Coimbatore, Oct 5 (ANI): Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (MDMK) Chief V. Gopalswamy, also known as Vaiko has slammed the Sri Lankan government for oppressing and colonising its Tamil minority community.
Talking to reporters here, Vaiko termed the Sri Lankan government as 'racist' and accused them of committing mass genocide against the Tamils.
"The Sri Lankan racist government is deliberately trying to strangulate the Tamil race. Therefore the state aided colonisation is being continued. In the traditional Tamil areas, the Sinhalese are brought and settled there, therefore the Tamil race which has been subjected to genocide, barbaric genocidal attacks by the Sri Lankan armed forces. The Sri Lankan racist government should be put in the dock," said Vaiko.
He also criticised the Indian government for assisting the Sri Lankan government in the mass genocide and urged the International Criminal Court to take action against the federal governments of both the countries.
"We will never forgive the betrayal of the Union government of India. Their assistance to the Sri Lankan government, which committed the crime of genocide, should be put in the dock of the International Criminal Court," he added.
The Sri Lankan government had crushed the LTTE in May 2009 after the latter waged a war against the government, which lasted for almost twenty-five years.
They demanded the creation of a separate state for the Tamil minority, which represented about 15 percent of the island nation's 21 million people. (ANI)
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