International Relations of Sri Lanka

Politics behind   Ryan Goodman, a professor of Law of Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz at New York University, writes the following;   "… Sri Lanka’s historic defeat of an insurgency is emerging as a competing model to US counterinsurgency and counterterrorism strategy. It is a draconian alternative that, if adopted by other militaries, risks counterproductive and blowback effects to the detriment of US interests."  Goodman has not paid enough attention to the significant difference between these two models of counterterrorism operations, the US model and the Sri Lankan model.  While the US counterterrorism operations are conducted on foreign territories the Sri Lankan counterterrorism operation was conducted within its own territory. These are the operations I refer to as US counterterrorism operations – Goodman does the same. This is a significant different. Unlike the Sri Lankan operation, I point out, this different causes each US counterterrorism operation

What does Goodman leave out? Ryan Goodman states "there is also prima facie evidence in the public record that he [Gotabaya] ordered the execution of political leaders and their families upon their surrender, that he directed the systematic bombing of civilian hospitals, and that he repeatedly suggested that he could target and deliberately kill innocent civilians in order to win the war against the LTTE". Goodman makes those accusations offering only one side of the account of the final phase. Goodman, then, invites the reader to be the judge. In a way it is ironic, that this is how the all critics accuse the administration of Sri Lanka and Gotabaya for those crimes. In this second article, I reply to Goodman's accusations of Gotabaya. You could access the first article here, Reply to Ryan Goodman 1 of 4 - What is this all about? . There are four articles in total. You could access the the third article here, Reply to Ryan Goodman 3 of 4 - Politics behind .  In