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Sri Lanka"s Leadership
Is Slowly Paving The Way Towards What's Best For The Nation Where The
LTTE Are Surely Losing Their Momentum!
May 31st 2007
Indeed it is the combination of pragmatism and realism in equal measure
that makes the Sri Lankan President the Hon.Mahinda Rajapaksa, as unique
an individual as he is and unlike his jingoistic predecessors in previous
regimes whether it be Presidents or Prime Minister he is someone who
walks the walk and talks the talk, true not only to his convictions
but also to the underlying realities which surround the situation in
Sri Lanka today.
It has also indicated the direction in which he intends to manouver
and has been since his inauguration as President and illustrates many
qualities about him which can only be measured as beneficial to the
Nation plagued with terrorism and synonymously in many of his recent
interviews a clear message has been sent out to the LTTE and its leader
Velupillai Prabhakaran that here is a President with whom it would be
futile for the LTTE to play their games of the past without objectively
staring down the wrong end of a figurative barrel aimed squarely at
them to initiate their ultimate destruction, cripple their resources
and eventually send then packing if they denounced his terms of moderation
and liberality which curiously many see as a waste of time nonetheless
based on LTTE arrogance!
Through his cognizance and evaluation( also the opinion of many military
and civilian analysts) when Sri Lanka's President says,"although
to all appearances the ceasefire has failed, peace is not far away"
there seems to be a certain awareness on which his rationale is based
and many beleive is impending about the LTTE that they are coming apart
at the seams despite all the turbulences they have created within the
country recently. Their vulnerabilities have certainly been exposed
through their hastilly carried out albeit failed acts of provocation,
failed attempts to initiate a Sinhalese led civilian backlash though
the bombing of innocent civilian targets, their failed attempts at aerial
bombardment through homemade kit assembled aircraft tantamount to a
post Sinhalese new year fireworks display, and all the exposures of
their transparencies relative to their criminalities revealed through
mendacious acts unaccaptable to decent society where mainstream Sinhalese
and other ethnicities also grossly affected by the LTTE have maintained
their honorable resilience for all the world to see indicative that
the LTTE are going nowhere other than to their self projected collective
destruction!
In a relatively simple interpretation given all the intelligence acquired
through diligent and dedicated research when to all appearances the
conflict with the Tamil Tigers seems to have resumed for the sheer necessity
of it, the indelible reality which the Tigers themselves are reluctant
to admit is that the Army is is inflicting crushing defeats on them
and making many inroads into areas of former LTTE domination while systematically
reducing them into veritable rubble!
And the objectives of the Armed Forces to gradually immobilise the terrorists
now seems a distinct possibility regardless of what is presented through
Pro LTTE propaganda and their friendly western allies if there are any
of these remaining beyond a residue! Somewhat unfortunately it is visibly
apparent they do. For whatever reason that news sources such as the
BBC and Hindustan Times in particular appear to be proactive sources
of bi-partisan LTTE bias regardless of attempts to be ambiguous one
can easily read between the lines and see through their transparencies.Their
doomsday predictions about LTTE air cabability, the cowardly attacks
on civilians described at times in near jubilation albeit in undertones
apparent to the more discerning and even hints at the acquisition of
a mini-sub which mercifully for the bearer of the tidings was quickly
snuffed out to avoid embarrassment as a tongue in cheek referral to
the edible variety!!
The President and his aides now have the confidence to express believe
that rebel leader, Prabhakaran, appears to have trepidations about the
real circumstances of the LTTE and where they are headed indicated by
many LTTE moves bordering on mass confusion and in fighting just as
much as the bleatings of the so called "military"( LTTE's
interpretetation of someone dressed in fatigues with no military background!)
spokesperson Rasiah Illyanthiran whose baring of fangs at the Sinhalese
often conceals a veiled hint of submission and a call to negotiations!
The continued chipping away at the LTTE's shell of resistance will eventually
break his (Prabhakaran's) will where the LTTE would more than likely
relent their aggression and end up pleading for a renewal of negotiations
(if they have now acquired a distaste for cyanide that is) although
given their past history whether this will be of any benefit to the
Nation as opposed to an all out offensive to overrun the LTTE completely
once indicated by the leadership of the armed forces, debatable as the
better option.
What remains for the President in all his astute wisdom in the midst
of all the isolations of the LTTE both Globally and Nationally by virtue
of their unrelenting attitude of mendaciousnes is to garner a bushel
of courage towards standing up to them to convey a clear message that
they are no bargaining power in Sri Lanka's Ethnic Issue and are veritably
ostracized and criminalized from all matters pertaining to Sri Lanka
with the obvious exception of the the Sri Lankan Tamils where no LTTE
or their proxy TNA Representation are acceptable and the only source
that the Government is interested in making mediations with towards
a negotiated settlement relative to the devolution of power or restoring
the rights of their community as part of a system of Central Government!
Case in point being the LTTE have to be made to understand that they
as terrorists have no say in any matters relating to Sri Lanka's freedom
loving non terrorist supportive Tamils who have to a greater proportion
distanced themselves from Prabhakaran's criminals and are sworn towards
conducting their own decision making under a more politically inclined
leadership, one which does not deal in terror and weaponry! and aligned
to the Central Government administered from Colombo!
Thus far all olive branches extended to the LTTE to become part of this
entity as part of mainstream Tamils, denounce their objectives towards
a terrorist related secession and give up their insurgent means to be
identified as self respecting citizens of Sri Lanka have been repudiated
with belligerence and aggression although ironically they can no longer
sustain this on a continued basis and if they are headed towards their
own self destruction as a result of their criminalities and arrogance
it would appear to be in the best interests of Sovereign Sri Lanka!
Sri Lanka"s Leadership is slowly paving the way towards what's best
for the nation where the LTTE are surely losing their momentum!
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