{"id":570,"date":"2009-06-06T08:56:35","date_gmt":"2009-06-06T08:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shekharkapur.com\/newblog\/?p=570"},"modified":"2009-06-06T08:56:35","modified_gmt":"2009-06-06T08:56:35","slug":"the-humanitarian-problem-in-sri-lnka-and-the-threat-to-tamil-nadu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shekharkapur.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/the-humanitarian-problem-in-sri-lnka-and-the-threat-to-tamil-nadu\/","title":{"rendered":"The Humanitarian problem in Sri Lnka and the threat to Tamil Nadu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank God it&#8217;s over, must be the answers to all the prayers for the people trapped in the final moments of the war in Sri Lanka.  And while all the world clamors for investigations into terrible human rights abuses on both sides of the war, the question that one must must ask is that in a war that lasted over a quarter of a century, where was the world then ? Civilians were dying all the time.<br \/>\nDoes that mean that slow death is much more acceptable than sudden death ?  Or do we live in a word that cannot pay attention to anything unless it is high drama and melodramatic ? And is it really over ?<br \/>\nSeeds of resentment and memories of horror over twenty five years do not go away easily.  The Sri Lankan government will have to embrace its Tamil people with compassion and resolve. Or the call for a separate Tamil nation will not go away easily.<br \/>\nAnd the LTTTE is still a force. I have come across fierce support for the LTTE amongst  Tamilians in suburbs Paris and in the US, where a lot of the people came as refugees from the conflict.  There is also support in Tamil Nadu itself.  There is danger of the fight for a separate Tamil Nation now being nurtured in India in Tamil Nadu itself and expect the politics of Tamil Nadu to turn a blind eye to it, or even covertly support it.<br \/>\nWith the Talibanization of Pakistan, the conflicts on our eastern borders, India can ill afford another separatist movement on it&#8217;s southern borders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank God it&#8217;s over, must be the answers to all the prayers for the people trapped in the final moments of the war in Sri Lanka. 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