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    Colombo, Jan 10: Solution to Sri Lanka's ethnic conflict has to be found through dialogue and nothing could be achieved through violence, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee has said.

Expressing concerns over the deteriorating security situation in Sri Lanka, Mukherjee said India's position has always been that the solution has to be found "through dialogue, discussion and negotiations".
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Dear Pranab
             please don't need to repeat like a parrot again and again. We all have enough knowledge to understand that Sri lankan problem only solved through political process. Also last 30 years history proves we Sri lankans can't solve our problems ourselves. Please come up with any new suggestion instead and giving useless statements. The main issue here is how long India will wait to take action for a problem gone in her backyard unnessesarily too long time. It's a pity that when India is emerging as superpower and it's neighbours (nearly all of them) becoming failed states.

Dear Mr. Pranab,

There is nothing special in saying that the solution to the Sri Lankan civil war is a negotiated settlement. It is obvious. But to arrive at that junction, we have to take a path. We have been trying the path of dialogue from Thimpu talks. We have been following the path of war after LTTE declared war in 1983. What we have seen is that LTTE sits down for talks when they are beaten Militarily, though the purpose of such talking has been to buy time to re-group. So, the only hope is to beat them to the last bunker and get the head of that dirty monster. Then they will sit down for talks long enough so that we can arrive at a negotiated settlement. All what we want is a victory for peace loving Tamils, Sinhalese and Muslims.

Just imagine, if you have to jump a hurdle and if you have two options: that part on the left is shorter than the one on the right, you will jump over the one on the left. Like that, if we want to make LTTE jump over the peaceful way, that is negotiations, we have to make the Military solution taller (tougher) than the former. We are trying to do just that, because otherwise, if we keep the Military solution shorter, we are effectively inviting the LTTE to jump over the Military hurdle.

To have dialogue both parties need to be human and with intellectual capacity. It is a doubt,  LTTE has shown such hithero.  Best thing India can do is to dis-arm illigimate para-military groups and then talk sense.  We can not forget that their own leader Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was killed by them who tried to have a secrete dialogue with them.
Brother India, please help to dis-arm them and save innocent lives  killed by them every day including your beloved leader Rajiv.

Dear Pranab Ji, aney what is happening here:  


Military offensive against ULFA

Thousands of soldiers backed by helicopters have launched a major offensive against the ULFA's bases in the jungles of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh after the killing of 70 migrant workers by the banned group.

http://www.timesnow.tv/Sections/World/Military_offensive_against_ULFA/articleshow/1132475.cms

Aney why do you preach one thing to us and do another?

Aney why no discussions with the ULFA?

Would you mind if we host the representatives of the ULFA to tea in Colombo?

Dear Pranab ji,

Unlike your country we are not a secular state. We are a sinhala buddhist state. Your staments don't hold water in our country.

A good article by Mahindapala:


How far can Indian intervention go in Sri Lanka?

"Indian strategists must take into account that the Sri Lankan political landscape has changed radically since the signing of the 1987 accord. Pandering to India's domestic interests is not going solve the problems of Sri Lanka. Nor will it solve India's long-term and short-term problems. This is the lesson that comes out of Indian intervention. As in the past excessive and unwanted Indian intervention can only worsen the crisis for both countries. India should not forget that it failed in intervening as the big brother who claimed to know the answers.

After going through the full circle of the various political permutations and combinations Sri Lanka has reached a point where it is engaged in working out its problems through home-grown remedies. Outsiders must let Sri Lanka to solve their problem their way. India must keep its hand off Sri Lanka and prove, in the coming SAARC summit, its capacity to play its role as a benign partner in the region and not as an unwanted, intolerable interventionist."

http://www.asiantribune.com/index.php?q=node/4086

We can give big talks in Lipton Circle and blah blah in forums.
Whatever it is, India is our big brother.
Reality is, because of TN, India will make sure a peaceful and political solution is imposed in SriLanak and it is which India prefers.
Sri Lanka learned a lesson in 1987.
Unless SriLanka act smart she is going to repeat the same mistake.

Whatever our big talks we do, it doesn't go beyond Palk Strait.

Actually, I think it was India that learned a lesson - 2000 Indian soldiers dead and an ex prime minister blown up into shards.

Yes, so do we,
the whole first eleven team of SL leaders, top military leaders, tens of thousand of SL soldiers all down below six feet.
.....typical SL mentatlity. I don't mind loosing both eye as long as he looses one eye.
Sungoat must be laughing from his rat hole....he is getting the India table turned back to his side.

Nope. Even if India did not intervene, the war would have continued in Sri Lanka. Infact, we might have finished it off if India did not arm, train and finance the LTTE.  It was India and not Sri Lanka that learned a lesson - not to support terrorism in neighbouring countries. Indias tryst with terrorism left her with 2000 of her soldiers dead and a blown up ex prime minister; it was she that got her fingers burnt. In the end the loser IPKF left the island like kicked dogs.

Not only the Sungoat but Sri Lankans are laughing at what happened to India.

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Not only the Sungoat but Sri Lankans are laughing at what happened to India.

Yea, hysterically, particularly after they saw how well Premadasa's arming of the LTTE worked out!

Yeah, hysterically and with the cracking open of arrack, because it got rid of the loser IPKF!

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Negombo wrote:
Reality is, because of TN, India will make sure a peaceful and political solution is imposed in SriLanak and it is which India prefers.

I've always been saying; the single-most important factor in this dead-end conflict
is  the state of TN, inhabited by 70+ million Tamils.

SLankan bros may be aware that TN has given Ind a tough time and has made India better, more accommodating, more federally aware in the process. Simple example is the initial imposition of Hindi. TN opposed it tooth-and-nail, had a Tamil version of India national news/TV even in those early days of TV in India.

In brief; TN is positioned as a very important, politically and industrially, and above all, ethnically concious, proud state in India.

I sincerely hope and wish the best for SL ( and India ) in smartly
handling the issues raised by the Tamils.

At the same time, hope SL Tamils follow the
peaceful path of Indian Tamils in achieving their objectives.

Any other outcome is impossible, except a peaceful working co-existence.

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Yeah, hysterically and with the cracking open of arrack, because it got rid of the loser IPKF!

True. A bungle. Perhaps it came at a time when
all the three parties ( Ind, SL, l.t.t.e ) were not 'ready' for it ( peacekeeping ).
In such situation, peacekeeping is a thankless and loser job.