From: kumar@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU (V.R.Kumar)
Subject: Re: The Truth behind the Indian generosity
Organization: CSIRO Division of Info Tech, Sydney, Australia
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 92 00:17:21 GMT

In article <1992Oct1.165258.5177@cunews.carleton.ca> cs304001@scs.carleton.ca (Chulaka Ailapperuma) writes:
>In article <1992Sep30.232443.12761@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU> kumar@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU (V.R.Kumar) writes:
>>In article <1992Sep30.131406.9592@ifi.uio.no> sivasamy@ifi.uio.no (Sivasamy Premraj) writes:
>>>
>>

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>>Mistakes are on both the sides. There is no point in blaming a particular
>>group. The mistakes are :
>>
>>1. Sri Lankan Govt. killing innocent tamils in SL.
>
>I agree. (They killed a lot of Sinhalease too, I might add).
>
>>
>>2. Eelam fighters adopting violence as the way of achieving freedom.   
>>
>>3. Sri Lankan tamils depending on India to help them
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>>4. Indian tamils supporting for the cause
>>
>>5. Indian Govt. making use of this opportunity for its political gains.
>>
>
>Agreed to all of the above.
>>6. Sri Lankan govt. and Indian govt. play a tricky role in the form of
>>   Peace Accord.
>>
>>7. Unexpected flop of the peace accord. 
>>
>What would you expect ? Mr. Jayawardena assumed that he knows what
>is best for everbody, and simply forsed the accord on to the people.
>ie. (Sinhala, Tamil, Muslim etc). If, it was allowed to be properly
>debated it might have been accepted. The people (Now I am talking about
>the Sinhalease) had no way of expressing their opinion, so the result was
>what happened for the past few years. ie. The death of more Tamil people,
>the JVP etc.

Agreed. But many feel that IPKF entered Sri lanka to kill tamils and
others and it is not true. IPKF entered Sri Lanka to prevent American
base. Nobody expected that it will result in a bloody clash. Anyway,
it has happened. Indian Govt. made use of the peace accord for its
political gains and Jayawardhana has equal role in it has equal 
responsibility for the killings.

>
>Simply put it was a bad sell.
>The point is not if people would have bought it anyways, it might have
>started a diologe.
>
>>8. IPKF crime against innocent tamils
>
>The IPKF was bad for everybody. The JVP used it as an excuse to over throw
>the Govt. The Govt. used the JVP and the IPKF to become even more dictotorial.
>
>>10. SL Govt. and LTTE never accepting for any peace talks.
>
>Do they want to ? Both have power so long this damn war goes on. Is it in
>thier interest to have peace ?
>
>
>>12. SL Govt. continue killing innocent tamils
>
>And Sinhalease.
>>13. LTTE continue killing innocent people
>>
>>
>>So, lets stop blaming one another. There is no point in talking about
>>what has happened before. Rather than blaming one another for the
>>incidents in the past, lets join hands in praying for an early solution
>>to the problem and peace in Sri Lanka which will give re-brith to the
>>war-torn country and to all the suffering friends in Sri Lanka and
>>to the SL tamil refugees in India and abroad.
>>
>Yes, lets. To all the Indian people, as a Sinhalease I know that many Sinhala
>people do not trust Indians (rightly or wrongly). India must do something to
>reassure these people becuase with out their support, there can be no peace.

No, never. India cannot do anything in a place where it has lost its
trust. It will only lead to another disaster. India has learnt a good
lesson from the peace accord and should never interfere in any internal 
affairs of other countries even if it is requested by other countries.
This will be the best way to stay out of trouble. But the problem is,
the politicians will not keep quiet. They will always do something 
for their own political gains in the name of India. In one way it is 
good for India that Nehru Dynasty no longer exists. But it appears that
Priyanka Gandhi will bring back the Nehru Dynasty to power in future
which is really sad to note.

>
>The Sinhalease on the other hand must realise that Sri Lanka is not a 
>"Sinhalease Buddhist country", but a country of many differant cultures. Maybe
>special rights might have to be granted to the Tamil people to guarantee thier
>rights and freedoms. (Look at the Canadian Solution. ie. Quebec is guarantted
>25% of the seats in Parliment for ever etc.).


Special rights ??? No. Equal Rights is the solution. But will the
Srilankan Govt. or other community other than tamils in SL accept this?
Its hard to say.

Anpudan, 

V R Kumar




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