Comments on: WHOSE MOVE IS IT ANYWAY?

By: Gord

Gord — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:01:03 +0000

Reality always win. No matter What. Today’s UNHRC Vote is like the regular Rain. Later may be a Storm to Come, if not listen to.

Gord.

By: Patriot

Patriot — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 23:12:30 +0000

I think we played the Sri Lankan political and war chess game very well from president J.R. Jayawardena upto the time of winning the war in 2009. But we made a very silly, stupid blunder in the very final move, which not only I and my friends, but our own minister Mahinda Samarasinghe said and as a result we truly lost the game. The blunder was done none other than our own president Rajapakse. We were warned many times by USA, Canada, EU, Australia, India and the rest of our friends to implement some recommendations, and had we at least shown them that we are implementing some of them, we would not have had to face this situation.Now the rat has jumped from the box and now the end does not see in sight.What Prabhakaran could not achieve from the war, the tamil people will get everything from this resolution except a separate homeland. Remember we are a small, third world country which needs the rest of the world for our survival and changing the shirt will not feed the stomach.No point for crying for loss milk.

By: wijayapala

wijayapala — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 02:34:34 +0000

“Given the UNP’s established credentials for rescuing the country from economic distress…however damaging to democracy – is also likely due to the patient optimism of the nephew of President Jaywardene, who, after a lifetime in politics, became Head of State at the age of 72.”

Politiki utterly failed to mention that it was the patiently optimistic President Jayawardene who started the long war against the Tamils that ultimately brought Mahinda to power. The UNP has established credentials only for failure.

By: Dr Dayan Jayatilleka

Dr Dayan Jayatilleka — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 22:44:37 +0000

Smart piece, but far too slick; clearly an informed outsider’s view which misses some essentials, contains far too much wishful thinking and is dreadfully unilinear in its projections.

Let me content myself with a clue: at no stage in his political career would JR Jayewardene have been dumb enough to visit Prabhakaran’s house, tie-up with the TNA and decide to commemorate May Day in tandem with it in Jaffna just weeks after that party called for support for the US resolution.

By: Alex Fernando

Alex Fernando — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 12:57:13 +0000

Good summary … Rajapakses are survivors as well as ‘self appointed guardians of buddhism’ and nationalists … I expect them to rethink strategy and start devolving power to the Tamils fast. Spare the rod and spoil the child .. it would certainly seem that India wielding its ‘big stick’ is going to be a good thing for the region.

By: Davidson

Davidson — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 12:34:36 +0000

This has been overdue by decades during which successive governments have been controlling damage (=lying) at the UN and the Commonwealth as the oppressed have no representation and the action by the international community has been determined by geopolitics also, not only by the founding principles. How are we going to stop the crimes going on in the Northeast? How are we going to reverse it?

1.i. ”This paper will show that the concept of Sinhalization extends well beyond the subjects of strategic state-planned settlements, land, military intrusion, boundary changes and the renaming of villages. Sinhalization has made its way into Tamil cultural events, religious life, economic activity, public sector recruitment and even the Sri Lankan education system” – ‘Salt on Old Wounds: The Systematic Sinhalization of Sri Lanka’s North, East and Hill Country’, 20 March 2012, http://www.internationalpolicydigest.org/2012/03/20/salt-on-old-wounds-post-war-sri-lanka/?fb_ref=.T2ihTCH4Ew4.like&fb_source=home_multiline

ii.Plight of the people more important, V. Anandasangaree, 11 March 2012, http://transcurrents.com/news-views/archives/9322
Leader of the Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF), V. Anandasangaree said the need of the hour was to address the needs of the people who had suffered during the war and after resettlement. Anandasangaree who was in Mullaithivu last week canvassing for the upcoming local government polls, said that the resettled people continued to live amidst hardship. …”

2. i. Sri Lanka’s North I: The Denial of Minority Rights

Sri Lanka’s North II: Rebuilding under the Military

Asia Reports N°219 and N°220, 16 March 2012 – http://www.crisisgroup.org/

ii.No war, no peace: the denial of minority rights and justice in Sri Lanka, Report by Minority Rights Group International, 19 January 2011 – http://www.minorityrights.org/10458/reports/no-war-no-peace-the-denial-of-minority-rights-and-justice-in-sri-lanka.html