Colombo’s false intellectuals and their anti Government predictions
For a long time Sri Lanka heard from some Colombo based experts
receiving funds from Western agencies. ‘Sri Lankan Armed Forces can
never defeat the Tigers’, “Tigers will make Kilinochchi the Army’s
Stalingrad wrote an Indian expert; ‘The Tigers are invincible’, ‘Tigers
will regroup and counter attack like on previous occasions and they are
only withdrawing for tactical reasons’, said a US educated Colombo based
expert; These were the mainstream expert views written from their
relative comforts of plush NGO offices with questionable accounting
practices. Somehow like most self-styled intellectuals, they too love
the sound of their own voices and words.
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These were the cocksure views that were then carried by Western News
organizations. These were the only views given prominence. Labels are
put on the Government.
‘Hardliner so-and-so’ is how any patriotic Government official daring
to challenge and defeat the Tigers (and thereby destroying the myth of
Tamil superiority and Tiger potency) labelled overseas and by these
Colombo based intellectuals.
Often these experts spoke superior English and were very
uncomfortable expressing anything in Sinhalese or Tamil. They looked
down on the predictions of the military experts who knew through
experience that Eelam fighters were more pussycat than Tiger.
When these NGOs are asked for their record of perhaps building a
house for an IDP, giving food to IDPs, building anything for innocent
suffering Tamils in the war zone, and they have no record to stand on.
They are more comfortable at the fancy Scotch and Soda parties at top
clubs with Europeans; they gave vent to their one-sided opinions
swallowed hook line and sinker by the Western agents in Colombo.
They danced the night away at the best suburban address in town at
parties hosted by the Europeans who favoured Tigers. Anyone praising the
valiant efforts of the Armed Forces made up of poor village lads was
ridiculed and labelled a ‘hard line nationalist’, but never were labels
put on Tigers.
They were a group of rebels seeking freedom. These people were
hopelessly out of touch with the realities of war or the challenges and
bitter battles fought by the armed forces of Sri Lanka.
Now the Tigers are at the verge of being routed as a conventional
force as they should. No longer are the Western educated gad-flies and
their expert opinions on exactly how this war will end badly for the
Armed Forces has ever been proven right. Hence they now have to make
money by trying to paint the Government Forces as being malevolent
playing right into the hands of the Tiger diaspora.
None of them ever said that given consistent political leadership and
consistent support that the Sri Lankan Forces is the reason for the
victories earned at much cost and much blood, sweat and tears shedded by
the common people of Sri Lanka to achieve what even the Indians failed
to do. Now the Tigers have turned out to be cowards hiding behind
civilians and firing at the Army from civilian settlements.
The Sri Lankan army has shown far more restraint and professionalism
than even the US or British Armies in Iraq. They are making a lot of
sacrifices to protect innocent Tamils. They are under strict orders not
to fire or bomb civilian areas even though Tigers have no compunction to
do so.
In contrast, before ground forces invaded Iraq, American forces
bombarded almost every corner of Iraq to soften it up. They did not give
a damn about Iraqi civilian casualties. Even this week, US Predator
Drones bombed civilian settlements because there were suspected rebels
hiding amongst civilians.
The US officially says “we do not count civilian casualties”. In 1999
NATO forced led by the US bombed Serbia incessantly. They used cluster
bombs. They killed hundreds of civilians to protect their Forces.
Protecting their ground forces and softening up strategic targets were
the primary criteria for the carpet bombing campaigns.
Now, compare that with the tremendous hits the Sri Lankan Army is
taking. They are taking these casualties because they want to protect
innocent Tamils as much as possible because they know they are fighting
a noble battle to save innocent Tamils from the hands of a fascist
racist thug. As the Commander of the Armed Forces said, this could have
been over a month back, if they did not have to stop and care about
civilian casualties because these civilians are our own brethren.
At this stage, the only way Prabakaran can save face is to surrender
and face justice in the courts system or to swallow his cyanide capsule
like Hitler did in his bunker and end the futile resistant.
The Colombo Cricket Club based elite intellectual Wallahs will have
to now rewrite their expert predictions they used to try to force the
legitimate Government of Sri Lanka from fighting Tiger terrorists.
Prabakaran can end this tragic war by surrendering or taking that
capsule. Let your people go.
- Aude Sapere
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