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Protect Tamil Citizens at Any Cost, Chase NGOs and INGOs

Tilak Dias

Sri Lankan NGOs, Human Rights Groups, and INGOs should realize that Sri Lankan army is the world's only army (humanitarian army) who is feeding its enemy and fighting it at the same time. In every other conflict in the modern world, including even the US operations of Kosovo and Iraq, the US army and the NATO cut off power, energy and food supplies to enemy before and while fighting. This is an undeniable and well documented fact. The power stations and other civilian infrastructure were heavily targeted at the first hours of these wars. The NGOs, INGOs, press (except for the embedded kind), and even the ICRC were not allowed access to operation areas.

A report by AFP quotes UN spokesperson Gordon Weiss as saying " We have temporarily suspended withdrawing our staff, vehicles and other equipment. Large groups of civilians continue to block our offices in the Wanni since Friday."

This is despite the government's directive to pull out from the troubled region. Is Mr. Weiss the President of Sri Lanka? In the same report, he indicates that crowds of men, women and children were protesting outside UN and other international aid agency offices in Kilinochchi to stop aid workers from leaving.

"Every army walks on its stomach," said Napoleon. If the civilians pulled out of Wanni, LTTE will be starved to death. So they need ICRC, UN, and others to feed them. ZOA and Norwegian Aid's heavy machinery to build bunkers and trucks to move their terrorist to and from battle front, and ICRC medicine and personnel to attend to their injured.

Is the Sri Lankan government naïve enough to believe this Mr. Weiss' story? This is clearly a terrorists' manipulated move to save it from advancing Sri Lankan army and blame the army for killing civilians.

Norwegian Aid comes forward with another fabrication saying that they can not bring their vehicles (heavy earth moving vehicles) and SUVs and trucks because LTTE has asked them not to move them out of Wanni. Alas! They can not bring their own vehicles.

At the same time LTTE has warned against the pullout, saying it would cause a humanitarian crisis. Of course it is the designed and intended objective of terrorists.

Every major news reporter, AP, AFP, CNN, PTI when report from Sri Lanka, write that LTTE is maintaining a de facto state in Wanni. This was reported as such for 25 years. If LTTE is having a de facto state, should not they be able to feed, clothe, protect themselves? Why would they need Sri Lankan government to feed them, and government facilitated NGOs and INGOs to protect them?
If Sri Lankan government has a wee bit of a self respect, government should ask them to pack and leave or suffer the consequences. At any cost Sri Lankan government should protect every civilian life trapped by the heinous terrorist group in Wanni in the name of liberation a liberation struggle.

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