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What's Really Relevant Towards Resolving Sri Lanka's Terrorist Problem

Hope it is sometimes said is for the hopeless as seems to be the case of those hanging onto a flimsy thread of the concept as any hope that the subversive criminals of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam would somehow respond to diplomatic pressure and renounce their terrorist tactics ahead of the cease-fire negotiations scheduled for the end of the month seems to be dimmi9ng by the day.They have now inflicted so much damage to the Nation through the suicide attacks that killed more than 100 Sri Lankan sailors this week as well as a string of other attrocities among which todays attack on the Galle Harbour tolling 16 lost lives takes prominenence towards the theme that the Terrorists now have free access to Sinhala populated areas and the time for talking must be deemed a thing of the past as more affirmative action is surely needed to quell and rid the Nation of Sri Lanka of the offal of humanity who call themselves liberators! They need to be expunged and liberated from their own existences in order that Sri lanka will once again emerge as a resplendent Isle!

It seems almost perverse that the government continues to uphold the merits of peace talks with the terrorists with the suport of political consensus from all the wrong areas especially those of the UNP (some of them indicted criminals and some who have got away with crimes!)who are primarily responsible for the aberration of relaxed security and concessions to the LTTE which are the most probable causes for the vermin LTTE infiltrating into Sinhala populated areas and carrying out their vicious attacks and there seems a crying need for the government to literally "Cut The Bull" and get on with the unenviable but absolutely imperative task of searching and destroying the LTTE infiltrators bearing in mind that there is a huge difference between Tamil terrorists and decent Tamil citizens of Sri Lanka where the need for self preservations has to be identified as an axiom for the Sinhala nation!

In a very long time despite past confabs at international level involving many leaders from many nations interested in resolving Sri lanka's crisis whether through ulterior motives and percieved vested interests or not, the absolute need to negotiate a permanent end to of violence in Sri Lanka has once again been grossly undermined by the rebel group's continuing violence for which some of those responsible for the leniencies shown them in previous political incumbencies need to be held responsible and perhaps even taken to task where criminalizing them may not seem such a bad idea!

While the Peace talks are still on line to be carried out, of what benefit might they be for Sri Lankans so grievously harmed by the terrorists, beyond a psychological salvation which truly defeats the purpose of truly coming to terms with the stark reality that there is the presence of the devil himself roaming freely amongst innocent civilians and hence the urgent need to search and destroy before the dialogue towards peace is once again resumed and this time with sane an rational Tamils rather than rabid and vicious killers who have to be destroyed to the last remaining supportive based upon the proclaimed authority the Sri Lankan Armed Forces now have over the LTTE! The have indeed made a fair start to this objective given the continuing raids on LTTE encampments, the so called Sea Tiger enclaves and boats, their miniscule and feebly attempted charade towards air capability and even their broadcasting facilities and the direction by the Authorities needs to ne more assertive towards a determinatiuon which will not rest until the foe are vanquished to their entirety and all their attempts to destroy Mother Lanka are thwarted.

Truly the only means for the Government of Sri Lanka to ensure that the Tamil terrorists can be forced into truly renouncing violence now appears to be through the only means which they would comprehend as their inability to visualize the purposelesness of killing and the threat they pose to the nation makes it the very essence of a push towards eliminating them which now has very vocal and sincere support from the world's superpowers as an alternative if all the signals are to be interpreted correctly.Even subtlely in the cases of some for very obvious reasons by virtue of a need to maintain their statuses and dignities, have spared little thought in the overall scheme of things, their assent for retaliatory and preventive action against the terrorists where a negotiated settlement may seem an unlikely prospect without a real alternative, a situation created by the ignorance, insensitivities and lack of consciences of the terrorists themselves.

The term legimate seems inappropriate and inapplicable towards applying it to internationally condemned and outlawed terrorists where one asks "what are these legitimate cease-fire talks requiring the Tamil Tigers to match the government's level of commitment to peace?" when they continue their killings and devastations within a Sovereign Nation and does it not seem logical that being the statusless 'persona non grata' they truly are within Sri Lanka with her Public Enemy No1 as their leader! they need to be coralled, rounded up and brought to justice rather than being negotiated with in jocund fashion which makes the negotiators seem all but assinine and a bunch of circus clowns perhaps!

During the past several decades there have been many peace efforts, however which acheived little or nothin towards the objective a of a lasting peace beyond the metaphor as whenever the LTTE and their pitiful entourage have entered negotiations and cease-fire agreements with huge handshakes, hugs, swigs of booze,sumptious repasts, (covert libidinous forays by some it has also been whispered!) etc. and the promise to uphold signed conventions only to take advantage of Governmental integrity towards their pledges to secretly regroup, rearm and relaunch their offensives.

It must be emphasied at this point that an all important quote in the Wahington Times' current editorial points out very appropriately that -"The Tamil Tigers are not interested in peaceful co-existence; their only goal is to win substantial territorial concessions, which is a nonstarter for the Sri Lankan government, and justifiably so. The Tigers, furthermore, lack any real support of the Tamil people and intimidate their opposition into silence. This is a negotiation between a state and the terrorist group that pioneered the use of suicide bombing. Under no circumstances can they be considered equals, and it's essential that the international community, as it works to put the country on the right track, pronounce this distinction ardently. (Indeed, the United States refuses to negotiate with any terrorist groups.) Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher, who has rightly noted that the Tigers are a "terrorist group that needs to be treated accordingly," travels to Sri Lanka this week to meet with government officials and members of a Japanese envoy working in the country. While the trip should convey U.S. concern with the violence, the only effective way for the international community to pressure the Tamil Tigers is by targeting the group's world-wide fundraising network.

The recent arrests in Baltimore of six men accused of purchasing weapons, including Russian-made surface-to-air missiles, for the Tigers, which came only a few months after similar arrests were made in a sting operation in New York, are the first concrete actions taken since the United States classified the Tamils as a terrorist organization in 1997. These important arrests should be followed by forceful prosecution. This is precisely the kind of action that U.S. authorities need to take to disrupt the flow of money and weapons to the Sri Lankan terrorists, which is the only way to force the group into earnest negotiations. " end quote and need there be anymore euphemisms towards what's really relevant towards the means to resolve Sri Lanka's terrorist problem than to take them out completely and hopefully with a little help from friends if the task cannot be effected unilaterally?




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