| Image: Sri Lankan ethnic Tamil women pray during a prayer session at a Hindu temple in Wellawatte, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Saturday, Feb. 14, 2009. Over the past three decades of conflict, Tamils who comprise about 18 percent of Sri Lanka's 20 million people have been migrating to North America, Europe and Australia. Some 800,000 now live overseas and that figure is growing, especially among young men, analysts say. (Copyright AP. Any unauthorised reproduction is prohibited.) |
Chennai: AIADMK leader J Jayalalithaa today commenced a day-long fast here to press the Centre to use its good offices with Sri Lanka to declare an immediate ceasefire in the island nation.
A similar fast is being undertaken by party members in the district headquarters across the state.
Jayalalithaa had charged the Centre and the DMK, a constituent of the ruling UPA, with "failing to ensure ceasefire," in (the northern parts of) Sri Lanka."
The party is also collecting donations during the fast for providing relief to the Sri Lankan Tamils.
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