Role of Non-Governmental Militant groups: Cross-border Linkages and Implications of India and Sri Lanka

This chapter seeks to understand the conflict of Non-Governmental Militant Groups which had an implication and linkage of cross border relations basically between India and Sri Lanka. It critically examines the relation between Non-Governmental Militancy and state relation specially LTTE as Non-Governmental Militant Group and India as well as Indo-Sri Lankan relations. In South Asia, the social, political and economic process within the countries has been important issues for bilateral as well as regional level relations. Therefore, the social, political and economic problems within the countries of Asia have been bound to have a spillover effect in the region. It has been an effect on the India due to the nature of Indo centrism of the region which generates the intra-regional interaction. In the context of geographical proximity and ethnic intimacy or similarity of culture the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka had serious implications for India due to the existence of Tamil brotherhood. As from the ancient period India especially South India has been maintaining its close relations with Sri Lanka in the sphere of social, cultural, religion, artistic, language and political, the crisis of any sphere could affect the India. India‟s perception of threat to its security in the Indian Ocean region is largely governed by political and military developments in Sri Lanka.