08 May 2006

India Watches Helplessly As Sri Lanka Bleeds
Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai, India
Supplied note: "The latest paper of the Institute For Topical Studies, A-2/3, Bharathi Dasan Colony, K.K.Nagar, Chennai---600078, India, on the above subject is now available at the web site of the South Asia Analysis Group (SAAG), New Delhi, at [the URL below] - br."
Extract: "7. The ground situation in Sri Lanka is characterized by a state of de jure ceasefire and de facto fighting. Neither side wants to formally abrogate the ceasefire due to fears of adverse reaction from the international community. At the same time, neither side is prepared to observe the cease-fire strictly and refrain from violating it in order to hurt each other. [...] 9. India gives the impression of being a helpless spectator of these events, with very little influence either on the Rajapakse Government or the Tamils. Its failure to prevent Rajapakse from wriggling out of the commitments for a federal solution made by his predecessors with India's blessing and encouragement has not gone well with the Tamils. - b. raman."
[The writer is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India, and, presently, Director, Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai - ed.]
URL http://www.saag.org/papers18/paper1791.html
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the paper was not archived at the time of this abstract. However, in a few weeks time it will be available at web.archive.org/web/*/www.saag.org]
Link reported by: B. Raman (corde--at--vsnl.com)
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