A Brief Colonial History Of Ceylon(SriLanka)
Sri Lanka: One Island Two Nations
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Sri Lanka: One Island Two Nations
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Thiranjala Weerasinghe sj.- One Island Two Nations
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UNHRC vote: Vasan joins Chidambaram in protest
March 30, 2014
Close on the heels of Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram expressing
the view that India should have supported the U.N. Human Rights Council
resolution against Sri Lanka, Union Shipping Minister G.K. Vasan on
Sunday said he was “agonised and shocked” by the country’s abstention.
Speaking to reporters here at the State Congress headquarters in the
presence of TNCC president B.S. Gnanadesikan and senior leader Jayanthi
Natarajan, Mr. Vasan said he had conveyed the sentiments of Congress
leaders and the people of Tamil Nadu on the issue to the Prime
Minister’s Office and the External Affairs Ministry.
“India’s abstention has caused agony and shock for a majority of
Congress leaders and workers in the State. There could be no two
opinions on the serious human rights violations that took place in Sri
Lanka [in the last leg of the military conflict during 2009],” the
Minister said.
‘Opinion not shaped by polls’
Mr. Vasan, however, added that the Congress always accorded top priority to the interests of the Sri Lankan Tamil community. “Unlike other political parties, the opinion of the Congress is not shaped by elections,” he clarified.
Mr. Vasan, however, added that the Congress always accorded top priority to the interests of the Sri Lankan Tamil community. “Unlike other political parties, the opinion of the Congress is not shaped by elections,” he clarified.
When asked about the DMK chief, M. Karunanidhi’s remarks that his party
was prepared to support the Congress after the elections if the party
“regretted its mistakes,” Mr. Vasan said the Congress was happy at the
opportunity provided to the party to contest alone in the coming
election.