Are Indian Rulers Deaf to Tamil Sufferings?
This writer is not opposed to India providing the powerful pain killer peathadine to Sinhala soldiers in post-surgery pain. Many of the soldiers in the Sri Lankan army, as opposed to senior officers, come from poor Sinhala families; they enroll in the army because there is no other employment. We understand their pain. We have as much sympathy for them as for the injured Tamil civilians. We would not complain if at least half of the much needed pain killer drug peathadine went to Tamil civilians (there is no record of civilian hospitals near war zone getting peathadine). Instead all of it went to Sri Lankan soldiers. Tamil civilians including children have their legs or arms amputated without anesthetics or painkillers, yet the Indian government looks the other way and sends painkillers to Sri Lankan soldiers. In the eyes of northern Hindi-belt Indian rulers, are Sri Lankan Tamils who were originally centuries ago from southern India sub-humans compared to Sinhala soldiers whose ancest
