SUICIDE ATTACKS, LIMITED RETALIATION
AND UNLIMITED TOLERANCE
Asoka Perera PhD Toronto
Co-Presidents PNM Canada Branch
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam has shown again their commitments
by another dreadful blast in Colombo to respect the peace process to
find a long lasting political solution to national question in Sri Lanka.
In the latest incident, these cowardly barbarians in a shocking manner
have grabbed the life of Major General Parami Kulatunaga, the third
highest rank official and deputy chief of staff of the Sri Lanka army.
In my personal point of view, he was the highest rank of security personnel
who had been serving the country with clear dedication and determination
to eliminate terror activities of Tiger movement after Major General
Denzil Kobbekaduwa. Parami Kulatunga had been the commander for Vanni
High Command, commander in Trincomalee, Vaunia and Manner in the past
during which he was recognized as the unfaceable military combatant
by tiger outfit for his tactics and unceasing retaliation. For sure,
tigers have been targeting this battle hardened key figure to eliminate
from the war zone.
During last few attacks on security personnel and unarmed innocent
civilians, security forces launched limited retaliation attacks on identified
tiger locations in north and east with the clear massage of reminding
the government intention to protect civil law and order in the entire
country. These incidents are not only the gross violations of cease
fire agreement but also to show tiger's military capability in government
controlled areas. These blood thirst relentless tigers can never be
controlled with peaceful lessons. They are needed to be taught with
the very language they easily understand and practice. The government
should not let drying out the morality of security forces by this type
of brutal killings of their mentors by tigers. It is the general opinion
that it is so hard to fill the vacuum created by the loss of a man of
his calibre.
Peace can not be easily achieved when multi parties are involved in
the process. LTTE is just one fraction of this equation and the role
of other Tamil parties including Karuna fraction can not be ruled out
just because of tiger's self-claimed sole representation of Tamil community
myth. On the other hand peace can not be established when involved parties
are armed with weapons and pointing out guns each other instead of bearing
peaceful thoughts. Either government should pressurize the world community
to put more sanctions on tigers to lay down weapons or the government
should launch offensive measures to disarm tigers before peace talks
initiates. Otherwise, these tigers would create more humiliating environments
for Sri Lankan government as they did in this month in Oslo. The methodologies
and tactics of tigers in the recent history are very clear and do not
indicate that they could be tamed by peaceful manner. Time frame for
peace preparation for them is the time for breathing fresh air and building
battle machinery before the next round of Eelam fight launches. This
has been the tactics they practiced with past governments. How long
should we stay blind until next major incident erupts.
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