| Sri Lanka:"Drop it anywhere" is the standard practice of SLAF,Air Marshal WDRMJ Goonetileke |
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 "..That the Sri Lankan airforce lacks the technology and advanced intelligence to pinpoint legitimate targets has ofcourse been known for sometime now. That this was coupled with a callous disregard for civilian casualties was shown up in a recording in July 1990 of a conversation between two pilots of Sri Lankan airforce: 'Just one more bomb left, what shall I do? asked one pilot from a bomber. 'Drop it anywhere, machan' was the immediate response from the pilot of the reconnaissance helicopter.." . Air Marshal Goonetileke, who heads Sri Lankan Air Force graduated from the Air Command and Staff College, Air University, Alabama , USA in 1994 and had also attended the National Defence College in Pakistan in 2001.
Sri Lanka is engaged in a war of attrition. Sri Lanka believes that continued indiscriminate bombing will weaken the will of the Tamil people to resist. But that would be an error. The suffering that the Tamil people have undergone and continue to undergo today, has served only to harden their determination to resist the would be alien invader of their homeland. |
WDRMJ Goonetileke 's drop it anywhere Policy .
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