VIGILANTEISM is said to be on the rise in the recently liberated areas in the North as it has started to take root in the eastern province. Over two decades of unparalleled blood letting would undoubtedy leave behind a badly scarred and deranged social system incapable of taking care of itself. The spate of killings in the eastern province blamed on a power struggle within the TVMP could be the tip of an ice berg of unfathomed size and depth.
Expat Tamil sources opposed to the brutalisty of the LTTE appear to be humored by the prospect of seeing its decimation at the hands of the Sri Lankan Defence Forces, to be followed by acts of revenge by local lynch mobs who have waited their turn for over two decades. The LTTE rank and file may have bigger problems than they envisage currently, if any of this information is based on fact. With the SLDF, they could surrender and go thru rehab and return to civillain life. What awaits them there is yet unknown.
Add to its problems the thousands who are going to be left to their own devices once disarmed, with no markettable skills to find gainful employment in an increasingly competitive world. These men and women are trained predators for whom killing comes naturally, let loose in a world where relatively defenceless civillians are enjoying soft skills acquired by sheer circumstance of their individual birth. This is an expplosive mix, one to which rehabilitation and power sharing itself may not necessarily provide lasting solutions.
The end of fighting and annihilating the LTTE will not end Sri Lanka's social problems. Instead it will be the start of a process when our leaders need to show equal resolve in dealing with a pandora's box of evil yet to descend on the landscape.
Expat Tamil sources opposed to the brutalisty of the LTTE appear to be humored by the prospect of seeing its decimation at the hands of the Sri Lankan Defence Forces, to be followed by acts of revenge by local lynch mobs who have waited their turn for over two decades. The LTTE rank and file may have bigger problems than they envisage currently, if any of this information is based on fact. With the SLDF, they could surrender and go thru rehab and return to civillain life. What awaits them there is yet unknown.
Add to its problems the thousands who are going to be left to their own devices once disarmed, with no markettable skills to find gainful employment in an increasingly competitive world. These men and women are trained predators for whom killing comes naturally, let loose in a world where relatively defenceless civillians are enjoying soft skills acquired by sheer circumstance of their individual birth. This is an expplosive mix, one to which rehabilitation and power sharing itself may not necessarily provide lasting solutions.
The end of fighting and annihilating the LTTE will not end Sri Lanka's social problems. Instead it will be the start of a process when our leaders need to show equal resolve in dealing with a pandora's box of evil yet to descend on the landscape.
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