From: 2067bh@gmuvax.gmu.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.sri-lanka,soc.culture.tamil
Subject: EELAMP POSTS AND HIGH CAST HINDU TAMILS
Date: 8 Oct 92 14:01:05 GMT
Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax, VA.



In article <Uelzz0m00WB_1EIklx@andrew.cmu.edu>, rs6x+@andrew.cmu.edu (Ranjith Ra
vindiran Suresh) writes:
|>
|> 1. Those Indian paratroopers didn't surrender.
|>They were shot while trying land
|> over Jaffna Campus. Pictures were in India Today also. They were not 'necklac
ed'-a
|>practiced carried out only by SL army and its underground paramilitary outfits
(southern Sri Lanka).
   The normal practice of LTTE is known as LAMP POST KILLINGs, and is
different from
the above brutal techniques. In lamp post killings, victims are hung from a
lamp post, and attacked in public and bled to death
and kept as a warning to others.

LAMP POSTS ARE SPECIALLY MADE FOR HIGH CAST HINDU TAMILS.


|> 2. Most of those massacres you listed have bloated numbers. No news organizat
ion
|>  had such numbers(the listed number of dead in the mosque massacre is 90).
|>    How did you cook these numbers? Gov. says LTTE did it. LTTE says SL army d
id(Muslim massacre). Some of those acts(explosions in Colombo) were carried out
by
|> groups other than LTTE. Where are your references?
   Of course the numbers are wrong. They counted only one massacre in mosques.
   There were atleast three such incidents within a short time.  (See article
   below to refresh your memory).
|> Also we don't differentiate bbetween Sinhala policemen and soldiers. Both do
the
|> same thing as far as Tamils
|> are concerned!
   And neither do we differentiate between sinhalese and moslims
               nor between tamils and sinhalese
               nor between infants and elderly
               nor between pregnants and old women
        if we decide, we will kill you without any discrimination.
Especially HIGH CAST HINDU TAMILS.

|> You are not a Tamil & never lived under such cicumstances.

   According to Siritharan, I am a sinhalese too but thats a different story
SEE MY NAME HALF SINHALESE - RANJITH ....

|> Do you want me to start digging up everything your leaders and 'brothers' had
|> been doing from 1947 to 1983 to the Tamils especially the ones in tea estates
?
|> Oh, you must be talking about your 'Colombo Tamil' friends!
    Of course, Colombo tamils are differnt from Velvettiturai Tamils
   and so are Tamilnadu tamils as well as hill country tamils and EPRLF tamils
    Only we LOW CAST LTTE Tamils are real tamils,
        and we will purify tamil race by
          killing all other tamils,
           we are well on our way   to the target...


|> Yes, the Tigers have killed many Sinhalase.
|>Many in Sinhala settlements in Tamil areas
|>while others who abett in any way agression against Tamils. When Tamils
|> were forced to leaev their homes and lands to make way for 'settlements,' whe
re
|> were you?
  And can you say that the Muslims who got killed did not settle there one time
      or another? Otherwise how did they get there. We will liberate the land
       by killing all Sinhalese, Muslims and OTHER  (non LTTE) Tamils

|> Where were you when the SL air force was raining 'barrel bombs' and rockets o
n Tamil areas? Or when(still does) random naval shelling was going on?
|> Go to Jaffna and see what you bloody government has done to our homes and liv
es!
    Of course, I was in U.S. collecting money for cyanide to liberate the soil

|> Why are many Sinhalase still in Tamil areas protected by army bases doting ou
rland?
|> They are not wanted. Because they came in without knocking first.
|> Part of gov. scheme to make Tamils minorities in their land(eastern SL).
    And this apply to Muslims too, and thats why we killed them
|>
|> Do you think that LTTE is such an unpopular organization, it can still exist
in
|> this state?
     And we are becoming more and more popular as we kill more and more
     of traitors and non-tamil tamils  - simple arithmetic...,
     just like 1992-1983 = 7...
|>You're such a fool when it comes to us.
    And when I came to US, I told the guys at embassy that I do not belong
    to any terrorist organization, and what fools those guys are
|>. Many Tamils even if they don't like LTTE still don't want a return to Sinhal
a rule.
     And this apply to all living  Tamils, because if they dont like LTTE they a
re
     closer to their death  - remember what happened to Selvi, Padmanabha,...
|> I don't like some of thir deeds either. But, I have to think about our surviv
al.
   And beleive me now I am telling the truth, I have to survive and my family
   has to survive.   Amir did not survive and Tambimuttu did not survive.
   But I will survive because I am a terminal tiger....
      if I have to call you a traitor to survive I'll do that
       and if I have to kill  my nneighbor's teenage son to do that , you bet I
will

|> Afterall, only a tiger can keep in ch|> eck a hungry lion. I myself have expe
rienced some deeds by this
|> 'lion.' Ans lost many relatives(in addition our home) to this 'lion.'
    And as I said, the guys killed by LTTE are not real tamils, and therefore
    they are not my relatives.....
|>
|> thambi
Now see the report below, some one says 90, some one says 300,
how can it be true???

Scores Of Sri Lankans Slain
AP 08/04 09:54 EDT V0839
Copyright 1990. The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.


   KATTANKUDI, Sri Lanka (AP) -- Tamil militants rampaged through
two  mosques  in  eastern  Sri  Lanka  with machine guns and hand
grenades, killing more than 110 people as they knelt  in  prayer,
witnesses and officials said Saturday.
   Town coroner Mohammed Noordeen said he examined the bodies  of
112  people from the massacre on Friday evening. Police and other
sources gave casualty  figures that reached as high as 131. Mili-
tary  officials  earlier said 150 people had been killed. All the
victims were men. No one immediately claimed  responsibility  for
the attack, but officials blamed the separatist Liberation Tigers
of Tamil Eeelam for the massacre. The  Tigers  broke  a  13-month
cease-fire on June 11 to resume their war for independence in the
Tamil-dominated north and east of this Indian Ocean island.  More
than 3,000 combatants have been killed in the latest fighting.
   Brigadier A.M.U. Seneviratne, army commander of the Batticaloa
district,  said 30 Tamil rebels crossed a lagoon near this Moslem
town, 140 miles east of Colombo,  divided  into  two  groups  and
attacked  the  mosques  during Friday evening prayers. The rebels
sprayed machine gunfire from three  sides  into  the  Meera  Juma
mosque,  where about 200 worshipers had gathered, and also lobbed
grenades. Amid screams and smoke, they fled before soldiers could
arrive  from  a camp about two miles away. Another group attacked
the smaller Thaik mosque with had about 30 worshipers inside.  "I
was  kneeling down and praying when the rebels started shooting,"
said Mohammed Ibrahim, a  40-year-old  businessman.  "The  firing
went  on  for  15 minutes.  I escaped without being hit and found
myself  among  bodies  all  over  the  place."  Another  witness,
Mohammed Arif, a 17-year-old student said: "Before I escaped from
a side door and scaled a wall, I saw a Tiger rebel put a gun into
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the mouth of a small Moslem boy and pull the trigger."
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   Seneviratne said most of the victims were shot in the back  or
side.  Evidence  of  the  carnage  was apparent Saturday when the
government flew reporters to the area. The floor  of  the  mosque
was  splattered  with  blood and the walls pockmarked with bullet
holes. Bodies were lined up in neat rows, wrapped in  the  tradi-
tional Moslem white burial clothes. Small cardboard placards gave
the name of the victim and the number of the  corpse.  Groups  of
sobbing  Moslem women flocked to the two mosques. Vehicles carry-
ing bodies, with Moslem clergymen chanting  verses,  rolled  past
armed  soldiers  patrolling the town. Shops, homes and businesses
were closed. In a cemetery at the Meera  Jumma  mosque,  mourners
had dug a long common grave for a row of coffins.
   In Colombo, a  Moslem  member  of  Parliament  and  opposition
leader said the government failed to protect Moslems or give them
arms to protect themselves.
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