LTTE threat: India’s defence preparedness reviewed
8 May, 2007
NEW DELHI: With Sri Lanka saying that LTTE’s air power was a threat to India’s nuclear installations, the country’s defence preparedness was reviewed Tuesday at a high-level meeting here.
The meeting, chaired by External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee, was attended by Defence Minister A K Antony, National Security Adviser M K Narayanan, Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon and Defence Secretary Shekhar Dutt.
Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal F H Major and Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Sureesh Mehta also participated in the discussions that are believed to have taken stock of the defence preparedness of the country in view of the warning, sources said.
The meeting is understood to have chalked out a plan of action that should be activated in the event of an aerial threat from LTTE becoming real.
The meeting comes a day after Sri Lankan Foreign Secretary Palitha Kohona said there was a possibility of LTTE carrying out air strike on nuclear installations in India besides the shipping interests in the Indian Ocean.
The Tamil rebels had recently carried out air attacks at Sri Lankan airports and air bases.
“There is an air threat which has a range of 200-300 nautical miles and this range brings within it not only cities within Sri Lanka, shipping in Indian Ocean but also the nuclear installations of India,” Kohona said.
Noting that LTTE is a terrorist organisation that had not hesitated in assassinating former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, Kohona said “…the possibility is always there.”
What I would like to know is who could had provided the intelligence to the Hindu extremists in which they managed to so successfully launch three air strikes on Sri Lanka?
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we've already had a long discussion on this forum on whether or not they're Hindu extremists. but something nobody had disputed so far is that the LTTE are comprised in a majority by Hindus.
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where is it written that LTTE will launch strikes against india?....it just talks about possibility of such thing. and LTTE won't be that stupid to do that. They dont have to create one more enemy.
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how did they manage to smuggle these fighter plane parts into sri lanka? anyways if LTTE decide to attack india, they can probably say goodbye to their high-tech planes. some anti-aircraft batteries should be taken away from pak border and installed along the coast in the south. i don't see any threat on western border these days. ;)
as for intelligence provided to tigers, i don't know if there is any indian link. but i don't think indian govt. would like to see any independent tamil area in sri lanaka? it can destabilize parts of their own country.
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i know hell lot of srilankan tamils in usa and i know what is the truth much better then those sites
but thanks anyway for your reference, and i still want to confirm that the struggle is not religious based but it is on ethical basis, i don’t know you guys see religion in everything
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There is more chance of LTTE attacking Pakistan than India.The Thread Starter should have also provided the date and time when he wishes his Wet Dream to realize.
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we've already had a long discussion on this forum on whether or not they're Hindu extremists. but something nobody had disputed so far is that theLTTE are comprised in a majority by Hindus.
Before also you have argued to paint LTTE as an ideology based on religious radicalization....probably you want to draw parallels with Islamic radicals worldwide.
Let's see, if this time it makes clear to you or not.....their struggle is mainly due to their own ethnic/language--Tamil and they do not draw inspiration for their struggle from any of Hindu or Religious figures/Religious Scriptures/Religious practices etc.
I have never heard a news where Tamil tigers are recruited giving them lectures of Vedanta or stories of Puranas.......already told it is impossible to invent an ideology similiar to Ummah or equivalent---it never exists in Dharma.
As you said majority of them are Hindus, so be it if they are Hindus--- one should not jump to conclude that they are terrorists based on religion as long they are not terrorizing others in name of religion.
Most important LTTE is not fighting for a seperate state where they can implement a Sharia like law with strict Talibani ways---*their movement is for a Tamil state not for a religion based state. *(at least read their official websites)
Terrorism of any kind is condemned....and you will notice LTTE has some supports only in Tamilnadu ---(Tamil speaking)--due to natural sympathy.
Rest all Hindus in other parts of India (non-tamil speaking) consider them as terrorists.
Indian government officially declared them as terrorists organization.
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matrubhoomi, is there any material or financial support for tigers from any source (ethnic, secular or religious) in india? not talking about indian govt. i ask this because i read there was financial support coming from even the US until recently, so some support from indian tamils can not be completely ruled out?
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matrubhoomi, is there any support for tigers from any source (ethnic, secular or religious) in india? not talking about indian govt.
Yess...read the previous reply....LTTE enjoys support among Tamil people in Tamilnadu due to sheer similiarity in culture/language.
Their bondage of language is too strong to prevent any sympathy from Indian Tamils.
But the support ends here....rest part of India(non-Tamil speakers) are neutral. After assassignation of Rajiv Gandhi by LTTE, many even in Tamilnadu now do not sympathize with them.
A little powerful politician (Ravindra Vaiko) is a sympathiser in Tamilnadu and he was arrested by then Jayalalitha government.
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a) its not one of “those sites” its a harvard academic paper.
b) whether or not its on an ethical or religious basis is irrelevant, you argued that its dominated by Christians, and regardless of what you hear, any corroboration from a reliable source is absent.
No i dont. I merely argued before, and maintain now that Hindu extremist/militant/terrorist is a correct characterization. It may be a politically motivated one, sure.
Sure it can be argued that they’re fighting for a Tamil state and not a Hindu state and have a significant Christian minority. PLO had a Christian component. Hezbollah has a Christian component. Black anti-apartheid militancies had non-Black components, and they werent fighting for a black state. The adjective “Hindu” can correctly be a description of the composition and not necessarily idealogy of the group just as there are many Muslim countries in the world but very few with an statedly Islamic foreign policy.
When a Hindu man blows himself up, explain to me how it isnt correct to call him a Hindu militant. It is ONE characterization of him, and one that might unfairly associate Hinduism with terrorism, but it still is a correct characterization. Just as calling him a Tamil terrorist shouldnt reflect on people of tamil ethnicity who dont share his views.
Rahi baat Hindu views never being used to inspire the tigers, here is one, once again, research paper reference:
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practicing or non practicing.
The ucalgary reference seems to suggest practicing, indeed inspired :)
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U have no idea of tamil movement ravage. U r biased in your thinking.
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Everyone is biased. If you think it is merely a coincidence that your here denying that tamil fighters are mostly Hindu with no connection to your background and upbringing and social circumstances (etc etc) then you are kidding yourself
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Everyone is biased. If you think it is merely a coincidence that your here denying that tamil fighters are mostly Hindu with no connection to your background and upbringing and social circumstances (etc etc) then you are kidding yourself
what kind of bias is the question. U do not have any idea about tamil movement. I come from that region and I know and experienced tamil movement. They are for major part against Hinduism. Google dravidian ideology and you will know. Precisely for this point that the sinhalese are closer to India. Sinhalese have many things in common with other parts of India but not with tamil nadu.
