Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Indian Tamils safe in Sri Lanka despite war, says visitor

Ignatius Pereira

Indian Tamils have little or no contact with Sri Lankan Tamils, says

Xavier Joseph.


(TH)KOLLAM: The war between Sri Lankan forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) has in no way created any problem for the Tamils of Indian origin in that country, says Xavier Joseph, who stayed there for 20 days in January.

Mr. Joseph, 50, belongs to one of the 700 Tamil families from Sri Lanka rehabilitated at Kulathupuzha, near here, under the Sirimavo-Shastri agreement of October 1964. Full Text