Chennai: DMK today described as "cruel" the alleged execution scenes in a video documentary of a Tamil TV presenter by the Sri Lankan troops and asked if India still intended to participate in the upcoming commonwealth event in Colombo.
"We have been left wailing" over Britain's Channel 4 video that shows a group of soldiers surrounding a half-naked Tamil lady," DMK chief M Karunanidhi said.
The video claims that the woman, a Tamil TV presenter who had served in the LTTE, was executed after being captured by the troops and not during the final battle as claimed by the government. She was found dead with her clothes stripped.
"After watching the cruel scene, do our nation's Prime Minster ( Manmohan Singh), External Affairs Minister ( Salman Khurshid) and those voicing for India's participation in the Commonwealth conference still want to participate in it," he said in a letter to his partymen.
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