DMK leader T.R. Baalu on Thursday wanted the government to
ensure the passage of the U.N. resolution against Sri Lanka at
the Human Rights Council in Geneva.  Initiating the short-
duration discussion in the Lok Sabha, Mr. Baalu demanded that
those guilty of war crimes in Sri Lanka should be taken to the
International Court of Justice to “give some solace to the
victims.”  “India should not be lukewarm. It should have a
clear-cut approach on the issue at the U.N.,” he said.  “Twenty
five years have passed since the Rajiv Gandhi-Jayawardene accord
was signed, but it has not been implemented so far,” he noted.
“Genocide” of Tamils in the war and atrocities against them had
not yet stopped.  Besides mass killings and rapes, Tamil
language and culture were being targeted as shown in the change
of names of a large number of villages in the Tamil-dominated
areas of the island nation, he said, adding that the war
criminals must be punished in the same way as those convicted
for similar crimes in Bosnia, Syria and oth