Osama bin Laden and Sri Lanka’s WMD moment

We Sri Lankans had a 9/11 every year, from the attack on Anuradhapura in 1985. Osama bin Laden did far less damage to the USA than Prabhakaran did to Sri Lanka. If there is a counter argument of ‘context’ and ‘root causes’ as in ‘Prabhakaran was only the result of certain policies’, the same argument holds for Osama bin Laden,

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Terrorism spawns victims and survivors (of all kinds)

There are survivors of all kinds. All the innocent Tamil civilians, over 300,000 of them, held hostage by the LTTE and used as a human shield and subsequently were rescued by the Sri Lankan security forces in May 2009, are survivors. Every citizen of this country who do not have to wonder if their children will come home or indeed if they themselves would survive the day to see their children again are survivors,

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