Video: What the tourists see: A 10 minute aerial trip over the paradise island of Sri Lanka.
1. In 2006, more people died in the war in Sri lanka than in the war in Afghanistan.
(Source: The Economist 9-15 June 2007 The Economist A war strange as fiction )
The war in Sri Lanka has so far led to 70,000 deaths.
75% of Sri Lankans are Sinhalese and 12% are Tamils. Almost half of Colombo is Tamil. The Tamil Tigers are involved in a struggle for some kind of independence.
In April 2007, the Tamil Tigers bombed Colombo from the air. (BBC NEWS South Asia Sri Lanka rebels in new air raid )
2. Reportedly the Sri Lankan government of President Rajapakse uses terror to kill civilians.
The Tamils are not united. In 2004, Colonel Karuna defected from the Tigers.
Reportedly, the government runs a Tamil militant group.
According to The Economist, 9-15 June 2007, "armed members of a Tamil political party, the Eelam people's Party, allegedly with close ties to army spies, have been accused of... killings."
The Economist describes one savage murder: "his killers were from ... a Tamil militant group, in the pay of Sri Lanka's democratically elected government."
According to The Economist, Colonel Karuna has recruited a militia which includes over 200 children, and this militia is being used by the government to murder its opponents.
3. The main Tamil Tiger leader is Mr Prabhakaran. President Rajapakse may have come to power with the secret help of Mr Prabhakaran.
According to The Economist, recent reports have suggested that the Tamil Tiger leader "struck a secret deal with the opportunistic Mr Rajapakse. In return for, in effect, delivering Mr Rajapakse to power, Mr Prabhakaran was promised cash..."
President Rajapakse's brothers now control the ministries of finance, defence and public works. Rajapakse and his brothers now control 70% of the government budget.
4. The Tamil Tiger leader Mr Prabhakaran is no saint. He demands that each family in the area he controls supply him with two child fighters.
Where do the weapons come from? Recently the government claims to have intercepted a ship carrying guns bought in Indonesia.
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Sri Lanka, Mossad, the CIA, drugs and arms dealers.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-1734217,00.html
http://www.lankalibrary.com/pol/war_games.htm
Sri Lankan foreign minister Lakshman Kadirgamar, a Tamil Christian, was bringing peace to Sri Lanka.This was bad news for the arms dealers.
On 12 August 2005, Lakshman Kadirgamar was shot dead as he climbed out of the swimming pool at his luxury home.
SP Thamilselvan, leader of the Tamil Tigers’ political wing, denied that the Tigers were involved. He suggested that elements of the majority Sinhalese might be responsible. “We know there are sections within the Sri Lankan armed forces operating with a hidden agenda to sabotage the ceasefire,” he said.
Arms dealers? Sri Lanka's arms dealers, 'a shadowy bunch of politicians, servicemen, bureaucrats and their relatives and friends, who conclude multi-million-dollar deals nearly every day pocketing hefty commissions' are the beneficiaries of trouble in Sri lanka.
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http://www.larouchepub.com/other/1995/2241_south_india_groups.html
According to Larouche:
"In the early 1970s, the LTTE (Tamil Tigers) began establishing training camps and secret arms caches under the cover of a chain of Refugee and Rehabilitation Farms of the Gandhian Society.
"Funds for the farms came from Oxfam (Oxford Famine Relief), one of the most powerful and secretive British intelligence organizations acting under non-governmental organization cover...
"John Glover, a British feature writer, wrote to the Western Mail in Wales about the ongoing and future training programs for Tamil youth by British mercenaries.
"'A band of mercenary soldiers recruited in South Wales is training a Tamil army to fight for a separate state in Sri Lanka. About 20 mercenaries were signed up after a meeting in Cardiff and have spent the last two months in southern India preparing a secret army to fight the majority Sinhalas, in the cause of a separate Tamil state in Sri Lanka,' he said...
"According to accounts by retired officials of the Israeli secret service, the Mossad, the Israelis were simultaneously training the Sri Lanka Army and the Tigers, and providing arms to each.
"Victor Ostrovsky, author of By Way of Deception, told Indian Abroad news service in 1991 that the Tigers were trained in Israel in 1985. 'These groups kept coming and going. It was part of our routine job to take them to training camps and make sure that they were getting training worth what they paid for, not more and not less.' The groups paid in cash.
"Ostrovsky said that the arrangement for the training was made by the Mossad liaison in India, who lived there under a British passport.
"A December 1983 Sunday Mail article reported that the Mossad was arming and training the Tigers, as well as the Sri Lankan Armed Forces.
"The British Special Air Services (SAS) firm Keenie Meenie Services, was simultaneously training the Sri Lankan Army and the LTTE...
The LTTE is reported to be involved in trafficking heroin...
"According to intelligence reports, most of the arms used by the LTTE are purchased from Singapore, India, Afghanistan, and the Mideast.
"In 1987, the Hindustan Times reported that large quantities of arms with Pakistani and Israeli markings were seized by the Indian Peacekeeping Force in Jaffna from the LTTE.
"In 1989, according to a Sri Lankan government secretary, the LTTE was receiving armaments directly from the Sri Lankan government of President Ranasinghe Premadasa, who wanted to force the expulsion of the Indian Peacekeeping Force from Sri Lanka, and who was also using the LTTE to wipe out the JVP (People's Liberation Front) Sinhala insurgency...
"The LTTE reportedly has bought Russian-made Strela anti-aircraft missiles from Belgian arms dealers."
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http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/DG13Df01.html
Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, was killed in 1991 by the Sri Lankan Tamil Tigers -Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. In India, Justice Milap Chand Jain investigated the conspiracy to assassinate Gandhi.
He came across evidence that one suspect known as Chandraswami had links with the CIA and Mossad, and through them with the LTTE.
Justice Jain 'seems convinced' that Chandraswami was involved.
According to Asia Times: Justice Jain 'has linked Chandraswami with the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) in which arms dealer Adnan Kashoggi, several terrorist groups, and intelligence outfits like the CIA and Mossad had accounts.
'The money in it was used for terrorist operations and political assassinations. The report is quoted as saying that $4 million of Mr Kashoggi's money was transferred to the LTTE's accounts. Justice Jain had said this on the basis of a 130-page document prepared by US Senator John Kiri.
'The commission quotes evidence of former cabinet secretary Zafar Saiffullah who said Chandraswami had links with Mossad and the CIA, and that the government had received intercepts of wireless communication between Israel (where Mossad is based) and Jaffna (where the LTTE was operating till recently) which established Chandraswami's involvement...
'Money transactions in Chandraswami's name and his links with international arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi and the now defunct Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) have made the commission point an accusing finger...'
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http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2005/08/various-israeli-conspiracy-theories.html
Quote from a review by Sachi Sri Kantha of "By Way of Deception; The Making and Unmaking of a Mossad Officer", the famous book on the inner secrets of the Mossad by Victor Ostrovsky and Claire Hoy:
"Ostrovski's disclosures on the deals made by the military and political power-brokers of the ruling UNP and the Mossad had been published in excerpts in the Tamil Nation of Oct.15, 1990.
"What shocked the Sinhalese ruling establishment and the journalists (including the editor of Lanka Guardian, Mervyn de Silva) was the revelation of Ostrovski that Mossad had trained the Sinhalese military personnel and 'a group of Tamil guerrilla factions' simultaneously....
"Oh, and here's the good part. Israel trained the Sri Lankan resistance in the mid 1980's. The very first Tamil Tiger suicide attack was on July 5, 1987.
"Obviously influenced by the success of the Tamil Tigers, and prompted by the Israeli state terrorism against the Palestinian people, the Palestinians started using suicide bombers in the 1990's.
"Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
"Is it just possible that the technique of suicide bombing - now of course migrated to such places as New York, Iraq, and London - is the ultimate example of 'blowback', as it was taught to the Sri Lankans in the mid 1980's by the Israelis, who ended up on the wrong side of it when the Palestinians picked it up in 1993, and used it particularly from 2000 on.
"Where would the Israelis have learned of its success? From Lebanon in the 1980's. The technique was first used in Lebanon in December 1981 by the Islamic Dawa Party (the current Prime Minister of Iraq is a member of this party!).....
"If Israel learned of the tactical success of the technique by studying Hezbollah's use of it in Lebanon, and passed it on to the Sri Lankans in the mid-1980's - possibly just to cause enough conflict in Sri Lanka to generate more business training the Sri Lankan army at expensive rates! - it would be very ironic if the Palestinians took it up as the only alternative open to them at a time when the similarly powerless Tamils were using it to great success in Sri Lanka. The example of the Palestinians has led to the technique being used everywhere...."
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