MIA, Born Free Leaked

You failed to mention that her father was an explosives expert for the Tamil Tigers. An organisation which recruited Tamil children as child soldiers and exploited poor women to become suicide bombers. You wonder how “brave” she really is when she doesn’t speak out about the “genocide” and atrocities committed by her own people.

This is a neutral BBC article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8180000/8180963.stm

The real victims in Sri Lanka are the peace loving people of all ethnic groups, Tamil moderates, Sinhala moderates, Muslim moderates, and other ethnic groups on the island who suffered due to Tamil extremism under the guise of a freedom struggle.

MIA and her Tamil Tigers waged war for 30 years and committed brutal atrocities to create a Tamil only homeland, void of any other ethnic group but Tamils. Those are the facts. It takes a brave journalist or blogger to present the truth.

MIA was born free and victim of one of the ethnic riots unleashed by the Sri Lankan governments on ethnic minorities in the past 63 years.

Sri Lankan current leader like Sudanese or Burmese leaders is one on the dock of war crimes for his mass carnage with media and NGOs kicked out of the country.

Watch Sri Lankan Presidents cavalier attitude to human rights in the recent CNN interview video:
Excerpt:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzGj2hYoymo&feature=youtube_gdata

Excerpt from CNN video on ‘Witness to Survival” by Ms. Sara Sidner on her visit soon after the Presidential election: the journalist challenges the President’s lies.

President has spent billions of dollars to his cronies to establish authoritarian and family rule.

From the first comment, it certainly does look like the Siri Lankan government is tracking MIA and trying to intimidate her for speaking out. MIA is certainly in good company – this is the same government that accused UN rapporteur of being a Tamil Tiger sympathiser when he concluded based on investigations by three independent western forensic expert witnesses that Nazi style executions of Tamils detainees filmed on a mobile phone were genuine and constituted war crimes and were carried out after the war. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9WKae3Obtc
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8446849.stm . It is absolutely disgusting that western governments are allowing a brutal two-bit tin-pot banana republic like Sri Lanka to threaten and intimidate their citizens in this way without any action being taken against the Sri Lankan embassy. Ministers in the corrupt New Labour UK government are the worst offenders in this respect.

In a similar way Sir John Holmes U.N. Undersecretary-general for Humanitarian Affairs and Bruce Feign (US Bruce Fein, associate deputy attorney general under President Reagan) were both accused of being a “white Tigers” when they criticized the Siri Lankan government as MIA has done.

Basically the Sri Lankan government is a totalitarian regime which murders opponents and tags any critic domestic or international with the terrorist tag, as the first poster is doing.

Independent experts also concluded from satellite images that the Sri Lankan government commited war crimes by deliberately targeting hospitals and Tamil civilians in Sri Lankan government safe zones with cluster bombs, multi barrel rocket launchers and napalm bombs when satellite images showed clearly that there were no Tamil Tiger artillery or mortar positions anywhere near the area. The Sri Lankan lied repeatedly during the time it was doing this claiming the Tigers were shelling their own people.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6337805.ece

The Sri Lanka government lays accusations of genocide on the Tigers, but unlike those against the Sri Lankan government which are backed by longstanding proven evidence, those against the Tigers including Sri Lankan government accusations as repeated by the UN are just that – accusations by the Sri Lankan government for which there is not one iota of evidence. This is really surprising because unlike the Tigers, the Sri Lankan government despite having all the facilities afforded to a government for investigating and presenting evidence, has not produced one iota of evidence, and instead has tried to block independent international investigation at every turn. Any sane and rational person must therefore conclude that it is the Sri Lankan government not the Tamil Tigers which is guilty of genocide and the bulk of war crimes committed, and that the Sri Lankan government – which has a proven record of lying and blocking independent investigation – is indeed also lying when it comes to alleged Tamil Tiger atrocities.

M I A has outspoken about the ‘Tamil Genocide’ by Sri Lankan government. She talks the facts, the truth and the reality of genocide is still happening in the island of Sri Lanka. Sri Lankan government is trying hard to shut her up as they bought many western medias,hijacked UN officials and many politicians in the Western world.
If Sri Lanka has nothing to hide why are they still not allowing media in the concentration camps and the Tamil areas freely. The media always escoted by the Sri Lankan Sinhala army which is 995 Sinhalese not even a single Tamil.
Why didn’t they allow media to the war zone?

http://digitaljournal.com/article/290705

It has been nearly one year since the civil war in Sri Lanka came to an end. It has been more than four months since the Sri Lankan President “released” IDPs from the camps. Two elections have taken place this year. Has anything changed for the Tamils?
Colombo, Sri Lanka – Digital Journal provided in-depth coverage of the crisis that is still occurring in Sri Lanka where hundreds of thousands of Tamils were forced into internment camps by the Mahinda Rajapaksa government that were described as even worse than the camps during World War Two.
At the end of 2009, the Sri Lankan President, under duress from the international community, announced that he would free the Tamils from the barbed-wire camps but many (approx 100,000) still remain inside the internal displacement camps.
Those who were released returned to their homes and villages only to see that their homes and villages were absolutely destroyed, while thousands were not able to find work and even forced into rehabilitation centers to adapt to the Sinhalese culture.
“Most of the houses have been either completely destroyed or severely damaged. In the Vanni, the pace of return has been very fast. More than half of the people who were displaced have come back. But there are still areas which have not been cleared of mines,” said Senior Policy Officer for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Vicky Tennant.

http://www.mackenzieinstitute.com/2009/genocide-talk020609.htm

The above will give you a true reflection on what happened in Sri Lanka.

The authors, The Mackenzie Institute in Canada, was formed in 1986 to provide research and comment on such diverse subjects as terrorism, organized crime, political extremism, propaganda, conflict and other such matters.

The Institute holds to the proposition that Canadian democratic institutions need to be defended and enhanced, and works to do what it can to protect the stability of Canadian society.

They posted the above information to inform the Canadian public when 1000s of Tamil Tiger extremist and misguided Tamils fallen prey to Tamil Tiger propaganda took to the streets in Canada claiming there was genocide taking place in Sri Lanka.

Genocide is not a word we should take lightly. Not to defend a terrorist organisation which MIA’s father was a big part of.

Why did the Tigers wage a war?
The answer lies in the decades of reports by the UN, International Commission of Jurists, International Bar Association, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, ….:
Ethnic Conflict and Violence in Sri Lanka – Report of International Commission of Jurists 1981: ‘’The fate of the Tamils in Sri Lanka remains a matter of international concern”.
Tigers have come and gone but the oppression of Tamils by the government goes on:

http://news.rediff.com/slide-show/2010/feb/08/slide-show-1-the-story-of-sri-lanka-then-and-now.htm
The story of Sri Lanka, then and now, 8 February 2010:” Prof Adele Barker(University of Arizona): ”The military presence in the country is enormous, much greater than when I was there in 2006. … It took me four months to get authorisation from the Ministry of Defence to travel north. … It was clear to us that the government was not eager to have foreigners or NGOs up there. Strangely, it was easier to go there in 2005 than it was this December. ….’’

http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWFiles2010.nsf/FilesByRWDocUnidFilename/SVAN-843LTD-full_report.pdf/$File/full_report.pdf
Banking on Solutions, A real-time evaluation of UNHCR’s shelter grant programme for returning displaced people in Northern Sri Lanka, March 2010:
”….The extent of shelter destruction appears to have been underestimated ….A comprehensive assessment of the situation in return areas was not possible, government restrictions on NGO access limited programming options, ….. The presence of international NGOs in return areas would make an important contribution to addressing such gaps. ….
Movement along the A9 is also still restricted for international NGOs and UN agencies. ……since July 2009 they(ICRC) have not had access to the 11,000 people suspected of LTTE links held in rehabilitation centres. ….’’

Singalese are the real ruthless terrorists in the world. Since 1948 they, under the cover of democracy, have murdered more than 200,000 innocent Tamils. Singalese have burnt thousands of houses of Tamils, destroyed hundreds of thousands of houses of Tamils, stolen several trillion dollars worth of Tamils properties.

Paradise Poisoned: Learning about Conflict, Terrorism and Development from Sri Lanka ‘s Civil Wars(2005), John Richardson, Professor of International development in American University’s School of International Service and Director of the University’s Centre for Teaching Experience:
Paradise Poisoned is the principal product of a seventeen year project, devoted to understanding linkages between deadly conflict, terrorism and development, by viewing them through the lens of Sri Lanka’s post-independence history, from 1948 through 1988. After a period of relative tranquillity, escalating conflict and terrorism engulfed this beautiful island nation. Coping with two civil wars became the principal preoccupation of Sri Lanka’s government and people. Explaining how tranquillity was supplanted by all-encompassing violent conflict and terrorism became the focal point of my inquiries.

What I have learned, of fundamental importance, from Sri Lanka’s civil wars, is this: We know more than enough to choose policies that will help prevent protracted deadly conflict and terrorism. We also know more than enough to avoid policies that will cause protracted deadly conflict and terrorism.

….I chose ‘politics without principle’ and drew two lessons from Sri Lanka ‘s experience. ….

S.W.R.D.Bandaranaike’s term marked the beginning of a ‘poisonous’ cycle in Sri Lankan politics that has worked to polarise society along communal lines. When in power, leaders of both parties have seen the need for reasonable concessions to Sri Lanka Tamils in order to maintain national unity. But when in opposition, these same leaders have become uncompromising advocates of Sinhalese nationalism in order to gain political support. In the early 1950s the charismatic SWRD Bandaranaike altered Sri Lanka’s political landscape forever by beginning to vocally advocate an overly populist, pro-Sinhalese and pro-Buddhist political agenda. Campaigning on a political platform to make Sinhala the only official language ‘within 24 hours’ after becoming Prime Minister, and to give preferential treatment to Sinhalese in education and employment, he swept to power in the general election of April 1956. A new and turbulent era in Sri Lankan politics had begun. Having opened the Pandora’s Box of race-based politics, Sinhalese politicians could not close it. …”

Will not be buying her music. There are people like MIA and those supporting here blind adoration of war. death and destruction as a freedom struggle. That’s the same line of thinking the Taliban and the Al Qaeda adopt.

We dont stand for that!

The weak arguments against the LTTE in this article hold no currency whatsoever – the sad fact of the matter is that the entire world has allowed genocide to occur without hardly any protest outside of the Tamil community. M.I.A. has done a wonderful job spreading awareness of the atrocities occurring in her homeland to countless persons who would otherwise not be aware of the situation. People call LTTE terrorists but think about it, who in their right mind would throw accusations at the Jews who shot their way out of the Warsaw Ghetto in order to avoid genocide in Nazi concentration camps? Rajapaksa is a Hitler and people who lived through this era are going to look back at their having ignored the situation in Tamil Eelam and weep that they preferred to continue to buy bras from Victoria’s Secret and drink their tea while supporting genocide, torture and hideous human rights abuses. Do not complain about “child soldiers” when SLA is engaging in “child rape”, “child killing”, etc.

Mia
You are doing a great job, keep the candle burning. Well done and best wishes

FAIL! MIA will soon be just that, Missing in Action.

I don’t take my post-graduate studies for granted. Therefore I don’t digest anything musicians tell me.

She is a supporter of a Tamil group that carried out ethnic cleansing and gross crimes against humanity. But she has NEVER, I repeated NEVER condemned the atrocities by her own people, including her father!

As for the Tamil Tiger propaganda in the comments above, I urge readers to see how racist some of their comments are. Yet, they want you to believe that they are the victims?

But ask them about the Tamil MPs in the Sri Lankan government and they will call them traitors. So democracy and peace is not what they seek. Yup. So you see how the likes of MIA and other Tamil extremist operate right? It is not a freedom struggle but a struggle of hate and racism against non-Tamils.

Eight governments in Sri Lanka in the last 30 years negotiated with them to find a peaceful resolution. This is a fact. You can research all this for yourself.