It has been 14 years since the war heroes ended the brutal war that took thousands of lives in this country for 33 years for the dream of Eelam and brought peace to the country.
On May 19, 2009, the Eelam war started in 1979 by Velupillei Prabhakaran was defeated by the Sri Lankan forces.
During the last battle, LTTE used hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians as human shields.
The hostage rescue operation also went down in history as the largest hostage rescue operation ever launched in the world.
The war heroes captured the last LTTE ground at Vellamullyvaikkal and later with the discovery of Prabhakaran’s lifeless body at Nandikadal Lagoon ending the 33-year war and bequeathing the freedom of peace to all Sri Lankans.
May this be a tribute to the heroic warriors who ended the brutal war that destroyed the country’s economy, left thousands of people dead and crippled tens of thousands more, and gave the Sri Lankan nation the right to breathe freely!
Sri Lanka is still in the process of Post war Peace and Reconciliation.
It is too early and wounds still too fresh for us to be commemorating these events. Whilst the end of the war did usher in a period of peace we need to be sensitive to the fact that no one-side won that war. Thousands died on both sides. And both sides consisted of Sri Lankan nationals. The LTTE was a group of Sri lankans fighting (wrongly perhaps) for what they believed was their right to have. That we had to fight and spill the blood of thousands to resilve or bring the conflict to an end is not something to celebrate, on the contrary its something we should be ashamed off and be repentant of as a nation.
More shameful is the fact That the Peace and Reconciliation process is still pending substantial progress even after 14 years.