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Arresting LTTE chief

Sir, — The report on the Tamil Nadu Assembly resolution (`Send army to nab Prabakaran': April 17) provokes some basic questions about international law.

Can any nation send its army to another country to apprehend an accused in its country? If the Tamil Nadu legislators feel that they are right as this is a special case involving Tamils and a former Prime Minister was killed on their soil, then can the Maharashtra Government ask the Centre to send the Army to the U.K. to apprehend the alleged killer of Gulshan Kumar?

If the U.S. is right in attacking Afghanistan as a sequel to the September 11 incidents, then is Israel right in attacking Palestinians in their own land?

If Palestinian suicide bombing by young people in civilian clothes is a terrorist attack, is attacking innocent civilians with tanks and cruel weapons by men in military uniform an act of defence?

V. Ramprakash,
Madurai

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