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Assassination an international plot: LTTE

Send home all Lankan Tamils, Jayalalitha urges govt
NEW DELHI. May 24: A politician tipped to win elections in Indian's Tamil Nadu, state where Rajiv Gandhi was killed asked the government Thursday to send home all Srl Lankan Tamils, reports AFP.
Implicitly blaming the assassination on Sri Lankan Tamils. Jayalalitha Jayaram told reporters. "I appeal, rather demand, that the centre should take Immediate action to see that all Sri Lankan Tamils are sent back".
'This (repatriation) should take place Immediately." the Press Trust of India (PTI) quoted Ms Jayalalitha as saying in the Tamil Nadu capital Madras before leaving for New Delhi for Gandhi's funeral Friday.
Ms Jayalalitha. an actress-turned-polltlcian. heads the all-Indla Anna Dravlda Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), which is widely expected to storm to power In Tamil Nadu in elections now postponed until June.
She said the assassination of Gandhi, whose Congress(I) Party is in alliance with AIADMK. was a "horrendous tragedy" and ' that the "Srl Lankan Tamil militants had totally ruined the peaceful culture of Tamil Nadu".
Tamil Nadu, a sprawling coastal state, is home to an estimated 200,000 Srl Lankan Tamils who have fled their country and scores of Tamil rebels, including many from the powerful Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
The LTTE has emerged as a
prime suspect In the Gandhi murder but the group lias denied Involvement
"We looked forward to a period of stability and economic progress under Mr Gandhi now once again the country's future and destiny have become uncertain." Ms Jay-
alalitlia said.
The AIADMK leader's statement came a day after K Ramamurthy. President of the Tamil Nadu Congress Champter. made a similar demand.
"Even a single person should not remain here, whoever it might be. because everybody comes in the guise of refugees', he said In Madras. They have come seeking asylum and they cannot dictate, let them do all their nonsense in Eelam"
Eelam is the name given by Tamil militants to their pro-
posed homeland in Srl Lanka.
PTI from London adds: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) said that the assassination of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was an "international plot to Implicate the Tamils In general and the LTTE In particular
in this tragedy and in the politics of Indian sub-continent.''
An LTTE spokesman here said that the Tamil Tigers were not Involved In anyway with the assassination. But he did not rule out the possibility of the Involvement of some other Tamil militant group.
Referring to the reports that some Tamil militants had admitted their Involvement In the assassination to a Tamil newspaper In California, the spokesman said ‘there Is no authorised LTTE spokesman tn California.
Meanwhile, a band of vet-
eran guerrillas fighting for an independent Tamil homeland in Sri Lanka are being investigated by police for the bomb slaying of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
In eight years of guerrilla warfare the liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) has perfected methods of using land mines, trip-wire explosives and remote-controlled bombs, according to officials in New Delhi and Colombo. Sri Lanka's capital
Police and the chief forensic expert investigating the bombing said Thursday that Gandhi's killer was almost certainly a Tamil from Sri Lanka who strapped explosives around her body In a denim belt
An unidentified woman's body was the only one identified of the 16 people besides Gandhi who died as a result of the bombing in Sriperam-budur. a town in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu
The Tigers have denied responsibility for the killing, but police say they are the only militants known to operate in Tamil Nadu with that degree of explosives skill.
The Tigers are also known to have set up an suicide squad called the Black Tigers, which has a women's cell.
On Wednesday, police searched homes of alleged Tamil militants In Madras. Tamil Nadu's capital city, and a local press report said about 50 were detained tn the sweep.