AIADMK manifesto annexure assures probe into SL genocide

CHENNAI: The AIADMK has now crossed the seas in making its poll promises saying it would get the Indian government to speed up an international probe into the Tamil massacre towards the end of Eelam war in 2009 in Sri Lanka.

Colombo had already ruled out any international intervention and so it's a moot question as to how the regional party can get Delhi to get the international community to move on this. The party reiterated that it would seek a credible international probe into alleged human rights violations in Sri Lanka during the three-decade long ethnic conflict.

Blaming the Congress-DMK combine for the genocide in Sri Lanka during the final phase of the ethnic war, the party said it would urge the government of India, United Nations and international communities to press for a credible international probe into human rights violations, war crimes and genocide in Sri Lanka.

In its 10-page annexure to the manifesto released on March 18, the party said the then Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa, during his visit to India in 2018, had confessed that "but for the support of the then government of India (then UPA regime), we would have not won the war against Tamil Eelam freedom fighters."

This open confession about the cruel truth behind the success of Sri Lankan army over Tamil Eelam fighters has brought to light the hidden conspiracy of the Congress and the DMK in regard to the annihilation of the Eelam Tamils, it said. The party said it would urge the union government to impress upon the UN for a referendum on various demands of the Eelam Tamils and also for devolution of administrative powers to Tamil dominated areas.

The UNHRC had on Thursday approved giving Sri Lanka two more years to set up a credible war crimes investigation into the island nation's civil war.
International rights groups have accused the military of killing 40,000 Tamil civilians in the final months of the war. The government of the time said not one civilian was killed. The AIADMK had said the 'decimation' of lakhs of Tamils in the final stages of the civil war, particularly in Mullivaikal, "remains a burden in the conscience of Tamils all over the world."

Other poll assurances include linking the Godavari-Cauvery rivers and steps to release the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case convicts. Social media and critics have already pointed out all the players in the April 18 poll battle have made and are making ridiculous and undeliverable poll promises in the hope that the Tamil voter would remain gullible.