“Let them Leave”

IC isn’t naïve to believe that the Sri Lankan government’s ban on independent media, aid groups and the UN is an innocent formality.

Surviving in the “Safe-Zone”

“Safe-Zone” explained in this Q&A

Intolerance goes International

The attack in Melbourne highlights, once again, that nothing has changed since 1983. Any country under the majoritarian rule of Sinhalese will not tolerate the diversity of, sometimes dissenting, opinions that are inherent to a multi-cultural state.

Crime and Confinement

The only plausible argument in favour of this attitude is that the IC views the proposed caging as appropriate penal justice for the crime of being born Tamil.

“Conflict Area”

In particular, threat of violence in the Western Province, which accounts for a vast share of the island’s economic activity, is the only spectra that is likely to jolt the policy makers, both local and international.

No Surrender

The crucial message from the air raid: yes times are challenging, but Tamils never expected it to be easy. Thus, whatever trials may come, the struggle will subsist until the people’s right to self-determination is realised.

India in its skin

In the meantime, Tamileelam leadership should begin to look beyond the mammoth of landmass to their north. There are alternative world powers rivalling for influence in our region.

Legitimising LTTE

They argued that Tamils could live under the Sinhala state without fear, because, today, there are enough international institutions and safeguards in place to prevent outright genocide or even a repeat of previous anti-Tamil pogroms.

Reality Principle

Clinging on to the errors of a bygone era would not be in the long term interests of India. Allowing the Tamils to move into another great power’s sphere of influence would be New Delhi’s biggest blunder of recent times.

Playing Geopolitics

Eelam Tamils’ strength, the world wide Tamil community, has, inadvertently, been their major undoing on the international arena.

Passage to Prison

Tamils of Vanni are wary of the fate that awaits them in military occupied areas. They are aware of what happened in Batticaloa and to the few civilians who did dare to walk towards the “enemy” in recent weeks. For them the risk of getting killed by bombs, still, remains less than the risk of being made to disappear.

Gauging Grandstrategy – Part One: Introduction

Two generations of Tamils have been fighting for an independent Tamileelam. That is the goal; not winning a particular battle or administering a limited region.

No Magic Carpets

In all likelihood, an end of conventional warfare would lead to an Iraqi style anarchy in the south of India.

Making “terrorists”

Wall Street Journal, addicted to war

Soul Search

However, given geographic proximity, economic might and intellectual advancement, Tamil Nadu can take practical initiatives to assist in the Tamileelam struggle.

“Mahavamsa Mindset”

Though the US seems adamant that Tamils are Sri Lankans, the SLA, whose views matter the most, thinks otherwise.

Consume with Common-sense

The nature of LTTE’s defence of Killinochchi Town has deprived the Colombo media of some of the essentials of a “historic victory” in the “mother of all battles”; and some in the public have picked up on it.

“Deplorable” Deterrent

However, by their very failure to act to protect the lives of Tamil civilians, the IC may be aiding in the glorification of “terrorism” as the only viable self defence mechanism available to the Tamils.

Killinochchi Conquered

People who have closely watched the evolution of the Tamil struggle and are familiar with the modus operandi of the LTTE would agree that the return of Tamils to Killinochchi Town is only a matter of time.

Makeshift: Mulaitheevu

As LTTE reports facing some of the youngest ever SLA soldiers on the Mulaitheevu front, this particular venture is unravelling for the hastily planned make-do battle that it is: a manoeuvre to buy the Rajapaksa regime a little respite if the battle for Killinochchi Town continues on the disastrous tone of last few weeks.