Sri Lanka MP urges India, others to pressurise Lankan Govt

Puducherry, Mar 4 (UNI) Mavai S Sena Thirarajah, a Sri Lankan Parliament member, today appealed to India and other countries to pressurise the Sri Lankan Government to work out a political solution to the ethnic struggle in the country.

Talking to newspersons here, Mr Thirarajah, who is the deputy leader of the Parliamentary group of Tamil alliance in Sri Lanka and General Secretary of the ''Elankai Tamizh Arasu Katchi,'' said India and other countries should impose economic and military sanction against Sri Lanka, to enable them to consider a viable political solution to the ethnic struggle.

Citing reasons of attack on the Tamils, Germany had already imposed economic sanctions by cutting down assistance for rehabilitation in Sri Lanka, he pointed out.

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

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 Tamils were being attacked and the LTTE was forced to counter the government to aid them.

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

UNI