The Lankan Mess

Generations ago it was the divine monkey, with his burning tail demolished the emerald island, to teach the demons a lesson or two. Now it's a turn of the modern day Hitler to replicate the same... the catastrophe, if the sensible media to be believed is terrible and phenomenal. Ethnic cleansing is back - after the dark ages of pol pot, and khemer roughe. And the worst of all, the world's largest democracy is idling blind folded... We are one strange kind of nation.. when we don't require to react, we interfere and spoil the situation, and when our intervention is necessary we turn mute. Among the six nations with whom we share geographic proximity (let us count maldives out), do we share normal friendly relationship with any country? I am afraid.... Why is it's so... it's just because the flawed foreign policy (if there is anything like that) that we follow.. We failed to recogenize their sovereignty, we failed to understand their geo politics... and worst of all their interplay with our domestic scenario. When it was required to keep ourselves off from Lankan Politics, where they were striving hard to find out political solution, we have interfered and send in IPKF (What Justice Krishna Iyer once called innocent people killing force).... and we got immediate setback in the form of loosing precious life - of men in uniform and even the head of state.... but still our leadership failed to learn and understand from those lessons...

To begin with one should understand the Tamilian psyche... they are a society of committed people..... Among Tamils, you are either black or white... no greys... Very passionate, and emotional they are ready to sacrifice their lives for the very cause they believe in... If you notice, suicide squads are first deployed effectively by LTTE. One cannot forget the number of self emolation bids happens once an "actor" or "politician" (both terms can be used interchanging) dies in TN... The Eelam is one such cause that is uniting Tamilians cross border.. though one hardly understand the issue beyond the uproar .. So the issue that is ripe enough for vilely and scheming political players here at Chennai, if not attended with due importance.. Any free thinking soul can see the shallow and politically motivated acts of each of these unscrupulous politicians - irrespective of which Kazhakam they are in.. but can't act or react, knowing the senseless reactions of the innocent followers who are manipulated by them... I remember reading an article about the simmering discontent that existed in Vedaranyam when they heard the death of shanmugham one of the culprits who provided logistics support to Rajiv Gandhi's killers. So there is always a diabolic situation brewing that can create a potential disaster to our own sovereignty...

While we check what is happenings within, because of the impact from the Lankan action, it's equally important to react as a responsible international citizen to the reckless act of Lankan state executing a genocide of such alarming proportion. Armed "solution" is never a "solution".... it's true that the terrorist organisation like LTTE has exploited the situation and blackmailed and bullied the government there... But while eliminating them, the incurring collateral damage of "thousands of innocent lives" that is colossal and shocking, should have avoided... War was never a solution to any issue... You can eliminate the terrorists by killing them, unless one try to understand the issues that prompted and solve them, the terrorism lives on.. even if you slaughter every single terrorist... The issues is much more powerful than bullets... We should immediately initiate the process to find permanent solution for the issue... We cannot ignore the cries of those thousands in Jaffna peninsula, who had lost their lives and living dead...