Topic started by R.Sri Hari (@ modem7.bayrac3.eureka.lk) on Thu Mar 13 11:56:07 .
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World Hindu Conference - Colombo, Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka's Ministry of Hindu Religious Affairs is hosting the next World Hindu Conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, for four days during May 2-5, 2003.

Those who are interested in knowing of same could visit their official website having the URL address,

http://www.worldhinduconf2003.org

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• From: bharathiyar (@ wc05.ym.rnc.net.cable.rogers.com) on: Sat Mar 15 22:38:17
  
  // I explicitly condone any kind of LTTE support //
  
  I explicitly condemn ...not condone ....
  
  
  
• From: Nisala (@ ac8086c5.ipt.aol.com) on: Sun Mar 16 01:40:53
  
  Bharatiyar,
  
  "I am an Indian Christian."
  
  
  You would then be familiar with the Old Testament story of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, right? Remember the part when God tells Abraham that he was going to destroy the two cities? Abraham asked God whether he would spare the cities if there were 100 or so good people, and God said yes. Abraham did some bargaining, and eventually he got God to promise that the cities would be spared if even if no more than 10 good people could be found in either city!
  
  That is the approach I take to SL Tamils and all human beings, only I am even more generous than God. If there is even only ONE SL Tamil out of the entire race who does not believe in terrorism, ethnic cleansing, separatism and fascism, then that is enough to disqualify the SLTs as a group from being called terrorists. Likewise, if there is even only one Christian or Muslim who rejects the belief that non-believers are doomed to eternal damnation, then that is enough for me to reject any notion of condemning Christians or Muslims as a group of bigotry (although I would still retain the right of criticizing the doctrine which allows such bigotry).
  
  
  "Sri Lanka - That govt. asked us to come in. Their interests were within our interests. But they changed paths. We responded accordingly. We got stabbed in the back when we least expected it."
  
  
  I think there is more to the story than what you just told. You have given the official, JN Dic-ksh!t (Dixit) watered-down version, leaving out the part where RAW armed and trained all the Eelam militant groups including the LTTE in the early 1980s. The LTTE even received support from RAW after the signing of the Indo-Lanka Accord, and even after Prabhakaran publicly declared that he would defy the IPKF!!
  
  That is why I keep telling my Eelamist brethren that there are many people to whom they are being extremely ungrateful towards. Two of them were Indira and Rajiv Gandhi who gave diplomatic and physical cover for the LTTE in the difficult early years when they needed it the most. Two others are Dinesh Gunawardene and the late Cyril Mathew, two Sinhalese who helped swell the LTTE's ranks from 50 to 2000 within a year thanks to Black July.
  
  I still believe R. Premadasa did the right thing by supporting the LTTE in their fight against the IPKF. He knew India played a huge role in making the war in Sri Lanka to what it eventually became (but surely not the only role), and he wanted to make sure that India would not extricate itself from the mess it helped create unscathed. The one mistake Premadasa made was to trust the LTTE, and that mistake cost him his life. That is a lesson which has been very instructive regarding the credibility of the LTTE.
  
  
• From: Bharathiyar (@ wc05.ym.rnc.net.cable.rogers.com) on: Sun Mar 16 02:17:20
  
  Nisala
  
  What you said is true regarding the holy scriptures. But let us gear back to the year 2003 for a second here. I am in no position nor is anyone in any position to compare themselves with any religious figure. Yes the situation you gave was pretty good when taking it in the correct context. But I am a just person. I will treat a democratic, normal SL Thamizhan as my own. I have ONE (my gf she's the sweetest) so yes I do have hope for the SL people. I do not call every one of them so and so. If you see me ...i use the words "some" "a bunch" "few" when it comes to any sect that needs to be picked on if they asked for it. I pick on their specific type of people within that community not the community as a whole. Hence my use of words.
  
  // I think there is more to the story than what you just told. You have given the official, JN Dic-ksh!t (Dixit) watered-down version, leaving out the part where RAW armed and trained all the Eelam militant groups including the LTTE in the early 1980s. The LTTE even received support from RAW after the signing of the Indo-Lanka Accord, and even after Prabhakaran publicly declared that he would defy the IPKF!! //
  
  You are ansolutely right. I was in a rush to do something around the house so I just write down a very very very very summarized notion of things. Yes you are right the Indian government did play a vital role in this matter. But you should understand that such movies wouldn't have been undertaken in India if it wasn't for the approval of the South Indian people as a whole. The Indian government did not help out the Tigers because we were humanitarians. We knew that this was of grave concern not just for Tamilians then but for the whole of South India. So yes they played that pawn and played it well. Until the government in SL changed hands, that is.
  
  India played a huge role in the IPKF situation because we were asked by the specific groups within Lanka to intervene. We did not all of a sudden decide to take a stroll down Kandy and decided to stay there for a few years you know. We needed an ally as much as SL needed our help. So in other words both our govt's are at fault and I compltely agree to it. But you see Nisala I haven't met many SL Tamils who see the faults lying at their side of the fence as well. We are not the only ones in this fight. We are bring portrayed as the ONLY ones who brought forth destruction to the island. Which is totally repulsive when encountered with.
  
  Peace be to you all.
  
  om +
  Jai Bhaarathu !
  Vande Mataram !
  
  
• From: Bharathiyar (@ wc05.ym.rnc.net.cable.rogers.com) on: Sun Mar 16 02:19:09
  
  motives ...not movies ....lol ...i don't know what i was thinking when i was typing ....sorry
  
  
• From: Padma (@ ac933815.ipt.aol.com) on: Sun Mar 16 13:55:20
  
  Example of waht went wrong in our society, castsim, classism, racism and egoism all put i one bottle.
  
  http://www.newindpress.com/sunday/sundayitems.asp?
  
  
• From: mmc (@ netcache.spectranet.com) on: Mon Mar 17 12:40:50
  
  //although I would still retain the right of criticizing the doctrine which allows such bigotry//
  
  Great statement!
  
  
• From: Nisala (@ ac8a8748.ipt.aol.com) on: Mon Mar 17 21:03:44
  
  Bharatiyar,
  
  "I will treat a democratic, normal SL Thamizhan as my own. I have ONE (my gf she's the sweetest) so yes I do have hope for the SL people."
  
  
  In that case, I have nothing more to say. Congratulations.
  
  
  "So in other words both our govt's are at fault and I compltely agree to it. But you see Nisala I haven't met many SL Tamils who see the faults lying at their side of the fence as well. We are not the only ones in this fight. We are bring portrayed as the ONLY ones who brought forth destruction to the island. Which is totally repulsive when encountered with."
  
  
  I would agree.
  
  
  
  
• From: Alfonse (@ 213-145-174-180.dd.nextgentel.com) on: Mon Mar 17 23:03:05
  
  //Example of waht went wrong in our society, castsim, classism, racism and egoism all put i one bottle. //
  
  I wish racist RSS vermin like aruvaal/karuvayan/mmc will read this!
  
  

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