that is repellent. they sound like child snatchers.

notice how there not doing anything about this genocide or even mentioning it.
even there front group the stop the war coalition is willing to sit by as they feel what is happening here wont get them any new recruits in to there party to help them sell papers.
remember,
trots worse then date rape.

All hostages rescued - Army

Troops have rescued all remaining civilians held hostage by LTTE terrorists; revealed military spokesperson Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara a few minutes ago today (May 17). He said that troops have rescued over 50,000 civilians during last 72 hours.

Await more information ...

...if it is true - as it is - that 3500/ 4000 have been killed in the bombings in just 48 hrs, the survivors are left with no food, hospitals have been bombed and the civilians who escaped to SLA controlled areas have been put in concentration camps. Maybe Hitler was rescuing the Jews? Why don't you fuck off as nobody who has a brain believes your government propaganda but it makes people sick.

STWC, SWP and the likes have been remarkable for their absence, but the entire peace movement has been largely absent with few exception (remarkably Maria, Brian Haw and the rest of peace camp in the square, and the support group that called itself T4T, Together for Tamils). Where is everybody else? How comes there were 5000 people taking to the streets in support of the Palestininans when the Gaza's massacres went on, and hardly a hundred when the genocide in Sri Lanka got underway? The Sri Lankan Army killed in 24 hours more people than the Israeli army killed in total in Gaza. We know long time that the STWC etc have got thir own agendas, or perhaps it is down to the segregation of British society? Why are some causes more popular than others?

"All hostages rescued - Army

Troops have rescued all remaining civilians held hostage by LTTE terrorists; revealed military spokesperson Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara a few minutes ago today (May 17). He said that troops have rescued over 50,000 civilians during last 72 hours."

These are the facts.

The Sri Lankan government have waged a war against the Tamil people in order to undermine the LTTE. They did this after going to the International Community and asking for tacit support of IC members. This was given by, among others, the British UN envoy Sir John Sawyers.

After receiving the tacit support of the IC, the Sri Lankan government sent its trrops into the North to engage the LTTE. This operation was backed up by two devices long promised to the GOSL. One, an IMF loan of $1.9 Billion and two, promise from the IC to 'shadow' the conflict with diplomatic efforts to bring the LTTE to a compromise solution.

The operation got underway and before long the inexpert nature of GOSL forces proved to be quite wreckless in their execution leading to loss of tactical control.

As a result, the IC's efforts fell short and the operation continued on in ad hoc fashion until things were pretty much out of control.

Throughout, the IC throughout the world have done little of note to halt what has become a humanitarian disaster. The UN state that the death toll from the conflict is around 6,500. Due to the hapless nature of the planning around this operation, the inexpert nature of GOSL forces in its execution and the IC being unable to muster effective International diplomacy, this death toll must be expected to be far higher than claimed, either by the IC or the GOSL.

There have been notable exceptions regarding help given to the Tamil people in the north, most notably from the International Tamil dispora and their supporters but in the main, the massacre has passed off relatively unapposed.

As a direct result of the inexpert prosecution by the GOSL, hapless stupidity of the IC and largely inefectual resistance of the public, the GOSL are now faced with a mass exodus of Tamil people that it cannot house, feed, treat medically or offer security.

The end result of this is that the GOSL will enter a period of endemic weakness, structural failure and severe sanction from the worlds trading hubs. In larger part, the prime blame for this lies with GOSL supporters who encouraged the GOSL to proceed without proper planning, funding, concensus of IC and who continued to offer propaganda in place of constructive and lucid critique. A fact severely aggravated by Sri Lankan President, Mahinda Rajapaksa. Mr Rajapaksa's leadership since 2004 has been continually problematic for ordinary Sri Lankans. The island has yet to recover from the tsunami that struck the country in December 2004. The nations economy continues to struggle at a time when revenue from tourism is likely to plummet.

Sri Lanka is about to become the Southern Indian continents basket-case through a process of withdrawal of International trade, political isolation within the immediate region and a resurgent Tamil diaspora that number close to 80 Million people world-wide.

In the not too distant future, we might well be finding that the Sri Lankan people as a whole, may be facing an internal crisis that we in the IC will be largely hesitant to tackle without assurances that Mahinda Rajapaksa reign over the Sri Lankan people will have to be brought to an end.

"Army elites spearhead final assault; Sri Lanka awaits liberation from terror"

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full report and pics of new blockade which apparently caught police by surprise at 4pm monday 18th may:
 http://london.indymedia.org.uk/articles/1421
this report gets edited with updates regularly

Act Now for Sri Lankans...Act Now For Tim Martin...

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Power to the Peaceful

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From Dana Amma Day at Positive TV >>>

Please watch and share my appeal to as many as you can to see if we can reach the international community on this urgent matter:

My appeal is found at you tube link below:
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XQtYLpT68M&feature=channel_page

My name is Dana and I am an accidental tv journalist.

I set up Positive TV 3 years ago to address the balance of the news agenda which I felt was so set in the negative and was not addressing the many positive breakthroughs and solutions that address the global emergency we find ourselves in.

However:

On Tuesday 2nd June I was reporting on the launch of The Global Peace Index 2009 that was launching at Central Hall, interviewing Steve Killelea, the businessman and philanthropist who as an individual set up and funded the index as up until this time in history Peace had not been measured.

I felt that this index was a positive solution towards working towards peace. Peace has never been more critical as population growth and security of resources of food and water become ever more stretched.

Positive TV then went out and about Westminster to interview people about peace, whilst out and about I literally stumbled upon Tim Martin - a British Aid Worker on his 16th day of hunger strike in bed in Parliament square. I was very shocked to find him there a bright young man who having witnessed the horror in Sri Lanka has returned to England to raise awareness to the terrible atrocities that are going on there. In a last desperate act of awareness he is now close to losing his own life.

His demands to end his hunger strike are listed below.

I am not an authority on war, but I am a compassionate human being and can not understand why the situation and terrible atrocities that are taking place today in Sri Lanka, particularly to orphan and female children are being swept under the carpet by the international community.

I can not, having discovered Tim in Parliament Square, let him die with out his message being heard.

So I have recorded this plea to reach out to those who are in position to speak with him or help him with his requests, which seem very reasonable to me.

For me the Sri-Lankan conflict is at the heart of the matter of the crisis in humanity and that this issue needs to be urgently addressed on a matter of Human Rights issues and to look for solutions in such conflict resolutions.

Please can you share my appeal - I would so appreciate your urgent help and support on the matter

Many thanks

ACT NOW DIRECTOR, A FORMER AID WORKER, ON HUNGER STRIKE IN LONDON

Tim Martin, a former aid worker and the Campaign Director of Act Now, is on an indefinite hunger strike outside Parliament, London since Monday 18th May. Tim is calling upon US President Obama to intervene in the crisis in Sri Lanka and has presented a clear list of demands to protect the civilian population from further devastation. Tim’s full letter to the American president was delivered to the American Embassy on the first day of his hunger strike.

www.act-now.info

See also Tim's appeal to the international community:

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcN95rS_mAQ

Dana Amma Day
CEO, Positive TV

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You’ll find topics ranging from food and farming, energy and transport, education and sustainable communities, new economics and design, peace and conflict resolution, the arts, health, spirituality, books, spiritual, films and music.”

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