Terrorism of Water
The Tamil Tiger terrorists of northern Sri Lanka have
scored another world's first. This week they have introduced the notion
of 'terrorism of water', to the world.
Beginning a week ago, they have terrorised Sri Lanka
in depriving of 15,000 families of their drinking water, and also held
to ransom 30,000 acres of their rice cultivation by commandeering sluice
gates and denying the supply of water to residents. If the world views
fundamental human rights as inviolable, what more fundamental can be a
human being's right of access to fire, water, air and earth. These are
sacrosanct entities from time immemorial for the very existence of life.
The Tamil Tiger terrorists of Sri Lanka have now hijacked these
fundamental resources and introduced a new dimension to world of
terrorism - Terrorism of Water.
Having violated over 6000 times, a hoax of a ceasefire
agreement with the Government of Sri Lanka since 2002, the Tamil Tiger
terrorists have embarked on a vicious rampage of brutality in the recent
months. They are terrorising every Sri Lankan whether they be Tamils,
Muslims or Sinhalese by committing murder and mayhem around Sri Lanka
with automatic weapons, claymore bombs and employing suicide bombers.
Today, and in the past weeks, in the midst of a ceasefire they have been
targeting ships at sea, carrying over 800 defence force personnel going
on their home leave, on each occasion.
Further, during the current week, they have also
pressurised and kicked out the peace keepers of the Sri Lanka Monitoring
Mission from the countries of Sweden, Denmark and Finland by virtue of
the fact that they are citizens of the European Union. The European
Union of 25 sovereign states and Canada are two of the world governments
that proscribed and criminalised the association with Tamil Tiger
terrorists during the past two months.
With many rogue states operating world over, some with
exceptionally large weapons and ammunition caches, the world terrorism
is having its day as never before. General Lebed of Russia himself
confirms that over 100 suitcase size nuclear weapon devices have gone
missing from the old Soviet arsenal.
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Mother'
desperately waiting till the water bowsers arrive - Serunuwara
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Further, nuclear (radiation only) dirty bombs
are readily available to the terrorists in the world's
underground arms market. The terrorists groups have better access to
this blackmarket in weapons, where access is denied to legitimate states
of the world. Tamil Tiger agents are roaming the world over from
Cambodia to Eastern Europe to Africa, picking these plums of
destruction. The question then arises if Sri Lanka is waiting to receive
with love from the Tamil Tiger terrorists, who are funded by the
expatriate Tamil Tiger terrorist fund raisers a nuclear, biological or a
chemical weapon before they wake up to the threat to the very existence
of the nation.
On this particular conflict over water however, the
democratically elected government of Sri Lanka has taken the right steps
on humanitarian grounds to use limited military operations to restore
the fundamental right of access to water for the deprived families.
Also, large amounts of drinking water is reported to be transported by
the Sri Lanka Government for this purpose. The world community including
Australia needs to give its fullest support and encouragement to the Sri
Lanka in its struggle against this abject terrorism. To have a confused
notion that Tamil Tiger terrorists are freedom fighters for the
salvation of a homeland that is in fact outside Sri Lanka, is a
fundamental error.
The leaders of the Sri Lankan nation have at last
realised that their first wealth is their nation's own human resource.
It is time that the psyche of the nation is mobilised to its fullest
strength and the beautiful nation of Sri Lanka salvaged from the abyss
of destruction. The world including Australia needs to do its duty by
democratic Sri Lanka, by criminally proscribing the Tamil Tigers.
Nimal Liyanage
Secretary
SPUR (NSW)
Thurs, 03 August 2006. |
