Sri Lanka's water war

Straits Times, 9 August 2006

THE persistent conflict in Sri Lanka has become more worrying by the day. Tamil Tigers say that they have ended blockage but the government denies claim and responds with artillery fire. I feel that the government and Tamil tigers both are repsonsible for the decades year old conflict. It takes two hands to clap. If the government had paid more attention on its citizens, there will be less protesters. The clashes have spread where increasingly number of innocent lives are loss. I feel indignant towards how each party has violently reacted. Who benefits? No one. I feel that final and worse victims of this conflict over the water supply are not the soldiers, instead, the villagers who depend on the water supply for life. The cruel violence has swept away hundreds of people and left ten thousands displaced. At the end, the children and families left behind are the affected. Hence, there is the importance for peace talks to come such situations can enlighten the 'warriors' of the deadly consequences of their thoughtless actions.