Please understand that the massive agitation by the masses in TN forced India to intervene politically in SL conflict. At the peak of 83 riots about 150 Indian MPs spontaneously went on a protest march on the streets of New Delhi demanding the GoI to intervene. In order to bring about a political solution India might have felt that she ought to give some limited military support to the freedom fighters in NE. There were demonstrations all over the major cities in the world. In London large number of Tamils demonstrated outside the IHC chanting “Mother India, intervene now”.

It was the barmy strategy of the LTTE that segregated us from India brought us to this dead end.

The LTTE has no option other than making a huge political sacrifice to win the hearts and minds of the people of India – if it wants to be a progressive force.

Mind you even Vajpayee govt did not contact the LTTE directly, only via Norway. Nevertheless, the LTTE should have made use of the last CFA to reconcile with India. But sadly the LTTE went on with its cheap anti-Indian rhetoric. The Jaffna LTTE commander who participated at the last peace talks in Geneva 2 yrs ago said in a public meeting, “We defeated the 4th largest army in the world and we are ready to meet any challenges from the Sinhala govt”. Utter madness!!

Please kindly study Delhi based journalist Mr. Narayan Swamy’s excellent article which has brought many new hidden facts to light at the right time.

We are now given to understand that India had been there always in open or behind the scene; no matter they have the mandate of the people or no.

The real politics here is that this concept of ‘people’s mandate’ is all empty talk. The Indian administration is run by bureaucrats and military strategists, RAW and IB men, no matter people of India voted for congress or BJP led alliances. One question, where and what mandate they had to train Lankan Tamil militants prior to 1987 in India? What mandate they had to provide arms to them? All in the interest of India, ok, well but let’s not talk about democracy and mandates. Nobody is pure here, let us understand and go by the real political conditions.

You wrote:

“you do not try to understand the point that neither VP nor RG are equal to hundreds of thousands of people”

There are two issues here. Since RG’s demise the vast majority of Indian people do not expect their govt to interfere in SL conflict. When there is no public mandate why an elected govt should should interfere? In the pre 87 era, the situation was completely different. The central govt was under enormous pressure by the will of the people to interfere.

Secondly there is a legal complexity for the GOI in directly handling the peace process. How can the Indian PM or his envoy directly engage with the LTTE whose two top leaders are convicted murderers of Indian nationals by the Indian judiciary?

If you have any rational answers to these questions please let me know.

“Immutable” means unchallengeable. I did not mean it. It is not correct. I have repeatedly told you. We are for change hence this discussion. Dear Indian Tamil Sir, you do not try to understand the point that neither VP nor RG are equal to hundreds of thousands of people. I am sick of commenting. May be because, I am a formal student. No matter about the administrator here. Ok, let’s agree to disagree.

I am Ms. Ganga

Dear Sir/Ma’m,

You too seem to have immutable stance on this issue.We agree to disagree.That is fine.

You are also under Administrator scanner.I included Kosova to make you realise that without engaging India ,creation of Eelam willbe in dire straits.Hence I stressed more on that watershed event .It is upto SL tamils to consider .

Dr.K C sir,

Thanks for your understanding.I may have expressed rigidly about Indian view.As rightly pointed out,Iam not a representative of Indian govt,but I reflected the stance of majority.After IPKF debacle MK didnot receive them.We Indian tamils were angry with central govt.Gruesome murder of Rajiv changed everything.Now MK is afraid of issuing a condolence message even.He has to refer supreme court orders on that.

If SL tamil address this issue,may result in India take part in peace talks and accrue max benefits to the tamils interms of devolution.RG’s case is the biggest hurdle for every Indian govt,irrespective of the party affiliations,to come out with pro-SL tamil views.

I express my sincere gratitude for considering majority view point of Indians.

It is you who has got the wrong end of the stick. I am sorry to tell you that Indian Tamil’s views simply reflect the mindset of the vast majority of the people of India. People of India from all four corners hate the LTTE that is led by VP & PA. I disowned the LTTE, the day its leaders were charged with the assassination of RG. VP & PA ought to give themselves up to the Indian authorities to face their charges; they can plead guilty or innocent so that justice can take its course. I embrace India as our fatherland in words and deed and I respect the India judiciary to the full.

This single barmy act by the LTTE brought its downfall. Only after this event, once the Indian judiciary found VP guilty, the USA banned the LTTE outright. The LTTE has been isolated by the major actors of the IC: India, USA, Canada & EU.

My anger is that the LTTE leadership sacrifices thousands of our young men and women to shield their leaders who are convicted murderers.

Unless the LTTE gives its full corporation in RG’s case to allow the justice to take its course, it will continue to be a regressive force and the ultimate losers are the innocent Tamil speaking people of the NE.

If you accept that you are RIGID and sitting rigidly on one single issue/event, Ok, that is your position.

But that way you are surprising me. If you are rigid, why you engage in discussions? Why write to blogs? Why waste other’s times?

I am not emotional. Come to think of it, it is you are emotional. Look at your comment on LTTE and Kosovo. We may or may not declare UDI.

We are not rigid. We are willing to change. So we are discussing. We discuss with GoSL, EU, USA, UN and with INDIA. You cannot stop this just because you are rigid. It is your problem. And besides you not INDIA. You are a person or may be a group persons. But you are not authority for INDIA.

It is for the Administrator to consider. Here is a person who refer to him/her as RIGID and write the same thing again and again and waste time and space of the fellow readers and the site.

I do not have any problem.Your Intransigent attitude is the problem.You are word-perfect in your analysis about Indian stand.Indian policy is just rigidly sitting on that one single issue/watershed event.

Please donot be emotional.If you donot accept ,you may disregard India altogether.What is stopping LTTE?.They may go ahead and declare independence like Kosovo.