Tamil expats take LTTE's henchmen to task
Plans for a 'Transnational State' by the now defunct
LTTE - their henchmen such as Kumaran Pathmanathan and V. Rudrakumar
came under severe criticism by a majority of Sri Lankan Tamil
expatriates according to the DAN (Dish Asia Network) TV station based in
Paris. The Chairman of DAN S.S. Kuganathan told the Sunday Observer that
a survey was conducted by his television on the collapse of the LTTE and
the plans by the outfit's henchmen to create a 'Transnational State' was
conducted in Europe and the Middle East last week among Tamil
expatriates.
More than ninety percent of the DAN viewers who had
participated in the survey and expressed their views had severely
criticised the LTTE and the future plans of its henchmen to create a
'Transnational State', according to Kuganathan. "We first broadcast
Kumaran Pathmanathan's announcement of his 'Transnational State' and
invited the viewers to comment on it.
The viewers castigated Kumaran Pathmanathan saying to
leave their people to live in peace and to get lost instead of meddling
with the lives of innocent civilians in the North and East,"Kuganathan
said. One of the viewers said that the expatriate Tamils had been misled
by the LTTE and its stooges for decades and that their sole motive was
collecting money and nothing else. The expatriates said that the need of
the hour for their kith and kin is the resettlement and peaceful living
in their original places.
The expatriates also expressed their support to the
initiatives taken by the Government of President Mahinda Rajapaksa in
rebuilding the war-torn North.
Another viewer said that by carrying out a separatist
war in Sri Lanka the LTTE had shattered the lives of a countless number
of Tamils and now by attempting to continue with their activities in
exile the outfit's henchmen were trying to make the lives of the
expatriates miserable abroad, Kuganathan said.
Courtesy : The Sunday Observer |
