{"id":102860,"date":"2020-05-27T05:09:07","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T12:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=102860"},"modified":"2020-05-27T05:09:31","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T12:09:31","slug":"post-war-sri-lanka-fractured-and-unjust-for-tamils-by-visvajit-sriramrajan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/05\/27\/post-war-sri-lanka-fractured-and-unjust-for-tamils-by-visvajit-sriramrajan\/","title":{"rendered":"Post War Sri Lanka: Fractured and Unjust For Tamils by Visvajit Sriramrajan"},"content":{"rendered":"

I<\/em>. <\/span>de Silva Canada<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

The Editor
Diplomat Matazine
Ottawa, Ontario<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dear Ms. Campbell:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Re: Post War Sri Lanka: Fractured and Unjust For Tamils by Visvajit Sriramrajan<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am writing to correct the many falsehoods in this article. The first sentence indicates clear bias and false information that continues throughout the article. To support this statement I am providing you with examples of falsehoods in the article.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The opening statement states ” This month marks 11 years since the Mullivaikkal massacre which shook the Northern Province of Sri Lanka back in 2009 with the brutal killing of nearly 50,000 Tamils over just a few days”. There was no massacre.\u00a0 Even the Tamil terrorists overseas propaganda machine called Tamilnet,\u00a0 clearly acknowledged that in the last stages of the war the number of dead was 7398.\u00a0\u00a0 Since then, this number has been increased to 40,000, 50,000, and even 100,000 by the LTTE propaganda overseas.\u00a0 However, nowhere in the Northern Province has there been evidence of mass graves. Nowhere has there been any evidence of indiscriminate killing by the Sri Lankan forces. The fact remains that it was 7398, acknowledged in 2009 by the Tamil terrorist supporters overseas and confirmed by the U.N. representative in Sri Lanka.\u00a0 How can it be called Tamil genocide when it was the Tamil terrorists who terrorized, murdered, and massacred Sri Lankans of every ethnicity? The terrorists were the Tamils known as the Liberation Tamils of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).\u00a0 In May 2009, the Sri Lankan security forces finally destroyed the leadership of the Tamil Terrorists\u00a0 (LTTE) who had terrorised Sri Lanka for nearly 30 years. The LTTE cadres who surrendered to the government forces were rehabilitated and released. Over 300,000 civilians who had been held by the Tamil terrorists as a human shield were looked after in camps set up for them by the Government of Sri Lanka and released into civilian life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Gotabaya Rajapaksa was the Defence Secretary in the Government of Sri Lanka in 2009 and is acknowledged as the leader who finally defeated the Tamil terrorists in Sri Lanka to the consternation of the western countries who throughout the war maintained that the Tamil terrorists could not be defeated militarily and therefore the Sri Lankan Government should give in to their demands to divide the country. The Tamil terrorists were funded by their Tamil supporters overseas and western political leaders who did so just to get Tamil votes in their respective countries. They had no concern for the plight of Sri Lankans who were being terrorised. There was no “Tamil Genocide”, only the defeat of the leadership of the Tamil terrorists. To state that “Rajapakse orchestrated the Tamil genocide” is a blatant lie and merely indicates the bias and support that the writer has for his Tamil terrorists. The fact that Mr. Gotabaya Rajapakse was elected in 2019 with a commanding majority clearly indicates that Sri Lankans acknowledge and commend him for the great service he provided to all Sri Lankans who can now live without fear of being terrorised by the Tamil terrorist LTTE. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Rajapakse is what the citizens of Sri Lanka wanted and voted\nfor as their President. They voted for his agenda. That it does not suit\nnon-Sri Lankans such as the writer is of no consequence to Sri Lankans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yours truly,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I. de Silva<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Canada<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I. de Silva Canada The EditorDiplomat MatazineOttawa, Ontario Dear Ms. Campbell: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Re: Post War Sri Lanka: Fractured and Unjust For Tamils by Visvajit Sriramrajan I am writing to correct the many falsehoods in this article. The first sentence indicates clear bias and false information that continues throughout the article. To support this statement I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ira-de-silva"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102860","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=102860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}