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- "Only the dead have seen the end of wars." This Blog is dedicated in the name of all men of the armed forces , paramilitary and police force and innocent people trapped by the hell of this "Tamil Insurrection" - past ,present and future - who have valiantly fought for many years - and many who sacrificed their young lives - to keep this country under one flag and in order to keep "Tamil terrorist " at bay. And may it be noted that this site also looks sadly and in utter disgust at political regimes who have bickered among themselves for for the last fifty years since independence , and have played into the hands off the "Eelamist sympathisers " in trying to compromise the birth right of all Sri Lankans and have prevented all armed forces from eliminating the tamil terrorist and putting an end to this internecine "tamil Insurrection". "This is a bugle call for the people of Sri Lanka to pressurize the politicians of this country to keep political goals , election targets away and their petty political differences away to stamp down this insurrection once and for all - FOR THAT IS THE ONLY WAY FOR LASTING PEACE NOT THROUGH SELF DESTRUCTING PEACE RALLIES. Note:This blog is a collection of articles published regarding the Sri lankan conflict in different web based media that have been collected over a long period.I hope these articles will help one gain a better insight about this internecine conflict that plagues this country more almost three decades.
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April 2, 2012 මගේ දෑස ඇගේ ප්රේමයයි
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March 26, 2012 සෙව්වන්දියකට පෙම් බැන්දා….
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September 13, 2011 TAMIL CLAIMS TO LAND: FACT AND FICTION By GAMINI IRIYAGOLLA
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August 24, 2011 කොටි පිළිබඳ කතෝලික පල්ලියේ පිළිවෙත
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August 24, 2011 Humanitarian Operation – Defeating Terrorism – Sri Lankan Experience
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August 18, 2011 ශ්රී ලංකා හමුදාවට එරෙහිව “ප්රියම්වතා”
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August 17, 2011 පොතුවිල් සිට කින්නියට ව්යාප්ත වූ ජාවාරම්කාර “යක්ෂයන්” මර්දනය කර යුතුයි
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August 8, 2011 Sri Lanka Presidential Advisor on Reconciliation Prof Rajiva Wijesinha interview with NewsX
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August 8, 2011 Denzil Kobbekaduwa and different perspectives in the army by Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha
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August 6, 2011 ‘මානුෂිය මෙහෙයුමේ ඇත්ත කතාව මේකයි’
About this Blog
This blog concerns the Sri Lankans fight against LTTE terrorism.LTTE is a ruthless terror outfit which fights for an ethnically pure, separate Tamil homeland for Tamils living in Sri Lanka since 1983. The outfit is well known for its extreme tribalism and nefarious crimes against soft targets specially the women and children. During its two and half decade long terrorist war against Sri Lankan people, LTTE has killed over 70,000 people mostly civilians in its ethnic cleansing raids, indiscriminate bomb attacks, suicide blasts, etc. LTTE is also in top of the UN's list of shame for using child soldiers in war. As a tactical measure the outfit uses only young female cadres and male child soldiers for the front lines.මුගුරක් ඇවැසිතැන මුගුරක් ගෙන නැගෙනූ …
මුගුරක් ඇවැසිතැන මුගුරක් ගෙන නැගෙනූ
කඩුවක් ඇවැසිතැන කඩුවක් ගෙන කොටනූ
සංග්රාමයට නව ගුණ වැල ගෙන නොයනූ
සංග්රාමයෙන් පසු නවගුණ වැල ගනිමූකඩු දුනු හී තෝමර ඈ අවිගෙන
වියරු වැටී සතුරන් දිව එන කල
රණ බිම මැද එරමිණිය ගොතාගෙන
දසසිල් වී නව ගුණවැල ගනිමුදකවුරුන් හෝ මගේ රට බිලි දේනම්
නොපනත්කම් ගිනිලා අහුලානම්
කුමටද උන් හා සීල සමාදන්
සටනින් තොර මුනිවත අවදානම්- විශාරද නන්දා මාලනී
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Smell Of Victory
Smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing in the world smells like that.I love the smell of napalm in the morning.One time we had a hill bombed, for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one enemy body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like... victory. Someday this war's gonna end. Apocalypse Now(1979)-
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Give to those who have given
They died for something that may be trivial to many. A piece of high ground on a salty sand dune, or a landing area in a landmine filled beach, or simply protecting a cadjan bunker in some remote corner of the island. But when dusk settles on this protracted war, every sacrifice these thousands made will have a reason and purpose. We should pay tribute to all our fallen heroes who gave their today for our tomorrow.
Sri Lanka Guardian- Tamils, it's time to wake up! May 29, 2012| by C. Naganathan ( May 29, 2012, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Before the LTTE evolved into a militant force, the peaceful struggle for devolution by the Tamil leaders (front of old Parliament and Galle face green) were attacked by the Sinhala government sponsored mob. During that time the Tamil problem was known as a domestic issue and the outside world di […]noreply@blogger.com (Sri Lanka Guardian)
- BANGLADESH: Government cannot protect anyone May 29, 2012 noreply@blogger.com (Sri Lanka Guardian)
- Bone-Break, Bill Gates, Ft. Detrick and GSK; US Army Dengue Fever Vaccine Trials in Thailand May 29, 2012| by Thomas C. Mountain ( May 29, 2012, Asmara- Eritrea , Sri Lanka Guardian ) Born in a laboratory at Fort Detrick, Maryland, home to the USA’s biological warfare program, the US Army created, Bill Gates Foundation funded and GSK administered Dengue “Bone-Break” Fever vaccine is reported to be in advanced trials in Thailand. Dengue Fever, a virus transmitte […]noreply@blogger.com (Sri Lanka Guardian)
- Ambassador Jayatilleka speaks at prestigious Barcelona institute May 29, 2012( May 29, 2012, Paris, Sri Lanka Guardian) Dr Dayan Jayatilleka, Sri Lanka’s Ambassador to France, Spain and Portugal was invited to deliver a lecture on the topic ‘Sri Lanka and the Special Session of the UN Human Rights Council, May 2009’ by the Barcelona Institute for International Studies (IBEI) on May 24th. IBEI is an inter-university institute of postg […]noreply@blogger.com (Sri Lanka Guardian)
- Amnesty or Rehabilitation to Tamil prisoners May 29, 2012( May 29, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Mano Ganesan tells the govt at protest rally opposite magazine prison in support of Tamil political prisoners Government maintains a policy of selective justice. You have pardoned Vinayakamoorthy Muralitharan aka Karuna Amman, Chandrakanthan aka Pillaiyan, K. Pathmanathan aka KP and Daya master who were the most popular […]noreply@blogger.com (Sri Lanka Guardian)
- Is the Sri Lankan war anti-Tamil or anti-Terrorism? May 29, 2012| by Gajalakshmi Paramasivam ( May 29, 2012, Melbourne, Sri Lanka Guardian) To many Sri Lankans, the Sri Lankan war is not ethnicity related. The more one thinks that the war was Anti-Terrorism war, the less space there is for thoughts on the basis of ethnicity. Similarly, those who focus more and more on ‘what happened’ than ‘why it happened’ – are moving a […]noreply@blogger.com (Sri Lanka Guardian)
- Buddhist History of Afghanistan and South India May 29, 2012| by Dr. Sripali Vaiamon ( May 29, 2012, Toronto, Sri Lanka Guardian) The very first Buddha statue in the world was built in Gandhara, in the Kabul region of Afghanistan. Presently the area known as Kandahar. Afghanistan was a Buddhist country, quite similar to Tamil Nadu which I touched briefly in the last article, where Buddhism was popular during Buddhago […]noreply@blogger.com (Sri Lanka Guardian)
- Breakout blueprint : ITAK's attack plan May 29, 2012| BY DR DAYAN JAYATILLEKA ( May 29, 2012, Paris, Sri Lanka Guardian) The keynote speech by Mr. R Sampanthan, the leader of the main Tamil parliamentary party at the recent congress of that organization is in many respects a landmark event. It sheds light on a number of key strategic issues and should make clear to the international community that the matter […]noreply@blogger.com (Sri Lanka Guardian)
- Parama Weera: What it takes, and what it means May 29, 2012| by David Blacker ( May 29, 2012, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) The eyes stared expressionlessly back at me from the fifteen small pictures, some clear, and some blurred; reflections that only hinted at the men behind those eyes. But sharp or soft, they all looked so innocuous, so devoid of any indication of what they had once seen. So normal. To look into t […]noreply@blogger.com (Sri Lanka Guardian)
- Why military matters in the North? May 28, 2012| by Col. R. Hariharan ( May 28, 2012, Chennai, Sri Lanka Guardian) President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s Victory Day speech this year on May 19 was largely a defensive discourse justifying the continued presence large army formations in the North. The sense of triumphalism that had become hallmark of Victory Day speeches was missing this year. This is understandabl […]noreply@blogger.com (Sri Lanka Guardian)
- Tamils, it's time to wake up! May 29, 2012
Sinhale Hot News- Sri Lanka’s constitution denies separatism: ITAK still wants to separate. What is delaying Govt action? May 29, 2012By Shenali Waduge Delaying actions concerning the welfare of the Sri Lankan people by allowing a handful to create unprecedented strife based on a notion of “ethnic separatism” not shared by the majority has led to decades of terror resulting in unnecessary damage control allowing Sri Lanka to be compromised to opportunist nations pursuing neo-colonial [...] […]sinhale
- TNA says 13-A not acceptable May 28, 2012The Illankai Tamil Arasu Katchi did not consider the 13th Amendment an acceptable solution, TNA leader R. Sampanthan, MP said, addressing the 14th Annual ITAK Convention in Batticaloa, on Sunday. He said: “Our expectation for a solution to the ethnic problem of the sovereignty of the Tamil people is based on a political structure outside [...]sinhale
- Gotabhaya makes it clear May 28, 2012By L. Jayasooriya A foreign correspondent who interviewed Gotabhaya very aggressively yesterday asked him why Sinhalese are settling down in predominantly Tamil areas to which Gotabhaya reacted very appropriately and told him that any citizen can buy property and settle down anywhere in the country he wants. He then pointed out to him that many [...]suranimala
- Carrot for friends and stick for others! May 28, 2012By S. H. Moulana, Riyadh. Reference news item ‘Using HR issues as political instrument fundamentally unacceptable – Lavrov’ (‘Sunday Island’ 27 May), I would like to add that the US always talks about its ‘carrot and stick’ tactics it adopts to get things done through countries mainly dependent on its assistance. However, through long experience, [...] […]suranimala
- RUSSIA PUBLISHES ITS FIRST ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF BUDDHISM May 28, 2012By Walter Jayawardhana Russia has announced that they have published “The first encyclopaedia of Buddhist philosophy” where Buddhism has seen a revival after the collapse of Communism. “The encyclopaedia analyses the philosophical aspects of Buddhism in the context of different civilisations, cultures and religions, including Hinduism, Christianity and Isla […]sinhale
- GL summons UK HC over disputing President’s claims May 28, 2012External Affairs Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris yesterday summoned British High Commissioner John Rankin to the ministry to protest against the UK envoy contradicting President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s Victory Day speech. A British High Commission spokesperson yesterday afternoon said that the HC had further comments on this issue. Ministry sources told The Island th […]suranimala
- Tony Blair facing questions over links to Rupert Murdoch empire at Leveson Inquiry May 28, 2012Tony Blair is expected to face questions over his links with Rupert Murdoch’s media empire when he appears before the Leveson Inquiry into press standards today. The former Prime Minister is likely to face scrutiny over whether his links with Mr Murdoch and News International became “closer than was wise”, as his former lieutenant Lord [... […]sinhale
- “Ask the British High Commissioner” to bug… off May 28, 2012By H. L. D. Mahindapala Are the Western diplomats given too much of licence to dabble in domestic affairs which is none of their business, to begin with? Take the latest case of John Rankin, the British High Commissioner. Is it any of his business whether Sri Lanka stations its troops in the north, south, [...]suranimala
- Human Rights : US vs China May 28, 2012By Shenali Waduge The buzz word is human rights and it has found itself a perfect tool and political instrument to advance western imperialism and usurp the sovereign status of nations. Countries that have committed and continue to commit human right abuses have in essence no moral, legal or political right to accuse others. The [...]sinhale
- Fonseka: I Don’t Know,I Don’t Know – Gota Told Frederica May 28, 2012Giving an exclusive interview to Sunday Leader Editor Frederica Jansz, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Secretary to the Ministry of Defence and Urban Development denied answer questions she posed about Sarath Fonseka. Below we reproduce the full interview. Read moresinhale
- Sri Lanka’s constitution denies separatism: ITAK still wants to separate. What is delaying Govt action? May 29, 2012
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Swift, Silent & Deadly
Fear The LRRP
The LRRP has been very successful in covert operations against the LTTE terrorists in the northern and eastern provinces of Sri Lanka. Its members were so successful in assassinating key LTTE figures that many LTTE leaders refused to come out of their jungle bunkers before the 2002 ceasefire was implemented. After the resumption of hostilities, it is believed that the LRRP units conducted operations in the LTTE held northern province too. The LTTE has accused the Sri Lankan Deep Penetration Units of launching attacks on LTTE leaders in their areas, although the Sri Lankan Government denies any involvement in these attacks. The teams have had success against LTTE leaders such as military intelligence leader Colonel Charls and many leaders. Other success have included observing LTTE training camps and calling in air strikes. The LRRP's successes and dedicated operators have garnered a fearful reputation among the LTTE. The SL Army commander Gen.Sarath Fonseka had recently acknowledged that LRRP units were used to beat the LTTE at their own game.It was later revealed that LTTE, who were masters at jungle warfare refused to engage in combat and withdrew from their positions instead of holding their ground because of these elite soldiers. SL LRRP unit falls under SF3 (Special Forces 3rd Regiment)they and SF1,SF2,SF4 & Commandos played a vital role in eliminating the LTTE including V.Piribaharan a.k.a Sun God a.k.a Supreme Commander of the LTTE. LTTE according to FBI is was the most dangerous terrorist group in the world.Things you didn’t do
Remember the day I borrowed your brand new car and I dented it?
I thought you'd kill me but you didn't.
And remember the time I dragged you to the beach and you said it would rain and it did?
I thought you'd say, "I told you so", but you didn't.
Do you remember the time I flirted with all the guys to make you jealous and you were.
I thought you'd leave me, but you didn't.
Do you remember the time I spilled strawberry pie all over your car rug.
I thought you'd hit me but you didn't.
And remember the time I forgot to tell you the dance was formal and you showed up in jeans?
I thought you'd drop me. But you didn't.
Yes, there were lots of things you didn't do.
But you put up with me and you loved me and you protected me.
There were lots of thing I wanted to make up to you when you returned from War.
But you didn't.
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- Dimensions of discipline and ways of punishing May 25, 2012 noreply@blogger.com (Malinda Seneviratne)
- We can now look back without anger…. May 24, 2012 noreply@blogger.com (Malinda Seneviratne)
- When students are tried and convicted by innuendo… May 23, 2012 noreply@blogger.com (Malinda Seneviratne)
Silent Heros – The LRRPs’
"Stealth, bravery and a commitment to duty, these were the attributes of the men of the Sri Lankas' Long Range Reconnaissance Patrols (LRRPs). Going deep inside LTTE held enemy lines, danger was their watchwood & Military Skills was their only protection."Victory Day : Lest We Forget
It was on the night of the 19th of May and dawn of 20th 2009 that Sri Lankan rid itself completely of the plague known as Tamil terrorism and became a country where there is freedom of movement for all.
Let us remember those that gave their lives to make this a reality and remember all the misguided LTTE youth who died in vain with compassion.
Rajiva Wijesinha’s Blog- The Global War on Terror: How Do the Liberals Respond? May 27, 2012Presentation by Prof Rajiva Wijesinha MP, Leader – Liberal Party of Sri Lanka And Presidential Adviser on Reconciliation to the President, Sri Lanka On ‘The Global War on Terror: How Do the Liberals Respond?’ At the Seminar on “Liberalism: It’s All About Freedom” Organized by the Civic Will Green Party of Mongolia Ulaanbaatar, May 24th [...] […]rajivawijesinha
- Benjamin Dix’s Paranoia, and the subtle effectiveness of Guy Rhodes in abusing aid in Sri Lanka May 23, 2012Those who watched the celebration of our servicemen on May 19th told me the President seemed upset when he had to condole with the families of those who had died. Catching glimpses of the march past, I could understand that. But in addition to sorry for them, and indeed for the Tamils too who had [...]rajivawijesinha
- Frances Harrison, Daran of Channel 4 claims, and the othering of Arun Tambimuttu May 21, 2012At the Frontline Club discussion on Sri Lanka, I finally came across Frances Harrison. The name had been familiar, for in recent years, whenever I went to England, she used to tweet madly about me, in what seemed to me desperate hysteria, though I soon enough found out that many journalists tweet in that mad [...]rajivawijesinha
- Roma Tearne, puddings and attributions of greed May 20, 2012Amongst the most interesting offshoots of the discussion on Channel 4 and Sri Lanka held at the Frontline Club in London was a wonderfully creative piece by the novelist Roma Tearne. Her photograph is that of a very smart young lady, long face set off by bullet shaped ear-rings and long dark hair, with a [...]rajivawijesinha
- Destroying traditional SLFP Foreign Policy and the national consensus May 19, 2012The more extreme elements in the Ministry of External Affairs have at last put their cards on the table in the form of an article by the wife of one of its rising stars. The same young lady kindly gave me an opportunity to engage in a strong critique of the viewpoints she represented, when [...]rajivawijesinha
- Sri Lanka: Reconciliation and Justice – Frontline Club, London 16 May 2012 May 17, 2012The following remarks had been prepared in the belief that speakers would have about 10 minutes each. However, speakers were only given a few minutes for a few introductory remarks, the rest of the 45 minutes for the opening section being devoted to answering questions from the Moderator. Unfortunately I had no chance to make [...]rajivawijesinha
- Sri Lanka Rights Watch 12 – Labour and Migrant Workers May 15, 2012The National Action Plan for the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights 2011 – 2016 as well as the full series of Sri Lanka Rights Watch are available at the Peace & Reconciliation Website. The Consultation with responsible government officials we convened last week, to expedite implementation of the National Human Rights Action Plan, would I thought […]rajivawijesinha
- Sri Lanka Rights Watch 11 – The Girl Guide initiative about Violence against Women and Children May 14, 2012The National Action Plan for the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights 2011 – 2016 as well as the full series of Sri Lanka Rights Watch are available at the Peace & Reconciliation Website. A couple of days after government had held a consultation about implementation of the Human Rights Action Plan with regard to Women and Children, the Sri [...] […]rajivawijesinha
- At the debate on the Report of the Committee On Public Enterprises – 8th May 2012 May 13, 2012Speech of Prof Rajiva Wijesinha, MP in Parliament Mr Speaker, it is an honour to speak in this debate on the report of the Committee on Public Enterprises, given how much it has accomplished. Thanks to the indefatigable efforts of its Chairman, the simple but brilliant idea of dividing into sub-committees given the amount of [...]rajivawijesinha
- Sri Lanka Rights Watch 10 – The importance of Training, Operational Directives and Reporting May 12, 2012The National Action Plan for the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights 2011 – 2016 as well as the full series of Sri Lanka Rights Watch are available at the Peace & Reconciliation Website. At both the informal consultations on implementation of the Human Rights Action Plan held at the Reconciliation Office, and the official meetings conducted at the […]rajivawijesinha
- The Global War on Terror: How Do the Liberals Respond? May 27, 2012
Nineteen ’til I Die
"Last night it rained. And I stood under my parents’ porch and smoked. The deluge of water on the tin sheeting drowned out everything — traffic, the neighbours, the sound of the TV. Just me and the rain and the dark, like it had been on that first night in December 1990. I stepped out from the porch, and the rain put out my cigarette in an instant. I spat away the shreds of tobacco and let the rain soak me. Remembering them, as I have done a hundred thousand times in the last eighteen years.
I can remember the ridged steel flooring of the Y-8′s cargo bay like it was yesterday, digging into my arse as I sit packed in with my platoon, flying to Palay.
I remember the smell of wet sandbags on that first night on the FDL at Elephant Pass. Looking out into the black ink beyond the perimeter. Here be Tigers.
And the ten-man patrols through knee-deep water, trying to be quiet. “Kata vahapang, huththo,“
The hot, dusty days and wet, rainy nights. Mosquitoes. And being tired. So tired. Every day. All the time.
Sharing cigarettes and melted Edna chocolate on Christmas Day. Tang instant orange mixed with warm, brackish Jaffna Peninsula water.
And contact. Finally. What we’d lived for, longed for, suffered for. What we’d watched in movies and read about in books. Contact. Sex for virgins. With red tracers. And the elephant sitting on my back, squeezing the breath out of my lungs as I tried to hold my rifle steady. The hammer roar of 7.62-mm fire, gunflashes blurring the distant, running figures.
None of us were over twenty, most eighteen or nineteen. Ariyaratne, the section commander, and Dias, the machine-gunner; our parents, old men of twenty-four. Combat veterans of the Sinha Rifles. The hard core.
And the killing. I remember every single one. The blood, the eyes. The smell. I remember Rohantha getting hit by the .50. I remember the sixteen-year-old bayoneted girl with the long plaited hair come loose. I remember kneeling at a tube well and washing the crusted blood out from under my finger nails.
Down time. Sitting in abandoned tin buildings in the Saltern Siding. We’d strip down to OG shorts and slippers and our Death By Bullets T-shirts. We never talked about victory, about killing Prabha, or defeating the Tigers. Our personal goals were to survive, to do well, to not let each other or our regiment down. Sura talking about the XT-250 he wanted to buy. Husni and Sanjeeva talking about girls. Dias and I cleaning guns and talking about optics.
I thought I knew them all very well, but now I realize I didn’t really. And now, sadly, I can’t recall their faces in detail. And sometimes I have to think hard to remember all nine names.
Well, it looks like it’s over now. And I wish those guys were here to see it. I wish we could all go out for a drink and talk about EPS and catch up on our lives. But it’s too late for all that. It all took too long. I wish they were all in their thirties, like me. Maybe they’d have wives, and children, or not. I wish they could walk down the road and be offered kiri bath by the trishaw drivers. I wish they were alive."
For Section 2, Recce Group Charlie, 6th Sinha Rifles.
KIA, July 1991, Elephant Pass.(David Blacker)
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