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I suspect this can turn out to a heated politics discussion so this is my final post about this:

we never threw people off buildings. we never stoned people to death. we never drowned people in cages or beheaded.

We fought with uniforms, we tried to follow the geneva convention as much as we could being a seperatist group. we had the support of the people, in fact, we were the people. Much like the kurds in Syria/Iraq.

obviously there were collateral damage and there were some nasty incidences. Even the US with the technical capability and all the surveillence technology cannot avoid collateral damage, bombing of red cross hospital or abuses of Abu Ghiraib.

The fight for independence is not over for us.

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Followed the Geneva Convention?

You guys literally invented the suicide bomb.

Everyone deserves to have a second chance, and war is hell and crazy things happen. So I hope you live a decent life from now on.

But don't for a second claim that LTTE weren't a bunch of brutal thugs who forced non combatants into war, brainwashed kids and girls and themselves gleefully committed all manner of war crimes to achieve their objectives. And for what, Prabhakaran himself turned out to be a run of the mill dictator who exploited the people around him to glorify himself.

Here is a list of incidents where civilians were the INTENDED target: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_attacks_attributed_to_...

In each of these attacks the civilians were the target, not unavoidable collateral damage.

Your false equivalencies are disgusting.

The moment LTTE lost broad international support was the moment they assassinated Rajiv Gandhi, the ex-prime minister of India who was looking likely to win the popular vote in the election cycle. It probably ranks up there with strategic blunders like Hitler invading Russia in winter.

over 600 unarmed policemen were killed for peace and independence ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990_massacre_of_Sri_Lankan_Po...

> We fought with uniforms, we tried to follow the geneva convention as much as we could being a seperatist group.

The "as much as we could" weasel words doesn't make this the most reassuring of statements.

> obviously there were collateral damage and there were some nasty incidences. Even the US with the technical capability and all the surveillence technology cannot avoid collateral damage, bombing of red cross hospital or abuses of Abu Ghiraib.

As a total outsider, I will refrain from making any judgements on any side of the Tamil separatist divide. However, this statement is a pretty direct representation of the human and reputational cost of powerful countries in general, and of Western democracies specifically, providing a poor example on the world stage.

Expect more of this.

Keyword here being we. Why can't people live in harmony and instead fight for a separatist nation inside a tiny little island?

Perhaps because the other people don't want to live in harmony and instead use the government's monopoly on force to influence lives of the separatists?

Why we cannot have two drivers in one truck, who will drive in harmony? Truck is tiny, so it should be easy, right?

As we know, we can have two or more drivers in truck, but only if 1) driving wheel is still single, 2) drivers are swapping each other at regular intervals, 3) they all share the goal, a final destination.

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