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Military Victories & The Opposition Dilemmas
Wed, 2009-01-07 02:13
By Darmitha-Kotte
Through a period of 3 years, our Armed Forces have proved without doubt that so called “unwinnable wars” can be won provided there is no political interference from non-military pundits. With planning and coordination among the Army, Navy and Air Force supported by Civil Security personnel they have proved this with every step they have taken into LTTE held areas through which the large chunk of coastal areas in the East and land areas in the North have gradually begun to shrink leaving only a small patch of Elephant Pass still to be completely liberated.
For those citizens who consider Sri Lanka as their Motherland, thirty years has been a tremendously long time to have been given to the LTTE terrorists for them to enjoy torturing civilians and earning money through "Kappan" for the furtherance of their maniacal & mythical obsession with a "Traditional Homeland idea". Tamils live in all parts of the island without hindrance among all other communities leading normal lives.
Today, the picture is very much different and the Tamils living in the North and East are sighing with relief because they know that in the not so far away future, they can again return to normalcy and live in peace and harmony with other communities once the LTTE is wiped out completely. However, this seems to be creating some problems for the local anti-national forces which see that their political ambitions will also dwindle away should the terrorists be completely wiped out from this country. This is most unfortunate because each of these politicians are sons and daughters of this country born, bred, educated and employed & their duty to the Motherland, must be to serve it loyally.
The UNP and Mangala Samaraweera together with TNA are the most perturbed by the military successes taking place in the North. They are all playing to the gallery of western vested interests who at this point dare not contradict the actions of the GOSL but are hoping against hope that LTTE leader will be spared the disgrace of being caught and punished for the atrocities he has committed through 30 years of suffering by civilians in this country. Norway is waiting impatiently to see whether they will ever get a chance to airlift the remaining terrorists to safety together with the help of other organisations which have diplomatic immunity in this country.
The UNP leader has exhibited his utter ignorance about war strategies when he uttered a statement recently that the government had said that they were planning to attack "point A" but had diverted and attacked "point B" instead! Do the Americans tell us that they are attacking countries A, B, or C before they do it? His anxiety now, is to call for quick political solutions to save Prabhakaran. Can he tell us why his CFA failed and why the LTTE stopped their participation at negotiations after the Tokyo Conference in 2003? Was it due to President Mahinda Rajapakse then? Wasn’t this at a time when Ranil Wickramasinghe was Prime Minister with his "Regaining Sri Lanka Banner" with Norway acting as the mediator & facilitator? Regaining to Ranil Wickramasinghe was to permit foreigners with vested interests in this country to dictate terms to Sri Lanka on how we should govern our country! At the time American Ambassadors, the UN and UNDP, British Ambassadors were all telling us what to do to permit terrorists to continue their operations with their "negotiation" strategy.
All leaders tried this recipe but find it hard to accept that their efforts were a failure and today, when the current GOSL under President Rajapakse is injecting the only “antibiotic” that terrorists understand to destroy the virus that has afflicted this country for three decades, all opposition parties are in a dilemma. They are not concerned about hurting the sentiments of us the citizens of this country but more concerned about hurting the sentiments of INGO, NGO and western foreign governments.
Mangala Samaraweera who went around the country for Chandrika Kumaratunga with his “Sudu Nelum Movement” to demoralize our Armed Forces is today reported by BBC Sinhala.com as saying "The reality of the war is that you may win many battles but never win the war. The most important tool to win the war is the political solution."
Mr. Rauf Hakeem leader of the SLMC said his party would withdraw from the APRC if it fails to agree on a solution by the end of the month. The leader of the Western People’s Front (WPF) Mr. Mano Ganeshan says that the Tamil people in Sri Lanka will not be able to celebrate military victories without implementing the 13th Amendment to the Constitution. He does not know that Tamils living in the North are already showing signs of relief and thankful that the Armed Forces are about to destroy LTTE terrorism completely from their areas!
The TNA, the virtual LTTE mouthpiece inside parliament is recorded to have stated to the BBC that Tamil people will not gain anything from government capturing territory from the LTTE & according to their parliamentarian Chandrakanthan Chandraneru the war will continue unless a political solution is provided, despite Sri Lanka troops capturing key strongholds from the LTTE. We do not need to remind the TNA that they have behaved in the most disrespectful manner during recent parliamentary sittings which show that they do not understand what democracy is all about!
President Rajapakse has never stated that a political solution will never be considered but it is a reality that such do not work unless the terrorists are weakened and made to lay down their arms and terrorism. One thing is quite obvious, that is the fact that none of these opposition members think of Sri Lanka as one nation and that this nation must be first saved from terrorism before solutions will work. Their one fear in reality is, that should the Armed Forces of this GOSL completely wipe out Prabhakaran and his brutal terrorists from this country- then their own political survival will be at stake- this is what concerns all of them, nothing else.
The entire nation is watching these anti-national opposition forces and their actions speak for the truth, that they do not want a unitary sovereign Sri Lanka but a fragmented country where money will be channelled to arms producing countries for them to sell weaponry to us for us to remain a divided country for enternity!
- Asian Tribune -

EU MP Nirj Deva congratulates SL government on Kilinochchi victory also urged LTTE to down arms immediately

Sat, 2009-01-03 05:39; Sunil C. Perera in Colombo (Asiantribune.com)

EU Parliamentarian Nirj Deva says the LTTE must lay down arms and respect democracy. After the capture of Kilinochchi –the heart of the LTTE, Mr. Deva said it's a victory for all the peoples of Sri Lanka including the Tamil people who have for a generation been oppressed in the North by the LTTE. EU Parliamentarian Nirj Deva

The international community must now help to rebuild the whole island and most investors would be happy to be here to assist the Sri Lankan government.

Speaking to the Asian Tribune he said LTTE has no international recognition due to their dangerous activities specially the extreme violation of human rights. Most of countries have banned the LTTE and its a lonely organization.

Mr. Deva said the government of Sri Lanka now has opportunities to obtain international support to develop its northern province which was under the LTTE control. He also congratulated the government of Sri Lanka and said the government has a legitimate right to defeat terrorism and bring peace to the masses and all the peoples of the Island.

He explained that even after a 25 year old long battle the LTTE terrorists they could not win the hearts of the masses and there is no state in the world formed by terrorists. He gave international examples about terrorists groups and said the British government ended the Irish conflict and today the European Union is a good example of how former enemies who killed each other in the millions are now working as friends in one common union with one parliament.

The military action must go towards a permanent peace and this can only be achieved by eliminating terrorism while addressing the political aspirations all the peoples of the island by ensuring equality of opportunity and equity under democracy and the rule of law for everybody.

- Asian Tribune -