Conflict in Sri Lanka: Ground Realities - Tamil Nation & Beyond

aircraft, the world has chosen to look aside unlike as in Bosnia,Kosovo and Rwanda, and in Palestine’s struggle against the stateof Israel.On the contrary, the United States has banned the Tigers fromtheir fund raising activities and vigil over them has been tightenedin Australia, Britain, France, Switzerland and Germany. Sucha policy has only driven the Tigers to the wall and to moredetermined pursuit of their guerrilla warfare. In the wake of suchbanning, the government of Sri Lanka has received a positive paton the shoulder that their policy of decimating the Tamils is right.These international constraints have done little to undermine thefact that a vast majority of the Tamils recognise the LTTE astheir saviours, who have never swerved in their commitment fora state of their own.Conclusion:In the present scenario it is doubtless that India will interveneto separate the combatants and the only expectation will be thatIndia will take the side of the LTTE in deference to pressure fromTamil Nadu and sections of the Hinduvata groups within thesubcontinent. The question of imposing a federal solution willpossibly be side-stepped and that which the Sinhalese mindsetmost feared will come into fruition. Thus by their own volitionand unwillingness to compromise and be less intransigent, theSinhalese Buddhist extremist with their leadership have laidEelam at the doorstep of the LTTE. It is reported that the U.S.State Department has in a map of the world for the twenty firstcentury, marked Sri Lanka as two states. That fate awaits theisland mainly because of the obduracy of the Sinhalese middleclass.53