Comments on: Are People of the East Interested in an Election for The Provincial Council

By: Selva

Selva — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 00:29:37 +0000

For what the Tamils are fighting for is to stop the Sinhalese domination in the North and East. Now what the government doing is using Pillaian as a puppet want to bring the Sinhalese domination. If the Tamils vote to Pillaian thinking they have to bring a Tamil as the Chief minister automatically the power goes to Mahinda brothers.Even though we cannot trust U.N.P. we can trust the Muslim Congress leader Hakkem. Like late leader A.S.M. Asraf, he too is very friendly with Tamils. So if we have to save the East from Sinhalese at least to some extent the Tamils have to vote only to Muslim Congress. Not only that if the east is permanantly separeted from North we have to have some understanding with the muslims. That means Tamil leader to North and Muslim leader to East. If the Muslims got a Musim province then they will agree for a Tamil to become the Chief minister of the united Northeast. So as a first aid what we have to do now is to vote the Muslim Congress.

By: roshann wickremesinge

roshann wickremesinge — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:09:49 +0000

Devinda, what you done for you country? You never answer my questiions? why? some time truth will hurt you. Tell me whats solution for our countries 60 year question? Are you going to say ltte is the problem or most of the tamils live in south?
Answer me what you done for your country?
I fought for my country since 1988 and now i left the country for good, do you know why? What we are doing in north and east wrong and immoral, I will tell you LTTE worst terrorist in the world. But tamils deserve better. If we dont have solution( definitly not) let them go.

By: Devinda Fernando

Devinda Fernando — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 06:42:04 +0000

roshann wickremesinge,

Of course the Tamil people want to be ruled by the LTTE! After all see the wonderful Prosperity that the LTTE has bestowed upon its people for the past two decades!

Now these poor people have to settle for Electing their leaders, participating in local politics, paying for their Electricity and Water, voting on what to do with the Tax money collected in their districts, sending their children to school, worrying about what universities they can send them to, getting a job after university! Wow ! What a hassle for these poor Tamils, Wasn’t life so much simpler when the LTTE took their Kids, taught them everything they needed to know and gave them a gun and a Job in the Ranks of the LTTE’s armed forces…? Wasn’t life so much simpler when the LTTE simply took the money earned by the people and bought guns with it?

I can see your point with such Crystal Clarity now!

By: roshann wickremesinge

roshann wickremesinge — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:52:27 +0000

Devinda you are disgrce for sinhalease. You really need some sort of medical attention. I never ever seen such an ignorent person like you. Are you defending evil sinhala racist. After all tamils wants rule them selves, is it wrong. since independence, our leaders ruined our country, ruined tamils lives. If you defending such an evil sinhala regime, you must be worst than a morons. please dont f***ing give me an english lesson.
you are worthless.

By: Thiaga

Thiaga — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:46:37 +0000

More than thousand candidates contesting for 38 seats, a election where people of the east are little interested in. It could be said they are being forced to vote with guns pointed at them. What a uncertain future these people are facing having gone through so much difficulty. It might be a matter of time it will spread to the other parts of the country.

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:52:19 +0000

The Provincial Council election in the East will not benefit any body except the government to hoodwink the world that it believes in “democracy”, though it does not permit decisions at grass root level in the North-East Province.

The government of Sri Lanka (GOSL) is also trying to divert attention and gloss over the human rights violations, murders, displacements and disappearances it carries out in the North East.

Yes, the writer is right, the “people of the two provinces did not taste any sweet fruit of it but in a way they were harassed and humiliated by the goons of the Province’s ruling Eelam People’s Revolutionary Liberation Front (EPRLF) and the Ealam National Democratic Liberation Front (ENDLF) and their guardians, the IPKF”

Now it will be TMVP instead of EPRLF, ENDLF and the soldiers of the GOSL instead of the IPKF. The scenario is the same.

The problem is that the Sinhala nation is unilateral in its thinking against Tamils, and so is the government. Such a mindset has to be addressed first before we talk of preventing war crimes by the soldiers and the armed militias which support the government, before we attempt democracy in the North East.

By: aratai

aratai — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:32:31 +0000

Eastern Tamils cannot survive without support from Northern Tamils.
Eastern Muslims cannot survive without support from Eastern Tamils.
In the end, it’s going to be a Sinhalese Chief Minister with one Tamil and one Muslim Deputy Chief Ministers.

Sri Lanka is famous for making everybody ministers, so who cares.

By: Naga UK

Naga UK — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:48:01 +0000

Is it not an irony of the century that everybody is caught in their own web they have woven around them. I do not see anything wrong with Piallyan aspiring to to install a Tamil as the Chief Minister given the ‘not so hidden agenda’ of the Sinhala Raj. But the demand coming from a person who apparently believes in uacceptable methods is what bothering a peace-loving citizen of the east.

Come what may, there is no way of getting away from realities. People living in this area Tamils, Muslims and Sinhalese should not get carried away by the plans of the trouble makers – the chauvinists who want to create an ever lasting rift between these communities so that they can re-write history with their names in it.

It is hightime the Tamils and Muslims in particular forget their petty differences and get together and form an alliance so that these lements put their heads down in shame and retreat. If the CM post is an issue, they can come to terms and take turns…our sufferring people need a break and if you two cannot get together in some way and deliver it, you two are doomed for sure.

By: M.thiru

M.thiru — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:29:59 +0000

According to Minister Bogollagam it is yes. From economist.com,
[ "These elections let the government show that it was possible to �reintegrate� one part of the Tigers into mainstream Sri Lankan politics; the party formed by the breakaway Tigers, the TMVP, did quite well.
Mr Bohollagama was able to point to this as a model for the continuing conflict in the north, where the Tigers still control two of Sri Lanka�s 25 districts. ]

Soon Bogolloagam may announce Pillayan is a seat warmer for Karuna to return as son of the East ( with the help of UK government ) and take over the chief Minister Post. Alternatively they may elevate Pillayan & Karuna to be in par with Sarath Fonseka within the regular SL army because Pillayan’s and Karuna’s regiments were instrumental in the military win in the East. Like Jeyawardne Pura and Janaka Pura they may create two new towns for political leaders like Sangaree and Devanda for their solidarity with the Eastern leaders and the Mahinda regime, but with the approval of Pillayan and Karuna. There will also be towns named after Muslim and Sinhalese leaders who supported the Mahinda Regime. So full democracy in the east is shaping up well.

By: Devinda Fernando

Devinda Fernando — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 05:58:19 +0000

No ofcourse the People of the East are not interested in Elections, they want to go back to serving the LTTE in battle for an indefinite period of time, paying them with everything they earned, watching their children go off to War, Their families and possessions diminish, and no development of their areas either.

I’m sure they all long for that lifestyle deep down in their hearts.