Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa. APFrom Wall Street Journal:
Sri Lanka is beating the Tigers through military force, not negotiation.
For all those who argue that there's no military solution for terrorism, we have two words: Sri Lanka.
This week, the Sri Lankan army said it had captured the last piece of the northern Jaffna Peninsula, one of the few remaining strongholds of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, a terrorist organization that has waged a 26-year civil war that's claimed tens of thousands of lives, including those of a Sri Lankan President and an Indian Prime Minister.
That's a huge turnaround from only three years ago, when the Tigers effectively controlled the bulk of the Northern and Eastern Provinces and were perpetrating suicide bombings in the country's capital, Colombo.
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