Gotabhaya Rajapaksa’s Lessons Learnt (Analysis)
Gotabhaya illuminated by flash bulb beneath portrait of Lakshan Kadirgamar
The eminent panel is obsequious to the gray haired gentleman that takes the stand. He sits with his back to the crowd, thick with reporters from the BBC, Reuters, and India. The man is Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, the first star witness and the first with any real power. It is palpable.
Mr. Rajapaksa has very little personal security but a big pile of files that he brandishes at various points. The Chairman of the commission requests each one greedily like they are hot hot hoppers. This is not an inquisition, it is an exposition. The Chairman uses his first question to ask if there will be a video.
It has already become clear that the Commission is intent on indicting the Ceasefire Agreement, the LTTE, the UNP and the Norwegians as failures. The man before them is presumed to be a success, and promoted as one. In many ways, he is. There have been many myriad civil servants testifying before as to what made the war persist for so long, but Mr. Rajapaksa has as much claim as any to ending it. He begins.
“Most people have forgotten that the government has defeated the most ruthless terrorist organization ever. That’s the history.”
Gothabaya taking the stand
The Defence Secretary then begins a long exposition of the LTTE’s formidable military capability, brandishing files at various points, sometimes stopping to unwrap more lengthy tomes wrapped in red ribbon. He’s wearing a brownish suit and his hair is white. He looks to have put on a bit of weight since the shirtsleeve days of war.
He then goes on to what he calls the Humanitarian Operation, the name itself being important as it in itself shapes perception.
“The President told that this is not a military campaign,” he said. “This is a military operation conducted to liberate the people in those areas. He said just call it Humanitarian Operation. Some might think it’s a minor thing, but it’s an important fact.”
Despite rejecting most appeals from the West, his brother’s government has absorbed much of their language. Gotabhaya takes his brothers statement that the troops marched with a gun in one hand and the Human Rights Charter in the other and fleshes it out, going into detail about military training in Human Rights that began in 2003 and explaining a separate Army Directorate tasked with training, investigation and enforcement of standards.
The panel looking out at Gotabhaya Rajapaksa
The panel is deferential to the Defence Secretary. They are appointed by his brother and all effectively toe the party line. Chairman C.R. de Silva interrupts Mr. Rajapaksa. “The ICRC had said this was a model to all of the world.”
“Yes,” the Defence Secretary says, “The ICRC helped up.” He finds another report which is introduced into evidence, about human rights cases the Army has prosecuted internally.
In his testimony, Mr. Rajapaksa portrays the end of war in almost purely human rights terms. He mentions that if they’d stopped the war they couldn’t have killed Prabhakaran with some mirth, but there is not much emphasis on the military objectives, in hindsight.
“You can say this is the Sri Lankan model,” he said. “People talk about the Sri Lankan model you can adopt in other places there is terrorism from the military side. It’s more important to use this Sri Lankan model in humanitarian assistance. The measures the government took and the plan. To minimize civilian casualties and to look after the civilians affected.”
As he finishes, Chairman de Silva interjects with a largely pointless and leading question. “Last weekend, some of the LTTE cadres testifying before us, they said they were guided by the Army to avoid the landmines. Had you given orders to the Army to guide the people?”
It seems unlikely that the Army would not be following orders, but Mr. Rajapaksa takes this softball in stride. “Yes, we have orders for safe passage. By providing this we had to suffer. In Kilinochchi, in the very front lines, easily we knew a suicide cadre could come out, and he did, came out and exploded himself, killing civilians as well as himself and service personnel.”
In between the lines, you can get a sense of the magnitude of life lost at the end of the war.
“Over this period, from when we started the humanitarian operation, the three services suffered nearly 6,000 killed in action. Nearly 30,000 were injured. But you can see if the services suffered, you can imagine the intensity of fighting which was going on. Because of the weapons and obstacles they had used. This is another fact that some of the people have forgotten. I want to bring out this fact because some people talk about these civilian casualties. It is a very difficult thing to identify civilian casualties. If the military suffered, you can imagine the number of LTTE casualties. Nobody talks of LTTE casualties, they all put these figures into the civilian casualty figures. Obviously if the Army suffered that much, it was at least the same amount of casualties from the LTTE. I’m sure it is much more because the fire power of the government forces. Nobody knows how much and nobody talks about it.”
Gothabaya Rajapaksa at the public sitting
Mr. Rajapaksa sticks to the talking point of no civilian casualties, but there was obviously a lot of death, especially since he spoke of LTTE cadres wearing civilian clothes. His narrative, however, is not of tough choices but of complete control. He speaks of moving a no-fire zone three times, of dropping leaflets and then rescuing the civilians that escaped through set corridors. He also spoke of Air Force pilots taking out pinpoint targets as was obvious from the non-destruction of foliage if you would visit today.
“There was a plan, starting from the naming, to avoid civilian casualties, continuation of food and essential services, no-fire zones, at the policy level, zero civilian casualities, restriction of use of heavy weapons, training of the soldiers, all of this was done to prevent civilian casualties. They were using civilians as a human shield to protect them but as from the government part, this was taken seriously, we have taken action to prevent and to address the other issues that come up.”
From naming the operation and entrusting his brother (and the now court-martialed former General Fonseka) Mahinda Rajapaksa set the narrative of the war. Now in his own appointed panel he is trying to seal the narrative, and his brother was eager to testify. The panel was eager to receive him and asked fawning questions, though they did take time to ask for basic services for the people they’d met in the north. They say that the winners of the war write the history and this, as Mr. Rajapaksa said, was the history this Commission seems set to write.
“The government has defeated the most ruthless terrorist organization ever. That’s the history.”
by Indi Samarajiva
Hello Indi Samarajiva, Which INGO pays you to write this kind of articles? How much you are getting from them? Because most westerners say they have no confidence about the credibility of this LLRC even before its commencement.
What model?
killing innocent civilian which is same as Hitler model in Europe.
Who need this model???
Thanks for destroying LTTE ruthless killers who killed my nephews just because they were agricultural officers who went to help farmers.They were tied up to their truck and burned alive.My neibhour’s daughter and wife died of Dehiwala train bomb while my brother in law injured badly.I appreciate what our heroic forces did and I always say that LTTE or their sympathisers should never given human rights as their victims had no chance.Thanks Mr.Gotabhaya for saving the country from ruthless killers who made a blood bath in Sri Lanka and sending a lot of innocent to kill innocents.
Killing the innocent civilians is the Fonseka’s model. Winning the war is the Rajapaksha model.
you got that wrong killing civilians is Rajaparaya Model.SF more of a Humanitarian model….he did not order to kill Ltte who are surrendering…..Gotaballa is a murderer
Ganage, no it is otherway round save civilings from the suicide bombers permently stop, which is SF model,
but MR& brothers are collecting credit from some one who did real job and big show to srilankans that they are all innocent, truth is bloaddy crooukes. which is MR model,
We are standing as a fool in the international arena. Gotha is criminally responsible for the war crime which killed more than 30,000 civilians. What is the point of testifying Gotha in this dummy commission which is a eye wash to hoodwink the world and cover up war crime committed by Gothabaya Rajapaksa and his goons. This is the man who said he will execute SF if he testifies in any international body regarding war crimes.
Is he tring to say that infants and small babies got killed also LTTE cadres? Gotha gone insane
what about the Killings done by the LTTE of Anfants and small babies of sinhalese and muslims…who are they????did they come with a gun infront of your LTTE caders???? So what you guys got is what you guys deserve…
as hindu’s you have so many gods….so…did anyone of them were able to help you all….No…cos even they did not accept what your LTTS caders were doing…..They thought enough is enough and…..send your sun God like a dog to hell…….
You call this “KARMA”
DOnt change the topic by talking about LTTE , they are terrorist arent theY ?
Sri lankan gvt abused , killied , humiliated its own citizens…. i repeat teh questions about zero civilian causality : are the unborn babies and infants were LTTE cadres?
By the way this commision is a good practice for Gotabaya ..soon he will face the real UN chuman rights commission ! He shoudl keep those files for later…
What about the children women and old people intentially killed by LTTE?
Ask the surviving civilians of Weli Oya and other villages in the East – and they’ll tell you how many babies were chopped with swords or thrown into burning fires by the barbarian Tamil Tiger Terrorists.
have you forgotten the amount of civilians the ltte killed in the 30 years, arantalawa, dollar farm, kent farm , sri maha bodi, temple of the tooth, all the bombs in Colombo, central bank ect. please don’t try to put the tigers as if they were angels. they deserved what they got. and in a war there is collateral damage ask the Americans about it.they showed us the way in Vietnam with napalm and then in Iraq and Afghanistan. now all these western hypocrites are crying blue murder.as for all the Tamil civilians i feel sorry for them but most of them supported the ltte..
LLRC panel was appointed by Eluva’s brother!! What more can you expect???
I strongly agree with Kevum. Sri Lankan government bombed hospitals and orphanages. Now they try to justify killing of civilians as LTTE members dressed in civilian cloth. This Gotha guy deserved stoned to death for his barbarism and human blood thirsty.
LTTE was not a Army – they were a bunch of cowardly tamil civilians who were either dressed in military fatigues or in civilian clothes and attacked innocent civilians and murdered them.
Look at the response from the LTTE sympathizers all over the world. As a Sinhalese you are also standing with LTTE Diaspora in Vancouver and Toronto. You see more LTTE comments will follow to disrepute our war heroes. They not only target MR, Gota, but also your favorite SF too. They are collecting evidences to justify their accusations. The reality is that LTTE was the number one war criminal in the modern world. They killed innocents tried to escape their grip regardless of their age and gender. Although LTTE was defeated, the LTTE International Cooperation Ltd. does not want to admit that LTTE is dead. The reason being they don’t have a brand name to sell Tamils outside Sri Lanka. The life line of LTTE leaders abroad depend on the money from them. Their fulltime job is raising fund and use some portion for their living.
SF or RW or JVP know how to face any international forum unlike these crooks. MR’s lesson learnt is a total bogus and crap, good for hoodwinks. They will learn a lesson sooner or later.
You are kidding right?? JVP and Ranil?????
Did this dummy committee discuss any of the incriminating evidence for war crime & genocide such as
1) Satellite images for using heavy weaponry to bomb “safe zones” (death trap created by Gothabaya) and hospitals
2) Video images on executing suspected LTTE members and other able men
3) Photographs on stabling LTTE members by group of military personnel
4) Failure to investigate any of the alleged crime committed by Sri Lankan force against Tamil civilians over 3 decades
5) Stripped dead LTTE members and parade their naked body by Sri Lankan forces (after Katunayaka Attack)
6) Cut down food and medicines to war zone over many years and using them as a weapon to punish civilians (When international community pressurised Sri Lankan government to send sufficient food they demanded that there are only 65,000 civilians under LTTE control. But when Sri Lankan government in need of aid to support those civilians that figure has gone up to 300,000)
7) Vow to hang General SF in an event that he goes in front of any international commission to testify himself regarding war crime committed by Gotha.
Commission set up to make Gotabhaya Rajapakses submissions-
LLRC…? Verdict has prepared by the accused before inquary, is it call justice? Which judge has got guts to go against to the crime regime? Don’t waste puplic money. If you can call International mediaters for genuine judgemnet. If Lord Buddah alive, he will commit himself suicide.
None of the earlier presidential commissions ever did anything constructive.
This one is yet another “show” commission set up to hoodwink ( if they can )
the outside world. Sri lankans already know about these “funny” commissions
& bogus inquiries.Many inquiries are still “going ” on ..officially, but already thrown into the dumpsters, actually.This one is another drama played for the world politics,
with Gotabaya as the main actor.Defending Sri lanka’s war against Ltte & an elaborate action defending him from future prosecution in any international courts of law etc.,Nice try !
GOTA – Great Hero of Sri Lanka…
( together with the heroic men / women of the Armed Forces of Sri lanka )
President MR – in power next 7 years…
Then President Gota R… 7 + 7 = 14 years…
RW – Leader of Opposition… 7 + 7 + 7 = 21 years…
The guy who fled the country when wanted most, leaving others to fight the war becomes a hero. What a joke?.
Data entry operator in the US becomes a military genius in Sri Lanka.. what a the land of opportunity for some?
Any palayan Kiribatho yanna. Umba danne minusunta apahasa karanna vitharai. Umba mokada US wala karanne? Vasikili Hodana Eka Neda?
I have given two valid points and if you have any other information about your data entry hero please let us know.
If you are unable to write English please find a Sinhalese site, there are plenty of them from controlled by GOSL.
-Atte kiyane eka apaharayak newei.
YOUR “Military genius”…
the “Sun Goat”…Praba…was found floating in a lagoon…
What is that “sun goat”???? u fools…
And then Who – Anarkali Akarsha? No wonder you sick duffers shall make her president too.
dream on!!!!!
What a high level drama in this country. Since Buddhism came to this country it has never let Lankans to live peacefully. I am not afraid of Dengue but really worried about Buddhism and the Monks.
Ignorant Kandy Guru,
Buddhism is the only doctarine which spread not only in Sri Lanka but through out the world and beyond without shreading a single drop of blood. Dhamma is the ‘rReal truth and nothing but the truth’ and the more and more people in the west are embracing it. So, please educate yourself and clean your insight before you comment on anything.
Metta.
Anonymous,
Are you a true follwer of Lord Buddha? Its true there was no bloodshed during his time, but now…? Sri Lanka is floating on the innocent pupil’s blood. Come Gaya and see how we practice his Dhamma. How do you call when group of monks go for a rampage? Is it acceptable? Better you enlight before write a comment please.
What about Christianity in Sri Lanka? Look at that the crazy Christian missionaries are doing trying to convert everyone and creating religious conflict in the country…
Sri Lanka’s Chemical Ali (He was Sadam’s minister who used chemical against kurdish) should be prosecuted in order to bring real democracy. Sri Lanka’s Chemical Alie ordered to kill honouralbe Lasantha Wickiramasinghe, and ordered to shell on hospitaals during the war. I hope that readers can identify who is Sri Lanka’s Chemical Alie. Since no one is arrested and prosecuted for Lasanta
s killing, Chemical Alie is strongly suspected in the murder. Singhalese and Tamils should unite to punish war criminals.
nazim, how your family feel now ? safer than 2003s or not ?
LTTE sympathisers should take all there allegations to Ban-Ki Moon’s commission without wasting every ones time with baseless allegations.
war crime criminals of sri lanka eelam war 4 – sonia gandhi, RAW chief, manmohan singh, shivshankar menon, pranab mukherjee, chithambaram, karunanidi, mahinda, gotabhaya, prabhakaran, vijay nambiar,
ok ..one from your list was “punished”..what about the rest ?
Definitely the rest will be also punished… Already one from the rest is directly targeted by world powers (talking about the one who gives interviews to bbc and al jazeera like nuts)
Basically SL do not have the ability to analiyse or,evaluate a situation . So they jump the gun accusing , without really finding out the facts ,and figures to support thier weird allegations . Get real This was an unprecedented war in which vast sums of money were involved through selling arms , human smuggling , narcotics on an international scale . This was brought to an end by the skill and laedership of the Rajapkase brothers . SL now breathe freely , and travel freely all over SL . It is an amazing feeling to know that onecould travel anywhere in SL wihtout the fear of being blown to pieces . May all those responsible for this victory be blessed with good health and long life .
Well said sister!!
Well said sister!! +1
weldone Mr.Gotabhaya we need people like you.LTTE cheated politicians many times by making fake peace processes but Rajapakshas could not be cheated.What LTTE agents and sympathisers forgot is that their innocent victims had no human rights or stood no chance of escaping.They killed many innocent civilians by planting hundreds of bombs and by sending more than 300 suicide bombers.At the same time they killed innocent villagers by grabbing children by their feet and smashing their heads on stones.At Anuradhapura Temple they gunned down 156 people and in Kaththankudy Mosque they killed more than 100 Muslims.They also chased away more than 100,000 Muslims as well as Singhalese from their homes from North without any notice.LTTE was carrying an Ethnic cleansing programme with the blessings of NGO’s.LTTE forced people to pay money and never started any development programme in North ore East!Not a single one.They just forced children to be killers rather than letting them to go to schools.So we bow our heads to our heroic forces and to Gotabhaya for eradicating terrorists.
Very true
your big story should be upside down…
Such is war; Ask the Christian Evangelist George Bush whose foolish rush to war in Iraq after talking to his God killed tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians. What aney ? No enquiry on that no? Sin men..
oh you S.Leader Christian Agenda, please read Bob Woodward’s book on Bush.. He was a Christian whacko Evangelist who killed tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis by violating international law. Aney what men no outrage against EVANGELICAL CHRISTIAN NUTJOBS NO?
all this buffoon is good for is making a 7eleven slurrpy!
7-11 slurpy or not, Lalo he kicked Tiger Tamil butt and wiped out those fascist monsters once and for all; ipso facto. ARE YOU SAFER now than before? Do you go to work not fearing bombs anymore? YES you are except you can deliver pizzas in US and talk crap. Bottom line is that GR helped kick Tiger tamil terrorist butt and wiped off these miserable critturs for good. Go suck on your 7-11 Slurpy.
No one has learnt any lesson here, but Gota is trying to ‘teach’ or whitewash something . Many people still believe it was a “holy” war against the “unholy” tigers. No one wants to accept that it was ultimately turned into a war aginst Tamils. He is trying to prove that all killed in the war were army personnel ,tigers & “civilian clad” tigers , but NOT a single civilian, as always maintained by SL Govt.
So the humanitarian efforts taken by the Govt, to save the ‘innocent’ tamils by declaring safe passages,no-fire zones, fire zones, bull dozer zones,chemical bomb zones etc., are all photographed by satellites and are in safe custody of Ban-ki-moon & co., Ban is in no hurry to punish anyone yet, he just arranged a few people to look & advice him ONLY.So no need to panic.He doesn’t like to wash any dirty linen of int’l community or UN in public,or bring disrepute to many ‘helping’ countries. It doesn’t matter, as only some poor 30 or 40 thousand ‘civilian looking ‘ tigers who were killed . All the western,eastern,northern & southern countries are willing or waiting to believe this SL story without any suspicion, so that they all can close the file on Sri lanka & give back GSP + , ADB loans,IMF loans,WBank loans etc for SL enable to finish the army settlements ,buddhist temples etc in tamil owned lands all over north & east, while the displaced people are herded from camps to schools.These are also done with the blessings of India. Canada & Australia will be asked to return boats & people coming to their shores to SL as everything is okay back home,or can advice/teach Canada, Australia as to how to ‘find’ & ‘fix’ these civilian clad tigers & people smugglers by “recovering” AK 47,48,49,50, suicide jackets,bullet proof sarongs,blouses,hand grenades, .37mm pistols etc., Terrorism ‘expert’ Rohan Gunasinghe , (as always )has warned Canada & Australia that tamil terrorists are on their way. So did the high commissioner for SL in Canada. They always cry “wolf” but Canadian authorities couldn’t find any ‘terrorists’ last October from the 76 people who
arrived in another boat.Why these people are arriving may be a mystery to some Canadians or Australians or for some Sri lankans , but not for others.
The war is over, technically but the real harassment of Tamils, in the name of tiger hunting is going on with full speed.Outside world doesn’t know or doesn’t want to know whats going on there.Medias are silent or silenced.The commission is not going to do any good for the people or the country. Covering up or blaming ( now no name brand ex-soldier) SF with white flag incidents are not going to help much. People who were directly or indirectly involved in the brutal killings should not go unpunished, no matter who. Then only there will be room for any kind of reconciliation or peace.
No one has learnt any lesson here, but Gota is trying to ‘teach’ or whitewash something .
Many people still believe it was a “holy” war against the “unholy” tigers. No one wants to accept that it was ultimately turned into a war aginst Tamils. He is trying to prove that all killed in the war were army personnel ,tigers & “civilian clad” tigers , but NOT a single civilian, as always maintained by SL Govt.
So the humanitarian efforts taken by the Govt, to save the ‘innocent’ tamils by declaring
safe passages,no-fire zones, fire zones, bull dozer zones,chemical bomb zones etc.,
are all photographed by satellites and are in safe custody of Ban-ki-moon & co.,
Ban is in no hurry to punish anyone yet, he just arranged a few people to look & advice him ONLY.So no need to panic.He doesn’t like to wash any dirty linen of int’l community or UN in public,or bring disrepute to many ‘helping’ countries. It doesn’t matter, as only some poor 30 or 40 thousand ‘civilian looking ‘ tigers who were killed .
All the western,eastern,northern & southern countries are willing or waiting to believe this SL story without any suspicion, so that they all can close the file on Sri lanka &
give back GSP + , ADB loans,IMF loans,WBank loans etc for SL enable to finish the
army settlements ,buddhist temples etc in tamil owned lands all over north & east, while the displaced people are herded from camps to schools.These are also done with the blessings of India. Canada & Australia will be asked to return boats & people
coming to their shores to SL as everything is okay back home,or can advice/teach Canada, Australia as to how to ‘find’ & ‘fix’ these civilian clad tigers & people smugglers by “recovering” AK 47,48,49,50, suicide jackets,bullet proof sarongs,blouses,hand grenades, .37mm pistols etc., Terrorism ‘expert’ Rohan
Gunasinghe , (as always )has warned Canada & Australia that tamil terrorists are on their way. So did the high commissioner for SL in Canada. They always cry “wolf” but
Canadian authorities couldn’t find any ‘terrorists’ last October from the 76 people who
arrived in another boat.Why these people are arriving may be a mystery to some Canadians or Australians or for some Sri lankans , but not for others.
The war is over, technically but the real harassment of Tamils, in the name of tiger hunting is going on with full speed.Outside world doesn’t know or doesn’t want to know
whats going on there.Medias are silent or silenced.The commission is not going to do any good for the people or the country. Covering up or blaming ( now no name brand ex-soldier) SF with white flag incidents are not going to help much. People who were directly or indirectly involved in the brutal killings should not go unpunished, no matter who. Then only there will be room for any kind of reconciliation or peace.
No one has learnt any lesson here, but Gota is trying to ‘teach’ or whitewash something .
Many people still believe it was a “holy” war against the “unholy” tigers. No one wants to accept that it was ultimately turned into a war aginst Tamils. He is trying to prove that all killed in the war were army personnel ,tigers & “civilian clad” tigers , but NOT a single civilian, as always maintained by SL Govt.
So the humanitarian efforts taken by the Govt, to save the ‘innocent’ tamils by declaring
safe passages,no-fire zones, fire zones, bull dozer zones,chemical bomb zones etc.,
are all photographed by satellites and are in safe custody of Ban-ki-moon & co.,
Ban is in no hurry to punish anyone yet, he just arranged a few people to look & advice him ONLY.So no need to panic.He doesn’t like to wash any dirty linen of int’l community or UN in public,or bring disrepute to many ‘helping’ countries. It doesn’t matter, as only some poor 30 or 40 thousand ‘civilian looking ‘ tigers who were killed .
All the western,eastern,northern & southern countries are willing or waiting to believe this SL story without any suspicion, so that they all can close the file on Sri lanka &
give back GSP + , ADB loans,IMF loans,WBank loans etc for SL enable to finish the
army settlements ,buddhist temples etc in tamil owned lands all over north & east, while the displaced people are herded from camps to schools.These are also done with the blessings of India. Canada & Australia will be asked to return boats & people
coming to their shores to SL as everything is okay back home,or can advice/teach Canada, Australia as to how to ‘find’ & ‘fix’ these civilian clad tigers & people smugglers by “recovering” AK 47,48,49,50, suicide jackets,bullet proof sarongs,blouses,hand grenades, .37mm pistols etc.,
mango tree, 30,000 civilians ? how did you counted ? smart fellow. we will appoint you as commissioner of inland revenue.
Listen guys the way the war was coducted, thurst me, I am only finished grade 4, but I can do the same thing, if I am allowed to release any amount, any where {like Gotha said even put them on the the hospitals} then what is the problem, it is called carpet bombing, so Gotha and company don’t be to proud of your self, get ready for the war crime,
Who are these geniuses who were at the war front counting the number of people killed . These are the ridiculous facts people accept without having a brain to think .
Where are all these corpses . Where were the smart photo catches to take photos of these masss burials. Get life and stop preying on the foolish and vulnerable people .
Riots in Srilanak Suported by Goverment agaist the TAMILS: Lord Buddha abhore all Killings.
1956 Gal Oya riots
Main article: Gal Oya riots
The first reported ethnic riots that targeted minority Sri Lankan Tamils in Gal Oya a new settlement in the Eastern Province. The total number of deaths is reportedly 150.
1958 riots
Main article: Sri Lankan riots of 1958
1958 ethnic riots popularly known also as the 58 riots was a watershed event in the race relationship of the various ethnic communities of Sri Lanka. The total number of deaths is estimated to be 300, mostly Sri Lankan Tamils were killed.
1977 riots
Main article: Sri Lankan riots of 1977
The anti-Tamil riots, targeting the minority Sri Lankan Tamil people started on the August 12, 1977, less than a month after the United National Party came to power in 1977. Over 300 Tamils were killed during these riots.
1981 Burning of Jaffna Library
Main article: Burning of Jaffna library
This riot involved the destruction of the Jaffna Public Library, with the loss of over 100,000 books, artifacts and palm writings. Many irreplaceable historical documents and artifacts of civilization in Sri Lanka were lost forever. Some police and army members were accused of collusion in the riots. Four Sri Lankan Tamils were killed.
1983 riots
Main article: Black July
The ethnic riots is better known as Black July Pogrom. Between 400-3,000 Sri Lankan Tamil civilians killed and many more made homeless and as refugees and number of places of business destroyed.[10]
2000 Bandarawela riots
Main article: Bindunuwewa massacre
In October 2000, 27 Tamil youths were massacred and 14 others were seriously injured in the attack at Bandarawela detention centre housing. This massacre was carried out by the local Sinhala community with the help of the local Police. Local residents assaulted the inmates with clubs and knives after reports they had taken a security guard hostage. Some victims were said to have been burned alive. According to Asian Centre for Human Rights no one has been prosecuted for these crimes against humanity
All these riots were againt humanity. It was suported by Sl goverment. Also if any onetalk about it you call them as traitors or you call them as pro- Ltte.
Ltte was born due to the Sl goverment being injustice and racist. Before all these riots all Jaffna boys were into education…..but after many riots when goventment faild to procecute the criminals…all Jaffana boys wanted to defendthemself…thas how LTTE was born. STOP the killing all you people like Lanka Wick
Lord Buddha will not supoort all these killings of Tamils. Shame on you all who are racist. You will surely be punised to hell for killing innocent humans.
Now remember all racism cant be accepted. It is against the humanity. First all of you who love your country behave as humans then it will all be good. Never support this evil tyrant GOTA who was in the army when all these riots took place and didnt do any help to the victims…coz he was racisit and he knew that helping tamil will not make him rich. Now he wantto save the country …coz tis is how he and his family made billions od USD. SL people dont be fools
Amen!!!! “Suwapath wewa”……absolutely right!!!
To the fake Buddhist priest:
Why are you hiding as Buddhist priest and writing all the propaganda copied from the Eelamists??? Is this how you try to deceive the people, like those bogus Tamil refugees with the help of Tamil Congress trying to hood-wink the Canadian public. Gothabaya is s great hero to Sri Lankans, and you coward Eelamists cannot bear the fact that the Sinhales kicked the hell out of Tamil Tigers, for good. Sinhalese are not stupid. The days of giving into Tamil blackmail is over in Sri Lanka. Any Tamil who does not like the new Sri Lanka can smuggle himself to Canada by paying $40K to Tamil smugglers and Tamil criminals…
Who sprayed Black tar on the SRi Numer plates in cars ???? Were these the Sinhala people . I do not think so . No one talks of these provocative attacks any more .
KIlling minorities ismore evil than spraying Black tar. People can protest in any civilised country to show their disagreement. However no violent is accepted. We are here agaist crime agaist humanty. Killing tamils becasue of Black Tar on a Sril is not acceptable. Lord Buddah will not support these lame excuses to kill the people of Lanka. Lanka belong to every one who born in the country. People must be allowed for freedom of speach and must be allowed to protest peacefully. Killing the minority is not acceptable.
Budism is a peaceful religion…singalise whosay they r Buddistmust not be killing the minorities.
I am agaist all form of violance….and i call all SL to defend their land from the evil politicians.
When I speak against evil and war crime, i use right words as an educated human being. This uneducated man with ” Clint W” nick name attack me with his filthy words. This action shows all the readers how much evil and filthy this man is. Any good person of SL will never support evil war crime and thry will never suport the injustice this government is doing to SF. This evil “Clint W ” using an english nick name to hide himself …try to attack me when i try to remaind all buddist the teaching od Lord Buddah.
I am not suprised to see that there r more uncivilised people in SL who just suport evil…and they r the rapist in the SL army. These men must be sent to school to learn our Lord Buddah’s teachings.
Shame on you all you evil people who support this War crime and evil brothers of this goverment.
Lord Buddaha will abhore you all you racist evil men. I hope you all will burn in hell if you dont repent and change for good . Oue ex genaral SF repented from his sin and he dont want to rape or kill the tamils any more. Because he become a good man now….the evilbrothers of rajapekse family want to take away all his medal. Now this uneducated people like “Clint W” try to cover up the racist and bloood thirty attake of this government and speak evil of a Budism. All you Racist men , remeber buddism not belong to evil racist men.
Buddism belng to all true human…..but animal like “Clint W” who support racism and killing and rapping of Tamil innocent people,….can to accept and understand the great teaching of Lord Buddah. This evil Clint W is laughing at refugees. I am sure day will make him to be more cursed than the refugees. then this evil man will realise how important is to accept Buddism and be nice to all humans
Lord Buddha never said its ok to kll and rape Tamil innocent people in his name …..did he?
So repent All YOU RAPIST AND MURDERER……DONT SAY YOU R BUDDIST WHEN U KILL THE TAMILS AND SUPPORT THIS WAR CRIME.
In this forum when I speak for justice some Racist are attacking me. This is an evidence to the world how much evil this goverment and the suportes of the government are. This shows to the world that how pathetic evil men are these racist who try to attack me when i promote here Lord Buddah’s teachings which is about humanity. I will not stop to stand for humanity. The world now now that these rasist killed and raped Tamil civilians in the name of War. These evil men started the war and made peace loving jaffna Tamils who were into education. The world knows that these Racisit Burned all books in JAFFNA Library which was a glory for Srilanka. How can these uneducated men understans value of the great books.
These liers bobed the hospitals and schools and killed all who stand for justice and peace. Now they call the SF as traitors and they call all foreigners who oppose this evil government as WHite Ltte. By calling all good men as Ltte, these uneducated inform the world that Ltte is fighting for good cause.
How can a government burn a Library??? may be the Library also a Trerrosit?
These was no foolish goverments in the world who burned a great library and called the Library as a Terrorist. Lord Budaha condemns all form of violance.
Shame on you evil men….you call yourself as Buddist county and you do all evil. I could not get it. How on earth these men justify burning the library in the name of terrorist?
These guys need more education. I pray LordBuddha will open their eyes if these animals want to becom humans
Indi Samarajiwa & the SL are out to humiliate Rajapakshes & the GOSL & the LL hearing with a hidden agenda of their own..
Pro LTTE’ers are out to humilate for the same reason.
There is another kind, anti-UPFA political people, UNP/JVP/DNA and others out to humiliate Rajapakshes & the GOSL for the mere reason they are in the Opposition & want to discredit to bring down the Govt.
With so much opposition & freedom of speech, the Opposition laments that there is no democracy.
03 donkeys are pulling SL in three different directions and making the Carter difficult to control directions.
What is the bottom line of this Analysis> we know who did what? what is this big show? for what? No law and order clear in one side and other side same rulers brother Analysing lessons lernet infront of set of Jokers?
MR & Comapny “Dawal Migal Raa Daniel” SHOW -1
All should be alert Basil need UN relationship, WW does not UN presence, Gota and Percy (president) have own adgenda for work on behalf of UN. But UN represenatives can not come to Srilanks (visas not granted)
Watch closely
MR & Comapny “Dawal Migal Raa Daniel” SHOW -2
Terrorism began in Sri Lanka from 1956 riots at that time government used some criminals to kill tamils, then terrorism continued in 1971 with JVP taking the wepons and created terrorism …then tamils took arms…..now Gota and some imoralised tamils(karuna pilllayan) and other criminals use the Government power to terrorise the people of Srilanka. So the point is terrorism is still active in srilanka as long as we all suport them. Please do not support Gota..and his allies.coz They are the new terroristwho ruin the morality of the country. Accoring to Gota, you can do any evil to win and do what ever to get what you want. This policy is inhuman and it is animal naure. Even in a game you must play by rule and still must score the goals to win. You cant break the rules in order to win. Raping tamils and killing every one who oppose them and now brining false allegation against SF, all these are not moral conduct. Therefore, we must understand that in Srilanka Terrorism is still active the new terror leaders are Rajapekse family. We must oppose all form of evil. I am calling all the children of Srilanka not to support this new terrorist who try to ruin The contry. These war criminals must be brought to justice. Wake up Lanka dont be an easy target for all these eveil men to destry you srailanka remmeber what Lord Buddah and Lord Jesus and and Prophet Mohamed and Bahavat geetha teach you. Stand for justice and humanity. Never think that these murderers as heros rather look at them as destroyers of harmony and peace in Sri Lanka.