Indian Game and Changing Stripes
of Tigers
To Manamohan Singh: Sir, We did not Blast the Amritsar Golden Temple!
Tilak Dias
When LTTE terrorists go to Western Capitals to tell their grievances
and collect fund to set off suicide bombs in the name of liberation
of Tamils, LTTE is a Christian Tamil minority group fighting against
the domination of the majority Sinhalese Buddhists. Often times they
have become so successful in delivering this message that Western media
like Associated Press (AP) reports the same way as LTTE packages it.
On the other hand, when the same LTTE terrorists go for military aid,
political backing, and fund raising in India, they are a Hindu Tamil
minority fighting against a government dominated by Sinhalese Buddhists.
So reports the mainstream media such as Press Trust of India (PTI).
Once this spin and twisting gained the ground, the second iteration
of repackaging the news takes place with the collective zeal. At this
stage, mainstream media join with LTTE Web portals like the TamilNet
and some useful idiots in Sri Lankan media who make a living out of
feeding the foreign press. As a result, when Sri Lankan military is
operating close to a church, it is reported in Western Capitals as Sri
Lankan military is bombing Catholic or Christian churches. So the God
fearing Western Capitals do not mind investing in blowing up of Sinhalese
Buddhists that they turned blind eye up until recently to LTTE funding
apparatus. Similarly, both the mother and the son Indira and Rajiv Gandhi
did not mind training, financing, and providing wherewithal to blow
up Sinhalese Buddhists.
Australia for instance, is still pondering whether to proscribe LTTE
as a terrorist group. Is this not mind-boggling? Because Bin laden killed
3,500 in the World Trade Centre attack in 9/11 and the entire Western
Hemisphere understandably took up arms against all Muslim fundamentalists.
On the other hand, Prabhakaran and his ruthless terrorist outfit has
killed and maimed more than 150,000 Sri Lankans over three decades.
Yet western countries (Australia, EU, and the rest) are still debating
whether to proscribe these Terrorists. Oh! they are Sinhalese and of
course Buddhists atheists. Unfortunately though, the Western Capitals
and Ne Delhi both are yet to realize that they have financed blowing
up of everybody: Christians, Buddhists, Hindus and some nihilists too.
Because Sri Lanka had been a multiracial country since its origin unlike
countries in the West, which recently embraced this multiracial concept
out of economic necessities.
Any objective analysis of Sri Lankan society will show the world that
every religion and ethnic group coexist in the country in peace and
harmony. Of course there have been politicians with bankrupt minds and
myopic vision. These idiotic politicians-belonging to all ethnic groups-from
time to time have propagated their pea-brained ideologies at the expense
of racial and religious harmony to gain political advantages. They are
universal.
Nevertheless, the Sri Lankan government has recently set an example
by liberating the Eastern Province from the clutches of terrorism and
establishing a civil administration within a very short period of time,
which even the "coalition-of -the-willing "could not achieve
in Iraq. Is this not a good enough an example for the so called "international
community" and the countries like Australia that are still pondering
whether to ban LTTE or not and also for those who hold Sri Lanka for
ransom saying "no-talk no-aid." At this crucial juncture what
Sri Lanka should do as a self respecting sovereign country is to say
to those countries who preach peace and wage war "we will take
care of our people and we do not need your aid" and to form alliances
with countries that understand the civility and the pain of a bleeding
society due to terrorism. And also to move away from the advice of those
countries who try to divide others into "Banana Republics"
while consolidation their bases (i.e. EU helping Germany to reunify
and ripping the Yugoslavia into pieces).
Be self sufficient in food and shelter and educate its children so
that growth will come after the malignant tumour is removed. Finally,
to Manamohan Singh: Sir let us solve our problem just the same way Indira
Gandhi solved the Sikh Separatism in Punjab.
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