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West's cool reception to Sri Lanka's victory
May 19 (CP): Over the weekend, Sri Lanka, the tiny third world nation made history when it wiped out the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a rebel outfit that pioneered the suicide jacket and got the honor from the FBI as the most ruthless terrorist organization in the world.In history armed rebellions ended either when warring parties reached a ceasefire or some other power sharing agreement as in the case of IRA and PLO or by cession as in Kosovo or Chechnya. Never in the recent history has a democratic government been able to completely crush a separatist rebel organization without ceding the country as Sri Lanka had successfully managed to do this past weekend. Yet the Western world is silent on this achievement. Posted by: tu3031 2009-05-19 |
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