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India helping Colombo to perpetrate genocide on Tamils, accuses Vaiko (G.S Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam)
[TamilNet, Monday, 23 June 2008, 14:39 GMT]
In a letter to the Indian Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, Vaiko, General Secretary of the Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (MDMK), accused India of “equipping the Sri Lanka Government to help its war machine to perpetrate genocidal attacks against the Tamils…throwing to winds the farsighted foreign policy adopted by Pandit Nehru and Mrs. Indira Gandhi,” and urged the Prime Minister to not participate in the SAARC Conference.
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D.M. Dassanayake - Sri Lankan govt minister killed by blast
COLOMBO (AFP) - Sri Lankan government minister D.M. Dassanayake [A non-cabinet minister of Nation Building] died in hospital Tuesday after his convoy was hit by a powerful roadside blast near the capital, doctors said.
Police said a fragmentation mine — a device frequently used by Tamil Tiger rebels — was detonated as the minister’s convoy passed the town of Ja-Ela, 25 kilometers (16 miles) north of the capital.
