Dear fact Speaker it looks like you really do not seem ot knowing anth facts of all. India does not have an official policy of discriminating its minorities.either by language race or religion. It doesn not bomb its citizens from the air or shell them destroy their homes temples/ chrches schools and orphanages. It does not have offical policies ataing that al head of departments armed forces president Prime mininster shoudl only be Hindus lile it isated in SrI Lanka they shoudl b eonly Sinhala Buudhists ( not Sinhal Christian too). It doen not have policies lik in Sri Lanka stating that Sinhla student have to obtain much lower marks than Tamils to gain entrance for th esame course. It doen not deny emplymoment. Indian does not indulge in Ethnic cleaning activitiesagians its minorities, the Sri Lankan government does in the Tamil East. In fact in India it is the majority HIndus who have been ethnically cleansed out of Kashmir. So the Tamil in Sri Lank ahve every rignt to ask for a seperated state all other means of obtaining thier just rights have failed. They ahave historically lived in the north and east of Sr iLanka for thousand s of years continuously and have ruled them selves and according to the UN Charter have th eright to self determine theoir future and escape from a genocidal racist majority. Mnay western governmentshave stated that the Sri Lankan Tamils have the right for self determination. they may not like th LTTE .