Best of Luck Mr. Ajith P Perera! Keep Moderating My Comments until You Finish your PC Poll Campaign

I wrote this post on my blog as a response to Ajith Perera's blog post titled "Only Tamils are terrorists; not Pakistanis?" on Wednsday 11th March. Then I left a comment on his blog post, refering to my reply post. I mentioned in my note that, "this post is now congested with comments by many other readers, so I decided to leave my comment as a new post on my own blog". Then I invited Mr. Ajith P Perera, to leave any responses on my blog post (if necasary). For my surprise, the comment wasn't published on Ajith's blog. Then I tried again. Wordpress said "Whoops! Looks like you've already said that". Meaning, my comment was saved in the WP database, but wasn't published on Ajith's blog.

Earlier I have posted a comment on Ajith's blog post about S B Dissanayake, and it was published properly. Liberal Lanka replied to my comment on Ajith's blog a little while later. 

Voice in Colombo said
March 11, 2009 at 7:37 am
The hard core UNP’ers will never let SB to be the party leader. If at all there’s any hope for the UNP; that got to be Sajith. But then again, he’s being cornered to a desert district.
Why UNP never appoint newly popular characters to Colombo district? Why Karu was moved to Gampaha district, where as he started his political career from Colombo MC? Why Milinda Moragoda had to leave UNP?
And who is this new funny “Ruwan Wijewardene” pushed so hard by the UNP, for upcoming Western provincial council?
Ajith! I know you love your party. My father did love it too. He never voted any other party, ever since independence. he voted Ranil in last presidential election. But you know what? He now regrets for voting Ranil, against Mahinda. No matter how much you dislike to believe, that’s the common mentality of most of the long standing UNP supporters. You people blame SLFP to be dominated by Rajapakshe’s. But undeneath the radar, there’s a “Wijewardene” saga going inside the UNP. Innocent voters doesn’t see this. The party is dominated by only a certain family blocks. They won’t let some one from common public to climb into the leadership. Not SB. Nor Sajith.
It’ll be “Wijewardene” family tree all alone for ever!!!
BTW, we must congratulate SLFP’ers for “liberating” it from Bandaranayake’s. Now Ajith, it’s your turn to liberate UNP from Wijewardene’s.

Liberal Lanka said
March 11, 2009 at 12:03 pm
Ajith
So you seem to be tired of Ranil as well don’t you? can’t blame you.I agree Ranil is not marketable anymore. Sri Lanka doesn’t deserve someone like Ranil, what it deserves is crooks in the caliber of JR, RP and MR.
@VIC
As for sajith, he chose Hambantota no one pushed him there, it is always easier to fool the rural folk.
Milinda had to leave because of the COPE report.
Whats is so good about Bandaranayakes been replaced by Rajapakshes? Why can’t we get rid of these family politics?
As for Ruwan I agree, Ranil is trying to bring in him and it is sad.

Then I went and posted a reply to Liberal Lanka on the same post. Surprise! The comment doesn't appear on Ajith's blog!!!

Looks like Ajith is really "not dare to be different". What he is doing is just what would any other cheap politician would do. Simply "turning off" opposing voices. That's what his party leader is doing. And the funny thing is, people like Ajith are talking about freedom of speech and threat to that freedom by Mahinda Rajapakshe government! Ajith P Perera is not alone. The so called guardians of freedom of speech; Groundviews does this. Dinindu De Alwis does this! (We must appreciate Indi's policy in this regards. He never moderate comments. Instead he simply ignore tough comments)

Is this what you are going to do, if you manage to bring a UNP government to power, Mr. Ajith P Perera? Wish you all the best for upcoming PC polls.

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Tamils Are Not Terrorists. Pakistanis Aren't Either!

I accidentally came across with this blog post on Ajith P Perera's blog, and found that he has made some comments about me in his post. The post was already crowded with too many comments, and my response is too lengthy to be posted there. So I decided to post it as a new entry in my blog, and post a reference his original article.

@ Ajith P Perera,

//Voice in Colombo has reported the incident but yet to offer his opinion and/or condemn the attack. So are so many other bloggers, Sinhala and English.\\

Firstly, I admit the fact that I failed to post my personal opinion about the incident on my own blog, due to time constraints I had to manage during the week this incident took place. Yes, I would have definitely made a blog entry regarding this incident, because it wasn't such a simple case to be ignored. On the same time, I'd like to remind you that I have posted my personal opinion about the incident, on Indi's blog (On his post "WTF Pakistan!").

For your benefit, I'll sum up my personal view about the incident.

About your title; I have never said anywhere on the blogosphere that "Tamils are terrorists". I have never said that "Pakistanis are terrorists" either. But you are making an assertion here, that Pakistanis can easily be generalized as "terrorists" just because our cricket team went under attack in their soil. How clever you are!

Quote: It is more than 48 hours Sri Lankan cricketers were attacked horribly by Pakistani terrorists in Lahore.

If you believe that Pakistanis are terrorists in general; what's your say about these people? About these? and These?

In almost every blog post I talked about terrorism in Sri Lanka, I used the terms, LTTE / LTTE Terrorists / Tigers / Tiger Terrorists or Terrorists in general when referring to the "Terrorists". I have never used the term "Tamil Terrorists" in my blog, because I don't believe that "Tamils are terrorists". My assertion is, LTTE is a terror group, and they consist largely with Tamils. So, when fighting against a terror group who are largely consist of Tamils; it is natural that some of the innocent Tamils also get affected. But, it's not fair to say "stop all security measures against LTTE, because it cause some disturmances to innocent Tamils". 

When it comes to the attack in Lahore, I have categorically condemned the attack on Indi's blog. I have never tried to justify the attack for any reason, as you try to imply here. My argument was, it is not fair for us (Sri Lankans) to blame the Pakistani people, Pakistan state, or their government for this attack. Of course their security forces failed. But, as a nation state Pakistan never intended to hurt our cricketers. It was a completely ruthless bunch of terrorists who carried out that attack. And as I asserted in my comment on Indi's blog, the objective of that terror group would have been simply to humiliate Pakistan as a nation state. And I argued that, blog posts like this would serve exactly the same objective. In other words, when Indi blogged "WTF Pakistan!", the terrorists achieved their mission of degrading Pakistan as a nation state.

So, if you are truly against terrorism, what you have to do is just stopping "indirectly supporting them". That was the core point I made on Indi's blog.

Further, I don't believe the allegation that the LTTE was behind the attack in Lahore. It was carried out by some Islamic extremist group. Would an Islamic extremist group co-ordinate with an organization which carry out suicide attacks inside mosques on Holy Prophet's birthday? If that is so; the Islam world will have to take a serious re-look at  the concept of "Islamic Fundementalism". Are they really fighting for safeguarding the holy Koran, or are they fighting for something else?

It is a shame how some Sri Lankan politicians behaved, after the Lahore shoot out. Instead of condemning the attack and extending gratitude to Pakistani people and their security forces for sending our cricketers back home all alive; our politicians tried to get some political mileage. The Kotte Ravi, Ex-Sports minister Laxman Kiriella, and Hashan Tillakeratne are few to name.

There had been a big mistake down the line somewhere, in arranging the security for that particular test match. It would have end up in a much dangerous tragedy. It's true that somebody should get the blame. But, would a "Blame Game" serve any purpose?

What's next? Is it fair for us to say "Pakistan should not get any home cricket series for next few years"?
Is it fair for us to say "Pakistan should not be a part of 2011 World Cup?"
Is it fair for us to say "Pakistan is a Terrorist nation"?
(If so; what if Pakistan and India said "it is not safe to play in Sri Lanka, back in 1996?". Would we stiil have some sweet memories of our glorious finale in Lahore, back in 1996??)

Our own coach Trevor Baileys now says "It's not safe to do any sport in entire South Asia". See how far this has gone? Now they'll say it's not safe to hold the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi. Is it fair for Indians?

What Trevor Baileys, Indrajith Samarajeeva, and Ajith P Perera should understand is "It's not safe anywhere on this Earth!" If you didn't know up to now, "It's not even safe to be in Alabama - USA". Did some one say, "WTF Alabama?"

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A Picture Which Speaks Thousand Words

This is one of the most "informative" photographs I've seen recently, which describe the status of LTTE brutality. Look at the faces of the innocent people in the front rows of this parade. They would never have expected the disasters which was happening from their back. For Allah's sake it was a religious ceremony, although it was over crowded by a lot of politicians. This is the type of terrorism that some "peace merchants" wants our government to negotiate with. This is the type of terrorism that so called "liberal thinkers" in this country, try to cover up from the western world.

Photograph courtesy Janith Wipulaguna of Lankadeepa.

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Terror attack near Gaddafi Stadium - Sri Lankan Cricketers Injured

A terrorist attack near the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore has put a
question mark over the second Test being played there between Pakistan
and Sri Lanka. A top security official told reporters five armed
terrorists attacked the convoy surrounding the Sri Lankan team bus and
five policemen were killed.

The shoot out occured at Lahore's Liberty market as the team was on
it's way to the stadium. According to television reports, Sri Lanka's
security team was targeted. The third day of the Lahore Test is
scheduled to begin at 10.00 am. (Via Cricinfo)

It is reported that Thilan Samaraweera was injured in his chest.
Tharanga Paranawitharana in his leg. Kumar Sangakkara and Ajantha
Mendis was also reportedly injured. Others sustained minor injuries.

After the incident, the second test between Sri lanka and Pakistan was
called off. No decision has been made regarding the future of the
tour. Most probably, Sri Lankans would call off th tour and return
home immediately. ICC is yet to issue an official announcement of the
incident, and their view point.

Meanwhile, a recorded video footage of the incident shows a gunman
running on the street shooting towards the Sri Lankan team convoy. Few
other men had grenades in their hands. Gunmen escaped safely, after
the shooting.

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