Karunanidhi condemns US support to Sri Lankan domestic probe
DMK chief Karunanidhi today condemned the US government’s reported proposal for support to a domestic probe by Sri Lanka into alleged war crimes rather than going in for an international investigation.
Assistant US Secretary of State Nisha Biswal had said in Sri Lanka that her country proposed to sponsor a resolution at the UN Human Rights meet in September supporting the island nation’s initiative for its own probe into alleged war crimes.
The senior US official made the comments during her August 26 visit to Sri Lanka and these were reported in the media.
Referring to the news reports, Karunanidhi said, “I only desire that this news report should not be true…If it happens to be true, I condemn this effort of the US.”
The US move marks a clear shift in its stance towards Sri Lanka as a resolution moved by it had called for an international probe into alleged war crimes.
It was adopted last year in the 47-member UN Human Rights Council.
(Source: PTI)
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Please solve your problems in Tamil Nadu and dont interfere in SL politics. In the last phase of the war in 2009, non of you helped the civilians who suffered the most. Let the Tamils in SL decide regarding the domestic or international investigation.
The US should not have any say ain the way our politics and our war was managed and won in the first place. AS you mentioned Jeyaraj none of these Indian do gooders did any thing to assist end the war.
But the shift in the US tactics clearly shows that the US was targeting MR and not Sri Lanka. This will be MY3’s and Ranil’s fate the day they say no to any to the US..
If The two current leaders do not realize this are very naive.
This idiot thinks Sri-lanka is a part of India, that is why he keeps trying to meddle with our affairs. I hope that the Central Government of India will tell the leaders of this so Called Thamil Nadu to mind their own bloody business and solve the issues and poverty problems in their bloody state as it that that state is the in the most terrible state