Thursday, February 15, 2007

The Problem in Sri Lanka

I found a very interesting article about the problems in Sri Lanka and India's help.

The article says that the country is extremely threatened by more suicide bombers as all Middle East Asia.

"Hardly a day passes without a time bomb, or a claymore mine or a hand
grenade being thrown at military personnel or citizens by the LTTE and its
supporters," said Palitha Kohona. "The government will deal with terrorism
firmly and decisively. All over the world, no country deals with terrorists with
kid gloves."

More than 67,000 people have been killed in Sri Lanka after conflict between the Tamil Tigers and the government started in 1983. Nearly 4,000 people have been killed since last year.

India's coast guard affirms it stopped a boat that is owned by the Tiger rebels, with weapons, bomb-making chemicals and a suicide belt. The officers say that five men including a top leader were on the boat captured on the south coast of India. Early this week the Indian Navy caught a boat loaded with materials for making landmines and other explosives. The government of Sri Lanka has vowed to destroy the entire Tiger rebels military machinery. The Tigers concluded their independence problem last December, the re-igniting fight, which is the intensest and prolonged fight since a 2002 ceasefire between the Sri Lankan government and Tiger rebels. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam announced a new move to run their own independent state in 2006, ending the island's peace procedure.

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