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AMERICANS MUST HELP THE sri lankan GOUVERNMENT ...FOR ERRADICATE THE TERRORISM ......
DO YOU KNOW THAT THE LTTE ARE CLOSELY INVOLVED IN 9/11 ATTACK ???
THEY HELPS AL QAIDA ...FOR MAKING FAKE PASSPORT ...ETC..........
The LTTE did not have a hand in 9/11 at all - this is a rumour perpetrated by the Sri Lankan Government to dismiss the legitimacy of the LTTE.
The LTTE are a freedom fighting force involved in a civil war against the Sri Lankan Government who are committing genocide against Tamils.
Get your facts right.
The FBI, by far is the accepted terrorist organization in the world. Working to destroy the beliefs of religons and struggles world-wide.
IN IRaq, Sri lanka and all these places they use and give there military equipment and test it on inncoent TAMIL civilians and say that they are fighting to destroy, "TERRORISM" when the true terrorists are the government and other aiding societies around the world, giving there military equipment and help kill innocnet people.
World realize that the CIA, and FBI, are the worlds accepted terrorist organization, and until the world realizes that politicans and all this government stufff is all just destroying the human race.
How much more longer can we face such cruel torture put onto us by governments, we will just hold on and show the world that the LTTE are not terrorists.
Everything that comes out of Sri lanka has a final say by MAHINDA, and his family, who run the entire country. they restrict all the things they do to innocnet lives and just blame stuff on the LTTE.
TAMIL EELAM IS AND WILL BE THE HOMELAND OF THE TAMILS WORLDWIDE, AND NOTHING AND NO ONE CAN DEMOLISH THAT.
LTTE are the sole representatives of the TAMIL PEOPLE world wide.
If the government of sri lanka does not want to come to the tables and give the TAMILs a negotiable statement then this war would have been over many years ago.
"Tamil Eelam will be a socialist state. By socialism I mean an egalitarian society where human freedom and individual liberties will be guaranteed, where all forms of oppression and exploitation will be abolished. It will be a free society where our people will have maximum opportunity to develop their economy and promote their culture. Tamil Eelam will be a neutral state, committed to non-alignment and friendly to India."
Without TAmil EELAM there is no place for the TAMils to go. I live in Canada and I want to go to my home, not in canada but in TAMIL EELAM.
USA, PLEASE DON'T FALL INTO THE CRUEL HANDS OF THE SINHALA GOVERNEMNT THE TAMILS TIGERS ARE NOT TERRORIST, THEY JUST WANT FREEDOM AND PEACE.
REMEMBER-----MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. AND PLEASE REALIZE THAT THE TAMILS HAVE TO FACE AND LIVE IN AN EVEN MORE CREUL WORLD WITH THE SINHALSE EXTERMISTS.
TAMIL EELAM IS OURS, PLEASE MAKE IT OFFICIAL.
THANK
YOU
Peace? Suicide bombings and slaughtering 147 men and boys at the Mosque is wanting PEACE?
Try to con someone else pal, they are murdering terrorizing killers. Period.
Take a good hard look at that photo in the article..those are children these monsters massacred.
If that is acceptable to you, then you are a terrorist sympathizer and should rot in hell with the LTTE.
Shiv, no one said anything about 9/11 except a commenter, not this sites management, so get your head out of your ass...those photos were CHILDREN that those TERRORIST killed.
Hello Susan
It is disgusting to see your posting on this site. It is a naked truth that you support oppressors. Please keep in mind that Srilankan government is simply doing ethnic cleansing of Tamils. Tamils have been brutally killed and assaulted by Srilankan government forces thousands of times!
Refer to the link for some of those pictures.
http://www.nitharsanam.com/?nav=5785
Eelavan, start addressing the murder of innocent men and CHILDREN at the mosque and the suicide bombers which are TERRORISTS, by the Tamil Tigers, or don't even bother speaking here.
YOUR IDIOCY WILL NOT BE TOLERATED.
Certainly, anyone would know that the Tamils, an otherwise well-to-do community, began taking up arms and "blowing themselves-up" after struggling for 30 years, via the "democratic way" to create "hope" for the future generations.
It was the introduction of laws such as Sinhala Only, Standardisation, and Land Reform that led Tamils to hopelessness and as a consequence violence.
This is a classic case of certain Americans trying to appease the Muslims because they are finding Iraq and Afghanistan hard-going.
Tamil Tigers are probably the only group in the world that is more opposed to the repressive nature of the Quran. i.e equal rights to women, secularism etc..
May be these so called Americans are looking for a common enemy between themselves and the Muslims.
Whether you call them Freedom Fighters or Terrorists the fact is that they use terror to achieve their goals. And in my book that makes them a terrorist group.
Funny that Gandhi didn't resort to violence, actually shied away from it, and won independence for India in doing so.
Funny that Martin Luther King Jr didn't resort to violence, even though he and his movement was subjected to it, and won civil rights for African-Americans in doing so.
If you check this group you will find links to Hamas. al-Qada, Hezbollah and a 1/2 dozen other terror groups. Funny company for Freedom Fighters.
Tamils sucks.... LTTE planned 911 attack.
LTTE ARE BLOOD THIRSTY TERRORISTS PERIOD! THEY DO NOT FIGHT FOR THE CAUSE OF THE TAMIL PEOPLE. THEY ARE A MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR KILLING MACHINE THAT KEEPS THEIR LEADERS RICH AT THE EXPENSE OF THE POOR TAMILS. WHY ARE THE EXPAT TAMILS NOT SENDING THIER OWN SONS AND DAUGHTERS TO WAR IF A THAMIL EELAM STATE IS ALL THEY ARE AFTER? WHY LET THE POOR UNEDUCATED TAMIL MAN SEND HIS SONS AND DAUGHTERS TO FIGHT A WAR THAT IS FUNDED BY THE RICH, WELL TO DO THAMILS OVERSEAS? WHY ARE THE TAMILS KILLING THEIR OWN PEOPLE? IS THIS WHAT FREEDOM FOR THE TAMILS IS ALL ABOUT? WHO ARE THEY THEY TRYING TO FOOL? THE LTTE IS A POWER HUNGRY TERRORIST OUTFIT. THEY WANT TO CARVE OUT SRI LANKA AND JOIN WITH TAMIL NADU IN INDIA. WHAT IS NEXT??? THAMIL EELAM IN MALAYSIA? SINGAPORE? AND IN EVERY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD? STARTING WITH NOWARY?
NYGuy, quit with the idiocy. Either provide data to back up your lies, or don't bother. Your "word" is not enough to make anyone believe that tripe.
I guess I missed the point of the original post. It seemed to me that Susan was talking about the LTTE raising funds here in the US. As do/did EZLN, ELN, IRA, SWAPO etc. It's an interesting way for affluent self righteous, pedant nutjobs to participate in world affairs without straying too far from their lattes.Or Guiness in the case of the IRA. Not to condemn or condone the causes as all are different, but some "Americans" like to give, it gives them a feeling of belonging which can be easy if you've never seen a dead body.
So the LTTE have connections with the Bavarian Illuminati, the Freemasons and the Mossad as well as Al Qaeda. That's how they pulled off 9/11. I knew Bush and Cheney weren't smart enough to pull it off on their own
LOL Andrew! Amazing how many cannot stay on topic.
Hello Susan
Can you please comment about burning Jaffna library in May 1981 by Singhala government forces(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Burning_of_Jaffna_library). How about slaughter of more then 3000 Tamils in Colombo in 1983? Isn’t that state terrorism and ethnic cleansing? So in your perspective, government can do anything to the people and everything is acceptable? Come on think realistically and humanitarianly. Peoples are sacrificing their life to overcome state oppression.
Try looking at the topic of this post, the title and the subject matter. Stay on topic if you wish to discuss another topic, write an article and publish it. This is about a terrorist organization that murders innocent people, setting up branches in the US and other countries to fundraise so that they can commit more terrorists acts.
FOCUS dude.
Hello Susan
People like you with narrow-minded view are the root cause of unrest in the world. Kindly help to resolve the root cause of the ethnic problem, not just the symptom of the problem!
What did Muslims do to them to deserve this?
LTTE is not freedom fighters anyway. They have been killings many Tamils, including reputed Tamil leaders. There are thousands of Tamils live in harmoney in other parts of the country. They face many problems since LTTE is doing terrorists acts all over the country. As a whole the damage done by LTTE to the Tamil community is huge.
Some part of Sinhalese killed Tamil people in some part of the country in 1983 in response to the killing of 13 security personnels by LTTE. However, Sinhalese saved lives of Tamils in that bad juncture. Now the situation is different. Although LTTE is killing many innocent people setting bombs in crowed area and buses, Sinhalese do not try to kill Tamils to revenge. They know that all Tamils are not LTTE.
You guys supporting LTTE providing funds will never get relief to the Tamil community. If you really want to see freedom for Tamils in Sri Lanka, force LTTE to stop violence and engage in negotiation honestly.
Try to get a true picture what is happening in LTTE dominated area. We saw that LTTE has used food aids sent to poor Tamils in those areas. They have used rice bags to cover up their bunkers. Tamil community has no any freedom in those areas. The LTTE is suppressing Tamils in these area and gives a different picture through their propaganda. Tamils living in other parts of the country has freedom as much as sinhala community has.
People born in Sri Lanka, consider that Sri Lanka as their motherland. It dosen't matter what language they use or what religion they observe. This is they way of thinking of majority of people in Sri Lanka(Sinhalese, Tamils & Muslimes). It's unfortunate to think that there should be a country only for Tamils. This won't be a reality ever. Sinhalese accept the fact that Tamil community is Sri Lankan though they are minority. It's not fair to chase other communities from a certain area and declare a state of Tamil Ellam. This is a dream and it won't happen in Sri Lanka.
There have been legitimate causes for the Tamil people to rise up. When the minority Tamils have been in power/favored (during the British Rule) and lose their control (after the British left) the pendulum swings the other way. Just like in Iraq today. Unfortunately the majority will create a back lash. As in the case of Sri Lanka where in the 60s-70s a nationalist movement did marginalize the minorities. And there were mistakes made on both sides during these trying times when a nation tries to find its identity. Unfortunately it's the people/nation that suffer for the blunders and short sighted policies of the leadership at the time. I'd say the Tamils were let down by their leaders as well. In a time when the nation should be coming together the policies of the leaders were to separate and create a Tamil nationalist movement. When African Americans were fighting to go to school side by side with their white students the Tamil leadership sought to create their own schools and segregate. This only added to the alienation of the two communities. Instead of a Srilankan, now we have a Tamil and a Singhalese.
Elavan alludes to the 83 riots which was the flash point for the current Civil War. To call that a genocide is a gross exaggeration. If there was or is a genocide going on in Sri Lanka, I'd ask you to explain how a Tamil civilian can live in any part of the country today. Granted there are civil rights abuses that goes on due to the fact that terror tactics are used by a portion of the Tamil population that the current government is fighting. But to call this genocide is ridiculous. If you go today to Sri Lanka you'll find that Tamils live side by side with Singhalese in every part of the country (Except in the areas where this utopia of communal living is supposed to happen; where if your a Singalese the so called Freedom fighters will kill you). The genocide is only happening in the minds of the expatriate Tamil community that left Sri Lanka in the 80s to the West. And they took with them the violent times that forced them to flee. And have not returned since. So in their mind the violence of the times are all they remember; the '83 riots. There have never been any incident even close to that magnitude ever since. The fact is there have been violent acts that have affected both sides of this protracted war. The unfortunate result is that the hard line extremist voices are the ones everyone hears. And the arm chair "Freedom Fighters" in the west fund a protracted war that they do not feel any consequence of. Its the poor that feel the brunt of the realities of war. For anyone to advocate violence as a means to an end is vile and it's even worse when the advocates are far removed from the conflict and go about their everyday life while funding the violence just to feel a nationalistic pride.
I'm not saying that the successive governments are free of guilt; they have their war mongers too. But enough is enough...! This war has been dragging on for 25years. And countless innocents have died.
Give peace and unity a chance!
Srilankan government's systematic ethnic cleansing program started decades before LTTE formed. It
’s totally ridiculous to blame on LTTE. Refer to the link for chronological riot details. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Lis...ms_in_Sri_Lanka
If Singhalese & Tamils are living in harmony then how come so many Tamil people become disappeared and next day their dead bodies turn up street corner of government controlled areas? It is happening in not just North and East of Srilanka. (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/sri-
lankas-disappeared-gang-demands-tamil-exiles-pay-
ransom-for-kidnapped-relatives-805256.html)
Many Tamil people have been forced out of their homes and their villages have been occupied by Srilankan armed forces for decades.
LTTE did negotiate honestly during the peace talks but Srilankan government never fulfilled the agreement. And this year, Srilankan government officially broke the 2002 ceasefire agreement.
I can keep writing with the proof but I know some people will lever stop spreading misinformation to IC.
Srilankan government's systematic ethnic cleansing program started decades before LTTE formed. It
’s totally ridiculous to blame on LTTE. Refer to the link for chronological riot details. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Lis...ms_in_Sri_Lanka
If Singhalese & Tamils are living in harmony then how come so many Tamil people become disappeared and next day their dead bodies turn up street corner of government controlled areas? It is happening in not just North and East of Srilanka. http://www.independent.co.uk/new...ves-
805256.html
Many Tamil people have been forced out of their homes and their villages have been occupied by Srilankan armed forces for decades.
LTTE did negotiate honestly during the peace talks but Srilankan government never fulfilled the agreement. And this year, Srilankan government officially broke the 2002 ceasefire agreement.
I can keep writing with the proof but I know some people will lever stop spreading misinformation to IC.
LTTE ARE NOT TERROR ORGANISATION, THEIR ARE FREEDOM FIGHTER FOR THEIR HOME LAND . THEY FIGHT TILL THEIR ARE ALIVE AND DIE FOR THEIR COMMITMENT, MAIN THING THEIR NEED INDEPENDENT HOME LAND,
An eye for an eye leaves the whole
world blind.
The past can't be changed, the future
can.
If you believe that all people are
combatants and you target everyone
with suicide bombings, that is a
terror outfit.
I can put a list of all the suicide
attacks, the most recent being the
one last week. But that's just
an exercise in futility.
Are Tamils in Sri Lanka (20% of the
population)prevented from:
Speaking their own language?
Practicing their religion?
Celebrating their religious holidays?
Getting an education in their own
language?
Being a high ranking professional?
Owning land and property?
If you say NO to all the above, you
are not living in Sri Lanka, nor
have visited Sri Lanka in the last
25 years.
Don't drive the car forward by looking
in the rear view mirror.
I know there are a lot of Tamils that
have had lost everything and escaped
with just their lives in the 83 riots.
That was 25years ago.
And if that was the only Sri Lanka
you knew, its time to go back and
rethink what freedom and whose
freedom your fighting for.
You can fund the AK47s while in the
comfort of your home; but its the poor
teenage son of the farmer that's lying
in a ditch dying for your ideals.
If your not willing to pick up the gun
or send your Son/Daughter to war to
fight for your freedom; then it's not
the only way. Support peace not war!
How long the world will tolerate the Masters and the Followers of terrorism?
The Tamil Tigers of Sri Lanka invented the modern suicide bomber and deployed it against political, military and civilian targets. Now Islamic groups including Al-Qaeda copy the Tamil Tigers with suicide attacks.
The Tamil Tigers attacked shipping off the coast of Sri Lanka blowing ships or piracy. Then USS Cole off Yemen was attacked and piracy off the coast of Somalia - a strong hold for Al-Qaeda followers.
Tamil Tigers attacked the World Trade Centre in Sri Lanka then Al-Qaeda attacked on the World Trade Centre in New York, USA.
Tamil Tigers have a women's section deployed into their ranks. Then Al-Qaeda and Chechen terrorist's who took over the Russian theatre used black widow women suicide bombers.
Tamil Tigers attacked on civilians in bus and trains in Sri Lanka where innocent passengers were killed, then Al-Qaeda in England bombed public civilian transport in the 7/7 attack's on London transport.
The actions of Velupillai Pirabaharan, the leader of Tamil Tigers prove he is real tiger. The only business he knows is killing. He killed Kalvian Kaadu Chetty, the person who named the group "Tigers" and the original leader of the Tiger group
Then Pirabaharan tried to kill the next leader of Tigers, Uma Maheswaran in a shoot out in India . He killed the founding members of the Tigers, Michael and Pat Kunam. Pirabaharan himself tipped off the Police about the then leaders of Tigers, Kuttimani and Thangathurai and their whereabouts. This incident led to Kuttimani and Thangathurai
’s incarceration until their terrible deaths in the Welikade jail.
Pirabaharan killed all the persons he worked with before he became the leader of the Tigers. He even killed the last surviving Tiger group founding member Sabalingam who was residing in France , because Sabalingam started writing about Pirabaharan's power hungry killings
After Pirabaharan became the leader of the Tigers, he started killing all Tamil political leaders, elected mayors, university professors and many innocent Tamils who had criticized Tigers. Pirabaharan banned all Tamil political organizations for the last twenty years and finally the international community including USA, Canada, European Union, India and Australia has banned the Tigers, mainly due to Tigers' continuous use of child soldiers and their terror activities.
Pirabaharan also killed hundreds of people who were members and supporters of Tamil political organizations. Pirabaharan killed the Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. He even killed the Sri Lankan President Premadasa who had provided helicopter loads of weapons and money to Tigers.
Pirabaharan clearly knows that under any circumstances except at gunpoint, majority of Tamils won't accept his leadership. That's why he killed all other Tamil Political leaders, to become as the so-called "Sole Leader of Tamils".
Ramachandran a.k.a MGR, former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu gave Pirabaharan more than 1.25 billion rupees in 1985. Tamils provided their support to Tigers at gunpoint only and never helped Tigers to grow to this extent. Without MGR massive financial support and Premadasa's supply of weapons and money, Tigers won't exist today.
Tigers are terror loving trigger-happy killers, created by MGR and Premadasa. Tigers' killings are severely affecting the future of Tamils since the killings created a huge political vacuum.
In 1990 Pirabaharan wanted 100,000 Muslims in the North of Sri Lanka to get out within 24 hours, leaving their belongings and treasured valuables - that was a text book example of ‘ethnic cleansing’. Prabhakaran made Idi Amin look like an angel as Idi Amin had a heart to give the Asians in Uganda three months to leave the country and not 24 hours.
Most of the young people who are younger than 35 years, do not know the history of Tigers. They believe that, Tigers became so powerful, because of continuous outpouring support from majority of the Tamils,
If Tamils like Tigers, why is Greater Colombo flooded with Tamils from Tiger controlled areas? If majority of Tamils like Tigers, Tiger controlled areas should be flooded with Tamils from other areas. Why are Tamils trying to escape Tiger controlled areas, rather than migrating to Tiger controlled area?
If Tigers lift the exit pass system and allow free movement in the Tiger controlled areas, except the people on Tigers' payroll, every body else will leave Tiger controlled area. The only supporters of Tigers are that they either do not know anything about Tigers or gain benefits from Tigers.
Why are none of the Tamil business people investing in Tiger controlled areas? Why are even farmers leaving Tiger controlled areas? Why are Tamils living abroad trying to help their relatives to leave Tiger controlled areas? In Tiger controlled areas nobody can express any political opinions or different ideas.
Only things allowed to say are those that support Tigers. No way can anyone criticize Tigers and live the next day in a Tiger controlled area. Tigers that do not care about human lives will never understand even the basics of human rights. Even the hardcore Tiger supporters are not willing to relocate to Tiger controlled areas.
Majority of the Tamil refugees, who claimed asylum in western countries, told the authorities that they were running away from Tigers. If majority of Tamils who live abroad support Tigers, why do they have to be threatened to collect money for Tigers as reported by the Human Rights Watch?
If majority of the Tamils who live abroad support Tigers, those Tamils would line up in front of the Tiger branch offices to drop off money. The major serious problem Tamils are facing right now is there are hundreds of very young terror loving trigger happy Tigers who know only one thing, which is killing another human. Last thirty years, Tigers killed more Tamils than any body else. Also more Tigers were killed by Pirabaharan than any body else.
Majority of Sri Lankan Tamils are patiently hoping, praying and waiting for a new young democratic political visionary as a leader. Until then, gunpoint Tiger culture and never ending killing spree by Tigers will grow and continue.
first of all u western ppl live ur life so easy u ,if u look back at history i think u ppl r the crulest in histroy to go to othre ppl busniness and tryin to be judge, also susan i think ura dumb ingnorant bitch dont know anythin u see bunch of dead bodies and u gonna bark like bitch do u know the history of tamil?not the histry u theifs write, the real history who is discriminatin who?do u know how many times tamils been slaughters?u dont know nothin so just shut ur stinky pie hole u dumb stupid bithc u have no rights to judge other ppl first wipe ur shit then u can talk about othere ppl shit u stupid moran [
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