Terrorism and South Asia

South Asia has about 1/5 of world population with multi ethnic multi religious  cultures. Being south Asian and Sri Lankan, we  have experienced terrorism more then any other part of the world. Apart from Maldives, and Bhutan, All other countries in South Asia is confronted with major terrorism problems. Sri Lanka, has been suffering from terrorism for almost 3 decades now.

Why is it so difficult to eliminate this problem from south Asia. I see 3 major reasons for this.

1. Poverty

Most of the people in South Asia are poor people and the wealth distribution among the populations is extremely uneven. Due to this, many people could be easily converted to extremist movements. The sufferings of people emerge as a violent expression of terrorism.

2. Politicians

Secondly, most of the elite people who govern South Asian comes are very selfish natured and they tend to replies race, religion cast ect as a means of coming to power. Once in power, they do very little to the people but for themselves.

3.  Other people's problem

Other reasons is that, most people in this part of the world is of the opinion that, so long as it does not happen to me or my country, it is not my problem. As a result, each countries terrorist comes from the neighbor countries. India's terrorist come from Pakistan, Sri Lanka's terrorists come from India and so on.

As long as these leaders does not come to release these three facts and find permanent solutions for these, there seems to be no end to this great menace that is plaguing south Asia.