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UNP's Attitude Towards The LTTE Could Hamper And Destroy Secured Integrity.

When considering accepted norms in interpreting their identity the LTTE do not logically demand respect as they neither represent the Tamil Community as a Whole nor have they conducted themselves in a manner conducive to Sri Lankan Society where the Well Being Of The Nation and its overall preservation has ever been a priority, so why the softness on the part of the UNP Government to suddenly be moderate towards them? Have they been deluded into believing that somehow in the cobwebbed recesses of their minds there lies a Utopian Answer to the terrorist dilemma through the vagaries of speculation, backpedaling on the issue of exterminating a contagious and poisonous entity and consorting with their fork tongued spokespeople such as Anton Balasingham and his ilk, all the while hanging onto a pipe dream in dragging out skeletons in the closet such as the failed Norwegian nudged Peace initiative which appears to be re-surfacing probably at the taxpayer's expense.

There appears to be some kind of desperation on the part of the UNP Government to somehow compromise Sri Lanka's Integrity through facile and vapid overtures to the LTTE in the fervent and futile hope that it will restore peace and prosperity. That the LTTE are gradually attempting to sneak in an advantage has been clearly visible through the latest attempt by 20 LTTE Cadres to cross Security Forces' Lines in the East, probably a puerile attempt by their suicide bombers to once again infiltrate into vital areas where mass havoc could be wreaked. The recent discovery of a massive Arms shipment in the Indian Ocean adds to the consensus that the LTTE have not been suddenly transformed into a group of submissive lambs! The real consensus has been set in place by the Alliance Against International Terrorism demanding a wiping out of All Forms Of Terrorism With No Exception.

In the meantime, the pompous Prime Minister taking much for granted though all the while languishing in the shadow of the Presidency, is proclaiming the need to lift Military Embargos and relaxing the stranglehold the Security Forces now have on the LTTE and its about time he cleared his cobwebbed trend of thought and linked up with Presidential Rationale where peace initiatives definitely are in order, though not through any unconditional relaxation of security, embargos or de-proscription which in an International as well as a National sense in any case seems beyond his jurisdiction and obtuse as far as their consequential implications are concerned and could only be detrimental to the Nation.

The Primary Criteria for any negotiations for peace between the factions of the Government and the LTTE must involve an unconditional laying down of arms and denouncing the dogma of a Separate State while accepting responsibility for the decades of atrocities which have devastated the economy and lives of innocent peace loving ordinary people and through all their pontificating about the need for peace and their ability to restore it the UNP have so far been unable to display their assertiveness towards any of these factors which are of primary importance towards considering peace.

Armed Tigers with cyanide capsules around their necks, and bodies strapped with explosives do not a Peace Process Make nor facilitate!. De-commissioning of weapons and removing landmines, an initiation of Tribunals for Crimes Against Humanity for the ringleaders of infamy and a denouncement of any future attempt to divide the Nation whether through armed aggression or propaganda are the foremost considerations for a realistic peace which will remain out of reach as long as the dialogue is mere rhetoric intended to fool the voting public who all trustingly asserted a change in the Administration.

The wisdom of the Sage who once proclaimed " The Importance To Secure Uncompromisingly, What Has Been Secured Even Partially Is Imperative, Lest The Viciousness Of The Evil Which Seeks To Destroy, Takes Over And Overruns What Has Already Been Secured" an ancient Chinese Proverb seems totally applicable in present times in Sri Lanka.

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