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1500 Indian Tamils held on charge of sedition
MADRAS. Sept 18 : Police in southern India today arrested about 1.800 Tamils who had called for the right to self determination In India and supported a banned Sri Lankan rebel group, officials said, re ports Reuter
At least 1.500 people were arrested tn the southern state of Tamil Nadu on charges of sedition, said state police official Walter I Dawaram. Sedition carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment under In dian law
He said the arrests were carried out peacefully but that police were on alert to prevent any violent reaction
Those arrested included the organisers of a three-day conference in Madras last week. This called for the right to self-determination for Indian Tamils and gave support to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eclam (LTTE), a rebel group fighting for a Tamil state In neichbourlno Srl lanka.
More than 340 people were arrested in one district alone, said police official K K Ra jasekharan Nair.
The LTTE was outlawed in India earlier this year after it was accused of being behind the assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi He was blown up by a woman suicide bomber while on the campaign trail in Tamil Nadu
India's Tamila live mostly in Tamil Nadu, separated from Sri Lanka by a narrow strip of sea The LTTE had used the state as a sanctuary from Its nine-year war for an Indepen dent homeland in the north and east of Sri Lanka.
India originally supported the LTTE but became embroiled in a war with it after trying to disarm the rebels un der a 1987 peace accord with Colombo
Last week a conference. or ganlscd by more than 20 Tamil political parties, adopted a
resolution saying that "the right of self determination has to be constitutionally pro-vided "
Several people at the meeting carried posters of LTTE leader Velupillal Prab hakaran and shouted slogans in his support.
The police move came after severe pressure on the Tamil Nadu government to take action against those attending the conference.
Era Anabarasu, a parliamentarian from the ruling Congress Party, had urged the arrests of the conference leaders arxi of former Prime Minister V P Singh, who was Invited to attend the meeting. It was not Immediately known If Singh attended
Calling for secession is a crime under Indian law.
Tamil Nadu is ruled by a Tamil Party allied to the Congress Party but their relationship has been uneasy for some months.