Palestinian chose to vote for HAMAS and now their effort to gain universal recognition should be viewed by Sri Lankans as bad news. Not because they have a hidden agenda to arm and train the LTTE, but the dire inspiration the LTTE gets from imitating fellow terror brothers in the Middle East. I have no doubt that the sinister heads of LTTE are watching the developments with deep interest a) the threat of worldwide prohibition and b) to see if HAMAS could get away without renouncing terrorism. Soon this is what they hope to copy word for word to lay the foundation to argue that they are their peoples’ choice as much as the HAMAS are to Palestinians!
Given that both organizations have so much in common: A well structured administration with discipline, creative fund raising schemes, able foot soldiers to carryout the misdeeds, possess safe heavens for arm smuggling, suicide bomb making facilities and expertise to ignite at will, and their unwillingness to end terrorism!
But at the same time there is a very significant distinction between the two - the desire to get elected by the very people they claim to represent. George Bush and his cronies advocate democratic rights of people around the world by exercising the right for free vote to diminish the threat of global terrorism. So they thought! The very thing HAMAS did was to outsmart the US by participating in a democratic election and got elected. It was a risk they took, so thought the West, but HAMAS knew they had enough support from their people to claim a surprise win at a critical juncture of the Palestinian history. As we say a win is a win, they achieved their objective to pose a serious legitimate threat now to Israel and the US in the region via democracy. Who would have thought this is what democracy forces us to accept – terrorists at the dinner table! However, the West is not that naïve; they will impose sanctions on the Palestinian Authority soon if HAMAS doesn’t renounce terrorism.
Fear not my friends, needless to say the task that LTTE faces is a Herculean if they are to follow the HAMAS act in anticipation of worldwide acceptance for their brutal cause. The crucial advantage that is in favour of Sri Lankans is that LTTE is not so popular with Tamils (as they widely claim) as much as Hams are with the Palestinians, and we must be relieved at that. In one sense we must not only challenge the LTTE seek the mandate of the Tamils but invite the world opinion to support such a claim before making ANY significant concessions to LTTE in Geneva.
Brothers-in-arm they may be with the HAMAS, but the LTTE has a long way to go to claim they could fit into round holes when they are so square like the misfits of the highest kind in the civilized world.
Given this scenario the only option to outfox the LTTE is for the government of Sri Lanka to insist that Tamils be given the opportunity to exercise their right to vote which the LTTE denied the last time? A call for a plebiscite may sound like a risky venture, but I ask have you ever heard the LTTE demanding such a call ever either? If they haven’t so far, then they must have very serious doubts over their success? This leads to my contention that LTTE is pretty terrified of Tamil opinion knowing fully well that they have ripped the hearts of innocent Lankan Tamils and bled them in their quest for the Tamil nation.
Conclusion: They can not imitate HAMAS at will even though they desperately wish.
From Quebec (Canada) we have serious lessons to learn. At the recent elections, the separatists were outwitted in their own game. Any vote less than 50% from the voters is a defeat for separatism! If the Norwegians are that seriously involved, let’s get the EU participation during a general election to vote on a plebiscite. I contend that you will never see LTTE gets more than 40% in spite of voter intimidation. This will give the nation the right to wipe out a troublesome terror threat.
Do you hear me President Rajapakse?
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