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Indias Concerns Over The Granting Of Broadcast Rights To The LTTE Coincides With The Security Of The Nation.

India which has been Sri Lanka's historical ally for generations, apart from the infamous ancient Dravidian invasions which categorically are the origins of Sri Lanka's problems with the LTTE has unequivocally expressed serious concerns to the UNF Administration about the granting of a broadcasting license and the permission to purchase sophisticated equipment to the LTTE's clandestine Voice of Tigers whose name alone coined with the given adjective 'clandestine' simply suggests a No No! albeit the push by a misguided Administration continuing on its path towards betraying the Sinhala Nation. India certainly recognizes with great perception along with all opposition parties, the dangerous implications of the complicity which it tantamounts to so why not the blinkered Administration? ere it's too late to detract from the ills of such a move?

India has officially raised the issue with great concern through the Indian Foreign Minister who met with the Prime Minister who has responded to India with indications of the usual soft pedalling mentality the world has come to recognize together with his creased smile and has brushed it off saying that the range of the broadcast will be limited with no respect to the principle involved nor the possibilities of such broadcasts being directed to the Tamil Populated South Indian State of Tamil Nadu which is India's primary concern and possibly encompass a much wider range whic not only compounds the gravity of such concessions but also endangers the entire region!.

Furthermore there is no priority for such permission and approval to broadcast as the objectives of the LTTE are blatant and unhesitant in what they envision as their push towards an ill gotten advantage over the Sinhala Nation through a rather myopic Leadership and equally ill visioned cohort of sidedkicks such as the Prof.G.L.Peiris which has invoked the former Foreign Minister Kadirgamar to vehemently express his concerns also, on behalf of the Nation that the moves being orchestrated by the UNF Administration in collaboration with Norway and the LTTE are intended to hoodwink the People of Sri Lanka and a realty which is unfolding, as the Peace Process continues to carve inroads into the very existence of the Sinhala Nation.

There seems little doubt that the Government is unable to construe the semantics and the technicalities of granting permission to broadcast, to the LTTE as basically the nature of the equipment despite assertions that their range is limited is easily upgradeable to a greater level of sophistication which could entail broadcasts not only to India but to the World and given the track record of the LTTE it is a well known fact that their broadcasts are far from being cultural and represents the highests level of separatist propaganda which if given further assistance could re-kindle and foment further fires of hatred and anguish which could easily lead to further conflagration.
The equation of the Peace Process relative to the Sinhala Nation thus far conceived now not only entails a division of territory in the North and North East through a proposed veiled Federalism which has raised high hopes in the tiger camp that they are on the path towards their goals but now also grants a voice towards a high level of propaganda which the LTTE without a semblance of doubt are likely to take advantage of aided and abetted by the Government and upholding the principle of the translated Sinhala adage "Providing Ladders to Jumping Monkeys "

High Frequency Briadcasting Equipment has laready been transfered in great secrecy to the LTTE with hardly any dues or duties levied under a shroud of secrecy accompanied by a denial to the Indian Government of its details and consequently a security breach to all of South East Asia looms. One which could also be affected by the inroads the LTTE could gain towards their cause through the possesion and the right to use the power to transmit their idealogies whilst they remain an outlawed and banned organization and the point to ponder upon is "what motivation does the Government have and on what rationale does it base its decision on?" especially in view of the waiving of levvies and dues and a certain hurried mentality amidst great secrecy to grant the approval by-passing customs, diplomatic norms and other formalities all of which indicate a rather imposing perspective on the objectives behind such a move!

Once again the Government has indicated that it is willing to gamble with the security of the Nation in granting unnecessary and risky concessions to an outlawed organization still in the quest for secession and the propagation of their partisan objectives and one which very nearly destroyed the Sinhala Nation and if this is not cause enough for higher authority to step in and quell the dangers being imposed on the Nation, one wonders what is?

India's Concerns as expressed have a degree of validity to it which by far invalidates and replaces a felt need for the LTTE to be granted Broadcasting Rights which not only makes a mockery of the principle of an Independent Democracy but also raises concerns about the future of the Sinhala Nation.

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