{"id":49677,"date":"2015-11-23T17:54:03","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T23:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=49677"},"modified":"2015-11-23T10:20:11","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T17:20:11","slug":"is-samantha-power-in-sri-lanka-to-resurrect-tamil-terrorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/11\/23\/is-samantha-power-in-sri-lanka-to-resurrect-tamil-terrorists\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Samantha Power in Sri Lanka to Resurrect Tamil Terrorists?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dilrook Kannangara<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

Absence of war in Sri Lanka has been a big problem for USA which had major plans for Tamil Tigers (LTTE) particularly for its sea wing \u2013 Sea Tigers. LTTE was one of few non-Islamic terrorist groups which made it extremely valuable for USA, much more valuable than Free Syria Army (also known as ISIS and ISIL) and Mujahidin (also known as Al Qaeda and Taliban) terrorists. Having engineered a regime change operation, the top US official will be in Sri Lanka to finance the writing of Tamil racist and separatist manuscripts against established history, push for dismemberment of the island nation, look for avenues to create a US base in Sri Lanka\u2019s north which can replace Diego Garcia and release terrorists to reignite war. Some US presidential candidates received money from pro-LTTE groups in the lead up to the presidential campaign in 2008.<\/p>\n

Useful Terrorists<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

It is a well established fact USA financed Mujahidin (also known as Al Qaeda and Taliban) terrorists to disrupt Soviet operations in Afghanistan. Today USA is financing and arming the Free Syria Army (also known as ISIS and ISIL) to disrupt Syria and Russia. US hand in financing China\u2019s Uyghur terrorists and Russia\u2019s Chechnyan terrorists is well known.<\/p>\n

When active, Sea Tigers attacked a Chinese vessel killing all on board (2003), hijacked ships of other countries, disrupted shipping (over 80% of Chinese sea freight passes through the Indian Ocean) and had the potential to disrupt Chinese shipping investments in Sri Lanka. Mysteriously Sea Tigers never attacked any of NATO countries and their shipping interests. They also spared Indian ships.<\/p>\n

If Tamil Tigers were not exterminated, USA could have used it to disrupt Chinese shipping as it now tries very hard in South China Sea and elsewhere in its \u2018China Containment\u2019 strategy. Another attempt was the \u2018String of Pearls\u2019 nonsense which the US state department created for the gullible in early 2005. USA hoped its fear mongering on India would get India to counter China in the Indian Ocean. That too failed. That is why USA is very keen to destabilise Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n

False Love<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

USA shared intelligence reports with Sri Lanka in 2007 to enable the Sri Lankan navy to destroy LTTE\u2019s floating weapons warehouses. In 2003, USA sold an outdated coastguard ship to Sri Lanka. In 2008, USA donated small fast attack crafts to Sri Lanka navy\u2019s Special Boat Squadron and Rapid Action Boat Squadron. Although these helped Sri Lanka rout Sea Tigers, the real reason for these false acts of kindness was to pre-empt China, India and Russia. Had USA not done so, Sri Lanka would have turned to China. LTTE floating warehouses were in the vicinity of US Diego Garcia base since at least 1998 (when the LTTE attacked a Sri Lanka bound Zimbabwe ship in the high seas). However, USA never thought it was useful to inform Sri Lanka for at least 9 years until 2007 when Sri Lanka was about to get Chinese weapons to destroy LTTE ships.<\/p>\n

In 2003 Sri Lanka navy leased 2 Russian warships from India. To prevent further Russian weapons incursions into the island (which would provide inter-operability to Russians), USA sold an old coastguard ship.<\/p>\n

Tamil Eelam and a Replacement for Diego Garcia<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Helping Tamils form their own nation within Sri Lanka achieves multiple US objectives. One of them is to re-base the US Diego Garcia base which was established through the genocide of Chagos people. The lease on the island expires next year (2016). Although it is likely renewed by Britain that occupies the island, the day is not far away when USA will have to leave the low lying islands either due to rising sea levels, public protests, rivals copying US action of occupation of islands or economic reasons from operating from a far away base. The action is close to the Asian continent, not 2,000km away from land. Billions can be saved and faster deployment also helps. It is also consistent with USA\u2019s pivot to Asia strategy. Therefore, USA is actively looking for an alternative. There is only one alternative to Diego Garcia \u2013 Sri Lanka. However, due to India, Chinese, Russian and local pressure, USA is unable to have a base in Sri Lanka. To overcome this, USA may plan to incite Tamil separatism, get an autonomous region created in the north (and the east), re-base its military base in the north \u2013 either close to Trincomalee or Jaffna. Given the indebtedness to USA and continuing fear of Indian and Sri Lankan retaliation, the new Tamil administration will have to allow USA. Demilitarisation of the north and east at the behest of US demands was done to remove any resistance to this hegemonic move.<\/p>\n

Conclusion<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

There is little Sri Lankan government can do to stop the US plan. However, other Asian nations particularly India and China will not tolerate militarisation of Sri Lanka by Tamil terrorists and US hegemonic armies turning the north and east of the island into a battle zone. USA is a waning empire on its last legs, but refusing to go down without a fight. Sri Lanka is once again entrapped into Cold War and Proxy War geopolitics which will produce a different winner to that of the last Cold War. Last time Tamils were made Indian pawns in its Cold War game which caused immense destruction to the Tamil community. Unfortunately, for Tamils, the lesson was not learnt. Becoming US pawns in the new proxy war will not bring them any good. Afghans, Iraqis, Libyans and Syrians are living examples of US\u2019s use-and-dump policy. Even Sri Lanka was left high and dry in 1987 to face Indian aggression despite aligning with USA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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