Sri Lanka post-LTTE

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The outcome of the recent elections in Tamil Nadu has been the defeat of the most faithful of the LTTE touts in India. These financial orphans of the LTTE have been thoroughly exposed because Tamilians do not care for the LTTE, contrary to media projections. The common joke today is that 'Puligal' (Tigers) have been reduced to 'Eligal' (Rats) because they (the LTTE) have had to hide in holes in the ground to try save themselves. But the end of the LTTE does mean the end of Sri Lanka's human rights crisis. The Sri Lanka crisis is the consequence of a festering wound from the past, which however fortunately, is neither malignant nor cancerous. The wound that has festered had been originally inflicted by the tactics of the British imperialists when to administer the colony that Sri Lanka had become, they relied on the Tamils of the island for....

Will the developments in Sri Lanka affect poll prospects?

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Recently there has been some hectic efforts by some Tamil Nadu parties to get the Government of India to pressure the Sri Lanka government to end the alleged "genocide" of Tamils and to enter into negotiation with the LTTE. There are, however, a large number of Sri Lankan Tamils who say that there is no genocide of Tamils, well-known persons such as Anandsagaree of TULF, S C Chandrahasan of Ofer, Devananda and Karuna, both ministers in the Sri Lanka government. They point out that the LTTE has assassinated more Tamil leaders than the Sri Lankan army has, leaders of eminence such as Amrithalingam, Yogeswaran, Neelam Tiruchelvam, and even militants such as Sri Sabaratnam. The important truth is that the internationally banned terrorist organisation, the LTTE, is losing in the battlefield, and it is only matter of time before what is left of it in the jungles....