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2012-03-14 Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka should reconcile with Tamils: US

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Posted by Steve White 2012-03-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11125 views ] Top

#1 Man, the left is still sore their side lost, aren't they? Remember when Sri Lanka was on Rantburg every day? It's disappeared because there's no more terrorism there.

Posted by gromky 2012-03-14 02:42|| 2012-03-14 02:42|| Front Page Top

#2 Because it's incumbent on the winners of a brutal civil war

That's what they object to

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2012-03-14 03:52|| 2012-03-14 03:52|| Front Page Top

#3 "Experience in many civil conflicts around the world has shown that countries that don't take adequate measures to address reconciliation and accountability frequently experience a regeneration of the insurgency that they faced,"

How about just a 'with malice toward none' press release?

Posted by Halliburton - Mysterious Conspiracy Division 2012-03-14 10:07|| 2012-03-14 10:07|| Front Page Top

#4 I think the left's model of a fractured society of separate sniveling whiney assed minorities and ethnic groups squabbling amoungst themselves so that the oligarchy can manipulate them or divert their attention from the gross misguided and corrupt leadership.

I find it funny there was no mention of the horrendous and ghastly brutality of the Tamils toward the other ethnic groups in Sri Lanka and India. Remember the Tigers assassinated Ghandi junior when he was running for the Presidency of India.

Screw the tigers and a separate state for any of them. Ethnicity and little ghettoes full of unemployed, disgruntled and volatile ethnic groups that refuse to mainstream in the society as a whole are the source of most of our socila problems here and most everywhere else in the world. When a strong government drives a boot up the ass of the sniveling ethnic groups and makes them get along, society as a whole and the individual ethnic groups are better off.

Name one ethnic group, that is better off now, having their own little enclave, than they were when they were forced to function in an overall society.

Posted by Bill Clinton 2012-03-14 10:48|| 2012-03-14 10:48|| Front Page Top

#5 Robert E. Lee's noble act at Appomattox.

Posted by Eric Jablow 2012-03-14 12:09|| 2012-03-14 12:09|| Front Page Top

#6 Name one ethnic group, that is better off now, having their own little enclave, than they were when they were forced to function in an overall society

Israel. But that's a special case, and the Jews were generally good citizens to begin with, not violent rebels.

Posted by trailing wife 2012-03-14 13:44|| 2012-03-14 13:44|| Front Page Top

#7 >>>Name one ethnic group, that is better off now, having their own little enclave, than they were when they were forced to function in an overall society.
Posted by Bill Clinton

Estonia; much better off. But having more than one independence day is a headache.

Posted by Mizzou Mafia 2012-03-14 17:09|| 2012-03-14 17:09|| Front Page Top

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