Indian TATA Personal Carries donated to Sri Lanka Army by Americans! How funny eh?

Are Americans becoming poor?  Or didn't they find any other better vehicle in their country? Or is it to show Indians how friendly they are with them?  Or Are they conveying a message to Sri Lanka? Or American foreign policy has acquired a new turn?

It is anyway bizarre move on the part of Americans-buying Indian made military hardware and donating to Sri Lanka: a load of contradictions it seems!  

As my friend pointed out there are many bizarre things in the photos. See the logos on the doors: "Partners". What a bizarre partnership it is while arm twisting Sri Lanka on alleged war crimes, Darusman report, C-04 and harboring and giving all the support to the LTTE rump in the USA. In short, how does a 'War Criminal' become a partner?  And also the logo tells us that SL and USA are 'partners' today, tomorrow and yesterday. Is that true? The following quote from the today's Island's editorial speaks volumes about how the US supported Sri Lanka in the past.

"US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said, in New Delhi, that the US would fully cooperate with India to thwart terror attacks against the latter. This pledge is ironic in that about three decades ago the US just looked the other way when Sri Lanka pleaded for help to protect itself against separatist terrorism which India, a Russian ally at that time, promoted to penalise it for having crossed over to the US camp under pro-American President J. R. Jayewardene's government. Sri Lanka has received little or no military assistance from the US to fight terrorism. Former US Ambassador to Sri Lanka Jeffrey Lunstead told US Foreign Relations Committee on Feb. 24, 2009 that the US military relationship with Sri Lanka was almost nil."

I also quote below some comments made by my friend after seeing this bizarre incident. It sums up what Americans are up to and where are they now.

"Interesting! Is the US so bankrupt but yet wants to yield influence by showing they can still provide military hardware? So with shitty pocket money they are buying TATA trucks (that's all Butenis can offered to buy these days I guess)  for Army to 'counter balance' support from China and with this 4 trucks they'll expect 100 trucks worth favors and influence returned for the next century at least!

But gone are the days when US used to give ship loads of 10 ton 18 cylinder MAC trucks for dime a dozen armies of the world! ah! How sad! By the way the logo says 'partners'. Partners don't accuse your partner 'war-criminal' .unless we are different level of a 'partner'. Unlike Israel..!!!" 

SLAF makes its maiden flight to Giranike (Killinochchi)

Sri Lanka Air Force made its maiden flight to newly constructed Giranike (Killinochchi) air strip yesterday.   (Giranike is the original name of Kilinochchi later Tamilinzed as has been the case with many places in the North and East of Sri Lanka). I quote below a part of one of my previous articles in which I mentioned how the original Sinhala name Giranike was coined and how it has been Tamilinized as Kilinochchi.

"The following quoted piece of description in an advertisement by the Commercial Bank in a national news paper of its opening of a new branch in the last month there says it in style.     

"The parrots (Gira in Sinhala) who came in flocks perched on the Nika Trees (Vitex negundo) that grew in abundance there and it was why the place was named "Giranike".

In Tamil parrot is called "Killi" and the Nika tree is known as "Nochchi". Through the combination of these two words, the name Killi-nochchi was coined".

Archeological evidences including stone inscriptions once strewn in the area and now destroyed as well as the descriptions in chronicles including Mahavamsa and Deepavamsa say that this area was once a vast complex of a Buddhist monastery in which thousands of Arhats were residing." 

Carving out of a separate sate in Sudan: A new fodder for Eelamists

Eelamists and their supporters in the West are still licking their wounds after utterly failing the mammoth effort they made to carve out a separate state in Sri Lanka militarily.  But an unfortunate African country Sudan succumbed to the West's and the USA's nasty schemes and became a victim of it. The West's nasty schemes were well supported by the Eelmaists too in this effort though their effort in Sri Lanka never bore fruits. (Rudrakumaran , a prominent LTTE  leader based in USA and an ardent supporter of carving out of Southern Sudan scheme has been invited to the independence ceremony to take place soon ).Highlighting the carving out of a separate state in Sudan has become Eelam propagandists' hot topic as D.B.S. Jeyaraj does in one of his latest posts.

Though the efforts by the Eelamists and the West failed in military means in Sri Lanka they are continued unabated in other means as witnessed by the 'Darusman's Report' and 'Chanel-04 Video'. The sustained will- power of Sri Lankan people ably supported by the correct political leadership prevented what would have been another Southern Sudan in Sri Lanka. Eelam propagandists like Jeyraj's aim is to give another boost to current efforts underway against Sri Lanka. This will catch a renowned vigor in coming days highlighting 'Southern Sudan as an example to win Eelam'.  

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."