What Dr. Winston Panchacharam stated was correct. Instead of asking Panchacharam, the Medical Superintendent should have posed the same question in the same breath to the Sri Lankan politicians whether they are not ashamed to stick on the Unitary concept and encourage discrimination. Tamils who have migrated are far more privileged than even those Sinhalese in Sri Lanka in all fields. Had discrimination been not shown with the establishment of federalism, today the Tamils would have been instrumental for the development of the entire country and the inflation would be arrested.

The Sri Lankan economy has deteriorated to an unprecedented level because of the malignant economic policy of the Sinhalese politicians who are now concentrating on military research, for which the entire people are suffering. As for the conflict between the Government and the LTTE, one should not forget that both will have a honeymoon tomorrow and a do or die battle day after which was evidenced when Mahinda won the Presidential election and the violation of the so-called CFA. Politicians take the people for ride but have their eyes set on discrimination for their own survival. After all Panchacharam is concerned about the genocide that is gradually taking place with the erosion of democracy.
A.Rajasingam

I read through the letter. I believe we can find the other side of this crisis which did not come to the light. Just as Sri Lanka got their independency from the British Sinhalese were controlled by the elite Tamil families. When they lost the position of controlling the power it was renowned as marginalization. One fifth of country population want to control the four fifth of the rest. Is this correct?

They want to all Sinhalese speak in Tamil language even if they can’t speak Sinhala language. This type of people in confusion that Tamil should be worshiped by Sinhalese majority .I experienced even in India Tamil people cannot speak Hindi while other people from various areas can speak Hindi. These uppish people from Tamil generation should know that this is a digging of their grave yard with their own hands. Sinhalese are not cruel people like most of Tamils. We need not any depopulation. But if want to have genocide we can commit it. Because, Sinhalese do not have another country other than Sri Lanka.

I saw so many Tamil people and even terrorist. I have many Tamil friends and I can even read, write and speak in Tamil. I know they psyche of the Tamil donors who subsidize the world most cruel organization.

That is why I am writing these things. KEEP THIS IN YOUR MIND EVEN I CAN BE A SUICIDE KILLER ON BEHALF THE NATION. If you are thinking like this we cannot find any solution for this problem because we always come to place where we earlier used to be.

"Theruwan Saranai"

As observed in the comment above, creeping genocide of Tamils is taking place and has been for sometime. All humanitarian effort is withdrawn by order of the government, despite the fact that those Tamil people are repeatedly subjected displacement by government forces. A glimpse of what those people are undergoing could be seen from an article that appears in the TamilWeek elsewhere entitled 'Civil Society Field Mission to Vavuniya.'

As an example, take the case of women who the are most vulnerable group had to undergo. Not only they are being raped by Tamil paramilitaries, they are also tortured. Some of them marry young as a measure of protection only to find their husbands leave them whilst it is the woman who has to look after the child. These women can't go in search of their husbands or children who have disappeared because they could quite easily become victims of rape themselves.

These are mind bogglingly harrowing tales, which those people have to face day in day out. This is what the aptly named Minister of Disaster Management, Mahinda Samarasinghe, goes around the world proudly telling everyone as to how the Sri Lankan government and the military have perfected a unique technique of unleashing humanitarian disasters in the most humanitarian manner possible.

It is such unbelievably insensitive garbage that comes out of the senior members of the government that frightens people and gives a measure of what they are capable of.

Presence of a large humanitarian contingent is absolutely essential not only to prevent genocide Tamils but also to feed those hapless souls.

Mahinda Rajapakse, while addressing the UN General Assembly this week, came out with the main factor contributing to the genocide of Tamils in the North East(NE) of Sri Lanka(SL), without being aware that he was doing so.

With a view to address the world discontent, especially by the Co- chairs, over the existing humanitarian crisis at Kilinochchi, Mahinda was trying to impress that he was heading a good Samaritan Government in Sri Lanka.

Desperate people do desperate things. With his skewed logic he came out clearly as to how Colombo is the "capital" of genocide of Tamils.

MR said that his Samaritan government gives food to Tamils in the NE, pays to teachers and pensioners, buys paddy from farmers and the like. For obvious reasons he refrained from telling the world as to how he abuses the human rights of Tamils.

The fact of the matter is the government in Colombo pays to teachers and pensioners under a contractual obligation for their services. Not as charity. Pensioners have to be paid by GOSL, even if Tamil Eelam became independent. It is an individual contractual obligation.

Most of the Tamil civilians in the NE buy their food and other consumer items from the money received from their kith and kin living abroad. The Tamil diaspora.

Food and other items are imported into Colombo. The duty levied is ultimately recouped during sale by consumers as a part of their price in the NE. Not only the revenue from such duties levied, the tax on profits added to price by traders in Colombo and the NE goes into the government ticky box. The economy benefits from it; a reason why the South is against the granting of legitimate right of the people of NE to rule themselves. Sadly, the levies are used to feed the soldiers to go to NE and kill the same tax payers.

Paddy is grown by farmers in the NE, mostly with money received from Tamil diaspora individuals. In fact the economy of the entire NE is run by Tamil diaspora on individual basis.

MR was trying to gloss over Tamil genocide and looked ridiculous. He was venturing to show that he was doing a favour to Tamils, though the state is duty bound to do so. Slaves receive favours from masters. "Slaves have no rights" attitude is evident from the speech.

The minds of Sinhalese are contaminated with such skewed logic causing genocide of Tamils in the NE.

People who are displaced, disappeared, arbitrarily arrested, tortured and kept under the cruel emergency laws of the state are not at all receiving dignity from people doing such acts.

Human dignity of Tamils is denied by the Sri Lankan state causing genocide. MR failed to tell the UN that he would restore the dignity of Tamils in the NE by granting them their legitimate right to rule themselves. MR was just bluffing all the way through.

"Sinhalese are not cruel people like most of Tamils. We need not any depopulation. But if want to have genocide we can commit it. Because, Sinhalese do not have another country other than Sri Lanka."

Comments like this should be a reminder to Sri Lankan Tamils that Sinhalese are not your friends- deep inside they want your genocide.

With Congress retreating - instead of missile raining on Tamils - its will be a different story.

So be patient.

Snpost

You are wrong. Sinhalese are very cruel. In fact they are barbarians, looking always for the smell and taste of blood in killing Tamils. We know it and that is why we have decided to fight you and chase you away from our mother land, Tamil Eelam.

Sinhalese were never friends of Tamils. You were always humbugging and getting puppet tamils to run the country. Soon your country will be bankrupt.

You know to use missiles on civilians as you are not civilised.

Dont worry, we will finally chase the military away from our land and have the Sinhalese in the North East (our country) as our equal and best friends. You Southern Sinhalese will be treated as Barbarians by every one in the world !!!!

i would not agree with Dr. Panchacharm on most of his comments.
There is a great danger on Tamil people in war torn areas at present and both parties should spare the people without any hesitation. it is the greatest and supreme responsibility of the State and LTTE. I have no doubt about it.
my major concern is the ' undue descrimination ' in the hands of sinhalese all these expatriates are talking about. he has pointed out that he was descriminated and his salary increments was not allowed. The eficiency bar exam is common for all the doctors and everybody has to pass it to get increments. i have been in the medical service for nine years in SL but no one was exempted in the E-Bar. well when it comes to languages it is a different matter. this is common for you and me. During my carreer i had many Tamil friends, doctors and patients and thousands of good citizens in Uva. they were the people i still enjoy to work with.We had to learn Tamil for not only for e-bar but also enjoy the good relationships. I still remember one medicine registrar Dr. Sritharan from Kilinochchi taught me 'spoken Tamil'.In my Tamil viva Dr. Jeganathan(Higly respected health administrator)was amazed and inquired me how I manage such a good command and i was happy to mention my teacher. We had very respectable and healthy relationship which goes in to many years.As a senior house officer most of my Tamil interns were from North east except very few from N'eliya.i did not see any descrimination on them and it was a really a team work. somebody watching Dr. Panchacharm might think Sinhalese are descriminating Tamils like crazy. it is not the case. you should have and interest in learnning Sinhalese to conduct your day today practice as a govenrment servant. The problem he brought up is not limited to a person like him because he was a Tamil. he was fortunate to have a verbal abuse by the so called admiistrator. After nine years of good and hard work I was not approved leave to US and was vacated in post by my Medical Superintendent. I lost all my increments. this was not because i was a Sinhalese or Tamil, due to the attitudes the administrators and politicians confined with. Until good governance comes every citizen of SL would be descriminated irrespective of ethnicity.
Apart from this i still believe that expatriates in either ethnicity has a major role in this conflict. They all live in their own dreams and enjoying all the priviledges and ready to spend few dollars for total ratification of the issues either by pellet or bullet. if one of them cries for peace everybody comes and corner him to the wall. as far as i know this is common for both Sinhalese and Tamils

There are thousands of tamil doctors who are practicing all over Sri Lanka. I guess they are all being short changed by the Government.