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“
No India- No solution
”
Our
friendly neighbouring Nation India's contribution and
supportive solidarity is absolutely essential to attain an
everlasting peaceful solution to the political ethnic
issue.
Minister
Douglas Devananda affirms, India is our saviour, to the
British Parliamentarians.
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Hon. Minister Meets British Parliamentarians
The visiting team of high
level British Parliamentarians, consisting of Andrew Love,
Stephen Hammond, Dr. Ashok Kumar met with Secretary
General of the EPDP and Minister Douglas Devananda M.P at
the Minister’s residence last evening.
The discussions centered on the
prevailing political situation in the country and the
viable solutions related to Srilanka’s ethnic conflict,
the need of the hour.
The British parliamentarians were very
keen to be made aware of, in detail, of the proposed
steps, the moves and decisions taken towards bringing an
end to the ethnic conflict and the pragmatically viable
solutions put forward towards attaining a solution.
They wished to assimilate themselves of
the EPDP’s policies and the party’s views, stand and
commitment towards this national issue.
Minister Douglas Devananda, as the
only responsible Minister holding a senior portfolio in
the present Government and as the only leader who
represents the Tamil speaking people, explicitly detailed
the military operations undertaken by the forces and the
issues related to human rights violations. The
fundamental, basic reasons for the high quantum of human
rights violations are solely due to the never ending war,
the war that has been the destructive cause for the
present state of affairs, resulting in these violations.
This war continues to provide too many avenues and
opportunities to create a base for human rights
violations, Minister Douglas Devananda, was of the opinion
that our people have to be delivered from the annihilation
and atrocities, sufferings, agony and the pain of war
waged in the name of the Tamil speaking people.
The visiting British parliamentarians
had in effect met the Tamil parliamentarians prior to
meeting the Minister.
Minister Devananda referring to the TNA
members as the agents of the terrorist group tigers
said,” The TNA fully aware of the fact that, they would
meet with total defeat at the Eastern Provincial Council
elections, have decided to boycott the elections.” He
reminded the parliamentarians that during Mrs.
C.Kumaratunge’s Presidency, when the proposals for a
merged North and East was placed on the table, the same
members joined hands with the opposition and set fire to
the submitted memorandum.
Minister further enlightened the
British Parliamentarians, of the report submitted by the
monitors of the European Union, who without any hesitancy
accused the TNA members of resorting to illegal and
inhuman practices, to be elected at the 2004 General
elections. Their report clearly revealed the malpractices
the Tamil Parliamentarians adopted to enter the august
house.
Further he informed the
Parliamentarians that all Tamil politicians and leaders
including the present Tamil Parliamentarians were all
killed or assassinated by the Tigers.
The Minister vehemently emphasized that
killing cannot be entertained nor accepted in any form.
He put forward his Ministry of Social
Services and Social Welfare’s scheme to provide
rehabilitation centers for those who have surrendered to
the Government forces in fear of death.
When the Parliamentarians enquired with
regards to International intervention related to the
ethnic issue and the political rights of the Tamil
speaking people the Minister stressed, that without the
cooperation and moral support of our neighbouring Nation
India, no permanent solution is attainable or viable. He
explained that India, not only remains a friendly nation
but a country that knows, feels and understands and
possess an inner and deeper study of our country’s
problems and issues fully with concern and sympathy.
The Secretary General, explained the
pragmatic proposal submitted by the party which would pave
the pathway to reach a final solution that would gradually
bring to an end the ethnic conflict in stages. It is only
through a viable political solution that you could build a
strong trust confidence and hope among the Tamil speaking
people.
Our people who are imprisoned in the
midst of four walls of sufferings, burdens, fear and
trauma, mistrust and misgivings, living but without life
in them, have to be delivered and safely taken along a
fruitful and hopeful life, filled with a bright and
joyous future.
The Secretary General said that, the
solution for the ethnic crisis is needed only for the
people who still bear the eternal scars of the war of
terror and not for those trumpet blowers of the Tiger
agents who live in foreign lands.
The Parliamentarian having given a good
ear to the Ministers comments about the crippled Tamil
speaking people’s political freedom and their rights,
which is presently in the stagnant muddy waters said, “The
Tamils could be directed along the path of deliverance and
given momentum through the pragmatic solution presented by
the EPDP which has the legal and political provision under
the Constitution of Sri Lanka”, They expressed their deep
concern and attention.
Minister’s
advisor, Attorney at Law
Miss. Maheswary Velayutham and Administrative Secretary
and former Parliamentarian A.Rasamanickam participated at
the meeting.
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