{"id":2355,"date":"2009-05-25T05:30:16","date_gmt":"2009-05-25T09:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geneveith.com\/?p=2355"},"modified":"2009-05-25T05:30:16","modified_gmt":"2009-05-25T09:30:16","slug":"outbreaks-of-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2009\/05\/outbreaks-of-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Outbreaks of peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>We and the whole world should be thankful in Sri Lanka that the ultra-bloody separatist group the  Tamil Tigers\u2013inventors of the suicide belt, recruiters of child warriors, murderers of Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi as well as thousands and thousands more\u2013have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/WORLD\/asiapcf\/05\/22\/sri.lanka.victory.parade\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">accepted defeat<\/a>, their leader having been killed and their movement giving up the fight.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Liberation_Tigers_of_Tamil_Eelam#Religion\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Tamil Tigers<\/a> were NOT Muslims but Hindus\u2013someone should study how suicide bombers fit with that religion\u2013and the issue was an ethnic one, the demand for a separate nation for the Tamil tribes.<\/p>\n<p>Also, Russia has officially ended its so-called <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/europe\/8001495.stm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Chechnya counter-terrorism operation<\/a>.  A Chechnyan strongman has apparently taken over in that region whom the Russians can live with.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We and the whole world should be thankful in Sri Lanka that the ultra-bloody separatist group the Tamil Tigers\u2013inventors of the suicide belt, recruiters of child warriors, murderers of Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi as well as thousands and thousands more\u2013have accepted defeat, their leader having been killed and their movement giving up the fight. 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