THERE'S great significance in taking Killinochchi.
The media focusses generally on the fact that it would literally dismantle any pretexes to a seperate state by the LTTE, which is only a part of the larger totality. A more stark and brutal reality is about to dawn on the entire tamil extremist horde when this historic event happens; there will never be a seperate state, and all and every sacrifice made for over two decades has been for nothing, Zip, zilch, a big fat zero.
The LTTE leadership would be hard pressed to show what they've accomplished, besides a rapidly increasing number of cemeteries. Media coverage from the liberated areas show economic depriviation and a primitive lifestyle for a people who've been forced to live under bestiality of a magnitude unknown elsewhere. The only construction visible in the liberated areas, besides the plush residences of the LTTE top rungers, are the elaborate cemeteries, in which the more recently dead have been buried en masse.
Thirty years ago those who joined the movement would have done so out of a sense of youthful and ideological enthusiasm. Passage of time generally brings people into contact with realities of life and those who survived so far and even the thousands who joined more recently did seriously believe in the prospect of being able to live a normal civillian life at some point.
The fall of Killinochchi would re-define their realities. Until now the average LTTE cadre who never recieved pay, but did recieve only food that was supplied by the Sri Lankan government, could look forward to at least a pompous funreal with a polished grave stone. Under the new realities, even that could not be expected. For thirty years of fighting, the average LTTE cadre gets nothing, but a failed dream fast disappearing in a new dawn...
The possibilities of internal rebellion by disillusioned rank and file just increased a thousand fold for the already paranoid LTTE leadership.
Sri Lankan Defence planners would do well to consider these factors and look for opportunities in this evolving scenario.
The media focusses generally on the fact that it would literally dismantle any pretexes to a seperate state by the LTTE, which is only a part of the larger totality. A more stark and brutal reality is about to dawn on the entire tamil extremist horde when this historic event happens; there will never be a seperate state, and all and every sacrifice made for over two decades has been for nothing, Zip, zilch, a big fat zero.
The LTTE leadership would be hard pressed to show what they've accomplished, besides a rapidly increasing number of cemeteries. Media coverage from the liberated areas show economic depriviation and a primitive lifestyle for a people who've been forced to live under bestiality of a magnitude unknown elsewhere. The only construction visible in the liberated areas, besides the plush residences of the LTTE top rungers, are the elaborate cemeteries, in which the more recently dead have been buried en masse.
Thirty years ago those who joined the movement would have done so out of a sense of youthful and ideological enthusiasm. Passage of time generally brings people into contact with realities of life and those who survived so far and even the thousands who joined more recently did seriously believe in the prospect of being able to live a normal civillian life at some point.
The fall of Killinochchi would re-define their realities. Until now the average LTTE cadre who never recieved pay, but did recieve only food that was supplied by the Sri Lankan government, could look forward to at least a pompous funreal with a polished grave stone. Under the new realities, even that could not be expected. For thirty years of fighting, the average LTTE cadre gets nothing, but a failed dream fast disappearing in a new dawn...
The possibilities of internal rebellion by disillusioned rank and file just increased a thousand fold for the already paranoid LTTE leadership.
Sri Lankan Defence planners would do well to consider these factors and look for opportunities in this evolving scenario.
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That is a great writeup man.. Good
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