S.A.T.A
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India's strategic establishment will welcome the demise of the LTTE for more than one reason.The LTTE had longed ceased to be of any value to our strategic interests.Infact in the recent years they have been the impediment to our positive involvement in the Lankan crisis.................
When we trained the Tamil insurgents,they were meant two serve two purposes,first to put the Sinhalese Chauvinist,who dominated the national politics in the post independence period(JVP representing its most extreme version)in their place and also to force Jayawardene to rethink on his pro American policies,at a time when post Nixon USA was decidedly anti India..........
India managed to achieve both the goals and this achievement culminated in the Indo-Lankan accord of 1987.That's when LTTE and Prabhakaran began to play spoil sports.First he started eliminating other militant groups who were close to Indian establishment who had supported the Indo-Lanka accord and had begun the process of disarming(this was a tactical mistake on our part,which allowed LTTE to emerge powerful)but LTTE also started targeting the TULF leadership(popular but moderate Tamil party),who were our lynch pin on the entire peace process.
I think now India will be in a better position to resume its active involvement in the peace process,without any guilty conscience that it had abandoned in 1991.
When we trained the Tamil insurgents,they were meant two serve two purposes,first to put the Sinhalese Chauvinist,who dominated the national politics in the post independence period(JVP representing its most extreme version)in their place and also to force Jayawardene to rethink on his pro American policies,at a time when post Nixon USA was decidedly anti India..........
India managed to achieve both the goals and this achievement culminated in the Indo-Lankan accord of 1987.That's when LTTE and Prabhakaran began to play spoil sports.First he started eliminating other militant groups who were close to Indian establishment who had supported the Indo-Lanka accord and had begun the process of disarming(this was a tactical mistake on our part,which allowed LTTE to emerge powerful)but LTTE also started targeting the TULF leadership(popular but moderate Tamil party),who were our lynch pin on the entire peace process.
I think now India will be in a better position to resume its active involvement in the peace process,without any guilty conscience that it had abandoned in 1991.