Saturday, 16 May 2009

"A bloody conclusion"

The troops have nearly completed their mission in Sri Lanka - but at what cost? It looks like the LTTE are finished, but hundreds of civilians are dying. Is it just because it's in the name of anti-terrorism that the rest of the world is turning a bit of a blind eye?

And why is it that this war hasn't troubled the upfront pages of the national newspapers in recent months? People are suffering and dying in huge numbers; the conflict is taking its toll on an innocent population who just happened to have made home where the violence is now taking place. Why is it so hard for the media to care about something like this?

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