Some commentators pretend that these things does not exist under the Sinhalese Govt. Does’nt the govt. does forced conscription through TMVP?

Sl Govt. is getting all the dirty works done by the paramilitaries . They are just doing all these for the crumbs. When they realise their follies, it will be too late!! These paramilitaries would be discarded once their usefulness become redundant.

Stop your Barking. This situation could have been the LTTE’s for the taking 20 years ago. The People will vote, and they will vote for the TMVP, and the will vote for SLMC, and some may even vote for the SLFP and the UNP and the JHU and the JVP, but they will Not vote for the LTTE and the TNA Sock puppets they control.

It will be the Will of the people heard in this election, NOT the Will of the Deluded Donkey Diaspora this time round. The people of the East have had enough of fighting for the Unobtainable, Racist, and Communalistic ideals of Bitter, Resentful, Tamils hiding in Western Countries.

Look how you complain that a Paramilitary group enters the Political Mainstream… ? isn’t that the whole point? Face it, you love the LTTE and you sport a Chubby in your pants for Prabharkaran. You say these people DONT know what freedom is??? What was freedom before this?

Forced Conscription? Taxation without Representation? Perpetual Warfare? Lack of ability to Dissent? How perverse is your thinking that you wouold say that all these things are better for the Tamil people than what is happening now? You people make me sick the way you advocate these things in the name of a Freedom Struggle. Face it the East will never go back to the LTTE.. And not so long ago you shouted “Genocide” and it never happened, because it was never true,… Now sit alone in you room and wonder why you got it so wrong, …for so long.

Paramilitary has become the law makers of the country!.
What are they going to legislate? Rape. Murder, Extortions, armed robbery etc. Give us a break please.
You know the people of the east deserve such a government. They don’t know what freedom is, may be to them next meal could be the freedom. Some people think we can live any which way the wind blows, but some people hraness the same wind for sustainable freedom. It is their choice they will live it up or down. That is democracy.

Earlier elections were held for the merged North East Provincial Council in 1988 during the IPKF period.

But all members in all the districts in the Northern Province were elected uncontested thanks to IPKF and LTTE.

But elections were contested in the Eastern Province and the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress contested an election for the first time despite the presence of armed IPKF and LTTE.

SLMC had never boycotted any elections in their brief history whereas SLFP,JVP and TULF/TNA had boycotted with disastrous consequences for the respective party as well as for the constituents they represented.
SLMC took risks and rewarded and TNA by their negative polices are becoming more and more irrelevant.

We have to stop this nonsense!

The Tamils/TNA should not repeat the mistake they did earlier in1987 by refraining from contesting elections to the NEPC on flimsy excuses.

Had they contested in 1987, they could have created history and captured the North East Provincial Council and negotiated more power with the Indian support including on police and land matters and also brought the district and divisional administration under the control of the Provincial Council and they could have maneuvered with the Muslims and the Sinhalese in the East to keep the North East merged.

There is no need for an ethnically homogenous north, east or northeast!

Armed struggle if not skillfully used will be counter productive whereas diplomacy and foresight will bring better results at least cost.

Self pity and always putting the blame on others and expecting others to come to your rescue are all negative approaches .Let others have their agenda!

Be brave and be positive and act .

There is a way out!

. The elections to the Eastern Province is an opportunity that should not be missed.

A grand alliance of Tamils, Muslims and Sinhalese living in the Eastern Province under a common programme is the necessity of the day. I

f you are imaginative it is possible to accommodate the grievances and aspirations of all the three communities as far as possible and make all three communities the stakeholders in this exercise.

Power sharing is the answer!

Let us be not always part of the problem!. Let us be partners in the solution!

Why can’t this people write fictions put their name rather than hide behind smoke screen.

I am being a regular reader of this web site start seeing the Journalist ethic change with articles start appearing without an author or a pen name.

What are their manifesto on land, demograhpy,language, religion, jobs, development and thing like that in the eastern province before May elections ?

Do the Tamils and Muslims parties of eastern province agree with Bernard Goonatilke the representative of GOSL in USA that Tamil speaking people do not have traditional home land in neither Eastern province nor most of the nothern province ?

If they are agreeing with the GOSL stand there is no traditional homeland for Tamil speaking people, then people like Sangaree, Devanda, Pillayan, Mrs Ashraf, Sitharthan must openly tell the public that they accept the GOSL stand that there is no traditional homeland concept and they will change their party names or will merge with JVP and JHU in coming out witha common manifesto or overlapping manifesto ?