EU officials voice concern at 'humanitarian crisis' in Sri Lanka

One of the reliable source from that war area gives 300 feared dead and more than 1000 injured within 24 hours.
Because of prevention of media and foriegn aid worker into the area by the Sri Lankan government, it is very hard to get the exact figures. Only some local Tamil media are presented in that area.
The problem is, whenever the local Tamil media put out the civilian casualities by Sri Lanka government areal bombing and shelling, the it get 'painted' as pro-LTTE news.
Therefore, the UN and other international community should force SriLanka to allow outside media into the war zone. Even the LTTE is asking to the international community to come and monitor the inside sittuation. So, this is a good time to send the outside media into the war zone.

Antony Selvanayagam

http://www.tamilnet.com
www.news.tamilcanadian.com

More than three hundred Tamil civilians killed yesterday in one day, Please STOP Genocide against Tamils in Sri Lanka. LAST WEEK NEARLY 500 PEOPLE KILLED BY SRILANKAN ARMY'S SHEEL AND BOMBS

Killing the Tamils for the Srilankan Gov is not new. Killing started in 1948 still hasnt stopped yet and it wont unless UN to go in there see it yourself. The UN should trying to see the some of the tamil web site for info such as http://www.sankathi.com. There is so many. Rather than hearing it from Srilankan Gov. I Havent seen any other country kill there own citizen. Please do something now before it becomes late. We dont have any one to help not even India. We asking for the UN and all the Western Countries. Thnak you.

300 people died, and 1000 are bleadind to death on the streets in the so called "safe zone" in Mullathviu. UN is not allowed by the Sri-Lankan goverment to visit those areas, and the UN is singing along with the goverment downplaying the causalities!! Wasn't the reason for Iraq sanction because Saddam Hussain was not allowing UN monitors?? Why the double standardness, i am quite disgusted by this callous attitude of the world on Tamil genocide!!!

World's most brutal terrorist organization , the LTTE, now cornerd and sure to be vanished, try to mislead the world again as they did always. They shoot and kill Tamils who try to escape from them. Escaped Tamils witnes on this matter. They are using innocent Tamils as a shield. This is confirmed by many agencies including U.N.O.

Read the article by Ananda Sangaree , the respected Tamil leader of the TULF publised in the Lankapage.com to get a clear picture on what happens in Sri Lanka. Did you notice Tamils dancing in jafna when Kilinochchi was fallen to the SL Army?

The Eu also fallen in to this false news propaganda trap and has double standards. It is shameless they keep their mouths shut when Mid Eastern conflicts killed about many more people a day in the Gaza strip. Where was their compassion?

'The war without witness' - This is what happening in Sri Lanka.

Do you want the whole world to trust anything said on the defense website? What are we blinds and deaf? The Sri Lankan government can not STOP the Tamils who live abroad from speaking the truth. Who else can better represent the Tamils other than them selves? Now, this is a new era. Truth must be told.

Why are you being biased? Why don't you go and visit these sites - see it for your self -the brutal genocide of Sri Lanka on its own citizens. Have you ever experienced poverty? Have you ever been to a refugee camp? Have you ever witnessed devastating death?
http://www.lankawin.com/article.php?artiId=5814&catId=&token=dispNews
http://www.puthinam.com/full.php?2b1VoKe0dScYU0ecKA4y3b4C6Dr4d2f1e3cc2AmS3d434OO2a030Mt3e

If you believe in what Sri Lankan government says, then you have to believe in what Tamils are saying. Because there is no independent media to speak the truth. If anyone speak aginst the government they will be killed in no time – like what happened to Sunday Leader editor.

Try to live with moral values at least for once in your life if you can. Do you think the SLA will leave the civilians alive if they don't want to dance when Kilinochchi was captured? My friend who currently lives in Jaffna had to pose for the camera and pictures because she was afraid of her life. This IS THE TRUTH. Do you know there is curfew in Jaffna after 6.00 PM every single day? It is a open prison. Have you ever been in detention camps where the SLA is treating the civilians without any human values not at all – letting them run naked? Do you have any idea that the SLA is not allowing the relatives and friends to see those who are in detention camps for months and moths? I can guarantee you they must be dead by now – killed and buried by SLA. This is not new to them anyways. Have you ever been abducted by a WHITE VAN? Do you know how many innocent people - mainly youths have been disappeared so far in so called ‘Liberated Areas’? Will government – so called our true representatives will give us an answer as to what happened to them? Do you know anything about Chemmani - the mass grave yard created by SLA in Jaffna? Even now Singala workers have reported that they are seeing the bodies being burned and buried in Vavuniya and Anurathapura open fields. Have you ever seen the video of the gruesome treatment of a Tamil woman corpse by Sri Lankan Army?

This incident was even condemned by Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC). “The Asian Human Rights Commission wrote to the UN Secretary, that as described in the videos, the naked body of this person is so gruesomely and disrespectfully treated in a manner that too difficult to describe”. Do you want proof – see this: http://ivanpakkam.blogspot.com/2008/12/blog-post_26.html

Every one is blaming LTTE for holding civilians as hostage within the war zone. But, from what I hear from my friends and relatives who are actually caught up in the bombing, the remaining civilians DO NOT want to leave. They are too afraid of their lives. They know what is happening in east.

“The United Nations has issued repeated calls for the Tigers to release civilians and for the government to treat them well. The assumption is that all the civilians in the north would flee if they could. A few have managed to get out, and these people stand on one side of the checkpoint, awaiting a long and unpleasant "security screening" by government soldiers hunting for any sign they have links with the Tigers. Those who pass muster — and most men 14 to 45 years old don't even bother to try — are waved through and taken to a refugee camp, where they will live behind thick coils of razor wire, forbidden to leave”, it was stated on reputable media.

If you asked me who went through same bloody struggles 12 years back, I would certainly die in bombing than being a slave to SLA.

Now, as one other reader said, ‘the UN and other international community should force Sri Lanka to allow outside media into the war zone’. This is the only way the abuses which are way beyond imaginable can be exposed to the whole world.

The world most ruthless terrorist organization has been just neutralized. In order to create a way out of total rout they have been marching the innocent civilians in their region along with them whereever they retreaed to with the intention of using them as a human shield. Now the LTTE is cornered the so called brave tigers have finally reverted to what they expected to do, hide behind the innocent tamil civilians to save their skin while to their cadres they preached taking the cyanide pill. This show the reality and how spineless these so called decsiplined LTTE leaders?? They allowed more than 20000 of their cadres to die for their 'Cause' but they are scared to die!!

The government intention is to make LTTE irrelavant and discuss with the democratic minded tamils who were silenced by the LTTE all these years and resolve the problem once and for all. The LTTE does not want it. They with the help of the expat tamils who enjoy safety and western luxury from their adopted land are expecting a massacre. The SL forces are intelligent and knows this trap. These numbers killed mentioned above are all bogus. None so have happened except a few civilians which is expected in any war. The emphasis is on "ZERO civilian casualty" and the forces are taking all effort to maintain it.

LTTE and the suppoters are trying very hard to let the LTTE off the hook by getting a ceasefire. One way that can be done is by getting the UN involved. Lettign them in needs a ceasefire. At this stage there should be no ceasefire without LTTE laying down arms for the final solution to the problem is almost at hand. Letting them off will put the question back to square one.

The president even had invited the tamilnadu leaders to come over to see for themselves the reality. Japanese envoy who visited last week was quite satisfied. Ferrero Waldner needs to visit too to get a correct picture.

Not a single abduction or killing of civilians including high profile aid workers, Muslim workers, NGO officials, Tamil MPs and journalists is either investigated or culprit brought to justice during the presidency of Mahinda Rajapakse. There were more than 3,000 enforced disappearances in Jaffna peninula alone. Proscription of LTTE by EU inspired him to wage war on Tamil civilians under the pretext of war on terror. The killers were given impunity. How can EU or UN expect civilians from Tiger territories enter army controlled areas without the guaranty of their safety? Why cannot EU and UN force the government to allow the neutral media and UN observers to have access to the war zone to assess the situation at first hand rather than relying on its biased version of events?

What all international organisations as well as us failing to consider is that whether Sinhala speaking people or Tamils, they are all Human beings needs to be treated equally under any circumstances.

Tamils have fought the state oppression for the first 30 years (Since 1948) using all democratic norms which were only suppressed by the Sri Lankan state. Then the next 30 years of arms struggle for our just rights were forced into Tamils' throats. Tamils' arms struggle is a product of continued state terrorism against the Sri Lankan Tamil minority citizens. Since Sri Lanka’s independence in 1948, Sri Lanka’s Tamils have been killed, kidnapped, disappeared, raped, robbed, displaced, periodic communal riots against minority tamils and arbitrarily detained by the GOSL dominated by the majority Sinhalese.

If these hadn't taken place and if every community had been equally treated, Sri Lanka would not be in this situation.

International organisations and countries never tried to resolve the actual problems, but instead believed on Sri lankan government one sided story and without looking into resolve the problems, they instead try to ban organisations such as LTTE. That action produced no resolution to the ethnic problems.

Under the notion of Sri Lanka is a "Democracy", Sri Lanka is allowed to continue with its horrendous state crimes against its Tamil citizens and is unabated for far too long. Sri Lanka brutally manipulated 9/11 'war on terror' to its maximum advantage to deny its minority Tamil citizens their legitimate rights.

If any democracy is not carefully legislated to avoid an uneven distribution of political power with balances such as the separation of powers, then a branch of the system of rule is able to accumulate power in a way that is harmful to democracy itself.The "majority rule" without responsible government it is possible for the rights of a minority to be abused by the "tyranny of the majority". This is what was failed to be implemented in 1948 when Independence was given to Cetylon and hence Late Tamil Leader Mr. G. G. Ponnambalam was arguing to get 50-50 rights for Tamil Citizens from then English administration.

So if this issue is not addressed, Sri Lankan problem will never be resolved. So organisations such as United Nations, European Union or International Govts must enforce both parties of this conflict and ensure both communities get their basic rights. No points is issuing statements condemning actions of either parties. It is an issue that can be resolved by peaceful means, CANNOT be by WAR!!

This is the truth and we must unitedly wake up to face it and for sure we could resolve with peaceful means.

By doing this, we could avoid thousands of poor Sinhalese mothers' sons being killed, thousands of innocent tamil civilians being killed.

If Politicians or other organisations cannot resolve it, we the people of Sri Lanka can do it unitedly, for the sake of our Brethrens and Sisters!! If anyone is interested, please join hands, no matter whether Sinhalese or Tamils, we could do it together. Please drop a line, if interested, let us make it together.

Génocide de tamoul en EELAM TAMOUL par l’état Sri Lanka nous concerne tout.