LTTE Proclaims Ultimate Confidence in the Masters

By Swarnajith Udana
swarnajithudana@gmail.com

The cartoon below is borrowed from Sandeshaya. http://sandeshaya-canada.blogspot.com


























It looks like a new prophet has arrived as the existing prophet has been over-burdened by having to overwork with running in difficult terrain, creeping in the harsh woods and hiding in rabbit holes. He simply does not have time to get any reprieve even to breathe in normal rhythm. It has been continuous running, creeping or hiding. How can he perform in the True Son God’s Goebbelsmatic service? To HIS credit, True Son God has understood this and has appointed an additional prophet.

Yes, not surprisingly and being compatible with the LTTE True Sun God maxims, the new assistant, additional, supervising or overriding prophet possesses unsurpassable credentials for a diplomat by being a wanted international criminal. By appointing an Interpol fugitive as their ambassador, the LTTE has confirmed its unyielding and unwavering confidence in the Masters. If anybody feels that the LTTE is mocking and degrading the Masters by choosing an Interpol wanted criminal that is merely erred perception. Every thing is relative, isn’t it? My upside is someone else’s downside and vice versa. It all depends on each other’s location. If one keeps the maxims of the True Son God and the double standards of the Masters in mind then there is no need to be confused. Rather we should feel reassurance that still the world has a discernible pattern. Hurray for that!

Of course there may be some attempts to show attempting of disguise and change of identity. For instance, the new prophet might change the number of nasal hairs or the number of hairs on the ear or in the mustache. Instead of the name KP he might use IP (for International pariah). This identity transformation is not truly necessary; this is merely done to make it more convenient for the Masters to deal with an International pariah and facilitate the immoral association. The Masters should be able to say that we did not recognize that he was an IP even though the new name, IP, itself points to the status of the owner of the name. This reminds me Marcos, Sadam Hussein, Nicaragua’s contras and Bin Laden. Each and every one of them was once a faithful servant of Masters.

This new prophet has said something that may confuse many. According to him war is not the only means that the problem can be solved. If war is not the only means then he must mean some form of peaceful means. What does this mean? For LTTE the war is the peace. That is the only way that they are able to relax in peace; within themselves what I mean here. For example, even at this eleventh hour, True Son God has increased recruitment of child combatants according to the civilians escaping from HIS Elam Hostage Den. It is abundantly clear that still the True Son God is adamant of keeping the civilians as his human defense shield. That proves, for them to feel serenity of peace, they need war at the cost of true peace.

Also, for them peace equals war. For example consider their activities during the time of CFA; killing of our beloved citizen Kadirgamar and many of the finest intelligent agents various violations of CFA. If war equals peace and peace equals war in True Son God Elamology then what does this new prophet mean by the statement that war is not the only way of finding a solution to the problem. (What problem do they mean? The socio-psychological affliction of blood thirst of the LTTE does not need a solution. That needs elimination-let us forget, for a moment, about what this so called problem is and just ponder about what “other mean” means.)

Is it possible that the LTTE could have meant suicide killings, mass scale hostage taking and keeping them as human defense shield and a bargaining chip by this terminology of “other means”. I doubt this. If LTTE were a warring party of even distantly human origin yes then they would have not idolized these despicable and horrendous crimes as part of war. For LTTE all of these devilish acts are legitimate warring methods. True Son God would swear to this. It is in HIS Book of Revelation. (This book of revelation is just about to be revealed.) I am confused. Oh! I know. They have given up the war. They know that they have already lost the war.

In fact, if I remember and had interpreted correctly, as soon as the current sequel of Elam War started, they had known that they would be defeated. At the first or second taste of their defeats they appealed to the Masters to wake up. According to the LTTE, what they had experienced was a meticulously planned long term war strategy to grab territory and destroy LTTE. So they gave up defeating Sri Lankan forces by military means long time ago. These military means even include what is not military in generally accepted norms, such as suicide killing, chemical attacks, exploding tanks to submerge a large area with its people, etc. It is not that they had decided not to engage militarily or commit such crimes. They would apply themselves to the ultimate levels of their capability and devilish of devilish maxims but they knew that they were facing a different army under the military leadership of Mr. Sarath Fonseka and the political leadership of the President.

Then what is this other mean? It is by the Masters; by hoodwinking the masters. They are asking the Masters, as they did in colonial times, to give Sri Lankan Nation as the lamb of Sacrifice in the altar of one and only one True Son God. Since sufficient resentment towards the horrible crimes committed by the LTTE against Tamil civilians is not forthcoming from the Masters one might even conclude that Masters are themselves becoming pious disciples of True Son God. For these misguided observer participants or faithful disciples (the Masters) to have a balance view is to blame the both parties in equal vigor. Of course there are moments that Sri Lankan Government has to be castigated, blamed and accused. For instance, corruption and thuggery of some members of the Government make it hard for people to counter the accusations fabricated by the LTTE. So these activities of corruption and thuggery are acts of treason against Mother Lanka and supporting LTTE. This is what exactly what some of our political leaders refuse to understand. If a rupee goes to the coffer it does not matter even if lightening strikes the Nation.

Nadashen, like a rabbit running to escape from a wolf, in a brief moment of reprieve between sprinting from one hole to another, has found time to make a statement. In that statement he proclaims that his True Son God is deeply committed to the national freedom struggle. I do not have a problem with the ‘deep’ part. That word is simply referring to the rat hole. That is alright. To take a rat out, one does need even an army; just a pest controller is sufficient regardless the depth of the rat hole. But the problem is that this rat hides behind skirts and babies and their nappies and is surrounded by rat worshippers wearing True Son God’s ritual dress of self killing explosives. Even that is alright. The army is brave enough to take some casualties and skillful enough to out manure such feeble and inhumane traits. My worry is that this message is simply news of impending death for Tamil civilians. He guarantees that there will be more suicidal killings and there will more civilian canon fodder and the civilians will be still be kept as human defense shield and a bargaining chip. What does Nadashen do? He says “Amen.” Amen!

One phase of this war is speedily coming to end. Next phase is to defeat and destroy international dirty underworld kingdom of finance of the LTTE. For this to happen, Sri Lanka needs to place dedicated diplomats in all major LTTE centre countries. These diplomats are the new warriors of the new Nation who are well trained to sniff money trails. On top of that we need to spiritually defeat separatism and federalism and base our Nationhood on “fairness to all.” Certainly one individual can initiate and motivate this but, to win this essential phase, we need to get together and remake our collective framework of thinking and attitudes. In this Endeavour, the Government, Opposition, temples, kovils, churches, mosques, civil leaders, academics and artists etc has to play a role. It needs to be a National reawakening; a new dawn.

How can such a reawakening happen if our opposition leaders are so smart that they make statements such as-What is Thoppigala? it is just a jungle. What is the use of grabbing a useless land? They said they were going to attack Killinochchi. Now they are going after Mulathive. Doesn’t this prove the war a big lie?- and more? This is not merely inadequacy of own intelligence of political leaders. It is that these politicos believe that people lack intelligence.

I call upon Mr. Ranil Wickramasinghe to apologize to the Nation for ridiculing legitimate National sentiments. Only then he earns the right to stay in politics. I call upon on so called Trotskyites and Marxists to recognize that racism, minority or majority, is equally harmful and does not have a place in modern world. It is no wonder why they are seen as clowns. It may be Marxist physics that a bullet flies from a gun held by a minority racist is infinitely gentler than one flies from a gun held by a majority racist. This they believe is the mark of infinite wisdom; yes that is true but only in their mental fiefdoms.

Another political joke is that the opposition parties ask the government not to use the war for political gain. This itself is using the war for political gain. They ask the Government not to ask the support of the people for the war. What does the Government have to do? Ask the support of people to give the Sri Lankan Nation in a golden platter to the True Son God? When do they really learn that they do not learn or do not wish to learn?

Given all that let us recognize that we need reawakening of true Nationalism in which each and every Sri Lankan citizen by birth or naturalization has equal status and responsibilities and right to live anywhere in the country in peace, use language of own choice, follow the religion of own faith and live in the traditions one cherishes. It is not that we do not have these values and traditions but the poison and friction instigated by colonial powers are still lurking around in our psyche and we need to eliminate these pollutants so that we can become a Real One Nation in true spirit.

WE do not grant any of these rights or we are not granted of these rights by any one; we simply acknowledge and live by these principles. Let us say no to Sinhala hegemony and no to areas of Tamil hegemony. WE ARE ONE NATON IN ONE COUNTRY.

Our Ambassadors And Their Extended Holidays

Author:Swarnajith Udana
swarnajithUdana@gmial.com

About fifteen years or so ago a friend of then Sri Lankan President was appointed as the Ambassador to Australia. The presidential call was from his friend to have a nice holiday in Australia. This ambassador was insensitive enough to publicly state this in front of a group of Sinhalese (This shows that he could not see any thing wrong with that. That is how they think about public. Public is there to serve their each and every single wish and whim.). At the end of his tenure Sinhalese people did not even bother to give him a farewell. He might have said to himself, “ungrateful rascals!” This is the attitude of our government people and its representatives. What are they doing to counter LTTE propaganda? Yes they do a little as a hobby in a leisurely fashion not with any passion. How can the LTTE still take the world for a ride? Infiltrations! That could be very true. Did our Governments anticipate this? Did or do they have a plan to counter this? If the lackeys are appointed to represent our nation as gifts for facilitating dirty political deals then we can expect only peanut services.

For instance, while this genocide accusation is making rounds in international arena, have our representatives endeavoured to point out that one has to drag Tamil Civilians by force from the Government controlled side to the LTTE safe heaven. While that is so, is there a loud cry by the Government to show that the Tamil civilians brave mines (that are set up by LTTE to stop civilian escape), Tamil civilians have even become sheer insensitive to shooting, torturing and live-burning done by the LTTE as punishment for attempts of escaping and Tamil civilians risk their lives by taking extremely dangerous jungle and sea routes just to cross to the side of the genocide camps. How strange is this?

Why cannot the world see this? The people who crossed to the “genocide” camps of Sri Lankan Government bare evidence to the trust they place in the security forces and atrocities committed by the LTTE. A UN official has commented that he cannot vouch for the number of civilian deaths due to war. This is understandable. To vouch for a number more or less one needs to count. If it is not possible, then one cannot vouch, but what does prevent UN from pointing out to this strange phenomenon that people voluntarily and deliberately going to the concentration camps of genocide and then express gratitude and relief? How come the Tamil civilians craze to cross to the side of death? This situation is indictment of our foreign services and government corrupt practices through decades. No wonder why the LTTE has been on top of the propaganda war.

The recent upheaval in the UNP camp is a blessing in disguise for Sri Lanka if the people pay proper attention. Loosing credibility of Government is nothing new and signals the death of the regime. That may not be bad itself, but loosing credibility of the Opposition signals the death of democracy. That is a disaster. Yet this recent upheavals in the UNP has a silver lining in it. It reveals the inner working of the modern political parties and provides glimpses into the soul and inner spirit of our society. The decay of society and the moral decay of political parties go in hand in hand and they feed on each other. If this is how the UNP has conspired against its own members it is not hard for anybody to imagine what might have they done against the government. How many accusations against the Government might have just cooked up in Siri Kotha?

How many crimes they might have committed or stage-managed just to point the finger at the Government? Is there any guarantee that the UNP has not provided disinformation on the Government and told tales against the Government in International arena with malicious intent, to short cut the war and reach their own dirty political aspirations by throwing the Nation to the Tiger, LTTE? This loosing credibility is a crime against the Nation, not just against the President.

Governments and Oppositions are both elected to serve the Nation. The task of the Government is to govern the country and the task of the Opposition is to govern the Government. Instead of performing these sacred national duties entrusted to them, the first priority of the Government is to outfox the Opposition and that of the opposition is to outfox the Government. While this game of outfoxing of each other is going on high gear foxes from outside meddle, control and govern the affairs of the country. What is being subjected to immense bleeding and torturous gangrene is the Nation itself; the sacred duty that they have been entrusted with is neglected and ignored. To see this just listen what our politicians say. UNP, JVP, Marxist Parties and the Government and all the other parties behave in this ludicrous manner. For instance a Trotskyite, once said that minority racism or nationalism is progressive and the majority racism or nationalism is oppressive. Minority or majority when a gun fires the bullet kills. Maybe, by the word progressive, the Marxist was referring to the increasing magnitude of mayhem.

Morality cannot win military wars; just because of that one cannot throw the morality away. If we do then we will later find that the Nation has lost in big time. Also, the war of morality cannot be won by military means. One of the excuses of our past Masters and International Lords that they still tend to find a pet in the Tiger is that the behaviour of our own leaders. (Another reason is the appointment of foreign services officers to extended holidays.) Let us say that Lasantha Wickramathunga , who has been hailed as saint of journalism (This I am not going to discuss and his duplicity and complicity has been amply exposed for the eyes that are open.), was killed by LTTE or UNP, just to trouble the Government. Let us agree all the dirty killings and attacks were cruel deeds of the UNP or/and the LTTE. Then I should ask who pardoned the wife of Minister Milroy Fernando? Was this done by UNP? Is this a thitha (period) to Mathata thitha of Mhinda Chinthana itself. The President mocks himself.

President you have been elected to a post of immense powers as JR once remarked, but remember none of these powers is vested in you to release convicted murderers without due legal process. Here I recall the release of Gonawala Sunil. How can an ambassador, even if he/she wants to and is equipped with skills to face and decimate LTTE propaganda, confront outside world and say our Government works on principles? This is not a human mistake. This is a traitorous act against the Nation. That is even more so in this delicate moment. This is as traitorous as the burning of Jaffna library and allowing the 1983 riots to go unabated for sometime. President you are not elected to this position to show your gratitude or express your friendships; (It is good that you have those good qualities but do not use the powers vested in you for personal favours). You are elected to be King Elara or the policeman in India who fined himself for running a red light and who sued his wife for abusing government property (the vehicle was given to him by the government for his official use.)

President has recently expressed that the ambassadors of Sri Lanka should be able to negate the LTTE propaganda. For this to happen, ambassadors should be able to stand on high moral ground. If the ambassadors have to defend murderers being pardoned with out due legal process by the highest authority of the country and if the security given to politicians is withdrawn as a mean of intimidation then they will have no credibility to start with and the pet rebels would win hands down. Providing security for these unscrupulous politicians is not done because their services are invaluable. It is to neutralise any propaganda against the Government. If the Government is so keen about winning the propaganda war (which is a more sacred national duty rather than a strategy of political expediency) then it is important that the Government stands on principles.

Mr. President when you came to power Sri Lanka was a divided country whose leaders chose to bend their heads to kiss the feet of the True God. You chose otherwise. You achieved this nearly impossible feat in a prudent manner with strategical cleverness and skills without haste or reluctance. This credit must go to you, Sir and to some of your team and of course to the soldiers. If you really want to, you can become the mythical Prince Diyasena. Stand on principles. People will be grateful to you. They already are. Do not betray their trust. History will mark appropriately the magnitude of Chandirka’s betrayal of people’s trust. Please do not follow that example, Sir. I believe that you are too good for that.

Sri Lankan people have come a long way from their 1983 racial disharmony. This is evident that they showed maturity and compassion to ignore provocations and stay calm bearing emotional distress. My feeling is that they have vastly moved away from straight forms of racial biases. At least Sinhalese people seem to be more compassionate towards the predicament of Tamils, yet they still have a long way to go. There should be campaigns to nurture this new unity. It is heartening to see that Tamil people who once feared the security forces (with good reasons I might add) now trust them and soldiers under extremely testing conditions keep their composure. These did not happen in a vacuum. Political and military leaderships and particularly soldiers should be praised for this achievement.

Muslim people seem to be going some extra mile to generate religious harmony by offering alms to temples. Have Buddhists reciprocated this magnificent gesture. How about other religions? To enhance this springing up national unity, Bodhi Puja needs to be organised in village level to bless health, safety and peace to Tamil civilians.

Some people may think and say that standing on fairness to all beyond racial lines on national unity is humanely impossible utopianism. In that case, we do not have to worry! We always have the luxury of inhumanely possible and economically ‘productive’ war. The choice is ours. Not making the choice itself is the choice of inhumanely possible war. If politicians resolve firmly to perform their sacred duty we can bring our Nation to the prosperity that it deserves and once it had. I believe that the President, Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksha, can do it if he really so desires.

Cease The Cries For Ceasefire Or Show How To Cease Fire

Author:Swarnajith Udana
swarnajithUdana@gamil.com

From a considerable number of organizations there are loud cries for ceasefire. That itself is not a bad idea. Any reasonable person (This excludes LTTE and its supporters.) would want to save civilians. What I cannot see-may be due to lack of military expertise and not being privy to sufficient information- how can a ceasefire save even a single civilian life if the LTTE does not agree to release the civilians during a well determined ceasefire? Do the people who crave for a ceasefire care to tell the Sri Lankan Government how can the civilians be saved even if the LTTE would choose to tighten the noose around the civilians? I am not saying that there are no such methods; the problem is that I cannot perceive such methods due to limitedness of my mind. If any body can show this I will be crying for a ceasefire too since it cuts the noose around the civilians and tightens around the LTTE.

How did our affairs develop into this sorry state that International community at large is blind to these realities? There is no doubt the LTTE is a unique phenomena in the stage of international arena. They are cunning, innovative and resourceful. All these aspects rise from one single black hole; A black hole that usurps all positive human qualities and x-rays only sinister ruthlessness reinforced by no-remorse-no-guilt-no-shame spirituality of True Godly maxims. This is true but are we to believe or say that the LTTE is invincible? Who offered them this invincibility? We can say Masters did. It may be also true. So, if that is the whole truth, nothing but the truth, then aren’t we doomed and accepting that the LTTE is undefeatable?

If we really want to defeat the LTTE militarily and spiritually then we need to look at our roles in granting the LTTE its invincibility. Only by seeing that it is us, more than any body else, who grants the LTTE its divineness then we can empower us to truly take out their invincibility. Otherwise, we will have to wait until the LTTE sheds its invincibility by itself and the Masters take it away. That is not going to happen.

How did we give the LTTE its invincibility? Recently Mr. Thomas Johnpulle writing on Sri Lanka Guardian claimed that Jaffna Tamil people gave up the idea of independence state for economic reasons. Yes it is true that one of them claimed they need 50/50 representation. It is also true that colonial powers had ignited racial friction between the ethnic groups. Even then the Jaffna Tamils choose not to ask for an independent state. (I am not a historian-so I may be wrong here in detail but my basic tenet would still be correct. For that matter, even if I am a historian I may still be wrong regardless my sincerity since even exact sciences cannot claim to achieve absolute truths.) Whatever the situation is it is absolute truth that there was racial disharmony and friction fuelled by colonial powers (This statement does not exonerate Tamils or Sinhalese for keeping the fuel working on themselves.) and still the Tamil people choose (may be reluctantly) agreed to live in one Sri Lanka or Ceylon. Now what did our politicians do to quell the fires deep insides of hearts.

Rather they themselves choose to fuel the racial disharmony and sold their souls for foul votes. Dear Sinhalese do not ask what Tamils did or did not do to soothe the situation and nurture National identity among all. If you do then you are surrendering control of yourselves to another group. Dear Tamils do not ask what Sinhalese did or did not do either. You both people need to stand for fairness to all and throw away animalistic tribalistic world view in favour of more humane version of patriotism and ethnic love. If it is impossible to you, then you are choosing war. If we do not choose to change ways of our hearts we are fuelling Sinhalese and Tamil extremist groups. The Sinhala version of LTTE or the upgrade version of LTTE may not be far away. (Please do not interpret this as a support for power devolution, federalism or separatism. In fact some time ago, I happened to be a supporter of separatism or at least federalism. In principle, I am not against separatism or federalism, yet in practical terms federalism or power devolution in racial lines could spell disaster for both Tamils and Sinhalese, is what I believe now.)

It is evident that the LTTE blissfully welcomed 1983 riots. They knew the right buttons to push to make it happen. How did they know? They knew it because they accurately gauged the sentiments of Sinhalese politicians and some segments of Sinhalese population. They did not kidnap our politicians and make them burn the Jaffna Library. Some of our politicians did it voluntarily. The LTTE did not take the hands of Sinhalese mobs and raise those hands and planted them with swords then landed the hands on Tamils to unleash lethal power. Some one is saying even these mobs were led by Tamils (LTTE) themselves. If any Tamil went near by such a mob they would have been killed by the mob instantly. We should not play LTTE type games with truth. Why did JR wait so long to address the Nation and ask for calmness? Was it because he was abducted by the LTTE and kept hostage until enough damage was done to satisfy the horrendous plan of the LTTE.

If we want to decimate the myth of LTTE invincibility we need to take control; control of ourselves, that is, not of Tamils. We need to clearly understand how a segments of Sinhalese people themselves ignited racial disharmony. Then Even a larger segment physically or in attitude followed these sentiments fueled by racial hatred. If we see this collectively we can free ourselves from this evil and reach out to our Tamil brothers and sisters. Do not leave it to them. Let us be strong assertive and reach out them without yielding. Is this impossible? Alright then we have the luxury of war and suicide bombing.

Upon arrival of this LTTE menace, having helped them to establish themselves as a military power what did our politicians do? The LTTE became a gold mine for some of our ministers and army officers. They let our young people to be slaughtered at the will of the LTTE and virtually sold their corpses to fill their coffers with dollars. Some of our politicians and army officers made every possible buck from commissions obtained by purchasing ineffective bullets and non-protective bulletproof vests. The list goes on and on. We ornamented the LTTE with the myth of invincibility and we celebrated their invincibility with pious feelings of reverence. We can blame India, NGO and many other evil forces. By doing that what we only do is to hand over the control to somebody else. We are subliminally saying to us “They are so powerful and we are helpless.” For the credit of this current Government, this feeding of one’s own coffers using the beggars wound of the war seems to have almost eradicated. It seems like that now the soldiers are looked after and being well disciplined.

True Sun God may be planning to do a Jim Jones; commit mass murder and suicide as it happened on 18th of November 1976 in Guyana. One may argue this suicide-murder was initiated by the visit of Congressman Leo Ryan. If such a heinous crime happens in the safe zone then some of our masters may be waiting to blame Sri Lanka for initiating the crime by choosing to defend its sovereignty. I wish that True God will have sanity enough not to commit such thing since I cannot bear that harm of this magnitude coming to our brothers and sisters not because some are waiting to tarnish the image of Sri Lanka.

LTTE Claims The Crown Of The Commonwealth; Sri Lanka Gains The Pariah State

Author Swarnajith Udana
swarnajithudana@gmail.com

Humanity, justice and fairness have won a remarkable uplift recently. The Masters are going to expel Sri Lanka from the exquisite membership of the club of old colonies. We need to keep this membership so that we can keep celebrating being colonized, don’t we? The aftershocks of colonization peaked in 1983 and is continuing to this day in grandiose of mayhem, suicide bombing. Why should not we celebrate?

After the expulsion, the next logical step would be to award the crown or the Mastership of the club to the LTTE. Well done Master! I will be happier if the crown goes to the LTTE. Then there is at least some predictable pattern to the world affairs. Let us assume that this will be done otherwise it will be impossible for many of us to keep our sanity.

During the same period, Elam Super Power has warned China to get its facts right. Nadashen, genuinely and sincerely as always as he is-being true to the nature of his organization- has offered help to educate China about real facts. There they go. Master exceeds the New Crown Prince and the New Crown Prince outdoes the Master. This is how it should be. One outperforms the other. One may wonder; do they have a shared tongue? Maybe they share not only a single tongue but also blood, bones and soul. Does not this show whatever has been said or pretended, the LTTE are the pet rebels and rebel pets peace doves of the Masters of the world? Also they are peace doves of the gentlest kind.

Even though it has been discussed the peace credentials of LTTE, I would like to present a brief summary.

• The LTTE is well known for the spiritual and peaceful nature of unique kind that guarantees achievement and sustainability of peace. The pillar principle of this peace spirituality can be summed up in four words: Only us then Peace. It is sure to work. The only obstacle is Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka is selfishly resisting this philanthropic and spiritual principle. Also, it is unfortunate that this principle seems to be little too much for Tamil civilians and even for some hardcore carders too. They are running away to the Government controlled areas. But Super Power Elam will never vacillate from its divine principles or move away form this sure to work peace theme- only us then peace.

Maybe the Master was very pleased with this steadfastness. This brave and courageous stand on a single theme such as only us then peace has never been witnessed in the whole history of mankind. This power of resolution itself exceeds the limitations of boundaries of humanity and is unimaginable to human cognition when tactics and strategies of only us then peace theme manifested on streets and in crowded busses etc, which has become an affront for the beast itself. Why shouldn’t such a magnificent achievement unimaginable to human mind be rewarded by the Masters? We might add that this reward does not come as a favor made on partiality. It comes as a true evaluation of the meritorious performance of the LTTE. Well done Masters and the New Prince of Crown!

• The prophet of the True God of Super Elam Heaven has warned China to get its facts right. See how peaceful they remain with themselves and within themselves? The spiritual determination and miraculous ability to remain in peace with themselves after making buses burnt into ashes-one after one- seem to have impressed the Master. If this is not meritorious what can it be? Maybe this has reminded them their colonial times; divide and rule spirituality and other crimes.

• The prophet has also loudly and clearly expressed their resolute desire to have peace talks with Sri Lankan Government without any precondition. This is a gem of a gem of the rarest of the rarest kind, or precisely the LTTE kind. I am sure Masters could have been elated to hear this proclamation of love of peace by their pets. Masters might have been feeling motherly love for their rebel pets or pet rebels and experiencing pica-syndromic-feelings to run to the Putumattalan sea strip, take the LTTE into the lap, mollycoddle and say soothing lullabies while breastfeeding their peace doves.

Do you hear the Lullaby?

Sweet Baby LTTE
Always feeds
Just in peace
Do not cry do not cry
Sri Lanka will go perished.

• Such maternal love should always be admired. We all know the world runs on maternal love. One needs to see that this condition that there is no condition is, in fact, a condition to the Sri Lankan Government. Government should not ask the LTTE to lay down arms or release the civilians or stop committing any horrendous crimes. See how peaceful they are. If God has created man, HE could not have created the LTTE. I suspect Devil. Devil in the Mind. Mind of the True God, but not without our help.

Demented Soul: Nadashen Forgets To Claim Nobel Peace Price

The Prophet has spoken again. Please listen to this if you can and have a tough stomach.

B. Nadesan, the political head of the Liberation Tigers of Tamileelam (LTTE) Sunday said the Tigers had "plenty of evidences" to document that the Sri Lankan government of Mahinda Rajapaksa was "intentionally directing attacks against civilians," committing war crimes and crimes against humanity when asked to comment on the recent statement issued by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). The UN High Commissioner had warned that the actions by the warring parties could amount to war crimes.

Not carrying a passage outlining Sun God’s qualifications to demand Nobel Peace Price for Son God, in the statement above, may be an indication that Nadeshan is suffering from an acute case of dementia. Since these days his tongue has to work in overdrive and overtime, his tongue may have momentarily become over tight. Or is it more likely that this is Dead Soul Syndrome caused by prolonged activity of tongue and moral acrobatics? Such prolong soul gymnastics of foulness is known to create malignant deformities in one’s soul. Is this dead soul syndrome the reason why he has failed to be consistent by complementing his war crime-genocide accusations against the Government with Nobel Peace Price demand for his Supreme one?

Any way even when a beast is in distress we help it. So I would like to extend him a helping hand by drafting a letter that he can articulate his claim for Nobel Peace Price for the True God.

Dear Nobel Peace Price Committee:

For a long time Nobel Peace Price Committee has been committing an oversight of unimaginable magnitude by not granting Nobel Peace Price for our Sun God. I am convinced that this is just an oversight since we do not see any outpouring outrage from the world for our war crime accusations against ‘legitimately”-what legitimacy; just grab a bomb then the power- is the only way to go about being sole representative- elected Sri Lankan President for pursuing a war against us. It is true that many countries have labelled us as terrorists. Recently some who have usually called us by the pet name, rebels have begun to issue some negative statements. Even then lack of outrage when we demand war crime investigation against so called legitimate government for pursuing so called legitimate goal of eradicating so called terrorism, we have no reason to loose hope. I believe that clearly the Sri Lankan Government has not been able to deceive the world. Yes, rhetorically or momentarily the world bodies denounce us for time to time, but still we are the pet rebels of the world.

Dear Peace Loving Nobel Price Committee, this trust vested on us heartens our soul (If we still have one, that is. Since we have lost our souls, it heartens the black hearts of our empty souls.). The world is still standing by us. The international community cannot be fooled by the enormous false propaganda of our enemies.

These firm and magnificent attributes of humane international community are a divine inspiration for our struggle of freedom. Therefore if there is any doubt in the international community why our one and only Son God deserves the Nobel peace Price, due to momentary lapse of sense caused by falling into the dark abyss of vicious lies uttered against our true God by our inhumane and untruthful enemies, I am compelled to write this appeal. My hope is to convince you to correct the most unjust oversight in the history of mankind. This is essential for the wellbeing of mankind and its respect and dignity.

This letter will make sure that our Only God will receive Nobel peace price in twenty four hours (Why wait any longer, why follow any conventions of waiting until usual time of Nobel price, when it is about rectifying a great injustice?). If this grave error is not corrected with in twenty four hours, we will send one of our most precious and humane gifts to you (You may have to wait since the our divine rituals require that she (our gift courier) take her last meal with our Supreme one and her photo taken with the same Divineness. I remind you Rajive Ghandi with utmost compassion.

Most Impressive Qualifications of Sun God for the Nobel Peace Price.

• Our Son God is the inventor of magnificent technology of suicide bombing which is the most inhumane (Oh my tongue is tight, it needs some rest before it can do the acrobatics again) killing method in history (We in the LTTE believe that this is enough qualification for the Nobel Price. If this cannot qualify, nothing else can do the job.).
• Our Son God has taken a whole population as hostage asking Sri Lankan Nation as ransom. Our Son God wears a whole population of babies, elders, women, children just as body defense armor. This also a unique and innovative invention. We are surprised, how have you overlooked this one? What else one can do to get the Nobel price-of peace, any thing else- No problem, but of peace-How come?
• Proscription of child soldiers by force and kidnapping is a proudly held ethical and moral code in our organization. So is our denying it. (Can you find anybody who can do tongue acrobatics as much cleverly as we do? What peaceful creatures we are?)
• Under the divine guidance of our True God, we have become the world champions in drug trafficking, extortion, people smuggling, running prostitution rings, gun running and robbing from credit cards. Moreover, we are the masters many other various forms of various crimes still the world does not know about. (This one is an extra qualification, isn’t it? What does the world have come into-no justice-hey?)
• Our organization has perfected and galvanized our mentality on the motto; have no mercy and kill anybody. This include babies, temple goers etc, etc. You name; we have already done them.
• Our organization has the distinct ability to bomb religious places without any concern, guilt or remorse.
• The one of the most revered moral code of our Elam theology has made us a unique bunch of people who has no remorse, guilt or shame. What a peaceful achievement is this. Can you see? We can do any thing- for instance kill a baby in the most gruesome way- still we can be in peace with ourselves because we have no remorse and do not feel guilt and have no shame. See how peaceful creatures we are? Can you find any other who is peaceful as us? No way.
• We can rob medicine and food from people and accuse the Government of genocide, which keeps sending that humanitarian aid. (We can even laugh at this. They send the medicine and we use it to treat the rebels who kill their soldiers, and then we accuse of them of genocide. The beauty of this is that we have no shame or conscience. Some times I feel that this is even a better qualification than the first. Only if the world has any true sense left in it.
• We have no second thoughts (only the first thought-then it is done) of killing anybody who crosses HIS path, even world leaders. (Oh this is becoming very difficult. MY TONGUE ACHES. Which one of these is the best qualification? None second to another.)
• When we accuse the government of genocide, we can simply forget there is a large Tamil population happily living in Colombo, East and Jaffna and none of them is trying to escape. But the people we took with us dream and plan to escape, risk their lives by walking on deliberately mined (another act of divine peace-just to kill the escapees), roads riding through dangerous waters. And if the mines do not do the jobs our Sun God’s Faithfull soldiers are there to torture and kill them. (This is a good one. When I think about I am shaking with elation. This cannot go unnoticed by the price committee. What I specially like about is that we have no mercy. Please have mercy on us.
• We use artillery guns from the areas of civilian safe zone. Then we accuse the Government of shelling us. See how peacefully clever we are.
• There is yet another one. We even forcibly recruit from UN Workers and their families.
• Or I was just about to forget. We even use the Government supplied fertilizer to make bombs of death. See, we do not believe in anything that can sustain lives (we mean the lives of others). We have developed this theory “Who needs to produce food if bombs can be produced? Who needs development when we can cause plenty of destruction all around?

This list can go on and go on. We believe that you are convinced of the unique qualifications of our Supreme one for the Nobel Peace price. You will not find any body else who has such distinct attributes. Let the great historical blunder be corrected and Nobel Peace Price is bestowed on the one and only one who deserves it. Maybe I can add one more reason to convince you.

Our Son God has a true plan for peace. HE is going to eliminate everybody else except his true faithful ones. Does not it guarantee peace, ONLY US-THEN PEACE? What a marvelous genius, simple thought? Who else has the audacity, wisdom and morality to think of and act on a theme like “ONLY US-THEN PEACE”. You have to admit, I have more than convinced you. If not your gift is on the way. The garland is coming.

This time, I truly rest my case. I know in my heart that Nobel Peace Price of Eternity (whole history of mankind) will be granted to my True GOD with in twenty four hours.

Yours truly

One and only Prophet Nadeshan of One and only True Son God

Remember the peace theme: ONLY US-THEN PEACE

I want to add: This author does not like war. The cruelest aspect of war is not the deaths or civilians or immense crimes committed against women and children or the property. It is the fact that sometimes war is a must and that is the cruelest aspect of way. This must-nature of war hurts my heart. It bleeds my heart. I hate war for the reason that we are compelled to have it. Some time only option for humanity is war. War is needed be avoided if it is all possible. Only after all reasonable humanly possible efforts then one must go to war. Nevertheless, we the people of Sri Lanka and friends of Sri Lanka expect its Government to conduct the war with utmost care to minimize civilian inconveniences and casualties. This is a must. There cannot be any vacillation from this principle.

As the majority, the Sinhalese need to be able to assert themselves without asking subjugation of any other group. Any group who simply chooses to merely assert themselves cannot ask subjugation of any other group. War is hard, difficult, destructive and inhumane to the civilians and the soldiers. We cannot risk any more wars. WE are THEM and THEY are US. We both have dreams and nightmares, hopes and aspirations and tears and smiles. Let us first be Sri Lankan then we can take a second label as we see it fits. What matters is not the label but our lives and how we want to live our lives. I hope that the war has really united us. Politicians please give up your greed of power, get together and build up the National consciousness. As Sinhalese people organize many religious rituals to bless safety for soldiers there should be such events to bless safety for civilians. Sinhalese and other people should collect items and send them to refugee camps.

Politicians, do not try to seek cheap political profit from human misery. Stand for fairness to all not for a vote you get from a misguided Tamil or Sinhalese.

Sinhala is a distinct language that evolved in Sri Lanka, but shares an ancient root script with Tamil

Author: Rover - mworth8@gmail.com

Sinhala is a distinct language that evolved in-situ in Sri Lanka, and Tamil language evolved in India, but still, Sri Lankan Tamil is distinguishable from Indian Tamil. Sinhala has a more unique word repertoire than Sri Lankan Tamil, when compared to any other language in the world. In other words, almost no Sinhala will be identified by any Indian (or any other race), whereas most of Sri Lankan Tamil would be understood by at least 65 million Indians. Here the mechanisms that may have been important in the evolution and development these two languages are considered.

The roots of Sinhala is Indo-Germanic (Aryan) in origin but is very distinct from its Indian mother language. The reason for this is probably allopatry (evolving in isolation), which is an important mechanism in the evolution of new languages (as much as the evolution of new species). To gather a fairly substantial repertoire of unique words that the Sinhala language has, Sinhala must have evolved in isolation for over a long period of time in Sri Lanka. It may have both retained some ancestral words that have now gone extinct in its mother language, and also would have evolved unique words. Given the fact that there are so many disparate languages in the Indo-Aryan group of languages even within India were strict isolation is not possible, it is not surprising that Sinhala quickly evolved to be a unique language in isolation.

The most parsimonious explanation to the origin and evolution of Tamil would have been in India, as it has the greater population (that use Tamil) in India and the roots to other Indian languages (like Kannada and Malayalam) is quite distinct. There are only a fewer unique words peculiar to 'Sri Lankan Tamil' when compared to Indian Tamil; but a little bit more so with other south Indian Dravidian languages; and the Sri Lankan Tamil grammar is also slightly different from that of Indian Tamil. This too would have happened due to the isolation of Sri Lankan Tamil language, but to a lesser degree, when compared to Sinhala.

It is hard to imagine a scenario where Sinhala evolving in India and then, the whole population migrating over to Sri Lanka (without leaving many traces of this language in India); or that after part of this hypothetical population moved over to Sri Lanka, the ancestral population going extinct in India (I don't think in India languages would readily go extinct, evidenced by the number of languages that persists together). However the languages that persist today in India are closely interrelated to each other, and hence the roots of these languages are embedded very much in India. These alternative explanations are less parsimonious than the one mentioned above.

Hence Sinhala must have evolved in isolation over a longer period of time (it would be hard to determine how fast a language evolves as many complex factors are involved), when compared to Sr Lankan Tamil.

However, Tamil people have also lived in Sri Lanka for over a very long period of time, and they also have some words that are not used by Indian Tamils. For example, names with a –koon ending (like Gnanakoon) are not known from India. However, these names have even filtered into Sinhala names (like Tennakoon ect.). The grammar of Sri Lankan Tamil people is also distinct from that of Indian Tamils. This shows that isolation of the Sri Lankan Tamils from India have given rise to this.

All the natural languages in the world are closed systems, this means that you don’t need to go outside the rules of grammar of a given language to find explanations for meaningful statements that it can make. Grammar, in a given language, is a system in which words are put together to express something meaningful; contrary to popular belief, however in natural languages, grammar evolves a long time before writing, and most of the rules of grammar are based on speech/sound, rather than writing.

If grammar is based on sound/speech, can all of these languages use a single script to write in that language?! Yes in theory it can (we can write a Tamil sentence that is sounded out, using Sinhala letters right?), but the script must be flexible enough to write all these sounds effectively. Ancient Brahmi script was used to write in many languages, it was the root script for most of contemporary scripts in the Asian region, including surprisingly even perhaps Korean (Brahmi script also is the basis for the alphabetical order for Japanese Kana). However, some of the sounds, for example that you find in Sanskrit, cannot be written using Brahmi script, so another slightly different system developed, which is called Prakrit (but even for Prakrit, the roots are in Brahmi script). However, I should mention, despite this short coming, that early Sanskrit has also been written in Brahmi script.

It is pertinent to talk a little bit about King Asoka and his inscriptions, as he greatly influenced the establishment of Buddhist culture in Sri Lanka. Asoka’s inscriptions were written in Prakrit, to be precise, Magadhi Prakrit. Some think that Pali (the language of Theravada Buddhism) and Maghadi Prakrit are the same. And when Mahinda Thero, Asoka’s son who introduced Buddha Dharma to Sri Lanka during the reign of King Devanampiyatissa, he also introduced Pali to Sri Lanka. Though Pali was not significantly absorbed into Sinhala, the Sinhalese lay people maintain the Pali language as a religious oral tradition in the form of Buddhist gathas and sutras, and currently write and perpetuate these in Sinhala script.

The earliest inscriptions in Sri Lanka, before the evolution of the Sinhala script, are in Brahmi script; and both Sinhala and Tamil scripts evolved from this. Sinhala adopted a more circular style (some argue that this style was easier to be written on Palm leaves -Thalpath- without damaging them) the origin of this again occurred in Sri Lanka and Tamil script evolved into a more angular style, and the origin was in Southern India. (At a time when we are only talking about differences, I thought I should highlight what we share).

According to William Geiger, some of the unique sounds that are not seen in Indo-Aryan or Dravidian languages arose in Sinhala during the 6th century AD. And these sounds were accommodated in its script, which had at this point evolved very close to its present form. Sri Lankan Tamil people, possibly very recently, perhaps due to the influence of mass media, have slightly adopted these sounds, but most still cannot pronounce these sounds. However, it is not present in their written grammar, as Tamil script cannot accommodate these sounds. So again we see a recent attempt by Sri Lankan Tamil people to adopt these Sinhala sounds, even when their script does not really allow it.

Considering that language is one of the causes for the ethnic tension between the two groups, it is high time that both ethnicities in Sri Lanka work together, enjoying the common origins that we share, appreciating things that we don’t share, and respecting the attempts at integration of some of the unique features of these languages. This is the best way to prevent terrorist groups like the LTTE that play to the lower instincts of people from gaining a foot hold in our Sri Lankan society.

This is a rewrite of one of my brief notes that appeared here. The bloggers Wijayapala, ReallyCold and Swarnajith Udana are acknowledged for highlighting a couple of issues that needed to be clarified.

Artillery Shells Fired From A Tongue - The Inhumane Saga of Nadashen And The Clan

Author: Swarnajith Udana - swarnajithudana@gmail.com

Have you heard?

Frightened by the immediate defeat when the civilian defense cover is removed, commenting on the demand of the world organizations from the LTTE to release the Wanni hostage population, Nadashen and his Sun God has further tightened the screws on civilians and are threatening the World. To this effect, Nadashen roared:

“The LTTE calls this a calculated ploy by the Lankan government to uproot Tamils from their traditional habitat.”

Can you really here what he is saying. It is true that he is trying to be thunderous and claim moral righteousness. This is not a surprise. That is the way it has been with them, or any drug dealer or warlord. The surprise is that the world has put up with it for so long rather than putting it off.

One does not need to be a military expert to see that if the civilian hostage population is released then the LTTE would have been obliterated in a few hours, at most in a day or two even a couple of months ago. The fact that the beast, the LTTE, is still panting is remarkable evidence that how caring the Government’s attitude towards its citizens is. From the fact that the world had not been able to decipher the motivation of the LTTE in taking civilians hostages until late, are we to conclude that the world suffered from lack of military expertise, or the world was simply pretending or merely misguided.

Nadesan writes: "I ask if the UN, or India, or any other country would ever promote uprooting and relocating the people of Gaza as a solution? And the Tamil people are expected to willingly rush to these barbed wired internment camps in these surrounding situations? Is this what UN, India and other nations are envisioning for Tamils? The human shield term is a propaganda used towards uprooting the Tamil people from their traditional habitat. The Tamil people have lived here for generations and want to continue living here and make a livelihood in these lands. The Sri Lankan Government, UN and other international community's statements that claim to seek the well being of Tamil people - in uprooting them to forcibly and put them in barbed wired military run camps is unprecedented."

For some watchers and champions of human rights this might be wonderful news. They might be hallucinating that Nadeshan is making a divine effort of making the world a utopian heaven which has no crime and evilness. Yes, it is true there are no crimes in this world because any thing can be justified by this or that. For example, the Lahore attack was morally right otherwise the perpetrators would not have done it. That is Elam logic and its twisted character.

Nadashen brings the visual image of barbed wires into the discussion. The real meaning is not about the Tamil civilian welfare. It is about the Sun God’s right to send suicide black tiger killers freely to cities. Nadashan did not know (yes, he did not know) a suicide killing had occurred even inside a refugee camp killing the people what he says that he was liberating. Again, we are at the wrong end here. Sun God can do any think he wishes with his chosen people.

Did you notice that Nadeshan is asking whether it is right to uproot people from their own land? How true is it? It is true, isn’t it? What about the Muslim people lived in the North? What about the Sinhalese people lived in those areas? That uprooting is alright, morally correct and divinely (Sun Godly) blessing, otherwise they wouldn’t have done it. They might try to cover their answers in many disguises. To this effect, they will use history, human rights, and claimed that someone did wrong and they had to respond. For instance, why did they kill monks and temple goers in Anuradhapura? They did it only because it was right, wasn’t it? Whatever they say, ultimately it is amount to Elam logic of evilness: we can do it, therefore it is right.

What about Tamil people who were uprooted from Jaffna and forcibly took with the LTTE years ago? Nadashen would say there was no uprooting in that case; even a single mammoth was never used to uproot at that time (They used only guns and false propaganda.), so how can it be uprooting? It was an act of liberation. LTTE did it and therefore it was right, otherwise the LTTE Wouldn’t dare to do it. The world has been listening with sympathetically raised ears. What about taking Tamil people with them form Mankulam, Kilinochhi etc. with the LTTE to use as defense amour? Wasn’t it uprooting? Nadeshan would be surprised at this question. That uprooting had a moral reason. The problem is with the world. The world is blind to see this. Yes, the world cannot see that these Elam people were created by Sun God, so HE is at liberty to do anything with them what so ever HE chooses. That may be what he would be feeling, but he would say something different. He would say, “The civilians are of great love with magnificent Sun God. They voluntarily follow our one and only Sun God wherever HE goes. The world is merely too jealous. The government is only too vicious. Some of these civilians even voluntarily shoot themselves for attempting, wishing or thinking about going to the Government controlled area. Yes, nothing is a sin and no one is a sinner in Elam theology as long as Sun God blesses it. Anything can be justified if Sun God wishes so.

This behavior should not cause surprise. That was how Stalin, Pol Pot, Hitler or any other who is blinded by any ideology thinks. The ideology comes first before any thing. Since the master is the ideology itself, Sun God is the only thing or only one that has right to exist. Everything or everyone else exists for his wishes and whims and is under his mercy. For example, consider Rajiv Gandhi. This abhorrent behavior is the nature of the beast. What surprises me is that only now the world has just begun to awake from their slumber to look at the reality, but still many are sleeping or pretending to sleep.

One of the myths that LTTE bases its Elam theology is that Tamils were not allowed to practice their own way of life in Sri Lanka. I am a critique of my own Sinhalese people and the past and present Governments. I had never wittingly white washed any wrong doing of my people or its Governments. In that sense I had never been a patriot. I will never be a patriot but I can solemnly affirm that this is a lie constructed in a miraculous creation. Not only Tamils were and are enjoying their own cultural traditions and way of living, but also Sinhalese and others have embraced Tamil culture for some extent. Katharagama, Koneswaram are examples of that. Tamil students were and are taught in Tamil unless they choose/chose otherwise. Sinhalese people have made gods of Tamils their gods, except the ungodly one in the most recent times. This cultural infusion might have happened in both ways.

However, I am not here to attest that there were no problems for Tamils at all. If I say that I am lying to myself. At least some of the Tamils were brought here by colonial powers. Then they use the divide and rule strategy. This strategy has polluted and poisoned both ethnic groups. The Tamil political leaders surrendered themselves to the temptations designed by the colonial masters. Subsequently they even went so far such as asking for fifty fifty presentation for Tamils (20%) and others 80% (Percentages are relevant to that period.). That was the magnitude of the audacity displayed by then Tamil leaders. This did not happen without the permission of Sinhalese politicians. Also, when they decided to respond to this audacity rather than asserting the rights of the Sinhalese people by standing on fairness to all, they choose to aggregate the problem for cheap political benefits.


This has created a problem of dignity and other practical problems to Tamils. For instance, one MP, in mid 1960s, has stated in the Parliament that he would not sleep until the last Tamil is killed and wearing shoes made out of the skin of that last Tamil. At this juncture, if the whole country had expressed outrage towards this person and his statement, if the Sinhalese politicians had stood for fairness for all, the present history would have become an ancient history long time ago.

I sincerely hope that in the post war era, people will rise for fairness for all and Sinhalese people will not demand subjugation of Tamil or other people and instead demand that all groups commit and dedicate to the concept of one Sri Lankan Nation. For this to happen, it will never be sufficient or prudent to draw a line in land say this side is ours and the rest is yours. Even if we do the separation of groups to different lands, the war can still continue. If the separatism is right for Tamil, Then Muslims also deserve a piece of their own; also the Up country Tamils. If we go in the lines of division of land we may even have to divide Colombo or devolve power into Tamil Colombo, Sinhalese Colombo and Muslim Colombo. Where would it end? Moreover, in the East and North there would be two minorities, namely Sinhalese and Muslims. Then the East and North should be again separated into many pieces. At the end even the streets would need to have demarcations or power devolution.

In a recent speech, Dr. Nalin de Silva has expressed the view that Sinhalese people had been tamilised and Tamil people had been sinhalised during the natural process of history. This information should be brought to the consciousness of the masses so that they will understand what is at stake is not a label like Sinhalese or Tamil, but human lives and their ways of living. But, unfortunately, in the same speech, Dr. Nalin seemed to be demanding total subjugation of each ethnic group to the Sinhalese hegemony. What Sinhalese people need to learn is to accommodate, acknowledge and respect all other groups while asserting themselves and without yielding. The Sinhalese need to expect other groups to be assertive without yielding or attempting to domineer. This is hard work but I believe that we have learned that this is much easier than war.

In the post war period of building up this national unity and consciousness, there is a golden role to play for people like Thomas Frenando Fulle and Ananda Sangari etc. These people assert themselves while being sympathetic to the other groups. Another such organization is UTHR(J). Nevertheless, the people like Siri Jayathunga, Wickramabahu Karunarathna are traitors of all the ethnic groups even though their views seem to be sympathetic to Tamils. In reality they are not sympathetic to any living people and their real sympathy is directed only to dead people and dead ideologies. On several blogs dedicated to discuss Sri Lankan National issue, one blogger by the pseudo name Wijayapala, a Sinhalese Buddhist, is taking abuse from both sides, mainly from Sinhalese side. The only reason why he is abused is that he is pro Tamil and pro Sinhalese at the same time. We need many people like him to nurture our ideal of National identity in the consciousness of Sri Lankan people.

What is necessary is to erase the lines that are already drawn in our hearts not drawing new lines in sand. If we can erase these lines of evilness, overcoming these pseudo demarcations of ethnic divide, we can integrate all the ethnic groups as one Nation in which each ethnic group owns the whole country and practices its own way of life and cultural infusion continues to occur in natural way. The suffering of war should have taught us this lesson. I remember a little Sinhalese poem I read a long time ago:

In a place which
Even two people
Cannot take shelter,
Who teaches us
To share even by ten people
Is the
Rain!

I am dreaming of one united Nation. I hope that you share and cherish my dream.

One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter?!

Author: Rover

Often, regrettably, the terms terrorist and freedom fighters (or rebels) are used interchangeably by many, but these two terms are very distinct and should only be used in the correct context. For instance when discussing terrorism in Sri Lanka, major human rights agencies (like Human Rights Watc), ceasefire monitors (Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission) and international media (like BBC, AFP, REUTERS ect.) use these terms randomly, confusing the public about what terrorism actually is. Furthermore, a jaded cliché of those who justify terrorism (eg. MIA – Maya Arulpragasam) is “one man’s terrorist is another man’s’ freedom fighter”, a clear indication that they do not distinguish the two terms.

Confused public is a major problem, especially in democracies; since the democratic process depends heavily on how well informed the public and the representatives of the public are, to address crucial issues in governance. In other words, rule of the people, by the people, for the people is disrupted when the people are misinformed.

Terrorism can be broadly defined as intentionally terrorizing civilians/people of a country to achieve a political goal. However methods used by terrorists to terrorize can differ, such as random shooting, suicide bombings, poison gas attacks, hostage taking ect. The political goals that the terrorists strive for can be as diverse as creation of separate state, spreading of a fanatic ideology, facilitating anarchy so that illegal and immoral practices like pirating and smuggling can be carried out, release of a fellow captive terrorist, ect. Terrorists use this environment of fear and confusion in the general populace to achieve their political goals. Never in the history have any of these groups been concerned about defending the ideals they actively trample on (for example human rights). Terrorists will only honor the democratic ideals once these groups give up violence (renounce violence).

Consider Khmer Rouge, the terrorist organization headed by the infamous Pol-Pot. They did not only attack the Vietnamese forces but also attacked Vietnamese civilians, intellectuals (even non-intellectuals with eye defects that wore spectacles were assassinated!). The ultimate human cost of that conflict was nearly 3 million people; there is no way that all these people are militants, and most of those who died were civilians. Khmer Rouge instilled in the populace a sense of terror or that 'no one is safe'. Even after the conflict has ended, these regions are still paying for the atrocities of the Khmer Rouge.

What did the innocent that died in the 9/11 attacks have against the Jihadis? Basically nothing. Jihadis attacked these innocent civilians to instill a sense fear (or terror) in the greater population (at lease that was the Jihadis aimed for). Terrorists revel on the fact that there is a lack of connection between the cause that they are fighting for and the innocent people that suffer; or in other words, they strive to confuse and terrorize at the same time.

Freedom-fighters do battle against repressive governments and their armies, not against the civilians that they aim to protect/uplift. They don't terrorize civilians to achieve a political goal.

In 1940s, when Nazis overran France, and later tried to suppress the French Citizens by various means, the French Resistance Movement (FR) was born. FR hardly ever tried to instill a sense of fear among the civilians, but only carried out a campaign of attrition against the far more powerful Nazi army and the Vichy regime (the French government that collaborated with the Germans). However, the Vichy regime and the Nazis resorted to terrorist activities. They took large numbers of French civilians as hostages, and for each of the “subversive” acts the FR carried out, several hostages were killed. The Vichy regime tried to put the blame of these killings indirectly on the FR. However, the people realized who the real aggressor was and kept supporting the FR, and even women and children were involved active duty, not necessarily combat duty. The actions of FR enabled Allies to sweep through France quite rapidly after Normandy landing in 1944, and also helped numerous allied soldiers, pilots and spies who were stranded in enemy territory to head back to allied territory.

There are also freedom fighters that do not resort to violence. Mahatma Gandhi and his Satyagrah movement, which can be defined as the resistance of tyranny by mass civil disobedience, is one of the best examples. It is ludicrous to equate something like this with LTTE's unmitigated violence.

LTTE are definitely not freedom fighters, but terrorists, and should be identified and treated as such. BBC and other agencies, by trying seemingly to be neutral in reporting a conflict do a lot of harm to legitimate governments that try to maintain democracies and the rule of law. The atrocities committed by LTTE terrorists are too numerous to list, but is not confined to suicide bombings of public buses and public gatherings, killing of intellectuals (mostly Tamil intellectuals), attacking and killing entire villages, attacking places of worship, assassination of representative of civilians like President Premadasa and Ex-Prime minister of India – Rajiv Gandhi ect.

Some argue that there is state sponsored terrorism as well; sure, but there are two quite distinct categories. First there are regimes that sponsor terrorism: as Bejamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel, correctly asserted, terrorists can’t exist without the support of states that support terrorism. Most of the terrorists groups come into being through the support of repressive states, examples are numerous – India initially supporting the Sri Lankan terrorists (many organizations including the LTTE), Iran, Libya, and Iraq supporting numerous middle Eastern terrorist groups, Pakistan’s support of Laksha-E-Toiba ect.

Second there are democracies that fight terrorism using sometimes unconventional methods, and these regimes are often branded, by those who are sympathetic towards actual terrorists, as “state terrorists”. The use of unconventional methods (military intelligence operations ect. – but NOT DELIBERATE killing of civilians), experts say, are needed to counter terrorism.

To compound the situation, democratically elected regimes only get on average a four year term to rule a country, and they have to respect the will of the people during that time and in contrast, terrorists have an unlimited amount of time to do whatever they want to do. For example, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksha has the support of the Sri Lankan citizen to wage the war against the LTTE terrorists, but he has only a short amount of time to do this, but through unity of command,he has been doing this successfully (and there is absolutely no need to perpetuate a problem if it can mostly be dealt with quickly). Though I concur that addressing the root causes that giving rise to terrorism is the best method to make sure that ideologies connected to terrorism do not manifest, one cannot do this during the short four year period while fighting a terrorist regime. So democracies are forced to fight terrorism when and where they see it.

Democracies who fight terrorism also take a huge risk both with its own people and the international community. If the people decide that the war is not going anywhere, and the government has misused its power in suppressing the terrorists, the people can then change the government, they can make way for a more moderate set up (like what happened in the US – Bush being replaced by Obama); IC can contribute to this through many means. So in a democracy, there is a MECHANISM TO CHANGE a repressive regime. Lets’ take Sri Lanka as a general example, for the last 30 years, the LTTE has been fighting the Sri Lanka Government (SLG). Though the LTTE has gotten more and more violent throughout these 30 years, killing up to about 75,000 people, GSL leadership has changed seven times (though the top leader, the president, didn't change so many times, the setup of the government changed). Sometimes, there had been fairly liberal governments and sometimes more autocratic (or Hawkish one might say) governments, and which government next comes into power is decided by the people. So repressive “state terrorism”, if it exists, and if the majority are troubled by it, that government can be defeated when it becomes a problem. However for a terrorist group like the LTTE, the only change is towards causing more violence and problems to civilians, to get at its goal, and there is no non-violent, short term and simple method to get rid of these terrorist groups.

On top of these constraints democracies face in combating terrorism, terrorists groups also exploit the situation by providing access only to agencies and organizations that are only sympathetic/supportive towards their cause, opening up a way for misinformation. Through this sort of pussy-footing, by these supposedly responsible and exemplary organizations like the BBC, with terrorists, and warping of the truth, it is only a matter of time before all what we hold dear (democracy and the associated ideals) will be defeated by terrorists through the very same democratic processes that terrorists seek to annihilate!

Hence, these two terms, terrorists and freedom-fighters, considering the enormous burden that the free (democratic) world endures due to terrorism (terrorists), should never be equated or trivialized.

Audacity Of A Tongue: Nadashen’s Tongue Acrobatics Continues Unabated

Author: Swarnajith Udana - swarnajithudana@gmail.com

Consider this unbelievable act of tongue gymnastics.

“Whenever the LTTE had the upper hand militarily, the Sri Lankan ruling party pretending to find a political solution came for peace talks. But, once finding the time space to strengthen its armed forces, the Sri Lankan ruling party disrupted the peace talks and again created the conditions for war.

The Sri Lankan Governments have staged this drama of deceiving the world and the Tamil people starting from the very first talks, after the launch of the armed struggle, in Thimbu in 1985 till the 2002 ceasefire agreement and the following five years of peace talks under Norway's facilitation.”-Nadashen

Can you see how true this is? Alright, I agree. There is a minor correction to be made. In that statement, LTTE and Sri Lankan Government are occupying each others’ place. If you do not replace LTTE with Sri Lankan Government and vice versa then this is an example of audacity of a tongue which may be unparallel in human history. This tongue is, of course, a gifted tongue. Gifted by the Sun God, that is.

Rajiv Gandhi was killed. It is either “that was an act of liberation” or “Sri Lankan Government did it to paint the LTTE in bad colour”. Which one of these is to be picked is determined by the operational need of the day.

Whatever LTTE does is an act of pure generosity of the highest kind.

Government sends food to Wanni. This is an act of genocide.
LTTE takes this food by force and deny it to the civilians. This is an act of generosity; also an act of liberation of the highest order.

The Government welcomes refugees and look after them. This is genocide.
Tamil civilians are shot at and killed by the LTTE. Further they are used as body armour. This is utmost generosity of the best of human decency.

The roads that can be used by civilians to flee to the government area are mined by the LTTE. That is emancipation.

The Tamil Diaspora cannot feel this human tragedy because their ethnic ideology has blinded them. Any ideology can blind us and can take us to the abyss of evilness. Patriotism, socialism, capitalism or even humanism in extreme form can blind us and push us into the darkness. It happens slowly. So we do not realise unless we stop and look at ourselves frequently to see where we are going.

We need to operate on principles rather than on emotions or rules. We need to practice patriotism for the welfare of our people not for the sake of ideology of patriotism. We need to practice humanism for the benefit of mankind not for the sake of ideology of humanism.

I do not believe that we are exonerated of creating the LTTE. If the right conditions were not there LTTE leader could still have become a psychopath; a social one not necessarily a socio politico one. We are a part of that crime. Tamil people are a part of that crime. We need to find salvation in our hearts, end the blame game and learn how to live together as Sri Lankans had done for many centuries, because we are them they are us.

Miracles Of Money: Unscrupulous Gymnastics Of a “Legal” Professional

Author: Swarnajith Udana - swarnajithudana@gmail.com

What determines who is a terrorist?
What determines what humanism is?
What determines what is evil?
What determines what is good?

A great service of unimaginable value has been rendered by some legal saints who stand for sanctity of human rights and civil liberty by simplifying the process of answering such questions.

The methodology is so simple; unbelievably simple. Only problem is that the answer generates utmost revulsion in any decent person and increases the bank account of the creators of this simple method. This makes one ponder is it really possible such ‘erudite’ people to fall into this despicable level of nastiness and hypocrisy just for color of money. More the zeros in the sum, the deeper the abyss of evilness and darkness these people fall into.

If the Government of Sri Lanka has paid the fee asked by the so called great humanist lawyer then the LTTE is the terrorist organization. Since the Sri Lankan Government has not agreed to pay the fee, that is what has determined what terrorism is not. Since the LTTE has paid more or less than this asked price of 25000 dollars a month, the Sri Lankan government has suddenly become the terrorist party and LTTE has become the angles of peace, champions of liberation, ideals of humanity and priests of sanctity, to the sharp eyes of these lawyers. That is, sharp enough to see only the color of money. This is the miracle of money. This is the ultimate manifestation of incredible ‘legal’ gymnastics of unscrupulousness.

Let us look at a different situation. A farmer may refuse to sell his produce to a customer if the right price is not offered. This is quite normal, but the farmer will not poison the foods in the refrigerator of this customer. A doctor may refuse to treat a person who is not in an emergency situation if the right fee is not agreed upon but the doctor will not falsify the medical history of this patient. Now, an underworld contract killer will obviously behave differently. If the underworld thug does not like the price offered to him by the person A to protect him from B then he will negotiate with the person B to kill the Person A for half the fee. That is natural too. That is what natural to contract killers.

Now these unscrupulous acts legal professionals are amount to contract killing of Tamil people, nothing less and Sri Lanka in general. This frightens me. What would have happened if the Government had agreed to pay the fee? Would this person have become the greatest of the great in our eyes? How ironical, sad and frightening?

This writer will be extremely unhappy, as many others, if Sri Lankan Government acts casually towards the safety of civilian lives. Indications are that the Government is trying to do all it can to save human lives under extremely difficult circumstances. For example, UTHR(J) has commended that soldiers’ behavior at crossing points being exceptionally well. In the refuge camps there could be vultures. Some of these vultures could even be LTTE-ers. Like in Tsunami or New Orleans cyclone there are always vultures who take advantage of human tragedies. This behavior has no racial undertones or is not limited to any particular group. Religious, civil and political leaders can assist the government to eliminate behaviors of such vultures.

We need to look at the promise here. Even after the suicide bombing in side the refugee camp if the soldiers, who are trained to promptly react to even a slightly a threatening situation, can behave with such gentleness towards civilians (even though these civilians could end up being LTTE attackers) is a hallmark of bravery and nobleness of well disciplined soldiers. Again there could be people step out side the norm. In the name of our Tamil brothers and sisters the government needs to look into these possibilities. I emphasize that the tragedy of tsunami brought out the best of humanity and the worst. In any crisis situation, in any country these things could happen. It was reported that how Sri Lankan Sinhalese Nave personnel risked their lives to save Tamil brothers and sisters. Again even in that situation LTTE obstructed these rescue efforts and did not give any assistance to the people.

One may resist that this writer is thinking every civilian as a possible LTTE terrorist. Not so, but this problematic challenge itself epitomizes the brutality of LTTE methodology. Isn’t this another reason why the LTTE needs to be destroyed? Even basic human compassion is a bait of death. They can use so called their own people as baits of deaths. This reminds me Ted Bundy. To rape and kill he lured girls by pretending to be sick.

I would like to summarize what a few zeros in a bank check can do. It can sanctify the act of using babies, women, and elderly people as body protection suits. Yes it is a divine act of endless mercy and human compassion. It can deify drug trafficking, human smuggling suicide killing and any other crime. Yes they are noble acts of liberation. More the zero-more the lowness they would embrace. What I am surprised at is that world has ears to lend them.

I would like to thank Hela Puwath for bringing this aspect to my attention.

Demonstrating for the same reason – to save Tamil civilians

Author: Rover

It was a cold and windy day, in Washington DC on the 20th of February 2009, when I walked over with a couple of other folks down the streets, we walked down Pennsylvania avenue (where we parked our car) and turned onto 15 th street. On my right, I could see the White House, and far away the majestic Washington monument, the worlds tallest obelisk built to commemorate the first US president George Washington. My destination was between these two imposing structures – the Ellipse, an open park fringed with trees where the National Christmas Tree is located, and during the American Civil War where the union troops camped, but more importantly for my story, where we were about to counter-demonstrate against a ruthless terrorist organization, the LTTE.

I was reminiscencing – how could an internationally proscribed terrorist organization be allowed to demonstrate freely in the middle of the epitome of US governance. Was this a dream? Perhaps it won’t be the LTTE, it probably will be just Tamil people, concerned about the plight of the entrapped civilians, wanting to demonstrate against the LTTE to save the Tamils. This I knew was just wishful thinking, and in a corner of my heart I knew that it would be mostly the LTTE.

When I arrived at the Ellipse, it was divided by a broad fence into two halves, the Sri Lankan half and the “Tamil” half ((I use citation marks for a specific reason as you will see later), mounted police were actively keeping an eye for trouble makers; already a large group of "Tamil" supporters had gathered, and already I could hear their slogans through their loudspeakers. They had also got the prime spot, right in front of the State Building next to the White House. Predominantly Canadian and US flags were being waved about. No sign of LTTE flags. But the heat was on.

I watched a group Sri Lankans getting ready for the counter demonstration. I heard someone asking around… “do we have access to a loudspeaker?”; “no not yet, we’ll soon find one” came the answer – we were not that well prepared, at least on the loudspeaker front. Another man was preparing banners. One elderly gentleman had put in a lot of effort and had made a lot of banners; he must have taken at least a day preparing those. And they had some profound slogans. Even some of the ones we discussed on this blog! Another group had prepared the flags, Sri Lankan and the US flags – they were given around. We were ready to go!

A couple of Sri Lankans who obviously had no prior ability to run a demonstration started to lead the chanting. It was a feeble effort, rather depressing. These were probably gentle folk who worked in the nearby offices who were compelled to attend the demonstration in support of our country. Mercifully, soon a group of Sri Lankan youngsters with some spunk and with a little bit of cheer-leading abilities took over, and the chanting took a turn to better. One girl stood out from the rest. She had a high pitched voice, and it pierced all corners of the Ellipse. I started liking this. But still they were not really used to doing this sort of thing, it was obvious. Why should we be? Sri Lankans have better things to do than going all over US, demonstrating and being a public menace; we are not on welfare. In fact many people with Sri Lankan roots missed the demonstration because it was a working day, a Friday.

In contrast, the "Tamil" demonstrators were very good at chanting, they were professionals, I was told (and felt) that the same group attends all the LTTE instigated demonstration in N. America. Apparently around 40 buses had arrived, mostly from Canada, where most of the LTTE supporting idle Tamils who are on welfare live – a good population for the LTTE to exploit.

Curiously, I soon realized that both the Sri Lankans and their opposition were chanting to save the civilians! At least this was one of the major reasons. Why were we then chanting as different groups if we were demanding the same thing?! Perhaps there were no LTTE supporters here? My hope was soon shattered when LTTE flags were suddenly raised; there were 6 of them, and banners of Prabhakaran (wow!), the LTTE leader. So this crowd comprised of LTTE supporters, wanting to save the Terrorists who were entrapped by the Sri Lanka Defense Forces and not really the civilians.

Let me be clear. LTTE is holding Tamil civilians as a human shield, and would not let them go their way despite the Sri Lankan government providing a no-fire zone and safe passage. There was even a two day ceasefire to facilitate the safe movement of civilians, at a great cost to the army. But still, the LTTE didn't let the civilians go. LTTE was admonished severely by the UN for obstructing civilian passage. So it is now well known that LTTE wants to keep the civilians trapped for to further propagate their terrorist activities. So the guys demonstrating here wanted to save the LTTE instead of the entrapped civilians. Government's main goal on the other hand was to crush the LTTE militarily and save the civilians, both in short and long term.

By seeing the Terrorist flags, right in the middle of the US, I was disappointed. How could LTTE terrorists raise their flag in front of the epitome of US democracy? When the US government, itself plagued by the activities of terrorists, had given permission for the “Tamils” to demonstrate, how did the LTTE hijack this? Or were the LTTE terrorists given permission to demonstrate here? How could a proscribed terrorist group loaf around freely and chant against a democracy that is fighting the terrorists? Would anyone have allowed Al-Queda, shinning-path or Hamas activists to demonstrate here? But soon several Sri Lankans called some influential people and the flag-bearers were asked to lower their Terrorist flags.

Another poignant event occurred. A white American had gone to the LTTE side to ask a few questions; to get at the truth. One of his questions had been “why are you demonstrating here, I was in Sri Lanka when LTTE bombs went off and many civilians were killed”. The LTTE supporters had not liked this question and had asked him to “go away!”; he had retorted “this is my country, you can’t ask me to go away!”; the LTTE guys had said “this is our country too!”. After this guy came running into our half and got a Sri Lankan flag and started waving it vigorously about and joined us in our demonstration. Well, he actually went beyond our allotted space into the LTTE half and displayed the Sri Lankan flag! This act was poignant for me as at that moment, Bruce Fein, another American, but who was more interested in materialistic gains rather than moral considerations, was at that very moment with the LTTE supporters, but mercifully I did not see or hear what he was doing.

It was bloody cold, as I said earlier, and it was time to go home, I had been here for almost five hours and was half frozen, time to find a coffee shop somewhere and back to work. I walked away from the Ellipse, cold and hungry, and quite disappointed to hear my country being denigrated by a ruthless terrorist group. The last chants I heard that drifted across the frigid ellipse were made by an LTTE vixen screaming “Sri Lankans are cowards, killing innocent children!” and "let us end this genocide!". Since then I have been wondering how a terrorist group, that terrorized civilians to get at a political goal for 30 years, killing more than 75,000 people in the process, was able to demonstrate to "save civilians", in the grand Ellipse to the right of the White House.