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Dr. Subramanian Swamy.
http://www.asiantribune.com/show_news.php?id=15378

Boston, 17 August, (Asiantribune.com): Dr. Subramanian Swamy blasted governments of Sri Lanka and India for allowing the killings of Laksman Kadirgamar and Rajiv Gandhi go unpunshished. He urged that the killings have to be retaliated in the very language the terrorists understand.

Dr. Subramanian Swamy in a statement declared that Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar was killed because he was perceived as a pro-India and a Tamil who did not care for the threats of the LTTE.

He emphasized, “The assassination of the Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Mr. Kadiragamar, obviously by the terrorist organization, the LTTE, must be retaliated in a language that terrorists understand.”

Dr. Swamy admonished that the perpetrators have to be brought to justice by resolve and without ambivalence.

Janata Party President and former India’s Minister of Justice Dr. Subramanian Swamy was highly critical with the statement: “It is a shame that the Sri Lanka government has already begun to waver and wobble after some routine condemnation of the assassination. The government spokesperson has declared after the assassination that peace talks with the LTTE will continue!”

He questioned the Sri Lanka government spokesperson’s announcement regarding the continuance of peace talks. “What for? Are the Sri Lankans suffering from “Stockholm Disease” or the “Norway Stupor”?”

Dr. Swamy reminded, “Kadiragamar was a Minister and a Tamil, and yet the LTTE has killed him.” He asked “What kind of Chamberlainian “peace at hand” capitulation is the Sri Lanka government thinking of?”

Dr. Subramanian Swamy, who is also a visiting professor at the Havard University, released the statement from USA, pointed out, “It is India which today has a special responsibility to fix for good and permanently the LTTE,” and added, “The LTTE supremo V. Prabhakaran and his deputy Pottu Amman are proclaimed offenders and wanted under Indian criminal law for the murder of Rajiv Gandhi.”

The statement made it clear that, Kadiragamar was killed because he was perceived as pro-India and a Tamil who did not care for the threats of the LTTE.

Furthermore Dr. Subramanian Swamy cast doubts on the reliability of the Sri Lanka government on the whole in the matter of arresting Prabkaran.

“The Indian government cannot rely on the Sri Lankan government to apprehend Prabhakaran and his gang, since Ms. Chandrika and her Ministers are in a surrender mode.”

Dr. Swamy suggested, “India must therefore consult Israel and the US, and send a commando team to search for these LTTE terrorists and bring them to justice.”

” I am surprised that Ms. Sonia Gandhi who is daily issuing condolence messages on all and sundry deaths, including in traffic accident cases, has been conspicuously silent whenever the LTTE murders anyone including her husband” alleged Dr. Subramanian Swamy.

He demanded that whatever letters she has now written to the Sri Lankan President and Kadiragamar’s widow should be made public by her.

Dr. Swamy alleged “My informants in the Island tell me that the letters of condolence are bland expressions of sorrow and regret without any promise of reprisal by India against the killers.”

He challenged the Congress President Sonia Gandhi to prove her bonafides by demanding the immediate extradition of Prabakaran and asking her ‘rubber stamp’ PM to take effective action for the same.

Janata Party President also urged, “Let her now withdraw the letter she wrote to the President of India pleading to commute the death sentence given by Indian courts to four LTTE/DK thugs, who conspired in the killing of Rajiv Gandhi.”

- Asian Tribune - 17-08-2005

Does CDAX work ?

I was just wondering about this CDAX thing I have seem so much in the news papers these days. It’s a great idea for one who trades a lot. I have done a few trades, but have sadly not made much.

It would be great to always be able to access this all the time and we do always have our phones with us.

Only thing is to do this, I think you need a smart phone. I’m not sure if it just work on a normal java based phone. So I downloaded the application onto my symbian based phone, it’s a nokia 3650 it a smartphone and installed it.

Basically it supports 4 stock firms, Asia Securities, Asha Phillip Securities, Ceylinco Stock Brokers and Lanka Securities. You will have to go to their offices and sign up, not too sure of the rates.

What I’m trying to get at is, they signed up with Dialog which is a great company, then they got 4 big stock firms with them, now my problem is who is doing CDAX ?

If I’m to give access to my investments, I’d like to know my transactions are safe or in other words my money is safe. www.cdax.lk is their site. It’s not something I would be too confident going with. Most of the links on the site don’t work. Some of the terms are not correct.

There is one line “Please download the CDAX Mobile GPRS application software on to your phone from dialog@wap.lk.” you cannot download it from dialog@wap.lk as that is an email address. Shouldn’t it be download it from Dialogs wap site ? I might be wrong, but please correct me. Links that don’t work are – Trade CDAX, in partner details about their partners, and so on.

All I’m saying is, if we are to be safe with our investments, we must know who is doing this and atleast get the basic things working. As this is web based the web site should be perfect. If the web site can’t be done properly, I don’t know how the web application or the mobile application is.

CDAX should get someone to look into this as it will not look too good for their partners.

Has anyone used this ? Please let us know how it is.

Thank You

Changing Places

The company I work for, I’m in the HR side of it. I’m still an assistant to the manager but these are something that’s making our jobs difficult and not allowing our company to progress.

I’m sure this is a problem in most companies.

What I’m talking about is employees who keep changing jobs. For us it’s a big problem these days. It goes on an equal level, 10 leave and 10 want to join. If we could keep the leaving low and the joining high that would be just right.

I know friend of mine who use this trick to jump to higher pays and higher positions. That it fine on the individuals level but it’s not fair to the organisations. It is a big problem for us to hire, to train, and to create workable teams. When a person leaves it starts again, which put a lot of pressure on us, from the higher management.

I advise all those in the recruiting business to look closely into your new employees history. For all you know is, they would work for 3 months, and then leave with all the knowledge you have given them. This is also a trick used by some companies to gain knowledge of their competitor, which is very unethical, but in a country like ours, who cares when leaders don’t know nothing about ethics.

I enjoy working at my company, but every time we have to recreate teams, it sets back the company. It’s great for the leaving employee as they are going for something better, but for all the other employees he leaves behind, they are set back and their futures are threatened.

I would like to know how other companies in Sri Lanka deal with this problem. How do you screen your employees ? Do you also have a lot of jumpers ?

It’s not fair also to bind someone to a company, but maybe it has to be done. Larger companies may be able to do that as they have a large demand but what about the smaller ones ? It’s not fair also to take away a persons opportunity but if a company is to survive drastic actions may be required.

There is this one person I know who went through 5 companies in less than a year, at each new job he got higher pay and a higher position. I was just wondering the companies that recruited him, did they do a background check on him ? how much did they invest in him ? How much did they lose from him, jumping to the next company ? Were they companies he jumped to their competitors or did they take him just to get information about his previous employer ? Who makes these decisions ?

If someone has gone through these same problems at their company if they are not totally trade secrets please share with us, as this is a problem for all our companies in Sri Lanka.

I’ve been with my company for 7 years, it’s the new staff where all these jumpers come from, which for someone who has been an employee for this long, it saddens.

Munza Mushtaq in Colombo, August 14, 2005, 11.49 p.m..

“Kadirgamar is no more. We finished him off. Do you not still know it?”. This is part of a radio message sent by Tiger Intelligence Unit Batticloa Leader Yogaraj, to his second in command, the Independent Television Network claimed today evening during its news telecast. According to the news report, this message was monitored by the Army Intelligence Unit.
Meanwhile, an article that appeared in “Eelanathan” the official organ of the Wanni tigers had stated hat Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar who is a stalwart of the Sinhala government need not live anymore”. The article titled “a letter from Jaffna to the enemy in the South” appeared in the 2nd page of the paper that was published on the 12th of this month, incidentally, the same day Mr. Kadiragamar was killed

http://www.theacademic.org/

Prolonged surveillance and the acquisition of a hideout outside his private residence at Bullers Road helped the assassins to accomplish their mission – the killing of Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar on Friday night.

If the incident bared a serious security lapse in his personal protection arrangements, The Sunday Times learnt that in the aftermath of the shooting matters turned out to be worse. For more than two hours, the Bullers Lane area remained open thus making it easy for the killers to get away.
It was a team of Special Task Force personnel – the commando arm of the Police – who broke into the house opposite, said to belong to Lakshman Thalaiyasingham. When they entered, they first found two large bags meant for carrying cricket gear. They contained food items. One bag bore the name of a national cricketer.

A dash upstairs and into a bedroom revealed a bigger secret – the hideout used by two suspected assassins to position a sniper rifle on a tripod. It was a bedroom. The upper part of a window had been carefully concealed with a piece of cardboard with a hole sufficient for the barrel of the rifle to be aimed towards Mr. Kadirgamar’s swimming pool.

When Mr. Kadirgamar emerged from the pool on Friday night, they took aim through a night vision telescope and pumped three shots – one into the head, one to the chest and the third to the leg. According to eyewitnesses, the attackers thereafter fired a grenade launcher (or a tomba). Though three rounds were fired, none detonated. “Otherwise some members of Mr. Kadirgamar’s escort party would also have been hit,” he said.

The grenade launcher and two grenades were found by the Police near a scrub outside the building. Though the attackers left behind the tripod, they took away the sniper rifle. Hours after the shooting, armed troops and police – backed by search helicopters – launched a massive cordon-and-search operation in Wellawatte and Bambalapitiya areas.

Well, thee fools as most refer to them as are a bunch of useless rats. What do they do ? Nothing! Remember the murder of the police officer which happened recently, what id they do nothing ? Gave their bullcrap and that was it.

These guys are on a holiday. I was told these guys are here to do a job of keeping the peace, mediating, but are they ?

They roam around in their vehicles like big shots, they do nothing but put rubbish. Today I saw the respects given by various leaders, then there was Eriks, his should have not been put there, with great names like Kofi Annan.

I know I’m being harsh, but after what I’ve been hearing, even the the recent death of the policeman, the way these people acted was not acceptable, they are one sided and of no use to the peace process, that this my point of view.

We all have our views.

Tyronne

SLMM says no clear LTTE link to Sri Lanka Minister’s killing
Saturday, August 13, 2005, 13:51 GMT

Aug 13, Colombo: Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission says that they have so far not found any clear LTTE link to Friday’s killing of Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar. Spokesperson of the SLMM said that amidst media report accusing LTTE for the killing, police is also not coming to a conclusion in this regard.

“Any one can accuse LTTE very easily for this assassination. But we need to find proofs before we accused the LTTE,” spokesperson said.

However, SLMM met this morning to discuss last night killing and decided to hold a comprehensive investigation on this.

“Now it’s very hard to manage both parties after this incident. But it is important to obey the truce agreement,” spokesperson added.

These stupid acts are what give police a bad name. News like this give the country a bad name.

Police thuggery disrupts
Thursday, 11 August 2005 - 3:01 AM SL Time

High handed acts by several top police officials disrupted the proceedings of the final game of the Indian Oil Cup between Sri Lanka and India at the R. Premadasa Stadium on Tuesday, Sri Lanka Cricket officials complained.

Hundreds of spectators who had tickets were not allowed into the venue after the stadium was overcrowded and thousands of others who wanted to purchase tickets were baton charged by police on duty. SLC officials alleged that police officials were guilty of illegally accommodating favoured spectators for a consideration.

Officials also said that police were involved in taking their friends and families to the best seats available at the venue using their influence.

The entrance to the Media Center was used as a convenient backdoor to get these illegal entrants in and after SLC officials strictly instructed Delvon, the private security firm on duty, not to allow anyone without tickets or passes, a police officer threatened to break the fence and have his way. The officials later identified the Police officer as CI Nissanka, the Officer in Charge of the Maradana Police Station.

`The Island` also witnessed another senior official, identified as ASP Adhikari, threatening private security officials if Police were not given a free hand. ASP Adhikari was heard speaking in foul language tospectators and security officials.

Meanwhile the tickets for the final were in high demand and the ticket counter of Sri Lanka Cricket headquarters was closed with a sold out sign Tuesday morning. Although some spectators tried their luck at the tickets counter of the venue they were in for more disappointment when that too displayed the sold out sign.

Many spectators were forced to leave the venue despite possessing tickets as the stadium which could hold 30,000 spectators was packed and SLC officials put the blame on the Police.

A few tickets of course were available in the black market as some residents in the surrounding area had extra tickets which they sold at exorbitant prices and made a fast buck. The Rs. 50 tickets in the tiers were sold at Rs. 250, a hike of 400% while the `A` and `B` Lower tickets which were prized at Rs. 750 went for Rs. 2000. (RC)

This is a very interesting story. Very funny.

“Deputy Minister DOCTOR Meryvn Silva who is in the centre of controversy, yesterday said youngsters who did not behave like his son, should be shown to a doctor.” It’s time we all went to the doctor I think to see if we are normal !

I really don’t think he knows what his son gets upto. It’s total ingnorance from the side of the parents. Well these days with the way things are we can’t always blame the parents, but in this case, when they don’t admit they are wrong that’s when it get becoming really stupid.

It’s great what the police are doing, those days I didn’t like going into clubs beacuse of hot heads like our friend. It’s not an enviroment to take a decent person to. In the toilets they do drugs, big shot are walking around with guns and bodyguards. You look the wrong way and your toast !

10 years ago, a night out was enjoyable. These days you’re on edge. you wave to a friend who happens to be standing next to a girl of a big shot, as soon as you get out, the next place you will be visiting is the hospital.

Now will all the pressure from the poilice, these places are becoming more responsible, and are night outs and even our days are becoming safer.

This normal he talks about is about 0.000000001% in our country

My son behaves normally: Mervyn
Thursday, 11 August 2005
The Island

Deputy Minister Meryvn Silva who is in the centre of controversy, yesterday said youngsters who did not behave like his son, should be shown to a doctor.

Speaking in Parliament during an adjournment debate on the crime situation, Mr. Silva said the IGP had enough `spine` to take action against clubs and karaoke bars.

‘If someone says that my son is the only one to behave like that in the world, I would hang him in the Galle face. But it is not so. So many youth behave like that. It is natural for them to make such mistakes at this age. If a youngster of his age does not behave like that, that boy should be shown to a doctor,’ he said. However, JVP frontliner Anura Kumara Dissanayake countered the Deputy Minister`s statement saying such behaviour originated due to bad examples set by the father.

‘The Deputy Minister says it is normal for youngsters to beat up police officers on duty. But the sad realty is it is not normal for youngsters of the common folk to beat up policemen. It is `normal` only for a select few,’ Mr. Dissanayake said.

In response Deputy Minister Silva said people who did not have children would not understand about a child`s `normal behaviour` while the JVPer quipped saying `God bless the child`.

Public security Deputy Minister Jayaratne Herath said the crime rate in the country had dropped by 12 percent in the first quarter of this year while 22 underworld figures had been killed during clashes with police.

The UPFA and JVP charged that UNP MP John Amaratnuga had no right to speak about the underworld and the crime rate, but the former Interior Minister rejected the allegations.

Everyday we see an incident like this, but naturally the bus drivers gets blamed for it. It’s a tradged what has happened.

If you ask me, I’d say most of the bike riders, and 3 wheel drivers are asking for it. You all know, if say you’re driving your car, how they creep in, jump infront, and so on.

Inaddition to the bus menace, we need focus put on bikers and trishaws.

In the story below it’s stated “According to eyewitnesses, the accident occurred when the motorcyclist tried to overtake the private bus.”

How fast was the bus going when the bike tried to overtake ? What’s the speed limit for bikes ?

I think this rule, these fines, and so on have to be enforced more on all of us, look at the kids racing on the streets, most with no license but fancy cars, we don’t see focus on that. I heard they even ran over and killed a kid, but this was not shown, so who do we pick on ?

Mother of four run over by private bus

Hardly had the dust settled on Tuesday’s islandwide private bus strike for a withdrawal of tough laws against traffic offences when a woman was run over by a private bus in Miriswatta, Gampaha yesterday.

The mishap occurred around 7.40 am when the motorcycle on which the victim (32) was travelling with her husband collided with a Colombo-bound private bus from Teldeniya. The victim has been identified as Rebbecca Balasuriya, an employee of a leading private firm in Colombo and a mother of two.

According to eyewitnesses, the accident occurred when the motorcyclist tried to overtake the private bus.

The victim and her husband had been thrown off the motorcycle after being knocked down, with the rear wheel of the bus running over the woman’s head.

She succumbed to her injuries at the Gampaha Base Hospital, where the husband who also suffered severe injuries is receiving treatment.

The bus driver was arrested by Gampaha police.

On Monday night, a cyclist was also knocked down and dragged along on the Polgahawela-Kegalle road by a private bus, hours before the islandwide strike launched by private bus operators.

http://www.dailynews.lk/2005/08/11/news15.htm

Muhudu Maha Viharaya

A recent photo taken shows how Muslim squatters have now managed to errect a barbed wire fencing on one side about 400 yards from Muhudu Maha Viharaya at Pottuvil. They now occupy more than twenty five acres of strict archaeological reserve area and had been building permanent houses. Under such circumstances it is not possible to excavate this area to find out the extent of Muhudu Maha Viharaya or its 2000 year old remains and to redevelop this ancient Buddhist site belonging to Sinhale for future generations.

All successive governments that came to power with Sinhala votes so far have not taken any action to evict these encroachers. Sinhala politicians have chosen not to speak against these hostile minorities even when our archaeological sites are threatened or destroyed by them, but to be slavishly dependent on their votes. It is a non- existent problem to Sinhala politicians.

C. Siri Anandagoda