(October 07, Chennai, Sri Lanka Guardian) Chief Minister and DMK president M Karunanidhi has said the people of Tamilnadu would not be mute spectators if the Sri Lankan government continued its atrocities on Tamils living in the island nation.
Addressing a public meeting on the DMK’s stand on the Lankan ethnic issue here on Monday, he said that the innocent Tamils had been subjected to untold hardship by the Rajapakse government.
In a veiled threat to withdraw support to the UPA government, the DMK chief said ‘the party would have to think whether the government at the Centre should continue if its warning to Sri Lankan government to stop the attacks on Tamils there went unheeded.’
‘If the attacks on Sri Lankan Tamils continue in the island nation despite the warning given by the Centre, we have to think whether this government would continue or not,’ Karunanidhi said.
Karunanidhi expressed the hope that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi would take steps to end the ethnic strife in the island nation and ensure that Tamils there got justice.
‘If they (Centre) cooperate, we have a life. if they don’t, Tamils in Sri Lanka and in India will also perish,’ he said.
Addressing a public meeting on the DMK’s stand on the Lankan ethnic issue here on Monday, he said that the innocent Tamils had been subjected to untold hardship by the Rajapakse government.
In a veiled threat to withdraw support to the UPA government, the DMK chief said ‘the party would have to think whether the government at the Centre should continue if its warning to Sri Lankan government to stop the attacks on Tamils there went unheeded.’
‘If the attacks on Sri Lankan Tamils continue in the island nation despite the warning given by the Centre, we have to think whether this government would continue or not,’ Karunanidhi said.
Karunanidhi expressed the hope that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi would take steps to end the ethnic strife in the island nation and ensure that Tamils there got justice.
‘If they (Centre) cooperate, we have a life. if they don’t, Tamils in Sri Lanka and in India will also perish,’ he said.
Recalling his telephonic conversation with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh earlier in the day, Karunanidhi said the Union government summoned the Sri Lankan envoy in New Delhi and gave a warning to stop the military offensive.
He also sought the cooperation of all political parties in Tamilnadu to find a solution to the ethnic strife in the island nation.
Lamenting on not arriving at a solution for the ethnic problem for quite long time now, Karunanidhi wondered whether peace would blossom there only after the last drop of Tamil blood has been shed and dried away.- Sri Lanka Guardian
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