All foreign aid must be channelized through the
government. Asian security lies within
Asia. The course forward is returning to her own philosophy, geared to the 21st
century. India and China, the two largest countries of Asia, should understand
that divided they will fall, united they will bring harmony and progress not
only to Asia but to the world. It is time Asians stop fighting Asians to
satisfy the geopolitical aims of outsiders.
The financial support for Khalistan militants and LTTE came from the
West, from Canada to Australia. LTTE had a budget of $ 200 million from
business in the West, by credit card fraud, drug trafficking etc. Although the
LTTE broke the law in the West, no action was taken against it for the greater
good of the West. More recently, politicians like Keith Vaz promoted and legitimised the activities
of the LTTE. My mind boggles at how so
many thousands of Tamils were given refugee status in countries 3000 miles
away! Refugees always go to the nearest countries. Those who could afford to go
thousands of miles away were not running away from violence when 60% of Tamils
live among the Sinhalese in the south. But they were economic refugees.
A surrogate war was conducted, using them from the West
against Sri Lanka by economically supporting the LTTE. The complicity of the West was more blatant
when the LTTE was cornered by the Army. The foreign ministers of Britain and
France arrived in Sri Lanka to demand a ceasefire; when that failed they
volunteered to evacuate the LTTE leadership to a third country to fight another
day. When that failed a big hue and cry was made for civilian casualties and an
immediate ceasefire demanded. When that failed they sent in the UN Secretary
General and his assistant to demand a ceasefire. When that failed they tried to
scare the Sri Lankan president by alleging genocide and demanding investigation
through the United Nations human rights organisation.
Fortunately, the Asian
and other third world countries that saw through the Western game helped Sri
Lanka to defeat the motion. Interestingly, the great humanists Pillai or Khan
of Amnesty International have not taken any country to the International Court
in The Hague for human rights violations in Iraq, Afghanistan or even Pakistan.
It is a fashion to appoint non- White people into these organisations to do the
donkey’s work. Now they are pursuing a mass propaganda campaign against Sri
Lanka in the western media. Sri Lanka has been subjected to Western duplicity,
interference and bankruptcy, utilising the servile remnants of colonialism,
which unfortunately were part and parcel of the ruling class. Although the
seeds of destabilisation and exploitation were laid during colonialism, the
plants grew to trees starting with the treacherous regime of J R Jayewardene.
This is the origin of the Tamil rebellion and Indian involvement in the
Rebellion. To understand western
behaviour, one needs to understand that western policy has always been western
interests, which is economic hegemonism and exploitation. The threat to this
hegemonism was India at the time. India was a large country with an educated
growing middle class which was an economic threat to the west and
destabilisation of India was in its best interest. Division and destabilisation
of Sri Lanka would create the necessary environment for a cry for separation of
Tamil Nadu under the guise of a greater Tamil kingdom. It was not surprising
that Prabhakaran never agreed to the greater autonomy within a unitary state
offered by the Peace Pact of 2001. In
recent times, the policy has changed to one of India becoming a barrier to
Chinese threat, which started during the Bush presidency.
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