The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam(LTTE) is not a Terrorist Organisation. Equating it with terrorist organisations like the Al Queda cannot be justified. It is rather a struggle for freedom from discrimination and oppression of the Sinhalese majority. What is going on in the Northeast of Sri Lanka is nothing less than a Genocide of the Tamils. It is an act towards making Sri Lanka "Tamil Free".The Sri Lankan security establishment which compose of "mono-ethnic Sinhalese" is given the duty to wipe out the Tamils from Sri Lanka under President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Sarath Fonseka, the Sri Lankan Army commander. Fonseka in an interview to the Sri Lankan National Newspaper Daily News on 19 July 2009 said "I don't think the people in the North and East are subjected to any injustice...In any democratic country the majority should rule the country. This country will be ruled by the Sinhalese community which is the majority representing 74 percent of the population". This shows the mentality of the Sinhalese majority who have discriminated the Tamils as Second Class Citizens for long time.
Thus, the Tamils have every right to determine their destiny. Equating the LTTE as a terrorist organisation is undigestible for me. It is rather fighting for the dignity of the Tamils to live as human beings, as other humans live elsewhere in the world. The International Committe of the Red Cross has called the situation "nothing short of catastrophic", for me, it is "nothing short of Genocide".
For further details check out-
International Crisis Group-
http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=6070&l=1
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