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Chuffer: I was there as well. I am the Stig.
RELEASED TODAY: ‘Gaza Conflict, December 2008 – January 2009: A Media Analysis’ Just Journalism
Follow Ups:
The Times: ‘Mediapolis: BBC; Evening Standard; Alexander Lebedev’
Harry’s Place: ‘Just Journalism on the Reporting of the Gaza Conflict’
More Just journalism Followup:
Jewish News: ‘BBC Bias over Gaza’
Jewish Telegraph: ‘BBC blasted for Gaza bias’
Simon Mayo just had Will young on talking about him being on Questiontime. “You did really well” stated Mayo.
“They want me back” said Young.
Were we watching a totally different programme last night?
Clarkson says something “offensive” but is earning the Beeb millions in overseas sales. Carol Thatcher says something “offensive” but does not have a “franchise” like Top Gear. Draw you own conclusion as to what will happen to each one.
Hugh Oxford 12:27 pm
Yes, the BBC is unjustifiably silent about the activities of Labour Lord Ahmed; but Melanie Phillips and ‘Cranmer’ aren’t:
1.) Melanie Phillips –
“The Intimidation of the House of Lords”
[Extract]
“Another member of the House of Lords invited the Dutch politician Geert Wilders, who is currently facing prosecution in the Netherlands for his outspoken analysis of the Islamist war on civilisation, to screen his controversial film ‘Fitna’ in the Lords on January 29 and discuss his views.
“But various representatives of the British Muslim community protested; and Lord Ahmed issued a threat that he would personally mobilise 10,000 Muslims to prevent Wilders from entering the Upper House and would take the peer organising the event to court. In the face of such threats, the meeting was cancelled.
“Lord Ahmed then boasted of his victory in the Pakistani media. The Associated Press of Pakistan reported him exulting in
‘a victory for the Muslim community’.
“It was of course a major defeat for Parliament’s sovereign right and duty to protect free speech, the right to issue an invitation to a democratically elected member of a European parliament, and the right of British citizens to live without intimidation. It was an appalling development.”
http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/3317931/the-intimidation-of-the-house-of-lords.thtml
AND:
‘Cranmer’-
“Lord Ahmed must be prosecuted for treason”
[Extract]:
“As far as Cranmer is concerned, any person, however ennobled, who threatens to bring a horde of 10,000 Muslims upon Parliament in order to stifle debate and bully it into submission is no ‘moderate’. By threatening this, Lord Ahmed has shown himself to be one of the very extremists he purports to eschew, committed to the same ideology as those who seek to impose Shari’a law upon the UK and subjugate the kuffar to the will of Allah.”
http://archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.com/2009/02/lord-ahmed-must-be-prosecuted-for.html
Just what sort of lives do so many of our Great and Good lead that they are so profoundly shocked by comments which most of us consider to be innocuous? Brown is one-eyed, he is Scottish and, as his policies have proved, he is an idiot. This last property is made even more true by the fact that he is an historian by academic training, specialising in the life of James Maxton. And when was james maxton most active? In the 1920s and 1930s, so Brown must have known about the Depression brought about the financial bubble of the 1920s. Are really supposed to believe that all those shocked by this and other comments never say anything rude about anyone else?
It is interesting to note that the BBC do not object to so-called comedians inciting their audience to kill members of the BNP.
‘…they’re Conservatives, so they won’t be interested’
Jonathan A A Miller | 06.02.09 – 12:57 pm |
Did you report her for not being impartial? It sounds like she was there as part of her BBC employment therefore the conversation could not have been private.
PS Sarah Palin
For months here on Biased BBC we’ve been trying to understand the visceral reaction to Gov Sarah Palin since he announced her run for VP.
May I draw your attention to a thoughtful and insightful article by Yuval Levin which attacks both the left and soft-right.
“…perhaps even more telling, it revealed the unfortunate and unattractive propensity of the American cultural elite to treat those who are not deemed part of the elect with condescension…”
And to the “elect” in the USA, I add the “elite” class in the UK, headed by all those clever stupid people in the BBC. Though such condescension is new in the USA, we Brits know it well. The “old boy/girl network” has stifled the full expression of the British people throughout history. Remember the patronizing of Maggie Thatcher, the “grocer’s daughter from Grantham”?
Please read this. It adds hugely to our understanding of what we will face in the next few years as the left – and the BBC – increasingly fights for it life.
https://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/the-meaning-of-sarah-palin-14674?page=all
Thanks
Comments made by ‘comedians’ on the BBC
George Bush is an idiot
Margaret Thatcher is an idiot
Sarah Palin is an idiot
Tumbleweed……….
Gordon Brown is an idiot
Nuclear meltdown
Bias, no we don’t do bias at the BBC
“Lucy Ash looks at why allowing prisoners to raise puppies has proved to be a successful way of bringing out their caring, and more emotive side. Join her on her global journey as she looks at innovative ways of cutting crime.”
BBC World Service documentaries – you can’t make them up.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/podcasts/docarchive/
Arthur Dent: Correct. I’ve lost count of the number of times beeboids have called Bush an idiot. In fact Clarkson has called him one as well.
Why should the fat one eyed snot gobbler get treated any different?
Today we are all Jeremy Clarkson.
Why should the fat one eyed snot gobbler get treated any different?
martin | 06.02.09 – 2:02 pm |
Occasionally the BBC realize who will have the most influence when the charter is renewed? 🙂
I have submitted this following complaint today(06.02.09)to the BBC.
I was listening this morning to the news show (06.02.09) on BBC radio 4 at about 8:40am. An interview was held with Marc Regev, the Israeli spokesman and a lady journalist who I don’t remember her name. As a listener I was horrified to hear the hate and the revolt in her voice toward mark Regev. She blatantly rejected his claim that Hamas was responsible to the collapse of the cease fire, by saying “this is simply not true” this is a blunt and unprofessional statement of a journalist who do not accept the turns of events in the Israel and tries to vilify the Israelis for the their reaction to Hamas terror attacks. I do not recall any journalists interviewing Hamas terrorists on BBC rejecting any of Hams claims whether they hateful or fabricated but this lady journalist did not have a problem claiming that Marc Regev was simply lying. Furthermore, this lady journalist had a silence too long in a sentence when she was trying to find her words to describe Hamas militants, this was almost to imply that she was trying avoiding calling Hamas as freedom fighters. She had to think hard until she was able to pronounce “Hamas militants”. I have grave concern of this horrible journalistic misconduct to show a biased and a blatant hate toward an interviewee, and I call for her resignation. This is too serious for just an apology.
banjo: It’s a Spartacus moment alright.
tODAY 8:37. Interview of Regev by Montague:
I loved this bit:
MONTAGUE: “… when the Israelis went in and targeted Hamas er . .er militants, for want of ..er ..er
REGEV “a better word?”
GeorgeR,
Look on the bright side, Ahmed is due for sentencing this month after he killed a person in another car when he crashed in to it [while texting].
Mailman
We are Jeremy Clarkson.
If he was sued for libel he’d have a clear defence of being factually accurate. Broon is Scottish, one-eyed and an idiot.
BREAKING NEWS;
gutless gutter mouthed, frightened of losing lucrative TV career, Jeremy Clakson has apologised to the Stazi;
Brown is not a one eyed useless Stalinist at all!!
John Bosworth,
The leftist elite were terrified of Sarah Palin, they dressed up their fear and hatred with lots of faked excuses, but the fact is that Palin is the first US polititian since the wonderful patriot Reagan(remember the poison of the leftists hate campaign against him?)that could have(will do in 2012?)galvanized the US right, she was targeted by the leftists with a poisonous fury and an avalanche of smears and gross lies all eagerly spread by their media bitches! The leftists exposed their fascist nasty side, they are in fact the original nasty party!
The BBC that was so happy to spread the smears against her have never retracted any of the lies they spread, they have never appologised for the lies they peddled.
BTW: Obama is on the BBC news constantly “the time for deate is over and the time for action is now”???
Funny how the leftists just love to close down the debate isnt it?
What Obama really meant was ‘the time for awkward questions is over and the time for heaping the tax dollars on my campaign supporters is now’!!!
“I’m very very proud today.”
martin | 06.02.09 – 12:20 pm | #
So you should be. Clarkson has obviously been reading your contributions!
Encouraging, it looks like an awful lot of Americans regard Global Warming as BS, most think the media over-hype it – and lots and losts think Al Gore does not know WTF he is talking about :
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/issues2/articles/54_say_media_hype_global_warming_dangers
The BBC Hollobone piece has now been amended, I see. Good to see the Beeb are monitoring this site, but they still have a question to answer as to why they felt they had to make the change.
Nature | 06.02.09 – 2:24 pm |
I too had the gross misfortune to witness the “interview” between Israeli spokesman Mark Regev and the elitist harridan Sarah Montague. I thought Mark Regev held his council quite fantastically today under the most obscene pressure. This wasnt an interview more an interrogation by a supposed “journalist” who was totally partial in her hatred of the interviewee and Israel.
Someone used the word scum above and I am afraid I am unable offer a better description for this disgusting organisation and their supposed “values”. They are a cancer in the life and body politic of the UK and I pray for their demise.
I admit it, Top Gear is one my guilty pleasures.
I recall that one the stars in reasonably priced car was completely blind driver who put in respectable time around the circuit.
Jezza got lazy, there are better insults than that to hurl in gordons direction.
Clarkson – calls our retard a ‘one eyed scottish idiot’
Clarkson – apologises for commenting on the retards appearance.
Subtle isn’t it. He still thinks the Dear Retard is an idiot.
I wonder if our ‘right honorable retard’ (the fat unelected scottish idiot) is happy with only being described as a lying idiot?
My apologies. I notice that I missed out one-eyed.
So that will be ‘the fat one-eyed unelected scottish idiot’.
As you were…..
Cassandra,
Not only did the left hate her with the very being…BUT (more importantly as far as Im concerned) she was the only person in the race that wasnt a millionair.
In fact, Id go so far to say that she is probably the only candidate in modern politics that WASNT a millionair!
Pity we have to wait for another 4 years for her to be voted in…but at least this time it will be as president and not VP 🙂
Mailman
I think you mean the ‘fat one-eyed unelected incompetent lying closet-gay Scottish imbecile’
Sorry, I missed out ‘delusional’
Grimer- indeed I certainly did miss out some the essentials.
Thanks!
Occasionally the BBC realize who will have the most influence when the charter is renewed?
deegee | 06.02.09 – 2:19 pm | #
I bloody hope not! He should be long gone by then.
Only two out of three.
I am binocular, a bit fat and have often been accused of idiocy,i do not feel insulted,this storm in an eyepatch may raise the profile of fat idiots everywhere.
Grimer, you missed out ‘cure for premature ejaculation’. If the moment is creeping up on you a bit to soon, just think of Gordon picking his nose,and all will be slowed dowm.
Thanks a lot chuffer,i didn`t want that tuna and mayo baguette anyway:P
Nelson is often referred to as one armed and one eyed.
But he was a national hero not a tosspot like the Scottish snot eater.
BBC’s bias exposed – BBC’s Chris Morris prances like the proverbial Chinese monkey
By H. L. D. Mahindapala
http://www.srilankaguardian.org/2009/02/bbcs-chris-morris-prances-like.html
On January 29 (Thursday) BBC aired a report filed by Chris Morris. It showed Morris prancing rather nervously, from place to place, to find a new angle for his cameraman in the garden of Gordon Weiss, the UN representative in Colombo. Eventually he winds up his peripatetic introduction to what he calls the “humanitarian crisis in Sri Lanka” in front of Weiss and directs his questions at him to get the answers he wants and not what was happening to the 230,000 Tamil civilians “forced into a pocket of a third of London” (Weiss) by the Tamil Tigers.
Morris’s introduction and line of questioning were aimed at shifting the blame away from the Tamil Tigers to the Sri Lankan government. It was so transparent that I felt shy for BBC which boasts of objectivity, impartiality, “Hard Talk”, and all that jazz about probing issues in depth.
The interview with Gordon Weiss in his garden in Colombo went like this:
Chris Morris (trying to impress that he is the BBC man on the spot who will not let anyone get away with spin) refers to the UN convoy that managed to take the sick and the wounded out of the Tiger controlled areas that morning asks Weiss: “Please give us details of what happened today.”
Gordon Weiss: “Well, a UN convoy took some of the hundreds of people wounded in the fighting. Among them were 50 seriously injured children. That convoy was held back by the LTTE for some days in a village just north of the lines of confrontation. It was allowed to go out this morning across government lines and is on it way to a hospital where the people can be treated.”
CM: “When you say held back by the Tamil Tigers for what reason, do you know?”
GW: “Well, the reason they gave was that it was not safe for us to proceed.”
Weiss was merely repeating what the Tigers told the UN. He knew that the Tigers were holding the Tamil civilians as hostage for their own political and military advantage. He should have also known that the UN Secretary General, his boss, had asked the Tigers to release the civilians. Weiss was pretending to be none the wiser when he took cover behind the excuse put out by the Tigers.
In any case, it was the job of Morris to find out whether this was true or not. The BBC claims that their objective is to go behind the headlines and the spin to get at the truth. But Morris who claims to be a BBC representative acts as if he is a man planted by TamilNet, the mouthpiece of the Tamil Tigers. He is reluctant to go beyond the spin spun to Weiss by the Tamil Tigers.
Barbara Crossette, former UN bureau chief of the New York Times, who had seen this farce on BBC, castigated both Weiss and Morris. She told the Asian Tribune (January 31, 2009): “Today the UN more or less blamed the government, and only lamely included the LTTE. When BBC reporters in Colombo asked a UN official named Weiss (I forget his first name) why the LTTE would prevent these people from leaving their control, he said that the Tigers thought it would be too dangerous for them to cross over battle lines. The BBC reporter let that comment stand without challenge.”
Morris is seasoned enough to know that Weiss was repeating another one of the con stories of the Tamil Tigers. Both knew that a convoy had crossed the government lines that morning without any threat to them. So where was the threat to convoys as stated by the Tigers? But neither of them was prepared to challenge the spin spun by the Tigers. Nor was Morris eager to probe any further. As stated by Barbara Crossette Morris was quite happy to let Weiss get away with his con story “without a challenge”.
To begin with, if Morris was doing his job the way he is expected to do he should have asked Weiss the obvious question: “But from where could the threats have come when you (Weiss) say that a convoy passed through government lines this morning quite safely?” Besides, Morris in his introduction had said earlier that the Tigers had taken all the civilians with them. Which means that the Tamil civilians can’t step out of line, or move one inch either way, without the consent of the Tamil Tigers keeping a sharp eye on their movements. And, as stated by Weiss, “a quarter of a million lives are imperiled because they are forced into a pocket of territory the size of a third of London.”
Both know • or should know — that the Tamil civilians are “forced into a pocket” by the Tamil Tigers for four main reasons: 1) to keep the Tamil civilians in their grip as a human shield against the advancing forces; (2) to have in stock civilians and under aged children to face the brunt of Prabhakaran’s futile war; (3) to influence the international community to stop the advance of the forces on the excuse of a humanitarian crisis and (4) to provide ready-made excuses for cretins in international media who are every ready to swallow the Tiger propaganda fed to them.
Furthermore, both know • or should know • that the fundamental systemic failure in the Tiger ideology and hierarchy is to treat the Tamils with utter contempt as mere dispensable means to an elusive end. They should know that the “the LTTE has brutally and systematically abused the Tamil population whose behalf they claim to fight, and the LTTE bear a heavy responsibility for the desperate plight of the civilians in Vanni”. (The Human Right Watch, “Trapped and Mistreated • LTTE Abuses against Civilians in Vanni” (December 2008)). Therefore , it is imperative that their judgment should be balanced giving due weightage to the negatives of both sides. Morris has a right to focus on the failures of the Sri Lankan state. But in doing so he cannot turn a Nelsonian eye, or downplay the Satanic forces unleashed by the Tamil Tigers which is the prime cause of the major violations of human rights in Sri Lanka.
The restraint shown by the state in combating the Evil-lamists is by far superior to other states facing similar crises. BBC, for instance, announces that nine people have been killed by artillery fire crashing on Pudukudurippy hospital, leaving the impression that it is a criminal act of the state. But it refuses to add that the UN office says that it does not know who fired the shots. If he government fired the barrage then they should beheld accountable to it. But when Morris deliberately suppresses the vital information that the firing could have come from the Tamil Tigers then he becomes accomplices of the criminal gang that fired it. He complained earlier that the Government was controlling the flow of information. But when he censors the vital information on his own he is stepping out of line by playing a political game of his own which would place the lives of civilians at great risk.
It is this subtle • and sometimes even brazen • slanting of news reports that makes a mockery of BBC’s that it is impartial and objective. BBC, like any other media organization, has its own fixed attitude towards each crisis. Consider for a moment that Chris Morris was in Rwanda and not in Sri Lanka. In this circumstance, imagine if a UN official repeats to Morris the excuse of Robert Mugabe’s propaganda machine that the civilians trapped in a conflict zone cannot get out because it was not safe to proceed out of Mugabe-controlled territory into safety zones! Would anti-Mugabe BBC accept that excuse? Our friend Morris would go berserk, wouldn’t he, like a monkey who had lost his banana?
The biases of the BBC are quite apparent. In Rwanda they are anti-Mugabe partly because he has mismanaged the economy and abused power and more importantly because he had dared to touch the sacred British assets. So they have not spared him. Every single act of omission and commission of Mugabe is played up to demonize him.
In Sri Lanka where the Tamil Tigers are violating every known cannon of international humanitarian law, committing war crimes and crimes against humanity with impunity. BBC angles its news and comments to exonerate Prabhakaran, the one-man regime that had liquidated more Tamils than all the other forces put together, and points the accusing finger at the state. . The humanitarian crisis generated by the north-south conflict in Sri Lanka has been there since Prabhakaran got his first Tamil scalp in July 1975 when he gunned down the Mayor of Jaffna, Alfred Duraiyappah. He has never stopped killing Tamils since then. And now he wants to go down as the man who exposed his own people to mass slaughter, without any qualms, for his own survival in a war that he cannot win. He began his career by killing one Tamil. He wants to end it by dragging thousands with him to their graves.
But when Morris was in Mullativu the bells were tolling loudly for the Tamil Tigers. The critical situation was summed up later by the Co-Chairs when they said: “International efforts to persuade the LTTE to allow the civilians freedom of movement have failed. There remains probably only a short period of time before the LTTE loses control of all areas in the North. The LTTE and the Government of Sri Lanka should recognize that further loss of life – of civilians and combatants – will serve no cause.”
They added that the Tigers should lay down arms, renounce violence, accept the Government of Sri Lanka’s offer of amnesty; and participate as a political party in a process to achieve a just and lasting political solution primarily to avoid civilian casualties and human suffering.”
The writing was there on the wall. How did Morris miss it all? Or was he turning a Nelsonian eye hoping to give some oxygen to Prabhakaran? If there is any judgmental sentence passed for violations of human rights it should be directed at the primary source of evil • namely, the Evil-lamists. It is true that the innocent Tamil civilians should not be made to pay for
Chuffer, I worry that it may spur me on – I’d be so desperate to get that image out of my mind it would either require ejaculation or withdrawal.
Radio4 – long car journey – played the ‘waiting for the other boot to drop’ game – BBC never fails to deliver. Best example: You & Yours item re effect of economic climate on golf club membership – a comparatively neutral piece on what we all know ie golf overly catered for(at least to my knowledge in S England), many private clubs struggling to find new members in the last few years, interviews at Teignmouth (S Devon) with pro who says it’s a trend and at prompting agrees that economic conditions exacerbating situation so golf available to a wider social spectrum of people. Interviews with middle aged lady members could only produce a moan that the newcomers paid less than the old timers and the hope was that they could continue to ‘play when they wanted to’. Item ends – obviously not enough ‘reactionary’ content from the shires for the editor(and to be fair the interviewer didn’t push the social exclusion chestnut overly hard). Back at the studio a BBC man is introduced “One of the big things in golf is that Tiger Woods is predicted to become the first golf billionaire. Tiger Woods is BLACK – which means we look forward to the sport being more diverse” (UK implied).
For this mans information:
Tiger Woods father was a career Army officer.
His mother is Thai and is obviously educated & extremely articulate.
Tiger attended Stanford and majored (yes) in Accountancy & Business.
Tiger is loathe to discuss racial issues – his one outburst at a press conference was in response to being referred to as ‘Afro-American’ which he said was “an insult to my Asian heritage” and that his ancestry was a “united nations” and made clear he represented no individual racial group.
So BBC what is the reason for bringing (literally) the question of colour (“black”) as a rejoinder to this item in such an ignorant and inappropriate way – and is this not racialism of the worst sort. I look forward to Today, 10’Oclock news talking of nothing else for tha next week and inevitable resignations (NOT!)
From the above H. L. D. Mahindapala has mixed up Rwanda and Zimbabwe which is more than obvious mistake on his part.
Regardless of what you make think of Sri Lanka the quality of reporting from the BBC over Sri Lanka is disgusting.
An organisation which champions itself as being “unbiased, ethical and fair” resorts to gutter journalism and thinks it is justified in doing so because it sells itself with the aforementioned labels.
The so called “Sinhala service” is run by a Trotskyite and a Christian evangelist who spread nothing but hate for the Sinhala people. Not once has it released some good news – i.e. the weather, the landscape, a piece of history, family/cultural stories. All it does is bash the very people it is named after, broadcasting even speeches of hate and death on the Sinhalese made by the LTTE leader. When this was censored in Sri Lanka a massive hue and cry was made.
The British government told it not to broadcast speeches or material from the IRA -not much of a fuss was made about that.
Just a few articles to prove this:
The vicious agenda of BBC Sinhala service
http://www.asiantribune.com/?q=node/13028
BBC- Promoting terrorism in Sri Lanka!
http://www.asiantribune.com/?q=node/13452
“BBC Sandeshya is making glaring mistakes favorable to the LTTE in their reports” • Ranjit Soysa
http://www.asiantribune.com/?q=node/13247
Arthur Dent:
Comments made by ‘comedians’ on the BBC
George Bush is an idiot
Margaret Thatcher is an idiot
Sarah Palin is an idiot
Sandy Totsvig(?) on Radio 4 felt practically compelled to make this kind of ‘humerous’ comment about GW Bush.
As Jeff Todd pointed out on the ‘anti-Thatcher’ blog below, GW Bush was often called a chimp.
Also, to add to this, he was depicted as a chimp in cartoons, something which I think I can safely predict will never happe to Obama.
Nearly 600,000 jobs lost in January!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And Clarkson is supposed to say sorry for calling McFatty one eye an idiot?
Re Sarah Palin
Pity we have to wait for another 4 years for her to be voted in…but at least this time it will be as president and not VP
mailman | 06.02.09 – 3:54 pm |
And it will give her time to practise for all the trick questions. Obama will not require training, as he does not get asked these types of question, or, if one slips through on the mainstream media, the video tape will get dropped on the floor accidentally.
For my own amusement, over the months, I’ve been jotting down some of the names MP’s, journalists, and bloggers call Gordon Brown. As well as being the worst Prime minister, is he the most nicknamed?
Bottler
McTwat
McSnottie
Mr. Bean
McBean
Snotgobbler
Macavity
Clunking Fist
Big Feartie from Fife
Sub Prime Minister
Prime Mentalist
Gorgon
McStalin
Heathcliff
McBroon
McMental
Snotty
Moron
McMoron
Prudence
A Vampire Feeding on our misery
Cyclops
One-eyed fat snot gobbler
MacRuin
McBust
Gormless
McDoom
Mcknobjockey
McCottage
McKim-Jong
Gordon McGabe
Jonah
Jonah Brown
Stalin McGabe
Moses McMental
The Great Leaker
Global McDoom
Brownstainovich
Titian
McTitian
McFatty One Eye
Slash Broon
Pisspoor Prime Mentalist
Slobberchops McBust
Susan Franklin: That is a cracking list. I think half of them are mine 🙂
We really should have a competition to choose the best. Perhaps the BBC might be interested in the result?
Much as I dislike Vince Cable, this was still a good moment:
Sarah Montague: describes the end to the ceasefire as being the fault of Israel. She describes the situation as: (rocket attacks) “Before that there had been a tiny number compared with the eventual number”.
I’d love to go round her house and set off a few Standard Fireworks and see how long before she phones the police.
deegee: have you read that report and the rest of the links you posted?
One set of links I clicked on didn’t open, another opened to some headline about Bibi…
Could you give us the gist or a few pointers as to the key content, assuming you have read them all?
Janaka,
great post my friend!
The UN has played the old ‘humanitarian ceasefire’trick before and each time the terrorist tigers had the golden chance to rearm,consolidate and refit/rest their fighters.
Time after time a losing terrorist outfit is offered protection while the legitimate democratic government trying to eliminate them is bombarded with ‘war crimes’ and civilian casualties propaganda, one might think that the UN is so corrupted with terrorist supporters that they are now actively helping and assisting the most evil terrorist vermin the world has to offer!
I for one hope the sri Lankan forces destroy the tigers completely and I offer a daily prayer that my dear friend and her family who live in the central hills area comes thru this without harm.