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Sri Lanka: Stop The War

By Chandi Sinnathurai

05 February, 2009
Countercurrents.org

The US secretary of state Hilary Clinton and the UK foreign secretary David Milliband, both have paid calculated lip-service in asking Sri Lanka to consider a "Temporary no-fire period." The joint statement by the US and the UK issued on the 3rd of February further adds:

Both sides [The SL Governmenr and the LTTE] need to allow civilians and wounded to leave the conflict area and to grant access for humanitarian agencies.

The statement issued by the Co-Chairs [Japan, Norway, US and EU] are urging the Tamil Tigers to negotiate surrender to the Sri Lankan state. In simple terms, the world powers want an end to the conflict without in the first place, trying to eliminate the root cause of the conflict. This has been this writer's argument for some time...The Oslo inspired ceasefire did not address the perennial grievance of the Tamils. It only aided the vicious cycle of violence - a seeming silence only to end with a whimper and then another bang.

No world power is yet to condemn the actions of the Sri Lankan state. Nor is it prepared to recognise the genocidal intent of the Sinhala government.

The call for ceasefire or temporary no-fire period is all part and parcel of the eye wash. What the Tamil civilains desperately need is a decisive action on the part of the International community, exerting international pressure, asking the Rajapaksha regime to stop the war immediately.

That will be the only international humanitarian intervention. It is only then that the Tamil civilians will feel safe from the Government's indiscriminate elimination.

Words like "Humanitarian corridor" and "Safe zones" have become synonymous with death traps. Scores of Tamil civilians have lost their lives and limbs as a result of that.

The Rajapaksha regime has scoffed and mocked at the suggestion of the ceasefire. Why? They understand all what the international community is trying to do is to "Bull-shit" the Tamil community, as they have done all along.

The reports that are leaking from the ground is simple. The people want the world to stop the genocidal war.

Dialogue will have to commence immediately in order for the Tamils to live no longer under subjugation. The process of dialogue must lead to a conclusion whereby there is sustainable peace. And for that, the perennial question of Tamil self-determination has to be addressed, not circumvented.

The world and the Sinhala state must never forget there are two nations at conflict. Now the out working of self-deternination could be either one state two nations. Or the solution lies in two states. Even a state within a State. The people will need to decide.

First things first, even as we write civilians - women, children and men are dying daily. STOP the WAR is the immediate answer.

All else will prolong the agony.

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