One of the plagues of the Third World are the growth of separatist groups based in ethnic identity. For a very long time the Tamil Tigers proved effective in controlling Sri Lanka.
The Tamal Tigers were extremely ruthless and disruptive to any society.
The Tamal Tigers were extremely ruthless and disruptive to any society.
The Tamil people is a long lived ethnicity with roots in the 3rd Century AD. They were merchants and traded through sea ports. They were successful, extremely so. They understand market based solutions. They are in Sri Lanks through immigration from those trade routes. There are four political states within the ethnic delineation: Chera, Chola, Pandya and Pallavas. It was the Pandyas and Cholas most successful in Sri Lanka.
The Sri Lankan government decided three years ago 'strong arm' groups, The West calls terrorists, were not going to undermine the potential of the nation and moved to end the violent influence of the Tamil Tigers. It was a bloody war but the peace was achieved. The government and military were ridiculed for the offensive by other Tamils around the globe, but, in all honesty the Tamil Tigers were not helpful to the people.
Sri Lanka is determined to move their nation forward and seek more of a First World dynamic much like Indonesia. They are capable of greatness. They have proven that. The actions against the Tamil Tigers proved they could make difficult decisions that would benefit future generations.
Indonesia has been more than successful in embracing it's ethnicities and creating a tropical paradise that attracts people from all over the world for vacation, scientific investigation and investment. Sir Lanka is capable of moving in a direction of a strong economy based in the love of it's people and culture.
Indonesia has been more than successful in embracing it's ethnicities and creating a tropical paradise that attracts people from all over the world for vacation, scientific investigation and investment. Sir Lanka is capable of moving in a direction of a strong economy based in the love of it's people and culture.
Sri Lankan Tamils hold pictures of family members who disappeared during the war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) at a protest in Jaffna, about 400 km north of Colombo November 15, 2013.Image by: STRINGER/SRI LANKA / REUTERS
Sri Lanka bans remembrance of rebels Tamil Tigers (click here)
Sapa-AFP | 25 November, 2013 14:16
The military said any event was banned because the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) was still a proscribed organisation, four years after the army defeated the group to end a decades-long separatist war.
Small and low-key ceremonies are usually held at this time every year to commemorate rebels killed during the conflict, a so-called "heroes' week" that coincides with the anniversary of the death of the first rebel.
Local media have reported that more organised events were planned this year in the island's former northern war zone after the main Tamil party won local elections there in September.
"Promoting and propagating separatist ideology within Sri Lanka directly or indirectly, even by using media freedom, and attempting to commemorate or glorify terrorists that belonged to a proscribed organisation would be illegal," the military spokesman said in a statement....
