Tuesday, April 16, 2019

AIADMK spent Rs 641 crore in 2016 to bribe its way back to power

Documents reveal that AIADMK spent Rs 641 cr in 2016 to bribe its way back to power
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IN TAMIL NADU, the tradition of buying votes continues to flourish. With elections in 39 Lok Sabha constituencies and byelections in 18 assembly seats round the corner, the Election Commission and income tax department officials have seized a record Rs 137 crore of unaccounted cash from across the state.
The single-largest haul was the Rs 11.53 crore seized from properties linked to DMK treasurer Durai Murugan, whose son Kathir Anand is the party candidate in Vellore. Durai Murugan alleges that the Central and state governments are playing dirty tricks. “The ruling AIADMK is bribing voters. But the DMK is being targeted,” said a leader.
It was the DMK, however, that perfected the art of distributing cash for votes. In 2009, in the run-up to the assembly bypoll in Thirumangalam in Madurai district, the party allegedly distributed envelopes containing voting slips and Rs 5,000 in cash along with the newspaper. The experiment was so successful—the DMK won by nearly 40,000 votes—that it came to be known as the ‘Thirumangalam formula’.
In the dock: O. Panneerselvam campaigning in 2016.In the dock: O. Panneerselvam campaigning in 2016.
Then the AIADMK scaled up the cash-for-votes enterprise. In the assembly elections in 2016, it allegedly gave Rs 250 each to voters across the state, which helped the party return to power by winning 134 of 234 seats. Documents accessed by THE WEEK show that as much as 70 per cent of voters in some constituencies were bribed by AIADMK leaders. Surprisingly, the Election Commission is yet to take any action.
On May 9, 2017, the principal director of income tax (PDIT) sent a note to the director-general of income tax investigation, detailing the way cash was distributed to voters in the run-up to the assembly polls. The note cites documents seized in December 2016 from the Chennai offices of SRS Mining, in which controversial businessman J. Sekar Reddy is a partner.
The PDIT wrote that SRS Mining “sourced” Rs 227.25 crore from housing minister R. Vaithilingam, Rs 197 crore from electricity minister Natham Viswanathan and Rs 217 crore from public works minister O. Panneerselvam. “The money so received (Rs 641.25 crore) was redistributed, apparently to various AIADMK candidates, by the employees and associates of SRS Mining and its partners,” said the note.
R. Vaithilingam and Natham Viswanathan. All three were ministers in the Jayalalithaa government, and their names figure in the 2017 income tax note | R.G. SasthaR. Vaithilingam and Natham Viswanathan. All three were ministers in the Jayalalithaa government, and their names figure in the 2017 income tax note | R.G. Sastha
The preparations for bribing voters apparently started in 2015, when it became clear that the popularity of the AIADMK government led by chief minister J. Jayalalithaa was on the wane. By October that year, the party had prepared a detailed chart based on the voters list in each constituency.
“[Documents seized] contain a table giving the following details,” said the note. “Column 2 gives the name of the constituency. Column 3 gives the number of polling stations in the constituency. Number of voters—male, female and others—and their total are given in columns 4 to 7. Column 8 contains a figure equalling 70 per cent of total voters. And column 9 contains a figure equalling [the figure in] column 8 multiplied by 250.”
The voters were profiled based on their family background, financial requirements and political allegiances. Caste, community and the number of votes in each household were then factored in to decide on the amount to be paid.
Three AIADMK ministers gave Rs 641.25 crore to distribute to voters across the state, says an income tax department note prepared in 2017Three AIADMK ministers gave Rs 641.25 crore to distribute to voters across the state, says an income tax department note prepared in 2017
“[The money given by the three AIADMK ministers] were received by the employees/associates of SRS Mining outside its regular books of accounts,” said the PDIT note. “It is also pertinent to note that copies of many of the [documents] were seized from the residence of [SRS Mining employee] T. Shanmugasundaram in Chennai, [and they give] details of cash amounting from Rs 25 lakh to Rs 1 crore paid to various candidates.”
THE WEEK’s investigation revealed that bundles of cash were transported, at least three months before polling, to 226 assembly constituencies. The money was kept in houses owned by the AIADMK’s ward members and grassroots leaders.
“It was split, booth-wise, in each constituency,” a former AIADMK minister told THE WEEK. “Weeks before the election, it was distributed to party functionaries in charge of the booths. On May 14, two days before polling, they visited each household like a neighbour and gave Rs 250 per vote. If there were four votes in a house, we gave Rs 1,000.”
The note says actor-turned-politician Sarathkumar got Rs 2 croreThe note says actor-turned-politician Sarathkumar got Rs 2 crore
In some constituencies, AIADMK leaders paid the visits as part of their morning walk. In some others, voters were called after 10pm. “We ensured that the money reached every voter whom we thought would vote for us,” said the former minister.
Documents seized from Shanmugasundaram’s house had acknowledgements from AIADMK candidates who received funds. “One such sheet carries the acknowledgment of Ms Rayane, daughter of R. Sarathkumar,” said the PDIT note. An actor-turned-politician, Sarathkumar had contested from Tiruchendur under the AIADMK symbol.
In April and May 2017, the IT department recorded the sworn statements of both Rayane and Sarathkumar, in which they admitted to having received Rs 2 crore from J. Sekar Reddy in May 2016. Sarathkumar said the transaction was not recorded in the books, and that he learnt of it while he was campaigning in Tiruchendur. “The cash was received by my daughter… who informed my staff about it,” he told IT officials. “The sum of Rs 2 crore was received towards acting and producing a film. I would account it as income in 2016-17 and pay the necessary tax at the earliest.”
The note cites Sarathkumar’s sworn statement, in which he said he had received the money for producing and acting in a filmThe note cites Sarathkumar’s sworn statement, in which he said he had received the money for producing and acting in a film
THE WEEK tried contacting Shanmugasundaram, but his whereabouts remain unknown. Sarathkumar suggested that the issue mentioned in the PDIT note was not relevant to the bribery charges. “My income tax matters have been explained to the concerned officers,” he informed THE WEEK.
The PDIT note cites the money received by Sarathkumar as clinching evidence of the money trail. “The information has been communicated to the director-general of investigations (IT department) for onward transmission to the Central Board of Direct Taxes for intimating the Election Commission of India,” the note said.
A senior IT official in Chennai told THE WEEK that the department had raided properties belonging to “several VIPs” to corroborate their findings. “We found strong evidence of the AIADMK having spent huge money to bribe voters,” said the official. “The IT cases against the VIPs are ongoing. But it is for the Election Commission to take action as regards to bribing of voters.”
The commission is yet to act. It has not even acknowledged THE WEEK’s RTI queries on the matter, which were filed on February 14.
When asked about the bribery allegations against him, Sekar Reddy said the IT department had not seized any incriminating material from properties linked to him. “The IT department never made inquiries on such lines,” he told THE WEEK. “The panchanama [a legal statement prepared after a seizure or arrest] given to me after the raids also do not mention this. I have already clarified that I do not have the habit of keeping a diary. So any note about these details in my account books is not true.”
When asked about the PDIT note, Natham Viswanathan said, “There is no truth in it. We did not distribute cash. In 2016, the people wanted Amma (Jayalalithaa) to continue her welfare government. So we were voted back to power.”
Vaithilingam and Panneerselvam have not responded to THE WEEK’s queries. “I am campaigning. I do not have time to talk now,” said Vaithilingam. Ashok Thomas, public relations officer in the deputy chief minister’s office, said he had forwarded the queries to Panneerselvam.
The Election Commission had registered 101 cases of poll-related bribery across 98 constituencies in May 2016. Most of the cases are in limbo now. It had also countermanded voting in three constituencies, where it suspected that voters had been bribed. All three constituencies were won by the AIADMK in bypolls held later that year.
“In some places, the bribe went up to Rs 1,000 per vote,” said D. Ravikumar of Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi, who is contesting this Lok Sabha elections from Villupuram constituency as part of the DMK-Congress alliance. “The AIADMK distributed cash to win the 2016 assembly elections. We all witnessed it. I had contested from the Vanur assembly seat in Villupuram then. I was not able to fight the might of money.”
Perhaps, the voters themselves are to blame. The blockading of a street in the run-up to the Pudukottai assembly bypoll in 2012 is a case in point. When the police turned up to disperse the crowd, they were shocked to hear demands for money. People complained that their relatives nearby had received cash for votes, and that they were left out.
Over the years, the malaise has only worsened. “It is not just the downtrodden [who are demanding money],” said veteran journalist R. Ramasubramanian. “People belonging to the middle and upper middle classes have also started expecting cash. Politicians are looting our money, they say. So what is wrong in accepting what is basically our money?” 

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Tuesday, November 13, 2018

அனைத்துலக குற்றவியல் அறமன்றத்தால் தண்டிக்கப்பட தமிழரான சட்டமேதைகள் திட்டமிடல் வேண்டும் :2008


அனைத்துலகக் குற்றவியல் அறமன்றம் முன் இனப்படுகொலை புரிந்தோர் தண்டனை பெறும் நாள் வருக!
- நந்திவர்மன், பொதுச்செயலாளர், திராவிடப்பேரவை

இனப்படுகொலை என்பதன் விளக்கங்களுள் பண்பாட்டுப் படுகொலையும் அடங்கும். தமிழர்கள் மட்டுமே பண்பாட்டுப் படுகொலை பற்றி ஒப்பாரி வைப்பார்கள் என எழுத்துக் கிறுக்கர்கள் ஏடுகள் தோறும் ஊடுருவி உளறி வைப்பது வழக்கம். கொரிய நாட்டை சப்பானிய நாடு அடிமைப்படுத்தி கொரிய மொழியையும் பண்பாட்டையம் அக்குமுகாயத்தில் இருந்து முற்றிலும் நீக்கிட நடந்த பண்பாட்டுப் படுகொலையை டோக்கியோ பல்கலைக்கழக ஆய்வு மாணவி திருவாட்டி மட்சுமரா தமது ஒப்பீட்டு ஆய்வில் பதிவு செய்துள்ளார்.

தமிழ்ப் பண்பாட்டுக் காவலரணாக தெளிதமிழ், தமிழ்க்காவல் உள்ளிட்ட ஏடுகள் விளங்குவது போல 1898 - 1910 க்குமிடையே கொரிய மொழியை பண்பாட்டைப் பாதுகாக்க அவாங்சன் சின்மன் என்ற ஏடு சப்பானிய எதிர்ப்பலைகளைக் கிளப்பிற்று. அதை எதிர்தகொள்ள புற்றீசல் போல கொரிய மொழி ஏடுகளை சப்பானியர்கள் பின்னிருந்து இயக்கினார்கள். தமிழருக்கெதிரான கருத்துப்பரப்பும் பணியில் தமிழரல்லாதார் ஈடுபட்டுள்ள இன்றைய நிலை, கொரிய மக்கள் விழித்தெழந்து பல்லாண்டாகியும் தமிழர் வழித்திட வில்லை என்பதை வெள்ளிடை மலையென விளக்குகிறது.

கொரிய கோவில்களில் மாற்றங்கள் செய்தனர். மொழி வரிவடிவத்தை ஊடுருவி மாற்றி அமைத்தனர். கொரியப் பேரரசர்கள் மீது பாடப்பட்ட பனுவல்களை சப்பானியப் பேரரசர்கள் மீது புனையப் பட்ட புகழ்மகுடங்களாக இடைச் செருகல் செய்தனர். யாழ் நூலக எரிப்பு போல, பொங்கள் விழாவில் நுழைக்கப்பட்ட போகி பெயரால் பழந்தமிழ் ஏட்டுச்சுவடிகள் எரிப்பு போல, ஆடிப் பெருக்கில் வீசியெறியப்பட்ட பனை ஓலைச் சுவடிகள் போல, வரலாற்றை மறைக்க கொரியப் பண்பாட்டை சீர்குலைக்க கொரிய வரலாற்று நூல்களை எரித்தார்கள். வரலாற்றை திருத்தி எழத நிருவனங்களை உருவாக்கினார்கள். சப்பானின் குடியேற்ற நாடாக கொரியா இருந்த போது நடந்த இந்தப் பண்பாட்டுப் படுகொலையில் இருந்து மீண்டு எழுந்து நிற்கிறது கொரிய மொழி! மீட்டுருவாக்கப்பட்டு விட்டது கொரியப் பண்பாடு! உய்சியாங், சோய் கியூன் பேயி ஆகிய அறிஞ்ர்கள் கொரிய வரலாற்று உண்மைகளை பதுங்கிடங்களில் இருந்து நூல்களாக்கி மக்கள் விழிப்புக்கு வித்திட்டனர்

 நம்மவர்கள் எவ்வாறு வடமொழிப் பெயர் சூடிப் பொருள் புரியாமலே இழிவுதரும் பெயர்களில் இறும்பூது கொண்டனரோ அவ்வாறே கொரியரும் சப்பானியப் பெயர் சூடி மயங்கிக் கிடந்தனர். 1911 ல் வெளியிடப்பட்ட பிரகடனம் கொரியப் பெயர் சூடி மகிழுமாறு கொரிய மக்களை வேண்டியது. அதே பணியை மறைமலையடிகள் முதல் திருமாவளவன் வரை ஈண்டு யார் செய்ய முனைந்தாலும் வரலாற்றில் வேறெங்கும் நிலவாத புதுப் பழக்கத்துக்கு தமிழர்கள் அடிமைகள் ஆவது சரியா என தமிழரல்லாதார் இன்றும் அலறுகிறார்கள், அலமருகிறார்கள்.

புதுவையில் அருகன் மேட்டு அகழ்வாய்வு முதல் இரும்பை மாகாளேசுவரர் ஆலயச்சின்னங்கள் வரை பன்நாடுகளுக்கு கடத்தப்பட்டது போல கொரிய நாட்டின் வரலாற்றுச் சின்னங்கள் சப்பானிய அருங்காட்சியகங்களிலும் தனியார் ஆவணக்காப்பகங்களிலும் சிறைப்பட்டன. தென் கொரிய அரசு கணக்கெடுப்பின் படி 75,311 நினைவுச் சின்னங்கள் கொரிய நாட்டிலிருந்து அப்பறப்படுத்தப்பட்டன, கடத்தப்பட்டன. சப்பான் நாட்டில் 34,369 நினைவுச்சின்னங்களும் அமெரிக்காவில் 17,803 நினைவுச் சின்னங்களும் உள்ளதாக தென் கொரிய அரசு கூறுகிறமது. அவற்றை மீட்டெடுக்க தென் கொரிய அரசு போராடி வருகிறது.

 கருநடத்திலும் கலிங்கத்திலும் கண்டெடுக்கப்படும் கல்வெட்டுகளை, ஓலைச்சுவடிகளை தமிழ்நாட்டு அரசு மீட்க முடியுமா? கேட்டாலும் கிடைக்குமா? அங்கிருப்பவர்கள் சிதைக்காமல் பாதுகாப்பார்களா? தமிழ் பேசும் தமிழரல்லாத உட்பகை கை வரிசை காட்டாமல் வாளா இருக்குமா? கேள்விகள் நம் உள்ளத்தைக் குடைந்தாலும் மொழியையும் பண்பாட்டையும் காக்க தமிழர்கள் முனைவது தவறில்லை என கொரிய வரலாறு அறிவு கொளுத்துகிறது.

தமிழ் ஈழத்தில் நிகழும் இனப்படுகொலைக்கு சிங்களப் பேரினவாதிகள் தண்டிக்கப்படுவார்களா? என்ற ஏக்கம் உலகத்தமிழர் உள்ளங்களில் உறங்கிக் கிடந்தது. அந்த ஏக்கம் போக்க கிழக்கு வெளுத்திடும் வேளை வந்து விட்டது என்று சில நிகழ்வுகள் உணர்த்துகின்றன.

இனப்படுகொலையை குறிக்கும் ஆங்கிலச் சொல்லான geocide கிரேக்கச் சொல்லான genos (இனம்) என்பதோடு படுகொலையை குறிக்கும் இலத்தீன் சொல்லான cide என்பதோடு இணைத்து 1944 ல் இராஃபெல் இலெம்கின் என்ற நீதியரசரால் உருவாக்கப்பட்டதாகும்.

உலக நாடுகள் ஒன்றியம் 1943 ல் இனப்படுகொலை என்பது ஒரு நாட்டினரை, மதத்தினரை, இனத்தவரை முற்றிலுமோ ஓரளவிற்கோ அழித்தோழிக்க மக்கட் திரளை கொல்வது, அவ்வினம் அழிந்தொழியக் கூடிய அகப்புறச் சூழல்களை உருவாக்குவது. மக்கட் பிறப்பு நிகழ்ந்து இனப்பெருக்கம் ஏற்படாமல் தடுப்பது, ஓரினத்தின் குழந்தைச் செல்வத்தை வேறினம் எடுத்துக் கொள்வது உள்ளிட்ட குற்றங்களைக் குறிக்கும் என விளக்கமளித்துள்ளது. அத்துணை விளக்கமும் தமிழ் ஈழத்தின் மீது சிங்களப் பேரினவாதிகள் நிகழ்த்தும் குற்றங்களுக்கும் பொருந்துகின்றன.

இத்தனை குற்றங்களையும் இழைத்த செயவர்த்தனா - சிரிமாவோ பண்டாரநாயகா - மகிந்த ராசபச்சே உள்ளிட்ட சிங்கள அரசின் அதிபர்களை அனைத்துலக குற்றவியல் நீதிமன்றம் முன்பு குற்றவாளிகளாக நிறுத்த முடியும். இது ஊமையின் கனவு அன்று. சூடான் அதிபர் இன்று குற்றவாளிக் கூண்டில் நிறுத்தப்பட்டுள்ளார். உலகம் போகும் திசையை இது சுட்டிக் காட்டுவதால் இன்று இனப்படுகொலை புரிபவர்கள் குற்றவாளிகளென தண்டிக்கப்படும் காலம் தொலைவில் இல்லை.

அனைத்துலக குற்றவியல் நீதிமன்ற வழக்கறிஞர் மொரனோ ஓகாம்போ, சூடான் அதிபர் ஒமர் ஆசன் அல் பசீர் கைது செய்யப்பட வேண்டும் என்று நீதிமன்றத்தில் வாதாடுகிறார். கடந்த 5 ஆண்டுகளில் 11 ஆணைகளை நீதிமன்றம் பிறப்பித்துள்ளது. சூடான் அதிபரை கைது செய்ய ஆணை பிறப்பிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது. ஃபர், மசாலிட், சக்கவா இனக்குழுக்களை கொன்று குவித்தது. கொலை, நாடு கடத்தல், கற்பழிப்பு, சித்ரவதை, வலுக்கட்டாயமாக பிறந்தகத்திலிருந்து வெளியேற்றியது, அப்பாவிப் பொதுமக்கள் வசித்த டார்பர் பகுதி மீது போர் வெளித் தாக்குதல் நடத்தியது உள்ளிட்ட குற்றங்களுக்காக சூடான் அதிபர் குற்றவாளி என அனைத்ததுலக குற்றவியல் அறமன்றம் அறிவித்துள்ளது. இதே குற்றங்கள் புரிந்து வரும் மகிந்த ராசபக்சேவும் ஒரு நாள் குற்றவாளியாக தண்டிக்கப்படுவார் என்று எதிர் நோக்கலாம்.

அதே போல தனியரசு கோரிப் போராடி யூகோசுலாவிய ஒன்றியத்திலிருந்து பிரிந்த போசுனிய - எர்சகோவின் மக்கள் மீது இனப்படுகொலை தாக்குதல் நடத்திய செர்பிய மக்களாட்சிக் கட்சித் தலைவரும் முன்னாள் அதிபருமான இரடோவான் கராத்சிக் 13 ஆண்டுகள் தலைமறைவு வாழ்விற்குப் பிறகு கைது செய்யப்பட்டார். குற்றம் புரிந்த கொற்றவர்கள் எங்கிருப்பினும் எந்நாளும் அறத்தின் தண்டனையை ஏற்றே ஆகல் வேண்டும் என்ற வடியல் உலகிற்கு ஏற்பட்டுள்ளது.

சிறையில் கண்ணைத் தோண்டியவர்கள், தமிழ்ப் பெண்களின் மார்பகங்கள் மீது சிங்கள ஸ்ரீ எழுத்தை சூட்டுக் கோலால் தீட்டியவர்கள், கர்ப்பிணிப் பெண்கள் வயிற்றைக் கிழித்து சிசுக்களை காலில் இட்டு நசுக்கிய நச்சரவங்கள், தமிழ் மண்ணில் போர் வெறியால் பிணமலைகளைக் குவித்தவர்கள், அறமன்றில் நிறுத்தப்பட்டாகல் வேண்டும். மகிந்த இராசபக்சே அனைத்துலக குற்றவியல் அறமன்றத்தால் தண்டிக்கப்பட தமிழரான சட்டமேதைகள் திட்டமிடல் வேண்டும்.

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Tuesday, November 6, 2018

DRAVIDA PERAVAI ENDORSES THE RESOLUTIONS OF SOCIALIST INTERNATIONAL IN GENEVA


An SI meeting during the 139th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union in Geneva was held on Monday 15 October 2018, providing a platform for parliamentarians from SI member parties attending the Assembly to exchange views on issues figuring on the agenda of this assembly of the IPU and to share information both on their national situations and on issues of particular concern. Chaired by the SI Secretary General, the meeting was attended by parliamentarians from SI parties in Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Burkina Faso, Chile, Dominican Republic, Finland, France, Guinea Bissau, Hungary, Iraq, Italy, Mali, Mexico, Mongolia, Niger, Palestine, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Venezuela, and a representative from the Global Fund.

From the opening remarks, a recurrent thread in the discussions was the need to reaffirm the values and principles of social democracy, faced with the current surge in nationalism, populism and the ultra-right, the undermining of democracy in different countries around the world, and the threats to peace. This was perceived as an age of uncertainty driving citizens towards the right, to which the left’s response was crucial. Climate change was highlighted as a challenge to every form of human life and required answers too. It was necessary for parties of the left to join forces and be the leaders on this question, as on the defence of human rights.

In advance of the vote by the IPU Assembly on the emergency item, participants engaged in exchanges on the items that had been presented for adoption. There were expressions of concern and solidarity regarding the situation in Venezuela and its dire effects on the Venezuelan people; regarding the plight of Palestinian refugees following the US’s decision to cancel aid to UNRWA; and in regard to the search for peace in the Sahel region, where the countries and their peoples faced terrorism, destabilisation and the consequences of migration. It was also noted in this context how closely inter-related were the fates of Africa and Europe, as the success of terrorism in one could directly affect stability in the other. The meeting reiterated an appeal for solidarity with the Sahel, most of the governments of which were headed by members of the SI.

There was broad support for the UN’s Global Compact on Migration due to be formally adopted in December. Participants underlined the need to unite in fighting racism and xenophobia, and the fact that migration was a global phenomenon which today affected not just one country or region but all of them across the globe, as could be seen throughout Latin America, Africa, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. A deepening of solidarity was required, as well as a focus on the root causes which needed addressing. Among the root causes cited were failed states such as Haiti, Venezuela or Libya, conflicts such as in Yemen, the dire situation affecting the Palestinian people, the increase in terrorism and massive economic hardship. The migration phenomenon was perceived as a common challenge which required joint solutions, recognising the rights and needs of migrants, including refugees and internally displaced persons. The role of the SI was seen as important to express a common position globally and to highlight the humanitarian response.

During the session, participants had the opportunity to raise latest developments and matters of concern within their respective parties, countries or regions. There were many expressions of appreciation of the SI for the support extended to their parties and gratitude for such meetings which were so important in enabling them to share views and experiences with other members of the SI family.

Concluding the meeting, the SI Secretary General spoke of the need to focus on the issues that really matter today. We needed to underscore the values of social democracy, the unqualified principle that “We are the left”, and that we stand for solidarity, equality and justice. This was crucial to counter the prevailing tide of egoism and self-interest, and to preserve our democracies and prioritise the needs and interests of the people.
 
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Wednesday, October 31, 2018

DRAVIDA PERAVAI VIEW ON BURMA's STRUGGLE FOR DEMOCRACY IN 2010



DEMOCRACIES FAIL TO RESCUE DEMOCRACY IN MYNMAR

Nobel Peace Laureate cannot thrive on laurels alone. Nobel Prize is just a veil to hide the failure of world’s democracies to come to the rescue of democracy in Myanmar. Aung san Suu kyi and 1400 men who stood by democracy are under detention in Myanmar for 5307 days as on 8 th May of 2010. Aung San Suu Kyi is serving her third term in house arrest, and let us not forget that she is the democratically elected people’s leader of Myanmar. The cunning ways conceived by military rulers had brought the political party headed by her, National League for Democracy to close down. It is saddest day for democracy. It is a international shame, the cross of which had to be borne by all leading democracies including our India. Indians remain helpless spectators while 50,000 Tamils are killed in a state sponsored genocide in neighbouring Sriklanka. We say the Tamils stood for terrorism. But in Myanmar, the NLD stood by democracy and we don’t even raise our voice against suppression of democracy. The so called war against terrorism will also expose that world nation’s failed to nurture democracy to end dictatorships. Let me quote the criticism of the Burma’s Government in Exile .

Dr Tint Swe, a member of the National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma -- formed by elected representatives from Burma after the elections of 1990 -- describes the situation of his country on the eve of the verdict in the trial against Aung San Suu Kyi, with an eye on the elections in 2010.

The military is prepared for the next phases, which is to legalize their grip on power by holding a new election in 2010. Ethnic groups are subjected to tremendous pressure to be transformed into border guards. This process is being done by hook or by crook.We then need to add a few more important facts about my country. Burma has become a nuclear power while the population's living conditions are extremely poor. The country is selling natural gas to Thailand and China while people have to cut wood from trees to cook. According to 2005 UNDP survey one third of the population live below the poverty line. Inflation is adding to the economic burden, with the price of rice, for example, up by 30 percent over the past year alone. But the regime is rich enough to construct a series of secret underground tunnels reportedly built with North Korean help.

There are clear differences between the positions of the Indian government and the movement for democracy in Burma. One of them is the controversial roadmap of the regime. The roadmap was unilaterally withdrawn and abandoned by the military in 2003 just after Suu Kyi was ambushed and put under house arrest for the third time. The National Assembly was reduced to a façade. The constitution was entirely flawed. Neither a civilian nor a woman can become the president. The referendum was a huge scam and as will be the elections of 2010.

I want all countries to stop selling arms to Burmese regime because arms are meant for killing pro-democracy activists and ethnic peoples. I want India to refrain from defending the regime at the international forums; at the United Nations, at the International Labor Organization, and at the UN Commission on Human Rights.

In 2007 while thousands of monks were protesting, India was only country which sent a cabinet minister to sign a memorandum with the regime. And earlier, India fully supported that roadmap as expressed by Indian President Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam on March 9, 2006 during his visit to Burma. Moreover, India sent a cabinet minister to the funeral of Burmese Prime Minister who was known for his bloody hand in crackdowns on pro-democracy activists

The constructive engagement approach championed by the Southeast Asian bloc (ASEAN) proved ineffective. At the same time western sanctions were eased for humanitarian reason. But those same people did not criticize the military regime which deliberately blocked international aid during devastating cyclone Nargis when 140,000 died. The blame game does not help poor people of Burma. Now the new American administration is reviewing its Burma policy. My question why not India!

Dravida Peravai condemns the attitude of USA and Western nations that support kingdoms and dictatorships in Middle East just to get oil. All principles are sent to catacombs, while commercial and vested interests, prevail. India totally forgets it has a neighbour called Myanmar, and where its geopolitical interests are on every day basis butchered to help China gain access to Indian Ocean and Bay of Bengal.

Dravida Peravai warns the world against the conscience of nations kept under pause while military rule eliminates last traces of democracy in their soil. If world really wants terrorists to undergo heart change, then world’s agenda should be to democratize the world, removing military dictatorships to the archives of the past.

Dravida Peravai salutes Ms.AUNG SAN SUU KYI and stands by NationaL League for Democracy. Dravida Peravai expresses solidarity with the National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma. We urge India which had shown the door to a National Security Adviser who had neither the mental equilibrium nor the moral foundations to understand the plight of Eelam Tamils, to come forward to evolve policies for Saving Democracy in Myanmar and support the peaceful struggle for democracy led by Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi.

N.Nandhivarman
General Secretary Dravida Peravai
8.5.2010


Sunday, October 28, 2018

INDIAN JOURNALS INVESTIGATED RAJIV GANDHI MURDER MYSTERY ........ TRUTH MUST BE ESTABLISHED : 2009




HIDDEN MASTERMINDS WITHIN CONGRESS:

RAJIV GANDHI MURDER MYSTERY

The spokesperson of the Congress party in charge of Tamilnadu affairs had sought Srilanka to hand over LTTE supremo Mr.Velupillai Prabakaran which is the top story in Deccan Chronicle on 4th January 2009.So the cat is out of the bag. All these days the United Progressive Alliance government headed by Mr.Manmohan Singh had been pretending to be heeding to the unanimous resolution passed by the Tamilnadu assembly to stop the genocidal war and also making false promises to depute the Minister of External Affairs Mr.Pranab Mukherjee to advice Srilankan government to halt the war. Its real motive is revenge, and nothing else. It wants millions of Tamils to be annihilated to avenge the death of a Former Indian Prime Minister. It has neither humanitarian concern to intervene to stop the genocide nor it has geo-political interests to uphold Indian interests in the region. China which has no access to Indian Ocean, has got that access with the help of Srilanka by firmly entrenching its foot in Hampanthotta harbor it builds in Southern tip of Srilanka to watch the sea routes of the Indian Ocean. Actually by building harbors for Mynmar, Bangladesh, Maldives and Pakistan, China had encircled India. China has foothold in Bay of Bengal, thanks to the red carpet welcome of Bangladesh and Myanmar. Srilanka had tied its fate to Chinese designs by offering on platter Hampanthotta to have total control of the sea lanes of the Indian Ocean. Maldives and Pakistan had provided a foothold for China in Arabian Sea. China arms the Srilankan government in its genocidal war. India too strangely is an accomplice of China and Pakistan in the war theatre of the killing fields of Tamil Eelam. The hatred towards LTTE had even blinded India about the harm it inflicts on its own geo-political interests.

 The Rajiv Gandhi murder mystery needs to be solved, if at all for present government or any future government in India to come out of a phobia and to arrive at a balanced mind. It is high time to recall that in the aftermath of Mrs.Indira Gandhi’s murder by misguided Sikhs, Congress leaders and cadres went on for teaching Sikhs a lesson, and that ended the lives of few thousand Sikhs. The needle of suspicion pointed out leading Congress leaders as responsible for those killings. Sikhs did not demand that Congress party as an organization is guilty of those revenge killings. Neither the Congress condemned Sikhs as criminal race as it treats Tamils in Eelam. Congress in fact has its government headed by a Sikh. The reasonable logic that is applied with regard to Sikhs goes on missing eaten by some sudden invasion of hate virus in the minds of the Congressmen that looses its mental equilibrium on handling Tamil affairs. Hence a national debate on Mr.Rajiv Gandhi’s murder becomes necessary. It is not a new wine but in fact an old wine served in new bottle. Yes, the national debate of past is brought out again.

OUTLOOK, India’s News magazine in its 24th November 1997 issue has the wrapper story titled : THE MISSING FILES, on crucial files concerning the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case have either been lost or suppressed. Outlook investigated that mystery. In the lengthy story within the magazine the title is :THE DEADLY DUO.

It would be historically important to tell who the Deadly Duo are ? They are not in LTTE, the banned organization but they belong to the Congress, which had not been banned nor initiated action even posthumously on the key beneficiary of the Rajiv Gandhi assassination. We reproduce the Outlook story here, as it appeared. We urge the world community to carefully read in between the lines the role of the real murderers of Rajiv Gandhi. We urge for the awakening of the conscience among the Congressmen, and if that hate virus infected Congress brains have to be formatted before installing the Anti-Tamil virus programme, let it be done. The curse India casts on all Tamils as criminal race and need to be done to death by genocidal Sinhalese army, is a historical blunder. The Nazi Hitler was taught a befitting lesson by USA,USSR,GB and other democratic forces of the world, but the Neo-Nazi Hitler Rajapakhshe thrives on the support of extreme opposite poles in geo-politics, namely India and Pakistan, India and China. Also the man who invaded Iraq in search of Chemical weapons, which were not found till date, but only shoes are found at the fag end of his time, Mr.George Bush is forcing India to repeat his Iraqi mistake in Srilanka, at least in the limited context of blaming LTTE and TAMILS for Rajiv Gandhi murder, to use it as reason to turn blind eye to genocide.
N.Nandhivarman, General Secretary, Dravida Peravai.

OUT LOOK STORY :

THE DEADLY DUO
Crucial evidence linking Chandraswami to the Rajiv case went missing from Rao’s PMO, OUTLOOK investigates.

·        File No:8-1-WR/JSS/90/Vol III – containing notings of bureaucrats regarding security arrangements for Rajiv Gandhi from November 1989 was lost from the Prime Ministers Office in 1991. Later, it was doctored and re-constructed by the Narasimha Rao Government before it was submitted to Jain Commission.

·        File No: 1/12014/5/91-IAS/DIII reported missing since 1995.It pertained to the terms of reference of the Verma and Jain Commissions of Inquiry.

·        File containing intercepted messages from foreign intelligence agencies, said to be addressed to Chandraswami and Janata Party President Subramanian Swamy, destroyed by senior officials in the PMO.

·        File on IB’s assessment of the role played by Zail Singh and Chandraswami in 1987 to topple Rajiv Gandhi missing.

·        File with records of official briefings by intelligence agencies on the assassination to Rao’s Home Minister S.B.Chavan missing. The former Minister confirms he was briefed orally.

·        The April 20, 1991 wireless intercept with the leading question, should Rajiv be killed in Delhi or Madras missing

·        File relating to the Rao governments attempt to wind up the Jain commission is still withheld from the panel.

Do these files/messages and other sensitive information-categorised as untraceable , missing, destroyed or cannot be revealed due to security reasons- hold the key to the mystery that shrouds Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination ? The Jain Commission thinks so. The AICC[ All India Congress Committee] has been pressing for these files and documents. And intelligence officials admit in private that vital evidence seems to have been suppressed to ensure that the largest conspiracy behind the May 21, 1991 assassination does not come to light .

It is these missing files, documents and intercepts that have kept alive the basic question – Who killed Rajiv Gandhi ? Who participated, plotted or silently abetted in the act? Right through his 5 year term, Narasimha Rao fuelled the intrigue by losing, misplacing, reconstructing, denying the existence and even allegedly destroying key files. His government did everything it could do to place stumbling blocks and even allegedly tried to wind up the Jain Commission inquiring into the conspiracy.

After interviewing serving and retired IB ,RAW, CBI and Home Ministry officials Outlook has learned that the Rao’s government’s extreme reluctance to part with crucial files and wireless intercepts seems to have been aimed at protecting god-man Chandraswami, whose links with international arms traders is an open secret. Whenever the trial led to him, every effort was made by the government not to cooperate with the Jain Commission. Accordingly, the file on Chandraswami’s links with the LTTE prior to the assassination was never made available to the commission. Says AICC appointed lawyer R.N.Mittal, closely associated with the Jain Commission’s proceedings “ At every stage, we have been denied documents. Our investigations have been like a personal effort against all odds.”

Political circles are well aware of the reason why Chandraswami was being protected. The god-man has close links with Rao-the two have been friends for 25 years. It’s common knowledge that the tantrik was treated as a VIP when Rao was Prime Minister and had special access to Rao’s official residence, 7, Race Course Road.

Reliable sources say, when the Commission, in face of resistance from the Government, insisted that it be provided with certain documents, Rao ordered a sorting operation. A top Cabinet Secretariat official was asked to divide the documents into three categories :innocuous ones which could be passed on to the commission ,documents on which privilege could be claimed before handing them over, and highly sensitive intelligence reports, wireless intercepts and other documents which could not be given to the commission at any cost.

The crucial third category, says sources, contained wireless intercepts of messages between foreign intelligence agencies to Chandraswami and Subramaniam Swamy. They were passed on by the RAW to the Cabinet Secretariat. A RAW official confirmed to the Jain Commission that the transcripts had indeed been passed on by the intelligence agency.

What did some of these missing files have ? Intelligence sources say one file contained intercepted messages as well as details of the movements of Subramaniam swamy and Chandra swami on assassination day. It also contains a crucial intercept from Jaffna to LTTE operatives saying that funds have been provided for carrying out the assassination. It refers to god-man having made the payment.

Interestingly the fact that the Rao government had actually doctored a file came to light when Vinod Pande , who was the Cabinet Secretary in V.P.Singh’s government, deposed before the Jain Commission that file No.8-1-WR/JSS/90/Vol III in which he had made notings on Rajiv Gandhi’s security – had been tampered with. “ The file which has been placed in my hands does not contain an official copy of my note dated January 30,1990.The first few paras of the draft are not mine.” Pande told the commission.

Hard pressed, the Rao government had to give an explanation. It told the commission that the file had been missing since 1991.It had been sent to the PMO on July 27, 1991 and had since disappeared. P.Chidambaram, the Minister in charge of the assassination investigation and the probes, told the commission that despite “ going over a toothcomb” in the PMO, Home Ministry as well as Prime Minister’s residence, the file had not been located and therefore had to be reconstructed. Strangely, it took the government 4 years time to own it up that it had submitted a file which was not the original.

Clearly, had the Jain Commission not demanded these files and documents,  it would have been given a free run by Rao to continue with its slow, meandering enquiry. Indeed , with the Special Investigation Team of the CBI restricted to inquiring into the actual killing and the larger conspiracy left to the Jain Commission, nothing much was expected to emerge. But it was Jain’s insistence that the commission be given access to the suppressed files that made Rao panic and provoked the subsequent cover-up operation.

Details available with Outlook suggest there were enough intercepts with Indian intelligence agencies that a hit on Rajiv was imminent. On April 20,1991 RAW intercepted a message from Jaffna with the leading question, should Rajiv be killed in Delhi or Madras ? Four days before Rajiv was killed, the same intelligence agency intercepted what is regarded as the LTTE’s final okay to its team led by Sivarasan or the one-eyed Jack. The message came in an eight line Tamil doggerel identifying the place and timing of the assault. The message was conveyed to the IB head quarters in Delhi, but unfortunately for Rajiv, it was a week end and the doggerel was decoded much after the damage was done.

But there had been enough warnings that there was a larger plot to kill Rajiv. Yasser Arafat , chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization had warned Rajiv of an international plot to assassinate him. He had conveyed this information to then Prime Minister Chandrasekar. But no follow up investigation was ever carried out.

According to PLO spokesperson contacted by Outlook, Arafat had concrete information about the plot. His source “people in Lebanon and Europe “ Arafat, through his Ambassador in Delhi, Khalid El Sheikh told me that LTTE and Sikh organizations are planning to kill Rajiv Gandhi during his election campaign on May. Sheikh had met Rajiv on March 13, 1991. A week later he called on the Congress President with a letter from Arafat. And a fortnight before the assassination, he called on Rajiv yet again.

Arafat provided details of the conspiracy to Chandrasekar when he attended Rajiv’s funeral. The Indian Ambassador to one of the North African countries was asked to contact Arafat. Then Foreign Secretary Muchkund Dubey, was also sent to see Arafat separately. In this June 1991 meeting Arafat confirmed the international conspiracy. Dubey and the Ambassador then filed a report on their meetings with the PLO Chairman. But again, no action was taken on this lead. When asked about the files by Justice Jain, Rao feigned ignorance. “I don’t remember about it. The matter was not brought to my notice.”

Meanwhile the Report of William Carry, who headed a US Senate Sub-Committee to probe into the BCCI bank scam, confirms that the bank had accounts of arms dealers Adnan Khashoggi and Ernie Miller. Both are known disciples of Chandraswam. Crucially, the Carry report also notes that $ 84 million was transferred to the LTTE from their accounts. Carry says the money was used for the Rajiv Gandhi assassination. Senate investigations also revealed that Mossad, CIA and LTTE had accounts in the BCCI.

Interestingly in a statement before the Commission R.Velusamy, then President of Tamilnadu Janata Party contended that Subramanian swamy had checked into Trident Hotel in Madras while Chandrswami was lodged at Sindoor Hotels owned by Apollo Hospitals on May 21, the day Rajiv was assassinated. Both left for Bangalore by car through Sriperumbudur before reaching Delhi on a special flight.

He told Outlook: “ May I also state that Dr.Swamy went via Sriperumbudur and stopped at the venue of the meeting, ostensibly to look at the role of Maragatham Chandrasekar, Congress candidate in the Parliamentary polls, for whom Rajiv went to campaign in Sriperumbudur- in selecting the site. I declare that Swamy told me about the role played by one JP Builders in persuading Maragatham Chandrasekar in selecting the site for Rajiv’s meeting.”

Veluswamy claims he called Swamy’s residence in Delhi at 10.45 AM on May 21 and Swamy’s wife told him that he was indeed in Madras. Recalls Veluswamy, “ My efforts to reach him proved futile. According to senior party colleagues , Dr.Swamy had an hour long meeting with S.C.Chandrahasan, a Srilankan Tamil ideologue , at Hotel Trident before he vacated the room and proceeded to meet Chandraswamy at Hotel Sindoori owned by Chandraswami’s disciple Dr.Pratap Reddy. While I could confirm that a room was booked for Dr.Swamy on May 21st at Trident, I could not get any details about Chandraswami’s stay. Sindoori never maintains any documents to show Chandraswami’s visits and he stays there as a personal guest of Pratap Reddy.”

Swamy has been denying that he was in Madras on May 21. But his Tamilnadu unit Chief has given details of his itinerary. Stated Veluswamy before the Jain Commission. “ Dr.Swamy admits arriving at Madras on 19.5.1991.He admits travelling with me by my car and he admits that we had a halt at Kanchipuram and that I was his translator. He admits that I was with him at Salem at 8.30 PM in the evening on 20.5.1991 and I am his translator in the Salem Town meeting. He admits that he was to return to Madras on May 22 and then fly to Madurai via Trichy and that I was to join him at Trichy. He is however silent on where he stayed in Madras on the morning of May 21 and how long he stayed there. But in the next paragraph of the affidavit , Swamy does a volte face.”On 21.5.1991, I was not in Madras at all or in Bangalore or indeed in South India but I was in Delhi”

He continues “ The issue is, while Swamy contends he gave a statement to the Delhi PTI on May 21, he is very vague about his time of arrival at Delhi. The facts are very clear from even available documents. He was with me well past midnight on the 20th, which is actually the wee hours of the 21st. It takes 6 hours to reach Madras by road. If he had reached Delhi by any morning flight, there would be any number of records to show the flight and its time of departure. I have already given proof that a room was booked in Dr.Swamy’s name in Trident.”

It’s is significant that there were several attempts to keep the conspiracy angle out of the ambit of a probe into the assassination. When the Chandra sekar regime, in which Swamy was Law Minister, appointed the Verma Commission of inquiry, its scope was limited to investigating security lapses.

The more closely one examines the Rajiv assassination case, the curiouser it becomes. For instance the most significant evidence with the SIT linking the LTTE to the assassination are photographs clicked by Haribabu, the photographer who also died in the blast. The first pictures released by the SIT to the media showed three women-Kokila, a 15year old who went to recite a Hindi poem to Rajiv, her mother and Dhanu, later identified as human bomb. It was only after the DMK organ Murasoli reproduced with a caption “ where is the missing man ?’’ – that the SIT reproduced the full frame. The missing man turned out to be Sivarasan. No explanations were offered as to why the SIT masked part of the frame.

Even more intriguing is the role played by SIT, DIG Srikumar, who had gone to London to collect additional information on the witnesses as well as the background of some of the accussed. He not only failed to make any progress, but also had his briefcase snatched. The case contained vital information about LTTE’s arms procurement and delivery routes, their points-men in Europe and their nexus with global arms dealers.

When the SIT arrested key witness Mirasdar Shanmugam on July 17- 1991, it chanced upon messages and transcripts of some coded messages. Shanmugam, according to the charge-sheet received Sivarasan and his killer squad on the TN coast on May 1-1991.The coded messages not only spoke about the assassination, but also about the high level people connected with the plot. Shanmugam escaped from SIT custody and hung himself from a tree under mysterious circumstances. K.Mohandass, a former DGP of Tamilnadu, says Shanmugam’s case was clear murder and the CBI had done a clumsy cover up job. “ Shanmugam was wearing a white dhothi when he was taken for interrogation. How come when his body was found, he was wearing a lungi ?” he asks.

The circumstances leading to the suicide of the main accused Sivarasan or one-eyed Jack-for whom a high pitched manhunt had been launched across Tamilnadu and Karnataka on the outskirts of Bangalore are equally mysterious. While the other accused Shobha, and Sivarasan both reportedly consumed cyanide ,in classic LTTE manner, Sivarasan also seemed to have shot himself. But according to state intelligence sources, Sivarasan knew too much and there is a possibility that the bullet wounds were not self inflicted. The case gets curiouser –Sivarasan’s body was immediately cremated, while Shobha’s was preserved as an exhibit.

It becomes clear from this sequence of events that most of the key players in actual plotting and execution of the killing have died under mysterious circumstances. And with the main accused LTTE chief Prabakaran still ensconced in LTTE strongholds in northern Lanka, the SIT has none of the crucial players in the case in custody.

Adding to this mess is the cover up orchestrated  by Rao’s regime. Rao’s persistent amnesia before the Jain Commission on the question of taking action on the Verma panel’s observation on official lapses makes interesting reading. “I would not be able to say off hand what all happened in connection with the steps taken for the implementation of the action taken report. The job was entrusted to a group of Ministers, I expected them to do the needful. I do not remember whether there was any timeframe for the group of ministers. As per reports, there was a stalemate. So the matter came up before the cabinet. What decision the cabinet took, it is a matter of record. I do not remember .”

Interestingly, a PIL was filed in the Delhi High Court by a little known lawyer, Mustaq Ahamed, demanding the scrapping of the Jain Commission. After this was turned down, the central government approached the Supreme Court  with a Special Leave Petition. When questioned about this by the commission, Rao said “ The PIL initiated in the Delhi High Court did not come to my knowledge. The question must have been looked into by P.Chidambaram and therefore SLP’s were filed. If Chidambaram wanted to consult me, he could have, but Chidambaram did not consult me. “ However it is well known that P.Chidambaram who was made Minister in charge of the Rajiv Gandhi assassination probe, was acting on Rao’s instructions. Ahmed’s PIL, according to political circles, also had the blessings of the then Prime Minister.

An important missing link is the file containing records of the official briefings to the then Home Minister S.B.Chavan, when he talked about the involvement of CIA in the assassination. Not surprisingly Chavan’s stand on the subject was in complete variance with what Rao had to say. Said Chavan in his affidavit before the Jain Commission :The LTTE was just an instrument in the hands of some foreign powers.” Then reacting to the charge made by former Congress Minister K.K.Tiwari, who has been meticulously following the Jain Commission’s proceedings, Chavan said “ The general impression which K.K.Tiwari gave is not altogether wrong because there are forces who are trying to create destabilizing conditions.”

In the ongoing snafu, the Ministry of External Affairs chose to deny the Home Minister’s statement that the Americans were involved in the killing. Chavan told the commission : “ It is correct that the very day the American Ambassador in India met the Indian Prime Minister, the foreign minister, foreign secretary and the spokesperson of MEA held a press conference and contradicted the statement regarding the involvement of a super power. It is abnormal that a spokesperson of the MEA held the press conference contradicting my statement.” Then again “ I am still of the view that some foreign power is involved. It is not the job of LTTE. The general impression is that some other powers may be involved.”

Whether the LTTE acted on its own or whether there was an international conspiracy is still a grey area- Justice Jain had not been able to make any definite conclusions about this aspect. But the manner in which Rao sought to hold back information from the Jain Commission, coupled with the shoddy investigation indicates there was a concerted attempt to protect key players. Evidence is absent, but join up the blank spaces and a pattern emerges.
Courtesy :
OUTLOOK magazine dated 24th November 1997.




CONCLUDING THE STORY : BUT LET YOUR CONSCIENCE AWAKEN

Those who read the OUTLOOK’s investigative story published a decade ago must be baffled at the outburst of the spokesperson of Congress party Mr.Veerappa Moily asking Srilanka to hand over LTTE leader Prabakaran, if caught.

Why is it Congress wants Prabakaran ? Is it to unearth the mystery behind Rajiv’s murder ? The role of Chandraswami and Narasimha Rao dubbed as deadly duo by OUTLOOK has not come to the minds of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Chairperson of the United Progressive Alliance Madam Sonia Gandhi. The then Indian Home Minister S.B.Chavan’s statement before Jain Commission pointing accusing fingers at foreign powers did not awaken Madam Sonia Gandhi’s conscience. Mrs.Priyanka Gandhi visited Vellore prison to know the truth. Recent report in Junior Vikatan states that Bengaluru Ranganath asserts that the killing squad was blessed in a pooja by Chandraswami. Yet none from Congress party wants to unearth the truth, to find out if any black sheep existed in its ranks. It is understandable that the black sheep of those days want to bury truth. The fate of mysterious dead caught for the crime is to bury evidences. Now the demand to fix Prabakaran is also to put the blame on his shoulders and crucify him. There is no real attempt to find truth even under the Government remote controlled by Rajiv’s widow. It would be left to western authors to investigate and write books on the Rajiv Gandhi murder mystery .

Even if some LTTE cadres are involved, in what way it is morally correct to blame one organization of a crime. 

The same OUTLOOK before one general election brought out a list of 72 Parliament Members involved in crimes, cutting across party divide.

Is it justifiable to ban those political parties that had nourished criminals. Organizations banned for the murder of the Father of the Nation, are freed from bondage, and such bans are only for limited periods. Lifelong Tamils have to be enslaved, no organization should exist to give protection to Tamils, and this sadistic resolve of the Government headed by Manmohan Singh and the political party that props him, is a curse for a noble land like India. In every metropolis, be it Mumbai or Chennai, kangaroo courts exist, instant justice is delivered not by the law of the land but by the unlawful mafia, not even underground but openly paraded by all political parties shielding that party interests. This is legal but for Tamils facing genocide if brave youth sacrifice their lives, those martyrs have to be exterminated. 

After Negroes attained liberation from slavery, right before our eyes Tamils of Eelam are forced to become slaves. If even that could be forgotten, how about Tamils of Colombo, who are not separatist but subscribe to one nation concept,are asked to register, as reported by Deccan Chronicle dated 5th January 2009. Mr.R.Bhagwan Singh, the descendent of the illustrious Raja Desingh who ruled Gingee writes with tears the woes of Tamils under Rajapakshe’s regime, in its own capital.

Indian ruling party will ignore the resolution of the Tamilnadu Assembly, just because it remains blind to truth in the Rajiv Gandhi’s murder. Indian ruling party still believes that George Bush will search and find chemical weapons in Iraq before he steps down this month and prove to the world that USA invaded Iraq on justifiable grounds. Like Bush, the Rao loyalists, Trojan horses within Congress, hope after hope that LTTE should be finished and its leader exterminated, so that posthumously Rao’s ghost or foreign hands in Rajiv Gandhi’s murder will remain unexposed before world history.

N.Nandhivarman General Secretary Dravida Peravai             5.1.2009

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