The Genocide in Sri Lanka

The Tamil tigers aren't exactly great people either.

Perhaps the Tigers shouldn't be using human shields.

Perhaps the Tigers shouldn't be using human shields.

Who does India blame the situation in Sri Lanka on? Pakistan suprise suprise.

Perhaps the Tigers shouldn't be using human shields.

No, but it also shows that the intent of the Sri Lankan military is to wipe out the Tamil Tigers, and not the civilian Tamil population. The military just doesn't case about civilian casualties. As I said, they're quite likely committing war crimes, but that's not the same thing as genocide.

The West is finally starting to understand the situation in Sri Lanka and I feel that something must be done. I'll now explain it as I understand it.

Essentially what is going on is that the Sri Lankan government (which is Sinhalese with a few 'puppet' Tamils') is attempting to wipe out the Tamil race. The reason harks back to British conquest of Sri Lanka. The Tamil people on the whole were more responsive to British rule and thus benfitted from higher levels of education. As soon as the British left, it was the Tamils who were getting the top jobs. But the majority of people in Sri Lanka are Sinhalese, so to readdress this balance the government ordered that Tamil students must score higher than Sinhalese ones in order to get the same jobs. As you can imagine the Tamils were outraged and there were a series of peaceful protests. However, the Sinhalese government refused to change the laws so a group called the LTTE, aka the Tamil Tigers, was formed. The Tamil Tigers started violent attacks on the government, and thus began the war.

Of course, this is all simplified - the story is long and complicated, and much of it I don't know - but I'll continue with the gist of it.

The fighting went on for a long time, with the Sinhalese government almost winning at times only for the Tamil Tigers to resurge. During the years of fighting both sides were guilty of commiting terrible atrocities including the murdering of civilians. The Sinhalese governments calculated murder of innocent civilians, its censorship of the newspapers (including the murder of those who tell the truth), its burning of Tamil literature and much more makes it apparent that it is out to commit genocide. Indeed much of what it has done is reminiscent of what the Nazis did. And if the Government is Nazi, then their leader Mahinda Rajapaksa is Adolf Hitler. He certainly deserves that title as his hands are stained with blood, even that of his friend. Read this brilliant article of Wickramatunga, just before he was murdered:

If you read only one thing in this thread, read all of this
http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/index.php/opinion/breaking-views/136-breaking-views/16017-and-then-they-came-for-me-lasantha-wickramatunga


Finally, I would like to add that I do not support the Tamil Tiger leader, Prabhakaran, either. I hope for a land where peace is restored and where none of these corrupt leaders are in charge. And I want the Tamil genocide to end.

Obviously I know far too little about the situation to give a detailed account of what must be done. But the more the international community knows about this issue, the more chance there is that something might be done.

http://www.genocide.org.uk/genocide/

^Thank you.

Tbh, I'm disappointed at the lack of interest. I was hoping it would at least be on a second page by now, because every day innocent civilians are dying. Its been getting much worse recently, but at least it is coming to the newspapers attention. To highlight my points some more:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/may/12/sri-lanka-media-restriction


EDIT: The British media still don't fully understand the situation. They haven't seen what has been happening over the past decades and analysed each nasty turn in recent Sri Lankan history. Thus they take a less harsh view on the Government than they deserve.