Coimbatore, Jan 12 (ANI): The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) has urged the Central Government to intervene in the Sri Lankan issue to protect the Tamil people in that island nation.
This was disclosed by Brinda Karat, politburo member of CPI (M) while ddressing news conference here on Sunday.
She reiterated the party's stand that New Delhi should hold talks witholombo.
"We have been urging the government of India to take all necessary steps to protect the security in the interest of Tamil people. We have been urging them to intervene with the Sri Lankan Government to protect the Tamil people. However, we would not like our concern for the interest of the Tamil people to be misused or utilized by anybody or any forces who in any ay support the terrorist activities of LTTE in Sri Lanka," said Karat.
"We also strongly support the political demand for autonomy of the entire region where the Tamil people reside in Sri Lanka. We believe a political solution based on the autonomy of that region must be found within the framework of United Sri Lanka," added Karat.
Sri Lankan troops fought toward the shrinking strongholds of the separatist Tamil Tiger rebels on Sunday, the military said, seeking a crushing battlefield victory to end one of Asia's longest insurgent ground wars.
The military said it had killed at least 24 rebels after a series of confrontations on Saturday in the small northeastern wedge of jungle, which is all that is left of the Tigers' self-proclaimed state.
Soldiers seized Kilinochchi, which the rebels had dubbed their capital, on January 2 and a week later ran the LTTE out of Elephant Pass, which had been in rebel hands since 2000.
Both major victories have cleared the way for soldiers to converge on the port of Mullaittivu with the aim of ending the 25-year ground war. (ANI)
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