Nowhere To Run And Nowhere
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By Sunil Kumar for LankaWeb
Nov.18th 2008
While the world at large is misinformed that there is a 'War' per se
in Sri Lanka it needs to be corrected that there is no conventional
war beyond a war against terrorism in Sri Lanka! An insurgency by internal
armed terrorists which has failed miserably amidst the shouts from blinkered
sycophants from Tamil Nadu who attempt to distort everything that is
truly taking place in Sri Lanka's conflict with the Tamil Tiger terrorist
and shouts synonymous with the tamil diaspora scattered around the globe
who are a mere part of a fragmented 20% of all statistically enumerated
Tamils in Sri Lanka who have chosen to rebel against the democratically
elected Majority Sinhalese (over 75% of the population) Sri Lankan Administration
and have done so for almost 4 decades.
The grim irony of all this is that the world and all its superpowers
some of whom have watched in unconcerned indifference the plight of
the real victims of the conflict in Sri Lanka ( her legitimate, sane
and law abiding citizens) have rarely given a thought to anything but
the misleading propaganda circulated ever since the inception of the
conflict by many duplicitous and innuendo spewing terrorist supportive
sources which has even been taken advantage of by conniving politicians
shamelessly motivated by their own political ambitions none of which
has succeeded in disrupting beyond token measure the smooth functioning
of Sri Lanka from an Administrative perspective.
Thanks to her real Internationally powerful allie who have stood by
her while recognizing the legitimacies of the direction of the Sri Lankan
Administration, this is what has truly signed and signalled the death
knell of the ungainly amd illegitimate Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
who are practically finished and at death's door of their existences
despite the rhetoric which comes from their supportive sources!
Somehow the measly and battered LTTE terrorists of today still remain
a resilient lot perhaps more in spirit rather than flesh and continue
to spew their lies and innuendo to the world constantly misinformed
by their apathetic leader Prabhakaran (or his theatrical double). They
are still intact and fighting on for their worthlerss cause of Eelam
when all it its today is a matter of survival until times takes over
their destiny which is surely intended for oblivion and redundancy at
the hands of the Sri lankan Armed Forces and the Commander in Chief,
President Mahinda Rajapaksha who has conducted his operations judiciously
and astutely offering hope and expectations of the ultimate victory
over the terrorists!
A veritable quote from a recent "Island "editorial sums it
all up and needs to be broadcast to the world , in particular those
who continue support Tamil Tiger terrorism in Sri lanka that it is a
lost cause. " It is time Prabhakaran stopped deluding himself and
his followers. He cannot wish away his trouble. He ought to come to
terms with the fact that his terror campaign has turned full circle
after twenty five years of fighting and he stands a zero chance of winning
this war.
He has eliminated the democratic Tamil political leadership save one
or two senior members, killed thousands or ordinary Tamil, Sinhala and
Muslim civilians, sacrificed tens of thousands of Tamil youth and children,
murdered dozens of Sinhala political leaders and wasted billions of
rupees in the name of his macabre cause. But, there has been no Eelam!
The only beneficiaries of his terror campaign have been the economic
refugees promoting terrorism in this country and perpetuating her conflict
from a safe distance so that they and their progeny will be able to
live in clover in the Occident without being sent back home. "
Some Scandinavians in need of a port in warm waters and the foreign
powers seeking a strong presence in the region on the pretext of helping
Sri Lanka resolve her conflict may also have gained from Prabhakaran's
murderous campaign. All others have been victims of his terrorism.
It is clear that the LTTE has over the years come to be considered
a curse even by those it promised to 'liberate'. The acid test for the
liberation credentials of any guerrilla outfit is enlistment. Time was
when the LTTE had long lines of volunteers falling over themselves to
fight for it. Today, it has had to forcibly recruit children and adults.
No armed group enjoying popular support could have come to such a pass.
The LTTE's predicament belies the claim being made in some quarters
that the Tigers may be able to resort to guerrilla warfare by mingling
with people. That would have been possible if the LTTE had not put the
populace through hell in the name of liberation.
Instead of backing the Tigers, there is the likelihood of civilians
turning against them at some point of time, as feared by senior LTTE
leaders themselves according to human rights activists. This is what
the University Teachers for Human Rights (Jaffna) the UTHR (J) says
about the public mood in the LTTE-held terrain: "Several LTTE leaders
who deal with the people know the extent of resentment and the curses
uttered out of their hearing. Instances of popular jubilation have also
been reported when air force bombers hit an LTTE target. At a place
12 miles north of the frontline, a senior LTTE leader told some friends,
"Should the Army advance this far, the people would rebel against
us! –– (UTHR (J) Special Report No: 28, Dec. 04, 2007)
Had Prabhakaran been a CEO in the corporate sector, he would have been
sacked a long time ago for his failure to deliver or for steering his
organisation to disaster. The Chief Executive of the failed Lehman Brothers,
it may be recalled, is to be 'terminated' by the investment firm next
month without any bonus, according to the New York Times. How on earth
can Prabhakaran justify his ‘multi billion-rupee’ failure?
Prabhakaran must admit that the god of war has gone over to the other
side as the Fuehrer said following his crushing defeat at Stalingrad.
It is only wishful thinking that he can bounce back and transform the
LTTE into a formidable killing machine once again. The Tigers are losing
their teeth and he is getting long in the tooth. During the past quarter
century, he only unleashed hell and ruined the prospects of his movement
without making any progress as regards his separatist goal.
He may have built 'court houses' and set up 'banks' to project the areas
under his jackboot as a de facto state, but such institutions could
not stand on a foundation of illegitimacy. They were still born, though
he propped them up through sheer force.
All these years Prabhakaran has been trying to establish Eelam a la
pavement hawkers who run away when the police descend on them and return
to ply their trade later.
No longer can he play that game!" end quote summing up all the
realities surrounding the terrorist problem in unquestionable clarity.
It is over for the Liberation Tigers and the sooner their wretched
and apathetic supporters around the world let this sink into their numbed
craniums the better it will be for the posterity of Sri Lanka as a land
liberated from the so called liberators of Tamil Ealam who are in reality
a bunch of misguided criminals dispossessed of their rights to existence
with nowhere to run and nowhere to hide!!
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