Rajapaksa offers equal rights to Tamils

by Kishore on May 20, 2009

With LTTE wiped out, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has offered equal rights for Tamils through a political solution but said it won’t be "imported".
A day after his armed forces eliminated Velupillai Prabhakaran, 64-year-old Rajapaksa sought to reach out to the minority in the north with a brief address in Tamil in the opening speech of Parliament session as the army released pictures of the once-elusive Tiger chief’s body with bullet wounds on his forehead.