'Will find my Lankan Tamil dream girl' --- Seeman

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By G Saravanan

Published in The New Indian Express, Chennai on June 5, 2011:

Source:http://expressbuzz.com/cities/chennai/will-find-my-lankan-tamil-dream-girl/281252.html

CHENNAI: Even as he battles a raging allegation of rape by a woman actor, Tamil film director and leader of Naam Thamilar Katchi, Seeman, seems to be busy searching for his Lankan Tamil dream girl that he had met in Vanni area of northern Sri Lanka almost about six years ago.

Speaking to Express after a news article was published in some sections of the international media on his impending marriage with a former LTTE cadre, Seeman said, "During my visit to the Vanni region in northern Lanka around six years ago, I saw Yarlmathy and wanted to marry her to fulfil my Tamil national consciousness."

"However, after the final phase of Eelam War, nobody is aware of her whereabouts, whether she is living in any of the internally displaced camps or she died during the raging war," Seeman said.

"Though it has been several years since I saw her, the search is on and I will be marrying her once she is located," affirmed Seeman.

A news article published from Canada by DBS Jeyaraj elaborated that Seeman had rescued her from one of the Lankan camps after the war and 'shifted' her to India.

Rubbishing the article published by Jeyaraj, TADA Chandrasekar, a long time friend of Seeman and a senior lawyer, said, "We also read the news and there is no truth in it and as usual, Jeyaraj published wrong and unsubstantiated news."

Another close friend of Seeman, who wished to remain anonymous, said that there was a concerted campaign taking place to tarnish Seeman's image both locally and internationally.

According to available information, Yarlmathy had worked with the LTTE Peace Secretariat and headed the English section there. She got married to one Alex, a deputy to senior LTTE leader S P Thamilselvan, in mid2007. Both Thamilselvan and Alex died in Lankan Air Force's aerial attack in November 2007.

After the allout war between Lankan forces and the LTTE ended, there were conflicting versions emerging about Yarlmathi's whereabouts.

Some unconfirmed reports indicated that the girl was last seen in one of the camps for internally displaced people set up by the Lankan government to accommodate people living in the LTTE-controlled areas.