LTTE SUPREMO PRABAKARAN DEAD
Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa called up Indian External Affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee to confirm that the armed resistance by the LTTE had ended and its leader Prabakaran was dead. The bodies of LTTE leaders positively identified by the military included that of Charles Anthony, elder son of Prabakaran, the Tiger intelligence wing chief PottuAmman, the political wing leader B. Nadesn etc.. The Sri Lankan armed forces have won a comprehensive victory over the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in a military campaign that began in the eastern province in August 2006.
The killing of Velupillai prabakaran, and his son and other top LTTE leaders by Sri Lankan armed forces has brought to an end a horrific chapter in the history of sri lanka. The three decades old civil war has ended in Sri- Lanka. But the ethnic issue is still alive. The immediate task before the president Mahinda Rajapaksa is the rehabilitation of Tamils and devolution of power to them with in the frame work of a united Sri Lanka. The Sri Lankan government now faces a great responsibility- that providing food, shelter and livelihood to the citizens rudely uprooted from their home land
The method adopted by the LTTE might have been un -acceptable. But its cause was genuine. The reason why the struggle started- atrocities perpctrated on the Tamils by the Sinhala majority and the reluctance on the part of successive government to give them equal rights is still relevant. Prabakaran had no respect for human lives and values. If the welfare of the Sri Lankan Tamils was his prime concern, he would have accepted the Indo- Sri Lanka agreement of 1987 and saved lakhs of Tamils from misery. He had many opportunities to negotiate a peaceful settlement to the ethnic issue. But he refused to settle for any thing. He was a leader who did not know when to fight and when t6o negotiate. He built he LTTE and destroyed it.
The Sri Lankan government should engage in a conciliation exercise and adopt measures to eliminate discrimination against the Tamils. The government must ensure equal right & equal position to the Sri Lankan Tamils and Sinhalese
Prof John Kurakar
Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa called up Indian External Affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee to confirm that the armed resistance by the LTTE had ended and its leader Prabakaran was dead. The bodies of LTTE leaders positively identified by the military included that of Charles Anthony, elder son of Prabakaran, the Tiger intelligence wing chief PottuAmman, the political wing leader B. Nadesn etc.. The Sri Lankan armed forces have won a comprehensive victory over the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in a military campaign that began in the eastern province in August 2006.
The killing of Velupillai prabakaran, and his son and other top LTTE leaders by Sri Lankan armed forces has brought to an end a horrific chapter in the history of sri lanka. The three decades old civil war has ended in Sri- Lanka. But the ethnic issue is still alive. The immediate task before the president Mahinda Rajapaksa is the rehabilitation of Tamils and devolution of power to them with in the frame work of a united Sri Lanka. The Sri Lankan government now faces a great responsibility- that providing food, shelter and livelihood to the citizens rudely uprooted from their home land
The method adopted by the LTTE might have been un -acceptable. But its cause was genuine. The reason why the struggle started- atrocities perpctrated on the Tamils by the Sinhala majority and the reluctance on the part of successive government to give them equal rights is still relevant. Prabakaran had no respect for human lives and values. If the welfare of the Sri Lankan Tamils was his prime concern, he would have accepted the Indo- Sri Lanka agreement of 1987 and saved lakhs of Tamils from misery. He had many opportunities to negotiate a peaceful settlement to the ethnic issue. But he refused to settle for any thing. He was a leader who did not know when to fight and when t6o negotiate. He built he LTTE and destroyed it.
The Sri Lankan government should engage in a conciliation exercise and adopt measures to eliminate discrimination against the Tamils. The government must ensure equal right & equal position to the Sri Lankan Tamils and Sinhalese
Prof John Kurakar
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