Woke up this morning to my phone ringing, unknown number, had to be from Sri Lanka. Of course that was the first of the calls to let me know about the suicide bombing trying to assassinate the Army Chief. I’ve tried to steer clear of politics on this blog so far because I generally cant be arsed dealing with the flames that I’ve seen accompany such posts on other blogs. This time though I have to say something, not because of the bomb blast but because of some comments I saw on BBC News’s “Have your say:”

“Let us remind ourselves a few things while no one wants war. LTTE unilaterally declared ceasefire. LTTE gave up the demand for a separate state and negotiated a federal solution. But, the Sri Lankan governments denied even Tsunami aid to people live in LTTE controlled areas. Spent millions on banning LTTE in the international arena. Failed to disarm paramilitaries who killed a lot of Tamils, including legislators and journalists. One may call this is state terrorism!”

“The international community must act very fast to protect Lankan Tamil civilians from arbitrary attacks from government troops. Unarmed people, women and children must be saved fast. It is difficult to separate guerrillas from civilians, but this is no excuse.
reports say there are indiscriminate aerial bombings and artillery shelling from the land, targeting civilians areas.
this is very sad. the world must protect innocent civilians.
the attack on army chief is NO excuse to kill and maim children and infants.
the world should not condone killing of tamil infants.”

“Leaders failed to understand or not bothered about Tamil’s plight and are playing politics. Stop malicious propaganda to ban Tigers, show them respect and accept them as real partners of peace.”

Amongst others. Now this pisses the hell out of me. For one thing the LTTE unilaterally declared a ceasefire because of two factors. One was September 11 and the global backlash against terrorism. The other reason was the damage our LRRP’s were doing to their leaders, of course Ranil serving them up on a plate for the LTTE to destroy took care of that. Also since when did the LTTE give up their demand for a separate state, yes old smiley Chelvam mumbled something about going for less than a separate country instead a ‘homeland.’ Of course the LTTE’s statements were vague enough that they could be interpreted either which way and the peaceniks immediately jumped on this as a ray of hope.

Also this deal with the paramilitaries, initially when Karuna split from the LTTE, the “Sun God” said it was an internal affair and did not want anyone to interfere in the matter. Only when the issue spiralled out of the LTTE’s control did they want GOSL to take care of the issue. Besides where is the evidence of these so called training camps in the government held areas. Last time I checked the GOSL was allowing the SLMM unlimited access to areas under their control, while it was the LTTE that was not allowing access to Mullaitivu, etc.

I also find it amusing that people are already trotting out that old line of Tamil unarmed women and children being killed by the forces. Didn’t this bomb go off near a hospital in the army headquarters? Why no mention of the unarmed women and children who could have been killed by the suicide bombing? I also find the demand to show the Tigers respect strange. The ceasefire violations by the LTTE outnumber those by the Army by an order of magnitude, not to mention the 100 servicemen killed in December and the 50 odd killed this month. Now to me a 150 people killed without GOSL retaliating at all shows how much restraint the government has been showing, yet they are the only ones that catch flak for not pushing the ceasefire forward.

Enough of the bullshit, the LTTE has never been sincere in their ‘peace efforts.’ For crying out loud Prabha admitted he was going to start the war before the Tsunami hit! Lets look reality in the eye and admit its not pretty, peace will not come to Sri Lanka as long as Prabha is alive and wants his own little ‘paradise’ to run. Has there been one instance where they have compromised? Our military helicopters have been used to ferry their leaders around, customs procedures have been waived to let smiley bring his refrigerators into the country and these are just a handful of times we have dropped our pants for these terrorists.

In Colombo Sinhala, Tamil, Muslim, etc all live side by side. Yes there are tensions, yes there are incidents of racism but what country does not have that? Are you telling me black people in the US should demand an ethnically pure separate state to make up for all the injustices of the past, for the racism they still encounter on a daily basis? The international community and especially the spineless Tamil Diaspora who support the Tigers (Disclaimer: not all the Tamil Diaspora, just the idiots who think the sun shines out of Prabha’s arse) should for once and for all realise what the LTTE is, not liberation fighters but a bunch of common terrorists using the excuse of the injustices of a generation ago to carve out a country that they can run as they want.

Enough of the bullshit, lets use the CFA for our advantage for once, wage a dirty war, fight back using new LRRP’s, Karuna’s forces, cover our tracks and deny responsibility. Note that I am not and never will be a soldier in Sri Lanka; I am not for war because I think its fun, glamorous, or anything like that. The last thing I want to see is war in Sri Lanka but at the moment it looks like it’s the only way out. We can talk until we are blue in the face, have photogenic handshakes with Balasingham as much as we want, comment on how sweet Tamilchelvam’s smile is umpteen times, nothing is going to change the reality that Prabhakharan has to die and a more moderate LTTE leadership is necessary to bring peace to Sri Lanka. Pablo Escobar was hunted down in Colombia, I’m sure killing Prabhakaran is possible as well. Reality is harsh but running from it doesn’t do anybody any good. Ok let the warmongering accusations start!