Animosity of Tamils will not help
India’s maritime ambitions
[TamilNet, Friday, 03 July 2009, 16:46 GMT]
Dominating the Indian Ocean, the shores of which are shared by 47 countries, has been the long-cherished dream of India ever since its independence. As China entering into a competition, the Indian Ocean is fast emerging as the new hotspot of Sino-Indian rivalry, says an article appeared Wednesday in Pakistan Observer. India’s security concerns as well as its needs to assert as a world power may be justifiable, but it is making a grave blunder in earning the animosity of Tamils, which is not going to help in its maritime ambitions, says TamilNet political commentator in Colombo.
Even though all powers recognising the geopolitical importance of the island of Sri Lanka in the Indian Ocean decided that the Eezham Tamil liberation movement is destabilising to the region and cast their weight collectively in favour of genocidal Colombo, India and China are pinpointed as ultimately responsible for the disaster befallen on Eezham Tamils. "Of them, China has a steady and clear policy running into half a century now, to support totalitarianism of the Sinhala state for its strategic and economic gains in the island. If allowed, it can go to any extent," the commentator further said.
Tamil circles have taken note of the fact that other than viciously abetting the Sinhala state militarily and diplomatically in the genocide and pouncing on to grab economic and strategic interests, China has shown no political or ideological vision in resolving the national conflict in the island. "Colombo may think that it has effectively played the China card to lock India and the West, but consequences will come soon," the commentator adds.
"On the other hand, India’s policy is reactionary. In Indra Gandhi’s time it thought of supporting the Tamil cause to counter American hegemony operating through Colombo. But it lost its natural ally in the island by its lack of will power in achieving anything decisively and by its deceit on Tamils in Rajiv Gandhi’s time."
"Instead of amending its ways by recognising the self-determination of Tamils and get a sure leverage in the island, it naively took the side of a genocidal state that is always paranoid of India, entered into strategic partnership with China, conducted a proxy war against Tamils and now is engaged in erasing all traces of Eezham Tamil nationalism, without realising that its maritime interests are eroded at its very borders."
"Neither any amount of money or talk of development other than recognition of Tamil independence is going to wash the stains of Tamil blood in India’s hands, nor any extent of appeasement with Colombo is going to make it a friend of India or make it stop playing the China card."
Dominating the Indian Ocean, the shores of which are shared by 47 countries, has been the long-cherished dream of India ever since its independence. As China entering into a competition, the Indian Ocean is fast emerging as the new hotspot of Sino-Indian rivalry, says an article appeared Wednesday in Pakistan Observer. India’s security concerns as well as its needs to assert as a world power may be justifiable, but it is making a grave blunder in earning the animosity of Tamils, which is not going to help in its maritime ambitions, says TamilNet political commentator in Colombo.
Even though all powers recognising the geopolitical importance of the island of Sri Lanka in the Indian Ocean decided that the Eezham Tamil liberation movement is destabilising to the region and cast their weight collectively in favour of genocidal Colombo, India and China are pinpointed as ultimately responsible for the disaster befallen on Eezham Tamils. "Of them, China has a steady and clear policy running into half a century now, to support totalitarianism of the Sinhala state for its strategic and economic gains in the island. If allowed, it can go to any extent," the commentator further said.
Tamil circles have taken note of the fact that other than viciously abetting the Sinhala state militarily and diplomatically in the genocide and pouncing on to grab economic and strategic interests, China has shown no political or ideological vision in resolving the national conflict in the island. "Colombo may think that it has effectively played the China card to lock India and the West, but consequences will come soon," the commentator adds.
"On the other hand, India’s policy is reactionary. In Indra Gandhi’s time it thought of supporting the Tamil cause to counter American hegemony operating through Colombo. But it lost its natural ally in the island by its lack of will power in achieving anything decisively and by its deceit on Tamils in Rajiv Gandhi’s time."
"Instead of amending its ways by recognising the self-determination of Tamils and get a sure leverage in the island, it naively took the side of a genocidal state that is always paranoid of India, entered into strategic partnership with China, conducted a proxy war against Tamils and now is engaged in erasing all traces of Eezham Tamil nationalism, without realising that its maritime interests are eroded at its very borders."
"Neither any amount of money or talk of development other than recognition of Tamil independence is going to wash the stains of Tamil blood in India’s hands, nor any extent of appeasement with Colombo is going to make it a friend of India or make it stop playing the China card."
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