What Jaffna looks like now and what Jaffna looked like before May 2009, is something that no one would even today imagine. The Indian PM may well like to look at the development in Tamil Nadu before Jaffna. Our island has no room for 76million people but out of the 2.2million Tamils, those aspiring for a Tamil Homeland are more than welcome to go to India. If the aspiration of the Tamil ‘brothers & sisters’ in Tamil Nadu & Sri Lanka are the same then definitely that aspiration for a separate Tamil Homeland must be nowhere else but in Tamil Nadu. Its well & fine to be talking about the Tamil ‘brothers & sisters’ in Tamil Nadu but Tamil ‘brothers & sisters’ in Sri Lanka warrants some clarification. However, when a leader of another country states that his government will ensure that Tamil ‘brothers & sisters’ live with equality, justice, peace and dignity, we have to wonder what he is talking about. That sovereignty, entailed mutual respect for each other’s territorial integrity and sovereignty.Ĭitizens of Sri Lanka were citizens of Sri Lanka.
The last time we checked both India & Sri Lanka were sovereign nations. In attempting to balkanize Sri Lanka, the insidious plans of India are boomeranging on India to balkanize India first! When that happens India will no longer hold super power status. In so doing, his statement has now demolished the bid for self-determination by pro-LTTE TNA & Diaspora and reverts the self-determination quest back to Tamil Nadu where a Tamil State is already created and waiting to be declared ‘independent’. When India’s PM says our sisters and brothers referring to Sri Lankan Tamils, he is claiming these Tamils to be Indian. Those wishing to return to India can do so as Indian citizens. The choice was given to Tamils – those wishing to remain in Sri Lanka, can remain as Sri Lankan citizens. These forcibly brought South Indians were repatriated in several phases and the remaining to be repatriated under the Indo-Lanka Accord have yet to be complete. That colonials dumped unaccountable number of South Indians into Sri Lanka is nothing no one can deny. Following colonial rule, both India & Sri Lanka obtained ‘independence’ from invader rule. Sri Lanka was never under Indian rule in any time of its history. That bid has now come to a standstill with India claiming Tamils to be their brothers & sisters. Separatist Tamil politicians, the LTTE and the LTTE Diaspora have been painstakingly building up an argument that conforms to the UN definition criteria for self-determination to claim a separate state.
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