Lies and Deceptions!

'Comical Alis' of Sri Lanka

by Richard Dixons, Telegraph.co.uk, April 20, 2009

"I am not worried about the opinion of the Tamil people... now we cannot think of them, not about their lives or their opinion... the more you put pressure in the north, the happier the Sinhala people will be here... Really if I starve the Tamils out, the Sinhala people will be happy."

J.R.Jayawardene, Former President of Sri Lanka  - Daily Telegraph, 11th July 1983

'Chemical Ali' of Iraq, so named for using chemical weapons against the Kurds under Saddam Hussein

Young Tamil men and women are regularly taken in mysterious white vans, tortured, raped and sometime killed, while they are in custody. Tamils are forced out of their homes and lands and made to live in open fields and in barbed wired camps. Food and medicine are regularly denied to Tamils and they are a let to die of starvation and diseases.

Those who live in the open fields are bombed and killed daily in hundreds. So-called Sri Lankan safe zone for Tamils has become the killing fields of Sri Lanka. The country that was called as a paradise on earth has become a real hell. Demons of destruction are dancing in the lakes of blood. Rockets, shells, cluster bombs, phosphorous bombs and other dangerous weapons are used by the Sri Lankan forces to kill innocent Tamil civilians. In order to hide the truth from the international community, the Sri Lankan government has cowardly barred reporters and journalists from entering the safe zone.

Tamils are treated as infidels by the majority Sinhala Buddhists. Buddhist extremism has gone to the such levels that more than six thousand innocent Tamils have been killed and tens of thousands have been seriously wounded just within the last three months.

While killing hundreds of innocent Tamils daily, some of the ministers from the jumbo cabinet of Sri Lanka travel around the world with their dry cleaned suits to convince the world that they are wiping our terrorism. They deny all the atrocities that are being committed against innocent children and women. The Sri Lankan government is spending substantial amount of money to spread false propaganda in the western world to justify their actions.

Cat that drinks milk with closed eyes think that nobody is watching. Sri Lankan government doesn't understand that they can't keep on fooling the international community as the images of the dying Tamils are regularly sent all over the world via satellite. Wide screens in the west are beginning to show the video clips of children and women running for their lives from cluster bombs.

No matter what these Comical Alis of Sri Lanka tell the world, facts will always speak the truth. I have been listening to some of the comments that are being repeated by the mouthpieces of the Sri Lankan government officials but found real contradictions between the ground realities and their statements.

As I did before, I went on the the streets of London and asked the Tamil people about what they think of these statements. There are more than three hundred thousands Tamils currently living in London and most of them have their close relatives stuck in the killing fields of Sri Lanka. They represent the suffering masses in the so called safe zone and their views reflect the realities on the ground.

These are some of the controversial statements regularly made by the Sri Lankan government in the Western media. Are they really telling us the truth?

1. Sri Lankan forces are not firing into the safe zone.

2 We are liberating the people of Vanni from the clutches of LTTE.

3 We are facing a hostage situation here. This is just like how the Russians were dealing with the Bersian school hostage crisis.

4 We don't use food and medicine as the weapons of war.

5 This is one of the greatest humanitarian operations in the 21st century.

6 Many Tamils are living happily in the South of Sri Lanka.

7 We are treating the IDPs well in the camps.

8 Some Tamil leaders are now joining us.

9 We will destroy the LTTE completely.

10 We have international support to defeat terrorism in Sri Lanka.

11 Many Tamils prefer to live with the Sinhalese.

12 These Tamil protesters in the west are trying to give a lifeline to LTTE, but they don't care about the innocent Tamils in Sri Lanka..

13 We don't have any racial problems in Sri Lanka, but LTTE is the real issue.

14 The LTTE has committed so many blunders and they are not the representatives of Tamils

15 There are only sixty thousand civilians currently living in the safe zone

16 Sri Lankan forces are one of the best in the world, but the LTTE are just terrorists.

17 The LTTE is a terror group like Al-Qaeda.

18 What we have in Sri Lanka is an internal issue, therefore we don't want any interference from the outside world.

19 The LTTE uses violence, therefore EU and the US shouldn't talk to them.

20 We wouldn't be winning this war without the help from India.

21 We are fighting with the most ruthless Terrorist group in the world.

22 The Ceasefire Agreement with the Tamils failed because the LTTE walked out of it.

23 We won't be able to talk to the LTTE unless they lay down their arms and surrender.

24 Tamils are not the original inhabitants of Sri Lanka. They were brought by the British to work in tea plantations.

25 The LTTE is using the civilians as human shields and they are not letting them leave.

26 The LTTE is still forcefully recruiting under age children.

27 We have liberated the majority of civilians from the LTTE and now we are prepared to receive help from the international community to look after the IDPs. We will still not allow journalists go into the safe zone.

Sri Lankan forces are not firing into the safe zone

Although reporters and journalists are not allowed into the war zone, there are still ICRC, local aid organizations and other Christian charities working among the people. Deaths that are taking place in the war zone are regularly documented with picture and video evidences and transmitted via satellite to the outside world. Several web sites are regularly blogging and journaling the war crimes in Sri Lanka.

Sri Lankan government will not be able to escape from the crimes it is committing against the innocent Tamils in Sri Lanka. Many Tamils who live outside Sri Lanka have lost their loved ones at the hands of the Sri Lankan forces. Evidence documented from the eyewitnesses fully suggests that Tamils are killed in hospitals, schools, tents, bunkers and open grounds by the rockets and shells fired by the Sri Lankan forces. They are also using cluster bombs and phosphorous bombs against innocent civilians.

We are liberating the people of Vanni from the clutches of LTTE

You can't just separate the LTTE from the civilians. These civilians who are stuck in the war zone are mostly the mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters and children of those who are fighting at the front lines. Liberating the civilians from LTTE is a completely illogical statement. Tamils who lived with the LTTE in Vanni all these years had more freedom than the ones who live in the other parts of the country under the Sri Lankan government.

Our friends and relatives in Vanni lived happily under the civil administration run by the LTTE for six years. The LTTE looked after the people well. They built colleges and hospitals. They built orphanages. They trained the youth in various fields. They respect all the religions, therefore people had the freedom to worship in Churches, Temples and Mosques. They encouraged the school children to do well in their studies. Crime rates were very low in Vanni. There was no corruption. Women were given the equal opportunities in every area. The LTTE was running a secular government just like the ones in the Western countries.

But the Tamils who live in areas that are controlled by the Sri Lankan government live in fear of abductions and torture. They have no freedom of speech. Churches are burned and Pastors are killed very often. The Sri Lankan government is even trying to bring an anti conversion law to lock up Christian pastors in jails. Not just the Tamil journalists but even the Sinhala journalists and politicians who support the Tamils in their struggle are also kidnapped and killed.

Some Tamils did choose to go into the barbed wired camps run by the government, but not because they have any trust in the government. The Sri Lankan government is deliberately preventing food and medicine reaching to the needy in the safe zone. Civilians are killed daily by bombs and shells. Some Tamils think that they might probably survive longer and get treatment for their wounds if they go and live in the camps. Many have later regretted making this choice, as there are reports of rape and murder in these notorious camps.

Trying to force the Tamils from the land of freedom into the land of bondage is not liberation. Sri Lankan forces are not liberating the Tamils from LTTE; they are just wiping out Tamils.

This is not a war of liberation but genocide in the disguise of a humanitarian operation.

We are facing a hostage situation here. This is just like how the Russians were dealing with the Bersian school hostage crisis.

This is another fabricated lie. The whole situation has been purposely created by the Sri Lankan authorities with a hidden agenda. They are pretending to the world that they are involved in a humanitarian mission to rescue the Tamils from LTTE. These people never lived as hostages in the first place. They lived happily and they didn’t need rescuing.

Few months ago, fifty thousands Sri Lankan forces moved on three big cities in the Vanni region with Tanks, Multi Barrel rocket launchers and other heavy weapons. They started moving towards the inner core and kept shelling towards civilian areas, seven days week, twenty four hours a day, in order to capture and kill a few hundred of LTTE leaders and destroy their military capacity.

People started moving away from the borders, fearing that they would get killed by the bombs and shells. The Sri Lankan Air Force was using cluster bombs to destroy hospitals, schools, churches and temples inside the cities so that they could kill the LTTE cadres that might on a remote chance be hiding in these public places. They ended up killing only the civilians. Hospitals could no longer be used to treat and care for the wounded because buildings had all been destroyed.

The Sri Lankan government stopped sending adequate medicine and food for the people and the reason given was that they were preventing the LTTE members from taking the food and medicine for themselves. Some people were managing to escape the war zone but they were sent to barbed wired camps in Vavuniya.

People were hiding inside the bunkers throughout the day. Sri Lankan government suddenly declared a safe zone in a tiny strip of land and asked everybody to move into the new zone. So people were moving in and started to live in tents . They are not protected from the rain, sun and the shells pouring over them.

Sri Lankan forces had recently reached the borders of this tiny over populated Safe Zone and had started to use heavy weapons on innocent civilians. People are now getting killed in thousands. They are making the people to starve. They let them to die with their wounds because people don't have access to proper medical care.

Now the Sri Lankan government is telling the world that they are involved in a massive humanitarian operation to save the innocents from few LTTE members. They take some of the wounded people, children and women and releasing the video clips to the media, in order to convince the World that they are really caring for the innocent civilians.

Sri Lankan government is killing its own people in thousands not because they want to capture the LTTE leaders but to eliminate Tamils from Sri Lanka.

What is the outcome of this operation? More than 300000 people have lost their homes and livelihoods. More than 6000 innocent Tamils have lost their lives. More 20000 are injured and many of them had their limbs amputated. Those who have so far managed to escape the war have been sent to barbed wired concentration camps.

All that the Sri Lankan government has now done is that they have made Tamils all over the world to strengthen their struggle to free their brethren from oppression. Tamils will never be able to trust the Sinhala Buddhist governments.

We don't use food and medicine as the weapons of war

According the reports coming from the medical sources in Vanni, thousands of people could have been saved if they had the necessary treatments and medicine. Doctors still have to amputate hands and legs without anaesthesia under the trees. Caesarean operations are done without any pain relieves. Many are dying without antibiotics. People are shelled and killed even when they are lining up to collect food for their babies at the hospitals. Recent reports suggest that children are dying of malnutrition in Vanni. What else the Sri Lankan government has to say about these horrific crimes?

This is one of the greatest humanitarian operations in the 21st century

This is one of the greatest jokes by a democratic government who is wiping out a race from the face of this earth in the disguise of humanitarian operation and liberation.

As part of the so called humanitarian and rescue operation, Sri Lankan forces surrounded an area that is much bigger than greater London and bombed and destroyed all the hospitals, schools, orphanages and old people homes. They destroyed farms, fruit trees and the cattle belonging to the people who have lived there for years. They dropped cluster bombs and killed so many thousand innocent people including children, women and old people.

They forced people into starvation and made them to live in tents and bunkers for months. All this was, according to them, just to catch or kill few hundreds LTTE fighters that are living among more than three hundred thousands of innocent Tamil civilians.

After bombing the whole area and causing so much devastation for more than three months, these comical Alis are telling the world that they facing a hostage situation here. What kind of lie is this. Just because they barred the reporters and journalist,they expect the world to believe their fairy tales.

The man who is leading the military operation had said to the Canadian media recently, that Sri Lanka is the land of the Sinhalese, and Tamils can only live under their mercy. Unfortunately there is no more mercy left in the hearts of these military leaders so they have decided to eliminate Tamils in the disguise of a greatest humanitarian operation.

Many Tamils are living happily in the South of Sri Lanka

Tamils living in any parts of Sri Lanka, live under the fear of intimidation, torture, rape, abduction and murder. Tamils are subjected to random arrests in the south of Sri Lanka and they are kept in prisons indefinitely without any charges. Tamils in Sri Lanka are treated like how Nazi Germany treated the Jewish people during the Second World War.

One of the main reasons why Tamils come to Colombo is because they use this as a base to leave the country. Passport office, high commissions and visa offices are located in Colombo. Colombo has the only international Airport in Sri Lanka. It is not always easier for people go abroad within a short period of time, therefore Tamils sometime have to live there for few years in lodges before getting the opportunity to leave the country. Tamils are sometime taken away from these lodges and forcefully sent to the North in buses by the Sri Lankan government.

The second reason for some of the Tamils living in Colombo is because most of the head offices of the government departments are located in Colombo. Those Tamils who work at these head offices have no alternatives but to live in Colombo. Tamils who live on Colombo never consider this city as their real home.

Most of the homes, schools and hospitals in the Northern and Eastern provinces of the Sri Lanka have been totally destroyed by the war. Sri Lanka has dropped more bombs in the Tamil land than the ones that were dropped during the Vietnam war. Most of the areas are no longer habitable because of land mines and unexploded bombs. Tamils living in the North and East are still murdered in masses by cluster bombs and shells.

Although Tamils are randomly arrested and taken away by security forces in the South, Government doesn't use cluster bombs and shells in these areas. If they were to use these weapons in the south, the would end up killing the Sinhala civilians as well, which they will never do.

This is the third reason why some Tamils choose to live in the south. Because the probability of getting killed in the North and East is much higher than in the South. This doesn't deny the fact that Tamils still live in fear of abductions, random arrests and extrajudicial killings in the south as well. In the past, many times Tamils living in the south were killed in Thousands and their properties were burned.

We are treating the IDPs well in the Camps

Those who come out of the safe zone are kept like prisoners in the barbed wired camps. People are not allowed to meet their relatives. Young men and women are filtered out and taken for questioning, but many of them don't return. Diseases are spreading inside the camps as the people don't have access to clean water. Many Tamils in these camps suffer from severe depression. Sri Lankan government very often conduct some pre arranged staged tours for the foreign diplomats and give a completely a wrong picture to the outside world. They will not be able to play these games forever


Some Tamil leaders are now joining us

There are few Tamil politicians dancing with the ruling government just for personal and selfish reasons. Tamil people don't support such politicians, but see them as betrayers of their own race. What such politicians speak doesn’t reflect the views of ordinary Tamils in Sri Lanka. These hypocritical leaders can be compared to some of the Jewish leaders who deny the holocaust and western youth who join Al-Qaeda to become suicide bombers. We are so sure that the Western countries have now identified such leaders therefore they will not treat them as the representatives of Tamils.


We will destroy the LTTE completely

The LTTE is a tangible manifestation of the disappointment and frustration from of Tamil community that has been oppressed for so many years. Unless the genuine grievances of the Tamil people are dealt with, the voice of the oppressed will be heard louder and louder.

The idea of destroying the LTTE itself shows that the Sri Lankan government and it's strategic partners that are supporting this war, haven't understood the longing of the Tamils. LTTE fighters that are defending their territory are not supernatural beings but mere mortals. The way how the Sri Lankan forces are using cluster bombs and phosphorous bombs to kill the innocents in Vanni, they might even end up destroying the whole region with all the living and non living things, while the international community sit adamantly and witness the genocide of Tamils on their wide screens.

If they succeed in killing everybody in Vanni, Will this quench the burning fire in the hearts of the Tamils to fight for their freedom? Everyday the innocents are dying, more and more Tamils both in Sri Lanka and overseas are beginning to commit themselves for a just and true cause. Masters of this war are sowing the seeds for a bigger conflict in the future instead of finding a solution through peaceful means.

Sri Lankan government may succeed in legally banning the four letter word LTTE and the tiger flag in all the countries of this world. Will this stop the Tamils from continuing their fight to have their rights to live without the fear of torture, murder, rape and intimidation. Why can't the war mongers understand the reality that they will never be able to suppress a genuine struggle for freedom with sophisticated weapons.

If you force a little boy into the water and try to stop him from breathing, the boy will use all his strength to fight back to come out of water so that he can breathe. Today, Tamils in Sri Lanka are denied the right to live, therefore it is a natural instinct to fight back. As long as the oppression continues, we Tamils will fight back with all that we have to free our people from the murderous regimes of Sri Lanka.

LTTE is not just few hundreds Tamils who carry guns and rocket launchers. LTTE has now evolved into a people organisation that is supported by millions of Tamils in Sri Lanka and overseas. It is no longer an armed group that you can defeat them with weapons. If the Sri Lankan government were to get rid of LTTE, they would have to kill most of the Tamils in Sri Lanka and overseas which is not all a feasible option though they might succeed in killing the Tamils in Sri Lanka if the international community don't intervene.

Instead of wasting money and efforts in killing the Tamils, Sri Lankan government should listen to the Tamils and give them the freedom to make their choice.

We have international support to defeat terrorism in Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka is now slowly breaking it's ties with the West because they don't like to be criticized for the worst human violations in the country. They are now maintaining close links with China, Iran, Libya, Pakistan and other countries that have poor records for human rights. Killing fields of Sri Lanka are functioning well with the help of cluster bombs, phosphorous bombs and other chemical weapons that are freely given by China, Pakistan and Iran.

Western countries have started to raise their voices against the Sri Lankan government for killing hundreds of innocent Tamils everyday. Sri Lanka has support only from China, Pakistan, Libya and Iran who are their current allies.

China is backing the war because eighty percent of the oil and minerals for China is transported via the seas of Sri Lanka. China has no enmity with the Tamils but they want to keep the Sinhala politicians happy so that they can secure their interests in the Indian Ocean. Pakistan is giving weapons in order to compete with India in the region. Iran wants to find a new friend in Sri Lanka. Countries that are part of the free world are now alienating themselves from Sri Lanka.

Many Tamils prefer to live with the Sinhalese

Tamils have gone through real hell in the hands of the Sinhala racist governments all these years. All that we desire is to live with freedom and dignity in our traditional homeland without being oppressed by another race. There are many peace loving Sinhala people in Sri Lanka but this doesn't mean that Tamils can live safely in the Sinhala areas. Many times in the past, Tamils were killed in thousands and their properties were burned by Sinhala extremists.

These Tamil protesters in the west are trying to give a lifeline to LTTE, but they don't care about the innocent Tamils in Sri Lanka.

We Tamils who live in the west have loved ones dying in the killing fields of Sri Lanka. We are doing a sensible thing by protesting on the streets of Western cities. Western countries always give respect for the voice of the people. These countries know that millions of Tamils living in the foreign countries represent their own flesh suffering in Sri Lanka. Tamils believe that the greatest democracies in the West will definitely come for their rescue.

You can't separate LTTE and the people who live in the safe zone. These people have lived under the LTTE administration for more than six years. Most of them have their loved ones fighting at the front lines. Every one of them has contributed towards the freedom struggle. In theory the civilians in the safe zone are indeed part of LTTE therefore, you can't separate the people from LTTE.

We don't have any racial problems in Sri Lanka but LTTE is the real issue?

This doest need much explanation. You can look back the history and see what happened to the Tamils all these years in Sri Lanka. LTTE came to the scene only thirty years ago after Tamils realised that they couldn't get freedom through democratic means. Tamils are being persecuted for more than sixty years. Dealing with the root cause is always the sensible way to resolve a problem than fighting with the symptoms.

LTTE has committed so many blunders and they are not the representatives of Tamils

LTTE didn't fall from the sky. They started with few members more than thirty years ago and they have now evolved into a people organisation that is capable of running a civil government for Tamils. They have proved it by doing it..

Nobody can deny that LTTE also made few mistakes. They have acknowledged it. Even the mature governments in the West sometime make mistakes but that doesn't disqualify them from governing the people. What is right and wrong can't always be defined in absolute terms because not everyone knows the bigger picture in which some of the decisions were made by LTTE.

Just because LTTE made few tactical mistakes in the early stages, you can't just write them off. Tamils never stopped supporting the LTTE. LTTE is the only Tamil liberation group that has never deviated from its strategic objectives which is to get a separate state, so that Tamils can live with freedom and dignity without fear and intimidation.

Millions of Tamils, who have been protesting in the great cities of the world, is a proof that Tamils trust in LTTE but not in any other groups that work with the Sri Lankan government.

There are only Fifteen Thousands of civilians currently living in the safe zone

Sri Lankan government has been deliberately lying to the outside world about the number of civilians within the safe zone. Three months ago there were around 350000. 120000 have already left the safe zone which means there are still 230000 left there. But the government is telling the world that there are only 15000.

This brings real fears in the minds of the Tamil community that the Sri Lankan government is going mass murder Tamils and tell the world that they haven't done anything. There are reliable reports that the Sri Lankan forces have used chemical weapons against the rebels and civilians recently and killed more than six hundreds in one single day. Sri Lankan forces had even burned all the bodies of the victims therefore this has raised a real suspicion among the Tamils about the intention of Sri Lanka in lying to the world about the number of people in the safe zone.

Sri Lankan forces are one of the best in the world but LTTE are just Terrorists.

Compared to the Sri Lankan forces, LTTE has got a much disciplined conventional force that complies with Geneva conventions. For example LTTE treat the fallen government fighters with respect. But the Sri Lankan soldiers very often make fun of the fallen LTTE fighters.

In one particular instance, the Sri Lankan forces paraded the naked bodies of the women LTTE fighters in a busy Sinhala town. The world knows very well how the Sri Lankan forces were blamed for raping the women in Haiti while being engaged in the UN peace keeping mission.

In recent days there are very reliable reports that Sri Lankan forces are making the Tamil civilians to walk naked at the check points for few hundred meters. Sri Lankan soldiers are also involved in looting jewellery and valuables from the Tamil homes in Vanni and then selling these items in the South. How can such military be the best in the world?


LTTE is a terror group like Al-Qaeda

Actually this is the other way round. Al -Qaeda and Sri Lankan terror regimes have many similarities. Al Qaeda are Muslim extremists who terrorize people in the name of Allah. They treat the non Muslims as infidels. Sinhala Buddhists treat Tamils as infidels the same way how Al-Qaeda treat the westerners.

Muslim extremists use Quran as their source of hatred and the Sinhalese in Sri Lanka have a holy book called Mahavamsa, a book with controversial writings, full of hatred towards the Tamils. Sri Lankan governments backed by the Sinhala Buddhist extremists have been killing Tamils for more than 60 years because the Buddhists in Sri Lanka delight in eliminating Tamils.

Sinhalese believe that they doing something great by following the hatred teachings and stories from their holy book. This book is very specific to Sri Lanka and not used by Buddhists in other countries. Buddhism in Sri Lanka is not the peaceful one that is preached by Dalia Lama in Tibet. One of the former prime ministers of Sri Lanka was assassinated by a Buddhist monk.

What we face in Sri Lanka is an internal issue therefore we don't want any interference from the outside world.

Sri Lankan government twists its tongues depending on what they want to achieve. It was indeed an internal issue but the Sri Lankan government has demonised the Tamil struggle by telling the world that Tamils are terrorists and they had links with Al-Qaeda. They did false propaganda all over the world by spending so much money to suppress the liberation struggle of Tamils.

They convinced the world that Tamils are terrorists and launched the 'War on Terror' game with the blessing of some countries. They are using this as an excuse for killing the Tamils in thousands.

As the international community begins to object what is really happening, the government of Sri Lanka now turns around and say that it is an internal issue. What is happening in Sri Lanka should be now seen as an international issue. China, Pakistan, Iran and Libya are fuelling the fire and have artificially strengthened the military muscles of Sri Lanka.

They are doing it for their own strategic interests and Tamils have become worse than animals in their eyes. China not allowing the Sri Lankan issue not being discussed in the Security council itself shows why this should now been seen as an international issue. UN should use the “Responsibility to Protect” act to save the Tamils from total annihilation.

LTTE uses violence therefore EU and the US shouldn't talk to them.

Sinhala Buddhists governments have been mass murdering Tamils for more than 60 years. They use abductions, extrajudicial killing, forced disappearances, torture, murder and rape to eliminate Tamils. When the Tamils tried to defend themselves through democratic means, Sri Lankan governments always responded with more and more violence.

Tamil rebels took up arms to defend the innocent Tamils from the Sinhala regimes. EU and the US are now beginning to see the impure motives of the Sri Lankan government. It is not the Tamils that are violent but the Sinhala governments who bomb and kill the innocent Tamils are the real offenders.

When Hitler killed the Jewish people, the free world declared war on fascism. UK, France and the US fought against the Nazis and brought freedom to many. Buddhist Sinhala regimes in Sri Lanka rule Tamils with the rod of terror. State terrorism backed by the racist Sinhala Buddhist leaders is taking the lives of so many thousands of Tamils every year. Defending the Tamils from this terror is not violence but it is a struggle for freedom.

If some nations have a policy of not speaking to those who use violence, they should stop speaking to the Sri Lankan government and start to listen to the Tamil community who are the real victims of state Terror.

We wouldn't be winning this war without the help from India

We Tamils from Sri Lanka maintain very closed ties with the people of India . More than 65 million people in India speak the same language we speak. Tamils in India have been protesting against the war in Sri Lanka for months.

However, there are few elements in the ruling party of India are backing the war in Sri Lanka for various reasons. There are even reports of Indian forces fighting along with the Sri Lanka forces in Vanni. Although China , Pakistan , Iran and Libya are supplying most of the arms, India is the one providing all the intelligence and moral support to the Sri Lankan authorities.

In this aspect, we agree with what the Sri Lankan masters are saying. Sri Lanka can't be fighting this war on it's own without the support it gets from India .

Prolong silence by the co chairs, during this war has raised doubts that they also have a role in this war. Sri Lankan authorities asked the UN, Foreign NGOs and Media to leave the Vanni region before starting this ugly war. They barred aid workers, reporters and journalists so that the world wouldn't know about the use of chemical weapons and cluster bombs. But nobody raised their voices apart from making few empty statements.