{"id":43095,"date":"2015-04-13T00:12:56","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T06:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=43095"},"modified":"2015-04-12T16:59:26","modified_gmt":"2015-04-12T23:59:26","slug":"indian-high-commissions-response-to-the-islands-editorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/04\/13\/indian-high-commissions-response-to-the-islands-editorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian High Commission’s response to The Island’s editorial"},"content":{"rendered":"

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . Canada<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

12 April 2015<\/p>\n

Mr. Gaurav Ahluwalia<\/p>\n

First Secretary (Political) & Head of Chancery<\/p>\n

High Commission of India in Sri Lanka<\/p>\n

Colombo, Sri Lanka<\/p>\n

Dear Mr. Ahluwalia:<\/p>\n

What\u2019s all this eye-wash by you on behalf of your country India, when you said I am constrained to write this letter in response to your far-fetched editorial titled Arming Terrorists \u2013II issued the following statement that appeared in your esteemed newspaper on 2 April 2015.\u201d <\/em>\u00a0\u00a0The paper you refer to is Sri Lanka\u2019s The Island<\/em>, and I am glad that you recognized it as an Esteemed newspaper\u201d as it is indeed one, and that is why I trust the content of its editorial that you refer to.<\/p>\n

But, Ahluwalia, Shish, man! You seem to be forgetting the crass mischief and cunning that you Indians were up to some 32 years ago.\u00a0 And you Indians call yourselves, a good friend of our neighbour Sri Lanka, and which has been so for donkeys years,\u201d<\/em><\/strong> and yet screwed, bludgeoned and bloodied Sri Lanka in Geneva, not once, but twice twinning with the western nations who wanted to get at Sri Lanka for eliminating the ruthless \u2018Made in India\u2019<\/em> Tamil Tiger terrorists, the goose that laid their golden eggs filled with Sri Lankan-Tamil votes for domestic parliamentary elections.\u00a0\u00a0 Good neighbour\u201d, my foot.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t be so absurd, Ahluwalia.\u00a0\u00a0 That disingenuous notion doesn\u2019t cut mustard at all!<\/strong><\/p>\n

You need some nudging of your memory and let me help you with some facts.<\/p>\n

FACT 1.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 When Sri Lanka was haemorrhaging battling the ruthless\u00a0 serial-killer Tamil Tiger terrorists who were trained by your Indira Gandhi\u2019s Government in the early 1980s in almost 30 military camps in South India and some in the North, your Indira Gandhi\u2019s Government succeeded adding pressure upon countries friendly to Sri Lanka to withhold any military assistance to my island paradise, Sri Lanka.\u00a0 The motive of your Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was to destabilize Sri Lanka.\u00a0 That was Indira Gandhi\u2019s Indian Monroe regional doctrine at work.\u00a0 She wanted to sit on the throne as the Queen of India\u2019s regional conglomeration of small nations.<\/p>\n

Twenty Ambassadors stationed in New Delhi were summoned and were told very firmly that such assistance would not be welcome by India.\u00a0 By then the message was clear to the Sri Lankan government that the Indian subcontinent with its 800 million peoples carried more weight than this puny island democracy of just 15 million people, and that giant India was the region\u2019s Big Bully Boy!<\/p>\n

So Ahluwalia, let\u2019s cut out that rogue Made in India<\/em> eyewash of yours.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>FACT 2.<\/strong>\u00a0 On Monday, January 28, 1985, Canada\u2019s Globe and Mail<\/em><\/strong> published my letter challenging the defense of India\u2019s friendly attitude on Sri Lanka (Tamils in Sri Lanka<\/em><\/strong>, Dec.28, 1984) by your Mr. M.K. Dhar from the Indian High Commission in Ottawa.<\/p>\n

I wrote, I welcome the response by the Indian High Commission in defending its late Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, but I must point out that it was Sri Lanka\u2019s President Junius Jayewardena who approached Mrs. Gandhi to arrive at a political solution.<\/em><\/p>\n

One would have expected saner and more durable international relations from the Chairman of the non-aligned nations, but Mrs. Gandhi turned a blind eye on Sri Lanka\u2019s Tamil terrorists operating from camps on\u00a0 her Indian territory, and a deaf ear to representations by the Sri Lankan Government about these Tamil terrorists\u2019 hostile activities against Sri Lanka.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>Since her party was running third in Tamil Nadu, Mrs. Gandhi guarded crucial southern Tamil votes by averting her attention from the well-heeled Tiger\u201d terrorists who are still using southern India as their base to break up Sri Lanka.\u00a0 India has never acknowledged the presence of these<\/em> Tamil terrorists in Tamil Nadu, even though they stick out like sore thumbs.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

So Ahluwalia, let\u2019s cut out that insipid bucket of nasty irritant eye-wash of yours.\u00a0 It only tears my eyes to spit out dragon-fire anger at you Indians.<\/strong><\/p>\n

FACT 3.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 You Indians never acknowledged that you trained the Tamil Tigers on your soil.\u00a0\u00a0 But Indira Gandhi\u2019s Indian lie was exposed with the feature article Sri Lanka Rebels: Ominous Presence in Tamil Nadu<\/em><\/strong> in India Today<\/strong> of March 31, 1984, with photo illustrations.<\/p>\n

Wow!\u00a0 You damn liars,<\/em><\/strong> I said under my breath, and that\u2019s when Indira Gandhi was shamed as a\u00a0 God-damn liar.\u00a0 And Sri Lanka couldn\u2019t trust you lot any more as a good friendly neighbour\u201d as that sentiment was as disposable as a week old bunches of beef- kebab steel-hooked hanging from a Kolkata street food stall under a hot sun.<\/p>\n

So Ahluwalia, just give up trying to pull wool over our eyes.\u00a0 That is a bit stupid isn\u2019t it, after all what happened in the early 1980s.<\/strong><\/p>\n

FACT 4.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 Your statement addressed to the Editor of The Island<\/em><\/strong>, 6. The attempt to pin the blame for the decades of violence in Sri Lanka on India is condemnable and a gross<\/strong> distortion of fact,\u201d<\/strong> is sordid.<\/p>\n

Come on, Ahluwalia, stop trying to paint your Indian politicians of Lok Sabha and of Tamil Nadu, lily-white.\u00a0 For one thing the lily-white paint wouldn\u2019t stick on human-skin that is soaked in Made in India,<\/em> Cleansing Namaste Lying Oil<\/em> .<\/p>\n

It were Indira Gandhi\u2019s RAW who collected\u00a0 in late 1983, the barefooted Tamil guerilla\u2019s who couldn\u2019t shoot straight and missed their targets by almost 12 inches for military training to destabilize Sri Lanka.\u00a0 They were trained in armed combat, weapons training with 303, Kalashnikovs, revolvers, leopard crawl, monkey crawl, ghost walk, first aid, to use G3pistols, SLR, LMG, SMG, No.36 Browning Revolvers, rocket launches, 2\u201d Mortars, explosives, grenade throwing, Guerilla warfare, Military tactics, burying land mines, and so forth in camps at Parangimali, Salem Kollimalai, Kanjipuram, Meenabakkam, Sengalpattu,Valachcheri and Thanikramam and many more like in Deheradun at the foothills of the Himalayas.<\/p>\n

Strap yourself to your chair Ahluwalia in case you will feel like crawling under your Desk with embarrassment and shame when reading the following factual\u00a0 information how Sri Lanka\u2019s good friendly- neighbour, Indira Gandhi\u2019s India, was making an effort to screw Sri Lanka royally and destabilize her between 1984 and 86.<\/p>\n

Here are the camps in India that trained the Tamil guerillas (Tamil Tigers) which you tried to deny.<\/p>\n

LTTE\u00a0 (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) <\/strong>– 6 camps in the Districts of Anna (1 camp), Thanjavur West (1 camp), Thanjavur East (1 camp), Madurai (1 camp) and Ramnad (1 camp) of Tamil Nadu.\u00a0 The total strength of trainees in these camps was 495 cadres including 90 female Tigers.\u00a0 The camp at Sirumalai (Anna District) was the only camp where 90 female Tigers were trained together with 40 male Tigers;<\/p>\n

TELO (Tamil Eelam Liberation Oganization)<\/strong> – 5 camps were reported to be in the Districts of Ramnad (3 camps) and Salem (2 camps).\u00a0 There were a total of 233 male cadres undergoing military training in these camps;<\/p>\n

EROS<\/strong> (Eelam Revolutionary Organization of Students) cadres were trained in two camps in the Districts of Ramnad and Pasumpon Muthuramalingam districts.\u00a0 There were 8 male trainees in these camps going through a regime of physical and arms training;<\/p>\n

EPRLF <\/strong>(Eelam Peoples Revolutionary Liberation Front) cadres were trained in military camps in the districts of Thanjavur West (3 camps), South Arcot (2 camps), Trichy (1 camp) and Ramnad (1 camp) with a total strength of 73 male trainees who were trained in guerilla warfare, as well as physical and arms training.\u00a0 These camps reported to have possessed sophisticated weapons like Light-machine guns, as well a military transport vehicles as military training tools;<\/p>\n

PLOTE<\/strong> (The Peoples Liberation Organization of Tamil Eelam) was conducting training in 18 camps in the districts of Thanjavur West (11 camps), Pudukottai (4 camps), Tirunelvei East (2 camps) and Thanjavur East (1 camp).\u00a0 A total of 2,236 cadres in addition to 94 female cadres were getting trained in these camps.\u00a0\u00a0 The camps possessed transport facilities, boat and combat weapons.\u00a0 Predominantly, the training comprised guerilla warfare and also physical training, swimming and boat driving to create a Sea wing of the Tamil Tigers.<\/p>\n

And there were other assorted guerilla organizations like the Tamil Eelam Army (TEA), TELA (Kanthan Group), TELA (Rajan Group) and a few others who were given military training at Tamil Nadu camps.<\/p>\n

Ahluwalia, I think you should take a sip of water in case you feel choking and dizzy having been exposed to these facts that you are still in denial with.<\/p>\n

I hope you are not going to be that stupid again,\u00a0 being an Indian\u00a0 diplomat (First Secretary-Politics) at your Colombo Mission, or\u00a0 even if you are a non- diplomat who has the audacity to deny all these facts, and\u00a0 now feel embarrassed for\u00a0 being critical of The Island<\/em><\/strong> editorial.\u00a0 You just cannot wash off the film of Sinhala and Muslim blood from your palms having aided and abetted the Tamil Tiger killings of innocent Sinhalese and Muslims, by promoting to establish the mono-ethnic, racist, Tamil separate State of Eelam in the North and East of Sri Lanka for the Tamils.<\/p>\n

The first group that was chosen by your RAW for training in Tamil Nadu was the TELO (Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization).\u00a0 With your India\u2019s assistance TELO became a front line armed group, bombing and massacring innocent people, etc.<\/p>\n

After the military training and having graduated these barefooted Tamil guerillas as ruthless Tamil Tiger terrorists, they were sent back to Northern Sri Lanka carrying Kalashnikovs in their arms like babies, and with festoons of live bullets around their necks like floral blood red Hibiscus garlands around separatist Tamil politicians at political rallies, and stacks of paper money in their pockets.<\/p>\n

And you, Ahluwalia, better believe it and don\u2019t pretend that you are a babe in the woods, playing hide-and-seek among mounds of twigs and fallen leaves.<\/p>\n

After returning they started to kill innocent members of the Sinhalese fisher and farming folk,\u00a0 Muslims at prayer in mosques, detonating claymore mines at Street corners during rush hours to blow the innocent civilians to smithereens, blowing up bridges and passenger buses, trains and\u00a0planes,\u00a0 etc.<\/p>\n

FACT 5<\/strong>. Here\u2019s another fact that would rubbish another of your denials about your India supporting the Tamil Tiger terrorists to destabilize Sri Lanka in support of Indira Gandhi\u2019s Regional Monroe Doctrine.<\/p>\n

In the early-mid 1980s, Tamil Nadu\u2019s Chief Minister M.G.Ramachandran of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam<\/em> (AIADMK) and\u00a0 M. Karunanidhi the leader of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam<\/em> (DMK), beside giving the TELO and LTTE sanctuary pumped them with millions of\u00a0rupees for their cause of creating a Mono-ethnic, separate, racist Tamil state, Eelam, in the North and East of Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n

Haro\u2026hara!<\/strong>\u2026This is indeed a treacherous dishonest act by Sri Lanka\u2019s friendly neighbour, India. What piffle, Ahluwalia. As what is reassuring about the past of India\u2019s interference in Sri Lanka’s internal affairs is that all\u00a0of this\u00a0did happen, and you are still \u00a0in denial.<\/p>\n

The Fact remains, Ahluwalia, that India, Sri Lanka\u2019s good\u00a0neighbour armed the ruthless Tamil Terrorists, to destabilize her, and there shouldn\u2019t be any If\u2019s\u00a0or But\u2019s.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>I realize that you are an Indian diplomat, and you have to toe the Government\u2019s line of, Oh, no we wouldn\u2019t do it to our goodly<\/em> neighbour, Sri Lanka,\u00a0 we are innocent!\u201d<\/em> and in particular guard your job, even though the facts of India arming Sri Lanka\u2019s Tamil Tiger terrorists are staring at your face with ample disgust.\u00a0 But let\u2019s not be stupid by denying these facts anymore.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>FACT 6.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>In a document relating to Sri Lanka, released by the National Archives in London under the 30-year declassification rule says, Former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had asked her British counterpart Margaret Thatcher to stop helping Sri Lanka with military advice to crush the separatist Tamil Eelam movement in the 1980s.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Ahluwalia, tell me, why the heck should Sri Lanka want any more international enemies, when she has her friendly neighbour, India, standing behind her back with a katar in her right hand to cut her throat.\u00a0\u00a0 How can Sri Lanka trust you Indians any more?\u00a0 You tell me!<\/p>\n

FACT\u00a0 7<\/strong>.\u00a0 In item 4 of your criticism of The Island <\/em><\/strong>editorial, you say: Any rational person who has knowledge of India-Sri Lanka relations would be well aware of the fact that IPKF was deployed at the invitation of Government of Sri Lanka.\u00a0 IPKF was withdrawn when Government of Sri Lanka informed\u00a0 Government of India that IPKF\u2019s services were not required.\u201d<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 And your item 5, says Nearly 1200 soldiers and officers of the IPKF made a supreme sacrifice for the unity and territorial integrity of Sri Lanka.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

All what you say is non-plus, poppy-cock and sordid the way you twist facts to make you Indians look like martyrs and neighbourly angels.\u00a0 What nonsense.\u00a0 Here are the facts Ahluwalia.\u00a0 You may accept or reject them as you wish, but I advice that you be judicious, as you may eventually end up looking a Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who is the liar of them all\u201d<\/em> fool.<\/p>\n

Did I say, \u2026.you twist facts to make you Indians look like martyrs and neighbourly angels.?\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Of course, yes, Indian angels who took flight in Mirage 2000s screeching over Sri Lanka\u2019s Northern skies violating the air space of a sovereign nation and scaring the jeepers out of the country\u2019s President Jayewardena as you all did on June 4, 1987.\u00a0 What arrogance\u2026 India, what a bully flexing its strong guns carrying arms.\u00a0 This was the precursor to force the signature of Sri Lanka\u2019s\u00a0 President Jayewardena, on the India-Sri Lanka Peace Accord on 29 July 1987, with two Indian war ships parked in the waters outside Colombo to intimidate Sri Lanka.\u00a0 That was crude and pathetic, wasn\u2019t it?\u00a0 Worse than a High School Bully!<\/p>\n

The Indian angels who were on a humanitarian mission in Mirage 2000s were escorting five Indian Air Force Antonov \u2013AN32 Transport planes with 25 tons of food and relief supplies to drop them to 800,000 Tamils in the Jaffna peninsular that you all thought were in distress.<\/p>\n

It was when Wing Commander Subash Chandra Narula had raised his thumb when the Antonovs were over Jaffna Peninsular at sunset, the signal for the air force Sepoys\u201d to push 25 tons of supplies that\u00a0 came floating down under parachutes to land on the kabook ground.\u00a0 The drop was near a railway station 4 miles north of Jaffna city.\u00a0 The Sri Lankan Government called this insidious move a naked violation of our sovereignty.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Shish!\u00a0 All this aggression by Sri Lanka\u2019s friendly neighbour.\u00a0\u00a0 That friendliness is not worth a couple of masala wade<\/em>, that would satisfy the hunger of a destitute street person in Tamil Nadu.<\/p>\n

And so I wrote this letter to The Ottawa Citizen<\/em><\/strong> which picked up ink on June 24, 1987 titled Indian Bully\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>For some of us, it was a sick joke by bully-boy India to send unsolicited humanitarian aid to the Tamils of Jaffna\u201d (June 4).<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0When India is seething with poverty, misery, starvation and the impoverished\u00a0 sick, trying to feed the Tamil separatist terrorists doesn\u2019t seem right.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Sri Lanka should have unloaded the supplies onto Sri Lankan fishing boats flying the Sri Lankan Red Cross flags, tagged the consignments \u2013 Mother Theresa India\u201d, and sent them sailing off to the Indian shores.\u00a0 She certainly would have been happy to receive them, and so would have the starving sick Indians that she is caring for. Especially those in Tamil Nadu.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Ahluwalia, your implications that IPKF landed on Sri Lanka soil was by the invitation of Sri Lanka, and 1,200 of their soldiers made a supreme sacrifice for the unity of Sri Lanka is an unhealthy thesis.<\/p>\n

Come on, Ahluwalia, you seem to be an incorrigible joker.\u00a0 Are you trying to tell us that the forced Indo-Sri Lanka Peace Accord that was signed under duress by Sri Lanka\u2019s President Jayewardena on July 29, 1987,\u00a0 with a couple of Indian war ships parked in the waters outside Colombo, did not have a clause that India agreed to establish order in the North and East through a force dubbed the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF),\u00a0 and to cease assisting the Tamil terrorists.\u00a0 And that the IPKF would disarm the Tamil terrorists in 72 hours?<\/p>\n

Come on, you know it, don\u2019t you?\u00a0 And\u00a0 I am sure you studied the Indo-Sri Lanka Peace Accord like a child studying the alphabet, A,B.C.D\u2026, when you were assigned as the First Secretary (Politics) at India\u2019s Sri Lankan Mission in Colombo.\u00a0 Right, Ahluwalia?<\/p>\n

So the fourth biggest army in the world landed on Sri Lankan soil, code named Operation Pawan<\/em><\/strong>, to disarm the Tamil terrorists that India trained which they thought could be done in 72 hour and it was a military cake walk,\u00a0 Ha! The IPKF was in for a surprise,\u00a0\u00a0 The Tamil Tigers that India trained to destabilized Sri Lanka took them on and sent the IPKF back to India carrying 1,200 body bags of their comrades who fell in action.\u00a0 There was brutal fighting with their Tamil Boys whom they trained to fight the Sri Lankan Forces.\u00a0 What a turn of events!<\/p>\n

Were the Tamil terrorists good and diligent students of the Indian Army instructors in the 30 military training camps in mainly South India?\u00a0 Of course, they were.\u00a0 The classic battle was when the Tamil Tigers used the Helidropped IPKF\u00a0 10th<\/sup> Para Commandos and a contingent of the 13th<\/sup> Sikh Light Infantry for target practice shooting them when they were floating down in parachutes.<\/p>\n

Ahluwalia, being an Indian diplomat, I feel certain you were aware of this\u00a0 military incident which happened at mid night of 12 October 1987, when the Helidrop operation on the Jaffna University to capture the LTTE leadership at the Jaffna University Building which served as their Tactical Headquarters went awry.\u00a0 It was planned as a fast heliborne assault involving Mi-8s of the No.109 HU.\u00a0\u00a0 But, hey, these Tamil Tigers were trained to intercept intelligence information of the Sri Lankan armed forces.\u00a0 Sure enough’ they used their training to intercept your intelligence communications and waited for your flying angels to float down to pop them one by one as their target practice by dodging\u00a0 behind University buildings in the mid-night dark.\u00a0 This helidropped forces suffered significant casualties, with nearly the entire Sikh LI detachment of 29 troops falling, along with six para-commandos falling in battle.<\/p>\n

Well, Ahluwalia, if you say that these IPKF commandos made a supreme sacrifice to bring unity among the ethnic groups in Sri Lanka. I find your thesis hard to swallow.\u00a0\u00a0 Every one of those para-commandos\u00a0 and\u00a0 of the Sikh detachment would have been alive today if not for Indira Gandhi\u2019s arrogance\u00a0 poking her fingers in Sri Lanka\u2019s internal affairs.\u00a0 And over 27,000 Sri Lankan soldiers would not have met death at the hands of the Indira Gandhi\u2019s India trained Tamil Tigers, again if not for the hegemonistic-arrogance of Indira Gandhi wanting to train these barefooted Tamil guerillas in armed combat to destabilize Sri Lanka.\u00a0 And the Sri Lankan armed forces had no choice but to defend the lives of Sri Lankan citizens, the island\u2019s sovereignty and its territory with guns and bullets.\u00a0\u00a0 It may sound simplistic, but this is what happened in a nutshell.\u00a0 And that is how India\u2019s\u00a0 \u2018we will teach Sri Lanka a lesson cookie\u2019<\/em> crumbled.\u00a0 And that is the rub.<\/p>\n

Well, Ahluwalia, I hope this information opened your mind in what was involved in India\u2019s attempt to destabilize Sri Lanka, and wanting\u00a0 to appease M.G.Ramachandran an M.Krunanidhi of Tamil Nadu and\u00a0 wanting to hand over with, we are friendly neighbours\u2019 cunning, the North and East of the island to the separatist Tamils for their Eelam.<\/p>\n

And Rajiv Gandhi in his arrogant bombast did say in Madras, having forced Sri Lanka to sign the Indo-Sri Lanka Peace Accord on 29 July, 1987, that The Tamils got what they wanted and more.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

And now you know why your critique of The Island\u2019s<\/em><\/strong> editorial got my goat and rejected your eye-wash in toto.<\/p>\n

Sincerely,<\/p>\n

Asoka Weerasinghe (Mr.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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