Central govt. is not a dictator at first place. If Indian govt. can't give importance for our emotions means forget about TN in Indian union and enjoy with Sinhalese relationship who gng to stop you. Like Jews(after genocide) we need separate nation it can be either EELAM OR TN.
Lankans(Sinhalese) is our eternal enemy like Pakistan for India.
There is no point in trying together back to pre-1962 days, that part of separatist history is gone for ever. Since then, India reied staying aloof, India tried getting involved as an honest broker, and everything failed. All three parties were responsible.
Sri Lanka was utterly irresponsible in its treatment of its Tamil minority, and for driving it to the point of desperation. A series if disenfranchising measures taken by that government made Tamilians slaves in the country they had inhabited for centuries. If this was not calculated to drive over the brink a race used to rule, what else was needed?
The Jaffna Tamils, not the plantation Tamils, responded to their miserable condition with violence, violence that led to the development of the suicide bomber. People forget that the suicide bomber, and her bomb jacket, were Tamil Tiger inventions, not, as is wrongly thought, from the middle east, or Afghanistan.
India perhaps made the worst mess that was possible, intervening in a bitter internal quarrel and incurring the displeasure of both parties. She had no business offering covert support, she had no business browbeating the guerrilla factions into a forced and unwilling peace with the authorities, she had no business offering to police the peace, and she had no business withdrawing and leaving the two sides to battle it out. It was morally repugnant although discreet and tactful not to intervene during the final days of the Sri Lankan battle to crush the LTTE. Crushing them was necessary, but turning a blind eye to the civilian massacre was not.
In this situation, the game is ripe for hostile nations to offer financial and industrial incentives to the Sri Lankans. India is doomed if she acts and doomed if she does not. If she acts, all the emotional hurt and guilt feelings of the Tamilians will surge out, as it has done. Their complicity in the I'll-treatment of Sri Lankan Tamils, who were admired in the abstract and spurned in daily life, lends a hypocritical air to their protests today, but it is nevertheless a deep emotional issue which has become politicised and has to be delicately handled.
In passing, only our inept government could contemplate putting Sri Lankan airmen into Tambaram. As an act of hapless clumsiness and insensitivity, it rates right up there with MMS agreeing to discuss Baluchistan with the Pakistanis. We seem to be singularly unfortunate at this juncture of our history, to have these Keystone cops and the sinister, blood-stained Parivar gang as our only options.
Enough to think of becoming a Bangladeshi again. Under an assumed name, of course.
It is only e desperation of political manipulative like Vaiko that keeps this issue alive.