I feel your pain Wimal Weerawansa

I feel your pain,Wimal.I was there during the time and I'm just several years younger than you brother(Look I'm not use Machang,Comrade ,Sahodraya , Mahaththaya or even Ayya to address you!I know you guys do not want outsiders from party to call you comrade.Bro is easier and fun to use.).I opened the newspaper this morning and this is the crap I get,bro!

I'm upto my neck with work and family bro .You Wimal 'Drama' Weerawansa is making it impossible for me to stay silent.It has been weeks since the news broke.I checked the news today and it is still making rounds.Lanka e- news reports that Vijitha Herath is the "Goni Billa" ,the masked informer,who led the trail to capture Rohana Wijeweera.It sucks bro.They should have done plastic surgery or something on that douchebag Vijitha and then sent him to Intercourse ,PA on the witness protection program .

Wimal ,there are so many things to say about your speach bro. I do not have time to write a book.The main thing that got me was that you did not have time to go to SiriPada(Adam's Peak) or Sigiriya .Dude ,you should seriously consider going to Sigiriya .It is way better than SI -Swimsuit edition ,bro.

You see I'm little bit pissed off ,too .I did not get a chance to go to Sigiriya or Siripada until I'm really old .Like I'm 27 or so ,bro.What happened was everybody was killing each other and you guys had declared curfew during the time and It was not safe for us to go on those trips ,bro.On the other hand I couldn't go around country on the parties(JVP's) money and stay at other members' homes like freeloaders .

I know it is bit of a strech to blame you for all the guys who got killed chasing away Indian "Monkey" Army or bringing Sinhala-Marxists heaven on earth.I don't want to even mention all the innocent who got killed .You might know of CTB bus drivers who got killed .They were bumped off because they went to work to feed their family defying your parties Hartal orders .Ok,you were only writing on a leftist sensational "Hiru" paper as Wimalasiri Gamlath .It is true that you guys were feeding thousands of innocent teens to the JVP machinary .I'm not blaming you ,bro .Probably you were only 19 at the time ,too!Even Somawansa said that it was only him and Tilvin who had attended a previous party conference .You were only on the footboard of the JVP bus as the saying goes.Even a Jackass like me could see in 1999 that Nandana Goonatilleke(your parties presidential candidate ) was only a water carrier("Kade yana kollek") for the big boys inside the party.

Wimal ,you and I are basically the same age ,bro.You did not complete A/L and somehow I got into the university .That was after wasting 3 years of my precious youth ,bro.I was in one of the lucky batches ,bro.Some people had to wait 4 years outside .Then if you were studying medicine or something ,you basically get out of the university with a walker ,bro.Finally those guys and girls became parents in the age they should be grand parents ,bro.That's the precious 1% who got into the university .Other 99% lost so much more .Economywent back 10 years and they wasted their youth ,too.You guys were burning buses and blowing up bridges

and partying like it was 1917 October bro!Who would invest in a country like that ?How could a tiny third world economy survive two wars ,bro?

Wimal,what I'm trying to say is that you were a victim ,too.It is sad to see your own father looking for your burnt body at Nagoda junction.He was only one in a million who realized how pathetic your guys attempt at changing the world is and there are better ways to go about making changes (like non-violence or something ,bro).Others could see where it was heading .Why didn't you bro?I cannot see that you have learned from the past bro.Why should innocent Tamils be hearded like cattle for security searches ?When your party asked you to speak against it why didn't you do so,bro?I think I know the reason ,bro.Hearding un-armed people like cattle and throwing them at Army and Police is your specialy bro.It's in the JVP genes .That is what JVP did in 1971 .That is what JVP did in 87-90 .That is what you guys did to us in high school ,bro.We were asked to march for some bull reason we did not understand .Some of my friends did not make it home after those protest marches ,bro.

later

your brotherly bro,Chandare

(I did not spellcheck ,dot my "i"s or crossed my "t"s.I think you can get what I want to say to you from reading the above,bro)

You gotta be kidding me!

WTF?........http://http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/001200802191637.htm

Colombo (PTI): An animal rights group has urged LTTE supremo Prabhakaran to
spare animals during armed attacks, following a grenade explosion at a zoo near
here.
Suspected LTTE militants had set-off a grenade near a birds' enclosure
at Dehiwala zoo on February 3 in which seven people, including two children,
were injured.
"In addition to injuring several human beings - which was no
doubt its intent - the explosive device that was set off near the zoo's birds
enclosure terrified many animals in the zoo," said Ingrid E. Newkirk, president
of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) in a letter to the Tamil
Tiger leader.
Newkirk said animals had become the victims in the cross-fire
of wars all over the world leading to deaths of many of them intentionally or
accidently.
"If you have the opportunity, will you please consider my
request and appeal to all those who listen to you to leave animals out of the
conflict?" Newkirk told Prabhakaran in the letter.

Tigers have demeaned themselves!

I read DBSJ to get a perspective from a moderate Tamil jounalist who has access to information other sri lankan jounalists can only dream of.Sometimes his writing gives away his true sympathasies but I can live with that.I think this post is a great example of his feelings and this paragraph takes the cake.

If the LTTE deal was only to extract political or military concessions then
the tigers could have tried to downplay the implications of this deal. But by
accepting filthy lucre the tigers have demeaned themselves. There is no
redemption.

Then he goes on to list prevoius righteous deals tigers made!

Prabakharan got money from Rajiv Gandhi to help work the Indo - Lanka accord.
He got assistance from Ranasinghe Premadasa to fight the Indian army. But now
money seems to have been obtained to enforce a boycott and help a hardliner like
Rajapakse win.
The Tamil people were asked to boycott on a matter of
political principle but in reality the LTTE had done a deal with the man
portrayed by them as a Sinhala hawk.This is the depth of duplicity

I do not want equate Tamils with Tigers but the last 50 years Tamil (and Sinhala) struggle are layed with layers of destroyed idols with "clay feets(as DBSJ mentions in the piece)".Sri Lankan Tamil leadership helped to strip the upcountry Tamils of voting rights in 1949 .Generations of Tamil leaders joined coaliation governments .The southern left gave up the fight for minority rights and was hand and glove in suppressing them.

It's not a big deal dude! Sun god is human ,too!

On this specific matter Tigers knew who they are dealing with and Mahendra Percival knew who he is dealing with ,too.

Mahinda has a history of using everybody around him for his glory.He exploited 1988-90 disappearances to his political gain and gave the finger to JVP without them even knowing it!Started a Pada Yathra agitation and called CBK "Vesi" at Matara and later joined her goverment and kept his mouth shut! To top it off he calls all Sinhala Jounalists " malli " and party with them .Next day they They right adoring articles about their "Ayya" !He knew when to move in for the kill when the prime minister slot opened up and probably took away the opertunity of a great prime minister or President we might have had(Lakshman Kadiragamar).


Then the Tigers record is in public domain ,too.No need to give example of Terror ,Murder , extortion ,drug deals and weapon deals with their own enemy .

Both sides knew who they are dealing with .

I guess DBSJ does not want to see the obvious reason Tigers did this.They do not want peace. Wickramasinghe win would have been another 1994 CBK Situation .Chandrika was immensely popular and had the majority of Tamils backing her to bring peace.After the election when the government team arrived in Jaffna to negotiate they were mobbed (In a good way!)They did not have any other option but to come to negotiations and then dragged it until they found excuse after excuse to get out of it .Sun god knows that a blood thirsty murderer cannot come to public and live hapily everafter.The only way to survive is a seperate country with immunity from presecution and a perpetual war with the neighbouring country to keep your citizens under control.If they elected Wickramasinghe ,they would have to dress up and act dumb for 3-4 years before coming to next war where as Mahinda would be an excellent candidate for further war starting from day 1.

Since Sun god is human and his consigliere was human ,he badly miscalculated how cunning the mustashed fellow from south was.They thought they can play the victim card from day one in the eyes of the international community and did not anticipate what is currently happening to their operations in US ,UK ,France ,Canada and Australia.

DBSJ would rather demean the sun god than say he is incompetant.

Let's say I'm taking my Sri Lankan A/L examination .First time I pass Physics ,Botany but fail Zoology .Next year I take it again and pass Botany and Zoology but fail Physics.If I keep doing this for 35 years without achieving my goal ,what would you call me?The dear leader,Sun god or a total jackass?

I have peaked into JR's/Premadasa's/DB's/Chandrika's/Mahinda's heart and it is dark as "Mase Poya" night!

I can barely find time to check news and read a couple of blogs but I got to write this down.Two of the bloggers wrote about the same issue or rather one answered the other one.I don't know whether Indi reads Glenn but I think he should.
I happened to be browsing through kottu and came across this diatribe by Indi about the Rajapakse clan.Then saw this post By Glenn Greenwald ,I guess with minor alterations can be applied to Sri Lankan experiance.We only have to replace the name of any President we had with George W Bush.

I happen to be little bit older than Indi and had the privilage of access to Sinhala media When President JRJ ,Premadasa and Kumaratunga was in power.I specially remember how President Premadasa was villified by the current leaders of the Free Media Movement.I see the same pattern here by people who claim to know what goes inside Mahinda Rajapakse's evil heart.Let the actions speak for the man .I think the jury is still out there.He is somewhat successful militarily and seems to have a plan to contain tigers while some actions makes his gains redundant (militarily and diplomatically) like the human rights records or the evictions of Tamils from lodges (he quickly realized the mistake and reversed it).On the other hand he seems to have a plan to get a constitution solution agreed by all parties(at least the majority of them). Name calling without any facts to back up ,Like Tsunami Hora, is not goingto add to the public discourse at all.

Finaly let me take an exception to my own rule and declare that banning TamilNet is an idea of a very stupid person.