If it wasn’t for the LTTE, the Tamils would currently be in a much healthier position. Not only that, they would have enjoyed the sympathy of the world. Thanks to the LTTE and its violent campaign to establish a Tamil-only state, the Sri Lankan Tamil population has been reduced from around 12.6% of the Sri Lankan population to about 7-8%. Give it another 20 years and that will fall to around 3-4% of the population. Thanks to the LTTE over 100 000 Sri Lankan Tamils are internal refugees, and close to 100 000 are refugees in Tamil Nadu while over a third of Sri Lankan Tamils have left the country. Tamils like you can continue to support the LTTE all you want, but IMO it is destroying the community from within. It has single handedly destroyed democracy within the Tamil community. The LTTE is like a glowing ember for the Tamil community. You pick it up to ‘defend’ yourself agains the ‘evil’ Sinhalese and regard it as your wonderful weapon but it is burning your hand as you hold it. Hatred of the Sinhalese keeps you from realising the damage it is causing you.

But then you should listen to the stories of the Tamil asylun seekers in UK. British start weeping in the hearings.

If we take all what hear

I’m sorry for your experience of witnessing what you did. I’m even more sorry for the people whose lives and sufferings we so casually use to slander one another.

imagine if if double agent was to come as a surrenderee and kill a another important surrenderee.. then potential surenderees wouldn’t belive that the army can provide protection and it would be a loss for the forces,

why do u think G’tanamo bay is set up?/??

how come this “ruki” gets to write such impractial stuff? what is the criteria used to select authors at this site?

BALA/Eckol,
One must certainly will have to let go of the past. Two wrongs does not make one right. One can not dwel on the past for present actions as it will only bring greater misery to the people and that is what Tamil people of Sri lanka face.

By trying to create an identity for tamils in SL, LTTE have miserably failed. Or else , RUKI would not be able to write sob stories.
But as DESHAN has pointed out, those who provide means have brought upon this situation to Tamils in SL BUT have created an identity for themselves and
riding on it.
Therefore, the question remains is that THOSE who provide the means to the ltte to create an identity for the SL Tamils, are they sincere ??????
Have Prabarakaran or the ltte been able to uplift the Tamil position in SL they embarked on to achieve ?????????
Could they???? If they think they could & VP/LTTE are capable, them those SL Tamils will have to accept the present condition. This is a war made brital by ltte actions.
If so, we will hear RUKI engaged in many sob stories which we do not want to hear that could have been prevented.
There is no point blaming the Forces or the Rajapakses.
They are dealing with a hidden enemy outside the Wanni who is identified by defence experts as a ruthless & innovative terror organisation.
As such, the innocent suffering tamils of SL has unfortunately fallen within this equation.
RUKI, we read enough sob stories. What you have failed to address is how we overcome this plague ????
Now people have got immune to sob stories & it will be of not much help to the suffering tamil minority of Sri Lanka in future other than to those riding the tiger vehicle for their benefit from overseas.
This is how pathetic the situation can get… Opportunism & Selfishness…

The security forces have an obligation to protect the people of Sri Lanka especially in Colombo. I do not have to explain the reasons here as all the evidence are known to the whole world. Ruthless LTTE has no conscious for human lives except for their own families. For LTTE other humans (Tamils, Sinhalese, Muslims) are born to serve their purpose and or serve them as they wish. If not they are to be destroyed. With this psychopathic ideology any government or security forces have to be suspicious of anyone belongs to the enemy in this case the Tamils.

Under the circumstances it is difficult to completely criticise the security forces for some unjustified inhumane acts as outsiders see it. I am not here to endorse what has and is happening to these people who are caught between the two parties. At the same time time we have to look at the restrictions, limitations, pressure and fear the security forces goes through in protecting the innocent civilians of Sri Lanka from this barbaric, Psychopaths. LTTE very successfully has installed the fear psychosis in Sri Lankans far more than Hitler or Pol Pot. Also we have to investigate of other prisoners in Sri Lanka to see what conditions they have. What about the prisoners in Iraq and Gautanembe under US military?

I have all the sympathy towards not only these suspects but all the unfortunate prisoners in Sri Lanka. Economically it is difficult to find better security and protection by the government. I wish that these do not happen to anyone. The only solution is to completely destroy the number one enemy of all Humans “LTTE and its Psychopath Killer Prabha”. He has no hesitation to use pregnant women and mentally ill innocent women as weapons to kill other humans including infants, elderly and women.

Please be patient and support the forces to destroy this ruthless enemy of all Sri Lankans, Sinhalese, Tamils, Muslims and others.

No one is willing to tell what the Sinhalese and Muslims going through.They cannot even go and collect fire wood from the jungles which is free to collect in certain parts of the coutry.

Untill the last Sinhalese and Tamil extreamists are disappeared from this erath.There is no peace to Sinhalese or Tamils in Sri Lanka.

The billion-$ question is how does one go about transforming a society from degradation to wholesomeness? [Certainly don’t expect the Buddhist Clergy hierarchy to provide this moral leadership, as they have been one of the key causes for the nation’s problems and not the solution.] The answer possibly lies in examining how other nations in similar situations have transcended the challenge. In similar historical conflicts in the United States, South Africa and many other places, a common denominator of social transformation - has been through pivotal “righteous leadership” - selfless leaders who emerged at the crucial times with the rare quality of wisdom, that is universal compassion and intelligence to influence everlasting change.

It is unlikely that until similar leadership emerges from the internal fabric of Sri Lankan society, that the island’s wounds would be cured. Let’s hope that such a leader will soon emerge.