The Tamils and India’s foreign policy games

An interview with Varatharajah Perumal

April 30, 2015, 12:00 pm 

Talking of the international dimension, back in the 1980s, the reason why India started supporting the Tamil militants was because India didn’t like Sri Lanka’s foreign policy under the J.R.Jayewardene government. Had Mrs Sirima Bandaranaike been in power at that time, the Tamil militatnts would not have got any help from India. Today once again, the Indians are interfering in the internal affairs of Sri Lanka in order to impose their foreign policy on Sri Lanka. The excuse they use for this is the Northern Tamil community. For example, when Narendra Modi came to the Sri Lankan parliament and talked about going beyond the 13th Amendment, he was doing so on behalf of the Northern Tamils. There is a huge Indian Tamil population in Sri Lanka and Modi does not give a twit about them because they can’t be used in India’s foreign policy games.

The Tamils and India’s Foreign Policy Games by Thavam Ratna