ராமன் எத்தனை ராமனடி?
கருத்தாக்கவகை: தனது கருத்தினை உள்நுழைக்க அகப்படும் சந்தர்ப்பங்களைப் பயன்படுத்துதல்
Although RAMWatch has yet to check the historical events that The Hindu presented in the news item on EROS (Rajee) leader Shankar Rajee's death, one thing is very apparant in this news piece; The Hindu once again used another opportunity to remind the Indo-Lanka accord to its readers, and highlighted its point of view.
[The Hindu]
EROS founder member dead
By V.S. Sambandan
Tuesday, Jan 11, 2005
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Suresh Premachandran, the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) MP for Jaffna, said: "He relinquished the comfort of the western lifestyle, came to Sri Lanka and played a pioneering role in establishing Tamil resistance. He understood the Indian role in the Sri Lankan conflict and was close to the Indian establishment."
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[a note: With Shankar Rajee, recently Frontline ('Oct. 09 - 22, 2004 Volume 21 - Issue 21') had an answering_to_the_typical_The Hindu-Frontline_questionnaire interview. . The contents on insisting the Indian accord did not differ much from what one can read in the news piece on Rajee's death]
RAMWatch is interested in the news items and views of 1987 to see if (and how) the current editor of The Hindu (then solely the editor of Frontline) got involved in the Indo-Lanka Accord. RAMWatch would appreciate anyone who can prove the links on Mr. N. Ram's involvement in the Indo-Lanka Accord (if any).
{Frontline]
Volume 21 - Issue 21, Oct. 09 - 22, 2004
SRI LANKA: Of democracy and tolerance
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This went on till the 1987 Indo-Sri Lanka Agreement. I and the general Tamil leadership at that time believed, accepted and trusted the Indian leaders, particularly the late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, to resolve the Tamil problem through the Agreement and a Provincial Council system. We felt India would be the guarantor for its fair implementation. This is where the transformation started taking place.
I have gone on record saying that I do not to see a zero presence of the Indian Army in the island. I thought this would give the Tamils an experience in using federalism as a tool in resolving this issue. Of course, a big transformation took place when India announced that it was pulling out its troops. This was a decisive moment for Tamil national militants: to abandon guerrilla warfare - where terrorism also played a part, though not the only means - and join the democratic mainstream.
The Thimpu talks was perhaps the only time when the entire Tamil national movement was united in a single forum and we enunciated the Thimpu Principles.
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As far as RAMWatch has understood from the articles seen on the web, Mr. BRaman is another frequent commentator on Sri Lankan political issues, whose points of views can be looked as those of a Rajiv era high level opinionated administrator.
[South Asia Analysis Group]
Paper no. 1217
10. 01. 2005
THE TSUNAMI & THE LTTE
by B. Raman
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The LTTE is a ruthless terrorist organisation and Prabakaran was the most ruthless terrorist leader in the world. One need not shed any tears over his death, if he is really dead. I have been repeatedly writing that the Sri Lankan Tamils need an LTTE minus Prabakaran and that if the LTTE throws him out and gives up terrorism, India and Sri Lanka should be prepared to do business with it. Without the protective role of the LTTE, the Tamils would be at the mercy of the Sinhalese chauvinists. Statesmanship demands that the Sri Lankan leaders should work for such a denouement through special gestures to the Tamils and the other leaders of the LTTE at this hour of tragedy. The signs of insensitivity in the attitude of Chandrika Kumaratunge are unwise and dangerous and could further aggravate the feelings of alienation of the Tamils.
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While totally agreeing the above underlined statement reflects Mr. BRaman's point of view, RAMWatch takes this opportunity to point out to the readers for profiling a commentator (with the possible capacity to be an insider in Indian foreign policy making circles), who, most of the timem is overlooked as an analyst by many media organizations.
Read this piece together with the news and views coming from post-Tsunami Colombo based media and pro-eelam news reportings. As usual, RAMWatch leaves the readers to decide "the degree of separation between BRaman's piece and the Colombo/Eelam media News & Views."
More on Mr. BRaman's previous commentaries on Sri Lankan Politics, search SAAG.org, Rediff and The Hindu OR the archives of I ain't them.
கருத்தாக்கவகை: தனது கருத்தினை உள்நுழைக்க அகப்படும் சந்தர்ப்பங்களைப் பயன்படுத்துதல்
Although RAMWatch has yet to check the historical events that The Hindu presented in the news item on EROS (Rajee) leader Shankar Rajee's death, one thing is very apparant in this news piece; The Hindu once again used another opportunity to remind the Indo-Lanka accord to its readers, and highlighted its point of view.
[The Hindu]
EROS founder member dead
By V.S. Sambandan
Tuesday, Jan 11, 2005
//
Suresh Premachandran, the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) MP for Jaffna, said: "He relinquished the comfort of the western lifestyle, came to Sri Lanka and played a pioneering role in establishing Tamil resistance. He understood the Indian role in the Sri Lankan conflict and was close to the Indian establishment."
//
[a note: With Shankar Rajee, recently Frontline ('Oct. 09 - 22, 2004 Volume 21 - Issue 21') had an answering_to_the_typical_The Hindu-Frontline_questionnaire interview. . The contents on insisting the Indian accord did not differ much from what one can read in the news piece on Rajee's death]
RAMWatch is interested in the news items and views of 1987 to see if (and how) the current editor of The Hindu (then solely the editor of Frontline) got involved in the Indo-Lanka Accord. RAMWatch would appreciate anyone who can prove the links on Mr. N. Ram's involvement in the Indo-Lanka Accord (if any).
{Frontline]
Volume 21 - Issue 21, Oct. 09 - 22, 2004
SRI LANKA: Of democracy and tolerance
//
This went on till the 1987 Indo-Sri Lanka Agreement. I and the general Tamil leadership at that time believed, accepted and trusted the Indian leaders, particularly the late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, to resolve the Tamil problem through the Agreement and a Provincial Council system. We felt India would be the guarantor for its fair implementation. This is where the transformation started taking place.
I have gone on record saying that I do not to see a zero presence of the Indian Army in the island. I thought this would give the Tamils an experience in using federalism as a tool in resolving this issue. Of course, a big transformation took place when India announced that it was pulling out its troops. This was a decisive moment for Tamil national militants: to abandon guerrilla warfare - where terrorism also played a part, though not the only means - and join the democratic mainstream.
The Thimpu talks was perhaps the only time when the entire Tamil national movement was united in a single forum and we enunciated the Thimpu Principles.
//
------------------------
As far as RAMWatch has understood from the articles seen on the web, Mr. BRaman is another frequent commentator on Sri Lankan political issues, whose points of views can be looked as those of a Rajiv era high level opinionated administrator.
[South Asia Analysis Group]
Paper no. 1217
10. 01. 2005
THE TSUNAMI & THE LTTE
by B. Raman
//
The LTTE is a ruthless terrorist organisation and Prabakaran was the most ruthless terrorist leader in the world. One need not shed any tears over his death, if he is really dead. I have been repeatedly writing that the Sri Lankan Tamils need an LTTE minus Prabakaran and that if the LTTE throws him out and gives up terrorism, India and Sri Lanka should be prepared to do business with it. Without the protective role of the LTTE, the Tamils would be at the mercy of the Sinhalese chauvinists. Statesmanship demands that the Sri Lankan leaders should work for such a denouement through special gestures to the Tamils and the other leaders of the LTTE at this hour of tragedy. The signs of insensitivity in the attitude of Chandrika Kumaratunge are unwise and dangerous and could further aggravate the feelings of alienation of the Tamils.
//
While totally agreeing the above underlined statement reflects Mr. BRaman's point of view, RAMWatch takes this opportunity to point out to the readers for profiling a commentator (with the possible capacity to be an insider in Indian foreign policy making circles), who, most of the timem is overlooked as an analyst by many media organizations.
Read this piece together with the news and views coming from post-Tsunami Colombo based media and pro-eelam news reportings. As usual, RAMWatch leaves the readers to decide "the degree of separation between BRaman's piece and the Colombo/Eelam media News & Views."
More on Mr. BRaman's previous commentaries on Sri Lankan Politics, search SAAG.org, Rediff and The Hindu OR the archives of I ain't them.
1 comments:
//Without the protective role of the LTTE, the Tamils would be at the mercy of the Sinhalese chauvinists//
ராமனை நானும் படித்து வந்திருக்கிறேன். ஆனால் இந்த வரிகளுடன் இதில் அவர் என்ன சொல்கிறார் எனப்புரியவில்லை.
தொடர்ந்து எழுதுவதற்கு நன்றி!
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