The background to Indian intervention
The Armed Forces are instructed in the need to
maintain discipline, unlike in the eighties when attacks on
civilians were rife. The argument that all this is in theory, and
that the Armed Forces are no different from the days in which they
were described as the most indisciplined in the world is untenable,
in view of the records maintained by the Scandinavian monitors of
the current Ceasefire, who recorded nearly 4000 violations by the
LTTE and less than a tenth as many by the Sri Lankan Government.
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Capital punishment - not the best solution
Capital punishment is a solution to deal with
criminals in society, but it is an easy one. Is this the best
solution the human mind can think of? In a Buddhist country such as
Sri Lanka, non-violence, even in the face of the most hideous of
crimes, should be applied. This should mean to the end of capital
punishment in its absolute form.
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