Dear Sinhalese,
What you and your uneducated thug should realise is violence never resolved anything. You do not answer violence with violence and in the process kill civilians. Your lord and master may crush the tigers now but another will arise. Is he going to go on killing. Stupid person ask him to go and read about Buddha and Gandhi and I advice the Sinhalese morons who has commented through their backside in this blog also to open their eyes and see and study about their religion and the world..

Tamils are the origin of the country of Ceylon. Singhalese migrated from Orisa, which is one of the poorest provinces in India. Tamils are most educated people in Srilanka. There was competitive exam method for enter the university in Srilanka so about 90% of the students were Tamils by this method because Tamils are very clever. So Singhala government brought a deferent system to make more Singhalese go to the universities. It is an illegal method still in place because it is only for Singhalese.

There were two kingdoms, which were Tamil and Singhala, but British Government brought together for their benefit. When British leave from Srilanka they gave the power to the Singhala Government British Government has biggest responsibilities for this problem so it is their duty to separate both nation. Tamils had many bitter incidents after 1948, which is what Singhalese called independent. Tamils are dying everyday from this independent. LTTE had formed only 30 years ago for the purpose of protecting Tamils from this Arrogant Singala Government.

1948- Srilanka got independent
1948-50 the then Prime Minister of Ceylon D.S. Senanayake launched massive Sinhalese colonization schemes in the Eastern province, the traditional homeland of the Tamils.
1956 On June 14, Mr. S. W. R. D. Bandaranayake, who won the Parliamentary Elections help in 1956 caused Parliament, dominated by the majority Sinhalese to enact "Singhala Only" as the official language of Ceylon. 1956
1956-1980- Violent against Tamils two times.
1982 one of the biggest libraries in Asia burnt by Singhalese in our state in Jaffna.
1983-Violent against Tamils. 4000 tamils were killed in southern of srilanka. I lived in Colombo in 1983. I can’t forget those violent days. 99% Tamils forced to display to north part of Srilanka in 1983. They have an only choice to make a land to live peacefully. That’s why Tamils formed an army, which is called LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) to protect Tamils from Singhala regiment.

Why the world community couldn"t find these evidence of the cruel war against tamils.Pl help to tamils.

This photos indirectly showing the world how in srilanka,Tamils are being treated.Please save our people .help.help.help................................

These people live in absolute horror. And the Western world....

SRI LANKAN FORCES HAVE DONE GREAT JOB FOR THEIR COUNTRY AND FOR TAMIL PEOPLE.TAMILS,WHO ARE LIVING IN OUT OF SRI LANKA,THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON HERE.I MUST INVITE ALL THE TAMILS TO COME BACK TO SRI LANKA AND SALUTE TO OUR FORCES.BECAUSE WIHTOUT OUR FORCES THEY CAN'T SEE THEIR PERENTS,BROTHERS,SISTERS,RELATIONS,Ect..................................
THANKS TO OUR PRESIDENT HON MAHINDA RAJAPAKSHA SAVE OUR COUNTRY FROM CANIBLES(LTTE)

I simply can't understand all these comments of the tamil people around the world. It seems like they are blinded by the cruelty of the TAMIL TIGER TERRORISTS! People! Why can't you see the truth when it is just on your eyes? These criminal tigers have been killing innocent tamil people and these stupid people call it a genocide? Who's causing it? The TIGER TERRORISTS are killing tamil and sinhala people and call it a genocide of tamils? If these innocent refugees liked the tigers so much, why would they risk their lives to come to the side of the goverenment? Why couldn't they just stay with the so called Liberating tigers?

itr's so awful.. why is this happening? does not god want everyone in the world live
the same life ?? please!! end this!! we want to see tamil people live peacefully!

SINGHALESE PLEASE THINK:
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You belive there army is doing good job.?See the UN officials released sattelite photographs.SL army killing tamils .Mostly they killed children,women and elders.Think army is doing good job.Singhalese couldn"t find these photos of evidence of the crual war against tamils.Please don"t write against tamils..They also like to live this world. Pl

Mr. Obama ! Wake Up!
Mrs Clinton Wake Up!

Another Ruwanda is happening under your watch.
Where are you?

You were supposed to help and we gave a lot of our hard money for your election.

Where is Hillary? One phone call to Mahinda is not enough!

The SL government has sold out to the Chinese. Only way the west and India will take back the Indian Ocean is to support the LTTE.

Sinhalese why don"t you watch channel 4 news UK (may,5th night news) and get clear picture about your SL army and how ourWhy IDP tamils are being treated in your refugees camp.Why the international community not ready to open their eyes.

We are pleading the world to save innocent Tamils in Northen Srilanka, The government of Sri lamka with the help of Indain and China is killing brothers and sisters back home. It's truly a genocie tha's taking place in Srilanka.

Thank you for publishing the photos which the Srilankan government is desperately trying to stop. There were Tamil and Sinhalese kingdoms in Ceylon before it was captured. How come its only belongs to Sinhalese now?

I think LTTE involved in this fight to get the international attention towards the Tamils. This due to their frustration over the many peace talks which failed in the past. Who is responsible for the failures is a question that we need to look into carefully. What was the previous Governments prepared to offer to Tamils? Was there any trust building activities happened during the peace talks. Tigers always thought that the SL state will crush them once the peace process fails. The government also feared the Tigers will build up their strength meanwhile. Both sides used the talks to build up their strength.

When the ISGA(Interim Self Govering Authority) was discussed with the previous government the basic rights of the farmers/fishermen to relocate to their own land was not accepted by the government. They had been vacated from Palaly and various other villages around High Security Zone. (now this still happening in Mutur -Trinco will be happening in Wanni as well). The government dragged on the previous talks without implementing any agreed tasks.(You compare that with the current government's initial agreement to not using heavy weapons in the fight but still they using it on the civilians. How can the minority Tamils trust these governments? )

PTOMS (Post Tsunami Operational Management Structure) was another opportunity for both Tigers and government could have worked together(like in Arche) but that was also failed by the pressures from the hardliners in the South.

Tamils have fought by non violent means for 30 years(1948 to 1978) and the next 30 years by arms struggle. I thing through the arms struggle our issue has to the international stage.
We the Tamils think there should be some international pressure and intervention for a long time solutions to Tamils. I hope this sort of intervention or otherwise
should bring both warring parties back to negotiation. The solution through a peace full negotiation will be a just and a final one.

In a nutshell, the conflict in the indian ocean island formerly known as CEYLON is about the identity. The Tamils are trying to preserve their identity. The Tamils have their own language, culture and traditions, a continuous geographical area as their traditional home land. These aspects enable them according to the UN charter tobe a distinct nationality. Besides, Tamils had their own kingdoms before the Europian colonial powers set foot in the island. The last kingdoms were
1. JAFFNA KINGDOM (Yarlpana Iratchiyam) The king's name was Sangiliyan.The capital was Nallur.
2. VANNI KINGDOM The King's name was Pandarawanniyan.
These kingdoms and the sinhala kingdom were demolished by the colonial powers the whole island was brought under one administrative set up.

Since then the Tamils have been a defensive mode. They do not want to lose their identity in other words they want to preserve their language,culture,traditionsand their way of life especially their very existence as one nationality.
On the other hand the succesive Sinhala governments have been trying to destroy
the identity of the Tamil people. For this very reason they defrenchise the plantation/Indian Tamils, They introduce the Sinhala only act, They colonised Tamils' land with armed sinhala thugs. Time to time they annihilate the Tamils with pogroms. The majority think that the same majority will engulf the minority
and one day the whole island become a 100% sinhala buddist facist nation.
We have to approach this current situation in this context. The sinhala polity will
never acknowedge the Tamils'right to self determination they will never agree to mechanism in which under a united SriLanka Tamils can handle their own affairs.
The LTTE is no excuse for a so called democratically elected government to massacre it's own citizens.
The international community especially the US have to take concrete actions against the Sri-Lankan terror regime.
1. call back your embassaders or high commisioners
2. Stop the aid flow
3. impose economic embargo
4.Send UN or US peace keeping force to SriLanka
5. Arrest the perpetrators of war crime and bring them to justice.
SOS FROM WANNI
Other wise in this war without witnesses,all 165 000 people who are trapped inthe tiny sliver of land will perish in front of the eyes of the international community.
It is Sri Lanka's responsibility to protect these people. They should send food.They
should send emergency medicines for wounded. They must allow independent aid agencies to help those people. They should allow international media to report the plight ofthe Tamils

Please watch channel 4 uk(may 5th night news or athirvu.com).
Why they not allowing international media in this area.

Sri Lanka government will never give a solution to tamils.We want to see tamil people live peacefully.

Sl tamils need freedom.Truth will allways WIN.

Thank you to the Sri Lankan Army for finally doing the job. Please kill the last Tiger terrorists very fast so that all the other Tamils can live in peace at last. Of course this will not be easy because the Tigers already removed the uniforms to blend with the civilians. One of the Tigers, who managed to mix with civilian refugies, was discovered and beaten by the very same civilians he mishandled one week before. That is justice.... Beside that, Tamils are living all over Sri Lanka since hundreds of years without any problems, on the contrary. Many Tamils where the best professors in most of the universities and are still holding many top jobs.

What the terrorist supporters around the world said here is totally FALSE. Because majority of tamil people peacefully living in other parts of the country, than northen (where tamil terrorists are demanding to establish separate countery for Tamil people) in Sri Lanka. For example Tamils and Muslims combination represents majority of the community (not Sinhalese) in Colombo district which is commercial town in Sri Lanka.
Prabhakaran is a Terrorist , not the representatives of Tamil people. Hence Northen problem in Sri Lanka is only a terrorist problem. This internal problem to Sri Lanka. Rest of the world must not interfere to solve our problem or instruct us to how to solve the problem.
The western people wanted to establish tamil elam south of the indian ocen in order to face the emerging threat coming from India and China. So, Vanni operation will address all sort of strategies both Tamil Terrorists and western people. Mr. Mahinda Rajapakse shows rest of the world that how to eliminate the terrorist. Western people must learn terrorist elimination method from Sri Lanka if they really really dedicated to eliminate terrorism from the World.

Mr. Obama, we love you. Please do not get yourself involved in the politics in Sri Lanka. The LTTE is A TERRORIST ORGANISATION who use their own kids to fight a war demanding for a separate state. Their leader, Prabhakaran is a crook who lives a life like a king but gets the innocent civilians to do all the dirty work. Prabhakaran should be murdered, tortured and murdered. Sadly the Tamil civilians and their children have been brainwashed to enter into terrorism.

Please help Sri Lanka to win the war on TERROR. Help us to catch Prabhakaran, dead or alive and murder him using something worse than the lethal weapon.

We Salute the Sri Lankan National Forces for rescuing the innicent Tamil people from the clutches of the LTTE terrorists.
At the same time please take as much care as possible to avoid civilian deaths.
I do not beleive that there were no civilian deaths. But I DO know Sri Lankan forces NEVER deliberately target any innocent Tamil civilians UNLIKE the Tiger terrorists.

Sri Lankan government; please proceed with what you are doing.. Take more care, extra care.., majority of the Sri Lankan Tamils in Sri Lanka are behind you..!

Please look at the following article.

http://my.telegraph.co.uk/chandradavid/blog/2009/05/04/a_paradise_turned_into_kingdom_of_vultures?from_comment=true&message=WW91ciBjb21tZW50IGhhcyBub3cgYmVlbiBtYWRlIHB1YmxpYyE

People should not open their mouths or write any thing with very little knowledge
about what is happening in Srilanka.All you people pass comments please stop!
Go back to Srilanka's history and read! Srilanka's government andJVP!! Do you really think the government is so passionate about the Tamil civilians? Give me a break! If you can massacre your own people how much of passion needed to kill
any other community? Think you guys! Think hard!All of you Tamils and Sinhalese are like!
Dont trust these politicians! There are so selfish and Self centered!

this pictures clearly indicating the chemical wounded people by sl army

Thanks Boston Globe for the photographs.These photographs express the attitudu of sinhala Government,in the way ttamil people are forceed to ask for the RAjapakse Government for cream crackers.Please help our tamil people.

LTTE is the only terrorist group who has killed two world leaders ( PM Rajiv Gandi - India and President Ranasinghe Prremadasa - SL) they have killed over 50000 innocent civiliens by suicide bombings. These Tamil ceviliens are being rescued by the SL Army after they were taken hostage by the LTTE....... if tamils want a seperate country they can have tamil nadu india, 20 times bigger than the area they are fighting for now. I am a tamil but i am happy to live with singhalese cos i think all these problems are started by LTTE and its foreign supporters...... Leave Sri Lanka alon we can handdle our own problems......

yesterday when american Air force bombed Afganistan and over 200 cevilience were killed ...... better worry about that. Srilanka is fightin terroriom same like USA in iraq and Afganistan why is it that every one is only worried about Sl?? LTTE is a ruthless terrorist outfit and the most feard around the world. All tamil dispora around the world worries only how they will renue their visa as asylum seekers once the war is alone.... how selfish sending a bunch of school kids to fight a war .... while they hide behind their keydoards living luxurey livese abroad.

There are many peace loving Sinhala people living in Sri Lanka. Several academics, human rights activists, journalists, Christian leaders and professionals from the Sinhala community are supporting the Tamils in their struggle for freedom. Some Tamils even tend to intermarry with the Sinhalese.

Although the extremists are only a minority among the Sinhalese, they have been successful in influencing politicians, military leaders and ordinary Sinhala people to incite racial hatred, violence and discrimination against Tamils.

raju

The people who live in Sri Lanka have suffered for nearly three decades. We have suffered too long and our people have witnessed the trauma and agony unleashed by terrorist acts. At long last we are on a threshold of defeating terrorism and facing a new era of lasting peace and security for all Sri Lankans.

( COMMENT 644 RAAMAL INGAM) DO NOT SAY LTTE IS TERRORIST THEY ARE FREEDOM FIGHTERS.PRABAKARAN ISTAMILS LEADER NO ONE ELSE. DO NOT SAY LTTE KILLED RAJEVGANNDI. RAJEVGANDI KILLED MORE THEN 3000 TAMILS IN TAMILELAM.DO YOU KNOW ???

God bless Srilankan (Tamil,singala and muslim) people. Since I am from a tamil community I cannot forget the human nature. If some one (America or China or India) who is capable of solving the problem please do so, so all can live in this world happily. Don't you know that there is no guaranty that we will born again in this beautiful world where the creater has given EVERYTHING to all of us to enjoy. Remember we all are VISITORS TO THE WORLD FROM THE SAME FATHER. So please sisters and brothers of America, china and india, try what you can do to help end this war. let us go and see/live in the paradise country of Srilanka.

Comment 644:Don"t Worried about american.Everyone living in the United State they have freedom.Sri Lankan Govt they don"t give equal rights to tamil people.

Comment 636, Have you been living in the same country as I did once. Each time there is an election tamils houses are looted and tamils are killed. You have no idea of what you are saying read the comment 618. This is true and I was there. Tigers came into play after 1983. They are not terrorists. You are the kind who kisses buts to get ahead. That is your heriditory quality, you cannot help. To deny the comment of 618 is to deny what happend to Jews. Shame on you.

Thank you Boston Globe.
On behalf of all the Tamils, I plead to USA and Britan to help the Lankan Tamils to regaing all the rights they lost few dacdes ago due to the racist givernment policy in Sri Lanka.

irk imk ik ik ik irk '636' my research shows:

The Tamils are an ancient people with a history dating back to atleast 2,500 years. The Tamil language, the lingua franco of the Tamils, is one of the five oldest living languages of the world. The Tamil classical literature, popularly called the Sangam (Academy) literature (1st -4th Century AD) is a collection of poems of lasting quality and artistic merit. They reflect faithfully the high level of civilization and literary attainments of the ancient Tamils.

THE EARLY SINHALESE
The Sinhala people trace their origins in the island to the arrival of Prince Vijaya from Bengal in India, about 2500 years ago. The Mahavamsa, a Sinhala chronicle written by a Buddhist Bhikku by the name of Mahanama, (6th Century AD) records that Prince Vijaya arrived on the island on the same day that the Buddha attained enlightenment.

WHO CAME FIRST
Although attempts are made to trace the history of Ceylon before the arrival of Vijaya (about 500 BC), who is credited as the founder of the present Sinhalese race, there is sufficient historical and archaeological evidence to prove the existence of a high level of civilization before him. The proto history of Ceylon could be traced back to atleast 5000 years to the period of Raman of the epic Ramayanam. Raman (the same Raman about whose temple there is violent dispute between the Hindus and Muslims in Uttar Pradesh India at present) who was an Aryan king from north India fought against the Tamil Yaksha king of Ilankai (Ceylon) Ravanan who had abducted Rama's wife Seethai. Jawaharlal Nehru in his book Glimpses of World History describes the war between Raman and Ravanan as a war between the Aryans and Dravidians.
Therefore, the oft-repeated question as to who came first, the Tamils or the Sinhalese, is a controversial subject emotively debated by both the parties, but the following observation by the eminent Sinhala historian and Cambridge scholar, Paul Peiris represent an influential and common sese point of view:

" ... it stands to reason that a country which was only thirty miles from India and which would have been seen by Indian fisherman every morning as they sailed out to catch their fish, would have been occupied as soon as the continent was peopled by men who understood how to sail ..... Long before the arrival of Prince Vijaya, there were in Sri Lanka five recognised isvarams of Siva which claimed and received adoration of all India. These were Tiruketeeswaram near Mahatitha; Munneeswaram dominating Salawatta and the pearl fishery; Tondeswaram near Mantota; Tirkoneswaram near the great bay of Kottiyar and Nakuleswaram near Kankesanthurai. Their situation close to these ports cannot be the result of accident or caprice and was probably determined by the concourse of a wealthy mercantile population whose religious wants called for attention ...." (Paul E. Pieris: Nagadipa and Buddhist Remains in Jaffna: Journal of Royal Asiatic Society, Ceylon Branch Vol.28)

EARLY POLITICAL HISTORY
The early political history of the people of South India and Sri Lanka, before the advent of the European powers, is largely a chronicle of the rise and fall of individdual kingdoms. South India was ruled mostly by the three great Kings Cholas, Seras an Pandiyas. Sometimes they faught against the invaders and some times they warred against each other. In addition to these three great kings there were also petty kings who ruled over large tracts of land, nominally independant, but paying tribute to one or more of the three Kings. Among the three kings the Cholas were easily the most powereful and the only naval power in India. The army of Raja Raja the Great (984-1014) invaded Ceylon, made Rajarata a part of the Chola empire, and founded Polonnaruwa as the capital city.
Rarajah's sone Rajendra (1014 - 1044) further extended the Chola empire, so that in the 11th century the mighty Cholas ruledd over Ceylon, Kampuchea, Malaya and greater part of Indonesia.

The society was fuedal in structure and alnd was the most dominat means of production. The Sangam literature provides evidence of the lucrative two-way trade these kingdoms had with far away Roman and Greek empires.

I WILL COME BACK AND WRITE MORE OK...THIS IS FROM A RELIABLE TAMILIA'S RESEARCH!!!!!

NOW LET TAMILS LIVE WITH DIGNITY!

World,Please help in stopping the genocide against Tamil people by the Sri Lankan Government. Boston Globe pictures clearly indicating the chemical wounded people by sl army.Thank you Boston for this photo's.
God will bless Tamil people in SL. If some one (America or China or India) who is capable of solving the problem please do so, so all can live in this world happily. Don't you know that there is no guaranty that we will born again in this beautiful world where the creater has given EVERYTHING to all of us to enjoy. Remember we all are VISITORS TO THE WORLD FROM THE SAME FATHER. So please sisters and brothers of America, china and india, try what you can do to help end this war. let the Tamil People live in Peacefully in Tamil Eelam.

Comment 597. To answer you, could you tell me did Mr Bush fight the war agaist terrorism in Iraq in person. He is a leader. He or his family did not fight. Trained army fights. You are illiterate. How can you expect Prabaharan to fight? He is the leader of our freedom fighteres.
You also want the hunger stikers to die. What a man? who adopted who? dont you realise that the new Americans chased and killed the native Americans and took their country and their wealth. You are nobody but a decendent of thieves. Just because you were there before Tamils does not make you belong to America more than the others. How dare you call Obama African American? When the whites there are European American.

Comment 644. Tamils did not arrive expecting to live in other countries. We are fighting to have our own country. It is not the Tamils who started the fight. It is Rajapakshe who started it and prior SL Governments who do not educate their own people started it in jealousy. Other countries are not fools to allow Tamils into thier countries to settle. Just prolonging the war will not let Tamils live abroad. The legal system of the respective countries allow it. It is silly to say Tamils want war because they want to live abroad.
Chicken or the egg came first? You may not know the answer to this but definitely Srilankan Governments treatmnet of the tamils caused this migration of Tamils. Tamils did not migrate and then cause the war. Dont you remember 1983?

Tamilslscaused Tamils to go abroad.

The first picture seems a setup. All laughing............

We need freedom. Tamil people killed by Srilankan forces more than 23 years.
Please stop the war and help tamils..we need your help.Immediately need food , medicine and save the life.....................!

srilanka.. srilanka... stop th war ... stop the war.......

Rajapakse, rajapakse terrorist terrorist; media media open your eyes, open your eyes; gothapaya gothapaya human butcher , human butcher..

Our leader Prabaharan....our leader Prabaharan
Tamil tigers freedom fighters

SAFETY ZONE, SAFETY ZONE - KILLING ZONE, KILLING ZONE

WHAT DO WE WANT? TAMIL EELAM
WHEN DOWE WANT IT
NOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW.

Pill

Please help in stopping the genocide against Tamil people by the Sri Lankan Government. Rajapaksa is a world criminal. Singaleese people are killing the innocent Tamils. Please be on the Tamils side and help the Tamils.

All my friends who comment are true to their colour, however one forgets their own roots, country and the country they live in. First to all those Tamil Friends out there, greetings and We see your suffering, but Why did you leave them here and run away as refugees, assylum seekers, by falsifying documents, tellying lies to the embassies and also now mocking the goverhments who gave you shelter. If you are now a citizen of another country be proud of that country and be there. This is our country, where we live in and we will lookafter our brothers and sisters.
You have not been to the ground here, It is nice to comment on the screen, but if you have never been down here in the battle field you will not know.
Terrorism is ruthless, it has killed many a child, mother and family, may it be in the Vanni or in colombo, brutal killings should stop. Who killed presidents, priministers, Politicians and innocent civillians. Where were you then. When a mother lost the child, a child lost the parent and a parent lost someone dear, where were you all then. Bussess were bombed, temples were bombed and many other public places were bombed and where were you when all those innocent people died. Well friends, I am for Irradicating Terrorrism and looking for a true solution to a problem which only the Tamil People face, and this is only arrogance where they do not want to learn the Singhala languate to communicate with the massess. Regards

David M

please help tamil people....

hello srilankan army don't kill tamil people...

It is indeed funny to read comments by all these LTTE supporters. These are many reasons why they fabricate stories.

1. They want the war to continue as if the war stops, then they have to leave the lifestyle they enjoy in western countries
2. Half the people who comment do not have any roots in these areas, all they want is war
3. Plenty of tamils, muslims, and others in the sri lankan military
4. LTTE is a banned terrorist group. They have assassinated 2 world leaders and many more along with helping and training Al Quida
5.

If the idiots commenting on this site would actually take a minute to go read the history of the civil war in Sri Lanka.
People are calling Mahinda Rajapakse a terrorist, when Prabhakaran has been ordering suicide attacks on innocent people for decades now, Tamil, Sinhalese, Muslim, Christian...he doesn't care about the onslaught...
If he actually cared about his own people, do you think he would shoot anyone trying to escape the war zone, then hang their bodies in the streets to intimidate others from escaping too....
These photos on this site are all nice and all, but i didn't see a single photo of any LTTE cadres....wonder why, oh I know, the photographer would have been shot if he was on that side of the fighting...
LTTE have been named a terrorist organisation for a long time, or would any political party openly order the assasination of ministers.
The LTTE have gone down in history as the people who have perfected the suicide bomber....
So anybody posting comments, please research a little before commenting...
As I have actually personally been close to the site of 2 suicide bombings in Sri Lanka....it is not a pretty site....

We are sri lankan. we don't like war. but we have't peace. U know that? so we have fight with LTTE. not tamil people.

comment 661, Would you have preferred us to have stayed there and be killed as well. We are not advocating terrorism. In fact we are trying to stop state sponsored terrorism. World is one. Just because we moved out to a different place in the world does not mean we should watch state sposored terrorism like you do and keep quiet and pretend we cannot see a thing. Suffering is same to any human being. Instead of speaking against fighting you are worried about the supporters and their motive. What a man?

Comment 661 and 663. Why are you unduly worried about the motives of people have moved out of the country? They are not shelling the innocent, the Srilankan Government is. Concentrate on the people of Vanni and on thier suffering. See below, this is what will happen to you.
When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.
Then they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews,
I did not speak out;
I was not a Jew.
When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out for me.

RRS

Please save the tamil speaking innocent civlians and their sisters and brothers of LTTE a liberation movement not terrerists. Our blood is flowing everyday. Please Protect their rights from Sri Lanka .Give the separate country Tamil Eelam. This is the only solution to todays situation

In Srilanka lives different people like sinhalease,muslims,burger,tamil etc.In north lot of tamil people live in all over the world as refugee who send the money to continue the war then they can live there for ever.Please look lot of inocence people live in refugee camps in srilanka any tamil people help them? Only Srilankan people help them. Please study well about tamil terrorist.How many innocence people died for suiside bombs?Ha! Ha!! Ha!!!
WE LIVE TOGETHER WITHOUT TAMIL TERRORISTS

Quite agree that Sri-Lanka Tamils need freedom. They need the freedom from LTTE, and not from the government. LTTE now MUST surrender and give peace a chance. We all once lived in harmony, and we need that back.

The most of the people who write to this blog doesnt know the real situation in Sri lanka. And most of them lives ovrsease and saysthey support their own tamil kind. But think for a sec, DO u realy knows whts going on there. U Most tamil oversease community here what the media says. Most of the them are created by LTTE supprters. Most of u r own kind is killed by LTTE. And as a person who has been to KILLINOCHCHI last month . I can see the the people wanrted army to rescued them. They were suffering from LTTE. I saw the government is tring their best to restablish their life. But remmember SL is a Third wolrd country and there are limitanins of money. If u realy want to support tamils then support Sri Lankan government funding them rather than supporting LTTE. LTTE is a ONE MAN show. which is created to create a dream wolrd for prapahakan.

Thanks Boston Globe for the photographs.Thease photographs express the attitude of sinhala government. please help tamils .we need freedom.

Please stop the war.We need freedom.

To all tamils who supports prabakaran (especially the migrated, asylum seekers, etc..)

Can you all, in one voice request prabhakaran (selfish maaniac) to release the innocent civilians and fight face to face with the sri lankan army to win your dream eelam land.
I am sure you will never request that, since you migrants & asylum seekers will loose your visas. Therefore I humbly request you all not be a selfish like your dream hero prabhakaran(selfish maniac). Please let innocent tamil civilians to live at least a reasonable life, by supporting the government to eradicate this terrorism.

tamils who lives in abroad are outcrying for misguide the western countries. tamils lives abroad know they must have to go if the war ends because they are migrated to western countries as political refugees. so no one like end war. its just like wound of the beggar. pictures shows how the civilians flee and how they interact with soldiers. 80 percent of tamils live in southern part SL not in north. so anyone who visit SL can see it. we live here with our tamil people like brothers and sisiters. ask from the tamils who live under grip of LTTE barbarians. they will answer all the questions which arouse westerns. 3 decade long can not be summarize to one page. It can not be done with one year. No one like to end cos it’s a business. Who wants stop this lucrative war. They all want to deposit money in their accounts. Let us end this war in sake of humanity. Why you guys don’t open your mouth when americans airstrike to Iraq. All scream as if they only see one war and that’s LTTE terrorist and SL government.

No comment is needed as the above pictures shows all the reality in North So all the countries should understand this is Sri Lanka not their own country you have to stay as you are as this is our nation no one can disturb the happenings in our country whats the right you have to intervene our country or the humanitarian work done by our heroes???? NO MEDIA, NO COUNTRY, NO NATION, NO SO CALLED NGOs like UN etc Talk about the American Attack to the civilians in Afganistan where is CNN, BBC, RAUTERS,,....NO OBAMA you cant get out from it you dont have any right to look @ sri lanka now. because you have to find ways to wash our blood from your hand.....PLs stay away

hands

Do you know the real situation? comment 671. Are you there at the front line? What makes you know the real situation and others who are writing in this blog not to know the real situation. Live in your own immagination. I rest my case

Over 3 decades most of them have become citizens of that country. The war is not necessary for them to stay in the adopted country. however current prolonged war is definitely helping more people to get out of that country and claim political assylam. If this is so why dont you who worry about migrants advice Rajapackshe to take a differnt cource of action. He will never eradicate anything by war. Political solution is the only way forward. He is too wraped up in his own importance to understand it and he is definetly misleading and misguiding the ignorant locals.

Srilankan army treat tamils like animals.We are refugees in our own land .Please stop the war otherwise they are going to kill them all.

Pictures speak from themselves, obviously some pictures are "pro-government",
for example the pictures of the Army handing out food to tamils.
We need pictures of the shells and where they are coming from. The latest hospital incident was blamed on the tigers by the Sri lankan govt (like all the other atrocities they have denied).
The government has access to the no-fire zone, why don't they release pictures that prove the tigers killing their own people?
If singalese and tamils can live together, how come no one in other parts of sri lanka is complaining about the lives being destroyed? Or can't we hear them?

WE SHOULD DO SOME THING FOR OUR PEOPLE. THE FIRE FROM MATCH STICK IS NOT ENOUGH. WE HAVE TO MAKE A VALCONO, TO SAVE THEM. JOIN TO GETHER WE CAN ......CAN..........CAN...............CAN.................CAN............
GIRI .............................................................

Comment 677 I think i know the situation better than u. Becasue I live in SL and been to the near front line. not Like most of LTTE supports like u living in abrod. And u dont hav to be in the front line to know better. And to be honst to u mate v r not the people who live in our own imagination.. its u people.. So wakeup pls pls ask u r savage terrorist leader to release u r own kind without keeping them as a human shield to create his dream wolrd.

Leaders of the LTTE and Leaders of the Srilankan government, they are both scums of this earth, dont know the value of a human life, they have no guilt or even a heart to feel anything for those suffering people. I hope they both die and burn in hell...and anyone who supports the LTTE or the gov's actions...other than those suffering people...you are justing making this world even more crul for our futures generations to live in...and to the person who posted"TAMILS DOES NOT HAVE A COUNTRY IN THIS WORLD", why dont you go do some research before you say stupid comments like this!

Good Day. Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
I am from Salvador and bad know English, give true I wrote the following sentence: "Learn about prescription drugs from the publishers of the synthroid."

With respect :-(, Gamada.

Comment 682 what can I say? I only asked how you know of the situation better than others who are writing. Instead of just giving me a straight answer like I have been in the front line, you accuse me of living abroad and say you think you know the situation better than me? how do you know that? You also say you dont have to be in the front line to know better. That is what others are claiming as well. That they know better than you.You need to meditate and follow buddahs path then you will come to know that your feelings and your immaginations are not the truth. Killing in any shape or form is to be condemned.

It’s a "stage managed" Photo Shootout. Look right ;The girl shoots Victims actions with a Smile, using a Semi Professional Camera ( Nikon D Series .....? in the No Fire Zone - VELLAMULLIVAIKKAL......!!! ). Girl in blue skirt

What an ACT. That’s the reality of LTTE’s (and Tamilnet’s) News. All major News Papers in the world published only the first photograph.......!!! Please forward to all known Overseas News Papers / Channels, as well.

Thanks BigPicture it says all including Tiger fasle staged propaganda - See the TamilNet picture (1st pic) the girl is taking pictues with a smile in her face. The truth is out there!

Lots of Tamils here claiming they had an ancient kingdom in Sri Lanka and claiming to be the native people - they have one problem, however: they have no evidence to back it up with. Their language, culture, etc are virtually identical to that of Tamil Nadu in Southern India - which supports that they were brought to Sri Lanka by the British as cheap labour. There is no historical evidence of a single resistance to British rule by the Tamils, while there were many by the Sinhalese.

Sri Lanka has a written history dating back more than 2000 years, plenty of ancient ruins, architecture, literature, etc that can easily refute the historical claims of the Tamils.

If they want to say that Tamils were in Sri Lanka in the pre-Sinhalese era (which would be before 2500 years ago - this would be the Vedic and pre-Vedic eras, when even Hinduism, the religion followed by Tamils, did not exist), they need to show evidence for it, and by that I mean hard evidence, not mythical stories.

Truth about the photo 1 - When the camera lies for terror - http://defence.lk/new.asp?fname=20090515_13

I truly wanan be able to travel up to the East and North East IDP camps and if anyone is traveling there for humanitarian works I definitely wanan be able to travel and physically help out while documenting through photography the on-goings

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Cheers and best regards to all those involved during the rehabilitation period.

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While I am writing this, 25000 thousand Tamil civilians are bleeding to death and several thousands are losing their lives as they burried alive in their makshift bunkers amid unrelenting artillary barrage of the Sri-Lankan forces. The war crimes of the Sri-Lankan Terror Regime continues unabted. The Sri-Lankan government is still preventing the ICRC from evacuating the thousands of injured civilians from the war zone.

The international community especially the co-chairs of the failed peace process is responsible for this carnage. The war criminal Mahinda Rajapksa has already claimed ' victory ' . The Tamil Tigers are the mere syptom of a serious disease that affecting the Ceylon island and has NOT been diagnosed by the international commnity. If the international community and in particular the UN acted responsibly the Tigers would not have arised.

The inaction and the ignorance of the UN and the international community pave the way for the extremist elements among the Tamils in Sri-Lanka to thrive and
indulge in violence.

I am still skeptic about these world bodies which are dysfunctional due to various resons. UNLESS THERE IS A SEPARATE STATE FOR TAMILS IN THE ISLAND OF CEYLON there will be nomvictory for anybody.

suresh

Srilankan tamils need freedom .Truth will allways win

I know what Tamil people want is not cream crackers, but right now what they want is food, medicine and shelter. Being a Sinhalese I truely accept that 30 years ago general tamils were descriminated and there were enough reasons to start fight. Sri Lankan politicians both Tamil and SInhalese must be responsible for for most of the aftermath and for not being able to solve the issue before it spreads. With democratic voting system, all the politicians used racism to win votes, it was seen as an easy way of winning supporters.

I would say LTTE was created for right reasons, but as many rebel organisations, it went out of its cause on the way. Also the with the Tamil politicians who fought for rights in democratic way, be being elected to parliament so on, the initial reasons for a separate country faded away. There is a huge tamil population livin in the capital Colombo, and the central province which is far away from North and they are living with other ethnic groups peacefully for years.

Meanwhile LTTE tried to show the world that they still had reasons, by provoking Sinhalese and Muslims, Ordering all Muslims out of eastern province within 2 hrs, attacking innocent civilian villages, Killing tamil politicians and leader that were in favour of political solution. They just used pro LTTE media to highlight some angry reaction for SInhalese and Muslims to convince the world.

Being a minority in a country always hurts, and everything doesn't goes on as you wanted. This is a fact and no country will fully escape that ever. But in current Sri Lanka, main issues are infrastructure development, and resources being centralised around the capital Colombo, poverty, and low quality civil service, and order of law, enforcement of law, currept politicians, all these but NOT racism.

Like most other rebel organisations LTTE couldn't come out their intial demand of separate country, if they did they couldn't rectify the loss of so many lives. And most importantly, fighting became a life style. They saw that there organisation cracks whenever there was a ceasfire. So, all the occasions they broke ceasefire by themselves. Weapons, tax, and overseas aids are good business, lot of higher ranks had a luxury life with all these. Also must mention this is valid for govenment forces and politicians too. They also made a living out of war. SO, LTTE was in a position that they need the war to survive.

None of the wars in the world have continued to live up to its true causes in recent history. War is a need of politicians, arm dealers, these fact overrides the facts of descriminations or racism.

I was not a supporter of war in Sri Lanka, but honestly pease talks were never going to work too. I am honestly happy that it was over one way or th other. I also have a great respect for Sri Lankan Army soldiers for their conduct on the reason episode of this conflict. They had a zero casualty policy and it looked more humanitarian than offence. And now I see in the pictures, even these tamil refugees lookedafter by them.

So, all the tamil people supporting LTTE, you are probably going against your own people who are in the need of your help most right now. SOmehow war is over, help the refugees to get their lives back. PLEASE

we all are proud of our all army`s & the president of sri lanka to make our beautiful land as a peace country. thanking all of those who help to end this war. best wish`s and god blessings

I AM PROUD TO BE A SRI LANKAN

After having read so many comments written by Tamils, I feel sorry for them. Their lack of knowledge and poor quality of thoughts are reasons behind the war in Sri lanka.
Dear Tamils who have insulted Sri lanka in this page,
All what I want to say is learn to respect people no matter whether they are tamil, singhalese, etc. There is no ealam. It is just your dream. The people in northern areas have suffered a lot due to LTTE terrorism. While supporting terrorism, you all are putting those innocent people into more troubles. Why are you all always asking for help from the international community???????? not independent?????

like that,

LTTE is terrorism. The world has identified LTTE as the most dangerous group in the world. All what most tamil people in other countries can do is display their violence. I have seen someone's comment has referred to singhalese as uneducated morons.
Dear educated Tamils,
Use your brains and stop violence. Someone supporting terrorism is a terrorist. All what you are worried about cream cracker. The Sri Lankan Gov does its best for them. If you are so concerned, please help those innocent tamils without insulting people using public websites

like that,

Sir Arthur C. Clarke would have cried over these images....
He loved Sri Lanka so very much...he made it his home,
and look what has happened to this beautiful jewel...

First of all PLEASE look into the real situation In Sri Lanka and then start talking...rather than shouting blindly like for nothing without knowing the real situation in Sri Lanka.
We are all Sri Lankans and there is no any difference between Tamils & Sinhalees & Muslims in Sri Lanka. People who are shouting madly are the people who want to see a war happening and continueing in Sri Lanka and they are the guys who pretend to the world that they stand for the Tamils ...But the truth is a big "NO".
As a Sri Lankan I m really happy and proud to talk about the SL GOV and the SL Forces , cos they did a great job in rescuing innocent tamil people from that LTTE Murders and gave all of us the real freedom in Sri lanka...Thats the truth...
And keep in mind that we are all SRI LANKANS,
We are ready and already started to give our helping hand to all those rescued people.
So please stop shouting without knowing the real truth and at least try to help
those rescued people to upgrade their lives back.

I am proud to be a Sri Lankan......well done SRI LANKA....

Yes, Well done Rajapakshe for killing over 25000 civilians in the name of TERROTISM. We all know the score that none of the Srilankan Sinhalese has the will power or the balls to resolve anything. If they did they would have done something in the last 30 years. Political solution is the only way. Does not matter what is written in this blog by the arrogant minority. A killer is loose, I wonder who he will be after next?

Yeah...... again well done SRI Lanka......
Not for killing over 25 000 civilians accoriding to the stupid statistics mentioned above by a stupid ARROGANT MIND...
BUT FOR SAVING THOUSANDS OF INNOCENT CIVILIANS FROM THAT MURDERS LTTE......
Heyyy ......Arrogant mind ...dont you know that...your loving LTTE killed thousands of innocent civilians (Including sinahleese , tamils & Muslims ) purposely by setting up sucide bombs in buses and at public places....
Are they good ???
Use your brains and stop violence....
TRY to help those escaped civilians without insulting people using public websites

SAK

Well Well You people...Now Sri Lanka is free from Prabha, Now we are a free nation, living happily and peacefully with all Sinhalese, Tamils, Muslims and Burgers. War is over and you people keep watching how our king is going to build the nation with all Sinhalese, Tamils, Muslims and Burgers. because we all are now under one flag it is the Sri Lankan flag. Our president declared in his speech that there is no minority and there is only two kind of people as who loved their country and those who destroy the country. and come join the majority who love the country.

Two wrongs do not make one right. What is the difference if one person does and acts exactly the same as his opponent but thinks it is legitimate. This makes them both equally bad. Do not read more into the comment than what is written. Killer is a killer does not matter what his intensions were, his opponent claimed the same. Eye for an eye will only make the world go blind. Rajapkshe used his power to kill and crush we will have to wait and see what he is going to do with his newly gained POWER. I will say it again none of the sinhalese who were ruling the country for the past 30 years did not have the bottle to do anything sensible politically. I am not holding my breath A

Trruth will allways win.Pl wait and see.................................................

Here finally Sri Lankan security forces WON the war.Really it's not just a war.It's a humanitarian process.Now the L.T.T.E leader V.Prabakaran, sure he is laying @ worst hell.Now all Sri Lankans can live together with peace & joy.Sinhala,Tamil,Muslim all are one nation.

this iz da wrse how could people do this to eachoter

We don"t want war .We need freedom. Sri Lankan Govt will never give a solution to tamils .Pl help our tamil people.

Who satrted the whole episode.Greedy and stupid politicians of Sri lanka.
Just to get in power back in a deacde ago/Stupid animals

please whom ever support rajapaksha first know some thing about kutti mani
,jagan and also any one how they are died

The Sri-Lankan terror regime claimed ' victory ' after slaughtering tens of thousands innocent Tamils in the name of war on terror with support of some rogue countries like China, Pakistan, Russia and India.
One of the positive out come of this victory is the civilised democratic world now understands the true nature of the Sri-Lankan regime and its terror tactics and how far it can go without respecting any international humanitarian laws. In fact this kind of end simply justifies their foe's means.
Hundreds of thousands of innocent war victims are still in detention camps with strict security. These people do not receive enough food medicine or clothing. The international aid agencies are not allowed in these camps.
The doctors who witnessed the carnage are still in prison. Thirteen thousand people 'disappeared' from these detention camps.
The dysfunct UN or any other country can't do anything about these state terror unleashed on already traumatised population.
Mark my words.... the arms struggle to liberate the independent state of Thamileelam is not over. This time the Tamil people learned the hard way.
Now they know about the international community , the UN and other so called guardians of human rights and democracy. So next time they will make sure the out come will be like Eritrea or East Timor.

From what I can see I predict that soon all Sinhalese will be needing protection from Rajapackshe and the Chinese regime. Well done all of you. You deserve it.

thank you boston for the picture
I am a refugee too from irak I just new arrived from turkey to Australia i was happy but when i saw this pictures i started thinking for myself that i really dontdeserve to be refugee because this pictures really affect me a lot i can saied mysituation was better a lot from this people and i am really absent for this situation i wish i could do something for this people but unfortunatly i am justa simple studentat uni now . buti wish in future i could do something strongly to help this people god with you guys
thanks bestregards sarena

You can see the difference of first comers and later comers (Tamil people came from no war zone). If you see it carefully you can see first comers are realy faced to more difficulties and they have no more than sadness. But second comers didn't show difficulties what they have faced. Think... Tigers are only terrorists not else. they didn't care their people in fair. Prebakaran couldn't do any for Tamils except dissaster of Tamils....
YOu can critisize my words.......

this is the condition that the tamil people flee the ltte. ltte collected a lot of money and it did not go to help their own people. poor tamil people sufferred and sl govt get blamed while ltte spun false propaganda.
don't try to twist this around. harmful terrors who used suicide bombing, recruited child soldiers, kept all people in fear without cause were what was hindering and harming sri lanka. of course these people are suffering, they were kept ignorant of the real situations by the ltte and promises to get them out of the country in guise of refugism. they extorted money from around the world and didn't help anyone lets give the misinfo a rest.

those who deserve to be punsished for war crimes are the LTTE

Sinhala Learn from A Lincoln:

"Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it." Abraham Lincoln

ok ok the sinhalese might have been unfair to the tamils but if you want freedom and things to go your way suicide bombings and other terrorist attacks is not a helpful way to get it. Ghandi didnt use violence and things still went in his favor. Peaceful non forceful methods are needed and you must learn that. If you tamils are so smart you should of figured that out by now. Peace brings peace and violence brings violence, so what have the tamil rebels done. Im a 14 year old boy that knows alot more about politics than you will ever be.