Have you contributed to this carnage?
Date : 15th June 2006.
Location : Anuradhapura
LTTE Terrorists denied any involvement to this attack. All international media published the LTTE terrorist statement and made this look like another conspiracy.
In south of Sri Lanka, we live with Tamils peacefully. They are silent. TNA MP’s represent LTTE terrorists in the Sri Lankan Parliament. Aren’t they indirectly responsible for this? You decide..
Footnote:
I will be removing this post after few weeks of publishing. The purpose of this is to make the world see what's really going on in Sri Lanka and with whom they are trying to negotiate.
Copyright : The director and the producer of these images are Terrorist Leader Prabhakaran.
12 Comments:
.... Lot of kids. This can’t be LTTE. Who that can be.
Hmmm..
Oh.. wait.. wait.. I know one..
May be this is the guy who live in upstairs. He did that before. He killed kids like this in Egypt before. May be this is him.
its the last straw and the waiting game has to come to a definite end now. The GOSL has to move in and do what it has to do and respond to the questions after the event. Enough is enough!
Janapathi, I think that you are the only one in the entire "Kottu.Org" who commented on this. What is with the other Sri Lankan bloggers ? Women, I think want to be politically correct and "ohhhh !!! this is terrible and worrisome" but I thought that the men had more balls than not to comment at all. Would you beleiev that yours is the only blog that carry the pictures of grieving relatives. Electra very safely had a picture of a bus and a report from BBC. I think that the NGO mafia is oaying them enough at the time. !!!!! Thanks man. You are the only one who has a backbone.
i dont understand this obsession with posting the most gory pictures on your blog : are you and sittingnut in some sort of competition to see which one of you can gross out more readers than the other?
its so disgusting, immature and truly direspectful of the dead and their families. to you they are just numbers, casualties, statistics, but don't forget, out there all these people of whom you've posted pictures have families and to have their pictures posted on your blog this way in the most degrading manner is just morally unacceptable.
Hi Electra,
The world you are talking does not exist anymore in Sri Lanka. It is thanks to people like you who do prefer to take a moderate position on every single killing in Sri Lanka.
Wonder how you forgot the pictures BBC, Tamilnet TOGETHER published few weeks back? These pictures are not to attract readers. These are pictures the world should see. These pictures are not different to what CNN, BBC showed on Haditha killings in Iraq. These pictures are not different from the pictures CNN, BBC published on Madirid and 9/11 bombings.
I REPEAT. I did not publish these pictures to attract readers. I am not a person trying to find gems in a mudslide or trying to steel the gold chains while collecting the bodies of the people killed by the tsunami.
I am not affiliated to any NGO or a political party either. Janapathi is not in that category.
It is too bad that still, even after this attack, people like you are trying to be so smart to comment on what should be acceptable ethics and morals when it comes to web publishing.
I invite you to try and explain your position to the publisher of Tamilnet, BBC, CNN and other Tiger Media Networks.
Finally explain the moral dilemma these families going through by seeing these pictures to your beloved Mr. Prbahakaran.
I am just the publisher. He was the Director and the Producer.
Janapathi
Hi Electra,
Looking at Picasso’s Guernica – one day a German officer asked him ‘Did you do that’ Picasso said – ‘No. You did.’
Picasso painted what is around him.
Janapathi can’t post bunny’s photos no more. You have to post what is around you.
Don’t scare to be politically incorrect. Wink *)
my position on this politcally is irrelevet, that's not the point. i will tolerate (not entirely agree with, but tolerate) BBC and other such organizations publishing these pictures because that's their job : it is what they are meant to do. to convey the news to the people no matter how harsh the reality is.
however, it is just strange (to me) that you, given the sole authority on your blog and the right to choose what you publish and what you don't, CHOSE to publish these pictures here, even after they've been all over the mainstream media ANYWAY. that's all. clearly we don't agree on this matter. but this is my opinion.
sometime ago, the publishing of photographs of this violent nature was banned, even for the mainstream media. that step was taken for a reason. although no one paid much heed to it then, and everyone is clearly happy enough to act like it never happened now, just think a little before you publish them in all their atrocity.
anonymous : yes, i only published the milder photographs on my blog, not because i am personally faint hearted or because i am trying to relay inaccurate news to my readers, or trying to shelter my readers from the actual degree of the event. it was a choice i made, because, personally, i cannot publish photographs of dead people on my blog with a clear conscience.
it IS true that, on the blogosphere, the moment you defend the party no one talks about or you try to shed some light on a part of the issue that no one has addressed, you get called a racist or a tiger lover. mr. prbhakharan is not beloved to me, janapathi, and i resent that you said that at all.
whether the people that were blown to bits were tamil or sinhalese, whether the attack was by the LTTE or the sri lankan army, i would have expressed my oppostion to their pictures being published here. after all, no matter what, they are PEOPLE. and that's what bothers me.
it is not so much about politically incorrect as it is about being morally incorrect.
In the west, they have closed coffins and many countries don't show pictures of the dead in the media. In Sri Lanka, we have open caskets and our media show the gory details. Electra, you may argue that it is morally incorrect to show the dead and the gory detail, you may argue that it is disrespectful of the dead. The reality is that carnage has become a regular occurrance in Sri Lanka. Unlike in the west, the people need to know. It is perhaps more disrespectful of the dead to let the circumstances that led to their death pass not fully understood. Did New Yorkers understand the full extent of terror until they saw it live on their TV sets, as it went on it their own backyard?
Let us go back to the US during the time of the Vietnam War. When war was declared, initially, most people didn't give a rat's ass. It was only when the war was streamed to their living rooms on national television that anti-war protests gained momentum. It was the first time they understood. The fact is: it is the media that takes the truth to the people. It is their moral obligation and their democratic duty as the fourth estate. A passive media amounts to acquiesence of what is around them. This is not the purpose of the media. If it were, we would be better off watching MTV Select than the news. As for bloggers: look at Indymedia. The alternate media is the future. It offers an opportunity for public debate to be spurred in a climate of passive subjectivity as that has long woefully gripped most of the Sri Lankan media. Blogging is a great form of alternate media: I believe it is the future.
On my views on the bus bombing, I wish to portray a different perspective: I invite readers to visit my own blog post titled "Kebithigollewa: Who Dunnit."
May those responsible for these heinous acts be brought to justice!
"Finally explain the moral dilemma these families going through by seeing these pictures to your beloved Mr. Prbahakaran.
I am just the publisher. He was the Director and the Producer."
Well said Janapathi !!!!!!
Electra, Sri Lanka is not Colombo and the the Barefoot !!!!!!!
LTTE is targetting "soft" tragets next according to news media. Let me translate that slowly for you. A soft target is a place or event that the common man and defenceless men/women need to go in their day to day activities. Schools, trains, busses , Hospitals !!are soft targets.
But then people of your calibre does not frequent them. My mistake , you do go to school don't you ?? Picture who would stand outside your school gates in the downpouring rain and burning sun in order to protect you. Not the NGO mafia that you so adore and not LTTE. That would be a poor underpaid soldier who would let you continue your studies !!!!!!!
It's rather easy to sound posh and pretend to be mature while you are relatively protected in Colombo and lead an undistrurbed life :) It is also rather easy to "Oh!! we are youth of this country and we must do something" and promptly forget whatever painting that you saw to invoke those feelings. :)
Action is far more difficult than words but words are the only thing that some have. You are excused, get on with your humdrum existence.
"Finally explain the moral dilemma these families going through by seeing these pictures to your beloved Mr. Prbahakaran.
I am just the publisher. He was the Director and the Producer."
Well said Janapathi !!!!!!
Electra, Sri Lanka is not Colombo and the the Barefoot !!!!!!!
LTTE is targetting "soft" tragets next according to news media. Let me translate that slowly for you. A soft target is a place or event that the common man and defenceless men/women need to go in their day to day activities. Schools, trains, busses , Hospitals !!are soft targets.
But then people of your calibre does not frequent them. My mistake , you do go to school don't you ?? Picture who would stand outside your school gates in the downpouring rain and burning sun in order to protect you. Not the NGO mafia that you so adore and not LTTE. That would be a poor underpaid soldier who would let you continue your studies !!!!!!!
It's rather easy to sound posh and pretend to be mature while you are relatively protected in Colombo and lead an undistrurbed life :) It is also rather easy to "Oh!! we are youth of this country and we must do something" and promptly forget whatever painting that you saw to invoke those feelings. :)
Action is far more difficult than words but words are the only thing that some have. You are excused, get on with your humdrum existence.
I think you should NOT delete this post at all but keep it online forever so that the world can see the carnage of the LTTE. I would like to put a link to it in a discussion forum that I participate in, viz,
(http://www.omanforum.com)
dealing with world politics and hence would appreciate if it is not removed since it will be viewed by many.
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