India government facing collapse as key ally quits over Sri Lanka 'genocide' call...

One of the India's main ruling coalition allies today withdrew its support and plunged the government into turmoil over its demand for New Delhi to condemn the killing of Tamil civilians in the last days of the Sri Lankan civil war as "genocide".

The resignation of the Tamil Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK)'s 18 members of parliament and five ministers from the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance left the government 42 seats short of a majority and in danger of collapse.

Commentators said the government may survive for now only because the opposition wants it to "die a halal, rather than guillotine death".

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The DMK withdrew its ministers after the government failed to support its call to support a strongly-worded amendment to a US-backed resolution to the United Nations Human Rights Committee calling for greater reconciliation in Sri Lanka and an independent inquiry into allegations of human rights abuses in the last stages on its long civil war in 2009.

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