More cause to get out of the UN.

While nursing a sinus headache today I came across a news blurb about the government of Sri Lanka announcing that the war with the Tamil Tigers, a terrorist group that has been seeking autonomy for the Tamil minority, was over and that the bulk of the leadership of the terrorist group had all been killed. Not really big news here and has never garnered much attention other than it was the adopted home of science fiction writer (2001 Space Odyssey), astrophysicist and other things, Arthur C. Clarke and not to be confused with the 'Crazy World of Arthur Brown' composer of the song 'Fire' a one hit wonder, unless of course you're a Tamil separatist or expatriate ,but, it is actually very newsworthy for a multitude of reasons.

The first being the length of time this mess has been going and the number of people that have been killed. The conflict has been going on since 1983 and some 70,000 people have been killed in the process. And secondly are some of the techniques that were perfected and passed to other terrorist groups during their reign of terror, specifically the suicide bomb. They also, were responsible for the assassination of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and the forced recruitment of child soldiers to name two more heinous acts.

Anyway, the thing that caught my attention were the continual requests by the UN for the Sri Lanken government to cease military operations over the last several weeks and look for a peaceful solution. Once again it is quite apparent that the UN has taken the side of the bad guy's and in this instance really bad guy's. Had the Sri Lanken government caved like we usually do, to the demands of the benign leadership of the UN this war would have more than likely gone on for many more years and the statistics for those killed would have continued to skyrocket.

The Sri Lanken government took the only path that would end this conflict, and turning a deaf ear to the UN was refreshing.

Thanks for reading,

"A sense of proportion and humanitarian action are not issues for terrorists. Their aim is that of killing and destroying".
Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin
1931 - 2007
President of Russia 1991 - 1999

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