Monday, June 24, 2013

Is India party to Sri Lanka’s refusal of power to the Tamils?

by  Jun 24, 2013
Is India party to Sri Lanka’s refusal of power to the Tamils?
Rajapaksa enjoys great popularity in the Sinhala dominated South: Reuters
Rajapaksa enjoys great popularity in the Sinhala dominated South: Reuters

The bitter voices against the provincial council election in the North of Sri Lanka, which is home to majority of the country’s Tamils, betray yet another treacherous design of the Mahinda Rajapaksa government to further marginalise Tamils and homogenise the country into a Sinhala Buddhist nation.
These voices, most of which appear to be state-sponsored, are also a ploy to renege on the Rajapaksa government’s promise to the world that it would devolve power to Tamils as part of the 13th amendment that it had agreed with India under the 1987 Accord.