Wednesday, February 11, 2009

TN parties shift focus over Lankan issue

(February 10, Chennai, Sri Lanka Guardian) Volumes have been spoken by political parties in Tamilnadu requesting the Centre to stop the war in Sri Lanka. Now that reports from the island nation claiming that the government forces are on the verge of ‘finishing off’ the LTTE with ‘the support of India’, it seems that there is a ‘sudden vacuum’ over the issue in the State.

Now, the focus is turned on saving the lives of people, who are caught in the crossfire between the army and LTTE, rather than projecting the Tigers as the ultimate protectors of Lankan Tamils and urging the government to invite them for talks. Full Text