INDIA’S DEFENSE WEBSITE
SAYS INDIA SAVED THE LIFE OF TERRORIST LEADER PRABHAKARAN WHEN HE WAS
CORNERED
By Walter Jayawardhana
India’s Defense website admitted that the country saved the life
of the ruthless terrorist leader Velupillai Prabhakaran ,who later assassinated
their own Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, in the 1980’s interfering
in the internal affairs and violating the sovereignty of its Southern
neighbor, Sri Lanka.
The website said in the 1980’s when Sri Lankan troops surrounded
the terrorist leader in the Vadmarachchi area, in the birth place of
the terrorist leader, India sent a helicopter to pick him up and save
him from certain death.
The website said the government of India sent the rescue helicopter
from Hindon military base from the outskirts of the Indian capital New
Delhi.
It further revealed that the helicopter was sent through the South
Indian base of Thanjavur to pick him up from the tip of the Jaffna peninsula.
The Indian defense website without giving prominence to the historically
important incident , tucked it away in a different story of supplying
radars to Sri Lanka .
The Defense website said the radars were also ironically dispatched
to Sri Lanka to be used as defensive equipment against the terrorist
group’s newly acquired winged airplanes.
The website said, “Ironically, both radars were sent from the
Hindon military base on the outskirts of Delhi. This was the place from
where helicopters were dispatched via Thanjavur in Tamil Nadu to rescue
the LTTE leader V. Prabhakaran at Vadamarachchi on the northern tip
of Jaffna after the Sri Lankan Army had cornered him in the late 80s.”
Except the terse statement it did not say anything about the Indian
help for the terrorist group.
For a long time India has officially denied any involvement in terrorist
activities or interfering in the internal affairs of other nations.
In fact, it was against India’s publicly declared policy of “Panchaseela”
, the five virtues of foreign policy, one of which is non-interference
in the internal affairs of other nations. But even since the time of
Nehru, independent India’s foreign ministry has adopted Indian
hegemony over her neighbors as a basic policy. Practicing invasions
of smaller nations to bring under its indirect rule or made part of
the Indian union has in fact become part of the de-facto Panchaseela
and it has been described as brown imperialism. When , a pro-US President
came to power in Sri Lanka and laid the foundation stones for a capitalist
open economy during the cold-war days of Indira Gandhi, that’s
what made her very upset and led her to fund, arm and train Sri Lankan
insurgent groups. The training camps were established by the Indian
spy service
Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) , the country’s equivalent of
America’s CIA. The terrorist groups were trained in Indian army
camps all over the country. Refuting Indian denials first the India
Today magazine and then the Asia edition of the Time magazine exposed
the camps.
Under direct orders of RAW the LTTE was involved in terrorist activities
like exploding powerful bombs and massacres of civilians at places of
worship and central bus-stations in Sri Lanka in acts of destabilization
of the country. Indian official involvements came to a stop after the
terrorist group LTTE killed Rajiv Gandhi using a suicide bomber.
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