Yahoo Report On The Latest
Terrorist Attack In Sri Lanka Put In Proper Perspective
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April 27th 2008
When correspondent Amal Jayasinghe of Yahoo News suggests
in a somewhat unclassified report that the "Tiger rebels used aircraft
on Sunday to bomb military targets in Sri Lanka, dealing a psychological
blow to the Sri Lankan security forces, as the two sides fought heavy
ground battles according to defence sources there seems to be a delusionary
touch to Mr Jayasinghe's reasoning as well as reporting which appears
a tad myopic or perhaps laced in bias as the mitigating factor.
There seems also a burning need to disillission the objectives of this
very poor response to a major incident in the annals of Sri Lanka's
war against the Tamil Tiger terrorists and a few facts set right as
opposed to any distorsions this item might create in the minds of the
less discerning international reader as this news item seems to have
been put together in a somewhat similar fashion to certain items of
the BBC which sometimes fail in the objective of true responsibility
towards accuracy where idealogies seem to take preference over reality!
One also wonders where this writer's sense of patriotism stems from
if any while carrying a very Sinhalese sounding name when he takes it
upon himself to make such an authoritative sounding statement where
most of it seem speculative and perhaps picked up on hearesay and blended
in with Tami tiger propaganda which is rife in the West as many discerning
observers and analysts are aware of ? So which bucket of sycophancy
is Mr Jayasinghe carrying? Perhaps one with the insignia UNP splashed
in red and filled with disillussioned rhetoric? as it seems fairly obvious
that the intent of the item is to discredit the Government of Sri Lanka
and her Armed Forces! Something a certain Mr PK Balachandran of the
Hindusthan Times chain should also take note of!
This report about the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) flying
two light fixed-wing planes to hit two bases in the north-eastern Weli
Oya region, where Security Forces launched a new drive against the rebels
on Saturday, and that they dropped three bombs at two locations and
flew back seems as insignificant to the relativities involved as well
as ambiguous to the point where the bias of the writer seems to show
despite pehaps a touch of conscience to want to add that "the damage
caused is insignificant and caused no deaths but the attack symbolic",
so what does it symbolise? one might want to ask Mr Jayasinghe. Is there
such ingenuity amongst a bunch of terrorists on the run to be capable
of such a smooth operation as portrayed by this item or is it wishful
thinking bordering on ones mental creativity?
However,there needs no rocket science to be aware that 'they' could
have coordinates of military installations, something easily accessible
if the right means of access were used especially within Sri Lanka and
an understatement.That only one soldier was injured in the attacks on
sites used as ground troop bases also seems an obvious parochiality
perhaps intended to dilute to a degree what the report is insinuating
but the report of the Defence Ministry's immediate response that the
air force scrambled intercepter aircraft and that the terrorists who
are fighting a losing insurgent campaign in the island's north had withdrawn
adds more to the credibility of what really transpired in whatever manifestation
although unconfirmed! Surely this was another botched attempt by the
terrorists to infiltrate Sri Lanka's defences albeit totally blown out
of proportion by the distorted presentation by Amal Jayasinghe in Yahoo
news which suggests that "the terrorists are still a force to contend
with" when all the credible reports, facts and figure suggest to
the contrary! and that realistically the LTTE are a spent force on their
last legs prior to their impending annihilation
It has to be highlighted towards portraying the indelible reality that
when the Defence Ministry reports ground troops beating back a two-pronged
assault by the Tigers in the Weli Oya region on Saturday a total of
54 Tiger guerrillas were killed in separate clashes with Security Forces
on Saturday and heavy ground fighting was continuing where seven troops
were reported killed towards which by way of response there has been
an ominous silence from the terrorists. Latest Defence Ministry stats
indicating 3,178 Tigers as haing been killed by Security Forces this
year according to official figures and the military having lost 230
soldiers in 2008 invariably points to the reality that it is the LTTE
that are being decimated and that they are on a path to oblivion while
delving deeper into another report that the latest conscripts to their
dwindling manpower resourses comprise mainly of women and children!
Independent verification of the tolls as reported in this item is justifiably
impossible as Colombo bars journalists and rights groups from combat
areas and rebel-held territory mostly for their personal safety as well
as the bounden right to prevent falsified news reports from being circulated
around the world with their particular biases. In reality there seems
to be a felt need to lay down stipulations to these biased news reporting
journalist towards their bounden responsibilities towards a Sovereign
Nation fighting terrorism!
However when Sri Lanka's senior military officials insist the terrorists
have been considerably weakened after being driven out from the Island's
East last July although they have still been able to carry out spectacular
strikes around the country they aren't mincing their words! 'Spectacular
Strikes' in the context of what perhap is tantamount to fireworks displays
in tandem with a pitiful attempt at aerial bombardment from a single
engined homemade aircraft with respect to this particular reference
yet never detracting from how cowardly and spineless the recent attacks
have been as the targets were mostly innocent civilians and defenceless
members of the public apart from this.
That the terrorists assassinated a senior respected and very progressive
cabinet minister earlier this month is the salient truth but to suggest
that they inflicted heavy losses on Security Forces in battle on Wednesday
and smashed a military airbase six months ago is part exaggeration and
part unconfirmable innuendo which have been concocted into a cocktail
of misinformation perhaps based on a single falsified news report by
an indiscriminate journalist or a few of them roaming around Sri Lanka
in the manner of Vultures in search of prey ready to pounce on anything.
Sadly such actions merely contribute to the wrongful portrayal of a
scourge of vermin needing to be wiped out towards the well being of
Sri Lanka which perhaps lends them a false sense of security that foreign
news reports such as these are strengthening their cause which of course
must have the opposite effect as it surely increases international contempt
and disdain.
The real truth of the matter seems to be the pitiful suicidal instincts
of a debilitated terrorist group who in desperation attempt to wage
a war of attrition against an all powerful and well focussed Sri Lankan
Armed Force often portrayed as in this instance by the ignorance and
apathy of their supportives which in all probabilities will hasten their
elimination rather than augment their resurrection if that is the objective
behind such portrayals!
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