CHENNAI: Praises for LTTE chief V Prabhakaran, abuses for UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, Chief Minister M Karunanidhi and Sri Lankan president Rajapakse, a demand for lifting the ban on the Tigers in India and a call for the people of Tamil Nadu to come forward to take up the cause of Tamil Eelam marked the rally organised by Sri Lankan Tamils Protection Movement here on Thursday.
A number of speakers at the rally declared that LTTE leader Prabhakaran was not killed as claimed by the Sri Lankan army and that he was “very much alive’’. “Prabakaran is alive and Tamil Eelam, the dream of the Tamils in Lanka, will definitely become a reality,” MDMK general secretary Vaiko, said while urging the Indian government to lift the ban on the Tigers. P Nedumaran, coordinator of the movement, said that Prabhakaran would re-appear at an appropriate time and further the cause of Tamil Eelam like Vietnam leader Ho-Si-Min.
Recalling the history of the ethnic crisis in Lanka, the peace talks brokered by Norway, and the Army intensifying its war after LTTE refused to surrender, Vaiko said that until the Vajpayee government was there at the Centre till 2004, no arms was supplied to Lanka. But it started in full swing after the UPA government assumed office.
Vaiko flayed the print and the electronic media, especially those based in Delhi for spreading disinformation campaign that the Lankan forces had shot dead the LTTE Chief while he was trying to flee. Asking Rajapakse not to be happy over the present situation, Vaiko said “the Tamils throughout the world will take revenge on you’’.
PMK founder S Ramadoss said the credit for converting the Tamil Eelam issue a global one would now go to Rajapakse. He said everyone in Tamil Nadu should take the issue forward by generating awareness among the students and others.
Hundreds of supporters of Prabhakaran holding the placards with the portraits of the LTTE chief took part in the rally raising slogans against the UPA government at the Centre. CPI State secretary D Pandian, senior CPI leader Nallakannu, Sri Lankan MP Sivajilingam, film director Seeman, traders body chief T Vellaiyan and M Natarajan, editor, Puthiya Parvai were among those who took part in the rally.