General Killed
2006.06.26
Major General Parami Kulatunga, the third-highest ranking officer in the Sri Lankan army and a veteran of the civil war, was killed in a bomb blast by the LTTE.
Indi has a brilliant post that sums up the situation in this country (and elsewhere) really well:
Until Tamil individuals can obtain real security, the LTTE fills a necessary void. Same as the Mafia did for ethnic Italians, or Hamas does for Palestinians, or warlords in Somalia. If you call them they get stuff done. Unfortunately everyone calls them and all of a sudden you get all kinds of horrible stuff done with no how or why. Plus they’re run by bloodthirsty and corrupt assholes with their own agenda. However, in your moment of individual pain, nobody cares. That’s the tragedy of the commons.
