From: Venkatachalam Aruna  (Affable)
Subject: Re: A threat from ...
Reply-To: aruna@tree.egr.uh.edu (Venkatachalam Aruna)
Organization: University of Houston
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 18:22:31 GMT

In article <BtKon0.IFp@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca> mvishnu@morse.uwaterloo.ca (m  
vishnu) writes:
 [stuff deleted]
> This is one of the acts of Indians that turned the Tamil people to the
> sides of Tigers.  Remeber, Tamils civilians welcomed IPKF by garlanding
> them.
> 
> Rajiv Gandhi and J. R. Jayawardina signed the Accord without consulting
> any of the Tamils.  Prabakaran was flown to Delhi, was put in a 
> house arrest, was showed the Accord and was given a take it or 
> leave it ultimatum.
> 
> According to Rajiv Gandhi, the Tamils got what they want in that the
> north and east would be merged.  But J. R. Jayawardina had a catch:
> he wrote that there would be a referendum and that merger would be
> reversed if there are no 2/3 majority supporting it.  With this
> clause JR started to settle almost 1000 Sinhalese settlers per day 
> in the eastern province.  
> 
> Dilipan, a senoir LTTE cadre, began a fast to death without even 
> taking a drop of water, protesting the settlement.  Rajiv Gandhi
> simply said there was no settlement.  His Sri-lankan high commissioner
> visited the area and said there was "massive settlement".  India
> took no note and Dilipan died.  Following this one elderly lady,
> Annai Poopathi, also started a fast to death without taking water
> and she met the same fate.
> 
> These two deaths and the death of the 12 LTTE leaders in the hands
> of the Sri-lankan army (the SL armed forces were supposed to be 
> confined to the barraks according to the Accord, they not only 
> ventured out, they arrested 12 unarmed LTTE leaders and were
> preparing to take them to Colombo.  Prabakaran protested and
> asked Rajiv to intervene.  Rajiv instead of intervening, provided
> Indian fighter jets to transport the LTTE leaders to Colombo.
> The 12 leaders committed suicide) made LTTE to renounce its 
> Gandhian method and to re-use arms against the IPKF.  After putting
> up stiff resistance in Jaffna, they withdrew to the Wanni jungles in 
> the north-cetral part of Sri-lanka and engages in the classical 
> guerrilla warfare. 
> 
> About the power of (guerrilla) warfare, Valluvan had said a long time
> before Indians came to TE:
> 
> ciRu-padai-aan cel-idam cErin-uRu-padai-aan
> ookkam azinthu vidum
> 
> (If a small army selects a suitable terrain, the larger opponent
> would lose the fighting spirit)
> 
> ciRai-nalan-um ceerum-ilar-eninum maanthar
> uRai-nilaththOdu oddal arithu
> 
> (Even though not possessing impressive fortress and other military 
> equipments, it is hard to fight men in their own land)
> 
> 
> Yes,  Rajiv proved that he was more of an Italian than Indian by ignoring 
> Dilipan and Poopathi.
> 
> Irrited at some western journalists' questions, Rajiv roared that he would
> make Prabakaran fall at his feet!
> 
> Meenan Vishnu

  This may be off from the original thread. According to Meenan, it
seems Tamils are supporting LTTE. Well, to the best of my knowledge,
Indian Tamils are not. Indian Tamils are supporting SL Tamils but
not LTTE. I think the main reason was killing the other Tamil leaders
like Amirthalingam, Sabarathinam,Padmanaba and the final straw was
Rajiv Gandhi's assassination. I don't know whether SL tamils are still
supporting LTTE financially and morally.

Inquisitively,
Venkat
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