Open Letter to LTTE Leadership

Political Leadership

Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam

Tamil Eelam

Dear Sirs,

As a staunch supporter of your national liberation movement for many years, I have been very perturbed by the state of affairs in the on-going confrontation with the Sri Lankan racist state. I believe that there is too much rhetoric on the part of the Tiger leadership so much so there is a lot of confusion as whether the Tigers are making tactical or strategic calculations in its war with the Sri Lankan state. Some of the spokespersons of your movement seem rather pre-occupied with the terms of the Ceasefire Agreement (CFA), even after the Sri Lankan armed forces have blatantly and deliberately breached it, for example the incursion into the eastern territory and moving into Sampoor, held by the LTTE for some time. Although I do understand that the LTTE vacated Sampoor, for purely tactical reasons, the rhetoric emanating from some of the spokespersons sounds like they are appealing too much to the international community to restore the status-quo ante. Similarly, the LTTE in its discussions with the Sri Lankan Monitoring Mission (SLMM) seems to have stated that it would go for the peace talks provided that both the parties in the conflict return to the CFA, in others, words the Sri Lankan armed forces vacating Sampoor. Whether or not the LTTE really thinks that the Sri armed forces would honour the CFA remains to be seen, but the seize of Sampoor has fully capitalized by the Sri Lankan establishment as a major victory for the Sinhalese. In the euphoria created in the south, there is make-believe imagination that the LTTE has been soundly thrashed and that military option is the best answer response to the LTTE. Even the so-called UNP has jumped on to this bandwagon. The impression created that LTTE banks on the international community to restore the status-quo ante creates a serious problem for the Tamil Diaspora, a formidable support base for the Tamil national liberation movement.

A more serious aspect of the inaction and confusion emanating from the LTTE leadership concerns the daily abductions and killings of innocent Tamils particularly in the north and the east, a genocidal work of the Sri Lankan armed forces and the traitorous Tamil paramilitary groups. Even in the days when Traitor Karuna was part of the leadership, he had remarked on numerous occasions that next war with the Sri Lankan state would start in Colombo. Karuna has defected to the other side, but unless and until the LTTE targets military and other Sinhala installations, it would be difficult to stop the killings of innocent Tamils. Remember, it was only after the LTTE devastating attack on the Katunyake airport that the Sri Lankan state was brought to its knees and subsequently agreed to the Norwegian brokered ceasefire in 2002. Whether the next round of peace talks will materialize or not, it not important for the LTTE. What is important is for the leadership to reduce the killings of innocent Tamils, and this could only be done not by appealing to the opportunistic and irresponsible international community, but by undertaking swift and strategic operations. Unless this is done, more and more Tamils are going to be targeted and bumped of.

It is not that I believe that the present conflict should be resolved by force, but unfortunately with no help from the international community, the Tamil national liberation movement has no other option. The longer the LTTE waits for some kind of benign intervention, more Tamils are going to be killed. I know it not an easy matter for the LTTE to launch a full-scale war, but the fact remains that war been thrust on Tamils both in the north and east. If the capture of Sampoor is not the result of a racist aggression into Tamil areas, then I do not know how to define wars anymore. But what gets on my nerves is that fact that the LTTE leadership keeps on harping on the CFA and the return to normalcy. There is no normalcy in parts of Tamil Eelam, what is happening is a systematic attempts by the Sinhala racist state to encroach, capture and eventually to subjugate Tamil traditional areas under its control. While this remains a daydream for the racist establishment, the Tamil national liberation movement cannot take things for granted.

By now it should be clear to the LTTE that the international community in the aftermath of 9/11 basically, if it could, wants to go for its destruction. Of course, such a course of action is not an easy matter when it controls nearly 80 percent of Tamil areas. This could explain why some of the major players in the international community have refused to condemn the actions of the Sri Lankan state in its war against Tamils. Abductions and killings of Tamil, aid workers and others have been glossed over on the grounds that the Sri Lankan state is fighting a 'terrorist' machinery. This is the line adopted by the USA first and subsequently by other terrorist states like the Sri Lankan establishment in its so-called war against `terrorists`.

While tactical and strategic thinking requires the LTTE to engage with multiple actors in finding a decent solution for Tamils, the fact remains it simply cannot wait for the international community to act. The international will never act. Under the present circumstances, there is thinking that the Sri Lankan armed forces could take on the LTTE and possibly defeat it. Such a euphoria has emerged after the Sri Lankan forces had captured the LTTE's stronghold of Sampoor. Now if this is kind of thinking that is going to determine the perceptions of the international community, then the LTTE has to do some serious thinking of what it is going to do next. Whatever the developments, the Sinhala racist state would continue to target and kill Tamil civilians. This is the urgent matter for the LTTE to consider and act without much delay.

Thank You

Dr. Chandra Bose

www.TamilCanadian.com

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