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| PM ignores demands for Tamil Eelam in Sri Lanka |
| 2009-05-09 |
| Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today ruled out sending army to Sri Lanka and favoured solution to the problem of Tamils within a united and federal set up, ignoring demands voiced by parties in Tamil Nadu, including ally DMK, for a separate Tamil Eelam. On a short visit to the city, he looked up Chief Minister M Karunanidhi in the hospital and made it clear that DMK is Congress' ally in the elections and the alliance would be maintained. "What is possible and what is not possible, I think it is a matter of speculation. But quite frankly we are dealing with a sovereign state Sri Lanka, a sovereign country. It is not so easy to march armies to a sovereign state," he told a press conference here. He was replying to a question on AIADMK chief's Jayalalithaa's remarks that if a government of her choice comes to power after the elections, it would send army to Sri Lanka for creation of a separate Tamil Eelam state. With AIADMK and its allies PMK and MDMK raising the stakes on the Eelam issue, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi also joined the bandwagon for a separate homeland for Tamils in Sri Lanka. "There is such thing as international law and all those constraints I think are known to all those who are making tall promises," he said in an apparent reference to Jayalalithaa's recent election speeches |
| Posted by:john frum |