High Security Zones in the North: Tamil National Alliance and its request to India
Posted on September 27th, 2012
Asada M Erpini
Two cardinal truths that obviously cannot ever get inside the heads of the Tamil National Alliance politicians and their spokesmen are:
- Mr. Manmohan Singh is the Prime Minister of India and his remit is to handle the affairs of India;
- His Excellency Mahinda Rajapkase is the President and Head of the sovereign nation of Sri Lanka, entirely distinct from India, and he has been entrusted by the voting public of Sri Lankan to manage the affairs of the island nation.
Yet the Tamil National Alliance (TNA), as reported in The Island on 27 September, is planning to request the Indian leaders to urge the Lankan government to dismantle the High Security Zones in the North.
The Prime Minister of India does not have the authority to tell, advise or push the President of Sri Lanka on Sri Lankan affairs, especially those concerned with the security of the country. Of course the President of Sri Lanka, quite rightly, does not tell the Prime Minister of India, or for that matter the Head of any other sovereign state, how he should go about doing his business.
The whole world knows that the scourge of terrorism that destroyed Sri Lanka for nearly three decades originated in the Northern Province and grew into a cancer that ate into every aspect of the lives of Sri Lankans in all corners of the land, paying no heed to ethnic or religious affiliations of the innocent victims ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢¢”š¬…” schoolchildren, poor cultivators, pilgrims, office workers, etc. (There was terrorism that originated in the South in the 70ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s and reappeared in the 80ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s, but that was childƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s play in comparison to the ferocious campaign unleashed by the LTTE.) The tacit approval given by some and the open support provided by others, projecting the armed insurrection by a group of Tamils as a legitimate response and justified reaction to the alleged discrimination of the innocent Tamils by the majority Sinhalese ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢¢”š¬…” though hard facts revealed the complete opposite ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢¢”š¬…” helped perpetuate the mayhem until the armed forces were directed by the President of Sri Lanka to take the terrorists head on without going for pacifiers or half measures and sinister peace talks, which delivered the peace that the country had been yearning for.
TNA Parliamentarian Premachandran has stated that the civilians in the North cannot return to their homes because of the army presence. There are hundreds of acres that either belonged to the state or the civilians at some stage that are now occupied by the armed forces. Panagoda, Diyatalawa, Pallekele and Anuradhapura are just a few examples of locations where the armed forces are stationed in large numbers. Yet, we never hear of the non-Tamil civilians or their elected representatives ever complaining about the presence of the armed forces: in fact nearly everyone will be glad that there are teams of capable and disciplined troops close at hand to deal with any eventuality or give a helping hand when needed. If any change in the High Security Zones in the North is needed, it is only an expansion, and not any dismantling, by any stretch of imagination, to nip in the bud any future revival of LTTE activities.
The security of the country is of prime concern to all Sri Lankans, and the Minister of Defence and the Secretary of Defence with their team of defence advisors and defence strategists will decide where and in what strength the armed forces need to be stationed. The Northern Province and the Eastern Provinces are parts of the country over which the writ of the Head of State of Sri Lanka holds just as it happens in any other region. If there is a need to increase the number or expand the strengths of the current High Security Zones, all peace-loving Sri Lankans will wholeheartedly support such moves ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢¢”š¬…” it is too soon to forget the fear that paralyzed the entire nation when security matters did not receive the due attention allowing the LTTE to hold everyone to ransom.
It is time that the TNA and its spokespersons went back to their geography and politics classes that they probably attended in school: the sooner they refresh their memories that India and Sri Lanka are two separate, sovereign and independent nations, the better it is for all concerned.
September 27th, 2012 at 4:13 pm
It is time TNA and its voters go back to where they came from and belong – Tamil Madu.
If they want to lie in SL, LEARN to live WITH the GREAT SL ARMY.
September 27th, 2012 at 6:48 pm
TNA ” OUR SOULS ” WILL GET AN APPROPRIATE ANSWER FROM THE COURTS VERY SOON.
These fellows mothers must be Indians, eh ? Oh !! so that is why they always want to run to India. They do not belong to Sri Lanka.
This TNA Scum, has to be disciplined by the Forces, period. It appears that High Security Zones make them PEE too often.
September 28th, 2012 at 1:49 am
High security Zones in the North is result of the Tamil politician`s activities for the last 50 years.
They must change their minds according to the situations and circumstances in Sri Lanka.
Tamils who voted TNA only to remove Soldiers from the North and stop Non Tamil settlements in the North and east.
Situation show us the truth that TNA never consider about Poor Tamils or any other commuity in Sri Lanka.
They want to keep their Luxry life from misguiding Tamil commuity.
September 28th, 2012 at 4:12 am
Asada says : “here was terrorism that originated in the South in the 70’s and reappeared in the 80’s, but that was child’s play in comparison to the ferocious campaign unleashed by the LTTE’.
Why was that, when the Northern Tamil population is much smaller than the Southern Sinhala population ? It was because the Northern Tamils (ltte) were fighting for their freedom from a 3,000 yr old Caste System, whilst in the South it was for political ideology, and a less westernized, more equitable Class structure.
Also, by then the free education system and the British ‘divide & rule’ policy had enabled Tamils to go abroad at an early stage after Independence, and their point of view was heard abroad, resulting in the wider ramifications of the Northern Tamil fight.
When the Lanka armed forces went in to quell the infighting, the blame was laid squarely on successive governments & the armed forces as the cause of the problem !
Even to this day, the ‘upper caste’ controlled TNA hangs on to power by pasting the blame on others. They want GoSL ‘do battle’ with the Indian govt. whilst the TNA retains leadership of Tamils of Lanka.
* The crux of the problem is Caste based retaining of power in the Tamil political bloc. as it is in Tamil Nadu.
* The other problem is Illegal Migration of Tamils into Lanka from Tamil Nadu. Just about a month ago, someone prevailed on Indian authorities to request Lanka to remove the Navy from the Mannar area ! For what purpose other than to allow Illegal Migrants to pour into Lanka again as they have done for a long time ? There are hundreds of thousands of Illegal Migrants in Sri Lanka who ought to be deported. The more recent arrivals were during the time of the ltte hold of the North & East.
The Armed Forces of Lanka must stay on in the North & East, as it does in the rest of Lanka. The Navy unit in the North (Mannar especially), must be a permanent fixture as much as the Army units in the N&E. Most Tamils in the North have come to realise the truth of the matter, and prefer to have the armed forces around to stop Caste based infighting. India knows this only too well !
September 28th, 2012 at 6:10 am
High Security Zones in the North : Tamil National Alliance and its request to India !!!
What wrong with it ? TNA mean North is Kasmir (:-)
September 28th, 2012 at 3:51 pm
TNA is back in action in Kilinochchi.
People have been brainwashed by TNA when it knows UNHRC clowns will be here and UNHRC summit next month.
Some people brainwashed to demand self determination again.
Here we go again.
Government playing games with TNA without banning it. SL will pay a heavy price for not banning TNA.
September 28th, 2012 at 9:09 pm
Andy,
Good one. :))
September 29th, 2012 at 12:17 pm
“…Reports that pro-LTTE groups are getting the assistance of Maoist organizations in the country to revive the banned organization…” is only the Tip of the Iceberg!
It is not only from Maoist organizations that pro-LTTE groups … such as Vaiko’s MDMK … are getting funds from. They are getting funds from the Eelamist Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora.
If MYOPIC Indian leaders think that Maoist Naxalites and Muslim Kashmiris are a VEXING problem, they have NO IDEA of what an UNSOLVABLE TROUBLE Tamil Racism CAN SPAWN.
South India is where India places most of its Military Installations, Missile Test Sites, Military R&D Centers, Large Nuclear Power plants, and Industrial High Tech Parks, in the fond belief that it is the safest location in India for them … far away from those PESKY Maoists and Pakistan-funde4d terrorists. In fact, Dravidastan has become India’s Jewel-in-the-Crown.
UNIMAGINABLE FRUSTRATION & CHAGRIN will haunt the minds of Indian leaders when Dravidastan led by Tamil Nadu and driven by Racism, Anger and Intolerance against Aryan North India …. pulls the greater portion of India’s national infrastucture, technology, industry, and educational investments to date … consituting the JEWEL in INDIA’s CROWN … out from under the Indian Union into a separate Dravidian Nation in South India!
This has been the Goal of the INCURABLY RACIST Tamil Separatists from the very dawn of Indian independence in 1947.
The Eelam project in Sri Lanka …. the result of an unhappy nexus between myopic Indira Gandhi Govt and the Tamil Nadu racists … was designed in Indian Tamil minds to be the first phase of the Greater Tamil Nadu/Dravidastan project and to serve as a springboard for the larger latter project.
Now that the Eelam project in Sri Lanka has gone up in smoke because of those indefatigable unconquerable Sinhalese, they are trying to revive the main project: the breakaway of South India from those DAMNED ARYAN INVADERS in the North!
Driven by RACISM, underpinned by DEMAGOGERY, the Tamil Separatists will continue in their PERVERSE WAY to undermine and destabilize India in the foreseeable future.
For India this lesson in BOOMERANG aerodynamics is clear: those living in glass houses should not throw stones at neighbors … for the stones come home to roost!
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Sri Lanka’s defeated terrorist group still a threat- India
ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.
Sept 29, Colombo: The government of India says the defeated Tamil Tiger terrorist group of Sri Lanka, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), is continued to be a threat to the territorial integrity and sovereignty of India.
The Director of the Internal Security of India’s Union Home Ministry R. K Suman has told the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Tribunal in Chennai set up to evaluate the ban on the LTTE that the information the Central Government of India has indicate that the group continued to be a threat to the territorial integrity and sovereignty of the country.
“Though the LTTE has been decimated, there are reports to indicate that remnant LTTE cadres/leaders [are trying to] regroup and revive the organization in Tamil Nadu and elsewhere in India,” Suman has said in an affidavit filed before the one-man tribunal chaired by Justice V.K. Jain.
The official has pointed out that attempts are being made to revive the terrorist outfit using Tamil Nadu as a platform and several pro-LTTE political parties and organizations are receiving assistance for that purpose.
“The organization is capable of garnering local support in Tamil Nadu and several others parts in South India on account of linguistic, cultural and ethnic affinity. The LTTE continues to look at Tamil Nadu as a base for anti-India activities,” Suman has said.
The Home Ministry official has told the tribunal that there were reports that pro-LTTE groups are getting the assistance of Maoist organizations in the country to revive the banned organization.
“The LTTE, even after its military defeat, has not abandoned its goal of achieving ‘Tamil Eelam.’ The remnants of the organization have been clandestinely working by reviving [activities] locally and internationally and continue to propagate its agenda through various means.”
Meanwhile, at the tribunal yesterday the pro-LTTE Tamil Nadu political leader, the general secretary of the MDMK, V. Goplasamy aka Vaiko also presented his case calling to remove LTTE from the banned list of terrorist organizations in India.
The MDMK leader has told the tribunal that he wanted to know how many cases have been framed against the supporters of LTTE in the past 24 months and how many organizations have been branded as pro-LTTE organizations in Tamil Nadu.
The court has said that there were many cases but has not specified a number.
Vaiko is to place his arguments in the tribunal on Saturday for seeking revocation of the ban on LTTE.
The Indian government declared the LTTE a banned organization in 1994 after an LTTE suicide bomber assassinated former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1991.
The central government of India extended the ban on LTTE in May 2012 for another two years saying that it is necessary to declare the group as an ‘unlawful association’ since it continues to adopt a strong anti-India posture and pose a grave threat to the security of its citizens.
** Related Story :: MDMK leader Vaiko wants to lift India\’s ban on Sri Lanka\’s terrorist group LTTE
September 29th, 2012 at 1:12 pm
These LTTE terrorist supporters who still want to have separate Tamil country are all out to create international agitation and codemnation of Sri Lanka.
Why in the world is the Rajapaksa government still not taking action to make it illegal for a Sri Lankan to take matters concerning political sovereignty and integrity of the country outside Sri Lanka? This should have been done immediately after the war under a “Sri Lankan Patriot Act”. Still it is not too late, if there is a will. Do they have the will?
Just look at the US. They enter other countries without permission to kill their enemies in cold blood. We in SL tolerate all these nonsense! Come on Mr. Rajapaksa, it’s time to act with determination! Pass a law to make it illegal for a Sri Lankan to go outside the country seeking support from them to bring any threat to the territorial integrity and sovereignty of our country.
September 29th, 2012 at 1:20 pm
Let there be NO DOUBT that the Global Tamil Forum (GTF), like the TGTE and the TNA (in Sri Lanka) are Tamil Tiger FRONT organizations.
An Obama Victory is now looming as increasingly likely in the upcoming US Presidential elections.
As such, it seems likely that Hillary Clinton will continue as Secretary of State, and that there will be MORE PRESSURE on Sri Lanka, to assure future inflows of Tamil Tiger funds into Hillary’s political campaign coffers for a Presidential bid in 2016.
An OBAMA victory may also precipitate IMMEDIATE US military involvement to topple Assad in Syria, preceding a blitzkrieg war against Iran in 2013. Hold on to your hats folks, this is going to get ugly … again … very fast, very soon.
All LESSONS LEARNED to date from the economic disasters precipitated by excessive spending on OPTIONAL UNNECESSARY Foreign Wars, and the ELECTION PROMISES MADE to the American Voters will EVAPORATE into thin air, as the the the newly re-elected Obama, the Casesar, seizes the opportunity to cement his Presidential Legacy as a Victor in war by hanging Iran’s Scalp.
Every US President needs to LAUNCH and WIN a major WAR to join the pantheon of American Caesars… it seems. WOE & bSHAME to the LILY Livered Presidents who fail to wage and win in WAR!
May God Help the “true believers” …. the unemployed, the undernourished, the uneducated and the unsheltered US citizens … who voted for Obama as their Saviour.
Where EGO REIGNS KING there is no room for COMMON SENSE. Barack Obama & Hillary Clinton will wage duplicitous war in the guise of preserving “human rights and democracy”, to complete the economic destruction of the United States that George W. Bush initiated with his optional, unnecessary and unwinnable wars to “save the world from terrorism”!
Shortly thereafter, dear old Hillary Clinton will campaign as the “New Saviour” to rescue “Middle Class America” … YET AGAIN… in her own bid for the Presidency. At that time, I hope the US voters will remember who brought them to their knees on the Altar of Personal Ego in the previous eight years.
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LTTE in fresh ‘offensive’ ahead of Geneva confab
Now, Syria accused of adopting ‘Sri Lanka model’ to deal with armed groups
By Shamindra Ferdinando
Island.lk
September 28, 2012
A fresh LTTE initiative is underway ahead of Sri Lanka’s forthcoming Universal Periodic Review (UPR) at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva to press for an international war crimes inquiry.
The UPR was created through the UN General Assembly on March 15, 2006 by resolution 60/251, which established the UNHRC itself.
The UK headquartered Global Tamil Forum (GTF) is spearheading the campaign with the Tamil National Alliance (TNA), too, pushing for an international inquiry in line with the recommendations made by a three-member UN panel. The grouping supported US resolution, which dealt with accountability issues in Sri Lanka at the 19th sessions of the UNHRC in Feb-March 2012.
The 20th sessions are scheduled for March 2013.
In a related move, another arm of the LTTE, United States Tamil Political Action Council (USTPAC) likened the ongoing Syrian crackdown to the Sri Lankan offensive (2006-2009) which defeated the LTTE.
On the eve of his departure for the 67th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), External Affairs Minister, Prof. G. L. Peiris told The Island that the LTTE and those still supportive of its macabre cause wanted to punish Sri Lankan leaders for restoring peace. Commenting on allegations that the Tamil speaking people were still being persecuted even three years after the conclusion of the conflict, Prof. Peiris said that interested parties propagated lies. Regardless of the LTTE propaganda blitz, the international community now realised that the Tamil speaking people now enjoyed freedom due to the eradication of terrorism.
Prof. Peiris is leading the GoSL delegation at the UNGA due to President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s decision to skip the confab.
GTF spokesman Suren Surendiran countered an attempt by the GoSL to portray the grouping as an LTTE front organisation. The GTF, established in 2009 following the conclusion of the conflict in Sri Lanka, comprised representatives from 15 countries.
UK based Surendiran said that GTF delegation led by Rev. Father S. J. Emmanuel made representations to officials from the Republic of South Africa and Switzerland on 23rd and 24th September 2012, respectively, as part of the on-going engagement with foreign governments to highlight the enduring persecution of the Tamil people in Sri Lanka.
Meanwhile, USTPAC is closely working with a group of US lawmakers, sources alleged. Responding to a query, sources said that a group of 31 lawmakers had, at the behest of USTPAC, submitted a joint letter to US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton to implement the US resolution against Sri Lanka.
USTPAC made its move on the last day of congressional sessions before they went on recess for the November elections.
September 29th, 2012 at 2:09 pm
Ananda,
Thanks for sharing the good news.
Indian fools want us to talk to LTTE (TNA in SL) while they don’t!!
September 30th, 2012 at 1:35 pm
Proof of LTTE in Tamil Nadu submitted
By Express News Service – CHENNAI
September 30, 2012
The State Government on Saturday submitted before the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Tribunal an affidavit, and supporting documents, justifying the notification issued by the Union Home Ministry banning the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in the country.
The affidavit and supporting documents also contained information on banned groups, such as the Tamil National Retrieval Group, Tamil Nadu Liberation Front and Tamil Nadu Liberation army, all with alleged secessionist objectives, and their overt and covert activities. There was also evidence on cadre of some of these organisations who received their training from the LTTE in Sri Lanka and later sent back to TN.
MDMK general secretary Vaiko posed several questions through the judge to the officer, including if he knew about the dismantling of the PFLT, the political wing of the Tigers, as early as in 1991, when the LTTE was still a legal association in the country.
To this, the officer replied that the PFLT had not been officially dissolved and no communication to that effect had been made by leaders of the LTTE.
The officer also mentioned that one case has been filed under Section 10 (A) of the Unlawful Activities Act in Tiruchy since 2010. The next hearing of the tribunal has been posted to October 20 and 21 in Kodaikanal.
September 30th, 2012 at 2:01 pm
Liberation of the INGRATES!
ERADICATION of the LTTE by the GOSL made it possible for the former PUPPETS of the LTTE to enjoy FREEDOM OF SPEECH, which they now abuse pursuing the defunct LTTE’s agenda against Sri Lanka. Tamil RACISM continues to triumph in the absence of the murderous SunGod.
FREEDOM without RESPONSIBILITY is ANARCHY. What is required is to HOLD the TNA and the “Internet Democrats” of the GTF, LEGALLY RESPONSIBLE for their TREASONOUS activities, THEN & NOW.
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India trying to undermine post-war reconciliation says senior official
Media blitz influenced by decision makers
By Shamindra Ferdinando
Island.lk
September 29, 2012
The Sri Lankan government yesterday alleged that an influential section of the Indian media at the behest of decision makers there was making an attempt to undermine post-war reconciliation process.
The GoSL asserted that the one-time LTTE mouthpiece, the Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi a.k.a Tamil National Alliance (TNA), which in late 2001 declared the LTTE as the sole representative of the Tamil speaking people was spearheading the campaign here, whereas the Global Tamil Forum (GTF) pursued an international campaign.
A senior GoSL official was responding to The Hindu editorial of Sept. 28 titled ‘Plain speaking to Colombo’ and GTF appreciating India emphasizing the urgency to President Mahinda Rajapaksa in achieving lasting political solution to the Tamil National question.
The GTF issued the statement on Sept. 27 following its leader Rev Father S. J. Emmanuel making representations to South Africa and Switzerland as regards an international war crimes inquiry in Sri Lanka.
Having claimed a critical Indian diplomatic role in Sri Lanka’s defeat of the LTTE, the Indian media had asserted that New Delhi felt betrayed by President Rajapaksa’s failure to settle the Tamil National Question due to what it called Sinhala triumphalism.
The TNA decision to boycott the proposed Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC), too, was blamed on Sri Lanka citing the stopping of work undertaken by previous committees.
The GoSL said that it was unreasonable to compare President Rajapaksa’s initiative with any of the previous attempts. In fact it was not only unjust but foolish as all previous Sri Lankan and Indian governments had been forced to deal with the LTTE except at the onset of the negotiating process in the early 80s, when the TULF and several other Indian trained Tamil terrorist groups were involved.
Commenting on The Hindu assertion that the ITAK was skeptical about the PSC process, the official said that Trincomalee District MP R. Sampanthan’s party was in the limelight today thanks to the Sri Lankan military.
Recalling how the UK, France and India had intervened to stop the military offensive on the Vanni east front in early 2009, the official said that if LTTE leadership comprised Prabhakaran, Pottu Amman (intelligence chief) and Soosai (Sea Tiger leader) had survived, the international community wouldn’t have bothered with the ITAK/TNA.
The LTTE would have remained the sole representative of the Tamil speaking people, the official said. The formation of the GTF and the return of ITAK/TNA to active politics wouldn’t have been a reality without eradication of the LTTE’s conventional military power, the official said.
He reminded that the LTTE didn’t at least allow other Tamil political parties and groups, including the ITAK to freely engage in political activity even after the signing of the CFA under Norwegian auspices.
“Today two of the main beneficiaries of the LTTE’s destruction are demanding an international war crimes inquiry. On one hand, the GTF came into being due to eradication of the LTTE in May 2009. And on the other hand, the ITAK is free to take decisions on behalf of their people today. We challenge the ITAK to reveal just one decision it took without consulting the LTTE.”
“When the LTTE was running the show, the ITAK meekly accepted its orders. In the run-up to parliamentary polls in late 2001, MP Sampanthan called a media briefing in Colombo to declare the LTTE as the sole representative of Tamil speaking people. Then the ITAK had to allow the LTTE to decide on its nominees for the parliamentary polls.
“About a week ahead of the Nov 17, 2005 presidential poll, the ITAK called a media briefing in Kilinochchi on behalf of the LTTE to urge Tamil speaking people not to exercise their franchise.
“In May 2008, the ITAK didn’t contest the first Eastern Provincial Council election as it feared to earn the wrath of the LTTE. However, it contested the second election for the Eastern PC on Sept 8, 2012 due to absence of LTTE threat. Instead thanking the GoSL, the ITAK is today trying to play the LTTE role in a different way.”
The GoSL insisted that it didn’t need the Indian media to advice as regards the first election for the Northern PC. President Rajapaksa has assured that Northern PC poll would be held in September next year, the GoSL said. As a public announcement, too, had been made, there was no need GoSL’s part to give additional assurance to those acting as if the LTTE never existed, the GoSL said.
Issuing a statement from London, the GTF emphasized that only an international, independent investigation could secure truth and accountability, as recommended by the UN Panel of Experts in their report, in order to lay the foundations for meaningful reconciliation between all communities in Sri Lanka. In this regard, GTF would continue to engage internationally until justice is served.
Reiterating its commitment for a negotiated political settlement for decades long Tamil national question through a process of dialogue and engagement, the GTF said: “In this respect we are encouraged that as reported in the media recently, the Indian Prime Minister has emphasized the urgency to President Rajapaksa in achieving lasting political solution to the Tamil national question.”
Those who talk disparaging of Sri Lanka’s track record as regards the Tamil national question had conveniently forgotten how India created a monster in Sri Lanka in the 80s, the GoSL official said.
Responding to Tamil Nadu political parties’ position on the Tamil National issue and that of the center, the official said that India’s plight was obvious. Those leading protests against Sri Lanka had also interfered with the Indian judicial process as obviously revealed in the case of LTTE operatives found guilty for Rajiv Gandhi assassination not being executed.
Commenting on India throwing its weight behind the US-led resolution in Geneva at the 19th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Feb-March 2012, the official pointed out that the UN had made a spate of allegations targeting India over accountability issues. Interesting the position on India was made known soon after vote on Sri Lanka.
The UK based Channel 4 which produced two unsubstantiated documentaries, ‘Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields’ and ‘Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields: War crimes unpunished’ had telecast a similar documentary on human rights violations by the Indian government.
The Indian media and ITAK were playing politics with many issues, the official said. “A case in point is poaching in northern Sri Lankan waters on a massive scale by the Tamil Nadu fishing fleet. ITAK politicians, who criticize the GoSL for not doing enough for post-war economic revival of the economy in the northern and eastern regions, are silent on destructive bottom trawling operations by the Tamil Nadu fishing fleet. In spite of a large section of Tamil speaking people here depending on fishing, the ITAK is yet to take up this issue.”
September 30th, 2012 at 4:37 pm
At last someone in the govt has brains to see India-LTTE marriage.
Who said they divorced?
“Those who talk disparaging of Sri Lanka’s track record as regards the Tamil national question had conveniently forgotten how India created a monster in Sri Lanka in the 80s, the GoSL official said.”
Well said!
September 30th, 2012 at 4:44 pm
India is again working with LTTE.
If these clowns pose MORE threats to bloody India than SL, we should help Tamil National Retrieval Group, Tamil Nadu Liberation Front and Tamil Nadu Liberation army. Soon the Indian army will be fighting with Tamils!!
Divide them!!
October 1st, 2012 at 7:09 am
Can any sane person compare the Syrian & Sri Lankan situation to be the same ?
Sri Lanka war was against 30 yrs of Separatist Terrorism, whilst in Syria it is part of the ‘Arab Spring’ movement, their own choice in the matter. The ‘Arab Spring’ Movement does not divide their countries into separate states.
This bad/bought media trying to make trouble for Sri Lanka ahead of the next UNHRC sessions in 2012.