The latest news to hit the news wires is that The British and French Foreign Ministers are rushing to Sri Lanka to ensure an immediate ceasefire.
This move is said to ensure the safety of the trapped civilians but what I am unable to understand is how they would ensure that by having a ceasefire?
The civilians are trapped in the zone still held by the terrorist, not because of the fighting but they are held against their will by the terrorist to use them as a human shield.
The recent mass exodus witness by the rest of the world, of trapped civilians from the terrorist held area, when the Sri Lankan Army breached part of the erected earthen wall is a clear indication to prove this point.
This terrorist organization is a banned organization, all over the world which had been fighting an unjust war against democratically elected governments for the last three decades.
If any wants to gauge the backing of the people for the present government’s policies, the recent poll results of the western province election is a very good yard stick.
The ruling party had managed to secure more than 2/3 of the votes and this was not because someone held a gun at voters’ heads but they endorse the policies of the present government.
Instead of helping a terrorist organization banned even in most parts of the civilized world, France, United Kingdom and the other European nations should assist the democratically elected government to end this war as quickly as possible by forcing the few remaining terrorists to surrender unconditionally.
That is if their claims are true that they want to see democracy and social justice flourish in all parts of the world.
But with their economic might, if they are ready to twist the arms of democratically elected government of a poor nation like Sri Lanka, then who would not believe that they have some other hidden agendas to propagate.
I sincerely hope and pray two (Rajapakse) brothers to have enough resolute to deflect the latest bonhomie European advances.
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