Sri Lanka is fast emerging as a security nightmare for India. Basking in its military success against the separatist Tamil Tigers, Sri Lanka is cementing its ties with China and Pakistan, ignoring Indian security interests. By embracing India’s enemies and inviting them home, treating them as guests, and doing business with them, Sri Lanka is embarking on a dangerous foreign policy that has the potential to undermine India’s national security.
The Chinese are developing a port in Hambantota in Southern Sri Lanka, which experts feel could be converted into a Chinese naval base at short notice. In a recent interview to Tehelka, Colonel (retired) R Hariharan, a Sri Lanka expert, had stated: “Though Hambantota is being developed as a merchant shipping port, it can be converted into a naval base by adding a few facilities.”
The Chinese are building an expressway in Colombo and are also involved in an important power project in North Sri Lanka. As the two countries keep signing more collaborative projects, and the Chinese presence increases in Sri Lanka, it would bring the Chinese within breathing (or striking) distance of India’s southern coast, where several sensitive installations including atomic power plants are located. Chinese personnel will be all over Sri Lanka.
In a recent article titled, ‘Growing Chinese influence in Sri Lanka’, Gunjan Singh at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi, writes: “This increasing closeness between Colombo and Beijing is a reason for concern for New Delhi. During the construction of the (Hambantota) port a large number of Chinese experts are to be expected to be present in the region and this is proving to be a security concern for the Indian side.”
Sri Lanka doesn’t lose an opportunity to reaffirm its commitment to one-China policy. By doing that Sri Lanka accepts Chinese claims over Taiwan. But Sri Lanka maintains a stoic silence on Kashmir and Arunachal Pradesh. It doesn’t want to spoil its relations with Pakistan or China by coming out with a pro-India stand on Kashmir or Arunachal Pradesh. For all the military and financial assistance it has got from India, Colombo has done few favours in return.
Despite bending backwards to woo Sri Lanka, by providing it with arms and training its personnel, India has failed to win over Colombo to its side. Journalist Nitin Gokhale has revealed in his recent book, ‘Sri Lanka: From War to Peace’: “Publicly India maintains that it would not give Sri Lanka any offensive weapons. Yet, in early 2006, India quietly gifted five Mi -17 helicopters to the Sri Lankan Air Force…The only Indian condition was these helicopters would fly under Sri Lankan Air Force colours. New Delhi clearly did not want to annoy UPA’s Tamil Nadu allies like the DMK unnecessarily.”
Who are these Chinese whom the Sri Lankans are cozying up to? What intentions do they have about India? D S Rajan of the Chennai Centre for China Studies recently shook the Indian security establishment with his article titled, “China should break up the Indian Union, suggests a Chinese strategist.” A China expert, with the added advantage of knowledge of the Chinese language, Rajan translated the contents of a Chinese article that advocated breaking up of India.
Rajan states in the article: “The writer (of the Chinese article) has argued… (that) China in its own interest and the progress of whole Asia, should join forces with different nationalities like Assamese, Tamils, and Kashmiris and support the latter in establishing independent nation-states of their own, out of India. In particular, the ULFA in Assam, a territory neighboring China, can be helped by China so that Assam realizes its national independence.”
Strategic expert B Raman commends Rajan’s analysis. Rajan concludes his article stating: “In any case, an approach of panic towards such outbursts will be a mistake, but also ignoring them will prove to be costly for India.”
Raman writes in his blog: “What is wrong in this analysis? In the 1950s, a number of maps of the Indo-Chinese border started circulating in China and appearing in sections of the Chinese media. The Indian intelligence rightly brought these to the notice of Jawaharlal Nehru, the then Prime Minister, who took up the matter with Chou En-lai, his Chinese counterpart. He assured Nehru that these maps were circulated by private individuals and had been prepared by the Taiwanese before 1949. He told Nehru that India should not worry about them. Nehru was shocked before the 1962 war when the Chinese used the very same maps, which Chou had described as not official, for claiming large parts of Indian territory and occupying much of it. Today, it is on the basis of the very same maps which the Chinese portrayed as not official that they are claiming Arunachal Pradesh as Chinese territory.”
Discussing the combined threat posed by China and Sri Lanka, M G Devasahayam, a retired bureaucrat, writes in The Statesman dated 22 August 2009, “The premonition of Bharat Verma, editor of the Indian Defence Review, that ‘China will launch an attack on India before 2012 and there are multiple reasons for a desperate Beijing to teach India the final lesson, thereby ensuring Chinese supremacy in Asia in this century’ has been in the making for the last few years. By that time Sri Lanka would be fully prepared with an Armed Force of 300,000 (the 8th largest in the world), near-fully trained and equipped by China and Pakistan, forcing India to open a massive land-sea front in the south, which till now has been peaceful. It is thus evident that India’s ‘foreign policy’ on Sri Lanka has been palpably against national interest and security.”
As if Chinese presence in Sri Lanka was not enough, Colombo is now all set to train Pakistani army personnel in anti-guerilla warfare in soon-to-be established training schools in the Tamil dominated North Sri Lanka. Lankan army chief Lt General Jagath Jayasuriya has said that these schools would be established in Mullaitivu, Killinochchi and Vavuniya. The proposed training to the Pakistani personnel is to be provided based on a request from Islamabad to train their officers in ‘small team operations.’ What the Pakistanis are capable of doing to weaken India is known to everyone. Their presence near India’s southern borders should ring the alarm bells in the Indian security establishment.
The writer PC Vinoj Kumar is a Special Correspondent for the Indian weekly magazine – Tehelka. The views expressed are his own.
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“This increasing closeness between Colombo and Beijing is a reason for concern for New Delhi.”
Either Indians are clueless or the author is clueless. Even the United states is in massive debt to China. Every country has increased it’s ties with China over the last 5 years.
Secondly, Japan and China have been involved in many development projects, including highways, and ports for over 20 years. Buddhist countries have always helped each other.
Somehow the author is in shambles over a conspiracy theory.
sri lanka is not part of india,we are free indipendant country,leave us alone.
India has herself to blame. Every Indian High commissioner behaves as he or she is the governer of SL. The hegamony and interferance in the governance has made India the most hated country in the sub continent. Partisan approach to the problems of SL has made 75% of the populace very suspicious of India. Hence the genuine affection to China. I tell the indians change your foreign policy from hegamony to friendship then you will not have problems of security.
Indians should not forget that the people of SL have debt to India or its integrity for one simple reason. India created the world’s most ruthless terrorist group that killed 80,000 people and maimed an equal number, not to mention the lost economic growth during the 30 year war. Those Indian that expect SL to be conscious of India’s domestic problems are either stupid or forgetting what is called “you get what you paid for” concept. India’s latest blunder is becoming a proxy of the US in South Asia, only to find out that they have invited another trouble. Chicanery does not pay my friend!
Indians should not forget that the people of SL have not debt to India for one simple reason. India created the world’s most ruthless terrorist group that killed 80,000 people and maimed an equal number, not to mention the lost economic growth during the 30 year war. Those Indians that expect SL to be conscious of India’s domestic problems are either stupid or forgetting what is called “you get what you paid for” concept. India’s latest blunder is becoming a proxy of the US in South Asia, only to find out that they have invited another trouble. Chicanery does not pay my friend!
“Colombo is now all set to train Pakistani army personnel in anti-guerilla warfare in soon-to-be established training schools…” Why would India be concerned about the training of Pakistani military by the SL forces to combat terrorism, unless India is the sponsor of these terrorists. Is this some sort of Freudian slip, or hat?
Have you forgotton. India created Ltte.and poor sri lankans fought indias war.India thought they could bully by Dixit who was the stupidest High commisioner india sent to sri lanka who in healped Ltte.Ltte was cornered in wadamarachchi and India saved them.
There was only one reason to India had in their mind and its called JELOURSY.I havent been born agin to forget that era India after Ghandi ji became a menance to Asia.
Tamils have been marginalized, betrayed over and over by India. Tamils should be more strategic and welcome China’s policy, and help China to help us.
cheers
TamilDiaspora
‘China will launch an attack on India before 2012′ Yes, go China GO. Destroy India. The Indian ass wholes drew innocent blood of Tamils in hundreds of thousands. They have been the driving force of the the latest phase of genocide of Tamils. They made Tamils the modern ‘Jews of Hitlor’ for their selfish reasons. It is high time India will answer to the sins of innocent blood. A time will come that China will break up India like a mud pod and destroy half of its populations.
Long live China.
India must be broken up into hundreds of countries. India never existed before the British created it. The British hastily grouped hundreds of nations into an immaginary country India. It is time it should go.
China must be the next super power and we the Sinhalease have a stake it it. Along with the Chinese, we will invade South India and break it apart.
Its a BIG SHAME for india. that allowing pakistan and china to play a special roll in the indian ocean. india & china won the HEARTs Of Sri Lankan peoples.so NOW No More indian Ocean. iTS Become a chinese ocean.because of india lots of tamils died for the past 2.5 decades.indian epecially tamil Nadu Peoples are the main sponsor of Terrorist, tamiliians are waiting for a home-land for long time. but its dissapointed WHAT A SHAME FOR INDIA.
Rememmber sri lanka is not india, SL is the PEARL IN THE CHINESE OCEAN. Finally india get fucked.
This is the SAME ANALYSIS the LTTE had been warning the WILLING VICTIM India advised by either CHINESE PAID SPIES or Racists against Tamils like M K Narayana, Shiv Shanlar Menon, Alok Prasad(most be bribed by Srilanka), etc not by TRUE INDIANS.
Eelam and the sole reps LTTE are the only LOYAL Indian people in the Asia if not in the world but Pathetic India DUG its own grave by COLLOBORATING ARCH ENEMY EVIL SinHELLa terrorist Srilanka to defeat the PRO-INDIAN EELAM Military LTTE by arming them and helping them in international arena.
Now Reaping the MISERY for the FOOLISH INDIAN RACISTs like so called National Security advisor EVIL MK Narayanana who is not only Anti -Tamil Racist but I suspect that he was paid by Chinese to be against India by helping Srilanka against pro indian LTTE.
India knows that Sri Lankan ..I mean the Sinhala Govt will never trust India. India also trained Sinhala soliders & gifted arms, ammunitions plus financial assistance. Now reap the benefit. Sri Lanka has created a threat to Indian Sovereignity. This would not have happened if there was Tamil Eelam. The Tamil army will always protect India for the sake of atleast their ties to Tamil Nadu.
As lomg as Tamilnadu in India,Srilanka never ever TRUST India even if India give all in the world because the SinHella racists are COWARDS and SUB-HUMANS who suffer from inferiority complex. As long as Tamilnadu in India and India being advised by ANTI-TAMIL evils like MK Naryananan, India will not be against Srilanka,
THIS WILL LEAD THE INDIA IMPLODE like SIVIET UNION soon with Some Chinese help.
INDIA MIND YOUR OWN F***** BUSINESS
India’s BEST BET is to invade the SinHELLa terrorist Srilanka while Srilanka hold more than 300,000 Tamils in CONCENTRATION CAMPS and dicrminate Tamils in Jaffna and the East openly like the Russia invaeded GEORGIA when Georgia massacred Afghacian recently.
Either create Tamil Eelam by invading ot ANNEXE Eelam with India for the INDIAN NATIONAL SECURITY NOW or LOSE all.
Like Rajiv Ghandhi said that LETS HOPE COMMON SENSE WILL PREVAIL IN INDIA
It is NEVER too late for India (and USA) to do the right thing, help Tamils to have Eelam (as opposed Sri Lanka where Chinese and Pakistanis are setting up bases after bases). This will help India (and USA) to have a secure state and prosperous economy. But, the time is running out.
As the author stated woth proof, China and Pakistan are moving on sides on India and we all recall Mumbai terror! Al-Qaeda is still a deadly organization and flexing its muscle in Pakistan.
China can be a supoer power, but no one in their right mind wants to see a communist state to become a world power.
After all the obselete LTTEans starting to breath some fresh air with this article.It is because of the inferiority complex attributed to indian tamils,lacking an identity of a country always trying to grab someone’s country to call eezam.Finall they were convinced that it will never happen in Sri Lanka.Now they’re trying to create another phobia for India.Sinhalese are direct desendants from Maduray(North Indian) and they are grateful and civilised enough to keep this in mind unlike ungrateful and inferior tamils.Sri Lankan sinhalese will always protect India and its true citizens with love in heart.But beware of thse dirty tamilian or demalas because they are worse than Chinese.
The article is an advise to India, so non-Indians need not be worried unless it showcases their real intention.
“For all the military and financial assistance it has got from India, Colombo has done few favours in return.”
By military assistance, do you mean the 2D radar set (one you could buy over EBay) provided along with a lot of ho-hums?
“Despite bending backwards to woo Sri Lanka, by providing it with arms and training its personnel, India has failed to win over Colombo to its side.”
Of course India provided arms and trained the LTTE. India even violated SL airspace by doing the ‘dhal drop.’ Because of this, SL was at war for 30 years, all the while India could play big brother and reap the political and economical benefits off SL’s suffering. This is the so called ‘bending backwards to woo’ India has been doing.
Now that the war is over, SL is developing economically and socially to a level that rivals India, and India no likey this no more!
Only way to ensure security for India is for stupid indian bureacrats to create eelam and arm them to tackle the sinhalese chinese!
Time will tell how the malayalee burecrats that destroyed the tamils is going to do somersault to solicit their help to save India.
Channel 4 News 25 August 2009 shows footage claimed to show Sri Lankan forces executing Tamils earlier this year. Jonathan Miller reports.
Just three months after the Sri Lankan government declared the country liberated from the Tamil Tigers, video footage has emerged apparently showing government troops summarily executing Tamils.
Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka, which obtained the material, said it was filmed in January – when the international media were prevented by the Sri Lankan government from covering the conflict zone.
Tonight, the Sri Lankan High Commission denied the government had carried out atrocities against the Tamil community.
The Sri Lankan government launched a large scale military offensive in January capturing the Tamil Tiger held town of Kilinochchi. The army then steadily pushed the rebels into an small area of the north-east.
Be warned – there are extremely disturbing scenes in this report from our foreign affairs correspondent Jonathan Miller.hannel 4 News shows footage claimed to show Sri Lankan forces executing Tamils earlier this year. Jonathan Miller reports.
Just three months after the Sri Lankan government declared the country liberated from the Tamil Tigers, video footage has emerged apparently showing government troops summarily executing Tamils.
Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka, which obtained the material, said it was filmed in January – when the international media were prevented by the Sri Lankan government from covering the conflict zone.
Tonight, the Sri Lankan High Commission denied the government had carried out atrocities against the Tamil community.
The Sri Lankan government launched a large scale military offensive in January capturing the Tamil Tiger held town of Kilinochchi. The army then steadily pushed the rebels into an small area of the north-east.
Be warned – there are extremely disturbing scenes in this report from our foreign affairs correspondent Jonathan Miller.
FUK INDIA….. FUK GANDI……
If China gets a foothold in Sri Lanka never be suprised to see that the Bloody INDIANS would create another armed Tamil group in Sri Lanka to give agro to the Sri Lankan state.As before, they will use this new group as their barganing chip to get concession from the GOSL and once obtained they will set this group up for their final demise by the Sri Lankan army as what did happened now-crafty Indians.The Tamils should not fall for this trap again.The Tamils would again be the victims—Majority of the Tamils are still ignorant of the — HINDIANS.I hope that they have now realised what actually had taken place and not to make the same mistake.
Humanity failed in Sri Lanka
It is a systematic genocide going in Sri lanka, we cannot tolerate it or we cannot be a silence spectator.
Mrs. Indra Gandhi Former Prime Minister of India in July 1983.
India’s support to Rajapakse Government is an atrocious crime. Tamils are undergoing unspeakable hardship, and the monstrosity is only matched by the Nazis terror on Jews. The world had simply closed its eyes….Failure to ensure safety to Sri Lanka Tamils is a moral disgrace to India and a stain in India’s illustrious history,”
China’s new strategic doctrine and Power game
The most remarkable aspect of Sri Lanka’s recent victory over the Tamil Tigers is not its overwhelming nature, but the fact that China provided Colombo with both the military supplies and diplomatic cover he needed to prosecute the war.
Without that Chinese backing, Colombo would have had neither the wherewithal nor the will to ignore world opinion in its offensive against the Tigers.
So, not only has China become central to every aspect of the global financial and economic system, it has now demonstrated its strategic effectiveness in a region traditionally outside its orbit. On Sri Lanka’s beachfront battlefields, China’s “peaceful rise” was completed.
The European Union has done the right thing by calling for an inquiry into war crimes.” Mr Rajapaksa’s ability to find new sources of finance, especially from China, had made him relatively immune to international pressure.
The Chinese have long had an important naval base on the Burmese coast.Now China is helping build strategically located “dependency ports”. They have given massive aid to other Indian Ocean states, signing friendship pacts, and building ports in Pakistan and Bangladesh. Now they are engaged in the most visible projection of their power, transforming the port of Hambantota on the south coast of Sri Lanka into a large deep-water hub. It will become a forward naval base for China to control the sea lanes between the Gulf and the Far East, through which most of the world’s oil supplies pass.”
80000 + 50000 people were killed by terrorist SL government and not by LTTE. Do not repeat your master’s comments.
SL government is so clever in controlling regional super powers. They managed to fool all these countries and made them to fall under SL Gov knees. Please wake up, otherwise the smarter Sinhalese will overpower all, with there cunning tactics.
INDIA IS A MORAL DISGRACE!! To think this is the nation of Mahatma Gandhi is to defile his name.
India has NO backbone and the meagre credibility it may once have had is corrupted with the blood of innocent Tamils.
To think even now in the aftermath of the horrendous atrocities of the Rajapakse government, that over 1000 people are dying weekly in internment camps is beyond inhumane! Tamils are living with unspeakable suffering and its monstrosity is only matched by the Nazi terror of Jews.
India is ready and willing to continue support to Sri Lanka while standing on the bodies of 50,000 Tamils by Sinhala genocide.
India, have you NO shame, have you NO conscience, have NO humanity???
We the Tamils of Sri Lanka realized the flawed foreign policy if India long long ago. You do not need a rocket scientist to realize that China is making every effort to strangle India. This is due to the idiotic policies of the Indian bureaucracy. The Indian Govt should have realized how devious the Sri Lankan Govt is. They played the “China card” when the western countries were hesitant to provide financial help. They knew that if the IMF did not fund they can always depend on China. If SL has to decide between Pakistan and China they will be with the Pakistanis and the Chinese. India should remember that Sri Lanka permitted Pakistan planes to refuel when they were waging a war with Bangladesh. The Indian Govt should have helped the Sri Lankan Tamils who would under the present circumstances have been their ally.I can understand India being angry with the Tigers but why help the Sinhala Govt to torture,rape and murder the innocent Tamils who were caught between a rock and a hard place.This should be an abject lesson for India.Perhaps it is too late.
I’m sorry but, I don’t understand why little Sri Lanka should be beholden to India. Why should Sri Lanka frame her policies and her plans to develop the country with India in mind? India betrayed us heavily by supporting the LTTE in the early and mid stages. If Rajiv Gandhi didn’t foolishly intervene in 1986 (paid for it with his life later on, there is gratitude for you from the LTTE) Sri Lanka would have won the war and be a prosperous nation today.
We don’t owe anything to India. Whom we invite to our country is our business. We have never done anything to betray India (it is the other way around all the time). Why all this fear about China? I haven’t heard of China invading other countries like the USA or the UK does for the sake of oil, and killing hundreds of thousands of people in the process. I don’t see China betraying her friends like the USA does all the time.
India already has a border with China, bother about that, without getting paranoid about who Sri Lanka chooses to invite to her home. Sri Lanka can’t be penalized for all the insecurities and problems that India has with her closest neighbours. Gee, what a bunch of paranoids are these. The author is being paranoid. He is also being arrogant in thinking that SL should always be considerate of India’s security needs.
Get a life man. Also remember that our ties with China goes way back before all these nonsense about India’s security or the separatist Tamil’s delusional dreams started to form and ferment.
Sucked in to the Indians. They deserve all the bad things. I am glad the Srilanka is supporting China and training Pakistan. I hate India and I hope China and Pakistan takes them down…
With all sort of discussions on China, India & Pakistan, the basic problem of rights of Tamils have been forgotten. The lives they put down for the freedom of thought & action has gone to waste. Thanks to all those who have bloodied their hands.
It is anybody’s secret how India has earned enemies all around her. Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, SriLanka – something very seriously wrong with foreign affairs handling. Is there any intelligence left in Indian diplomatic circles ? Or is it so subtle, not even the officers see it happening ? :)
India needs a sound & superiority complex headed government at the centre. Too long we have been playing the peace flag. Actually we did let go off it in SriLanka by aiding the SL government. So come out openly and say we are way away from Gandhi & Nehru and safeguard India. What is the purpose of holding to an ideal – India – at the cost of Indians ?
Oi d1ckhead Raman….not even in your wildest dreams India will be broken. Keep dreaming son….srilanka is a little piece of shit that India didn’t want with her.
India created the LTTE (see history books to learn how Indira Gandhi and the RAW trained LTTE to kill Sri Lankan solders and civilians). Sri Lanka knows this and will never trust India for that reason alone. India decided that 80,000 lives of Sri Lankans was nothing compared to their own countries security. India, which is dominated by Hindu’s should know a thing or two about Karma. What goes around, comes around.
And last time I checked, Sri Lanka was not advising India on how to handle Kashmir or Arunachal issues but India and their Tamil politicians are more than eagar to provide their unsolicited input on how Sri Lanka should handle their business.
What do you think India was trying to do by supporting LTTE, supplant their own support group in Sri Lanka to avoid China and Pakistan being a threat to it’s south coast.
I hope China and Pakistan provides Sri Lanka with nuclear warheads. Then we’ll see how loud those Tamil Nadu politicians will raise their voices.
Also, USA and India (and a bunch of EU countries) bet all their money on LTTE, the wrong side.
China, Pakistan, Iran, Brazil, Israel, Russia bet on Sri Lanka 1) this tiny country had the balls to defy the USA and Indian bullies and 2) they were the winning side
It’s revenge time and time for Tamils of Sri Lanka to help India’s enemy in the breaking up of India. It’s now estimated that Pakistan and China wants India broken into 35 states. Tamils should introduce the arms black market used by the LTTE to the Naxalites and other similar discriminated groups. This will get rid of the racist menace of the Congress Party for ever!
sinepgib,
may be you can go kiss pakistani n chinese ass…they will f@rt and give you the nuclear warhead.
Cant believe you guys even talking about nuking India ROFL….India has some serious indigeneously developed missiles which can cover the whole Chinese geography.
The chinkies wont even dream of messing around with us. Loser pakis can get fukked by ya monks…we care less!
So,india got fucked by helping sinhalese mother fuckers at the expense of Tamils,mmmmm! what’s next
Anyway if events unfold as assumed in the article ,in future,
Indian foreign policy must be applauded by organising a special function.
Reason for Srilanka, to turn towards China & Pakistan,may be because of getting GUNS from them.
India didn’t give GUNS,now its in Srilanka,may be to learn Foreign Policy as Pakistan is there to learn guerilla war.
We the proud Indian let train our armed forces by the victorious NEW SUPER POWER less Atom Bomb SRI LANKA. We the dirty beggers using pavement as housing, sending rockets to Moon will help Sri Lanka to build its atom bomb and then we will send our rocket sceintists to train by Kohana and Rambukwella. We the most perfidious sub human of this bloody planet will learn from the most super Sri Lanka which is going to train USA and Russia the best technics how to unclothe a Tamil and enjoy his/her nakedness. It must be a wonderfull feeling! We sure will get the blessing from Ban Ki Moon too. We will send Ban Ki Moon enough fat dogs from Vanni.
To avoide a seperate state in Tamil Nadu for Tamils; Sri Lanka is India’s best friend. In fact SL has been the best friend india ever had she destroyed one of India’s biggest security threat LTTE. The best way to keep Sri Lanka as a good friend is giving lessons to Racist Tamil Nadu politicians to mind their own business.These stupid politicians have to learn even a tiny island has its own soverignety and we are not a part of India never!!! WE understand India’s headache in Tamil Nadu that is why we always talk to India and treat India as our cultural home land but India has to learn that just sitting close to India does not give any ritghts to India to dictate us on how we behave in the world. We pratice a none-alligned froeign policy and we have to have freinds all around the world.
It is time, india will pay for its sin….
Way to go Srilanka.
Should a non-Indian woman ( Sonia Ghandi) worry about India and its sovereignity?? Her one and only aim was to revange the Sri Lankan Tamils for the murder of her husband, Rajiv Ghandi. That’s all.
Hope, atleast now those foolish Indians realize it.
Its the ball theory at its best.. I think Indians need to be concerned. We all should go to Sri Lanka and collect LTTE testicals spread all over the battle field so that Indians can buy some balls. Indian army look like my grand ma’s boobs. They need some uplifting. So do the Indians, who created LTTE. That bitch Indira Ghandi helped LTTE, and LTTE killed her ball-less Son. he he. Karma. SL army had balls as big as Indian people’s heads. May be India should give tamils there own country. My tamil, friends from India never believe they are part of India anyways. back to ball theory, anybody who help or helped terrorists need some balls. Sri Lanka can soon provide expertise, workshops, boot camps etc on how to grow balls. Dont blame China for that. Come on smelly Indians, grow up!
SL is a joke…they got help from India, China, Pakis …about 8 nations and defeated a small rebel group LTTE. I am sure SL fate is to keep licking other countries ass.
Srilankans here yacking about that military victory over LTTE are the biggest joke. Come on blokes you are such weak country and you mode of survival is by kissing the ass of countries. Dont ya feel ashamed maama boys?!?
India n Indians like me are laugin our ass off reading ya stupid comments about nuking India….poor stinking srilankans…when will ya grow up??
Indians are INDIANS first…then only tamils, telugu, malayali or aryans…
piss off dumbcunts….u r just a trash cleaned out from mother INDIA….mother INDIA didn’t want shitty people like srilanks.
Best luck to China and Pak. Indian are untrustwothy and will eat each other anyway – just like what they did to the Tamils who trusted them. Tamils can trust Sinhalese more than the Indians. FILTHY Indians will encourage Tamils again to fight and them come to kill them once their dirty work is done.
China/Pak- Please Invade India!
India is a BIG THREAT to Sri Lanka. Tamils and ***Sinhalese*** should forget their differences and join hands to develop together. there are other places in the world where much worse things took place – these communities should be able to work things out and embrace the possibility of a better future.
My Advice To Sinhalese Chauvinists is to behave and be humble. You paid dearly for your arrogance.
Indian state apparatus operates patiently and ruthlessly. Loot the foolish Chinese out of as much money as possible, and do not even think about harming the interests of Mother India.
I and most Indians are rooting for you to develop your country.
For those curry smelling Indian friends who are so upbeat about their war time ability, do you remember what happened in 1962. The media write even today, ‘china quickly routed the Indian army’.
When China comes with the help of mother lanka, you will drop your pants and run for cover only carrying your curry pot.
Ha Ha Ha.
Former asian hitler Rajiv Gandhi(Ruthless) now Mahinda Rajapaksa.
Covert Help is over – It’s time for Overt Teaching
Most of the postings are rubbish. It is a shame to reduce a serious subject to vulgar ravings of barbaric Sinhalese maniacs. It reminds me of street fighting between drunken gangsters and stray-dogs in Colombo streets. Among those rotten, I wish to respond to Annula Devi.
Hello’ Annula Devi! Madame, people are judged by their conduct, behaviour and inter-personal interactions in public. Such judgment gives / exposes some ideas about individuals’ type of personality, nature of family and the background of one’s up-bringing and the type school attended and so on. In turn, all these determiners contribute to nature and quality and thus qualifying how well one-self presents in public socialization. Therefore, seemingly passionate contents and anti-Indian sentiments expressed by way of your posting makes me believing that you are a lady – not otherwise by your penname – just graduated from the ‘Buddhist Sinhalese Madarasa’ of JHU in Lanka.
As you should be aware of that in the recent past, in your little still small country, the human sacrifices of varying spectrum of society offered to the doctrines of Lord Buddha that natured still natures the people in your country; and under the pretext of fighting terrorism to enhance and protect democracy, human-rights and liberate civilian and hostages so many politicians, journalists, independent observers and human-rights activists have been threatened, warned and killed because they were correctly or wrongly presumed to have been seen as anti-Chauvinistic Sinhalese Government traitors. You say that India has always been working against the Sinhalese Government of Lanka by creating and supporting LTTE and meddling in the internal affairs and as such Lanka is not bound to constrain by any physically, morally or legally exigent circumstances and thereby have no obligation whatsoever towards India and worry about her security. Fine, it’s your heritage. Would you go after all those people who expressed so much of emotional gratitude to Indians and punish them for treachery and insult to your heritage; please refer to your papers and websites for the following which are self-explanatory.
** Speaker of the House – Sripala de Silva: On 03/17/09 he made thanks-giving speech in Parliament. Its essence is crystal clear and self-explanatory. He was thanking Indian mercenary for helping in defeating LTTE terrorism (in his words) – war was not yet over.
** Your President M. Rajapakse: Although India’s helped he was fighting India’s war.
** Defense Secretary G Rajapakse: Regularly updating the progress of war to his counterparts in Delhi – he didn’t have to.
** Army Commander Sarath Fonseka and Spokesman Udaya Nanayakara: Itemized all material and logistic help that he received and expressed gratitude at interview with local and foreign journalists at regular intervals.
Being the biggest democracy in the world, Sonia lead Indian Congress and DMK lead TN State went out of the way, against the will and popular resentment of their people, to help ungrateful people like you. Ungratefully you say, without numbness or pause in mind, that Lanka had won with Chinese’ help even without India’s help. Without India’s blessing and whole-hearted support you would have over-powered and destroyed the LTTE. Would you? What an ingratitude statement is that! Where did your Chinese help go during those previous 25 years – before 2006?
You know very well that in every home there is no meal, breakfast, lunch or dinner or any function, without a Dhal curry or gravy. If one shipment of Dhal from India is delayed no smoke will come from your kitchen.
Your comment makes feeling that Tiger terrorists made monumental blunder in year 2000, by not sweeping the whole territory in Jaffna. They should have marched into KKS and Palely in Jaffna peninsula from Elephant Pass and finished the fight when you were licking your wounds. After repeated pleading and begging by your Chandrika, India came forward to help and kept their navy standby to evacuate 30,000 of your scavenging cannibalistic armed forces. Don’t forget it, my ungrateful idiot.
Please bear in mind that India will not stoop to beg for thankfulness. It’s not to taken but shown by gestures. As a Regional Superpower, India came forward and helped Lanka in eradicating what she perceived as ‘Terrorism’. Let’s differentiate duty and obligations – they are two different political matters. India had to reset her priorities; thus prioritized her moral duty firstly towards Lanka to preserve Unity and Territorial integration while deferring her moral obligation towards protecting the interest of the EelamTamils – at enormous, immeasurable, irrecoverable, irreplaceable, and irredeemable cost.
Indian help is over; now it’s time teach to behave. Mother-India with her illustrious history of civilization and heritage must come forward to fulfill her obligation to the Eelam Tamil and to the prosperity of the little still small Lanka. Nithy!
I want to write something how I feel about, yet I don’t know what to write and how to and where to begin with. Therefore, let not. Yet, it’s something like hair splitting, I wonder breaking my head to find some answers to a simple question lingering in my mind – i.e. at long last, what Sonia led Congress government of India has achieved by their vengeful, adventurous policy and ruthless clandestine military expedition basic human morality in Lanka. Part-I of personal vengeance policy of eliminating Prabaharan, for a crime which is still pending to be proven / found guilty, has been accomplished. At what cost was it achieved? To my mind, it appears as at a cost of over 50,000 lives in a matter of one hundred days – including 20,000 lives in 72 hours and pawning / mortgaging Mother-India’s national interests to the tiny little Lanka. Still, I am in a black room, in the black night searching for a black cat. Will I get him?
Secondly, CM Karunanidhi made many observers believing by his political performance, activities and speeches after September 2008 till now that he presumably, would have been pleased / happy for an opportunity to see that Prabaharan was knocked-out – if not eliminated. Karuna saw Prabaharan as his rival – contender – a threat to the unchallenged uncrowned throne of leadership and guardianship of the Tamil Ethnicity. Due to deteriorating popularity and facing challenges his name became depreciated, diminished its lust, allergic and insignificant while Prabaharan became increasingly popular among the Tamil populace across the globe as a man who emblazoned and inscribed the ‘Address’ to the Tamils in the world. Will Mr. Karuna have a place in the history? Yes. How he will be remembered? To be certain, he will effectively and satisfactorily replace the synonymous usage of 200 years old ‘Eddap’pan’; for treason.
Terrorist leader Prabaharan has earnestly joined the destiny of his mentor Naethaji Subash Chandra Bose – Dignified Martyrdom!
*** The word ‘Genocide’ is more appropriate, yet it’s allergic to the most…
I may be wrong and am permitted to be corrected if found to be so.
Finally, let me thank and appreciate Mr. Vino Kumar for his well written timely assessment of current affairs and cautionary analysis of impending geopolitical changes; and thereby he is alerting awareness about what is brewing behind the smoke-screen. Nithy!
It is clear that India is trying to exert influence over Sri Lanka as if it was a federal region of India. India should respect that in the same way that Germany respects the sovereignty of Switzerland and in no way tries to exert undue influence. Sri Lanka has nothing to do with disputed border regions which is something India and China should fix diplomatically. China is building a port simply because it is en-route to Africa which China has invested heavily in.
Mr. Ebert! Really, I am much impressed by your comments and the way you presented. They are gentlemen’s way of thinking, commenting and presenting. Thank you!
Ebert,
>> India should respect that in the same way that Germany respects the sovereignty of Switzerland and in no way tries to exert undue influence
This is typical argument of a suppressor when he is confronted with a more powerful player.
BTW, Which world are you in? It is everybody business if one majority/powerful nation tries ethnic cleanse and suppress and subjugate their minorities.
Corollary: If we have no right to exert due influence on racist Sinhala state, then the fair play suggests that world+india reject sinhala goods and services and isolate racist sinhala state with no access world’s resources and communication until it complies to concept of natural justice and display acceptable behavior. Since sinhalas are smart enough not allow that to happen, they go around selling Tamil areas to Indian+US economic interests and sell total politico-military interests of the island to China+paki combine.
What the Sinhalas do not realise is that desire for independence of a suppressed minority can not extinguished so easily by a minor player like SL. When the interests of India-West-China starts clashing again, tamils WILL achieve independence
Vinoj Kumar and other Tamil racists and angry that Sri Lanka has slapped their racial demands for a separate Tamil state in the face. There is NOTHING Tamils can do about it except jump about and scream like monkeys. Good luck.
This was no surprise at all. The scum beings in the Indian establishment have always followed policies that were inmical to India’s interests. India has enemies all around because its foreign (and domestic) policies designed by the filthy, uneducated, criminal politicians and corrupt bureaucrats have always been a disgrace to humankind. The sewer journalists in the Indian “mainstream media” are mostly nitwits and nincompoops who shamelessly toe the government line or do cheap, paid stuff for their advertisers. India is a typical example of an overpopulated Third World pseudo-democracy that’s digging its own grave.
The authentic video exposing the war crimes of the filthy SinHELLa army of barbarians shows the sub-human nature of those criminals in the racist SinHELLa government and army and the levels to which those savages can stoop down to. They are a curse upon civilisation and humankind. Those filthy creatures and their ass-licking scum in the Indian establishment like M.K.Narayanan, Shivsankar Menon, the bloody blue-turbaned thug (inhu)Manmohan Singh, the senile yellow-towelled idiot M.Karunanidhi, P.’Shit’ambaram, ‘Suth’ramaniya Swamy, Cho’mari’ etc. and media like the shameless sewer journalist N.Ram, stinking yellow journalists Prannoy Roy and Rajdeep Sardesai shall have to pay for their evil deeds sooner or later. These vermin shall discover that their bad karma earned through butchering tens of thousands of innocents in cold blood shall curse their filthy souls and their kin for generations to come. They shall not be spared!
Lankan,
One need only view the old Black July 1983 video of orange robed Sinhalese monks with machetes stalking Tamils in Colombo or the new video of Lankan troops executing naked prisoners to know who the racists are.
Never in history, have oppressors survived for a long time. Never in history was fairness suppressed for a long time. India has to come out of its slumber & take bold steps economically & militarily. There will be repurcussions, of course, but are not ready to be participative in making history, rather than being an observer ?
Even when India was not so powerful, like today, our previous governments faced enemies with force – whether success or not. Now we are falling into the hands of businessmen’s interests alone. We are forgetting all businesses are done with human beings.
Prakash,
Even though Eelam tamils will appreciate your concerns, your view of our country’s role is HIGHLY counter productive to their aspirations and simply drags the debate to a absurd point.
As a Tamil and Indian, let us first have guts to accept plain facts, then only there can be any positive contribution from us.
1) After racist Colombo, India is next biggest killer of eelam Tamils who has been working against tamils for most of the post-independent era
2) Official policy of new delhi right from 1947 has been explicit about no separate home land for tamils, india will deal only with Sinhala state and tamils should accept the sinhala aggression.
3) In late 70s when anti-Indian forces crystallised into a stronger entity in South Asia through Pak-China-West tango against soviet block, SL moved away from South block’s grip towards anti-indian block. we now know that Indira’s establishment simply used gullible Tamils to piggy back indian interests into island. Final piece of selling of Tamils to Sinhala was completed by her war criminal son Rajiv Gandhi after Indo-SL accord.
4) At every turn of this genocidal war, Srilankan war criminals came to New Delhi to explicity obtain permission to carry their atrocities further. That way, this partner in crime (india) will try to protect lanka if world opinion turns against sinhala state’s racism. This exactly is what we see now.
To compare Indians and chinese contribution in propping up the genocidal regime in colombo, consider the following,
diplomatic cover
a) India prevailed upon on hillary for the IMF loan without which SL was on its way to become a failed nation.
b) Report appeared in the press about indian NSA dressdowning Eric Solhiem on behalf of SL to not poke on the issue anymore at the crucial moment (for diplomatic solution) 1 1/2 years ago.
c) It was widely reported in the press, during april/may this year indian pressure on US prevented US Navy from rescuing the now incarcerated vanni tamils.
d) a western diplomatic source indicated to innercitypress.com that west nations are not taking serious view of Sinhala atrocities because of Indian involvement/pressure
e) Whole world knows about the inglorious contribution by ADC of Ban-ki-moon, Vijay Nambiar, in killing of Tamils (he indeed took his order directly from PMO/NSA)
f) reported Indian pressure on Britain to ban LTTE
g) reported Indian pressure on EU through britain to ban LTTE
i) As reported in innercitypress.com, only two countries came to rescue of srilanka, when it mattered the most, they are Britain and Russia. you do not need to be genius to know that it is india which prevailed upon these countries to act so.
h) India spearheaded a campaign in UNHRC congratulating SL for its successful killing of Tamils and prevented any censure. It did the same to protect sinhala after 1983 riots. Most latin american countries voted in favor because of Indian involvement.
i) when south block blares its load speaker for palestine, it did not regret even once for the killings of innocent Tamils.
Naval/satellite/army cover:
a) Indian navy instead of protecting indian borders against mumbai massacres was protecting SL borders the whole time. 7 of the LTTE’s ghost ships were sunk on high seas due to india’s explicit help. After these loses LTTE was just playing for time for a change in Indian+American establishments which never happend.
b) co-odrinated patrolling with SL navy, Indian establishment ensured no eelam tamil civilians enter TN, which would have easily changed the ground scenario in TN easily and unmanageable for new delhi. So they shot to kill the refugee boats to threaten others from considering this option.
c) It was well reported that indian drones were filming vanni all the time and along with satellite pictures give useful information to SL army to carry out their racist war.
d) It came in press that even the radars that were gifted by india were operated indian technicians.
e) It was reported that the indian military experts were on the field to help and guide the sinhala army.
f) It was even reported all the crucial and detailed cartographic information were provided to SL army by India.
g) india has been providing 100s of millions of dollars in assitance to SL through these 3 years for the Sinhala to go around the world shopping more killing machines.
compare this with what China, which is to provide standard off-the shelf guns, ammos, RPGs, missiles etc..,
Only late in the game did SL buy some planes and radars with money given by India.
Since there is a convergence of interests between SL and India in crushing Tamil nationalism as well as getting permanent foothold on Tamil homelands (as extension- whole island), Indian establishment went full throttle carrying out this tamil genocide using willing Sinhala proxies. What will be the sucess of Indian policies in SL? only future will tell us.
From eelam Tamils perspective, if they want to keep their dream of independent homeland alive, they SHOULD NOT provide any direct political/moral role to indian establishment in solving their problems. They have to be very cautious about current indian enticement. All the fake sympathy that india is trying to pump in is to complete the final piece of its objectives in SL island: To become the only representative of SL Tamils such that they can be sold to Sinhala at will.
But if we (TN Tamils) make the delhi fascists to pay for their misdeeds, then there can be some change in new delhi’s fascist attitude.
India has been providing pin pointed intelligence of ltte supply ships coming from east asia to the sri lankan military. This has supposedly been going on from 2006. This was done using long range maritime recon aircraft stationed in the Ramnad airforce base in tamilnadu. Due to this LTTE has been loosing over 10000 tonnes of military equipment every year. This could have been a back breaker for the LTTE as that is a lot of equipment including anti aircraft missiles, other heavy weaponry and medicines. I am an Indian tamil and why my country would do this is beyond me. I thought India stopped doing this in Srilanka one way or other since IPKF. If this report of intelligence sharing is indeed true then India does indeed deserve what comes next which is China takeover of Sri Lanka. This might lead to problems and separatist activities in south india and my opinion is the sooner it begins the better.
Mother F****ng India is going to get fucked royally by Chinese
I wish that should take place at the earliest
That is my sincere aim
Do u guys think that by doing all the breakups and make shifts for china that, eventually it might unite India and will attack SL and Pakistan and come on India took over Pakistan 3 times and gave it back it also helped Bangladesh to be a country so what king of pussy talk is all that the Punjabi’s and the Gujarati’s can take care of Pakistan and really, u stupid fucking SL’s can u really stand if India if it decides to go to war with u guys u really need to look at you capabilities before u leap
I feel sorry for all the stupid comments and if India is cozying up to the US did someone on these article forget that war is very profitable look at the 2 wars of the US, Iraq and Afghanistan and all the US wants is to sell F-16 and F18 jets and do u really think china will ever get that technology.
And remember India still is a democracy, Pseudo or not it’s better than china where u never hear all these bitching because if u bitch u get fucked up your ass and you are never heard of so all of u SL’s want to fuck the Chinese than go for it look at all the problems in the Uyghur Muslims are and Tibet are so if not Uyghur Muslims than what about Tibet they are your Buddhist brothers but I guess u never learned from your Buddhist values so all I can say look at the reflections before you dumb fucks speak
And I think India should not be anymore cordial to SL they should take the Tamils and create and army that can over run the SL’s and fund them with US weapons what do u guys say about that u dick heads
U guys all need to meditate on what u say. But wait I forgot you are all Monkeys that can’t think duhhhh…..
Firstly,
The myth that India is a country is no longer valid. So, people who are still holding the Indian card (this is mainly done either by ignorance or due to fear), are still in a hangover of 1947, when India was created by the British Raj.
India was bought over by a wealthy tycoon Mr. Nehru, who used Mr. Gandhi as a tool to purchase the large mass of land.
A new story called “history” was written, which showed Nehru fighting for Indian independence, while in actuality he was spending sleepless nights with the wife of Lord Mount batten and several other of his British friend’s wives.
After that, he held a sparrow on one hand and went around the world saying “PEACE” & “SHANTI”.. hmm.. until a Chinese soldier fired a shot at the border by mistake.
Mr. Nehru, overnight asked his troops to run back until the Chinese troops stopped chasing. Then he kept quite and quickly passed away.
The Company was passed over to his daughter and then to her son Mr. Rajiv, who was going around the world as a pilot. He, was caught in a web of Italian Mafia, and had to marry Sonia. Sonia soon eliminated him, as soon as she was ready to take over the profitable Indian empire. Then she decided to eliminate any evidence by funding the war against LTTE.
Now, the company called “India”, is being run my the Italian Mafia, who are actually looking out for a good price to sell out and lock profits. IF THERE ARE INTERESTED BUYERS, THEY CAN CONTACT THE Company for negotiations.
Oh and Arun bye the way India is a country even your name is Indian not SL and that is why they where in G20 two weeks ago and i don’t see a SL leadaer who was held high by the current US administration so what *** are u talking about you need to be in reality or smell the Tea in those dumb SL gandens
May be they should stop making up stories and my top comment on people who like to make a story should really look at reallity and stop making dumb comments on the post. Again my last post say you guys need to meditate on what u say, But wait i forgot you are all Monkeys that can’t think is it because of no education or is it because of not being able to take responsibilities about on self…
Tamils are oppressed by both India and Srilanka. But, Tamils are a martial race and have survived for more than 5000 years. Both India and Srilanka will be crushed by Tamils if they continue to oppress Tamils.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSyUT4Qhi5A
Read these …
http://atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/KJ29Df03.html
CHINA-INDIA WAR-AS ALL AMERICANS & WORLDS PEOPLE KNOWS CHINA IS MOTHER FUCKER COUNTRY, EVERY NATION KNOWS INDIA NEVER FIGHT WITH ANY COUNTRY TILL THEY ATTACTED ON INDIA, INDIA IS NATURE LOVING COUNTRY, BUT CHINA CAN NEVER WIN B/C INDIA DOESN’T NEED ANY SUPPORT OF ANY OTHER NATION TO PROTACT THEIR NATON & COUNTRY PEOPLES
India should get its head out of its Gandhian but. Its a pretentious and unproductive moralistic stance that impresses no one. India cannot and will not a regional power but a lame duck in every respect till it gets aggressive. It has to do that now because of the threaat of China and its minions of Indian origin calling themselves Bengalis, Pakis and Sri Lankans.
India made a huge mistake withdrawing its support and then betraying the Tamil Tiger movement. The Chinese betrayed Prabhakaran then cut his army in half. The intelligence was never before published but did the rounds of Israeli military circles a long time ago.
The Chinese are a plague and not something to take lightly. They knoww how to plan forward in pragmatic terms. Theri morality is not a universal morality. But they know how to deal. Indians are too long winded and their army is full of tradition, top heavy and hi tech crazy. Infield operations they can be dismeembered by the Chinese with 48 hours to a punishing defeat. China for instance has no qualms about unleashing tactical nuclear weapons to deter large battle formations from doing them any damage. They will take out a few divisions with one of these.
Indians will consider world opinion like Nehru did. Unless Indian change their mind set and spen liberally on an effective intelligence capacity it is doomed. Smaller states will rise in their neighbourhood and it will eventually break up.
India’s one jewel is the Tamils. If it acts unilaterally now to secure the position of the Tamils and re arm them whilst denying its role, it will build bridges with the Tamils, embarass the Chinese once and for all and bring Sri Lanka under their rule. It is easier said than done. Well if thats the case then don’t do anything.
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