Tamil Nadu CM writes to Indian PM on Sri Lankan defence officers visiting the state

The Chief Minister of India's Tamil Nadu state J. Jayalalithaa has fired up another letter to the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Monday flaying the central government for allowing the Sri Lankan defence officers to visit the state. Reminding her opposition earlier to the training of nine Sri Lankan Air Force officers in the Tambaram Air Force base in Tamil Nadu,
the CM has this time written to PM to display her outrage for the visit by two Sri Lankan defence officers to a function at the Defence Service Staff College in Wellington. "The people of Tamil Nadu are frustrated and outraged by this callous and adamant attitude of the Government of India in persistently giving training to personnel belonging to the Sri Lankan Armed Forces in India," Jayalalithaa wrote to the PM. "Tamils across the world feel that the sentiments of the Tamils have been trampled on by the Government of India not only by its inaction on this resolution, but also by continuing to give preferential treatment by way of providing technical training to defence personnel belonging to Sri Lanka," the CM further wrote. The two officers, Air Vice Marshal Jugath Julanga Diaz of the Sri Lankan Air Force and Rear Admiral S. Ranasinghe of the Sri Lankan Navy , have arrived in the Nilgiris District of Tamil Nadu Sunday to attend an event organized by the Defence Service Staff College for its former graduates. Around 25 officers from 10 other countries are also taking part in the event. The Chief Minister recalled that her state government passed a resolution in June 2011 urging the Central government to take up with the United Nations Organization the issue of declaring those found guilty of war crimes as war criminals, and also to initiate action by working with other Nations for the imposition of an economic embargo on the Government of Sri Lanka till the Tamils who are now living in camps in Sri Lanka are resettled in their own places and are allowed to live with dignity and with equal Constitutional rights on par with the Sinhalese citizens. She lashed at the central government for sending the nine Sri Lankan Air Force officers to the Yelahenka Air Force base in Bangalore instead of sending them back to Sri Lanka. The Chief Minister urged the Prime Minister "to give suitable instructions to the Ministry of Defence to desist from giving any training to personnel belonging to the Sri Lankan Armed Forces anywhere in India and send such personnel back to Sri Lanka immediately."