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| West's cool reception to Sri Lanka's victory |
| 2009-05-19 |
| 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 |
| #1 Sri lankans need Private funding from the worlds citizenry, these people need to be helped back from their ordeal and welcomed with open arms into the international scene. Not by the IMF (super rich groups with corporate rescource extraction as their motivator) or the Chinese ( we now what else they want----check Nepal---) Arthur C Clark lived in Sri Lanka for a reason, The people are amazingly happy and resilliant, not beholden to Western Political machines. Micro loans people, micro loans. |
| Posted by: 746 2009-05-19 11:49 |