sri_lion said:Honestly I dont know about Prabakaran or what would Mahinda do with him!
Pilliyan and Karuna did crimes, YES it is true! but situation at hand at that time was more advantageous for the govt. to be united with the enemy of the enemy than to just ignore the opportunity!
Think about this... Mahinda definitely had the idea of wiping out the LTTE, now there was a situation that the people who controlled the whole eastern parts were no longer with LTTE, so suddenly govt. had 2 choices:
1. Fight them off
If govt. chooses to fight them off that would definitely be a enough of a cause for them to reconsider joining back with Praba sooner or later becuase they would be the 1st to get killed anyway!
2. Buy them off
If govt. can buy them off using their greed for power, there are more advantages there..
- Now you dont have to fight to control eastern province
- Intelligence needed to push through for LTTE areas gained
- Saves lives of your soldiers
- A slap in Praba's face and also to LTTE's moral as a whole
- Saves money
- Saves Time
So if we had gone the conventional way to punish them, yes we would have done it... but at a huge COST, both in terms of lives and money!! and it has to be said that govt. had to consider that they had limited time at hand before the next election![]()
Well, think about the feather on his cap if he were able to do the same with Praba ?
World Opinion changes overnight, Whatever help up aid will come flying in. The LTTE supporters worldwide gets a slap on their faces and a boot up their asses.
And there wont be even a hint of another separatist faction for a long long time to come!
