The LTTE is no more. The war against terror has been long won. But Sri Lanka is yet to ensure devolution of political power to the country’s Tamil minority.
We have to thank a Sri Lankan scholar who must remain unnamed for reminding India that it has an unfinished task in Sri Lanka: That of helping the Tamils secure political devolution through a negotiated settlement for sustainable peace. It’s a position with which the Sri Lankan Government was always in accord. The civil war is over, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam is no more, and yet a political solution to the national question appears only remotely possible.
