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		<title>By: Arun</title>
		<link>http://blogs.channel4.com/snowblog/2009/06/18/after-the-rout-fears-for-sri-lankas-tamils/comment-page-1/#comment-16458</link>
		<dc:creator>Arun</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:50:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Dharshana,

I understand what you exactly mean but listen to this as well please?

1. Don&#039;t you think even if only 800,000 live in northeast, they should be protected as well as anyother? 1.2 millions live in peacefully - how sure are you? Why these 1.2 million were shipped to northeast in 1983? Does this make 800,000 so special?

2. Even if Tigers used tamils as human sheilds - would this give any rights to Srilankan soldiers to treat them like this?

3. would you ever come out of this racist mentality even for a second for god sake?

Who runs Srilanka? if you ever speak about equality or press freedom - you would be out of the country from your own government - you know that?

God bless Srilanka, who excutes it&#039;s own citizens</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Dharshana,</p>
<p>I understand what you exactly mean but listen to this as well please?</p>
<p>1. Don&#8217;t you think even if only 800,000 live in northeast, they should be protected as well as anyother? 1.2 millions live in peacefully &#8211; how sure are you? Why these 1.2 million were shipped to northeast in 1983? Does this make 800,000 so special?</p>
<p>2. Even if Tigers used tamils as human sheilds &#8211; would this give any rights to Srilankan soldiers to treat them like this?</p>
<p>3. would you ever come out of this racist mentality even for a second for god sake?</p>
<p>Who runs Srilanka? if you ever speak about equality or press freedom &#8211; you would be out of the country from your own government &#8211; you know that?</p>
<p>God bless Srilanka, who excutes it&#8217;s own citizens</p>
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		<title>By: lankapeaceblogger (Imran Vittachi)</title>
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		<dc:creator>lankapeaceblogger (Imran Vittachi)</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 22:17:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Congratulations to Jonathan Miller for landing his exclusive on-camera interview with the Tamil Tigers&#039; elusive &quot;KP&quot; Padmanathan (or Pathmanathan). I myself was trying to get an interview with KP for my blogging site, www.lankapeacewatch.com, but to no avail. So I commend Miller for pulling off this interview with a man who is very hard to find because he&#039;s on the run. I am linking Miller&#039;s exclusive for Channel 4 (UK) News to my site, and I invite Channel 4 viewers to check out my June 29 blog on KP. In it, I recall my 1996 brush with KP in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, during his previous incarnation as the Tigers&#039; international weapons smuggler and missile procurer. Imran Vittachi.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Congratulations to Jonathan Miller for landing his exclusive on-camera interview with the Tamil Tigers&#8217; elusive &#8220;KP&#8221; Padmanathan (or Pathmanathan). I myself was trying to get an interview with KP for my blogging site, <a href="http://www.lankapeacewatch.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.lankapeacewatch.com</a>, but to no avail. So I commend Miller for pulling off this interview with a man who is very hard to find because he&#8217;s on the run. I am linking Miller&#8217;s exclusive for Channel 4 (UK) News to my site, and I invite Channel 4 viewers to check out my June 29 blog on KP. In it, I recall my 1996 brush with KP in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, during his previous incarnation as the Tigers&#8217; international weapons smuggler and missile procurer. Imran Vittachi.</p>
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		<title>By: MexDF.Independient.Press</title>
		<link>http://blogs.channel4.com/snowblog/2009/06/18/after-the-rout-fears-for-sri-lankas-tamils/comment-page-1/#comment-13991</link>
		<dc:creator>MexDF.Independient.Press</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 12:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>MexDF.Independient.Press report:

A week ago, the very well known TV future teller was arrested by Colombo city sri lankan Police because he preticted the President of the Nation would be removed from the Government of Sri Lanka.

 Without giving details of statements, the argentinian horoscope man also added in his homepage, wwww.zodiacguille.com, two URLs, one corresponding to Mr. Chandrasiri Bandara and, of course, the other: Sri Lanka President´s oficial site. 

&quot;Up to now, I couldn´t log in Chandrasiris´blog; it seems &quot;stars&quot; aren´t helping...&quot; he joked. &quot;but to President´s site is quite interesting and easy to contact His Excellecy ...&quot; 

Many astrologers all over the world are on &quot;esoteric&quot; expectation about the Sri Lankan Government decision. To finish, Don Zodiac Guille said: &quot;I would respectfully like to have a look on the  Mundane Astral Chart already built by Mr. BANDARA because the Police want a logical explanation about those political predictions on President  Mahinda Rajipakse´s destitution&quot;.

Don Zodiac Guille ended saying :&quot;Astrology is a millenary social practice...so we have to moderate our concepts when a Country Chart is going to be published specially if the land situation is difficult&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>MexDF.Independient.Press report:</p>
<p>A week ago, the very well known TV future teller was arrested by Colombo city sri lankan Police because he preticted the President of the Nation would be removed from the Government of Sri Lanka.</p>
<p> Without giving details of statements, the argentinian horoscope man also added in his homepage, wwww.zodiacguille.com, two URLs, one corresponding to Mr. Chandrasiri Bandara and, of course, the other: Sri Lanka President´s oficial site. </p>
<p>&#8220;Up to now, I couldn´t log in Chandrasiris´blog; it seems &#8220;stars&#8221; aren´t helping&#8230;&#8221; he joked. &#8220;but to President´s site is quite interesting and easy to contact His Excellecy &#8230;&#8221; </p>
<p>Many astrologers all over the world are on &#8220;esoteric&#8221; expectation about the Sri Lankan Government decision. To finish, Don Zodiac Guille said: &#8220;I would respectfully like to have a look on the  Mundane Astral Chart already built by Mr. BANDARA because the Police want a logical explanation about those political predictions on President  Mahinda Rajipakse´s destitution&#8221;.</p>
<p>Don Zodiac Guille ended saying :&#8221;Astrology is a millenary social practice&#8230;so we have to moderate our concepts when a Country Chart is going to be published specially if the land situation is difficult&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: Dharshana</title>
		<link>http://blogs.channel4.com/snowblog/2009/06/18/after-the-rout-fears-for-sri-lankas-tamils/comment-page-1/#comment-13326</link>
		<dc:creator>Dharshana</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:06:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Mr. Miller,
In your opinion your may have filed a balanced and fair report.  But facts distorted and not reported is what makes you a journalist with a colonial agenda.  You did a very clever job, but it is easy to see the fallacy of your reports. 
1. Out of the 2 millions Tamils on Sri Lanka, only about 800,000 live in the North-East.  The remaining 1.2 million live peacefully in the rest of the country, mostly in Sinhala majority areas.
2. You never mentioned that Tamil Tiger terrorists used civilians as a human shield.  They hid behind them  and fired over 100,000 shells in the last few months.
3. You did not mention that most of the funds for the Tiger terrorists to buy arms to terrorize Lanka came from Britain.  You and your British compatriots supported the destruction of Lanka for the last 20 years by supporting this fund raising and giving free movement to these terrorists.
4. Lastly, MR. Miller, get over it.  We are no more a colony of yours.  You cannot dictate to us how to run our own country.  We are a much smaller nation than yours, but that does not make us a slave to your colonial agenda.  Britain failed to subjugate Sri Lanka using the tigers as a tool, and now they are trying to do the same using the media power (you) of the west.  This will fail too.

Minorities in Sri Lanka have much more power than in Britain.  There are millions of non-white minorities in Britain (10%), is 10% of British parliament non-white?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mr. Miller,<br />
In your opinion your may have filed a balanced and fair report.  But facts distorted and not reported is what makes you a journalist with a colonial agenda.  You did a very clever job, but it is easy to see the fallacy of your reports.<br />
1. Out of the 2 millions Tamils on Sri Lanka, only about 800,000 live in the North-East.  The remaining 1.2 million live peacefully in the rest of the country, mostly in Sinhala majority areas.<br />
2. You never mentioned that Tamil Tiger terrorists used civilians as a human shield.  They hid behind them  and fired over 100,000 shells in the last few months.<br />
3. You did not mention that most of the funds for the Tiger terrorists to buy arms to terrorize Lanka came from Britain.  You and your British compatriots supported the destruction of Lanka for the last 20 years by supporting this fund raising and giving free movement to these terrorists.<br />
4. Lastly, MR. Miller, get over it.  We are no more a colony of yours.  You cannot dictate to us how to run our own country.  We are a much smaller nation than yours, but that does not make us a slave to your colonial agenda.  Britain failed to subjugate Sri Lanka using the tigers as a tool, and now they are trying to do the same using the media power (you) of the west.  This will fail too.</p>
<p>Minorities in Sri Lanka have much more power than in Britain.  There are millions of non-white minorities in Britain (10%), is 10% of British parliament non-white?</p>
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		<title>By: Munna</title>
		<link>http://blogs.channel4.com/snowblog/2009/06/18/after-the-rout-fears-for-sri-lankas-tamils/comment-page-1/#comment-13295</link>
		<dc:creator>Munna</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 05:22:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hello Bro

Sinhale killed our brothers and tamils. They wanted to wipe all tamil speaking people from srilankan. When LTTE lost their ablity ;there tamils and muslims problem started again by Srilankan army. If you live in Jaffna, kathankudi and puthalam then only you can understang. Dont say LTTE is bad. There were there to save tamil people.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hello Bro</p>
<p>Sinhale killed our brothers and tamils. They wanted to wipe all tamil speaking people from srilankan. When LTTE lost their ablity ;there tamils and muslims problem started again by Srilankan army. If you live in Jaffna, kathankudi and puthalam then only you can understang. Dont say LTTE is bad. There were there to save tamil people.</p>
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		<title>By: same rights</title>
		<link>http://blogs.channel4.com/snowblog/2009/06/18/after-the-rout-fears-for-sri-lankas-tamils/comment-page-1/#comment-13294</link>
		<dc:creator>same rights</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 01:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sinhales and Tamils NEVER lived in peace. I&#039;m not sure if your&#039;e a Sri Lankan or not, but don&#039;t say false things like that. 
&quot;This issue traces its roots way back to 1948 when the British colonial government handed over the power to the Sinhalese majority at the time of independence. 

Tamils suffered abuses. They were discriminated in education and employment. Thus they were side-lined by several governments, which sparked political violence in the 1970s and a full-scale war in 1983. Tamils were suffocating and suffering because of humiliation and ill-treatment, 
The Tamils by and large want to live peacefully. Their presence in Sri Lanka dates back to times immemorial. The majority of Tamil population are worshippers of Lord Parameshwara. India and Sri Lanka have relationship from the time of the Ramayana. The saints of Tamil Nadu described Kedarnath in the Himalayas and Kedheechara in Sri Lanka as the symbols of cultural unity among Hindus. The abode of Shiva in Kedarnath near Badrinath is the same as Kedheechara, which is situated in the heart of Sri Lanka. Kandi and Kadirkama are famous for the worship of Lord Kartikeya and Mariamman, for Goddess Durga.&quot; -Organiser

TAMILS and SINHALESE HAVE NEVER or  CAN NEVER IN THE FUTURE LIVE PEACEFULLY WITH THE MAJORITY SINHALESE. IT&#039;S PRETTY CLEAR TO THE WORLD NOW. THERE&#039;S NOTHING TO HIDE. 

Tamils have rights to gaining a Nation to themselves - Tamil Eelam because a race has been in all different ways been subjugated to racial prejudice in Sri Lanka. According to this, we have every right to create a country for ourselves. We will fight for this as long as Tamil people reside on this planet. No ONE can stop us. We are fighting for something that is RIGHTFULLY ours. For those who wonder, why LTTE includes suicide bombers: that&#039;s how much respect and love we have for our land that is righfully ours. WE WILL GIVE OUR LIVES IN ORDER TO ATTAIN IT. I, a member of the DIASPORA, if had the chance would give my life to fight for TAMIL EELAM. That&#039;s how much I love it. I PROUDLY SAY: MY COUNTRY IS TAMIL EELAM. MY LEADER IS V.PIRAPAHARAN. That is all.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sinhales and Tamils NEVER lived in peace. I&#8217;m not sure if your&#8217;e a Sri Lankan or not, but don&#8217;t say false things like that.<br />
&#8220;This issue traces its roots way back to 1948 when the British colonial government handed over the power to the Sinhalese majority at the time of independence. </p>
<p>Tamils suffered abuses. They were discriminated in education and employment. Thus they were side-lined by several governments, which sparked political violence in the 1970s and a full-scale war in 1983. Tamils were suffocating and suffering because of humiliation and ill-treatment,<br />
The Tamils by and large want to live peacefully. Their presence in Sri Lanka dates back to times immemorial. The majority of Tamil population are worshippers of Lord Parameshwara. India and Sri Lanka have relationship from the time of the Ramayana. The saints of Tamil Nadu described Kedarnath in the Himalayas and Kedheechara in Sri Lanka as the symbols of cultural unity among Hindus. The abode of Shiva in Kedarnath near Badrinath is the same as Kedheechara, which is situated in the heart of Sri Lanka. Kandi and Kadirkama are famous for the worship of Lord Kartikeya and Mariamman, for Goddess Durga.&#8221; -Organiser</p>
<p>TAMILS and SINHALESE HAVE NEVER or  CAN NEVER IN THE FUTURE LIVE PEACEFULLY WITH THE MAJORITY SINHALESE. IT&#8217;S PRETTY CLEAR TO THE WORLD NOW. THERE&#8217;S NOTHING TO HIDE. </p>
<p>Tamils have rights to gaining a Nation to themselves &#8211; Tamil Eelam because a race has been in all different ways been subjugated to racial prejudice in Sri Lanka. According to this, we have every right to create a country for ourselves. We will fight for this as long as Tamil people reside on this planet. No ONE can stop us. We are fighting for something that is RIGHTFULLY ours. For those who wonder, why LTTE includes suicide bombers: that&#8217;s how much respect and love we have for our land that is righfully ours. WE WILL GIVE OUR LIVES IN ORDER TO ATTAIN IT. I, a member of the DIASPORA, if had the chance would give my life to fight for TAMIL EELAM. That&#8217;s how much I love it. I PROUDLY SAY: MY COUNTRY IS TAMIL EELAM. MY LEADER IS V.PIRAPAHARAN. That is all.</p>
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		<title>By: A Civilian</title>
		<link>http://blogs.channel4.com/snowblog/2009/06/18/after-the-rout-fears-for-sri-lankas-tamils/comment-page-1/#comment-13287</link>
		<dc:creator>A Civilian</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:23:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I can fully understand the feelings of the Sinhalese, LTTE was a threat and I can understand why you are rejoicing at the news the war is over. but please don&#039;t shut your eyes and deny the injustice that has happened to the Tamils</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I can fully understand the feelings of the Sinhalese, LTTE was a threat and I can understand why you are rejoicing at the news the war is over. but please don&#8217;t shut your eyes and deny the injustice that has happened to the Tamils</p>
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		<title>By: A Civilian</title>
		<link>http://blogs.channel4.com/snowblog/2009/06/18/after-the-rout-fears-for-sri-lankas-tamils/comment-page-1/#comment-13286</link>
		<dc:creator>A Civilian</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:19:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>JOnathan wasn&#039;t talking about LTTE. His report highlighted the plight of Tamil. LTTE was formed by Tamils, but please remember all Tamils are not LTTE.

Majority of the tamils who are demonstrating in London and other western world are not LTTE, they are normal humans who are shocked by whats going on.

Why do you think none of the Tamil in Sri Lanka are protesting, because they are scared. The day Tamils can openly express their views in Sri lanka and not be scared by the consequences will be the day Sri Lanka becomes a democratic counrty</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>JOnathan wasn&#8217;t talking about LTTE. His report highlighted the plight of Tamil. LTTE was formed by Tamils, but please remember all Tamils are not LTTE.</p>
<p>Majority of the tamils who are demonstrating in London and other western world are not LTTE, they are normal humans who are shocked by whats going on.</p>
<p>Why do you think none of the Tamil in Sri Lanka are protesting, because they are scared. The day Tamils can openly express their views in Sri lanka and not be scared by the consequences will be the day Sri Lanka becomes a democratic counrty</p>
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		<title>By: Leela</title>
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		<dc:creator>Leela</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 11:36:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What is this Jonathan talking about?Tigers are the worst terrorist in the world. Six or seven years ago lot of my friends died. Because of Tamil suscide bombers. Please do not forget these people can be easily brain washed by silly politicans.

Be thankful Sri Lankan Governement managet to win this war once and for all. US and UK should learn from this and  get rid of other illegal gangs.

Sinahalese and Tamils used to live in peace in Sri Lanka. If you have skills and talent you could have a good life in Sri Lanka your nationality is not relevant.

You should help our country to bring back the good old days. We used to go to Jaffna and Trinco for our holidays. Our Tamil friends used to give a good time to us. Hope very soon anybody could go to these beautiful areas and have a good time and bring work to these people.

Reporters what you should do is ask other investers to come and develop the country.
Please do not broadcast useless information like the one Jonathan broadcast on Ch4.. Now the war is over. It came to a good end. If you love reporting,  report on what big companies or big investers to come and help to develop the country.They could do lot of help to the country. Please do some usefull reporting to help my country and help the world as well.

Thanks</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What is this Jonathan talking about?Tigers are the worst terrorist in the world. Six or seven years ago lot of my friends died. Because of Tamil suscide bombers. Please do not forget these people can be easily brain washed by silly politicans.</p>
<p>Be thankful Sri Lankan Governement managet to win this war once and for all. US and UK should learn from this and  get rid of other illegal gangs.</p>
<p>Sinahalese and Tamils used to live in peace in Sri Lanka. If you have skills and talent you could have a good life in Sri Lanka your nationality is not relevant.</p>
<p>You should help our country to bring back the good old days. We used to go to Jaffna and Trinco for our holidays. Our Tamil friends used to give a good time to us. Hope very soon anybody could go to these beautiful areas and have a good time and bring work to these people.</p>
<p>Reporters what you should do is ask other investers to come and develop the country.<br />
Please do not broadcast useless information like the one Jonathan broadcast on Ch4.. Now the war is over. It came to a good end. If you love reporting,  report on what big companies or big investers to come and help to develop the country.They could do lot of help to the country. Please do some usefull reporting to help my country and help the world as well.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
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		<title>By: Nicky</title>
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		<dc:creator>Nicky</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 19:38:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If this isn´t genocide,then what is?The SL govt. successfully eliminated tamils voices and anyone who is against it is persecuted.What future do these innocent civilians in the Nazi styled camp have than to be tortured,humiliated,raped and murdered by the army. The death of tigers have the same moral significance to the non existence of tamils. Thanks to the int community for its ever lasting silence no matter how many tamils are killed in the past and present.We need more media attention givien the death figures and I would like to congratulate channel 4 news team to continously bringing out the truth to the world.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If this isn´t genocide,then what is?The SL govt. successfully eliminated tamils voices and anyone who is against it is persecuted.What future do these innocent civilians in the Nazi styled camp have than to be tortured,humiliated,raped and murdered by the army. The death of tigers have the same moral significance to the non existence of tamils. Thanks to the int community for its ever lasting silence no matter how many tamils are killed in the past and present.We need more media attention givien the death figures and I would like to congratulate channel 4 news team to continously bringing out the truth to the world.</p>
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