Help ease suffering, TNA urges India

CHENNAI: The Tamil National Alliance in Sri Lanka has made a fervent appeal to India to step in and save ethnic Tamils who are facing atrocities at the hands of the majority Sinhalese in the island nation.TNA MP Suresh Premachandran, addressing a CPM-organised conference here on Saturday,  highlighted the mental agony of lakhs of ethnic Tamils living in the North and Eastern parts of Sri Lanka.When India and other countries were able to end the 30-year-old bloody conflict in the country, why can’t they end the sufferings of innocent Tamils, who are denied equal rights by fellow Sinhalese?” he asked.They are also ill-treated by the Lankan military though the war ended two year ago, he said. “Ethnic Tamils living in North and Eastern part of the nation are in deep trouble as they are slowly loosing their identity due to continuous ‘Sinhalisation’ of Tamil territories,” the TNA MP said.India should not leave the Lankan Tamils to perish at the hands of Sinhalese majority, he said adding that it has has a moral obligation to save them from the “brutal regime”, which uses every available means to delay equal rights to them.“If India leaves the ethnic Tamils to die for equal rights in the island nation, then who else would help us?” he asked.