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TULF seeks Tamil Nadu help

B. Muralidhar Reddy

LTTE has no right to speak for Tamils, says Anandasangaree

COLOMBO: Leader of the Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) V. Anandasangaree has sought cooperation of the leaders and the people of Tamil Nadu, irrespective of their political affiliations, to help “liberate” the Tamil people of the North and East from the subjugation of the LTTE and to find a reasonable solution to the ethnic problem.

“Tamil Nadu can play a pivotal role in finding peace for the Tamils across the Palk Straits, by putting pressure on the LTTE to accept the Indian Model, taking into serious consideration the immense hardships caused by them to the Tamils in several ways for well over 23 years.

“The LTTE is the main force that deprived the democratic and fundamental rights of the Tamils in Sri Lanka and considerably eroded into their human rights also. If a public announcement is made by the LTTE accepting the Indian Model, the political solution is just at our doorstep and the country as a whole will be in a mood to accept it,” Mr. Anandasangaree said in an appeal as reported on the Government information website.

He said Tamil Nadu should act “with care and caution” in its dealings with the ethnic problem and also should not “get swayed” by the emotional speeches made by some politicians who make speeches to “incite the public with no concern for the negative reflections on Sri Lanka”.

“It is therefore obligatory on the part of the leaders on both sides to see that the people on either side are not prejudiced by the words and deeds of any one of them, although there is a determined effort by some parties with vested interest to keep the Sinhalese and the Tamils of Tamil Nadu far apart and keep on prejudicing their minds against each other. Tamil Nadu has to understand the various realities comprehensively and could help us to solve the problems of the Tamils in Sri Lanka.”

The TULF leader said as the Indian Government also did not support the idea of a separate nation, Tamil Nadu can play a “balanced constructive role to reconcile the national interests” of India and the basic aspirations of the Tamils in Sri Lanka.

“The LTTE has forfeited their credibility to speak for the Tamils of Sri Lanka by their atrocious activities perpetrated on the innocent Tamil civilians who have been living like slaves, for several years, amidst constant fear and tension.

“The recklessness, with which the LTTE cadres act, is the main cause of the large scale displacement of the people.”

Separately, the Defence Ministry reported that LTTE cadres detonated a claymore mine, killing three soldiers in Vavuniya on Tuesday.

It also reported that four LTTE cadres, recently arrested in Maldivian waters sailing in a hijacked Indian fishing trawler carrying weapons for the LTTE, had been sentenced to 15 years and 6 months imprisonment by the Maldivian criminal court.

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