The Conflict in Sri Lanka: Ground Realities - Ilankai Tamil Sangam

aircraft, the world has chosen to look aside unlike as in Bosnia,
Kosovo and Rwanda, and in Palestine’s struggle against the state
of Israel.
On the contrary, the United States has banned the Tigers from
their fund raising activities and vigil over them has been tightened
in Australia, Britain, France, Switzerland and Germany. Such
a policy has only driven the Tigers to the wall and to more
determined pursuit of their guerrilla warfare. In the wake of such
banning, the government of Sri Lanka has received a positive pat
on the shoulder that their policy of decimating the Tamils is right.
These international constraints have done little to undermine the
fact that a vast majority of the Tamils recognise the LTTE as
their saviours, who have never swerved in their commitment for
a state of their own.
Conclusion:
In the present scenario it is doubtless that India will intervene
to separate the combatants and the only expectation will be that
India will take the side of the LTTE in deference to pressure from
Tamil Nadu and sections of the Hinduvata groups within the
subcontinent. The question of imposing a federal solution will
possibly be side-stepped and that which the Sinhalese mindset
most feared will come into fruition. Thus by their own volition
and unwillingness to compromise and be less intransigent, the
Sinhalese Buddhist extremist with their leadership have laid
Eelam at the doorstep of the LTTE. It is reported that the U.S.
State Department has in a map of the world for the twenty first
century, marked Sri Lanka as two states. That fate awaits the
island mainly because of the obduracy of the Sinhalese middle
class.
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