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Venkat Parsa New Delhi: The Congress-led UPA Government is in a bind, amid growing protests over the Sri Lankan Tamils issue. A day after DMK...
Venkat Parsa 
New Delhi: The Congress-led UPA Government is in a bind, amid growing protests over the Sri Lankan Tamils issue. A day after DMK supremo M Karunanidhi has threatened to pull out of the Cabinet, signalling that it will be meaningless to continue if its demand is not met, the CPM on Saturday upped its ante against the Government and supported the DMK demand for a high-level inquiry. The DMK, with 18 MPs, is the second-largest party in the UPA, next only to the Congress, and if it chooses to pull out of the Cabinet, it could impact the stability of the Government. Union Minister of State in PMO V Narayanasami on Saturday said, "A final decision on the US resolution on the issue will be taken, keeping in mind the emotions of the people of Tamil Nadu." So far, the Government has been non-committal over its stand on the extremely emotive issue of Sri Lankan Tamils, maintaining that it will decide its position based on the wording of the resolution. Recent photos released by Channel 4 in the UK, suggesting that the 12-year-old-son of slain LTTE supremo V Prabhakaran was executed by Sri Lankan forces, has turned the issue into an emotive one. The Sri Lankan Government claims the photos are morphed. Echoing the DMK demand, the CPM Politburo stated, "At the UN Human Rights Council meeting, the Government of India should take the stand that the Sri Lankan government should agree to a high-level, credible and independent inquiry on the allegations of war-crimes committed during the last phase of the civil war." The DMK has also demanded that the Government should amend the US resolution to ensure that those responsible for genocide are identified and an independent international probe is launched against the war criminals within a specified timeframe. The CPM claimed that though four years have passed since the end of hostilities between Sri Lankan army and LTTE, no meaningful steps have been taken to address the issues of atrocities committed during the last phase of the war. The party has insisted that enough evidence exists about war crimes against innocent civilians. The CPM expressed concern that Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has declared that no autonomy will be given to Tamil-speaking areas. By this, he has gone back from his own stand that something more than the 13th Amendment to the Constitution can be provided in terms of devolution of power to the Tamil-speaking region.
New Delhi: The Congress-led UPA Government is in a bind, amid growing protests over the Sri Lankan Tamils issue. A day after DMK supremo M Karunanidhi has threatened to pull out of the Cabinet, signalling that it will be meaningless to continue if its demand is not met, the CPM on Saturday upped its ante against the Government and supported the DMK demand for a high-level inquiry. The DMK, with 18 MPs, is the second-largest party in the UPA, next only to the Congress, and if it chooses to pull out of the Cabinet, it could impact the stability of the Government. Union Minister of State in PMO V Narayanasami on Saturday said, "A final decision on the US resolution on the issue will be taken, keeping in mind the emotions of the people of Tamil Nadu." So far, the Government has been non-committal over its stand on the extremely emotive issue of Sri Lankan Tamils, maintaining that it will decide its position based on the wording of the resolution. Recent photos released by Channel 4 in the UK, suggesting that the 12-year-old-son of slain LTTE supremo V Prabhakaran was executed by Sri Lankan forces, has turned the issue into an emotive one. The Sri Lankan Government claims the photos are morphed. Echoing the DMK demand, the CPM Politburo stated, "At the UN Human Rights Council meeting, the Government of India should take the stand that the Sri Lankan government should agree to a high-level, credible and independent inquiry on the allegations of war-crimes committed during the last phase of the civil war." The DMK has also demanded that the Government should amend the US resolution to ensure that those responsible for genocide are identified and an independent international probe is launched against the war criminals within a specified timeframe. The CPM claimed that though four years have passed since the end of hostilities between Sri Lankan army and LTTE, no meaningful steps have been taken to address the issues of atrocities committed during the last phase of the war. The party has insisted that enough evidence exists about war crimes against innocent civilians. The CPM expressed concern that Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has declared that no autonomy will be given to Tamil-speaking areas. By this, he has gone back from his own stand that something more than the 13th Amendment to the Constitution can be provided in terms of devolution of power to the Tamil-speaking region.
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