DMK leader T.R. Baalu on Thursday wanted the government to ensure the passage of the U.N. resolution against Sri Lanka at the Human Rights Council in Geneva.
Initiating the short-duration discussion in the Lok Sabha, Mr. Baalu demanded that those guilty of war crimes in Sri Lanka should be taken to the International Court of Justice to “give some solace to the victims.”
“India should not be lukewarm. It should have a clear-cut approach on the issue at the U.N.,” he said.
“Twenty five years have passed since the Rajiv Gandhi-Jayawardene accord was signed, but it has not been implemented so far,” he noted. “Genocide” of Tamils in the war and atrocities against them had not yet stopped.
Besides mass killings and rapes, Tamil language and culture were being targeted as shown in the change of names of a large number of villages in the Tamil-dominated areas of the island nation, he said, adding that the war criminals must be punished in the same way as those convicted for similar crimes in Bosnia, Syria and other places by the International Court of Justice.
M. Thambidurai (AIADMK) also said that though the Rajiv Gandhi-Jayawardene accord was signed in 1987, India could not ensure its implementation till now. Implementation of the 13th Amendment that gave more powers to provincial councils was part of it.
Dayanidhi Maran (DMK) said eight crore Tamils were looking up to the Centre on what decision it was going to take. India was the biggest force in the region and the country should act decisively on the issue.
1.The DMK (floor) leader of the DMK MPs, Thiru.Baalu’s expressed
concerns like :"Genocide” of Tamils in the war and atrocities against
them had not yet stopped.Besides mass killings and rapes, Tamil
language and culture were being targeted as shown in the change of
names of a large number of villages in the Tamil-dominated areas of
the island nation, he said, adding that the war criminals must be
punished in the same way as those convicted for similar crimes in
Bosnia, Syria and other places by the International Court of Justice."
are fully justified. This much of work by his party is needed in
parliament and appreciated inasmuch as his party is a constituent of
the current UPA of which Tmt.Sonia Gandhi is the chairperson and her
husband was a victim of brutal murder as a fall out of Eezham
politics. The UPA government need this much of goading by a
constituent of it
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