We recognise a group by what they do.You cant kill an ex-Prime minister ..then after a few years say..."Oops...sorry"... and then ..'recognise us...'. The best India can do is recognise terrorists as what they are. Or else there wont be a difference between India and Pakistan.
India and the world can recognise Palestinians and Arafat but cannot recognise the struggle of Srilankan Tamils. India can recognise Pakistan and Musharaf and get kicked and killed everyday the Indian army personnel and innocents get killed everyday by ISI.This can be tolerated.Big democracies can recognise the Sinhalese Chauvanism against Tamils.Still India is talking of Rajiv's killing. Israealis are killed everyday and that can be toletrated by India.India's dampened attitude towards Srilankan Tamils is not the right political diplomacy.This attitude seemigly generates a view that Rajapkse may be supported by India.Silence seemingly approves the orgy of violence of the oppressor in this case. India can help Nepal giving a large sum of money as aid to the new govt formed!If the problem of Srilankan Tamils is aggravating, it will simultaneously aggravate the refugee problem for India. India must intervene as a subcontinent and as a member of SAARCand try to solve this problem and establish peace in the region.Peace in the region must be the foremost and India has a duty to enforce it.
RE:Srilankan Tamils' Problem
by SV on Oct 19, 2006 06:44 AM Permalink
I would like to clarify few things
1) LTTE claims to be the sole representative of Srilankan tamil people. It is not true. They killed all those who disagree and now claims to represent s. tamils 2) In the interview, he claims \\\'ignore Rajiv killing as we just killed our representative\\\'. What kind of nation/government LTTE will provide for S. Tamils if they believe they need to kill the representatives for difference of opinion?
Friends, People may call it an act of terrorism but considering their cause for bloodshed is full of their patriorism. If they are terrorists then we do not have rights to praise our martyrs like Mr. Subhash Chandra Bose, Bhagat Singh, Aza, Bismil etc...Also this looks stupid if we put such things as terrorist activity since we only jeopardise the statement by giving two different meanings to the same cause. I believe bloodshed is not the right way but sometime it comes when diplomacy fails to result of make compromise.
I hope the Indian govt never has to recognize the LTTE and give it ligitamacy. LTTE is a terror group and we for some time played along with their idea. But once they killed our PM all relations with such a terror group ends. They have not repented their actions. The world has to see what the LTTE are doing cannot give them any stature. IF the fighting has to stop then the EU could first ask them to lay their arms and seek their mandate in an election. Then let Prabakaran become the PM / President and then we can recongnise him as the leader of Srilanka. Till then he's just a terrorist. And what shit are they taling about Mussaraf getting accepted. We would recongnise their Chief of armed forces if he took over the country in some time if it suited our interest.
The Indian leadership will be a fool if they fall into the trap advocated by the narrow visioned leaders of small parties advocating recognition of LTTE, thus in turn recognising the division of Sri Lanka.Under the same logic, India must then should agree in a partition by separating out the north east, Kashmir etc from the present India. I hope this message should be clear to all.
RE:Prabhakaran is world tamils leader
by vaempuli on Oct 20, 2006 07:23 AM Permalink
Dear Ram,
was wondering how come someone like you didn't pop up blaming the brahmins and post messages that embarass fellow tamils. Thanks for keeping the "dravidian" flag flying high. BTW , why did u leave out "North-Indians" they too should be blamed for the ills of Lankan Tamils! ( rule 1a of dravidian code book!)
The writer seems to be a spokesman of LTTE, terrorism is terrorism u can't name it as freedom struggle in any way. Prabhakaran is a egoist person playing with thousands of tamil lives, in return what do they achieve, its impossible to get a separate homeland. Srilanka has all the right to defend its territority and protect its people. Prabhakaran has to change his views, and plan to get rights for tamils within Srilankan constitution. Pls think about the money being spent on both the sides, millions of tamils contributing to this struggle what for just for one man's egoist feelings. time to ponder...
> ... How can he put a solution in our hands? So he had to bear the consequences.
Does he mean Rajiv deserved to be killed.
> .. If it is true that the LTTE killed Rajiv Gandhi, they have killed our representative, not your prime minister.
So what? Do they have exclusive rights to kill their representatives? That's LTTE's style; not that of civilized world. And is India supposed to shut up because they think he acted like their representative?
The message is clear from this article - we will keep killing and not listen to anyone in the World ! Bigger Liberation organization's like PLO have been made to listen to the world and the LTTE some day has to also do the same. Just by running your own courts, police station and military you don't become a country. Also who asked for India's and Rajiv's involvement - you talk as though Rajiv and India wanted to make Jaffna their second home. Does Jaffna has oil reserves like Iraq or Diamond mines like South Africa for India to be there? So its funny to state that Rajiv signed this accord on their behalf and later blast him. What was LTTE doing when he was signing the accord on their behalf - eating Lolipop? I truly beleived in the spirit of your struggle when it all started. But today its pretty simple - If you guys lay down arms and try to get elected to a Parliament - maybe you will win first 5 years but later will be thrown off...and what this will mean is your boss Mr. TIGER cannot hide in Vavuniya !
RE:India must recognise LTTE
by BABU on Oct 19, 2006 11:20 AM Permalink
Dear sir,
better u try know the history of srilanka first, then u post your comments, i think u are not at all having any knowledge about the srilankan problem. so please stop these type of comments
RE:India must recognise LTTE
by Raj on Oct 22, 2006 02:56 AM Permalink
"What was LTTE doing when he was signing the accord on their behalf - eating Lolipop?"
The LTTE leader was invited by Rajive to Delhi and he was put in house arrest by "black cats" in Delhi when Rajive signed this agreement. "DO YOU KNOW THAT?" He was in house arrest just because he did not agree to that agreement. Whosoever comented here aginst the editor's comment and call LTTE as terrorists have "0" knowledge about Sri Lankan tamils problem. As a Tamil lived in IPKF terrorism In my point of view IPKF is the worst TERRORISTS existed in the world.
