Their next demented step is to decry a ceasefire while “accepting” (acceptable to whom?) the cold blooded massacre of Tamil civilians as the necessary “price” (paid by whom?) to destroy the LTTE. But peaceniks dread international pressure may compel the regime to implement a ceasefire, which their anti-LTTE paranoia deludes them into believing could throw a lifeline to the Organisation supposedly in its death throes. One would have thought peaceniks would gladly welcome humanitarian concerns of the IC, which in effect is represented by the Co-Chairs (US, EU, Norway and Japan) of the Donor Consortium in the Sri Lankan context, and would support their calls for a ceasefire to protect Tamil men, women and children, the old and the infirm. He anticipated a rise in international displeasure towards the Rajapakse regime fuelled by the deepening “humanitarian crisis” and desperately begged the Opposition United National Party (UNP) to close ranks with the regime and present a common front against the International Community (IC). He found comfort that “the Government will deal with the LTTE on the basis of surrender” but was chagrined because “the LTTE adamantly refuses to do so”.Ībout the same time the first signs of alarm surfaced when the Sinhalese peace counsellor agonised that “international attention that only a few weeks ago was on the spectacular advances of the Sri Lankan military” against the LTTE “has now turned almost completely to the humanitarian crisis” relating to the genocidal conditions imposed by the regime upon Tamil civilians in Mullaitivu. The so-called Tamil policy analyst, no doubt recollecting the deadline fed to gullible southern masses, feared “the end game is not ending”. With staggering naiveté, he beseeched the rabidly anti-Tamil Sinhalese-Buddhist regime to compassionately “search for a political and constitutional settlement beyond…the unitary state, with commitment, urgency and a sense of the utmost priority.” To lend credibility to his ludicrous call, the policy analyst too slavishly projected the President as a moderate who could rise above the Sinhalese chauvinism of his own regime he urged Rajapakse to “take the lead…and drive the process to a successful conclusion.”īy the middle of March, peaceniks were distressed because the Sinhalese army had not carried the battle to its bloody and decisive end within the deadline, set by Rajapakse, of “two weeks” from the “fall” of Kilinochchi they were also startled by the LTTE’s protracted resistance. A Tamil “policy analyst” appreciated the military gains against the LTTE-led Tamil National Movement but he deeply worried over “the danger of the regime snatching political defeat from the jaws of military victory”. Within a week, a Sinhalese “peace counsellor” merrily assured the armed forces that “the military and psychological blow to the LTTE cannot be in doubt” and expansively invited President Mahinda Rajapakse’s Sinhalese-supremacist regime to altruistically “rise above ethnic and political considerations” and build “a bridge to the estranged Tamils people of Sri Lanka”. Peace brokers and conflict transformers – generally knows as peaceniks – in Colombo waved their manicured hands while spewing forth mind-numbing banalities on “the end game” for the LTTE, following the Organisation’s withdrawal from Kilinochchi on 2 January 2009.
The United States, India and the UK have failed Tamil Eelam again, calling for the LTTE to surrender and ignoring the decades of oppression that forced the Tamil people to take up arms. The complicity of the international “community” in the massacres on the “safe” zone shows that only the struggle of the people of Tamil Eelam can end Sinhala chauvinist oppression.
Although Sri Lanka claims victory, even announcing the death of Prabhakaran, as the IPKF did in 1989, the LTTE is not defeated.
The LTTE international relations head refuted this claim, saying that although many senior LTTE cadres (mostly political leaders,) have been killed, Prabhakaran is very much alive.
The Sri Lankan Army claims to have killed the leader of the LTTE while offering no proof except their assertion.
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