Why should EU dither?
The LTTE bared its true intentions once again on Thursday. It is not peace that it seeks. It is all out to plunge the country back into a full scale war. The attempt to sink a privately-owned ship ferrying about 700 unarmed troops was part of a sinister plan not only to mar a national festival but to provoke a backlash on a day holy to the majority of Sri Lankans. The ship in question does a number of trips a month along the same route and the LTTE could have targeted it at some other time. But it waited until the eve of Vesak obviously in a dastardly bid to provoke the people, who, it knew, would be out on the streets in their millions, to fury. Previously, the LTTE had timed a terror attack in Trinco for the Sinhala and Tamil New Year. The Navy, to its credit, aborted the LTTE plan. The Tigers went the whole hog to sink the ship by using sixteen craft, including four manned by memory-erased cadres. But they failed to harm the ship as the Navy put up fierce resistance, which cost it o
