From: nish@cv1.chem.purdue.edu (Nishantha I.)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.tamil
Subject: Re: <None>
Date: 1 Oct 92 02:35:21 GMT
Organization: Purdue University

In article <2AC7EA73.5787@news.service.uci.edu>, sundar@indigo1.hsis.uci.edu (M. Sundaramoorthy) write.
|> 
|> 	I strongly suspect the chronological details and the figures and more
|> 	than that I suspect your motive. 

>>>>
		Ops! looks like I ruffled the feathers (or the tails!) of 
	a few people. 
|> 	
|> 	The pro and anti-LTTE propaganda by Ranjit Ravindran and you 
|> 	may make the cheer leaders of the respective teams to jump, but
|> 	will hardly have any impact on the neutral readers. I am also
|> 	concerned and seriously interested in knowing about the situation
|> 	there and expecting peace to return soon. But neither you nor 
|> 	Ravindran seem to be a genuine source I (and may be many others)can rely
|> 	on. I think it is time for both of you to stop the propaganda of either
|> 	side. 
	
	>>>>
		Well I guess we are both on the same side on this one 
	Suresh. :-).Frankly sir as many others have pointed out this is a
	free country where freedom of expression is divine!I can question 
	your "neutrality" in the same manner you suspect my  "motive".
	But that's besides the point.Did you ever express your displeasure
	when there was a monopoly of news from a particuler group with
	regards to the discussion on the events in Sri-Lanka?If you did
	you have every right to complain now non withstanding the fact that
	it will have zero effect on both Suresh and myself.We will write 
	what we desire and if you are not happy with it you can always
	use a kill file.After all kill files were designed specifically
	for that purpose.Also you might try hitting 'n' in your favourite
	news reader.Probably we should all remember that this is USENET
	and not PAY PER VIEW!!
		If I may be allowed to point out if you go through my
	previous posts you will realise that I was not catering to a
	particuler "side" as you probably seem to imply.My posting on
	the LTTE atrocities was just to remind the readers that when it
	came to violence or cruelity no particuler side in this conflict
	had a monopoly.I doubt whether you'd agree with me but I have no
	agenda to fulfill on my own.I have always expressed the futility
	of this war where thousands and thousands of lives have been wasted
	in the alter of a power struggle both among the sinhalese as well
	as the tamil politicians.If you are unable to comprehend that well
	thats tough luck.
|> 
|> 	If you are genuinely interested in peace in the region, probably
|> 	you may go Colombo with a peace package, before sending Ravindran to his
|> 	comrades.
		Again you are on a goose chase.The differance between me and
	Suresh  is that while he extorts the virtue of the armed
	struggle I do not.It is also true that these adulations of the war are
	done at a realtively comfortable position in the USA.Basically I am
	talking about an arm chair general!!I believe nobody knows the horrors
	of a war than somebody who has experienced it.That is exactly why a 
	vetern of any country would think twice before getting in to a new 
	war since HE KNOWS!! what it is like.Remember the war in Iran when the
	 clerics used to give little children a piece of metal as a key to the
	 heaven and	pack them off to war. I see similar anlogies here.Here these 
	propagandists living in comfort sing the praises of a war while sending
	their comrades in arms to death misery and torture.There is an element
	of hypocrisy involved here and if some body gets ruffled by my postings
	that alone speaks volumes about his/her Neutrality!! 
	
	
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|> > 
|> 
|> 	I think you should also keep this in mind
	 
		Ok here is the smoking gun.One cannot be neutral and take sides
	at the same time. 
|> 
			Sincerely
			Nishantha
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