PRO-LTTE ELEMENTS IN INDIA
ARE CHARGED OF STARTING SEPARATIST ACTIVITIES AGAINST INDIA
By Walter Jayawardhana
New Delhi’s ruling Congress party’s legislature head D.Sudarsanam
said after an emergency meeting of the ruling party law makers that
some pro-Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) elements in India have
started separatist work against India.
He said, “The Congress calls for stern action against pro-LTTE
elements - regardless of their being politicians or media personalities
as they have openly begun secessionist moves,”
It is believed most of the anti-Indian sentiments have been espoused
by certain pro-LTTE and DMK film directors who delivered inflammatory
speeches , October 19, at a film industry rally, which some film actors
and actresses boycotted at Rameshwaram.
“The National Security Act should be invoked against movie directors
Seeman and Ameer for canvassing support for terrorists, espousing separatist
causes in India and threatening to start an armed rebellion from a public
platform in Rameshwaram Oct 19.
“Failure to do so will result in agitations to prosecute persons
like Seeman and Ameer who blatantly insulted Congress martyrs (late
prime ministers) Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi,” Sudarsanam added.
Meanwhile India’s Tamil Nadu Opposition and AIADMK leader Jayalalitha
Jayaram said, “The LTTE is a terrorist organisation linked to several
fissiparous outfits in India and abroad. While local outfits like the
banned People’s War Group, United Liberation Front of Assam and
at least three terrorist movements in Tamil Nadu are known to be open
collaborators with the Tigers, Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence
also has an unholy alliance with this outfit,”
She blamed Congress leader Sonia Gandhi and DMK Chief Minister of the
state M. Karunanidhi for allowing LTTE elements to take root in her
state.
Jayalalitha further said, “While during Karunanidhi’s rule,
such movements always manage to take roots, it is surprising that former
prime minister Rajiv Gandhi’s widow Sonia Gandhi has tacitly allowed
the LTTE to operate freely in India. Rajiv Gandhi’s killers like
Nalini (Murugan) have adopted holier-than-thou attitudes and claim to
be fighting for their birthright of freedom after assassinating the
former prime minister in cold blood,”
But Karunanidhi’s statement remained very pro-LTTE. Writing in
the party journal Murasoli he said: Only those with treason against
the Tamil nationality in their minds are opposing the spirited defence
of the Tamil race’s origins rightful homeland - Eelam,”
The anti Indian elements want to separate Tamil Nadu from rest of India,
it is alleged
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