Independent sources put the possible LTTE dead at abt 80+ in Mallavi.
There is a YouTube vid on a mass funeral for LTTE cadres. Look this up, if you have a moment, without gloating. These are also young men and women of our land, dead for a mis-timed, mis-understood and mis-bogotten conflict destined to end in failure.
There will be many more of these scenes before it all ends, unknown and quickly forgotten. The surviving families will soon want to avoid the fact that their family members died for a cause the victorious majority hates. They will be left with only memories and a gradually subsiding sense of loss.
The dead will be soon forgotten, as Sri Lanka hopefully moves fast to leave it all behind and create a new reality for her people.It will be necessary to erase all evidence of this struggle, bulldoze the cemetaries and wipe out all places and entities that can provide a hook to re-latch on to racist terrorism.
The victorious need to write history on their own, in their own words. Bravery of the enemy may be known, even admired, but necessity demands erasure of their existance and glory permanently from record.
Twenty years from now, it would be largely forgotten. A generation from now, none of it would even matter.
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Tropical storm, your narrow mindedness is astounding! Bulldoze the cemeteries to erase any possibility of racism stirring up in the future? Such a foolish act would only stir up more hatred. On the contrary these cemeteries must be left along with all other reminders of the conflict as memorials. Future generations must be reminded of the mistakes of the past to ensure that they can prevent such a horrendous prolonged conflict from repeating itself.. The mass loss of life should act as a poignant reminder of the conflict to future generations, something that all future sri lankans have a right to know about and understand.
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