A wake up call for democracy

The ambivalence of the international community on the subject of terrorism is best seen in the response to the situation in Sri Lanka. Countries that are part of the “War on Terror” launched with the US attacks on Afghanistan and followed by the US-UK led invasion of Iraq, and still being continued in both countries, have a much different attitude about dealing with the terror of the LTTE.

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Eastern Poll:

‘Victory for democracy, defeat for terrorism’

When one dissects and analyses the final result, who is the true winner of this election? In my view, all political parties and candidates who contested, and all people who voted at the Eastern PC poll, are winners. Only one person was vanquished at this election, and that is Velupillai Prabhakaran. Conceptually, democracy was the only winner while terrorism and separatism were the vanquished.

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