Message to India
India is right. There is indeed no military
solution to the ethnic problem. That requires a political solution,
which has been dismayingly slow in coming. But that is only
indirectly to do with the LTTE. Had it been possible to have a
non-military, purely political solution based on dialogue with the
Tigers, as India seems to be preaching to us, then Shri Rajiv Gandhi
and 1,200 Indian soldiers should be alive and the Indo-Lanka accord
a success!
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The Rajpal
Abeynayake Column
Rebels with no causes as such...
Last week I read somewhere that next to Sri
Lankans, there were more Canucks compelled to flee the fighting in
Lebanon. The writer ended up saying that ?most of these fleeing Sri
Lankans would have been cleaning the tables of the fleeing Canucks.?
That?s the kind of insensitivity that probably sends bright young
Sri Lankans in Canada into the hands of the Tiger movement, and
bright but underprivileged whites in England (..and sometimes in
Canada) into the ranks of Islamic terrorist movements. Who knows?
There is probably a better chance that fleeing Canadians would join
Islamic terror outfits, than there is a chance that a fleeing Sri
Lankan housemaid would join any kind of militant uprising.
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Sri Lanka: Strategic Potential on Hold
Sri Lanka, situated just offshore of
southeastern India?s Tamil Nadu state near the confluence of the
Arabian Sea, Bay of Bengal and Indian Ocean, has been wracked by
ethnic violence for more than 20 years. The civil war between the
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and the Sri Lankan government,
which continues unabated, has had a paralyzing effect on the island
nation. The minority Tamils seek to secede from the
majority-Sinhalese nation.
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