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Is Simon Gardner, the Reuters Reporter, upholding Terrorism in Sri Lanka by the LTTE?Sisira Pereira, Panadura
Not very long ago, Simon Gardner, the Reuters Reporter, said in an article, "It is high time the rebels did some thing for parity"!! (may be not in the same words, but to the same effect, I remember). By that, he tacitly suggested to the reader his impatience to see the LTTE terrorists going on some killing rampage against the SL forces and innocent civillians in some way, because, in my opinion, he was (and is) of the opinion that the LTTE terrorists were invincible. Then The SL forces routed the terrorists in the entirety of the East, now doing the mopping up operations in the area, having given the so-called invincible terrorists a good thumping that V. Prabakaran the maniac will never forget. I guess this new developments are creating displeasure among groups who are daily praying to their Gods that the LTTE will not be annhilated, and these sinister people are keeping their fingers crossed until the LTTE kills another soldier or a civillian to initiate some momentum to glorify the so called "Rebel" superiority over the state of SL and its armed forces. The newest reporting by Simon Gardner to this effect has surfaced again. I suggest that every patriotic person of Mother Lanka should read this article and see for themselves how brazenly this individual reporter is trying to glorify the brutal terrorism by the LTTE. This year, no matter how much the LTTE terrorist leaders are trying to cover up their huge losses against the barrage of military victories in the North and the East, they are unable to go about their business as usual killing and celebrating their gruesome acts. And likewise, the LTTE had no other way of celebrating their terror "Black July, the 5th" out in the open with some gruesome suicide killing of the highest order. Instead, they were pushed against the wall and to save their face they had to confine the celebrations to Killinochchi garlanding their dead terrorists. Prabakaran was nowhere to be seen in public for those events, Simon Gardner reports. Yet the LTTE wants propaganda and milage just to impress their diaspora community to collect funds for their killing spree in Sri Lanka. And here comes people like Simon Gardiner, who in my opinion, would have waited impatiently until the LTTE did something for "Parity" on Black July. Having seen nothing, may be utterly disappointed, he decided to report the hidden celebrations in Killinochchi and braving to quote some terrorist spokespersons to let the world get the idea that all is not lost for the LTTE even though they have not struck as anticipated. In the article, Simon Gardner has used his report writing skills to the hilt to adorn what might otherwise have been very dull proceeding in the secluded jungles of wanni (if you read the article you will realize this). In addition, he very briefly writes about the dead black tiger cardres to create an image that their deaths were really honourable and tries to cultivate the notion that they should be akin to venerable identities for their "brave actions". Please read, I quote, "Tiger suicide fighters have killed hundreds of mostly soldiers in the past 20 years in their campaign for a separate state in the north and east of the country.Their primary targets have been politicians and military top brass in land attacks, though suicide fighters have also been used in a string of attacks on navy vessels using small speedboats packed with explosives." He has written this to tacitly hint that (like he knows this to be true like the back of his palm) the black tiger suicide missions were not against civillians, and that is why he uses the word "Primary" in his writing. And he might have wanted the world to believe that any colateral damage, where by civillians are also killed, was not their "primary" target. And in some other place further down in the article, he mentions that civillians have also been killed, but he takes care to use the phrase, "they are blamed for that" (to hint the idea that it is not confirmed, like, may be not the LTTE but by some third party, as the SLMM so often says!!) for killing people in the Central Bank bomb and in Rajiv Ghandhi's killing. What would reporters like him write if civillians were killed by accident in a SL forces crossfire with the LTTE?? Well then his and his fellow writers' pens will run out writing about the attrocities perpetrated by the Sl forces against the civillians, wouldn't they do that??? Is this really subjective reporting? or does Simon Gardner and the likes have some "Objective" reporting in this manner? Further down in the report, he goes on to write some glorifying lines about LTTE folklore about how they believe that the deat terrorists will be replaced by trees!! If Simon Gardner wants to glorify suicide missions, why doesn't he turn his head towards Iraq and Afghanistan too, and may be he will find a barrage of examples where coalition forces and innocent civillians are blown to pieces every day by some suicide killer, and may be Simon Gardner can visit and interview some relatives and families of those suicide killers as well, to see and report whether they celebrate their dead cardres too and in what manner and write about how they achieve martyrdom, whether they are also "traditionally granted a last supper" with Osama Bin Laden or his deputies and things of that sort. May be Simon Gardner could then find some Alquaeda suicide folk-lore as well to write about and see whether trees would start to grow where those suicide cardres fall!! And may be he can learn a poem or two that they sing (if they sing them at all) in praise of those dead killers and use his pen to write some "report" about them!!
The LTTE could not come out and blow up someplace in celebrating their infamous black July, not yet at least, but they will if they get the chance, but doesn't matter, until such times, Simon Gardner seems to have thought that he could lend a helping hand with his pen. Poor show, I must say.
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