Sri Lanka: Over a quarter of land is currently under water and 40 per cent of cultivated areas

The map above identifies the main flood-affected regions, sites where relief and rescue operations have been conducted, areas prone to landslides and specific locations that are at risk.

It is reported that there were 23 deaths and over 1,000,000 people affected as a result of the floods and bad weather that continues to devastate these regions. The Eastern Province is the worst affected with over 860,000 flood victims according to the latest figures released by the Disaster Management Centre. There have been widespread reports that it has become increasingly difficult to access specific areas due to submerged or damaged roads and the prevailing weather conditions in the North Central Province and the Eastern Province.

Batticaloa District is worst hit by the floods with 533,000 people belonging to 30,264 families have been displaced. He said eight deaths have been reported from the district and 225 displaced camps have been set up in the district.

The district is experiencing a rainfall of 113mm/day continuously (Emphasis ours.) Yesterday it had been 200mm. Two air force helicopters had been deployed to distribute relief and to rescue the affected people but they could not be taken off the ground due to bad weather yesterday as well.

More than 200 tanks have been extensively damaged while nearly 20,000 acres of paddy land were also destroyed.

Overall 996,757 people have been affected by the floods with 1727 houses have been fully destroyed while 12,151 have been partly destroyed. Total numbers of deaths stood at 18 while 49 were injured as at yesterday afternoon. Some 52, 391 families who have been displaced have been housed in 502 camps.

We now face a real threat of severe food shortages due to the complete destruction of over 130,000 acres of paddy field said agriculture Minister.
“Over a quarter of Sri Lanka is currently under water and 40 per cent of cultivated areas are submerged according to the Minister of Agriculture.

The death toll is now at 23.

The government has estimated the damage at $500 million.

Kilde: The Groundviews

கிழக்கு மகாணம் வெள்ளத்தால் பெரும் அழிவு - அவசர அறிக்கை

எமது மக்களின் மனிதாபிமான உதவிகளுக்கு ஒன்றாய் அணிதிரள்வோம்

எமது தாயகத்தின் கிழக்கு மாகாணத்தில் பெரும் வெள்ளப்பெருக்கால் தமிழ் மக்கள் பெரிதும் பாதிப்படைந்துள்ளது யாவரும் அறிந்ததே. எமது தாயக மக்களின் வாழ்வாதாரப் பிரச்சனையைப் போக்கும் பாரிய கடமை எம்முன் காத்துநிற்கிறது.

மட்டக்களப்பில் இதுவரை மூன்று லட்சத்து 22 ஆயிரம் மக்கள் இடம்பெயர்ந்துள்ளனர். 2 லட்சம் மக்கள் நூற்றுக்கும் மேற்பட்ட நலன்புரி மையங்களில் தஞ்சமடைந்துள்ளதாக செய்திகள் தெரிவிக்கின்றன. அதேபோன்று, 65 ஆயிரத்துக்கும் மேற்பட்ட ஏக்கர் நெற் காணிகள் வெள்ளத்தினல் நாசமடைந்துள்ளதாகவும் அறியப்படுகிறது. அம்பாறை மாவட்டத்திலும் இதுவரை 3 லட்சத்து 36 ஆயிரம் மக்கள் பாதிப்படைந்துள்ளதாக அறிகிறோம்.

இலங்கை அரசு ஒதுக்கும் நிதி போதுமானதாக இல்லை என்பது ஒருபுறம் இருந்தாலும் தொண்டு நிறுவனங்கள் மூலம் கிடைக்கப்பெரும் நிதியும் தமிழ் மக்களுக்கு சேரா வண்ணம் திட்டமிட்டு முடக்கப்படுகிறது என்பது வேதனையிலும் வேதனையாகவே உள்ளது. இதற்கிடையில், அரசோடு சேர்ந்தியங்கும் அரசியல்வாதிகளுக்கிடையில் நிலவும் போட்டியும் ஒருபுறம் தமிழ் மக்களுக்கான நிவாரணம் கிடைக்காமல் செய்துவருவதாகவே அறியப்படுகிறது.

இப்படி பல்வேறு காரணங்களால் எமது மக்கள் மேலும் துயருற்று வருகிறார்கள் என்பதனை நோர்வே ஈழத்தமிழர் அவை கவலையுடன் தெரிவித்துக்கொள்கிறது.

எமது மக்களுக்கு தேவையான புனரமைப்பு பணிகளில் ஈடுபட, ஒன்றாய் கரம் கோர்த்து பணியாற்ற அனைத்து தமிழ் அமைப்புகளுக்கும் இவ்வேளையில் நோர்வே ஈழத்தமிழர் அவை உரிமையுடன் அழைப்பு விடுக்கிறது.

சுனாமியால் எமது மக்கள் பாதிப்படைந்தபொழுது எவ்வாறு ஒன்றாய் நின்று உதவி புரிந்தோமோ, அதேபோன்று நாம் ஒன்றாய் நின்று எமது மக்களுக்கு மறுவாழ்வளிப்போம். எம் மண்ணையும் எம் மக்களையும் ஒரு சேர காக்க வேண்டியது நம் அனைவரின் கடமை.

ஒன்றாய் அணிதிரள்வோம்! எம் மக்களை காப்போம்!

பஞ்சகுலசிங்கம் கந்தையா,
தலைவர்,
நோர்வே ஈழத்தமிழர் அவை, நோர்வே.

நோர்வே தமிழர் புனர்வாழ்வுக்கழகம் தமிழர் ஒருங்கிணைப்புக்குழுவின் அவசர அறிக்கை

1956 ம் ஆண்டிற்க்கு பிறகு கிழக்கு மகாணம் வெள்ளத்தால் பெரும் அழிவை சந்தித்துள்ளது. எமது உறவுகளுக்கான உடனடி உதவிகளை செய்வதற்க்கு நோர்வே வாழ் தமிழீழ மக்களிடம் நாம் மனிதாபிமான உதவிகளை எதிர்பார்க்கின்றோம் ஏற்கனவே அம்பாறை மாவட்டத்திலுள் கோணவில் என்ற இடத்தில் பாடசாலையில் தங்கியுள்ள மக்களுக்காக இரண்டு நாளுக்கான உதவியை உடனடியாக வழங்கியுள்ளோம்.

இருந்தபோதும் தாயகத்தில் தென் தமிழீழத்தில் தொடர்ந்து பெய்து வரும் கடும் மழை காரணமாக மக்கள் இடம்பெயர்ந்து பாடசாலைகள், பொது நிறுவனங்கள், கோயில்கள் மற்றும் பாதுகாப்பான இடங்கள் நோக்கி தொடர்ச்சியாக இடம்பெயர்ந்து கொண்டிருக்கின்றனர். இவர்களுக்கான உதவிகள் மென்மேலும் தேவைப்படுவதால் அனைவரையும் ஆதரவுக்கரம் கொடுக்குமாறு அன்போடுவேண்டி நிற்க்கின்றோம்

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Sri Lanka President Mahinda must be held responsible

The cold blooded murder of Markandu Sivalingam, the Deputy Director of Education of Jaffna, confirms the hallmarks of the state involvement in the murder to give a message to the Tamils that it wants to have absolute control over their affairs. Supported by the sheer military presence to have a tab on each and every Tamils of the north, the government is fully geared to violently deal with even the semblance of criticism of its actions against the Tamils.


The military also has at its disposal, the most hated Tamil paramilitaries and former LTTE combatants who deserted the movement over the years on various grounds that play an important part in the kidnaps and murders in Jaffna.

Lethal of all are the well groomed men of former LTTE military head Mahataya and the unscrupulous paramilitary group of Minister Douglas Devananda.

Gopalasamy Mahendrarajah alias Mahathaya was the second in command of the LTTE and was executed on 28 December 1994 by the LTTE on the charges of collaboration with the Indian intelligence service RAW. Following his arrest, detention and execution a section of his men sought sanctuary with the army.

They are well looked after at the Palaly army camp to the extent of them marrying Sinhala women and managing their lives within the army compound. The quantum of the disgruntled LTTE men is said to be about forty odd men, and is well known to be very ruthless and are prepared to do anything instructed to them by the state.

Since the defeat of the LTTE, the government did not make any effort to disarm or disown these paramilitary groups. They are being used to extent the governments control over the Tamil people.

The Mahathaya group is said to very lethal and are said to be part of the army and at times are uniformed.

Since the defeat of the LTTE, both Mahataya group and Douglas Devananda’s paramilitary groups have kidnapped and executed many Tamils on the grounds of victims opposing the government and having links with the LTTE in the past.

The Deputy Director of Education Markandu Sivalingam’s murder occurred following his opposition to sing the national anthem in Sinhala in Jaffna. The killing confirms the hallmarks of the paramilitary mission of the government. Coming in motorcycles, wearing balaclavas and executing their mission with precision which the military is giving them in abundance have become commonality these days. Knowing the victims backgrounds, one can easily confirm the culprits are these lethal paramilitaries who are aiding and abating with the government forces.

Military’s admission of army/LTTE complicity on the killing of the 56-year-old Hindu priest Niththiyantha Sharma and his two brothers on 11 December 2010 confirms the linkage of the Mahataya group and the army in the murder.

Whilst these murders received widest publicity there are many other murders and kidnaps in the heavy presence of the army, and no progress have been made to arrest the perpetrators so far.

Impunity enjoyed by the killers is unimaginable and is no different to situation faced on the killing of the veteran Sunday Leader founder and editor Lasantha Wickramatunge two years ago.

The government must be made to disown its links with the paramilitaries and efforts must be made to disarm these groups without delay.

When leading government ministers are asked about the disarmament of these paramilitary groups, they will only say privately, they cannot let the paramilitaries down as they have given so much support to the government to defeat the LTTE. If this is what the policy of the government, the government must be held responsible for the crimes and the anti-social activities of these paramilitary groups. These crimes must be treated as extension of war crimes post defeat of the LTTE.

SL forces planned Jaffna education officer’s assassination’

Sri Lankan forces occupying Jaffna planned the assassination of the Deputy Director of Education for Valikaamam, Mr. Markandu Sivalingam, on Sunday night, media sources in Jaffna said. “We cannot keep quiet seeing such murders. If we do so, tomorrow even we will not remain. We have to mobilise ourselves very urgently,” said Rev. Jesudas, the principal of St. Hendry’s College, I’lavaalai, speaking at the funeral of Mr. Sivalingam at Maruthanaamadam, Tuesday. It was attended by large number of students, teachers, principals and the public. But neither SL military officials, nor the officials of the provincial administration attended the funeral. On the day of his assassination there was the ‘disaster management’ gala attended by SL prime minister forcing students to ‘sing’ Sinhala anthem.


Obituary address by Rev. Fr. Jesudas at the funeral
“Whenever academics and intellectuals were assassinated in the past, we were keeping quiet. But we have not achieved anything by that silence. Such assassinations are escalating now. Our continued silence will invite dangerous consequences,” Fr. Jesudas further said in making obituary.


Speaking at the funeral, the Director of Education for Jaffna, Mr. Ratnam Tamilmaran asked all sections to condemn such assassinations of academics. Attack on academics in on the escalation. Stopping that is in the hands of everybody, he said.

The funeral procession started from the house of Mr. Sivalingam at Urumpiraay. Amidst heavy rains there was a big crowd. His colleagues took charge of the body at Maruthanaamadam junction, where the Valikaamam regional education office is located. Principals of all leading schools, teachers, students and education officers paid homage.

The cremation took place at Maruthanaamadam Saiva crematorium.

There was public anger on the absence of any provincial administration officials at the funeral. Just on the previous day these Tamil officials were in the retinue of the colonial governor Maj. Gen. Chandra Sri, when he came to open an education office at Kaarainakar.

As some stunning details of the assassination of Mr. Sivalingam is being circulated in Jaffna, the absence of the SL military and administration officials at his funeral have evoked further suspicions among the public.

In a territory where thousands of military were needed for the security of visiting SL politicians, only three policemen were at the procession and funeral of Mr. Sivalingam.

The Logic in Sri Lanka’s Disappearances

by Jan Jananayagam
When people are abducted and never seen again – ‘disappeared’ – or their bodies are later found dumped, and when they are gunned down in public or in front of their families, these acts are often described as ‘senseless’. Senseless because nothing these people might have done – or are suspected to have done – is seen to justify such horrific ends.

But there is a purpose to disappearances and extra-judicial killings: terror. These acts are not just about the individual, but the rest of society. They constitute a specific form of violence aiming to define the relationship between the state and the community concerned, between fear and submission.

How genocide?
Disappearances are not mere ‘senseless’ manifestations of ‘lawlessness’, but a deliberate and planned effort by a state to achieve its objectives. As Amnesty International said this week, “entire communities can fracture under pressure as people fear being associated with those targeted.”
Historically, disappearances and extra-judicial killings fit within a strategy to destroy the political will of a target population or a way to destroy in whole or in part a target population.


If the target group shares a political belief (for example some Latin American states’ assaults on leftist movements during the Cold War), then it is politicide. If this target population is chosen on the basis of ethnicity – as with the Armenians, Kurds or the Tamils – then disappearances and extra judicial killings become part of a strategy of genocide.

As Raphael Lemkin, the academic who coined the term put it, “Genocide is intended rather to signify a coordinated plan of different actionsaiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves.”


“The objectives of such a plan would include the disintegration of the political and social institutions, of culture, language, national feelings, religion, and the economic existence of national groups, and the destruction of the personal security, liberty, health, dignity, and even the lives of the individuals belonging to such groups”


Sri Lanka’s case
In Sri Lanka, disappearances and extra-judicial killings have long been part of the state’s assault on the Tamils. Indeed, given the scale of such targeted violence, it is integral to the degradation of Tamil political and physical life, to genocide.


According to a 1999 UN Study Sri Lanka then already had the world’s second highest rate of disappearances - the overwhelming majority of victims since 1990 being Tamils. In the decade since thousands more, again mainly Tamils, have vanished since being taken into government custody.


By 2003 Amnesty International had received 20 000 complaints of disappearances since the armed conflict began in 1983 – of which 9000 were still open. Last year Amnesty said:


“Enforced disappearances continued to be part of a pattern of abuse apparently linked to the government’s counter-insurgency strategy. … Many enforced disappearances took place inside high-security zones and during curfew hours.”


Even after the end of the armed conflict, thousands of Tamil men, women and youth are being held by the state accused of working for the LTTE. None have been charged. The ICRC and international human rights groups have been denied access to them, amid persistent reports of torture, summary executions and rape.


Sri Lanka said last year 11,000 people were being held. Amid international protests, a tiny handful have been released in a few much publicised ceremonies. The state also now claims only 5,000 are held.


Continuous
Disappearances and killings even continued, after a short lull, during the internationally-brokered ceasefire and peace process period (2002 to 2006).


Amongst the high-profile cases, Sri Lanka’s best known defense analyst, Sivaram Dharmaratnam was taken off a Colombo street in May 2005. His body was found the next day, he had beaten and shot in the head. Tamil MPs Joseph Pararajasingham (Dec 2005) and Nadarajah Raviraj (Nov. 2006) were gunned down in public – just two amongst several Tamil parliamentarians. All were advocates of Tamil self-determination.


Some Sinhala critics of the government have also been killed or disappeared. Lasantha Wickrematunge editor of the Sunday Leader newspaper was murdered in January 2008 – a case that gets much more attention internationally than fellow newsman Sivaram’s.


However, notably, the vast majority of media workers killed or disappeared are Tamil: of 35 cases between 2004 and 2009, 29 were Tamil, 3 Sinhala and 2 Muslim. The office of Tamil newspapers in government-controlled Jaffna, including Uthayan, were repeatedly stormed and threatened by gunmen.


Purposeful
Why are reporters and media targeted? It is not only a question of their criticisms or exposes of government policy. It is also about spreading terror across the media and imposing collective self-censorship, about ensuring non-coverage of the broader assault on, and destruction, of their community. As Rodney Pinder, head of International News Safety Institute says, “Murder is cheap censorship …Terror increases self censorship.”


Another group of Tamils who have been targeted are humanitarians. Several aid workers with the Tamil Rehabilitation Organisation (TRO) were abducted and disappeared in January 2006.


In August that year seventeen staff – all but one Tamil – of the French aid agency Action Contre la Faim (ACF) were lined up and shot dead by Sri Lankan troops (the second worst attack worldwide on aid workers, after the bombing of the UN in Baghdad).


Why are aid workers targeted? It is about spreading terror among humanitarians and curtailing the capacity for extending assistance to a population suffering deprivations amid military offensives.


As a recent study points out, terrorising aid workers into leaving amid a humanitarian crisis is effectively a “death sentence” for refugees and internally displaced.


As the ICRC protested in 2006, even before the ACF killings, the attacks were “severely hampering the efforts of humanitarian actors in Sri Lanka to provide assistance to the most vulnerable segments of the population.”


Seeking submission
Amongst the other Tamils who either disappeared in government custody or murdered by the armed forces and their paramilitary allies, are civil society leaders, student leaders, academics, parliamentarians, business owners, relatives of LTTE cadres.


The logic of such state violence was best put by Sivaram himeself. These brutal acts, he said, are about “forcing the target population to lose its collective will.”


“Arrest, detention and torture, all indiscriminate, and interrogation destroy the basis of civil society. All this denies one’s sense of rights; you want people to lose track of the idea that they have rights of any kind. You reduce them to the point where staying alive becomes their top priority.”


Based on a presentation to the 6th International Conference Against Disappearances (Dec 2010), hosted by ICAD (International Committee Against Disappearances)

Kilde: Tamil Daily News

UN Panel could only visit LLRC

The Sri Lankan government said Thursday that UN Secretary General's panel could be allowed to visit the country only if it doesn't investigate into alleged war crimes against the country.

The UN panel would be issued visas only to meet the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC), Sri Lanka's own panel looking back at its longstanding conflict which ended in May 2009, said Keheliya Rambukwella, the minister of information and the government spokesman.

Sri Lanka had earlier slammed the panel as interference of its sovereignty, saying the investigative panel headed by former Indonesian Attorney General Marzuki Darusman would not be granted visas.

"The circumstances are different now and they have expressed willingness to visit Sri Lanka and give evidence to the government- appointed LLRC," Rambukwella said.

"The purpose of their visit will be present at the sittings of the LLRC. It is up to the commissioner whether they will make themselves available for a discussion with the panel outside the LLRC sittings," he said.

The Sri Lankan military was accused of killing civilians during the final stage of the battle with the Tamil Tiger rebels, an allegation strongly denied by the government.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon appointed a three-member expert panel in June to advise him on the alleged incidents. A Sri Lankan government minister led a death fast in July against the panel, calling for its withdrawal.

Kilde: Xinhua

Are Tamils waving LTTE flags "terrorists"?

by Dushy Ranetunge

Apologists in Sri Lanka are quick to defend Mahinda Rajapakse in pointing to LTTE flag waving protestors in London as evidence of proscribed terrorists on British soil plotting to divide the "motherland". They are confused as to why Britain is turning a blind eye, refusing to crack down, accusing London of harbouring and even tacitly supporting secessionists to underpin a perceived master plan of colonial/European/Western domination. Its "divide and rule" they say. Another favourite explanation is that it is all being done for electoral expediency of British parliamentarians.

The above is a display of weakness of Colombo’s thought and policy in relation to what is going on. As long as this attitude persists, the present regime’s desire to reconcile its relationships with the Tamils, the West and overcome its war crimes conundrum will remain an uphill task. The mindset of the present regime gripped with a Serbian style nationalism liberally branding opponents "traitors" seem incapable of rising above a certain water mark and this will directly impact on Sri Lanka’s fortunes and the destiny of Sri Lankan citizens.

Successive Sri Lankan regimes insecure and lacking in confidence have repeatedly attempted to buttress their domestic popularity in covering themselves with the "national" flag of religion and nationalism.

Over the decades this policy has alienated Tamils, Burghers, and even English speaking Sinhalese who have reacted in different ways. All these communities have emigrated in large numbers and have withdrawn from the state sector.

It is only the brave from the elite English speaking educated Sinhalese or Tamil communities who will aspire to participate in the Sri Lankan state. Those of the calibre of Lakshman Kadirgamar who venture into the state sector are indeed a rarity, irrespective of ethnicity.

The Sri Lankan state no longer functions at the optimum available to it in terms of its human resources. It has alienated entire sections of its population, often the highly educated and skilled in the republic.

Those who do venture in, run the risk of leaving with their reputation in tatters. One observes those sitting on the LLRC with sympathy and you can forget about those "experts" who expressed their "expertise" about the Channel 4 war crimes video on behalf of the Sri Lankan state.

While the vociferous nationalistic Sri Lankan mind wants to brand those who waved the LTTE flags in London as terrorists, London appreciates the nuances of the Sri Lankan problem and the alienation of sections of its population.

It recognizes that Sri Lankans are rallying to the LTTE flag as a means of protest against inherent weaknesses of its make up which has alienated sections of its population.

British intelligence routinely monitors the Tamil Diaspora and advises the government. The LTTE hardcore in London is a small group, which is being "empowered" by Colombo’s behaviour.

The successive riots leading up to 83 riots, Sinhala only, the burning of the Jaffna library etc were acts that "empowered" the LTTE and facilitated the rallying of Tamils to the LTTE flag.

The recent Tamil national anthem fiasco, is yet another such empowerment. Disrespect for Tamil and English languages have been a major issue of contention and the recent anthem fiasco once again underpins the insensitive behaviour of the Sinhala nationalist mindset that empowers the LTTE flag.

Colombo needs to come to terms with the fact that just as some Americans continue to wave the confederate flag, some Sri Lankans will continue to wave the LTTE flag.

The British establishment recognizes the need of Colombo to urgently address governance issues. It recognizes that the global turbulence of the Tamil Diaspora is a direct response to weaknesses of governance in Colombo, leading to the empowerment of the small group of fumbling radical Tamil separatists who are heavily monitored by British intelligence.

The isolation or the empowerment of this core LTTE group is directly correlated to Colombo’s behaviour. Hardliners in Colombo expect Britain to crackdown on the Tamil community in the UK similar to the way it does against Tamil activists in Sri Lanka, without appreciating that such action would be impossible and would be deemed illegal, as it would be action against an entire community and would be defeated in the courts.

Tamils engaging in activity that is deemed terrorist logistics/violence would be disrupted by British authorities, but the answer to Sri Lanka’s problems are in Colombo.

Sri Lanka needs to change, to take the bull by the horns and change its behaviour for the better, building a rainbow nation (not a Sinhala only one) uniting its many talents and races creating space for all communities.

It would be incredibly foolish to think that Mahinda’s unity forged with an army larger than the British army would last the test of time.

Sri Lanka needs to change. It needs to forge a new nation, uniting its estranged peoples, not with empty words to an empty United Nations or empty Oxford Union which had to be filled in the last occasion he addressed it with bus loads organized by the High Commission in London, but with change in behavior and deed.

Until then, as Colombo fumbles with poor governance, the LTTE flag will continue to fly around the globe by Tamil sons and daughters of Sri Lanka, protesting at Colombo’s foolishness.

The present regime is depending excessively on Kadirgamar’s "terrorist" strategy to encourage foreign governments to crack down on LTTE activists amongst the Diaspora without fully appreciating that it is running out of fuel. With poor governance, if Sri Lanka continues its present strategy in a post LTTE world, it runs the risk that at some point, that Kadirgamar’s "terrorist" strategy will begin to unravel.

The United States was the first country to list the LTTE as a proscribed terrorist organization. Others countries followed it over the following years. The Sinhalese need to understand that globally the Tamils have the sympathy of host communities and the Sinhalese are perceived as the aggressors.

Now with a democratic grouping agitating as the Trans National Government of Tamil Eelam, increased democratic activity and the moving away from terrorism since 2009, the LTTE is building a case to push for de-proscription globally.

Already, the ignoring of those waving the LTTE flags in the West is an indication that the lobbying of the LTTE that its cause is a liberation struggle and not a terrorist one is slowly, but steadily gaining currency.

This argument was used in the past as well, but less convincingly, as the LTTE were carrying out terrorist attacks negating it. But in a post LTTE world, attitudes are changing.

Colombo is indirectly helping in this endeavor with its record of poor governance. The recent fiasco in London and its delay/inability to address the war crimes issue is further damaging Sri Lanka, giving momentum to the Tamil cause who are now on a high after the May 2009 downer.

The concept of separatism is not unlawful internationally. Only Terrorism is. If the Tamils mobilize a democratic movement for separatism and the Sri Lankan state crushes it militarily, it will further weaken and isolate Colombo internationally.

Kilde: Srilanka Guardian

What can the Tamils do in Sri Lanka?

By by Subramaniam Masilamany

Well, we made terrible mistakes, We never trusted each other, stayed divided and furthered our selfish goals.We have this sea sickness syndrome. We were crabs that pull each other down and fish that does not know the importance of community. A fish will only discover water last but too late. But the good news is we can come back.

We have to go back and rebuild, we assume our family like a nation and our home and land as our country. Become self sufficient in our own way, stay away from any form of governance. World powers are slow to respond and act. India and China of no help. Civilization has gone back to nature, might is right, and subjects are not armed with sticks and stones but with barrels and bombs. What can an ordinary Tamil person do? No diseass can invade if the immune system is strong, barbarians are like a disease and they invade when the social immune system is weak. We had weak social immune system.

What can we do now, at this very moment? ordinary peace loving people killed in cold blood, they are not terrorists, so why then they are killed. No reason is given, No reason will be given. That is Mahinda Rajapaks'a rule, it looks more like a criminal's rule.

What can ordinary Tamil civilian do? You have to be Pro-active, Precautionary, Prudent, Pragmatic, Patient, Peaceful etc. Beacuse the enemy is bellgerent, stubbron, non reasoning and violent. The enemy has no remorse. As much as possible stay away from the mindless thugs roamning the streets, they are the proxies of the President.The President is the head of state terror cartel funded by India and China. So you have a formidable enemy. You are numerically and financially too weak. But you will come back.

Then as I told you earlier we are responsible for our own plight. We are divided, poorly of course united, selfishly motivated, sense of community is hard find. It is our rush to fame and fortune that we prostituted our future, that is our own children! But the enemy is intoxicated with Fanaticism, Racism, Barbarism. His mind is dull and no better than a donkey.

But stay firm and steadfast, beleive in yourself and in divine faith. Prayers never go unanswered. You can disarm any enemy with faith in the almighty. Do that daily and clean up your mind. What else can you do, but Jews and the American Africans over came their troubles, we shall too, what we need is faith that will move the mountain.

But I beg to some Tamils please as Jesus said "You were born to do good, if you cannot please do no harm". Some of you, can you please do no harm to your brother?

We also must pray for the enemy's proxies, they are misguided and they have no food, no bread, no eggs, no coconut, but they are given plenty of arms and amuunition. How?. When their mothers, sisters, wives and daughters have to resort to the oldest profession to make a living in the streets of colombo and the mansion of the middle east what can the children do? They become crooks and criminals, they have no one look upon to other than a terror king. He is their role model!

Kilde: Srilanka Guardian