| by V S. Subramaniam
Ground Report
India
( October 9,
2012, New Delhi, Sri Lanka Guardian) Disagreeing with Hariharan many apologist
view that the Rajapakses success in
‘coercive diplomacy’ humbled
Delhi into supporting Lanka to defy the UNHRC periodic reviews monitoring
Lankan accountability for the crimes under UNHRC review. The success is attributable
to the secretive commitments that key Sonia acolytes made to the Rajapakses
from time to time in several ‘one to one’ talks in India’s post Indra period.
The secretive commitments between the Rajapkses and the key Sonia loyalists
served as destructive precursors to cause the Eelam Tamils eternal misery and
anger in TN and worldwide. The key persons identified by Gothabhaya Rajapakse
in the Lankan genocide were the Sonia Delhi South Block ‘in the loop trio’ who
plotted the world renowned Mullivaykkal massacres.
Amongst other
such conspiratorial South Block genocide secretive talks/deals the one between
Rajiv and J R Jayawardene (JR) held in the privacy of a visit surveying some
flood areas in India were most destructive to the Tamil cause. The talks
produced the deal to introduce the IPKF into Lanka; officially to save the
Eelam Tamils to calm TN Tamils sentiments but events that unraveled pointed to
a sinister scam that was more scandalous than Rajiv’s Bofors scam that just
preceded it. Under the deal JR hired IPKF mercenaries to totally eliminate the
Eelam Tamiil insurgency or LTTE ‘terrorism’. The naïve Rajiv (so labeled by Gen
Harikirat and Hariharan) however set up an alibi in the Indo-SL Accord and 13th
Amendment to camouflage the scam. Outstanding commitments under that deal had
to be delivered as late as May 2009 producing amongst others the ruthless
Mullivaykkal massacres, killings of white flag carrying rebel’s leaders
offering to surrender, massacres of civilians and the defeat of the LTTE. These
crimes were portrayed as battlefront victories earning from the Sonia land her
loyalist praise and India’s vote in the UNHRC congratulating Lanka for its
crimes within a span of few days in May 2009. The pin point co-ordinates for
these massacres were provided by Delhi both in the ground and airborne (RAW). .
In contrast a horrified international community began in earnest to act against
that Lankan brutality.
Though the 1987
IPKF venture failed miserably, Sonia on coming back to power in 2004 lead an
enthused South Block to deliver on Rajiv’s outstanding commitments to eliminate
the Tamil insurgents/civilians to alter the Lankan demographics to historically
erase traces of Tamil habitation in Lanka. The Rajapakses entrapped the
over-enthusiastic anti-Tamil South Block trio into participating in the
criminal undertakings especially the Mullivaykkal massacre precisely timed to
avoid the May 2009 elections. Strangely
Shastri’s neighbor friends, the Rajapakses used the Sonia-South Block ‘in the
loop’ role as a blackmail weapon that terrified (and continues to terrify) both
Sonia and the South Block into appeasing Colombo. The threat was to expose
Delhi’s illicit role in the Lanka genocide from advice, supply of men,
battlefront and aerial intelligence, and lethal arms including cluster bombs,
funds to purchase arms and diplomatic cover should SL face international
accountability scrutiny. The massacres of the Tamils (over 40 000 Tamil
civilians in Mullivaykkal) to alter Lankan demographics in favour of the
Sinhalas at the expense of Eelam Tamils is plainly a genocide, a crime against
humanity.
Pranab Mukerjee,
(the present President of India), Delhi’s reputed trouble shooter on behalf of
Sonia also had a secretive ‘one to one’ talks with Karunanithi in early 2009
perverting the course of justice when he reportedly pressured Karunanithi to
assure continued DMK support at a critical juncture for UPA’s survival without
which the Lankan genocide/massacres woud have been halted. Had DMK acted in
line with the sentiments amongst the Tamils honestly it would have morally
brought down the UPA government saving the lives of Eelam Tamils. The payback
for this undertaking was for Sonia and her cohorts to hold back CBI proceedings
against DMK Ministers Raja and Kanimozhi in the scandalous 2G case thus
subverting the due judicial processes. The Central government holding back the
CBI, a state agency from promptly acting according to the law against the
plunderers of public assets/income in the 2G scam is a crime. The trade-off
thus enabled what Shastri prayed for, along with the Sonia/South Block aiding
and abetting the Rajapakses’ massive massacres of Tamil civilians. Pranab a reputed ‘trouble shooter’ thus
turned a ‘fixer’ of this notorious deal that also gave away a powerful
diplomatic weapon (namely the threat to disclose the role of the South Block
trio in the massacres that Lanka committed) to the Rajapakses. The Rajapakses
revealing this, then a secret in judicial proceedings and details entering the
public arena terrified Delhi into submission diplomatically. Strangely Sonia
Delhi a regional power succumbed to Rajapakses’ “coercive” diplomacy. Hence
Delhi’s post 2009 diplomacy was entirely directed by Lanka using Delhi to
sabotage the ongoing UNHRC crimes processes against Lanka.
Karunanithi’s play-acting in the Pranab deal
complementing his two hour fast was treachery of the highest order. TN voters
delivered a humiliating rebuff to this make believe champion of the Tamil cause
from which he is unlikely ever to recover politically. Under this mercenary
deal with Pranab he sold the lives of over 40 000 innocent civilian Tamils
merely to save the plundered 2G wealth for the family and freedom from
prosecution for Raja/Kanimozhi involved in that plunder. Tamils in TN and
worldwide are unlikely to forget or forgive Karunanithi, who watched the very
people whom he claimed he was their protector being butchered into submission
by the Rajapakses.
All indications
now are that the electoral fate of Karunanithi certainly awaits Sonia as well.
Voters are bound to punish the Sonia crowd that nurtured the scam culture with
impunity in the belief that that the Indian voters would forget the Coalgate
scam just as they did the Bofors scam. The top leadership’s interference in the
work of the CBI allowed the scam culture Rajiv pioneered to disgracefully
flourish to become a ‘Coalgate’. The Bofors scam cost Rajiv electorally in
1991; the Pranab deal effectively ended Karunanithi’s political career in TN in
2011. It is Sonia’s turn now to suffer a similar fate from an electoral
backlash worse than what Karunanithi suffered in TN.
Sonia/Singh are
still bent on saving the Rajapakses from facing international accountability
justice and earned an excellent record for appeasement of the murderous
Rajapakse regime usually soon after the ‘one to one’ talks with leaders like S
M Krishna, Shankar Menon, and Narayanan. Added to this list is Singh. What deal
he made recently with the Rajapakses cause trepidation amongst Eelam Tamils
also angering TN Tamils and growing numbers of enlightened Indians. Likewise
the international community including UNHRC is most concerned over what more
support Singh has promised the Rajapakses to finish off the Tamils in Lanka and
sabotage the work of the UNHRC. The accelerating pace of the Rajapakses army
and Sinhala settlements in the Tamil homelands point to a more menacing
genocide that has the blessings of Singh. What the Rajiv-JR genocide deal began
the Rajapakse-Singh recent deal seeks to complete. As a prelude Sonia/Singh
Delhi have not for once explicitly condemned the massacres of the Tamils to
date. Instead of condemnation of the Lankan genocide Singh/Sonia labored with
the Rajapakses to destroy the Tamil resistance sealing the plight of the Eelam
Tamils.
The South Block
apologists for the Rajapakses also have not changed even in post May 2009. The
UNHRC periodic review sessions approaching drove the desperate Rajapakses to
seek a ‘one to one’ meet with Manmohan.
For voting for the US sponsored UNHRC resolution against the Rajapakses
the Rajapakses turned venomous. Singh escaped, a public assault humiliation
that Rajiv suffered in 1987 from a chosen naval rating Vijitha Rohana at a
Guard of Honour. It was the first attempted assassination of an Indian leader;
a precedent that the South Block apologists conveniently (Shinde) forget.
Rohona’s precedent four years later resulted in Rajiv’s assassination by a rape
victim of IPKF. Sonia Delhi and the South Block apologists reacted to the
latter with intense hostility towards the Tamils. Readers are reminded that the
reaction of Delhi and South Block apologists are selective, a Tamil attempt is
more heinous compared to a public humiliation of their leader by a Shastri’s
friendly neighbour the Sinhalas. Shinde’s voters not only forget but only
selectively remember slights and public disgraces its leaders suffer. Today’s
voters are unlikely despite efforts of sectarian apologists to forget
‘Coalgate’ as it did over the disgraceful Bofors.
Tamil fishermen
in hundreds or more pay with their lives at the hands of Shastri’s friendly
neighbour despite pleas from Chennai that the Indian navy protect the Tamil
fishermen as citizens of India. The Sea Tigers did a better job protecting TN
fishermen’s lives by keeping the Lankan naval patrols confined to their docks.
Rajapakse
observing the political rumblings in Delhi pointing to an early end to Sonia
rule is slighting Sonia/Singh and begun courting the opposition especially BJP
Sushma. Shastri has much to learn how genuine Lankan friendship for Indians is
leave alone the public riffle assault of a naval rating aiming at its PM’ head. A displeased Singh avoided
meeting Rajapakse in Rio and then at the NAM meeting. However the Rajapakses
South Block loyalists engineered a backdoor visit/meeting for Rajapakse with PM
Manmoham; pretext a visit to Sanchi.
Tamils dread the ‘one to one’ talks between SL/Delhi leaders; Rajiv/JR
meeting initiated Delhi support to rid the Tamil insurgency, Pranab/ex TN CM
meeting ended with the massacres of Tamil civilians and now the Rajapakse/Singh
meeting promises to support Lanka in the UNHRC to allow the demographics of
Lanka to rid Tamils from Lanka and negate the positive developments taking
shape at the UNHRC.
The pieces of the paid scribes/apologists,
overlook references to the accelerated pace of Sinhala colonization which
amounts to sabotaging Lanka accounting for its genocide crimes at the
forthcoming UNHRC periodic review sessions. The growing world and Indian
opinion factored in Delhi’s role in the Lankan crimes/genocide is thus limited
to Delhi’s inadequate contribution to the fight against human rights abuses in
Lanka while the world and its mandated UNHRC urgently seeks to remedy the
Lankan genocide crimes. It is unlikely that Delhi or the South Block trio will
be called upon to account for the Lankan crimes but Rajapakses/Lanka
implicating the trio will only damage Delhi’s image diplomatically. Any
reversal of policy since Delhi’s voted for the US resolution is certain to
anger the patriotic TN Tamils who are strongly loyal to the India Union unlike
the Rajapakse sectarian scribes who yearn to break up the Indian Union by
instigating TN Tamil anger and strain TN-Centre relations. A distinguished and
reputed analyst Nateri Adigal in ‘TN being pushed the Eelam way’ is unlikely to
restrain the South Block bigots from pursuing their agenda of supporting SL and
decimating the Tamils totally in Lanka.
Hence the
intellectually hollow anti-Tamil scribes’ Hariharan and others produce pieces
like “The Era of Coercive Diplomacy Is Over” and a Shastri Ramachandran
‘India-Sri Lanka relations hostage to Tamil parties’ to sabotage UNHRC’s
efforts to discourage the Rajapakse type genocide epidemic from spreading to
the rest of the world. Are the Lankan crimes under the UNHRC supervision not
that grave enough to warrant Harriharan to dismiss them as ‘.continued aberrations’ in Sri Lanka’s
handling of Tamils. UNHRC and other
agencies view the Rajapakse crimes too grave to be ignored. Farm lands are being
appropriated supposedly for extending military bases in peacetime and related
infrastructure for Sinhala colonization of Tamil homeland in Lanka. This is a
form of ethnic cleansing, a crime against humanity. The rate of Lankan
militarization after the defeat of the LTTE is to perpetuate a military
occupation to keep the Eelam Tamils in subjugation. The likes of Haraharan
sectarians would argue that Delhi also follow the Rajapakse model to keep a
tight rein over the restless Tamils to prevent TN separatism in India, a
massive bogey. Readers may wonder whether Singh/Sonia have agreed to a secret
deal to allow the Lankan militarization to proceed preparing to fight the bogey of separatist tendencies
with the Rajapakse support should they surface in TN.
Hariharan also
sarcastically labels the call of the TN CM along with world class leaders of
the international community’s call for
justice for Lanka Tamils victims as ‘her way of asserting her national
presence’. How scholarly is Hariharan as political analyst when he, like
Shastri has problems with ‘Kalaghams’. TN CM’s thoughts are certainly noble
compared the lowly level of a
Karunanithi whose chose to watch Tamils being butchered to save the ill-gotten
2G wealth for his family.
Hariharan’s
questionable scholarship is evident when he asserts that the ‘era of coercive
diplomacy is over’ using a single event (the Syrian example) to warn India to
appease the Rajapakses who had repeatedly slighted Delhi’s appeasement policies
since 2009 once the Tamil insurgency/LTTE lost.
According to Hariharan Sri Lanka is a ‘proud nation’ not to be coerced
even though it has murderous instincts and is not carrying forward the
reconciliation process with Tamil minority lest it requires another IPKF
mis-adventure? Hariharan urging that Delhi avoids coercive diplomacy for some
vague ‘strategic context’ today compared to 1987 mis-represents the real
reasons for its failure then were the naivety of Rajiv and incompetence of
those directing the IPKF including Haraharan but above all the strength of the
Tamil resistance (LTTE).
Delhi’s
‘coercive diplomacy’ does indeed carry greater risks today than in 1987. A
better armed SL (thanks to the South Block support) like Israel is playing an
inimical role to India’s regional power status having a China closely allied to
it and at the ready to confront India from points closest to India’s southern
front. Hariharan suggests ‘we (India) should start using our influence (do we
have any left!) a little more boldly to give his regime a more humane face’
meaning erase Lanka’s genocider-murderer standing to diplomatically save the
Raqjapakses from the UNHRC accountability. The UNHRC’s mandate is to tame
genociders and human rights abusers. However SL ‘leadership supposedly believes
in the war torn zones, reconstruction of habitats and infrastructure. that
would improve the live style of the people and devolution being a process that
can be progressed at its own pace’ giving the Rajapakses that ‘human face’
elaborated on in LLRC report presented for the UNHRC sessions to meet the
accountability measures that the UNHRC may consider at the forthcoming
sessions.
Readers who
stumbled on Shastri Ramachandran’s (definitely a clone of Hariharan) ‘India-Sri
Lanka relations hostage to Tamil parties’ is a stronger cold blooded sectarian
than Hariharan. Hence he blames all the TN parties (calling all of them as
Kazhagams) mischievously fomenting Lankan hostility towards India. It is
pointless indulging in a debate with such irrational diehard anti-Tamil sectarians
(who welcome China ‘projects in Jaffna’ and labels as ‘blunder (Delhi) voting
with the US against SL in the UNHRC’..and stating that the two regional
parties..are being irresponsible and hurting India’s strategic interests!’
Fortunately Shastri and Hariharan hardly have any following in TN or anywhere
else in India.
The Hindu “Plain
speaking to Colombo’ editorial also makes similar observations; competitive
politics in TN is damaging the ‘successfully built friendly ties ...in the past
two decades’. Though the Hindu does
mention the ‘China card and Pakistan card’ it elevates the importance of this
(Lankan alliance) for India never mind the tens or hundreds of thousands
Tamils...slaughtered in Lanka....’ Perhaps the Hindu group sectarians would
prefer to watch the Rajapakses slaughter Tamils even TN fishermen (are they
Indians?) or any Tamil. Two decades of friendly ties (or appeasement by Sonia
acolytes) is unlikely to save TN Tamil fishermen’s lives.
Sonia and Singh
have a style of overcoming setbacks that have plagued UPA 2, through inaction
or ignoring the problems. The 2G scam has almost gone away. Delhi expects the
Delhi trio’s involvement and the Coalgate to go away as well. The political
climate following Coalgate remains critical that analysts predict general
election anytime and an end to Sonia/Manmohan rule that has caused immense
misery for scam ridden India and Eelam Tamils victims of Lankan genocide. The
heat of Coalgate was so intense that Sonia/Singh/South Block sought to minimize
its electoral losses by announcing the highly unpopular diesel tax increases
and the FDI as diversions to disengage the voter’s minds from the
scams/scandals of the Congress dump-pits. The clean Mamata unlike Karunanithi
was able to take on Sonia/Singh boldly. Hence would the Indian voters choose to
vote for the plunderers of Coalgate, 2G, Bofors, IPKF mercenary scam..? by
cling together for political survival the latest until 2014.
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