Please do not say any more India is a friend of Sri Lanka.
Posted on February 18th, 2014
By Charles.S.Perera
India has a leadership problem. It is living in fear of disintegration, therefore the Government of India has become a prisoner of an old Tamil racist politician Karunanidhi , and a Tamil racist old film star Jayalalitha from Tamil Nadu. Both of them are full of hatred and without any sense of real politics. It looks as in India there is only Tamil Nadu, the rest of the country has been overshadowed by it. Where ever there are Tamil politicians there are problems, as Sri Lanka has learnt to its detriment.
Whether India could escape from this Tamilnadu trap to establish a strong government which could decide its foreign policies without having to depend on sentimental attachments of individual States to become a leader nation in Asia is doubtful. It appears nothing would change even with a new Prime Minister taking over reins of Indian government.
Already the manner in which a new Indian government would prepare its future policies has been announced by Vaiko- a racist politician from TamilNadu who has made the Sri Lanka Tamil issue his raison d’ªtre. He had said, “Bharatiya Janata Party’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi has assured that no military support would be given to Sri Lanka in the event of his party coming to power. ”
Vaiko has already prepared the ground for a future Indian Prime Minister to prepare his Foreign policy to suit TamilNadu’s political fantasy, keeping India a lackey of the USA and the West, without ever realising that India’s future is in association with China, Russia, Pakistan, Iran, and other Asian countries. India is a half hearted member of the SAARC.
We do not know what part India played in the elimination of terrorism, as it appears to be a well kept secret of the Government of Sri Lanka to be calling India more than a friend. In response to this exaggerated show of gratitude India’s Foreign Minister Salman Kurshid had rightly said that India is not Sri Lanka’s big brother but only a political partner.
If India had actively participated with the Government of Sri Lanka in the elimination of terrorism, it was also in the interest of India as terrorism in Sri Lanka had its fall out in India for which it paid dearly, which seems to be forgotten in Congress Party’s ambition for political existence.
For an outsider, India’s part in Sri Lanka’s war against terrorists did not show any friendly partnership let alone the understanding of a big brother. The few instances that showed India’s unfriendly intention of letting down Sri Lanka when ever a situation arises were when 40,0000 Soldiers were trapped in Jaffna without transport and about to be attacked by the terrorists, and an appeal to provide transport was refused by the India government.
It was thanks to Pakistan that provided arms that the army was able to drive away the terrorists avoiding an imminent disaster to the Sri Lanka armed Forces.
Secondly it was when India sold a second hand outmoded radar system to Sri Lanka which could not detect the terrorist planes that bombed the airport in Colombo, and thirdly it was when India refused to sell arms and forbade Sri Lanka buying arms from China. Finally when India stepped into the portals of world leaders it forgot the neighbour and voted against Sri Lanka along with USA and the rest of the Western buddies at the UNHRCounil Sessions, and now tells India was never Sri Lanka’s big brother, but only a political partner.
Time has come now to strike off India as a friend of Sri Lanka, and call a spade a spade as partnerships in war are temporary and soon forgotten after wars. India always had an expansionist interest vis vis Sri Lanka and nothing else, and was never a friend or even an honest partner if it had any hand in the terrorist war. India promoted terrorism in Sri Lanka with RAW training Tamil youth from Sri Lanka in terrorism in special camps set up in India with instructors to train them.
It was only when India realised that Prabhakaran cannot be satisfied with promises and small hand outs and asked for more that India became conscious of the fact that in training a group of Tamil youth from Sri Lanka in terrorism, it had in fact created a Frankenstein which had gone out of its control. The first victim of that error was Rajiv Gandhi India’s Prime Minister.
Karunanidhi of TamilNadu played a principle role in the assassination of Rajiv Ghandi, but paradoxically it is Karunanidhi and Tamil Nadu that still keep India under their thumbs. India has also become a puppet in the Hands of USA and the West subjugating its sovereignty to the prestige of being amoung the high and mighty big wigs of the West, even if USA were to denude its women diplomats for body checks.
India is politically so swollen headed in being with the USA and the West it does not follow the other South Asian Countries in international forums despite its membership in the SAARC. At the previous 22 session of the UNHRCouncil in Geneva, from amoung the Asian Countries present it was only India and South Korea that voted against Sri Lanka.
India more than any one else knows that Sri Lanka did not commit any of what the USA and the West accuse Sri Lanka to have done at the last phase of military operations against terrorism. But India yet continues to stand with USA against Sri Lanka to please Tamil Nadu politicians whose only political vision is the Sri Lanka Tamil problem of which they know nothing except that the Tamil terrorists were eliminated.
India now says, “… the Mahinda Rajapaksa government has done precious little on the ground. It is dragging feet on implementing recommendations made by the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) set up by itself. ” India knows what Sri Lanka has done for the welfare of the Tamil people of the North and East, having even obtained the right to open a Consular Office of India in the North.
Even if Sri Lanka were to implement 100 per cent of the LLRC report, USA and the West will still not be satisfied, as their agenda is the separation of the North and East to set up an American marine base for its Pacific Fleet in the Northern seas of Sri Lanka to control the influence of China and Russia in that part of the sea.
India has not even a good neighbourly relation with Sri Lanka and will continue with its expansionist intentions. Therefore Sri Lanka should take precautionary measures, in cutting down its political relations with India.
Salman Kurshid had told a visiting group of Sri Lanka journalists, ” We are in an election mood. In election time it is not always easy to explain to people.” Lanka should do things that will enable India to help it”. He has added, “…. While everyone realises that a 30-year conflict cannot be resolved overnight, Lanka cannot take 30 years to bring about reconciliation,…. Sri Lankans will have to find means to satisfy the world, while convincing the world that it needs more time to find its own solution at a pace and in a time frame convenient to it. ”
India does not understand that USA and the West take action according to a prearranged agenda of bringing developing countries under their control to retain their political leadership in the world. Therefore they will continue political manoeuvres even to set up governments in other countries, as it was recently reported:
US State Department Assistant Secretary for Europe and European Affairs Victoria Nuland was caught on tape last week confirming that the U.S. is now openly spending 5 billion US dollars to effect ‘regime change’ in Ukraine.Nuland told Geoffrey Pyatt, the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, she had discussed the plan with U.N. Undersecretary for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman and that he would appoint a U.N. representative to help move it forward.
And who is this Jeffrey Feltman? A career American diplomat, Feltman served as the most senior State Department official on the Middle East from 2009 moved from US Foreign Service in May 2013 to take the United Nations Number Three job, Undersecretary General for Political Affairs. (http://www.asiantribune.com/node/70986)
India wants to implicate Sri Lanka, and will vote for the USA resolution against Sri Lanka, and even help the TNA to set up the Tamil Eelam State. DMK of Karunanidhi has already instructed Indian Central Government what it should do: “The Centre should not fall prey to the Sri Lankan government and should stand by the U.S. when the resolution against the Sri Lankan government for its human rights violations is moved in the UNHRC.”
Sri Lanka can do without India. The Government of Sri Lanka should proceed with long needed actions which had been withheld for what ever reason, such as the removal of 13A from the Constitution, demanding the closing up of the Indian Consular Office in Jaffna, and initiate criminal action against the TNA as the agents of the LTTE terrorists for the crimes committed by them for 30 years. These actions had been withheld perhaps in order not to embarrass India. To-day the situation has changed.
The 13the Amendment to the constitution should have been removed immediately the Indian Peace Keeping Force left the Island. The 13 Amendment was included into the Constitution under the Indo-Lanka Pact. The agreement in terms of that Pact was for the IPKF to disarm the terrorists, and for Sri Lanka Government to implement the proposed 13 Amendment to the Constitution. The Indian Government in withdrawing the IPKF without having disarmed the terrorists breached the Indo Lanka Pact.
Hence the Government is no longer bound to keep the 13 Amendment in the Constitution, even if it has already been implemented. The implication of the breach of the Indo-Lanka Pact should be studied by our legal luminaries in terms of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties of the 23 May,1969, and legal proceedings should be initiated for a court order to remove the 13 Amendment from the Constitution of Sri Lanka.
Secondly, The Government of Sri Lanka should demand India to close the Indian Consular Office in Jaffna. It was the Indian RAW that was responsible for the training of the Sri Lanka terrorists, therefore the presence of an Indian Consular Office in Jaffna is a security concern.
Furthermore, Jaffna which was the centre of terrorist activities in Sri Lanka. It is still not completely secure from terrorism as TNA the Political Party that has formed the Provincial Council in the North was a proxy-party of the terrorists. They continue promoting terrorism or terrorism like activities, such us not allowing the Sri Lanka flag to be hoisted at ceremonies, not Singing the National Anthem in Sinhala, and promote separatist propaganda demanding the construction of monuments in memory of the dead terrorists. Therefore the presence of India’s Consular Office in Jaffna is all the more a security risk.
Thirdly, the TNA had been allowed to carry out unconstitutional activities without a word raised against them without even a warning for whatever diplomatic or political reason. But now Sri Lanka is being accused by the USA and the Western Countries for no other reason but for the elimination of terrorism. The TNA is largely responsible for instigating, fanning the flames of terrorism, and providing false evidence to the USA and International Community to accuse Sri Lanka as a violator of human rights and responsible for war crimes.
Even the wife of the former terrorist Ellalai, Ananthi Sasitharna is a member of the TNA and a Council Mermber of the NPC. She has given false evidence to American Ambassador at Large Stephen Rapp and the Assistant Secretary of State for South Asian Affairs Nisha Desai Biswal. Though she is now speaking for the rights of the women in the Northern Province her husband Ellalai was the recruiter of Children for the terrorist armed force.
The Government should now proceed to take criminal investigations on the members of the TNA for the role they had played during the period of terrorism.
Fr. Vimal Tirimanna CSsR wrote in the Island of 18 February,2014:
“TNA was proxy to the LTTE for nearly a decade. As such, since the LTTE is no longer in existence, it is the TNA that should be held responsible for the terrible atrocities committed by the LTTE because they were accomplices to all those crimes. If the government is to be held responsible for the alleged ‘war crimes’, then for far worse terrorist crimes of the LTTE, the TNA should be held responsible by any “international community”.
The Government of Sri Lanka should stop further bilateral trade agreements with India. Sri Lanka should increase bilateral trade with Pakistan, China, Russia, Vietnam, S.Korea, Iran and Bangladesh.
Our Minsters should stop calling on the Ministers of India to discuss internal affairs of Sri Lanka as it had been happening in the past. The government should not extend the visa on arrival facility to Indians. Government of Sri Lanka should refuse training of Sri Lankans in South Indian educational or Military Institutions.
Sri Lanka should stop calling India is a friend of Sri Lanka.
February 18th, 2014 at 1:58 pm
Who is calling India is a friend ?
Sri Lanka cannot talk. It is a country, a community, a nation.
Only some buggers call India is a friend.
February 18th, 2014 at 2:30 pm
Who are these buggers calling India is a friend? Spineless head of the state. We can cry our eyes out. Sri Lankan politician’s inferiority complex no wonder filthy Indians are walking all over Sri Lankan teritorial integrity. Shameles and spineless corrupt politicos are the biggest problem to the Lanka lovers. When will they ever learn? Colombo, Kandy, Hambantota and Jaffna are being held by Indian consulates. Who is answerable for that? Why do we need Indian s… all over the Island? No sinhalese employed in the North. Who is responsible and answerable to that? Whenis the GoSL going to settle the displaced 243000 Sinhalese in the North. GoSL is too quick to provide 100,000 Kallathonis inthe North with ID cards. Our Sinhala politicians are the worst enemies of the Sinhala people. Maduluwawe Sobitha is the only answer to Sinhalaya’s burning issues.
February 18th, 2014 at 2:44 pm
Apart from the fact that the 13-A should have been removed as the IPKF failed to remove the LTTE and thus made the Indo -Lanka Pact void, the 13-A is null & void as it was imposed under Duress. That is what the law would say in any court in the world. The 13-A was forced on Lanka by India during the Cold War times, and therefore null & void.
Re military aid form India : Who needs dud equipment ? Someone had written earlier (was it Aloy ?) that even some Indian computers he has bought are giving troubles in a short time of use.
Ever since Tamil Nadu leaders had their breakaway aspirations thwarted by PM Nehru’s Anti-Secessionist Law (1962), Tamil Nadu has remained the main place to visit by foreigners, after they visit Delhi. Tamil Nadu remains a proven hostile place for Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka had better recognize all this and protect the Land and the People by implementing the 6-A and removing the 13-A. Also deport all illegal migrants from Sri Lanka.
February 18th, 2014 at 2:47 pm
Now some brainless buggers going to visit South Africa to learn their model.
Continuing with the bloody foolishness.
There was no terrorist war in South Africa. How many suicide attacks there ?
They will say no crimes committed as in Sri Lanka.
February 18th, 2014 at 2:52 pm
Politically speaking, it suits Delhi very well to keep Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka in a hostile space. Delhi is doing the ‘divide & rule’ bit from the British times here ?
Delhi had trouble with breakaway Tamil Nadu. If TN is friendly with Sri Lanka and both TN & Lanka are friendly with the west, then Delhi has to cope with a big area that is west friendly. So, ‘divide & rule’ – that way, TN and Lanka are both handleable.
February 18th, 2014 at 4:06 pm
If known devil is better than the unknown, lets see if the known devil is of any use to sinhala buddhists. Certainly the known devil has turned out to be a useless devil. So why not try the unknown devil for a change. Food for thought.
February 18th, 2014 at 4:17 pm
There is another issue why India is not a friend to Sri Lanka. Rooted deep into the psyche of the Hindu population is the world’s second longest epic the Ramayana where Sri Lanka is portrayed as the nation where the evil Ravana lived and where he kidnapped the consort of Lord Rama. Embedded in this epic is the virtues of Lord Rama and his consort Sita whose chastity was questioned after Lord Rama with the help of another Hindu God, the monkey God Hanuman and his flying monkey soldiers INVADE and rescue Sita from Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka plays a pivotal role in that epic which is more popular than the longest epic in the world, the Mahabharata. On many articles regarding Sri Lanka which appears in the Times of India it is not uncommon for Indian commentors to bring up this epic and the fact that the demon king Ravana was a Sri Lankan. This is the mindset of Valmiki who is credited for writing the Ramayana. This epic is so popular in Southeast Asia it has been translated into Islam and Buddhism and the play is enacted across Indonesia and each time it is Sri Lanka is portrayed as the “evil nation”
Taking into consideration the many invasions Sri Lanka faced from the Tamil kingdoms one might question whether this central epic had some psychological effect on the Hindus. There are similar examples where certain people or cultures have been demonized in other holy books. The Bible is replete with such condemnations and Christians take it as the word of God. In contrast there is no other epic or story in India that portrays Sri Lanka in a favorable light. This is amplified by the fact that no other nation is mentioned as a friend or foe. In the eyes of the majority Hindus Sri Lanka is the home of the Demon King Ravana and the Sinhalese are descendents of them.
February 18th, 2014 at 6:13 pm
Known Devil is RuinNil. MR is no devil. He undid the devil but now getting swallowed by an Hypothetical Devils ( called FEAR).
February 18th, 2014 at 6:14 pm
There is need for concrete action not abstractions limited only to statements, submissions at world bodies etc. Buy, burrow or make the deterrent. Then everybody will respect us. N. Korea is a case in point.
Instead of using present and future generations money on expressways which only a small percentage of citizens will enjoy, use those funds asap to get that deterrent that would safeguard our existence as a sovereign nation.
February 18th, 2014 at 6:19 pm
Rama – already dead, killed by Hanuma
Sita – this one was actually kidnapped by Rama from italy ?
Hanuma – VP ( already dead)
Ravana – no way he can be tried for war crimes.
February 18th, 2014 at 8:21 pm
“Even if Sri Lanka were to implement 100 per cent of the LLRC report, USA and the West will still not be satisfied, as their agenda is the separation of the North and East to set up an American marine base for its Pacific Fleet in the Northern seas of Sri Lanka to control the influence of China and Russia in that part of the sea.”
THIS IS THE POINT!
Our FOOLS don’t realize it.
WHATEVER we do, USA, EU and ENDIA will be against us.
We should NOT do things that HARM us.
US, EU and ENDIA want us to cut our own hand with the LLRC BS so that we become WEAKER. Then it is easier for them.
February 19th, 2014 at 4:53 am
Charles: I would have expected you to tell us what Mr. Milinda Moragoda who was sent to meet the Indian Authorties by our President discussed and conveyed back on his return. Perhaps, it is too early to know.
Anyway, we know who this person is and what role he played when he was a Minister in the UNP cabinet. We also have not forgotten the role he played during the CFL Agreement signed by Mr. Ranil Wickramasinghe and Prabakaran. Now he is playing the role of an “EMISSARY” of our President to India. Do we know why? OR We have no “right” to know?
February 19th, 2014 at 5:07 am
Milinda went to India to tell you are not our friend ?
February 19th, 2014 at 5:52 am
Further BAD NEWS from Endia.
Now Rajiv killers are released and the barbarians are coming to Jaffna!!!
Toiletnet calls them “victims”!
These terrorists MUST be eliminated upon landing in SL.
“Tamil Nadu government decides to release 7 victims in Rajiv assassination case
[TamilNet, Wednesday, 19 February 2014, 08:03 GMT]
The Tamil Nadu Government, in a suo motu statement to the State Assembly on Wednesday said it has decided to release the 7 prisoners, now imprisoned to lifetime in Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. The decision comes as the Indian Supreme Court on Tuesday decided to commute the death sentence on Murugan, Santhan and Perarivalan to life imprisonment. In the meantime, the family of Thilliampalam Suthenthiraraja (Santhan), one of the three victims, thanked the people of Tamil Nadu and the global Tamil community for their struggle for the release of the innocent victims and said their only hope now was the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Ms Jayalalithaa. We will never forget the supreme sacrifices of Chengkodi and Muththukkumar seeking justice, the family said from Jaffna.“
February 19th, 2014 at 6:15 am
Why form MORE western Naval Bases in the Indian Ocean when two exclusively western Defense Bases already exists ?
Diego Garcia
Summary
Airport Naval Air Facility
Owner United Kingdom – British Territory
Diego Garcia is located in Indian Ocean
Diego Garcia
Location of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean
British Overseas Territory British Indian Ocean Territory British Indian Ocean Territory
Total Population: 4,000
Diego Garcia is a tropical, footprint-shaped coral atoll located south of the equator in the central Indian Ocean. It is part of the British Indian Ocean Territory(BIOT).
The atoll is approximately 1,970 nautical miles (3,650 km) east of the coast of Africa (at Tanzania), 967 nautical miles (1,790 km) south-southwest of the southern tip of India (at Kanyakumari) and 2,550 nautical miles (4,720 km) west-northwest of the west coast of Australia (at Cape Range National Park, Western Australia). Diego Garcia lies in the Chagos Archipelago at the southernmost tip of the Chagos-Laccadive Ridge — a vast submarine range in the Indian Ocean, topped by a long chain of coral reefs, atolls, and islands comprising Lakshadweep, Maldives, and the Chagos Archipelago. Local time is UTC+06:00 year-round (DST is not observed).
The United States Navy operates Naval Support Facility (NSF) Diego Garcia, a large naval ship and submarine support base, military air base, communications and space-tracking facility, and an anchorage for pre-positioned military supplies for regional operations aboard Military Sealift Command ships in the lagoon.
Chagos
Mauritius sought to regain sovereignty, lost to the UK in 1965, over the Chagos Archipelago. Between 1968 and 1973, the Chagossians, then numbering about 2,000 people, were expelled by the British government to Mauritius and Seychelles to allow the United States to establish a military base on the island. Today, the exiled Chagossians are still trying to return, claiming that the forced expulsion and dispossession was illegal”.
February 19th, 2014 at 6:15 am
Why form MORE western Naval Bases in the Indian Ocean when two exclusively western Defense Bases already exists ?
Diego Garcia
Summary
Airport Naval Air Facility
Owner United Kingdom – British Territory
Diego Garcia is located in Indian Ocean
Diego Garcia
Location of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean
British Overseas Territory British Indian Ocean Territory British Indian Ocean Territory
Total Population: 4,000
Diego Garcia is a tropical, footprint-shaped coral atoll located south of the equator in the central Indian Ocean. It is part of the British Indian Ocean Territory(BIOT).
The atoll is approximately 1,970 nautical miles (3,650 km) east of the coast of Africa (at Tanzania), 967 nautical miles (1,790 km) south-southwest of the southern tip of India (at Kanyakumari) and 2,550 nautical miles (4,720 km) west-northwest of the west coast of Australia (at Cape Range National Park, Western Australia). Diego Garcia lies in the Chagos Archipelago at the southernmost tip of the Chagos-Laccadive Ridge — a vast submarine range in the Indian Ocean, topped by a long chain of coral reefs, atolls, and islands comprising Lakshadweep, Maldives, and the Chagos Archipelago. Local time is UTC+06:00 year-round (DST is not observed).
The United States Navy operates Naval Support Facility (NSF) Diego Garcia, a large naval ship and submarine support base, military air base, communications and space-tracking facility, and an anchorage for pre-positioned military supplies for regional operations aboard Military Sealift Command ships in the lagoon.
Chagos
Mauritius sought to regain sovereignty, lost to the UK in 1965, over the Chagos Archipelago. Between 1968 and 1973, the Chagossians, then numbering about 2,000 people, were expelled by the British government to Mauritius and Seychelles to allow the United States to establish a military base on the island. Today, the exiled Chagossians are still trying to return, claiming that the forced expulsion and dispossession was illegal”.
February 19th, 2014 at 6:18 am
Releasing some prisoners & commuting sentences in the the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case :
Tamil Nadu trying to erase the past to make amends prior to Indian elections and the probable change of govt there – hoping to get a slot in the new govt too ?
February 19th, 2014 at 6:01 pm
“DOGS BARK BUT MOUNTAINS DO NOT SHAKE” – This is what MR is telling us.
“Feb 19, Colombo: A three-member delegation comprising Commander of the Indian Southern Command Lieutenant General Ashok Singh has arrived in Sri Lanka on a five day friendly tour.
The Indian Commander and the delegation called on Sri Lanka Army Commander Lieutenant General Daya Ratnayake at Army Headquarters Wednesday (19) evening.
The Indian Commander has received a comprehensive presentation that elaborates Sri Lanka Army’s present day roles as well as training modules in the newly-established Army Training Command (ARTRAC) at Diyatalawa which is identical to the ARTRAC of the Indian Army, the Army said in a statement.
The Indian delegation has provided insight to further support fine-tuning of Sri Lanka’s ARTRAC since it provides training support to soldiers in all facets of development and dissemination of concepts and doctrines in the art and science of warfare.
The two commanders have discussed matters of relevance to both Armies as well as further enhancement of training slots in both organizations.
Lieutenant General Singh has also called on the Chief of Staff at Sri Lanka Air Force Headquarters, High Commissioner of India and Chief of Defence Staff.
The visiting Indian Army delegation also laid floral wreaths at the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) memorial at Sri Jayewardenepura, Battaramulla and paid their respects to the fallen officers and soldiers of the IPKF, who served in Sri Lanka fighting against the Tamil Tiger terrorists.
During IPKF operations against LTTE terrorism in Sri Lanka in the period from 1987 – 1990, a total of 1,138 Indian Army personnel were killed in the north and east while fighting with the Tigers. Another 2,762 IPKF soldiers sustained injuries.
The Southern Command is one of the oldest and the largest Army units in India. “
February 20th, 2014 at 4:21 am
My enemie No # 1 is India then US,UK,EURO etc So it should be for all Sri Lankans because they helped,Financed,Trained,Gave sanctuary to world class terror group LTTE to destroy our land of FREEDOM,UNITY AND PEACE. I will never buy any Indian made or have any Indian friends or visit that shit country. That is my opinion. we cannot learn anything from India same like from other western countries. We have a beautiful culture,We have a beautiful religion,We have a beautiful system and everything is beautiful except politicians corruption. The Indian politicians act nowadays like they own our country. England thinks that we are still under their feet. US is always a bully and a gun slinger who kills first and talk later. We must be like venezuela Be tough to these white beggars. I stand tall likewise I beg all my Sri Lankan brothers and sisters to stand tall agaisnt the mighty world powers. If we stand together we can overcome all our problems and I am sad when I see some of our own Sinhala and Tamil scavengers do evil things to our homeland together with our enemies for few green bucks. I wish them death by any means for destroying our freedom and peace.
February 20th, 2014 at 5:01 am
ranjit,
What happened was that LANKA was overly friendly with the west for INDIA’S liking during COLD WAR times ! Before that INDIA had PM Nehru’s Panchaseela approach to Sri Lanka.
It was the COLD WAR politicos that ruined Sri Lanka’s good relations with the rest of the world, and continues to do so, even after the COLD WAR finished off (supposed to have) in 1991. All this plus the TAMIL CASTE WARS (imported from Tamil Nadu)
nearly broke our back.