Suicide Bombing in Sri Lanka caught on film

Mar.12, 2009 in Islam, world

Suicide bombing on film is one of those things that even though you don’t really want to look, you just can’t help yourself.

I compiled the footage below from stills taken from the AP originals, the content doesn’t show much carnage beyond the odd limb in a few frames and should be safe for work;

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The original home video footage can be seen here;

The story behind the image isn’t nearly as dramatic. The defense ministry believes the bomber belonged to the Tamil Tigers and ironically happened at a function at a mosque marking the birthday of Muhammed. Guy on a bike rides in behind the event and kaboom, 10 people were left dead.

I wonder if the Quran has any instructions on what to do if you’re the target of suicide bombings.

I guess we’ll just chalk this one up on the list as another life wasted and more innocents killed. Life will go on as normal after the initial shock and we can only ask the question when was the last time suicide bombings achieved anything?

Not suprisingly there are those that have come out in full support of the bomber. Sibernews threatens;

As long as there remain 10 Tamil Tigers, ready to strap on explosives or plant IEDs, the end of war will not bring peace.

It would mean treating the Tamil population of Sri Lanka – as well as critics of the war – as full-ranking citizens of their own country, rather than intruders there on sufferance.

Until then, expect more suicide bombings.

Randomly blowing people up in the streets will never get you what you want. I also fail to see how blowing people up will aid the “ending (of) the arrests and abductions of Tamils in the south, and the routine harassment of Tamil citizens at checkpoints in the capital.” Sorry mate, but if the sandal fits a terrorist is a terrorist. Perhaps if the Tigers weren’t using the Tamil population as human shields there wouldn’t be so much of an issue.

Despite strongly disagreeing with Sibernews, I do have to admit they do raise one interesting point. They quote army chief Sarath Fonseka as saying:

“This country belongs to the Sinhalese. Minorities can live in this country with us. But they must not try to, under the pretext of being a minority, demand undue things.”

If this quote is genuine (I found at least one other source so I can only assume that it is), then the Sri Lankan government certainly has some waking up to do. In the west part of being in the majority is putting up with the ridiculous demands of minority groups.

In Australia we have the Aboriginals, immigrants, refugees and working families that get pandered to. Despite this, Australia still is pretty rational when it comes to towing the line with minority demands, although all it takes is one parent in the minority to complain and all of a sudden councils are banning school crossing attendants from high-fiving kids. And if you really want to see some eye openers just Google ‘UK political correctness’.

I think the Sri Lankan government has some rethinking to do if they think eradicating the Tamil Tigers is going to squash minorities for good. Sure the militia elements might be gone, but by the fact alone that Tamil’s still live in Sri Lanka the minority itself still exists.

It is also important to note that it is equally as non-constructive for those in favour of the war to jump to wild conclusions. In an entry by minbarweb.com no better then Sibernews we go from “16 chemical resistant costumes, and 17 gas masks” being found in a Tamil Tiger camp to “the LTTE has been acting as the unofficial Research and Development(R&D) department of the global terrorist network.” That’s quite the unfounded jump there if I do say so myself.

At times the entry barely makes sense;

Unless for the commitment of the Sri Lankan soldiers the so-called “rebel group” in terms of the above hypocrites, would have been still continuing on its dangerous industry of aiding the global terrorism while taking the whole world for ride with its propaganda ploys.

Sorry what?

Reuters reports that “Sri Lanka’s military has encircled the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in a mere 37 sq km (15 sq miles) on the island nation’s northeastern coast and is fighting to finish a separatist war that has raged off and on since 1983.” so it sounds like this long standoff is almost over. Hopefully then the people of Sri Lanka can get on with their lives and put rubbish like this behind them.

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