Nedumaran attacks Centre for mobilising troops to Lanka

The coordinator of Tamil Eelam Liberation Supporter’s Co-ordination Committee, Pazha Nedumaran, on Sunday expressed dismay over the union government allegedly mobilising troops to Sri Lanka in the pretext of employing them for the safety of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who will be visiting the island nation for the SAARC conference soon.

No nation hosting such a conference would approve of the arrival of troops en masse from other countries, Nedumaran said in a statement, adding that troop mobilisation was done with the intent to assist the Lankan army in decimating ethnic Tamils.

So far, about 1,500 troops had already been moved to Sri Lanka and a like number was in the offing to be moved there, Nedumaran asserted, flaying the Centre and appealing to Tamils world over to unite against the plan.