MS (12 Dec. 2007)

The price for mindless exercise of "sovereignty" of the "majority over minorities" should naturally be UDI. It is time all nations learn in the 21st century that "all men are born equal and are entitled to equality in every respect" as the Balkan war and its aftermath demonstrate.

Those who violate the above principle with impunity ought to be dealt with as those dispensed justice in the Hague.

Sengodan.M (12 Dec. 2007)

The US and other Western Powers should explain why Eelam cannot become independent if Kosovo can. Even the NYT admits that Kosovo obviously cannot be under Belgrade's command. But how do they think differently of the Tamil N-E in Sri Lanka? I suppose Time will tell.

Anonymous (13 Dec. 2007)

Comparing eelam with Kosovo is a bad example. The politics of geography and history are world's apart. People speak of UDI. Any one can declare UDI tomorrow. Only a fool will do that without proper understanding of integrated world systems. It will be suicide. There is no independance, especially in t

he 21st century, without interdependance. The reality is, as we discuss and debate, people are being slaughtered. That has to be the priority. This blood letting must end. Serious dialogue must begin.

Varathar (13 Dec. 2007)

What exactly is meant by a serious dialogue? To go on bended knees and plead? In any case, who is going to initiate it and on what basis? Will it be on the basis of CFA which will mean restoring the status quo as at Feb 2002? Who speaks of UDI which at this stage will no doubt be suicidal. We have to go a long way for that.

Anonymous (14 Dec. 2007)

"Serious" in the sense of being serious enough to come up with solvable solutions than mere bidding time or engaging in diversionary tactics. Serious enough to understand should the situation were to go on ad infinitum ALL will be loosers. No winners, except a few who might be caught in some illusion.

Varathar (14 Dec. 2007)

Dear Anonymous, If the B-C pact was not a solvable solution,if the Dudley-Chelva pact was not a solvable solution, if ISGA was not a solvable solution, if PTOMS would not have led to a solution, what else will lead to a 'solvable solution'? Is it only 'Mahinda Chinthanaya'? Why not let your cat out of the bag?

Sengodan.M (14 Dec. 2007)

The politics of geography and history between Kosovo and Eelam cannot be any closer. In fact with the emergence of more and more new evidence History is more and more on the side of Eelam exploding the myths of the mahawansa stories; Geography of the 21st century is also proving more and more to be on the side of Eelam. It is only a matter of time before the world begins to accept Eelam as a reality. The is no need for a hasty UDI which in any case will have little more meaning at this stage.

Nakkeeran (28 Feb. 2008)

There are striking ethnic, language and religious parallels between Kosovo – Serbia and Thamil Eelam – Sri Lanka. Perhaps only the location/geography differs. In the case of Kosovo, President Slobodan Milosevic stripped Kosovo of its autonomy and used the military to drive 800,000 Albanian Muslims out. President Mahinda Rajapakse has buried the Ceasefire Agreement (CFA) and expelled Norwegian appointed Sri Lanka monitoring Mission (SLMM) out of the country. His sibling Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapakse who is a citizen of US has publicly vowed to kill Prabhakaran before his next birthday falling on November 26, 2008. He has rejected power sharing and instead wants to implement the 13th Amendment to the current unitary constitution which was rejected by Thamils 20 years ago. This is plain juvenile stupidity on his part.

President Mahinda Rajapakse’s government is plagued with rising cost of living, mounting corruption, colossal waste of public funds and serious lapses in governance. The rule of law continues to be undermined and the culture of impunity persists.

The current military campaign to capture territory controlled by the Liberation Tigers of Thamil Eelam (LTTE) has resulted in heavy civilian casualties, displacement of thousands of Thamil families and disrupted schooling of children. In opting for a military solution to the ethnic conflict Mahinda Rajapakse has spurned frantic appeals by India, US, EU and Japan to seek a political solution to the ethnic conflict. In both Kosovo and Thamil Eelam, majoritarian regimes resorted to brute military force against national minorities to impose dictated peace.

Justice was done to Kosovo by the US and EU first by expelling Serbian forces out of Kosovo and then by recognising Kosovo’s UDI. These countries should now apply the same principle in regard to Thamils by expelling the Sinhalese army from Northeast and then recognizing Thamil Eelam’s UDI. The 3 million Thamils of Ceylon have much more credible claim to statehood than Kosovo. Both past and recent history has shown that Thamils cannot co-exist with the majority Sinhalese- Buddhists who claim a mythical sole ownership of the Island. Sooner we secure the borders by expelling the Sinhala army of occupation, install an elected government with control over governance then we can take the final step of declaring UDI