TMVP says TN parties should not try to help Tigers

Holding a protest rally in the East against the perceived efforts by some political parties in Tamil Nadu to stop the military campaign against the Tigers in the North, MP Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan, known as Karuna Amman, yesterday said “there should be no attempt from Tamil Nadu to rescue LTTE”.

“We welcome the support from Tamil Nadu for the Tamil people in Sri Lanka, but the political parties and their leaders should not attempt to rescue the Tigers, who are facing an imminent defeat in the hands of the Security Forces in the North,” Muralitharan who now heads the Tamil Makkal Viduthalai Puligal (TMVP) said at the rally.

Recalling the 1991 assassination of former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi in Tamil Nadu, the former LTTE commander had warned that “any effort by Tamil Nadu to save LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) would boomerang on them”. IANS