New Delhi:
The DMK is set to stall Parliament today over the upcoming US-sponsored resolution on Sri Lanka at the UN Human Rights Commission, after reports suggest that the resolution will not call for an international probe into alleged war crimes and human rights abuses by Sri Lanka as it wound down its decades-long civil war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam or LTTE.
The DMK is demanding that India vote against Sri Lanka as well as move its own resolution against Colombo, holding it to account for 'genocide' against Lankan Tamils. Voting on the UN resolution is expected to take place by the end of this week.
A trio of ministers - P Chidambaram, AK Antony and Ghulam Nabi Azad - met the DMK chief M Karunanidhi last evening after he threatened to pull out his ministers from the Union government. But sources indicate a compromise was not brokered. India has maintained that it will take a final call after it sees the text of the resolution, which is expected to be circulated today.
Reports suggest that the resolution does not call for an international probe but instead calls for Sri Lanka to probe possible human rights laws, citing reports that civilians were targets of extra judicial killings, torture, and intimidation by Sri Lankan forces. Sri Lanka maintains it is a domestic issue and international intervention is unwarranted. Last year, India had voted against Sri Lanka when a similar resolution was moved at the UNHRC.