rapa
01-18-2008, 02:06 PM
Recent chain of minor and major blasts in the capital city clearly indicates that security in Colombo is vulnerable to attacks. In few months back, there was strict and planned security checking network in placed and the armed forces and the police managed to catch large amount of explosives and vehicles packed with explosives. However, pro terrorist media network and allied NGO rights organizations were able to create an artificial howl against tight security measures.
For them rights of parking of vehicles for shopping, increased traffic due to extra checking, etc were supreme than brutal killings due to bomb blasts. Those who are killed in the bomb blasts are the ordinary people in this country and those dead people can never go to the supreme courts to demand their human rights. In the other hand, the rights of these innocent people have less dollar values for various NGO right agents to organize campaigns! The unfortunate effect was the Supreme Court order on removing permanent check points and orders in allowing parking of vehicles in road way sides.
Media mafia is not in the side of the people
The brave armed forces are engaged in crucial final stage of battle in Wanni jungle. However it is tragedy that foreign funded media mafia in Sri Lanka, having different agenda, was not in line with these victories and possible reactions of defeated terrorists. It is in this back drop that doctors are organizing strikes and private bus mafia threatening for strikes.
Whenever there is a blast, the political wing of LTTE terrorists ably supported by their waged journalists in the south was busy highlighting the deaths and casualties. The media in general has failed to create a constructive discussion on how to defeat the ulterior motives of terrorists and safeguard the society from bomb threats, the only capability of coward and defeated terrorists.
Can we safe guard our society from bomb threats?
LTTE allied segments have spread another myth in the society that bomb threats of terrorism can not be eliminated. This is just like the other broken myths stated before like “LTTE is strong military unit”, “LTTE can not be defeated in North and western provinces” etc.. Since Al-Quida attack on twin towers, they were not able to attack single target within USA and since London bomb blasts few years back, there are no more bomb blasts in Britain. How were they able to secure their society after those attacks?
The simple answer is that it is because of the willpower of those nations to rally around their leaders to fight against terrorism shedding petty political views. The people, media and politicians had their country first and supported the forces to fight against terrorism. They knew that their human rights can be safe guarded only if terrorism is defeated.
We all have a responsibility
Fight against LTTE terrorists in the battle field can be effectively handled by our professional and effective security forces alone with the moral and political support of people. However, when it comes to coward acts of setting bombs in crowded areas, there is much more active role to be played by very individual citizen of the country. The society is us and it is our responsibility to safeguard the society from coward acts of terrorists. The security forces and police are there only to help us.
The society has only a handful of terrorists and their supporters and all others must be ready to be extra vigilant to catch these coward terrorists. It is our duty to vigilant on our neighbors and any suspectable movement or people must be reported to the police.
Whenever we are in public places it is our duty to be extra vigilant on the environment and the persons. If every one obligate to be vigilant on strangers in their immediate vicinity, at least couple of eyes will be always focused on each other in a given time and these coward people will never get a chance to plant bombs in public places.
There are simple things that we can do in this critical period to minimize the fear psychosis in the society. If you are in a home in road way side you can clean the garden near the road so that culprits can not hide claymore bombs. We should minimize bringing unnecessary goods and bags in traveling. People should always keep their belongings in there hand rather than in racks in the trains or buses. This may cause some inconvenience. However, if everyone strict to these simple basics right, it can greatly ease the work of security forces and also effectively minimize the fear psychosis in the society.
Remember, the terrorists do all these bomb blasting to terrorize the society and it is our duty to not to be terrorized and rather proactively work against the terrorists. If we can support each other and win over the situation, it is a matter of another couple of weeks that last bunker in Wanni jungle is demolished and terrorism is eradicated from our mother land for ever.
For them rights of parking of vehicles for shopping, increased traffic due to extra checking, etc were supreme than brutal killings due to bomb blasts. Those who are killed in the bomb blasts are the ordinary people in this country and those dead people can never go to the supreme courts to demand their human rights. In the other hand, the rights of these innocent people have less dollar values for various NGO right agents to organize campaigns! The unfortunate effect was the Supreme Court order on removing permanent check points and orders in allowing parking of vehicles in road way sides.
Media mafia is not in the side of the people
The brave armed forces are engaged in crucial final stage of battle in Wanni jungle. However it is tragedy that foreign funded media mafia in Sri Lanka, having different agenda, was not in line with these victories and possible reactions of defeated terrorists. It is in this back drop that doctors are organizing strikes and private bus mafia threatening for strikes.
Whenever there is a blast, the political wing of LTTE terrorists ably supported by their waged journalists in the south was busy highlighting the deaths and casualties. The media in general has failed to create a constructive discussion on how to defeat the ulterior motives of terrorists and safeguard the society from bomb threats, the only capability of coward and defeated terrorists.
Can we safe guard our society from bomb threats?
LTTE allied segments have spread another myth in the society that bomb threats of terrorism can not be eliminated. This is just like the other broken myths stated before like “LTTE is strong military unit”, “LTTE can not be defeated in North and western provinces” etc.. Since Al-Quida attack on twin towers, they were not able to attack single target within USA and since London bomb blasts few years back, there are no more bomb blasts in Britain. How were they able to secure their society after those attacks?
The simple answer is that it is because of the willpower of those nations to rally around their leaders to fight against terrorism shedding petty political views. The people, media and politicians had their country first and supported the forces to fight against terrorism. They knew that their human rights can be safe guarded only if terrorism is defeated.
We all have a responsibility
Fight against LTTE terrorists in the battle field can be effectively handled by our professional and effective security forces alone with the moral and political support of people. However, when it comes to coward acts of setting bombs in crowded areas, there is much more active role to be played by very individual citizen of the country. The society is us and it is our responsibility to safeguard the society from coward acts of terrorists. The security forces and police are there only to help us.
The society has only a handful of terrorists and their supporters and all others must be ready to be extra vigilant to catch these coward terrorists. It is our duty to vigilant on our neighbors and any suspectable movement or people must be reported to the police.
Whenever we are in public places it is our duty to be extra vigilant on the environment and the persons. If every one obligate to be vigilant on strangers in their immediate vicinity, at least couple of eyes will be always focused on each other in a given time and these coward people will never get a chance to plant bombs in public places.
There are simple things that we can do in this critical period to minimize the fear psychosis in the society. If you are in a home in road way side you can clean the garden near the road so that culprits can not hide claymore bombs. We should minimize bringing unnecessary goods and bags in traveling. People should always keep their belongings in there hand rather than in racks in the trains or buses. This may cause some inconvenience. However, if everyone strict to these simple basics right, it can greatly ease the work of security forces and also effectively minimize the fear psychosis in the society.
Remember, the terrorists do all these bomb blasting to terrorize the society and it is our duty to not to be terrorized and rather proactively work against the terrorists. If we can support each other and win over the situation, it is a matter of another couple of weeks that last bunker in Wanni jungle is demolished and terrorism is eradicated from our mother land for ever.