Sri Lanka's wounded Tigers growl at Delhi

India's hosting of Sri Lankan Army chief Lieutenant General Sarath Fonseka in Delhi this month has evoked an angry growl from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Castigating India for giving the Lankan army chief a "state welcome", the LTTE has warned India against committing "the historic blunder" of propping up "the Sinhala war machine".

India would be responsible for "the ethnic genocide of the Tamils [in Sri Lanka]" that a Lankan army, "re-invigorated" by Indian support, would carry out, an LTTE statement said. "While pronouncing that a solution to the Tamil problem must be found through peaceful means, it [India] is giving encouragement to the military approach" of the Sri Lankan government, the LTTE said. "By this historic blunder it will continue to subject the Eelam Tamils to misery."

Close on the heels of that strident statement came another, this
one critical of India's treatment of its Tamils. "Tamils are slaves in India," Thamilendhi, the head of the LTTE's financial unit, is reported to have said at a public function in Kilinochchi in Sri Lanka's Northern Province.

The LTTE's strident statements against India over the past fortnight are reminiscent of the statements it issued in the late 1980s and early 1990s when relations between India and the LTTE deteriorated substantially.

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