Chennai: DMK working president M.K. Stalin on Sunday punched holes in CM Palaniswami’s statement that the DMK’s effort to bring down the AIADMK government had failed.
“They are themselves toppling their government,” Stalin said in an apparent reference to the split in AIADMK, with Palaniswami and his predecessor O.Panneerselvam leading two factions amid perceived efforts by party Deputy General Secretary T.T.V. Dhinakaran to assert his position.
Mr Stalin has been accusing the Edappadi Palaniswami Government of “ignoring the interests of the people” and showing eagerness only in continuing in power.
Writes to UN
Stalin sought the intervention of a UN Human Rights organisation to “protect” the rights of Sri Lankan Tamils living in the island nation. In his letter to katy Gilmore, UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, Stalin alleged “serious human rights violations” by the Sri Lankan armed forces during the peaking of hostilities in 2009.
Even after the UN intervention for independent and credible investigation into war crimes, Sri Lanka has not done anything in this regard, he alleged and charged the Lankan army with having “encroached” a large part of land in Tamil dominated areas even as all “human rights covenants” have been violated by that government.
