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India wanted LTTE 'put in its place': Norway report - The Times of India
India wanted LTTE 'put in its place': Norway report
OSLO: Even as it publicly advocated peace when the Sri Lankan conflict was raging, India quietly informed Norway that the LTTE must be "put in its place", reveals a Norwegian government sponsored study on why the peace process failed in the island nation.
The exhaustive document, released here Friday, shows that New Delhi's sympathy lay with Colombo vis-a-vis the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam as the peace process began to slowly unravel from 2003-04.
The report says that Indian cabinet minister P. Chidambaram contacted Prabhakaran towards the end of the conflict -- it does not say how -- and suggested that "the LTTE agree to a pre-drafted statement that they will lay down their weapons".
But this move, it says, leaked to pro-LTTE Tamil Nadu politician Vaiko "who rejects it as a Congress trick and assures the LTTE that the BJP ( Bharatiya Janata Party) will win the elections and come to the Tigers' rescue". That never happened, and Prabhakaran was killed just when the Lok Sabha election results were announced in India.
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