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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 9922747" data-attributes="member: 92282"><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Jayalalitha.jpg/200px-Jayalalitha.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />India's AIADMK chief Jayalalithaa today demanded that the government take  'immediate steps' to make Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse stand  trial for alleged war crimes during the conflict between the Lankan  armed forces and the LTTE following a UN report."The UN Panel report is very clear. It lists out the war crimes of  the Sri Lankan government," Jayalalithaa said in a statement here.Quoting  from the report, she said Lankan forces "had shelled no fire zones and  hospitals, deprived humanitarian aid in the form of food supply and  medicine."Slamming her arch rival and DMK president M Karunanidhi  for his 'three-hour fast' in 2009 demanding a halt to the Lankan  Government offensive, she said the UN report "clearly holds that the  carnage lasted till May 2009, well after Karunanidhi had made his  dubious claim that hostilities had ended following his fast on April  27.""The Indian Government, on its part, should initiate  immediate steps to make Rajapakse and his cronies stand trial in the  International Court of Justice for his war crimes," she said.A  three member UN panel had last week called for setting up an  "independent international mechanism" into "credible" allegations that  Sri Lankan military had committed war crimes in its final decisive  offensive against Tamil Tigers in 2009.Describing the report as  'preposterous', Sri Lanka had yesterday asked the UN not to make it  public, saying it would cause irrepairable damage to its reconciliation  efforts and damage the UN system itself.The world body has, however, rejected the Lankan request, saying it would publish the report in "full".Key excerpts of the report were carried in a mysterious leak by Lanka's widely circulated Island newspaper earlier this week. <a href="http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_jayalalithaa-demands-steps-to-make-mahika-rajapakse-stand-trial_1534838" target="_blank">PTI</a>India should take steps to ensure that Sri Lankan President Mahinda  Rajapaksa faces trial for war crimes, former Tamil Nadu chief minister  J. Jayalalithaa said Friday.“The Indian government should  initiate immediate steps to make Rajapaksa and his cronies stand trial  in the International Court of Justice for his war crimes,” the AIADMK  chief said in a statement here.“Otherwise, (Congress president)  Sonia Gandhi’s platitudinous assertions on Sri Lanka before the Tamil  Nadu electorate would ring resoundingly hollow,” she added.Jayalalithaa  added that New Delhi was very much party to “the carnage against the  Tamil people in Sri Lanka” when Colombo militarily destroyed the Tamil  Tigers in 2009.She said when there was an international outcry  and demand that Rajapaksa should be tried for war crimes, neither the  Indian nor the Tamil Nadu governments voiced anguish over Tamil  suffering. <a href="http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/uncategorized/india-must-ensure-rajapaksa-faces-war-crimes-trial_100528939.html" target="_blank">IANS</a> </blockquote>

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