There Can Be No Double Standards
For Terrorism And Every Form Of Terrorism Needs To be Struck Down With
Equal Force!
© In Retrospect ~
By Sunil Kumara For LankaWeb
24th October 2007
It must be a general consensus as stated at the recent convention of
counter-terrorism that terrorism is not merely a challenge to any democratically
elected Governments but it is also a greater challenge for electing
Democratic Governments as expressed by TULF Leader Mr V Anandasagaree
and in essence agreed upon by many who stand behind this belief. To
add to the wisdom of this logic it must also essentially be stated that
there can be no double standards for terrorism and that every form of
terrorism needs to be struck down with equal force while brushing aside
any false claims by terrorists to represent a worthy cause in support
of deserving people as this is simply not true.
They are criminals who need to be brought to justice for crimes against
humanity and cannot be tolerated in any capacity and to hell with the
moderates in the Global Community who try to justify their existences
as an acceptable entity particularly when it comes to the terrorists
of Sri Lanka who have no rights to their existence inasmuch as their
supportives who have no rights to any claims in favour of Velupillai
Prabhakaran Sri lanka's public enemy No1. His suicide minded killers
must be rounded up in their entirety and brought to justice or better
still coralled and disposed of as one would do vermin as there seems
to be no other alternative draconian as it sounds!
This is probably where the Global Super Powers fit in with a duty beyond
room for neglect or lip service towards ridding Sri Lanka of terrorists
which should be an exercise of conviction and a tour de force within
a manageable perimeter and perhaps an example to the rest of the world
that terrorism can be eradicated and not tolerated to suit various agenda's
of unscrupulous politicians, world powers as well as the greed of the
individuals who continue to eye the varying degrees of Sri Lanka's resources
including the discovery of vast reserves of oil in the oceans around
her.
Itfast becomes an awareness which is truly shameful that the scourge
of terrorism definitely has a panacea if only it can be applied without
reservation, personal agendas, restraint based on world opinion or circumspect
negativity which only helps the cause of the wretched terrorists clutching
at straws towards their survival particularly relative to a small surface
areas that Sri Lanka happens to be where they could be isolated and
transformed into compost if they cannot be apprehended alive!
There is no room for bargaining with terrorists where ever they may
be and a reality the world needs to come to terms with if it already
hasn't as the case seems to be with particular reference to Sri Lanka.
These are not rational human beings as opposed to degenerates who cannot
be bargained with, needing to be put down in the best interests of the
inhabitants of the territory they operate in and are vainly attempting
to annex as that alone would collapse all their impure idealogies as
well as their own survival patterns!
If this trend of thought had prevailed with assertion and forcefulness
in the beginning perhaps Sri Lanka would have been a better place for
her inhabitants with much of her noble leaders who paid the ultimate
price with their lives still amongst the living and many artifacts and
resources of the Island Nation which is often compared to Paradise still
intact as well as much of her past glory. It is the very tolerance of
unacceptable scum that has upto the present sullied the beauty of this
land so stricken with the scourge of terrorism towards which necessary
steps were not taken in the interim and has projected Sri Lanka into
a very insecure and unstable place and what remains despite being late
in the day is to initiate an overall assault against the terrorists
who plague this fair land with no holds barred and without compromise.
This is being said with the cognizance that the Government of Sri Lanka
and the Armed Forces are today much more powerful than before towards
countering a dwindling group of some 4000 estimated terrorists whose
numbers are decreasing with every skirmish with the Sri Lanka Defence
Forces. (SLDF) The terrorists have had much of their resources depleted,
their finances cut off and all they have at the present is a mere residue
of what they accumulated under cover of the ceasefire which they put
to full use towards their advantage, the backing of certain misguided
elements within the international community, diaspora safely ensconced
in other parts of the world propagating their cause, the double standards
shown by world powers eternally calling for restraint and the meaningless
entreaties emanating from myopic human rights standard bearers.( where
it is the terrorists themselves who are in a legal sense culpable for
human rights violations) All these elements which help their cause greatly
and of course their cunning and subterfuge which is the hallmark of
many criminals have ensured their survival this far but the time is
at hand surely to take the necessary steps to eliminate them.
Furthermore the law of averages alone suggests it is time for the LTTE
to take the crushing blow at the hands of the Armed Forces which will
eventually cripple their effectivity and render them non functional
at which time mopping up operations need to be done swiftly withouth
much fanfare towards oputting them out of their misery but what the
Government as well as the Armed Forces are doing by way of neglect is
leaving pockets of resistance untended to towards elimination, a relaxation
of their surveillances as well as having to deal with betrayers and
informants from within their rank and file which seems to be the hardest
factor to deal with and hopefully lessons will be learned towards the
future!
It has to be accepted despite its sinister implications which point
as an eventuality towards the necessary measures far removed from ahimsa
and peace that an all out onslaught towards eliminating them seems mandatory
and inevitable. All attempts made to bring the LTTE leadership to negotiation
table by many intermediaries to obtain a sustainable peaceful solution
to the country has failed and the LTTE albeit blinkered and ignorant
as they have been by way of leadership, negotiators and spokespersons
have rejected all overtures made towards a lasting peace for obvious
reasons pointing towards their own survival. Not surprisingly as these
are terrorists obsessed with a sadistic desire to maim and kill even
their own in order to continue along their ungainly directionless path
with an autocratic and bloodthirsty leader to moot but why must a Sovereign
Nation stand by and tolerate them anymore merely to pay homage to the
distorted views of some of the International Community constantly being
fuelled by lies, innuendo and theatrics by the terrorist propagandists
while they continue their criminalities which continue to disrupt the
smooth functioning of a Sovereign Nation? Are not four decades of National
suffering long enough to justify their elimination if the resources
towards the cause available to the powers that be?
To strengthen this concept, the growing international support for the
Government of Sri Lanka and her cordial relationships with countries
of means dedicated to the cause of eliminating terrorism are augmenting
rapidly and their assistance towards combating terrorism very encouraging
through logistic as well as armament support where the most important
support in recent times has been from neighbouring countries and the
trend expected to augment as the world is begining to realise the greater
importance of eliminating terrorism at its core where many are beginning
to deduce that LTTE may be one of the main sources of world terrorism
which is beginning to spill out in many forms linkable with the modus
operandi as well as the operational tactics of the Tamil Tigers becoming
quite apparent and visible despite their dwindling numbers within Sri
Lanka. There is also a new theory that they may have spread to other
parts of the world where terrorism is rampant and rife!
It must be reiterated over and over again to those with any doubt that
the LTTE are not freedom fighters by any stretch of the imagination
because ordinary people categorically and in particular the Tamil Community
have to be liberated from the evils of the LTTE terrorists continuously
if they fail to bend to their will. In this sense the world must be
made aware that a vast proportion of the Tamil people in very recent
times do not recognize the LTTE as freedom fighters any more than a
pack of rabid marauding canines who attack anything at will, indiscriminately.
Consequently, being freedom loving individuals supportive of the Sri
Lankan Administration the mainstream Sri Lankan Tamils within the Nation
are prepared to accept a reasonable solution even beyond what is already
incorporated within Sri Lanka's present Constitution which provides
for all citizens within the framework of a United Sri Lanka assuring
them of their freedoms and securities.
Even the blind have now come to visualise the reality that the LTTE
who continued to maintain falsely through the pro- LTTE propaganda sources
their commitment to the Sri Lankan Tamils are pack of diabolical liars
hell bent on accomplishing their futile goal of a separate state. All
they ever wanted was control over their own community with illegally
annexed territory and a terrorist high command with one foot in his
grave or awaiting the hangman ironically while also also claiming they
were the sole representatives of the Tamil people on behalf of whom
they had the exclusive right to speak out and make decisions for! This
is a bold misrepresentation and an untruth which many Tamils have unequivocally
confirmed as an LTTE creation. By rights the LTTE should be a doomed
lot awaiting their inevitable end which must culminate in their being
either brought to justice or their aspirations ended permanently through
whatever available and effective means which now suggests systematic
military force in the absence of any other alternative!
Lets get on with it Sri Lanka and not look back except in anger at
the needless pain inflicted through decades by these enemies of the
State who have no rights towards their existences!
Sri Lanka's terrorist problem needs to end in closure and the elimination
of the LTTE as terrorists!
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