Sri Lanka It's Happening

April 26, 2008

More than 750 people have died or suffered injury at the hands of terrorists and war mongers during the past week. About 600 of it was chalked up on one single day at Muhamalai. That's a god forsaken place on the northern pennisular that many people of the south have never visited. Yet at the last presidential election they wanted to try to capture it by force. Two years ago the army tried and lost around 200 soldiers in doing so.

They tried again a few days ago and this time 150 lost their lives and more than 400 were injured. That's not counting the number of dead terrorists (which the government claims to be more than 250 but the LTTE claims is less than 50)

Initially the idiot military spokesman claimed said there was no battle, then the planes loads of dead and injured started to arrive in Colombo and the news couldn't be supressed anymore. Things got so bad that morgues overflowed and some of the bodies were moved to the Thalangama Hospital in Battaramulla.

Less than 2 Kilometers away is the Waters Edge country club (built on what was once a bird sanctuary). While the bodies were arriving at the morgue the president and prime minister attended a party at the very same waters edge. Roads were closed to provide security for them but there's no security for ordinary citizens; 24 of whom died in the Piliyandala bomb blast.

The government intended to use the Muhamalai capture for cheap publicity at the Eastern Provincial council election. Instead it was the LTTE who distributed the battle photos on websites (of course the government has blocked many of them (but continues to deny that they have done so)).

Then the government had another opportunity to gain cheap publicity with the recapture of the sacred Madhu Church after nine long years; unfortunately for them the terrorists set off that bomb in Pilliyandala.

Mahinda's Chief Ministerial candidate must be pulling his hair in frustration. Hang on a second that candidate is a terrorist himself, and was a high ranking member of the LTTE until just a few years ago. But then Mahinda won the presidential election thanks to the LTTE anyway......

Posted by raditha at April 26, 2008 4:35 PM