I came back to updating this blog after a long time and was surprised to see a comment posted, with a link. Going there, makes me think all over again about the ethnic problem gripping Sri Lanka in its most gross and gory form.
Children under 10 being conscripted! I have heard this before, but now that I have a kid I can understand the anguish such a prospect brings to hapless, defenceless parents; and also the depths of moral turpitude to which the conscriptor, in this case the LTTE, has fallen.
True, the Sri Lankan problem has many causes and needs to be addressed forthwith, without shedding any more blood. More blood and death does not bring peace. But the LTTE should be striclty told what is acceptable and what is not. It cannot run with the hare and hunt with the wolf.
Any dispassionate observer over the years would clearly see the LTTE not just stands for Tamil freedom; it stands for the LTTE version of the Tamil freedom.
V Prabhakaran had a laudable cause when he started on this path. But along the way he has spilt so much blood and tears and blown up so many bodies, he no longer is fit for that high moral pedestal he once stood on. He has shown himself up to be no more than a blood-thirsty tyrant and the cause of the Tamil people and that of peace itself would be best served by dispossessing him from his current position as chief of the LTTE.
But how much more blood need to be spilt beore we reach that goal? And the real peace process starts only then. And there is the healing process left.
Can the politicians in India and Sri Lanka raise to the challenge?
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