Nedumaran condemns 'hue and cry' over website

By Our Special Correspondent

CHENNAI, DEC. 13. While the controversial website on the Tamil extremist outfit, Tamil National Liberation Army, has been updated with the latest pictures of ``Brigadier Veerappan'' and ``Major Sethukuli Govindan'' saluting the TNLA flag, the Tamil Nationalist Movement leader, Mr. P. Nedumaran, has criticised the ``hue and cry'' raised by some political leaders over the website.

The website now displays a clear picture of the TNLA flag, a photograph of the TNLA leader, Maran, besides a flag of their ``Vishala Tamil Nadu (Greater Tamil Nadu).''

Interestingly, the ``explosive'' warfare manual on how to make bombs and kill people with bare hands has been delinked from the site, with a message, ``temporary down.''

Meanwhile, Mr. Nedumaran, who played an emissary to forest brigand Veerappan to secure the release of the Kannada actor, Mr. Rajkumar, said in a statement it was wrong to allege that the website had been recently created by the TNLA which had teamed up with Veerappan in the forests.

The organisation mentioned in the website, TNLF, had no links with the TNLA, he said, adding that the AIADMK and the Congress were raising an alarm ``without realising it.''

He claimed that the website made no appeal to the people to vote for the DMK for the creation of Greater Tamil Nadu.

On the other hand, it only appealed to vote for the Dravidian parties, which included the AIADMK, for the unity of Dalits and Dravidians.

The intention of the website was to carve out a separate nation comprising non-Brahmins such as Sudrastan, Dalitstan, Dravidastan and Mughalstan, he claimed.

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