After two angry posts where some really harsh words were used at the criminal genocidal maniacs and their vile backers, I’ve decided that it’s time for an apology. Yes, after reading some of my own words again, I do owe an apology to some. I’ve compared the mass murderers in the Rajapaksa regime in SL and their backers in world governments as well as the ones in their pay to sewer rats, vicious vermin, rabid canines and filthy swine.

I certainly owe an apology to all the canines, vermin and swine of planet Earth! In my anger, I committed the mistake of comparing these wonderful creatures of Mother Nature to the lowly sub-human, sub-animal filth beings in the rogue SinHELLa establishment, their backers in the Indian establishment as well as the crooked Commie criminals of the Chinese regime and the bloated, bureaucratic filth that populate the United Nations. By using the words canines, vermin and swine as insults, I’ve inadvertently done a grave injustice to all the dogs, wolves, hyenas, rats and pigs on the blue planet. I should not have compared these noble four-legged creatures with the filthy two-legged ones mentioned above.

Pigs and rats have many noble qualities that certain clothed-apes-with-opposable-thumbs lack:

I also should not have used the word “bitch” as an insult. Though I love cats, I like dogs very much as well. Moreover, once, when as a kid, I was playing alone in the garden, the female pet dog we had at the time courageously fought off a snake that could have harmed me. I don’t know if it was a poisonous snake but it was certainly a nasty looking slithering creature whose presence I was not aware of. I cannot forget the noble qualities of that female dog. It’s not without reason that a dog is considered as man’s best friend.

I love animals and for the ones that I don’t love, like cockroaches, I respect them for what they are. I’ve heard that cockroaches can survive the radiation from a nuclear attack. Maybe they are the only living creatures left unharmed as the rogue SinHELLa forces use chemical weapons on women and children with the full knowledge (and most disgustingly, full support, lip-service notwithstanding) of world governments and the United Nations. The only creatures that I really hate are mosquitoes. Those buzzing bloodsuckers don’t just suck the blood of humans and animals but are a real nuisance as well. But I don’t think even they have the capacity to guzzle human blood like the barbaric, cold-blooded murderers in the SinHELLa state.

No matter how “advanced” or “evolved” apes-with-opposable-thumbs may consider themselves compared to other animals, the scientific fact is that animals are just as “human” as any two-legged ape that wears clothes. If you’ve had a pet at any point of time, you would understand what I mean. Animals have the same emotions as humans do. Just because they cannot communicate their emotions clearly to us, it does not mean that they do not possess them. And I don’t just mean cats or dogs or other pets. It true of even lower mammals.

Consider this: There are many examples of apparent emotional behaviour in other animals. Elephants caring for a crippled herd member seem to show empathy. A funeral ritual performed by magpies suggests grief. Divers who freed a humpback whale caught in a crab line describe its reaction as one of gratitude. Then there’s the excited dance chimps perform when faced with a waterfall – it looks distinctly awe-inspired. These days, few doubt that animals have emotions, but whether they feel these consciously, as we do, is open to debate. Read the full article here.

And if you thought morals and ethics were a “human” trait, think again. Consider this: A classic study in 1964 found that hungry rhesus monkeys would not take food they had been offered if doing so meant that another monkey received an electric shock. The same is true of rats. Does this indicate morality? For decades, we have preferred to find alternative explanations, but recently ethologist Marc Bekoff from the University of Colorado at Boulder has championed the view that humans are not the only moral species. He argues that morality is common in social mammals, and that during play they learn the rights and wrongs of social interaction, the “moral norms that can then be extended to other situations such as sharing food, defending resources, grooming and giving care”.

“Work published this year showed that animals are able to make social evaluations and these assessments are foundational for moral behaviour in animals other than humans. Francys Subiaul of the George Washington University and his colleagues showed that captive chimpanzees are able to make judgments about the reputation of unfamiliar humans by observing their behaviour – whether they were generous or stingy in giving food to other humans. The ability to make character judgments is just what we would expect to find in a species in which fairness and cooperation are important in interactions among group members. Read the full article here.

As I mentioned, it’s not just about higher mammals. Even rats have a sense of empathy. Consider this: Mice appear to empathize with pain in other critters they’re familiar with, a capacity previously thought to exist only in higher primates.

The mice were given mild noxious stimuli that caused a stomach ache-like pain. Aside from the pain response itself, the researchers also studied how the mice interacted when they could see a cagemate in pain. The behaviour included whether they spent more time together or followed each other.

So, even vermin like mice have a sense of empathy and understanding of the suffering of their fellow creatures! So what prevents creatures from Ban Ki-Moon and the other bureaucratic filth that populate the United Nations from exhibiting the noble qualities of rats? How can they not just turn a blind eye, but actually increase the enormous man-made suffering of civilians in the genocide zone of SinHELLa Lanka, though they are fully aware of it? Is it because of this:

Posters put up by the rogue SinHELLa government declaring Hillary Clinton, Eric Solheim and David Milliband as “wanted terrorists” because they paid some lip-service about civilians trapped in the conflict:

Image: Al Jazeera

It cannot be because of that. SinHELLa Lanka is a tiny bankrupt rogue state that goes with a begging bowl around the world. It does not even have one-hundredth of the power of the Zionist state of Israel. Yet Israel is condemned by the UN for killing around one thousand civilians in a program of state terror on Gaza that ended in one week. SinHELLa Lanka, in contrast, has butchered (and continues to butcher) tens of journalists apart from 10,000 civilians in the last three months alone and has maimed more than twice that number, detained more than ten times that number in Nazi-style concentration camps and is deliberately starving fifteen times that number! Yet, for the filthy scum beings in the UN, the issue is too “sensitive” to even merit a discussion in the Security Council. Sub-rattus sewer creatures! The real reason as I’ve mentioned in earlier posts, is that every one of these creatures is directly or indirectly involved in this heinous genocide without witness.

So I did a grave injustice to rats and swine by comparing them to filthy scum creatures like the Rajapaksas and their backers – lowly beings like Chin Jin and Chin Jia (CCP dictatorial gang of Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao) from the organ harvesting, toxic baby-food producing Middle Kingdom with the long, crumbling mud Wall in its middle and Manmohan Singh, Pranab Mukherjee, P.Chidambaram, M.K.Narayanan, Shivshankar Menon, Subramaniam Swamy, N.Ram, Alok Prasad, M.Karunanidhi, Ban Ki-Moon, Vijay Nambiar and John Holmes. These creatures and others involved in the worst genocide of the 21st century shall have to pay for their crimes against humanity some day or the other. There shall be no escape for these shameless Pithecanthropuses!

While the filthy bureaucratic vermin at the United Nations try desperately to cover up a genocide taking place with their full knowledge because of the involvement of several world powers in this genocide by a rogue regime that has killed nearly 8,000 civilians in the last four months alone, more and more unspeakable war crimes are coming to the attention of civilised human beings. In a genocide without witness, where all media, international aid workers and even UN staff are banned from the genocide zone to cover up the worst war crimes of the 21st century, where courageous journalists are butchered by government death squads, heinous war crimes are taking place with every passing moment.

In the latest horrific war crime, a makeshift hospital was shelled by heavy weaponry, killing a doctor, two nurses and 61 patients. This had taken place despite the exact co-ordinates of the hospital being passed to the rogue forces by the ICRC.

Patients waiting to be treated in a makeshift hospital that was deliberately denied medicines and supplies by the rogue SinHELLa regime were butchered in a deliberate artillery attack on two successive days:

The international “mainstream media” which deliberately colluded in the genocide by failing to report civilian casualties, is beginning to be troubled by its conscience. After all, not everyone is a filthy sub-human, sub-animal scum creature who takes great pleasure in watching fellow humans suffer or try to to dismiss heinous crimes that they passively support as “the internal affair” of another country. Internal affair, my foot! The filthy swine at the United Nations have an obligation to ensure that governments have a responsibility to protect (R2P) civilians in a conflict, failing which the United Nations has to do the same. In a genocide being perpetrated by a rogue state, the UN fails to step in because criminal scum in the Chinese and Russian regimes (with the latter ever eager to lick the filthy asses of the swine in the Indian establishment) are actively backing the genocide and the other three of the P5 rogues (USA, UK and France) are passively backing it despite being humiliated by the rabid dogs of the Sinhala regime (Sweden’s humanitarian envoy was flatly refused a visa by this bankrupt country that is totally dependent on foreign aid). News reports about unspeakable war crimes are beginning to get published despite the scavenging editors in news establishments trying to black out reports of war crimes. Read reports here, here, here, here and here.

There are other types of news establishments – the ones that indulge in sewer journalism. The top example of this kind is the toilet paper The Hindu that is paid to publish vile, nauseating lies by its masters in both the rogue SinHELLa regime and the scoundrels in the notorious CCP regime of China. Do you want to know how a sewer journalist looks like? Here is the best example of such a lowlife scum creature:

The creature in the centre (the one in front of the microphones) is the world’s lowliest sewer journalist, the natural result of a passionate one-night stand between a filthy swine and a rabid bitch. This vicious creature is N.Ram, the liar-in-chief of the world’s most disgusting toilet paper called The Hindu:

(To be continued)

The world powers have given the go ahead. More than 100,000 men, women and children, born and unborn, already starved, denied medical help and forced to live in unspeakably inhuman conditions in a tiny strip of jungle in the Vanni region of Sri Lanka are going to be butchered in the most inhuman way from the land, sea and air with both conventional weapons, cluster bombs as well as chemical weapons. This is a holocaust that very few people know of, because the world “mainstream media” is actively colluding with the genocidal maniacs in the filthy regime of Sri Lanka by blacking out any news coming out of the genocide zone. In any case, journalists are banned from covering the genocide and the few decent journalists, who being troubled by their conscience, have written against this ongoing genocide have either been ruthlessly murdered or forced to flee the country fearing for their lives. I’ve e-mailed different world media outlets, informing them about the unspeakable human carnage taking place and asked them to find out the truth for themselves and then report it. Not a single one of them has cared to find out about the genocide that’s going on and none of them even had the courtesy to send me a reply or even an acknowledgement. Shame on you, stinking dirty yellow journalists! You have sold your souls to the devil!

21st century Holocaust photos that the world media will not show you: (Warning, very disturbing content)

This pregnant mother’s womb was torn apart in an attack by the SinHELLa state terrorists using artillery…that is the hand of her unborn baby sticking out of her womb…apparently, the blood of the unborn is extremely delicious for the stinking sewer rats…

This child was injured in a chemical weapon attack…chemical weapons are freely and extensively used by the SinHELLa regime with the full knowledge and support of world governments…

No need for performing the Hindu cremation rites on this unfortunate civilian…the sewer rats in the SinHELLa regime have already done it for him…

Another unnamed statistic…for the scum in the United Nations, the blood of children is irresistible…

A very common occurence in the genocide zone…a group of civilians butchered savagely in an aerial attack using an unknown weapon, possibly a napalm bomb…world governments of every kind prop up the genocidal regime and supply it with weapons and money…

This is one ward of a makeshift “hospital” with no medicines or supplies or even food…according to the filthy barbarian Gothabaya Rajapaksa, hospitals are a legitimate target for bombings…yes, he actually said that and hospitals have been deliberately bombed…

It is not as if nobody is aware of this. Concerned souls from different countries, mostly human rights activists, religious leaders and anyone who has an ounce of humanity left in them, knowing about the carnage, have dared to speak out. But this is a genocide that involves most of the world powers and the stinking bunch of bureaucrats in the United Nations. The P5 – that bunch of bullies with the bomb who have a veto on the UN Security Council (China, Russia, US, UK and France) are all involved in this because of different reasons. Iran and Israel, two sworn enemies, have actually got in bed together here, falling over each other in giving money and weapons of murder to the SinHELLa regime. Its the same story with Pakistan and India, another combination of sworn enemies, enjoying each other’s company in bed. Apparently, the taste of human blood seems to be too difficult to resist for the bloodthirsty barbarians in world governments and the UN. They want even more to satisfy their unending thirst for blood. They are fully aware that the scum in the murderous Sinhala fascist regime, using a phoney and bogus excuse of “war on terror” are planning mass murder on a scale never heard before and they fully support it with weapons of every kind, including cluster bombs and chemical weapons. Above all, this is a mass murder that has been approved by the rabid, stinking sewer rats in the Indian establishment and the shameless, power-hungry traitors in Tamil Nadu know this. The filthy, bloated bureaucratic scum in the United Nations, too are fully aware of the heinous crimes against humanity that are taking place against Sri Lanka’s battered and butchered minority Tamil community.

More than one hundred thousand people have already been killed in the genocidal civil war. The swine in the UN themselves admit that more than 4000 have been killed and 10,000 injured in the last three months alone. They are aware of the concentration camps, chillingly reminiscent of the Nazi death camps that have been established by the filthy Rajapaksa goons of the rogue SinHELLa regime. Unlike the Nazi camps, the concentration camps of the filthy SinHELLa regime have the approval of the world powers and the atrocities being perpetrated there are fully known to them. They may even be aware of the mass graves that are being dug for civilians in Mullaitivu as a shocked Sinhala writer has pointed out. The bullies of the stinking P5 regimes that control the Security Council are actively blocking efforts by and even threatening governments of countries that still care about humanitarian principles, like the powerless Mexican diplomats at the United Nations. Gracias, Mexico! Your government, despite Mexico’s own troubled history and violence-ridden present, has shown that it has the courage to stand up for a humanitarian cause against the group-of-five bloodthirsty-bullies-with-the-bomb, other scum regimes and the bloated bureaucratic vermin of the United Nations. Leaders of two other countries with a troubled past, East Timor and South Africa, too deserve appreciation. The role of Norway, the peace negotiator, that was kicked out by the murderous SinHELLa regime for its neutrality in the long defunct “peace process”, is disappointing, to say the least.

As for the filthy, stinking sewer rats in the SinHELLa regime and genocidal, rapist army, the rabid scavenging canines in the Indian establishment and the filthy pond scum in world governments who are playing a role in this heinous 21st century Holocaust, it won’t be long before your sewery souls and your circulatory organs made of filthy faecal matter rot in the disgusting dungeons of hell! That’s where you vicious vermin belong and that’s where you will end up!

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The brutal genocide in Sri Lanka carried out by the barbaric Sinhala fascist regime against the Tamils on the island is going on unabated, the regime being armed, egged on and aided by all the bloodthirsty swine in the filthy empires and wannabe empires of the world, with the full knowledge and support of the dirty scum in the United Nations. HUNDREDS are being butchered EVERYDAY from the air, sea and land by cluster bombs, firebombs, napalm bombs and every kind of lethal ammunition supplied by bloodthirsty barbarians in the governments and militaries of Israel, India, Iran, Russia, Pakistan and China. Want to take a look at handiwork of the Rajapaksa sewer rats? This post is for the enjoyment of all the sub-human swine who derive great sadistic pleasure at the sight of horrible photos. No, the clowns in the media will not show you any of this. For them, this is a “humanitarian operation” and they will carry only reports dished out to them by the swine in the Rajapaksa regime.

The world’s most bloodthirsty genocidal maniacs – the Rajapaksa goons would not spare anybody – neither the orphans nor the elderly nor the sick and injured nor medical staff nor children. For when almost the whole world is wholeheartedly backing and funding and arming the barbaric scum in their despicable acts of mass murder, all it takes is a complete media blackout, murdering and assaulting the few conscientous journalists like Lasantha and ordering all humanitarian aid workers and relief personnel out of the genocide zone to carry on one of the most horrific mass murders in recent history with full glee. Cluster bombs are used on civilian camps, napalm bombs are used on “safe zones” and hospitals are bombed from the air:

As for the Eezham Tamils and the diaspora, they must have now realised the futility of appealing to the conscience of the few civilised people in the world when all they do is to make a few mild noises. They must have smelt the stink of the souls of the vile bloodthirsty bastards in the Indian establishment who are playing an active role in the genocide as well as preventing civilised people from stopping the genocide. The people of Tamil Nadu owe them an apology for having elected idiots for whom the only thing that matters is staying in power in the state and clinging on to their ministerial portfolios at the centre.

After having realised that the whole world is playing a role in this genocide, they have no other option but to fend for themselves like they have been doing ever since the imperialists of Britain handed over the entire island to the bloodthirsty Sinhala fascist pseudo-Buddhists. They have no other option but to carry on their struggle for freedom on their own. The scum of the world, including India, will help the Sinhala fascist swine by building Nazi-style concentration camps for the “final solution” – exterminating those who were fortunate enough to survive the barbarians’ bombs. Having left with absolutely no one, they have only the LTTE that cares for them. Not the best allies, but what the hell, when the whole world is bent on exterminating them, the LTTE do seem like angels. If not the LTTE, then some other organisation will have to take up their just cause. The Sinhala fascist scum will never let the Tamils even live, let alone live with peace and dignity and equality on the traditional homeland of the Tamils. The struggle should continue. By any means. Till the ultimate goal is reached. Till the millions of litres of blood that they have shed gets represented as the colour of blood on the flag of a free Tamil Eelam:

All men and women are born equals and they have a right to live as free citizens of the world. No filthy swine on Earth can oppress a people seeking to live in freedom. No bloody rat can suppress a struggle to end oppression for too long. Not all the imperial scum of the world. Nor all the rabid dogs in the world. Nor the gods.

A report from the ICRC about the humanitarian situation in Sri Lanka:

Sri Lanka: Major humanitarian crisis unfolding

Colombo / Geneva (ICRC) – Hundreds of people have been killed and scores of wounded are overwhelming understaffed and ill-equipped medical facilities in Sri Lanka’s northern Vanni region, following intensified fighting between the Sri Lanka Security Forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).

“People are being caught in the crossfire, hospitals and ambulances have been hit by shelling and several aid workers have been injured while evacuating the wounded. The violence is preventing the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) from operating in the region,” said Jacques de Maio, ICRC head of operations for South Asia in Geneva.

The terrified population is in need of protection, medical care and basic assistance, according to the ICRC.

An estimated 250,000 people are trapped in a 250 square-kilometre area which has come under intense fighting. They have no safe area to take shelter and are unable to flee.

“When the dust settles, we may see countless victims and a terrible humanitarian situation, unless civilians are protected and international humanitarian law is respected in all circumstances,” said Mr de Maio. “It’s high time to take decisive action and stop further bloodshed because time is running out.”

The ICRC urgently appeals to both sides to allow and facilitate the safe and voluntary movement of civilians out of the combat zone.

The ICRC is determined to stay as long as possible in the Vanni, but the parties must respect its presence and its work. Humanitarian assistance must be allowed to enter the Vanni and aid workers and their premises must be protected from shelling and looting, as required by international humanitarian law.

Both sides are strongly urged to spare the lives of those not, or no longer, taking direct part in the fighting. Hundreds of patients need emergency treatment and evacuation to Vavuniya Hospital in the government-controlled area.

The ICRC, which is the only international aid agency to have remained permanently in the Vanni over the past four months with the agreement of both sides, continues to work alongside the Sri Lanka Red Cross Society helping those in need.

(If the video does not load, you can watch it here.)

Why the hell is the international media not reporting this??? What’s wrong with those pigs? Can they not even report a press release by the Red Cross? They are the only ones who are actually in the killing zone!!!

A humanitarian disaster of unimaginable proportions is being perpetrated in Sri Lanka by a genocidal rogue regime that is intent on killing civilians trapped in a zone that was declared “safe” for civilians. More than 300 people were butchered by artillery and rocket attacks on civilians and more than 1000 have been injured and in desperate need of medical help. There are just 9 doctors in the hospital and they have almost no emergency supplies to treat the injured. Following is the text of appeal by the Regional Director of Health Services of Mullaitivu District, who works for the government:

Human Catastrophe & Medical Emergency in the Vanni

Heavy fighting and continuous multi-barrel artillery shelling has resulted in more
than 300 internally displaced persons being killed and over 1000 hundred injured
in Suthanthirapuram, Udaiyaarkaddu, and Vallipuram in the Mullaitivu District.
We are making an URGENT APPEAL to the Government of Sri Lanka, ICRC, the UN,
and the international community for medical supplies and medical teams to be sent to
the District to assist our staff. We currently only have 9 MMBS Doctors.
The nature of the injuries and the number of the injuries is such that if these medical
supplies do not arrive in the next 24 hours many of the injured will die.

Needs:
1) Blood Bags
2) Blood Transfusion sets
3) IV Fluids
- Hartmanns
- N.Saline
- Haemaceal
- Dextrose
-Gelafusin
4) IV giving set
5) IV Cannulas of different size
6) Antibiotics
IV – Benzyl pennicillin
- Ampicillin
- Cloxacillin
-Cepazolin
-Ceftriaxone
-Metranidazole
- Gentamycin
-Tazosin
Oral -Amoxicillin
-Cloxacillin
-Cephalexin
- Metranidazole
-Augmentin
Dressings
-Gauze
-Bandage
-Cotten
-Analgesics
V – Morphine
- Pethadine

-Fentanil
Oral – Paracetamol
-Ibuprufen
-oral morphine
-Panadine forte
- Indocid
Anaesthatic Drugs
-Ketamine
-Propofol
-Thiopental
-Suxamethonium
-atrcurium, Rocuronium,Pancuronium
-Neostigmine
-atropine
-Hydrocortisone
-Maxalon,Ondensetron,phenargan
Local anasthatics -lignocaine
-lignocaine with adrenaline
ETT Tubes
Urinary catheters, Bags
Intercostal drainage tube
-Surgical Stuff
-Surgical blade
-Suture meterials
-Vicryl 1.0,2.0,3.0,0.0
Nylon
Proline 2.0,3.0,4.0,5.0
Catgut 0.0,1.0,2.0,3.0
Silk
Suturing needles
Miscalanious
anti malarials
Signed:
Dr.T.Varatharajah,
RDHS,
Mullaitivu

If the bloody fat pigs in the United Nations and the filthy International Community who are responsible for taking care of civilians trapped in the conflict do not take immediate action to halt the genocide now and provide help to the injured, it shall go down in history as a case of intentional genocide being perpetrated with the help of the United Nations and the International Community. Shame on the filthy, dirty, barbaric, inhuman swine in the so-called “civilised world”! They did not take steps to prevent the genocide when they were warned. If they don’t take steps to steps to stop it now and treat the injured immediately, the blood of so many people shall stain the souls of the bastards in the “international community” who are watching this with sadistic glee and they shall pay for it! Mark my words, the filthy pigs that play an active and passive role in this genocide shall pay for this!!!

This is a post about two kinds of journalism under extremely different circumstances. First, a salute to several independent journalists who dared to speak the truth about one of the most evil, fascist, genocidal regimes in world history and have paid the price for it. Under an evil, barbaric, murderous regime that has crushed all norms of decency, democracy, human rights and civilised behaviour, several journalists have dared to uphold the norms of unbiased journalism, publishing the facts and questioning reports dished out by the war criminals running the government.

First, one of the greatest journalists in the world, Lasantha Wickramatunge, the editor of The Sunday Leader, who was always known for his unbiased journalism, one who dared to expose corruption and crimes of any regime in Sri Lanka. He was on the hit-list of the murderous Rajapaksa goons’ regime for some time. He paid the ultimate price, when he was attacked viciously and then shot dead as he was driving to work by a government death squad, similar to the ones that are used to butcher innocent Tamil civilians in many parts of Sri Lanka:

Image: www.dailymirror.lk

Lasantha was not just an honest journalist, but an extremely intelligent man. He knew his life was in danger for he had predicted his own death at the hands of a government death squad and had written an article and saved it on his computer, to be published after the the scum beings killed him. He puts the blame squarely on the Rajapaksa regime. Read the full article here. Here are some excerpts (emphasis added):

No other profession calls on its practitioners to lay down their lives for their art save the armed forces and, in Sri Lanka, journalism. In the course of the past few years, the independent media have increasingly come under attack. Electronic and print-media institutions have been burnt, bombed, sealed and coerced. Countless journalists have been harassed, threatened and killed. It has been my honour to belong to all those categories and now especially the last……We find ourselves in the midst of a civil war ruthlessly prosecuted by protagonists whose bloodlust knows no bounds. Terror, whether perpetrated by terrorists or the state, has become the order of the day. Indeed, murder has become the primary tool whereby the state seeks to control the organs of liberty. Today it is the journalists, tomorrow it will be the judges. For neither group have the risks ever been higher or the stakes lower……Why then do we do it? I often wonder that. After all, I too am a husband, and the father of three wonderful children. I too have responsibilities and obligations that transcend my profession, be it the law or journalism. Is it worth the risk? Many people tell me it is not……But there is a calling that is yet above high office, fame, lucre and security. It is the call of conscience.The Sunday Leader has been a controversial newspaper because we say it like we see it: whether it be a spade, a thief or a murderer, we call it by that name. We do not hide behind euphemism. The investigative articles we print are supported by documentary evidence thanks to the public-spiritedness of citizens who at great risk to themselves pass on this material to us. We have exposed scandal after scandal, and never once in these 15 years has anyone proved us wrong or successfully prosecuted us……Every newspaper has its angle, and we do not hide the fact that we have ours. Our commitment is to see Sri Lanka as a transparent, secular, liberal democracy…

…The Sunday Leader has never sought safety by unquestioningly articulating the majority view. Let’s face it, that is the way to sell newspapers. On the contrary, as our opinion pieces over the years amply demonstrate, we often voice ideas that many people find distasteful. For example, we have consistently espoused the view that while separatist terrorism must be eradicated, it is more important to address the root causes of terrorism, and urged government to view Sri Lanka’s ethnic strife in the context of history and not through the telescope of terrorism. We have also agitated against state terrorism in the so-called war against terror, and made no secret of our horror that Sri Lanka is the only country in the world routinely to bomb its own citizens. For these views we have been labelled traitors, and if this be treachery, we wear that label proudly……Neither should our distaste for the war be interpreted to mean that we support the Tigers. The LTTE are among the most ruthless and bloodthirsty organisations ever to have infested the planet. There is no gainsaying that it must be eradicated. But to do so by violating the rights of Tamil citizens, bombing and shooting them mercilessly, is not only wrong but shames the Sinhalese, whose claim to be custodians of the dhamma is forever called into question by this savagery, much of which is unknown to the public because of censorship.What is more, a military occupation of the country’s north and east will require the Tamil people of those regions to live eternally as second-class citizens, deprived of all self respect. Do not imagine that you can placate them by showering “development” and “reconstruction” on them in the post-war era. The wounds of war will scar them forever, and you will also have an even more bitter and hateful Diaspora to contend with. A problem amenable to a political solution will thus become a festering wound that will yield strife for all eternity. If I seem angry and frustrated, it is only because most of my countrymen – and all of the government – cannot see this writing so plainly on the wall.

Lasantha, in happier times…

Image: The Sunday Leader

Lasantha was not the first to be killed, nor will he be the last. Just a few days before this attack, MTV/MBC/ Sirasa the most popular television station in Sri Lanka that ran several television and radio channels in three languages (Sinhala, Tamil and English), was destroyed with explosives and by gunfire by one of those infamous “white van” death squads of the Sri Lankan government.

After Lasantha’s death, the editor of Rivira, a Sinhala weekly that was known for its neutral views, Upali Tennakoon and his wife were brutally assaulted by a gang of knife wielding scum on motorcycles. Both the editor and his wife suffered several knife cuts.

The injured editor of Rivira…

Image: www.huffingtonpost.com

Today, Lal Hemantha Mawalage, news producer at state-run Television station, Rupavahini, has been admitted to the Colombo General Hospital after being attacked with machete and knives by unknown assailants at 11:30 p.m. Friday while walking in Athurugiriya in Colombo, sources in Colombo said. Mr Mawalage suffered injuries to both hands and body, according to his relatives. The attackers are suspected to be allied to non-cabinet Minister of Labour Mervin Silva who was involved in an altercation at Rupavahini on 26 December.

Informed sources said Minister Silva was irked by the actions of Mr Mawalage who had allegedly commended his fellow journalists at Rupavahini for helping to defend his news editor collegue, T.M.G Chandrasekara, when the Minister attacked him.

Lal Hemantha Mawalage, in a serious condition…

Image: www.freemediasrilanka.org

If this is the fate of independent Sinhala journalists, then that of Tamil journalists, is worse. Not only do the Tamil journalists of the fascist state risk their lives, but they risk infinite detention without trial and torture.

Several of them have been murdered in cold blood, like Sivaram and Nadesan. Others like Tissainayagam are detained infinitely without trial under draconian laws and tortured.

Tissainayagam started news-website called OutreachSL.com using a grant from FLICT (Foundation for Local Initiatives in Conflict Transformation). FLICT is a Sri Lankan based grant making body funded by the international community (primarily the German government). FLICT funds civic and government initiatives including the government’s Peace Secretariat.

Tissainayagam apprehended by TID (Terrorist Investigation Department) and all staff of the website were apprehended by the TID. Since then, the fascist thugs have kept in detention and tortured him without being given a chance of trial.

Journalists Tissainayagam and Jasiharan being “arrested” and taken away…

Image: Reuters

The German ambassador, Juergen Weerth, had this to say at the funeral of Lasantha Wickrematunge…

“Today is a day when one remains speechless,” Weerth said at the funeral Monday. “Maybe we should have spoken before this. Today it is too late.”

“Today is a day when humanity has lost a major voice of truth. But he will live in his work,” AFP report said quoting the Ambassador.

Six former US ambassadors have expressed the same in a letter to the leader of the fascist regime.

Paris-based media watchdog Reporters Without Borders said Rajapakse’s government was directly to blame for the death of the editor as it had “incited hatred against him.”

Four more media personnel have been forced to flee Sri Lanka fearing for their lives. They are Sanath Balasuriya and Poddala Jayantha of Lake House, Sunanda Deshapriya and Uvindu Kurukulasuriya of the Free Media Movement. Last week Upul Joseph Fernando of the Lankadeepa, Rathnapala Gamage of Lankadeepa, and Chevan Daniel of MTV left the country. In addition, Iqbal Athas, Keith Noyahr, Namal Perera and Anuruddha Lokuhappuarachchi had already left the country.

Now, to the second part of this post. I do not want to demean or dishonour the honest, sincere, persons who have laid down their lives in defence of the ethics and principles of journalism in a banana republic ruled by fascist, genocidal thugs, by posting something about a person who is paid by the fascist regime to act as its mouthpiece in a neighbouring country where the press are supposed to be “free”. Free, as in free to take huge amounts of money and receive a few “awards” from the fascist goons. Of course, it’s the infamous sewer jounalist of Chennai, Mr. N. Ram, the editor-in-chief of The Hindu, and his bunch of liars, who have been publishing “news” about the genocide in Sri Lanka by faithfully reproducing every single word that the war criminals have been dishing out to him. For this toilet paper, there are no civilians killed in this genocide, when the fact is that hundreds are being killed everyday in “safe zones”, hospitals and ambulances being bombed from the air and with artillery and multi-barrel rocket launchers. For these filthy scum journalists, there is no attack on the media when it is a fact that tens of journalists have been murdered and assaulted and the fact that Sri Lanka is the second most deadly place for journalists in the entire world. All because of this:

The sewer journalist N. Ram receiving an “honour” from the fascist regime…

This vile liar has received the same award from the murderer-in-chief of the current genocidal regime as well as an award by a government run body that praised “his service to journalism in Asia”. There exists no word in the English language or any language in the world, to describe a “journalist” who is awarded for “journalism” by a fascist, genocidal regime that ranks 165th out of 173 countries in Press Freedom and the country where the second largest number of journalists are brutally murdered or maimed for doing their work.

Journalists who dare to speak the truth get murdered but sewer journalists who blatantly lie get rewarded. These are the sad facts about journalism in Sri Lanka.

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