Reader Rants 'n' Raves

Indian must solve its own problem. They can devolve power in Assam, Nargarland and so on. This problem is an economic problem. JVP and LTTE stood up because of this. They could give a discrimination facet, as minority stood up this time. Wipe out LTTE and give economic oppertunities to tamil people.

Re your Report on Sri Lanka needs to do more than 13th Amendment etc. This makes no sense now because the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord and 13th Amendment have been rendered dead as a doornail and buried by the present government. It has been legally done and being done administratively and even physically on the ground by ethnic cleansing of Tamils in border villages between the north and east and settlements of Sinhalas with active government support and services under military occupation. It is therefore difficult to understand what these so-called cloud cuckoo land talks between the Indian delegation and Sri Lanka are all about. It sounds like a circus act. That is what all the warring and killings in the killing fields of the north and east and gross human rights violations are all about under the guise of so-called ongoing "war on terror". India seems to be closing its eyes to ground realities and resorting to an appeasement foreign policy and going along with Sri Lanka playing for more time until genocide is made more complete. What is really needed is to support the UN for the right of the Tamil people to democratically exercise the "right of self-determination through a UN based and supervised referendum under international humanitarian law". This would be the most humane solution to a much vexed and debilitating civil ethnic, religious and land conflict rather than through a fascist sectarian approach as done hitherto.