After Sri Lanka became independant in 50's the buddhist monks there became prominent in govt policy making. The tamils were the most affluent section of the society and the majority Sinhalese felt alienated. They started reservation for the majority sinhalese in all govt jobs, colleges, schools, army, police, governance etc. They imposed restriction on trades in Jaffna and crippled the economy there. Jaffna and Colombo were two thriving cities in 50's. Tamils were protesting peacefully against the injustice for 30 years from 50's to 80's. After ethnic cleansing of tamils in 1979, the militant outfit of LTTE was formed. Prabhakaran was trained and supported by Indira Gandhi and MGR. There were several tamil outfits in Sri Lanka getting funds from abroad. Prabhakaran murdered all the rival tamil outfits and their leaders to divert all the funds to LTTE alone. Rajiv Gandhi made a tactical error in sending Indian troops to Sri Lanka for peace keeping. They ended up fighting with the LTTE causing major casualities on both sides. Sri lankan govt broke the peace accord days ater the Indian troops landed there. LTTE used this to assasinate Rajiv Gandhi as revenge, this further alienated their force in India. Only a small portion of tamils in TN support LTTE. Majority of tamils sympathize with sri lankan tamils but are against the LTTE. Only the old and the poor tamils still remain in SL, most of them moved away from the country now. Eventually the sinhalese will wipeout tamils.
RE:LTTE problem: The root cause
by selven on Jul 31, 2008 03:03 PM Permalink
Since all of us seems to sympathize with the SL Tamils, what can be done to help these poor soul? We all seems to agree that if nothing is done, the Sinhalese will eventually wipe out the SL Tamils. We all seems to not totally agree with the LTTE, but being pragmatic- who can help these poor soul if not the LTTE?
RE:LTTE problem: The root cause
by ramabhadranS on Jul 31, 2008 04:18 PM Permalink
LTTE is not helping the Lanka Tamilians sir. They are aggravating the problem.
RE:LTTE problem: The root cause
by ramabhadranS on Aug 01, 2008 08:35 AM Permalink
There should be a discussion between Indian Central Govt., Sri Lanka Govt.,TN Govt., Norwegians and LTTE to amicably solve this problem. Without the input of TN this will not be solved since knowingly or unknowingly TN politicians support LTTE's terrorism in Sri Lanka. While appreciating the difficulties faced by the Sri Lanka Tamilians (for which they are also partly responsible)we must also remember that partition of the country or violence( state or otherwise)will never solve this problem.Further it must also be understood where a certain ethnic group has a majority of 75% of the population, they will enjoy some additional benefits (unlike in our own India, where the minorities enjoy more concessions than the majority!!).
