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India extends $1 billion credit line for Sri Lanka by a year
COLOMBO (Reuters) – India has extended a $1 billion credit line for Sri Lanka by one year, a Sri Lankan official told Reuters on Tuesday, giving the crisis-hit country a backup infusion of dollars for essential imports.
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Dilbu wrote:India extends $1 billion credit line for Sri Lanka by a year
COLOMBO (Reuters) – India has extended a $1 billion credit line for Sri Lanka by one year, a Sri Lankan official told Reuters on Tuesday, giving the crisis-hit country a backup infusion of dollars for essential imports.
a number of Hindu temples seem to have been destroyed very recently in SL and the authorities have kept quiet as have the mainstream media in India and also in TN

rumours that PM Modi has not given appointments to very senior SL functionaries are also floating around

does anyone have more inputs....
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chetak wrote:
a number of Hindu temples seem to have been destroyed very recently in SL and the authorities have kept quiet as have the mainstream media in India and also in TN

rumours that PM Modi has not given appointments to very senior SL functionaries are also floating around

does anyone have more inputs....


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mujMSZuHJQo


Sri Lanka में हिंदू मंदिरो पर हमला | क्या है श्रीलंका का Sinhalisation Project?





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Several Tamil political parties have called for a protest on April 25 against the recent temple attacks, among other issues. Tamils in Sri Lanka have witnessed an escalation in the attack on Hindu temples in recent weeks, a trend that they note is part of the State’s “ongoing Sinhalisation project” in the island’s north.

The document below, concerning these temples, starts out in tamil but it also has a lot of english language content that is a translation of the tamil content

english and tamil content pages are interspersed through out the document

https://www.scribd.com/document/6444671 ... gy-Report#

BTW, where ever the buddhists are in majority, they have invariably conspired to wipe out the Hindu population, destroy temples or re appropriate them to serve the buddhist faith eg: bhutan, myanmar, SL etc

they are not as peaceful or non violent as many people fondly seem to imagine they are and this is a historical act that is true even today

It's high time that these ever greedy, ever grasping, ever ungrateful, and ever freeloading sinhala were taught an unforgettable life lesson or two or three
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_Y3bDYHrmg


Interview: Col.Ramani Hariharan: Intelligence Head of Indian Peacekeeping Force in Sri Lanka





Colonel Ramani Hariharan served in the Indian Army for nearly three decades as a
Military Intelligence specialist on South Asia as well as terrorism and counter insurgency. He was awarded the Visisht Sewa Medal (VSM) for his service as the Head of Intelligence of the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) in Sri Lanka (1987-90). In this previously unreleased in depth interview, I discuss with Col.Hariharan the deployment of the Indian Peacekeeping Forces in Sri Lanka, the opposition to the Indo-Lanka Accord, the atrocities of the IPKF, the LTTE and GOSL, as well as Col.Hariharan's first hand account of hearing the LTTE's plans to assassinate Rajiv Gandhi.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnhVo7oeLv4


Forcing Sri Lankan Government To Accept The Accord Was A Mistake : Says Former IPKF Chief




India's first and only overseas military deployment in strength started this month in 1987. The induction of the Indian Peacekeeping Force or IPKF into Sri Lanka was a result of the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord of 29th July 1987. So the IPKF went in with an understanding that it would keep peace in Sri Lanka's Northern and Eastern provinces. However, Lt Gen AS Kalkat (retd), the Commander of the IPKF tells Editor-in-Chief Nitin A. Gokhale, the provisions of the Accord were flawed to begin with and the Indian military was forced to switch its role from peacekeeping to peace enforcement because neither the Sinhalese nor the Tamil militants were happy with the accord thrust upon them. Listen to what happened in the years between 1987-1990 in Sri Lanka and with the IPKF from the man who was at the forefront of India's military effort.
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Interview with Sri Lankan High Commissioner. Surprisingly conciliatory - not sure if he's just being a diplomat or is it the real inclination of the current SL govt.

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srin wrote:Interview with Sri Lankan High Commissioner. Surprisingly conciliatory - not sure if he's just being a diplomat or is it the real inclination of the current SL govt.

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The sinhala are past masters at political deception

They ate rajiv ghahdhy for breakfast and he didn't even know it

the sinhala buddhists have destroyed several Hindu temples in the tamil areas and have simply appropriated those sites and built buddhist shrines in lieu

This has happened over the last 6-8 months, well after the so called "aid without strings" extended foolishly and so generously by India

There are now very serious differences between dilli and colombo especially because the cheenis are behind all the temple destruction and influential sections of the sinhala are cooperating rather eagerly with the hans

running with the hare and hunting with the hounds is an art that the perfidious sinhala have perfected over the past tens of decades

we don't seem to have learned any lessons from the many so called dealings with all our duplicitous and deceitful neighbors
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EP-70 | Story of Sri Lanka’s economic crisis and assistance by India with Milinda Moragoda

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Maybe I am too bold but we are hearing the future PM of Sri Lanka.
seems to be a nationalist and pragmatist.
We should listen to the whole interview.
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ramana wrote:Maybe I am too bold but we are hearing the future PM of Sri Lanka.
seems to be a nationalist and pragmatist.
We should listen to the whole interview.
Primarily, he comes off as a good actor who sees the continuing need for India's misplaced benevolence and is more than willing to sing for his supper
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The Sri Lankan population is too Anti Indian.

They are not yet at the Paki levels. But are not too far from it.
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Pratyush wrote:The Sri Lankan population is too Anti Indian.

They are not yet at the Paki levels. But are not too far from it.
They are not stupid like the pakis to show open enmity and still have committed and gaddar pakjabis in India to get India to show bhaichara towards them, not realizing who is the bhai and who is the chara.

Since 2014, the lines have been very clearly drawn and that red line is a big part of their economic crisis today. No bhai, so no chara

The civilizational enmity of the sinhala is very much older and and a lot deeper too.

Sadly for them, they have no approach (and also never ever had) to any govt or groups in India, but one can never forget their civilizational malevolence and malignity during the IPKF operations.

foolish ghandhy was like a lost babe in the woods among the sinhala wolves who played him for a patsy

They probably identify more with what they fondly imagine to be a buddhist influenced cheeni lot rather than a Hindu culture influenced India

Today the same jokers are intent on playing us off against the cheenis
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Pratyush wrote:The Sri Lankan population is too Anti Indian.

They are not yet at the Paki levels. But are not too far from it.
Yes! I had the same experience few years ago. On a lot of prodding people couldn't come up with any specific reason.

I felt that they feel a sense of entitlement on India and it's resources, India being BIG brother and all that.

Basically Sri Lanka and some other neighbors want to have all the advantages of being an Indian State without giving up their sovereignty.
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Sri wrote:
Pratyush wrote:The Sri Lankan population is too Anti Indian.

They are not yet at the Paki levels. But are not too far from it.
Yes! I had the same experience few years ago. On a lot of prodding people couldn't come up with any specific reason.

I felt that they feel a sense of entitlement on India and it's resources, India being BIG brother and all that.

Basically Sri Lanka and some other neighbors want to have all the advantages of being an Indian State without giving up their sovereignty.
SL is exactly like the entitled and free loading nepalese, the beedis, and the myanmarese... and BTW, growing larger by the minute in the rear view mirror is afghanistan, fast catching up with a begging bowl and a huge list of demands.

but sadly for them all, India will only be able to tolerate so much, and the redlines are beginning to appear
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Chetak wrote:..
Primarily, he comes off as a good actor who sees the continuing need for India's misplaced benevolence and is more than willing to sing for his supper
The script seems familiar... now where have i seen that movie recently.. :)

Be that as it may, we can work with him. As long as he knows that he will get the starring role only if the movie is directed by us (we are putting the money for the production anyway). Any deviation from that and we reduce him to the role of an extra.

The rival studio will anyway try to project him as the villain.
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Manish_P wrote:
Chetak wrote:..
Primarily, he comes off as a good actor who sees the continuing need for India's misplaced benevolence and is more than willing to sing for his supper
The script seems familiar... now where have i seen that movie recently.. :)

Be that as it may, we can work with him. As long as he knows that he will get the starring role only if the movie is directed by us (we are putting the money for the production anyway). Any deviation from that and we reduce him to the role of an extra.

The rival studio will anyway try to project him as the villain.
You can make a setting and plot a play that depicts someone as a hero and another as a villain, but as far as Sri Lanka is concerned, two opposing parties are at stake; the Sinhala Buddhists and Tamil Hindus. The Sinhala leaders starting from Senanayake, Bandaranayake, Jeyawardena, Rajapakse, and today's - more lethal cunning fox - Wickremesinghe, are all maniacally and implicitly anti-Indian. However, if you study them, you will know that they may explicitly and diplomatically portray themselves as pro-Indian statesmen, but ethically, morally, and even rhetorically speaking, they are leaders who ruled by kleptocracy, where they have been making use of all major powers and their leaders as useful idiots, including Indians. During all this time, Tamils, on the other hand, suffered from the racist policies of the Sinhala leaders mentioned above and transformed themselves into "terrorists" in the eyes of Indians.
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Tuan wrote:
Manish_P wrote:
The script seems familiar... now where have i seen that movie recently.. :)

Be that as it may, we can work with him. As long as he knows that he will get the starring role only if the movie is directed by us (we are putting the money for the production anyway). Any deviation from that and we reduce him to the role of an extra.

The rival studio will anyway try to project him as the villain.
You can make a setting and plot a play that depicts someone as a hero and another as a villain, but as far as Sri Lanka is concerned, two opposing parties are at stake; the Sinhala Buddhists and Tamil Hindus. The Sinhala leaders starting from Senanayake, Bandaranayake, Jeyawardena, Rajapakse, and today's - more lethal cunning fox - Wickremesinghe, are all maniacally and implicitly anti-Indian. However, if you study them, you will know that they may explicitly and diplomatically portray themselves as pro-Indian statesmen, but ethically, morally, and even rhetorically speaking, they are leaders who ruled by kleptocracy, where they have been making use of all major powers and their leaders as useful idiots, including Indians. During all this time, Tamils, on the other hand, suffered from the racist policies of the Sinhala leaders mentioned above and transformed themselves into "terrorists" in the eyes of Indians.
Tuan ji,

Because of the motivated myth and calculated propaganda that is being pushed of "ashoka the great", the “enlightened/awakened one”, his media airbrushed followers are seen as paragons of peace and nonviolence, but nothing could be further from reality and the truth.

SL and in particular, some countries to the west in mainland southeast asia are the clearest and most convincing evidence of what these followers are capable of.

They are as human/inhuman as the rest, depending on the circumstances and the prevalent points of view, but peaceful is something they most certainly are not.

Recently, these sinhala have wantonly destroyed many tamil Hindu temples, pushed and paid by the cheen to do so, just to irritate India, and BTW, cheen or no cheen, the provocative needling of India is something that these sinhala have always done.
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Is Pakistani drug kingpin trying to revive LTTE?
If so, then won't Sri Lanka be wary of this?

https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-ne ... 09957.html
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India is apparently in talks with SL about leasing the katchatheevu island for 99 years.

this is obviously to prevent any sinhala mischief in handing over the island to the cheen on some idiotic pretext or the other

ranil wickremesinghe of SL is untrustworthy and he is playing India off against cheen hoping to benefit from both sides. this duplicity is a very normal sinhala trait and used often against India.

It's high time that he was told what's what

Katchatheevu is a 163-acre uninhabited island administered by SL. It was a disputed territory between India and Sri Lanka until 1974. It was never demarcated by the Indian government

It was very foolishly and unilaterally handed over to SL by IG. The act, however, has not been ratified by the Indian parliament.


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Sri wrote: 14 Jun 2023 11:08
Pratyush wrote:The Sri Lankan population is too Anti Indian.

They are not yet at the Paki levels. But are not too far from it.
Yes! I had the same experience few years ago. On a lot of prodding people couldn't come up with any specific reason.

I felt that they feel a sense of entitlement on India and it's resources, India being BIG brother and all that.

Basically Sri Lanka and some other neighbors want to have all the advantages of being an Indian State without giving up their sovereignty.
I was in Nepal some months back. Experienced the same thing there -- freeloaders with sense of entitlement, mocking India, trying to needle Indians by saying something nasty about India or Modi, and generally rude behavior from Nepali people (who won't be given a job even as security guard in India). I started rebuffing them on their face. That is the only solution, and India needs to start playing hard to get. Also, tighten visa norms for Nepalese - currently they have a free run of India while giving nothing in return. The more inaccessible a thing becomes, the higher its value. Nothing related to India should come easy for Beedis, Pakis, Nepalis, Sri Lankans and Maldivians.
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Same here with interactions with immigrants from Pakistan.

It’s so obvious that they can’t live down being from a sh!tpot third world backwater.


It’s so transparent that it does not need correction. Just say your country is much better. And don’t forget to smirk.
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https://www.deccanherald.com/business/e ... 39609.html
How safe is this going to be??
Meaning will SL be a route for NaPak to pump in fake currency given SL may not have adequate infrastructure to detect and remove fake currency
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What will be the benefit for us in this agreement
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What will be the benefit for us in this agreement
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India-Sri Lanka to explore petroleum line, a land bridge to boost economic ties
https://www.wionews.com/videos/india-sr ... ies-618489
From a geostrategic, geopolitical, and geoeconomics point of view, successfully implementing this idea has a huge advantage for India. I can't talk for the Sinhalese populace. However, Sri Lankan Tamils are like the children of Mother India, and we were once connected by an umbilical cord known as the Adams Bridge. Envisioning this long overdue notion of rebuilding that bridge and coalescing North and East of Sri Lanka (Tamil Eelam) into a more fabulous South India would ensure the Indian Ocean Regional Hegemony favoring India. Against this backdrop, I foresee an Indo-Lanka Economic Corridor to counteract China's aggressive regional rivalry while aiding to solve an almost century-old ethnic divide in Sri Lanka.
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I really don't think there's much to gain for India from the tiny Srl Lankan economy. Strategically, Sri Lanka has become a China wh**e, and will remain so. We are better off without providing easy access to Lankans to India, be it Sinhalese or Tamils. Even the Hindu Nepal has become a pain. Enough of India being a big brother with the tiny neighbours leaching off it, and being ungrateful to the core
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Like it or not this give us leverage with the Sri Lankans, we are not allowing easy access . We need to slowly get the surrounding countries to depend on us.
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Bakis supported by their Indian BIF friends must be salivating at how to exploit this corridor…India noble intentions are good but a country that hasn’t learnt how to implement its own laws and protect its own borders from salami slicing or infiltration should not do this yet… may be after we reach $10T.
It’s all good to believe in Indic identity but our subcontinent neighbours prove that we have lost all that sense and easily subverted by foreign powers. At least 1 country should have bucked this trend, no ? Even if we believe Lankans will have noble intentions what is to stop Dravidian characters from stirring up trouble…
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Inconsistent policies wrt to our neighbourhood were a defining characteristic of past govts. Which makes neighbours unsure how to engage and they will try to play us, take advantage and hedge with China etc.

But that is no longer the case since 2014, and especially in Modi 2.0 and after the start of Ukraine war, our foreign policy has become very very clear and sharp. And the world has realised that we have the will and the means to implement it.

Our neighbours are taking note that under this friendly velvet glove there is a strong unwavering hand. They will realise, with intelligence or by facing consequences, that adopting anti-India stances and doing stuff inimical to India's interests will have a heavy price to pay.

Only the most foolish neighbours or countries will antagonise Modi 3.0...
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Didn't they show middle finger to India by allowing Chinese spy ship despite strong protest by India. This, just a few months after receiving (and continues to receive) generous aid from India?
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a_bharat wrote: 25 Jul 2023 11:04 I really don't think there's much to gain for India from the tiny Srl Lankan economy. Strategically, Sri Lanka has become a China wh**e, and will remain so. We are better off without providing easy access to Lankans to India, be it Sinhalese or Tamils. Even the Hindu Nepal has become a pain. Enough of India being a big brother with the tiny neighbours leaching off it, and being ungrateful to the core



Janab,

The land bridge is an iffy proposition at best, as TN will never allow it to land on "their" territory. Land bridge to India is a long cherished wet dream of the sinhala but it was shot down by the dravidiyas

Please recall that mumtaz bano has singlehandedly blocked the teesta waters river sharing agreement between India and the beedis, despite numerous attempts by the congi govt and the beedi govt to get her to soften her stand including the jihadis sending her loads of choice hilsa fish as an inducement. The dravidiyas had taken a stand against the land bridge long before mumtaz spoke out against the teesta waters agreement.

mumtaz has popular support for blocking the teesta waters agreement, because she says the the teesta waters are her state's waters, and required by her farmers for their livelihood.

kerala is more than willing to allow it but they (commies+jihadis+padres) may have their own agenda that may be against the overall interests of India but the economics needs to be worked out first, because, knowing the greedy and hostile sinhala, India will be duped into paying 100% of the project costs+maintainance and upkeep.

very foolish of India to open its borders to another hostile state run by poisonous anti India clowns who would practice taqiya on their own mothers without any qualms of conscience

The greedy sinhala welcomed china because of the cheeni's pronounced anti India stance as well as territorial ambitions (not forgetting the massivebribes paid to the previous presidential and ruling dynastic cabal). Of course, the sinhala fell into the cheen debt trap too but have now seen the glaring difference between the cheeni and Indian responses to their predicament, and so, they are going all out to milk the India relationship while the going is still good.

the cheen are keenly eyeing kacchativu island and that becomes a NATSEC issue for us because they can easily enlarge that island to host a Naval base.

better to use a largish carrot to sandbag these sinhala clowns but we need to be cautious with such a venomous crowd. The BIF is very active in SL via the LTTE, and their focus is still India, which is being targeted to provide a major part of the dravidiyas "eelam" state

That is why the dravidiyas have stopped both the congis and the BJP from making any significant electoral gains in TN, and cover up the BIF moves so that their clandestine and traitorous activities are kept out of sight and on the down low.

TN has one of the most tightly controlled media ecosystems in India, the dravidiyas, jihadis, and the padres control all the TV, press, movies, statewide cable TV networks and presstitutes including the owners of these media. It is only of late that some you tubers are sometimes able to punch through the iron curtain, and many have been sent to prison on trumped up charges. Only social media seems somewhat beyond the reach of the dravidiyas, at this time. like khujliwal, these guys too pay off the media owners, including the better known reporters and simply physically beat the remaining media people into submission. No job in any media in TN, is given to anyone, without some political/padre clown vetting and personally vouching for the job applicant

the dravidiyas constant anti hindi fulminations are and have always been just a clever and strategic façade, to keep the center at bay and on the back foot.

the mount road mao's testimonials are owned by the current ruling family in TN, and the head of the company's trade union is also a member of the same ruling family. That's how tight the grip is

The public expose of the massive corruption done by both the major dravidiya parties over the decades is a colossal blow to both of them and it is only the BJP that would have dared to do this.

A proposed route of the OBOR/BRI/CPEC runs from SL through India as indeed, another proposal runs via beediland to kolkata

the cheen have planned for multiple entry points through India, essentially in an attempt to hedge against and hopefully bypass the malacca straits trap.

Post 2024, if the present govt undergoes a regime change like the deep states of many envious and apprehensive countries want, including the agencies of the BIF, commies, and the padres, the cheeni will push ahead very forcefully with their India plans including attempting the BRI/OBOR/CPEC agenda and also getting the enemy property act amended or struck down

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From the Eyes of a Tiger: Schizo-affect resulting from being a former child soldier – Part III
Despite relying on one man as the sole decision-maker and supreme leader, the LTTE had a central committee facilitating the organization’s policymaking. The central committee of the LTTE believed that the definition of terrorism is fundamentally flawed as it has been vague and ambiguous. During an interview, LTTE’s political ideologue Anton Balasingham once stated, “In the context of the war on terror, any non-state actor, who are terrorists according to one nation-state can be a legitimate entity for another nation-state and vice-versa. Thus, in my opinion, the definition of terrorism is viewed by whose side of the fence you are on”.

Therefore, according to Balasingham, the war on terror is a power projection among great global powers using non-state actors as proxies for the former`s sphere of influence. That is, once upon a time, the LTTE was regarded as a freedom-fighting organization, according to Prime Minister Indra Gandhi’s administration. Meanwhile, President J.R. Jayawardena’s administration saw the LTTE as terrorists. Then, there was a sudden shift in Indo-Lanka relations between 1987 and 1990. While Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s administration saw LTTE as terrorists, President Ranasinghe Premadasa called the LTTE freedom fighters and invited them for talks, which led to the ousting of the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) from Sri Lanka.

Veluppillai Prabhakaran and the most prominent members of the LTTE didn’t consider their tactics terrorist acts, classifying them instead as asymmetric or guerrilla warfare, which is a war between belligerents whose relative military power differs significantly or whose strategy or tactics differ significantly. Because the Sri Lankan military had more fighters and arms, the LTTE was justified in not playing by the rules of engagement and using all the resources available to defeat it. Prabhakaran used urban guerrilla warfare inspired by Argentinian Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara, using hit-and-run and ambush tactics, utilizing smaller teams to set land mines, and attacking concealed locations near hideouts. The LTTE used these tactics in the 1980s but then moved away after a time— into the 1990s; they didn’t want to be mischaracterized as a terrorist organization.

The LTTE’s alternative to suicide bombings can probably be traced back to Subhash Chandra Bose’s Indian National Army, which included dedicated suicide bombing squads. Even though the devastating effects of the 1983 Hezbollah suicide attacks against French and American troops in Lebanon could hardly have gone unnoticed by the LTTE leadership, the Indian Freedom Movement had a more significant influence on the Tamil struggle for independence from its inception.

Velupillai Prabhakaran emulated Subhash Chandra Bose’s tactics, as the latter was the first in the subcontinent to commit suicide attacks against the British Imperialist Army. Notable military analysts today define suicide bombings as asymmetric warfare rather than terrorism. As the Tamil struggle for independence evolved, the LTTE pioneered suicide bombing and using airplanes and small boats to attack military targets.

Although the LTTE was a brainchild of India’s foreign intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), it was rumored among the LTTE circles that Prabhakaran had ordered the assassination of Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi based on information that Gandhi had instructed one of the generals in his IPKF to assassinate Prabhakaran. The general had reportedly refused because it was not allowed in the rules of engagement of the Indian Army. Recently, the Commander of the IPKF in Sri Lanka, Major General Harkirat Singh, claimed in his book “Intervention in Sri Lanka” that J.N Dixit, then India’s High Commissioner in Colombo, twice ordered him to exterminate Prabhakaran while attending a meeting at his Headquarters in Palaali. Based on this intelligence, Prabhakaran had reportedly decided to pre-empt Rajiv Gandhi by having him killed first.

Since it was a significant killing that led to the LTTE being banned as a terrorist outfit not only by India but also by the US, Europe, and some 18 countries in all, I have doubts about the LTTE’s dubious intelligence rumors and its justification that Prabhakaran decided to kill Gandhi before he could get at him. Because the Palaali meeting took place before the 1987 October war between LTTE and IPKF. Gandhi was killed in May 1991, one year after the IPKF left the shores of Sri Lanka.

Moreover, contrary to what was framed by the mainstream media to the laypeople, the primary rationale behind Pirabhakaran's popular international press conference in Killinochi in April 2002 was a clandestine operation orchestrated by the international intelligence community. The cover story was that Norway, as a mediator, arranged a press conference for the LTTE supremo Prabhakaran to speak to the global media. Still, it was facilitated to corroborate Pirabhakaran's voice signature to match an audio cassette stolen from the LTTE intelligence wing's databank by an LTTE cadre operating as a mole for the Indian intelligence RAW. Evidently, in the stolen audio cassette, Prabhakaran elaborated on how LTTE plotted the assassination of Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, which was codenamed Operation Wedding. This entire undertaking proved crucial evidence for the Jain Commission of Investigation.

Therefore, it is evident that Prabhakaran killed Gandhi, pre-empting a threat he posed to the existence of the LTTE, fearing that if Gandhi returned to power, he might send the Indian troops again to Sri Lanka, as this is a credible hypothesis. Moreover, I know that Prabhakaran dreaded another Indian intervention because the IPKF crippled the LTTE and confined it to the jungles for more than two years and that the LTTE had lost 1,200 of its fighters in the battle with the IPKF. Then, it was a crippling blow to the LTTE. And that was the reason why the LTTE grabbed Sri Lankan President Ranasinghe Premadasa’s offer of talks.

Furthermore, Balasingham was not aware of the plot to kill Gandhi. Had he known about it, he would have strongly advised Prabhakaran against it, as Balasingham knew that the LTTE would be unable to sustain the struggle without Indian support. An Indian journalist asked Prabhakaran, when he called the international media in Killinochi in April 2002, how he expected India to have normal relations with his organization when he was wanted for the assassination of Gandhi. Not used to being questioned, he was flabbergasted by such a direct question and mumbled, “athu…athu…oru thunpamana sambavam.” Later, Balasingham elaborated on it as a Himalayan blunder. Hence, if LTTE had not attacked the IPKF and assassinated Gandhi, the Tamils in Sri Lanka by now would have established their independent homeland, Tamil Eelam.

Unlike such high-profile assassinations of Gandhi, the LTTE initially targeted only military personnel and installations and avoided civilian soft targets as much as possible. But it did not hesitate to strike at non-combatants when it suited its purpose. For example, the Anuradhapura massacre of 1985—the LTTE’s first such civilian mass killing—followed the collapse of the India-inspired Thimphu talks. The Batticaloa massacre after the Indian military intervention in August 1987 followed this. But the LTTE got away with it, even when it assassinated President Ranasinghe Premadasa during the May Day parade in 1993 because Western interests were not hurt until after the 9/11 attacks. Only after the al-Qaeda attack did the US and other Western powers wake up to terrorist threats and, following intensive lobbying by the then Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Laxman Kadirgamar, designated the LTTE as a terrorist organization. During the 2002–2005 ceasefire, the LTTE assassinated Laxman Kadirgamar, cocking a snook at Western powers.
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chetak wrote: 17 Jul 2023 21:22

It was very foolishly and unilaterally handed over to SL by IG. The act, however, has not been ratified by the Indian parliament.
Why not use this excuse and pull that island back in to Indian control?

I do not understand the foolishness of Indian government of that time which very well knew that srilanka was helping pakis refuel on their way to east pakistan even during 1971 war.
i do not know what our Indian government gained by unilaterally giving out Indian land?
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rajsunder wrote: 24 Aug 2023 01:48
chetak wrote: 17 Jul 2023 21:22

It was very foolishly and unilaterally handed over to SL by IG. The act, however, has not been ratified by the Indian parliament.
Why not use this excuse and pull that island back in to Indian control?

I do not understand the foolishness of Indian government of that time which very well knew that srilanka was helping pakis refuel on their way to east pakistan even during 1971 war.
i do not know what our Indian government gained by unilaterally giving out Indian land?
Maybe it was not the Indian government which gained.. it was 'India is Indira. Indira is India' at the time
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