The Difference Between A Military
Solution And One Which Involves The Eradication Of Terrorism
© In Retrospect -
By Sarath Kumar For LankaWeb - Jan 5th. 2008
For the 'umpteenth' time it needs to be reiterated that those who pontificate
about the impossibility of a military solution for Sri Lanka particularly
based on the latest reports alleged to be from
India as well as the United Nations which say they regret the escalation
of violence in Sri Lanka seem to be viewing the issue either with pro
terrorist bias or have suddenly decided to do an about turn on their
usual stance of siding with the Sovereignity of Sri Lanka ( for somewhat
contentiously biased reasons perhaps? ) This is an issue which they
have more often than not been very specific about where the defence
of the Nation from terrorist attackshas always been the primary issue
and a legitimate one wherever applicable.In the purest sense of the
definition it may also be added that this is not realistically a "Military
Solution" but a solution involving the eradication of terrorism
from a Democratic Sovereign Nation although it involves Sovereign and
Territorial integrity but not from an invading nation as opposed to
internal armed insurgents where there is a difference and a huge one!
This is a juncture where the Armed Forces of Sri Lanka have come the
closest in decades to what appears to be a viable elimination scenario
of the Tamil Tigers who are being decimated and destroyed from many
fronts and if this is not a propaganda ploy by terrorist supportive
diaspora who know the end is in sight for the LTTE one wonders what
is? One which has probably been cleverly orchestrated on the sympathy
card involving innocent civilians but the fact of the matter is innocent
civilians have to a greater proportin been cleared and directed away
from the LTTE hideout areas in the Wanni Jungles and the drive to eliminate
then is being focussed on their bunkers and underground safeplaces in
these areas. Perhaps there is still a need to evacuate innocent civilians
from the proximities of these areas, a dificult one nonetheless but
one which seems mandatory towards the cause and one which the Government
should pay greater emphasis to and initiate if not done already.
It needs to be pellucidated to the world that the real violence Sri
Lankans have been experiencing lately is that set in place by the dying
dregs of LTTE terrorism in built up areas of the Sinhala Nation which
has to be confronted regardless of the songs and sankies of India and
the UN with a bit of accompaniment from the USA who are now saying they
will restrict or deny Military supplies to Sri Lanka which is somewhat
of a joke considering their outlook on world terrorism and the availability
of other willing sources who could easily replace the US as a supplier
of military needs to Sri Lanka beyond conjecture or the double standards
involved!
The world needs to be made aware of this implicitly where the likes
of the Indian External Affairs Ministry as well as UNSG Mr Ban Ki Moon
can express their concerns but it has to be the imperative need for
the Sri Lankan Armed Forces to continue their relentless drive against
the terrorists which has to take focus here or else these two entities
are better off resolving the issues better suited to them such as India's
insurgent problem on one hand as well as the United Nations paying greater
attention to the Bush administration's ravages in Iraq rather than meddling
in the internal affairs of Sovereign Sri Lanka knowing fully well that
by continuing to harp on their cacophony they are providing cause for
the terrorists to justify their existences where the issue of the Tamil
Community does not come into play as an affiliation of the terrorist
cause which is more than likely to get further compounded despite their
intransigences as a majority of the Tamil Community realise that their
only hope towards their well being and posterity now depends on the
elimination of the LTTE and Velupillai Prabhakaran towards which they
are willing participants to very tangibly!
Hence the Indian authorities have no right to insist that there can
be no military solution to Sri Lanka's national question when Tamil
Tiger elimination is not only staring themselves in the face but also
India who seem to be impervious to this concept while the writing seems
to be on the wall for the terrorists and a mere matter of time before
they are wiped out!
Most certainly, as seems to be India's response to Sri Lankan Government's
decision to unilaterally withdraw from the Cease Fire Agreement (CFA),where
India has outlined a settlement of political, constitutional and other
issues within the framework of united Sri Lanka, this will have to come
once the Terrorists have been made ineffective and non functional based
on the reality and their track record that they are not negotiable,
sane, compassionate human beings but a group of degnerate, sub humans
now hell bent only on their own survival far removed from the needs
of the ordinary, freedom loving pro-Government Sri Lankan Tamils whose
numbers are growing having realised that by backing Velupillai Prabhakaran
and his murderers they are not only staring up the barrel of a gun towards
their own destruction but also a dead end where there will be no way
out of their misery! One which will be compounded by the Prabhakaran
degenerates further if they support them!
The Indian Ministry of External Affairs in a recent statement which
says that Sri Lanka could only achieve lasting peace through such a
settlement that is comfortable to all communities in Sri Lanka is absolutely
correct other than where it has failed to say that the LTTE terrorists
cannot be incorporated into this concept being the unrelenting terrorists
they are and continue to be, hence the call for their elimination becomes
a very legitimate one by those in favour.The likes of US President George
W Bush and all those whose policies are intolerable towards terrorists
will certainly vouch for this ! There can be no negotiating with the
terrorists which is in the simplest terms the most rational conclusion
the Sri Lankan Administration has arrived at after much deliberation.Their
reluctance to ban the LTTE outright is a decision currently being weighed
relative to its pros and cons and the sooner it is decided to ban them
would be the better as it provides the axle for the wheel towards the
justification of the objective!There should be no prevarications on
this at all!
When theUN urges political solutions to any Nation in the grip of terrorism
there are many other parts of the globe which they need to view objectively
but does not seem to be the case where Sri Lanka alone seems highlighted
continuously and the rest of the Nations plagued with the scourge of
terrorism continue their onslaughts against their terrorist problems
hardly paying attention to those who sermonise about it.One need not
look too far in the region either! There's Pakistan, Afghanistan, India,The
Philippines,Indonesia,Thailand and if one were to look further there
is Spain,Turkey, Iraq, Algeria and host of South American, African and
European nations which have never agreed to cow down to the terrorists
beyond a dedication to eliminate them.
To showcase Sri Lanka as an exception to this concept borders from the
sublime to the ridiculous and for the lack of better things to do India
as well as the United Nations may be better off sounding a bit more
logical and parochial than they have in these very trying times for
Sri Lanka where these pundits as well as the rest of the critics should
primarily consider the reality that the LTTE are a group of outlawed
criminal and terrorists and the argument about negotiations and moderation
with them should go no further than the urgent need to rid them off
the face of Sri Lanka!!
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