US warn's Sri Lanka

[manlion]

If, by regional super power, you mean India, then I will reply by analogy.

The US is more than capable, by itself, to physically isolate and blockade Iran. However, it chose to push for international sanctions instead and get the international community to put pressure on Iran.

The moral of the story is that, just because you are physically capable of doing something, doesn't mean it's the best way to achieve your goals.

US is doing India's dirty work ? On Sri Lankan politics, US relies on India to play the regional power role.
During the final stages of the war, US was prepared to evacuate 200,000 civilian trapped in the No Fire Zone , but India through its Defence Sec Shiv Shanker Menon prevented US interference by giving a false picture on "permissive" environment, although LTTTE was ready for a cease fire .

The Obama administration has shelved the idea of launching a massive military evacuation of nearly 200,000 Tamil civilians trapped in the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam strongholds, sources have told Rediff India Abroad

US shelves evacuation of Tamils caught in LTTE are

The UN resolution against Sri Lanka was initiated by US but watered down by India, the amended resolution has no bite on Sri Lanka. India has soft spot for Sri Lanka (not the case with Tamils) and will go out to cool down US

"I think my war is part of the South Asian campaign against terrorism. In fact, by eliminating the LTTE militarily, I have fought India's war," Rajapaksa said.
Rajapaksa thanked the Indian government for its support in the war against the Tamil rebels. He made particular reference to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi.

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THE UN Human Rights Council has for the second year running condemned ongoing human rights abuses in Sri Lanka and called for an independent investigation into allegations of war crimes by both sides in the 26-year civil conflict.

But international rights campaigners yesterday blamed Australia and India for the final watering down of the resolution, thus easing the pressure on the Sri Lankan government, by putting domestic political concerns ahead of human right

 

[KRAIT]

So this is all China's fault is it?
Nothing to do with Indian lobby in the US, eh?

Its neither China's fault nor its Indian lobby work.

Sri Lanka is just getting in cross-fire. China is making strategic partners and will use this base so to threaten Sri Lanka and not let do it, US is doing all this.

You don't have to bring in India here.

 

[Azizam]

Stop bluffing

a) there was a separate Tamil Kingdom in the North

Jaffna Kingdom

So Tamils have a legitimate rights for self rule/independence

b) Cultural genocide of Tamils after independence was the roots cause of Tamil separatism

e.g Sinhala Only ACT passed in 1956, which deprived Tamils of opportunities in education, jobs etc

b) Ethnic cleansing of tamils after independence, too tedious for a detailed chronicle

an e.g Black July - 3000 killed in 10days

Your questions were answered before and WTF with Jaffna Kingdom that never existed? I see you must have invested a lot in Prabakaran's dream world. Money went to waste like raindrops in desert ha?

 

[manlion]

Its neither China's fault nor its Indian lobby work.

Sri Lanka is just getting in cross-fire. China is making strategic partners and will use this base so to threaten Sri Lanka and not let do it, US is doing all this.

You don't have to bring in India here.

If not for India protection of Sri Lanka, US would have taken stern military action against troublesome Lanka, Sri Lanka should thank India for providing immunity against international prosecution.

India has no concern on China's 'strategic partnership' with Sri Lanka, as long as Sri Lanka carries out India's mission of Tamil genocide. Its only the clowns in Taminadu who are India - Sri Lanka party gatecrashes.

But if it was Pakistan in Sri Lanka, then India's reaction would be different

 

[Saleem]

US: Patience with Sri Lanka could 'wear thin' - KULR-8 Television, Billings, MT

By MATTHEW PENNINGTON
Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) - International patience could wear thin with Sri Lanka unless it takes action to address allegations of atrocities during the island nation's civil war, the top U.S. diplomat for South Asia said Tuesday.

Assistant Secretary of State Nisha Biswal stopped short of endorsing a deadline set last month by British Prime Minister David Cameron, who said he would call for a U.N.-backed inquiry into allegations of war crimes unless there was progress on postwar reconciliation by March.

A U.N. report has suggested Sri Lanka's military may have killed up to 40,000 civilians in the final months of the war in 2009 as it crushed ethnic Tamil rebels, who are also accused of atrocities.

Biswal urged Sri Lanka to take concrete steps on its own, particularly on issues of accountability.

"We would like to see Sri Lanka address these issues through its own processes, and we hope that can in fact be the case," Biswal told reporters, adding that recommendations of a Sri Lankan-government appointed reconciliation commission pointed the way forward.

She said without real progress the patience of the international community "will start to wear thin."

The government of President Mahinda Rajapaksa has so far ignored calls for a thorough local inquiry into war abuses and says it will not allow any international probe. He denies allegations of abuses by the army.

Since the Tamil Tigers' 27-year battle for an ethnic homeland ended, Rajapaksa's grip on power has tightened. Recent reports of media harassment and rights abuses have also raised alarms, although a convincing victory for the main ethnic Tamil party in provincial elections in northern Sri Lanka in September were seen as a small step toward devolution of power.

Biswal, portfolio covers South and Central Asia, also voiced concern Friday about political violence in Bangladesh, where street clashes between rival factions have killed about 40 people and wounded hundreds in the past month.

The opposition is resisting government plans to hold a general election on Jan. 5 unless Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina allows a neutral caretaker administration to oversee the polls.

Biswal, who recently visited Bangladesh, called for the major political parties to come together and work out a compromise "that will allow for elections to take place that the people of Bangladesh have confidence in and feel are credible."

She said failure to achieve a peaceful political transition poses the greatest obstacle to Bangladesh continuing its progress of the past decade in areas such as reducing child and maternal mortality and improving food security.

Analysts fear the political chaos could exacerbate the economic woes of the country of 160 million people and lead to radicalization in a strategic pocket of South Asia.

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first they should arrest and try all the LTTE criminals and their supporters for their war crimes and reaign of terror....the LTTE could not have operated fro years in europe wihtout tacit support or acquisence of the french and such like governments...

 

[manlion]

Your questions were answered before and WTF with Jaffna Kingdom that never existed? I see you must have invested a lot in Prabakaran's dream world. Money went to waste like raindrops in desert ha?

even after 'winning' the war, you guys are acting as sore losers , must be the Tamil determination and resilience giving you nightmares.

A victors you have the privilege to 're-write' Sri Lanka's fabricated history

The Portuguese conquest of the Jaffna kingdom occurred after Portuguese traders arrived at the rival Kotte Kingdom in the southwest of modern Sri Lanka in 1505. Many kings of Jaffna, such as Cankili I, initially confronted the Portuguese in their attempts at converting the locals to Roman Catholicism, but eventually made peace with them.
By 1591, the king of Jaffna Ethirimanna Cinkam was installed by the Portuguese. Although he was nominally a client, he resisted missionary activities and helped the interior Kandyan kingdom in its quest to get military help from South India. Eventually, a usurper named Cankili II, resisted Portuguese overlordship only to find himself ousted and hanged by Phillippe de Oliveira in 1619. The subsequent rule by the Portuguese saw the population convert to Roman Catholicism. The population also decreased due to excessive taxation, as most people fled the core areas of the former kingdom.

This is an excerpt from the article Portuguese conquest of the Jaffna kingdom from the Wikipedia free encyclopedia. A list of authors is available at Wikipedia.

first they should arrest and try all the LTTE criminals and their supporters for their war crimes and reaign of terror....the LTTE could not have operated fro years in europe wihtout tacit support or acquisence of the french and such like governments...

1 - please enlighten us on LTTE's war crimes
2 - if wish to 'arrest and trial' LTTE top leaders , you need to be ghost buster.

 

[Skyline]

Stop bluffing

a) there was a separate Tamil Kingdom in the North

Jaffna Kingdom

So Tamils have a legitimate rights for self rule/independence

b) Cultural genocide of Tamils after independence was the roots cause of Tamil separatism

e.g Sinhala Only ACT passed in 1956, which deprived Tamils of opportunities in education, jobs etc

b) Ethnic cleansing of tamils after independence, too tedious for a detailed chronicle

an e.g Black July - 3000 killed in 10days

Temporary setup things does not become kingdoms to us. It does not make them native to that island either. Hope you know about the period they setup, so you should know who were there before those Tamils from India. Even the today Tamil density is high only in Jaffna area when we consider whole north, rest of the north is less density areas in Sri Lanka.

British use Tamils coz they didn't get support from Sinhalese to run the country, that's why Tamils was dominate in most of jobs. Sri Lanka is a country of majority Sinhalese so most of the jobs shared by Sinhalese. It is the fact you have to face.

Black July riots happened coz of Tamil Tiger terrorist, blame to Tamil blood of them!

 

[WAR-rior]

Stop bluffing

a) there was a separate Tamil Kingdom in the North

Jaffna Kingdom

So Tamils have a legitimate rights for self rule/independence

b) Cultural genocide of Tamils after independence was the roots cause of Tamil separatism

e.g Sinhala Only ACT passed in 1956, which deprived Tamils of opportunities in education, jobs etc

b) Ethnic cleansing of tamils after independence, too tedious for a detailed chronicle

an e.g Black July - 3000 killed in 10days

What? Elaborate more bout it plz. What act are we talking bout? I request Sri Lankans too to add to the facts. Accepting truth and our past mistakes only take us forward.

Black July? This seems even a worse case than Godhra riots. Ohh God.

 

[Developereo]

US is doing India's dirty work ?

It's not about doing anyone's dirty work. The US will do what is in its national interests.

It's more a case of "you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours", since everyone knows which way India leans in this matter.

Its neither China's fault nor its Indian lobby work.

Sri Lanka is just getting in cross-fire. China is making strategic partners and will use this base so to threaten Sri Lanka and not let do it, US is doing all this.

You don't have to bring in India here.

Actually, it was you who brought third parties into the discussion, suggesting that Sri Lanka is paying the price for befriending China.

The fact is that India is a far bigger factor in this situation, given South Indian demographics.

 

[manlion]

It's not about doing anyone's dirty work. The US will do what is in its national interests.

It's more a case of "you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours", since everyone knows which way India leans in this matter.

Your analogy US - Iran is a little flawed as India consider Sri Lanka a friendly neigbour who help crush Tamil separatism which (according to Indian political pundits) may have had long term implication on Tamilnadu separatism.

BBC News - Sri Lanka: UN admits it failed to protect civilians

A UN report on its failure to protect civilians in Sri Lanka's civil war will have "profound implications" for the global body, UN chief Ban Ki-moon says.

Publishing the damning internal report, which was leaked to the BBC, Mr Ban said lessons had to be learnt.

Vijay Nambiar , Indian diplomat and UN Sec Gen Chief of Staff was sent to Colombo to report on the humanitarian situation in the war zone during the final months of the war. His appointment and role is highly questionable

Nambiar facing calls for ICC investigation | DVB Multimedia Group

It also pours doubt on the efficacy of Nambiar’s presence there, given that his brother, Satish Nambiar, was at the time working as an advisor to the Sri Lankan military, as well as questioning his “subjective knowledge” of the Sri Lankan Army’s “widely (or routinely) adhered to policy of executing surrendering [Tamil] combatants, after generally blindfolding and stripping them naked”.

 

[manlion]

Temporary setup things does not become kingdoms to us. It does not make them native to that island either. Hope you know about the period they setup, so you should know who were there before those Tamils from India. Even the today Tamil density is high only in Jaffna area when we consider whole north, rest of the north is less density areas in Sri Lanka.

Temporary set up ? that's Sinhala BS
Sinhalas natives ?? another of your BS, do you have any clue about the indigenous tribe - veddas and where your ancestors originated from ?

So don't distort history with your BS,

Sinhala history for dummies

Vijaya marries Kuveni, wins kingdom :: Sri Lanka: The Miracle

King Sinhabahu had a son named Vijaya; he and his friends were very unruly and did many violent deeds

So King Sinhabahu boarded Vijaya and seven hundred of his friends onto a ship, and deported (sent away) them from the country. Vijaya and his men sailed down the coast of India and at last came to Sri Lanka

Then Vijaya saw Kuveni and guessed what may have happened. So he seized Kuveni by her hair, raised his sword and said, "Give me back my men or I will kill you".

Then Kuveni said, "Spare my life and I will give your men. I will also help you to win this kingdom".

Kuveni brought the men from the cave and gave them food. Later, she became Vijaya's wife and helped him to win the kingdom from her own people, who till then were ruling the country.

Many years later, Vijaya wished to have a wife of his own race from India. So he sent to India for another princess to be his wife. He also sent for other wives for his men.

Now Vijaya and Kuveni had one son and one daughter. When Vijaya heard that the Indian princess had landed, he said to Kuveni, "Leave the two children and go away".

But Kuveni wanted to stay. She wept and pleaded, but in vain. Vijaya wouldn't let her stay in the palace and threw her out.

Kuveni went to a city which still belonged to her own people. Leaving the children outside, she entered the city. But because she had helped Vijaya against her own relations, the people killed Kuveni. The children escaped to the hill country. It is said that the Veddas (Adi Vasies) are the descendants of Kuveni's children.

The Sinhalese are the descendants of Vijaya and his men.

 

[manlion]

British use Tamils coz they didn't get support from Sinhalese to run the country, that's why Tamils was dominate in most of jobs. Sri Lanka is a country of majority Sinhalese so most of the jobs shared by Sinhalese. It is the fact you have to face.!

British knew that the Sinhalese were useless bums who cant work , that the fact in your face. Stop living in denial , Sinhalese were the first to unleash terrorism upon minority Tamils due to envy, hatred and siege mentality

 

[takeiteasy]

One strong leader Srilanka got. guess Modi is the equivalent of Rajapakshe. Rajpakshe leads Sinhala nation while Modi will make a Hindu nation out of secular India.

 

[Skyline]

Temporary set up ? that's Sinhala BS
Sinhalas natives ?? another of your BS, do you have any clue about the indigenous tribe - veddas and where your ancestors originated from ?

So don't distort history with your BS,

Sinhala history for dummies

Vijaya marries Kuveni, wins kingdom :: Sri Lanka: The Miracle

King Sinhabahu had a son named Vijaya; he and his friends were very unruly and did many violent deeds

So King Sinhabahu boarded Vijaya and seven hundred of his friends onto a ship, and deported (sent away) them from the country. Vijaya and his men sailed down the coast of India and at last came to Sri Lanka

Then Vijaya saw Kuveni and guessed what may have happened. So he seized Kuveni by her hair, raised his sword and said, "Give me back my men or I will kill you".

Then Kuveni said, "Spare my life and I will give your men. I will also help you to win this kingdom".

Kuveni brought the men from the cave and gave them food. Later, she became Vijaya's wife and helped him to win the kingdom from her own people, who till then were ruling the country.

Many years later, Vijaya wished to have a wife of his own race from India. So he sent to India for another princess to be his wife. He also sent for other wives for his men.

Now Vijaya and Kuveni had one son and one daughter. When Vijaya heard that the Indian princess had landed, he said to Kuveni, "Leave the two children and go away".

But Kuveni wanted to stay. She wept and pleaded, but in vain. Vijaya wouldn't let her stay in the palace and threw her out.

Kuveni went to a city which still belonged to her own people. Leaving the children outside, she entered the city. But because she had helped Vijaya against her own relations, the people killed Kuveni. The children escaped to the hill country. It is said that the Veddas (Adi Vasies) are the descendants of Kuveni's children.

The Sinhalese are the descendants of Vijaya and his men.

Sinhala comes from 4 hela tribes, Vijaya group also mixed to the society. Veddha is related to Hela group too. Sinhalese are native to Lanka only!

If Tamils do not have a country in this world, what shall I do? Just enjoy the country you are living in and give support to that country whether it is India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore, south Africa or what ever country!

 

[hunter_hunted]

Sri Lanka did the absolute correct thing in crushing those Tamil terrorists. Tamils are worse than Islamic terrorists.

I don't think the Sri Lankans went far enough in completely crushing the Tamils.

We will always have Sri Lanka's back.

Well they were not actually Muslims. Stop attaching the Word Islamic with random Terrorists.Check the facts before you post and that was not even religious war it was all political . They were Indian Sponsored Tamils. Im glad Sri Lanka pushed them into sea.