TN MPs lost golden opportunity to save one lakh Lankan Tamils: Poet Pulamaipithan

Chennai, December 24:
Had all the Tamil Nadu Members of Parliament stood firm on their resignations in October 2008, they as well as we would have saved more than a lakh innocent Tamils from death in Sri Lanka, pro-Tamil poet Pulamaipithan has said.
Addressing a gathering of people during the release of a book on massacres in Lankan Tamil areas from 1956 to 2008 here, Pulamaipithan said, “If those resignations by state MPs were not withdrawn in the last moment, the central government would have lost its chance to stay in power till May, thus not much help been sent to Sri Lanka to carry out its Tamils’ elimination mission.”
Not only the MPs were responsible for the death of more than a lakh innocent Tamils from October-2008 to May this year, we the seven crore Tamils living in the state were also equally responsible for the bloody massacre, he observed.
“If we think Lankan president Mahinda Rajapakse is alone the culprit for the mass extermination of innocent Tamils in the final days of Eelam War, we are wrong since we the Tamils in the state are also responsible for aiding it by silently let him to complete the task,” Pulamaipithan said.
Published in Tamil and English simultaneously on Thursday, the book comprehensively recounts 160 gory massacres including Veeramunai Massacre-1990, Saththrukkondan Massacre-1990, Vantharumoolai Massacre (Eastern University camp)-1990, Chemmani Massgraves-1996, Krishanthi-Rape and Murder-1996 and Bindunuwewa Rehabilitation Centre Carnage in 2000.
Manitham, a city-based human rights organisation, has published the book based on details compiled by a local NGO, North East Secretariat on Human Rights (NESoHR), operated from Kilinochchi.