Showing posts with label LTTE. Show all posts
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Tuesday, October 09, 2012

Unlikely brokers take centre stage

Sri Lanka may finally crush LTTE, but India has lost out a valuable opportunity to extend its influence

Along with Osama bin Laden, Velupillai Prabhakaran is the most elusive character encountered by security agencies in the world. The Sri Lankan forces can certainly vouch for it. Weeks after President Mahinda Rajapakse vowed to get rid of Tamil Tigers, the fight inside the dense Mullaithivu jungles continues with no sign yet of the Tiger supremo. These jungles are recognised as the last holding point of the Tamil guerillas. The Sri Lankan government, in its effort to drive home its offensive, has asked the air force to bombard the dense forests in an effort to flush out LTTE militants. A spokesperson for the air force confirmed that ‘in support of ground troops’, bombardment of Tiger positions would continue. “The next step of the war would be that the LTTE, after being ousted from its well fortified positions, will go back to what it knows best, guerilla warfare,” Maj. Gen. Ashok Mehta, former general officer commanding with the Indian Peace Keeping Forces (IPKF) in Sri Lanka, told B&E.

In anticipation of its final triumph over Tamil rebels, Rajapakse has already announced a detailed plan of demilitarisation and a devolution package of powers to provinces. The three-decade-old war between the Sri Lankan armed forces and Tamil guerillas has claimed thousands of lives. Interestingly, in the scenario of international interlocutors playing a mediatory role between traditionally warring ethnic groups, the Lankan imbroglio has brought forward an unlikely peace broker – Japan.Its negotiator, Akashi, would try to “encourage their work on the process towards a political solution of the ethnic conflict.”


Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.

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Friday, August 17, 2012

POLITICS: VISITS

Need for the right perspective

Karunanidhi, who is known for being noncommittal on LTTE (he had once refused to accept LTTE as a terrorist outfit), criticized the Centre.

Although it might be easy to ignore this current issue as being simply a hyped up affair, one should give a passing mention that irrespective of the lady being Prabhakaran’s mother, there can be no ad hominem argument forwarded that therefore she too is a criminal. To the extent of believing in a human angle, one would say that the Indian government’s move to deport the lady was too fast too soon. But there is a logical angle to this story. If she had been allowed to land, the Indian authorities would have been immediately inundated by the Sri Lankan government’s communique to hand her over to them. India would have been immediately pushed into an unwanted corner, especially given the attempts to improve relations with the Rajapakse coterie. Evidently, Prabhakaran’s mother is not short of money. And the medical treatment she wishes here is available in other countries too. Thus, in all, well ignored.


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