{"id":63702,"date":"2017-02-23T23:35:32","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T05:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=63702"},"modified":"2017-02-23T16:23:19","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T23:23:19","slug":"indian-foreign-secretary-urges-tamil-national-alliance-to-unite-to-fight-for-tamil-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/02\/23\/indian-foreign-secretary-urges-tamil-national-alliance-to-unite-to-fight-for-tamil-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Foreign Secretary Urges Tamil National Alliance to Unite to Fight for Tamil Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"

I. de Silva<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

The Editor
\nNew Indian Express<\/span><\/p>\n

India<\/p>\n

Dear Sir:<\/p>\n

Re: Indian Foreign Secretary Urges Tamil National Alliance to Unite to Fight for Tamil Rights<\/p>\n

This is an example of blatant Indian interference in the internal affairs of Sri Lanka. India has been the regional bully for decades and it appears that Indian foreign policy for the region is based on the misguided notion that they can dictate to their neighbours. Is it ethical for a \u00a0foreign\u00a0representative to ask a particular ethnic group in Sri Lanka to fight for special rights? Should Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh,\u00a0Nepal meet with Indian representatives on issues such as Kashmir?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It is a well known fact that the TNA was and is the representative of the LTTE i.e.\u00a0Tamil terrorists which was a group created, financed and supported by India to destabilize Sri Lanka. This type of statement by the Indian Foreign Secretary indicates that once again India is supportive of LTTE \u00a0sympathisers and is giving them advice and support against an elected government.These representatives have been elected to the Sri Lankan parliament to\u00a0represent the people of Sri Lanka.\u00a0Why\u00a0does the Indian Foreign secretary believe that he needs\u00a0to represent them to the Sri Lankan government?.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Indian Foreign Secretary asks for the co-operation of the Tamil parties to promote “economic development of the Tamil speaking northern and eastern provinces”.\u00a0\u00a0Asking them to cooperate with India in the economic\u00a0development of the Tamil-speaking Northern and Eastern provinces indicates his racist, biased attitude and the reason for his support. He is using them to get for India\u00a0what it wants from\u00a0Sri Lanka.\u00a0India’s support of the LTTE \u00a0resulted in immense loss of life ALL\u00a0over Sri Lanka as well as damage to the economy of ALL Sri Lanka.\u00a0India is attempting to use the Tamil bloc to force an economic agreement with Sri Lanka which is detrimental to Sri Lanka but beneficial to India. The Tamil bloc sees India as a means to get their dream of a Tamil only state in Sri Lanka which was the goal of the LTTE. \u00a0 India is once again supporting their separatist agenda for India’s benefit. If India is genuine in it’s offer of promoting economic development it should be for all areas of Sri Lanka\u00a0and all communities\u00a0\u00a0not restricted to particular areas and one community.\u00a0Further, India should consider their “aid” as a form of\u00a0compensation for promoting terrorism in another sovereign\u00a0country not as a “gift”.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>As for the Indo-Lanka Agreement, \u00a0the 13th Amendment that followed\u00a0\u00a0and the demand for a merger of the Northern and Eastern Provinces as a pre-requisite for the Tamils accepting any constitutional set-up, he states that while it is true that the merger is a part of the India-Sri Lanka Accord of 1987, much water has flowed under the bridge since then, making the merger difficult “at this stage”. Why does he not state the fact that India did not fulfill its part of the Accord so it could be argued that the “Accord” was null and void. The merger is not difficult “at this stage” implies that it is legal and applicable. It is not applicable\u00a0now or at any stage and the sooner India clarifies this the easier it will be\u00a0for the Tamil separatist minded groups in Sri Lanka\u00a0to arrive at a settlement with the Sri Lankan Government without Indian mediation or interference.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Yours truly,<\/span><\/p>\n

I. de Silva<\/span><\/p>\n

Canada<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I. de Silva The Editor New Indian Express India Dear Sir: Re: Indian Foreign Secretary Urges Tamil National Alliance to Unite to Fight for Tamil Rights This is an example of blatant Indian interference in the internal affairs of Sri Lanka. India has been the regional bully for decades and it appears that Indian foreign […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ira-de-silva"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}