After 9/11 attack on Twin Towers, President George Bushs War on Terror was blindly applied to all liberation movements, whether it was a righteous war or just pure terrorism to enforce their dogma or religious ideology on others. Senator Hilary Clintons statement on Tigers to the British Guardian makes her point very clear. She said, I believe that terrorism is a tool that has been utilized throughout history to achieve certain objectives. Some have been ideological, others territorial. There are personality-driven terroristic objectives. The bottom line is, you cant lump all terrorists together. And I think weve got to do a much better job of clarifying what are the motivations, the raisons dêtre of terrorists. I mean, what the Tamil Tigers are fighting for in Sri Lanka, or the Basque separatists in Spain, or the insurgents in al-Anbar province may only be connected by tactics. They may not share all that much in terms of what is the philosophical or ideological underpinning. And I think one of our mistakes has been painting with such a broad brush, which has not been particularly helpful in understanding what it is we were up against when it comes to those who pursue terrorism for whichever ends theyre seeking. Another statement one has to ruminate is on Prof. David Selbournes prophetic statement in 1985: For the bitter truth is that a military solution - that is the random butchery of Tamil civilians, men, women, and children - is the politics of Colombo; they have, and intend, no other, the random butchery, may perhaps provide the most legitimate and potent means to reach the end goal of Tamil struggle, by asserting the right of remedial sovereignty. That is the right to pick up arms. Now ECJ fixes hearing date for EU ban case on LTTE. Continuing with the ban five years after the war has ended is extremely ridiculous. Still incarcerating Tamil youths in jails in European countries for attempting to supply arms to the LTTE to protect the Tamil people against Sinhalese butchery, is itself a crime against Humanity. Please read the Tamil Net report on what advocate Victor Koppe is attempting to do.
Posted on: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 09:23:59 +0000
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