Sri Lanka
 

Is this the end of the Liberation Tamil Tigers of Elam?

It might well be. Their remaining army has been surrounded and reduced to a patch of a few hundred square meters, their leader has probably been killed.

They've been fighting for almost 30 years, more by some counts. Maybe 70,000 have died.

Will the bitter struggle continue? Will there be peace? Will there be a political solution to the sociological challenges, or will resentment continue to fester?

I always had a hard time taking them seriously because their name makes them sound like a junior high school sports team. They should have cheerleaders in uniform off on the sidelines. Go, Tamil Tigers! Go!

I was just reading about this. The facinating bit, to me, was that there was a real, grounded concern that 20,000 of them would commit mass suicide. In fact there was rumor that the 300-man army in that last patch had committed mass suicide.

While organized hostilities may have ceased, I'm sure various extremists will continue to use the suicide bombing techniques they invented...

No doubt. I was thinking the same thing when I heard the news. I suspect the place will morph into a Northern Ireland style of attacks over the next 20 years or so. I just can't believe they are going to give up so suddenly. They have done a pretty good job of making the conflict an ingrained natural tendency towards violent action, ala the Middle East.

There's hardly any good wars left, anymore.:(

Looks like it really is over for the organized fight.

Images of the body of the Tamil Tiger leader Velupillai Prabhakaran were broadcast yesterday

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...r-1687790.html