Now, a fast to save Rajiv killers

CHENNAI: A new movement has been fast gaining ground in the State — the ‘Save Perarivalan’ campaign. And thronging the venue on Saturday of the three women lawyers who launched an indefinite fast on Friday inside the Madras High Court campus to save the three men sentenced to death in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case were Tamil film personalities, politicians, college and school students and social activists.The campaign, which has been on for a decade, gained momentum after the government fixed September 9 as the date of hanging of the three convicts — G Perarivalan, Santhan and Sriharan alias Murugan, now lodged in the Vellore prison.The women lawyers — Angayarkanni, Vadivambai and Sujatha, who shifted to a private premises on Saturday — had a stream of visitors expressing their solidarity.One of them, MDMK leader Vaiko, inaugurated a pamphlet distribution as scores of young people went around drumming up public support against the death penalty.In the evening, a meeting was organised by the Forum against War Crimes and Genocide to drive home the point that the rejection of the clemency petition by the President need not be the end of the road for the convicts, as per law.