INDIA IS A FRIEND OF EELM PEOPLE OR SINHALESE PEOPLE. THEY GET THE BENEFITS FROM THE ETHNIC STRUGGLE IN EELAM.

You don’t need to be a rocket scientist to understand this. Just having common sense is enough

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They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. – Ben Franklin, 1755, to the Pennsylvania State Legislature. Those who seek small favours from the Sinhalese fall into this category.

The people of Asia were slaves, because they had not learned how to pronounce the word ‘no’. – Winston Churchill (citing Alexander the Great), in a radio address – 10/16/1938 . This applies to tamils in Sri-lanka as well as in India.
“Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.” — William Pitt . Why the Sinhalese are refusing the birth right of tamil is because of the necessacity to dominate another ethnic race.

“It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.”
–Albert Einstein. We know from folklore and history that human beings can do anything for money and bribes-even murder one’s mother as pointed out by DBS

Typical Response by Subra Massey – it is not Tamil Brutality but the Sri Lankan culture of Violence that has bred Tamils the way they are… For once take responsibility for your selves, stop balming everyone else, Tamils Kill Tamils because that is the culture you are breeding in yourselves,… the LTTE has been preaching Hate and Separation from its inception, and the Tamil Diaspora have been justifying and rationalizing these acts to their children. That is the Truth, nothing will change that so stop lying to yourselves.

At the trial, the evidence of Ms Maragatham Chandrasekar, Congress MLA who personally brought the Suicide Bomber Dhanu to the venue of the meeting, in her own car,and who “vanished” soon after the bombing, was NOT led.

Nor was the evidence of even a single one of the many Congressmen who received Rajiv at the venue, but carefully kept a safe distance behind and away from him when he walked ahead to meet the people – including Dhanu – who were waiting to meet him, led at the trial.
NONE of them were injured in the blast !
Sonia should be aware of all this, being the widow who must have closely followed the trial proceedings, but has so far not commented or protested about this !
India is not bothered about the lankan tamils as shown by their assistance to the lankan regime. India has many other important problems to contend with. India is not even bothered by the killings of tamil nadu fishermen by the SLNavy.

If the war is over, VP will have to make a declaration to this effect. He can not expect people to assume the war is over.

I do not believe India played tricks by setting up one militant group against another. There were many groups even before Indians were dragged into this conflict. India initially looked to the LTTE as the major group: RG met and sought corporation only from VP before he signed the ILA; agreed & paid multi million Rs to the LTTE for the maintenance of their cadres; argued and got the majority seats for the LTTE in the interim NEPC. Instead of strengthening the hands of Indians, the LTTE foolishly embarked on anti-Indian rhetoric (please listen to Thileepan’s speech outside Jaffna Fort 2 days before he started his hunger strike – for no good reason he declared that there was no difference between the occupation of Jaffna Fort by Dutch/British and Indians. RAW might have felt uncomfortable about this and looked for alliance with other groups.

GOI is not a charity shop; India has to take her interests into account when negotiating an international agreement such as ILA. A stronger and stable India would have only promoted the NEPC into a self-governing unit.

ILA received widespread international support and recognition: US Congress endorsed it; recognised by the UN and placed in the register.

It is not my intention to portray the LTTE as the pure villain; I am saying the LTTE is going down the wrong path and hurting our interests immensely.

Please do not ask me why Gaddafi was not charged by UK and USA. I do not run the Public Prosecution Office for these nations. The point I wish to put it to you: once one has been charged with criminal offence it is up to the individual to face justice to prove his innocence in the name of decency. Absconding and evasive behaviour will only complicate matters and isolate us internationally (LTTE has been already banned by India, US, Canada & EU).

Only the resurrection of the ILA or a Cyprus-style mechanism can bring peace, normalcy, stability and eventual political solution in the NE.

The current strategy of the LTTE is barmy and self destructive. The east has already gone out of our control. The LTTE needs a new leadership with a clear vision in this very difficult time. Having led the campaign for over 3 decades and sacrificed over 25,000 of our children VP is nowhere in finding a lasting solution. He ought to step down and permit people such as Bhanu/Yogi/Soosai to lead.

Thanks for your comments.

You also wrote:

“India also knows that, while leaders like R. Sampanthan have been forced to kowtow to the LTTE, Sampanthan, rather than Anandasangaree, would be the one true to Amirthalingam’s vision”.

Mr Samapanthan is a fine politician and a talented negotiator. In the mid 80s the trio of Amirthalingam, Sivasithamparam & Sampanthan enjoyed better access to the inner circle of the govt of India (GOI) than many Indian MPs and Junior Indian ministers. The situation has now completely changed. In the present scenario if Mr Sampanthan goes to New Delhi as the mouth piece of the current leadership of the LTTE the Indian authorities may not be interested in seeing him. The GOI does not want to do anything with the current leadership of the LTTE and we should have got this message loud and clearly by now. The LTTE leadership ought to make appropriate measures to become acceptable to the GOI – the alternative is witnessing endless fireworks by VP.