A Sri Lanka Guardian response to Tamils for Justice and other LTTE overseas organizations
[Jayantha Gnanakone of the Tamils for Justice must understand and appreciate our journalists will go anywhere to find, check, verify information even if that means conferring with the devil. He sets no rules for us; we make our rules as befits the Fourth Estate of the Realms. Sri Lanka Guardian is the voice of the people of Sri Lanka.]
(July 21, Colombo - New Delhi - Chennai, Sri Lanka Guardian) Tamils for Justice founder and head, Jayantha Gnanakone always fascinates us with his outbursts and intense lack of tolerance to the views of others. He rides a high horse and when he does, no other horse, mule or ass has a right to trod on his track.
While we welcome his demand to his attorney to respond to the questions placed before him by our New Delhi correspondent, we also note with interest his comment that we lack comprehension about his delay and inability to keep Bruce Fein with him, whom he publicly announced he had retained at a handsome fee.
We have seen his many outbursts against fellow LTTE supporters in Canada and the USA and branded them with terms that many people will abhor as impolite, indecent and coarse; such is his intolerance. May be Bruce Fein found him difficult to handle and felt the need to encourage the founding of Justice for Thamils which of course is like making friends with the viper to fight the mamba.
Mr Gnanakone is also emphatic that only the LTTE will speak for the Tamils and claims that some foreign people or countries have accepted that way. Apart from capitalist Japan, the others are western nations. This is typical White Sahibdry of the Sri Lankan urban elite. How much does he know of his people in the villages and townships of the North and East?
Sri Lanka Guardian has spoken to people at the grass roots both in the East and the North and they want to be spared from this terrible war and all the killing stopped. They cannot take it anymore. They have lost too many of their sons and daughters and there seems no end to it. In fact, they want to be liberated from the LTTE which Jayantha Gnanakone and his people encourage, support and help to force more young people into the frontiers of a deadly war.
His intolerance is further heightened by his statement, “Sri Lanka guardians (sic) seems unaware that LTTE is not a proscribed organization in Sri Lanka, and GOSL has always been begging, yes we repeat begging the whole world, for LTTE to come to the negotiating table. Such decisions can be only be made by the LTTE”.
How naïve Mr Gnanakone can be! He should have known that LTTE is not banned in Sri Lanka so that the government can always entertain them to talks. If as he says and repeats for emphasis that the Government of Sri Lanka has always been begging the whole world for the LTTE to come to the negotiating table, why cannot the LTTE do so if as he claims only the LTTE can speak for the Tamils?
Hasn’t he realized that the LTTE is not in favour of a solution to the ethnic crisis just like the extreme Sinhala communal forces? The latter wants the end of the Tamils in Sri Lanka and the LTTE is conducting itself in such a manner to make that possible, if it cannot have a mafia territory in Sri Lanka.
At first, the LTTE did succeed in bringing a global focus on the problems of the Tamils in Sri Lanka but began to miss many opportunities for solutions especially the one India’s Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi literally wrenched out of an unwilling President Junius Jayewardene. It was a time when the Tamils looked up to the LTTE with hope but they were let down. Such a situation as an LTTE leadership does not exist anymore The LTTE represents not the Tamils in Sri Lanka but depends on them for human fodder until such time they are able to achieve a state that will become a smugglers’ paradise. Do we have to say anything more as to why Mr Gnanakone demands only the LTTE speaks for the Tamils?
Tamils in Sri Lanka on the other hand want to be liberated from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam who are financed, supported and encouraged by organizations like the Tamils for Justice and those at loggerheads with it even they are all LTTE enthusiasts and none of them have any stakes in Sri Lanka. They only promote terrorism in the country.
In the name of the LTTE, they have created an industry overseas including raising of funds that are rarely if ever accounted with the excuse of equipping the LTTE to continue with this deadly war. The losers are their erstwhile kith and kin in Sri Lanka and they have ceased to be of any concern to them.
The LTTE industry overseas is likely to have other interests normally associated with smuggling activities. We will politely remind Mr Gnanakone and his fellow overseas LTTE supporters that they do not enjoy the right or privilege to speak for the Tamils in Sri Lanka.
Mr Gnanakone must further understand and appreciate our journalists will go anywhere to find, check, verify information even if that means conferring with the devil. He sets no rules for us; we make our decisions as befits the Fourth Estate of the Realms.
We attach the email Mr Gnanakone sent us and also copied to others:
SUBRAMANIAM OF LANKA GUARDIAN ATTACKS T4J AND GNANAKONE BECAUSE BRUCE FEIN IS SILENT TO QUESTIONS FROM THE MEDIA:
Imperative that Bruce Fein responds to Vinodanee Subramaniam's interview.
Sri Lanka Guardian's lack of comprehension in the delay and our inability retain Bruce Fein as the attorney will be dealt by T4J in a timely fashion via our website.
It is essential that BF, and T4J maintains good relationship with the media, and T4J strongly recommends BF to meet such obligations.T4J, maintains that LTTE will, and always remain the sole representative of the Tamils, such positions, India, USA, Canada, Japan, EU, UK and Norway has accepted since 1987. Sri Lanka guardians seems unaware that LTTE is not a proscribed organization in Sri Lanka, and GOSL has always been begging, yes we repeat begging the whole world, for LTTE to come to the negotiating table.
Such decisions can be only be made by the LTTE, and no Diaspora HR group has no mandate to make other decisions or even suggestions. However, the Rajapakse administration has lost it's legitimacy to be a genuine partner of peace to the sole representative of the Tamils, for future' peace negotiations, in the near future.
Jayantha Gnanakone, Tamils for Justice
- Sri Lanka Guardian
[Jayantha Gnanakone of the Tamils for Justice must understand and appreciate our journalists will go anywhere to find, check, verify information even if that means conferring with the devil. He sets no rules for us; we make our rules as befits the Fourth Estate of the Realms. Sri Lanka Guardian is the voice of the people of Sri Lanka.]
(July 21, Colombo - New Delhi - Chennai, Sri Lanka Guardian) Tamils for Justice founder and head, Jayantha Gnanakone always fascinates us with his outbursts and intense lack of tolerance to the views of others. He rides a high horse and when he does, no other horse, mule or ass has a right to trod on his track.
While we welcome his demand to his attorney to respond to the questions placed before him by our New Delhi correspondent, we also note with interest his comment that we lack comprehension about his delay and inability to keep Bruce Fein with him, whom he publicly announced he had retained at a handsome fee.
We have seen his many outbursts against fellow LTTE supporters in Canada and the USA and branded them with terms that many people will abhor as impolite, indecent and coarse; such is his intolerance. May be Bruce Fein found him difficult to handle and felt the need to encourage the founding of Justice for Thamils which of course is like making friends with the viper to fight the mamba.
Mr Gnanakone is also emphatic that only the LTTE will speak for the Tamils and claims that some foreign people or countries have accepted that way. Apart from capitalist Japan, the others are western nations. This is typical White Sahibdry of the Sri Lankan urban elite. How much does he know of his people in the villages and townships of the North and East?
Sri Lanka Guardian has spoken to people at the grass roots both in the East and the North and they want to be spared from this terrible war and all the killing stopped. They cannot take it anymore. They have lost too many of their sons and daughters and there seems no end to it. In fact, they want to be liberated from the LTTE which Jayantha Gnanakone and his people encourage, support and help to force more young people into the frontiers of a deadly war.
His intolerance is further heightened by his statement, “Sri Lanka guardians (sic) seems unaware that LTTE is not a proscribed organization in Sri Lanka, and GOSL has always been begging, yes we repeat begging the whole world, for LTTE to come to the negotiating table. Such decisions can be only be made by the LTTE”.
How naïve Mr Gnanakone can be! He should have known that LTTE is not banned in Sri Lanka so that the government can always entertain them to talks. If as he says and repeats for emphasis that the Government of Sri Lanka has always been begging the whole world for the LTTE to come to the negotiating table, why cannot the LTTE do so if as he claims only the LTTE can speak for the Tamils?
Hasn’t he realized that the LTTE is not in favour of a solution to the ethnic crisis just like the extreme Sinhala communal forces? The latter wants the end of the Tamils in Sri Lanka and the LTTE is conducting itself in such a manner to make that possible, if it cannot have a mafia territory in Sri Lanka.
At first, the LTTE did succeed in bringing a global focus on the problems of the Tamils in Sri Lanka but began to miss many opportunities for solutions especially the one India’s Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi literally wrenched out of an unwilling President Junius Jayewardene. It was a time when the Tamils looked up to the LTTE with hope but they were let down. Such a situation as an LTTE leadership does not exist anymore The LTTE represents not the Tamils in Sri Lanka but depends on them for human fodder until such time they are able to achieve a state that will become a smugglers’ paradise. Do we have to say anything more as to why Mr Gnanakone demands only the LTTE speaks for the Tamils?
Tamils in Sri Lanka on the other hand want to be liberated from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam who are financed, supported and encouraged by organizations like the Tamils for Justice and those at loggerheads with it even they are all LTTE enthusiasts and none of them have any stakes in Sri Lanka. They only promote terrorism in the country.
In the name of the LTTE, they have created an industry overseas including raising of funds that are rarely if ever accounted with the excuse of equipping the LTTE to continue with this deadly war. The losers are their erstwhile kith and kin in Sri Lanka and they have ceased to be of any concern to them.
The LTTE industry overseas is likely to have other interests normally associated with smuggling activities. We will politely remind Mr Gnanakone and his fellow overseas LTTE supporters that they do not enjoy the right or privilege to speak for the Tamils in Sri Lanka.
Mr Gnanakone must further understand and appreciate our journalists will go anywhere to find, check, verify information even if that means conferring with the devil. He sets no rules for us; we make our decisions as befits the Fourth Estate of the Realms.
We attach the email Mr Gnanakone sent us and also copied to others:
SUBRAMANIAM OF LANKA GUARDIAN ATTACKS T4J AND GNANAKONE BECAUSE BRUCE FEIN IS SILENT TO QUESTIONS FROM THE MEDIA:
Imperative that Bruce Fein responds to Vinodanee Subramaniam's interview.
Sri Lanka Guardian's lack of comprehension in the delay and our inability retain Bruce Fein as the attorney will be dealt by T4J in a timely fashion via our website.
It is essential that BF, and T4J maintains good relationship with the media, and T4J strongly recommends BF to meet such obligations.T4J, maintains that LTTE will, and always remain the sole representative of the Tamils, such positions, India, USA, Canada, Japan, EU, UK and Norway has accepted since 1987. Sri Lanka guardians seems unaware that LTTE is not a proscribed organization in Sri Lanka, and GOSL has always been begging, yes we repeat begging the whole world, for LTTE to come to the negotiating table.
Such decisions can be only be made by the LTTE, and no Diaspora HR group has no mandate to make other decisions or even suggestions. However, the Rajapakse administration has lost it's legitimacy to be a genuine partner of peace to the sole representative of the Tamils, for future' peace negotiations, in the near future.
Jayantha Gnanakone, Tamils for Justice
- Sri Lanka Guardian
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