{"id":102564,"date":"2020-05-19T16:10:20","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T23:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=102564"},"modified":"2020-05-19T16:10:38","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T23:10:38","slug":"mr-hugh-mcdermottyour-statement-on-the-sri-lankan-victory-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/05\/19\/mr-hugh-mcdermottyour-statement-on-the-sri-lankan-victory-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr HUGH McDermott, Your statement on the SRI LANKAN victory day"},"content":{"rendered":"

RANJITH SOYSA<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

ATTN-  \nMr  HUGH McDermott<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ALP\nmember for Prospect <\/p>\n\n\n\n

YOUR\nMISLEADING STATEMENT ON THE 11TH ANNIVERSARY OF SRI LANKA GOVERNMENT’S VICTORY\nOVER THE TAMIL TIGER TERRORIST<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ORGANIZATION\nIS A DIRECT INSULT TO THE VAST MAJORITY OF PEACEFUL AUSTRALIANS OF SRI LANKAN\nORIGIN WHO STILL MAINTAIN<\/p>\n\n\n\n

THEIR\nLINKS WITH SRI LANKA. WE WOULD LIKE TO CLARIFY THAT MOST OF US CONSIDER IT IS\nIMPORTANT FOR SRI LANKA TO CONTINUE<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AS A\nSINGLE SOVEREIGN NATION AS IT HAS BEEN FOR OVER 2500 YEARS. WE ARE CERTAIN YOU\nWILL AGREE THAT NONE OF US WILL <\/p>\n\n\n\n

APPROVE, \nIF SOME ENTITY ATTEMPTS TO BALKANIZE AUSTRALIA TO CREATE A SEPARATE COUNTRY IN\nTHE LAND MASS NOW KNOWN AS<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AUSTRALIA.\nSRI LANKA IS SMALLER THAN TASMANIA AND ANY BALKANIZATION OF HER LAND WILL ONLY\nLEAD TO INTERNAL AS WELL AS<\/p>\n\n\n\n

EXTERNAL\nINSTABILITY.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

IN\nSRI LANKA THE SEPARATIST FORCES WHO WERE ATTEMPTING TO CREATE A RACIST MONO\nETHNIC STATE CALLED ‘TAMIL EELAM’ WERE<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WAGING\nA WAR WITH THE ELECTED SRI LANKAN GOVERNMENT FOR OVER 30 YEARS. IN THIS PROCESS\nTHERE WERE PERIODS IN WHICH SOME <\/p>\n\n\n\n

WESTERN\nNATIONS INCLUDING AUSTRALIA  ATTEMPTED TO SETTLE THE ISSUES THROUGH\nNEGOTIATIONS WITH THE TAMIL TIGERS WHO<\/p>\n\n\n\n

EMERGED\nAS THE SOLE SPOKESPERSON OF THE EXTREMIST TAMILS. BUT, THE TAMIL TIGERS REFUSED\nTO TAKE HEED OF THE PEACE PROCESS AND<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RESORTED\nTO KILLING OF CIVILIANS AND EXPLODING BOMBS TO DESTROY ECONOMIC TARGETS SUCH AS\nTHE CENTRAL BANK OF SRI LANKA, HOTELS<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AND\nTHE AIRPORT ETC OF SRI LANKA. FINALLY, SRI LANKA UNDER THE HON MAHINDA\nRAJAPAKSE’S LEADERSHIP DECIDED TO LAUNCH A WAR AGAINST<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TAMIL\nTIGER TERRORISTS IN  2006 WHEN THE TAMIL TIGER TERRORISTS PREVENTED WATER\nSUPPLY TO A SECTION OF THE POPULATION. THE WAR<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WAS\nSUCCESSFULLY CONCLUDED ON 19 THE MAY IN 2009 WHEN THE TERRORIST CHIEF\nPRABHAKARAN WAS KILLED WITH HIS FELLOW TERRORISTS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HOW\nCAN YOU REFER TO THE DEFEAT OF THE TERRORIST AS ‘A MASSACRE’. ‘GENOCIDE OF\nTAMIL COMMUNITY’ AS THE WAR WAS WAGED AGAINST<\/p>\n\n\n\n

THE\nTAMIL TIGERS AND NOT THE TAMIL COMMUNITY. THE TAMIL TIGERS HAD A CADRE OF ABOUT\n25,000 WITH THEIR CIVILIAN MEMBERS WHEREAS<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TAMIL\nCOMMUNITY CONSISTS OF 11.5% – 2.4 million- WHO LIVED IN PEACEFUL AREAS IN SRI\nLANKA, IF YOU WATCHED THE TV SCREENS OF<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ABC,\nSBS AND OTHER MEDIA YOU WOULD NOT FORGET HOW NEARLY 90,000 TAMIL CIVILIANS RAN\nAWAY FROM THE YOKE OF THE TAMIL TIGER<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TERRORISTS\nWHO WERE KEEPING THEM BY FORCE AND WERE USED AS CANNON FODDER. SRI LANKAN\nFORCES IN FACT LIBERATED THESE TAMILS AND<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SPECIALLY\nABOUT 3000 TAMIL CHILDREN WHO WERE SERVING THE TAMIL TIGERS AS CHILD SOLDIERS!.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

EVEN\nTHOUGH THE SCOURGE OF TAMIL TIGERS WAS ERASED BY THE SRI LANKAN GOVERNMENT MANY\nOF THE DIE HARD SUPPORTERS OF THE EEALM<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LIVING\nIN THE WEST AND ALSO IN AUSTRALIA ARE CONTINUING THEIR ‘AGITATION’ THAT IT WAS\nA WAR AGAINST THE TAMILS MAINLY TO COLLECT FUNDS <\/p>\n\n\n\n

FROM\nTHE FELLOW SYMPATHIZERS TO KEEP THE ANTI SRI LANKA CAMPAIGN FULLED. SRI LANKA\nHAS GIVEN AN EFFECTIVE REASONS FOR THE WAR AND<\/p>\n\n\n\n

IS\nAWAITING FACTUAL INFORMATION REGRADING THE NUMBERS KILLED AND EVIDENCE ETC NOT\nGUESSTIMATES AND MERE PROPAGANDA STUNTS TO <\/p>\n\n\n\n

JUSTIFY\nANTI SRI LANKA CAMPAIGN. SRI LANKA HAD PROVED THAT THE NUMBER KILLED INCLUDING\nTHE SRI LANKAN SOLDIERS WERE AROUND 7000 USING<\/p>\n\n\n\n

POPULATION\nDATA AND THE INFORMATION IS CORROBORATED BY THE US MILITARY ATTACHE AND LORD\nNASEBY- A MEMBER OF UK HOUSE OF LORDS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WE\nREQUEST YOU TO GO THROUGH THE STORY FROM THE SRI LANKAN ANGLE AND AS MUCH AS\nTHE WEST INCLUDING AUSTRALIA CELEBRATE EVEN<\/p>\n\n\n\n

THE\nBRUTAL METHODS USED BY THE ALLIED FORCES TO STOP THE NAZI AND FASCIST FORCES TO\nUSHER IN THE PEACE  IN 40s, ANY COMMENTATOR <\/p>\n\n\n\n

WOULD\nAGREE IF HE GOES BY ACCURATE INFORMATION ,  THAT SRI LANKA DID THE RIGHT\nTHING BY THE SRI LANKANS IN DEFEATING THE <\/p>\n\n\n\n

TERRORISTS\nWHILE LIBERATING 21 MILLION OF HER POPULATION FROM THE GRIP OF BLOOD THIRSTY\nTAMIL TIGERS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WE\nREQUEST YOU TO EITHER TO WITHDRAW YOUR MISLEADING STATEMENT OR TO ISSUE AN\nAMENDED FACTUAL VERSION ESPECIALLY TO PROTECT THE<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HONOR\nOF THE AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY <\/p>\n\n\n\n

WE\nWILL SUBMIT YOU WITH INFORMATION PERIODICALLY ABOUT SIR LANKA’S PROGRESS FOR\nYOUR INFORMATION,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BEST\nWISHES<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RANJITH\nSOYSA<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DANDENONG\n. VIC <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RANJITH SOYSA ATTN-   Mr  HUGH McDermott ALP member for Prospect YOUR MISLEADING STATEMENT ON THE 11TH ANNIVERSARY OF SRI LANKA GOVERNMENT’S VICTORY OVER THE TAMIL TIGER TERRORIST ORGANIZATION IS A DIRECT INSULT TO THE VAST MAJORITY OF PEACEFUL AUSTRALIANS OF SRI LANKAN ORIGIN WHO STILL MAINTAIN THEIR LINKS WITH SRI LANKA. WE WOULD LIKE TO […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ranjith-soysa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}