Sankara
What do you say about the ongoing Sri Lankan genocide against the Tamils? Is that not the state terrorism? They may not be freedom fighters for us but for the oppressed Tamils they were and they are.

Raising a war against the cruel state has always been termed as terrorism. But if you look at history nothing has been achieved with non violence and you always have to be militant for snatching your rights from the ruling classes. Some time you succeed and some time you get the failure as with LTTE.

Dear Andy,
There is no doubt that genocide is taking place in Sri Lanka. Instead of taking concrete steps to stop the genocide our politicians are adoring the LTTE chief who is using the human shield to protect himself and wage war against the lankan forces

Every Indian condemns the murder of Rajiv Gandhi. But why can’t we accept that it was the result of wrong foreign policy. This time LTTE has gone very weak and is not in a position to influence the India-Sri Lanka relations, it doesn’t mean that we should ignore the cause of Tamils.

@Sankaranarayanan Vaidyanathan:

In India any thing can happen as long as the people are passive and politicians are unscrupulous. If circumstances warrant they may say that a dormant terrorist could be inside our Father of the nation.

You nailed it! I can’t agree more. And the cliche politics makes strange bedfellas notwithstanding, I am really amused to see why Karunanidhi was not condemned by Sonia Gandhi whose husband was killed by a suicide bomber sent by the man whom Karunanidhi doesn’t see as a terrorist.

You position over the LTTE as a terrorist organisation, especially comparing it with the Al Queda and LeT reveals that you have not gone deep into the roots of each of these outfits. While I don’t subscribe to the views of people in politics, I would like to remind here that even the writing the LTTE on the wall as a terrorist group had plenty of political mileage than any other. Whilst I too don’t justify a violent mean to a fair cause, in the particular case of Tamils’ issue in Sri Lanka, if we could recall the history, it was only after the failure of non-violence that the war was chosen.

Although there is no blanket solution for an intricate issue like the one in Sri Lanka, views like the ones presented by you don’t help the solution of the issue either, instead polarize and make people indifferent about a burning issue facing the humanity this month.

Mento, Hyderabad