Sri Lanka has proved that a small country can defeat a savage insurrection by a minority population,even though the revolt has the support of Western Socialist governments,human rights groups and the Western press,as long as it has powerful friends.
The other asset that is needed is the courage of it’s soldiers and people.
Sri Lanka is an Asian nation and quite capable of returning the ferocity of the Tamil Tigers with equal ferocity. Europe’s socialist governments,human rights groups and Obama’s America wanted a negotiated peace and would have given the obdurate Tamils what they want,one third of Sri Lanka as a new Tamil home land. There is nothing new in this,the Tamils have been trying to conquer Sri Lanka since 200BC.
The West’s interest in Globalism supports the free movement of people between nations,this too is not new,under the Raj Tamils were moved to Sri Lanka to work on the tea plantations and now Howard Debenham (former Australian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka) in a letter to the Australian 28.5.09,p.13,said that Tamil militancy was provoked by government sponsored discrimination against the Tamils (both Hindu and Muslim) minority and he obviously still wants them to get their home land.
The Sri Lankans have had enough of Tamils,they want them out.
The Western nations and human rights groups are afraid that Sri Lanka will occupy the North and stop Tamil terrorists from abroad returning to start up a new revolt with the help of terrorists hiding in the northern jungle.
Sri Lanka also wants to neutralilse the Tamil diaspora across the Globe,(The Australian,27.7.09,p.8.) by a new diplomatic offensive.
Angry protests erupted world wide following the end of Sri Lanka’s bloody 26 year ‘civil’war. In London,Tamil exiles blocked the roads around the Palace of Westminster (Parliament) while in Sri Lanka’s capital Columbo 1000 strong demonstrators pelted the British High Commision with rotten eggs and stones accusing Britain of supporting the defeated Tamil rebels. (International Express,26.5.09,p.15)
The Western nations and Western Human rights groups took action at the U.N. Human Rights Council with a resolution which called for the unfettered access to detained civilians and an internal investigation of alleged war crimes of both sides.
Aid agencies have been given only limited access to internment camps by the Sri Lankan government and have been barred from bringing in vehicles for fear that Tiger terrorists could use them to escape.
The Sri Lankan resolution praised the defeat of the Tamil Tigers and condemning rebels for using civilians as human shields. It described the conflict as a “domestic matter that doesn’t warrant outside interference”also access to 270,000 civilians detained in camps only “as may be appropriate”.
When Sri Lanka’s resolution went to the vote China,India,Egypt and Cuba were among 29 developing countries that backed Sri Lanka. Twelve countries,mostly European,opposed the resolution and lost.
This war is the first war in the 21st century to pit Asian values and countries against Western nations and values that try and control the battlefield through European courts and the rules of warfare devised at Nuremberg.
