[johnstylet]

Originally posted by aneeshm


Ethnic conflict!=Religious conflict.

Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated by these people, and he was a Hindu.

And Marxist? I never knew they were Marxist. Wouldn't being a Hindu group and being a Marxist group at the same time be rather odd? I mean, Marxism denies religion. Don't believe the tigers are marxist.
Rajiv Gandhi was assissinated because the Indian 'Peace-keeping' Forces that came into Sri-Lanka performed attrocities against the tamils. Had nothing to do with religion.

[alegsghed]

Welcome back, Sava... you haven't been around much. How are things?

Looks like your blatant troll may take control of the thread. Bravo

-Arrian

[allemnendup]

Originally posted by Sava


I don't bother to learn the gender of noobs or DL's.
I don't know what a noob is...does that make me more believable as a 'she'?

[DYjLN8rF]

[Sava]That's exactly what a dude posing as a chick would say [/Sava]



-Arrian

[oxinsnepe]

Ask Richelieu about your boobs? Ok...



My wife wouldn't be too impressed, so I'll refrain.

-Arrian

[Arexytece]

Originally posted by Arrian
Ask Richelieu about your boobs? Ok...



My wife wouldn't be too impressed, so I'll refrain.

-Arrian You guys

[geniusxs81]

Originally posted by Lorizael
I can sense that we might be able to save this mess by turning it into a babe thread. We'll have to get LordShiva back in here, though. Speaking of babes...I had this friend who once dated a girl who was cross-eyed. He found it to be the sexiest thing. Anybody else in here share that sentiment?

[OccumCymn]

Originally posted by LordShiva
Pekka went on for a whole thread once about how he wanted to do a deaf chick. That's hilarious.

[Doctor-CTAC]

Aeson,

Oh I'm not saying this isn't a bad thing. It is. It's entirely possible that this myth will grow. It's entirely possible that one of the kids in this village (probably not one of the Saddam Husseins, though) will go off and try to blow up Americans. It's also entirely possible that this comes to nothing. We don't know.

Obviously, I find it depressing when people given credence to such an absurd distortion of reality. One of the ways of dealing with that is to laugh at it. Ultimately, what is there to do? Ask the India government to "re-educate" them? Bomb them? Of course not.

-Arrian

[22CreessGah]

Originally posted by aneeshm


Probably untrue. As far as my knowledge goes, it was because they were fighting against the LTTE rather than because they committed any atrocities. It is quite possible that they committed atrocities against the LTTE, but I doubt that can be generalised to atrocities against Tamils, because Tamil Nadu is part of India and there is a certain affinity there. We TRY not to kill our own unless absolutely necessary. The wiki says that the assassination may have been was over alleged atrocities, but cites no source. The court judgement said that it was the result of the almost personal animosity of the LTTE leader of that time with Rajiv Gandhi for sending the IPKF to Sri Lanka. LTTE being tamil wouldn't that constitute atrocities against tamils? The IPKF was distrusted by the LTTE when the first came in especially when the LTTE were asked to hand in their weapons etc. Anyways, as I recall, the rift was because the IPKF came in the 'pretext' of being a 'neutral' body but switched support to the Government shortly afterwards. As for personal animosity of the LTTE Leader, this is the first time I'm hearing about that. In general the Sri-Lankan tamil community at large was not very pleased with IPKF.

As for Tamil Nadu and the not killing Tamils because of that. I believe the only reason there isn't more open support of the Sri Lankan Government by India is precisely because of tamil Nadu. If not for Tamil Nadu suport for the Sri Lankan Tamils, Indian would be more actively and openly supporting the Sri Lankan Government. I believe recently the Tamil Nadu police halted a truck of weapons being sent by the Indian Government to the Sri Lankan Government.

Anyhow, my knowledge is limited so I might be a bit off on some of my 'fact's.

[gennickO]

Originally posted by Arrian
Aeson,

Oh I'm not saying this isn't a bad thing. It is. It's entirely possible that this myth will grow. It's entirely possible that one of the kids in this village (probably not one of the Saddam Husseins, though) will go off and try to blow up Americans. It's also entirely possible that this comes to nothing. We don't know.

Obviously, I find it depressing when people given credence to such an absurd distortion of reality. One of the ways of dealing with that is to laugh at it. Ultimately, what is there to do? Ask the India government to "re-educate" them? Bomb them? Of course not.

-Arrian
Agreed....but who's gonna stop some village naming his son OBL or Saddam? Come to think of it, Arrian is right. All you can do is laugh coz I remember when they showed a whole bunch of kids in Kuwait who had been named George Bush after the first gulf war. Apparently the same kids/parents were now unhappy with the name choice after the invasion of Afghanistan.

[toponlinecasinoer]

Originally posted by Janaki


Speaking of babes...I had this friend who once dated a girl who was cross-eyed. He found it to be the sexiest thing. Anybody else in here share that sentiment? Cross-eyed girls have what to do with Saddam's apotheosis?

Oh, and as for Jesus, just 'cos Christianity is dangerous doesn't mean it's not laughable.

[ulnanVti]

Originally posted by Arrian
Obviously, I find it depressing when people given credence to such an absurd distortion of reality. One of the ways of dealing with that is to laugh at it. Ultimately, what is there to do? Ask the India government to "re-educate" them? Bomb them? Of course not. We can learn from it and not contribute to it in the future. We could also stop looking down on the rest of the world and instead start taking people seriously. Laughing things off is one way to ignore problems and not actually address them.

[CruzIzabella]

Originally posted by Lorizael
Ranting about it to apathetic people on an internet forum is another. You may say it's not helpful, it may not be. Though in any case Arrian is someone who's opinion I highly regard, and discussing an issue with him is very useful for me to further my own understanding and view, as I hope it is for him. I would not consider him apathetic in the least, even if he doesn't agree with me on a given issue.

You could say that my posting here is ignoring or diverting from other problems perhaps. It certainly is a diversion from real life. But it's idiotic to insist that by addressing a specific problem that I am ignoring that specific problem.