Contrasting performances in India
MOST Sri Lankans would be greatly relieved that
war veteran, Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa escaped the
Tigers' suicide terrorism. The lesson is clear: unless we pre-empt
them, they will come for us and decapitate our nation. Of course
preventive self defence does not mean doing so in the ill-thought
out manner of Jayasikuru/Agnikheela/Muhamalai.
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Politically isolating Prabhakaran
On November 26, in the year 1952, was born to
parents, of a fishing family in Velvatithurai, a baby, who they
named V. Prabhakaran, who was to become responsible for the most
number of Tamils killed on his orders. As the leader of the LTTE, he
has made thousands of Tamils sacrifice their lives on the promise of
an elusive goal called 'Eelam'.
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A moment of truth for the sole superpower
HOW could the world's sole superpower make an
honourable retreat from the politico-military quagmire it has
created for itself in Iraq? This is the poser which is likely to
engage observers on hearing UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's
pronouncement that the crisis in Iraq is worse than a civil war.
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