SL MP urges India to pressurise Lankan govt

Puducherry, Mar 4: Mavai S Sena Thirarajah, a Sri LankanParliament member, today appealed to India and other countries topressurise the Sri Lankan Government to work out a political solutionto the ethnic struggle in the country.

Talking to newspersons here, Mr Thirarajah, who is the deputyleader of the Parliamentary group of Tamil alliance in Sri Lanka andGeneral Secretary of the ''Elankai Tamizh Arasu Katchi,'' said Indiaand other countries should impose economic and military sanctionagainst Sri Lanka, to enable them to consider a viable politicalsolution to the ethnic struggle.

Citing reasons of attack on the Tamils, Germany had alreadyimposed economic sanctions by cutting down assistance forrehabilitation in Sri Lanka, he pointed out.

Stating that the 1987 agreement between India and Sri Lanka thatthe north and east provinces should not be seporated was violated bythe Lankan Government and the cease fire agreement in 2002 was alsoviolated.

Mr Thirarajah demanded that India should play a diplomatic role in the Lankan issue, as it played when Nepal was in crisis.

He alleged that with military aid from Pakistan, innocent Tamilswere being attacked and the LTTE was forced to counter the governmentto aid them.

He said, since Mr Rajapakse came to power, 4000 people died, 1500went missing and 2.5 lakh people were affected by malnutrition andother problems. The International Human Rights Commission had reportedthat every day three to ten innocent Tamils were killed by themilitary, he claimed.

UNI

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