Or rather lack of. Check this article out here, especially the subheading, "plight of the Tamil Tiger community." To even type something like that really beggars belief with regard to stupidity. It’s reading small town hick papers like this that make me think that most journalists are idiots. Was the embargo not lifted on the NE during the ceasefire, is it not in fact true that throughout the war the Sri Lankan government has provided humanitarian relief to the conflict areas. Relief that has with relative frequency been Shanghaied by the Tigers. I’m glad god motivated Dr. John Whitehall to train Tiger medics, maybe his next step up should be funding some cyanide pills.

Gah, I’m just annoyed at the shoddy reporting in this article, the implication that the Tigers renouncing their demand for a separate state was the basis for the ceasefire. Patently untrue because first they never renounced anything, they just said some legal gobbledygook that made it sound like that (confirmed by the fact that Prabha said he still stood by his order that if he ever gave up the demand for Eelam, his troops should shoot him) and to be honest the Tigers never went into a ceasefire. Unless of course said ceasefires are characterized by hunting down political opponents and intelligence officers and gunning them down in the streets. Oh yeah and importing the odd plane and a few more weapons to enliven things. Piddleshit.

Oh yeah does anybody else find it odd that the photograph was taken by Ned Kelly?