Spot on report by Sri Lanka Guardian’s Catapult Thangavelu

(May 14, Jaffna, Sri Lanka Guardian) Yesterday morning we published a report by Catapult Thangavelu who in his own satirist style and speculations lampooned and predicted today’s news that would come from pro-LTTE news constructors like Tamilnet. Just as he was and his team kept watch on the Tigers from Kappang Highway (A9) which continues to be his hangout and stomping place as Liberation Highway now, he shuttles between A9 and wherever the action armed with his pen and purpose to rid Sri Lanka of this feline plague.

His prediction yesterday evening was in our columns last night as follows:

Tomorrow’s news of genocide, readied tonight

And we woke up this morning to what Tamilnet screamed as follows:

SLA shells hospital again, several killed including doctor, ICRC worker

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 13 May 2009, 10:07 GMT] Sri Lanka Army (SLA) fired artillery shells hit the makeshift hospital in Mu'l'li-vaaykkaal East, killing at least 38 patients who were waiting for treatment at the hospital, a medical staff told TamilNet. "There are many more killed inside the hospital premises, but I can only confirm that 38 casualties that I have witnessed near the main theatre upto 2:53 p.m.," the medical staff told TamilNet. Many shells have hit the makeshift hospital premises across the road.

“Meanwhile, a patient who reached an administrative office put the casualty figures at 100 and said he had witnessed that an ICRC worker was killed. Meanwhile, LTTE's Director of Peace Secretarait S. Puleedevan when contacted by TamilNet said 39 female patients at a counselling aid center for mentally ill women were massacred by targeted SLA shelling in the morning. More than 40 patients were feared wounded, he said.

Most of the medical staff and patients are staying inside the bunkers, unable to save lives, the medical staff at the hospital told TamilNet. The roads are congested with vehicles and it is not possible for journalistic sources to witness and verify all the details on time.
The hospital has been hit for the third time in one week.

Our reporters Mohan Gunaratnam and Roshanti Arasakularatne have observed as follows:

Contrary to the illusion created, the Tamilnet lets the cat out of the bag when it admits that there are journalistic sources in the no fire zone and they were hampered by vehicular congestion to get to the hospital premises. It also said that this is the third attack on the hospital for a week.

The question here is as to why the Sri Lankan Armed Forces should attack in this manner when they are so well-placed and in such a position that there is no escape possible whether by land, seas of air for the Tiger remnants completely at the mercy of the Forces.

Secondly, yielding to the stupid contention that there was a heavy attack by the Forces, why should it be aimed at the hospital and that too for three times in seven days?

Who is this medical staff complainant and what has happened to Messrs Shanmugarajah and Varadarajah of NFA Inc? What is this makeshift hospital? Did the LTTE takeover the original hospital to be their operating centre and now have a makeshift place for such an operation?

It is quite apparent the LTTE machine that functions from an overseas point under the direct command of the international criminal Selvarajah Pathmanathan alias KP, is convinced that most people can be made to believe something that is repeated consistently and very few people have the time, patience and skill to analyze within the proper perspective or scenario.

For instance, a person like Mr Anandasangary who has made a habit of writing letters to all and sundry every time somebody sneezed and claims to know the Wanni very well which we grant, shows that he is far from being capable enough to judge military action, the current state of the LTTE and the end result that is important for all Sri Lankans.

One cannot understand why he is so fond of “Thamby Prabhakaran” who would rather have him killed. Or may be the Tiger command would rather allow him to indulge in his tame and conciliatory letter writing. When the Tamils need a dynamic and strong leader, Anandasangary presents a stature of a weakling.

As for some countries in the west, Sri Lanka remaining destabilized is important and who better than the LTTE. But they are so visionless that over the years they have allowed this keeping terror to take roots in their countries without understanding the growing menace of the Tiger Underworld. The Sicilian mafia is Lilliputian compared to these Brobdignagians.

We have our suspicion apart from the efforts that are being made to get Prabhakaran, Pottu Amman and Soosai to some safe place somewhere in the world.

Along with them are certain people who are sweating like hell in an inferno worried that there is no ceasefire their identity will expose some international organizations and some countries too. These are the people who came to Sri Lankan as volunteers to help the farm people of the Wanni but in reality experts in communications, constructions, military hardware and other areas of expertise the LTTE has employed during the last few years.

There is all around the Wanni shocking revelations of such expertise having been employed and in particular the half-completed undersea tunnel.

Tiger propaganda worldwide with its immense resources available has been using what Michael Roberts has termed as auditory hallucination. Repeated claims and how the world has got used to the atrocities of American Forces behaved in Vietnam and now in Iraq and Afghanistan and also how indiscipline the Sri Forces have been especially under President Junius Jayawardene – remember how Rajiv Gandhi was attacked under the eyes of Jayawardene in a Parade of Honour.

Today, the Sri Lankan Armed Forces are serving the country with utter discipline and surgical efficiency. There is no need for them to bomb a hospital especially when the world is watching their operations very closely.

The Tigers leaders know what really is going to happen and this is the final scene of the treachery top which they have subjected the Tamil community in particular, the Sri Lankans in general and the world at large too. They will be finished in Sri Lanka. The west is welcome to them if that is what some of their leaders want.

Catapult Thangavelu concluded: “We need not worry about these reports from the Tigers in the no fire zone anymore- They have written their last will but without any stamp of credibility as they have for the last quarter of a century.”

-Sri Lanka Guardian