Senior Tamil official apologises for Gandhi assassination

A senior Tamil Tiger leader has apologised to India for the 1991 assassination of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi by a Tiger suicide bomber.

“I would say it is a great tragedy, a monumental historical tragedy for which we deeply regret and we call upon the Government of India and people of India to be magnanimous to put the past behind,” said the Tigers’ chief negotiator Anton Balasingham.