{"id":102932,"date":"2020-05-29T15:06:19","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T22:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=102932"},"modified":"2020-05-29T15:06:19","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T22:06:19","slug":"post-war-sri-lanka-a-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/05\/29\/post-war-sri-lanka-a-response\/","title":{"rendered":"Post War Sri Lanka: A response"},"content":{"rendered":"

Asoka Weerasinghe (Mr.) Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 Canada<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

28 May 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Editor
DIPLOMAT Magazine
Ottawa, Ontario<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dear  Ms. Campbell:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Re: Visvajit Sriramrajan\u2019s article\n– Post-War Sri Lanka: Fractured and Unjust forTamils.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am surprised and disturbed that this\narticle so rich with distortions and untruths found space in your valuable\nMagazine to be distributed among those in the  Diplomatic Campus, and the\npolitical conscience intelligentsia in Canada.  I was introduced to the\nmagazine in the early 1990s by its founder\/Editor\/Publisher Bhupinder Liddar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I note that the article is\ndispersed with the word \u2018Advertisement\u2019.  I am not sure whether the author\npaid a fee to have the article pick up ink in the Diplomat Magazine.  If\nso that’s unfortunate and it shows the power how money can buy to sell a\ndisingenuous, unfair opinion to destroy a working Democracy, like Sri Lanka,\nand not giving Peace in that island nation a Chance, after a 30-year ruthless\nTamil Tiger Terrorist War that haemorrhaged that island and killed over 100,000\nof its peoples. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

 You have splashed Visvajit\u2019s \nTAMIL FACT about Post-War Sri Lanka,  <\/strong>in your Diplomat, <\/strong>and now\nI request you to juxtapose Asoka\u2019s TAMIL TRUTH<\/strong>, for your valuable\nreaders to be Judge and Jury <\/strong>who are interested in Sri Lankan Affairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visvajit\u2019s TAMIL post-war FACT says<\/strong> – This\nmonth marks 11-years since the Mullivaikkal massacre which shook the Northern\nProvince of Sri Lanka back in 2009, with the brutal killing of nearly 50,000\nTamils over just a few days.  In other words, painting the majority\nSinhalese as  the brutal killers\u201d.  That is unfortunate.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201dAsoka\u2019s TAMIL TRUTH says<\/strong> –\nIt looks like it didn\u2019t shake Visvajit,  by the massacres of innocent\nunarmed Sinhalese people by the Tamil Tiger Serial Killers which was almost an\neveryday affair during the 30-bloodying War years.  They killed\n100s,  not with  primitive catapults, rocks and stones or with bamboo\nsticks as used by the Indian policemen, but with sophisticated killing war\nweapons like Kalashnikovs, detonating Claymore mines to shoot metal pellets\ninto a crowd in a pizza slice formation massacring 100s of innocent Sinhalese\ncivilians on the spot. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Like on 11 June  1990\n,  shooting through the heads of 700 Sinhalese policemen who had\nsurrendered to be sent South unharmed as promised to President Premadasa, after\nlining them kneeling in the Vinayagapuram and Trincomalee jungles with their\nhands tied at their backs.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like on 2nd June, 1987 morning, the\nTamil Tigers stopped a Buddhist pilgrim bus at Aranthalawa, Ampara,  after\nchopping  Venerable Indrasara, with a machete like in a butcher shop, and\nshooting point blank at his 32 innocent novice monks.  Shocking! \nVisvajit seems to have forgotten these Tamil Tiger massacres and hundreds of\nothers.  And not shocked by their brutality.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well\u2026 well…well\u2026 Ms. Editor, do\nyou really  want to propagate such selective alleged Tamil masacres,\npainting the Tamil Tiger serial killers \u2018lily white\u2019.  and charging the\nSri Lankan Government for the alleged Brutal killings of nearly 50,000 Tamils\nover just a few days.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are the incredulous numbers\nthat the Tamil Tiger supporters are throwing at us, hoping and wishing the\nreaders of Diplomat are a bunch of gullible fools and village twits.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For clarity of this perverse Fairy\nTale, perhaps Viswajit would like to answer the following questions of mine.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visvajit, it looks like that you\nare one more of Geneva\u2019s UN\u2019s Church basement Bingo Players pulling numbers\nfrom the air to make us believe that it was 50,000 Tamils who were massacred\n\u2018over just a few days.\u201d    Some bleeding-hearted  politicians of\nthe West,  including Canada, said it were 60,000, 70, 000,80,000, 90,000\nand also 100,000. That is a lot of people to be killed, and a horrendous job to\nhide the bodies in a sliver of land along the Nandikadal lagoon. Are you sure\nthere was one or two of your people who kept count of the deaths to come up\nwith the number 50,000? To make your life easy, let\u2019s start to count the\nskulls, and find 50,000 of them.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you can’t account for 50,000\nskulls let me tell it to your face, Visvajit, you are one down-right\nmischievous, low, Tamil Tiger terrorist  supporting Humbug!  Nothing\nmore…nothing less!\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Burying of the 50,000 bodies had to\nbe done quickly and would have been a Himalayan task.  No Tamil refugee\nwho was running for his\/her life dodging Tamil Tiger\u2019s live bullets told the\nworld, Yes, we were made to claw the earth by the soldiers  to dig large\nholes and trenches to bury the dead.  Nor did the Red Cross, Amnesty\nInternational or Human Rights Watch tell us that there were five Backhoes\ndigging  holes and trenches feverishly, to bury the 50,000 dead.  I\nwonder whether Visvajit was trying to fool us with his Fairy Tale of\nHumbuggery?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nor were we told by any one that\nduring the last few days of the Eelam War IV, that the air was black and had a\nputrid-sickening smell because the Sri Lankan soldiers wanted to get rid of the\nTamil bodies quickly and were burning in pyres of tyres along the Nandikadal\nlagoon\u2019s beach.  Come on, give me a break, Visvajit. Your Fairy Tale seems\nto have a stupid and an unbelievable foolish plot.  Did AI, Red Cross or\nHuman Rights Watch tell us that they heard  a constant whirring\nnoise  at night of fast moving fiberglass boats speeding to the center of\nthe Indian Ocean, which \u2018He thought were carrying dead Tamil boidies to be\ndumped in the middle of the Indian Ocean, all 500,000 Of them.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

 But then,  for\nVisvajit\u2019s information, no Indian Coast Guard vessel   of Tamil Nadu or\nfishermen  had picked up floating bloated  human carcasses and\nbrought  them ashore along the East Coast of Tamil Nadu. So how credulous\nis Visvajit\u2019s charge of Genocide against the Sri Lanka Government?   If he\nreally wanted me\/us to believe him, I feel  a bit charitable this\nafternoon, and  will give him a rare chance to prove the reasons of His\ncharge of Genocide.  This is Visvajit\u2019s  lucky day.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

 I will give Visvajit a simple\nlitmus test,  and if he is successful, I will honestly tell him, Yes,\nVisvajit, I believe you that there was indeed Genocide of the Tamils with the\nexistance of 50,000 skulls.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And if he can\u2019t he will hear my\nvoice clearly,  and  I will place on his head a crown decorated with\npolished charnokite and kabook Sri Lankan rocks, most suitable for the Best\nTamil Genocide Humbug in Asia\u201d.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is Asoka\u2019s TAMIL TRUTH \nsimple litmus test.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How would Visvajit reconcile with\nthis Asoka\u2019s TAMIL TRUTH with  that of his charge of Tamil GENOCIDE. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This  Asoka\u2019s TAMIL TRUTH, I\nknow and Visvajit knows, and so does the whole world know that on 19 May,\n2009,  the Tamil Tigers were annihilated militarily, on the beach sands of\nthe Nandikadal Lagoon shores along the East coast of Sri\nLanka.   <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The whole world knew, except the\nTamil Tiger sympathisers like him, who didn\u2019t  want to know,  that Sri\nLankan armed forces rescued 295,873 Tamil refugees by 19 May 2009, from the\nclutches of  the Tamil Tiger terrorist leader Velupillai  Prabhakaran\nand his  ruthless killing machine, the Tamil Tigers.  <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Asoka\u2019s  TAMIL TRUTH tells us\nthat these 295,873 Tamil refugees were marched as a Human Shield from the west\ncoast  to the east coast under a scorching Jaffna-Killinochchi Sun, like\nunwashed cattle, for 30 long months. Most starving wanting a piece of bread and\nfor a drop of water to quench their thirst.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When they were rescued, my weeping\nheart said, people like Visvajit expected the 295,873 to be bumped off the way\nthe Tamil Tigers bumped off the 700 policemen with their hands tied at their\nbacks and blasting their skulls with bullets bought out of funds collected by\nthe Canadian Tamil Diaspora and stuffed into Tamil Tiger War chests in\nCanada.  That didn\u2019t\nhappen.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visvajit, don\u2019t you see that your\nFairy Tale is breaking down storyboard by storyboard, as a Tamil Separatist\nTale of Humbuggery.  <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what the UN Bingo players, Ban\nKi-MOON,  Marzuki DARUSMAN, Steven RATNER, Yasmin SOOKA, Navi PILLAY and\nPrince Zeid bin RA\u2019AD, in a Geneva Church Basement  were trying every\npermutation to come up with the number of deaths of Tamil Tigers during the\nlast five months of the War, to hurt Sri Lanka.  So came out with a\nvariation of numbers from 40,000 to 100,000 to find the correct number of\nTamils allegedly massacred by he Sinhalese soldiers defending Sri Lanka\u2019;s\nsovereign real estate.  The right number was always there, The UN said it\nwas<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

7-3-9-8 and BINGO! And that\u2019s the\nlucky number fought without a<\/em><\/strong> War Manual for Dummies\nby the UN – How to Win a War against Terrorists without Killing a Single\nterrorist.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If  Visvajit was not\naware  of this he will now  know after reading\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Asoka\u2019s Tamil TRUTH:<\/strong>  that\nafter rescuing 295,873 Tamil refugees from the clutches of the Tamil Tigers by\nthe compassionate Sinhalese men and women in khaki, whites  and blues, who\ndid not have a heart to bump them off, and went ahead  and helped the\nGovernment to house them in temporary camps, and prepared a million (100,000)\nhearty breakfasts, lunches and dinners every day to sustain these Tamil\nrefugees.  And that is the Holy Truth.  That was one great Classy\nTextbook Classic of a Compassionate Act, by the Sri Lankan Armed Forces, which\nwas never performed before by any National Army around the world.  I say\nto you Visvajit, make a note of it and don\u2019t you ever forget it.  The\nSinhalese soldiers men and women in khaki, whites and blues saved your Tamil\npeople with a lot of caring and<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Affection.. And this is another\nAsoka\u2019s TAMIL TRUTH\u2019s<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well…I\u2019d like to know how \nVisvajit Sriramrajan  would reconcile  with Sri Lankan Armed Forces\ncompassionate Act, with his  vulgar charge of Tamil Genocide<\/strong> as the\ngrand finale of this 30-year long brutal unnecessary war by the Tamil\nseparatists.  What was despicable was that the Tamil terrorists were aided\nand abetted by foreign countries like India, Canada, Norway, UK, France, Demark\nand a few other foreign countries in the West.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And to conclude my expose of\nVisvajit Sriramrajan\u2019s Liars Fairy Tale of Tamil Genocide in Sri Lanka,<\/em><\/strong>\nI feel that this is Visvajit\u2019s Lucky day, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is his last chance for\nVisvajit to defend his thesis of the Charge of Genocide of 50,000  of\nTamilian people in Sri Lanka\u2019 by the island\u2019s armed force.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

War statistics always claim that at\nthe conclusion of every war between two countries, the number of casualties is\ndouble the number of soldiers and civilians killed. If that is indeed the norm,\nthen, I\u2019d like to know from Visvajit,  what happened to the wounded\ncasualties, some maimed for life, of  that 100,000 people?  Were they\nleft behind by the foreign bleeding heart bullies, without crutches, to hobble\ntheir way to find their homes and their loved ones; not enough bandaids to\ncover their  gashing, bleeding wounds exposed to the scorching Nandikadal\nsun; with nothing to eat or drink.  With no walkers to get them to safety\nand no stretchers to carry the badly wounded. What happened Visvajit? \n  They were a bunch of cruel bleeding hearts from the West,, won\u2019t they!\nWhat happened to your Western bleeding-hearts. No one ever talks of the 100,000\ncasualties, not even , Geneva\u2019s Church basement UN\u2019s BINGO players like, Ban ki-Moon<\/strong>, \nMazurki Darusman,<\/strong> Steven Ratner, <\/strong>Yasmin Sooka,<\/strong> Navi Pillai<\/strong>,\nPrince Zeid bin Ra\u2019ad<\/strong>, British Labour MP for Mitcham and Morden,\nSiobhain McDonagh<\/strong>, who pulled out the number dead at 100,000 and I asked\nher in  a letter,Tell me Siobhain what the  heck did you put\nin your <\/em><\/strong> morning  coffee to hallucinate so badly.\u201d <\/em><\/strong> So\nplotting they did, juggling the numbers of Tamils killed during the last five\nmonths of the Tamil Terrorist War.  To see whether they could nail Sri\nLanka onto a crucifix sighting these  lies.  That’s the rub, and that\nis how the cookie crumbled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My last bit of advice to Visvajit\nSriramrajan is, just cut out your stupid charge of Genocide of the Tamils\nin Sri Lanka<\/em><\/strong> as it never happened.  Don\u2019t be so stubborn, idiotic\nand bullish.  You won\u2019t go anywhere with this string of baloney which is\nstill bleeding from lies by Tamil Tiger backers like You. Don\u2019t cut out\nyourself as a pathetic cardboard-Humbug. Take my brotherly advice,  Pack\nup your Goody-two-shoes<\/em><\/strong>-foolishness and go home and have a\npeaceful sleep.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was the Tamil separatists and\npoliticians who were spoiling for a fight with the Sri Lankan Government and\nnot showing any gratitude having lived for 131 years as the privileged\nminority\u201d<\/em><\/strong> during the divided and rule policy of the British when Ceylon\n(Sri Lanka) was her colony, while the Sinhalese lived as the wronged\nmajority\u201d.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If the Tamils wanted to live by the\ngun, then  they should be prepared to die by the gun and stop \nsulking and complaining through important political magazines like the\nDiplomat.<\/strong>  It is that simple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For winning this unwinnable\nwar\u201d,<\/strong> and giving back to 20 \u00bd million Sri Lankan people their Right-to-Their-life\n<\/strong>which was hijacked for 30 years by the Tamil Tiger terrorists,  I bow\nto every Sinhalese, Tamil, Muslim, Burgher and othe minority men and women\ndressed in khaki, whites and in blues saying Thank You<\/em><\/strong> for being\nan amazing family of yours and my Mother-Lanka <\/strong>for whom you stood\ntall and guarded  her when she really needed you.\u201d   Thank\nyou…Thank you..Thank you!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sincerely,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Asoka Weerasinghe (Mr.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2066 Kings Grove Crescent .\nGloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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