'Government should allow team to enable it to hold a “fair” investigation'
File photo of M Thambidurai
New Delhi: AIADMK on Friday raised the issue in Parliament of the denial of visas to a United Nations team probing human rights violations in Sri Lanka to visit India. The party’s Parliamentary Party leader M Thambidurai asked the Union government to allow the team to enable it to hold a “fair” investigation into allegations of war crimes.
Raising the issue during Zero Hour in Lok Sabha, Thambidurai said the government led by the BJP should be sympathetic towards the cause of Sri Lankan Tamils. “The Hon’ble Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu has written a letter to the Prime Minister yesterday regarding this issue. There are media reports, which say the UN team has been denied to visit India. A large number of (Sri Lankan) refugees are still in India,” he said.
The AIADMK MP said the Tamil Nadu Assembly has passed a resolution in this regard and “we thought that the NDA would be sympathetic towards Tamils cause”. He demanded that the government grant visas to the team to visit India so that they can carry out a fair investigation into war crimes committed during the last phase of the civil war.
( Source : dc correspondent )
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