“Then why the hell are we at war?”
So blurted out a person next to me at a meeting recently on Federalism in Colombo, at which Bimal Ratnayake said that even if the last member of the LTTE was killed, Sri Lanka would never attain peace. For my thoughts on the capture of Thoppigala and the context to Bimal’s statement, read my article in full here (in Sinhala).
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Hmm…really? what was Ratnayake’s justification for that rather grandoise statement?
Capturing Thoppigala is better than not capturing it,Its a good strategy in war,it demoralize LTTE and provides ground for election which is a greater achievement because it shows LTTE is not Tamils only representative.And for your information,most of the LTTE areas are Jungles so inthe future also we will be capturing jungles