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Sathyalaya Ramakrishnan reporting from Chennai

Chennai, 08 June,

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The Tamil Nadu state Assembly today unanimously adopted a resolution, seeking the imposition of economic sanctions against Sri Lanka by India, on issues concerning Tamils in the island nation, including the alleged human rights violations.

The resolution was moved by Chief Minister Jayalalithaa in the floor of the Assembly, urged that India to press the United Nations to declare as “war criminals” those who committed alleged crimes during the conflict in Sri Lanka.

The resolution has been supported by DMK as well as by the Congress in the Assembly.

Ms. Jayalalithaa when introducing and speaking on the resolution insisted that only economic sanctions would “rein in” Sri Lanka, which she said, “did not heed to the global opinion when it came to the Tamils issue”.

The Chief Minister said Tamils had been struggling against being treated as “second class citizens in their own country,” even after Sri Lanka got independence from the British.

“If India and other countries impose sanctions, Sri Lanka has to listen to what we say”, she said replying to the debate on the resolution.

She said there were allegations about Sri Lanka committing human rights violations and preventing humanitarian aids from reaching the suffering Tamils, the issues which prompted her to move the resolution.

She, however, said terrorism had crept in the name of Tamil Eelam which had even resulted in fratricide.

She recalled that after the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi in 1991 on Tamil soil, the sympathy here towards LTTE had turned into an anger against them.

Ms. Jayalalithaa said it was on her insistence that the Centre had first banned LTTE in India in 1992.

She also recalled that it was her government in 2002 which passed a resolution in the assembly demanding the arrest and extradition of slain LTTE leader V Prabhakaran in connection with Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination.

- Asian Tribune

Seeker – 09.06.2011 – 00:24

If Jeyalalitha is really concerned about Sri Lankan Tamils, she can start by stopping Tamilnadu fishermen poaching in Jaffna seas. That is the livelyhood of SL Tamils they rob.

Would she care about that. I don’t think