Why do Americans keep on losing wars at the same time engaged in mass scale slaughtering of civilians in the soils they invade?

This article in The Telegraph speaks volumes as to why the USA, the most powerful military ever existed in the planet keep on losing wars in the countries that they invade while at the same time indiscriminately slaughtering the incent civilians in the invaded countries. As per this article the US spends £12.5 billion a year on air conditions in Iraq and Afghanistan. 

USA armed forces' reluctance to relinquish the comfortable lifestyles which they enjoy back at home in the invaded soils too while relying on too much in technology, again as measure not to risk their lives and limbs, have cost dearly innocent civilians in the invaded countries. Numerous drone attacks that slaughter civilians in thousands in Afghanistan are case in point.  The particular article in The Telegraph goes on to say that

 'The US military spends about $20 billion (£12.5 billion) a year just to air-condition its bases in Iraq and Afghanistan, a retired senior officer has claimed. The Brigadier General Steve Anderson, who served as chief logistician to General David Petraeus in Iraq, said that the American department of defence (DOD) was shockingly inefficient in its energy use.

"In essence what we're doing is we're air conditioning the desert over there in Afghanistan, Iraq and other places," Brig. Gen. Anderson said. Taking into account raw fuel, transport and security, "DOD will spend about $20 billion annually to air-condition tents and temporary structures,"

he told National Public Radio. Brig. Gen. Anderson explained that the fuel used to power air conditioners in remote bases in Afghanistan is shipped into Pakistan, before being transported by land for more than two weeks. It must cross 800 miles of roads, many little more than "improved goat trails", and areas where insurgents will use roadside bombs to target troops serving the US war effort.

Brig. Gen. Anderson claims billions of dollars could be saved if the US military used simple energy-efficient techniques, such as spraying tents with common insulation foam used in domestic roofs.

 In contrast a Sri Lankan armed forces' soldier defeated the most ruthless terrorist origination in the world, claimed by none other than FBI itself, with perhaps one tenth of facilities and comforts that his counterpart in the US forces' has access to.  SL forces risked their lives and limbs to minimize the civilian casualties not relying on methods that harm the lives of the civilians. And also they faced a foe perhaps 10 times formidable and comprising of 100 times more suicide carders than what the US faces now. Yet SL forces saved 300,000 civilians that terrorists used as a protective shield for their survival. Would the USA have ever undertaken such a feat?

As I pointed out in one of my previous articles the spectacular success achieved by the Sri Lankan armed forces is too much to the USA and the West to digest.  So Sri Lanka has to pay the price for doing what the most formidable military powers that ever existed in the world can't do.  

D.B.S. Jayaraj: a top Eelam Propagandist!

D.B.S. Jeyaraj popularly known as DBSJ stands out as a prominent figure among the Eelam propagandists. (Daily Mirror of Sri Lanka still carries Jeyaraj's articles though his rabid Tamil racism is well exposed.) Born in Kurunagala, educated in St. Thomas Collage in Colombo he is now domiciled in Canada and had been working in The Island in Upali Newspapers and Virakeshari of Express newspapers in 1980s.( He claims that the threats from the both then SL government and   LTTE  forced him to flee for Canada)

The mythical Tamil history in Sri Lanka and bogus Tamil Homeland theory are incessantly perpetuated to for the furtherance of the Eelam project with the intention of carving out an exclusive Tamil enclave in the Northern and Eastern parts of the country. In order to achieve this goal non-Tamils were ethnically cleansed from the North and East of Sri Lanka employing mass scale slaughter campaigns. So the Eelamists such as Jeyaraj dearly clings on to the this exclusive Tamil character of the North and East though the majority of Tamils in Sri Lanka live outside North and East among other communities. (Though Jeyaraj himself being born and bred in Kurunagala and educated in Colombo). On the top of all the so called Tamil History in Sri Lanka, rewritten to perpetuate Eelam project, is a monumental myth to claim an exclusive Tamil enclave in Sri Lanka.       

  A recent article of Jeyaraj titled '165 Sinhala families settled in Tamil village Kokkachchaankulam in Vavuniya North' is a case in point to show how rabid Tamil racist Jeyaraj is. Slightest sign of re-settling of Sinhalsese who were subjected to the mass scale ethnic cleansing programme of the North and East is portrayed as 'Sinhalanization of North and East' to 'change the demographic character of Tamil Homeland'.  In this particular article the name of the village is highlighted as being Sinhalanized as 'Kalabowasewa' though the actual scenario being the exact opposite. It is clear that the Eelam gang is poisoned with their beloved project into their blood to such an extent that they are totally blinded with the Eelam myth. The particular village's original name was in fact Kalabowasewa and was Tamilnaized as 'Kokkachchaankulam' as has been the case with many Tamilinized original place names in North and East. The original inhabitants of the villages were Sinhalese. (The name Vavuniya itself has been Tamilinized from the original Sinhala word Vavnimawa-meaning where the Tanks (Vav) ends).Some of my previous posts on the subject of Tamilinization of the original Sinhalese place names can be read from the following links.

http://rebelofkandy.blogspot.com/2010/11/more-on-tamilinzed-sinhala-names-in.html

http://rebelofkandy.blogspot.com/2009/06/jaffna-was-occupied-by-sinhalese.html

http://rebelofkandy.blogspot.com/2010/07/latest-cabinet-meeting-held-in-giranike.html

http://rebelofkandy.blogspot.com/2009/07/kadurugoda-kantarodai-buddhist-temple.html

http://rebelofkandy.blogspot.com/2009/08/gokanna-viharaya-in-trincomalee.html

http://rebelofkandy.blogspot.com/2009/07/tamilinized-sinhala-place-names-in.html

http://rebelofkandy.blogspot.com/2009/05/introducing-true-history-of-sri-lanka.html

So what's wrong with re-settling the Sinhalese in one of their original villages? It is indeed the last thing that the Eelamists want as that type of moves deprive Tamils to have an exclusive Tamil Land in Sri Lanka.   

Though Jeyaraj publicly claims that he is not an LTTE supporter and has been a victim of LTTE's excesses one wouldn't fail to notice that he has taken great pains to glorify the LTTE before and after LTTE's decimation. Case in point is the article on Balraj, a terrorist leader. He deceives the Sinhalese readers with references in his article like "A little known incident that occurred in 2003 illustrates the respect and regard with which Balraj was held by some officers in the Sri Lankan army ". He also gives much prominence to the anti-Sri Lankan campaigns going on in Tamil Nadu in the idea of threatening Sinhalese. (the sheer number of responses he receives for his posts  from the LTTE supporters and his responses to them is a clear indication of how popular he has been among the LTTE supporters which betrays his identity)    

I quote below a part of my previous articles to highlight the fact that Eelamists' or their backers' agenda of pushing Sinhalese to the wall have always backfired and will continue to happen due to some historically embedded truths.

"Sri Lanka is the only patch of land that Sinhalese can live in and die. They have no other land to go as Tamils and Muslims do nor do they have brothers and sisters to demonstrate on behalf of them in all over the world at the drop of the hat. The rural Sinhalese foot soldier goes to the battle- front with one thing in his mind. If he is defeated the only place left for him is the deep blue sea. So he fights until last drop of blood. In fact there will be no peace in Sri Lanka as long as Sinhalese feel insecure. The more they are being harassed by whoever else be it Tamils or Muslims or India or the West or the USA the greater their will power to fight back to win their precious right to live in their beloved mother land. Sinhalese also do have an equal right to live in anywhere in the country be it in Giranike (Killinochchi) or Mooladoowa (Mulaitheev) or Hunugama (Chunnakam) or Samapura (Sampoor) or Vavnimawa (Vavniya) or Thambalagamuwa (Thampalakamam) or Minipe (Manipai) or Kadurugoda (Kantharodai) or Vanagamua (Vankamam) as not only those areas were originally inhabited by them but they do also have a right to live those areas as Tamils and Muslims enjoy rights to live any other part of the country.   

Sinhalese have survived more than 2500 years withstanding so many perils such as huge invasions from the South India and the West alike who were hell bent to wipe out them from the face of the earth. They will continue to fight however mightier their advisory would be. When Sinhalese are pushed to the wall, as it is going to happen again, they have fought back ferociously and preserved their race, their motherland and the religion."

In defense of appointing military officials at Sri Lankan missions abroad …

The move taken by present regime to appoint serving and ex-military personal at our diplomatic missions was roundly criticized many an anti-Sri Lanka sections here and abroad. But the move has paid dividends with some spectacular successes scored by those officials against the propaganda juggernaut and the activities of the LTTE in the Western countries. This decision was taken at the backdrop of  stupendous challenges faced by the country posed by the LTTE propaganda machine hell bent to punish Sri Lanka, angered by LTTE's destruction. The move was basically arrived at considering the fact the successful military officials are fully focused in achieving the given task however difficult their goal may be. The lethargic and opportunistic attitudes of some of the civilian officials appointed at the missions cost the country dearly leaving the LTTE propagandist a field day over the years.      

Major General Shavendra Silva, Sri Lanka's Deputy Representative to the UN is a brilliant case in point. He has succeeded in educating and showing the true picture of what has really been happening in our country to the Western audience misled by the well-oiled LTTE propaganda machine. The latest achievement scored by De. Silva has been of a similar effort. Major General Silva has been able to show how fraudulent the latest Chanel-04 video named  "Sri Lanka's Killing Field" has been to a section of Western audience in New York, attended by the Channel 4 Director Callum Macrae himself. (You can see Major. Genral Shavendra Silva's explanations and responses in this link). The responses and explanations by the military officer at the event attended by some NGOs comprising Crime group Society, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and some ambassadors make the Director of the Cannel-04 embarrassed and dumb funded.  

He proves in his responses that

(1)  Thamilvani Gnanakumar appearing in the video was in fact an ex-LTTE carder back in January in 2008.  She was using three names in different places and was later serving in an LTTE hospital having come to Sri Lanka from the UK on a 06 months visa.
(2)    The group of people who were shouting inside a bunker were in fact telling in Tamil not to film them while in the video clip what they said has been distorted
(3)    The footage shown as taken by the UN satellites showing bombing on a jungle had in fact been taken by the Sri Lankan Air Force (SLAF) which indicated on the footage's background.
(4)    The doctor who was talking in the video had been forced to do so by the LTTE. This has been revealed by this particular doctor later.        

This blog site also shows that the shooting scene in the video alleged to have been carried out  by SL security forces had in fact been carried out by the LTTE carders in SL army uniforms. The victims were the SL security forces persons captured by the LTTE. The original sound track was in Tamil and later had been changed in a bizarre Sinhala language.   

Many other spectacular successes achieved by military officials appointed at out foreign missions recently have helped Sri Lanka to salvage the situation at least to a certain extent. Arresting of KP in Malaysia in August in 2009 was also as result of a great deal of efforts made by the then deputy high commissioner, a senior military officer of our mission in that country.   

As I said earlier one of the reasons for the LTTE's propaganda machine's spectacular success over the years have been the inaction, ignorance, incompetence and the opportunistic attitudes on the part of the officials of our foreign missions. Most of those who were posted (and many still serving) in the missions were engaging merely in their personal matters leaving aside the great responsibilities they were expected to carry out on behalf of the country. Most of them have been spending their time in the foreign missions merely to educate their children. Foreign affaires of our country made a rapid downward spiral with the start of appointing political stooges to the missions from mid 1970s. This move was followed by the subsequent regimes that came to power making the matters bad to worst setting in motion a circle of disastrous consequences to the country.  

Sri Lanka is again a ‘Failed Sate’ as per the White West!

'Human Rights' have been one of the major weapons used by the White West to punish the countries or regimes that do not dance to the whims and fancies of them while they have been the biggest violators of human rights by way of slaughtering civilians in their bombing sprees and torture camps witnessed in many countries including Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya etc.

 'Failed Sates' is also one of the ridicules and absurd tools to use against some of the countries which are not ready to listen to the White West. So this time around too 'Failed Sates' tag is back in the town. As expected Sri Lanka is also a 'Failed State' while there are some of ass licking countries of the White in the region who are horribly pathetic in their affairs in many sectors than Sri Lanka. Yet Sri Lanka is a 'Failed Sate' as per the White West as it is not prepared to lick their asses. 

This how Sri Lanka is described by the so called 'Failed Sate Index'. 

  "The government's final push against the rebels relied on the shelling of civilians and other atrocities, according to a 2010 report by the International Crisis Group. "The most recent statistics from last year indicate that some 327,000 are still displaced from the conflict". "Despite the pronounced fractures still lingering, the Sinhalese-dominated government in Colombo seems eager to forget the past,"

So we know very well what the International Crisis Group is. ICG is yet another arm used by the biggest human rights violators of our age to punish the countries like Sri Lanka which did not want to bow down to their demands to save terrorists. The fact that mentioning the figure 327,000 as war displaced still in the camps well suggests that ICG is merely quoting the figures from the LTTE propagandists. Terms like "the Sinhalese-dominated government" and "the shelling of civilians and other atrocities" have just cut and paste from the LTTE propaganda outlet Tamilnet. (Tamilnet is also one of the major sources to the recently published Darusman report which is being used by the White West to punish Sri Lanka).

I quote below yet another insightful article by Malinda Senaviratha to educate ourselves what a sick country our giant neighbour India is. In that sense India is the most failed state in the planet. Yet it tries to intervene in our own affairs and mess with them while it has its own many things to sort out.          

"There's a sick man in South Asia and it is not Sri Lanka. I checked. Here are some sobering facts. There's a sick country in South Asia where 10.8% of the labour force is unemployed. In this sick country, a full quarter of the population lives below the poverty line. This country has an infant mortality rate of 47.57 deaths per 1,000 live births. Close to 40% of people over 15 years of age cannot read or write.

This is India. 'Shining,' may we add?

 India: a great country; one of the biggest economies in the world; has acquired nuclear capabilities, has one of the largest standing armies in the world; aspires to become a Permanent Member of the UN Security Council; got big dreams and thinks big. When it comes to delivering and distributing, however, India comes a distant second to countries like Sri Lanka. Maybe it is the small-mindedness.  

Here's some relevant data regarding Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka's Per Capita GDP stands at US $ 5000 (India's is US $ 3500). Sri Lanka's unemployment rate is half that of India. Sri Lanka's inflation rate (5.6%) is half that of India. Infant mortality is at 9.7 deaths per 1000 live births. Literacy stands at 90.7%. All this, let us not forget, was obtained and maintained through two bloody insurrections (the second precipitated by Rajiv Gandhi's attempt to turn Sri Lanka into another Bhutan or Sikkim through the Indo-Lanka Accord) and a 30 year long struggle against terrorism (Indian-instigated, Indian-funded, Indian-armed and Indian-trained, let us not forget). 'Sri Lanka Shining' sounds a more believable proposition, one might say.

India is not a bunch of statistics which shows a country of vast contrasts with a privileged few exploiting and living off millions who are not. It is a country which despite all appearances of opulence and national wholesomeness, is falling apart at its many seams.

 There are presently 123 independence movements in India struggling for rights of self-determination. Apart from these movements there are sort of on-going struggles for social and economic justice and they are spread over 220 districts in 20 states covering about 40% of India's total geography. Murmur names such as Kashmir, Tamil Nadu, Assam, Sikhs and Nagaland and worry lines will appear on the most stoic of Indian officials and politicians. India, moreover, indulges in what is almost like a national pastime: that of engaging in faith-related pogroms that leave tens of thousands dead every 5-10 years.

Keeping India 'intact' has cost hundreds of thousands of lives and requires systemic torture, assassination and genocide (in Kashmir for instance).

How about Sri Lanka? Well, we had a problem. Yes, 'past tense'. Took us time to sort it out, but sort it out we did and no thanks to India, let me add. India exists courtesy those who invaded the subcontinent. It is a recent amalgam and one that would not have materialized had the Europeans not arrived. Indeed, the name 'India' is a convenience coined by the colonial powers and it is to the lasting shame of that country that it is yet to unshackle itself from that strong (indelible?) symbol and reminder of a violently subjugated past.

Not so Sri Lanka. We suffered 500 years of colonial rule, yes. This island, however was not a hodge-podge of petty kingdoms at war with one another or describable as glorified fiefdoms, which is what much of what is now called 'India' used to be (and still is, one might argue). India does not have a 'national' history. There was never 'national' coherence in its past, except on a few occasions when warrior kings subjugated neighbouring regions. It is diverse, yes, and that's not a bad thing. Diversity, however, is pulling India apart, i.e. into her constituent elements.

So when India wants to prescribe 'reconciliation' to Sri Lanka, it is in a sense laughable. A far better idea would be for Indians to come to Sri Lanka and learn how to be a nation, how to overcome the challenges that life and living naturally throw up including those related to identity-based anxieties. Not perfect, sure. Far less imperfect though than our neighbor.

India is THE sick country in South Asia. Perhaps it is this sickness (described above) that makes for delirious and self-satisfied ranting and raving about how her neighbours ought to sort out their little problems. It is this sickness that perhaps makes India wants to interfere and mess up her neighbours in the 'Suffer Like I Suffer' kind of logic. That's screwed-up logic when it comes to bilateral solidarities but India will not see it that way. We can put it down to delirium.

India is suffering from a terrible cancer that has struck the core of its foundational lie. It is not a 'nation' but a hastily-pieced-together something that is coming apart because the colonial glue is no longer sufficient to keep things together and coherent, never mind the fact of the horrendous citizen-anomalies that describe it. Sri Lanka had a tumour too. It was duly removed. What remains are wounds which are eminently curable with home remedies.

India does not need Sri Lankan experts to tell her how to sort things out. All India needs do is take a look at Sri Lanka, or better still, take a look at herself. India would then looks at others, especially Sri Lanka, differently."

Sri Lanka is again a ‘Failed Sate’ as per the White West!

'Human Rights' have been one of the major weapons used by the White West to punish the countries or regimes that do not dance to the whims and fancies of them while they have been the biggest violators of human rights by way of slaughtering civilians in their bombing sprees and torture camps witnessed in many countries including Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya etc.

 'Failed Sates' is also one of the ridicules and absurd tools to use against some of the countries which are not ready to listen to the White West. So this time around too 'Failed Sates' tag is back in the town. As expected Sri Lanka is also a 'Failed State' while there are some of ass licking countries of the White in the region who are horribly pathetic in their affairs in many sectors than Sri Lanka. Yet Sri Lanka is a 'Failed Sate' as per the White West as it is not prepared to lick their asses.  

This how Sri Lanka is described by the so called 'Failed Sate Index'.  

 "The government's final push against the rebels relied on the shelling of civilians and other atrocities, according to a 2010 report by the International Crisis Group. 

"The most recent statistics from last year indicate that some 327,000 are still displaced from the conflict"

"Despite the pronounced fractures still lingering, the Sinhalese-dominated government in Colombo seems eager to forget the past," 

So we know very well what the International Crisis Group is. ICG is yet another arm used by the biggest human rights violators of our age to punish the countries like Sri Lanka which did not want to bow down to their demands to save terrorists. The fact that mentioning the figure 327,000 as war displaced still in the camps well suggests that ICG is merely quoting the figures from the LTTE propagandists. Terms like "the Sinhalese-dominated government" and "the shelling of civilians and other atrocities" have just cut and paste from the LTTE propaganda outlet Tamilnet. (Tamilnet is also one of the major sources to the recently published Darusman report which is being used by the White West to punish Sri Lanka).

     

I quote below yet another insightful article by Malinda Senaviratha to educate ourselves what a sick country our giant neighbour India is. In that sense India is the most failed state in the planet. Yet it tries to intervene in our own affairs and mess with them while it has its own many things to sort out.           

"There's a sick man in South Asia and it is not Sri Lanka. I checked. Here are some sobering facts. There's a sick country in South Asia where 10.8% of the labour force is unemployed. In this sick country, a full quarter of the population lives below the poverty line. This country has an infant mortality rate of 47.57 deaths per 1,000 live births. Close to 40% of people over 15 years of age cannot read or write. 

This is India. 'Shining,' may we add? 

 India: a great country; one of the biggest economies in the world; has acquired nuclear capabilities, has one of the largest standing armies in the world; aspires to become a Permanent Member of the UN Security Council; got big dreams and thinks big. When it comes to delivering and distributing, however, India comes a distant second to countries like Sri Lanka. Maybe it is the small-mindedness.   

Here's some relevant data regarding Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka's Per Capita GDP stands at US $ 5000 (India's is US $ 3500). Sri Lanka's unemployment rate is half that of India. Sri Lanka's inflation rate (5.6%) is half that of India. Infant mortality is at 9.7 deaths per 1000 live births. Literacy stands at 90.7%. All this, let us not forget, was obtained and maintained through two bloody insurrections (the second precipitated by Rajiv Gandhi's attempt to turn Sri Lanka into another Bhutan or Sikkim through the Indo-Lanka Accord) and a 30 year long struggle against terrorism (Indian-instigated, Indian-funded, Indian-armed and Indian-trained, let us not forget). 'Sri Lanka Shining' sounds a more believable proposition, one might say.

India is not a bunch of statistics which shows a country of vast contrasts with a privileged few exploiting and living off millions who are not. It is a country which despite all appearances of opulence and national wholesomeness, is falling apart at its many seams.

There are presently 123 independence movements in India struggling for rights of self-determination. Apart from these movements there are sort of on-going struggles for social and economic justice and they are spread over 220 districts in 20 states covering about 40% of India's total geography. Murmur names such as Kashmir, Tamil Nadu, Assam, Sikhs and Nagaland and worry lines will appear on the most stoic of Indian officials and politicians. India, moreover, indulges in what is almost like a national pastime: that of engaging in faith-related pogroms that leave tens of thousands dead every 5-10 years.

 Keeping India 'intact' has cost hundreds of thousands of lives and requires systemic torture, assassination and genocide (in Kashmir for instance).

How about Sri Lanka? Well, we had a problem. Yes, 'past tense'. Took us time to sort it out, but sort it out we did and no thanks to India, let me add. India exists courtesy those who invaded the subcontinent. It is a recent amalgam and one that would not have materialized had the Europeans not arrived. Indeed, the name 'India' is a convenience coined by the colonial powers and it is to the lasting shame of that country that it is yet to unshackle itself from that strong (indelible?) symbol and reminder of a violently subjugated past.

  

Not so Sri Lanka. We suffered 500 years of colonial rule, yes. This island, however was not a hodge-podge of petty kingdoms at war with one another or describable as glorified fiefdoms, which is what much of what is now called 'India' used to be (and still is, one might argue). India does not have a 'national' history. There was never 'national' coherence in its past, except on a few occasions when warrior kings subjugated neighbouring regions. It is diverse, yes, and that's not a bad thing. Diversity, however, is pulling India apart, i.e. into her constituent elements.

So when India wants to prescribe 'reconciliation' to Sri Lanka, it is in a sense laughable. A far better idea would be for Indians to come to Sri Lanka and learn how to be a nation, how to overcome the challenges that life and living naturally throw up including those related to identity-based anxieties. Not perfect, sure. Far less imperfect though than our neighbor.

India is THE sick country in South Asia. Perhaps it is this sickness (described above) that makes for delirious and self-satisfied ranting and raving about how her neighbours ought to sort out their little problems. It is this sickness that perhaps makes India wants to interfere and mess up her neighbours in the 'Suffer Like I Suffer' kind of logic. That's screwed-up logic when it comes to bilateral solidarities but India will not see it that way. We can put it down to delirium.

India is suffering from a terrible cancer that has struck the core of its foundational lie. It is not a 'nation' but a hastily-pieced-together something that is coming apart because the colonial glue is no longer sufficient to keep things together and coherent, never mind the fact of the horrendous citizen-anomalies that describe it. Sri Lanka had a tumour too. It was duly removed. What remains are wounds which are eminently curable with home remedies.

India does not need Sri Lankan experts to tell her how to sort things out. All India needs do is take a look at Sri Lanka, or better still, take a look at herself. India would then looks at others, especially Sri Lanka, differently."

Yet another reason why the West hates Sri Lanka……..

Apart from feeling guilty for not being able to pay back in the form of an exclusive Tamil state in Sri Lanka for Tamils for they have been the greatest ass lickers of the Whites for generations, the White asses got some other reasons too to punish Sri Lanka: Sri Lanka has scored a magnificent victory against terrorism by completely wiping out them from the face of the earth- a feat that the White West feels terribly envious with Sri Lanka as they have horribly failed in doing so with the greatest military power ever existed in this planet leading the fight with an enormous number of innocent civilians butchered.

  Close on the heels of big triumphalism unleashed at the death of Osama Bin Laden, the latest news is that the US is holding peace talks with the Taliban.  The West led by the US went for an all out war to destroy the Taliban an almost decade ago but the Taliban is still kicking and alive.  Sri Lanka stands out as a towering example of being the only country to defeat terrorism militarily in the contemporary history. Sri Lanka also proved horribly wrong the pundits in the Western Universities in the subject of Conflict Resolution with their hair splitting theories who advocate talking peace with terrorists is the only solution. There is no doubt that Taliban will soon prove them wrong again.  So Sri Lanka has to pay the prize of doing what the mightiest military powers ever existed in the planet can't do!  

How Tamils were disproportionately privileged against Sinhalese by their colonial masters

  It has been a common knowledge that the so called 'Tamil Grievances' or 'the problems of Tamils' or mythical 'Tamil Homeland' are direct result of lost privileges of a section Tamils which had been bestowed upon to them by the Colonists, vastly disproportionately at the expense of Sinhalese who were the majority.

I quote below a part of the Prelude of the book ' THE SEPARATIST CONFLICT IN SRI LANKA Terrorism, ethnicity, political economy by Asoka Bandarage, currently a professor at Georgetown University.  She has taught at Yale, Brandeis and Mount Holyoke, and is the author of Colonialism in Sri Lanka; Women, Population and Global Crisis and publications on South Asia, global political economy, ethnicity, gender and population.

The 279 pages book is a must read for anyone interested in Sri Lanka. It dispels many a myth associated with the so called 'Tamil Problem' in Sri Lanka and gives a true picture about the subject with many hard evidences.

       

'The Kandyan peasantry lost much of their land to the Europeans and other social groups that came with plantation expansion. By mid-twentieth century, agrarian pressure had become so acute that in Nuwara Eliya and Badulla districts, the landless Sinhala peasantry were respectively 42 percent and 38 percent of the population. Alienation of village common lands ( through instruments such as the Crown Lands Encroachment Ordinance of 1840) and plantation development had much to do with the plight of the Kandyan peasantry in the twentieth century.   The plight of the peasantry became the source of the JVP insurrection later in the post independence period.

 

The Sri Lankan/Ceylon Tamils in the north were not particularly advantaged in the acquisition and ownership of plantation land located in the island's southern areas and the Kandyan Highlands. But they held a decisive advantage in the realm of English language education. The colonial state's grants-in-aid provided the greater proportion of Christian missionary schools to the Northern Province. The American Ceylon Mission established exclusively in the Jaffna peninsula in 1816 provided elite English Education comparable to university education in its schools. This education, however, was not available to all Jaffna Tamils, but, mostly to a group who came to be known as the aristocratic 'first class vellalas'

The ready availability  of English secondary schools in the North created a 'structure imbalance' giving the Sri Lankan Tamils, especially vellala caste an 'intrinsic advantage' over the Sinhala Majority and other minorities and the Tamil groups with regard to higher education, colonial employment and the modern professions. Next to the Burghers, the Ceylon Tamils were 'over represented' in the administrative service relative to their proportions in the island's population. In 1925, the Sinhalese constituted 42.5 percent of the government medical service and 43.6 percent of the civil service, whereas, the Sri Lankan Tamils made up 30.8 percent of the medical services and 20.5 percent of the Civil Service although their respective proportions in the island's population were 67 percent and 11 percent. These occupations brought many Tamils from north to the south placing them in positions of social and economic superiority over the Sinhalese Majority. The Jaffna vellala Tamils were treated as loyal community with privileged access to employment not only in Sri Lanka, but, also other British colonies, especially Malaya and Singapore. Thus, the Jaffna vellala Tamils evolved a distinct ethnoclass and caste identity as a transitional elite, their descendents constituting a large part of the educated, professional diaspora today. As Sri Lankan Tamil scholars themselves have observed, privilege arising out of loyalty to the colonial master was 'the essential psyche of the educated Tamil' *'

*Sarvanathan , 'In Pursuit of Mythical State'

      

As I pointed out in an earlier post too, this vastly disproportionate occupation in the sectors of employment and education by minorities created a significant discriminatory factor in a country where 73% is the majority who can boldly and undisputedly claim that their presence in the country in more than two millennia made significant impact in its culture and society. The efforts made by the successive post independence governments to correct this monumental discriminatory policy by giving the majority community their rightful position in the society were seen and continue to be seen by the Tamils as a move made against their well being. Obviously, the privileges they enjoyed were bound to curtail significantly as against the proportionate representation by the Sinhalese. The hardest hit segment of the Tamil society was the English educated Vellala Jaffna Elite who had been enjoying the superficial privileges unimaginable to any minority anywhere in the world. These frustrated sentiments of Elite Tamils were very smartly hijacked by their patrons, Vellala Jaffna Elite politicians who were instrumental in creating and writing a mythical Tamil history and 'Tamil homeland fantasy', mainly conceived in Colombo Cocktail parties.

Tamils are the greatest ass lickers of the Whites while the Sinhalese have been the ass kickers of the Whites!

A neutral observer who follows developments in Sri Lanka from the Colonial Times up to the present day would realize that Tamils have been the greatest beneficiaries of the Colonists. Even more than six decades after the independence from the colonists the situation remains the same. Their generosity towards Tamils is such that they are hell bent to carve out a separate state in Sri Lanka exclusively for Tamils. This phenomenon is of course historically connected fact. Though no one makes serious attention to probe why it has been so, the simple reason is that the Whites feel obliged to paying back what they owe to Tamils: the generosity displayed by Tamils by being their ass lickers for generations. In contrast Sinhalese have historically been the ass kickers of the Whites. So It is quite understandable why Sinhalese have become the prime target of the Whites to the extent of dislodging them from their motherland.

During the span of almost 500 years of colonial times the Colonists were consistently harassed by the Sinhalese, depriving their opportunity to plunder our land with ease. There had been numerous armed uprisings by the Sinhalese throughout the colonial period resulting in mass scale genocidal slaughters against Sinhalese with their religion and property being destroyed and the lands robbed. The harshest among the three colonists against Sinhalese were the British. In contrast Tamils were granted vastly disproportionate superficial benefits at the expense of Sinhalese who were the vast majority and the original inhabitants of Sri Lanka.( I have discussed these vastly disproportionate benefits offered to the Tamils in one of my previous posts and will continue to write more on the subject in future posts too). Due to the very fact that Tamils had been the great ass lickers of the Whites they took them to most of their colonies. The Dutch and Portuguese started this by bringing down Tamils from South India to Jaffna to cultivate tobacco. The present day Tamils population in Jaffna is the descendents of those tobacco cultivators. British colonists followed suit by taking them to their colonies such as Malaysia, South Africa and Sri Lanka etc.

The present day SL Tamils continue to lick the asses of the Whites while being their own countries making them to do it easier. So it is not difficult to understand the effect: Sri Lanka has become a prime target of a nasty witch hunt for not allowing their ass lickers to have an exclusive Tamil land in Sri Lanka.  That's why the White asses have gone to the extent of giving ultimatums to Sri Lanka, a sovereign country based on a false video. What an ace ass lickers of the Whites SL Tamils have become!     

New wave of Indianisation is underway: though it’s a case of history repeating itself!

Apart from many a ways that India has long been engaged in destroying Sri Lanka from creating the LTTE up to again in a devious plan to divide the country through so called 13^th Amendment, new forms of 'Indianisation' of Sri Lanka has been well underway for quite a sometime. This new threat seems to have totally been ignored by the Sri Lankan authorities. The Indian projects currently underway in the country, many of them acquired by using arm twisting methods, totally employ Indian nationals depriving employment opportunities to Sri Lankans.  (The contractors, again Indians, pay fourfold big salary to an Indian laborer that of a local laborer.)

There is no mechanism on the part of SL authorities to check whether these Indian nationals return to their country. Some local residents in the Eastern districts claim that most of those Indians remain in the country for longer period of time though most of the projects are over. Most of those laborers are from Kerala and Tamil Nadu states who can easily mingle with local populace as they speak similar languages and bear similar physical features of residents in those districts. (A case in point is the Kalarawa Bridge built crossing the Yan Oya in Kuchchaveli Division in Trincomalee. The most of the laborers were from Karala state of India). There are many such projects underway and in pipeline particularly in NE areas. Conditions in Sri Lanka is many a times better for those people who live in deplorable living conditions in their respective sates even without enjoying basic facilities: the vast majority of population live even without basic facilities for instance water. Electricity is not a commodity for them but a luxury!        

On the other hand there have been reports of many cases of Indians working in Colombo and suburbs illegally. As in the above case SL authorities have no clue about them: leave alone whether they return to India. As has always been the case Sri Lankans do awake in their deep slumber when things are out of control. One thing is quite clear, with so many devious plans slowly but steadily underway India is back again in its old business of turning Sri Lanka to another Bhutan.

PS: I would say this is again a case of history repeating itself. Migration from Sothern India to SL's North East was one of the most common ways of Tamils settled in SL apart from those came with invaders and brought down by colonists especially to Jaffna to cultivate tobacco. (Most of the Jaffna population is descendants of South Indians brought down by Dutch and Portuguese). The sheer scale of South Indian population influx in NE Sri Lanka caused virtual extinction of original Sinhalese civilization their leaving only Sinhalese Buddhist archeological monuments strewn entire North and East but vastly destroyed now. 

Essay competition in memory of Indira Ganhdi for Sri Lanka’s students: the last thing Sri Lankan students should be asked to do.

The very idea of conducting an essay competition in memory of Indira Ganhdi among Sri Lankan students is ridiculous and the stupidest thing one would expect.  Instead the younger generation of Sri Lanka should be aware of the monumental damage caused by this politician from India whose actions destroyed the country for 30 years. She was the architect of the separatist war in Sri Lanka by training, arming and harboring the LTTE and other separatist groups from Sri Lanka. It was again her son Rajeev who rescued Prabakaran who was about to be eliminated by SL forces in 1987. It was again her son who forced on us so called "13^th Amendment", a stepping stone to divide the country.  The mother and son lethal combination, 'Cow and Calf 'as put by president Premadasa, spelled doomed to Sri Lanka's very existence.

One of the topics for the easy competition reads as 'India as a world power in the 21st century; Expectations of Sri Lankans from India today'. This sounds as if younger generation is forced to learn that what small country like Sri Lanka should expect from her Big Brother. The Sri Lanka-India Society conducts this competition. 

Chanel -04 Video is a fake! It’s a recording of gruesome execution of Sri Lankan Army soldiers and Naval ratings taken prisoner by the Tamil Tigers!

Mr. Mahinda Gunasekara in an article in the Sunday Island on 12th June proves with evidences that the Chanel -04 Video which is allegedly claimed to have been "extra-judicial killings in Sri lanka" during the final stages of the war "could well have been a recording of gruesome execution of Sri Lankan Army soldiers and Naval ratings taken prisoner by the Tamil Tigers, which they doctored and presented to the UK TV station in their attempt to frame the Sri Lanka authorities for war crimes committed by them".       

The article quotes an article appeared in Asian Tribune by one of the world's leading experts on digital video systems and former head of Cisco's Global Broadcast and Digital Video Practice division Mr. Siri Hewavitharana who proves with evidences that the video was indeed a fake.

I quote below some paragraphs of the article which shed more light to prove that it was indeed LTTE's handiwork who are the masters in these types of fraudulent crafts.

   

"The presence of another video carrying the same horrific scenes of execution where the voices recorded at the time clearly speak Tamil words has been uncovered, which was shown on the community channel Boston Lanka News Edition of June 14, 2010. The Channel 4 video, on the other hand, where the Sinhalese sounding voices are somewhat less clear and sounding artificial appear to have been dubbed later. We understand that the Sri Lankan authorities have submitted a copy of this other video to the parties concerned for their investigation. The link to the related news edition to access the second video is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohI3CSD4neM"

  

"The above news item is further evidence of the Tamil Tigers executing Sri Lankan security forces personnel who were in their custody during the latter stages of the war.Tamil Tigers executed and burnt Sri Lankan soldiers taken as prisoners of war Excavations of the mass grave in Kilinochchi where the bodies of 26 Sri Lankan soldiers executed by the LTTE are believed to have been buried, have now been completed, the police said.

The mass grave is believed to be of 26 soldiers who were taken as prisoners of war by the vanquished terrorist group and kept for years before they were executed when the military forces were approaching the Tiger territory last year.

The police yesterday said some human bones along with powdery residues believed to be of ashes and bullets have been recovered from the grave.

According to four LTTE suspects who were allegedly involved in the killing and are in custody now, the soldiers had been imprisoned at the Victor Base Prison at Vallipuram in Mullaitivu for more than three years.

The LTTE suspects had told the authorities that 8 Army soldiers and 18 naval ratings had been tortured from 2006 in a torture chamber at a location 10 kilometers away from the Mullaitivu highway. When the security forces were approaching, the fleeing Tigers have executed the prisoners of war on 6th January 2009 and burnt their bodies in the mass grave."