NSA Narayanan met Karunanidhi again to discuss on Sri Lankan Tamils
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi Sunday met Indian National Security Advisor M K Narayanan for the second time and understood to have discussed the Sri Lankan Tamils issue.
Mr Narayanan, who had met Karunanidhi last night and discussed the Sri Lankan issue, called on him again this morning at his residence here and held nearly half-an-hour long closed door talks, party sources said.
Dravida Peravai urges India to retract from backing Genocide
Before UN Human Rights Council who is for Tamils; who supports Sri Lanka? India; Indian Tamils are ashamed of India’s stand brought to light by UN Watch, says Dravida Peravai in a statement released today.
The statement released by N.Nandhivarman, General Secretary of Dravida Peravai:
Indian envoys in Sri Lanka
The Indian Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon and National Security Advisor RK Narayanan have arrived in Sri Lanka for high level talks, diplomatic sources said Wednesday.
The two senior officials landed at the Bandaranaike International Airport Wednesday evening. India has sent US$ 100 million aid package also to be distributed to the IDPs. Both MK Narayanan and Menon had held talks with the chief minister of Tamil Nadu M. Karunanidhi before leaving for Colombo.
A Wicked Act of the Big Brother Pranab
India is concerned about the Tamil civilians in Sri Lanka and wants that their “legitimate aspirations” should be addressed, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee said Tuesday.
Mukherjee said he had held several rounds of talks with President Mahinda Rajapaksa on the Sri Lankan Tamil issue. “We are concerned about the civilians.
Prabakaran is my friend? Is this my statement? NDTV wrongly interpreted – Karunanidhi
While Karunanidhi’s statement made a notable waves in both India and Srilanka, today he said he didn’t tell that Prabakaran is my friend. NDTV had wrongly interpreted. “Prabhakaran is my good friend. I am not a terrorist,” the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister told NDTV in an interview when asked whether he viewed Prabhakaran as a terrorist. Subsequently asked by his daughter and DMK Rajya Sabha member Kanimozhi, who was present in the interview, whether he saw Prabhakaran as a terrorist, Karunanidhi, speaking in Tamil, said “Naan appadi paarkkalai (I don’t see that way).”
Jayalalitha, Ramadoss criticise India’s Sri Lankan policy
All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) party chief J. Jayalalitha said that Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi had failed to stop the ethnic killings of Tamils in the island nation. “India has been supporting the Lankan Government’s war against the Tamils there. Karunanidhi has not done anything except for dramas like sending telegrams and letters to the Prime Minister and holding fast.
New Delhi government insensitive towards Lankan Tamils’ cause: Advani
BJP’s prime ministerial candidate L. K. Advani has accused the Congress-led UPA of being `insensitive’ to the Sri Lankan Tamils’ cause. Addressing hundreds of MDMK supporters and pro-Eelam activists who began a day-long fast led by Vaiko, He said the decades-old ethnic conflict in the island nation cannot be resolved through the use of brutal force.
Pardons LTTE supporter who hurled object – Chidambaram
Indian Home Minister P. Chidambaram has asked to pardon and release an LTTE supporter who shouted slogans hailing the banned outfit and hurled a wooden object towards the stage where he was speaking on Sunday evening. Chidambaram was at an election rally in Karaikudi town of Tamil Nadu when the incident occured.
Law will deal with Vaiko’s Tiger comments – Rahul
India’s Congress party General Secretary Rahul Gandhi, son of Rajiv Ghandi, told reporters in Kochi the law will take its own course on comments made by Vaiko on the LTTE. Vaiko, a Tamil Nadu politician, had said there will be a bloodbath in India if LTTE leader Prabakaran is horrored. Rahul said he does not like the LTTE because they assassinated his father and noted that innocent Tamils should not be harmed in Sri Lanka.
Now, CM finds fault with LTTE
Three days after he said that LTTE leader Prabhakaran should be treated with dignity if arrested by Lankan forces, Chief Minister and DMK president M Karunanidhi said that a solution to the Sri Lankan Tamils problem could not be found till now because the outfit had adopted ‘wrong ways’ going by the ‘wrong advice’ of some people in the State. In a statement here, he said, ‘a solution to the Sri Lankan Tamils problem could not be found yet because the LTTE had acted in wrong ways, heeding to the wrong advice of the wrong people in Tamilnadu.’
