Comments on: Norway and Britain: Mistakes of Peace Making in Sri Lanka

By: nandasena

nandasena — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 03:27:53 +0000

The fault lies with the sinhalese governments. Why blame somebody else. Until a leader who places the interest of the country first, emerges from the Sinhala community, no one can save Sri Lanka.

By: eesan

eesan — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 18:36:48 +0000

the article is unnessarily long. I stopped reading when i encountered a third pargraph repeating essentially the same point made earlier i.e. ” the Norwegians rely too heavily on the tamil diaspora’s outdated viewpoint.”
Maybe I have a short attention span, but if you want your readers to read ur entire article, u should get to ur next point quickly.

By: Sundaram

Sundaram — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 01:39:21 +0000

Well, the writer is not living on this planet….Everyone in the world knows what is going on in Sri Lanka….basic humen rights are being denied…..thugs are running the counrty……enough is enough…..tamils are being forced to take action……We should welcome anyone in the world for trying to solve this ongoing problem……madness.

By: roshann wickremesinnge

roshann wickremesinnge — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 21:14:35 +0000

Dear mr. j.muthu
Do not call sinhala M***a, Mahinda does not got reasonalble brain, but you tamils got big damp ego, and beleive sinhala nutters. If you beleive in that just imagine who are the loossers. We must fight together get rid of this evil so call sinhala idiots. Myself an sinhala shame myshelf whats happening in my motherland. We all (sinhala, tamil. muslim, burger, chrisitians ) get to gether get rid of this evils including if you beleive so call dayan the evil. WE must pray together peace in our mother land belongs to every one.

By: marino

marino — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 11:56:26 +0000

I wonder why no one bothered to consult the auther on his experties on sri lankan conflict when he promotes himself as an expert

By: ZG

ZG — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 11:53:29 +0000

I too belong to the Sri lankan diaspora, but not tamil nor sinhala. While I agree to some points made in this articles about the Tamil diaspora and the Foreign experts, what I dont understand is that why the author do not speak about the Sinhala diaspora/interlectuals who are equally lobbying in these countries and promoting their agenda. Both groups are equally responsible for what is going on and needs to open their eyes to the truth.

By: Patriot

Patriot — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 10:48:22 +0000

Sri Lanka needs only a handful people like you to make the transformation fromconflict to peace. Thanks for being honest and patriotic.

By: Gamini

Gamini — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 05:40:05 +0000

I wish to commend the author on a detailed and articulate study of Norwegian and British involvement in the Sri Lankan conflict.

By: Gomez, Tantrimale.

Gomez, Tantrimale. — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 03:33:16 +0000

I am quite puzzled as to what the author is expecting out of Norway and Britain. Pleae do not underestimate western countries, they obtain local information through their own embassies and not through just the think tanks as you pointed out. Each country’s embassy is fully staffed wih various divisions to monitor respective issues. We Sri-Lankans should thank Norway for it’s genuine involvement in our conflict that we fail to solve ourselves. So much said presently about Dutugemunu and Ellalan but people forget that both leaders had Sinhalese and Tamils in their army unlike the present security forces. Never forget that the Last Kandyan King was a Tamilian and so was the last King who ruled from Kotte. The Kandyan Kingdom intermarried with prominent eastern Tamils. The hatred between us all started as soon a we gained independance. I being a Tamil sincerely blieve that our ethnic issues can be solved through sincere negotiations. It’s indeed sad to see that the Number 2 asian country in the mid 1950’s has been reduced to the stanard of a sub saharan state. We were envy of our asian neighbours then and laughing stock now. Presently only two countries are worse off than us in the third world country category and they are Somalia and Zimbabwe. We were known throughout the world for our higher standard of living, literacy, and quality education etc. but unfortunately we are renown around the globe presently as violators of human Rights, killers of aid workers and journalists etc. As long as we have our “Gung Ho Robert Mugabe” as the President he will drag us further deep in to abyss and will surpass the last two worse off countries I mentioned above in very near future.

By: A.Rajasingam

A.Rajasingam — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 03:18:46 +0000

The writer’s summing up “Let the Western world learn a lesson from India’s role in the Sri Lankan conflict during the 1980s and its consequences” is good. On the other hand, India should have followed what the Western countries are doing in Afganistan and Iraq in eradicating terrorism. What India should have done as a Mediator, should threaten Premadasa at any cost and refuse to withdraw its Peace-keeping Force until the Accord is fully complied with as well as the danger of foreign terrorist movements are completely wiped out in the Indian Ocean. In the meantime India could have initiated many development projects of its own (including rapid transport system) and won the hearts of the entire people of Sri Lanka. Had the Indian Ministers visited the North-East Province subsequent to the initiation of development projects during the period of Mediation the question of finding out the cause of the Sri Lankan conflict will not arise. It would have been a question of integration instead of the question of finding out the cause of internal conflicts. This is the way to deal where the Tamils are unable detach themselves from the LTTE. Norway and Britain cannot be blamed., they can only sympathise.