Lots of people have been killed in Sri Lanka in the name of peace war. Sri Lankan army is celebrating the victory today. A body was found in the previously LTTE controlled part. Sri Lankan army is speculating it may be prabhkaran's body. Report says 300 LTTE members committed suicide when the Sri Lankan army surrounded them yesterday.To me the biggest mistake that LTTE made was killing India's Ex-priminister- Rajiv Gandhi. Report was saying that he was going to lose the election that was held on 1991. LTTE suicide bombers, Gayatri and Dhau on May 21st 1991, carried out the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi. That created a sympathy wave for congress (Rajiv Gandhi’s party) that year and a big anger and hatred wave for LTTE. LTTE was branded as a terrorist group. It lost all the support from Tamilians living in Tamilnadu. Talking and supporting LTTE became a Taboo in India and Tamilnadu.
Sri Lanka president picked a correct moment to destroy the LTTE. Tamils in Tamilnadu cannot ask for the Indian government support to stop the war against LTTE because congress party currently runs Indian government and LTTE killed their leader. Prabahkaran, the LTTE leader is on wanted list by Indian government. So Indian government would be happy to see the end of the LTTE.
So what is next? During the war Sri Lankan government was saying that if India would intervene to stop the war they would go to China and Pakistan for support. Now that is not going to happen because war is over without any Indian government involvement. Indian government may have more leverage over the Sri Lankan government now than before and they started doing some humanitarian help to people affected in the war. Indian government may insist the Sri Lankan’s government to proceed for the peace talk with other Tamil leader in Sri Lanka to get better recognition for Tamils in Sri Lanka. We will see what is going to happen. It is very hard to predict. LTTE may regroup later on and will slowly get their territory back in Sri Lanka.
What so ever, LTTE is a terrorist group. Use of weapons can never be justified in cases of dire injustice.
ReplyDeleteWhat is the bottom line in all this is the clear plight of minorities in a country, be it Sri Lanka or India or Malaysia...
Pathetic. As correctly observed, the biggest mistake made by LTTE was to kill the ex.PM of India.
ReplyDeleteWhatever it is, sufferings of the innocent people should be looked into in a more humanitarian way.
To add on, lets look at another view too.. When we feel so much for Lankan Tamils, one must definitely wonder why do we set double standards.. Extreme Nationalist view is pro-majority. As a case, BJP seems to be hard on minority Muslims in India. When we the Indians have voted BJP to power once and that too on the backdrop of Gujarat riots, how can we justify our stand of being against the Lankan Army's civil war against speratist movement? All said and done, war is said to come along with loss of lives or atleast creation of refugees. The number of casualities in Lanka is 6k odd (Frontline), and this pales in comparison with the number of civilians evacuated from the war zone (2 lakh odd)..
ReplyDeleteWhen we still have admirers of Hitler, BJP or the US' war against terror, we have no rights to cry for the Tamils in Lanka....