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UK official to fly to Sri Lanka for talks

by admin on Mar.09, 2010, under Sri Lanka

This is not a conspiracy

British Foreign Secretary, David Miliband had addressed the so called world Tamil forum at the UK Parliament Westminster building. It is reported that delegations from fourteen countries have taken part at this forum. Addressing the so called world Tamil forum David Miliband has mentioned that even though the so called civil war has ended , the so called peace has not reached Sri Lanka. Miliband singing his typical ‘baila’ had buttered the forum by indicating that Britain will be there to protect the so called human rights but, cannot intervene in Sri Lanka’s internal issues.

He said that he endorses the decision taken by the EU to withdraw GSP duty facilities and he indicated that GSP program recognizes so called values as its core and EU’s attention had been drawn to the incidence of harassment and corruption in SrI Lanka which in turn contributed to the withdrawal of the facilities……….  http://www.srilankaguardian.org/2010/03/this-is-not-conspiracy.html

UK official to fly to Sri Lanka for talks

An official from the British Foreign office is due in Sri Lanka on a two day visit today for talks with Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama, the Sri Lankan Foreign Ministry said and the recent controversy involving UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband is expected to figure in the discussions.

Sir Peter Ricketts, the Permanent Under-Secretary (PUS) of the British Foreign Office is scheduled to call on Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama at his Ministry for talks tomorrow, the Sri Lankan Foreign Ministry said without elaborating on the purpose of his visit

While the agenda of the discussion has not been made public it is believe that UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband’s recent participation at the Global Tamil Forum will be among the topics to be discussed.

The Sri Lankan government had voiced strong objections over Miliband’s participation at the event saying it was a pro-LTTE event. The acting British High Commissioner in Colombo was also summoned by Minister Bogollagama to voice Sri Lanka’s anger over the latest developments


9 Comments for this entry

  • Karuppen

    The wind does not blow always in a certain direction. Time changes for the sole purpose of bringing about improvement and survival in political thinking.

    There are already palpable signs among Western countries in the measures they have taken to clearly define the meaning of war crimes. If the Tamil Diaspora keeps the rolling stones in momentum, it will infuse their aspirations for an independent homeland for indigenous Tamils in Srilanka with direction and strength. A mind set on the task of common good will always give strength to the idea to reach the goal.

    The Srilankan government, immersed in bloody battles and inebriated with war victory over terrorism, has lost sight of right course in political navigation. Unless the Tamil Diaspora develops a language of accord to bring international pressures on such issues as refusal of continued IMF loans and foreign aids tied up with security and sovereignty of indigenous Tamils, any move taken by the Tamil Diaspora will hardly create the conditions for the independent homeland for the Tamils in Srilanka, but only sizzle out.

    Alienation, monetary isolation, embargo on Srilankan goods abroad, strict screening of visa applications of ruling government ministers, military hierarchy or anyone in the military duty, and scaling down of consular Section in Foreign Offices in Srilanka and abroad, investigation into charges of discrimination against the minority citizens in Srilanka and abroad, a very strict screening of High Commission officials before their posing abroad to verify if they have in any stage of their life involved in State terrorism are some of the measures the foreign governments can adopt in sensitizing the Sinhala ruling regime to the past political excesses and instil a code of discipline into its political thinking and framework.

    A rogue can not be a rogue all the time. He has conscience too and his conscience teaches him to open his eyes to his crimes he has committed and mistakes he has made. The flagellation of his own conscience never rests unless it has raised his consciousness to mend his ways of infraction of democratic principles in a society. This is the lesson the ruling Srilankan government is going to learn soon. Anything that happens slowly has a horrendous effect in the end. The Mother Nature reveals her laws to the mind attuned to her language and rhythm.

    If you appreciate the discordant and different views, you build up a strong principled fortress in your mental outlook to deal with any problem. The views different from one’s own are the key to understanding any personal and political problems. They create quantum-based possibilities for one’s own survival. This is the Universal Truth.

    The Tamil Diaspora keeps the torch of independent homeland for Tamils in Srilanka aflame with inspiration.

  • Yoganathan

    THE LOGICAL OPTION- UN REFERENDUM is the BEST OPTION for Eelam People
    Hi Karuppen,
    One cannot see any difference between the Indo Srilankan Propaganda against Tamil liberation struggle by dividing LTTE and Tamils.
    Indian trained militant groups- EPDP, EPRLF, PLOTE, TELO, etc- have been killing Tamils while LTTE target only SINHELLa Military and Police without harming even Sinhalese people- Almost all Sinhala victims were killed by either Srilankan Military and Police or Srilankan and Indian aided Paramilitaries in order to blame the Tigers as terrorists, NO WONDER THE SRILANKA REFUSE and SABOTAGE ANY INVESTIGATION of ANY KILLING of CIVILIAN to save their Terrorist Military and Paramilitaries.
    If LTTE militancy failed, so did the Democratic Politics by the Tamil polity since 1915 to 1976.
    So, according to your theory, both failed, don’t go back to where we were.
    In my view, We must not go back to militancy anymore but take a leaf from the EAST TIMOR Liberation struggle and work for UN REFERENDUM in EELAM to decide the WILL of TAMILS and MUSLIMS of the island while making the NAZI SRILANKAN BANKRUPT like the world did to SOUTH AFRICAN APARTHEID NAZI REGIME.
    By supporting the DICTATORS MAHINDA & BROS Butchers, we are doing diservice to Sinhalese people also because they are at the receiving end of Terrorism by the BUTCHERS now.
    We have to synchronize all Tamil bodies and Tamils with Muslims to fight peacefully and democratically to put pressure to the international community to allow UN REFERENDUM in EELAM. As it is democratic way, No country can veto the referendum.
    As per the USELESS Indian Congress Mules ruling India UNFORTUNATELY, India can never ever challenge the Mighty Chinese anymore, China CHECKMATED the WILLING VICTIM INDIA and IMPRISONED the India within its Natural borders. NEXT LOGICAL PREDICTION WILL BE IMPLODING INDIA INTO PIECES as THEY WERE BEFORE THE BRITISH.
    Don’t Bet on SINKING INDIAN SHIP. India no more a power let alone a regional power.
    Only an insane will hope India will help Eelam Tamils while India cannot even CONDEMN the SRILANKAN NAVY klllings of Indian Fishermen.

    IF THE USA STOP FUNDING the ISRAEL, ISRAEL WILL THINK ABOUT RECONCILIATION WITH PALESTINIANS.
    THE SAME APPLIES TO THE NAZI SRILANKA, WHEN SRILANKA MADE BANKRUPT, SRILANKA WILL TALK PEACE.
    As per reconciling with NAZI Srilanka even after 62 years of Ethnic Cleansing of Minorities and Genocide of Tamils with CONCENTRATION CAMPS of more than 300,000 Tamils, and still ongoing Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide in all over the island, IF ANYONE ADVOCATE RECONCILIATION WITH SINHELLA NAZI TERRORIST SRILANKA, I WILL TELL THEM TO LOOK AT THE DESPERATE SITUATION OF POOR PALESTINIANS BY USA AND WEST DOING THE SAME HELP TO ISRAEL DESPITE ISRAEL DOING THE GENOCIDE AND ALL ATROCITIES AGAINST THE PALESTINIANS,
    We Tamils must not allow the Srilanka to Prsoper and do the same like Israel to kill all Tamils and Muslims,
    Srilanka – with all the DEBTS- adamant on Sinhala NAZISM – will do worse tahn now if they are allowed to be richer than now,
    CUT OFF THE BLOOD STREAM of SINHELL ANZISM by Cutting of the ECONOMY allowing them to fund the NAZi SInhELLA terrorist military, then they cannot do the Sinhella terrorism against Minorities and will talk peace.
    ONLY A DEAD SINHELLA RACIST is the Best thing on the Earth.
    PLEASE DON’t GIVE POLLU to SINHELLA racists with your own money to be beaten by the same POLLU.

    Hi P John,
    As per Hinduism, Hinduism is not a SINGLE religion as the India never been a SINGLE COUNTRY before the British came there.
    HINDUISM is an UMBRELLA of several religions and SAIVAM is one of them and the OLDEST. SAIVAM itself named after SIVA. Please don’t use SHIVA because the Aryan took H out of THAMIL and PUT the H in SHIVA to make both alien to THAMILS.
    SIVAPPU – In Sanskrit they translated RUDRA meaning RED- SIVA.
    Thamil civilisation FLOURISHED in SINTHU VELLI(now in Pakistan where they desstroyed mosy of them and India don’t care cos the civilisation belonged to Thamils)
    Then the ARYAN invaded and imposed their version of SAIVAM – called HINDUSIM- by using the KRISHNA as the MAIN God – VAISHNAVAM.
    Now, we Tamils also wrongly believe that We are Hindus but they know we are not Hindus and support the Sihella terrorist Srilanka.
    The HINDUISM promote the Krishna as the Main God whose behaviour the right opposite to the Tamil culture of ONE MAN ONE WIFE and HINDUSIM keep the GOD Siva as the DESTROYER.
    RAMAYANA itself created to HUMILIATE and DESTROY SAIVAISM and SAIVAM by fabricated stories against the SAIVA TAMIL KING RAVANAN and even called the TAMILS as MONKEYS in Ramayana.
    It is a LONG STORY.
    As per the reconciliation with NAZI Sin-Hella racist Srilanka, who show no remorse at all for all the Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide and still justifying, celeberating the Genocide as CONTINUOUS Victory celebrations and ESCALATED ETHNIC CLEANSING and GENOCIDE in Vanni MAINLAND as I write this moment, Then IN WHAT TERM Tamils can reconcile with the barbaric Bucthers ruling the island???????
    In the history of the world, If we look at the two NAZI racist terrorist regimes- SOUTH AFRICAN WHITE APARTHEID REGIME and USA and West Funded Terror state Israel, We can detect that ONLY PRESSURE and BANKRUPTCY of the South Africa made them to COME CLEAN on Peace BUT ISRAEL STILL CONTINUE TO DO THE SAME ETHNIC CLEANSING AND GENOCIDE AND NOW EVEN IF THE WEST WANTED, THEY CANNOT FORCE THE ISRAEL TO COME CLEAN ON PEACE AS ISRAEL NOW A NUCLEAR POWER.
    The same logic applies to the NAZI Srilanka whose ECONOMY must be broken beyond repair to amke

  • Karuppen

    Unless a certain section of Tamil Diaspora, still imbedded in militancy idea, free their mind from the shackles of militancy, the Tamils in Sri Lanka will never have a chance of realizing their freedom for an independent homeland in Sri Lanka.

    Hello Vani:

    The militancy idea, translated by LTTE into action, not only failed but also has exposed the whole Tamil civilians to a stateless condition in Sri Lanka today. Those who have witnessed the genocide of innocent Tamils in 2009 will NEVER float this idea again. Once is more than enough to say NEVER AGAIN. Even if those voicing their indirect militant support will experience the same result by exposing the Tamil civilians in Sri Lanka again to another genocide or exodus of Tamils from Sri Lanka.

    It is easy to entertain the militant idea against majority Singhalese community. It was thought that India would hurry to support the Tamils by extending deterrence against Sri Lanka on its war on LTTE and Tamils civilians. The reality was to the opposite: Decimation of LTTE, displacement of innocent Tamils, the present stateless condition of Tamils, etc.

    Tamil politicians in Sri Lanka have to field in their efforts in wielding a joint democratic voice for the reinstatement of basic human rights of Tamil civilians in Sri Lanka. Tamils or their political representatives ARE NOT IN A STRONG POSITION to make any deal of their own with the Singhalese government today. When you position is weak, you have to learn to refrain from exposing the innocent Tamils to further genocide. This is the old wisdom of surviving. This is the gist of my writings.

    Today the art of communication has refined to such as a level as to incorporate the powerful human values into the issues troubling a society. That communication is RECONCILIATION with your enemy.

    Vani Said:

    Vani
    March 12th, 2010 on 3:03 am
    Mr Karuppen, It seems you are a very good writer, but it may be a good idea to write these comments in Sinhalese websites. Perhaps you can write comments for the ant Tamil articles which are published in some Sinhalese websites.
    I hope you read the following article in this website.
    http://www.srilankaguardian.org/2010/03/from-barbaric-buddhism-to-civilized.html.
    Thanks.

    My answer to Vami’s comments:
    I do not write any articles to any Singhalese web sites nor am interested in pretending to write any anti Tamil articles to any news media. That is not the purpose in my articles.

    If accusation does not level to the commission of an act, it clearly shows a mind still growing, but not fully grown, through experimenting with its own fancy ideas.

    Everybody has the right to air his or her ideas. I do not expect anybody to concur with expression of my ideas nor do I agree with anybody if I see the other side of the argument more tenable and more meaningful.

    Your writings clearly show the readers how you poorly conduct yourself with informing yourself of the poly-sided argument of an idea that defies solution on a grand scale. Democracy is a basic right of each and every human being to disagree with others. A thing has more than one life just as an idea has more than one face.

    Whether my writings appeal to a fragment of Tamil Diaspora or not is not the issue here. The issue is the continued search for a lasting solution to the artificial problems the Tamil community in Sri Lanka face today.

    All the major achievements in life hide a simple fact. If you find it, you can win the whole world.

  • Karuppen

    We have to carefully separate two issues here. One is rhe general good of the Tamils in Sri Lanka, and the other is the part played by the Tamil militancy group whatever it is. The militancy group is or was not the Tamil community itself, nor the Tamil community is the essence of the militant group. The two are two poles of the called Injustice and discrimination.

    The militant group adopted violence as the tool of achieving the condition for the independent homeland for the Sri Lankan Tamils. But It not only failed, but also decimated the militant group and displaced the Tamils as homeless refugees in their homeland.

    When a certain tool failed to produce the results expected of a system, there are at the disposal of the Tamil community other tools. The one still to be tried is the tool of reconciliation. Reconciliation is not surrender, but a survival mechanism. Certain Tamil Diaspora members, imbedded in the idea of militancy, feel left out and very much hurt by the defeat and decimation of the militant group. Instead of wallowing in the idea of militancy of one sort or another, they have to mount pressure on foreign governments to get involved in the peace process to install peace and harmony as the prerequisite for a meaningful dialogue between the dissenting parties in Sri Lanka.

    History is a muddle of dirty water. Not a single person of worth will ever waste his or her time digging deeper and deeper into the stinking mud. Leave aside Hindu or Saiva religious recantations. They will not solve the problems at hand now.

    Reconciliation and mobility of global voice of democratic governments in power today are the two powerful tools the Tamil Diaspora has to use to bring the rebellious Sri Lankan government to the bargain table.

    Some interesting developments are to impact on the global approach to Sri Lankan Tamil issue. The UN is under pressure from all fronts to proceed with an official inquiry into the crimes Sri Lankan government and Tamil militant group have committed. Another is the strong Chinese presence in Sri Lanka which poses a grave danger to Indian security in the Indian Ocean. India is not going to be an idle duck any more. It is time India woke up from the Sri Lankan sedation and asserted its regional presence. The woes and grievances of the Sri Lankan Tamils are the powerful tools for India to implement corrective measures to ward off Chinese threat to Indian security. Once adopted, this measure will win back the hearts of Tamil Nadu of India.

  • Vani

    Sri Lankan government is holding sent ex-Ltte combatants’ families as hostages and threaten them to kill them if they do not co-operate with the government to identify the people who have/had links with LTTE. The ex-ltte carders -re-trained by Sri Lankan government and sent to Europe and West to dismantle the Diaspora Tamil organisations and their political work. A good example is Vanni MP Mr Kanagaratnam who was forced to support to Mahinda Rajapaksa and now switched to his party and standing as a candidate for Rajapaksa’s party. Sri Lankan government is holding his family as hostage and forced him to switch party. Another example the three doctors who served in the warzone, were forced to change their statement in press meeting. Basically, Tamils were forced to become ‘traitors’ and some are being bought by the Sri Lankan government in Sri Lankan and in overseas.

  • Yoganathan

    Only Srilanka spies and Cunning Sinhala racists will ban the HONEST SINHALA RACIST Roshan.
    Tamils must invite more of his messages to justify EELAM and Unite.
    West had COMMUNISM as enemies to unite against COMMUNISM and then West created WAR ON TERROR using Osama Bin Laden to get united.
    We Tamils have enemies all directions but still not united and still believing some Sinhalese or Indians even after the did all the atrocities in he last 62 years.

  • Karuppen

    Perera
    March 4th, 2010 on 8:29 pm

    Being a sinhala buddhist I am ashamed to read the comments of a sinhala lunatic. Already the sinhala race is split in sri lanka, each hurling abuses against each other.More to come and would reach an uncontrolable state with bloodshed.Already our tamil and muslim brothers are laughing at us.Roshan,you can write any bullshit because this web site is not authorising the comments or don’t have the facility.

    Perera
    March 7th, 2010 on 11:40 am

    I don’t know why Uktamilnews is letting racist Roshan to write his stupid comments.It seems that Uktamilnews is sponsored by the SL govt and perhaps EPDP.

  • Roshan

    After srilanka invited CHINESE, Spineless India begging Srilanka to allow even a tiny part to play in our Great Sinhala Nation to save the Indian Congress faceless faces and UK also going to give in to our Great Brilliant Sinhala diplomacy.
    We Sinhalese are GENIUS of diplomacy.

  • GENGA

    please can some one interested in human rights bring to the attention that 11,000 LTTE still been detained and the woman cadres are subject to sexual torture and murder by the army and also our woman have been used as prostitudes in various location run by top army officials.

 

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