Ramadoss blames Karunanidhi for wavering stand

(November 04,Chennai,Sri Lanka Guardian) PMK leader S Ramadoss todaycharged the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi with a change of stand on the issue of Sri Lankan Tamils.

'Karunanidhi, who had compared Sri Lankan Tamils issue to the creation of Bangladesh by Indian Army, was now asking how India could interfere in Sri lanka, a neighbouring country, directly. Why this sudden change?," Ramadoss said questioning Karunanidhi's stand on Sri lankan Tamil cause.

'How come he did not understand the limitations of India when he set a two week ultimatum at the all party meeting on October 14 last," he asked in a statement.

'We are not asking India for a military intervention, but only asking the Centre to caution Sri Lankan government against the killings of Indian fishermen, who had traditional fishing rights in the Palk Straits," he said.

Describing the current happenings in Sri lanka as a 'civil war' with the Tamils, fighting to establish their rights as they were being 'oppressed' by the majority Sinhalese community, he said United Nation's guidelines enabled India's intervention there as the minorities were subjected to 'repression.'

'There is precedence of India sending its troops to Sri Lanka... so the argument that India cannot interfere in Sri Lanka's internal affairs is not acceptable,' he said in an apparent reference to International Peacekeeping Force (IPKF) operations in the island in 1987.

'India has the responsibility to save the minority Tamils (in Sri Lanka) from elimination,' Ramadoss said. - Sri Lanka Guardian