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In fact UTHR has been infiltrated by GOSL agents... so obvioulsy, it will attack LTTE.

There was a long controversy about the 54 young schoolgirls killed in the aerial bomb attack on a camp in Vallipunam on 14th August 2006 where it was maintained that the girls were receiving first aid training. Residents now confirm that the girls were forcibly taken by the LTTE and the training was of a military nature.

An aspect of the militarisation and regimentation of life in the Vanni is that persons are allowed to work only if they have a card certifying that they had taken home-defence training. As most work is controlled by the LTTE, full salaries are paid only to those from martyrs families i.e. ones where a member died fighting for the LTTE the others get half salaries. All able males are forced to do border security duties five days a month or pay Rs. 5000 a month for exemption.

Life is thus made almost unbearable for those who do not fall in line with the LTTE. For those who do not fully conform, it is very difficult to leave the Vanni even for urgent medical treatment. Consequently the extreme bitterness against the LTTE also expresses itself in willingness to act as saboteurs and to set off landmines provided by the Sri Lankan Army.

The pro-LTTE stance of a large section of Tamil expatriates has been callous without any real concern for the people and morally repugnant. Even without the LTTE, the present Government s course would drive many Tamil expatriates to act in anger and feel justified in so doing. They may in fact make life worse for those at home.

The LTTE s control hinges on poruppalars (persons-in-charge or divisional heads). The official may be in charge of a political, administrative or a security division. They are the virtual maharajahs or fiefs. Many of them live in luxury houses amidst so much drabness and poverty. While ordinary people could hardly afford the highly inflated prices at which the LTTE sells cement, the poruppalars frequently have garden walls with well-shaped black stones. Anyone peeping inside would see a well-maintained garden.

The poruppalars duly acquire the mannerisms showing off their absolute power and the lowliness of anyone else besides them. They grow into the habit of commanding by grunts and a non-vocal economy of gestures, such as thrusting the thumb behind over the shoulder or ordering a person to come by lightly flicking the forefinger.

GOSL supporters should see the bright side of ending this war.

If GOSL withdraw toops from Tamil Eelam, immediately you see the new state of Tamil Eelam begin a huge influx of Tamils from all over the world. In no time, Tamils will make the future Dubai in Jaffna, Tamil Eelam. And, the future Singapore in Trinco.

Sri Lanka will benefit greatly by the employment opportunities created by the exponential growth of its new neighbour. The employment in the Arab countries will decline in the next few decades and Sri Lankans will be easily able to find plenty of jobs in TE.

TE and SL, two independent states on two sides of the island is definitely a win-win situation!