Malay minister rejects invitation to World Tamil Conference

Last Updated: Saturday, February 06, 2010, 18:27

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Coimbatore: A Malaysian minister on Saturday rejected Tamil Nadu government's invitation to attend the World Tamil Classical Conference in Chennai in June saying the state has "failed" to take up Sri Lankan Tamils' cause with the Centre.

"The Tamil Nadu government has failed to protect and take up the interests of Sri Lankan Tamils with the Centre," Deputy Chief Minister of Penang province in Malaysia P Ramasamy told reporters here.

Ramasamy had last year rejected the invitation to participate in the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas saying India had "failed" to protect hundreds of Tamils in Sri Lanka and "supported" the island government in the "killings of Tamils".

Inaugurating a two-day World Tamil Protection Conference, organised by Dalit-based party Puthiya Tamizhagam here, Ramaswamy said he was pained when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh talked about Palestine situation during last year's Pravasi Bharatiya Divas, but did not utter a word about Sri Lanka where "thousands of Tamils were killed".

The need of the hour is a strong organisation at world level to raise the voice of Tamils and to protect them, since there is a huge Tamil population in Malaysia, Singapore, Canada, Mauritius and various other parts of the world, he said.

PTI

First Published: Saturday, February 06, 2010, 18:27

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paul raj - Srinagar
let us keep those painful days of our beloved evergreen in our mind . day will come to do something fruitful .good step ramsamy

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Sanjai - Chennai
he should be a person of conscience.but the intention for conducting the world tamil conference by the dmk govt is only to erase the bitter incidence of blood shed by srilankan tamils from the history and from the memory of our irresponsible and selfish tamilians .our sisters were raped and slain-ed,father, mothers and brothers were butchered mercilessly and thousands of children were made orphans and made to beg for food.all the weapons and financial support to annihilate our relatives were from india.we did nothing to prevent such gruesome murders.we were just watching everything and now celebrating tamil conference. is it not ridiculous? shameful. whose money is being spent? with whose permission? s uch shameful incidents would happen only in tamilnadu. not in ant other state.

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john pravien kumar - Djibouti East Africa
i appriciate the minister comments i deeply condemned the lethogical manner which the tamil nadu government to save their skin with the centre

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Kapaleeswaran - India
i appreciate his views on eelam tamils life but the war was project as ending terrorism in srilanka. that was the reason even ltte did not reciprocate to the war to show the world to believe they are not terrorist but revolutionists. he should understand that other countries also who supported tamils also did not utter any word against srilanka. as a politian his justification for rejecting invitation is not acceptable. as there are lot of way to save rest of lifes in srilanka.