I urge the Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh not to agree to the draft proposed by the United States in the United Nations Human Rights Commission regarding alleged human rights excess during the anti-terrorist operations against the LTTE in 2009.
This Resolution although appears to be a tepid attempt to embarrass the Sri Lankan Government, but is severely lacking in any constructive positive content.
The Resolution is furthermore one-sided because there is no reference to the horrendous human rights violations including murder and rape carried out by the LTTE terrorists against the innocent Sinhala and Tamil population of Sri Lanka.
Although the LTTE has been defeated, nevertheless the American Government has permitted a demented person to set up on US soil an émigré illegal government of Eelam, who had the audacity to tell Indians that we cannot "hold Eelam Tamil hostage to the Rajiv Gandhi assassination". This is a great insult to the national sentiment of Indian patriots. Neither DMK nor ADMK have condemned this offensive statement.
I urge therefore the Government of India to move a substitute Resolution seeking concrete steps for devolution of power for the Tamil majority areas within a united Sri Lanka and to urge the Sri Lankan President Mr. Rajapakshe to complete the process of devolution by the end of this year. This decentralization of power was a commitment made by the Sri Lankan Government earlier to India during the conduct of the anti-terrorists operations in 2008-09.
I also urge the Prime Minister as a measure of creating Indo-Sri Lanka goodwill to decorate the President of Sri Lanka Mr. Rajapakse with Bharat Ratna award for his successful destruction of the LTTE infrastructure in Sri Lanka thereby enhancing India's national security.