Size of the County or the strength of Economy or Military Might has no relevance.
Now the Congress is asking for votes for a Stronger Government in New Delhi.
Strong for more Scams?
This is what Sri Lanka has done pre and post Resolution on Genocide, the killing of the Tamils in Lanka.
Valueless ,Inhuman ,Spineless and cowardly act
“Sri Lanka’s president ordered the release on Friday of 98 Indian fishermen detained for poaching as a “goodwill gesture” after New Delhi abstained in a vote on a U.N. resolution that approved an international inquiry into alleged war crimes on the island.
India, Sri Lanka’s largest trade partner, backed two prior resolutions, but on Thursday unexpectedly took a neutral stand on the demand for a probe into actions by both Sri Lankan state forces and Tamil rebels during the 26-year conflict that ended in 2009.
“The president ordered the release of all Indian fishermen as a goodwill gesture,” Mohan Samaranayaka, a spokesman for President Mahinda Rajapaksa, told Reuters.
A total of 23 states voted in favour of the U.S.-led resolution, 12 against and 12 abstained. Among those who voted against were China and Pakistan, while India withheld its vote over concerns that the investigation would be “intrusive”.”
The total number of human skeletal remains unearthed from a mass grave behind the Matale Hospital has risen to 142 since the excavation started in early November last year.
The skeletal remains have been sent for carbon dating in a bid to establish the era the grave came into existence, officials said.
Some argue that the grave contains the victims of the aborted 1971 armed insurrection of the Janatha Vimukthi Perumana (JVP) in 1971 while there are others who say it could go back to the 18th century during the colonial era.
Nandikadal MassacreScorched Graves Nandikadal
Mullivaikkal Graves
[TamilNet, Monday, 01 October 2012, 22:21 GMT] An official who recently visited the outskirts of Mu’l’livaaykkaal with the soldiers of the Sri Lanka Army told TamilNet this week that he had personally witnessed skeletal remains of hundreds of slain people surfacing along the few kilometers long, L-shaped bunker, running from Vadduvaakal to northwards along the land of the genocidal onslaught. A vast area is still not cleared and is strictly prohibited from access to anyone except SL military officials. “There are booby traps and UXOs. Rotten automatic rifles and RPG ammunitions are lying around in the area. When I walked across a bunker, I was able to sense that it was a bunker of mass slaughter. As the bodies buried underneath have rotten, the soil was going under as we walked across,” he said. Meanwhile, some other mass graves show the use of chemicals that have burnt even the bones to become ashes, journalists report.
The end of war in Sri Lanka, captured for posterity by Google Earth published last week by Groundviews was the first look at the end of the war in Sri Lanka through historical satellite imagery freely accessible via Google Earth. The article was an open invitation for those using Google Earth to scan for and alert others over areas and artefacts of interest, that in turn could strengthen discussions around the hellish final weeks of war in Sri Lanka. Given the nature of imagery from around this period and centred on Nandikadal, the article explicitly noted,
What Google Maps and Earth does NOT enable one to do, given (1) the quality of some of the historical imagery (which sometimes features extensive cloud cover of vast regions) and (2) the large gaps between the available historical imagery (mid March, late May, after the official end of the war and killing of the LTTE’s leader, then mid-June and early August) is any robust analysis on when shelling in a specific region took place, and importantly, by whom.
Shared widely on Facebook, Twitter and via email, the article clearly indicated that one of the best references today for the research and study of the end of war in Sri Lanka is Google Earth. Imagery accessible via Google’s servers simply isn’t available through other sources or archived elsewhere in the public domain.
Whereas the previous article studied the sheer scale and extent of the destruction and human displacement in Sri Lanka during the final phase of the war, between March and May 2009, the focus here is on mass graves in and around the so-called Civilian Safe Zones (CSZs). Our first article was anchored to two key UNOSAT reports. The present study is anchored to the High-Resolution Satellite Imagery and the Conflict in Sri Lanka report by the Scientific Responsibility, Human Rights and Law Programme of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), published in August 2009. As with the UNOSAT reports, the AAAS study – commissioned by Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International – was met with official condemnation and Ministry of Defence counter-analysis after its public release, largely anchored to the sections dealing with the removal of IDP structures within the CSZ between 6 and 10 May 2009,..
There was a question in Quora as to ‘Why There is Injustice in the world,
Every day, almost 25,000 people starve to death—and only after long, horrible agony. This is not limited to physical pain, but includes psychological and mental anguish of parents often having their children die in their arms. Starvation is so awful death can be longed for.
If possible, I’d prefer if you don’t resort to rebirth theory, some alternative explanation will be appreciated.
News has just come in that the accused in the Rajiv Gandhi case,Santhan,Perarivalan and other’s Death sentence has been overturned by the Supreme Court.
For them it is justice, and to the most who believe that they deserve the sentence the Death Sentence.
The other side says that Rajiv deserved to be killed for sending the IPKF to Sri Lanka.
LTTE became a killing machine because of ill-treatment of Tamils,
Tamils were ill-treated because, from the Sinhalese point of view, were usurping Sinhalese’s Rights and Lands.
Tamils counter that Sri Lanka was Tamils’ and it was developed by them!
The list is endless.
The point I am trying to make is that Justice or Injustice are relative terms and have no absolute term of reference.
It depends on the ever-changing circumstances and the individuals’ perceptions of them.
So is suffering.
For the poor absence of Money is the cause of suffering.
For the Rich the presence of it , is the cause of suffering.
At the individual level what caused me suffering once ,no longer causes it .
As also Pleasure.
So these judgments a are variable and are not themselves the cause of Suffering.
As such things by themselves do not cause any suffering.
It is our reaction to and our capacity to handle them is the cause of sufferings.
Sufferings are,
1.Mental
2.Emotional and
3 .Physical.
Mental sufferings are those that occur in our mind because of our inability to cope up with things that happen which are beyond our scope.
Emotional sufferings are because of our inability to control our desires and attachments,
We take things to be permanent and yearns for them.
Like Love, Relationships.
All things come to an end in death ,if not earlier.
So sufferings per se are not real and are our making.
People may ask,
Take for example ,the Genocide of Tamils in Sri Lanka or the Holocaust inflicted by Hitler upon the Jews.
As said earlier the reason lies in the perspective of the people.
At the Universal Level there is no such thing as Good or Evil.
They are all Illusions pertaining to this Temporal World.
They do not affect the Self, the Atman.
It is beyond these.
Look at you self.
You have suffered.
Have you been suffering all through your Life?
People think only of sufferings and never recollect their Happier times.
Worse still is that they do not realize they are Happy when they are Happy.
So Happiness or suffering is the attitude of the Mind.
Some years back I had an occasion to ask of a Mason, whose job was over in one of the construction sites I was handling.
He just a job.
He whistling and I knew he had no money.
I asked him as to how he can be happy under the circumstances.
He replied,
‘Sir, I am 40, I do not bother about these things.I am happy now. I know my job.I know some body will give me a job to-morrow the day after.Why should I suffer now thinking about it?’
What an attitude!
Now as to the physical suffering part, there is no concrete answer apart from the faith in Fate and Karma Theory.
No other Theory can explain these other than the Karma Theory.
It is the best explanation not only for suffering but also the Evolution of world.
Quantum is veering round to this view.
Please read my posts filed under Astrophysics, Science.Indian Philosophy and Hinduism.
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Meaning: 4.1: Neither am I bound by Merits nor Sins, neither by Worldly Joys nor by Sorrows, 4.2: Neither am I bound by Sacred Hymns nor by Sacred Places, neither by Sacred Scriptures nor by Sacrifies, 4.3: I am Neither Enjoyment (Experience), nor an object to be Enjoyed (Experienced), nor the Enjoyer (Experiencer), 4.4: I am the Ever Pure Blissful Consciousness; I am Shiva, I am Shiva, The Ever Pure Blissful Consciousness.
The US proposes to bring in a motion in Geneva against Sr Lanka to pressurize it to set aright its War Crimes against the Tamils Massacre.
Understandably Sr Lanka hit back saying initially that there were no such incidents,relented somewhat later that there might have been some stray incidents locally, but now has gone on the offensive stating that the US was grossly overestimating the toll.
Sri Lanka rejected U.S. criticism of its human rights record as “grossly disproportionate” on Sunday, a day after a senior U.S. official said Washington would table a U.N. resolution against Colombo.
Assistant Secretary of State Nisha Biswal expressed frustration on Saturday over Sri Lanka’s failure to punish military personnel responsible for atrocities in a civil war that the government won in 2009 against separatist Tamil rebels.
Biswal, speaking in Colombo after a two-day visit, said the United States would table a third U.N. human rights resolution against Sri Lanka in March to address the war crimes allegations as its human rights climate has been worsening.
“The (U.S.) claims… are unsubstantiated. Reckless and irresponsible statements without evidence have been recoursed to in order to create an impact to give way to prejudged action,” Sri Lanka’s External Affairs Ministry said in a statement.
In her criticism, Biswal also referred to attacks on mosques and churches on the island and said some Sri Lankans felt unable to practice their faith “freely and without fear”.
Sri Lanka’s majority Sinhalese are largely Buddhist and its ethnic Tamil minority is mainly Hindu. The country also has small Christian and Muslim minorities.(Reuters)
Not with this Sri Lanka has gone on the offensive stating that the War Crimes of the IPKF in Sri Lanka has to be investigated.
News on this has started surfacing in Sri Lanka Media,
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Early part of this year I participated in a lecture given by a former RAW chief Chandran who without any hesitation told us that India didn’t like the heavy US involvement in Sri Lanka in the early part of the Eighties and wanted to teach a lesson to Sri Lanka thereby providing arms trainings to Tamil Groups. According to him, India’s sole intention was to have their strong presence in Sri Lanka. When he was asked by the Tamils in the audience about the political solution for Tamils, his reply was “Did we ever mention political solution during the training?”. He continued “We gave you training to attack Sri Lankan forces and but never mentioned about Tamil Eelam or a political solution to you”. So straight from the horse’s mouth, the RAW chief confirmed that India had used the Tamil discontent to get to Sri Lanka, leaving most of us in the audience who had willingly participated in this experiment, feeling angry and betrayed.
Though Deepavali, popularly known as the “festival of lights”, is an important five-day festival in India but for Sri Lankan Tamils that particular Deepavali was the darkest day in our history. A few days before this attack my friends and I managed to flee from Manipay to Kytes by fishing boats. On our way along with other dead bodies, we have to bury 2 girls in their twenties and another one in her thirties, who were raped and killed by the IPKF in Navali, Manipay. Although in those days we did not have the technologies to record these events, my memories are still fresh and those images are still there in full colour.
A few weeks later the IPKF took control of Jaffna and I managed to return to Manipay and re-started my AAT course in Jaffna. However another killing spree was started in Jaffna by an unknown group called the Mandian group stopped my studies. The Mandian group was very close to the Indian Peace keepers and their project was to eliminate the traces of the LTTE from the North and East of Sri Lanka. For example, a man called Satkunam who was very famous in Manipay during my school days for his Tea stall (particularly for giving us young people, cigarettes and tea on credit) was allegedly assassinated sometime in 1988 by a Mandian group assassin. Satkunam’s only crime was providing food to the LTTE boys during the IPKF time even though he was forced to do so by the LTTE.
22 Years ago on 14th of August 1989 a terrible incident happened in Valvettiturai, in Jaffna. The Indian Peace Keeping Forces (IPKF) was alleged to have killed more than 50 civilians, including several children. This was in retaliation to an LTTE attack at Valvettiturai. There were thousands of attacks carried out by the peace keepers, Hospitals were attacked; schools where civilians were sheltered were bombed and innocent civilians were executed by them and their allies.
Yet in those days there were no Channel 4, no Darusman reports or no International outcry over human rights abuses meted out by the IPKF and their allies. Not a single Tamil politician from the TULF or the TNA even talks about these war crimes committed by the IPKF and their Tamil proxies. Somehow they have forgotten and perhaps even forgiven these crimes against humanity. How ironical it seems that the Indian media (and many of these groups previously guilty of such crimes) are reporting that they have evidence of war crimes committed by the Sri Lankan forces during the last stages of the war.
What happened during the last days of the war in 2009 is still fresh in our memory. However we should also remember the quote by George Santayana “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”. We all know how the role played by India in first supporting and then prolonging the Eelam War in the eighties”
What does India have to say on this?
What does Karunanidhi , the self-appointed protector of the Tamils have to say on this?
In the mass of information on the killings of men and women in Sri Lanka by the Security forces , the fact that innocent children were massacred by the Army, in the name of maintaining the Security and integrity of Sri Lanka, whether it is the handling of the LTTE or the JVP, is overlooked.
Worse, it was condoned and abetted by the Government and ignored by the Judiciary!
The full implications of this horror came to light when a Mass grave was unearthed in Matale in Lanka.
It was obnoxious that the Magistrate refused to take even affidavits on this case!
“The Matale Magistrate yesterday (4 November 2013) refused to accept further affidavits from persons whose relatives have disappeared and were seeking to provide information to court on incidents relating to the mass graves discovered in Matale.”
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