Canadian, Indian Pm's Show Support For Tamil Human Rights

[proactive]

Scumbags like Cameron and Harper choose their fights carefully. Sri Lanka is a small country and already coming into the Chinese sphere of economic influence. So losing the Sri Lankan market is not a big deal for Cameron or Harper and this can be rationalised given that they will receive Tamil votes in the next election. Add this to their winning brownie points with India by towing the Indian line and criticising the human rights abuses.

The amusing thing is that the muppet who publishes the so-called Sikh directory after placing Sonia's chumcha Manmohan Singh as the most powerful Sikh then presented Cameron with an award for recognition of services rendered to the Sikh community!

[dharkum]

The main point of this story is not what the Indians are doing , but what the West are doing in support of the Tamils. For ages Sikhs have been called terrorists by the media in Canda but here you have the Candian PM supporting the Tamils strongly. How did the Tamils achive that when they are linked with the LTTE? The British PM says after seeing a Channel 4 documentary that there should be an international enquiry and the Tamils already have UN support. They did this in a few years after the fall of LTTE. What it shows is that intelligent campaigning can achieve results and this gives an answer to those that says that western countries are not interested in human rights for Asians. Time for the Sikhs to learn from the Tamils

No it is none of the above. The key issue is INDIA. INDIA decides to support the Tamils and the whole world falls into step with them.

Conversely, INDIA chooses to ignore Sikh concerns and the planet follows suit. INDIA promotes itself as world's largest democracy and an enormously important economy, and thus no one wants to offend INDIA.

[dharkum]

. How did the Tamils achive that when they are linked with the LTTE? The British PM says after seeing a Channel 4 documentary that there should be an international enquiry and the Tamils already have UN support. They did this in a few years after the fall of LTTE. What it shows is that intelligent campaigning can achieve results and this gives an answer to those that says that western countries are not interested in human rights for Asians. Time for the Sikhs to learn from the Tamils

How did the Tamils do it ?? EASY. They got INDIA on board. They did NOT lobby Cameron or Harper.. they lobbied INDIA. Once India agreed to champion Tamil concerns, India's slaves (UK, Canada) fell into lockstep.

[lsingh]

The Tamil lobby is very strong in the UK and Canada.The press are saying Cameron is playing to Tamil voters in marginal seats in the UK. Same with Canada where they have not sat back let themselves be labelled terrorists.