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LTTE: Jayalalithaa assails `inaction'

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Seeks Centre's intervention

CHENNAI: General secretary of the All-India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) Jayalalithaa on Monday accused the police of not taking action to curb the movement of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) militants and their activities such as smuggling of weapons and explosives to Sri Lanka on a large scale, besides stockpiling them in the State.

In a statement here, she sought the intervention of the Central Government to safeguard the nation's security, as extremist and terrorist organisations had "intensified their activities, taking advantage of the situation prevailing in the State."

Failure to curb such activities might result in raising demands, building intensified campaign, holding conferences and bringing out publications in support of extremism and terrorism, she cautioned.

AIADMK stand

Making the AIADMK's stand on the Sri Lankan ethnic problem clear, Ms. Jayalalithaa said even while stressing unity among the Tamils to find a solution to the issue, the party was keen that Tamil extremist groups in the island should not be encouraged. The party had taken a firm stand that the Government of India should earnestly strive for finding a solution to the Sri Lankan ethnic issue. At the same time, it had been strongly opposing the extremist groups. As the party thought that the ethnic issue could not be solved by taking up arms, it had been opposing extremism and terrorism, she added.

Though some sections in Tamil Nadu argued that the LTTE should be supported on the basis of Tamil ethnic affinity, the AIADMK did not accept the theory, as it was of the view that such action would ultimately pave the way for the advent of extremism and terrorism in the State, she said.

Ms.Jayalalithaa referred to the recent seizures of weapons and explosives off the Tamil Nadu coast, and said these were the "tip of the iceberg." There had been reports that persons belonging to the Sri Lankan extremist group had visited the State and the uninhabited islands off Rameswaram had been converted into arsenals of the extremists and terrorists, she added.

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