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recent elections are imo a farce because:-65% ONLY...

2008-05-13T17:31:31.609+05:30

recent elections are imo a farce because:
-65% ONLY turned out ot vote
-the third "party" is the rejected votes party (8.47% !!!), that basically lowers the turn up figure to around 60%..., unless you include these rejected votes inot some form of protest (?)
-UNITED PEOPLE’S FREEDOM ALLIANCE got 52%, i.e. half of the 60% who voted, i.e 3 out of ten ppl voted for them. since when is 3 out of 10 enough to claim a sweeping victory , a mandate to continue these reckless politics etc etc?!?!? what a joke! to me it means 7 out of 10, are against you and your politics.

-rigging and stuffng, intimidation widespread

am i wrong? pls correct me if i am msitaken!

recent elections are imo a farce because:-65% ONLY...

2008-05-13T17:31:00.745+05:30

Dear idiots and gents,All should remember that the...

2008-05-12T11:41:07.142+05:30

Dear idiots and gents,

All should remember that there is no chance for terrorism in this developed world. Whatever the story in rigging, all the communities wanted to have elections. That is the reason why UNP won Trinco and Govt. won the other two. Who won the election is a different story. The massage is people like the ballots than the bulets. LTTE or JVP cannot continue their violent path. Human lives and properties are not owned by JVP or LTTE. Before these two blood thirsty groups, Sri lanka was very peaceful.

What are the biased papers? All the papers other t...

2008-05-12T11:12:07.479+05:30

What are the biased papers? All the papers other than the government owned papers have reported heavy widespread rigging.

Did people really vote? Low turnout plus TMVP/GOSL...

2008-05-12T11:10:15.884+05:30

Did people really vote? Low turnout plus TMVP/GOSL rigging won the day.

Hi All,EPDP and TELO came to democratic path decad...

2008-05-12T10:17:40.061+05:30

Hi All,
EPDP and TELO came to democratic path decades ago. Still they have to carry weapons. As long as LTTE is not fully defeated, other Tamil political parties have to carry weapons for their self defense. This is the ground reality. But political idiots like Ranil Wickramasingha can not understand or he do not want to disclose this reality because he fear LTTE most and lick Prabakaran's boot. Look at what happend to Ananda Sangaree... Because he advocate non violance he can not do politics in North. This is exactly what UNP want Pilliyan to be done !!!! Only EPDP and TELO survived because they still carry some portion of arms for self defence.... Ranil Wicramasingha is desperate (act as a Syloc, which is correctly mentioned in the post) to disarm Pilliyan and let the chicks to be hunted by the fox !!! People do politics with ground realities.

- Jayantha (Colombo)

The LTTE is a not banned organization in Sri Lank...

2008-05-12T08:13:28.625+05:30

The LTTE is a not banned organization in Sri Lanka. WHY ? That is only for them to come in to negotiation table. Nothing else, elsewhere LTTE is banned up front. So don't be mislead why LTTE is not banned in SL, They have been allowed to come to negotitation table for which they never come until they are crushed militarily.

Remember my friend, Sinhala, Tamil, Muslim , Burger or any race irrespectiv of their reliogon, must be MILITARILY destroyed if they takes arms against democratically elected government. This happened in 1971 and 1989 and will happen in future too.

Terorism can be today here in Jaffana and tomorrow therein Galle, both must be given no chance but to crush militarily without considering their race and religon.

To Rawana and other anoymous.Needless to explain a...

2008-05-12T08:03:08.717+05:30

To Rawana and other anoymous.
Needless to explain again, one person clearly said before blaming others, you have to know what happened and what could happen.

After long time, then estern people had a opportunity to vote and elect their members decomcratically despite some elections riggings and frauds which are common not only in Sri Lanka, but also in the region. But yet full credit must go to government to have at least election for vote. The UNP initially said that GOSL liberated a desert and then a jungle, bt now they all camped there to win the PC's and won the Trinco with a clear majority. So what can now UNP people say ? This is not a fair and free election. Can you tell when Sri Lanka had so called free and fair election ? After being defeated, every parties accuse of unfair and biased elections.

So as my friend told, don't beleive only biased English news articles, pl come out from your a/c rooms and step into real world to see what's happening. The food prices , oil prices are not only in Sri Lanka, it's global issue if you know the global behaviour. There are so many nwanted expenditure and corruptio to be eliminated, that's true and to be addressed collectively.

But pl remove out your coloured sunglasses and be a paryless, religionless and raceless person and feel the difference of cleared and uncleared araes. It's matter of time when the north is cleared. Then you and me will also be in the same vilage. Be wise, be natural and be precedent my friends.

Before blaming others as idiots etc, you must be t...

2008-05-12T07:19:59.680+05:30

Before blaming others as idiots etc, you must be totaly oblivious of the world markets and the escalation of prices, granted that this governments spendings etc are questionable, But they have done the right thing in getting former terrorist on the democratic path and continue on efforts of the military in the north.

Just for a moment imagine if by some chance the TMVP joins hands with the LTTE again its going to utter chaos.

Whether Pillayan and his clan will deliver the goods is remained to seen but its worth a chance and the gamble MR is taking only history will tell...

So without knowing much facts and just by reading anti bias english dailies dont run into conclusion. Every governments before this had its faults.

Lets wait and see what the future holds

Before blaming others as idiots etc, you must be t...

2008-05-12T07:19:50.324+05:30

LTTE is not banned in Sri Lanka you idiot. Keep gi...

2008-05-12T06:27:55.653+05:30

LTTE is not banned in Sri Lanka you idiot. Keep giving dogs like TVMP a life and it continues to show Mahindha is a fraud. By the way you need to use gold coins to buy food next time as SL rupee is becoming worthlss.

This is in replying to Ravana, who does not know w...

2008-05-12T04:58:03.608+05:30

This is in replying to Ravana, who does not know what Terrorism is and who seems to be clueless of what had happend last 20 years in East. The writer was not aware TMVP was a group that rejected the LTTE terrorism and came into political path. Although had to tgake arms due to the threats from LTTE, it is government's responsibulity to give them the fullest support to come into democracy.Further, he should know that TMVP is not a banned terrorist organisation like LTTE.
LTTE the so called "diciplined terrorist group" responcible for so many thousand of civilian killings in Sri Lanka. At least I advice the writer to read last three months papers and see how many innocent civilians killed by blowing up passanger busses, and suicide bombers. Election violoance is not a new thing to Sri Lanka, in that sence UNP, UPFA, JVP and all are terrorists.
Except LTTE. Because under LTTE there will be NO Elections.
Rather than advicing others to go to East, advice the 'Ravana' to go to East.

Since you condemn terrorism, I am interested in kn...

2008-05-12T02:16:31.590+05:30

Since you condemn terrorism, I am interested in knowing how you justify the government working with the TMVP, a terrorist group that is more indisciplined than the LTTE, that is terrorizing the civilians in the East to arguably even a greater extent than the LTTE did, and that has been running a campaign of violence and ballot stuffing in the run up to this election.

Have you been to the East? When? Do you actually know what is going on there? Or, do you just believe what the government tells you?