One-time Indian High Commissioner to Colombo Gopalkrishna Gandhi yesterday accused the previous government of having executed LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran’s son during the final phase of the Vanni offensive in May 2009. Gandhi alleged that the Sri Lankan military had executed 12-year-old Balachandran because he was the younger son of the LTTE’ leader. The retired Indian career diplomat subscribed to the allegation of mass scale killings of civilians during the final assault though he refrained from mentioning an exact figure. Gandhi was delivering the keynote address at a ceremony to mark the completion of President Maithripala Sirisena’s first year in office, at the BMICH. The guest speaker went to the extent of declaring that there wouldn’t have been no requirement for Prabhakaran to take up arms if Sri Lanka had addressed the grievances of Tamil speaking people raised by past Tamil leaders. Having formed the LTTE in the early 1980s, India deployed its Army here (July 1987-March 1990) leading to the loss of over 1,500 of its officers and men. Gandhi urged Sri Lanka not to repeat the past mistakes of her previous leaders, while urging the Sirisena-Wickremesinghe government to accommodate Tamil representatives in the cabinet even at the expense of current Constitutional provisions. Gandhi pushed the Sri Lankan leadership to follow the South African example of accommodating more South Africans of Indian origin in Mandela’s cabinet.
Gopalkrishna Gandhi calls the killing of Balachandran an inhumane act
One-time Indian High Commissioner to Colombo Gopalkrishna Gandhi yesterday accused the previous government of having executed LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran’s son during the final phase of the Vanni offensive in May 2009. Gandhi alleged that the Sri Lankan military had executed 12-year-old Balachandran because he was the younger son of the LTTE’ leader. The retired Indian career diplomat subscribed to the allegation of mass scale killings of civilians during the final assault though he refrained from mentioning an exact figure. Gandhi was delivering the keynote address at a ceremony to mark the completion of President Maithripala Sirisena’s first year in office, at the BMICH. The guest speaker went to the extent of declaring that there wouldn’t have been no requirement for Prabhakaran to take up arms if Sri Lanka had addressed the grievances of Tamil speaking people raised by past Tamil leaders. Having formed the LTTE in the early 1980s, India deployed its Army here (July 1987-March 1990) leading to the loss of over 1,500 of its officers and men. Gandhi urged Sri Lanka not to repeat the past mistakes of her previous leaders, while urging the Sirisena-Wickremesinghe government to accommodate Tamil representatives in the cabinet even at the expense of current Constitutional provisions. Gandhi pushed the Sri Lankan leadership to follow the South African example of accommodating more South Africans of Indian origin in Mandela’s cabinet.
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