DMK members' move not wise -Sangaree

Manjula FERNANDO

TULF Leader V. Ananda Sangaree said Tamil Nadu should not force themselves upon Sri Lanka to stop the military offensive against the LTTE, instead they should press the Indian Government to help Sri Lanka to liberate nothern Tamils from LTTE clutches.

The immediate problem in the North is to liberate the trapped civilians,he said adding, instead 'some big talkers' in Tamil Nadu after consulting the LTTE were talking 'rubbish' and organising protests to please the Tigers.

The protest by the so-called film industry people in Chennai was also called after one of the organisers held such a secret meeting with LTTE leader Prabhakaran, he alleged.

Anandasangaree said no one talks about the atrocities committed on Tamils by the LTTE, the torture chambers and the assassinations of the Tamil leaders who did not dance to the tune of Tigers. "Nothing matches to the atrocities committed by LTTE on Tamils."

No one talks about the recent LTTE gas attacks on the Forces, he said referring to the incidents when the LTTE used CF gas on advancing troops, breaching international rules of war.

He charged that no Tamil Nadu leader up to now has taken a real effort to understand the plight of Tamils in the North. Nevertheless they had been very generous in listening to the LTTE, he said.

Anandasangaree is poised to write to DMK leader M.Karunanidhi seeking his support to call upon the Indian State to help Lanka to find a satisfactory political solution based on an 'Indian model or some other model'.

"Kilinochchi is my home town. The place is infested with snakes," he said The fleeing people have to brave the heavy monsoonal rains, the snake menace apart from the LTTE atrocities to arrive in cleared areas. It is reported some 25 snakebites are reported each day in Kilinochchi. Some are serious and some not so"

He said action by the DMK Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha members to hand over nominal resignation letters setting an ultimatum to withdraw support, cannot be termed as a 'wise move'.

"It is a different thing to talk about the Tamils plight but you must never try to exert pressure on the Centre seeking a halt in the offensive against LTTE. I don't think the DMK will make that mistake,"he said.

He said the military can easily win the offensive against the LTTE but there should be in place, a 'once-and-for-all-solution' agreeable to all parties, that will leave no room for spoilers, like JVP to meddle with it later on.