Why is Karunanidhi so keen in a cease fire in embattled north Sri Lanka.?

by Charles.S.Perera

(November 18, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Karunanidhi has said that he would not opt for any thing less than a cease fire in Sri Lanka. It is like Prabhakaran saying that he does not accept any political settlement other than a separate Eelam State.

What is behind Karunanidhi's incessant call for a cease fire when there is more than clear evidence that the innocent Tamils have not been severely affected in the attacks against the terrorists in Kilinochchi by the Sri Lankan forces ?

Even more, this demand of Karunanidhi, seems to go beyond a simple desire to help the civilian Tamil Population in Kilinochchi. Because the President of Sri Lanka has given the assurance to the Central Government of India, that he would take the responsibility not to put in danger the lives of the Tamil Civilian population, in the areas occupied by the terrorists , in the attacks against the terrorists by the Government forces. That was an assurance given by the Head of one Sovereign State to the Head of another Sovereign State.

Yet Karunanidhi is not satisfied, and reiterated his call for a cease fire attributing the reason for his call, to avoid putting in danger the lives of the Tamil civil population. This repeated call after the assurance given by the Sri Lanka President, shows that Karunanidhi has some other motives. It is evident that his call is not so much to save the Tamil Civil population , but to save the terrorist "thalaivar" Prabhakaran, and his lackeys.

It may also be the fear that the capture of Velupillai Prbhakaran alive may result in the opening of the Criminal case against Prabhakaran for the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi which will bring to light Karunanidhi's role, however remote it may seem to be in the assassination. According to the findings by the Commission, a charge sheet would have been appropriate for Karunanidhi, at least to have absolved him from his participation directly or indirectly in the assassination. But it was not done.

The answer for Karunanidhi's present endeavour to get the Sri Lanka to agree for a ceasefire, may be in the Interim Report of the Jain Commission. Before we look into the relevant information in the report, let us see who is Milap Chand Jain. He was the One man Commission appointed by the Central Government of India to investigate into the circumstances that lead to the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi on the night of 21 May,1991.

Justice Milap Chand Jain was born in 1929 in Jodhpur, Rajastan. He was appointed a judge of the Rajastan High Courts in 1978, and promoted as the Chief Justice of the Rajastan High Court. Unfortunately there is not much information about Justice Milap Chand Jain that could be gathered from internet research.

But, the Jain Commission had made its report based on evidence examining hundreds of witnesses, coming to conclusion on the facts that he had carefully shifted from the vast amount of notes he had made through out the investigation. His commission was not to advance theories but to come to legally acceptable conclusions. He did not even suggest a conspiracy. It was left for a judge to come to that conclusion examining the witnesses in terms of the charge sheets.

There were, however, a plot hatched in the jungles of Sri Lanka, by the single minded Prabhakaran leaving the planning , and carrying it out to Pottu Amman and Akhila. They had to recruit the personnel some in Sri Lanka and others in Tamil Nadu, find lodgings, find experts in explosives, buy the explosives, get a tailor to prepare an appropriate blouse to hide the explosives and the detonators.

The Commission Report consists of seven volumes, and 5280 pages. Justice Jain interrogated 113 witnesses making laborious notes. He took sixty six months to complete the report and instead of presenting it to the Parliament presented it to the Minister of Home Affairs Indrajit Gupta.

Jain Commission did not directly accuse any one but merely laid bare the fact as they came to light in his investigations, making his conclusions. Rajiv Gandhi died in the bomb that was exploded by Dhanu. She was only the last link in the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, but behind her was the chain of events that had been put in place by the conspirators that made it possible for the assassination with the explosion of Dhanu in the immediate presence of Rajiv Gandhi.

It was in to that chain Karunanidhi had been brought in, by the LTTE. Karunanidhi had reasons and motives enough to have liked Rajive Gandhi removed from Indian politics. It was Rajiv Gandhi's federal government that dismissed Karunanidhi's Tamil Nad Government in 1976 for corruption. Karunanidhi came back into power in 1989. Two years later he and his government, were once again dismissed by the Federal Government, for encouraging the presence of LTTE terrorists in Tamil Nadu without any control by the State Government.

During this period, points out the Commission Report, Karunanidhi had actively supported the LTTE terrorists, by allowing them to have their supplies of arms, ammunitions , explosives , fuel and other essential items to fight the Indian Peace Keeping Force. Karunanidhi was already acting as a traitor against the National interest of India to disrupt the India Sri Lanka Peace Agreement.

The Commission Report further states, that after DMK came into power in 1989, " the LTTE slowly began to consolidate itself in the (TN) State and their clandestine activities, heretofore dormant, became more and more pronounced. All the activities of the LTTE at this stage towards recourse mobilisation, propaganda and the treatment of their wounded cadres, had taken an anti-national dimension "

DMK MP Mr.V.Gopalasingham had clandestinely gone to north of Sri Lanka and met with Prabhakaran LTTE terrorist leader between 8 February, 1989 and 3 March, 1989. This gave the LTTE, and anti-India Peace Keeping Forces, groups, to act with impunity in Tamil Nadu State. The LTTE agents had access to Karunanidhi , and interacted with him to assure that their activities in Tamil Nadu even after the assassination of ERLF Leader Padmanabha, continued unhindered .

The LTTE was demanding Karunanidhi his help for the formation of the Tamil Eelam State. Even though at this stage the connivance between Karunanidhi, DMK, and LTTE was brought to the notice of the Central government, it had not taken effective steps to stop it. The Commission Report concluded that there was tacit support to the LTTE ,by Karunanidhi his government and law enforcing agencies. The Report stated, that the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi would not have been possible the way it happened without the nexus between the LTTE, and the DMK.

Following the Commission Report, and the police investigations, the charge sheets were filed on the 22 May, 1992. 41 persons were accused 12 of the them were by then dead, of the 10 Sri Lankans accused Prabhakaran, Pottuamman and Akhali were declared procedural absconders. Akhali died in November,1995. 26 persons were finally brought before the courts charged on various counts for the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi.

Among the Indians was a former DMK Minister Subbulakshmi Jagadishan and six activists of politicians from the Dravida Kazhagam (DK). Justice Jain had asked the Government to ``adopt such course of action as it may think fit,'' against the list of ``suspects'' in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case.

In view of the foregoing Karunanidhi's direct or indirect involvement in the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi had been made evident by the Jain Commission Report. Nevertheless, no charge sheet was filed against him for the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi.

Karunanidhi had been manipulated( if he did not voluntarily contributed to the conspiracy), by Prabhakaran who was clever in brainwashing and drawing in persons for his murderous schemes. Prabhakaran formed a squad of black tigers who would not hesitate to blow themselves as human bombs according to his diabolical whims and fancies, that was the terrible influence he could command over others. As for Karunanidhi, he had shown from his boyhood days a tendency to be influenced by others.

Who is Karunanidhi and how did he come into association with a psychopath like Prabhakaran ?

Mutuvale Kalainagar Karunanidhi had humble beginnings, born to a poor family of the Vellalar caste on 3 June,1924, in Thirukkuvallai, of the Tanjore District. He began his career as a script writer for Tamil films. He belonged to the Self Respect Movement, or Dravidian Movement. He wrote Tamil stories based on History and Social Reforms. He seems to be a person easily influenced by speeches and ideas. It was listening to a speech of Alagiriswami of the Justice Party, that drew him to politics when he was still 14 years old. He took part in Anti-Hindi Agitations, and Tamil Eelam movements, and was arrested on many occasions for those activities. He edited a handwritten news paper. Wrote poems and stories.

He is not an intellectual of any sort. He had written poems and books in Tamil . His Social contacts had not been politicians, philosophers, scholars, or academicians. He had the ordinary local politicians, and the visiting LTTE agents as his immediate associates. He was susceptible to be drawn by sentimentality to the Tamil Eelam cause and therefore adulated the Sri Lanka Tamils terrorist for their Eelam Tamil State concept.

That adulation of Sri Lanka terrorists is seen from his sitting down to write a Tamil Poem in memory of the LTTE terrorist Thamil Selvam. There is good reason to believe that Prabhkaran had a great influence on Karunanidhi and also his daughter Kanimoshi , and was able to bring them to believe in him.

Prabhakaran may have sought Karunanidhi's help to make a reality of his Tamil Eelam State in Sri Lanka. A concept which did not leave Karunanidhi unmoved, because he was already an anti-Hindi and a Tamil Eelam agitator, who had been imprisoned 14 times on account of those agitations.

Karunanidhi had no contact,or social relations with any Tamil political leader in Sri Lanka, such as Anandasangaree, Nilan Thiruchelvam, or Lakshman Kadirgamar.

He had been more at home with his association with the LTTE leaders, and received them in private, as the Commission Report had pointed out.

Therefore, when he claims that the Sri Lanka Government should declare a cease fire, he has in mind Prabhakaran, Pottuamman and the rest of the terrorists fighting for an Eelam State , and definitely not the Tamil Civilians in Kilinochchi. - Sri Lanka Guardian