Trigger Happy Tigers
The LTTE is really good at turning around and kicking you in the nuts. I’m not a fan of Mr. Wickremasinghe but I believed he was the best person to bring peace to SL. But now in the unlikely event that he wins, I still have little or no hope of peace. Today the LTTE proved that they are not genuine about peace, something that I’ve instinctively believed for sometime but an instinct that i’ve tried my best to quell. Without that genuine, mutual desire for peace there is no way that we could achieve it. The LTTE knows that the best chance for peace is via Mr. Wickremasinghe, and yet they blatantly squeeze him out of contention by disrupting polls in the North-East and thereby starve him of valuable Tamil votes. Despite promising to allow free voter turnout. And they have the cheek to say that it’s the ppl who choose not to vote, not anything they the LTTE have enforced. To quote a Reuter report;” ‘We will stop people going through to the government side,’ a rebel commanding a checkpoint in paddy fields outside the city of Batticaloa told Reuters, pausing from polishing his combat boots.” And the very next line reads; “People in the villages have decided not to vote. It is not the LTTE doing this. It is the people.”
WTP? They can’t seem to utter two sentences without contradicting themselves. I’m guessing their strategy is to win back some international support by pointing to the Marxist/Sinhala Buddhist sway of the Mahinda lot and hope Wimal and Co utter some pro-war, anti-minority slogans. Then drum up some additional funding and get back into Military fatigues and go about re-capturing Jaffna (the loss of which, I think, pains Prabha more than anything). I don’t think there’s a single Tamil person LIVING in the North and East who wants to go back to war. I wonder how the LTTE call themselves the representatives of the ppl in the North-East and keep a straight face. Must be damn good at poker. The twats.
Why would Praba want peace when peace has not brought him anything and war gave him everything?All the “peace talks” in the past were to buy time for the coming war.LTTE was the guilty party for the breakdown of every truce in the past.
Comment by chandare — November 17, 2005 @ 7:12 pm
what is disturbing is that tamils in cleared areas followed the ltte, even some in colombo.
ltte is not going to get anything by war either, they will most probably lose whatever bases they have in east in case of one.
and nobody(not even the international community) is going to be fooled by this ‘unofficial’ boycott ppl will know that ltte chose war period.
ppl who gamble eventually lose.
Comment by sittingnut — November 17, 2005 @ 9:29 pm
I think it’s a rational decision for the NE voters to not vote given the boycott. There were reports of burning tyres and armed cardres stopping ppl from entering voting areas. The average voter is going to value his life more than the contribution of his one vote.
Comment by ddm — November 18, 2005 @ 10:09 am
well the average voter in south in 1988 decided to brave it but it seems that some ppl(even 0.1% of them) did not vote to save their skins from vague threats (makes one wonder how many skins are going to get burned if war restarts). when you choose not to stand up for your rights you do not deserve to have them.
btw there are no armed cadres in cleared areas where most of the ppl live such as jaffna town.
Comment by sittingnut — November 18, 2005 @ 8:45 pm