War Winnable and Peace Achievable
Militariliy Alone
Dilrook Kannangara
Sri Lanka’s war is very much winnable and its security forces
are winning it. Today warfare is not about capturing bunkers; it is
an attrition warfare aimed at killing the maximum number of terrorists.
Only naturally falling LTTE bunkers and bunkers of strategic importance
are captured by the security forces. Security forces have shown that
they are better than the LTTE in guerrilla warfare recently. They are
amply supported by paramilitary groups.
When the East was liberated, many idiotic theories were brought that
it cannot be retained, etc. etc. But defying all these nonsense theories
security forces and local militant groups together maintain to this
date complete control over it. Of course a few skirmishes take place
as it happens in New York every day! Same with Jaffna which is the Tamil
heartland. Therefore if anyone argues that the security forces cannot
control Vanni when liberated, they are living in a fools’ paradise
where the Sun Dog is the king. Vanni will also be run by EPDP and TMVP
armed divisions alongside the security forces.
I propose caution before quoting from the Holy Bible; although Jesus
praised ‘peace-makers’, as a Catholic I know that he never
brought peace to anywhere!! Of course this is in addition to what happens
in Bethlehem and Jerusalem almost everyday!!
Jesus said, "I have come to bring fire on the earth, and how I
wish it were already kindled! But I have a baptism to undergo, and how
distressed I am until it is completed! Do you think I came to bring
peace on earth? No, I tell you, but division. From now on there will
be five in one family divided against each other, three against two
and two against three. They will be divided, father against son and
son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother,
mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law."
(Luke 12:49-52).
Indeed the Church is divided even on such trivial matters as “whether
to allow sex for priests or not”, and they try to make peace in
the world without patching up their own internal divisions! Please Rev.
Malcolm Ranjith, if you have an iota of intelligence first unify the
Catholic, Protestant, Anglican, Presbyterian, Church of England and
dozens of other Churches in Sri Lanka before attempting to bring peace
to divided Sri Lanka! Leave it to the military.
Jesus also said “How can you say to your brother, 'Let me take
the speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a plank in your
own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and
then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.”
"Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs
(and tigers - inclusion is mine). If you do, they may trample them under
their feet, and then turn and tear you to pieces.” (Matthew 7:4-6)
Sri Lanka is sacred to all patriotic Sri Lankans and no part of it shall
be given to dogs, pigs or tigers in the name of “peace”!
On the other hand the Biblical King David practically proved how to
bring peace by annihilating all the enemies of his nation. Sri Lanka
is indeed at war with a Goliath. The Tamil problem is not confined to
Sri Lanka; it is a global problem affecting 80 million Tamils (four
times the Sri Lankan population) the world over as correctly observed
by their leader recently. There is nothing little Lanka can do to solve
this global menace, only India can do so by allowing Tamil Nadu more
autonomy. Just because India is a military superpower, it doesn’t
mean that Sri Lanka must entertain global Tamil aspirations. Many Tamils
live peacefully in Sri Lanka and some cannot; those who cannot live
peacefully in Sri Lanka (let them be Tamils, Sinhalese, Muslims or Veddhas)
must be guided using military and other means to hell.
I earnestly ask Sri Lankans to support the military campaign to bring
peace as it has brought peace to many parts previously under terror
including Mavil Aru. A political solution is fine provided it has the
majority support and includes some good points in the Malaysian solution
which is the only successful remedy to Tamil seperatism. Rest assured
Tamil seperatism will not raise its ugly head in Malaysia thanks to
its military crackdown; it will certainly crop up in federal India!
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