Take steps for rehabilitation of displaced and ensure equal status for Lankan Tamils

AIADMK chief J Jayalalithaa today urged the Centre to expedite immediate measures for the rehabilitation of internally displaced persons (IDP) in Sri Lanka as well as to ensure equal status for them on the lines of the majority Sinhalese in the island nation.

She said that the miserable conditions of the Tamils in Sri Lanka continued despite the end of the war.

“India should expedite immediate measures for the rehabilitation of IDP in Sri Lanka as well as ensure equal status for them on the lines of the majority Sinhalese in the island nation,” she said in a statement in Chennai.

She also criticised India for supporting Sri Lanka’s resolution in the United Nations Human Rights Council, seen as a counter by the island government to a draft Swiss-EU resolution calling for a probe into alleged human rights violations during the offensive and questioned Karunanidhi’s silence over the voting.