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“LTTE didn’t consider consequences of war strategy”

M. Karunanidhi

CHENNAI: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) did not take into account the consequences while implementing its war strategy, Chief Minister and Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam president M. Karunanidhi said here on Tuesday.

Recalling the LTTE’s call to Tamils for boycotting the 2005 Presidential elections, Mr. Karunanidhi, in a statement, said that Sri Lanka Freedom Party leader Mahinda Rajapaksa had defeated United National Party leader Ranil Wickremesinghe by a margin of about 1.81 lakh votes and seven lakh Tamils in Sri Lanka did not cast their votes. Mr. Wickremesinghe had then promised the electors that he would give priority to peace talks with the LTTE in the event of his election.

“Who would know our silent pain while we reflect on the outcomes of the hasty political action?” he asked.

The Chief Minister’s statement was issued in the context of a recent interview given by Mr. Wickremesinghe to a Tamil journal. Mr. Karunanidhi also explained how leaders of different Tamil groups and organisations were systematically killed in fratricidal clashes. The absence of a planned approach led to the death of numerous people, particularly the youth, and suffering of those who had to remain in camps for years together. Mr. Karunanidhi said he was forced to record all these out of anguish that those who had to work for the uplift of the Tamils met untimely death. Former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, who had expressed willingness for the fulfilment of the rights of Sri Lankan Tamils, was killed in Tamil Nadu and this was a setback for the Tamil struggle, he added.

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