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India rumbles over Sri Lanka war, but to what end?

Colombo, October 17:: Indian political pressure on Sri Lanka to throttle back an offensive to wipe out the Tamil Tigers will do little to sway a Sri Lankan government increasingly confident it can end one of Asia's longest insurgencies. Despite threats from Tamil politicians at home, India is loath to repeat its dis ....Read more

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re: Sri LankaBy: Hema | Sunday , 29 Mar '09 4:19:39 AM Reply | Forward Why is India not helping by sending food

Dont cheatBy: johnson | Saturday , 25 Oct '08 18:20:25 PM Reply | Forward Rajapakse is cheating Manmohan singh by saying that he will bring peace and equality.

Let the Chinese come...By: Ajit Aryasingha | Tuesday , 21 Oct '08 12:38:44 PM Reply | Forward In order to counterbalance Indian pressure on our country Sri Lanka, we must allow China to put up military bases and weapons on our soil, just as Poland did recently, agreeing to install American missiles in their country to counterbalance Russian threats on them.

Evil actBy: johnnny | Saturday , 25 Oct '08 18:22:14 PM Reply | Forward Don't make our Indian prime minister to become a war criminal like rajapakse.

India rumbles over Sri Lanka war, but to what end?By: Vijaya | Monday , 20 Oct '08 14:54:23 PM Reply | Forward The establishments in New Delhi in charge of defence and security of the county are inept to counter the massive military build up taking place in Sri Lanka. The sophisticated military hardware, including fighter-bombers and rockets, supplied clandestinely by sources that are hostile to the country. The acquisition of these weapons by the administration of Rajapaksa brothers, under the pretext of fighting terrorism, has military objectives beyond the periphery of fighting terrorism i.e. for offensive capability against India. (The welcoming ceremony to the Lankan defence minister Rajapaksa with unusual mark of distinction at the Red Square and Kremlin is a chilling development adversely affecting India’s security from the vicinity and from all directions- and Pakistan and China are the leading players in the India bashing game.)

INDIA: Its Time to ActBy: Gaurav Deshmuk | Sunday , 19 Oct '08 21:58:45 PM Reply | Forward Its time for the parties in T.Nadu to join hands forgetting the differences.Due to strict censorship in the srilankan media what comes out is not real.Daily innocent people are killed.In an interview Srilankan Army Chief Lt. Gen. Sarath Fonseka," We being the majority of the country, 75%, we will never give in and we have the right to protect this country. We are also a strong nation. They can live in this country with us. But they must not try to, under the pretext of being a minority, demand undue things," he was quoted as saying.Those comments by the Army Chief drew criticism from several political parties including the UNP and the SLMC.Is it clear that this country exclusively belongs to a particular community?How can one expect any sort of humanity from the rest of the army?India has to intervene into the matter immediately before tamil race from SL is wiped out.Demands from the Tamilnadu is clear and loud"Save the Innocent Tamil People".Its Time for India to ACT

THE SOLUTIONBy: Sakthivelu | Saturday , 18 Oct '08 18:43:47 PM Reply | Forward After decades of problem in srilanka over tamil question, we, the India, are in a current situation which is very conducive to give a solution to a problem in our neighbourhood. Do we have the brains to devise a solution? Does our foreign ministry has a Plan A and Plan B on this issue? What did we do since the killing of our ex-PM? We just conducted an investigation and proclaimed LTTE Prabhakaran as the killer and left at that.Shame on us. Shouldn't we have sent our troops and eliminated the whole LTTE infrastructure and made the Sinhalese government to pay the price for the problem, in first place, it created in our neighbourhood.The solution, Send our troops and divide North-east and rest of SrilankaAsk the Srilankan troops to leave the North-East province for nowHelp create a constituent assembly to rewrite a secular constituion as oursMeanwhile in North-East ask all the armed groups to surrender or eliminate themLeave after new constitution works, may be after 10yrs

55%???By: Pugazhenthi | Saturday , 18 Oct '08 5:34:18 AM Reply | Forward Upali, You certainly work for the Sinhala Terror Government? When did a complete Sri Lankan Island Census happen that covered all tamil population to support this false claim? On the expressIndia's part there is a a mockery of the press in irresponsible misrepresentation like 'The LTTE for years has funded politicians in Tamil Nadu.' . I'm sorry! Such statements hurts India more than anybody else. Is it being said that Indian government does not have enough control to even prevent political funding by banned organizations?

WARBy: Alfred | Friday , 17 Oct '08 19:40:02 PM Reply | Forward War is a War. Who started, why it started is a big? If India plays Tamil then the sinhalese will play Chinese. So India has to tread carefully as it does not want Chinese on its backyard. So the solution is that there is 12 to 14 million Sinhalese and 6 to 8 million Tamils that ratio is not good. Tamil Nadu has 100 million Tamils ship 30 million and destablise the balance and you win the war. simple don"t ask the rest of India to look at it just do what you have to do as Tamils. War has no rules. What matters is who wins. Go Tamils and save your brothers and sister who are being massacared by the sinhalese

India rumbles over Sri Lanka war, but to what end?By: Upali Jayasena | Friday , 17 Oct '08 16:36:35 PM Reply | Forward Nanda, 55% of total Tamil pupulation are living among Sinhalese. In liberated Jaffna there is no Tamil genocide but hard for people there as high food prices

India rumbles over Sri Lanka war, but to what end?By: Upali Jayasena | Friday , 17 Oct '08 16:24:18 PM Reply | Forward What Prabhakaran has achieved -remote-controlling the Central Government of India representing one billion people-is something that not even countries hostile to India can ever dream of.Prabhakaran is a convicted criminal in this country and wanted in India for the assassination of a former Prime Minister. But, he has made a mockery of Indian law and sovereignty. What critics said of Lenin comes to mind: `Russia does as the Bolsheviks say, the Bolsheviks as the Central Committee says and the Central Committee as Lenin says.` Something similar may be said of India today. India does as the Central Government says, the Central Government as the DMK says and the DMK as Prabhakaran says.If Prabhakaran is capable of such a feat while being on the run how vulnerable India would become if he were to carve out a separate state goes without saying. It is not only Sri Lanka`s national security that has suffered at the hands of Prabhakaran but also India`s democracy and self-respect.

Genocide in SrilankaBy: sbala | Friday , 17 Oct '08 22:12:14 PM Reply | Forward Sinhalese government took help from Pakistan and China even before the innocent Mr. Rajiv rushed into Srilanka with a hundred thousand soldiers and proved the saying that fools tread where angels fear. The way this army behaved in Srilanka and what it suffered is a shame for every Indian. What will you do if thousands of your women are raped and thousands of your men killed afte being disarmed? Sit back and enjoy your tea? That is not what a true leader does. That apart, the only reason for the Indian government to support the Sinhalese government is that the advisors are all Hindi speaking people and feel closer to the Sinhalese who are descendents from north india. It is funny that Sinhalese like Jayasena can write so brazenly to an Indian media. That the Sinhalese army is walking into the headquarters of the Tamil people reminds me of what the Nazi army did when they entered Russia. All that the Tamil people want is that they should be treated on par with the Bangladeshi refugees and India should stop military help to the Sinhalese army. Tamils will take care of themselves whether in Tamilnadu or in Srilanka. Let not the Government of India sow the seeds of separatism again for the sake of another country which is committing genocide of its own people because they follow Hinduism and speak Tamil.

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