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TNA leader R. Sampanthan said only New Delhi had the capability to resolve Sri Lanka's dragging ethnic conflict. Sampanthan, whose party considers the LTTE the authentic representative of the Sri Lankan Tamils, made it clear that Gandhi's killing by a LTTE woman suicide bomber at an election rally near Chennai could never be condoned.

IMO: I'm not so sure. Rajiv Gandhi condoned or was involved in a lot of things that hurt the Tamil people. Kowtowing to a Sikh, Manmohan Singh, may hardly be the way to put things right. Rightly or wrongly, the Indian people elected a Gandhi not primarily a Singh and I am not sure that the Byzantine complexities of the situation merits premature apology (unilaterally on behalf of a dead widow) to the Congress party for supposed wrongdoings caused by reasonable passion, and hatred of Rajiv Gandhi's believed corruption.

Is the Congress Party going to improve its act in future ? I doubt even that.

We have to remember that the suicide bomber was not a mad or misinformed person, like some current Muslim suicide bombers, but the widow of a Tamil who was stricken with grief at Rajiv Gandhi's behaviour. Is it fair to the memory of the suicide bomber to apologise for what might well be construed as a benign act, however unwise. That is not to condone suicide bombing. but why distort the facts to appease a Singh or a Gandhi? We will be appeasing Adolf Hitler next. In fact at least one Sri Lankan MP has already requested Tamil genocide in Sri Lanka.