Cause of terrorism
How LTTE lost the Eelam War
Author: Don Wijewardena
Stamford Lake Publication
Pages: 333
 Don
Wijewardana’s revoltingly enigmatic thesis seems to me a supra-stylistic
and daring revelation of a global terrorist outfit that almost
en-wrapped a quarter of Asia. James Joyce’s immortal work Ulysses though
on a different plane speaks of a decadent humanity which dangles between
neuroticism and vandalism. But Wijewardana has come to grips with the
forces of revolution. Mr. Wijewardana however has observed the gruelling
drama from the wings of the theatres of barbarism and revolution.
I shall now try to delve into the threads of the Eelam War 4. This
reminds me of Wallace Steven’s poem
The Death of a Soldier
Life contracts and death is expected
As in a season of autumn
The soldier falls
He does not become a three-days personage
Imposing his separation
Calling for pomp
Death is absolute and without memorial
As in a season of autumn
when the wind stops.
When the wind stops and over the heavens
The clouds go nevertheless
In their direction.
Even without working through the inner technique of the poem one
senses, when at rest momentarily in its innermost surge of feeling, that
it affirms the rightness of the death of the soldier as the death
consonant with the simple unpretentious life of any man conscripted for
one of the mass, dreadful anguish of a scathing spell of inhuman
terrorism.
I quote page 57 “As the main symbol of growing Sino-Lanka relations
the new Hambantota port... (construction of which began in January 2008
is to serve as a key tourist point for oil and gas tankers accessing the
Red Sea... Hambantota will also serve as a key maritime transit point to
China’s expanding investments among Indian Ocean island nations. Page
29. In the introduction Mr. Wijewardana talks about the future after the
subjugation of terrorism. Page 92 “Veteran Tamil journalist D. B. S.
Jeyaraj who had access to both sides of the confrontation recounts the
frantic developments that took place in the last weeks 58 Using the
wheeler dealer techniques learnt in the arms bazaars of the world, KP
tapped into his vast reservoir of contacts.
In a remarkably short time span he was interacting with many
influential people, Diplomats of at least four western nations, UN
functionaries in Geneva and New York, a foreign Cabinet Minister and a
few prominent western journalists were all in touch with KP. Unlike
terrorism, wars are fought for self-aggrandizement of nations. It is
important to understand that the regularities of nature are real
This may be due to the craving human mind that engages a tendency to
spot patterns and even to imagine them where no exists. Sociologists
today are wracking their brains to search the cause of terrorism.
Page 194, Prabhakaran’s vain belief that killing his way was the
shortest due to Eelam, mistakenly he killed his own people in
desperation. His own sincere stalwarts he massacred in suspicion. This
brought about his own miserable end.
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