Didn't you read the news that followed that the LTTE news was totally false?
No, I didn't listen to the Indian media.
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Didn't you read the news that followed that the LTTE news was totally false?
No, I didn't listen to the Indian media.
Didn't you read the news that followed that the LTTE news was totally false?
PM
Opposition parties slam Premier for making false statements | DailyFT - Be Empowered
India became involved in the conflict in the 1980s for a number of reasons, including its leaders' desire to project India as the regional power in the area and worries about India's own Tamils seeking independence. The latter was particularly strong in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, where ethnic kinship led to strong support for independence for Sri Lankan Tamils. Throughout the conflict, the Indian central and state governments have supported both sides in different ways. Beginning in the 1980s, India, through its intelligence agency R&AW, provided arms, training and monetary support to a number of Sri Lankan Tamil militant groups, including the LTTE and its rival Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization (TELO). The LTTE's rise is widely attributed to the initial backing it received from R&AW. It is believed that by supporting different militant groups, the Indian government hoped to keep the Tamil independence movement divided and be able to exert overt control over it.
India became more actively involved in the late 1980s, and on June 5, 1987, the Indian Air Force airdropped food parcels to Jaffna while it was under siege by Sri Lankan forces. At a time when the Sri Lankan government stated they were close to defeating the LTTE, India dropped 25 tons of food and medicine by parachute into areas held by the LTTE in a direct move of support toward the rebels. Negotiations were held, and the Indo-Sri Lanka Peace Accord was signed on July 29, 1987, by Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and Sri Lankan President Jayewardene. Under this accord, the Sri Lankan Government made a number of concessions to Tamil demands, including devolution of power to the provinces, a merger—subject to later referendum—of the Northern and the Eastern provinces into the single province, and official status for the Tamil language (this was enacted as the 13th Amendment to the Constitution of Sri Lanka). India agreed to establish order in the North and East through a force dubbed the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF), and to cease assisting Tamil insurgents. Militant groups including the LTTE, although initially reluctant, agreed to surrender their arms to the IPKF, which initially oversaw a cease-fire and a modest disarmament of the militant groups.
The signing of the Indo-Lanka Accord, so soon after JR Jayawardene's declaration that he would fight the Indians to the last bullet, led to unrest in south. The arrival of the IPKF to take over control of most areas in the North of the country enabled the Sri Lanka government to shift its forces to the south (in Indian aircraft) to quell the protests. This led to an uprising by the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna in the south, which was put down bloodily over the next two years.
hmmm. I have seen hindustanys even on their cute little rakhshak forum as well as in public openly supporting LTTE.
anywayz.....facts are facts. No need to sugar-coat it. india played a double-game -which is something Pakistan is blamed for time to time in western media
These (the PM's declarations) were reports taken from the recent few years. However, India has been actively arming, training & giving financial support to both TELO & LTTE for about 15 years, and especially in the 1980's.
INDIA AIRLIFTS AID TO TAMIL REBELS - NYTimes.com
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Sri Lanka - Tamil Militant Groups
hmmm. I have seen hindustanys even on their cute little rakhshak forum as well as in public openly supporting LTTE.
anywayz.....facts are facts. No need to sugar-coat it. india played a double-game -which is something Pakistan is blamed for time to time in western media
On June 5th 1987 India stepped into a more active role. Jaffna, the capital of the Tamil-majority North province, was under siege by the Sri Lankan forces. There were claims that the government were on the verge of defeating the LTTE. In a direct move to help the rebels, the Indian Air Force dropped aid parcels into Jaffna weighing 25 tons in total.
But there is no concrete proof of the Pakistani government's involvement in aiding the Taliban, but it isn't true in the case of India's LTTE or Mukti Bahini support against Sri Lanka & Pakistan respectively.
I know you like to argue in circles. are you gonna sit there and argue your government has no hand in Taliban's creation? You really think so?
hmmm. I have seen hindustanys even on their cute little rakhshak forum as well as in public openly supporting LTTE.
anywayz.....facts are facts. No need to sugar-coat it. india played a double-game -which is something Pakistan is blamed for time to time in western media
^^ I don't support LTTE, I support however freedom fighters in Baluchistan, Gilgit - Baltistan and the oppressed Afghan refuges living in paksitan