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分かってるんだけど、どうでもいいことにばっか指が動く。
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こんなの（↑）ばっか見てるからアホになる。
でも、１時間かけてケンカの成り行きを見届けたんで
ここでご披露。
事の始まりは動画。
こっち見てからね。
で、主人公は世界を取ったM.I.A.
【一発目：New York Times】
The Dissonant Understones of M.I.A.
To many Americans, Maya Arulpragasam
, known as M.I.A., is the very pregnant rapper who gyrated across the stage at Sunday’s Grammy Awards.
M.I.A. — who has been nominated for an Oscar for the song she co-wrote for the hit film “Slumdog Millionaire” — has branded herself through music videos and interviews as the voice of the country’s Tamil minority. In the video for her song “Bird Flu,” for instance, children dance in front of what looks like the rebels’ logo: a roaring tiger.
“Being the only Tamil in the Western media, I have a really great opportunity to sort of bring forward what’s going on in Sri Lanka,” she said in an interview
on the PBS
program “Tavis Smiley” last month. “There’s a genocide going on.”
But her political views rankle some people at a time when most Sri Lankans are clutching to the hope that the rebels, branded by the United States and European nations as a terrorist group, are on the verge of military defeat by government troops.
“Frankly, she’s very lucky to get away with supporting, even indirectly, perhaps the most ruthless terrorist outfit in the world,” said Suresh Jayawickrama, a songwriter based in Colombo.
Mr. Jayawickrama is from the country’s majority Sinhalese ethnic group, and his reaction is similar to that of many Sri Lankans who know M.I.A.’s music. But he also said that M.I.A. deserved credit for her artistry and the fame she had achieved. “She really should have a little more recognition in this country,” he said.
Despite decades of conflict, music has remained largely free of political messages or overtones in Sri Lanka, perhaps because audiences are seeking entertainment and escape from the daily reminders of civil war.
“Compared to other countries, people don’t write many songs here about what is going on politically,” said Dillain Joseph, a singer who is of mixed Sinhalese and Tamil parentage.
Meanwhile, M.I.A.’s claims that the government is carrying out a genocide against Tamils place her on the outer fringe of opinion about the conflict.
Although the government has brutalized and killed Tamil civilians over the past 25 years, human rights organizations spread the blame around, estimating that 70,000 people on both sides have been killed in the fighting.
“This is a conflict in which both sides have terrible human rights records,” said Yolanda Foster, a specialist on Sri Lanka with Amnesty International
in London. “The Tamil Tigers have a long history of child recruitment, hostage taking, forcing civilians to the front lines. It’s complicated to assign blame.”
M.I.A. was born in Britain but moved to Sri Lanka when she was 6 months old so that her father, an engineer and a leader in the Tamil separatist movement, could help fight for an independent Tamil homeland. Her childhood took her across northern Sri Lanka, wracked by insurgency, to India and back to Britain, where her mother and siblings settled into a public housing project outside London. Her father remained in Sri Lanka. She now calls New York home.
Sri Lankans who have seen her videos say they interpret some parts as showing support for the Tigers, or at the very least glorifying their cause. But for those not familiar with the conflict, they might come across as generic third-world scenes.
“I kind of want to leave it ambiguous for my fans,” she said in the PBS interview, referring to the lyrics of her song “Paper Planes,” which was nominated for record of the year at the Grammys but did not win.
“Paper Planes,” which compares international drug dealing with selling records, drew a reaction from DeLon, a Sinhalese rapper based in Los Angeles, who made a video remix in which he interspersed images of people being blown up by Tamil Tiger bombs and subtitles about M.I.A. being a terrorist.
M.I.A. responded that she did not support terrorism.
Despite those tensions, which played out largely on the Internet and abroad, musicians in Sri Lanka say the music scene has remained ethnically diverse, with members of the country’s numerous ethnic groups and religions often forming bands together.
“There’s a lot of mixing and matching going on,” said Rienzie Pereira, a guitar player. “It’s basically like sports. No matter what ethnic group you are from, people can play cricket together.”
【２発目：Lanka-E-News】
Kohona, blasted music rapper MIA
Dr. Palitha Kohona, the Foreign Secretary of Sri Lanka, blasted pro LTTE activist and U.K. based music rapper Maya Arulpragasam (M.I.A.) over her allegations against Sri Lankan government.
Dr. Palitha Kohona, who appeared in a live interview (via satellite) on Tavis Smiley Show , Wednesday night, categorically denied Sri Lankan born U.K. based music rapper Maya Arulpragasam's accusations about "genocide" against Sri Lankan Tamils , who live in the north of the country.
He indirectly said to Sri Lankan born U.K. based music rapper to mind your own business.Dr. Palitha Kohona stated that Maya Arulpragasam was misinformed and didn't understand the Sri Lankan situation. He urged her to stay on music field and not to involve in politics.
"More than 54% of Tamil population live in South. If genocide is happening, how Tamil people living in government controll areas" asked Dr. Palitha Kohona.
During the live interview (via satellite), Dr. Palitha Kohona, explained the position of the Sri Lankan Government about its efforts in bringing everlasting peace and harmony to all Sri Lankans including Tamil citizens, who are trapped by the LTTE and being used as human shields.
The AP's Sri Lanka bureau chief, Ravi Nessman, also joined the discussion.
Appearing on Tavis Smiley Show on the Public Broadcasting Corporation (PBS) last week, Oscar- and Grammy-nominated hip-hop artist Maya Arulpragasam (M.I.A.) accused the Sri Lankan government of genocide.
Sri Lankan expatriates, live in the United States , strongly protested to Tavis Smiley Show over the Maya Arulpragasam's comments about 'genocide' carried out by the Sri Lankan government.
【３発目：common dreams.com】
M.I.A. in the USA: An Oscar for a bin Laden Next?
A few hours ago, two aircraft flown by a terrorist group, LTTE, recognized as such by the US, were foiled in their attempt to attack the Sri Lankan capitol of Colombo. Thought both planes were shot down, two civilians were killed and forty-six others injured.
In an article in the New Yorker, (Jane Mayer, ‘The Hard Cases,' New Yorker, 2/23/09), argues that the Obama administration faces the tough choice of closing Guantanamo Bay and other detention centers holding so-called enemy combatants who have never been charged with a crime, and being accused of going easy on future terrorists. There is the old argument that it is entirely possible to take an ordinary civilian and transform them into a terrorist simply by treating them as such, for what else but revenge might occupy the mind of an innocent human in solitary confinement for five years. But that is hindsight. The task now is to proceed with cautious speed toward justice and that requires the reassessment of definitions of "enemy combatants" and the multiple layers of incarceration, torture and prosecution that defined the Bush era.
But as Neal Katyal, the new Principal Deputy Solicitor General in the Justice Department (i.e. the person authorized to represent the government before the Supreme Court), and the President find their way toward the surprisingly broad line that separates the terrorist from the person or group with a justifiable grievance, there is another issue that Americans as a whole, particularly American liberals, need to confront: their relationship to minorities, particularly as it pertains to the classification of terrorists.
America's checkered past viz-a-viz its own minorities has made it both capable of massive collective goodness (i.e. two and a half years of working toward the election of a man with solid foreign-resident credentials and a name that echoes America's chosen anti-Christ, bin Laden), and equally all-encompassing myopia. Liberal Americans have, for decades, made the usually, but regrettably not reliably, flawless argument that minority status confers upon that minority the right to unquestioned support and a corner on the market on truth. President Obama, himself fairly and squarely a minority, owes his success not merely to the fact that he has done what most minorities have to do in order to achieve the kind of respect he enjoys, i.e. be above reproach in terms of his integrity and intellect, but also to the fact that he has had the courage to disassociate and even condemn those aspects or arguments of a minority group which he finds to be untruthful.
But the rest of America is still catching up, and none slower than its mainstream media, which has been awash with a new found enthusiasm for throwing the word "genocide" at the Sri Lankan government. Sri Lanka, an island off the coast of India, comprises of a Sinhalese majority, and Tamil, Moslem and mixed-race (of European descent), minorities. Sri Lankan schools are required, by law, to teach each child his/her own religion no matter the denomination of the school, and Sri Lankans live, study, work and exist in harmony in the entire island (about the size of Maine), except in a small area controlled by the Tamil Tigers, a separatist terrorist organization. To be absolutely clear, the Tigers (LTTE), are a group of Tamils, but all Tamils are not members nor supporters of the LTTE and 95% of all Tamils live among Sinhalese and Moslems away from the LTTE.
But none of these facts were part of a series of articles in the Boston Globe. Not in the one calling for the Obama Administration to ask for a UN Council Resolution to call for a cease-fire and for Asian powers to stop funding the Sri Lankan government. Nor the one it ran an about an expatriate kid fasting American style (with the help of Gatorade and vitamins), to bring attention to the "plight of Tamils in Sri Lanka." Nor the opinion piece salaciously titled ‘Genocide in Sri Lanka,' by Bruce Fein, a former deputy attorney-general, who claimed that the state department lists Sri Lanka as a "potential as an investigatory target in the Office of War Crimes," but forgot to mention that the same State Department lists the LTTE as a terrorist organization, moved to freeze the assets of LTTE operatives here in the United States, imposed that decision as recently as last week on yet another American front for the LTTE, and, by the way, shut down all funding from Americans and Canadians to the LTTE, all moves which forced the LTTE to suddenly begin peace talks in 2002.
Swift on the heels of all this was a PBS Tavis Smiley segment (he for whom Obama was just not black enough), dedicated to Mathangi Arulpragasam, the niece of Vellupillai Prabhakaran, the leader of the LTTE, and daughter of Arula, the leader of a secondary LTTE organization, both criminals and terrorists condemned by the international community. Tavis Smiley ought to have known what was coming, but that would have entailed actually doing some research, and not make the assumptions, as most liberals do, that a person speaking from a minority perspective must automatically be right.
Mathangi Arulpragasam, who goes by the name M.I.A., has been denied a visa to the enter the United States in the past due to her terrorist connections, but is now a resident of Bedford Stuyvesant in Brooklyn. MIA was nominated for a Grammy and an Oscar for her song on the current flavor of the month, Slumdog Millionaire which is traveling at breakneck speed toward an Oscar flush. She used her segment on Tavis Smiley to make the statement that she is the spokesperson, the only one!, for the Tamils of Sri Lanka, discrediting the thousands of articulate and frankly more informed and far less dubious Tamils who can speak both for Tamils and Sri Lanka, and, with the connivance of Smiley, continued to accuse the Sri Lankan government of engaging in genocide, that it was "trying to make Tamils extinct," that it had "an army of millions" and that Tamils weren't being "allowed to live" in Sri Lanka. Suffice to say that anybody with a computer and internet access - both of which, I'm positive, aren't denied to Mr. Smiley - could have confirmed the ludicrousness of these pronouncements. The UN, UNHCR and the Red Cross, let alone the Sri Lankan government, have released statements regarding the continued terrorism of the LTTE and its murdering of Tamil civilians before they can cross into the safety zones being maintained by the Sri Lankan government and the Red Cross. UN Human Rights reports regarding its forced recruitment of child soldiers and women as well as international aid workers, are also easily accessed.
Why then did the Tavis Smiley show leave it to Michael Getler, the ombudsman of NPR to make a public apology regarding the conduct of this interview? Why was there no public apology from Tavis Smiley himself but for a forced follow-up segment, thanks to the flood of protests, with the Sri Lankan government? Before the Oscar board decides to take the path of inanity displayed by Tavis Smiley on his show, it might do well to replay the album Piracy Funds Terrorism to which MIA refused to add a disclaimer (regarding her overt support of terrorism), which also contains the song ‘Sunshowers' which refers to suicide bombs ("and some showers I'll be aiming at you") Unless, of course, there's a super-talented rapper niece of Osama bin Laden's singing about killing 2,000 Americans in NYC that they are willing to embrace into the fold.
MIA's music is catchy and should win whatever it deserves. And America is certainly a place where the underdog story, however fictional, guarantees sales. Witness the number of music artists who "authenticate" themselves with borrowed street-creds in order to sell the music they write in nice upper class suburbs. But the idea that the same Hollywood that helped Barack Obama into office is offering M.I.A. the second national platform she said, on the Smiley show, she wants, is to wonder if the America that elected Obama is truly ready for the kind of discernment, self-correction and intelligence that characterizes the man himself.
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They send open letter to Tavis Smiley and pointed out that Maya Arulpragasam's allegations were baseless.
We learn that Sri Lankan Foreign Ministry also made a protest to the Public Broadcasting Corporation (PBS). After all these protests, the PBS has decided to provide air time to Sri Lankan government to explain their point of view about current conflict. |
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【４発目：Lankaweb】
MIA misled Tavis Smiley about terror
Dear Mr. Smiley,
I was shocked by the comments made by this person called M.I.A. on The Tavis Smiley Show since her accusations have been proven to be false. How can an artist go on public television and make such baseless and horrific comments about a nation that has done so much for the well-being of the Tamil minority? Her derogatory comments have energized the LTTE terror operatives worldwide and horrified the public. Sri Lanka is a paradise with an incredibly rich and compassionate culture and a famous tourist destination. But unfortunately, the only things discussed on your show were 'genocide' and 'civil war' which is sad, misleading and petty. That seems to be exactly the agenda of the LTTE.
Let me thank you for exposing Maya Arulpragasam for who she really is: an advocate for the ruthless Tamil Tiger Terrorists operating from Britain. Until now we had scattered dots. Previously, many were offended by her use of LTTE terror images since the LTTE are the most brutal terrorist organization in the world. Their criminal enterprise is global and merciless. I was hoping that you will highlight that but there was no mention of any of the Tamil Tiger Terrorists' atrocities mentioned in your discussion such as: the mass murder of civilians by suicide bombings, ethnic cleansing of non-Tamils, using innocent civilians as human shields, recruiting children as soldiers, narcotics trade, assassination of political leaders, extortion, sea piracy, credit card fraud, money laundering, ID fraud, arms trafficking, counterfeit trade, attempting to bribe U.S. State Department officials and the systematic murder of moderate Tamils.
What you have done is to help us connect the dots that link this person to the LTTE Terrorists. As you probably know, UK is a haven for Tamil radicals and terrorists. Please Google "LTTE Terrorists Funding wars UK extortion" for more information. The British let the LTTE celebrate suicide bombers at meetings in London for money and votes. Please Google "Tamils celebrate suicide bombers UK Maveerar" to read more about this. Therefore it is no surprise that a person from that community will back the terrorist group that operates out of the same country. What shocked me is that you seems to give more time to M.I.A. make her outrageously false accusations and then get an AP reporter on too who has a history of been manipulated by the LTTE propaganda machine. Please consider reading the 'Truth about terror in the media' at http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items09/140109-1.html
M.I.A. is a great example where the criminal accuses the victim of the crime. During their campaign of murder, over 10,000 Sinhalese were killed by the Tamil Tiger Terrorists supported by individuals like her. Tamils live and work in peace in all parts of Sri Lanka. You are welcome to check these facts which you will not get from M.I.A. The same Tamils own over half of the businesses, run political parties and publish newspapers freely in Sri Lanka. On the other hand, only a Tamil can live in the North or North-East of the island. All other ethnic groups live in fear of death or were systematically murdered by LTTE. This is genocide by the Tamil Tigers and M.I.A. showed absolutely no remorse for that. Therefore where is the basis for her bogus comments falsely accusing Sri Lanka?
Dear Mr. Smiley, how do you plan to un-ring this bell by truly educating your viewers about global terror and Tamil Tiger Terrorists, exposing front orgs for terror including hip hop artists and showing compassion for thousands of innocent civilians murdered by the LTTE Terrorists while been backed by persons like M.I.A.?
Having seen the real intentions of this individual, we now have to inform everyone concerned including the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Academy Awards organizers, media distributers and retails outlets such as Amazon and Best Buy to remove all work of this terror-affiliated artist. As you know, it is illegal in the US and in many countries to fund and support the Tamil Tigers because they are terrorists. Google "LTTE Terrorists FBI US" for the truth about terror.
Please consider my attached letter to Senator John Kerry, Chair of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee. We have a daunting task of educating everyone including our lawmakers about hidden threats to our freedoms. It is also online at http://www.defence.lk/new.asp?fname=20090213_06. Hope you will join us in this noble cause.
Once again, thank you for helping us connect M.I.A. to the world's most ruthless terrorist group.
Sincerely,
Wick. Gankanda
Arcadia, California
【判定】
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