of the country.