Tuesday, January 6, 2009

India has always demanded Prabhakaran's extradition: Menon

(yahoo)New Delhi, Jan 5 (IANS) India has consistently urged Sri Lanka to extradite Tamil Tiger chief V. Prabhakaran, an accused in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon said here Monday.

'We have consistently demanded the extradition of Prabhakaran… this is a request we have renewed repeatedly,' Menon told reporters.

Asked to comment on the advances being made by Sri Lankan forces in key Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) bastions, Menon said while the military situation may vary from time to time, India advocated a political solution to the decades-old ethnic conflict. Full Text