{"id":63742,"date":"2017-02-25T15:38:11","date_gmt":"2017-02-25T22:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=63742"},"modified":"2017-02-25T15:38:11","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T22:38:11","slug":"your-recent-discussions-with-tamil-groups-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/02\/25\/your-recent-discussions-with-tamil-groups-in-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"YOUR RECENT DISCUSSIONS WITH TAMIL GROUPS IN SRI LANKA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ranjith Soysa SPUR ORG\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

Attn Dr Subramanium Jaisahnker<\/p>\n

Dear Sir<\/p>\n

Ref yr recent discussions with the “Tamil ” representatives of Sri Lanka,<\/p>\n

1 Did you consider how ethical is to discuss internal affairs of a sovereign country with one\u00a0 section of the population?<\/p>\n

2 When most of the representatives you met were working closely with the LTTE which was fighting for a separate country,<\/p>\n

it becomes almost an undue intervention in Sri Lanka’s internal affairs.<\/p>\n

3 What would be India’s response if Sri Lanka opts to invite\u00a0 a team of politicians from Kashmir?<\/p>\n

(given below is a snapshot of present day Kashmir for your information)<\/p>\n

The Indian scholar\u00a0Pankaj Mishra\u00a0wrote<\/a>\u00a0in 2010: “Once known for its extraordinary beauty, the valley of Kashmir\u00a0now hosts the biggest, bloodiest and also the most obscure military occupation in the world. With more than 80,000 people dead in an anti-India\u00a0insurgency backed by\u00a0Pakistan, the killings fields of Kashmir dwarf those of Palestine and Tibet.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
New Delhi’s response to unrest is grotesque, including mass rapes, forced disappearances and more than 2,700 unidentified bodies in mass graves, documented by Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International.<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Recently, in a stunning admission, senior Indian Congress Party member Jyotiraditya Scindia\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0that there should be “plebiscite” in Kashmir.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, Arundhati Roy, renowned Indian Booker Prize winner, said in 2010 that Kashmir\u00a0has never been<\/a>\u00a0an integral part of India.<\/p>\n

We request you NOT TO ENGAGE with any Sri Lankan politician or organization TO DISCUSS INTERNAL AFFAIRS OF SRI LANKA in keeping with the accepted norms of diplomacy.<\/p>\n

Thanking you
\nRanjith Soysa
\nSPUR ORG<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ranjith Soysa SPUR ORG\u00a0 Attn Dr Subramanium Jaisahnker Dear Sir Ref yr recent discussions with the “Tamil ” representatives of Sri Lanka, 1 Did you consider how ethical is to discuss internal affairs of a sovereign country with one\u00a0 section of the population? 2 When most of the representatives you met were working closely with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63742","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=63742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}