LTTE chief to be handed to India if captured: Lanka Prez

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Posted online: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 at 03:03:08
Updated: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 at 03:19:19

Colombo, January 23: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse has promised to hand over V Prabhakaran to India to face trial in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case if the elusive LTTE supremo is captured.

In the event of Prabhakaran getting caught, he would be tried for offences in the island country and then handed over to India for trial over the killing of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, he said during an interaction with foreign correspondents in Colombo.

Gandhi was killed by a woman Tiger suicide bomber during electioneering in Sriperumbudur near Chennai on May 21, 1991.

Rajapakse also said there was no need to ban the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) as of now though the options are always open.

The LTTE is not banned in Sri Lanka, though India, the US and the EU have proscribed the outfit.

Asked why the government was not keen to allow foreign observers in the rebel-dominated areas, the Sri Lankan President quipped "but India can go there".

He agreed that international pressure on the LTTE, especially the declaration of the Tigers as the most dangerous group by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, has helped the Sri Lankan government.

"We welcome that statement from FBI," he said.

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Sri Lanka will become another Pakistan by Bharat on 23 Jan 2008

Sri Lanka will become another Pakistan. Sri Lankan govt is living in illusion that by killing or capturing LTTE chief they will crush the Tamil movements of 25 years. By kiling LTTE head, Sri Lanka will put real fire in the island, which will lead to partition of the country. Tamil movement is not simply run by few cadres of LTTE, every Tamils support the movement. Every Tamils worship Prabhakaran, as their saviour. I wish Sri Lanka govt come to a good sense and try to solve the problem by talk and negotiations. Else, become another Pakistan Afghanistan type country and keep killing each others.

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