[b]Trincomalee: Sri Lanka's Jerusalem [/b]
By Vasantha Raja
Sri Lanka's peace process remains entangled in a seemingly incurable predicament. Thousands of innocent civilians, as usual, keep paying a heavy price for their leaders' failure to break the vicious circle of conflict. Even the signals of an impending social catastrophe and the spectre of an economic nightmare have yet to produce the necessary wisdom to transcend existing prejudices.
Important global players and political analysts rightly repeat the mantra that both sides should immediately return to the negotiating table. But any cosmetic return to Geneva talks 2, while necessary in a symbolic sense, will be useless unless a bold effort is made to diagnose and address the deeper causes of the underlying disease that keeps on derailing the peace process.
Futile game-playing, trading accusations or putting undue emphasis on the immediate factors that provoke tit-for-tat attacks is not going to solve the problem. And ad hoc efforts to fix problems as they crop up are not good enough, unless the root cause is tackled, to which I shall now turn:
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Trincomalee: Sri Lanka's Jerusalem
[quote="Gotabhaya"][quote="Vasantha Raja - Spokesman of the Lineration Tigers of Tamil Eelam in London"]
It is a fact that the eastern Tamils perceive themselves somewhat differently from their northern counterparts due to historical, social and evolutionary factors. [b]In fact, the Karuna split – probably the most damaging one for the LTTE in its entire history – may well be only the tip of an iceberg[/b]. In that split, we saw clearly how north/east disparities, camouflaged during war-time, resurfaced at a time of relative peace.
[b]A ‘de-linking’ perspective could change all this[/b], as well as open up new doors for the Tigers to build bridges with Karuna’s forces and sympathisers. And that could well mark a qualitative leap in the peace process.[/quote]
from the horse's mouth, it is! :?
if the [b]Spokesman of the Lineration Tigers of Tamil Eelam in London[/b] says it himself, (as one SL TV ad says) "don't ask why - just say why not!" :lol: :lol:
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Well if you didn't know. LTTE = VP and no one else.That's it. Everyone else saying things VP doesn't like gets killed, sooner or later. If some LTTE'er says something which doesn't seems to be correct or damaging their reputation you better believe something is behind this. The guy is either on the run, paying huge amounts of money to stay a alive, or is already on his way to VP to explain this.
Of course the other reason could be, the media just turned and switched what this guy said, and made this guy more important than he really is..
Trincomalee: Sri Lanka's Jerusalem
Please remember we are writing about Sri Lankan Tamils. Reconciliation is not in LTT or Karuna vocabulary. “Traitor” and “revenge” are written everywhere so one should forget about LTT and Karuna joining to fight the common enemy. East has changed a lot since “Karuna split”. There vision of independent homeland long gone. Tsunami highlighted few things and that’s the way it is going to be.
Trincomalee: Sri Lanka's Jerusalem
Mr. VAsantharaja:
The old world or the first world is like Jeruselum every where.
Very high cultural, language and ethnic diversity.
Is division among these groups the solution to promote the ethnic identity for every group.
When the world was large and communication on horse or via snail mail and transportation was the bullock/horse cart , it was different.
NOw the world is so small and the distance from that end to this end is so short, will the old politics or political solutions work even now.
Trincomalee: Sri Lanka's Jerusalem
[quote="Vasantha Raja - Spokesman of the Lineration Tigers of Tamil Eelam in London"]
It is a fact that the eastern Tamils perceive themselves somewhat differently from their northern counterparts due to historical, social and evolutionary factors. [b]In fact, the Karuna split – probably the most damaging one for the LTTE in its entire history – may well be only the tip of an iceberg[/b]. In that split, we saw clearly how north/east disparities, camouflaged during war-time, resurfaced at a time of relative peace.
[b]A ‘de-linking’ perspective could change all this[/b], as well as open up new doors for the Tigers to build bridges with Karuna’s forces and sympathisers. And that could well mark a qualitative leap in the peace process.[/quote]
from the horse's mouth, it is! :?
if the [b]Spokesman of the Lineration Tigers of Tamil Eelam in London[/b] says it himself, (as one SL TV ad says) "don't ask why - just say why not!" :lol: :lol:
i wonder why this article did NOT attract the attention of the pro-LTTErs here! :wink:
take on the challenge, pirapaha! agree to something NOT predictable for just once, will ya? :idea: