Activists of the Tamil National Socialist Party and Tamil Nationalist Liberation Movement were arrested when they tried to burn the flags of the two nations in front of Shastri Bhavan, which houses various Central government offices, police said.
The two outfits, in a release, alleged that despite repeated pleas from Tamil Nadu to pressurise Colombo for a ceasefire, the Indian government had not done enough to prevent the 'killings' of Lankan Tamils.
In Erode, four activists of two other pro-Lankan Tamil outfits -- Tamil Desiya Viduthalai Iyakkam and Tamildesa Poduvudamai Katchi -- also have been arrested from near the railway junction for burning national flags of the two countries.
The activists were arrested and partially burnt flags seized from them, police said.
It's highly regrettable that our national flag is burned by our own countrymen.Let them burn the Sri Lankan flag,if they think that burning a flag will reduce the sufferings of Lankan Tamils.It's the Lankan government which is involved in fight against LTTE which is a globally recognized terror organization.India has demanded that the Lankan government make sure that civilians don't suffer due to the war.India even asked the Lankan government to extend the ceasefire so that civilians could escape to safe zones.But from news reports it seems it's the LTTE which is using the Tamil population as human shields against the Lankan army.
The Lankan government has asked the UN,US and UK to mind their own business and not to interfere in their affairs when they asked for a prolonged ceasefire.When this is the situation,does the protesting pro-LTTE outfits of Tamil Nadu believe that the Lankan government will stop the offensive against the LLTE,especially when the LLTE is about to be defeated and Prabhakaran is about to be killed or caught?
Sri Lanka is a sovereign nation and it will not stop until it finishes off the LTTE which is a globally recognized terror outfit,which had caused a lot of bloodshed and mayhem.It's highly unfortunate that the innocent Tamil population and indeed all innocents in the fighting areas in Lanka is suffering because of the war.India has no control over the situation there and India is as helpless as those innocent civilians in the war front.
When this is the situation,our own countrymen burning our National Flag is really difficult to grasp.It shows that these people only think of themselves as LTTE-supporters first and not as Indians first.
Those who care for India and those who are sensitive to India's security and prosperity should be concerned by the below news item that appreared in timesofIndia.
China's declaration of support for the Sri Lankan government against the LTTE, apart from sticking out like a sore thumb in the eyes of the world, has further fuelled India's mortal distrust of its largest and most powerful neighbour. While India has a much more nuanced position over the issue owing to its domestic compulsions, an unfettered China is supporting Colombo and, in the process, authenticating India's fear about Beijing extending its influence in the Indian Ocean.
According to government sources, Beijing's support to Colombo cannot be viewed in isolation because it follows a series of initiatives aimed at influencing the Sri Lankan government. These include selling huge quantities of arms to Colombo last year and boosting aid almost five times to $1 billion. In fact, China is now the largest donor to Lanka. Its Jian-7 fighter jets, anti-aircraft guns and JY-11 3D air surveillance radars played a key role in the Sri Lankan military successes.
China came to rescue of Colombo after the US stopped direct aid to Sri Lanka because of its dismal human rights record. What's worse, said strategic affairs expert Brahma Chellaney, Beijing has also roped in its ally Pakistan for providing military assistance to Lanka. Pakistan's own economy is in tatters, but it has increased its annual military assistance to Sri Lanka to $100 million at Beijing's behest. It is also well known that its air force trained its Sri Lankan counterpart in precision-guided attacks.
"The Chinese are courting Sri Lanka because of its location in the Indian Ocean -- a crucial international passageway for trade and oil. Chinese engineers are currently building a billion-dollar port in the country's southeast, Hambantota, and this is the latest `pearl' in China's strategy to control vital sea-lanes of communication between the Indian and Pacific Oceans by assembling a `string of pearls' in the form of listening posts, special naval arrangements and access to ports,'' said Chellaney.
The Chinese are building a highway, developing two power plants and putting up a new port in the hometown of President Mahinda Rajapakse. Delhi is also feeling hard done-by by Beijing's support to Colombo over the issue of LTTE because it believes China is driving home an unfair advantage it has over India in the crisis. "Unlike in our case, there is no moral dimension to the crisis for China. We have to think about the humanitarian situation and conditions after the offensive is over. There is no domestic compulsion for China but our involvement is much more intricate,'' said a source.
China, in fact, continues to aggressively pursue its strategic interests by building ports in the Indian Ocean rim, including in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar. According to Chellaney, Beijing has sought naval and commercial links with the Maldives, Seychelles, Mauritius and Madagascar. "However, none of the port-building projects it has bagged in recent years can match the strategic value of Hambantota,'' said Chellaney.
china and pak are actively utilizing the current situation to their advantage.The pro-LTTE activists in Tamil Nadu is asking the Indian government to stop military aid to Lanka,which India has done to a certain extend.But then what about the influence China and pak are gaining in Sri Lanka by providing them huge cache of arms and all possible help in the Lankan fight against LTTE.Jayalalitha and the MDMK leader Vaiko is fighting the Lok Sabha election along with the communist parties in Tamil Nadu.Let them find out the opinion of the communist parties of India about the full scale and active military aid that China is giving Lanka.Do the communist condemn this?Jaya and Vaiko and indeed Karunanidhi and those who burned the Indian Flag should first of all see the ground realities.Even if India stop all aid and urges Lanka to immediately stop the war,they won't do it.Because they are getting all they need from China and pak.These two countries have dirty intentions and they are trying to gain influence in a country which India still views as a friendly nation.
Saying that there should be a separate nation for Tamils in Lanka and other acts like burning National Flags could be an election time rhetoric,but all this is doing irreparable damage to India-Lanka relationship and this in fact is reducing what ever influence India have on the Lankan government.India could have nudged the Lankan government for a respectable solution to the Tamil problem in Lanka once the current war is over.But as I said,this influencing power is getting diminished day by day by the highly rhetorical and unreal emotional atmosphere that is created by all political parties in Tamil Nadu.This is a very dangerous situation for India and for the Lankan Tamils..
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