LTTE was hasty in its strategy: Karunanidhi


(The Hindu, CHENNAI, novembre 17, 2009) - The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) did not take into account future consequences while implementing its war strategy, Chief Minister and Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam president M. Karunanidhi said on Tuesday.

Recalling the LTTE’s call to Tamils for boycott of the 2005 presidential elections, Mr Karunanidhi, in a statement, said that SLFP leader Mahinda Rajapaksa had defeated UNP leader Ranil Wickramasinghe by a margin of about 1.81 lakh votes and that seven lakh Tamils in Sri Lanka did not cast their votes. Mr Wickramasinghe had then promised the electors that he would give priority to peace talks with the LTTE in the event of his election.

“Who would know our silent pain while we reflect over the outcomes of the hasty political action?” he wondered. More …

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One Response to “LTTE was hasty in its strategy: Karunanidhi”

  1. sangar - November 19th, 2009 at 5:44 am

    Karunanithy is talking nonsence. Rainil Wikramasinge was responsiblle to buy over karuna from LTTE and casued a spilt in the LTTE. He was not keen to solve the problems even though LTTE was willing to accept a federal form of goverment in SRILANKA, but the sinhalese was adnament on unilateral goverment. Both Ranil and Rajapaxa are sinhalese chavinists who does not want to give equal rights to Tamils in Sri Lanka.

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