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Tuesday, January 20,  2009
      Editorial:They're barking up the wrong tree
Over 100 persons arrested, 9 detained under NSA for burning buses
Tamil Nadu police were issued shoot-at-sight orders on Sunday morning after Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchigal activists, in a violent protest against Sri Lanka, went on the rampage causing damage to buses, ‘The Hindu’ reported yesterday.

"More than 100 activists of the Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchigal (VCK) were held in different parts of the State for damaging buses. More than 35 buses were damaged.

The police arrested the activists who indulged in violence while garnering support for Tamils living in Sri Lanka.

Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) leader Dr S Ramadoss, who visited VCK leader Thol Thirumavalavan, now in his fourth day of a fast-unto-death over the humanitarian crisis imposed on Tamil civilians by Sri Lanka’s punitive bombardments, exhorted Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Kalaignar M. Karunanidhi to act urgently to invoke Indian intervention to stop the war. Emphatically refuting Mr. Karunanidhi`s statement that the VCK leader had unilaterally decided to stage a protest fast without consulting the rest of the Tamil Nadu polity, Dr. Ramadoss said Thol Thirumavalavan, whose health is detoriarating, had consulted other leaders several times in the recent weeks.
(Pic courtesy of lankanewspapers.com)

 

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