Sri Lanka in the middle of a civilisational conflict

Abstract

It could be surmised as just a coincidence that the news about Buddhists and Muslims clashes in Burma were in the global newspapers and on the same day Tamil Nadu Assembly passed a resolution about India playing a role through UN for a referendum on Tamil Eelam in Sri Lanka.

The conflicts between Buddhists and Muslims are getting accentuated in Thailand and southern Thailand insurgency is linked to Islamic groups supposedly facilitated by Malaysian Government or some sections of it.

The Sri Lankan Conflict came to an end in 2009 with the death of LTTE leader Prabhakaran and the defeat of the terror outfit — it is categorised as terror outfit by India / USA and other countries. But the large diaspora of Sri Lankan Tamils has in its fold, LTTE sympathisers. This diaspora essentially is an offshoot of the more than two decades old conflict and a substantial number of Sri Lankan Tamils went to Europe/USA and Canada and Australia as refugees. The terrorist organisation also accumulated billions of dollars of resources by taking a percentage of earnings of the sympathisers and also by arms and drug running all over the world. It was also known as a ruthless organisation which killed large numbers of mild-mannered Tamil intellectuals. The Sri Lankan Tamil world lost a great many eminent persons due to this terror organisation. The assassination of Rajiv Gandhi is well-known but not much is known about the organisation’s murders of respected Tamil figures starting with Duraiappa, Mayor of Jaffna in 1975. Read more at: https://rvaidya2000.com/2013/03/30/sri-lanka-in-the-middle-of-a-civilisational-conflict/