CHENNAI: The U.S., China and Israel that helped Sri Lanka have the moral responsibility to prevail upon President Mahinda Rajapaksa to ensure constitutional guarantee of equality to Tamils, said Subramanian Swamy, Janata Party leader, on Wednesday.
Talking to reporters here, Dr. Swamy said India also could not shirk its responsibility as it had extended help to Sri Lanka. “Now that the LTTE is no longer in the picture we can go ahead and help the Tamils. There is a need to create an autonomous Tamil state.”
Dr. Swamy, who will be in the U.S. till August, decided to visit Washington to meet officials in charge of the South Asia and prevail upon them to put pressure on Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka was planning to create a military base in Katchatheevu and India should not allow it to happen. “It must warn Sri Lanka that it will not hesitate to cancel the Katchatheevu agreement if the country goes ahead with its plans,” he said. As regards the Sethusamudram project, he had written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asking him to issue a directive that the project be put on hold till all the analysis was done with regard to its environmental impact. Instead, the government could develop the Tuticorin Port into an international container port, connecting to Kolkata by a railway line along the coast.
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