Time to address the Fundamental Issue

I have always been against LTTE as i have seen it as a part of the problem and never a part of the solution, having said that i don't quite think that all is good in the island nation. Now is the time for foreign nations, especially India to play a part in bringing a political solution to the issue. One has to remember that the issue still exists and would require honest efforts from the Government of Srilanka to address the same and gain the confidence of the Tamil minority in the nation. The Srilankan government has achieved something very small by defeating the LTTE relative to what awaits them in the form of providing equal rights to all communities in their nation, they need to make the minorities feel them to be a part of every process in the country and only that can heal the wounds of many a decade.

Now that the LTTE has become a thing of the past, this would leave a few politicians high and dry as this has been a very vocal issue among the politicians in the state of tamil nadu. The issue was adopted by many groups in Tamil Nadu only expecting electoral dividends and were in a state of shock, post May 16th. The lesser it is said, the better it is about the so called tamil film fraternity which managed to capture the headlines for a few days for all the wrong reasons. At least now, i hope they get back to what they do better, film making.

The war has ended which has only cleared a confusion in the name of LTTE, the real issue remains firm on the ground which unless honestly addressed might gain strength to attain the magnitude of a global war. One strongly hopes that all necessary changes are implemented in the Srilankan political system which makes way for every Srilankan citizen to live in joy and peace which they have been deprived of for many years. Any amount of rational thinking, however emotional one might be, would only help us understand that violence is never a way to achieve anything constructive and history tells us that the doing away of the LTTE has taken us a few inches closer to the much needed peace in the land of Srilanka.

India along with other countries should do all it can, to ensure that justice prevails in the island nation and that amendments be made to the system that led to the ethnic conflict in the first place. A failure to do so, will lead to an insecure future to the whole of south Asia and will possibly rollback decades of world development.