KOCHI: Justice V R Krishna Iyer has urged Congress president and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi to creatively intervene in the ethnic issue in Sri Lanka that has worsened following the military action against the LTTE.
In an open letter to Sonia Gandhi on Saturday, Justice Iyer said that India should not miss a great creative opportunity at this moment to take statesmanship vision towards the Indian Ocean imbroglio so that peace in Colombo might be a positive contribution to Indo- Sri Lankan cordial relations.
Iyer urged the Congress president to take a decision according to Gandhian and Nehruvian perspectives. To protest and act in time is a necessity when violence is at its worst, he said.
“If you fail, our generation has let down Bharat and its people. Colombo takes a terrible barbarian view of wiping out the Tamils by Sinhaleese supremacy tearing off the entire cultural edifice of the province of peace the world has seen,” Iyer said.
“Whoever wins a battle between the Tamils and the Sinhaleese, the Island’s solidarity and the Indo-Sri Lanka estrangement will suffer aggravation.
The Government of India must be involved in this issue as it affects intangibly but importantly.
The racial relations and ethnic amity between the Tamil country and Delhi, are not merely an inter-state dispute. Much deeper than that the whole people with their cultural linguistic militancy are likely to be ever hostile to Delhi,’’ Iyer said.
Krishna Iyer is of the view that had India creatively intervened in Sri Lanka early, both Prabhakaran and Colombo and the entire people, both Tamils and Sinhaleese, would have listened and positively reacted to India’s voice of peace. He also said that Prabhakaran caught killed would never see the end of the internecine hatchet. Democracy and socialism have different semantics. Therefore, a global outlook on this terrible crisis cannot be resolved merely by bombing and killing the Tamils, Iyer said.