India To Pressure TNA Into Political Process
- Political solution to ethnic issue
The Indian government is to exert pressure on the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) to fully commit itself to the political process towards arriving at a viable solution.
It is reliably learnt that New Delhi had intimated the necessity towards pushing the TNA towards supporting a viable political solution in Sri Lanka, during President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s recent visit to India.
Issues such as post conflict reconstruction in the North and the East of Sri Lanka, reconciliation efforts and the acute need for a political solution have rated high on the agenda of the talks between the two governments. Special reference is also reported to have been made on the progress of the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) and the Sri Lankan government’s efforts towards effectively implementing the recommendations made on the Commission’s extensive report.
Indian Premier Manmohan Singh has also assured the government that ‘isolated incidents’ such as those recently taken place in Tamil Nadu where anti-Sri Lanka sentiment was clearly exhibited with Sri Lankan travelers to Tamil Nadu attacked and a sporting team returned, will not have an impact on relations between the two countries.
It is also learnt that the Indian Premier has emphasized the need for greater defence cooperation between the two countries given the existing sensitivities. Discussions have also centered on continued exchange programs between the two countries’ defence establishments to ensure greater security. Concern has risen over the growing threat posed by Tamil Nadu towards a reawakening of the LTTE. Intelligence reports have indicated that LTTE operatives such as Vinayakam alias Kathirgamathamby Arivazhaghan alias Iyyavanna operating out of France are building a network of cells in Tamil Nadu to conduct terrorist attacks.
What can TNA do when the Rajapakse government controls all the keys and shut all the doors? What happened to APRC report? India must see to it that Rajapakse implement the part of the Sri Lankan constitution which is called 13A. Rajapakse must either consider the APRC Report that was prepared with considerable efforts on the part of the members over a long period of time or allow TNA table a motion in the parliament and vote on it.
@ Saro
Quote”What can TNA do ” Unquote
Tell them not to ask the ” sun and the moon” and be reasonable. The LTTE proxy party is still deaming about a ” Tamil Ealam” in Sri Lanka; with the defeat of terrorism they should get down from their high pedestal and embrace reality.This is what this article also says.
As simple as that Saro !!
we are not asking sun and the moon as tamils we are asking only to be treated equaly like sinhalees. How many people are employed by the govt and what pecentage are tamil? army, navy, airforce and police are 99.99% sinhalees what else u need to prof that tamils are treated as secound class citizens?
What Eelam tamils want is simple ;leave us alone as a conferadated state or better separate entity like East timor.
No body understands what TNA’s startegy is in regards to the future of Tamils.
If they have the welfare of the Tamils at heart, they would have tried their best to work with the government in the Eastern provincial council. This is the most regrettable missed opportunity. TNA should stop playing a cry baby and complaining to India. Rather sit with the government, and sort out the problems facing the Tamils today. It seems that they want to have the problem for ever rather than solving it for their mere existence. Soon Tamil people are gong to reject them like what happened in the NE provincial elections. People are evolving and want to live harmoniously with other communities.
I don’t think the indians are going to have much success in coaxing the TNA into resuming talks with the government as long as the government keeps having pointless meetings as has happened so far. The TNA, as seen in the elections to the Eastern province, has the overwhelming support of the tamil people to make a stand and this will be further reinforced by the forthcoming Northern elections.
India has lost its clout both with Rajapaksa and the TNA and the tamil people don’t trust India. Now, becuase of India’s stupidity the Pakistani’s are eavesdropping on its southern border from Jaffna. India’s stupid actions in totally supporting the Rajapaksa regime against the tamils of Sri Lanka has badly misfired. India will regret this for a long time to come. Tamil Nadu politicians, reagrdless of their own motives, appear to be the only hope for the tamils of Sri Lanka in keeping Rajapaksa’s excesses against them in check.
Your comments are perfectly right How can you work with these Gabaragoyas
Rajapakse or no Rajapakse, no sri Lankan Government (accept UNP) will ever give in to the terrorist minded TNA, whether Tamil people support them or not. Did not the Tamil majority & the TNA support the LTTE for 30 years? It was India that backed us to annihilate the LTTE & not the west. Blake’s,Pillai’s,Moon’s etc., are still scavenging on white flags,dead bodies, LLRC & military establishments on behalf of the TNA & the terrorist diaspora! No Sinhalese,no Tamil & no Muslim can ever have separate “Home Land” in this small country but live together in any part of the land. No one need worry about Sinhalese voting for the Sinhalese in their areas & the Tamils & Muslims doing the same in areas where they are a majority. If members of the Sinhalese community visit the North & East today, they are sure to feel jealous of the development taking place in those areas! In spite of all this the Government does not get all the votes! Is this the first time India is exerting pressure on the TNA? Did not India exert pressure on the LTTTE many a times, for Peace? All these attempts will be futile as we have witnessed in the past, for TNA & LTTE are “Shylock’s” . TNA & LTTE were never the sole representives of the Tamils & will never be. Rajapakse regime should have the back bone to negotiate with other Tamil parties, minus TNA & reach a consensus. If not, hold a referandom on key issues & implement. No foreign dirt, White or Black need pollute the outcome.
The LTTE was defeated not by the sinhala military but by an alliance of many countries including India, China, USA, Israel, Iran and many others. Rajapaksa promised a speedy solution after the war and solicited the support of all these countries but did not deliver. That is why the USA, UK, India, UK and the UN are annoyed with Rajapaksa. Rajapaksa is a cheat, a lier and a mass murderer and should be pushed from all sides to come to a settlement with the tamils. Or else history will repeat itself.
Dude, TNA is majority party in north elected by People inspite of intimidiations…does is it ring a bell. Looks like you want to make all Tamils slaves.
UN has to have a referendum in Tamil area in Sri Lanka to decide there fate to live in one country or separate one. I am sure 95% Tamils will vote for out of the ruling by war criminals and thugs in Sri Lanka,
TNA already said so many times that they are not for dividing the country. Some Shingala terrorists and dogmatists are still blaming on the TNA. So India should support for the referendum and not to exert presser on them.
No other way to solve the Tamil rights in Sri Lanka.
by other parties, do you mean the lacky’s of the pakses created by the military like karuna and pilayan and douglas.
its like asking the jewish guards of the gas chambers to represent the jews..
keep dreaming soysa? anything that is the genuine call of the tamils you call pro-lttee.]
why not look into your own history of fascism and sinhala/buddhist mindset built on racism before you call the kettle black
suren soysa,
These are facts that no one cannot hide or challenge :-
1) From the time of Independence, all Governments discriminated against Tamils.
2) There were peaceful protests led by Chelvanayagam for basic rights which
were rejected.
3) LTTE was the product of State discrimination, and true, many Tamils
sympathised/ supported them, expexcting an end to atrocities by State forces.
4) The North and East provinces were traditional habitats of Tamils,
Tamils living in the south during frequent riots, Governments sent them
for safety to these areas.
5) Tamils moved to the south for thier economic benefits at their own expence and
NOT with state sponsorship, unlike colonisation of Sinhalese in the East, and
now in the North with military might.
6) there were thousands of civilians killed, and thousands displaced who cannot
return to their original lands and this injustice is unacceptable.
In the end, there will always be an end to such injustice.
This guy is living in his own imaginary land; there are many “small countries ,recent and not so recent ;from Isreal to East Timor.. See you next yeat in Eelam!!!
The indian government should first insist that human rights and rights of citizens displaced from homes during the war be enforced.
While the President was preaching “tolerance” from Sanchi, his army assaulted, threw excrement upon and smashed up vehicles of, protesters in the north who demanded to be allowed to return to their homes.
The bogey of “resurgence of LTTE” is used as excuse to impose a military regime on the northeast with curtailment of human rights and Rule of Law.
Working towards political solution of the Tamil problem, one has to see what the GoSL doing.
Having a big military presence in the North and East is not the way to go to find ethnic resolution.
Tamils need to feel that they are safe from the security forces (Sinhala) and the military intelligence.
Kidnappings and torture/disappearances should cease immediately.
“Kidnappings and torture/disappearances should cease immediately….”
and start forcibly conscription of children, suicide bombings and money extortion.
India , India,They do all for the benefit of them.Fist India should send a Tamil High Commissioner to Srilanka before pushing TNA. TNA should not listen to TNA. The counrty will not have the expected develepment until they solve the problem.Fihgting with 40 million tamils all over the world is not a solution
Indians are not that stupid to coax the TNA into the political process?
They know verywell that the TNA the moment they get the upper hand will under cut the indians.
If India assists or coax, that will be nail in the United India coffin.
Right now, the Indians are weary of the TNA.
Who will trust a fox like Sampanthan / even VP did not give him a upper & kept him like a puppet. Thats the reason, he took refuge in the South.
Is there a Tamil problem? The answer is NO. because the Tamils who had problems had left SL shores. Those who leave are economic migrants and for family reunion.
Very soon only the TNA will remain in SL.
The MR regime is all powerful in Sri Lanka. The TNA, despite the overwhelming democratic support of the Tamils in the North and East are in a weak position to move the MR regime on anything. And yet, the Indian government, instead of propping up the weak to bring some balance is exerting pressure on the weak? I hope the people of TN read this.
Birds of a feather flock together. Indian government more corrupted unprincipled one than the dictatorial discriminatory extremist singala buddhist regime.that openly buys elected council members and parlimentarians offering lavish positions .The days of Mahathma Ghandi peace loving honest fame are all thrown away and now occupied by low mentality bribery crooks disguising as democracy practicing regime . Branap Mukargee , Shiva Sanka Menon and Indian top military personal were hand in gloves with Rajapaksha clan in the massacre of innocent tamils in that war. No wonder Col.Harri Haran writing articles in the news paper praising his favourite idol Rajapaksha the murderer and war criminal, because that is what Hari Haran himself is made up of but could not practice it. For India and Singala regime tamils are disposable items and genocidal attack against them is their intentional policy but they pretend that is against terrorism . Even the sentiment of Tamil Nadu tamils are being ignored by Indian government as if they are not part of Indian nation.They prefer Sri Lanka and Rajapakshas than their own tamil countrymen .They don’t care a topence when their own tamil fisherman Shot and killed by Sri Lankan military. Instead they invited Rajapaksha and honoured him ( must have praised .him for his deeds against the tamils ). India.to pressure TNA is another deceitful act that will not produce any result
bow to the flower.
Here we go again; India interferes with internal affairs of Sri Lanka; because our leaders invite them to to so. India is not a king maker or a nation builder. It is the most corrupt nation on earth with a fraudulent economy. Therefore, other than some sophisticated lessons on STATE CORRUPTION and HOW TO MASTER FRAUDULENT ACTS, this bully does not have any substances to offer Sri Lanka to resolve our trivial policy issues pursued by chauvinist political parties such as TNA, SLMC and TMVP alike.