by G Pramod Kumar Mar 16, 2012
by G Pramod Kumar Mar 16, 2012
Chennai: The shocking damning of Tami Nadu MPs by the Sri Lankan high commissioner to India, Prasad Kariawasam, and his subsequent apology is symptomatic of the hardline Bush doctrine that the ruling establishment of the island nation has adopted to smother dissent.
Chennai: The shocking damning of Tami Nadu MPs by the Sri Lankan high commissioner to India, Prasad Kariawasam, and his subsequent apology is symptomatic of the hardline Bush doctrine that the ruling establishment of the island nation has adopted to smother dissent.
Whether it is about allegations of killing innocent civilian Tamils, executions of opponents and large-scale disappearances, the government has maintained the stand that “if you are not with us, you are against us.”
Perhaps Kariawasam was also emboldened by India’s ambivalent stand on the UNHRC resolution against his country when he said that Tamil MPs were sympathetic to LTTE. According to the The Indian Express, the high commissioner said that the “friendship” of some of the DMK, AIADMK MPs and MDMK’s Vaiko with the LTTE may have led them to carry on a campaign against Sri Lanka. “If they are sympathetic to those unrealistic ideas of separatism, then they might have been (part of the campaign).Full Story>>>
Sri Lankan high commissioner to India Prasad Kariawasam. AFP
