Tamil Tigers

To whom it may concern,

The Tamil Tigers of Sri Lanka have been fighting a brutal civil war for their ethnic minority against the government of Sri Lanka for over 30 years. While marred in controversy, the Tamil Tigers created some of the more common terrorist tactics to date, including suicide belts and using women for suicide attacks, there end game of an independent Tamil state is relatively a valid one. And as the conventional war comes to a close, the threat of a guerilla war could engulf the entire island in violence. As in most conflicts, the nearly 150,000 ethnic Tamils remaining in Sri Lanka are caught in the middle of the fighting. While an autonomous Tamil region in Sir Lanka seems reasonable, both sides are well past this resolution or any peace agreements for that matter. The lack of any real international intervention on either side of the conflict seems eerily complacent. Why has neither America, the UN nor anyone else not taken action in what appears to be the final days of this insurgency?

GUNNAR HAND, AICP