Conflict in Sri Lanka: Ground Realities - Tamil Nation & Beyond
Conflict in Sri Lanka: Ground Realities - Tamil Nation & Beyond
Conflict in Sri Lanka: Ground Realities - Tamil Nation & Beyond
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aircraft, the world has chosen to look aside unlike as <strong>in</strong> Bosnia,Kosovo and Rwanda, and <strong>in</strong> Palest<strong>in</strong>e’s struggle aga<strong>in</strong>st the stateof Israel.On the contrary, the United States has banned the Tigers fromtheir fund rais<strong>in</strong>g activities and vigil over them has been tightened<strong>in</strong> Australia, Brita<strong>in</strong>, France, Switzerland and Germany. Sucha policy has only driven the Tigers to the wall and to moredeterm<strong>in</strong>ed pursuit of their guerrilla warfare. In the wake of suchbann<strong>in</strong>g, the government of <strong>Sri</strong> <strong>Lanka</strong> has received a positive paton the shoulder that their policy of decimat<strong>in</strong>g the <strong>Tamil</strong>s is right.These <strong>in</strong>ternational constra<strong>in</strong>ts have done little to underm<strong>in</strong>e thefact that a vast majority of the <strong>Tamil</strong>s recognise the LTTE astheir saviours, who have never swerved <strong>in</strong> their commitment fora state of their own.Conclusion:In the present scenario it is doubtless that India will <strong>in</strong>terveneto separate the combatants and the only expectation will be thatIndia will take the side of the LTTE <strong>in</strong> deference to pressure from<strong>Tamil</strong> Nadu and sections of the H<strong>in</strong>duvata groups with<strong>in</strong> thesubcont<strong>in</strong>ent. The question of impos<strong>in</strong>g a federal solution willpossibly be side-stepped and that which the S<strong>in</strong>halese m<strong>in</strong>dsetmost feared will come <strong>in</strong>to fruition. Thus by their own volitionand unwill<strong>in</strong>gness to compromise and be less <strong>in</strong>transigent, theS<strong>in</strong>halese Buddhist extremist with their leadership have laidEelam at the doorstep of the LTTE. It is reported that the U.S.State Department has <strong>in</strong> a map of the world for the twenty firstcentury, marked <strong>Sri</strong> <strong>Lanka</strong> as two states. That fate awaits theisland ma<strong>in</strong>ly because of the obduracy of the S<strong>in</strong>halese middleclass.53