Leave Lanka Tamils alone

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===> Should they be left alone?

Should the Indian Tamils stop worrying about them?

sambarvada wrote:===> Should they be left alone?

Should the Indian Tamils stop worrying about them?

Bad idea. With Indian Tamils worrying about them, the Sinhalese army is keeping them in concentration camps. If the Indian Tamils were to leave them alone, worse things will happen to them. The dictatorship of Rajapaksa is unscrupulous and right now overconfident; it needs some pressure from India to keep it from its worst tendencies vis-a-vis the Tamil minority.

The Sri Lankan island is just a few kilometers off the southern coast of India. India's southern most state of Tamil Nadu has a population of over 60 million. They are Tamils and have the same ethnicity, culture and language as the much smaller northeastern Tamil population of Sri Lanka (the "Eelam Tamils"). So one would reasonably expect that the Indian government would interfere in the war in support of the Tamils or give military assistance to the Tamil fighters. Instead India has been covertly and sometimes overtly providing military assistance to the Sri Lankan military. Reasons why Indian rulers act this way in spite of its sizable Tamil population is discussed in References 1.

Indian government, or more specifically the Hindi politicians who dominate the Indian parliament and thus control Indian foreign policy and military decisions, is somewhat afraid of Tamil Nadu's reaction to its military aid to Sri Lanka. [Note: Hindi politicians do not have a majority in parliament but have the highest number of members. They are able to astutely control major decisions in alliance with other groups.] So the Indian government provides the military assistance covertly while issuing public statements that it has a hands-off policy towards the Sri Lankan ethnic conflict. If and when such assistance is exposed, India routinely issues a statement that its military assistance does not increase Sri Lankan military's offensive capabilities. If caught with offensive weapons or training, then it would issue a statement that these weapons or training would not be used against Tamil civilians but only against Tamil fighters.

These are lame reasons but Tamil Nadu politicians accept them because they are unable to do anything about it politically and do not have the mental makeup to resign their political positions and engage in a sustained non-cooperative movement against Indian government policies (as Gandhi did during British rule). So they "accept" Indian government's explanations and claim to the voting public that because of their efforts the Indian government would not do anything against the interest of Sri Lankan Tamils. The charade goes on.

In this article we list some known incidences of Indian military assistance to Sri Lanka in and around the year 2006. The year 2006 is of particular significance because it is in 2006 the four-year old ceasefire between the Sri Lankan Government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) broke down and hundreds of fighters from both sides and a few thousand Tamil civilians died.

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