AIADMK supremo Jayalalithaa today said by demanding a special envoy to study the condition of Tamils in Sri Lanka, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi had admitted that the assessment of the UPA MPs team which visited the island nation some months ago was wrong.
The UPA team, led by DMK MP T R Baalu and comprising among others Karunanidhi's daughter Kanimozhi, had then said the internally displaced Tamils were well taken care of, Jayalalithaa alleged in a statement in Chennai.
"By demanding that the Centre send a special envoy to the northern and eastern parts of Sri Lanka to assess the real situation, Karunanidhi candidly admitted that the UPA team had given a false report, she charged.
Tamil women, lodged in camps in Sri Lanka, were "humiliated and molested" during the war against LTTE by Sri Lankan Army men, she alleged adding that several nations had demanded that President Mahinda Rajapakse be declared as a war criminal for human rights violations. Karunanidhi's sudden change of heart in demanding a special envoy was due to "election fever", she said.
Responding to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's letter seeking his views and advice on finding a solution to the ethnic issue, Karunanidhi had last week written to him suggesting a special envoy could be asked to assess the situation in the affected areas and the measures taken so far by the Lanka government to rehabilitate the nearly 40,000 displaced Tamils. PTI
