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Pro-LTTE website attacks Karunanidhi

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Pro-LTTE website attacks Karunanidhi

By M.R. Narayan Swamy, Indo-Asian News Service

New Delhi, June 15 (IANS) A website that supports Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger guerrillas has come out with a stinging attack on Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Muthuvel Karunanidhi over his government's alleged support to the breakaway faction of Karuna.

In a hard-hitting commentary in Tamil, www.webeelam.com has accused the DMK government of allowing Karuna loyalists to recruit members from among Tamil civilians fleeing Sri Lanka to Tamil Nadu and called it a 'very big betrayal'. It has also warned ominously: 'This will not be forgiven by world Tamils.'

The website is one of the many that is either run by or closely linked to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), whose 2002 ceasefire with the Sri Lankan government is now on the brink of a formal collapse. The LTTE has accused Colombo of covertly backing Karuna, the Tigers' former regional commander who broke away in early 2004.

Attributing its information to 'highly reliable sources', the commentary has alleged that the Tamil Nadu government, which took office last month, had allowed a senior Karuna loyalist, Paranthan Rajan, to woo destitute Sri Lankan Tamils reaching Tamil Nadu with offers of money.

The commentary does not refer to Karunanidhi, one of India's seniormost politicians, by name and addresses him by his hugely popular title 'kalaingar' (artist).

Rajan heads the anti-LTTE Eelam National Democratic Liberation Front (ENDLF), which was a key member of the provincial administration in Sri Lanka's northeast when Indian troops were deployed there in the late 1980s.

After Karuna broke away from the LTTE, Rajan -- who has been based in India for long -- joined hands with him to form a new political group known as TMVP, which is registered with the Election Commission in Sri Lanka.

The commentary says that Rajan was jailed over a year ago when J. Jayalalitha was Tamil Nadu's chief minister but was eventually freed and returned to Sri Lanka with a promise not to return to the state.

According to the commentary, Rajan did come back to India but lived in Bangalore. He moved to Tamil Nadu following the regime change after the Karunanidhi-led alliance won the state elections.

The commentary says that allowing Rajan to recruit Tamils from refugee camps in Tamil Nadu is a 'very big betrayal' of 'Tamil people'.

Interestingly, the commentary gives a pat to Karunanidhi, saying he began his latest administration well with some radical measures but finds fault with the DMK veteran for supporting the Indian government decision to hike fuel prices.

The LTTE and Karunanidhi have for long enjoyed a love-hate relationship. LTTE chief Velupillai Prabhakaran avoided Karunanidhi during his 1983-87 stay in Tamil Nadu so as not to offend then chief minister M.G. Ramachandran or MGR.

However, after MGR's death in December 1987 and the outbreak of war with Indian troops, the LTTE cultivated Karunanidhi, who spoke out in favour of the Tigers and also refused to receive Indian troops when they returned home, stirring a huge row.

New Delhi sacked the DMK government in January 1991 on charges of failure to curb LTTE activities. In the state elections following former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's May 1991 assassination by the LTTE, the DMK was crushed. Since then both the DMK and Jayalalitha's AIADMK had distanced themselves from the Tamil Tigers.

In December last year, then Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayalalitha - who for years remained vocally anti-LTTE - refused to meet Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse on his way home from New Delhi. Last month, Karunanidhi - who for long had a soft corner for Tamil militancy - met Sri Lankan politician Arumugam Thondaman when he flew to Chennai as a special representative of Rajapakse.

http://in.news.yahoo.com//060615/43/6531p.html

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