Krishna to visit Sri Lanka
COLOMBO: External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna is scheduled to make an official visit to Sri Lanka from November 25 to 27 for bilateral talks.
According to diplomatic sources, the focus of the would be rehabilitation of the nearly three lakh Tamil civilians displaced during the war between the LTTE and Sri Lankan forces and the need to move beyond resettlement and towards a political solution to the ethnic conflict.
India has been involved in a big way in resettlement and rehabilitation of the displaced civilians and reconstruction in the war ravaged Northern Province.
Besides revival of the destroyed railway lines and roads, India is helping Colombo upgrade the KKS port and Palali airport in the Jaffna Peninsula.
Besides calling on Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa, Mr. Krishna will inaugurate the Indian consulates in Jaffna and Hambantota. They are in addition to the existing Consulate at Kandy to cater to the Indian-origin Tamils in the tea estates.
Ahead of the visit, a memorandum of understanding has been signed for a pilot project for construction of 1,000 houses for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Northern Sri Lanka.
The MoU is a follow up to a commitment made by India to construct 50,000 houses for IDP rehabilitation during Mr. Rajapaksa’s visit to India in June.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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Will the Sri Lankan courts issue a warrant of arrest of this senior representative of the Government of India which stands accused of war crimes in the North and East of Sri Lanka under the auspices of installing “peace” in the form of the IPKF intervention?
A similar warrant of issued in Madras recently for the arrest of a senior GOSL Tamil Cabinet Minister who was accompanying the Sri Lankan President on a visit to India.
The British brought to SL hundreds of thousands of Tamil labourers from India to work on their tea estates. These Indian Tamils have now multiplied several fold. They were at first stateless. Indira Gandhi signed an agreement to take back a percentage of these stateless Indian Tamils. But she re-negged on her deal. It was SL government that eventually granted them SL citizenship, built houses, schools and gave other amenities. India did very little to help. I see very little point in their establishing a consulate in Kandy for the estate Tamils, except to exercise their hegemony over us. Afterall, these Indian Tamils are now Sri Lankans. So what is the point of having consulates for them in Kandy and elsewhere? We should insist that this consulates should be closed down immediately. We should also insist that India help substantially the former stateless Indian Tamils by compensating SL government with substatial grants to help better the lives of these former Indian Tamils, for having re-negged on her agreement to take them back. Furthermore. there should be no Indian consulates in Jaffna and Hambantota. For what? There are no Indian Tamils or Indian citizens in these provinces. This Indian interference is worse than imperialist West interference. India is actually our enemy. I am happy they are struggling with a huge terrirst problem they are unable to resolve. While we resolved our terrorist problem, caused by Indira Gandhi, India has a worse problem now. India should never be given a permanent place in the UN Security Council. I am happy we have good and loyal friends in China and Russia to support us against imperial West. India pretends to be our friend but she is in actual fact our enemy. She is allied with the West against China and Russia.
Three hearty cheers to Mr Dias; in this rare occasion, I agree with you on every fact.
Indians are one of the most deceitful and selfish persons in the world. they have ruined the future of 4 million Tamils in Sri Lanka because of their selfishness.
They have committed crimes against the SL tamils to cover up corruption in the Rashtirapati Bhavan; eg Bofors Scandal.
Under the liberalised economic systems in Sri Lanka, the corrupt, deceitful and selfish Indians have grabbed large proportions of SL’s national wealth.
Now, it is the new colonialsm; they intend to establish Consulates in critical poinst for monitoring and spying. I am sure RAW will have its representatives in Hambantota and in Jaffna.
Suggest GOSL support the diaspora tamils in taking the Indians to Hague for crimes against humanity by the IPKF. At the same time, Hon Mr Krishna should be arrested when he visits Hambantota to face war crime and spying charges.
Good on you, Nicholas, at last; your thoughts are rational.