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  • Saw a comment on the tsunami on a poya day.. And that does not connect with buddha... Even its a poya day.. You cant wash sins out of you.. You will be punished by your sins...Learn buddhism and then speak.. Thats my kind request.. And the people who show their ignorance have no sense about buddhism and sinhalese culture which are uncomparable to any tresure on or out of the world... They are "sacred"....

  • who the hell is OBAMA to Tell us what to DO !!!.. this was our problem!! we knw how to tackle the problem even though we took 30 years we completely eliminated them out of the face of the earth ....USA the most powerful country in the world with all its might took 15 YEARS TO TRACK DOWN ONE MAN!!!... mind ur own efing business

    !!!

  • Obama u ponna motherfuker go wprry about ur own problems and stop fkn givn ass to iraq and middle east u got ur own problems to look after fkn joblessbastrd.u fkrs are just jealous that we defeated terrorism and the only country

  • @DjRushdiR ela comment eka machan FUCK USA FUCK OBAMA FUCK INDIA

  • @DjRushdiR hahahaha....are you a retard? Calling Obama jobless? u mad bro?

  • So,

    Civilians trapped in Iraq, Afganistan are NOT INNOCENT? Is that what you mean?... Ok I get it!.

    Stop Blabbering and Try to "LEAD BY EXAMPLE"!!!!

    A Concerned Peace Loving Tamil in Sri Lanka.

  • idiot you dont go to argue with America or Russia or China, do you want to get invaded?

  • "Sri lankan Govt must not use Heavy Weapons in the Conflict Zone" - Obama.

    So, I believe that the 2 Atomic Bombs dropped into Japan after they were defeated were "Light Weapons"....

    Wow, Nice speach Mr.Speacher...!

  • actualy if Sri Lankan army used light weapons against those land propelled amphibious boats full of explosives, there will be lot of troop lost. You have no choice. Everybody is a human, but in chaos you cannot do anything.

  • He cant do any thing, because he is not the president of Sri Lanka

  • yes but he is the pesident of the world partly if there was no Russia or China, so you should have some respect. Any of these countries like America or Russia or China can be a total bitch, they are just going on humanitarean paths for the benifit of poor countries.

  • Don't know about China or Russia, but humanitarian paths of US and allied westerns were only benefits for their countries.Just want to grab resources and find market places.

  • but my friend couldnt those countries beat the hell out of others? They dont. why? because they are nice. If they wanted to make a particle accelerator, and they had no other place but they thought sri lanka is a good place they would just bomb everyone and nobody can do anything about it. besides It will be advancemnt to humanity. I personaly dont like countries with no mathematicians scientists or philosophers. Such countries should be bombed because they make troubles.

  • There is some countries have no professionals in most fields. There fore they have to import them.The wealthiness of some of these countries are depend on invading and bombing on others. Thanks to Russians and Chines there is a balance in world politics. Bombing yourself or to your country is much help for others.

  • America only imports a lot, but America has professionals. if not how did they make the planes during ww2? There are no countries or races in this world, there are only smart people more evolved and stupid people less evolved. If you feel stupid you shouldnt exist or you try to be smart to exist. You either become smart or parish in the attempt. For example English people were stupid idiots long long ago when Greeks were smart, but now English are smarter.

  • there are few people in sri lanka who want to have a beautiful name, like a philosopher, scientist, mahematician, a great muicician, its all about how other sinhalese idiots make them feel. What would they feel, if they were to see the idiots acting like monkeys in Tv? They owuld think that they share genes with idiots like those and feel completely suiciadal.

  • Sri Lanka on the other hand doesnt pay too much attntion to intelligence, I want to execute the pop mucicians and pop stars if I was the president. What about good culture? I dont want sri lanka to be the Carebean of Indian Ocean, I want sri lanka to be like India with intellectuals. Most sri lankans can dance and play some love song for tourists, thats not intellectual, its like inferior to humanity.

  • What ever said..Let me ask you 1 Simple question. Say if you have Killed a House full of people and got away with it as you were influential, How can you be wearing any clothes or have any dignity while Pointing fingers at another person accusing he have killed somebody.

    This is not a matter of Power, Its simply a matter of Humanity and Dignity.

    Somebody have warned in this article saying USA will invade Sri Lanka..Now be Realistic will ya!

  • How Can USA invade another Country while they cannot Simply deal with the Countries they have invaded already....!

    If not for that, why would USA let IRAN talk shit at them over and over again..?

  • Any big country can destroy small countries, just think the big countries are being nice. on the other hand we all humans exist because universe is kind. Noone still can control weather even,

  • If I killed million people, and I was the most intelligent man on earth, and I found the cure for AIDS, will you arrest me? No. USA is more powerful than Sri Lanka, and more Important, what ever USA do to Sri Lanka will only matter to Sri Lankans. Although Sri Lankans worship Buddha, on the Poya day itself tsunami killed sri lankans. what is the point of so called "sinhala culture"?

  • Hey Seems like you have a lot of issues with Cultures and religions etc... funny, because I can point u that the Same date of Tsunami 26th December was the day after Jesus was Born..How about that then?

    And one thing more, Who do you call the worlds most intelligent? USA? So funny!

    Truth is that People need to be more Humans rather than PRIMATES! If only the Strongest can Live...We are not far from been ANIMALS.

  • I know that Christianity is wrong and Jesus does not exist, but look at the christian art. look how extraordinary, do you have those things in other places on earth?. Religon dont give people logic, but Buddhism gives people simple logic, which is not enough,they need to study deep quontum mechanics to think deeper and more elegant. anyhow USA le Jews and others in to the country, Einstien died in America. So America is one of the most intelligent. What is the point of the existence of weak?

  • You should stop talking and we need to see some action from you Mr President

  • OBAMA Help to innoncent tamils who deing every day in vavuniya camp. pls help with fast solution for us?

  • does anyone know how many innpcent iraqis dead?????????

  • no one is innosent. Its just a word they use to save themselves because they dont have weapons.

  • ObamaObamaObamaObama

  • Sri Lanka's Government commiting Genocide against Tamils!!!

  • Watch "The Obama Deception" in HQ! This is the truth about Obama that you must know!

  • yeah sri lanka is a country. its the small one under india

  • where is Sri Lanka? Is it a country?

  • It is a small country near the souther tip of India surrounded by Indian ocean

  • I know Pako

  • pako??? what do u mean?

  • mama umbe puke ariya

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  • the whole world and myself are wondering who really held those civilians hostage!

    Youare keeping them hostage still in your concentrationcamps keeping it away from U.N. media AND OTHER AID-ORGANIZATIONS!

    it's very simple, if Colombo has nothing to hide let U.N. an I.C.R.C. in immediately!

  • I want to say to president Obama,

    I am feeling very ashamed being an european for what WE actually have done in order to stop this massace of unknown proportions!

    WE DONE NOTHING!!!!!

    IF ACCOUNTS OF KILLED CIVILIANS (ACCORDING TO A LOT OF DIFFERENT TAMIL SOURCES) ARE RIGHT, WE ARE TALKING ABOUT MORE THAN 50.000 TAMILS MURDERED FROM MAY 10 UP TIL NOW!

    50.000 tamil men, women, babies, children and elderly dead or missing!!!!

    doctors who were important witnesses disappear!!!

    THAT"S GENOCIDE!

  • I want to say to all Tamils that the time has come to decide who you will chose as leader!

    U.K. have put a Tamil parlementarian as candidate for the EU elections where new EUROPEAN parlementarians are going to be chosen!

    Time to make up your minds and bring up new leaders who will lead your people peacefully into the future and who will take care that Tamils will have a right to live in their own homelands!

    Tamils HAVE a VOICE!

    Tamils HAVE a FACE!

    Tamils HAVE a NAME!

    TAMILS HAVE RIGHTS!!!

  • @dudeanwalker tamils are stinky

  • PLEASE SAVE THE TAMILS!

    STOP THE GENOCIDE IN SRI LANKA! Even if the war is over, the tamils are living in hell because of the Sri Lankan government! This is genocide and it must stop! PLEASE SAVE THE TAMILS PRESIDENT OBAMA!

  • The fight for survival goes on in Sri Lanka amid reports of 15,000 killed

    [ The Guardian ][ May 20 00:12 GMT ]

    THIS IS WHAT COLOMBO DO VERY WRONG!

    figures say that more than 15.000 tamilcivilians were killed by the SL army.

    go celebtrate your genocide Rajapakse but

    you will not be able to hide your warcrimes!

    vesak 2009 will be remembered as the week of tamil genocide in mullaithevu!!!

    YOU CAN'T HIDE GENOCIDE!!!!

  • Go celebrate your warcrimes and genocide mr. Rajapaksa, be proud of killing over 25.000 civilians with massive army attacks while you knew that it would end up in again a bloodbath, far worse than the one under your responsibility on may the 10th!

    Go light up another cigar with your brother gotabhaya instead of being ashamed of being just murderers!

    YOU HAVE COMMITTED WARCRIMES MAHINDA, THAT! TAMILS WILL NEVER FORGET!

    by the way if you REALLY have nothing to hide let media talk with tamils!

  • I myself condemn any LTTE attack targeting civilians. I'd like to see some Sinhalese stand up and give support for a common cause of peace and prosperity. Even though the war is over, the underlying issues still exist! Abandoning all racialist and fascist believes (by both parties) is crucial for future! Stop being ignorant, recognize what has been done and do something about it, so as to see that it wont happen again!

    From peaceful but highly dissapointed and fustrated Tamil

  • It's a shame that many Sinhalese won't even admit the oppression of Tamils...

    Even though a Sinhalese is against LTTE (and Im absolutely not judging any them for doing so), they should also recognize the injustice against Tamils that have so clearly been elaborated by their government for decades.

  • To believe SLA and SL government is "liberating and helping" civilian Tamils is just total ignorance! (This goes mostly to the ignorant media these days, for being the spokes media for SL propaganda and for not being more critic against SL)

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  • Mr. Obama, follow our lead. You can't mollycoddle terrorists, especially ones with Silver Tongues.

    Take our cue and do what we did.

    Kill them all!!!!

  • Do what you did? lol, I'm afraid most educated people in the western world have a better sense of morality and understand the dangers of "tyranny of the majority".

    You know who did what you did? Bush... lol, look what that got him!

  • 25.000 civilians killed over the last weekend mr. President!

    and for the poor fellow below me who does seem to possess exactly one braincell!

    Go celebrate your GENOCIDE and smoke a cigar with karuna and rajapaksa while lighting a few CHINESE firecrackers.

    Colombo can fool the world one time, but they can't fool intelligent people all the time!

    All eyes will be focused on the amounts of civilian casualties from now on.

    There will come independent investigations into these killings too!

  • hey dudeanwalker, listen you idiot! clearly you dont know shit about whats happening in Sri Lanka. People are celebrating because Sinhalese have won a battle that had been going on for 30 years! Thats no joke! While the SL army and the international countries are taking care of the civillians in the North. Everybodys doing whatever they can to help the civillians. so don't just blame rajapakse and the army saying that they killed tamils! remember, SL is not a huge country, so why separate???

  • SL are helping the civilians, but not alll of them. There are still alive bodies in the war zone n the gov't just took a few of them to show on tv that they're helping. If you think the sri lanka government are not doing anything bad or hiding anything, why don't they let the media inside? if there's nothing to hide then prove it.

  • oh we ve got enough evidence! i even heard a speech about what rajapakse was saying in singhalese becoz i understand sinhala and he said what he didnt ceasefire becoz of the sake of civillians! becoz they r tamil doesnt mean they r meant to hate sinhalese, even im doing what i can to help them. Tamil tigers really seems to want seperation. WHY??????? WHY THE FUCK? i saw a protester saying that "tamils arent sri lankan, they r the ealem" so fuking stupid! if so they still use SL IDs and passports

  • Ado Pundayandi.....Hoooooooooooooo­oooo

  • Dear Sir:

    Unfortunately the Sri Lankan government is so broke, that they can't afford to provide the needed care.

    All they know how to do is brutalize and destroy.

  • Dear Sir,

    Yes. We are poor country. We fight with terrorist for 30 long years. But some how we manage to give food and drink to our brother and sisters who displaced because of war instead of suicide jackets.

    We will rebuild the things that LTTE destroyed.

    Kind Regards

  • LTTE : When the bullet come put a civilian in front. to save his life. Talk about genocide.

    SL ARMY: When a bullet come they take the bullet to save a innocent life.

    Brave Soldier!!! We are always with you!!

  • What complete bullshit, you are completely unobjective.

    The SL army has been committing genocide - as reported by the UN, numerous western developed nations and the dominant news sources in the world. Honestly, just shut up. You don't have a clue.

    The SL government are no better than the LTTE.

  • Thats bullshit as well bro!!!

    Sl Army has no reason to kill civilians. Why would they. Why LTTE terrorists shoot behind the civilians and blame SL ARMY?

    If LTTE is real freedom fighters They should protect the civilians and fight like real soldiers for their freedom.

  • Their reason - Sinhalese Nationalism, also their relentless and remorseless desire to eradicate the LTTE doesn't bother to consider innocent civilians.

    One man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist. LTTE are freedom fighters, but they fight using immoral terrorist tactics. The Government and nothing more than racist immoral state terrorists.

    It seems like I must repeat myself 10 times over for you to get it, I do not support the LTTE.

  • Brother you are saying " LTTE doesn't bother to consider innocent civilians". for some reason.

    That is fine!!! Then why they care about them NOW!!! When they loose only!!! In their peak they did not talk about this. They killed people. This war took more than 70000 lives. No body had a answer for that!!

    Its not a matter of you support LTTE or not. Or I hate LTTE or not.

  • I'm saying the govt doesnt consider tamil civilians... what you did is a notoriously dishonest act called "quote mining".

    The LTTE are fighting FOR tamil civilians, the tamil civilians are the very reason for their existence.

    Yes, this war has killed almost 100,000 people. Yet, you dont seem understand that both sides are guilty of war crimes. You unobjectively look at the war and see the SL govt as the "goodies" and the LTTE as the "badies". Just childish.

    This is my last post on the matter.

  • Ur bullshit too!

    the SL army(singhalese) wants to get rid of all the tamils and have it for themselves

  • ltte will just regruop the sri lankan govt is commiting genocide and IS getting away with it. SAVE THE CIVILLANS

  • SL Army saved the civilians with out any problem from LTTE terrorist. Jaya Sri!!!

    One nation. One Flag! Sri Lanka

    Terrorist Free lol

  • Michelle Obama for president 2016-2024

  • Now that you know that nothing will change India's politics towards sri lanka, and that nothing will change sinhalese approach of the tamil struggle it's up to you mr. President!

    I am a bit disappointed that words really mean nothing as from early saturday on 2000 - 3000 civilians have been killed by heavy sri lankan shelling according to a government doctor in the killing fields called safe zone!

    ACTION SPEAKS LOUDER THAN WORDS!

    words becomes lies after all that's happening now!

    I feel sad!

  • at least Obama managed to let the LTTE stop their fighting as they left the fate of the tamil civilians in the hands of the International Community and the hands of Obama, as they stated today on tamilnet.

    the GENOCIDE is far from over yet as thousands of internally displaced people are now prey to the sinhalese military!

    hundred of young tamils are being "interrogated" in the torture chambers of the security forces in kilinochchi.

    U.N. knows about this!!!

    but U.N. is NOT ALLOWED in!!!

  • Luxman what are you talking about!!! Who killed the army Commander. Women dressed up like a pregnant women. Woman who blow up at a checkpoint was carrying a baby.

    If you use your mother and sister as suicide bombers what can we say about YOU!!

    Animals. I don't think so.

    Freedom of press means publishing fake images. bloody hell!!

    First place why LTTE uses civilians as human shield and killing them to blame SL gov.

  • Dressed up like a pregnant woman is very different to being a pregnant woman. Nothing wrong with the former, the latter is totally wrong.

    I have no knowledge of a woman blowing up a baby, please point me to some evidence.

    I dont use my mother and sister as suicide bombers... I live in the UK, you seem to be blabbering nonsense now.

    Freedom of press means media is not controlled by the govt.

    LTTE use civilian shields, I condemn them for that. That doesnt mean the SL govt dont bomb civilians.

  • Oh yea you dont send your mother or sister as a bomber but if you are supporting (only if you are) then that mean you are sending someone else sister or mother as a suicide bombers.

    you are happy as long as your family is safe. LTTE is brain washing women children and send make them blast them self.

    We do not hate you like LTTE hate you!!!

  • I have never said I supported the LTTE, in fact, I've said a number of times that I condemn their terrorist actions. And again, nothing morally wrong with suicide bombing in a war, the morality of the action comes into question when discussing the targets. When they target civilians (regardless of how and through what means they target them) they are morally bankrupt.

    LTTE brain washing? Stop talking nonsense,.

    LTTE don't hate me, they are fighting for tamils.

  • Thats why I did not point the finger at you!! clearly mentioned only if you support LTTE!!

    According to you Osama is a freedom fighter. US is named him and his organization as a terrorist group. US, UK etc keep on bombing in their soil to defeat terrorism. What they do is the same use suicide missions on specific targets to achieve their believes!!! At least Osama protected their believers so far!!!

    What is the Logic then!! We should have freedom to blast ourself to get things done!!!

  • According to me Osama is a freedom fighter?? What? He attacked foreign land, he is not fighting for freedom for any nation.

    US/UK keep bombing who's soil?? Osama and Al Quaeda has no national affiliation.

    Please, stop talking rubbish.

    What has this got to do with anything? I've already said that the LTTE are terrorists.

  • thats what you are saying but according to them its a different story. Ok.They say They are fighting for Muslims!!! They say attack foreign land because Foreign nations use them during the cold war and they did not treat them for that. They try to stop such things by stopping those countries. What you and me know is different to what they believe.

    it seems like what you and me believe in different stories as well. So we fight and They WIN. We fight and kill each other. They WIN.

  • On the other hand SL Army is fighting for Sri Lanka. Ok then what is the big issue asking help from International and crying around when you defeat.

    We LTTE kills Sinhala people we did not cry like this...we did our best to overcome it. This is a result of 30 years of genocide and discrimination LTTE has done to Sri Lankans (Tamils Muslims sinhalease) What is the big deal!!!

  • SL government did nothing wrong. As a Government they do not want their country to go in to two peaces. Any strong goverment will do their best to protect it.

    Ask a separate country from India and see how they gonna treat you!!

  • Nonsense.

    The SLA killed tamils on such a mass scale it's being called a GENOCIDE.

    Protect the country? They are killing 10s of 1000s & burning down huge areas of land.

    A strong govt? The UK is one united sovereign state, yet has 4 underling parliaments to give its members autonomy.

    Israel (1of the most powerful military powers, just like the UK) is looking for a two state solution with the Palestinians.

    India opted for a 2 state solution after their independance, thus forming Pakistan.

  • Largest hostage situation world has gone so far. SLA recursed as much as possible. Why dont you talk about civilians killed by LTTE. Why point at ARMY. If SLA killed or bombed peaceful village thats genocide.

    We have given 48 hours to let civilians escape from the situation. Why did not LTTE let them go. Instead they shoot at them. They wanted them to die and you are saying SL Army killed and burnt the land!

    I do not think it s a fare comment!!

  • Can LTTE talk about humanrights?? No why?

    * LTTE use girls and women as soldiers in the front line to fight. Is that how you respect. If you are care about rape cases I am not sure why you do not consider about this.

    * LTTE Use suicide bombers as pregnant women. This is disgusting. Thats a insult to all the women and mothers. We respected and paid the price.

    * Hide bombs in the breast and blow them up.

    * LTTE suicide bombers carry infants and blow them up with a baby in the check points. .

  • Jojo, you realise that you are being somewhat hypocritical, since included in the term "human rights" is equality between races, religions and SEXES. Nothing wrong with women fighting in a war - it happens in many western nations.

    The 2 things you've said are immoral and wrong, are using infants and pregnant women - as far as I'm aware that hasn't happened. When they attack civilians, it is immoral.

    Can the govt talk about human rights? No freedom of press, discrimination against tamils, etc.

  • Equality between religions and sexes ...thats why you you send your mothers and sisters to war (suicide bombers) so you can hide inside a big bunker. What a equality among sexes. Great !! keep it up your equality.

    Is that the reason behind killing civilians so if LTTE die civilians should die too....

  • My mother and sister are safely here at home in the UK, thank you.

    Men and women fight, this is quite normal in the west. Women have as much right to fight for what they believe as any man does.

    Your soft bigotry is rather disgusting.

    I have no idea what your final sentence means, please try to speak more clearly.

  • Well said President Obama. LTTE must release civilians, lay down arms and surrender. Government must stop attacks c and bring LTTE members to justice.

  • Mr President as you are proud and protecting US soldiers as Lankans we love, proud and need to protect our soldiers.

    humanitarian issue was there for more than 30 years in sri lanka. When LTTE use women and children as suicide bombers. When LTTE terrorists massacre villages. At that time it was not a issue for US,UK or any other. Why only now.

    US army kills 100s of innocent civilians recently in afagan/pakistan with areal bombing. Mr President why do not you stop heavy weapons in Afgan.

  • well said

  • does this idiot prez. even knows where sri. lanka is!!!!!!

  • Being a British Tamil, I think this was a great response from Obama. Unfortunately this is a war with no good guy, Tamil Tigers, albeit fighting for freedom of oppression, have and do use terrorist tactics. The sinhalese government are fundamentally corrupt and discriminate against the tamils since Sri Lankan independance from british rule.

    I'd like to see a united Sri Lanka, but it's difficult to see how it'd work given the incredible amounts of injustice and crimes committed against tamils.

  • hey man im a sinhalese living in USA ....... im glad to see a tamil who thinks very clearly. for that i salute you.

  • Thanks, there are plenty of us out there. It's just that many have been hurt too badly by the government to see past that pain.

    And unfortunately, due to that pain, people like the tigers have let their moral principles slip, as have the government - "the ends justifying the means".

  • You have a point. Remember tamils ans sinhaleese people fight together to get the freedom from British. But then British gave us a political system that make us think differently. They name majority minority. Thats the beginning

    Now we are fighting , india, pakistan is fighting. People use it as a good excuse. But Luxmans thanks for understanding the situation.

  • Exactly!

    from tamil

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    To all my friends participating in a saloon of ideas here on YT, I am so taken aback at the colossal display of STUPIDITY coming from the far left and far right idiots, please take the time to really learn about the the issues at hand, that way i would not have to lower my intelligence level to a few points to read these IDIOTIC anti Obama rants.

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    To all of you turncoats, and right wing religious nuts, you know its really a shame that long time ago, your mom's medical plans didn't include a trip to the abortion doctors,because of that fact, i have been subjecting myself to these ignorant posts. Its a shame that the fare weather mentality is so pervasive because Obama took a decision that you guys didn't like.

    When did all you bitches get so TOUCHY?

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    As grown ups, we sometimes have to deal with decisions that we don't like. So i want you little liberals to think about that, why you are at home trying to figure out which color ribbon goes with which color outfit.

    And as far you right wing nut cases, i don't really think much of you guys to even respond to your stupid posts. But I'll say this, you guys are flat lining at 21% which is a good thing, so what you have to say doesn't matter to anybody.

  • 4

    And to further illustrate my point, your poll numbers are tantamount to watching a sick relative die slowly of cancer.

    You guys are the politically equivalent to genital warts. I understand why Obama didn't release the pictures, and I understand why the other side wants the pics released. We have troops overseas & our country tortured, no need to keep rubbing it in everyone's faces, NO NEED TO ADD FUEL TO THE FIRE.

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    And those who disagree with my post, from the bottom of my heart, BLOW IT OUT OF YOUR ASS....Love you, hugs & kisses

  • why not to publsh them then ? to protect the american troups ! how about pursuing the truth as Obama always claims, it is desapointing...

  • Wikipedia is completely unreliable, the LTTE theselves could have written those articles. The Tamils built the temples during the Cholan period (in both India and Sri Lanka), when I beleive they conquered a part of Sri Lanka. Your explanation doesn't explain why the Singhales are there, and wasn't Tamil Nadu conquered by the French? (or was that just Pondicherry?) And acutally, kaluwa2007 sort of makes a point (I can't believe I'm saying that) even Hindu doctorine places SL seperately.

  • unquestionable opinion, not spam.

  • care to be more specific on that?

  • Tamil Tigers ultimate goal is to seize control from the Sinhalese ethnic majority and create an independent Tamil state. They want our government to intervene and prevent the fall of this extremist group so they can re-arm and re-group. This will take Sri Lanka back into decades of civil war and allow Tamil refugees in Canada to continue with their refugee cases and subsequently Canadian citizenship. Their ruthless tactics have been exposed for the U.S. & Canada to see.

  • BREAKING NEWS:

    'Safety zone' in smoke, close-quarter fighting is on

    [Fri, 15 May 2009, 05:39 GMT]

    The entire safety zone area is in smoke since the early hours of Friday as shelling by the Sri Lanka Army was destroying all the structures within a narrow strip of coastal land which is densely populated with tens of thousands of people. 75% of the population remains under bunkers as close quarter fighting was heard.

  • Hy tamil bitch seems hw u stupid evn u dnt knw de history of Sinhala, we dnt belng 2 N.India, we beong to Ravan, modrn sinhala writing histry startin frm Wijaya, bt dat a combination of 4 nations witch r Naga,Yaksha,Aryn,1.

    Hy chola an empire evn strated after long bak later Wijaya, ok. History clearly says tamils migrated wit empires lik kalinga maga even tamils had empired trrrirritory up to Malayasiya so y dnt u ask homeland over there. Bt SL is al of us country u, me we al same, no racism.

  • Why doesnt Obama stop using heavy weaponry in Afghanistan and ask Bin Laden to lay down arms and surrender? Do you think he will accept?? Im sure he will.... duh

  • well what would you say then?

  • I'm pretty sure the Singhalese were there first...not that it matters, but it just makes more sense. The Singhalese are of Aryan descent, most closely related to the North Indians. They have been completley isolated on the island and have completely different culture than found anywhere else in the world. Since the Tamil culture and language is the same at the southern tip of India and the Northern tip of SL, it would make sense that they migrated more recently. Cholan dynasty I think .

  • Actually the Tamils were there first. If you would have done your research Dravidians occupied India and Sri Lanka long before the Aryan migration from Persian countries and other regions. There is documented proof.

  • Perhaps :/ and your right, I haven't done my proper research, but it just seems to make more sense...

    The point is, it doesn't matter at all, not when innocent lives are at stake.

  • EXACTLY!

    Sadly though nothing is being done... lots of talk but no action.  There is a genocide that is going on in Sri Lanka and the SL government has been trying rid of the minority Tamils ever since the British left after occupying island. This is not just a Sri Lankan issue this is a HUMANITARIAN CRISIS I wish the international community and especially the UN would actually take action. Speaking about the crisis is a step forward but immediate action is needed.

  • I heard something about Sinhalese ancestors were called Veddas... they lived in remote regions of Sri Lanka. Made a living through hunting mostly. Most of the current Sinhalese are their descendents. Correct me if I'm wrong.

  • Actually, I think the Veddas are the ACTUAL natuve ethnic group in Sri Lanka...this is what I found

    "Historically, for the past twenty-five centuries or more Sri Lanka's indigenous community has been buffeted by successive waves of immigration and colonization that began with the arrival of the Sinhalese from North India in the 5th century BC."

    and as I said before, it doesn't metter who was there first- some people who even believe that Adam fell onto "Serendib" or Sri Lanka

  • Right and if I'm not mistaken, King Vijaya was banished from Northern India along with some of his followers and were sent to Sri Lanka (not sure when but a couple of centuries ago) He apparently married a Vedda woman (her name started with a K I believe) and their descendents became most of the Sinhalese population of today.

  • I beleive that is right...aledgedly.

    It seems to be a bit of a mystical story but whatever.

  • Yeah i agree, more like a folkore :)

  • and why does al this mater now? where do you live? please reply only if you live in Sri Lanka

  • Does it matter where I live? I don't see the point in your comment. It's merely a discussion and you don't have to get all worked up.

  • What Aryan deceant is there in a crooked nose sinhalese? What is more important is how intelligent you are, not how beautiful you are. I hate beauty. I am in a art course and I hate drawing human body.

  • Why don't the Tamils join Tamil Nadu there they have a whole state bigger than Sri Lanka there is no other place for the sinhalease to go.

  • That's a pretty ignorant statement you just made.

  • Sounds like rulings under a court of law mean nothing to the Obama administration, They just make laws up as they see fit. "Don't worry! Trust us!"

  • Obama close the BORDER??

  • YAY :) I'm happy that we can agree to slightly disagree- and that we seem to believe in the same thing! I'm HOPING that this will end with some kind of peaceful compromise, because that's the only way I can see it ever ending.

  • IMF loan for Sri Lanka not appropriate right now: Clinton

    [ AFP ][ May 15 01:58 GMT ]

    US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said here Thursday it "is not an appropriate time" to consider a massive International Monetary Fund loan for Sri Lanka. Clinton told reporters that the United States has been "trying to convince both sides," the Sri Lankan government and the Tamil Tiger guerrillas, to stop fighting.....

  • "We have also raised questions about the IMF loan at this time. We think that it is not an appropriate time to consider that (loan) until there is a resolution of the conflict," Clinton added.

  • "When genocide is happening," said candidate Obama during the second Presidential debate, "when ethnic cleansing is happening somewhere around the world and we stand idly by, that diminishes us.

    Just reminding you your own words mr. President, there's been a lot od unknown suffering going on in sri lanka, glad you have finally named it, I think that action must be taken immediately to save the civilians from a certain death!

    ACTION SPEAKS LOUDER THAN WORDS!

    Peace, Dudean Walker

  • Right. Working hard by providing weapons and allowing the systematic killings of innocent Tamil civilians to persist. Yes, let's definately leave SL's crisis in the hands of those countries.

  • cont. from previous

    The fact that the Sri Lankan government isn't letting any of the humanitarian forces in seems to be pretty incriminating. My father- who makes me sad- says that it's because they support the LTTE and are giving them weapons. If that's not a load of BS I don't know what is :/

  • I don't see the connection of your comment with the one I posted. Though you're right in saying that people believing that aids relief workers providing weapons to LTTE and support their cause is complete load of BS.

  • hmmm...? Did you read the first part?

    ..about genocide?

    HA- I feel a little bad about spamming the this page

  • I didn't see the previous comment posted and still don't. Yeah I feel that I'm spamming the page. You know honestly there are some people that see that there is a humanitarian crisis occuring (you being one of them) and those that claim that it's merely a fiction (mostly the SL-patriots that lack humanity).

  • I know what you mean; I really don't care who is at fault, and I think arguing about it when innocent lives are stake is childish and...well, fatal.  I really want to do humanitarian work when I grraduate college- it's sort of my passion, if you can't tell already :)

  • You rule man

  • thanks for your comments, I have no hard feelings to the peaceful sinhalese people who are too suffering from this 30 year old civil war.

    I think the real problem are the extreme monks from the JHU who openly say that tamils should be cast out of sri lanka.

    they also have seats in the government and are the real force behind the current "war"

    aljazeera has some good documentary about them on the tube, search aljazeera monks of war!

  • Your welcome :) I'm so happy our "disscussions" are ending like this! It gives me hope (thanks Mr. Obama). I agree, this whole thing is some catasrophe conducted by the hierups on both sides- and they're feeding skewed information to the uneducated public which gives rise to this horrible blind nationalism. It's almost like when McCain and Palin convinced a lot of rural towns that Obama was a terrorist (for shame). ...Uh, I don't think I'll be trusting Aljazeera anytime soon though :)

  • ha ha ha Monks, those idiots, ha ha ha. Long time ago Christian Monks wanted to kill Galleleo. Now Buddhist Monks in Sri Lanka think that they are logicians and intellectuals hahahahaha fucking stupid monks. I hate monks. Monks= monkeys

  • It has happened before Ask the Norwaygienes. Who gave the vehicles of the NGO's to the tigers?

  • ...and I was beggining to feel some hope at last too...

    are you honestly asking me to go ask "a Norwegien" if they gave weapons to the LTTE, because Norway is a pretty freaking awesome country, and I was rather hoping to earn some type of citizenship ...

    To answer your question, the same way all guerilla groups get their weapons...black market?

    Accusing HUMANITARIAN groups of GIVING WEAPONS out is completley ridiculous.

  • ten years ago the tamil population in sri lanka was about 18 to 19% of the population.

    many tamils have died and many have fled the genocide, for example there are more than 70.000 tamil refugees who fled to tamil nadu.

    I should also mention the 1.000.000 internally displaced tamils in the north and the east because of this so called war on terror.

    fighting LTTE fine!

    but...

    Murdering tamil civilians with heavy weapons

    that's a CRIME!!!

  • a little bit of tamil history here!

    sri lankan tamils or eelam tamils as they call themselves have had a 2500 years long kingdom in the north: jaffna, kilinochchi, mullaitivu and the east: trincomallee, batticaola and amparai.

    these tamil cities each had their own tamil kings! They for example were responsible for the big watertanks in the vanni which still provides water to the farmlands today!

    tamil Eelam is not just a dream, it's the traditional tamil homeland!

  • cont. from my last comment

    You speak about the crimes of the Singhalese governement, but you overlook all of the the attacks by the Tamil Tigers on civillians. They forcibly recruit civillians, children included, and are using civillians as a human barrier. Just so you know, I honestly fight about this just as much with my Singhalese nationalist parents who look at the situation in black an white. It seems that you do too, and that makes me sad.

  • And how, pray tell, is what the doing LTTE making way for "freedom" in anyway? I agree (and have said previously) that the Sri Lankan government is CERTAINLY not the "good" side in anyway, nor should Singhalese nationalism rule the country. Killing inocents doesn't solve ANYTHING, and it is something that BOTH sides are doing.

  • The Tamil popualtion is about 15%, and they want the north - does the Muslim population then get the east? There are 100 million Tamils in India and yet tamil is not an offical language. in Sri Lanka with 3 million tamils it is. Why not form a separate country in India then? Im sorry, I have nothing against tamil people and im not saying they if they want a home go to india - what i believe is that all sri lankans will be able to live harmoniously - but in one country, not a divided one.

  • yeah...The Russian Revolution worked ...and we can all see how well the Zionist movement is going...

    I really don't know what to say to you; if you have such a great disreguard of humanity and the lives of innocents...all I can be is disguested, the people you seem to so ardently defend should be ashamed- as should you, for what you do to THEM

    Besides, terrorism is a METHOD to an ENDS, it all ends in treaties and law

    ...go ahead, kill everyone- see where that gets you

    poo-too-weet

  • so if you dont think the LTTE should lay down their arms, in your opinon - what should be the solution for the current situation? (Given that if negogiations are to follow, the LTTE would not settle unless they get Tamil Eelam and the SL govt will never agree to Tamil Eelam.)

  • wrong, they already gave up the demand for Tamil Eelam in favour of regional autonomy, just like quebec in canada and many other examples, it was the GoSL who refused due to sinhala buddhist extremist who refused to let hindu's have sri lanka land, sri lanka holds the only buddhist extremists in the whole world

  • no excuse for killing civilians in the name of war on terror!

    tamil babies and little children are no terrorists!

    more than 1000 tamil babies and little children were murdered by government airstrikes and heavy mortar fire last two months alone!

    that must end now!

    Also let civilians take care of the tamil refugees in the by sinhalese army controled concentration camps.

    Why are these people detained?

    why are children being separated from their parents?

    rajapaksa has something to hide!!

  • BC, Bilderberg group, Trilateral Comission are all connected they will build the New World Order

  • While he attacks both the LTTE and the SL govt, his own national security advisor said aerial bombing would continue in Afghanistan despite the high numbers of civilian casualties.

    General James Jones stated, although the US would do more to reduce the number of civilian casualties, it would not stop air strikes because we can't fight with one hand tied behind our back.

    Double standards or what?

  • Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

  • LTTE urges IC to save civilians in the name of humanity, SLA attacks kill 1700 in 48 hours

    We call upon the international community to protect the civilians from this ongoing carnage by taking whatever measure required.

    The LTTE is ready to engage with the International Community in its actions to bring an end to the humanitarian crisis.

  • the idea that the U.S. has a right and obligation to intervene, by force if necessary, to protect civilians from war and ethnic violence, even in places where it has no vital national interests at stake.That doctrine is being tested today in Sri Lanka!!!

  • I agree with you,Obama!

  • cont. from my last post

    Like Obama says, BOTH the Tamil Tigers and the Singhalese government have committed grevious humanitarian offenses and to me, thats all that matters. From what I've seen, this seems to be as much of an ideological battle as it is one for resources, and those can NEVER be won- ever. The only way to win is to kill everyone, and where does that leave you. Terrorism may be a method, but I've never seen it work.

  • You sound like my Singhalese parents, except from the other side (i.e. like ridiculous children). It doesn't matter who started it 50 years ago, what matters NOW is that innocent civillians are being killed. If you are willing to let those lives be lost because "he started it," then you are no better than whoever started it. I don't hate Tamils AT ALL- and I think it' ridiculous to hate a body of people based on the actions of a few.

  • I agree with you. At least you're not self-proclaimed patriot trying to convince the public that the Tamil Genocide is a fictious tale.

  • Thank you. Although I have to say that I'm not entirely sure about the idea of a genocide- there are WAY too many conflicting stories floating around and I don't trust the LTTE OR the Singhalese government says, and I haven't personally seen any signs of the systematic killing of Tamils (although there IS certainly a stong nationalistic steak taught to the Singhalese at a very young age- I yelled at my little cousin for an entire car ride for discriminating against Muslims).

  • yeah I know some fucking sinhalese people who are idiots they think that they are beautiful and they are lions, and I am not one of them, they say I look tamil, and I am proud of it, I love Indians and some Indiands are tamils.

  • Regarding the detainee abuse photos:

    Fair enough, Mr. President. Thank you for your comments.

  • here's my video on this story

    watch?v=bt9jLo0YZlA