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Double-tongued 'bleeding hearts'

Violence and the taking of life is almost universally condemned but what is astounding about Sri Lanka's experience of the terrorist violence which plagued her for 30 long years is that it was never emphatically or cogently condemned by those sections of the West which are today trying to pillory this country in the eyes of the world. Instead, a studied silence was the order of the day, although words of token condemnation were offered, now and then.

Yesterday, we put the spotlight on the feelings of the Muslim community with regard to the horrors they suffered, mostly in silence, at the hands of the marauding LTTE, and we fully subscribe to the position that the grievances of this community too must be quickly resolved. They too bore the brunt of LTTE atrocities and it goes without saying that any political solution that aims at being comprehensive needs to take the grievances of the Muslim community into account.

But we would be only labouring the obvious by saying that LTTE terror spared no one. While there is no doubt that sections of our communities suffer from grievances that call for resolution, this does not justify any group in taking up arms against the state. The sacred injunction, 'Thou shalt not kill', holds for all time and should be scrupulously practised by every society that lays claim to humanity. However, the West, for whom this saying must be very familiar, chose to maintain a stony silence in the face of LTTE atrocities, while the Lankan state's efforts to maintain law and order were most often then not criticized.

LTTE terror was inhumanity at its worst. No amount of lives was too great for the LTTE in the pursuit of its maniacal 'cause' and the hundreds of mind-numbing massacres of innocent lives carried out by the Tigers are garish proof of this. Yet, the 'bleeding hearts' of the West and the do-gooders of numerous kinds chose to be very restrained in the words of criticism they uttered about the Tigers, if at all they voiced their opinions on these horrific happenings. Looking back, we could argue that this 'culture of silence' encouraged the LTTE to increasingly indulge in the savagery it mercilessly unleashed.

If those sections of the West which are today trying to sit in judgment over Sri Lanka in the 'councils of the world', had denounced Tiger terror clearly, loudly and unambiguously, and also cooperated wholeheartedly with the Lankan state in crippling the operations of the LTTE overseas and in bringing LTTErs to justice, the LTTE would not have degenerated into the gargantuan Frankenstein Monster it finally turned out to be. It is our decided opinion that even the application of moral pressure by the West to the desired degree would have acted as a restraint on the Tigers and prevented them from plunging to the wild extremes which utterly shocked the world.

So, the 'bleeding hearts of the West' have really let the 'moral majority' of the world down very badly and the least they could do to rectify the damage is to refrain from calumniating Sri Lanka for doing what is right. That is, for upholding the Rule of Law and exercising its sovereign right to free itself of criminal elements who make life impossible for the majority of the citizenry.

However, one of the most glaring ironies of the present times is that the very same double-faced sections of the West are attempting to bring pressure on Sri Lanka to get along with implementing the LLRC recommendations. Where could be located the moral justification for such posturing? Those international sections which simply did not pull their weight on the issue of bringing the LTTE to heel in those times when terror was an everyday reality in this country are making so bold as to pontificate to the Lankan state on the importance of pushing through the LLRC recommendations. This is double-think and double-talk of the worst kind.

Sri Lanka could do well without their sanctimonious sermonizing. President Mahinda Rajapaksa is on record that he would be going ahead, come what may, with his plans for this country. This is the way to go and the majority of the people are likely to be with him. Sri Lanka is not in need of pious injunctions of any kind from any quarter. It has set its sights on what is right and this virtue would see it through.

‘Tamil people for peace, development’

The people of the Northern and Eastern Provinces are happy today after the ending of the war. Everything is getting better in Sri Lanka especially in the North and East. People live without fear and in peace, and the country is experiencing massive development, said Vice President of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) and Resettlement Deputy Minister Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan in an interview with the Daily News.

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Anger-eating monster

Courtiers were everywhere moving here and there quite busy with god only knows what. They put on looks of insolence on their faces. The monster had qualms, though he had enough guts to enter the royal premises. But he could not get any further.

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The viciousness of Channel 4 in its pursuit of regime change

The latest Channel 4 film on Sri Lanka dwells on four point, most of them expanded versions of what it claimed previously. Once again, actual evidence in the form of documents dating from the period concerned, indicate how selective it is.

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