LTTE is formed around late 1970's to protect tamil minority population from Srilankan Sinhalase people. I am not sure whether these tamilians have migrated from India or natives of ceylon or srilanka itself. But tensions between Sinhalese and Tamil started when British provided Freedom to Ceylon in 1948 and it got escalated over the period.
Problem with LTTE is, Indian and Tamilnadu governments trained these organization (Like US trained Taliban to retaliate Russians from Afghan) in 1980's till Rajiv Gandhi decided to stop it.
Main reason for training them is to protect the tamil population. India should have taken a bigger role in resolving the crisis at that time, instead chose a shorter more violent route.
Rajiv Gandhi, the then PM in 1987 sent IPKF - Indian Military (Indian Peace keeping force) to keep peace in srilanka between Srilankan military and LTTE.
LTTE claims, IPKF started acting arrogantly and there were lots of Human rights issues. What I heard from news papers and other sources, they raped tamil kids and women and the atrocities of IPKF were worse than Sinhala Military.
So LTTE decided to attack IPKF and all broke loose.
Even some justifies the assasination of Rajiv because of this issue.
Any ways, past is past. After 60 years of ethnic conflicts, now is the time for Srilanka to accept diversity and take Ceylon Tamils as part of their country and treat them equally. Now, LTTE is gone, But another XYZ organization might get formed (Violent or Non Violent) if people are not treated as human beings and race/colour/religion/caste are given more importance.
I am asking all the human being to think for a second and see what you are learning from Religion/Group/Caste etc. and use it for the constructive development of human being and not destruction.
Learn discipline from your religion, Learn Mutual respect to Human beings, Learn to agree others disagreement, Learn to love the world. After life in this world is so short, Fighting these conflicts and making it shorter. Is it worth it?
Also, Do not try to impose things on people, Make them embrace it. Do not marginalize people, Include them.
I am not here to Justifty LTTE or any other organization. These are formed with the help of some government or government polciies. I am from India, where Gandhi got us Independence through non violence and not Sardhar vallabhai Patel, and I am for Non Violence principals of getting things done. Let us try to get it done with Non violence...
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I agree with you. The means LTTE took were not right ( nor does killing our Prime Minister ) - but their cause was to get equality & self respect for a minority community. I hope the majority ( Sinhalese Govt ) treat the minority as their equals and act magnanimously.
Yes. I agree. Based on their past actions, I seriously doubt Sinhalese Government.
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