Genocide has to be compensated by separation: Sikh politician
Simranjit Singh Mann
“Tamils
can’t live [in a united Sri Lanka] after the perpetration of the crime
of genocide. I think the wounds are too deep historically there to be
reconciliation. After a State has committed genocide, there can’t be any
reconciliation,” says Simranjit Singh Mann, the president of Shiromani
Akali Dal Amritsar party, who advocates the formation of Khalistan as an
independent and sovereign State for Sikhs, in an exchange of views with
Tamil Nadu based May 17 Movement. “Pirapaharan and his movement was too
powerful for the Sri Lankan government,” he said, adding that “it was
under the collaboration of UPA-led Congress government that the Sri
Lanka government was able to achieve and crush the movement for freedom
by committing a genocide on the Tamil people in Sri Lanka.” 