“In Sri Lanka, a military offensive by the government of President
Mahinda Rajapaksa has wrested control of seven of the nine districts
previously held by the rebel group LTTE, better known as the Tamil
Tigers. Mr. Rajapaksa now promises victory by the end of the year,
even as the Tigers continue to launch high-profile terrorist attacks.

“All this is good news in its own right. Better yet, it explodes the
mindless shibboleth that there is "no military solution" when it comes
to dealing with insurgencies. On the contrary, it turns out that the
best way to end an insurgency is, quite simply, to beat it.”

The Wall Street Journal in a major opinion piece on June 3 expressed
the above sentiment very much to the delight of everyone who espouse
the military defeat of Tamil Tigers (LTTE) who have waged a brutal
separatist/terrorist war since the early eighties to win an
independent state for Sri Lanka’s ethnic minority Tamils in northern
and eastern provinces.

The Tamil Tigers eventually losing its once claimed status of being
the ‘sole representative of the Tamil people’; the minority Tamils in
Sri Lanka surely and steadily moving away from the clutches and...

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