Put more pressure on Tigers - TDNA tells Tamil Nadu

by our political correspondent

The Tamil Democratic National Alliance (TDNA) comprising the Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF), People’s Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam (PLOTE) and the Eelam People’s Revolutionary Liberation Front (Naba faction) has called upon the Tamil Nadu political fraternity to put more pressure on the LTTE to stop fighting and enter the political process instead of turning a blind eye towards the arrogant attitude of the outfit.

TULF leader Veerasingham Anandasangaree who heads the TDNA as well was commenting on the agitation campaign that was staged in Tamil Nadu with regard to the current situation in the Wanni. Anandasangaree told the Sunday Observer that Tamil Nadu politicians should act with utmost responsibility when they deal with the Sri Lankan issue. “The LTTE is solely responsible for the current humanitarian crisis in Kilinochchi and the rest of the Wanni. However, the outfit is giving a different picture to Tamil Nadu politicians. Innocent civilians are not allowed to get into safer areas. The LTTE has threatened those civilians in Kilinochchi and made them to remain as human shields. If the Tamil Nadu political fraternity and the Central Government of India are genuinely concerned about the safety of the innocent Tamils in the battle-hit areas in the north,they should bring more pressure on the LTTE politically to stop the clashes in the Wanni instead of pointing the finger only at the Government.

If the LTTE allows innocent civilians who are sandwiched between the warring sides in the Wanni to enter safer areas several innocent lives could be saved,”Anandasangaree said. The PLOTE leader Dharmalingam Sitharthan said that Tamil Nadu politicians must not get carried away by the false propaganda of the LTTE. “The LTTE is not allowing the Kilinochchi civilians to go into safer areas and shedding crocodile tears saying that the civilians are suffering without food or medicine. Therefore, the Tamil Nadu Government should bring more pressure on the LTTE in safeguarding helpless civilians who are trapped in the battle-hit areas,” Sitharthan said.

Meanwhile, the Tamil Nadu Government also arrested several agitators from various political parties who openly supported the LTTE in Chennai yesterday.