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New Delhi sees more LTTE attacks

Intelligence inputs in recent days warn of more suicide attacks by LTTE, especially targeted at senior Army and naval officers of Sri Lanka.

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NEW DELHI: Intelligence inputs in recent days warn of more suicide attacks by LTTE, especially targeted at senior Army and naval officers of Sri Lanka, even as the Indian establishment across the board dismisses LTTE’s latest apology for the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi.

The dim warning of LTTE’s aggressive move forward is mixed with Indian assessment that the Sri Lankan terror group is also fast moving towards an “all-out war” to find a final solution to the vexed conflict. The LTTE effort to smoothen ruffled Indian feathers is “nothing new,” says a seasoned LTTE observer within the government. He told DNA that that the pro-LTTE Tamil National Alliance has for “sometime now” been prodding New Delhi to “forget the past and move forward.”

The Members of Parliament of TNA in Sri Lanka have been repeatedly telling their Indian interlocutors in recent times to forget and forgive the assassination of the former Prime Minister on May 21, 1991. What Anton Balasingham said is “only a repetition” of the requests of TNA leaders and other LTTE interlocutors in recent times, he said.

The latest effort has two specific reasons: One, to soften India as LTTE moves into its all-out war, the “last effort” to find a final solution. Two, to ensure that India is softened enough for the situation after the “final solution.”

Reiterating the government stand, PM Manmohan Singh said in Bangalore that New Delhi was for the “unity and integrity of Sri Lanka”, and it believes “there is no military solution to the conflict.” He said the solution would come through “dialogue, discussion and give-and-take.”

The apology is to “ensure that India doesn’t step up its support to the Sri Lankan government and is also ready for the changed situation of the future,” a senior official said.

Officials told DNA that India would continue to maintain its “hands-off” policy, and would not resort to supply of any offensive weapon systems to the Sri Lankan military.

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