When LTTE was having merry time with so called peace talks at Oslo and de facto government in the North in 2006, the National Movement Against Terrorism (NMAT) published a poster in Colombo defining the word ‘Terrorism’.
Ter-ror-ism = The illegal use of violence to achieve political goals
In July 25, 2007 Lankarising published a post (It was the second post of the LankaRising blog) elaborating on that poster explaining the need for a clear plan for fight against terrorism based on following key stages;
1. Terrorism - Identify It
The whole game of terrorism is based on TEROR factor and the success or fall of terrorism is fully depended on this psychological aspect of TERROR.
The Key criteria of terrorism were identified as follows;
- Violence
- Psychological impact and fear
- Perpetrated for a Political Goals
- Deliberate targeting of non-combatants
- Unlawfulness or illegitimacy
We further analysed and identify terrorism as a vicious cycle, similar to the vicious cycle of poverty.
For terrorism to be effective, each and every stage of the vicious cycle of terrorism needs to be active and effective. And of course, in the fight against terrorism, we all have to fight to break all the links in this cycle.
We identified whole cycle based on a psychological aspect common to human (or in general common to any animal), and it is FEAR or TERROR.
Then, this psychological aspect was co related to each stage of vicious cycle of terrorism.
Step 1: Invoking Physical Fear (Mass murder)
Step 2: Invoking Mental Fear (Media and Political Campaigning stage 1)
Step 3: Convince the community to give in to terrorism (Media and Political Campaigning stage 2)
Step 4: Demand and win more negotiation, power sharing and co-habitation with terrorism.
LTTE terrorist organization is not mere military organization, it has international, political and media related mechanism to support the ‘vicious cycle of terrorism’.
The Media Terrorism:
While TamilNet and ‘Voice of Tiger’ were identified as direct media of LTTE terrorists, we also analysed and identified indirect media links funded by LTTE terrorism. Among those were some of the local and international media networks, media organizations and individuals funded by LTTE directly or through NGOs.
International Factor:
• Missionary (Protestant/Evangelical-Lutheran) and economical (e.g. oil) interests of Western world
• USA’s political interests
• Some of the Britain’s parliamentarians think Sri Lanka is still under British rule and therefore, they try to poke into matters in Sri Lanka.
• Political interests of India to be a regional power.
• India’s strategy to divert Tamil separatism in Tamil Nadu to further south by creating weaker and unstable Sri Lanka (weaker link in the chain).
INGOs (The Trojan Horse):
We emphasized the fact that all these international evil forces can act only through support within Sri Lanka. We identified this internal Trojan horse to be the INGOs, the new form of neo-colonialism. The influence of INGOs was spread in all parts of the government and beurocracy like an octopus.
2. Terrorism - Name It
LankaRising stated that it is only those who have guts to name terrorists by name have ability to eliminate it. So we emphasized the importance of identify and elect leaders and political parties who can call terrorists by name.
We equally emphasized the importance of identify and reject so called leaders and political parties which do not have enough guts to call terrorism by its name, because with this type of feeble clowns country can only dream of co-habitation with terrorists.
3. Terrorism - Eliminate it
1. Eliminate Mass Murdering, Killing & Attack on Economic Targets (black collar terrorism)
- Terrorists and its supporters love Muppet leaders because only Muppets that can be danced to their tones.
- Correct military leadership
- No political agenda and time tables
- Moral support to the forces
- Extra vigilance to prevent terrorist activities
- No backlashes!
The other posts of this article series:
- Why is fight against terrorism winning? Part 2 – Electing Correct Political Leadership
Related Posts
- Defining terrorism
- Terrorism (1) - Identify It
- Terrorism (2) - Name It
- Terrorism (3) - Eliminate it
1 comments:
WOnderful, wonderful analysis. Prabhakaran is a (bankrupt) psychopathic murderer, not a (bankrupt) politician. I feel for the poor innocent Tamils who have been taken in for a ride by the ltte.
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