Read the following report in manorama online.com
New Delhi/Colombo: Hours before leaving for Sri Lanka, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee said that India would never tolerate the Tamil Tigers but was worried about Tamil civilians caught in the war between the rebels and Colombo.
“We are for the fight against terrorists and all sorts of terrorism. Therefore we have no sympathy for any terrorist activity indulged by any organisation, and particularly the LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) is a banned organisation in India,” Mukherjee said before his departure later in the day for Sri Lanka.
“But we are concerned about the plight of the civilians and we shall have to see how the civilians can be protected and do not become the hapless victims of the situation,” he told reporters here.
Mukherjee's comments came as Sri Lankan troops announced after capturing the LTTE garrison town of Mullaitivu that 95 percent of the dragging war against the Tamil Tigers was over.
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