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on: 3/6/2012 3:49:41 PM
Terror backers' conniption- Island Editorial
Perturbed greatly by media reports that India will stand by Sri
Lanka at the UNHRC sessions in Geneva as it did last time, Tamil Nadu Chief
Minister J. Jayalalithaa, DMK leader M. Karunanidhi and MDMK chief Vaiko are
going flat out to secure the Centre's support for the US-sponsored anti-Sri
Lankan resolution. They have confronted Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the
issue.
Interestingly, these are the politicians who unflinchingly
supported the LTTE to the hilt in its terrorist war while the Central government
sided with the Sri Lankan government. And, now, the LTTE backers want the Centre
to assist them in taking revenge from the Sri Lankan leaders who wiped out the
LTTE leadership!
Minister of State in the Indian Prime Minister's Office V.
Narayanasamy is reported to have said India would not support human rights
violations in any part of the world. In Sri Lanka such allegations have been
levelled against both the Sri Lankan army and the LTTE, he has said. Wrong, Mr.
Narayanasamay! There are others accused of war crimes in this country.
The Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) drew a great deal of flak
from the LTTE, its sympathisers and the ordinary people for indiscriminate
killings, mass rape and looting. Prabhakaran claimed that it was the IPKF's
alleged war crimes that had prompted him to have Rajiv Gandhi assassinated.
Former LTTE military commander turned Minister V. Muralitharan or Karuna Amman
has recently told a local newspaper that the LTTE female cadre who killed Rajiv
had been raped by the IPKF. Karuna should know. He himself fought the Indians.
The LTTE propaganda organs such as its newspapers and web publications are full
of alleged atrocities by the Indian troops against civilians in the North and
the East during their occupation of those areas from 1987 to 1990. What action
has been taken against the IPKF troops responsible for alleged war crimes? Some
officers involved in the IPKF operations are today championing human rights! Why
haven't the Tamil Nadu politicians called for a probe into the allegations of
war crimes against them?
The Tamil Nadu government at that time as well as many South
India politicians helped the LTTE with its war against the IPKF. The Tamil Nadu
police even refused to share intelligence with the Centre and the wounded LTTE
cadres were smuggled into Tamil Nadu for specialised treatment. And today, they
are opposing India's proposed national counter terrorism centre, tooth and nail!
Likewise, Jayalalithaa, Karunanidhi, Vaiko et al cannot wash
their hands of the LTTE's war crimes. They openly supported the LTTE's terror
campaign and, therefore, they cannot deny their complicity in the outfit's
crimes such as massacres, child conscription, bombing of buses and trains,
extortion, political assassinations etc. There is irrefutable evidence that
Vaiko was directly involved in LTTE terrorism; he has even been photographed in
the LTTE uniform. All those who backed the internationally proscribed LTTE,
recognised it as the sole representative of the Tamils and defended its actions
at every forum, aided and abetted its crimes in the process.
Now that the LTTE's military leaders are pushing up daisies, the
politicians, both local and foreign, who threw their weight behind Prabhakaran,
and other Tiger backers who raised funds for his terrorist war must be held
accountable for the LTTE's war crimes. They must not be allowed to get away
simply by calling for a war crimes probe against Sri Lanka. Since Narayanasamy
says India will not support human rights violations anywhere in the world, one
would like to know how it proposes to deal with the LTTE's confederates in the
garb of Tamil Nadu politicians.
Courtesy: The Island