Sri Lankan Tamil MPs meet Narayanan, Menon

(by J. Balaji, Hindu, 17 04 2009) - NEW DELHI: A four-member Sri Lankan Tamil MPs team, led by R. Sambandan and belonging to the Tamil National Alliance (TNA), called on National Security Adviser M.K. Narayanan and Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon here, seeking India’s intervention in the ongoing civil war in the island nation.

They wanted New Delhi to urge the Sri Lankan government to announce a ceasefire and help innocent civilians to leave the conflict zone.

The delegation was assured by India that “some action will be taken immediately,” according to Mr. Sambandan. The MPs, who had come here on India’s invitation, are also likely to call on External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee. More …

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McDonagh on Sri Lanka
at the British Labor Party
conference

"Next time you want to buy underwear from Marks & Spencer, you want to buy a t-shirt from Next, you want to go on a holiday of a lifetime in a beautiful island off the coast off India - Do you really want to spend your money on a government that chooses to lock 300,000 people up behind barbed-wire.

A country that is the most dangerous in the world to be a journalist.

A country where we can see on Channel 4 News, young men, naked and bound shot at close range.

Is that what we want for our money, for our democracy?

I ask you to not only support the emergency resolution on Sri Lanka but to use your money and not prop up that government,"

Damilvany Gnanakumar
witnessed the bloody conflict
from a Vanni hospital