The moderator of Indiaabroad.com should not allow any one individual, whether James or someone else to dominate this site to this extent. His views are clear enough already. He may not be capable of looking at the problem in a serious or reasonable manner. I do not know whether I can either, to everyone's satisfaction. But, at least I am not going to stop with saying LTTE and the Colombo government have, both, adopted terrorist methods. Established governments, even if provoked badly by terrorists, should not use their methods. Colombo has killed as many innocent Tamils and Sinhala (belonging to JVP) people as the LTTE. The human rights record of Colombo is really bad. LTTE was formed in the 1980s, directly as a result of the chauvinistic, high handed policies of the Bandaranaike eras - both the husband and wife team caused this civil war. Sirimavo provoked a conciliatory government of India [conciliatory in taking back so many estate Tamil people who had lived in SL for two or more generations) by seeking to bring in Chinese and American military presence in Sri Lanka. Indira Gandhi, no less determined, no less aggressive, than Sirimovo, responded by helping the LTTE. I think Indira made a mistake. But all I want to do is to highlight the serious miscalculations of the Colombo government. When the Ind.Peace K.F. came, Colombo created, very cleverly, a fight between the Indian army and LTTE. The foolish LTTE played into the hands of Jayawardane. India is out of this issue n
