At last, some common sense.

At last it seems that some of the LTTE members have come to their senses. The leader of LTTE in Baticaloa area has split with the leadership of Prabakaran in the North. This guy Muralitharan or commonly known as Karuna had complained that their commanders in the North are discriminating against the members from the East. Sometimes we don't understand the discrimination based on the cast because in our community (Sinhala speaking) we practically don't have any cast barrier. But some of my Tamil friends have told me that in their community, the cast and regional divisions exist. I can remember reading about some captured LTTE cadres in the 80's refusing to share the same prison cell because they were from different casts. They could die fighting for one cause together but when it came to sharing a room they couldn't stand each other. In the universities ragging is wide spread among the Tamils. At least one student was ragged to death. Main cause for this is the cast and other discrimination in their home towns. When they get to the universities, the students from the deprived casts retaliate by ragging the students of the oppressive casts. Now it seems that Karuna has realised that their is no future for him and his people from the Eastern province under the leadership from the Northern province. Even if the LTTE managed to gain full statehood for Elam, the next war would have to be fought between the North and the East. The Sri Lankan government merged the Northern and Eastern provinces in the 80's as a consession to the Tamil nationalists but I doubt whether the Easterners would gain anything other than serving their cousins in the North. Baticaloa would have been governed from Jafna which is several hundred kilometers away. It's a good thing that at least some of the LTTE members have come to their senses and have stood up to the Fascist dictatorship of Prabakaran.