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I viewed a video-clip of a Nilaivaram interview in which Muna Tirunavukkaracu - a Vanni political scientist; and a Puli Paddai editor named Ravi are interviewed. I have linked it below in order for readers to benefit from. Its a splendid interview. Tirunavukkaracu is giving an analysis from an international point of view within a global perspective: He is looking at our struggle in the following three angles:
1) from a cold war climate
2) from a post cold war climate
3) from a post- post cold war world in which the bi-polar world has singularly come under the US domination. 
Tirunavukkaracu is proposing a pragmatic approach within which our nation would greatly benefit rather than being hung up with Citthantham - philosophy and dialectics. He says: "Citthantham namathu makkaluku soru poddathu." Think of Yarllpaaanam and Vaharai, he points out. [Of course he is referring to the current starvation there] Spot on!
 
Ravi on the other hand is giving a national perspective. He is placing before us a historical version of the struggle from Thimpu Talks onwards. He said Anton Palacinkam put forward three corner stones:
 
1) Taiyagham - Motherland (Traditional homeland) 
2) Thesiyam (Nationalism. Seeing the Tamil question as a National question other than a majority v Minority)
3) Thanartci. (Self-governance)
 
These three corner stones however, in the progression of negotiations appeared to have submerged at times without a trace, I must point out, in the history of Talks.
 
Thirunavukkaracu said that the talks gave the peole the necssary breathing space.  Quite right. To be perfectly objective, one cannot neglect the shadow war during the CFA - in which many Tamil leaders were head hunted! Various stages of talks however, stressed on the following:
1) Antrada pirachchenai, Daily suffering of the people - humanitarian crisis
2) Araciyal pirachenai, political struggles.
The point is, people are strill caught in these very crises. To put it bluntly hardly anything has changed.
 
The high-light of Tirunavukkaracu analysis was that he said the time is now ripe for us to derive support from Tamil Nadu and to influence through them the Indian central government and then through India to touch the heart of Washington. It sounds reasonable a strategy.
 
I would hope Tirunavukkaracu would give a full analysis on the post-post cold war - WAR on terror era and the Tamil struggle at a sooner date. Looking forward to that.
 
 
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