By Kenneth J. Cooper
May 21, 2009
SRI LANKA'S government was right to finish off the Tamil rebels, despite the risk to and ultimate loss of civilian life. Decisively ending the civil war, which lasted 26 years and killed more than 70,000, will save more lives than were lost in the final assault.
United Nations officials, Western leaders, and human rights groups had called on Sri Lanka to agree to a cease-fire to allow civilians to flee the shrinking enclave where government forces had finally hemmed in the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. Complying with the request would have been a major strategic mistake.
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That's true. They couldn't have stopped their assault. But now they need to allow the media unfettered access. They need to show that atrocities were not committed in order to win back the trust of the tamil people.
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