Tamil Tigers and Ananiya Southern Sudan

A Sri Lankan army soldier stands guard by a damaged building in Mullaittivu, January 27, 2009. Sri Lanka's government on Friday again pledged safe passage to thousands of people trapped in fighting between the army and Tamil Tiger rebels, but said there would be no ceasefire with the separatist guerrillas. (REUTERS/Stringer) #
Tamil Tigers and Ananiya Southern Sudan
By author Azzouz Moghaddam
Before secession to southern Sudan
The defeat of the Sri Lankan separatist movement known as the Tamil Tigers must be stopped. The well-armed movement, which has an airlift and warships, as well as popular support in the north-eastern regions, has been wiped out after controlling some 15,000 square kilometers. A state that is self-contained but not recognized.
The question that arises here is why the Tamil separatist project was not completed with full independence as the insurgents hoped. The search for similar armed movements in our region I found nothing like the Tamil movement except the movement of Ananiya (or snake) in southern Sudan, which was the basis of the rebellion led by the late southern leader John Garang. Both rebel movements (the Tamil Tigers and Ananias of Southern Sudan) were founded in 1983 and in a tropical region characterized by dense forests that encourage hiding and guerrilla warfare, and both religious movements played a major role in their inception. The Sri Lankan civil war broke out as a reaction by Tamil Hindus to recognize their minority rights after Sri Lanka's 1972 adoption of Buddhism as a major religion. Ananiya, southern Sudan, rebelled against Khartoum after President Jaafar al-Numeiri's government began laws based on Islamic law in 1983.
Both wars have lasted about a quarter of a century, with about 80,000 people killed in Sri Lanka, two million displaced, two million killed in southern Sudan and 4 million displaced.
The Tamil Tigers were more virulent in terms of political assassinations, assassinating Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1991, assassinating Sri Lankan President Ranasinghe Primadasa in 1993, and assassinating Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar in 2005. The Ananias in southern Sudan have occupied towns and villages, but in most cases they do not keep them as soon as they are liberated by the Sudanese army. Ananias were more aggressive in guerrilla warfare, banditry and mine laying, but they did not have warships or naval battleships like the Tamil Tigers, but they did find help from United Nations organizations, sometimes involved in the transfer of rebel soldiers through the movement's control areas.
The Sri Lankan civil war began with ethnic cleansing, with the Sinhalese majority massacring the capital of Colombo. The fighting escalated to the level of mutual massacres of civilians from each side. The Tamil Tigers resorted to suicide attacks against the Sri Lankan army. Ethnic group where there were southerners fighting in the Sudanese army AK southern militias supporting the Khartoum government, and did not resort suicide Anya Nya operations or political assassinations or kidnappings.
Although the two civil wars in Sri Lanka and South Sudan were the longest wars in Asia and Africa, the LTTE's struggle ended in nothing, or rather did not achieve the secessionist goals they advocated. Although they achieved, through a peace agreement brokered by India in 1987, some gains, Autonomy, but in return the Sudanese Ananiya fighters achieved political gains they had not dreamed of M days. The South Sudan rebels won the peace agreement signed in 2005 on self-rule and then organized the referendum of 2011 on the secession of southern Sudan from the motherland and the formation of an independent state fled the fledgling state but was involved in internal civil war on a geographical basis between the two largest components Dinka and Nuer and still States Hassan is trying to conclude a peace agreement to end the civil war that has killed five times the people killed in the war with northern Sudan since 1955.
So why did the South Sudan rebels win the war while the Tamil rebels lost it? Western support or rejection certainly had a significant impact on the fate of the two wars. The United States listed the LTTE as a terrorist organization in 2001, and the rest of Western countries supported the government of Colombo politically in eliminating the separatist movement, while America and Europe supported the movement of John Garang in southern Sudan materially, militarily and politically. Washington has threatened Khartoum that if it does not sign a peace deal with the rebels, it will support the latter until they enter the capital and start to force. This pressure has had a major impact on the signing of an agreement that was unfair to the Sudanese state and Arab national security and even quickly led to the inspiration of another rebellion in Darfur.
Tamil leaders had attended and admired the Sudanese peace agreement in Kenya and perhaps encouraged them to back down from a Norwegian-brokered truce in 2002 to establish a federal system. They preferred the separatism that led to the destruction of their homes and missed the opportunity. Summer has lost milk ».
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Background on Sri Lanka's civil war
Sri Lanka and its long war

The Sri Lankan Civil War, waged between separatist Tamil rebels and the government of Sri Lanka - a conflict which has run hot and cold over 26 years, and has cost over 70,000 lives - may now be approaching its end. The ethnic Tamil rebel force called The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (or LTTE, or just "Tamil Tigers") has been fighting for the creation of an independent Tamil state since 1983, using both conventional warfare techniques and terrorist methods. Since 1987, the LTTE has claimed responsibility for nearly 200 suicide attacks, more than any organization in the world. Now, since late 2008, aggressive Sri Lankan government forces have dealt many serious defeats to the LTTE, capturing towns and airfields, and recently trapping the remaining 1,000 (estimated) LTTE rebels in a 37 square km (15 sq m) area, surrounded by 50,000 government troops. Army shelling and retaliation by desperate rebels has led to many recent civilian casualties, and an estimated refugee population of over 200,000. The Sri Lankan government has exercised tight control on media over the years, limiting coverage of the conflict and allegedly inciting its supporters, and several journalists have paid with their lives.