Tigers must be their version of Democrats.
"Sri Lankan parties vie for Tamil votes" July 23, 2011|Associated Press
KILINOCHCHI, Sri Lanka - Minority Tamil candidates are hoping a weekend election in their heartland in northern Sri Lanka will give them a mandate to demand self-determination, but the nation’s ruling coalition has campaigned with unexpected zeal.
Yeah, it's amazing how the globalist-supported Sudanese and Kosovars are allowed a vote but the Tamils and Kashmiris are denied one. Turns out it is never about the professed values, but pure power politics based on control.
Its aim is a victory that would blunt calls for an international war crimes investigation and vindicate the harsh tactics that killed thousands of Tamil civilians here in the final months of its quarter-century civil war....
How do you vindicate penning people up in an area and letting the artillery fly?
Who votes for that in gratitude?
There are no reliable preelection polls to predict the outcome.
A rigged vote coming?
Sri Lanka’s top officials, including President Mahinda Rajapaksa and Cabinet ministers, have jumped into the fight for minority Tamil votes, with help from a progovernment Tamil paramilitary-cum-political party. They have cut ribbons on projects for sports complexes and played cricket with local youths. They promise to rebuild Tamil homes and insist they are trusted friends.
This after they obliterated the place and sent the Tamils into concentration camps.
Related: U.S. Helps Sri Lanka Hold Tamil Tigers By Tail
Now you see why western intelligence agency support for the Tamils was withdrawn.
It is a rare effort for a minor ballot, but the governing United People’s Freedom Alliance coalition insists it is committed to communal reconciliation - though none of its touted programs toward healing has begun.
This victory “is of value to the government,’’ said Sports Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage while campaigning in the former Tamil Tiger northern rebel base of Kilinochchi. “It will enable us to tell the world that we have won the confidence of the Tamil people after winning the war.’’
The war criminal sure talks a good game.
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The Tamils are just like the AmeriKan Democrats: they are always getting slaughtered one way or another.
And obviously Sri Lanka is a Republican island:
"Sri Lanka is preparing for its first census of elephants in the island’s forests to help protect the endangered species against the loss of its habitat....
Look, I love elephants as much as the next guy; however, when you think of the loss of Tiger habitat and life.... and government cares more about the animals?
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Next Day Update:
"Tamil group achieves strong victory in Sri Lanka’s regional council elections" Associated Press / July 25, 2011
JAFFNA, Sri Lanka - A proxy to Sri Lanka’s now-defunct separatist Tamil Tiger rebels dominated local council elections held in areas ravaged by the country’s 25-year civil war, officials said yesterday, amid reports of intimidation and vote-buying....
The resounding victory consolidates the Tamil National Alliance’s status as an authentic representative of ethnic Tamils in negotiations with Rajapaksa’s ethnic majority Sinhalese-controlled government in sharing political power and postwar rehabilitation. The party had appealed to voters to give it a mandate to demand self-rule in the Tamil-majority areas.
Yeah, my perceptions and predictions are proved correct and the agenda-pushing media implies vote fraud! Pffft!
Rajapaksa’s ruling party had hoped a victory for its allies would blunt calls for an international war crimes investigation, mostly coming from the US and other Western nations, and vindicate tactics that killed thousands of Tamil civilians near the end of the civil war, which ended in May 2009.
How do you vindicate penning people up and letting the shells fly?
It also could have allowed Rajapaksa to offer a less generous power-sharing deal, which his Tamil allies would probably have accepted.
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