Comments on: Tamil Civilians Trapped in a “Bloodbath”

By: Ananth

Ananth — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:08:46 +0000

First of all you should list out all the atrocity done by the Sri Lankan government and extremist Sinhalese before the LTTE was created and after. It is typical of you to claim atrocity by the LTTE without any proof and it is true that there were civilian casualties when LTTE targeted military and economic infrastruces. Tamil is not a pure or an ethnic group. Here are some words from Nadesan Satyendra:

“To confuse a nation with a race and to attempt to mobilise a people on the basis of race is to prevent the growth of the Tamil nation – and leads the Tamil people to a ‘racist Dravidian’ dead end. The Tamil national identity is not a racist identity.
Neither is the Tamil national identity, a religious identity. It is a secular identity. The Tamil nation includes not only Hindus (both Saivaites and Vaishnavites) but also Tamils belonging to many different faiths. Christian Tamils are also Tamils. Brahmin Tamils are also Tamils. Dalit Tamils some of whom may be Buddhists are also part of the Tamil nation. The Tamil nation also includes within its fold those who regard themselves as atheists and agnostics. A nation is a deep and horizontal togetherness which cuts across vertical divisions in a community.”

Tamil is a language and cultural idenity.
100,000 people chased out from the north? More then 100,000 fled because the Sri Lankan govermnet kept on bombing them and killing them under occupation.

Your government still has people locked up and refusing to give access to outsiders to see what is happening. What do the government has to hide if the Tamil people love them so much?

By: A.Ram

A.Ram — Wed, 13 May 2009 13:15:34 +0000

Chandi has forgotten the history of the LTTE for the last 33 years, and crying wolf. When the Thamil tigers were brutally killing villagers and cutting the womb of pregnant mothers whilst they were asleep, and chopping the children to pieces whilst they were peacfully sleeping, in order to have a ethincally pure thamil state of Elaam in the north of Sri Lanka, and chasing away more than 100,000 people of the other communities who are now living in refugee camps in the South of the Country, where were you then. Don’t weep crocodile tears of a Maniac who derserves what is happening out there and the menace of terrorism should be compleletly rooted out. The present govt is doing the right thing when earlier goverments failed to do it.

By: kalidas

kalidas — Wed, 13 May 2009 00:44:20 +0000

Buddhists killing Hindus, vice versa, barely even measures on the Jewish/Christian/Muslim Richter scale, if it even measures at all.
May as well be the Congo.

By: john andrews

john andrews — Tue, 12 May 2009 06:47:53 +0000

This war is deemed too trivial by western media to concern itself with – so no doubt there must be something important going on in Sri Lanka that we all ought to know about.
I also bet it is has its origins in yet another unexploded cluster bomb left behind by the British Empire.

By: bozh

bozh — Mon, 11 May 2009 17:39:32 +0000

i know only a little about this conflict. If sri lankans’ invasion is similar to the raid by israel on gaza and with no UN observers being present, then that alone wld be a crime. bozhidar balkas. tnx