Look at the callous way SM Krishna replies.
Here you find an ethnic community wiped out in a ruthless manner.
India has responded to similar situations like this, say Bangladesh, to such an extent that it went the whole hog to carve out a country-note that the people of Bangladesh were Bengalis and Calcutta would have been up in arms if India had kept quiet!.
India never bothered about the ‘relationship with other countries’ including the US in this case!
Either India is scared of SriLanka playing the China card or it has something to hide in the Genocide operation carried out by the SriLankan Government.
The SriLankan Government is on record saying that they kept New Delhi informed of all the developments when the genocide was on and that it had received tactical and strategic support from India.
India is in a bind.
On the one hand it envisages the China card of Sri Lanka and on the other the Tamil sentiments in India.
Though Karunanidhi is in no position to exert pressure on the Tamil Issue, the case is different with J.Jayalalithaa, present CM of Tamil Nadu.
If New Delhi were to wash its hands off the Tamils issue by indirectly supporting the Rajapakshe Government,the Congress can confidently forget Tamil Nadu in its electoral calculations in future.
What is of real concern is the Moral bankruptcy of the Indian Government is its reluctance to even censure Rajapakshe on the Genocide of Tamils.
Is it also due to its role becoming Public in supporting the SriLankan Government in the Genocide, of which New Delhi was aware , if not a participant.?
How else can one view the New Delhi’s stand in the light of its past’concerns’ on Vietnam ,BanglaDesh etc vs its stand on Tamil Genocide?
‘India will carefully consider the overall ties with its neighbor and the sentiments in its own country before making a decision at the United Nations Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva on the resolution against Sri Lanka, India’s External Affairs Minister S. M. Krishna has said on Thursday.
“Certainly we will take into account the overall relationship between India and Sri Lanka and the sentiments that are prevalent in our country. We will take every factor into consideration before we take a final call on our stand in Geneva,” Krishna has told media.
Minister Krishna was reportedly responding to a letter sent by the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister to the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asking India to back the US resolution at the Geneva meeting.”
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