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  • Role Of Muslims Sri Lanka Genocide, Now At War with Sinhalese

    The role of Muslims in the Sri Lanka conflict is debatable.

    They were not subscribing to the Tamil Elam nor any other solution to alleviate the sufferings of the Tamils.

    They were so inimical Tamil Cause  LTTE Prabhakaran expelled them from the Alliance.

    They have been the quislings right from the period of Sirimavo Bandaranaike to Rajapakshe now.

    Muslims condoned Tamil genocide and actually celebrated it.

    For them Islam first and last.

    Sinhalese are also equally fanatical.

    They have used the Muslims against the Tamils and now are tightening the screws on the Muslims by allowing the sale of Non –Halal Meat!

     

    Halal Meat Sri Lanka.
    Halal Meat Sri Lanka.

    ‘A CURIOUS story in a local English daily caught my eye the other day. It seemed the Sri Lanka Muslim Council had given in to demands that meat could be sold without halal certification. This is a huge success for radical Buddhist groups who have been orchestrating an anti-Muslim campaign for the last few years.

    Mosques have been attacked, prayers disrupted, and Muslims in general accused of being anti-state. The Muslim Tamil National Alliance has written to the Secretary General of the United Nations, asking him for protection, and protesting against this nasty campaign.

    Leading the anti-Muslim charge is a group called the Bodu Bela Sena, or Buddhist Force. Headed by ultra-nationalistic monks, the group follows a xenophobic agenda of “Sri Lanka for the Buddhists”. Of late, Buddhist monks have begun playing a growing and retrogressive role in the island’s politics.

    The monks first flexed their muscles to shore up the Rajapakse government’s resolve to crush the Tamil insurgency. First, they blocked any possibility of compromise by offering the Tamil Tigers greater autonomy. To build up pressure, they formed a political party and won enough seats to take a place in the coalition government.

    Then, when President Mahinda Rajapakse’s brother, defence secretary Gotabaya, was facing difficulties in finding enough recruits for the army, a group of monks fanned out across the Buddhist areas to motivate thousands of young men. These recruits were assured that they would not lose karma by fighting and killing in a war as they would be doing so in the cause of Buddhism.

    The brutal civil war ended nearly four years ago in a bloodbath that is now the subject of intense scrutiny and criticism from abroad. The ongoing session of the UN Human Rights Commission at Geneva is about to vote on a resolution initiated by the US, demanding an international investigation into the fate of tens of thousands of Tamils said to be killed in the last days of the fighting in the north of the island.

    Against this backdrop, it is odd that the government is doing so little to clamp down on the anti-Muslim campaign. Should it gain support and traction, the results could be very bad news. Muslims are mostly concentrated in three areas: in and around Galle and Colombo, and in the coastal areas of the north-east. The latter are mostly poor fishermen, while urban Muslims are heavily represented in business and the professions.”

    http://dawn.com/2013/03/18/sri-lankan-muslims-under-threat/

    “I am certain on one point: the major determinant behind the policy of Western Governments on Sri Lanka is not the LTTE but the Western Ambassadors who are presently working in Sri Lanka. We can safely presume that none of them owe their exalted positions to political patronage, that all of them have behind them many years of proven capacity particularly in the field of political analysis, and that every one of them has reported in detail and analysed responsibly the halal problem and the anti-Muslim hate campaign.

    It is not difficult to guess the trend of their analyses and their recommendations. It would be more or less along the following lines. The SL Tamils and the SL Muslims are both minorities but they are fundamentally distinct because the former can claim a homeland while the latter can’t. That is a fundamental distinction because the claim to a homeland can serve as the basis for a separatist claim. Any claim to separatism by the SL Muslims cannot therefore be taken seriously at all, and understandably they have never made that claim. Furthermore, whenever there has been controversy between the Sinhalese and the Tamils the Muslims have always taken the Sinhalese side against the Tamils, and they have done so instantly, unconditionally, and wholeheartedly. It is worth mentioning that during the July ’83 holocaust against the Tamils a top Muslim politician organized thugs in a part of Colombo to make a grand Muslim contribution to the holocaust. It is worth mentioning also that at this time last year some members of the All Ceylon Jamiath-ul Ulema were in Geneva canvassing Muslim votes for the Sri Lankan side. This year the ACJU is in the dock. It would not be an exaggeration to say that it is difficult to imagine a more loyal minority than the Muslims. They have in fact been servile to the Sinhalese power elite.

    http://thuppahi.wordpress.com/2013/03/18/racism-and-irrationality-as-bedfellows-the-halal-issue-and-sinhala-buddhist-extremists/#more-8683

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  • Rape of Tamil Women By Sri Lanka, Human Rights Watch Report

    Human Rights watch released a Video of rape victim of Sri Lankan Armed Forces.

    it has also released a 146 page report on The

    Cases of Rape and Other Sexual Violence by Sri Lankan Security Forces, 2006-2012.

    I am posting excerpts and the Link for the full Report is provided at the end of the post.

    As usual Sri Lanka has come out with a denial.

    Rape of Tamil Women in Sri Lanka
    Rape of Tamil Women in Sri Lanka

    The Denial.(IBN Live)

    ‘Responding to the claims, Brigadier Ruwan Wanigasooriya, Sri Lankan military spokesman said the content providers for the report were those who had applied for political asylum in the West.

    “These are fabrications to justify their claims for asylum. The army is ready to investigate if there are proper complaints”, Wanigasooriya said

    He said the government has resettled about 300,000 displaced people in the conflict while another nearly 12,000 LTTE ex-cadres had been rehabilitated and reintegrated into society. “No one has made any complaint of rape”, he said.

    The report quotes HRW’s Brad Adams as saying “The Sri Lankan security forces have committed untold number of rapes of Tamil women and men in custody”

     

    Report.

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    Published on Feb 26, 2013

    (London, February 26, 2013) — Sri Lankan security forces have been using rape and other forms of sexual violence to torture suspected members or supporters of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. While widespread rape in custody occurred during the armed conflict that ended in May 2009, Human Rights Watch found that politically motivated sexual violence by the military and police continues to the present.

    The 140-page report, “‘We Will Teach You a Lesson’: Sexual Violence against Tamils by Sri Lankan Security Forces,” provides detailed accounts of 75 cases of alleged rape and sexual abuse that occurred from 2006-2012 in both official and secret detention centers throughout Sri Lanka. In the cases documented by Human Rights Watch, men and women reported being raped on multiple days, often by several people, with the army, police, and pro-government paramilitary groups frequently participating.”

    “We Will Teach You a Lesson”

    Note on sources: in 60 of the 75 cases documented in this appendix, we spoke directly with the victim and were able to obtain medical records with the consent of the victim, corroborating the victim’s claims of rape and other sexual violence. In another 8 cases, we spoke directly with the victim and relied on sources other than medical records to corroborate his or her claims. In 3 of these 8 cases, no medico legal reports were prepared since the UK courts found the victims’ account of rape and torture credible and granted them asylum. In the remaining 5 cases, we spoke to witnesses who were present with the victim after their rape. In 7 cases, we were not able to speak directly with the victim but obtained medico-legal reports, prepared by doctors and submitted to the courts in support of their asylum claim, that provided detailed evidence of sexual abuse. For ease of presentation below, we reference medical reports in citations only in the cases in which they were our main source for the case or in which we had no access to such records.

    Name: JH (all initials are pseudonyms and bear no relation to the person’s actual name)

    Gender: Male

    Age: 23

    Date Detained: September 2012

    Date Released: October 2012

    Circumstances of detention: JH arrived in the UK to pursue higher studies in March 2011 and returned to Sri Lanka to attend to family matters on August 17, 2012. One evening in September 2012, JH was walking home in Colombo when a white van pulled up near him. Several men jumped out and told him to join them for an investigation. They blindfolded him and drove him for over an hour to an unknown site.

    Account:

    I was taken up some stairs but when they removed my blindfold I found myself in a room where four other men were present. I was tied to a chair and questioned about my links to the LTTE and the reason for my recent travel abroad. They stripped me and started beating me. I was beaten with electric wires and burned with cigarettes. My interrogators tried to asphyxiate me.[100] Later that night, I was left in a smaller room. I was raped on three consecutive days. The first night, one man came alone and anally raped me. The second and third night, two men came to my room. They anally raped me and also forced me to have oral sex with them. I signed a confession admitting my links with the LTTE after the rapes.[101]

     

    JH’s medico legal report, on file with Human Rights Watch, notes that the physical evidence of scars on his body strongly support his account of torture. The report further adds: “the spots of dark pigmentation on his buttocks and around his anus are consistent with an infective rash which has now healed, support in my view, a situation in which he was repeatedly subjected to anal intercourse in which his skin has become lacerated and easily infected.”

    JH escaped detention after his family bribed CID officials. He has since received medical care for severe anal pain.

     

    http://www.hrw.org/node/113787/section/11

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  • Sri Lanka Fresh Tamil Genocide East

    While people have been talking of action against Rajapakshe and Sri Lanka for the Genocide of the Tamils in Sri Lanka, Si Lanka has been going about the business of killing the Tamils and halting the reconstruction programme in the Eastern part of Sri Lanka.

    Sri Lanka cleverly played the East and North divide of Sri Lanka and Muslims and People working in Estates to ensure that the Tamils remain undivided.

    As its wont, The Tamils succumbed to it and they engaged in internecine war among themselves.

    Now the World, including the UN is being jolted by the proposed release of the Documentary ‘No Fire  Zone’, documentary unveiling the Genocide  of the Tamils, the cold-blooded murder of LTTE Chief’s son 12-year-old  Balachandran Prabhakaran, Sri Lanka,on the sly is going about the job of killing the Tamils in the Eastern Part of Sri Lanka,

    Tamil net has produced a report on this.

    Sri Lanka Genocide Controversy
    Sri Lanka Genocide Controversy

     

    Excerpt of the fresh Killings of the Tamils and Link.

    “Sinhala militarisation, genocide in East goes unnoticed, unaccounted
    [TamilNet, Sunday, 17 February 2013, 10:51 GMT]In the name of a Sinhala-titled programme ‘Divineguma,’ Colombo intensively spearheads structural genocide of Eezham Tamils in the East. It has now gone to the extent of mushrooming Sinhala military camps and settlements running grocery shops and restaurants to the public. The only major construction activity in the East is the construction of Sinhala military camps. By talking only of the North and leaving out the East, the visiting foreign dignitaries buttressing State in the island systematically obscure what is happening in the East and imply that the annihilation of the nation of Eezham Tamils in the East is ‘normal and acceptable’. The line of subversion started when Mr. Robert Blake was the US ambassador in Colombo after the SL military capture of the East from the LTTE, and the line was later taken up by the Indians, political activists in the East said

    .Failure to internationally highlight and fight against what is happening in the East would first reflect in Vanni as what is happening there now and would eventually result in the annihilation of the Tamil nation in Jaffna itself, the activists in the East cited.

    The Tamil–Muslim discourse in the East has adversely affected the entire liberation question of the Tamil-speaking people in the island in the past and both the communities especially in the East have to keep that in mind in their deliberations, the activists said, adding that only a secular an independent State for the Tamil speakers in the island would ensure the life of self respect to all of them in the island.

    Meanwhile, even retail trade in the Ampaa’rai district has been taken over by the occupying Sinhala military, political sources said.

    Two major SL military camps have been created at Naavithan-ve’li and Anna-malai in Ampaa’rai district, where the SL military is now running grocery shops and restaurants to the public.

    At Annamalai, a building belonging to the irrigation department located amidst schools, hospital and other SL government departments, has been taken over by the SL military for its camp within the last one and a half months. The building was earlier occupied by the STF.

    Similarly, an extensive Sinhala military camp and training ground are in the making at a land that was earlier allocated for the construction of a broadcasting station for the Ampaa’rai district.

    Many other SL military camps are now being constructed at places such as the locality of the old hospital at Periya-neelaava’nai, Beach Road at Kalmunai, Thiruk-koayil, Aalaiyadi-vempu and at the tourist locality at Ullai.

    The camps terrorise especially the Tamil villages. While many Tamil villages erased out by the SL military during the war are yet to be resettled, Colombo is interested only in constructing military camps.

    Tamil politicians cited the examples of the villages at Kagnchi-kudichchaan-aa’ru and at Thangka-vealaayutha-puram.

    The politicians accused that Tamil areas are deliberately neglected in any development activity and Tamil politicians are never consulted on anything.

    They accused the Muslim polity in Ampaa’rai for blocking development of Tamil villages and for following a policy of land grab, marginalisation of Tamil polity and complete annihilation of the presence of Tamils in the district, in collaboration with the occupying Sinhala military.’

    http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=79&artid=36059

     

     

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  • RAW Chief Meets Rajapakshe Sri Lanka, SomeThing is Brewing

    RAW ,Research and Analysis Wing of IndiaIntelligence Agency met with President Rajapakshe of Sri Lanka when he visited iTrupati in India on February 14.

    This was a closely guarded secret.

    In 1988, A. Verma, then chief of the Indian secret service, met President J. R. Jayewardene to confirm the implementation of the Indo-Lanka Accord to which India was a signatory. What Professor Rohan Gunaratne revealed in his book titled, Indian intervention in Sri Lanka, in relation to this meeting and the events connected therewith is noted hereunder:
    In 1988, A. Verma, then chief of the Indian secret service, met President J. R. Jayewardene to confirm the implementation of the Indo-Lanka Accord to which India was a signatory. What Professor Rohan Gunaratne revealed in his book titled, Indian intervention in Sri Lanka, in relation to this meeting and the events connected therewith is noted hereunder:

    Later it was ferreted  out by the journalists.

    The last meet of RAW Chief with the president of Sri Lanka was with the deceased prime Minister Jayawardene.

    The after math is in the story below.

    As of now, the issues India has with Sri Lanka are.

    Devolution of Powers for the Tamils.

    China’s dominance in Sri Lanka

    Tamil Nadu Fishermen’s killing by Sri Lanka.

    For Sri Lanka.

    The issue of Genocide case against Rajapakshe.

    Tamil Nadu Politicians stoking Eelam Issue.

    Investment by India in Sri Lanka.

    Obviously you do not discuss these issues with an Intelligence Chief!

    Story:

    February 14, 2013, Colombo. Sri Lanka Guardian) The Indian media reported that Alok Joshi, Chief of India’s Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) had visited President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the Guest House at Tirupati, where he was staying. In practice, a meeting between the Chief of the country’s secret service and visiting foreign Head of State is a rarity. J.R. Jayewardene is the only head of Sri Lanka to have had a meeting with the chief of ‘RAW’. Usually, the chief of ‘RAW’ meets the leader of a foreign country only when there is a crucial issue pertaining to India or a perilous situation involving the country of that leader.

    In 1988, A. Verma, then chief of the Indian secret service, met President J. R. Jayewardene to confirm the implementation of the Indo-Lanka Accord to which India was a signatory. What Professor Rohan Gunaratne revealed in his book titled, Indian intervention in Sri Lanka, in relation to this meeting and the events connected therewith is noted hereunder:

    “On 26 April 1988, A. Verma, the head ( Read an exclusive interview with A.K. Verma which published by the Sri Lanka Guardian on 2008 )  of RAW, flew into Colombo. Verma’s visit was known only to a handful of men in Indian and Sri Lanka. In Colombo, only three men knew about it. They were M.M. Gunaratne, Director-General, Intelligence and Security, Ministry of Defence, under whom the Special Task Force (STF) and National Intelligence Bureau (NIB) were placed, Zerny Wijesuriya, Director, National Intelligence Bureau (NIB) and President Jayewardene himself. Even people like Dixit, the high profile Indian High Commissioner, Gamini Dissanayake, influential minister and co-architect of the Accord, General Sepala Attygalle, Defence Secretary, General Cyril Ranatunge, the General Officer Commanding the Joint Operations Command, and W.M.P. B. Manikdewela, the Secretary to the President did not know. Lalith Athulathmudali, the National Security Minister, was also not fully informed – perhaps he would have been partly informed by the effective private intelligence network he operated.
    In India, Rajiv Gandhi, the Prime Minister, Grirish Chandra Saxena, the National Security Adviser to the Indian Prime Minister, Chandrasekaran alias Chandran of RAW and only two or three other officials knew. Subsequently, when two prominent Sri Lankans in the government became aware of the RAW connection, they were very annoyed.
    Verma travelled undercover and spent about 48 hours in Colombo. He tried to convince Jayewardene the LTTE was interested in joining the mainstream and that he should cooperate with the negotiating intermediary – RAW. Verma held discussions with M.M. Gunaratne on the morning of 27 April. He was well informed about the conflict, and had personally negotiated with the TULF, the militant groups including the LTTE, and was keen to obtain certain assurances from President Jayewardene before he once again met with Kittu in Madras. Verma stated that all Tamil groups were agreeable to enter the political process. He stated that the LTTE too was keen to do so, but subject to certain conditions being satisfied.
     
    RAW head meets Jayewardene
    28 April 1988 was historic day when the head of RAW met President Jayewardene. According to a high level source in New Delhi, Jayewardene was cautious. However, he cooperated at least at the beginning, and even Gandhi who intensely disliked the LTTE thought that with the support of Jayewardene, India will be successful in striking a deal with the LTTE. Verma said the LTTE is keen to “surrender 700 of the estimated 1,000 big weapons the LTTE have in their possession and they would like to retain 300 weapons for their security.” Verma added: “With the surrender, a ceasefire would be announced. The LTTE would thereafter publicly support the Accord. The balance weapons will be released gradually, once the LTTE feels assured that a climate of security has descended on the North and East.” Verma asked President Jayewardene whether he could respond to the LTTE by announcing that the Government of Sri Lanka will hold elections in the North and East for once council (under Article 37 A of the Provincial Councils Act). This was to be done when the groups were ready to enter the political process and before the date of the elections for the North and East was to be announced, and soon after all other elections were completed. Verma stated that a referendum as stipulated in the Accord would subsequently be necessary, for people to accept or reject the merger.’ Verma requested Jayewardene to make two other public statements regarding two LTTE requests as an explicit demonstration of goodwill and gesture towards the LTTE. One was to be on the release of detainees in custody. RAW was told that 3,634 had been released and only 627 were in custody, and that even they would be released in due course. The other request was on the use of the 1982 electoral register for the elections. The President agreed to the latter.

     

     

  • Tamils have No Rights,India in Sri Lanka Defence Seminar

    English: National emblem of Sri Lanka
    English: National emblem of Sri Lanka (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

    It is tragic that India is participating in a Seminar in Sri Lanka on Defence issues.

    The massacre of Tamils in Sri Lanka  does not seem to matter.

    Nor the issue of illegal shooting Tamil Nadu Fishermen matter.

    When a country can not ask a  country not to attack its citizens,or prevent its Ethnic group being subject to Genocide,what is the point in talking about Defence?

    You can not protect your citizens, but you are prepared to protect the Citizens of another country!

    Those Tamil Leaders who raised hue and cry over the training of Sri Lankan Airmen in Chennai,are they aware of this?

    Curiously the said Airmen from Sri Lanka have been sent to Bangalore, India, for training.

    Which State is not in India,Tamil Nadu or Karnataka?

    Read the Related article, where the Sri Lankan Minister declares  that the Tamils have no place in Sri Lanka.

    Story:

    July 21, Colombo: Sri Lanka Army says that 19 countries have confirmed participation in the defence seminar organized by the Defence Ministry next month.

    The 2012 Defence Seminar titled “Towards Lasting Peace and Stability “will be held in Colombo from August 8-12 at the Galadari Hotel.

    The Army has invited 63 countries for the seminar and 19 countries have already confirmed their participation.

    Military Spokesperson, Brigadier Ruwan Wanigasuriya has said the countries that have confirmed participation include the United States, the United Kingdom, Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Iran, Iraq, Malaysia, the Maldives, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Thailand, the Netherlands, Brunei, Kenya, Saudi Arabia, Uganda and India.

    http://www.colombopage.com/archive_12A/Jul21_1342879691JR.php

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