TIRUNELVELI/CHENNAI: MDMK general secretary Vaiko on Wednesday said India had made a mistake by voting in support of Sri Lanka in the resolution passed at the UN Human Rights Council.
Speaking at a marriage function at the MDMK legal wing secretary Subburathnam’s family in Tirunelveli, Vaiko asserted that LTTE chief Prabhakaran was still alive.
For the last five months, 1,45,000 Tamils had been killed in Sri Lanka and 3,50,000 people were living in unsafe conditions.
The betrayal by the Indian government had caused immense grief to them, he said.
The Sri Lankan Government was giving contradictory information regarding Prabhakaran. His father Velupillai was alive,and why they had not conducted a DNA test, Vaiko questioned.
Vaiko said that he was not worried about having lost the election.``Money has won the election and democracy has been temporarily destroyed. But as people have very many needs, I cannot criticize them. The DMK and the Congress distributed money in the State and Tamil Nadu should be rescued from this money culture,” Vaiko added.
Sri Lankan MP Sivajilingam and others were present.
Meanwhile, Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK) leader Thol Thirumavalavan said in Chennai on Thursday that LTTE supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran would soon emerge from his hideouts to lead the fifth phase of ethnic war in Lanka, all for securing a separate land for the island Tamils.
He was addressing a party gathering after a mammoth rally and payinghomage to the LTTE frontliners who had embraced a Martyr’s death at a makeshift memorial erected in their honour near the Chepauk Guest House in the city.
However, his remarks had come as a surprise to many at a time when the killing of Prabhakaran had been confirmed by a top LTTE intelligence source, of course after a considerable watch and wait at the global level.
Thirumavalavan alleged that AIADMK general secretary J Jayalaithaa had not been so vocal on the Lankan Tamils’ issue after the elections and this had given credence to her anti-LTTE stance all these years.
He also said that he wanted to fight a separate political battle with the help of all pro-LTTE groups in the state. But it did not fructify when the Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (MDMK), PMK and the Left parties had aligned with the AIADMK to fight the Lok Sabha elections, he added.
He claimed that Prabhakaran had the gusto to take on the Sinhala Army despite the military support extended to the island government by the world nations like India, China, Pakistan, Russia, the US, the UK and Bangladesh.
A resolution adopted at the end of the rally wanted the trial of Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa before the International War Crimes Tribunal for the genocide of innocent island Tamils.