Quote Originally Posted by Arioch
â??I am absolutely disgusted. After the tsunami our people, even the ones who lost everything, wanted to help the others who were suffering,â?ť Sajeewa Chinthaka, 36, as he watched a cricket match in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

â??Not a single tourist caught in the tsunami was mugged. Now with all this happening in the U.S. we can easily see where the civilized part of the worldâ??s population is.â?ť
Open mouth and insert foot! Rather be a chickenhawk than a dumbass!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/2405347.stm
The conflict has killed about 64,000 people, displaced one million and held back the island's growth and economic development.

Some estimates suggest that the government has spent up to 5% of gross domestic product on defence in recent years.

Sri Lanka's once successful tourist industry has also been badly hit by the violence, but has been recovering over the last two years.