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Indian Stalinists line up with national bourgeoisie on Sri Lanka’s Tamil issue

By V. Sivagnanan 
10 May 2012

The stand of India’s main Stalinist parliamentary parties on the question of Sri Lanka’s Tamil minority is based on defending the interests of the Indian bourgeoisie. On this issue, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) or CPM and the Communist Party of India (CPI) have lined up with New Delhi and the communal parties of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

A resolution on the “Sri Lankan Tamil issue” passed by the CPM’s 20th national congress, held in Kozhikode in early April, calls for “a political settlement based on the provision of autonomy and devolution of powers for the Tamil-speaking areas,” that is, a power-sharing arrangement between the island’s Sinhala, Tamil and Muslim elites for the north and east.

The CPM resolution also “urges the Indian government to make all necessary political and diplomatic efforts” for “[t]he full rehabilitation and resettlement of the Tamil people.” It calls on Colombo to conduct “an independent and credible enquiry into the human rights violations and to establish accountability.”        Full Story>>>