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Crushing defeat of the Tamil Tigers proves you CAN beat terror

by lalith | May 20, 2009 at 08:09 pm

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Sri Lanka is shaped like a teardrop below southern India. People there are weeping at the dramatic events of this week. But, contrary to what our Foreign Secretary David Miliband and the commentariat of the BBC would have you believe, not all the tears are those of despair. In Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka, fireworks are being let off to celebrate the deaths of the Tamil Tiger leader Velupillai Prabhakaran, his son and heir Charles Anthony and the rest of the Tiger leadership.
They died in a hail of gunfire as they tried to escape Sri Lankan elite troops in an armoured ambulance.

This meant they did not get a chance to use the cyanide capsules they always wore around their necks in case they were captured.

The majority population in Sri Lanka are the Buddhist Sinhalese, and they see the Tamil leader's death as the final act of a 30-year-long Sri Lankan government campaign against a murderous separatist terrorist organisation.

At a time when the Sri Lankan Government proved to the world that terrorism can be defeated militarily when negotiations fail, and that there is an alternative to peaceful solutions, the UK kept silent about the defeat of the LTTE.

British Foreign Secretary David Miliban who was so anxious to take the case of Sri Lanka to the UN Security Council, suddenly forgot to comment on the latest victory achieved by the Government of Sri Laka over the terrorist LTTE. The silence of Miliband may bring out thoughts to the effect that he is planning something big against Sri Lanka.

With Terrorism and insurgencies raging all over the world, it is ironic that Miliband decided to back the military operation in Pakistan which is killing hundreds of civilians, obviously brown nosing the USA.

" Britain, rather than glossing over the truly hideous terrorist outrages committed by the Tamil Tigers and calling for dialogue, should have the guts to salute a victory in the war against terrorism"