Observing that the decisions taken by the LTTE at crucial junctures of their struggle were done without a political vision for future...!!!

lack of political vision
18 Nov 2009 07:33:29 AM IST

CHENNAI: Observing that the decisions taken by the LTTE at crucial junctures of their struggle were done without a political vision for future, Chief Minister M Kar­unanidhi on Tuesday charged that the Tigers’ call for boycotting the 2005 pres­idential elections in Sri Lanka had resulted in the present crisis.


“Who can understand our inexpressible pain as we are weeping in silence now pondering over the after-effects of the LTTE’s decision to boycott call for 2005 presidential elections which defeated Ranil Wickramasinghe ?,” Karunanidhi asked in his heart-rending letter to the DMK cadre. Apparently, he was referring to the defeat of LTTE by Lankan army and the death of its leader V Prabhakaran. (It may be recalled that boycott of elections by Tamils gave Mahinda Rajapakse an opportunity to become the President. Ranil Wickramasinghe had promised that if elected, he would initiate talks with Tigers and that never happened.)

Referring to the statement of former Lankan Prime Minister Wickramasinghe that the LTTE chief was also responsible for the after effects of the war between the Lankan army and Tigers, he said Prabhakaran had always failed to chalk out their war strategy keeping in mind the future needs.

Karunanidhi also recalled the sibling rivalry among the warring Tamil groups in Lanka had led to the killing of many warriors for the cause of Tamils. The death toll due to LTTE’s wrong decisions include Mathiah, TELO Sri Sabarathinam, Padmanabha and his ten associates, Amirthalingam, Yogeswaran, Manomaster alias Panchalin­gam, Kulasekaram Devasegaram, Neelan Thiruchelvam and many others.

“I am not saying all these now to level any charge. Due to sibling rivalry, we have killed ourselves. We have failed to chalk out our strategy without weighing our strength and that of the opponent. And as a result, innumerable Tamils including women and children have lost their lives while thousands had to leave their home land and lang­uish in refugees camps,” he observed.

“The LTTE had continuously disregarded our advice to use the wisdom while dealing with the freedom struggle…instead, they gave importance only to the valour and they also outrightly rejected an opportunity to find a solution to the ethnic crisis through a democratic means,” the CM pointed out.

The trigger

What prompted the CM to write his latest letter to his party cadre on Lankan Tamils? Three days ago, pe­rsonalities from all walks of life relea­sed a compilation of poems titled Eelam: Moun­athin Vali, sharing the agony of the Lankan Tamils in the recent war in the island nation. Karunanidhi’s letter titled who would know nam moun­athin vali (unexpressible pain) that we are undergoing for the Lankan Ta­mils? seems to be his response to it.

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