COLOMBO (PTI): Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) leader Anton Balsingham has said his organisation is willing to talk to Indian prime minister P V Narasimha Rao and explain its stand a government owned newspaper here said on Monday.
“The Observer’ quoted Balasingham telling the ‘Eelanadu Paris’ a Tamil newspaper published in Paris that the late Rajiv Gandhi did not understand the Sri Lankan ethnic issue.
“The LTTE is prepared to explain their stand to the Indian Prime Minister Narsimha Rao as he is better informed of the Sri Lankan problem rather than all other Indian politicians’ Balasingham was quoted as saying.
The newspaper did not say which issue of ‘Eelanadu Paris’ carried the interview or when and where it was taken.
Balasingham these days is said to be somewhere in Jaffna the LTTE bastion in northern Lanka.
Balasingham said ‘It was not possible to operate an international communication network from Jaffna’ and blamed India for “shattering LTTE’s communication network”.
He said if a proper chance was given the LTTE would clear its stand on the Rajiv assassination and explain to the world what relationship they had with India.
Balasingham went on to say that the LTTE in fact expected to gel more positive assistance from Rajiv Gandhi and wanted to explain to him the whole issue to find a solution to the ethnic problem. He said the LTTE was not involved in the assassination
Article extracted from this publication >> July 24, 1992
