Incompetent, halfwit Wagista expells another intelligence man

Thursday, 02 January 2014 

DIG Chandra Nimal Wagista, aka ‘Wakiya’ and in intelligence parlance ‘Maina’, who does all the dirty work of the Rajapaksa regime and turned the state intelligence service into a halfwit institution while trying to protect his place through fake monks despite observing Sil on Poya Days, has sent his immediate junior SSP Nilantha Jayawardena to Jaffna on a sudden transfer.

SSP Jayawardena, counting nearly 14 years at intelligence work, had been one of the most skilled and striking personnel in state intelligence.

From the day ‘Wakiya’ became SIS director, he had been having a clash of opinion with the SSP. Around three months ago, the IGP was going to appoint SSP Jayawardena as director of the Police Special Bureau, but ‘Wakiya’ disrupted the attempt, well knowing that a person with more experience than him at the helm of the Bureau will mean his nudity will be exposed. He had got military intelligence chief Kapila Hendavitharana, who depends on the SIS to carry out his duties, to influence the defence secretary to halt the promotion of SSP Jayawardena.

In that, ‘Wakiya’ had the support of another incompetent like him, Nalaka Silva, who had ruined the Police Anti Narcotic Bureau and returned to SIS with the intention of sitting at the top seat there. The cold war between Silva and Jayawardena over their seniority had been yet another reason for the transfer of the latter, internal sources say.

By now, the SIS has lost six experienced officers, but no replacements had been made, which has led to the serious degradation of its administrative and analytical divisions. The SIS has now become a haven for incompetents and henchmen of ‘Wakiya.’

Wellampitiya police OIC too arrested with 40 grams heroin; but Narcotics Director still free over 130 kilos heroin? - SL truly a heroin hub !

(Lanka-e-News -02.Dec.2013, 5.30 PM) The CCD 31st night took into custody the OIC of the Wellampitiya police station , M .D .Munasinghe IP on charges of having 40 grams heroin hidden in his almirah in his official residence . After the OIC being produced before the Colombo additional magistrate Sahabdeen last noon , he was ordered to be detained by the CCD for 7 days and interrogated.

CCD stated that the OIC was arrested based on the information elicited from three other suspects taken into custody in this connection. The police media spokesman however as usual had made his characteristic satanic shameless loud announcement that the police will be conducting an impartial investigation.

This same spokesman who is so loud about this detection is unable to say anything about the disappearance of 130 kilos of heroin out of the 261 kilos in the container that was in Narcotics police custody . Perhaps he , the OIC narcotics Bureau , the IGP, the defense secretary and last but not least involved President have swallowed that 130 kilos heroin either with betel or spittle so much so that they cannot open their mouths. If truly the police are impartial in their investigations in regard to heroin detections , the Director of the Narcotics Bureau should also have been taken into custody and questioned on the disappearance of the 130 kilos heroin.

POLICE ARREST MAN WHO BURGLED MANGALA’S HOUSE

January 2, 2014 
Police have apprehended a 21 year old suspected to have burgled UNP MP Mangala Samaweera’s residence in Panadura on December 30. Police have also recovered a laptop and several bottles of liquor that were allegedly stolen. The suspect is reported to be a resident of Moratuwa.
Police are conducting further inquiries.

Two arrested for abusing girls at a children’s home 
Two arrested for abusing girls at a children’s home 

   January 2, 2014 

The Child and Women’s Division under the Anuradhapura Police have arrested two youths in Seruwila for abusing three girls who were under the care of “Awanthi” children’s home in Anuradhapura.

The Police commenced investigations into the incident following a complaint lodged by the care taker of the children’s home on 19 December at around 10.30 in the night.

The three abused girls had run away from the children’s home following the incident, while the Police found two of the girls in Yatawattha, Matale on 23 December.

 The girls told Police that they had run away from the children’s home due to the aggressive behaviours of the other girls at the home and also said that they had eloped with two youths and stayed at a relation’s house in Dabulla.

The Child and Women’s Division under the Anuradhapura Police had arrested two youths and the other girl in Seruwila.

It was later revealed that the 16 year old girl had been raped.

The girls were produced before the Anuradhapura Magistrates court, while the suspects were remanded till 06 January by Magistrate Chandrika Marasingha. 

WELLAMPITIYA OIC’S WIFE TO BE DETAINED FOR 7 DAYS

January 2, 2014 

The Colombo additional Magistrate today allowed the CCD to detain and question the wife Wellampitiya OIC for an additional seven days. The Wellampitiya Police OIC and wife were arrested in connection to a drug-related offence on January 1.

What is the transparent inquiry they are talking about? - President Rajapaksha

What is the transparent inquiry they are talking about? - President Rajapaksha

Wednesday, January 1, 2014

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One of the main cries of the international community is that of allegations of war crimes against the Lankan forces and the government’s failure to have a transparent investigation. With the UNHRC sessions coming up and the threat by the British Premier, what measures have you taken to ensure a swift and transparent investigation into these allegations?
What is the transparent investigation they are talking about?  Two or three years back, some panel was constituted outside Sri Lanka and without even visiting this country, without weighing all the evidence available, they just listened to some groups of people who influenced them in some way or the other, published a report that has been condemned by many right thinking people throughout the world as biased. 

We had our own mechanism, the LLRC and who would dare say that those eminent men and women sitting as Commissioners were not independent and that they were lackeys of the government.    Once their report was published the whole world latched on to it because most of their recommendations have been very fair and just.  Some of the issues raised are complex and any government would require sufficient time to resolve them. 

In regard to what the British  PM said, I must emphasise that we are a sovereign government, duly elected by the people and that no one can threaten countries or governments.  There is no one policeman in the world.  What is the transparent inquiry they are talking about?  In addition to the LLRC, recommendation of which are being implemented with care and diligence, a Commission of Inquiry has been appointed to report on the disappearances, missing persons etc.  Anyone can come before it and place their grievances. Already, a total of around 10,000 complaints of which nearly 5000 are from Armed Forces, have been received. 
The Commissioners are independent people of high standing; two of them were also LLRC commissioners.  Who says that foreigners will be better and be independent commissioners?  Who will give us the assurance that they are not biased?   I once remarked that people in glass houses should not throw stones at others.  I would like to recall those words again.  Most leaders who attended the CHOGM appreciated what we are doing to bring about true reconciliation. 

Q: There has been criticism against your government with regard to human rights abuses.
What is your response to this?
Who criticises us? And why do they do so?

These are important questions we must think about. 

All those who criticise us including those who have never set foot here and those who do not know what Sri Lanka looks like or her history or for that matter what happened in the period 1983 to 2009, are those who accuse us without any evidence.  They simply act as the voice of the defeated terrorists.  They are both within and outside Sri Lanka. I don’t have to tell you the scale of the malicious propaganda that was set in motion since the early 80’s.  As governments, we have been poor in countering these and presenting our case forcefully.  The only abuse is that we defeated the brutal terrorists which some people labeled as unbeatable.  I have always maintained that we have given opportunities for people to present any grievance and that we have a rock solid judicial system which is time tested.  I reject that our government abused human rights.  I cannot comprehend how those same people who accuse us now, waited in stoic silence when the terrorists for nearly three decades massacred thousands of innocent people, men , women, children, pregnant women etc.,and governments of the day looked helplessly being unable to defend the sovereignty and territorial integrity of our country.  Where were the so called human rights crusaders then?

DM

People burdened with taxes, but President’s sons get exemptions – JVP

 Thursday, 02 January 2014 

The JVP says that the President was granting tax exemptions to his sons while burdening the ordinary people with increasing taxes and fines.

JVP parliamentarian Anura Kumara Dissanayake has said in Matara that the President provides exemptions for his sons to live in luxury.

He has noted that the government in its budget for this year has increased the taxes paid by the people.

“No other country in the world imposes so many taxes on food items. But when taxes are imposed on us, some are given exemptions,” Dissanayake has said.

He has charged that the budget was presented in November, but 19 luxury vehicles were imported to the country in December without any duties imposed on them.

“The President granted immediate tax relief to import the racing cars to the country, but it usually takes time to grant tax exemptions,” Dissanayake has added.

Sri Lanka Cuts Lending Rate in IMF Rebuff as Inflation Eases

Ajith Nivard Cabraal, governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, said that while the Sri Lankan rupee is on an appreciating trend, the monetary authority will monitor the currency’s movement cautiously and ensure volatility is minimized. Close

By Anusha Ondaatjie and Rishaad Salamat  Jan 1, 2014 

Sri Lanka’s central bank cut one key interest rate while holding another after inflation eased to the lowest level in about two years, ignoring advice from theInternational Monetary Fundto hold off on further easing.

The Central Bank of Sri Lankareduced the benchmark reverse repurchase rate, which it renamed the standing lending facility rate, by 50 basis points to 8 percent, Governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal said in an interview in Colombo on Dec. 31. It held the repurchase rate -- now known as the standing deposit facility rate -- at 6.5 percent to signal to commercial banks that lending rates alone need to fall, he said.

The rate cut comes a month after the IMF advised the South Asian nation of 20 million people to allow time for earlier reductions to take effect before mulling further easing. Cabraal in October unexpectedly cut both keyinterest rates by 50 basis points to guard against the risk of a default amid a government shutdown in the U.S., its largest export market.

“Previous easing decisions that we have taken have not created any sort of tension in our economy,” Cabraal said in an interview with Bloomberg Television today. “So we are quite satisfied that the steps we are taking are the right ones, and I’m sure over time the IMF also would recognize that those were the right decisions at the time.”

The island’s $59 billion economy, roughly the size of the U.S. state of Delaware, expanded at least 7.2 percent in 2013, compared with 6.4 percent a year earlier, Cabraal said. Gross domestic product growth will accelerate to 7.8 percent this year, and average 8.3 percent over the next three years, he said.

Consumer prices rose 4.7 percent in December from a year earlier, the slowest pace since February 2012. They will probably climb about 5 percent this year before easing to about 4 percent in subsequent years, he said.

“We see the time as right with inflation under control, the rupee at a stable level and growth trajectory on course,” Cabraal said in the earlier interview. “We think demand-driven inflation pressure is well contained and inflation expectations are at the right level.”

Cabraal said that while the Sri Lankan rupee is on an appreciating trend, the monetary authority will monitor the currency’s movement cautiously and ensure volatility is minimized.

IMF Advice

The Sri Lankan rupee, which slipped 2.4 percent in 2013, was little changed at 130.72 per dollar at 9:34 a.m. local time. The Colombo All-Share Index, which was closed yesterday, gained 4.8 percent last year.

The IMF last month said rate cuts had been slow to impact bank lending and called for the central bank to allow more time before considering further easing. The average prime lending rate for Sri Lanka’s commercial banks was 9.88 percent in the week ending Dec. 27, up from 9.68 percent a week earlier, according to the central bank.

“The International Monetary Fund may be to some extent guided by only the world events,” Cabraal said today.

Overseas sales of goods such as textile and tea showed signs of rebounding as developed nations see improvements in their economies, Cabraal said. U.S. consumer confidence is at a four-month high and euro-area factory output grew at a faster pace than economists forecast in December.

Sri Lanka will probably see minimal impact from the U.S. Federal Reserve’s move to reduce stimulus, Cabraal said.

“We don’t really need to worry too much about the tapering, because if the tapering is done, that suggests that the U.S. economy is doing well,” he said on Bloomberg Television today. “That augurs well for the entire world economy.”

To contact the reporter on this story: Anusha Ondaatjie in Colombo at anushao@bloomberg.net

To contact the editors responsible for this story: Daniel Ten Kate at dtenkate@bloomberg.net; Niveditha Ravi at nravi2@bloomberg.net

Sri Lanka Gov. “War Criminal” Promoted by Cuba’s Prensa Latina

By Ron Ridenour*

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Sri Lanka Foreign Minister G. I. Peiris. Foto: PL

HAVANA TIMES — “Sri Lanka is fully able to undertake the tasks set out by the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) and to guarantee the rights of its citizens”, Foreign Minister G. I. Peiris told Prensa Latina in an interview ^[2] by Alberto Salazar, published by Prensa Latina December 26 this year.

The LLRC is a commission appointed by the Sinhalese Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa to look into any possible wrong doing that government forces are accused of having committed in the last months of the civil war between it and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.

Tamil Eelam is an idea for a sovereign state desired by the vast majority of the Tamil minority. Critics of the Sinhalese government, which includes most Tamils in and out of Sri Lanka, view the LLRC as a white wash of government war crimes, and the seizure of Tamil lands, homes and businesses.

Upwards to 100,000 Tamils were killed in this civil war; some 40,000 in its final few weeks. There are as many dead, disappeared and in exile as the two million remaining in Sri Lanka.

The Cuban international news agency does not state why it interviewed the spokesman for the Sri Lankan government accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity by United Nations high authorities and its special panel of experts, in 2010, as well as by international human rights organizations, including the Bertrand Russell and John Paul Sartre created Peoples Permanent Tribunal.

PL simply lets the Sinhalese spokesperson speak unchallenged. PL did comment that the last two UN Human Rights Council resolutions have called upon Sri Lanka to speed up reconciliation with Tamils, but downplayed its significance by stating that only Western countries (that is, capitalist giants US-EU) sought an international independent investigation.

Firstly, that is not true. The Western countries only ask Sri Lanka to comply with its own LLRC commission’s request for slight reforms that would not allow equality and redemption for Tamils. Secondly, a majority of Latin American and other “third world” governments voted for the slightly critical UN resolution alongside Western governments.

From the beginning of Sri Lankan independence from Britain, in 1947, and for 30 years the Tamil people struggled peacefully to obtain equal rights with the majority Sinhalese, asking simply that their language and religions be recognized on an equal plane, that they be allowed to obtain education and jobs equally with Sinhalese.

They were met with legalized discrimination and murderous pogroms. Some Tamil youth took up arms, in the late 1970s, and a civil war ensued for three decades until the Tamil forces were defeated in May 2009. One of the long term and key war suppliers for Sri Lanka’s military is Israel, as is the US, UK, India, and more recently China, Iran, and Pakistan.

At the time of Tamils’ defeat, Cuba led the majority members on the Human Rights Council in praising Sinhalese Sri Lanka for its “humanitarian” efforts and for defeating “terrorism and separatism”. It made no mention of war crimes and continuous human rights abuses committed by Sri Lanka governments and its military forces over decades, the internment of hundreds of thousands of civilian Tamils, routine rape, disappearances, torture, murder   and mutilations of Tamils, the seizure of their homes, businesses, and temples in their traditional homeland, which continues to this day.

See more at: www.havanatimes.org/?p=56447 ^[3]

The Peoples Permanent Tribunal found Sri Lanka guilty of crimes against humanity and war crimes, in 2010, and is currently investigating assertions by Tamils that they are subject to genocide. The United Nations expert panel on the matter found grounds for an independent international court investigation into these assertions. Sri Lanka rejects all these initiatives and is supported by the Cuban government, once the vanguard of internationalism.

As Tamils in exile were gathering forces in 2009-10, they were surprised and disconcerted that Cuba and other new progressive governments in Latin America sided with Sri Lanka at the May 2009 sessions of the Human Rights Council. Not only did these leftist governments take sides against the guerrilla movement but also against the Tamil population’s survival interests.

“Tamils always looked upon Fidel and Che as heroes,” Visuvanathan Rudrakumaran told me. “Our people are shocked by Cuba’s position since May 2009. Perhaps it is due to poor communication. We want to send a delegation to Cuba, to Venezuela and other ALBA [Bolivarian Alliance of the Peoples of Latin America] governments to explain our position and to engage in dialogue.”

Rudrakumaran is Prime Minister of the Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam (TGTE), and a prominent activist in the Diaspora. ( See more at: www.havanatimes.org/?p=52152 ^[4]

“Those who are exploited are our compatriots all over the world; and the exploiters all over the world are our enemies.” Fidel Castro told Lee Lockwood in “Castro’s Cuba, Cuba’s Fidel”. (See more at: www.havanatimes.org/?p=72890 ^[5]
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(*) Ron Ridenour worked for eight years in Cuba for Prensa Latina and the Editorial Jose Marti publishers.  The journalist and author has published six books on Cuba and one on the Tamils “Tamil Nation in Sri Lanka” as well as several others. He lives in Denmark. See his website at www.ronridenour.com ^[6]

Tribunal delivers Sri Lanka's guilty verdict

Tamil refugees stranded in North Pagai, Indonesia.-January 2, 2014

A tribunal of 11 eminent judges has unanimously found the Sri Lankan government guilty of the crime of genocide against ethnic Tamil people. Sitting in Bremen, from December 7 to 10, the Second Session of the Peoples' Tribunal on Sri Lanka found that the crime of genocide has been and is being committed against the Eelam Tamils as a national group.

I was invited to appear before the tribunal as an expert witness on the treatment of Tamils from Sri Lanka by the Australian government. The Second Session in Bremen was convened in response to the determination of the First Session, held in January 2010 in Dublin, that war crimes and crimes against humanity had taken place against the Tamil population in the final months of the war in early 2009, and that further investigation be undertaken regarding the question of genocide.

The two sessions of the Permanent Peoples' Tribunal were established in response to submissions made by the International Human Rights Association, Bremen, and the Irish Forum for Peace in Sri Lanka. The Permanent Peoples' Tribunal is based in Rome under the auspices of general secretary Gianni Tognoni. Thirty eye-witnesses and other experts appeared before the Second Tribunal, some at great personal risk.

The tribunal found that genocide against the Eelam Tamil group has not yet reached the total destruction of their identity; however, the genocide is a process and the process is ongoing. The military killings of May 2009 have been transformed into other forms of conduct causing serious bodily and mental harm to members of the group. The tribunal considered that the proof established beyond any reasonable doubt that the following acts were committed by the government of Sri Lanka:

 Killing members of the group, which includes massacres, indiscriminate shelling, the strategy of herding civilians into so-called ''no fire zones'' for the purpose of killings, targeted assassinations of outspoken Eelam Tamil civil leaders who were capable of articulating the Sri Lankan genocide project to the outside world.

 Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group, including acts of torture, inhumane or degrading treatment, sexual violence including rape, interrogations combined with beatings, threats of death, and harm that damages health or causes disfigurement or injury.

 Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or part, including expulsion of the victims from their homes; and seizures of private lands; declaring vast areas as military high security zones to facilitate the military acquisition of Tamil land.

The tribunal undertook to further examine allegations of forced sterilisation of Tamil women.

Britain and the US were found to be guilty of complicity in the crime of genocide, including complicity by procuring means, such as weapons, instruments or any other means, used to commit genocide, with the accomplice knowing that such means would be used for such a purpose; and complicity by knowingly aiding or abetting a perpetrator of a genocide in the planning or enabling of such acts.

The tribunal recognised that Sri Lanka did not have the capacity to achieve genocide without assistance and, on the basis of evidence provided, came to the conclusion that Britain, the US and possibly India are guilty of complicity. However, due to the constraint of time, the tribunal limited its findings to Britain and the US, pending the availability of further evidence against India and other states.

After the recent gift of two patrol boats to Sri Lanka's navy, Australia is in danger of being one of those states. The gift adds to the military capacity of the Rajapaksa regime to illegally detain and harm Tamil asylum seekers fleeing repression.

In recent times the Rudd and Abbott governments took it upon themselves to send Tamil asylum seekers back to Sri Lanka without hearing their claims. This was done on the basis that they were economic refugees - although how this determination was reached without first hearing claims was not explained.

Australians outside of government involved with the welfare of Tamil asylum seekers have long known of the genocidal intent of the government. But it has been puzzling why the Australian government was not informed of this by its high commission in Colombo.

I took the opportunity at the hearings to ask some of the Tamil witnesses from within the country whether they thought the high commission was informed and they said yes, on the basis that they had briefed Australian diplomatic officers. This raises the question of what was done with that information. The assumption must be that it had gone to Canberra and had been ignored by government for reasons of policy and politics. This would suggest that both major parties knowingly acted illegally with respect to processing Tamil asylum seekers. How low can we go?

Lower, it seems. I was also informed that the high commission has now ceased briefings from Tamil sources in the north, presumably on the basis of what they don't know they don't have to lie about. A form of deniability adopted and refined by Hitler's Third Reich towards the final solution of the Jewish question.

The tribunal requested that states able to do so should take Tamil asylum seekers as refugees.

Bruce Haigh is a political commentator, human rights activist and retired diplomat.

Video: New Year Message By Raja Of Jaffna

January 1, 2014 | 

Raja Remigius Kanagarajah

En ilankai Tamil makkal ellorukkum ulagam muluvathum paranthu vaalum Tamil makkal anaivarukkum en iniya puthu varuda  nal vaalthukkal. Intha puthu varudathil,  anaivarum anaithu selvankalum pettu amaithiyana, nimmathiyana, makilchiyana  vaalkai vaala iraivanai piraarthikiren.

Ma upan lak bime wesena siyalu denatath, sakala loka wasi sema siyalu denatath, me labannawu, 2014 nawa wasara, oba semata kiriyen paniyen ithirena, samaya sathuta rajayana wasanawantha suba nawa wasarak weva kiya mama prarthana karami.

I extend my warmest greetings and best wishes to all the people in Sri Lanka and around the world on the occasion of the New Year. May this New Year bring peace, good health, wealth, happiness and prosperity now and throughout the New Year.

I am pleased that the Northern Provincial Council Elections took place in 2013, and for selecting the former Supreme Court Judge Honorable C. V. Wigneswaran as Chief Minister for Northern Province. It was the first ever Northern Provincial Council elections took place after 1988.

Although the war is over the suffering is not, the people want justice and peace. The people have cast their votes for the Tamil National Alliance and it is theirs and governments responsibility to fulfill the needs of the people.

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Human skeletons spotted inside well, bunkers in PTK

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 01 January 2014, 11:00 GMT]
Human skeletons have been spotted inside a well and the surrounding land of a house located at 2nd division of Puthuk-kudiyiruppu (PTK) in Mullaiththeevu district, news reports from Mullaiththeevu said. On the latest reports of finding human skeletons in PTK, Tamil activists in Mullaiththeevu suspected that these could be the victims who were executed by the advancing Sri Lankan military in 2009 genocidal onslaught on Vanni. 

There were also reports of injured civilians being massacred inside their bunkers during the massive onslaught. The occupying Sri Lankan military has suppressed the news of similar discoveries earlier in Mullaiththeevu. 

Following the recent focus on Mannaar mass graves, people are reporting such cases also in other areas. 

In the meantime, the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) has also urged international investigations on the mass graves in Mannaar stating that it had no faith in the investigations being carried out by the occupying Sri Lankan government. 

TNA’s call for international investigations on Mannaar mass grave has come after a similar request from the Bishop of Mannaar.

மன்னார் புதைகுழியை ஆராய சர்வதேச நிபுணர் குழு அவசியம்; கூட்டமைப்பு நாடாளுமன்ற உறுப்பினர்கள் கோரிக்கை

30 டிசெம்பர் 2013, திங்கள்

"மன்னார் - திருக்கேதீஸ்வரம் பகுதியில் கண்டுபிடிக்கப்பட்டுள்ள மாபெரும் மனிதப் புதைகுழியைத் தோண்டி அதை ஆய்வுசெய்வதற்கு சர்வதேச நிபுணர் குழுவை இலங்கை அரசு உடன் அழைக்க வேண்டும். அப்போது தான் உண்மை கண்டறியப்படும். உள்நாட்டு  நிபுணர் குழுவில் எமக்கு நம்பிக்கை இல்லை."

இவ்வாறு தமிழ்த் தேசியக் கூட்டமைப்பின் வடக்கு, கிழக்கு நாடாளுமன்ற உறுப்பினர்கள் தெரிவித்துள்ளனர். எதிர்வரும் மார்ச் மாதம் ஜெனிவாவில் ஐ.நா. மனித உரிமைகள் கூட்டத்தொடர் ஆரம்பமாவதற்கு முன்னர் மன்னார் புதைகுழியின் உண்மை நிலைவரத்தை வெளிப்படுத்த அரசு நடவடிக்கை எடுக்கவேண்டும். இல்லையெனில்,  இலங்கை அரசுக்குத்தான் அது ஆபத்தாக அமையும் என்றும் அவர்கள் எச்சரிக்கை விடுத்துள்ளனர். 

கடந்த 20ஆம் திகதி மன்னார் - திருக்கேதீஸ்வரம் பகுதியில் கண்டுபிடிக்கப்பட்டுள்ள மனிதப் புதைகுழியிலிருந்து தொடர்ச்சியாக பல மனிதச் சடலங்களின் எச்சங்கள் மீட்கப்பட்டு வருகின்றன. 

இது தொடர்பில் தமிழ்த் தேசியக் கூட்டமைப்பின் நிலைப்பாடு குறித்து கூட்டமைப்பின் நாடாளுமன்ற உறுப்பினர்களான சுரேஷ் பிரேமச்சந்திரன், சிவசக்தி ஆனந்தன், பொன்.செல்வராஜா, பா.அரியநேத்திரன் ஆகியோர் நேற்றுக் கருத்துக்களை வெளியிட்டனர். 

இது குறித்து அவர்கள் தெரிவித்ததாவது:

"போர் நடைபெற்ற காலத்தில்  இராணுவத்தால் கடத்தப்பட்டு காணாமற்போன தமிழ் உறவுகளின் எலும்புக்கூடுகளே மன்னார் - திருக்கேதீஸ்வரம் பகுதியிலிருந்து மீட்கப்பட்டிருக்கலாம் என மன்னார் ஆயர் சந்தேகம் வெளியிட்டுள்ளார். 

அத்துடன், இதுதொடர்பில் சர்வதேச விசாரணை உடன் தேவை என்றும் அவர் வலியுறுத்தியுள்ளார். அவரின் இந்த வலியுறுத்தலை தமிழ்த் தேசியக் கூட்டமைப்பு வரவேற்கின்றது. 

மன்னார் ஆயரின் வேண்டுகோளுக்கிணங்க இது தொடர்பில் சர்வதேச விசாரணை உடன் தேவை. ஏனெனில், இந்த மனிதப் புதைகுழி இனப் படுகொலைக்கு ஒரு சான்றாக இருக்கின்றது. 

இந்தப் புதைகுழியைத் தோண்டி அதை ஆய்வுசெய்வதற்கு சர்வதேச நிபுணர் குழுவை இலங்கை அரசு உடன் அழைக்கவேண்டும். அப்போதுதான் உண்மை கண்டறியப்படும். தற்போது புதைகுழியைத் தோண்டும் பணியில் ஈடுபட்டுள்ள உள்நாட்டு நிபுணர் குழுவில் எமக்கு நம்பிக்கை இல்லை. அவர்கள் அரசின் கருத்துகளுக்கே செவிசாய்ப்பார்கள். 

நத்தார் தினம், புதுவருடம் என்று அடிக்கடி புதைகுழியைத் தோண்டும் பணியை நிறுத்திவைக்கவேண்டிய அவசியம் எதுவும் இல்லை. இவ்வாறு புதைகுழியை தோண்டும் பணிகள் திடீர்திடீரென நிறுத்தப்படுவது எமக்குப் பெரும் சந்தேகத்தை ஏற்படுத்தியுள்ளது. 

செம்மணி மனிதப் புதைகுழி போன்று இதனையும் கிடப்பில் போட அரசு முயற்சிக்கக் கூடாது. தனக்குக் கெட்ட பெயர் வந்துவிடும் என்ற அச்சத்தில் மன்னார் புதைகுழியின் உண்மை நிலைவரத்தை அரசு மூடிமறைக்கக் கூடும். 

எதிர்வரும் மார்ச் மாதம் ஜெனிவாவில் ஐ.நா. மனித உரிமைகள் கூட்டத்தொடர் ஆரம்பமாவதற்கு முன்னர் மன்னார் புதைகுழியின் உண்மை நிலைவரத்தை வெளிப்படுத்த அரசு நடவடிக்கை எடுக்க வேண்டும். இல்லையெனில், இலங்கை அரசுக்குத்தான் அது ஆபத்தாக முடியும். பாதிக்கப்பட்டவர்களுக்கு நீதி யைப் பெற்றுக்கொடுக்க வேண் டும், குற்றமிழைத் தவர்களுக் குத் தண்டனை வழங்க வேண்டும், சர்வதேசத்தில் நல்ல பெயரை எடுக்கவேண் டும் என்ற நல்ல நோக்கங்கள் உண்மையாகவே இலங்கை அரசுக்கு இருக்குமானால் இதனை அரசு உடனடியாகச் செய்யவேண்டும்" - என்றனர். 

மன்னார் ஆயரின் வேண்டுகோளுக்கிணங்க இது தொடர்பில் சர்வதேச விசாரணை உடன் தேவை. ஏனெனில்,  இந்த மனிதப் புதைகுழி இனப்படுகொலைக்கு ஒரு சான்றாக இருக்கின்றது. 

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Mass grave sign of genocide - TNA MPs

31 December 2013

Supporting the Bishop of Mannar’s call for an international investigation into the mass grave found at Mannar, TNA MPs Suresh Premachandran, Sivasakthy Ananthan, Pon Selvarajah, and P. Ariyenthiran called for international experts to investigate the grave.

Expressing “suspicion” with regards to the frequent suspension in the excavation of the grave, the MPs asserted that the mass grave indicates “proof of genocide” and that a domestic investigation team could not be trusted and would only repeat the views of the government.

Sinhala Women Without Sinhalization Power

By C. Wijeyawickrema -January 2, 2014 

Wigneswaran’s mouth

I know two Sinhala women who married Tamils, both without the approval of their Sinhala parents that one could perhaps describe as love is blind kind of eloping.  In one case the Tamil side decided to have a Hindu marriage ceremony. It began with a private Hindu custom of bathing the naked body of the bride by the groom’s close relatives. I am not sure if this was done because the bride was a Sinhala Buddhist. This Hindu marriage, however, did not prevent her from functioning as a Buddhist, if she so wished, unlike a marriage performed at a Christian church. This one example that I knew gave me unnecessary concern when I saw a news report of a declaration made by NPC CM Wigneswaran ( W) at an AG meeting of Sarvodaya at Moratuwa.  He allegedly said that “he likes Sinhala people but not Sinhalization.”

Wigneswaran

Politicians make all kinds of false statements or half-truth to fool people. For example, Karunasena Kodituwakku, a former UNP education minister said recently (Divayina, December 31), that it was the UNP which created the free education in Sri Lanka. In the first place there was no UNP in 1945, when CWW Kannangara as minister of education under the Donoughmore System got the law passed by the State Council. The second thing was that DS Senanayake was dead against “free education.” He and all those who later became the UNP opposed granting the voting right to people in 1931. The rumor was that CWWK had to wait until DSS was out of the country to present the education bill (Ref. De Silva, K. M. 1981. A history of Sri Lanka. London: C. Hurst. p.472-474).

Wigneswaran marriages-Sinhalization as genocide

W had two Sinhala-Tamil marriages under his watch, by his two sons. Were they performed according to Hindu customs with bathing brides or were they according to Sinhala or Marxist methods? In any case did they make his sons Sinhalized? The poor Tamil in Jaffna does not know these and W is poisoning their minds. W who grew up in Colombo as a boy can do better to get rid of Tamil separatism and erase Tamil suspicions from those Tamils who still think Sinhalaya as their enemies.  But instead, W is doing exactly what SJV Chelvanayagam did.  SJVC forbade Tamils to learn Sinhala but gave private tuition so that his children could learn Sinhala!

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SL navy sailor sexually assaults 4-year-old Tamil child in Trincomalee

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 31 December 2013, 15:25 GMT]
A sailor of the occupying Sinhala Navy from a camp in Thiriyaay, a Tamil village in the north of Trincomalee district, was arrested on Sunday by the Kuchchave'li Police as the villagers demanded immediate action from the commanders of the occupying military and police in Thiriyaay. The SLN sailor, identified as one Priyantha Dissanayake, was produced in Trincomalee magistrate court on Monday before the acting magistrate who ordered the suspect to be remanded till January 6, 2014. 

The suspected sailor from the Kuchchave'li Navy camp had been deployed to visit the village to supply drinking water to the resettled people. 

He used to visit the house of the victim girl, the parents of the victim said.

On Sunday, the SLN sailor visiting the house for water supply, asked the elder sister to get some curry leaves from the nearby jungle. The parents had gone for cultivation at that time. 

The victim child was taken away by the suspect to a lonely spot where he abused her. 

When the sister returned, she found the Sinhala sailor abusing her sister and shouted alerting the fellow Tamil villagers, who chased the soldier. The commander of the SL Navy refused to take any action and told the villagers to go and complain to the SL police. 

The abused child is now admitted at the Trincomalee General Hospital.

The elder sister of the girl was also sexually abused by ‘unidentified’ persons 6 months ago, news sources in Thiriyaay said.

சிறுமியை துஷ்பிரயோகம் செய்தவர் கடற்படை முகாமுக்குள் ஓடினார்'

கடைசியாக பிரசுரிக்கப்பட்டது: 30 டிசம்பர், 2013

இலங்கை கடற்படையின் சீருடையில் முன்னர் நடமாடிய நபரே 4 வயது சிறுமியை பாலியல் துஷ்பிரயோகம் செய்ததாக தந்தை குற்றஞ்சாட்டுகிறார்

இலங்கையில் திருகோணமலை மாவட்டம்- குச்சவெளி பிரதேசத்தில் 4 வயது பெண் சிறுமி, கடற்படைச் சிப்பாய் என சந்தேகிக்கபடும் நபரொருவரால் துஷ்பிரயோகம் செய்யப்பட்டுள்ளதாக காவல் துறையில் புகார் செய்யப்பட்டுள்ள போதிலும், குறித்த நபர் கடற்படை முகாமில் பணியாற்றும் சமையல்காரர் என்று இலங்கை காவல்துறை கூறுகிறது.

திரியாய் கடற்படை முகாமுக்கு அண்மித்த பகுதியிலுள்ள வீடொன்றில் இடம்பெற்ற சம்பவத்துடன் தொடர்புடைய நபர் கைதுசெய்யப்பட்டு நீதிமன்ற உத்தரவின் பேரில் எதிர்வரும் 8ம் திகதிவரை விளக்கமறியலில் வைக்கப்பட்டுள்ளார்.

குறித்த சிறுமியின் வீட்டிற்கு கறிவேப்பிலை தேவை எனக்கூறி வந்துள்ள இந்நபர், சிறுமியைத் தூக்கி மடியில் இருக்கச்செய்து துஷ்பிரயோகத்தில் ஈடுபட்டதாக கூறப்படுகின்றது.

இதனை அவதானித்த சிறுமியின் 12 வயது சகோதரி சத்தம்போட்டு தாயை வரவவழைக்க, அந்நபர் கடற்படை முகாமுக்கு தப்பிச் சென்றுவிட்டதாகவும் குழந்தையின் தந்தை கூறுகின்றார்.

சம்பவத்துடன் தொடர்புடைய நபரை ஒரு வருடமாக சீருடையிலும் சிவில் உடையிலும் தான் கண்டுள்ளதாக கூறும் குழந்தையின் தந்தை, சம்பவத்தின் போது சிவில் உடையில் தான் அவர் வந்ததாகவும் தெரிவிக்கின்றார்.

சம்பவத்துடன் தொடர்புடைய சந்தேகநபரை கடற்படைச் சிப்பாய் என குழந்தையின் தந்தை சந்தேகம் வெளியிட்டாலும், இலங்கை காவல்துறையின் ஊடகப் பேச்சாளரான அஜித் ரோகண அந்நபர் முகாமின் சமையல்காரன் என பிபிசி தமிழோசையிடம் தெரிவித்தார்.

துஷ்பிரயோகம் செய்யப்பட்டதாக கூறப்படும் சிறுமி தற்போது மருத்துவப் பரிசோதனைக்காக திருகோணமலை அரசாங்க வைத்தியசாலையில் அனுமதிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளாள்.

மருத்துவப் பரிசோதனை அறிக்கை கிடைத்த பின்னர் அந்நபருக்கு எதிராக சட்ட நடவடிக்கை எடுக்கப்படும் எனவும் காவல்துறை கூறுகின்றது.

Tamil Journo Deported by SL Denies Visa Violation Charge

By Express News Service - CHENNAI

Published: 01st January 2014 07:34 AM

Last Updated: 01st January 2014 07:34 AM

Maha Tamil Prabhakaran, a journalist, who was deported from Sri Lanka to India, after he was detained on charges of videographing the vital Army and Naval installations in the island nation, on Tuesday, denied that he had flouted the visa norms.

Speaking to media persons, Prabhakaran said he was moving around in the island like any other tourist from other countries would do and was taking pictures only on the spots where photography was allowed.

He maintained that he chose to travel by tourist visa since he did not want to stay under the radar of the intelligence wing.

Prabhakaran charged that he was illegally detained in the custody of the Defence forces , the local police and Terrorists Investigation Department(TID) for three days without being produced in any court.

Responding to a query on the agenda of his visit, Prabhakaran maintained that he wanted to prove that the claims of Lankan president Mahinda Rajapakse that development works in the former LTTE province were progressing rapidly after the post- Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM).

“I wanted to gather supporting footages which will be exposed before the international community and in United Nations”, he rued. He added that he would release the footages and other documentary evidences at the right time.