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WHO REALLY KILLED TAMILSELVAN?

Shenali Waduge

The BBC’s breaking headlines read as : “Tamil tiger rebels in Sri Lanka say one of their top leaders. SP Thamilselvan has been killed in an air raid”. How many times have the Tigers ever owned up to anything? Which is why it struck me as quite strange that they should immediately declare to the world that one of their important leaders that too the head of the tiger political wing has been killed & in doing so indirectly crediting the Sri Lanka Air Force for the killing. The Sri Lanka Air Force needed a moral boost after being exposed to a predawn attack on its base in Anuradhapura which raised more than a few eyebrows as to how that occured.

In the light of this breaking story it also came to mind that Thamilselvan who used to appear almost daily on the tv channels issuing this speech or the other was of late sidelined by the LTTE supremo & had even transferred him from Kilinochchi.

That together with news of an internal struggle within the LTTE because the LTTE supremo was planning to hand over the leadership mantle to his son, was enough to set anyone’s imagination working as to what plans the LTTE supremo would devise to make room for his son. For a man who has been used to running a killing machine for over two decades, killing those in his path would be nothing new.

The LTTE statement that the aerial attack killing Thamilselvan & 5 others does give a huge amount of publicity for the Sri Lankan Airforce but it does question the manner in which the tigers were prompt enough to immediately own up to the death which they have never done before & then immediately raises the question WHO REALLY KILLED TAMILSELVAN?

We next question what could Thamilselvan have done with himself for over two decades instead of hiding in the jungles & manipulating with his leaders who to eliminate? He could certainly have done much better during his lifetime than collecting accolades for killing innocent men, women & children. Yet, the only significant thing the public ever noticed was his change from the camouflaged kit to the western garb of suit & jacket. His whole life has been a façade. There has been nothing that he can be proud of in death.

Whatever the bigwigs in the LTTE may think the LTTE youth brigade are likely to be shaken by the death of Thamilselvan. Obviously these disillusioned boys & girls do not understand anything of present day politics & how “money” can buy ones allegiance. But sadly that is the state of affairs surrounding practically all conflicts of the globe today. Whatever terminology is being used to describe outfits that have taken to arms inadvertently end up striking deals even with their enemies for their own sustenance & survival.

This incident certainly serves as a good reminder to others of the LTTE who have been toiling through decades under a false vision imprinted into the brainwashed minds of these men & women that the fate of Thamilselvan may eventually befall upon them?

Many in the South may rejoice that finally we have been able to target a key man of the LTTE, yet for a proud Buddhist nation should we be thinking thus.

However there is a thing called nemesis.

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