"Groceries, tea and garments alone sustain the entire defense budget and more of the genocidal war against the LTTE, and the foreign exchange component."___________________
by Jayantha Gnanakone
(April 05, Washington, Sri Lanka Guardian) "We should also not unwittingly assist the Sri Lankan Government to become economically strong to wage war against the Tamils. Recently there was a meeting, held in London, calling upon the Tamil people to boycott Sri Lankan Airlines travel. I do not see any follow-up action. Just imagine a situation of a considerable section of the Tamil Diaspora boycotting Sri Lankan Airlines!! - N.Wijasingham - Global Peace Conference
On the travel boycott, what needs to be done is request the Tamil travel agents to stop selling airline tickets on Sri Lankan Airlines, and also stop selling holiday packages to Sri Lanka to Tamils and non-Tamils. Tamil newspapers and media must stop accepting advertizing for anyone promoting airline tickets and holiday packages to Sri Lanka.
Otherwise, the whole exercise is futile. Most of the reduced travel is not due to the promotion of the boycott but due to the white vans, kidnapping, abductions and payment of ransom. There are also instances of arbitrary arrest.
Sri Lankan Airlines is virtually on its last legs due to their own battle with Emirates, which owns 45% of the airline even after the breakup on the 1st of April, 2008.
We should stop calling for only the boycott of the Sri Lankan airlines if we do not have the moral courage, or the courage of our conviction to call for the boycott of all goods and services from Sri Lanka, especially groceries, tea and garments.
Other items are:
Investment in the stock market.
Investment in real estate.
Using Sri Lankan banks to make inward remittances, instead of other
avenues via Singapore and India.
Utilizing all Sri Lankan rupees.
Groceries, tea and garments alone sustain the entire defense budget and more of the genocidal war against the Tamils, and the foreign exchange component.
There is food, fuel, medicine, salaries, and other administrative expenses and maintainance which does not require foreign exchange for the GOSL, although one can argue fuel is all foreign exchange. (For the armed forces). So are spares.
Nevertheless, the GOSL utilizes more printed money for the armed forces, and there are plenty of dollars left which the Tamils send to buy planes, ships, tanks, APC, Jeeps, equipment, Bombs, Mines, Missiles, Guns, Bullets, Grenades and other imports.
Just give it some thought and remember:
Import of groceries means continuation of the war and NO Eelam.
It means sacrifice on our part and the part of some merchants .
Others lose lives, limbs and blood and endure pain and suffering.
The GOSL budget is $25-26 billion dollars.
- Sri Lanka Guardian
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Sinhalas also should stop buying from Tamil shops in Sri Lanka and agricultural products coming from North to see what has the most impact.
What a hipocrite you are? You got your residency as a refugee & now comfortable. Millions living in Sri Lanka rely on tourism & forign earings for existance. I think you should consider buying a new brain.
It is very clear that this guy is sitting on his brains more than I have come across. He is trying to completely wipe out the entire Tamil population from Sri Lanka. If he has a brain how can he not know who will be affected by this stupidest idea? We all know he is another ungrateful person who used the Sri Lankan govt's generosity and had a free education thanks to genocide GOSL and he does not want other Tamils to have it so that they can con the so called "Uneducated Tamils" of the North and East to fulfill psychopath VP's dream come true.
Does this idiot know that more Tamils have businesses in South than the North? Does he understand how economics work in a country? How it will affect all the people than section of the people? Does he know the basic principles of economics?
It is good to publish articles like this so that they can be exposed to show what UNP is dealing with.
Good work Sri Lanka Guardian keep on exposing these idiots.
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