Is the End Of LTTE near?

One of the biggest news that has been on all the news channels and web sites for a while now is the island nation Srilanka. The small nation has been facing troubles which have in no way been proportional to its size. In many ways, Srilanka has been facing terrorist acts since late 1970's since the LTTE started and won the support of the other rebel associations. The amount of public outcry non humanitarian acts seem to be directly proportional to the country's economic status and the scale of the ghastly acts. I could quote a few incidents like 9/11, LTTE's 1984 dollar farm attacks and countless other attacks in 1980's that brutally killed civilians.I however stop the list here as I run the risk of covering an entire blog post.

SriLanka has had a tumultous history with its terrorist organization. They tried everything, retaliating, cease fire and now are back to retaliating and it looks like they are gaining grounds.The whole scenario made me wonder and I came up with a few important questions which both the SriLankan govt and LTTE should think about? Or lets say the people who support the govt and the people who support LTTE.

1. Retrospect

Should this not be the first step the two parties take? LTTE should go back to thier goals and ideals and stop feeding its power crazy gloated leaders.
The organization started with a good goal but a bad means of achieving it. The typical means justifies the end argument there. However it is not quite justifies cause that means is a terrible failure, just how every act of terrorism is like, a failure. Though the LTTE literally ran a pseudo government in the norther areas of Srilanka, filled with banks and police station, their mind was in the wrong place. "You killed me, I will kill you back" philosophy has never worked in history, maybe movies but never in reality. Maybe the LTTE should realize that this could only end up being a long long long war and their demands could never face the light at the end of what seems to be a pitch dark tunnel.

The goverment needs to retrospect big time too. It would be grossly unfair to make them the victims. Because the government had caused much attrocities especially to the tamil inhabitants which led a few youngsters get all flustered and seethe with revenge. The government was truly opressing one of thier minorities ans they blinded by what i can call stupidity to not expect some kind of uprising.

2. What do " we " want?
This is again what the two organization i feel should ponder and rather deeply. Why did this all start? What have we achieved?

Did the LTTE get all thier demands answered through the ruthless killings of thousands of innocent civilians who did not have it in thier power to grant them a seperate state?

Did the Srilankan government get rid of all the tamils and create a country where one could sleep peacefully at night not worried sick whether he will wake up in his bed or in the heaven up above?

3.The classic " dialouge Vs destruction" route
Again both organizations need to decide for themselves if blood shed is thier answer to troubles or dialouge. Since bloodshed has not seemed to help much the past 30 years, I would assume that if they are as intelligent as they claim to be, they would look at the other option

4. Let go

As hard as it is for any victim to let go, maybe at some level the people involved need to let go of all the past. As hard as it may sound, one way to look at it might be to think of repercussions. To think of anyone is going to benifit from these various revenge activities. Its not easy, but maybe peace is a high price to pay.

However with the current scenario it seems like a good possibility that the LTTE might fall. However instead of gloating in victory, the government needs to take some serious recuperating actions in order to prevent other similar organization from cropping up. Take up the tamil issue seriously and work something out. No compromise does not always work. I do not suggest the government to accept for a separate state . But I think, they should seriously consider some of the other humanitarian demands like entry to public schools, colleges etc. Atleast accept them as citizens.The singhalese majority follows Buddhism! Bhuddism! I rest my case here.

The same goes to rebel organizations about to sprout. Think twice about going on a killing spree again. Is all the blood shed going to be worthwhile so that one or two of the leaders can feed thier overgrowing ego's!

The beauty of the above questions is that, they are universally applicable, I hope Israel , Palestine, India, Pakistan, United States, China and maybe every other fighting nation attempts some soul searching through these questions.