Taming the Tigers
Sri Lanka's President Mahinda Rajapaksa has engineered what many thought impossible: military victory over the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, one of the world's most fanatical terrorist organizations. But now Rajapaksa faces the equally daunting task of rebuilding Sri Lanka’s war-ravaged north and reconciling the Tamils.
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BRUSSELS – Three years ago, Sri Lanka elected Mahinda Rajapaksa as president because he pledged to take the offensive against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, the guerillas who have been fighting for 25 years to carve out an independent homeland for the country’s Tamil minority. Many well-meaning people saw Rajapaksa’s promise as warmongering, and, even as Sri Lanka’s army has been pressing toward victory, urged him to negotiate with perhaps the world’s most fanatical terror organization (the Tamil Tigers, it should be recalled, virtually invented the cult of the modern suicide bomber.)