Lift the ban on LTTE: Dr Krishnasamy tels Indian Government

Puthiya Thamizhagam Party (PTP) President and former MLA Dr K Krishnasamy urged the Central and the Sri Lankan Government to lift the ban on Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam(LTTE).

Demanding that the ban on LTTE be lifted, Dr Krishnassamy said, Sri Lankan government has started returning to normalcy and LTTE Chief Prabakaran was eliminated, there is no reason to continue with the ban.

Krishnasamy further said, that a meeting would be organized in the city in the first week of April to explore the possibilities of achieving his claim legally.

The meeting, for which organizations and experts from all over the world would be invited, would co- incide with the parliamentary elections in Sri Lanka, Krishnasamy told reporters here on Friday.

He said Sri Lanka had begun to return to normalcy and hence there was no reason to continue with the ban.

The Indian government, which had already endorsed the Lankan government's view that the LTTE has been relegated, should also look into the matter, he urged.

The "needless" ban on LTTE was being used by the authorities to harass supporters of the Eelam cause, he argued, and added that he Tamils there would be able to assert their democratic rights only if the ban was lifted.

Referring to the attack on group of youth from Tamil Nadu who had gone for a job interview in Hyderabad, Krishnasamy said his party had been pointing out that the Tamils were unsafe all over the world. Even in the World Tamil's Safety confer- ence held in Coimbatore on February 6 and 7, the issue had been discussed and a resolution passed in this regard, he pointed out.

- Asian Tribune -