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Another Tiger ride
Saturday, 10 June 2006 - 9:08 AM SL Time
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Erik Solheim is in the same predicament as those who have chosen to sleep with the Tigers. He has got up with ticks all over him and made a spectacle of himself. Scratch...scratch...scratch! Poor soul!
The Tigers have, true to form, reneged on their promise to him and refused to talk to the government delegation in Oslo, having abused the government`s courtesy and obtained chopper rides to the airport from Kilinochchi. We hear Norway faulting the Tigers for skirting talks and the Tigers claiming that they had informed Norway of their decision to boycott talks in advance. Solheim`s wily Tiger friends have become too embarrassing for him and his country. Solheim was making frantic efforts to coax the Tigers into changing their stand. Norway is also reported to have blamed the collapsed talks on the EU ban. The Vikings must be bonkers!
LTTE political wing leader Tamilchelvam has said he won`t talk to a government delegation sans a cabinet minister. What' What does he think he is' A cabinet minister' Ha-ha! We thought the Tigers were anything but jokers. We stand corrected. Ha-ha!
Look who is talking! Is Tamilchelvam at least a Pradehsiya Sabha member to ask for a cabinet minister as his counterpart in negotiations' Most ministers, we grant, are jokers and/or nincompoops and the country could have done without them very well. But we don`t think Tamilchelvam can claim parity of status with even the lowliest of all ministers'not even that asinine deputy minister notorious for smashing night clubs.
It was only yesterday that we stressed, in these columns, the need to know the Tigers before venturing to deal with them. They have mastered the art of using friends and foes alike to further their interests and ditching them in the end or blowing them to smithereens like Rajiv and Premadasa. They are also adept at dilatory tactics and making a virtue of their difficulties to mislead the government and the international community, as evident from the following transcript of a radio message between Balasingham (in Chennai) and Thileepan (in Jaffna) on the eve of the Bangalore discussion in the 1980s. Intercepted by the other armed Tamil militant groups, it was published in an interview this newspaper had with EPDP Leader Douglas Devananda on June 25, 2003:
Thileepan (to Balasingham): Are you going for talks in Bangalore' (Over)
Balasingham: Yes, we are. (Over)
Thileepan: What are we going to tell the people' We have told them there is no alternative to an armed struggle, (Over)
Balasingham: Why' We are going there with a demand, no' (Over)
Thileepan: What if the Sinhala government grants that demand' (Over)
Balasingham: Don`t worry, we will put forward another demand! (Over)
When the Tigers declared a unilateral ceasefire in 2001, it should be recalled, they made no demands. They offered to have unconditional talks. But after weeks of talks, they put forth the ISGA demand and blocked the negotiations and later unilaterally suspended talks. They went to Geneva, under pressure, a few months ago with the demand that the government disarm its breakaway group, the Eastern Tigers and then stepped up mine attacks on the armed forces and made an attempt on the Army Commander`s life. In the aftermath of the EU ban, it went to Oslo and has flown in the face of the world community`s appeals and avoided talks. If the government had sent a cabinet minister as part of its negotiating team, the LTTE would still have trotted out some other excuse and dodged the talks.
It is not so much the government delegation that the Tigers have snubbed but Norway and the international community. That, Mr. Solheim and others of his ilk will note, is plain hubris of the Tigers. If the US, the EU (25 countries), Japan, Norway, India and many other leading nations who are desirous of ushering in peace here, cannot at least take the Tigers to the negotiating table and make them talk, how can Sri Lanka negotiate a settlement with them' Are we to conclude that the LTTE is the most powerful terrorist organisations in the world' Or, is it that the international community is a bunch of scarecrows'
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vinks
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10 Jun 2006 18:12:19 GMT Report for Abuse
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This visit to Norway was very important for the LTTE leaders.
Why?
-Tamilselvam can see his son having luxury education. So, if he doesn't bluff and take a free ride how can he see his son! His son is never going to come back to the freedom land to fight and die like other innocent tamil kids.
Also, like in Bankok, he may need to take a 'pleasure trip'-again for the sake of tamil freedom !
-Nadesan- An oppotunity for him to go to UK to see his kids having luxury education. Also, he can go to Praba's daughter's posh birthday bash and report to him how both his kids are doing!
So,they will have to give a lip service to peace to get free rides 'for the sake of suffering tamil masses'! |
samanj
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11 Jun 2006 15:42:13 GMT Report for Abuse
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Erik Solheim will learn the hardway:
You trust a leech under your garments for medicinal purpose only.........................
Erik is begining to know it.
Further, the tiger leaders need to prolong this war untill such time their children complete their foreign education & secured with a future.
Who cares for the Wani recruited children ?? |
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