1) I totally agree!How can it be termed as India's Vietnam?
1) India never came to Invade Sri Lanka.
2) Indian's were called in to help Sri Lanka and treacherous Sinhalas.
3) We never lost 54,000 men without any result.
4) SL and Sinhalas sided with LTTE and gave them all possible support.
5) Latter, when we understood the dirty Sinhala game, we left SL and allowed Sinhalas to fight rag-tag LTTE for good and allowed SLA and SL to see themselves in the mirror.
(RIGHTLY Sinhalas LOST 25% of their COUNTRY.)
6) We all know how well SLA fared against ill-equipped LTTE for 30 years.
7) Later again, SL BEGGED the world to HELP with money and arms to tackle LTTE.
8.) World, including India helped train half a million SLA to fight 5000 tigers. (even then it took years for SLA to Victory, what Bravery?).
9) India even created a 'Naval Blockade' to cut supply lines of LTTE; without which SLA would have been - as usual again crushed by determined LTTE fighters.
10) SLA and Sinhalas conducted a genocide of civilian population, claimed victory and DECLARED Allegiance To INDIA.
How is it India's Vietnam - you moron?
In 1986, Jafna, Vavunia, all araes North of Auradhpuara, Trincomalee and batticalao was under LTTE. You had lost everything. South was also lost to JVP. SL was in shamlbes. Bahndarnaike was almost under house arrest. Premadasa was hobnobbing with JVP to throw away Jayvardhna. Had IPKF not come the SL would be in tatters and Chinese and Pakistani warships berthed all around.
Were you born by then?
What i mentioned was in '86!You are certainly not a SL. The revolt of 70s by the hardcore fundamenatalist in Galle is not known to you when Indian Para Brigade had to intervene. IPKF was not the first military intervention. It is you who need to learn some history.... The JVP started after IPKF? Read some history.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janatha_Vimukthi_PeramunaThis led to the post-1987 revolt of the JVP when, adroitly exploiting the arrival of the Indian Peace Keeping Force and the widespread nationalist sentiments of large sections of the Sinhala people, the JVP began to terrorise both the state machinery and those sections of civil society opposed to its thinking and almost brought the State to its knees.
Maybe you are not aware but India help was more than just intel report:-9) Are you from mars? What naval blockade? India merely sent intel reports on LTTE ships' whereabouts to SLN. SLN did the rest! Learn history!
Yes we do respect the Indian contribution for Elam war 4!Maybe you are not aware but India help was more than just intel report:-
(a) In early 2006, India quietly gifted five Mi-17 helicopters to the Sri Lankan air force. The only Indian condition was: These helicopters would fly under Sri Lankan air force colours. New Delhi clearly did not want to annoy UPA's Tamil Nadu allies like the DMK.
(b) A Sukanya Class offshore patrol vessel gifted by the Indian Coast Guard to the Sri Lankan navy in 2002.
But hampered by domestic compulsion, New Delhi could not go beyond such meagre and clandestine transfer of military hardware. Publicly all that India was willing to acknowledge was the supply of low-flying detection 'Indra' radars to the Sri Lankan air force since this equipment was considered a defensive apparatus.
Insiders in Sri Lanka's defence establishment reveal that India's insistence on securing exclusive rights to the use of Palaly air base in the Jaffna peninsula was the most contentious point between the two delegations.
Colombo saw this demand from India as downright insulting and symptomatic of India's hegemonistic mindset. So the Defence Cooperation Agreement (DCA) never got off the ground. Ironically, three months after the Eelam War IV ended, India decided to fund the repair and restoration of the Palaly air base in north Sri Lanka.
(c) Sri Lankan leadership acknowledged the Indian Navy's contribution in locating and destroying at least 10 'floating warehouses' owned by the LTTE. These warehouses or ships of varying sizes were used by the LTTE to store arms, ammunition and even armoured personnel carriers.
Indian and Sri Lankan navy conducted well-coordinated operations by the two navies between 2006 and 2009 actually broke the backbone of the Sea Tigers. The Indian Navy's Dorniers based at Ramnad in Tamil Nadu flew regular reconnaissance missions over the seas around Sri Lanka. These Dornier aircraft, fitted with high-powered radar, scoured the area for ships with suspicious movement and cargo.
Whenever such a ship was detected, the Indian Navy passed on the information to the Sri Lankans. The real time intelligence helped the Sri Lankan navy track and then destroy LTTE arms consignments. The fact remains that in late 2007, the Indian Navy's Southern Command deployed three fast attack boats and a missile corvette that patrolled the Palk Straits, searched and caught hold of LTTE fugitives.
Ain't that what happened to US in Vietnam??IPKF was supposed to be peace keeping and then when the LTTE attacked them, it converted in peace enforcing to assist the SL Govt.
Therefore, I do not understand how it is India's Vietnam.
We do respect India and keep a watchful eye on Indian issues related to SL.India has the military wherewithal not only to overwhelm the LTTE, but also the SL military and ensure its will.
But then it was not India's aim to take over SL.
It was there to assist the SL Govt.
I might say, even now, if India wants to overwhelm SL, it is no big deal!
I am afraid I cannot explain Vietnam and the US in a post.Ain't that what happened to US in Vietnam??
It is SL's prerogative.We do respect India and keep a watchful eye on Indian issues related to SL.
Same thing that teach in India!@HeinzGud
What exactly they teach in srilankan schools about india's role ???
or may be what's srilankan POV???
To be very frank, nothing about Sri Lanka is taught in India.Same thing that teach in India!
India put hand to the fire and burnt itself despite certain calls from Sri Lanka to not to do it! That's SL POV!
Maybe in RAMAYANA...............To be very frank, nothing about Sri Lanka is taught in India.
I am not being obtuse, but SL has never featured in our historical books in the school level.
Seems like the cause of the beginning of the tension.The SpArK was caused by a RAW goof up that led to the death of 10 or 14 LTTE members (suicide by cynide).
It is not taught in Schools.Maybe in RAMAYANA...............
In the Sri Lanka operations one part of the government did not know what the other was doing. While RAW knew what it was doing politically, neither it nor the government was unable to fathom the potential for trouble that was generated by this operation. This was because the mission sought to achieve too much at one time. The number of groups being trained were one too many and difficult to control. No accountability existed and eventually not enough attention was paid to the risks of losing control over the insurgents.Indeed. And how come Indian army was so naive to believe that LTTE would just give up weapons and stop all violence?
Wasn't RAW confided Indian government on LTTE wan't fight with IPKF!
That was Lanka, yours is Sri Lanka, you must be good people I believe.Maybe in RAMAYANA...............