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- Junkyarddawg, on 04/22/2009, -6/+29The very same civilians the Tamil Tigers are effectively holding hostage for use as human shields, no less.
- str3ama, on 04/22/2009, -6/+27I think the Sir Lankan army has committed some war crimes like non-discriminate carpet bombing of civillians.
BUT the Tamil Tigers are majorly responsible - they've built fortified walls around the remaining towns, and they're holding the civillians of the towns hostage. The civilians are their own people - they're literally holding their own people at hostage, and threatening to kill them if the Singalese (sp?) army encroaches further.
Meanwhile Tamil Tiger supporters in the US & Canada are trying to get the governments to support the Tamil Tigers and take them off the terrorist watch-list. It's stupid because the Tamil Tigers (LTTE) are mob like and they shouldn't be considered a legitimate political group - they extort money from the worldwide Sri Lankan community through mob like exortion and racket practices. They threaten to kill relatives overseas in Sri Lanka if those in the US/Canada/Europe don't pay up. The Sri Lankan civillians don't want to be ruled by them, they need to have the LTTE overthrown and put in a new more democratic voted group. Supporting the LTTE only hurts their cause.
LTTE uses child soldiers, uses civilians as human shields and on top of all that they contribute nothing back to the civillians - the leader fled the country at the start of the recent war. That's how cowardly the guy is, but the LTTE have deep roots world wide and they're really effective at funneling money back to Sri Lanka. A lot of the aide and money from the Tsunami went to the LTTE instead of to the people. - thushan, on 04/22/2009, -3/+24The LTTE is a vicious and ruthless organisation, they are not to be sympathised over. They will do anything to keep this war and feud going - even if it means killing the ones they are apparently trying to free. As Karuna - a deflector in the LTTE - showed, the LTTE has changed and become a disease eating away the country and its people.
The world doesn't realise by pressuring the SLA to stop would mean this war can revel on for decades to come. The Tigers will never surrender - its in their ethics to never surrender (instead do the more honorable thing of swallowing a cyanide capsule). The question is, if the SLA capture the head honcho, would he fall on his own sword?
This has been our War On Terror, and its been one helluvah journey the past 25 years. The light can be seen at the end of the tunnel. We are almost there.
It comes as no surprise that two key tigers have surrendered:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8012016.stm
The war has to end, the people and country have suffered enough. Its time to flush the tigers and end the war, look for a brighter future in a country that has so much to offer. But having said that, our government needs to ensure that no matter if your Sinhalese, Tamil or Burger (or another minority) that everyone is treated equally and fairly. There's already signs that are displayed in 3 key languages - Sinhalese, Tamil and English for those of us who have forgotten their mother-tongue :(
I'm a Sri Lankan born there but migrated to Australia (not due to the war), having visited my motherland several times I can tell you its our own slice of paradise. If you take a way the money the government spends on protecting its citizens, it can do so much to improve the country and infrastructure. - inactive, on 04/22/2009, -4/+20Of course the LTTE would say that. There is no justification for killing citizens, whether they be Tamil or Sinhalese. But the LTTE are bastards. Not only did they invent suicide bombing, but they are also the only terrorist organisation with an air force, navy and even a ***** submarine. The Sinhalese government needs to end the war now, with the total defeat of the Tigers.
- sanman, on 04/22/2009, -1/+16the fact that the same Tamil Tigers fired on fleeing refugees and even detonated suicide vests to kill them, tells me that they're not fighting for anybody's benefit except themselves
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/21/world/asia/21lan ... - thepickledfish, on 04/22/2009, -0/+14http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8008622.stm, theres a video about how people left the "safe zone" where these terrorists have held civilians forcefully for months and these people themselves talk about how the tigers wouldnt let them leave and shot anyone who even spoke of it. so if any terrorist lover wants to talk about tamil suppression in Sri Lanka then start with your idol Prabhakaran because the only friends that these people now have are the Sinhalese. LTTE were always terrorists who killed thousands of innocent people for decades, there is no argument here. Some 60,000 people have been rescued by the SL army since monday so its not like they arent trying. LTTE statements about SLA killing a 1000 people are nothing more than the "kicks of a dying horse"; one final try to pressure the govt into a ceasefire. As for the BBC you would think, as the largest broadcasting corp in the world, they would pick a better heading rather than something so misleading.
- Hsakrison, on 04/22/2009, -2/+14 When the Allied troops stormed the beaches of Normandy civilians got hurt. The Sri Lankan army will kill civilians as part of it's operation against the LTTE, but it is not the policy of the army to attack civilian targets unlike the LTTE which has been doing this for decades. Refusing to act allows the most violent and cruel people to do whatever they want. The LTTE ranks as one of the worst terrorist organizations in the world.
- hijinks, on 04/22/2009, -2/+11cause the ltte hasn't wondered into civilian areas and just randomly blown themselves up.
- thepickledfish, on 04/22/2009, -0/+8Seriously, I'm not trying to be rude here, but you ought to get your facts right. For one Christians are an even smaller fraction of the population than Hindus, and Sri Lanka's population is about 20,000,000 out of which 7.1% are Hindus which would be about 1.4MIL, yeah? Even the highest initial estimates put the number of trapped civilians close to 200,000 out of which over 60,000 have been rescued by the Army since monday the 20th with 1000s more before that, so even if every other tamil person in the safe zone dies there will sill be another 1.3MIL, so how is this ethnic cleansing?
- inactive, on 04/22/2009, -0/+7They invented the suicide bomb belt, not suicide bombing, which is quite as old as explosives.
- kreatr, on 04/22/2009, -6/+11LTTE bastards are actually responsible for this ..
- Pseudorious, on 04/22/2009, -0/+5I am not interested in the claims of terrorists holding hostages.
The LTTE needs to be obliterated, and the nations who harbor the main fundraisers i.e. Canada and the UK, need to arrest and try those individuals on terrorism charges. The LTTE victimizes more Tamils than Singhalese. - punisher101, on 05/11/2009, -0/+3This is really sickening the Tamil protesters held a highway for hostage, blocked off access to hospitals, assaulted officers and are supporting a terrorist org in Toronto. I have no sympathy for there cause anymore. These is an internal issue to Sri Lankaa. What happened to the word "sovereignty"? They should be arrested for disturbing the peace.
- thepickledfish, on 04/22/2009, -0/+3Because thats not how the world works, by your logic metropolises like London or New York would have to be split into a million different countries. Try and make some sense when you express your opinions in public.
- oolitic, on 04/22/2009, -1/+4This war is necessary to root out the evil of LTTE. It is very unfortunate that there have been some civilial casualties but that's not helped by the fact that the LTTE are using civilians as shields or as conduits for escaping the army.
Any call for ceasefire by any international organization should be ignored as LTTE has always used such lulls to reorganize. - LilJimmyNordin, on 04/22/2009, -1/+4Does anyone outside that group take it seriously? They call themselves the TAMIL TIGERS, for *****'s sake. It sounds like a ***** bowling team. Suicide bombers? Tony the Tamil Tiger says they'rrrre GRRRRREAT!
Sorry, "Tamil Tigers." Nobody feels sorry for you. - inactive, on 04/22/2009, -0/+3But simply forming a delegation of reason and arguing on the world stage you views in too hard compared to simply blowing things up and killing thousands of bystanders...
- thedogfatherx, on 05/11/2009, -0/+2Funny how everyone wants the United States to step in and stop it. If we do we will get blamed for ***** and if we don't we will still get blamed for *****. Sigh. People are ***** nuts.
Anyways, this stuff doesn't surprise me anymore of what's going on over there. - sjinadasa, on 04/22/2009, -0/+2"I think the Sir Lankan army has committed some war crimes like non-discriminate carpet bombing of civillians."
I don't think we have the resources to specifically carpet bomb civilians. If there were civilian causalities, (which were all reported by pro-ltte media, and aid agency workers who were hired from those areas aka mostly rebels), they might have been due to the use of human shields.
Also please remember that SLA, never used heavy arms when storming the NFZ nor directed heavy artillery at that location, since if we did, those pesky LTTE mortar and artillery positions placed inside the NFZ would have been history long ago thanks to firefinder radars and so many of our guys could have been safe. Hell, even the armour involvement was kept to a minimum.
People conjure up this unprofessional, rag tag african/ dictatorship military when they think about our guys in SLA, even though they are some of the most experienced and highly trained soldiers in the region, specializing in counter terrorism. Ask any foreign soldiers that have trained with the SLA.
But the part about the tigers is mostly accurate. Oh by the way SLA ISN'T a mono-ethnic army, its called Sri Lanka Army for a reason ;) Thanks for at least understanding what the LTTE is doing. - hijinks, on 04/22/2009, -2/+4lame.. so I guess southern California should just become their own country since its mostly Spanish speaking now.. Maybe if the LTTE didn't wage a terror war people could live together just fine.
- w3bslinger, on 04/22/2009, -0/+2The very people that LTTE propaganda machine implying to "protect" are fleeing away from them into the government controlled lands because of the cruelties of LTTE towards Tamil people. When Tamil people that LTTE is keeping hostage wants to leave, they resort to tried and trusted methods of suicide bombing to kill them! What hypocrisy!! Don't take my word for it, just check out the reports in BBC - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8010818.stm.
- inactive, on 04/22/2009, -1/+3My bad, I forgot about petards back in the middle ages.
- inactive, on 05/10/2009, -0/+1Sri Lanka. The only country that ever has to deal with human shields or suicide bombers.
- 2facedtruth, on 04/24/2009, -0/+1The underlying problem in this nation is the trust factor, thou I don’t agree nor sympathize for the LTTE…. One has to wonder a country of such rich history and such divisions when it comes to ethnicity and religious beliefs cannot be solved overnight, its going to take all side’s coming to a compromise, and the government taking new steps in solving the racial and religious issues of this nation… Sri Lanka can be a dominate player in Africa and has the right resources to set an example, thou I believe those involved in or masterminding on creating division in the nations pride and allowing for things like this to happen because of political positioning should be held responsible
- thedonkillumina, on 05/15/2009, -0/+0have you seen this : http://digg.com/world_news/What_the_BBC_missed_Sri ...
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http://i718.photobucket.com/albums/ww188/thedonkil ... - thedonkillumina, on 05/15/2009, -0/+0have you seen this : http://digg.com/world_news/What_the_BBC_missed_Sri ...
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http://i718.photobucket.com/albums/ww188/thedonkil ... - ilove2shop, on 05/22/2009, -0/+0The majority of Sri Lankans are Buddhists,not Christians.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Sri_Lanka
I do think the Tamils were denied basic rights,so they decided to fight for them,but Christians had nothing to do with it. - medfreak, on 04/22/2009, -4/+4"They aren't American or Israeli, so they can be called all sorts of things from Racist to Genocidal, and no one will walk out of a conference when he mentions that proven fact."
Fixed. - thedonkillumina, on 05/15/2009, -0/+0have you seen this : http://digg.com/world_news/What_the_BBC_missed_Sri ...
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http://i718.photobucket.com/albums/ww188/thedonkil ... - thepickledfish, on 04/26/2009, -0/+0wtf are you talking bout ***** moron? if you need a ***** history lesson on sri lanka just ask.. when someone tries to make a point decently, respect that you ***** *****. Sinhalese and Tamils have been living together peacefully for millennia so much so that there were Tamil queens at some points in history.. it is the British that split them up.. ever heard the saying "divide and rule"? thats where it comes from you ignorant ***** prick. So next time when you have something to say do your ***** research. stupid son of a bitch.
- thedonkillumina, on 05/15/2009, -0/+0have you seen this : http://digg.com/world_news/What_the_BBC_missed_Sri ...
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http://i718.photobucket.com/albums/ww188/thedonkil ... - inactive, on 05/10/2009, -0/+0No no no... everyone, he said so himself.. its a "proven fact" so he doesn't have to bother backing it up.
- thedonkillumina, on 05/15/2009, -0/+0have you seen this : http://digg.com/world_news/What_the_BBC_missed_Sri ...
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http://i718.photobucket.com/albums/ww188/thedonkil ... - thedonkillumina, on 05/15/2009, -0/+0have you seen this : http://digg.com/world_news/What_the_BBC_missed_Sri ...
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http://i718.photobucket.com/albums/ww188/thedonkil ... - inactive, on 04/22/2009, -2/+1you stupid ***** they have been living separately for a thousand years, it is only when the European colonialists arrived they were ruled under one power.
- inactive, on 05/10/2009, -1/+0Palestinians are are a race? (citation needed there)
Looks like you have some work to do. - stutimandal, on 04/22/2009, -5/+3It is not that simple. Tamil Tigers are there due to denial of Human Rights to Hindus by majority Christians in Sri Lanka. This has happened within a country to its citizens. The children or women dying in North Sri Lanka are also the minority Hindus. LTTE militants are dying as well. In a way, it is ethnic cleansing being done.
- xLSDx, on 04/22/2009, -1/+0Is that like carnitas?
- ReluctantZer0, on 04/22/2009, -4/+1I just hope they don't bring out the Mexican staring frog of Sri Lanka
- inactive, on 04/22/2009, -10/+7Well- they aren't American or Israeli so they can do anything they want and the press will give them a free ride
- inactive, on 04/22/2009, -5/+1rofl douche you both are Christians
- jba68, on 04/22/2009, -6/+1Isn't Carnage the natural order of things for an Army?
- inactive, on 04/22/2009, -7/+2Quote
"Foreign reporters are not allowed into the combat zone, making it impossible to independently verify the claims. "
It seems like someone has something to hide. Even the US Army in Iraq was not scum enough to stop reporters from investigating. - ravensncrows, on 04/22/2009, -9/+3WHAT? people died? in a WAR? no wayyyy
whoever came up with the concept of a fair war needs a reality check - NorrisOBE, on 04/22/2009, -9/+1If you wonder why the Hindustanis/Punjabs gets all the girls instead of the Tamils, blame the Tamil Tigers.
- inactive, on 04/22/2009, -10/+1Why do the Buddhists, who speak a different language (Sinhalese) and of a different ethnicity (Aryans) want to control land (Northern Sri Lanka) belonging to Hindus & Christians who speak Tamil and belong to the Dravidian race.
You don't get this much different between two groups of people i.e.
different religion
different language
different race
So why would one group want to be ruled by another group when there is that much difference between the two.
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