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Posted by Tstorm (Member # 1871) on :

It's being reported on Reuters: http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE54D1GR20090517

I wonder if another group will rush into the power vaccuum and continue the violence, though. I hope that is not the case.

Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/05/18/sri.lanka.conflict/index.html

Velupillai Prabhakaran was killed. It's so hard for me to come to terms with the fact that this war might actually end. I sincerely hope no groups fills the vacuum, but at the same time I can see how the Tamils feel they are different enough from the Sinhalese to deserve their own country. I hope they can find a way to coexist and stop killing each other.

Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :

But who will we sell weapons to now!

Posted by BlackBlade (Member # 8376) on :

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Originally posted by Blayne Bradley:
But who will we sell weapons to now!

People buy arms from Canada? Suddenly the Tamil Tigers losing all makes sense now. [Wink]

Posted by aspectre (Member # 2222) on :

"But who will we sell weapons to now!"

Well the US has an extreme shortage of guns&ammo now, what with ever-growing (and highly profitable) sales to Mexican drug cartels and the lifting of the ban on assault rifles and automatic pistols.

And the self-proclaimed "sovereign states" of Texas and Oklahoma in particular are up in arms about the election of Obama to the Presidency. "The Confederacy shall rise again."

[ May 18, 2009, 12:32 PM: Message edited by: aspectre ]

Posted by Tstorm (Member # 1871) on :

According to the news reports, not only is the leader dead, but apparently, his 'heir apparent' is dead, too. I think that was his son.