DMK, a key ally of the Congress led UPA at the Centre, on Friday insisted that India should support the US-sponsored resolution demanding an international investigation against Sri Lanka over alleged war crimes in United Nations Human Rights Council and said it would “not compromise on anything less than a full support”.
DMK Parliamentary party leader T.R. Baalu called on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to prevail upon him to support the resolution moved by countries such as US, France and Norway. Mr Baalu met Mr Singh a day after his party chief M. Karunanidhi demanded that India should not back Sri Lanka though Colombo had claimed its support.
During the discussion which lasted for 20 minutes, Baalu categorically reiterated the statement made by Karunanidhi that DMK “will not compromise (on) anything less than a full support of the resolution brought by US, France and Norway at UNHRC”, a release from Baalu’s office said.
The sentiments of Tamils across the world and the demands of Mr Karunanidhi were conveyed by Mr Baalu during his meeting with Mr Singh, the release added.
Mr Karunanidhi had said on Wednesday that India should not back Sri Lanka at any cost when the UNHRC resolution comes up for voting, while recalling DMK’s resolution adopted at its high-level committee meeting in April, stressing that Sri Lanka should be tried for alleged war crimes.
The island nation’s special human rights envoy Mahinda Samarasinghe had recently claimed that Sri Lanka has received India’s full backing against the US-sponsored motion on alleged human rights abuses by its army during the war against LTTE.