Jamdoli, Jaipur, March 16: The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) on the penultimate day of the ongoing three-day Akhil Bharatiya PRatinidhi Sabha (ABPS) lamented the inaction on the part of the Sri Lankan Government in alleviating the sufferings of Sri Lankan Tamils and once again urged the Government of Bharat to direct the Sri Lankan Government to take corrective steps to rehabilitate them.
In a statement issued here today RSS General Secretary Suresh alias Bhayyaji Joshi said that the Government of the island nation failed to provide full civil and political rights to the Sri Lankan Tamils who were torn asunder following a three-decade long war between the LTTE and Sri Lankan forces.
It may be recalled that the RSS had urged the Sri Lankan Government a year ago to take corrective steps in this direction. “I am constrained to observe”, the RSS General Secretary said, “that one year down the line there has not been much improvement in the ground situation. If anything, the suspicions of the world community over the intentions of the Government of Sri Lanka have further deepened”, he added.
Joshi said that the Government of Sri Lanka could not continue to turn a blind eye to the plight of the Tamils in the northern province of that country. Those Tamils had suffered immensely during the 30-year-long war losing lives, livelihood, homes and hearths and temples. Tens of thousands of them had fled and more than a lakh had arrived on the shores of Tamil Nadu seeking refuge in India.
The RSS leader said that “it is our considered opinion that lasting peace will return to Sri Lanka only when the government of that country sincerely and honestly addresses the grievances of the Tamils of North and East and those who have sought refuge in India.”
He also urged the Government of Bharat to use its good offices to direct the Sri Lankan Government to ensure proper rehabilitation of the Tamils providing full civil and political rights to them. Reminding the millennia old links India has with Sri Lanka Joshi warned that this island neighbor of India should not become a pawn in the great geo-strategic power game of the global powers who are trying to establish their hegemony in the Indian Ocean region.
The RSS leader said that any attempt to widen the gulf between the Simhala and Tamil populations of that country should not be allowed to succeed because, therein ”lies the key to lasting solution to the Sri Lankan crisis”, he added.
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