Boycott Sri Lankan Airlines

[British Tamils Forum;15 January 2008]

The Sri Lankan government has unilaterally scrapped the Cease Fire Agreement from 16th
January 2008, which was monitored by the Sri Lankan Monitoring Mission (SLMM) and has sent
the Nordic Monitors home. This precipitous action by the government has jettisoned any prospect
for a peaceful political settlement. The UN, the International NGOs and anyone who has worked
in the humanitarian field in Sri Lanka, have all protested vehemently about the torture,
kidnapping, indiscriminate aerial bombardment of the civilian population and the killing of 42
NGO workers by the government forces and their paramilitaries. Sri Lanka was ranked third
worldwide in the number of journalists killed with seven journalists murdered in 2007 in the line
of duty, only behind Iraq and Somalia. In the last two years two Tamil MPs were assassinated in
Colombo, where the finger points to government backed paramilitary elements in order to stifle
or eliminate the Tamil leadership. The government has yet to prosecute any one in the armed
services for massacres of innocent civilians. We think that the partisan international pressure
exerted by Western countries only on the LTTE was a mistake in that it led the GoSL to consider
it a carte blanche from the international community to scrap the cease fire agreement and finish
off the Tamils in a one-sided war. We feel that a more even handed approach from the
international community between the two proponents, including sanctions on the GoSL for
human rights abuses, will even now be more conducive to a negotiated peace settlement in Sri
Lanka.

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[arnotkaling]

do u actually read the news or what. latest figures show 216000 people dead in Sri Lanka, 3 million dead in Vietnam war etc etc.

U talk so much of peace so therefore u accept Tamil Eelam is a reality and Tamils cannot live together with sinhalese?

[sonofthedestroyer]

Shame that so many brainwashed pigs in COlombo have internet access. Hence you will see them in numbers kissing the govts backside. Hopefully the govt will kill them like they killed Lasantha Wickrematunga. Then they might wake up

[Chamath5]

Boycott Karunanidis butt hole 

[TamilSwaminator]

TamilSwaminator (1 second ago) Spam Marked as spam In solidarity with my Tamil brothers and sisters I will no longer buy stuff made in Sri Lanka. Yes folks , I , Tamil Swamiantor will not buy anything that Singhaliya made. Here are some of the stuff I will not buy that is being made in Sri Lanka .

1) Caviar

2) Champagne

3) Cheese

4) Wine

5 i Phones

6) Sri Lankan Salmon and Sri Lankan made Rolls Royce , Bentley .

[aeayuw]

so dont go to SL.. go live in tamilnadu.. no one asked u to come to SL if its so bad.

[rayleno222]

Very good and logical video and please remove the insane comments by some people drawilng parallels to indians in dubai with tamils of eelam.

[Tamilwillwin]

This racist regime is now showing teh world that thier target is not LTTE but Tamils. LTTE was just an obstacle of teh ethnic cleansing.

Now all vanni tamils population are in concentration camps , Singala regime is sending singala settlers in tamils areas in order to make tamils minority even in Tamil areas.

IC should stop these perverted criminals from destroying tamils

[Tamilwillwin]

I think you are an idiot who knows nothing about tamil issue in sri lanka.

[syednoohu]

Not agree with your point that sinhalese are biased with tamils, like you are saying Arabs are biased with indian in dubai or any other contries. We move to different countries to earn money , not to ask for peice of land once we are over populate in those contries

[syednoohu]

Sorry to ask this Question as a Tamilan...

Why should LTTE fight for seperate nation? Can't Tamilans live side by side with rest of the people in Srilanka? Under what ground we, tamilan, asking for seperate state? What if Indian People in dubai start asking seperate State as we, Indian, strength is more than Arabs....

Hope I get the right answer

[panainilam]

I travel very often with Sri Lankan Airlines. From this moment I will stop flying that one! I will spread this word to my friends and relatives.