Tuesday, January 6, 2009

“Our support to Sri Lankan Tamils to protect the language”

Staff Reporter
Not many takers for Economics, History and Tamil, says Radhika Selvi

PUDUKOTTAI: The support extended to the cause of Sri Lankan Tamils by the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam reflected its responsibility for protecting Tamil in the long run, Union Minister of State for Home V. Radhika Selvi said.

Ms. Selvi said that the elimination of a language would be an achievable matter through the massacre of the people speaking that tongue. Ethnic violence being meted out on the Sri Lankan Tamils would result in the disappearance of Tamil language in the long run. “We have been raising our voice only to check elimination of Tamil from that region,” she said delivering the convocation address at the J.J. College of Arts and Science here on Sunday. Full Text