Prabhakaran is my friend: Karunanidhi

Sunday, April 19, 2009, 16:46 [IST]

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Chennai, Apr 19: M Karunanidhi, the Tamil Nadu chief minister said in an exclusive NDTV interview that LTTE supremo V Prabhakaran is not a terrorist and he will have 'deep regrets' if the Tiger chief is killed during the Sri Lankan military operations.

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“Prabhakaran is my friend and I"m not a terrorist," NDTV quoted the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister of telling the channel in an exclusive interview. TN CM added that the LTTE has genuine goals, but use wrong methods to pursue them. He said “some in the LTTE maybe involved in terror."

Earlier it was the same Karunanidhi who criticised Prabhakaran and said that he was 'sick of Tigers war' and that the sympathy towards that movement was reducing slowly and will vanish fully at one point.

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Truth 20 Apr 2009 12:23 pm

Karunaanithi will speak any thing , do any thing to stay in power. There is no big difference with Jeyalalithaa also. All political parties in India are like that. Why did congress joined with MDMK in 2004 knowing well that vaiko is staunch supporter of LTTE and Prabakaran?