Why developed countries do not try eliminating terrorism genuinely?

Question

Many countries pledge for peace but actually do not hesitate to provide finance and militory equipments to the terrorist groups
For instance Norwey in Sri Lanka has provided many for the ltte terrorists
Now LTTE terrorists are having air crafts too LTTE has become the MOST VIOLANT TERRORIST GROUP IN THE WORLD with help of mainly Norwey and some other DEVELOPED countries

Answer 1

All the posters above me has answered you question. Would agree with them. How can the developed countries make a buck if terrorism is eliminated. People are making money out of war.

Answer 2

Why do developed countries support "terrorists"?
"Real Polotick". Or it depends on what side your on.
Right now, today, the USA is supporting an armed insurgency against one of the only democratically elected governments in the middle east. We have military advisers, in country, and give support in arms and training. the group is "The National Council of Resistance of Iran" or "The People's Mujahedin of Iran".
Surprised, nah, the State Department talks democracy but capitalism runs the show. Who makes money off others peoples death. In the last 6 years we sponsored a coup in Pakistan (successful) and Venezuela (failed).
Both of these coups spawn blow back, terror groups which have a bone to pick with the USA.
But our leaders believe the positives out way the negs.
That's why we gave Osama's fighters in Afghanistan millions all throughout the '80's.
That worked out OK, as long as you weren't one of the 3000 people who died on 9/11, or stationed on the USS Cole, or work in an African Embassy.

Answer 3

Perhaps certain countries can gain from supporting terrorists groups.

The US helped the Taliban in the 80s to defeat our former enemy, the Soviet Union, as well as helping guerilla fighters in South America.

And the Middle East will never seriously try to prevent terrorism because, deep down, they agree with a lot of what the terrorists are doing.

Answer 4

LTTE are the worst of all terrorists.

Every country in the world should be aware of them.They should be banned all over the world.

Developed Countries should help the Sri Lankan government in their fight against terrorism.

Answer 5

It is because these developed countries would also earn in their so-called war with terrorism. These developed countries usualy sell guns & ammunitions that would be used on that war... So if these wars would end it they would loose billions...

Answer 6

First two posters are correct....it is all about money.....and more money...

Answer 7

Ok Smarty guess what;? better beef up ur grammar cos others might not be as sympathetic as i am.

now to the Q

Ur question shows ur ignorance about world issues + the events that are happening in srilanka.

First of all, the Ltte got the 2 light aircraft in 1998. and thats 3 years BEFORE even norway came into mediate.

secondly how come the ltte is the "most violent terrorist group" when it had bombed legitimate military targets whereas the Srilankan airforce has no qualms bombing civilian targets repeatedly and intentionally?

srilankan airforce attack kills civilians
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6224121.stm

a church bombed by airforce and civilians killed
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/aug2006/sril-a15.shtml

more than 50 civilians killed and 200 injured when srilanka shells a refugee camp
http://www.asiantribune.com/index.php?q=node/3139

60 schollchildren killed and 120 wounded in an srilankan airforce attack(the government claimed it was a rebel camp but foreighn non-governmental organizations and the red cross say it was a school, and the killed were schoolchildren, girls)
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/aug2006/sril-a17.shtml


and thirdly It was the LTTE that developed an manufactured the bomb-release mechanism/targetting system in the aircraft they used, The ltte Airforce was an idea that took form after the 1983 anti tamil pogrom by the srilankan government that left thounsads of tamils dead and hundreds of thousands homeless.

and a Thamil aeronautical engineer, who had a double PHD and was working for air-canada in Montreal, lost members of his family to the anti Tamil riots unleashed by the srilankan racists. He gave up a very lucerative job in canada, and moved to the island and Joined the LTTE, to avange the horrible murders of his family members.

He, after almost 2 decades of hard work, had brought the Ltte air-force to this lvl. He was killed in an assassination by srilankan forces in 2001. but his students and those he had trained carried on his work and the spectacular Ltte attack that left almost 40% of the srilankan air fleet destroyed/damaged was dedicated to his memory by the rebel group.
http://www.tamilcanadian.com/page.php?cat=130&id=716

those who talk about the Ltte as being terrorists should realise that there is no smoke without fire and what the srilankan government is facing now is not an group thats fighting for some fanatic religious belief(Ltte is secular Hindus+Christians, wheras the Srilankan army is "Buddhist Sinhalese"). Many of them have lost one or more of their family and friends due to the Ongoing decades old anti tamil genocide by the srilankan government. they have nothing to lose and everything to gain and their actions are those of people who have no choice but to fight. If not for them there would not have been any tamils living in this island now.

so go do your math.(and english!.lol)


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for those who dont know whats going on in srilanka, and the issues faced by tamils, here is some info.
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There is a civil war going on SriLanka; which started due to the fact that the Tamils were heavily discriminated by the majority Sinhalese and the Tamil gave up protesting non-violently after being that way for 30 years for no-avail and took up arms in order to defend themselves from genocide. (even though the tamils were the original natives(kinda like the issue of native americans-settlers & aborigies-European settlers to australia.)


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 separate 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.(and are the creaters of one of the Worlds oldest civilizations :The Indus Valley civilization)

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!!

The tamils did more than their fair share to evict the british colonizers from the island and to regain its independance. When most of the Sinhala political leaders were imprisoned by the british it was a Tamil Sir Ponnambalam ramanathan who braved the german infested waters during ww1 to travel to Britain and plead with the queen to have the Sinhala leaders freed.no Sinhalese had the bravery nor the clout to not only have the sinhale prisoners released but also to have the British Governor to the island Recalled!!; as Ramanathan did(the first time ever in a country colonized by the british)
http://www.sangam.org/2007/02/Super_PartI.php?uid=2228

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!.By the very sinhalese politicians whose lives the Tamil Sir Ponnambalam ramanathan had saved.It was betrayal of the highest order.

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_terrorism_in_Sri_Lanka

17 international aid workers killed b the srilankan military. The UN demanded an inquiry but the inquirey was hushed up
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/08/31/wsri31.xml
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6051548.stm

just one example out thousands-the fate of a tamil family in the hands of the srilankan army.-a tamil family tortured and killed, and hanged..even the small children...:(
EXPLICIT PHOTO'S. BE FOREWARNED:(((((
http://www.tamilnation.org/indictment/continuingwar/060608vankalai.htm

my aunt and grandmom died cos they were not able to get even the most basic medicines due to the embargo on medicine for tamil areas by the srilankan government :(.even painkillers are not available...things that we so take for granted in the west(and also on abundent supply on other areas of srilanka). this itself had led to the death of thounsads of innocent tamil civilians

as the old adage goes
"you (the sl government) can fool some of the people all the time and all the people for a short time; but you cant fool all the people all the time"

if you folks have any further doubts or questions pls feel free to email me .