Sri Lankan news sources have been saying for the last hour or so that the LTTE leader is dead and that they have identified his remains. The BBC has just caught up with this after saying he was still alive and surrounded and that the Sri Lankan defence ministry were confirming this.
I am surrounded by a group of hysterically happy women who are watching the Sinhala news in this computer lab. The news is confirming that it truly is over and much to my enjoyment, they are playing the star wars theme tune in celebration! Awesome! Also, I can hear many gunshots erupting nearby which I assume are also celebratory discharges made by the 'civil security force' in the village in which I am now staying.
To say that Sri Lankans are glad to see the end of the war would be a massive understatement. It is the incentive that ensured popular support for the current government. Most people that I have come into contact with have been glued to their tv sets every evening to follow the almost daily developments of this conflict and its rapid acceleration in the last few months.
I think that this could possibly be the most positive event in the history of this country...for all Sri Lankans. Those who I have talked to seem to be indoctrinated with a general sense of tolerance, national unity and a desire for peace.
I hope that in some way the end justifies the means and that lasting peace and prosperity can prevail to gradually heal the wounds suffered by ALL in this conflict.
1 comment:
Where was his cynaide pill?
In his final moments was he a tiger or a tigger?
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