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Sri Lanka rejects British envoy's appointment
Sri Lanka rejected on Friday Britain's appointment of a special envoy to oversee the end of its war with Tamil Tiger separatists, and thousands more people fled a war zone growing smaller by the day.
"Piss off! It's our country and we'll oversee the end of the war ourselves, thengyu bellymush!"
The military said at least 34,000 people this year have fled the war zone in the Indian Ocean island's northeast, where troops are battling to crush a 25-year-old civil war with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) rebels.
"After 25 years and multiple Norwegian- or other furriner-brokered ceasefires we've got this down, and it doesn't involve somebody flyin' in from London to tell us what we should be doing!"
More than 1,600 people reached military-controlled areas on Thursday, military spokesman Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara said.
Approximately squat were headed the other way, toward the Tamil Tiger areas...
The area now held by the Tamil Tigers has shrunken to just 142-square kilometres, he said. Tens of thousands of people are trapped between troops and the LTTE, drawing international concern for their welfare.
There was never all that much concern about the Tamil Tigers gnawing off something like 40 percent of Sri Lanka is their personal "homeland," perfecting the art of the suicide boomer, drafting wimmin and little kiddies into their army and inflicting carnage upon the Sinhalese population apparently at random. But if there's some danger of one of these endless rebellions that results in an endless supply of refugees to be cared for by an NGO bureaucracy actually being ended there's always multiple attempts to put the brakes on short of making the problem actually go away.
The United Nations is preparing for an exodus of 150,000 people.
That's right, Brethren and Sistern! 150,000 refugees are gonna descend upon the UN building in Noo Yawk, where they're gonna need fed and housed at UN expense...
On Thursday, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown appointed former state secretary of defence Des Browne special envoy to Sri Lanka, saying he would focus on the humanitarian situation and government efforts to forge a last political solution to the war.
The "political solution" involves heaps of dead guys in tiger-striped camo, hopefully topped by Prabhakaran swinging from a length of hemp.
Sri Lanka's cabinet rejected the decision as unilateral.
"That means nobody asked us."
"There should be approval from both countries and there is no need for that type of an appointment. It's quite unnecessary," cabinet spokesman and Media Minister Anura Priyadarshana Yapa said.
"So piss off. Let us know when a special envoy actually gets bad guys to stop killing people or gets somebody out of jug."
Britain had no immediate comment, a spokesman for the High Commission in Colombo said.
"Alistair, is there egg on my face?"
"Why, yes, Percy. I believe there is."

Posted by: Fred 2009-02-14
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=262527