why is that the world just peeking at sri lanka bt not doing enough to stop the war by the government?

Question

the civil war in sri lanka is at the peak and the eastern people fleeing and more than 100 schools closed, while the eu, us and india has a hash ban on the ltte why are they not putting enough pressure to the government?? the govern media is only acting as a propaganda media for the government, and hiding all the suffering of the north east people?

Answer 1

to the previous poster who said that its a religious war between the Hindus and Buddhists, all i got to say is that u better brush up your history.

Cos its not Hindus Vs Buddhists,
its Buddihsts Vs Non-Buddhists

its as simple as that.

Tamils are mostly Hindu but there are Tamil Christians as well. And the LTTE is made up of Tamil Hindus and Tamil Christians

The Un, Amnesty International, Human rights watch and many other non-governmental Organizations have made more than a dozen comments demanding the srilankan government to stop the genocide but it has fallen on deaf ears.

a background on why Tamils are asking for a seperate state:

Tamils belong to the Dravidian people. The Dravidians have been living in south as its native people. whereas the Sinhalese(who came to srilanka only in the 6th century bc) were of aryan people. they were NOT the original inhibitants of India or south asia. They came from the central asian region and moved into india at around 1800 bc . and then to srilankan in the 6th century bc. Tamils have been living here for millenia.

the very fact that there have been many archaeological findings(especially of burial urns) that have corroborated the fact that Tamils lived here LONG before the Sinhalese came to this island. so by any means this island rightfully belongs to the thamils.

This island always had at least 2 kingdoms. many times more than 2. It was NEVER a single country till the british colonised it and merged the two administrative sections for efficencies sake!!

when the British left the srilankan Tamils, who fought for independence from British agreed that the country should be unified into a single country. cos they believed that Tamils and sinhalese could live together. they were so wrong.

the sinhalese resented the fact that the Tamils were Very highly educated, and were overwhelmingly prominent in business as well.

when the British left, the sinhalese brought laws that said "sinhala would be the only national language"!! this country is a "sinhala buddhist" country. and Tamil has no place in this

All the Tamils, who worked so hard for independence from the British were devastated, by this cowardly backstabbing by the very people they had helped!.

overnight, tamils became second class citizens in their own land!. Tamils who did not know sinhalese were kicked from their jobs.

Huge anti Tamil pogroms and riots broke out all over the country.thousands of Tamils lost their lives, their livelihoods, and their belongings. they houses and businesses were burnt and they were butchered on sight!

they protested peacefully, and the protesters were set upon by bloodthirsty sinhalese mobs and many lost their lives there.

the riots happened again and again in 1956, 1958, 1968, 1971, 1977, 1983 and 1987

more than 75% of Tamils have becomes refugees because of this. tens of thousands of Tamils have lost their lives to these riots, to carpet bombing of villages and temples by the srilankan airforce, to kidnapping, to torture and to assassinations

the tamils had the best library in all of south asia.Housing all their rarest of books and literature(tamil is one of the 8 classical languages in the world and has an unbroken literary tradition going back at least 2500 years). this library, the symbol of tamil pride and history was burnt to the ground

tamil students (even though tamils were only 20% in the new state) made up to around 70% of the engineering and medical students in the srilankan universities. the srilankan government brought a new law that said "tamils have to get FAR higher scores to get into the universities than the sinhalese students , for the exact same exam!!!)

this blatant act, on top of countless other actions by the government finally forced Tamil youth to ask for their rightful land. this has led to the civil war that continues to this day

and most of the western nations simply dont care about this(even though, the UN, Amnesty international, Human rights watch and many other non-governmental organizations around the world) had condemned the srilankan government for their human rights abuses.

but this had fallen on deaf ears as the average sinhalese is not literate enough to see through the "religio-ethnic" propaganda spewn from the mouth of the buddhist monks.

some links on this issue

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/tamil_eelam...

anti tamil pogroms
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/black_july...

state terrorism in srilanka
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/state_terro...

17 international aid workers killed b the srilankan military. The UN demanded an inquiry but the inquirey was hushed up
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/47...

just one example out thousands-the fate of a tamil family in the hands of the srilankan army..be forwarned. :(((((
http://www.tamilnation.org/indictment/co...


if you have any further doubts or questions pls feel free to email me or add it as a comment to ur original question. ill be happy to answer your questions.

PS:FALESTINA

Dont be childish. the Ltte was formed cos of the genocide that was/ans is being carried out agasnt Tamils even as we speak!

Red Cross says that 100 000 tamils have been displaced in the past 3 months alone!
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/world/4619420.html
thanks to indescriminate shellings by the government troops

United states is participating in genocide of a part of the american population? LOL.!


so Falestina stop being childish:)

Answer 2

Well the world can first stop the LTTE terrorist. The Sri Lankan government is not at war. They are defending the country and its people.

What do you think United States of America is doing.

Answer 3

The Hindu's and Buddhists over there are like the Sunni's and Shiites In Iraq..Religious hatred !! This war will smolder forever!! you should look to the great savior of world, the UN!! maybe they will give some lip service

Answer 4

Sorry, The US is too busy spreadin' freedom 'cross the mid east.

Say.......is there any oil in Sri Lanka?

Answer 5

Well the US can't do anything, because if we did, then the nutty liberals would say it was a conspiracy instigated by President Bush.