pti,  Sun Feb 15 16:47:19 EST 2009

    Chennai (PTI): India would arrange for a dialogue between Sri Lanka and LTTE to stop the hostilities in the island nation if the government suspended military operations against the Tigers and the outfit laid down arms, Union Home Minister P Chidambaram said here on Sunday.

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India appears to want the LTTE to survive. Why does it want a terrorist organization to survive? The logical step is to wipe out the LTTE. If Tamils want to talk to the government, they have plenty of non-vilolent organizations to represent them.

The Indians have not much choice with the pressure being put upon them  by TN politicians - but notice that here, the LTTE must lay down arms. I don't think they want the LTTE to survive anymore than they want cockroaches in the house (thought cockroaches are as difficult to eliminate)

Why not send in one of those bleeding hearts from TN to go into Mullativu and shepherd out the innocent civilians into an SLA camp?  Give them 24 hours to get out of the fire zone.  After that, no more excuses and no more pics of innocent civilians dead on the road side.  Just LTTE.

OutLookingIn wrote:

Why not send in one of those bleeding hearts from TN to go into Mullativu and shepherd out the innocent civilians into an SLA camp?  Give them 24 hours to get out of the fire zone.  After that, no more excuses and no more pics of innocent civilians dead on the road side.  Just LTTE.

Or the simple way is to leave the Tamil land for tamils without colonisation and military occupation. Tamil majority of the North and east not invited the Sinhala rulers to be there they clearly voted with 82% support long time ago. In a democracy you have to respect the majority wishes. Sinhala majority is for the south and there is Tamil majority for the north and east.

Have you ever thought that continued oppression of the minority by the Sinhala majority if the British parlimentary system brought to this sorry state. Sinhala leaders did not honour any pact signed with the British to protect the minority rights and completely removed those protection for the minorities by becoming a republic.

The freedom was only for the Sinhalease and mainly Budhists and Sinhalease want the Tamils to be second class citizens where none of their wishes could be implemented as they always had a Sinhala majority votes.

OutLookingIn wrote:

Why not send in one of those bleeding hearts from TN to go into Mullativu and shepherd out the innocent civilians into an SLA camp?  Give them 24 hours to get out of the fire zone.  After that, no more excuses and no more pics of innocent civilians dead on the road side.  Just LTTE.

MR had invited TN CM Karunanidhi to visit NE Sri Lanka and see for himself, and to talk to tigers etc.
The CM chickened out. Even Jayalalitha asked him to accept the invitation and talk. They don't talk. But they make lot of noise
and try to force the centre to do something. Dr Manmohan Singh is kind of out of office already, being just out of
hospital after his bypass heart surgery. The centre does not want to do anything with l.t.t.e. and is walking a thin line in
handling the pressure, and has made it clear that l.t.t.e has to lay down arms and simultaneously
has been influencing GOSL to minimize the civilian casualties in on-going operations, and SLA is aware of this
and is doing better than expected in minimizing casualties.
It would be great if the Union minister in his powerful post of Home Minister will be able
to get the two sides talking even at this late hour.

Million dollar question is; will the l.t.t.e talk from a position of apparent weakness ?

[quote="peace4all"][quote="OutLookingIn"]Why not send in one of those bleeding hearts from TN to go into Mullativu and shepherd out the innocent civilians into an SLA camp?  Give them 24 hours to get out of the fire zone.  After that, no more excuses and no more pics of innocent civilians dead on the road side.  Just LTTE.[/quote]
Or the simple way is to leave the Tamil land for tamils without colonisation and military occupation. Tamil majority of the North and east not invited the Sinhala rulers to be there they clearly voted with 82% support long time ago. In a democracy you have to respect the majority wishes. Sinhala majority is for the south and there is Tamil majority for the north and east.

Have you ever thought that continued oppression of the minority by the Sinhala majority if the British parlimentary system brought to this sorry state. Sinhala leaders did not honour any pact signed with the British to protect the minority rights and completely removed those protection for the minorities by becoming a republic.

The freedom was only for the Sinhalease and mainly Budhists and Sinhalease want the Tamils to be second class citizens where none of their wishes could be implemented as they always had a Sinhala majority votes.[/quote]


What a Racist buggger you are F4All.   North and East for you majority? Helll with you.  
Look what you've done to Jaffna Muslims. even without so called tamil homeland in possession.  So you are no better than Sinhala rulers.

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Chidambaram clearly hinted that post-war negotiations would involve not just the LTTE but leaders of the East and Central provinces as well. The 13 lakh plantation Tamils of Indian origin have their own leaders, the 13 lakh Tamils in the East did accept the LTTE's leadership once but, frustrated by the outfit's violent attitude, the Eastern province now had its own democratically elected chief minister. The LTTE as a movement existed only for the northern Tamils now.

That part from the Home Minister, who is also a leading Tamil at the Centre says it all.  Peace4orAll is refusing to accept reality. Tigers are Not speaking for all the Tamils. Tamils in the East elected their leaders (even in a flawed election) in a democratic manner. Reality says in a densely populated impoverished nation, we cannot have 65% of the coastal area and 45% of the land mass allocated to a 12 percent minority.


 That even the UK, US or Canada will not do for any group of people; Australia will not either. IF at all the Tigers were greedy and overestimated their importance and now getting a thrashing.  If logic were to be used, a 12pct share should get 12pct of the land.  SL is too overcrowded and too poor to carve out racially exclusive homelands for one group while others including the vast majority of Tamils continue to share and enjoy a unitary Sri Lanka.  Not even Native Americans or Aborigines will get that even though they have a really more fact based claim to demand an Eelam in the US or in OZ for their people because whites only came 300 odd years ago.  Eelam is nonsense; devolution of decision making is not;  economic development is a sine qua non in case SL is to avoid another 30 years of carnage; for that to happen the LTTE must be removed from the scene and moderate Tamils dealt with.  The pampered minority under British rule even had the audacity to demand 50-50 because they were racists and thought they were a superior race to the Sinhalese majority because the British favoured them with education and other amenities to buy their loyalty. When Independence came they wanted to have the cake and eat it too.

professor wrote:

India appears to want the LTTE to survive. Why does it want a terrorist organization to survive? The logical step is to wipe out the LTTE. If Tamils want to talk to the government, they have plenty of non-vilolent organizations to represent them.

If you read the full story it is simple to understand the following.

India has no right to interfere in Sri Lankan problem.
Most parties in TN understand this
Those don’t please try to understand

The heading is misleading but the facts are stubborn.  

The sugarcoating

India will mediate and arrange for talks IF

LTTE lay down arms

Which will never happen and India will not have to intervene.

So Professor do not worry this is just saying things politely in election time. Indian central government does not want the LTTE to survive. If they do things would have been much different much earlier.


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