"The time has therefore come to reassess the Rajiv-Jayawardene accord in an objective and dispassionate manner." Mr. Alok Bansal, you are talking through your a*se!! I don't think you know the meaning of 'objective and dispassionate manner'. Read your article again and any idiot can see how biased it is. Your ignorance is amazing. With people like you as 'strategic analysts' it comes as no surprise that India is losing it's allegience and status in the region!! Ram Naidoo
If Slobodan Milosovich can be tried and Saddam Hussain can be sentenced to death for atrocities against humanity, almost all the Sri Lankan rulers including Ranil Wickramasinghe and Mahinda Rajapakse should be tried in International Court of Justice, Hague, Nethrlands for killing hundreds of thousands of tamils under their leadership. Though Ranil looks "pro-Indian" his hands are soaked with tamil blood.
RE:Why India must act in Sri Lanka
by krishna Tangirala on Mar 26, 2007 05:34 PM Permalink
Like all the leaders, even Prabhakaran should be sentenced to death for killing Rajiv Gandhi. Let Srilankan Tamils realise that as long as Prabhakaran is alive, there will not be any peace in Lanka and India will not be interested in taking any stance. Let Prabhakaran surrender and see how the situation changes. This is for the benefit of both Sinhalese and Tamils in Srilanka. Don't Instigate Srilankan Tamilians by suuporting them instead put some sense into their minds and not ask for seperate country but getting autonomy for their region instead.
Mahinda wants to kill the Tamils the easy way by making them starve to death rather than spending billions of money on arms.
When Mahinda closes a main highway that's used for humanitarian goods shipment what can a normal justice loving human being can expect.
Mahinda is a war criminal.
LTTE is not a terrorist organization. Terrorist organizations do not have military uniforms, police department including traffic police, justice department, and constitution. Tamil eelam ruled by the political party LTTE has all the above. It's supported by millions of Tamils around the globe including Indian Tamils.
I am proud to be an Indian Tamil supporting the cause of LTTE.
I do not agree that we should intervene. In fact, we should distance ourselves from the on-going problems in Sri Lanka, and concentrate to secure our border down south to prevent illegal immigration & sort our own terrorist problems, than play a regional big brother.
I am not saying this without analysing the situation. Having lived abroad, I have come in contact with plenty of Sinhalese and Sri Lankan Tamils (& Bangladeshis too). Most of you would be surprised to know that India is hated by all these three ungrateful class of people. The Sinhalese hold us responsible for LTTE fiasco, despite the fact that it was formed in early 70's, without our intervention. The Srilankan Tamils hate us because of IPKF fiasco and Bangaldeshis.... well, they are just ungrateful wretches.
I don't see why we should endanger the lives of our soldiers for their cause. We can only provide humanitarian aid. If some of you are not aware, then let me tell you one more story. In the aftermath of tsunami, Sri Lankan army did not allow aid to reach thier own Tamilian people and all was distributed amongst Sinhalese.
We did not intervene in Nepal and we must implement the same here.
As rightly pointed, owing 2 its starategic location India can certainly play the lead role in providing lasting peace in the sub continent. More so, we share many a similarities with the Lankan people both Tamil & Sinahalese. If the ice can be broken it is only now or never. Enough water has flown in the last 20 years. When we can come to terms with a many a dangerous threats coming from the LOC, LAC, this threat can easily be negotiated by an India which is endowed with abundance of patience.
If any country on this earth can intervene, for the sake of both the warring parties, it is India, for many reasons. Only thing, India must come up some viable options, after brain storming. One hand has ambitions for permanent seat in security council. When it cannot solve it's very neighbour's issues, no meaning in looking for bigger responsibilites. Readers must not get confused that, by 'intervention', 'military options'. India should mediate, negotiate and broker peace in the region. The present inefficient ruling party in India may fear to do so, because it's foreign figure has some damaged memory.
As a first step towards making the South Asia free from any foreign powers, India should diplomatically engage with the moderate Tamil groups and the Sri Lankan government towards a settlement to the ethnic problem.
India should maintain the momentum of gaining the status of a regional power, generated as a result of the Indo-Sri Lanka agreement of 1987, to achieve its goal of securing a permanent seat in the United Nations Security Council.
The whole fiasco enacted by the Rajiv Government through IPKF and external affairs ministry when Rajiv Ghandi was in peace agreements signing spree, like Assam Peace Agreement, Punjab Peace Agreement to mention a few, to come out of Bofors allegation. Tamils were reduced from the dominant position in Srilankan buearocracy to a postion of micro status. All educational and government employment opportunites were denied to them. There was not even a single Tamil in the Srilankan Army and there were only a handful of Tamils in Police. What kind of justice can be expected from this Army and Police by Tamils. The unemployed Tamils languishing in poverty became victims of militancy and taken arms to protect themselves and their brethren. In 1971 Indian Army marched into Bangaladesh to protect the local people, whereas the Srilankan Accord was formulated behind the LTTEs back. Actually LTTE lost hope with IPKF, as it was a passive spectator of violation of the peace agreement by Srilankan Army. Even now the Srilankan Army is violating the peace agreement and getting away with it. The Norwegian now understood this and threatened the SL Govt to be fair in devolving powers to Tamils
The situation on the ground is an ongoing civil war. A lot has changed with the end of the cold war when civil wars were actually waged among the parties with the proxy support by the powers.The war would halt with one of the powers withdrawing from the conflict. India as a sovereign state is today having to fight an insurgency on its own soil.The sweep of the insurgents has increased manifold in the decades.The Naxalites and the NE insurgents have been receiving support from our immediate neighbours, but none and this includes China has thought it important to offer a hand to curtail the insurgents. Why should India play the supercop? It is the job of the UN to stepin to ensure a ceasefire or a solution to stop the wanton destruction. If the UN could propose a 38th parallel in Korea and set a UN monitored DMZ then they should do so in Srilanka also.It is significant that the LoC and its demilatization is being thought of in J&K.
