Wednesday, November 21, 2012
The UN’s plan for making white people feel better
By Kath Noble
Last week I felt like I had been transported back in time. We were back in those awful first six months of 2009, when I was by turns horrified at the plight of the people caught up in the fighting in the Vanni and disgusted with the way in which the international community was responding.
Of course, we all wanted to stop the war. I hate violence. But as I argued then and continue to believe, at that point, the only way the war was going to stop was with the defeat of the LTTE. Prabhakaran would not give up on Eelam. He was going to continue his vicious campaign against the Sri Lankan state and all its communities until he was caught or killed. Our task, therefore, was to minimise the damage. We had to try to ensure that it was done with as little death and destruction as possible.
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Thursday, November 15, 2012
Israel ready to widen Gaza operations, says Netanyahu
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said the country's military is prepared to extend its operation against Palestinian Islamist group Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
His comments came after the head of the military wing of Hamas, Ahmed Said Khalil al-Jabari, was killed during Israeli air strikes on the territory.
These followed a wave of rocket attacks against Israel from Gaza.
Three Palestinian militants were killed fresh Israeli strikes on Thursday.
More rockets were fired from Gaza into Israel overnight, but Jon Donnison in Gaza City says so far the violence does not appear on the same scale as the last Gaza War almost four years ago when hundreds of Palestinians were killed on the first day of Israel's operation.
"We've sent a clear message to Hamas and to other terrorist organisations," Mr Netanyahu said in a televised address on Wednesday evening.
"And if there is a need, the Israeli Defence Forces are prepared to widen the operation. We will continue to do everything to defend our citizens.
These followed a wave of rocket attacks against Israel from Gaza.
Three Palestinian militants were killed fresh Israeli strikes on Thursday.
More rockets were fired from Gaza into Israel overnight, but Jon Donnison in Gaza City says so far the violence does not appear on the same scale as the last Gaza War almost four years ago when hundreds of Palestinians were killed on the first day of Israel's operation.
"We've sent a clear message to Hamas and to other terrorist organisations," Mr Netanyahu said in a televised address on Wednesday evening.
"And if there is a need, the Israeli Defence Forces are prepared to widen the operation. We will continue to do everything to defend our citizens.
"We encourage Israel to continue to take every effort to avoid civilian casualties”Mark TonerUS state department spokesman Jabari and another Hamas official who died alongside him were among at least 10 people killed in Gaza on Wednesday by the Israeli strikes and that number would probably rise, the Palestinian envoy to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, told reporters in New York.
Jabari, who was 46, is the most senior Hamas official to be killed in the Gaza Strip since the major Israeli offensive four years ago.
Outside the hospital to which Jabari's body was taken, angry Gaza residents chanted "retaliation" and "We want you to hit Tel Aviv tonight"
Jabari, who was 46, is the most senior Hamas official to be killed in the Gaza Strip since the major Israeli offensive four years ago.
Outside the hospital to which Jabari's body was taken, angry Gaza residents chanted "retaliation" and "We want you to hit Tel Aviv tonight"
Storm uncovers Tamil terrorist artillery in Sri Lanka
A storm surge in Sri Lanka’s northeast has exposed buried artillery guns of the Tamil terrorist group the Tigers, who leadership was killed by the military, eliminating the the movement.
Troops stumbled on four 152mm artillery barrels and one 130 mm piece believed to have been used by the terrorists during their last stand in the district of Mullaittivu, army spokesman Ruwan Wanigasooriya said, AFP reports.
“They had buried it along the coast and the cache was exposed due to a storm surge in the area,'' Wanigasooriya said. “We knew that the [Tamil] terrorists used heavy weapons, but this is physical evidence of their big artillery guns.’’
Government forces crushed the Tamil terrorists who were cornered in a small stretch of lagoon where the group’s top leadership was wiped out in May 2009.
The spectacular military success ended nearly four decades of fighting by the Tail terrorists.
“Tigers fired these artillery pieces from areas where the civilians were sheltering in the final stages of the war,’’ Wanigasooriya said.
Rights groups blamed the Tigers for using civilians as a human shield while government forces were accused of shelling civilian areas declared a no-fire zone during the final battles.
In May, security forces said they unearthed 6,250 kilos of C-4 type plastic explosives buried in a jungle area in Mullaittivu.
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