Re: Blast sparks Sri Lanka air raids October 17, 2006
Posted by capitalz in : LTTE, Tamil Eelam, War of Tamil Eelam , 1 comment so farRegarding news articles from BBC, Reuters, and Yahoo News: Blast sparks Sri Lanka air raids, Sri Lanka says committed to talks with Tiger rebels, Sri Lanka’s bloodiest suicide bombing kills 103 people respectively.
To: Nigel.Chapman@bbc.co.uk; bernard.gabony@bbc.co.uk; Reuters Feedback; Yahoo News Discuss; AFP Concact
Date: 2006/10/17 @ 3:30 PM [GMT -5]
Dear Sirs:
I have read the news, Blast sparks Sri Lanka air raids, or Sri Lanka says committed to talks with Tiger rebels, or Sri Lanka’s bloodiest suicide bombing kills 103 people, on your website. I was shocked to find that you have noted as “people”, while it was infact Sri Lankan Navy personnel. I do not know the intention of the twisted fact, but this is not the way I would expect a prominent news media to report. Even the photos taken at the scene of the incident clearly shows the weapons.
Even many Sri Lankan state supportive news medias were moderate enough to report the fact. Moreover CNN reported as “… killed dozens of navy sailors …“. In addition, I have provided many links below to the sources of the same news, which reports as “Navy sailors” instead of “people”, which appear as civilians. I always think your service is unbiased, but it seems like your reporters may not be. I hope to see non-twisted truths in the future reportings.
I have also archived this letter in my web blog at Re: Blast sparks Sri Lanka air raids.
* Pictures are taken from http://news.yahoo.com/
UN Secretary General Koffi Annan’s Offical Statement
Death toll of the suicide attack goes over 100 as Koffi Annan calls it most “Apalling”
Issuing a statement in New York, the Secretary General of the United Nations Koffi Annan’s office said, “The Secretary-General is alarmed by the upsurge of violence in Sri Lanka in the past several months, including today’s appalling suicide bombing of a convoy of military buses. The Secretary-General deplores the escalation of violence. ”
Sri Lanka’s National Television
LTTE terrorists rammed the naval convoy at Digampataha in Habarana with an explosive laden vehicle at around 1.45p.m today killing 92 …
“The naval convoy comprising 24 buses were at the Digampataha rendezvous point at the time of the attack. The location has been used by the navy. Over 340 unarmed naval personnel who were both going on leave and reporting back to duties were believed to be present at the location. The naval sources further said that 13 buses have also been severely damaged in the explosion.”
Some optimism for Sri Lankan peace despite rebel blast killing 95 sailors
“Tamil Tiger suicide bombing killed at least 95 sailors one of the deadliest attacks in more than 20 years of fighting on the tropical island.”
Tigers unleash highnoon horror
“A suspected LTTE truck bomber rammed into a navy convoy killing 94 unarmed sailors and injuring 116 others at a troop’s transit point at Digampathaha in Habarana yesterday afternoon.”
LTTE suicide bomber kills 72 sailors, injures 70
“An LTTE suicide cadre driving a truck loaded with explosives, ploughed into a group of Naval personnel gathered to board buses at Diganpathana, in Habarana yesterday and triggered off an explosion killing 72 and injuring over 70.”
Nearly 100 sailors killed in LTTE suicide attack
“An explosives-laden Canter truck from the direction of Dambulla exploded targeting those unarmed sailors going on leave and reporting for duty around 1.30 pm,” a senior Navy officer told the Daily News.
LTTE suicidal vehicle attacks the Naval convoy - Habarana
“The naval convoy comprising 15 buses were parked at the Diagmpatana rendezvous point at the time of the attack. Over 150 unarmed naval personnel who were going on leave were believed to be present at the location.”
Suicide attack on Navy convoy, 98 killed 116 injured
“Ninety eight naval personnel were killed when LTTE suicide cadres rammed an explosive laden Canter lorry into a convoy of buses transporting Navy men at Diganpathana on the Dambulla-Habarana road around 1.45 this afternoon.”
Tigers unleash high noon horror
““The victims were unarmed sailors, some going home on vacation and the others returning for duty,” military spokesman Prasad Samarasinghe said.”
92 navy men killed; Over 150 injured and 13 vehicles damaged at Habarana
“92 naval personnel were killed and over 150 were injured when tiger terrorists rammed a vehicle full of explosives on a convoy of vehicles carrying naval troops.”
Bomb blast on SLN vehicles, 70 killed
“A lorry laden with explosives rammed into 15 Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) vehicles and buses with more than 150 SLN troopers, at Digampatana in Habarana, 80 km southwest of Trincomalee, killing at least 70 troopers, Sri Lanka military sources in Colombo said.”
Sri Lanka retaliates with air strikes after suicide attack kills 102 sailors
“The Sri Lanka Air Force struck two identified LTTE sea bases in Mullaitivu and a LTTE military camp in Mankulam this morning after a suicide attack on a Sri Lanka Navy convoy killed over 100 unarmed sailors yesterday.”
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CAPital
Re: Contact-Us Feedback from Thenkoodu.Com September 13, 2006
Posted by capitalz in : Tamil Nadu, War of Tamil Eelam , add a commentTo: thenkoodu@gmail.com
Dated: 2006/09/13 09:54 PM (GMT -5)
Dear Thenkoodu Team,
If you cannot add my blog to the automatic aggregation, since my blog [would] contain English articles, then please do add my blog in your blog directory. I honestly do not know which category to recommend you to list my blog under. So please do so at your choice.
That’s being said aside, as you acknowledge that I sent you a second email dated August 6th I also sent numerous notes at the place where my blog said “Deferred” in you web page. It is where I found out my blog was “Deferred” under “கட்டளையகம்“. So it may not be technically emails sent from my email account to yours, but I did sent an email from my email account as well as numerous “notes” from your website.
On your email dated September 03rd you have mentioned “As we have informed earlier in our mail (dated 13th), your blog received complaints on the category such as promoting hate.” I would like to point out that in your email dated 13th you did not mention anything about that you received complaints and that is why its being deferred. I am also attaching your email in Annex I [bloggers: please see at the bottom of my first post for the email at தேன்கூடு - ஏன் என்னை தடைசெய்தாய்? ]
Moreover, the fact that I had to find out myself that my blog is being “deferred”, and no proper response was given by your team led me to the posts which I did. Even that I first did my complaint posts on my blog only, hoping that when your team tries to “evaluate” my blog, they will read it right away. But days seems to pass and I did not get any responses. It is in your mail dated Sep 03, which came 30 days after I found out that my blog is being deferred, that I came to know NOT all of you know Tamil. Even now, I do not know when exactly my blog was deferred.
So I am wondering, just because someone complained, you deferred my blog, not even dropping a note to my email and did not give a proper explanation even after I inquired about while you were not able to understand Tamil! A “Tamil Blogs Portal” deferred my blog without even reading it. I’m sorry but I’m sensing something fishy here.
Just a note, that I did not get any email from you that my blog ஒரு பத்திரம் is rejected. This is also I had to find out [by] myself. The reason for rejection was stated on your website as follows:
“(Rejected)
Status Msg: As per our policy, we do not include blogs primarily written for the organizations. Contact us if our understanding is wrong. - Support Staff.
You may contact us with details if required”
It is for this string of email communication that I’m writing this email. Again, I am totally lost when did “Tamil Eelam” become an “organization”. If you know something that I do not know, please enlighten me. Just to let you know, this blog has been approved my Thamizmanam and Tamilblogs.
Anyhow, I would recommend that when you defer someone else blog next time [or mine for that matter], please let the owner know and give proper explanation sooner than taking 30 days.
Thank you for your email and your support.
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CAPital
Re: Don’t provoke Tigers August 29, 2006
Posted by capitalz in : Canada, LTTE, War of Tamil Eelam , add a commentTo: ‘margolis@foreigncorrespondent.com’
Cc: ‘editor@tor.sunpub.com’
Dated: 2006/08/29 11:33 AM (GMT-05)
Dear Eric Margolis,
First of all I would like to thank you greatly for understanding our struggle against oppression.
It is very unfortunate that not many Canadian journalists recognize the truth behind our struggle. In addition, many journalist now seems to portray Tamils as “Terrorists” as the Muslims have already been labelled. Tamils are fighting against the Sri Lankan government, which is 99% Sinhala, the majority ethnic group. The so called “Democratic” Sri Lanka has much greater hand on demonizing our struggle against oppression, and control the media. Since it is a government that Tamils are fighting, Tamils’ voice is less heard on the international media.
Tamils never did any “terror” acts in Canada, and never will. The media seems to portray Tamils as terrorists and dangerous people. When young Tamil Canadians were arrested and deported due to gang violence, Tamils stood by the Canadian government and they still do. I still don’t understand why all the nations that once fought with arms to get freedom now calls LTTE as a “terrorist organization”. In a way, Canada is also the cause of the recent violence in Sri Lanka. The outgoing chief of Sri Lankan Monitoring Mission, Brigadier General Ulf Henricsson, has said the ban by EU on LTTE has contributed to the collapse of the peace process. It is Canada’s decision to ban LTTE provoked EU’s decision. [See: Departing ceasefire monitor chief slams EU in gloomy Sri Lanka outlook ]
If I may, I would like to point out that Rajiv Gandhi was not a PM when he was killed. He was a candidate from the opposition party at that time.
I urge you to shed some light onto our freedom struggle in Canadian media and the publics and once again thank you very much for your understanding.
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CAPital
Dated: 2006/08/29 01:32 PM (GMT-05)
Right you are about Rajiv. Thank you.
Best Wishes
Eric Margolis
Letter to Kofi Annaan August 23, 2006
Posted by capitalz in : War of Tamil Eelam , add a commentTo: Fax: +41 22 917 9022
23 August 2006
Mr. Kofi Annan,
Secretary General
United Nations
Dear Mr. Kofi Annan,
“No task is more fundamental to the UN than the prevention and resolution of deadly conflict.” – Kofi Annan, 21 March 2006.
This week, on 14 August 2006, the Sri Lankan Army under the directions from His Excellency Mahinda Rajapaksa, President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka sent Kfir jets which dropped sixteen (16) bombs on the Sencholai Orphanage run by the LTTE. As a result of this deliberate targeting by the Sri Lankan Government, sixty-one (61) schoolgirls were killed and more than one hundred girls were injured.
I plead with you, Sir, there should not be any further senseless and cold-bloodedness killings in Sri Lanka. The United Nations can no longer stand on the fringe and look on the carnage as a spectator nor give legitimacy to the Sri Lankan Government by giving her member a permanent voice in the UN Council.
I urge you to:
(i) Send your UN representatives to Sri Lanka so as to prevent and resolve the deadly conflict in Sri Lanka between the Sri Lankan Government and the Tamil people;
(ii) Sanction the Sri Lankan Government for their latest atrocity on the Tamil people using the powers available to the UN.
The ferocity of the 14 August attack indicates that the objective of the Government was to cause maximum possible casualties and the targeting of children demonstrates the intent of the Government was not merely atrocious and inhuman but genocidal. The UN can no longer play blind, dumb and deaf to the long series of atrocities by the Sri Lankan Government. Otherwise, the legitimacy of the UN as a whole is inarguably redundant.
(iii) Offer the LTTE a legitimate representation on the United Nations Council so that the other party to this conflict will be addressed in order for a solution to bear fruit.
The Sencholai Orphanage is a well-known Humanitarian Zone. The Sri Lankan Government has insisted that the Orphanage was a front for LTTE rebels. However, UNICEF and the Sri Lankan Monitoring Mission (SLMM) officials have visited the Orphanage and have confirmed that all casualties were unarmed and innocent children.
Yours truly,
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CAPital
RE: Tamil Tigers on fundraising drive to finance renewed civil war August 5, 2006
Posted by capitalz in : War of Tamil Eelam , add a commentTo: CustServ@nationalpost.com, hrwnyc@hrw.org
Dated: 2006/03/15 12:12 AM (GMT-05)
Dear Sir/ Madam:
RE: Tamil Tigers on fundraising drive to finance renewed civil war
I have read the article titled “Tamil Tigers on fundraising drive to finance renewed civil war” on Canadian newspaper National Post dated March 15, 2006.
I’m a Tamil living temporally in Ville Saint-Laurent, QC. I was living in Ottawa, ON before. My relatives live in Toronto, ON. To the extend of my knowledge there was no incident like you have described anywhere. I am deeply concerned about how much damage your article is going to do to our [Tamils] freedom struggle.
Freedom fighters never force people to finance. There are situations where people willingly finance. You must get the opinions of many Tamils, instead of interviewing only few of those hardcore Sri Lankan government/ Sinhalese supporters. Majority of Tamils live in Toronto within 3,00,000 Tamils in Canada. I urge you to see the big picture of our freedom struggle.
I have read the report Human Rights Watch. It talks about LTTE is asking money to visit Tamil Eelam. What is LTTE does different than any other democratic countries do? Isn’t it we have to pay to get visa to other countries? Even though Canada is the neighbouring country and partner in NAFTA, we still have to pay for visa if you are not Canadian citizen. Even if a Tamil from France has to visit Canada, Canadian government needs a reference letter from the Canadian. UK needs a security deposit. In all cases, there are some form of precaution. The people who are returning from Canada, holding a Canadian citizenship, to another country [Tamil Eelam], have to pay to stay in another country [visa]. What HRW has suppressed is that no money was asked if they hold a Sri Lankan passport. What is wrong in that?
Also read about meeting LTTE representatives inside Tamil Eelam. When a Canadian goes to Sri Lanka, they have to go to Canadian embassy before returning to Canada. So again, what does LTTE do different than a democratic country [Canada] does? The process of meeting LTTE representatives and getting “visa” for the period of stay is the same process that people take before going into another country. Since Tamil Eelam doesn’t have embassies around the world yet, that process is now happening inside Tamil Eelam.
In conclusion, I feel that HRW have missed many realities of Tamil Eelam and the struggle. USA had fought British to get freedom and I can list so many. The point is, as somebody said, “Its okay, if you do not help; but at least do not do any damage”. Financing could have been done in Canada, but it’s absolutely not a forced financing.
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CAPital