Imran Pokimon
Imran Pokimon
THE DOWNFALL OF LTTE
LTTE's End approaches
The decisive defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, who are probably fighting their last battle, is partly due to the follies of Prabhakaran during the last four years and partly due to the determined and ruthless manner in which the Sri Lankan Armed Forces have carried out their operations
Prabhakaran's follies which led to the LTTE's downfall are its split with Karuna, the legendary conventional fighter from the Eastern Province and his followers, the increasing reliance on terrorism after the desertion of the conventional fighters led by Karuna and Prabhakaran's working to defeat of former prime minister Ranil Wickremasinghe in the 2006 presidential elections, which were won by Mahinda Rajapaksa.
No Sri Lankan leader was more sympathetic to the aspirations of the Tamils than former President Chandrika Kumaratunge and Wickremasinghe. The latter was prepared to concede in a large measure the political demands of the LTTE within a federal set-up. If Prabakaran had responded positively to the gestures from Wickremasinghe, the latter would have enabled the LTTE to retain control of the territory which it had occupied and given it a measure of autonomy in return for the LTTE giving up its demand for an independent Tamil Eelam.
WOULD PRABHAKARAN BE HANDED OVER TO INDIA?
According to AICC media cell chairperson M Veerappa Moily “The Srilankan Government will be happy if Prabhakaran is caught and handed over to India for the crimes he has committed by assassinating our beloved leader Sri Rajiv Gandhi. This will be an excellent service of Sri Lankan Government to India. Prabhakaran should be brought to book for the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi and handed over to India for trial.
What next after the defeat of the LTTE?
President Mahinda Rajapakse has repeatedly promised that once the LTTE is defeated, he would be generous in meeting the political aspirations of the Tamils. He gives the impression of being a sincere man, but will the Sinhalese Army with its head bloated by its success against the LTTE allow him to do so? The indicators till now are not encouraging. Many Sri Lankan officers might have been trained in India, but their mindset and their attitude towards the minorities have more in common with those of their Pakistani counterparts than with those of their Indian counterparts. Therein lies the danger that after winning the war against the LTTE, the Government, strongly influenced by a victorious army, might trey to impose a dictated peace on the Tamils.
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