As you say the problem is in the “IF” of your statement

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If the war has been won and the LTTE vanquished why do you waste so many words writing about it. Are you trying to overcome your guilt of how it was done. Or is it the Tamils you want Vanquished.
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Yes the Military and Terror capability of the LTTE in SL seems to be subdued. Whether it has been VANQUISHED only time will tell. It will depend on the successful removal of all hidden Munitions before the now dormant LTTE cadres get their hands on it (they did not vaporize as the Trees in the non existent photographs of the London Times’ purportedly showed) and the continued flow of Intelligence to the SL security forces.

However the LTTE tentacles spread throughout the world still remain (TRO, WTM etc). Overcoming that requires continued vigilance on the part of ALL Sri Lankans.

Probably you have not heard of the Transitional Govts?

Fortunately 100% Tamils are not LTTE though unfortunately 100% LTTE are Tamil. Hence there is no Guilt feelings to be overcome for VANQUISHING the LTTE as far as Sri Lanka is concerned.

Those Tamils who do not have a LTTE ideology are always welcome to live in SL as equals with all other ethnic groups. Equal means equal in ALL respects. EVERY CITIZEN of SL should be able to LIVE & WORK anywhere within SL WITHOUT any EXCLUSIVE zones or special favours for ANY of them.

The day that happens, Sri Lanka will be free of ethnic strife. Till then, Sri Lankans will have to be on their guard. NoEalamInSL is not an exception.

The FBI called LTTE the most dangerous extreme and ruthless terrorists in the world followed by Al Qaeda the number one enemy of USA (March 2006) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lvfrWcLDl0) The war against Al qaeda terrorrist was supported by every state of the world while the war against LTTE was supported by only few countries. Surprisingly the superpowers US, UK, EU objected the Mahinda Rajapakse’s war against LTTE. President Mahinda Rajapakse Government might not be perfect yet it is the best government Sri Lanka ever had. There are certainly room for improvement but it is unlikely that Sri Lankans will choose another candidate as the President of Sri Lanka in 2010!

Anti-Rajapakse front also criticises President Rajapakse for sending a personalized greeting to his people’s mobile phone on a new year day. Thats an innovative thought. I would definitely be delighted to have a greeting from the president my country on the new year day. What they expect from this. Are suggesting to imply estern values nd standards in sri lanka too? We are a collective culture not a western induvidualistic culture. You may have been to west but do not try and criticise Sri Lanka in western perspectve.

The human rights violaions, media threats, corruptions and thuggery have been decreased since the end of war as it is said here. But some journalist who makes comment violates the right of the reader to make a comment in his so called citizen journalism. Before pointing others, criticize own mistakes and be an example to others.

NoEalamInSL

No wonder you are a “civil society type” and not a “thinking type”! That Mephistopheles will do our country immense good by remaining “unknown”.

“And no, such a power shift had nothing to do with the victory. it was not even mentioned in the recent detailed interviews/public lectures by the top frontline combat commanders: Kamal Gunaratne, Shavi de Silva, Prasanna Silva, and Chagi Gallege.”

Really? There was a commentator named “Dayan Jayatilleka” who stated in 2008, “The defeat of such an insurgency will require (a) greater use of small-unit tactics on the part of the Sri Lankan armed forces …”

The hard-nosed realism of General Sarath Fonseka
http://www.lankamission.org/content/view/473/44/

At the grand strategic level, yes the political will demonstrated by the Rajapakses played the key role. At the operational and tactical levels, though, it was small team tactics that won the war. Tammita-Delgoda stated under the “Mentality” section of his paper, “Instead of the large formations which they had used in the past, General Fonseka adopted the idea of fighting in small groups. The four-men and eight-men teams became the core of his new strategy.”

These war-winning teams would have been led mostly by corporals and sergeants, and not officers, so my dear Dayan there definitely was a power shift within the SLA from the officers to the NCOs. Why else have you concluded that the NCOs and enlisted ranks are backing Fonseka?

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“Then again, though the discriminatory disenfranchisement of the hill country Tamils had indeed taken place, ‘Sinhala Only’ was many years away and the quintessentially secular Ceylonese state as framed by the Soulbury Constitution remained intact when SJV Chelvanayagam demanded a federal system with a merged North-East and Trincomalee “as its capital”. This while quasi-federalism, not full federalism, was good enough for 70 million Tamils in Tamil Nadu!”
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You have eloquently depicted that the bad cholesterol, the Tamil Nationalism has been the prime reason that caused the Sinhala Nationalism to reciprocate! It is amusing that you described Douglas D as a good cholesterol; he is a good cholesterol from the Sinhala Nationalistic point of view that he would not rock the boat! As long as he is looked after, he can run an armed malicea that has been responsible for numerous atrocities in the Jaffna district. If one is opposed to violence, then it should be for all forms of violence not just targeted at LTTE because they stood for a separate state.

That said; let’s analysis as to when exactly SJVC’s federal concept was articulated. In the 1948 general election, SJVC contested on the Tamil Congress ticket being headed by GG Ponnompalam. It was when GG and two others wanted to join the DS’s government, there was a split; SJVC formed the Federal party. Let me remind you that, only two seats were won by the Federal Party in the 1952 election with SJVC losing to Mr. Nadesan, a UNP candidate at the KKS seat! So, it was manifestly obvious that the support for federalism at that time was flimsy among the Tamil masses.

So, what actually caused that mammoth shift to occur within the Tamil masses towards embracing the federal concept? It is fair to say that, it was the Language Bill that promoted the Sinhala language as the state language that pushed the Tamils to side with SJVC leaving the Tamil Congress helpless.

In my view, until the Sinhalese deal with the small though malignant Sinhala Buddhist Nationalism that is the real cancer in Sri Lanka, there will never be peace. This cancerous phenomenon will not rest until a Sinhala Buddhist state is established in a true sense of the word. Now that, they have dealt with the Tamil Nationalism, their attention will turn towards the Christians and then Muslims and so on!