I just want to know what we must do if we are to abandon attempts to restore war torn nations? If the tensions are that strenuous then it is clearly not suitable for creating 2 states side by side either as that will lead to an eternity of border war (leading to further amplified carnage by your so called unhealable animosity). It will create an unhealthy precedence that will have propagating effects to other nations around the world crumbling down societies as the legitimacy of all sovereign nations come under threat by small violent groups. Unacceptable.

Note it says genocide. Sri Lanka doesn’t have a genocide issue so clearly this doesn’t apply even. Irrelevant.

All the Sinhalese governments had a secret agenda, which is no secret at all now. The world knows very well, that aginst Tamil citizens, there is state terror, gross human rights violations, anti Tamilism, lack of justice, political trickery and genocidal war. All what Prabharan did was to list and explain them briefly and excellently in his message. Therefore, if someone calls Prabaharan a "liar" for this act, he becomes one, even if he employs "split hair logic" to spin the truth !!

A terrorist does not raise his voice for the freedom of his people but a leader of a freedom movement does it. Any democratic society knows this fundamental truth very well.

why must it? what makes a state "legitimate"?

if killing unarmed civilians makes is what makes an organization terrorist, what state is not terrorist?

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Sri Lanka and India have regimes carrying out political oppression against selected communities. Both countries resort to military terror and hatred to avenge citizens who express their political desire for independence. State terror was also in Pakistan from the time of dictator Musharaf. Afghanistan had oppression from Russians and Taliban. We see an evil axis here.

South Asia has become a region for countries that deny democracy to its citizens. This is the reason for terror in the region. The west should open its eyes and address this decay in the region and put strictures against state terror and political oppression. Then and then only terrorism would have its end.

India should also now understand that when they ask us to go and talk to LTTE, and then say foreign terror will be crushed, it kind of sounds confusing to us folks here in SL>

sins of tamil nadu(of Vaiko and Karunanidhi) falls on mumbai!!!!