Don’t support Sri Lanka at UNHRC, Jayalalithaa urges PM
Chennai, March 6 (IANS) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J.Jayalalithaa Tuesday termed India’s support
to Sri Lanka at the United Nation Human Rights Council (UNHRC) untenable and demanded support for the US resolution next month on accountability issues of the Sri Lankan civil war.
In a letter to the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the text of which was released to the media here, Jayalalithaa, referring to her earlier Feb 29 letter, said: “The media reports mention that India is against the ‘Country Specific’ resolutions and wants to take up discussions only under Universal Periodic Review as a routine matter.”
“This means direct support to the Sri Lankan Government, which is most unfortunate and untenable,” she said, adding she reiterated earlier requests that India should support the US-backed resolution in the UNHRC and “strongly condemn the Sri Lankan Government”.
Noting her Feb 29 letter had gone unanswered, Jayalalithaa said that she awaited a positive response to it.
Source: IANS
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These self seeking, corrupt politicians of the South of India always indulge in double-speak. Discrimination is a peak in India; discrimination is openly practised on the basis of language, religion and ethinicity.
The political agenda in India is extremely complex. Nearly a billion people vote to elect just one Prime Minister. It is best to keep out of Indian politics. They never think of anything except about themselves.
I am tamizh person living in the North and I want peace and United Sri Lanka. The days of war and division are gone. Goodbye bad days. We don’t want to talk about it any longer. We want one country and we want to live with our Sinhala and Muslim brothers and sisters.
ADA TAMIL PEOPLE LANKAWE HONDIN ENNWA MADAM MRTA PIN DENNA
Madam want next election prepare to ready and get more votes from tamils.Anyway who care her!!!!Better she will find good husband her self!!!!
India also has a majority as Srilanka. They’ll decide what to do. Can she decide & order to do only her will in india..? BullShit….!
Dear Kumar K,
I thank you for your excellent comment, as a Tamil gentleman from North.
Indeed, you have been liberated from the iron grip of dictator VP and his brutal terrorism inflicted on the whole country. Those who suffered most were the SL Tamils. I am so sorry for those young Tamil children who were conscripted by LTTE to die as gun-fodder and suicide bombers, to try to achieve one despot’s pipe- dream of a ‘Tamil nation’.
About 10,000 cadres were freed by the SL Defence Forces, and after re-habilitation had been handed back to their parents. The 330,000 Tamils hostages who were rescued by the heroic SL Defence Forces, sacrificing their lives and limbs, have been re-settled in their own lands, once they were de-mined of more than a million land-mines planted by LTTE. They were helped to re-build their houses by the SL army and were also given financial aid to re-start their disrupted lives. Some had new houses built for them and furnished by govt grants. Tamil farmers and fishermen have been given equipment by the Hon President and finance to re-develop their businesses. Infra-structure has been re-built better than what it was before, roads, bridges schools etc.
The SL Tamils in N & E can now go about freely with no fear of being shot by LTTE. They are also free to travel around to other parts of the country and even settle there. There is no restrictions as we are:
ONE NATION ONE COUNTRY.
Most Tamils in Tamil Nadu are not better-off than the SL Tamils. Most suffer dire poverty. There is massive corruption in Tamil Nadu and also in whole of India. A politician has tried to stop the corruption by fasting and campaigning against it to bring strong legislation agaqinst political corruption mainly. But the Congress govt has done little to bring about such legislation.
I do hope you campaign against TNA, who is the voice of LTTE and the diaspora Tamils. They refuse to negotiate with GOSL as they demand a sovereign Tamil kigdom for themselves according to the map of LTTE. Hence, TNA intransigence will not help the Tamil majority in N & E. I am sure the Tamil majority in N & e do not want a separate Tamil kingdom for themselves. They prefer to be SL citizens and enjoy all the benefits of being SL citizens.
Please vote for Hon President MR to be re-elected as President and also vote for his SLFP at next General Elections, to bring greater development, security, peace and harmony to all communities throughout the country.
Thank you for the encouragement. President Rajapaksa is a godsend. He can with-stand all the intereference from the Congress Government. India has its own problems and it is best they solve them.
President Rajapakse’s government has all the answers for the tamizh people. The development that is taking place now is the first of its kind in 64 years after inedependance.
The overseas tamils are thinking to continue the fight. They were never in the bunkers when war was going on. They have never experienced the trauma nor have they experieced the psycholgical impact of the war. There has been much suffering and it came to an end with the end of the war.
Peace is there now and what is required is opportunity to make a living. President Rajapaksa is aware of this need and is providing the infrastructure to create opportunity.
I am tamizh person living in the North and I want peace and United Sri Lanka. The days of war and division are gone. Goodbye bad days. We don’t want to talk about it any longer. We want one country and we want to live with our Sinhala and Muslim brothers and sisters.
Hi Kumar K,
what do you mean by “tamizh person”? Is that a kind of Tamil? Asking just because of curiosity.