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Tamil Tigers Teach Other Terrorist Groups
How to Use the Disabled to Become Suicide Bombers!
S. Hewage
The Sri Lankan Tamil Tiger terrorists, also known as the LTTE, mastered
suicide bombing techniques in the 1980s in their terror campaign to
create a mono-ethnic Tamil state on the tiny island nation of Sri Lanka.
In this despicable technique of “human bombs” the Tamil Tigers
developed numerous strategies not only to lure unsuspecting victims
to the human bomber, but also to utilize a wide range of socially disposable
humans as bombers who would otherwise not have much status in oppressive
male dominant societies. In a caste-dominant Tamil society, women do
not play an active role in the political decision-making process; even
less in a terror campaign directed against the state. In this situation,
Tamil Tigers tapped into a previously unknown source of human bombers.
They are the disabled women who have absolutely no opportunity to contribute
to the well-being of their own societies. In the same way that the LTTE
mastered the techniques of suicide bombing, they have now introduced
into the world of terrorism the technique of utilizing the disabled
as the most unsuspecting tool for carrying out carnage in public places.
It was about two months ago that the LTTE sent a polio-afflicted young
woman from the north of Sri Lanka to blow-up a Tamil cabinet minister
in Colombo. Ironically, he happened to be the Minister of Social Services
and Welfare who signed an UN convention on the rights of disabled people
on behalf of the government of Sri Lanka in 2007. Although the suicide
bomber failed to kill the Minister, she along with a number of other
people in the vicinity died in this incident.
It is obvious that this same technique has now been adopted by Islamic
terrorists in Iraq. Friday, two mentally disabled women were strapped
with explosives and sent into two popular pet markets on the holiest
day of the week for Muslims. Despicably, they were detonated via a cell
phone killing at least 98 people and wounding more than 200. As they
were detonated by remote control, it is doubtful that they knew what
they were carrying into the market places.
The international community, in particular the Western democracies
that continue to urge the Sri Lankan government to negotiate with these
terrorists, can give another award to the LTTE terror group for their
contribution to the ever-more creative methods of killing innocent people!
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