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...same time, while India hopes to be a global power, it has failed to articulate a strong position - let alone take a leadership role - even in its immediate neighborhood, whether on Sri Lanka or on Afghanistan, which has a direct bearing on Islamist terrorism in all of South Asia. "For this, India's foreign policy establishment needs to change," says Dipankar Banerjee, director of the Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies in New Delhi. "There are structural limitations, but that's changing. There is greater realization and willingness to discuss regional issues." Former diplomat Rajiv Sikri agrees: "We need...
They are beginning to sound like an organized criminal enterprise that happens to have some echoes of a revolution - like FARC in Colombia or Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers. Right. We often compare the war in Afghanistan to the war in Iraq, and in my opinion, it much more closely parallels the war in Colombia and the transformation of the FARC from a Maoist group into a criminal smuggling organization that came to control a Switzerland-size chunk of Colombia. [Many] of the Taliban commanders have lost their ideological roots and are really just in it to make a buck...
...Many people feel that's exactly what Sri Lanka needs, to talk about what happened in the past. There must be a way, that it must not be felt that they will be punished again. Then you will have the north and the south fighting each other again; you can't have that again. I don't want to dig into the past and open up this wound...
...China becoming more important than India as Sri Lanka's ally? I don't see that. We are not thinking like that. India is our neighbor, our relation, our friend - we have a special relationship. For a small country like us, for development, you need money, you need assistance. In this world, who can afford to give us money? We can go to China. We can go to Russia or Brazil. Very few countries can afford to give. Japan is helping us a lot. Our biggest development partner is Japan. India is helping...
...last time I came to Sri Lanka was in January for the funeral of assassinated journalist Lasantha Wickrematunge. The posthumous editorial that his newspaper published was a very emotional piece. It addressed you. He was a good friend of mine. He had informed somebody to inform me [that he was in danger]. But unfortunately, I didn't get that message. I would have told him to go to the nearest police station. No one knows what happened. (Read "Dying for Journalism: Lasantha Wickrematunge of Sri Lanka...