After the United Nations’ agency criticized the Sri Lanka’s government for the civilian causalities, the Sri Lanka’s government summoned a United Nations’ representatives to protest the agency’s condemnation. The fighting between the rebels and the Sri Lankan government seems to be intensifying as the fighting zone in the island nation has been reduced to a small zone of territory. It is, however, expected that many civilians are caught in the fighting, and some accounts have reported civilian deaths by the Sri Lankan government’s offenses.

The problem with this developing story is that there are no independent ways to truly know what is going on in the fighting region. There is a battle of publicity here between the Sri Lankan government and the island rebels, and unfortunately media are banned in the fighting region. Regardless of what is going on in the region, we cannot make any judgments on this developing issue, because we just do not have verified information.

That being said, I am quite disappointed by the hasty condemnation not only by the United Nations but also the European Union and the United States. I have my doubts that these critics have better intelligence of what is going on the ground, and thus I think they are not justified in making such condemnation that is so contingent on the incomplete, unverified information.

I also would like to further criticize United States for firing condemnation for Sri Lankan government’s supposed involvement on the civilian deaths, because I do not think that this country (Despite my categorical love and patriotism to her) has any grounds in making such remarks due to her own involvement in her continuous involvement in War on Terror that results in the unfortunate civilian causalities. United States, in making condemnations against Sri Lanka, is a giant hypocrite.

In any case, I hope the war between the Sri Lankan government and the rebels would be over soon, so that unfortunate further civilians’ death from the fighting would consequently be eliminated.