Now we know why India is not part of the UN's security council with veto powers.
India lost it's territory to China,
India lost part of Kasmir to Pakistan,

If Tamils' cause is hijacked by Tigers, then Indians' regional power cause is hijacked by Ghandi family.
:-)

India must intervene now, Barbaric sinhala state covering under cover of war against terorrism(mad bush policy) Trying to kill all tamils. Best option for india separate tamils from idiotic sinhala rule. Sinhala masses never going to use their upstairs. They will ruin their country and tamil ealam.
AGAIN TAMILS MUCH BETTER OFF THEIR OWN COUNTRY.

It’s unfortunate that policy making ‘Narayanans’ are indifferent to Eelam Tamils’ current plight. Such a great power that gives excuses for not acting can’t become a superpower.

Professor, I must caution you. Although you write the truth and "tell it exactly like it is" I am afraid in the growing culture of intolerance today
you are prejudicing your chances of your regular visits to Sri Lanka. Those of us who worked with you and benefitted from your enormous knowledge of Sri Lankan history will be denied all this from now on. Your article will be in his desk by now - courtesy the local Gestapo. Don't forget a "big man" here running the show threatens "if you don't agree with us you are a traitor and I can send you to prison" And you know he has done it to several personally known to you. The Sri Lanka you knew that conformed faithfully to all aspects of international norms of the rule of the law and justice is no more. It is now "either you are with us or against us" The man is simultaneously a military prosecutor, judicial officer and jailor. Just ask Tissanayagam. And this man thinks this is a divine task entrusted to him. As a historian you know what happens when small minds seize to themselves tasks far too deep for them.

ISS

Another trick in trying to save Prabhakaran!

Various different leaders from J.R. to Premadasa to Chandrika to Ranil Wickeremasinghe had ceasefires with LTTE and offered peace talks. Lastly, Ranil made a genuine effort to offer a lasting peace deal for LTTE. But, Prabhakaran not only defeated him in the last Presidential election, but also opted for a military solution by indirectly helping to elect the current President Mahinda Rajapakse.
LTTE would call for a ceasefire when they are in trouble, but go on the offensive when its advantageous for them. As a resul this war has taken over 70,000 lives and lasted for over 25 years.

If some one wants to STOP the gotv. offensive now, by bringing accusations against it like genocide, war crimes, civillians trapped etc. etc., then that person actually wants Prabhakarran saved!

If these critics who called for ceasefire cared so much for the lives of innocent Tamils, then why don't they do everything to assist the govt. with or push the govt. to make the lives of the Tamil civilians who have already crossed over to the cleared areas better?

Why do those who call for a ceasefire now, including this writer, only care for those who are trapped in the "no fire zone"?

Is it that, in actuality, they care for these trapped innocent Tamil civillians OR they care for their terrorist leader Vellupilah Prbhakran's life???

I ask them to come cleaned and speak the TRUTH!

Thank you.

Calvin Cricket,
I don't know who you are. There are two types of Sinhalese.The communal blood minded ones. if you are one of them ,you have no place in this way of sharing of opinions.you have one opinion and because of that you bury the country in blood for years. To answer you there is LTTE.Because you created the LTTE.If no LTTE there will be another.IT will continue
But another type of people.They don't know anything about the Macro politics.Their life is around their surrounding problems, like earning learning and living.They read the newspapers they know what they are told.To them this ethnic problem is a nuisances.They don't Know the past-history, or future ,analysis.They are living in a environment created by the Mahinda government.According to them ,there is no Tamil problem, ltte is the cause of many problems in the country ,It is the disease they are terrorist,wiping out them bring the glory to the country.
If you are one of them, you are being cheated.It took 25 years to lose 70000 lives.Mahinda is speeding it. that is the different.nothing else.while he finish his term of presidency you may write here "the war has taken 1500000"
Already it has had thousands of lives from beginning of this year.Other than that you dont gain nothing from your so called "victories".Only you are creating more more black tigers.Already number of Tamil people all over the world kill them selves being unable to bear the loss of lives.Tamil are experiencing this trauma. they dont react it immediately.After some years their reaction may be a bomb blast.
Think the escaped cricket players underwent psychological counselling and the papers are describing their traumas.How did you treat them?.How do you treat the people from vanni.To save whom are you fighting, while neglecting the deaths?.Save the Sinhalese? by killing Tamils?.Genocide!
Who cares the boy sitting in the foto?. When will he react?
Find the TRUTH inside your mind.

What is the point in appealing to India, when the whole exercise of the Srilankan government is done with the active colloboration of the Indian establishment? Even now there are reports that the Indian commandos have encircled Manalaru forest area and firing taking place at Tiger positions using Multi Barrel Rocket Launchers from Pulmoddai, the base of so called medical camp. Indian prime minister has written to Vaiko that Srilankan government is being given assistance to preserve its integrity. Indian government has provided military and monetary support to the ongoing operations.

From the sinking of eight and odd LTTE ships in the midsea onwards Indian goverment has provided intelligence and other services actively to the Srilankan offensive. When its technical support personnel got injured in the war zone, it came out in the open. Reports appeared in Tamilnadu press regarding the dispatch of tanks and around 3000 army personnel to Srilanka. Recently a Srilankan minister openly acknowledged in the parliament that but for the Indian support, the military's 'victories' could not have been achieved.
And Sivashankar Menon went to Colombo and gave a statement that relations between both the countries were at their best!

The actual extent of the Indian involvement could be debatable but not its existence. During the seventies, at the peak of JVP insurgency, such clandestine Indian military involvement was done at the request of the then Srilankan government.Till now it has not been officially acknowledged by both the countries, but remains as a open secret.

The present Indian establishment has an equal role in the ongoing genocide of the Tamils at Vanni along with the Srilankan government. Only hope is that with the change of guard at the centre after the elections, whether the new setup could be influenced by the Tamil lobby to take up a favourable position towards the issue.

The author has spoken the truth but not the whole truth. The current predicament of the Vanni Tamils is not the direct consequence of the Military push by GOSL. LTTE has herded the civilians from Mannar district through Kilinochi then to Puthukudiyiruppu and now in a narrow coastal strip, subjecting them to the direct fire from the armed forces. LTTE has not only moved the civilians deep into the conflict zone but also kept them away from any humanitarian assistance. LTTE has conned Tamil civilians that it is the sole protector of them and finally at the crucial moment let them down very badly.
While GOSL has a vested responsibility to safeguard its citizens LTTE has moral responsibility to move its people away from the harms way which they fail to do. For GOSL, territorial sovereignty has to be restored by defeating LTTE; which the author will acknowledge that India is in full agreement. The assumption of the author and many others is that it is mandatory GOSL should act responsibly while LTTE can be excused for being a rouge organization without any responsibility towards its people for whom it claims to be fighting for.
Safeguarding the trapped civilians requires two pronged approach. GOSL should cease its hostility immediately and LTTE should accept its defeat and surrender. Further resistance by LTTE will continue to shed more lives of both fighters and civilians. (Had LTTE accepted the Indian constitutional solution proposed by Rajiv Gandhi, by now we would have saved 30, 000 lives and a prosperous Jaffna peninsula. LTTE’s firm believe that a military approach will yield Tamil Eelam has caused that many lives).
It is never too late to save the remaining lives of the Tamil civilians in Vanni if LTTE acts responsibly towards its people as much as GOSL does towards its citizens.

Dear Author, haven't you heard that innocent Tamil civilians are moving in large numbers into the government controlled areas whenever they get an opportunity and that they are treated well by the armed forces who receive them? Doesn't it make it clear that only LTTE is trying to trap the civilians in the war zone? Please ask someone/anyone to apply pressure on LTTE to let the people go wherever they want to.

As to how long India can remain silent the answer is “can’t say”, but no doubt that India will try to be silent until the LTTE is wiped out completely.

We have serious sympathy about the way of Prof. Equal to Brutalize LTTE to SL government. Mr. Prof. If you want to escalate this problem in to another 05 decades write like that. Please try to understand who are the LTTE.....

Can u able to prove about the daily basis killing of 40 to 100 innocent Tamil People by SL army?. At least by photos?

Thushara

India should remain silent. Why should they interfere with internal matters of independent sovereign country Sri Lanka. This so called professor's idiotic ideas shouldn't come out had he remained silent. He must be from India and thinks it is "BIG" to Sri Lanka. Sri Lankan army (SLA) has surrendered ruthless terrorists which even IPKF was unable to do. We feel that this idiotic writer has some personal grudge against Sri Lankans to call SLA "ruthless". Do not worry Sri Lanka has other regional powers like Pakistan and China who are actually genuinely helping to eradicate terrorism from serendib island of Sri Lanka. Whole South Asia should be proud of President MR to have a backbone to stand straight against others (like Indians and certain Europeans) influence for their own political gains.

Any one with common sense can understand that the tamil tigers are just a bunch of racists, m/f organization who is just a power hungering blood thirsty, a cult organization who desires an utopia in this 21 century. Any true, honest, sincere, right-minded leader who claims to represent his people would respect the democratic system if he wants to change things. He does nt want to change nothing but he wants the big piece of the pie. Any idiot should understand this lunatic Prabakaran who's days are numbered anyway.

There's an accepted way to do it. You must ask through delegation. The time of dictators is a thing of the past. It will not work in this century.

Tamil people need to realize that dividing Sri Lanka not going to solve their problem for them. In reality it will be the beginning a more problem. A maxist system that will take their freedom away. They need to fight whatever they want to politically in the democratic process.
Prabakaran is a fanatical racist and a lunatic, re-incarnated Hitler. he should have been in a lunatic assylum instead of a jungle.

The tamil diaspora around the world shamefully follow this lunatic and sending their hard earned dollar to kill tamils and sinhalese! These tamils are gravily misled, brainwashed. I think they must be lunatics just like their leader. The Sri Lankan Government's decision to fight this bunch of racists is very rational. Any government elected by the people have a right to protect that country from these kind of elements. However, they cannot harm civilians. Its their sole responsibility to protect the civilians from all dangers. At the same time we all must recognize the fact its a very hard task for the government.

Typically we all Sri Lankans know the truth that sri Lanka is not in a genocide war fare. This is part of Prabakaran's false propaganda. He and his brain-washed disciples will do everything that's possible to have a separate state for them, and then,he had other plans! Besides,it will be the beginning of India's problem with Prabakaran. India knows that well and thats why India wants Sri Lanka to wipe these devils from Sri lanka. LTTE is connected to too many terrorist organizations. There wont be peace for any body if this organization wouldnt be wiped out from Sri Lanka. LTTE taught Sri Lankan army one good lesson for sure. The LTTE taught them how to fight terrorists.

The SLA learned that lesson perfectly. Once SLA finished up the terror organization, the Sri lanka will know how to handle anything else that LTTE may have in mind. Mahinda Rajapakse is doing what any brave governer would do to save his country from terrortists. He deserve our respect and support for his stand against the world's most ruthless killers. Yet He needs to prove to us and the world that He is democratic all the way for a full credit.

Mahinda Rajapakse and his administration have a responsibility to stop disappearances, abductions, killings of media personals, and hurting innocent Christians and destroying their places of worship and killing them and all those crimes in a democtratic country. He wants to save the country from terrorists but he cannot ignore the fundamental rights of democracy, the freedom of religion that his coalition monky laws. I don't think that's democratic!

His fanatical maxist Buddhist monks want to get rid of every one who is not a buddhists giving 'formost place to Buddhism at the expense of minority religious people's tax money to sponcer Buddhist missionaries to the western countries. Mahinda Rajapakse must do anything and everything to avoid killing any innocent civilian lives in this last phase of war. The civilized people know that these Tamil Tiger terrorists will not give a damn for human lives, but government cannot have the same attitude of this ruthless murderer Prabakaran. Sri Lankan government must find a way to kill all the terrorists that are leftover but it cannot hurt any more innocent civilians period! We know its a very difficult task but its the responsibility of the present government to establish peace and order in the country.

Let all of us Sinhala, Tamil and Muslim together support to wipe out the terror outfit from this island nation, and work toward a true democracy, equality, and fairness for all Sri Lankans. Every religion, culture and values should condemn terrorism of any kind whether by ruthless terrorist organization like LTTE or state terrorism. Any religion should be against terrorism. Let the government fight the terrorism and religious leaders should do their religious work in their temples, and churches, and kovils but not in the parliament. Whoever needs to fight for for rights, it has to be within our democratic system but not as terrorists.

Its possible to change things in democratic system if people know whats democracy and also believe in it. Some people did not believe that the United states will have a Black American president in the 21 century but people could elect a president who is Black. unfortunately we have some fanatics who don't believe in democracy in Sr lanka. They are not only Tamil Tigers but combination of all.

The learned professor implies the need of military intervention by India. The whole world saw how India dealt with 10 terrorists in Mumbai - and for 3 days. The Indians know very well the way they fought with the Tigers in the eighties - and lost. India knows very well the ground realities; that's why they rely on their military hardware / technology for military superiority. They have learned the lesson in getting involved in guerilla warfare, especially on behalf of someone else - for instance Sri Lanka - and the odds against fighting a seasoned army against terrorists - if it ever comes that far - , in addition to regional geo-political factors. Above all, Hindus are not renowned for fighting, they are for peaceful existence.

The professor damages his academic credentials by sitting on a sentimental roller-coaster because of his race and people like him must take their share of blame for the plight of Tamils in Wanni.

Making clever political analysis in comfort is one thing; living in the real world is another and the gap is bridged by paralysis

There is a simple, quick solution. India and International community should bear its full weight on LTTE to surrender. While I am infinitely sad over civilians, I feel sorry for rank and file LTTE as well. They are brainwashed youth. I wish to see their life spared. Prabakaran wants to sacrifice them all before he goes. This is cruelty at its zenith. I can't understand the heart of diaspora when they insist that it should be a ceasefire, not surrender whatever happens to civilians. The surrender should preferably be under the supervision of India.

Only one thing can be said about the civilians. they have been suffering for so long no one took any notice of them as long as the LTTE ruled. Now that LTTE is at the verge of defeat, all are make a big noice about the civilians. These people were sitting on a volcano for so long, with false propaganda in a defacto state. They never was any basic human rights for them . SL govt. had been defending the FDLs for too long now, they've recapturing the occupied land by the LTTE. So the volcano had errupted... and the LTTE wants it this way for the tamils to suffer or even commit suiside for thier cause tamil elam. Pressurinse the LTTE to release the civillians and fight a true patriotic fight not cowardly act of shielding themselves among the civillians.

Yes the temporary shelters are not perfect but how much of money is spent for a day to maintain these camps? How many LTTE cadres have already infiltrated these camps? what is the assuarance that there won't be anymore force recruitments and exortations and taxations by the LTTE if these people were set free?

Dear Professor,

What underlines your letter is the hurt feelings of Tamil community, in Sri Lanka and abroad, having seen the loss at the battle field and elsewhere.
As much as I agree to the fact that successive Sri Lankan Governments have overlooked genuine Tamil grievances, there is so much you can achieve by non-military means, as vividly described in another article in this page 'Need for a paradigm shift in Tamil Leaders and People'. Think for a minute, did you play any role in that connection?

On the other hand India, which provided all the assistance to ruthless terrorism by providing training and armaments, as everyone knows well, not only caused much destruction to Tamil community and this beautiful country, but also learnt a bitter lesson themselves, highly unlikely to intervene this time, however much they fancy to poach internal matters of neighboring countries.

Therefore on the long run, isn't that advisable, we as two communities, try to live in this country forgetting the bloody past, which caused mayhem to all of us?

How many innocent deaths are required by the diasapora tamils to satisfy themselves? Non of you go or send your kids to fight this war and trying to carve out separate countries. It is shamefull your hypocrasy that,

You are well aware LTTE keep civilions as a human shield not allowing them to leave. You do not say a word about it.

You are well aware LTTE mount guns among civilions.

You are well aware LTTE forcible recruits children.

You also have nothing but blood on your hand. You do not care how many kids die, get proscribed as long as you have your ELAM. Why do you need a country after killing all it's children. Stop just blaming SL army. Blame yourselves for contributing to this.

It is sad to see once decent society stooped into conseder a blood thirsty maniac as their saviour. Take off your blindfolds and see.

Remeber, Your money slowly slowly destroy your civilisation.

It is sad to see there are so many people trying to protect the life of prabakaran who has taken so many innocent iives.These people keep shut when he takes lives and write rubish to save him.The basic is that prabakaran must pay for what he did and let the justice prevails

Each life is precious and we all sympathise with the suffering of the displaced. But 70,000 or more have died and many more injured during the past so many years as a result of this conflict. To the vast majority of Sri Lankans there is no way out of this conflict untill Mr.Brabha and Co. are around, that is of cource other than giving him his Ealam, which again is not an option. This explains why there is unstinted support for the war effort from all corners of the country. We all hope and pray that Mr.Prabha will be out of the way soon and a solution acceptable to the moderates of both sides will be worked out.

The Tamils in Sri Lanka will be better off if the notorious politicians are not involved in it. LTTE is not only enemy of the Sri Lankan Tamils but the whole world becuase the LTTE does foster a dogma which is anti ethics and anti natural. The problems of Tamils will not be resolved because there is no proper leadership and leadership backup in Tamil in Sri Lanka.
Ramabalan

Deep within the Indian polity there lies one of many terrible creatures one or the other of which rears its head from time to time and never fails to influence the general trend of the evolution of the nature of the Indian National State. One of the fattest of these monsters is called corruption and it has recently succeeded in transforming the Right to Information Act into a tool of oppression.

What concerns Sri Lanka is another one. This is the color monster that maintains the belief that white skins are inherently better than black skins and that people with black skins are "inferior" to people with white skins. These Tamils you worry about are for the most part black skinned people of little consequence. The Sinhalese majority in Sri Lanka on the other hand claim to be white skinned "Aryans" from northern India - part and parcel of the Indian ruling establishment. Have you forgotten how J.R.Jayawardene - the president of Sri Lanka who arranged and executed the anti Tamil pogroms in 1977, 1981 and 1983 - took perverse pleasure in claiming how his nose resembled that of then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi!

That a rebel movement set up by these black skinned Tamils should have assassinated a white skinned prime minister of India has proven to be more than the white skins can bear. They have therefore decided to wipe out this Tamil movement regardless of the human cost involved. India has therefore stood behind the Rajapaksa regimes genocidal attack on the Sri Lankan Tamil Community - white skinned northern India has condoned, defended, supported and assisted this Tamil genocide - and white skinned northern India is going to have to accept this fact sooner rather than later.

The extent of the emotional content involved in driving this genocidal policy is very clear when one takes into account that white skinned northern India has been more than happy to pay a high price for its implementation - namely the ceding to China of strategic access to the island. So bitter has been the hatred of the white Indians towards the black skinned Tamils that they have shown themselves willing to compromise their own security in order to ensure the destruction of the political and military strength of the Tamils.

The wiping out of the Sri Lankan Tamil Community may however have unseen and unintended consequences. One of them may turn out to be a certain melding together of the Indian Tamils and the Sri Lankan Tamils abroad. This is quite likely since non Tamils are unlikely to be able to or to bother to distinguish between Indian and Sri Lankan Tamils. The impact of this merger may turn the problem of 250,000 Sri Lankan Tamils into a problem of 70,000,000 Indian ones. India moreover is home to a great many movements that do not like the policies of the white Indian establishment. I have already seen expressions of solidarity being articulated from Mumbai towards the Tamils and their struggle. The white Indian establishment may find itself under siege by a union of disparate forces united on the basis of a common dislike of white India and a common blackness of their skins. It is unlikely that white Indian policy makers gave these policies much consideration. They may like to do so now.

Please can you tell me how I can write submit an article on here please. I too work in media.

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Calvin Cricket thinks that all those people who participated in the rally (about 150,000) are like him and his government not concerned about the plight of the civilians. He fails to understand that there are people still in this world who care about fellow human beings. Not like his "beloved" President and his brothers who are only interested in their bank balances!! Justice will prevail in the end!!

People like you are supporting a regime which is part and parcel of the type of crimes which is committed on the society. If you are not moved by the following story a typical story which is enacted every day in Sri Lanka, you are not a human!! This is only the tip of the iceberg!!

http://www.ahrchk.net/statements/mainfile.php/2009statements/1953/

I totally agree that the civilians should be evacuated immediately from the dangerous area, but do you think it is practically possible? India & international pressure may influence SL to put a temporary halt to the offensive to bring the civilians out the area. But, who is going to influence the LTTE to let civilians out of the area? And, do you think LTTE will let the civilians to leave the area - this will never happen. If they do so, that will be suicidal for them - it would only take a matter of hours for SLA to finish them off!. The LTTE are crying out about civilians death in the zone, but not letting them to leave - why can't they let them to leave the area and take on the SLA? Do you think they really care about Tamils. The SL Tamils have wounded too badly both physically & mentally in the name of 'EElam'.

There is no point talking to Eelamists. They have nothing intelligent to say, just the repetition of the same old LIES and RHETORIC. Its just better this war is settled Militarily. Too much talk with these people is a waste of time. Finish off the LTTE militarily, then force these Separatists to yeild or leave. There is no other option.

Prof.Suryanarayan,

Quite a number of Tamils from Tamil Nadu continue to have the misconception that if only VP were eliminated, everything would be fine in Sri Lanka for Tamils. Just yesterday, my wife socially met a Tamil family from TN, here in the US. The lady, her old mother and her husband all said the same to my wife and knew only about the Sinhalese killed by the LTTE, but knew nothing about how many Tamils were killed by the GoSL even before the LTTE came into the picture. I have heard the same from a number of such people since the 1990's.

In the past, some of your own articles in the past have only encouraged this ignorant view. This article is a change of heart and 'enlightenment,' you owe it to the suffering Tamils to take this up with media such as the Hindu, and politicians at the center, to make sure that they adopt the same view and help save Tamil lives. This idee fixe with the LTTE makes it seem that many Indians, otherwise intelligent and honorable,lack either the ability to see the truth, or worse, good conscience.

The respected professor, has stated the facts as he sees them right. Does the facts tells the truth or not its any one's guess.

India is home to 60 million tamil's, world over I don't know how many tamil's are around lets say 65 Million.

One cannot ignore reading by various articles appearing in the press, achieving 'ELAM' is a global aspiration for tamil's wold over(It's like a pet project). One way or other majority of the tamils support carving out a Tamil Elam out of Tiny Sri Lanka.

Going by what is said in the press one must wonder how it was possible for tamil communities to flourish and prosper in Sri Lanka (8-12% of total population of Sri Lanka is considered Tamils, I said 8-12% purposely as this is what is being circulated in the media)and out of this 80% (my guess) lives out side north.

Rest of the Sri Lankans the balance 92-88% does not want to part with the nearly 1/3 of Sri Lanka, if democracy can speak in this issue overwhelming majority will vote for "No Room for ELAM in Sri Lanka"

So what are the option available,

negotiate a deal for acceptable devolution of power
This is quite a possibility (bring all your pressure when it comes to this we welcome you), but it seems LTTE is not interested in this option as they are serving the aspiration of world Tamil Diaspora, they want nothing short of "Tamil ELAM"

I have a suggestion since it is a proven fact that every single Tamil in Tamil Nadu is very sympathetic towards the tamil cause in Sri Lanka why not the learned professor and rest of the tamil diaspora turn towards Indian government, why not carve out a Pure Tamil Nation out of India? after all there is already a 60 million tamils in Tamil Nadu, 5-8 million more will not make a much of a difference.

Well you dont want that to happen in Tamil Nadu right ? and you will dismiss the notion as silly. (This is Exactly what we feel about "ELAM")

Then please leave us alone, rest of the population has suffered enough and the peopl ein North and East even more, in the hands of an organization created by Indian Government. India created LTTE to destabilize Sri Lanka. But what Indian central government did not anticipate was the tamils in Sri Lanka (with strong links to early politicos of Tamil NAdu) had other ideas.

Sri Lanka is not a super rich country, let alone rich (I don't have to tell you this! you know very well) but you use words such as "concentration camp" to tarnish the image of Sri Lankans purposely. Where else do you think we can house and provide shelter to 100k + people ?

There are people still living and hellish condition for 2 over decades, people who were chased out by LTTE from their homes from the North.

Where is your sympathy towards these people.

I am not saying Current GOSL or previous governments were perfect or does not hold responsibility to what has turn out to be terrorists menace.

But Lets give a chance for the current GOSL, which has done a splendid job so far and in the verge of eliminating the LTTE's ruthless never ending war.

Let us also (Sri Lankan's) have chance for peace. We would like to know it feels like to live in a country without terrorism.

They say a picture speaks a thousand words. This picture speaks much more; it speaks of the state of our nation of 20 Mn people. The little boy, sitting at the back of a trailer in the blazing sun, with his little brother or sister cradled in his arms, bereft of proper clothing. He looks anxiously around; what could have happened to his parents; are they alive? Have they been taken away from him?
What could he have done to deserve this fate? Most importantly, what are we going to do about it? Are we such heartless brutes that we stand silent as such violence and brutality is perpetrated within our own country?
Well at the moment I can only pray. Pray for these poor people, victims of our own monstrous creation. Victims of our greed, cloaked in race and religion. Victims of man’s inhumanity to man. I pray to God Allmighty that he may relieve these people of their suffering. I pray that there be mercy and compassion. I pray that there be justice. I pray that the perpetrators of these crimes be brought to justice and punished. Just as they inflict pain and suffering on others, may they be destroyed and wiped of the face of this earth. So be it.

A few Comments for your thoughts:

1.
" (The irony of the situation is that while many countries, including India, are sympathetic to the Tamil cause, they hesitate to support it openly because the Tamil cause has been hijacked by the Tigers, so much so that support to the Tamils is seen as support to the Tigers)."

WRONG. What you say above is simply this: "LTTE are the sole-representative of Tamils now. But, we want to have one of our agents to become the "sole representative of the Tamils" and we are still waiting for that day and we just do not care how many Tamils die, we will just wait for the day"

2.
"Can New Delhi continue to subscribe to the argument that what is happening in Sri Lanka is a domestic affair and there are serious limitations to what India can do to resolve an internal problem. Recent progressive trends in the realm of International Law deserve closer scrutiny by the policy makers in New Delhi and Chennai."

WRONG. India is a partner in this genocide by providing a lot assistance including several soft loans. It'll be easy for Gov. of Sri Lanka to say "We did not do this genocide alone. India genuinely helped us lot and participated in it".

3.
"I strongly feel that India should take an immediate initiative to mobilise international opinion against the continuing violation of human rights. Colombo and the Tigers must be pressurised to declare a ceasefire. They must be compelled to accept an international mechanism, so that the civilians are rescued from the war zones. And, what is more, these civilians should be settled in welfare centres, manned by the UN agencies.

A time bomb is ticking in Sri Lanka. If India does not take the initiative, the island will continue to be one of the notorious killing fields of the world. Let not posterity judge that the land of the Mahatma remained silent when untold sufferings took place in its neighbourhood. As Maya Angelou, the Black American poet wrote a few years ago, "History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but, if faced with courage, need not be lived again."

VERY WRONG. How can India turn the world opinion against Sri Lanka when it is supplying war-materials and soldiers to this genocidal war? The author wants rescue the civilians and put them in the welfare centres manned by the UN. (FULLSTOP)???

What will happen afterwards?

Why don't you ask for a un-sponsored ceasefire and un-sponsored referendum for Sri Lankan Tamils to determine their future? You'll not ask because in referendum Tamils "sole representative will win, not the agents of India".

India's foreign policies always fail everywhere and recently Nepal too?

Singhalas never likes India. As soon as Tamils are decimated, Sri Lanka will tell India "Get out and get lost. Our friends are Pakistan, China, etc".

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AS INDIAN(TAMIL) WHO WERE LIVING IN SRI LANKA FROM 50YEARS AND THEY STILL DONT GET EQUAL SHARE IN SRILANKA AS THE LANKAN BELIEVE THAT THEY ARE SUPRIMO AND IF IT WILL NOT STOP THENWHO SAYS THERE MIGHT BE ANOTHER REVOLT BETWEEN TAMIL AND SINHALI