Ceasefire Possibility with the LTTE Terrorists

"The soldiers in the frontlines have sacrificed their lives and limbs not to be betrayed once again by the government. The masses of this country have suffered enough at the hands of the LTTE and they would want to see that the LTTE is militarily destroyed before any political solution is brought in."

by Nacholibre

(December 05, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) The terrorist LTTE is down and on knees pleading Tamilnadu and India for a new lease of life, as they are incapable of coming out of their military cul-de-sac by themselves alone. The armed forces of Sri Lanka are just a few steps away from driving the final nail into the LTTE coffin that Velupillai Prabakaran, the Terrorist leader has nowhere to run from his misery anymore. As expected, the LTTE loving Karunanidhi and his political goons in Tamilnadu have not given up their campaign of trying to bail out the almost completely destroyed LTTE and its megalomaniac leader under the pretext of Tamil liberation. When Karunanidhi’s own country is burning like hell in the aftermath of a despicable terror attack, the geriatric LTTE sympathizer has claimed that he has convinced Manmhan Singh to send Pranab Mukerji to Sri Lanka to set up a ceasefire with the LTTE terrorists.

Manmohan Singh, on one hand, seems politically disoriented. He is flooded by the adverse pressure coming from local quarters for the abysmally poor handling of the Mumbai episode and on top of it, his Southern ally, Karunanidhi, is nagging him to impose a ceasefire on Sri Lanka with the LTTE terrorists. To begin with, it has not been even two weeks or so when he himself has said on TV that India will never negotiate with terrorists nor abandon going after them and bring them to justice, after Mumbai was attacked by alleged militants from Pakistan. India is pressurizing Pakistan to hand the militants over without conditions and is accusing Pakistan for training the militants with ulterior motives to destroy the sovereignty of India. Cut to the Karunanidhi drama, Singh has allegedly promised Karunanidhi that he will send Prannab to Sri Lanka to “see what possibility is there for a ceasefire with the LTTE, which India”

What is there to look for? Does India has the audacity to resolve to fight the terrorists and hunt them down to the last man and, at the same time, send one of its emissaries to Sri Lanka to look for possibilities of doing the opposite with relation to the LTTE terrorists? Anyhow, we may understand if this whole drama is a political gimmick Karunanidhi and Manmohan Singh are playing to fool the voters back in Tamilnadu. If not, India has got the fundamentals wrong in a big way.

As we have said a few times before too in these pages, the only possibility there is for a ceasefire is as follows: First and foremost, Prabakaran must publicly declare that he will give up Elam. Secondly, the LTTE should lay down all their arms and surrender their cardre and remaining military bases and territory that they currently occupy. Nothing short of that will do. The bottom line is, LTTE has to be militarily defeated or, if India wants a ceasefire, it should ensure the above conditions are met completely.

The soldiers in the frontlines have sacrificed their lives and limbs not to be betrayed once again by the government. The masses of this country have suffered enough at the hands of the LTTE and they would want to see that the LTTE is militarily destroyed before any political solution is brought in. The current Rajapaksha administration that the people brought into power would do justice to the masses that elected it, if it succeeds in communicating this plain truth to India, if the Indian emissary finally arrives here. India should be diplomatically reminded that it can not conveniently afford to train and support the LTTE terrorists, while signing agreements to counter terrorism in the region just as a masquerade. It has to be fair by the region. Karunanidhi is India's problem and India should solve its home-grown problems by themselves. They should not thrust it in Sri Lanka's way of battling terrorism. - Sri Lanka Guardian