PitastharaPuthraya,

The only way SL can stop pressure from USA & the West is to submit to their dictates. This is nothing to do with human rights, accountability etc. Barak Obama refused to review Bush era attrocities. He ordered killing of Osama Bin Laden when he was unarmed and sleeping in his home. It was done execution style and his body is missing. Millions died in Iraq due to sanctions and subsequent invasion. Thousands still die in Iraq & Afganistan. There is an illegal, undeclared war being conducted against Libya, ostensibly against a dictator while another repressive dictator in Bahrain is protected because it provides sanctuary to US 7th fleet.

Tamil diaspora is being used to steer SL in a path that allows Western domination in the Indian Ocean rim. The gullible diaspora thinks that they can get a better deal (i.e. a country of their own as Tamils do not have a country though their population is quite significant in a regional sense).

However, these comentators prefer to ignore (just like those proverbial monkeys), the continuous decay in the West. Economic collapse in major EU economies. USA sinking under it’s debt weight. The resultant anger directed against “others” by individuals such as the massacre in Norway, riots in England & instigating wars overseas.

They also ignore that imported solutions forced down the throats of Sri Lankans would eventually fail miserably, just like the failed “parippu mission” in ’87.

“I think no one should have any doubt whatsoever about the Portuguese calling the Singala people modayas.”

By resorting to racist abuse you are showing us all how empty your arguments are. You should be ashamed of yourself.

This Derana video reminds me of the story of the Cow and Coconut tree. ‘Some primary school students were asked to prepare essays on subjects such a ‘coconut tree’ and ‘cow.’ They were lazy students and they wanted to know which among the two would show up on the exam. They heard from reliable resources that they would ask to write ten sentences about a coconut tree. All of them thoroughly learnt ten sentences to be written about the coconut tree. But as they sat in the exam, to their great dismay the only question that appeared was about a cow. Some of the students found it difficult even to start and they left the examination hall. Some other students wrote ‘in Sri Lanka cows are usually tied up to the coconut trees and then wrote 9 more sentences on ‘coconut tree’ and completed the subject’.

Similarly the Sri Lankan government has no answer to the serious war crimes committed by the Singala armed forces and the video evidence showed in the channel 4 video. Just like those primary school students who only prepared to write about a coconut tree, the Singalese are only prepared to talk about the LTTE crimes and do so for the most part of this video. The Channel 4 video is about the war crimes committed in the final stages of the war but this Derana video is showing the forced statements of those Tamil detainees who are under the control of the Singala armed forces.

Everyone knows these Tamil detainees must and will say what the Sri Lankan government says to save their lives. But the funny part is there are so many Singalese [Edited out] who hail this video as the most intelligent fitting response given to Channel 4. LOL

No amount of word-spinning, lies, distortions & exagerations and harping back to what happened 30, 50, 100 years ago can disguise the fact that the leadership of the self-styled “Eezam Tamils” of northern Sri Lanka, and their supporters in the West & South India, chose the path of unrestricted violence & terrorism against the majority of the people of the island and rejected the peaceful alternatives. They sowed the wind of total war against the rest of the island & India & then reaped the whirlwind of suffering the consequences of choosing that path.

That’s now finished & settled it’s time to learn the lessons & move on to a peaceful & harmonious future between all communities.

Shiva, true, true. So where was the civilized world when a despotic megalomaniac organisation ruthlessly oppressed innocent Tamils for over 25 years, killed of all its opposition -just so that they can call themselves the Sole Voice of Tamils, ran a despotic regime where no elections could be held;expelled over a hundred thousand legitimate Muslim and Sinhalese population from the North;forcefully conscripted child soldiers as well as demanded one youth per family; used human bombs,civilians and children as weapons; placed bus bombs in crowded public places killing hundreds of innocent civilians; horded and corralled a whole population as a human shield; fire from within no-fire zones and hospitals; killed more of its own people, than the Dutu Gamunu et al, Portuguese, Dutch, British, the Indian(IPKF)and the legitimate forces of Sri Lanka put together in the recorded history of this country?
Just wondering.

Really? Where is this raping and murdering going on?

“…Western radical-chic philosophy of giving more rights to the criminal & the terrorist than to their victims.”

Of course the current regime in SL is precisely a “criminal and terrorist” regime, and little wonder it has arrogated to itself the power of taking on all rights of individual citizens, especially Tamil citizens, to the point of murdering and raping them at will. That must be some radical chic.

Rajapakse regime has committed unspeakable crimes with the collaboration of the Indian Congress regime in New Delhi. It is shame to India that voted against human rights and war crimes invesigation at the Un Geneva last year.

India is a land of corruption and political violence under the Congress regime and the world should keep India out of any global issues.

The issue of accountability, the writer tries to emphasise, is the key to the problems Sri Lanaka is suffereing with at the moment.

When you say that no body should be accountable for the civilian suffering during the civil war you also accept the GoSL’s behaviour vis a vis other branches of its governance.

The behaviour of its members in the public, the way that crimianls are given pardon by the president and Attorney General, the corruption, nepotism: they all come from the same source, which is lack of accountability.

Imagine if there is no this so-called international community (IC), how would the GoSL behave with regards to its opposition? Although this IC is far from being saints it does a service to the oppressed all over the world including SL.

If you do not like the IC to poke their fingers into SL’s internal affairs the best thing GoSL can do is keeping its house in order.

This is why the presence of what the article calls “the international community” is dwindling, in my opinion. Actually that term refers to Westerners who see their role as manipulating people they regard as primitive and uncivilized because they refuse to accept the Western radical-chic philosophy of giving more rights to the criminal & the terrorist than to their victims. This view now seems to be being pushed out of more and more countries as the the ignored majority become aware of its disastrous consequences.

Radio Netherlands Worldwide seems to be hear writing its farewell message to the global South. Goodbye! Enjoy the peace and tranquility of “civilized” Europe!