United (Terror?) States of Sri Lanka

There are some aspects of the request for a unitary state by the LTTE that might not be included in mainstream thoughts/debates.

These are some aspects that I have read about that rogue nations or political parties (Namely the Soviet Bloc to promote communism back in the day) have taken to co-opt existing infrastructure et al for their own nefarious purposes.

Considering the fact that the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (Referred to as LTTE) is first and foremost a terrorist organization, it is in our best interest to keep in mind the consequences of them being given, or them obtaining a seperatre state.

As it is a publicized fact (I am unaware of the accuracy of the documentation on this) that they trained in North Africa and the Middle Eastern Deserts, they pioneered the suicide bombing technology that we see used in Iraq, Afghanistan and Israel/Palestine, we have to assume that once they achieve their objectives they will be in debt to there erstwhile sponsors.

The members of the middle eastern terror groups, or terror groups in general is quickly running out of spaces to hide since the initiation of the Global War on Terror – instigated by the President of the United States, George W. Bush.

Is it not a likely scenario that IF the LTTE obtains a separate state, they can issue diplomatic status to anyone with impunity, which nations of the world will have to honor due to their own civilized nature and the Geneva Convention/Versailles Treaty (whichever it falls under). Nations which in turn will be rocked to their very own foundations by terrorist who will utilize the new found Eelam to carry out their murderous deeds and thus case the world to direct its wrath upon Sri Lanka in general – not Eelam in particular.

Hell, Eelam will be THE hangout of terrorists… founded by terrorists, for terrorist. The people of Eelam will suffer, the keepers of Eelam will thrive, Sri Lanka will be divided, and the world will sink a little bit more into the modern dark age.

And on a final note, if federalism takes place (which I hope it will) the ethnic Muslims in Sri Lanka might demand a seperate state/province/district for themeselves too. Then the South, then Kandy so on and so forth. Wonder how well thought out the whole idea of federalism is in the long run.

Meeta Hithawath (Yours Truly)

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