First off let me just say that I didn’t know that the National Post sympathizes with Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam rebels like Canadian Sathajhan Sarachandran, currently up in charges in the United States for purchasing arms for the Tamil Tigers.
Like WTF is wrong with the journalists at that publication, and does Stewart Bell think anybody in Canada is going to shed a tear for the former student leader and youth counselor, who when called upon–returned to his native Sri Lanka to work for the LTTE.
Anybody that believes the bullshit story Sathajhan is telling about why he got into arms dealing for the outlawed terrorist organization–that he did it because of a young man’s emotional response to the alleged horrors committed against Tamils he claims to have seen, is as f***ing naive and stupid as Sathajhan is a purveyor of missile launchers, Russian SA-18 surface-to-air missiles, and AK-47 assault rifles.
The only reason Sathajhan was procuring arms for terrorists is because of the money he was being paid. It had nothing to do with the “good guy” inside of him, or feeling sorry for the Tamil people. Nope, that entrepreneurial spirit drove him to arms dealing.
The LTTE paid that son-of-a-bitch good money for his skills, one of which was negotiating million-dollar arms deals on their behalf, and he has the balls to say that he was supporting terrorism because he felt he had to do something after seeing footage of a Tamil orphanage that had been bombed by the Sri Lankan air force.
Fifty-six children and youths were apparently killed in that bombing, but what the National Post story fails to mention is that the LTTE was using those victims as human shields. If Sathajhan wanted to do something about that carnage he should have went after the LTTE instead of buying weapons for them. They are the reason those children died.
Nevertheless, Sathajhan was lying about that because he was arrested in July, and the bombing he is referring to occurred in August.
One other thing, the f***ing nut job is comparing himself to Nelson Mandela. Like really now. I tell you what, if that’s the way he feels, then lock him up for as long as Mandela was locked up, though when it comes to terrorists, which Sathajhan is by the way, executing the bastard would be what CG would say is a good call.
As for the National Post, like WTF is wrong with them, and do they really think Canadians are going to shed a tear for Sathajhan Sarachandran because of that bullshit story they ran on their website yesterday?
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1 Steve // Dec 19, 2009 at 11:23 PM
Hey CG, just an update for you. From my POV, this bloody awesome. Canada will be taking in their fair share as well.
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Norway and New Zealand to resettle Tamil boat people
Norway has again come to the rescue of an Australian prime minister desperate to resettle stateless boatpeople, with Osloconfirming it will take some of the Tamils rescued by the Oceanic Viking.
Seven years after the Scandinavian state gave a home to the Afghans rescued by the MV Tampa, Norwegian officials have confirmed they are considering taking three of the 78 Sri Lankans.
And as Tony Abbott attacked the Tamils for “blackmailing” their way out of Indonesia, New Zealandsaid it was likely to take some of the refugees. The Australian understands Canada and possibly the US are also expected to assist.
The deal amounts to a diplomatic coup for Kevin Rudd, who was heavily criticised over his handling of the issue and the strain it placed on relations with Jakarta.
A spokeswoman for New Zealand Immigration Minister Jonathan Coleman yesterday confirmed the issue was being dealt with at the highest level.
She said there had been “ongoing discussions” between Kevin Rudd and New ZealandPrime Minister John Key, as well as several ministers. “If people from the Oceanic Viking were to be included as part of the normal refugee quota selection process facilitated by the UNHCR, New Zealand would be prepared to consider them,” she said.
Sources have told The Australian New Zealand is now all but certain to take some of the Tamils who were on the Oceanic Viking, most of whom will still end up in Australia.
Speaking through a spokesman, Norwegian Ministry of Labour and Social Inclusion director-general Thor Arne Aass told The Australian the UN High Commissioner for Refugees had approached Oslo. “The ministry has notified the UNHCR that Norwaywill assess the cases of three refugees with family links to Norway when the UNHCR submits them,” Mr Aass said.
The 78 Tamils were rescued by the Oceanic Viking in October and taken to the Indonesian port of Tanjung Pinang. But they refused to get off the boat, insisting they be taken to Australia, their original destination. The month-long standoff ended only after Australiapromised to resettle the refugees within four to 12 weeks.
But the Opposition Leader attacked the government yesterday for caving in to the Sri Lankans demands. “Basically those Tamils got what they wanted,” Mr Abbott said. “They effectively blackmailed the government into giving them what they wanted.”
Norway, Sweden and Canada were among the countries which helped to resettle the 433 asylum-seekers rescued in 2001 by the Tampa, a Norwegian vessel.
http://www.adaderana.lk/news.php?nid=6556
2 Steve // Dec 19, 2009 at 11:49 PM
“after seeing footage of a Tamil orphanage that had been bombed by the Sri Lankan air force.”
CG, that was no orphanage. It was a suicide bomber training school using Tamil girls, mostly abducted and then raped etc, or ones from Tamil families who refused to play ball with the LTTE. Just another vile piece of propaganda designed to condemn Sinhalese and stop the SLAF from bombing such installation (so the “products” can go and kill innocent people in trains, buses and on the streets).
The “orphans” were in full military gear, pictures of there bodies shows this -even though they (Tamils) released footage of the bodies lined up in rows, showing ones in civies at the front of the photo when you look at the ones getting further away from the camera you see the military uniforms. Also the time between release of the photos and biased Scandinavian monitors getting to the site was like a day, giving plenty of time for everything to be set up.
I say they were biased for valid reasons.
1) Norway (with the green light from the EU) was bank rolling the LTTE, providing weapons and training from Thailand, Ethiopia, as well as construction equipment and materials for LTTE bases and Military infrastructure. The LTTE “air wing” and sea wing had sophisticated Military equipment from European companies that had been provided through Western NGOs under the guide of “humanitarian and Tsunami aid”.
2) The monitors were mainly dirty old men many were frustrated spending long times in Vanni jungle, the heat, lack of creature comforts. The assignment to SL was not as cut out as they thought, first couple of weeks it was “exotic”, but when that drags onto months then years, it is painful, especially for people used to the good life in Europe. Add to that the disdain the Sinhala people had for them and the hard time they had check points run by the Military when they tried to escape to Colombo night clubs (their own fault that one they were siding with the LTTE, using their vehicles to transport suicide bombers –to be fair all NGOs were guilty of that- so we gave them a rough time). So after many complaints and consultations with their LTTE buddies the LTTE “allowed” the monitors to enjoy themselves with Tamils girls (something also exotic for them) to release their increasing annoyance and frustration, at similar yet different LTTE run sites. All part of breaking the girls. A year ago the Army captured photos they had taken of their “travels” from captured LTTE bases. It is not pretty.
3)The head of the Monitoring mission was a well known Tamil sympathiser who demanded his paedophilic monitors tag along with Military patrols (for the ceasefire of course) then leaked this information to the LTTE to help them carry out attack during the so called “ceasefire”, only people doing the cease firing was Sinhalese. The second head, an old women, was f**king an LTTE high ranker and always defend their little escapades.
3 Steve // Dec 19, 2009 at 11:51 PM
Furthermore CG, The Tamils later admitted to that this was not an orphanage 6 months after the event.
The girls appeared in their heroes/martyr day crap when the Tamils blared out who and what they were, and how difficult it was to retrain more. They also laughed at the “ugly stupidity” of Sinhala modayas (retards) always being easily trapped and manipulated by their propaganda. You need to go to Tamil sites, written in Tamil script, unscramble the Tamil text to see this. That is how Tamils really find out what is happening and is how they coordinate their efforts in the West. They do no read Western media, watch CNN/BBC then “react” to what is shown. They act on their own taking direct “orders” from these websites, run by the LTTE both in Sri Lanka (before we got rid of them) and out of it. And to add some spice to these Tamil websites, the servers are located in Norway and Switzerland and the “editors” who print the garbage are in London, Washington and Oslo. One “editor” is a high ranker in Home Office in London, i.e. a top British civil servant.
4 CG // Dec 20, 2009 at 7:49 AM
Hey Steve,
I heard that Australia had made a formal request of Canada to take on some of those refugees who refused disembark the Ocean Viking when they were ordered to do so. Canada will consider it. Having said that, whats a handful of vetted Tamil refugees to Canadian taxpayers.
The problem I do have however is that let in a handful, watch thousands swamp Canadian shores. You know, Australia border patrol just headed off its 56th refugee filled boat of its shores. It’s almost a daily occurrence now–refugee boats being intercepted.
There is little doubt in anybody’s mind here that some of those Tamil refugees are LTTE rebels looking to set up operations overseas. The LTTE may have lost the 30-year battle, but the organization wasn’t wiped out, and given all that money that they raised over the years, they aren’t financially wiped out either. That my friend needs to be made perfectly clear to any country extending a taxpayer’s hand to help out if you know what I mean.
I’m not sure about this either, but I have heard that the number of Tamils living in Canada is something like half a million, much more than the numbers being tossed out whenever the media mentions something about Canada having the largest settlement of Tamils outside of Sri Lanka. If those numbers are correct, how much does anybody want to bet that a large number of those Tamils have sympathy for the LTTE, if not being outright members of the terrorist organization itself. I don’t know, but I am going to assume that those who contributed Canadian dollars to the LTTE did it not because they were be threatened into doing so, but because they wanted to be part of the organization–you know buy a seat on the bus type of mentality if that makes sense to you.
Bottomline–Canada should reject Australia’s request, because by not doing so, the risk of Tamil violence exploding in Canada rises substantially more. They are, without a doubt in my mind, a very violent people.
5 CG // Dec 20, 2009 at 7:57 AM
Steve,
Whatever it was, the goings on there were a front for the LTTE’s training operations as you say. What really gets me about this particular Canadian-Tamil terrorist is that he was stupid enough to use a bombing that happened after his capture as reasoning behind his becoming an arms dealer for the LTTE. What was it he said, something about seeing the devastation, causing him to join the ranks of the LTTE. How long was he working for the LTTE before that bombing again? He was driven by money, and I don’t think he gave a flying f*** about Tamils when he signed on. You know how it is, I’m going to do what’s best for me and f*** my own people. They aren’t paying me for my services.” I’m think this guy would have used Tamil women and children as human shields in a heartbeat if it meant the difference in whether he lived or died. He probably would have traded members of his own family for a tank or RPG.
6 CG // Dec 20, 2009 at 8:01 AM
Steve, you and I both know that the LTTE and its propaganda spinning machine has excelled when it comes to manipulating the western media into seeing things their way. It doesn’t take much to convince story tellers to spin the bad side of what is really going down. Funny isn’t it, the Sri Lanka government prevented news about what was going on inside of Sri Lanka; thereby allowing only one side of the story to be told, that of the LTTE. It was a bad move on the government’s part. I bet upon reflection, they are sort of regretting that now. What do you think?
7 Steve // Dec 20, 2009 at 10:48 AM
CG, with regards to this Tamil guy, you are on the money he did not give a shit. Most Tamils are in for a “free for all”. They all were happy to send their own kith and kin to death as cannon fodder in SL so long as they enjoyed the good life in the West. If you looked at the protests in London, they were all FOBs. Like those before them they needed the war to last long enough to get permanent residency. The rest just do it for cash. LTTE was a cash cow, they had “diversified” into drug dealing, weapons and human smuggling and much much more. Others are just “going with the flow”. Sadly in the West many Tamils have developed a sub-culture driven on hate of Sri Lanka and Sinhalese, this is now becoming the mainstream amongst them. No amount of “reaching out” by us works because they are so detached from the ground situation here (some Tamils looked at the fighting like it was a video game) that extremism is true the roof and spread like wildfire (usually the case with most expatriate communities from China/South Asia/ME, they are furiously more “patriotic” than those in China/South Asia).
8 Steve // Dec 20, 2009 at 10:54 AM
CG, the Government of SL allowed Western media (plus others, Indian, Russian, Chinese, Arabian etc) into SL. But it was more than obvious since time immemorial who Western media was batting for.
Why would anyone allow fifth column, especially in the final stages of the conflict, to operate under your very nose and give strategic information to the enemy, or provide propaganda in their favour against you? Its basically like Western forces in Iraq and Afghanistan allowing Taleban/Alqudaie/Iraqi Insurgent biased journalists and media (without an attempt made to even pretend to be unbiased) be imbedded with them, where they are clearly working for the Taleban etc? Who the hell would allow that?
Indian media was right their on the frontlines, eating with the troops, getting first hand info, basically all the juicy stories and details. They were asked to keep somethings secret until after the war, then publish, which to their credit they did. We kept Western media out because of their blatant and disgusting anti-Sinhala reporting. Then in true hypocritical fashion they complain about that and act as if some crime has been committed against them, and bitch about “no independent this or that”, “denied access” and use this as a justification to report even more negatively when in reality they themselves created that situation. Even when given access they just blather out Tamil propaganda and mock Sinhala responses, making them look like complete lies/bs while whatever Tamils says is made out as the gospel. If they were fair and analysed/ridiculed both sides equally then fair game, but its clearly one sided ridicule –well that’s the way Sinhalese feel, which explains why the Government locked out Western media.
So it’s a damned if you do damned if you don’t. Personally I believe for that time it was a good move, and many in SL think that.
9 Steve // Dec 20, 2009 at 11:05 AM
Do not get me wrong; I am not saying all Western media should be treated like that or are like that. It was the main culprits –BBC, CNN, London Times, Telegraph, Britains Channel 4 that were “locked out”. They are the big media powers and regularly quote each other (thus cementing propaganda as fact) then other Western media, “small time” players quote them. Those ones are by far the worst and give the rest a bad name or “harsh” treatment. My rant from the previous post should have been more clear in who I meant as “Western Media”.
Reuters another big time media player was also at the front line and got exclusives. They were not debarred.
10 CG // Dec 20, 2009 at 11:20 AM
Steve, are you saying that Reuters spun stories to make it look like the Sri Lanka government was as evil and cruel as the LTTE and their supporters were saying they were. If memory serves me well, Reuters didn’t go out their way to paint the LTTE in a bad light as often as they went out their way to post negative stories about the Sri Lanka forces, and of course the restrictions on what journalist could day. Maybe I missed something, but there isn’t a news organization, at least not up until the government won the war anyway, that had much good to say about the government. If there was, they were few and far between.
11 CG // Dec 20, 2009 at 11:29 AM
Steve, I know that there was some reportage being manipulated by the Sri Lanka government, usually in an effort to offset the propaganda the LTTE were funnelling to the media outlets that didn’t have access into the country, and who for all intents and purposes had an axe to grind with the Sri Lanka authorities. Don’t get me wrong–I fully support the stand the Sri Lanka government took in regards to the media, but if it was me who had to make that call I would done something different, like maybe open the border to all news media outlets and let the chips fall where they may. I’m pretty sure that the reportage from a mass media that would have swarmed into Sri Lanka would have help shut down the LTTE propaganda machine, or at the very least made the LTTE look a hell of a lot worse than the information getting out of the country was portraying them to be, all the while undermining the efforts of the Sri Lanka government’s efforts to actually get as much of the truth out there. Either way, the media picked sides big time in this war.
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