Critique Of The MARGA Colloquium On The Last Stages Of The War In Sri Lanka
By Jean-Pierre Page -August 31, 2014
Colloquium – Issues of Truth and Accountability; Narration III; The Last Stage of the War in Sri Lanka
I would like to share with you a few ideas in relation to the 3rd narrative of the last stage of the war in Sri Lanka.
I will try to make myself as clear as possible!
I don’t believe in this notion that it is the influence of the Tamil Diaspora that determines Washington’s foreign policy and that of its Western allies! And I think it is very wrong and dangerous to put all the Tamil Diaspora in one basket. Most Tamils I know outside this country do not support a separate State. They are not separatists, and they are not Terrorists.
If Sri Lanka is to formulate an offensive strategy rather than a defensive one, it should take all these into consideration!
Of course, the Tamil separatist forces outside do have relations with Washington and its allies, but these relations are determined by the national and geostrategic objectives of the US and its allies, as we have seen in Afghanistan, or now in Iraq, Syria and the Ukraine. For the West, when it suits their objectives, they are good Tamil Tigers and when it doesn’t, they are bad Tamil Tigers, like the good jihadists and bad Jihadists. It all depends on the circumstances. Today, the LTTE has been defeated, but tomorrow it can become useful again!
That is why I find most of the political comments and reflections in Sri Lanka very introspective. They are not concrete observations of the reality.
