> LTTE is a very different form of struggle and organization and it cannot be > compared blanket with terrorism, and other kinds of violence. I have very > close Sri Lankan friends, and "educated", whose family members have been > killed in LTTE blasts and violence, and who still support the LTTE. The > instance you > cited of the person giving money to LTTE is a very very different kind of a > phenomenon and it has a different kind of political economy attached to it.
I realize it is different. And I wanted to understand further and so we talked. At the end, it turned out his reasons (if you can call it that) was something similar to "identifying with the struggle". So on the face of it, it looks like a well educated guy who got influenced through whatever means and decided to support terrorism (whatever the reasons, it still means the killing of innocent people, intentionally or otherwise). I intend to probe further, and hopefully I'm proved wrong. Kiran
