LTTE ideology defeated militarily, politically

Lakshmi de Silva

The extremist ideology of the LTTE is defeated militarily as well as politically as the politicians of South India who supported the LTTE suffered defeat in the General Elections that concluded last week, former Deputy Sri Lankan High Commissioner in Chennai and senior journalist S. Piyasena said.

The most vigorous supporter of Prabhakaran in Tamil Nadu State Vaiko a.k.a. Kopalaswamy Sivakasi and Jayalalithaa Jeyaram were defeated at the Indian Elections, he said.

“Sivakasi was an extremist. Even his name he thought his original Y. Gopalaswami was not good enough as there was no G in the Tamil alphabet. He insisted that it should be Kopalaswami, and that is why he was called Vaiko,” he said. “He displayed Prabhakaran’s photograph in to the election campaign. He published huge photographs and cutouts with their pictures together,” Piyasena said.

Vaiko was one of the members who did not condemn the assassination of Premier Rajiv Gandhi and he tried to portray that the killing of Rajiv Gandhi was not executed by the LTTE. Even Anton Balasingham admitted that it was a colossal blunder of the LTTE.

Finally, when Jayalalitha who did not support the ideal of Tamil Eelam thought she too could join the bandwagon of the Eelam and claimed “give me 40 seats and I will give you Eelam and I will support to form any Government that helps Sri Lankan Tamils to establish a homeland of their own.” But all predictions from of all pundits in West and India were thrown out of the window. The biggest casualty was Vaiko Sivakasi.

The Tamil Nadu Election was very tough at the beginning but with the achievements of the Army in the battlefront and the day of the election the people of Tamil Nadu realized that Prabhakaran’s days were numbered, he added.

“This will open the eyes of the Sri Lankan people.

The average voter in Tamil Nadu does not support the idea of a separate State in Sri Lanka.

They are aware that the Indian oriented Tamils who migrated to the island in the 19th and 20th Centuries are not living in the dream homeland but with the Sinhala people in the island. Tamil migrants in Australia, USA and Europe have been very supportive of Prabhakaran to form an Eelam. But 99 percent of these Tamil migrants are so-called refugees from the North and hardly any migrants from Tamil Nadu joined these vicious campaigns.