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AFTER BEING ASHAMED BY THE KILLINGS OF FISHERMEN VAIKO AGAIN CLIMBS LTTE PLATFORM TO PROTEST ABOUT RADARS

By Walter Jayawardhana

The black scarf wearing General Secretary of the Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (MDMK) Vaiko has been relatively silent unlike in his usual loud praise for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in the past few months after it was revealed by the Tamil Nadu police that his political allies were the real culprits for the killing of five and abduction of 12 Tamil Nadu fishermen.

After getting egg all over his face by falsely blaming Sri Lanka on the fishermen’s tragedy that followed a period of silence once again counting on the short memory of voters he is loudly protesting on behalf of the Tamil Tigers, whom he describes as the representatives of the Tamil people and telling in a letter written to Prime Minister Man Mohan Singh that it was wrong on his part to allow sale of radars to Sri Lanka as a defense against the nascent air force of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.( LTTE).

In a letter to the Prime Minster he said selling radars to Sri Lanka is a betrayal of the Sri Lankan Tamils and demanded that the sales should be immediately stopped and India should take back all the radars so far sold. Taking advantage of the lack of radar system the LTTE bombed Sri Lanka's capital forcing its only international airport to close at night for months.

"I am terribly shocked that India is continuing the supply of radars to the Sri Lankan Air Force, which strafed and bombed and killed thousands of innocent men, women and children of Tamils all these years," Vaiko said in his letter written to the Indian Prime Minister.

"Though India did not sign the Indo-Sri Lankan defense cooperation pact in 2004 …….. I am pained to charge that India is clandestinely operating as a silent partner of a military pact," Vaiko charged.

Vaiko said that he understood from 'reliable sources' that India had supplied more radars, first in January and then in June, and he asked "Is it a reward by the Centre to Sri Lanka for the Chencholai massacre (in which 61 Tamil girls were killed) in August 2006?"

Vaiko was commenting on the Sri Lanka Air Force bombing of a military training school where school children had been coerced by the LTTE to join and train themselves in combat warfare. LTTE has been a long culprit named by the UN Children’s fund and other human rights organizations for their recruitment of children for war. Vaiko has been silent over such crimes against

Tamil children by the LTTE. He does not mind Tamil children are being kidnapped from schools ,homes , playgrounds and temple festivals to be forcibly recruited as child soldiers.

Vaiko attacking his political opponent , Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi said political parties, particularly constituents of the Tamil Nadu government, should bear the responsibility for the "betrayal." The breakaway DMK man uses every conceivable opportunity to grab power from the aging Chief Minister who is entrenched in dynastic politics.

Meanwhile the Indian Defense web said, “After a gap of a year, India has sent more radars to Sri Lanka to help it ward off the threat of airborne attacks by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), Defence Ministry sources said. India had resumed non-lethal military aid to Sri Lanka with the supply of two indigenous radars in 2005. This year in January it sent another military radar to Sri Lanka which was followed by the dispatch of a similar radar in June. The radars were sent on behalf of the Indian Air Force, the sources said”. Vaiko is worried about those. For a long time his critics have been charging that his political outfit is on the payroll of the LTTE.

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