POST CHOGM: COLOMBO/DELHI TUSSLE; ADVANTAGE RAJAPAKSES; DOOM/GLOOM FOR SONIA/SINGH
The recent hotly debated Indian PM’s visit to CHOGM provoked two narratives ‘CHOGM; PM attending or not verses Sonia ‘in the loop’ SL crimes’ (11/10/2013) and ‘CHOGM – POLITICAL PERSPECTIVES- South Block to save Sri Lanka from UNHRC initiatives (11/01.2013)’ in Groundreport.com; The debate that Follows puts the Sonia factor in Delhi’s decision making on Indo-SL relations in a proper perspective. Swapan’s apology on behalf of the Rajapakses and NOT giving due weight to the Sonia factor in the Mullivaykkal massacres that for over five years since May 2009 has been glossed. Hence most of what Swapan, the (suitcase) paid scribe has outlined in The Pioneer and The Times of India is basically flawed.
Swapan derides the Tamil Diaspora for their ‘…unchanging historical memory and hateful vision for future… (and bankrolling murder’) to support the armed Tamil resistance’. Swapan and the Rajapakses slandered the Tamil resistance as ‘terrorists’ but enlightened leadership and the better informed and un-corrupted media persons familiar with 6+ decades long SL oppression of the Tamils point to the ‘ subjugation, militarisation, land appropriation, forced displacements, rapes and sexual abuse , and mass killings’ as greater sins that need redress. Swapan as a paid scribe is more concerned about a non existing insurgency; not the victims of the genocide and its revival for the Rajapakses to need more land appropriations for bigger bases ignoring the economic deprivation that the Tamils had already suffer.
Most of the paid stories of scribes like Swapan were totally debunked once the authoritative UNHRC chief Navi Pillai vouches to the real oppression still being faced by Tamils and the UNHRC measures that are essential to provide redress for the suffering Tamil victims. Within days of Swapan’s pieces claiming that all is well with the Tamils in the North the Tamils voted overwhelmingly for the TNA confirming the sufferings of the Tamils and urging humanity to act to redress their sufferings.
Yet Delhi under the direction of a deeply prejudiced anti-Tamil South Block Sonia loyalists contributed to the greater tragedy of the Tamils after they were crushed under the boots of Sonia Delhi‘s friend, the Rajapakses. SL and Delhi began to publicly profess intimate friendship for each other from the time Rajapakses dropped hints of Delhi’s ‘in the loop’ collaboration in the SL crimes requiring the collaborators (Sonia and her loyalist South Blockers) to share in the guilt for the Mullivaykkal crimes. It is history that the SL ruling class hated the Indians more (from the 50’s onwards) derisively calling them ‘kallathoneys’ chained and dragged into barb wire fenced refugee camps.
The victims were TN Tamils then and Indra Gandhi’s response unlike Sonia’s was harsh which saw the beginnings of Delhi’s support for the Tamil struggle against oppression. Indra provided training and arms for the Tamil groups to fight SL oppression. Indra/Rajiv also authorised airdrops of food and other relief to break the cruel SL’s blockade of the North and East. Delhi then wasn’t concerned about specious arguments about SL sovereignty only applicable to countries that observed norms of civilised rule. Indra Delhi was a harsh critic of SL oppression not Sonia/UPA secular Delhi.
Indra’s Delhi diplomacy was tough on SL that the Tamil insurgency was assisted in setting up a de facto Eelam state in the North and East of SL. The armed insurgency kept the SL armed forces for years within their bases; the armed forces rarely ventured out patrolling and restrained from oppressing the SL Tamils, thanks to the armed resistance and an empathised leadership in Delhi. Likewise the Tamil resistance ensured that the SL navy was confined to naval bases and the harassment of the TN fishermen was unheard of until 2009. This is the consequence of Swapan like scribes urging that Delhi keeps SL engaged.
The turning point that brought the cooling off of support for the Tamil resistance was after the Tamil rebels resented IPKF attempting to reign in and/or disarm the Tamil resistance. Rajiv’s assassination in 1992 was an excuse of the South Block to instigate animosity between the Tamil resistance and Delhi. There was a period of the NDA rule in the 90’s when the rule of the Tamil resistance in the North and East was orderly and Delhi vowed to maintain a neutral position in the conflict.
Then began the UPA1 period when though diplomatically claiming neutrality in the conflict was illicitly arming the SL forces abandoning its NAM vision as a moral power and moving to crush the Tamil resistance and supporting SL using the Indian irregulars and the RAW to get rid of the resistance. The SL war against the Tamil resistance did not proceed smoothly, Sonia/South Block and Delhi only gave the pretence of being neutral, to keep DMK its partner happy. This lasted until Mullivaykkal when RAW intelligence worked behind the line of the Tamil resistance in support of the SL forces. Delhi began providing SL arms and intelligence that weakened the Tamil resistance lines and to Mullivaykkal.
In post Mullivaykkal Sonia continued SL appeasement vigorously (keeping engaged) whose Rajapakses played truancy with Delhi over the 13th Amendment. Even Modi in Chennai recently expressed unhappiness over the state of the Indo-SL relations and as a future NDA PM pointed to the need to re-assert Delhi’s legitimate regional power standing and an end to Delhi’s SL over-appeasement policies. Sonia and her South/Block loyalists still complain about a hateful vision of the Tamils and instead valued the association with the Rajapakses as more crucial than alienating TN Tamils for good to Sonia save and her loyalists over the SL crimes haunting the Sonia/Rajapakses.
Hence Sonia and her loyalist bureaucrats were prepared to overlook the Rajapakses’ snubs over implementing the Indo-SL 1987 Accord and belittling India regional power standing. Swapan acknowledges Delhi’s failure here abandoning India’s/Indra’s empathy for the Elam Tamils’ fight for their lives and Swapan media types clamour for a pure Sinhala rule throughout SL if needs be seek the support of Beijing -Islamabad-Colombo triangle to keep Delhi’s regional power aspirations in check.
SL threatening to use Colombo/Islamabad/Beijing axis as leverage in addition to using Delhi/Sonia/South Block’s ‘in the loop guilt’ diplomatically reduces drastically Delhi’s regional power standing in the international community that proposes to act on those SL crimes through the UNHRC. SL expects the China shield to protect SL from Delhi’s (not ever experienced before historically) pressure and accept its diminished role internationally. In view of SL’s obstinacy Swapan expects no Indian diplomat to play a role comparable to one Dixit that played in the 1980s to save Delhi from any criminality and demonstrate their loyality to Sonia. Sonia has already usurped PM Singh/Salman Kurshid’s role in foreign policy making especially in buying off paid scribes to portray living conditions in the North as good.
British PM David Cameroon after a brief interaction with the victims was able to expose the miserable conditions of the Tamils in the North to demand from the Rajapakses that he takes appropriate action to redress the harsh oppression the Tamils suffer. PM Singh to neutralise public’s awareness of the hardships that the Tamils’ pitiably plead for, that CHOGM deals with broader issues and not interfere in the affairs of any particular country ignoring the massacres and oppressive conditions cruelly created by the Rajapakses to deserve the harshest censure. Singh a de facto/ousted PM sadly failed to go public honestly for readers to know the reasons for Manmohan’s keenness to go to CHOGM and Delhi’s inaction on this issue. The Sonia factor is unlikely to seek a return to the Indra/NAM role to overcome the stubbornness of SL over the 13th Amendment is entirely due to the ‘in the loop’ collaboration of Sonia loyalists in the crimes under debate.
Unlike the meek PM Singh. David Cameroon has reaffirmed his standing as a real statesman to visit the traumatise North and with his candid comments condemned the Rajapakses crimes urging that redress should follow in earnest failing which international punitive measures has to be expected. The article CHOGM – POLITICAL PERSCTIVES-South block perspectives; could they save Sri Lanka from UNHRC initiatives’ explains the policy paralysis that Delhi still suffers from and the reasons why Delhi is hesitant to act in the SL case with the Gotabhaya’s the ‘in the loop’ warning hanging overhead for both the Rajapakses and Sonia loyalist bureaucrats.
Rajapakses seem to trifle human rights crimes and the consequences that would follow from international war crimes actions. According to a distinguished media spokesman CHOGM is an organisation bound by common values, democracy and respect for human rights foremost among them. The criminality action is bound to follow though by the time any concrete action is in place Sonia/South Block will be in the political wilderness and may face the consequences in a different capacity.
Swapan’s ..’the Indian PM attending the forthcoming CHOGM in Colombo or not is inconsequential..(but) ..SL entrapped Delhi into the nasty anti-Tamil crimes …hinting on the deep involvement of the Delhi South Block sectarians ‘in the loop’ planning of the crimes on the Tamils…The consequence, Delhi has to face up to the UNHRC initiatives for the ‘in the loop’ collaboration damaging to Delhi’s diplomatic standing. SL still believes that it has in place checks and balances to be able to pour cold water over Delhi’s regional role. Gothabhaya’s threat of sharing the guilt in SL crimes…weakens Delhi’s moral authority to play its historic NAM role…and acting to check media persons in the Hindu and other blatantly anti-Tamil media persons from running amok and traumatise the Tamils worldwide.