USA has surreptitious intentions on Sri Lanka as it had on Iraq and Afghanistan earlier and spear heading a resolution against Sri Lanka on human rights violation during war time to Geneva shows its design otherwise arm twisting tactics to achieve through this forum. India does not need to support or oppose or subscribe to the motion.  The world knows what happened to the Sikhs in the aftermath of Indira Gandhi’s assassination in 1984 and what is happening in Kashmir since 1995. Were not there human rights violations in both these happenings?

India has definitely concerns over the innocent killings not as Tamil people but as human beings. She has profoundly revealed its sympathy over the killings time and again in various forums to the island government. Sri Lanka is not an enemy country to India and the internal civil war lasted many years against the separatist organizations is an issue to their local governance. India cannot interfere into the sovereignty of other nation, in spite of knowing,  India wanted to help both the parties but one party infiltrated into our territory and assassinated our former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. Everyone knows that help crossed the Arabian Sea from coastal towns of Tamil Nadu during two regimes of Dravidian Party Rule.  India was not ignorant that time but monitored the developments which ultimately turned against our own nation in elimination of our leader who wished to bring an ever lasting peace to the island.

In view of the past history, India cannot admit its support to the resolution against Sri Lanka in Geneva. India should not go after US in this regard. It is not wise to vote in favour of US but remain as a silent spectator.

V.Natarajan

E-mail: v_natarajanin@yahoo.co.in