With Tamils in Sri Lanka beaten on all fronts, the time has come for India to intervene decisively
Somebody once said democracy is the right to choose your dictator. For the minority Tamils in Sri Lanka, the Presidential election in late January presented such a baffling dilemma. Should they vote for the man who ordered a bloody war on their homeland or for the military general who actually led the troops into their fields? In the end, most Tamils stayed home on the poll day unable to fathom who was the lesser evil.
(This story appears in the 19 February, 2010 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)