In an article to the Chennai based English Daily, "The Hindu" of Wednesday (04), the Leader of the Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF), Mr Anandasangaree, has stated that:   "The LTTE is the main force that deprived the democratic and fundamental rights of the Tamils of Sri Lanka and considerably eroded into their human rights also". 

The veteran TULF leader has a message for the LTTE as well as to the political leaders of Tamil Nadu which will be helpful to find a "reasonable solution" to the existing crisis in Sri Lanka.    He has called on "some politicians "and leaders in Tamil Nadu leaders "irrespective of their political affiliations". to act "with care and caution " or   "get swayed " in what he calls by "emotional speeches " with a view  to "incite the public  with no concern for the negative reflections in Sri Lanka"  to " incite the public with no concern for the negative reflections on Sri Lanka".  He has told them to help "liberate"   the Tamil people" from the subjugation of the LTTE " so that a" reasonable political solution can be found ...".

The TULF leader stated that :"The LTTE has forfeited  their credibility o speak for the Tamils of Sri Lanka by their atrocious activities perpetrated on the innocent Tamil civilians who have been living like slave s, for several years , amidst constant fear and tensions". It has been the experience of most Tamils living in the north and east to see their children being forcibly conscripted into the LTTE to serve as child soldiers. It has also been the experience of the Tamils living in those areas to be victims of the LTTE "tax collector" which has forced them to abandon their homes to free themselves from the yoke of the LTTE. Today many areas in the East have been "liberated" by the Security Forces to enable them to live without fear from LTTE recruiters. The surrender of 02 LTTE cadres mostly child soldiers with 507 from the East and the successful Government resettlement programme now in progress is ample evidence of the "liberation" of the East.  by the Security Forces.

The TULF states "It is therefore obligatory on the part of the leaders on both sides to see that he people on either  side are not  prejudiced by the words and deeds of any one of them...Tamil Nadu has to understand the various  realities comprehensively  and could help us to solve the problems of the Tamils in Sri Lanka ". 

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