CPI asks Centre to change policy towards Sri Lanka

New Delhi, Nov 9 (PTI) The Communist Party Of India
(C.P.I.) asked the Centre to change its policy towards Sri
Lanka and demanded that India intervene and stop the "war" in
the island nation and insist for a political solution to the
over 25-year-old ethnic crisis in that country.

Party secretary D.Raja also said India should immediately
stop providing all kinds of military assistance to Sri Lanka.

"The war between two sides in Sri Lanka has caused
immense hardships to innocent Tamil civilians in the northern
part of the island. India should take steps to stop the war,"
he told a protest rally organised by the Delhi Tamil Students
Federation here.

He said India should tell the Sri Lankan Government that
the decades-old ethnic conflict can be resolved only through a
political solution.

Raja said both the L.T.T.E. and Sri Lankan Government
should come forward to hold negotiations on the issue and
resolve it "politically".

"India should stop providing arms to Sri Lanka. The
government says it is providing only non-lethal weapons. But,
whatever we provide during a war time will be used against the
people in northern Lanka," he said.

Sri Lankan Tamil M.P. M.K Sivajilingam said India should
intervene and stop the "killings of innocent civilians" in the
country.

Earlier, the students belonging to Jawaharla Nehru
University (J.N.U.), Delhi University (DU), and Jamia Milia
Islamia marched from Barakhamba Raod to Jantar Mantar shouting
slogans against the Sri Lankan Government. PTI ETB
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