What I CARE ABOUT are the INNOCENT TAMILS that were VICTIMS of the STRING-PULLERS and MANIPULATORS and PENNED UP in a SLAUGHTER ZONE and then -- if lucky -- a CONCENTRATION CAMP with the barbed wire and everything.
All forgotten in the larger geopolitical agenda-push, and celebrated in fact.
Sigh.
"Sri Lanka marks year since war’s end" by Associated Press | June 19, 2010
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka showed off its military hardware during a victory parade yesterday to celebrate the first anniversary of the defeat of Tamil Tiger rebels, amid growing criticism over alleged rights abuses in the last phase of the quarter-century civil war.
The conflict that killed more than 80,000 people ended last May, when government forces crushed the rebels who had fought for a separate state for ethnic minority Tamils, asserting decades of discrimination by the Sinhalese majority.
We are moving backwards, folks.
Artillery, tanks, and multibarrel rocket launchers were featured in the parade down Colombo’s main thoroughfare, Galle Face, facing the Indian Ocean. Thousands of troops, including disabled soldiers in wheelchairs, joined in.
Warplanes and helicopters flew over Galle Face while navy gunships sailed along the coast.
Yeah, I'm just having a hard time celebrating that kind of stuff anywhere it is found; however, I'm $ure that $ome people are happy.
Celebrations came as Sri Lanka faced growing international criticism for not examining abuses allegedly committed during the last phase of the war.
Yeah, but Sri Lanka is now an ally, what with the shipping lanes out there and all; that is why Mossad and the rest abandoned the Tamils. I mean, they taught them everything they know.
According to UN documents, more than 7,000 civilians died in the last five months of the conflict. Rights groups say they have photographic and video evidence, and have called for war crime investigations.
And that has gone..... ?????
Government troops were accused of shelling a small strip of land where hundreds of thousands of people were boxed in during the war’s final stages.
Kind of been lost in the shuffle, hasn't it?
They are celebratin', and no one wants to wreck a celebration.
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Sniper have you in his scope?
Thank you.
