But why are these Anti-LTTE forces acting out in such a Brutal Way towards Fellow Tamils?

Well its simple…the LTTE when in power acted with such Brutality towards these rival Tamils that now when the Tables have turned it has become Open Season for Pay-Back against the LTTE and their Supporters.

You Reap what you sow gentlemen,…don’t go blaming the Sri Lankan Government for the actions of the TMVP or EPDP against the LTTE…. you said nothing when the LTTE were doing the same to them before.

Dayan’s increasingy implausible pronouncements in Geneva and Rajiva’s press release frenzy at SCOPP (where does he get the time?) are based on the well-worn principle that if one repeats the same denials, the same accusations ad nauseam, some of them will inevitably gain credibility and inhere in public discourse. Which is just as well because there is no-one left to convert – the lines have been drawn, much as with the war.

I expect to see this intensity of effusion maintained, with increasing desperation, as the contradictions in their positions become more and more apparent and hence their posts untenable. Needless to say this will proceed in parallel with the regime’s increasing authoritarianism, further human rights abuses and international condemnation, the failure to ‘finish’ the war and unprecedented public discontent. I just hope they will both be “accountable” to the country for their actions once their time has passed and we are left to deal with the aftermath.

Adolf Hitler, Idi Amin and Henrick Verwoed were also and defiant, arrogant and stubborn; but had to be overcome by the International Community and the UN.

Time has come for concrete actin on Sri Lanka.

Does it means that the national Institutions are not really well developed even after 60 years for them to need strengthening contradicting his first statement ?

However what are the national institutions he is referring to? In what ways they could be strengthened?-Does national institutions include Police, Judiciary and all other government institutions?

How national are these national institutions?

The general opinion in Sri Lanka among independent observers is that all institutions have deteriorated beyond redemption and only a miracle could save them.

If Mr Dayan is honest he will readily agree none of these institutions ever came to the rescue of the minorities when they really needed them –Killings, ransom, disappearances.

The people are not even allowed self-defense. Why don’t you come out with statistics about the number killed, the number prosecuted and the number punished so that it will be a deterrent?

This would have been the best defense for all accusations of human rights violations. .

But those who are talking about sovereignty are not worried?.

But in this panel discussion none of you even claimed that you have arrested the deterioration of human rights violations and now everything is fine.
Now could Dayan explain why the 13th amendment was not fully implemented? why everybody has forgotten about 16th Amendment brought in 1988?

Do you know if implemented this will solve the language problem fully Then how about 17th Amendment?

If with the “robust institutions” stated by Fernando we have the most disappearances in the world what is the meaning? The institutions cannot function even with technical assistance because the criminal state is practicing a culture of impunity.

Surely, we need the presence of a UN Human rights monitoring mission in Sri Lanka.

He also said that there is Vibrant Democracy in Sri Lanka. There has never been democracy. There was only a democratic process of elections. Following the elections there was always “Sinhalocracy” a type of autocratic rule of Tamils by the Sinhalese.

At Batticaloa, what was practiced was “bandit democracy ” Gun trotting persons were demanding votes from others.

About Negotiations with the Tamils, right from 1958, the Sinhalese political leaders were dishonest, tricky, manipulative, divisive and full of “turn overs” after even signing agreements in the presence of international facilitators. They were behaving more like unreliable criminals. That has brought about the present criminal government, hell bent on carrying out murder, displacement and disappearances.

The question will be asked again and again, until it is treated with respect, and answered earnestly.

My advise: It’s time to do some serious thinking.

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Have you been inside an UN office? Have you counted the number of Tamils and Sinhalese working there? Who says that there should be ethnic ratios in an International organization? I can understand that there should be so many Sri Lankans and so amny Americans but Tamils and Sinhalese? Isnt that which got us all into this mess in the first place? Shouldn’t appointment be by merit alone? See where South African crikect is heading?

Have any of those who attended these meeting and who comment on these met with those who have lost loved ones through abduction? Everyone of you rises up and accuses the IC if bias and the LTTE of sending out false propaganda. Have you seen the other side of the story?

If the Government were to bring to justice those responsible for the cases that have been properly identifies then they could talk but there has be no justice for anyone. Its all very nice to sit in AC room and pontificate but where is your compassion for your fellow Sri Lankans or is it only limited to your own kind? Where are the principles that Buddha realized that lead him to lead the kind of life He did?
oh I get it now this is only about crushing the LTTE not about building a country.
Dayan Jayatillaka is no saint. He is dead scard of the LTTE especially after his experiment in socialism with the EPRLF failed.
Everyone one of us will suffer eventually. Dont forget what happened in Germany in WWII.