{"id":49443,"date":"2015-11-15T20:55:42","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T02:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=49443"},"modified":"2015-11-15T13:29:44","modified_gmt":"2015-11-15T20:29:44","slug":"tamil-tiger-inspired-islamic-state-terror-attack-in-paris-condemned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/11\/15\/tamil-tiger-inspired-islamic-state-terror-attack-in-paris-condemned\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamil Tiger Inspired Islamic State Terror Attack in Paris Condemned"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dilrook Kannangara<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

The cowardly attack on civilians in Paris has all the hallmarks of a Tamil Tiger attack. ISIS that carried out the terrorist attack was obviously inspired by Tamil Tigers and used the same template in its attacks. Many would agree that the scourge of terrorism must be rooted out from the world. However, fragmented efforts to rid the world of terrorists don\u2019t work. More cooperation is needed from all established nations to fight these mythical nations (Islamic State or the Caliphate as much as Tamil Eelam) and terrorists.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately France hindered Sri Lanka\u2019s attempts to exterminate Tamil terrorists in 2008 and as karma would have it France is at the receiving end now. Despite that, Sri Lanka persisted and within months permanent peace was established. Now it is France\u2019s turn to defeat its enemies as Sri Lanka did. Unlike France, Sri Lanka will not obstruct its moves. Already the French government has vowed \u2018merciless retribution\u2019. If it is kosher for France, it is kosher for Sri Lanka too.<\/p>\n

The terrorist attack on France didn\u2019t arise suddenly. A number of attempts were made by them in the past months to attack France. One such attempt was foiled by a vigilant soldier on leave on a train. Another attempt was foiled by the police targeting the Eifel Tower. This persistent terror approach is extremely dangerous. As a then terrorist once lamented, you have to be lucky every day (to survive an attack) but we need to be lucky only once\u201d. Tamil terrorists made similar attempts on ethnic Sinhala civilians. Over 50 terrorist attacks including suicide bomb attacks were carried by Tamils in Colombo city alone since 1984 until 2009. Among the eight (8) suicide attackers that attacked Paris was a 15 year old. This is no surprise as Tamils also used children, at times as young as 11 years as suicide bombers.<\/p>\n

EU and the US found it very difficult to condemn Tamil terrorist attacks on Sri Lankans but Sri Lanka didn\u2019t hesitate to condemn the cowardly attack on France. As the island nation proved, this problem cannot be resolved by political solutions. It must be fought out in the battlefield with increased determination. We all wish France to prevail over terrorists, unhindered by threats to the liberal values it stands for and national security interests that cannot be compromised. Viva la France! Viva la Sri Lanka! Never a state for Islamic State and never a state for Tamil Tigers. They deserve nothing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dilrook Kannangara The cowardly attack on civilians in Paris has all the hallmarks of a Tamil Tiger attack. ISIS that carried out the terrorist attack was obviously inspired by Tamil Tigers and used the same template in its attacks. Many would agree that the scourge of terrorism must be rooted out from the world. However, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dilrook-kannangara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}