Sri Lankan president to visit India despite protests
Sri Lanka’s President Mahinda Rajapaksa will leave for India later this week for what is expected to be a tension filled visit as Tamil parties gather to protest the tour, the government’s media unit said here in a statement on Tuesday.
Rajapaksa will leave on Friday to visit Bodh Gaya in Bihar and Tirupati in Andhra Pradesh on Feb. 8, and is expected to meet the Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar during his visit to Bodh Gaya, according to the government’s media unit.
In the lead up to the visit, Tamil political parties in southern Indian state of Tami Nadu have vowed to protest Rajapaksa ‘s visit to India.
The Tamil Eelam Supporters Organization, a pro-Liberation Tamil Tigers of Eelam (LTTE) organization led by DMK party leader M. Karunanidhi, has announced it will wear black and stage a protest on Feb. 8 in Chennai against Rajapaksa’s India visit.
Other major political parties have also stated they will hold protests at various locations including outside Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s residence in New Delhi.
South Indian Tamils are highly critical of the Rajapaksa regime for alleged civilian deaths during the last phase of Sri Lanka’s civil war and inadequate reconciliation measures since the conflict ended in 2009.
The Sri Lankan government has consistently denied civilian deaths and insisted it is working on a political solution that would eventually devolve power to minority Tamils in the north and eastern provinces.
The LTTE was militarily defeated by government forces after a three decade war.
Courtesy: Xinhua
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These TN bigots are really bemoaning the total destruction of VP and the LTTE rank and file. They care little about civilian deaths, which were primarily caused by LTTE under orders from VP to wipe them out altogether if the SL army were to succeed in the Humanitarian Operation. The SL Tamil civilians were held as a human shield (a war crime by VP). The TN bigots never raised a wimper against VP then. When VP had Tamil school kids snatched from their schools and their mothers to be used as suicide bombers and gun fodder the TN bigots sided with VP. They now shed crocodile tears for so-called ‘civilian deaths’. The real civilian deaths are in Tamil Nadu itself due to mass utter poverty and starvation. The TN politcians have swept this terrible fact under the carpet.
He can’t go anywhere in this world, India, later Malaysia.
Where ever those TN idiots are in, have issues. So why again take a life risk, don’t visit.
Are we loosing anything if not visiting them?
Can’t we stand by our own, Can’t we have a stable and firm plan towards developed country by having proper vision?