why we get bombed all over these days-
from wikipedia, a simplified explaination of what happened, in case any of us have forgotton..
Rajapaksa offers less autonomy than Wickremasinghe to the northeast, home to most of Sri Lanka's 3.2 million ethnic Tamils. His narrow victory was arguably engineered by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) who want Tamil Eelam to be an independent country. The LTTE boycotted the election, thereby preventing thousands of Tamils from voting, and so Wickremasinghe, whose election promises included a Federal state to the North and East, from taking power.
thoughtprovoking to say the least. makes you wonder what would have happened if the LTTE had not done what they had done...perhaps we would all have gotton SOMEWHERE?instead of goin round and round ?
Rajapaksa offers less autonomy than Wickremasinghe to the northeast, home to most of Sri Lanka's 3.2 million ethnic Tamils. His narrow victory was arguably engineered by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) who want Tamil Eelam to be an independent country. The LTTE boycotted the election, thereby preventing thousands of Tamils from voting, and so Wickremasinghe, whose election promises included a Federal state to the North and East, from taking power.
thoughtprovoking to say the least. makes you wonder what would have happened if the LTTE had not done what they had done...perhaps we would all have gotton SOMEWHERE?instead of goin round and round ?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lankan_civil_war
may be you can point to one case in wikipedia of appeasement succeeding with terrorists or fascists anywhere any time ?
All pictures present civilians killed by the LTTE and none by government forces.
I wonder if Sri Lankans will ever come to that point when they can view this conflict in humanitarian terms. Just imagine if there was a similar article in Wikipedia about the Iraq war where they only showed the bombs and massacres by the Iraqi insurgents or Al Qaida.
* The British government had no selfish strategic or economic interest in Northern Ireland.
* The British government would uphold the right of the people of Northern Ireland to decide between the Union with Great Britain or a united Ireland.
* The British and Irish governments would work for an agreement among all the people of Ireland, embracing "the totality of relationships".[1]
* The Irish government recognised that "Irish self-determination" (meaning, in this context, a United Ireland) required the agreement and consent of a majority of the people of Northern Ireland. Also, for the first time, a consent of the majority of the people of the Republic of Ireland would be necessarry for reunification, giving the South a say in the reunification process.
* The Irish government would try to address unionist fears of a united Ireland.
* A united Ireland could only be brought about by persuasion.
* Peace must involve a permanent end to the use of, or support for, paramilitary violence.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Ireland_peace_process
all you others too, BRIEF ONE SENTENCE SOLUTIONS PLEASE!:-)
there are no one sentence solutions. what i think of the matter you may read in my blog in detail.