London: A leading Tamil leader of Sri Lanka has urged India to intervene and help the island nation to defeat LTTE chief V Prabhakaran "who will never agree" for any solution to the ethnic problem.

"Prabhakaran will never agree for anything and not a single country in the world will support his demand for a separate homeland for Tamils in Sri Lanka," V Anandasangaree, former MP and President of Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) told newsmen here last night.

Claiming that he had held discussions with Indian leaders and National Security Advisor M K Narayanan recently, Anandasangaree said he was agitating for a solution to the Tamil issue based on the federal concept as being followed in India. The 74-year old leader said India is also aware that Prabhakaran s demand for a separate homeland would not materialise. "Prabhakaran is digging his own grave," he said. Anandasangaree urged India to intervene and help Sri Lanka defeat LTTE.

He said very soon the international community would understand the risk of supporting the demand of LTTE. "I have told Indian leaders that if you support LTTE you will have Jaffna in India itself." The moderate Tamil leader said he supported the implementation of the 13th amendment to the Sri Lanka Constitution guaranteeing autonomy to the Tamil-majority area in Jaffna. The LTTE treated the Tamilians in Jaffna like "slaves", he said.

Source : PTI