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Diplomatic sources in Colombo have advanced the idea
that, in the frequency and style of recent attacks, Sri Lanka might be
seeing the beginning of the end of the era of the LTTE’s terrorism.
Sources said that similarly violent episodes of
terrorism, comparable to that which occurred in Rajagiriya recently, have
also been seen in other countries during negotiations towards a final
settlement, most notably in Spain. In Spain, a group known as the “young biting
dogs,” a breakaway section of the terrorist Basque separatists, existed at
a time when negotiations seemed set to make progress. However, these “biting dogs,” brought up knowing
nothing but the ideology of terrorism and unsure of their future in a
post-terrorist milieu, became particularly vicious in their attacks against
Spanish civilians as a result. In a parallel development, guerrillas of the Hamas
movement, an extremist splinter group of the Palestinian Liberation
Organisation, also conducted an intensified series of terrorist attacks
including bombings in the commercial capital of Tel Aviv as peace talks
between the PLO and the Israeli government edged towards substantive
progress. “Thus, although the attacks are becoming more cruel and more frequent, it might be said that Sri Lanka is at the beginning of the end of terrorism,” one diplomat said.
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