Sri Lanka's beleaguered Tamil community deserved better from Tamil Nadu. As the West gets hyper to know what it can do to end the killings of innocent civilians in the conflict and assist their flight from the war zone, election-bound Tamil Nadu is obsessed with street protests.
A political class leading a state of 70 million Tamils, more than three times the population of Sri Lanka, seems to be crippled, unable to think beyond the mundane denunciations and name calling.
The once formidable Tamil Tigers, who for long enjoyed sanctuary in Tamil Nadu, are now left with a just sandy coastal strip in Mullaitivu district. Colombo has vowed to crush the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and net, dead or alive, its elusive leader Velupillai Prabhakaran, who has had longstanding links with many political players in Tamil Nadu.
Sri Lanka troops capture LTTE's defence barrier
Text: M R Narayan Swamy/ IANS
Image: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi during his indefinite fast in support of his demand for immediate ceasefire in the Sri Lankan army's offensive against the LTTE, in Chennai on Monday, April 27. (Copyright PTI. Unauthorised reproduction is prohibited.)
