TN politicians and India's foreign policy

Vakavaka Pakapaka wrote:We all thought that Kayar Vizhi is crazy when she writes about the sentiments of Tamils toward LTTE. Looking at how K'nidhi and Jaya are behaving, perhaps, KV isn't all that unrealistic. Just as CONartists do anything for vote-bank politics, DKheads seem to sacrifice national interest for the same. Does the average Tamil support LTTE to the extent that India's national interests are compromised? Are the TN politicians pushing Sri Lanka into Paki and Chinese laps for local votes? Why is the central CONgovt bending foreign policy to suite LTTE's agenda? Recently, a Paki poster on TOI was claiming that India supports cross-border terrorism in Sri Lanka.

southindian wrote:
Jaya is playing with fire much like the Paki approach towards India. This is going to bite India bad if Sri Lankan Tamils/Indian Tamils in India take her bait.

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:a sri lankan tamil is not the same as the LTTE. i know that's what the LTTE would have liked you to believe when the LTTE was still relevant, but that does not make it true. indian tamils have a natural affection and empathy for the plight of sri lankan tamils. from that standpoint, jayalalitha is probably reading the public sentiment correctly.

Hellsangel wrote:

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:a sri lankan tamil is not the same as the LTTE. i know that's what the LTTE would have liked you to believe when the LTTE was still relevant, but that does not make it true. indian tamils have a natural affection and empathy for the plight of sri lankan tamils. from that standpoint, jayalalitha is probably reading the public sentiment correctly.

And also for Singapore and Malaysian Tamils?

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:many of us who grew up to adulthood in the mid-late eighties in TN will have a few sri lankan tamil friends who came to india as refugees. we know their stories of displacement and we know their courage. we know the friends who came to study with us at IIT and wrecked the grading curve. these are flesh and blood people we would like to stand with, not some abstract political entities.

Rashmun wrote:

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:many of us who grew up to adulthood in the mid-late eighties in TN will have a few sri lankan tamil friends who came to india as refugees. we know their stories of displacement and we know their courage. we know the friends who came to study with us at IIT and wrecked the grading curve. these are flesh and blood people we would like to stand with, not some abstract political entities.

it seems to me that by castigating the sri lankan govt you might be making the situation worse for the lankan tamils since they will start being socially boycotted by the sinhalese. There was understandable collateral damage in the mission to wipe out the LTTE. Excesses took place, but that is true for all wars. LTTE is to blame for bringing misfortune to the lankan tamils.

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:many of us who grew up to adulthood in the mid-late eighties in TN will have a few sri lankan tamil friends who came to india as refugees. we know their stories of displacement and we know their courage. we know the friends who came to study with us at IIT and wrecked the grading curve. these are flesh and blood people we would like to stand with, not some abstract political entities.