This news is upsetting for several reasons as there are many Sri Lankans who selflessly defended the nation with their own funding in the halls of Geneva against the lying machine of the LTTE Diaspora inspite of successive Governments offering only lukewarm assistance.
For three decades India and the West between each other manipulated the LTTE against Sri Lanka. That was phase 1 of their plan and then came phase 2 which meant the need to remove the ground force of the LTTE and that successfully came to a conclusion using the Sri Lankan armed forces.
Phase 3 was to tie down Sri Lanka to accountability issues, weaken its economy and bring in the LTTE Diaspora to solidify the division of Sri Lanka temporarily until the West-manipulated Diaspora countered Indian presence in the North with their “investments” and used that as a platform for the West to commence the balkanising project in India.
India for its part is not naïve to these developments but wishes not to collaborate with untrustworthy Sri Lankan Governments and are now using Sri Lanka’s economic crisis to sign every possible pact to give India leverage and over Sri Lanka. Where do we Sri Lankans fit into the scheme of things?
Large influx
The Tamil Diaspora are those who set off overseas prior to the 1980s while the large influx occurred after 1983 riots.
Ever since London became the international headquarters of the LTTE and after numerous offices were opened in other parts of the world to carry out LTTE propaganda campaigns and fund raising, the number of Tamils began to increase. The influence they exerted using their numbers enabled them to get politicians on their side.
India says Sri Lankan Tamils are their brothers and sisters. Then explain why Tamils get on to boats and flee not to India but to Western climes?
If Sri Lankan Tamils choose not to relocate to Tamil Nadu where Tamils are supreme, it is also understandable why LTTE Diaspora groups are also not in Tamil Nadu but in the best of Western capitals.
This is a good clue to foretell the silent nod of approval they have and explains why Western Governments who are well aware LTTE fronts illegal activities in their own turf as well as across Western nations, chose to turn a blind eye and indirectly support them.
So it is important to understand that so long as LTTE fronts are stationed in Western capitals, they are inadvertently influenced towards Western agendas. This is something India would have also taken stock off.
While India nurses ambitions to create a greater Tamil Eelam encompassing Tamil Nadu and parts of Sri Lanka, the use of “Tamil Eelam” is only as an excuse to justify Indian interventions on behalf of “Tamils”.
Indian affiliates
Tamils who live in the North understands the treatment they suffer currently from Indian affiliates stationed in the North. Thus, they know very well what they will be in for if and when India takes over the area.
So, the question is – is the West positioning LTTE fronts in North claiming to help a cash-strapped Government simply to put a plug to India’s fast-paced presence in the North?
Are LTTE Diaspora investments a ‘cover’ for West in the North?
To answer this, one needs to know more about the LTTE Diaspora. The reference to LTTE Diaspora as against Tamil Diaspora is that the Tamil Diaspora does not have the “funds” to “invest” nor do they have the clout to negotiate without being blocked by LTTE Diaspora heads.
The majority of these Diaspora fronts openly campaign feigning “human rights” and other charitable causes, were quick to set up shop when the signs foretold the end of LTTE.
The majority of these initially were functioning underground. Just as the political wing of the LTTE was formed in 2001 immediately after 9/11 and the war on terror, the LTTE Diaspora quickly set up fronts and were given the slogans “war crimes” “genocide” as themes to attack the Sri Lankan Government.
Notice how Western Governments and UN entities shy away from taking action against the LTTE or any of its crimes. All efforts are steered to bend the Government to its knees and force it to weaken internal legislative, judicial systems on the guise of ‘accountability’ while also humiliating the national army in whatever ways possible.
This aspect of the modus operandi has served to weaken the armed forces and diminish its confidence and morale. So the Security Forces have been neutralised.
Cost of living
The people have been neutralised in many ways by weighing the cost of living to unbearable heights making the defenders of the nation put their families before protecting their nation.
While external elements would have played their role, every politician in Parliament and their parties have also been co-opted to bring Sri Lanka to this status where we are all watching as bits and pieces of Sri Lanka are being given away on a platter with little or no objections.
Tamils can forget about Eelam under India/LTTE Diaspora or the West while Sinhalese better forget about Sinhalese nationalism under any of the politicians and political parties in Parliament.
So now enter the new heroes – LTTE Diaspora bringing their dollars and pounds to “invest” in Sri Lanka. Would these foreign-passport holding groups rich from their illegal and legal activities overseas be so concerned about the people living without gas, electricity, fuel, kerosene and milk powder that they want to come to help?
If so, why didn’t they look after the lower strata of LTTE families living in the thick Vanni jungles who had their children kidnapped and turned into child soldiers. These families continue to live in abject poverty.
Why didn’t the LTTE Diaspora send money to the refugee camps immediately after the terror ended. We saw a Canadian Parliamentary group declare over a press briefing that so much of money and goods had been sent from Canada but when they visited sites they could not see anything reaching the poor.
Why didn’t they help offer jobs to the rehabilitated LTTE terrorists who surrendered to the Sri Lanka army? Why have they not sponsored a single former child soldier’s education? So, forgive us for being surprised that these same groups now wish to “invest” in Sri Lanka unless there is a catch.
Diaspora groups
Given that their patrons in the West are now preparing for phase 3 – it is obvious that the presence of Diaspora groups as “investors” provide a better cover than the West’s representatives landing to set up shop.
Reinforcements will come with time but it is important that we understand that to balance India’s presence in the North and the East, the West are using the LTTE Diaspora until subtly they will work on their eventual plan to balkanise India.