Exclusive! 'India must be on guard against Tamil separatists'

February 09, 2015 10:46

India's friendship and support is very important to Sri Lanka. It is a matter of regret that India appears to have thought otherwise. Sri Lanka's relationship with China has always been of an economic nature. The docking of Chinese submarines in the Colombo harbour was only for re-supplying and not for any military purpose. Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who led the fight against the LTTE, speaks to long-time Rediff.com columnist Nitin A Gokhale in an exclusive interview. Read

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