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Swamy hails move to help Tamil refugees

Special Correspondent

CHENNAI: Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy has welcomed the move to give Sri Lankan Tamil refugees of Indian origin, now in camps in Tamil Nadu, the citizenship of Sri Lanka.

In a statement, Dr. Swamy urged the Tamil community in the island to extend to those behind this move ``a warm hand of friendship, and to bury the past so that the scourge of terrorism and forces of disintegration can be wiped out from the nation."

Noting that the development followed a motion by the Janata Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) in the Sri Lankan Parliament, Dr. Swamy said: ``This move is an act of statesmanship for which the JVP should be congratulated."

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