hindu.com,  Fri Jan 27 17:14:40 EST 2006

    NEW DELHI: India on Friday welcomed the decision by the Sri Lankan Government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to hold talks in Geneva in February, the External Affairs Ministry said. "The resumption of talks augurs well for the prospects of peace in Sri Lanka," the Ministry stressed.

"The Government of India reiterates its long-standing view in favour of a negotiated political settlement that meets the just aspirations of all communities and which respects the unity, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Sri Lanka," it added.

Addressing a press conference after meeting Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran, Norwegian Minister for Development Cooperation Erik Solheim said on Friday that India was "very pleased" by the decision of the Sri Lankan Government and the LTTE to hold talks to implement their ceasefire agreement
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Ho, Ho, Ho ........... India hails...What a way to side line the situation.

They hailed the .. tigers and trained and funded them too untill they killed Rajiv. Perhaps no only her (Indira Gandhi) but he (Rajiv) paid the price for his mothers dirty dealings.

Either direct or trans-shipment from Arms to many passes the Indian coast guards. Out many may be 0.0001% comes to light like this. Madam Nirupama Rao is silent on the matter to comment as well as the any Indian authorities.

But jump Hail a situation which has no value as every body knows that Tigers wanted the latest talk to brake the Travel Bann in the EU.

Any right thinking person will know that if a sincere dialog in the name of PEACE could take place even at the so called VANNI peace secretariat where many facilities are available to host the VIP like Solheim and Akahashi. I'm sure GOSL official (even MR him self) would go there as required.

After all it's our country.

Tigers will be tigers and will not quench their thirst for blood and money laundaring mechanism in the desguise of sould saviours of Tamils.

Racist Sri lankan Govt anti Tamil policies since independant created LTTE then state sponsored terrorism against innocent tamils disguised as anti ltte operation made LTTE even bigger.Sri lankan govt is responsible for their actions too.There was no LTTE in 50's,60's,even 70's they were not active.Govt could have solved the problem long ago but now everybody blame LTTE and India and hiding Sri lankan South's mistakes.

If you keep blaming all and sundry for the problems created by the SLG, then you may yet have few more VPs on your hands. You will be glad if JVP (or any other movement like them) dont resume their armed struggle too over time.

Everybody here in the forum should understand that Sri Lankan Tamils never hate or disliked India or Indians. I can bet on still 95% of Tamils wish India as their motherland and if Sri Lanka wanted to join as a state in India only Singalese going to be against it. LTTE has made many stupid mistakes against our motherland India and they have to pay the price for it. But to punish all Tamils in Sri lanka is unjustified! Still most Tamils in Sri lanka believe that without Indian involvment there is no peace. This is true because no other country in the whole world can understand our complicated ethnical problem as India and capacity to solve it!!!!

Hi surya

surya wrote:

Still most Tamils in Sri lanka believe that without Indian involvment there is no peace.  This is true because no other country in the whole world can understand our complicated ethnical problem as India and capacity to solve it!!!!

I 110% agree with you.  Srilankan Tamils were ecstatic when the Indians smashed their way into Jaffna in October 1987 with artillery and armor.  They were on the streets throwing flower petals while getting blown to pieces.  They also very much appreciated the rape and widespread looting which the Indians so generously provided.  They should've built a statue in Jaffna to commemorate these brave Indians and their sophisticated intellectual properties.

I dream for the day when Srilanka will have the same level of health, education, and hygiene as our Mother India.


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[quote="Taraki"]Hi surya

surya wrote:

I 110% agree with you.  Srilankan Tamils were ecstatic when the Indians smashed their way into Jaffna in October 1987 with artillery and armor.  They were on the streets throwing flower petals while getting blown to pieces.  They also very much appreciated the rape and widespread looting which the Indians so generously provided.  They should've built a statue in Jaffna to commemorate these brave Indians and their sophisticated intellectual properties.

THIS IS LOT OF FUN TO READ.  


I dream for the day when Srilanka will have the same level of health, education, and hygiene as our Mother India.
THIS, I DON'T UNDERSTAND.  

we need indian support for the any peace progress. india is also a federal government. sri lanka is also aiming at federal solution. but now this govt wt jvp/jhu r very adamant on unitary solution. in a unitary govt central govt has got more constitutional power. but in federal govt central govt has to share the more power wt the federal states. in india diferent states have different laws. this is going to b a nother big fish hook for jvp & jhu.they will try to get more voters through this federal problem. but i am pretty sure tigers will never accept less than federal solution. but if we can achieve peace in united SRI LANKA , we have to go for the federal solution. otherwise non ending war. this is the next big problem that mr is going to face.

Hi Rawana

rawana wrote:

we need indian support for the any peace progress. india is also a federal government.

India is not entirely a federal country.  Its central government has the ability to dissolve State govts. and impose "President's Rule."  The 13th Amendment which India imposed on Srilanka is almost a carbon copy of the Indian system, and it has the similar feature that the central govt. can dissolve Provincial govts.  One important difference of course is that Srilanka still has a unicameral legislature unlike India.

I have to disagree with Anandasangaree when he prescribes the Indian model for Srilanka.  Srilanka needs a stronger constitution and a stronger judiciary and independent institutions.

rawana wrote:

but i am pretty sure tigers will never accept less than federal solution.

Wrong.  Tigers have little problem with the current unitary system as it helps serve their purposes.  "The Sinhalese can have their unitary state and we'll have our own unitary state too" said Balasingham.  

The LTTE will accept nothing less than confederation as the ISGA spells out.  If Mahinda insists on unitary state that is ok, it helps convince the Tamils that they have absolutely no worth at all to the Sinhalese.  The worst situation for the LTTE would be a workable and stable federal proposal.  If pigs start to fly and somebody comes up with that magic formula which Sinhalese and Tamils like AND which the major parties will support, then the LTTE will have nothing left to negotiate and thus go to war which will probably lead to its destruction. Fortunately most people out there interested in Srilanka, either Sinhalese or Tamils or other are too dumb to come up with such a solution.


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dear tharaki
we have to find a best solution for power devoluion. we can learn from india & make the necessary adjustments. but big from will come regarding the rights of sinhalese & muslims live in the east. we should adress these issues very broadly.so otherwise jvp& jhu will try to get the political advantage from this issue becas they dont give alternative soluition or involve in these power devolution but play unreasonable political game. so we have to protect the trinco & sinhala , muslim people & need some legistation to prevent any blacklash against the sinhala muslim people. thats y i always say mr cant alone face this problem. he need the support of unp.we need a national govt.otherwise another unproductive peace talks & buying the time by both parties.