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There continue to be many who hold your foremr opinions concerning SL government strategies both within and outside SL. I write this not to offend, but to point out the ignorance of those such as yourself on the reality of the SL situation greatly assisted the SL propaganda machine over the last 30 years. Only the recent spread of mobile phone cameras has allowed the world to see some of the atrocities of [any] war. The atrocities shown in the recent C4 videos are nothing new to any Tamil person from the war zone. The LTTE are also guilty of war crimes. Their leader was a great fighter but a political amateur. If he had read the global shift on liberation struggles properly, he would have realised that he was dragging the Tamils to their doom, not only because of his own hubris, but because of people such as yourself who bought hook, line and sinker the simple line “the war on terror”. It’s sad that people as erudite and obviously intelligent as yourself chose to ignore the root causes of this war for so long, cheering on an armed force more vicious and with even less regards for international law as those it fought, and you now react with horror because some images of dead children are shown to you. Use of shock to gain sympathy or votes is the way any government (or liberation force) has manipulated its most uneducated voters for centuries. Too little too late, friend.