Erickassonfire
14 september 2006, 11:15
The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) and Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU) two
major political parties who support the Sri Lanka government in the
parliament and helped President Mahinda Rajapaksa to be elected at the
last presidential election said that Norway's role as the facilitator
of the Sri Lankan peace process has been "deceitful" and cannot be
trusted. In an immediate responses to Norway's Minister Eric Solheim
who has been playing a leading role in the Western sponsored Sri Lankan
peace process the two parties said in separate statements Norway has
been not only tending to follow a process siding with the terrorists of
the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a terrorist group banned
in many Western countries deceitfully, but also engaged secretly
supplying the terrorist group with weapons and equipment necessary for
war secretly. Parliamentarian Vijitha Herath speaking on behalf of the
JVP said, the party would never trust in Eric Solheim, since he has
been working as cunning as a fox to help the terrorists of the LTTE by
taking all possible steps to help the terrorists whenever the group was
in trouble. Calling Norway has been always a partial country in the Sri
Lankan conflict the JVP representative said, it cunningly saw to work
out a strategy to aid the terrorist group always turning an unhealthy
situations into a healthy one for the terrorist group. He said peace
negotiations should start with the firm undertaking at least not by
handing over their weapons but at least with the firm promise of
downing their weapons. But Herath said the true ground situation was
that LTTE was not ready even to make a promise not to raise their guns
if negotiations were started. He said the LTTE would never give up
military aggression as a means of winning their separate state and
whatever negotiations with them would turn ultimately into a
meaningless effort, given those circumstances. Speaking on behalf of
the JHU, its parliamentary leader Venerable Atureliye Ratana Thero
said, the main problem in Sri Lanka's peace process is the
facilitator Norway. He said as a Buddhist party it was always for
negotiations rather than for war to solve the country's problems. But
according to past experiences there were two main problems arising out
of Norway becoming the facilitator of the process: (1) He said Norway
was part of the problem since it was involved in the training of the
LTTE terrorists (2) It has been revealed that Norway was involved in
supplying weapons and equipment to the LTTE terrorists even while peace
negotiations were going on in the past. He said the JHU was ready to
raise these matters in the parliament and bring the role of Norway into
public discussion and continue to bring pressure on the government. He
said not only Norway there had been several white people who
contributed to the LTTE terrorism in the country and without them the
problem would have been solved long time ago. He said a wrong image had
been built in the country to the effect that the LTTE could not be
touched, or that they were an invincible force because they were
militarily superior and if they were touched the whole of Colombo could
go up in flames and our country could not afford to go to war with
them. Venerable Rathana said all those myths were shattered, thanks to
our heroic forces, during a very brief period. (EOM) Meanwhile Nadaraja
Raviraj, member of the Tamil national Alliance, the proxy party of the
LTTE said peace negotiations was the correct path to take. He said the
political leader of the LTTE S. P. Thamilchelvan has said that they
were ready for peace talks but the government should stop its military
operations. But the LTTE was not imposing any pre-conditions .
major political parties who support the Sri Lanka government in the
parliament and helped President Mahinda Rajapaksa to be elected at the
last presidential election said that Norway's role as the facilitator
of the Sri Lankan peace process has been "deceitful" and cannot be
trusted. In an immediate responses to Norway's Minister Eric Solheim
who has been playing a leading role in the Western sponsored Sri Lankan
peace process the two parties said in separate statements Norway has
been not only tending to follow a process siding with the terrorists of
the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a terrorist group banned
in many Western countries deceitfully, but also engaged secretly
supplying the terrorist group with weapons and equipment necessary for
war secretly. Parliamentarian Vijitha Herath speaking on behalf of the
JVP said, the party would never trust in Eric Solheim, since he has
been working as cunning as a fox to help the terrorists of the LTTE by
taking all possible steps to help the terrorists whenever the group was
in trouble. Calling Norway has been always a partial country in the Sri
Lankan conflict the JVP representative said, it cunningly saw to work
out a strategy to aid the terrorist group always turning an unhealthy
situations into a healthy one for the terrorist group. He said peace
negotiations should start with the firm undertaking at least not by
handing over their weapons but at least with the firm promise of
downing their weapons. But Herath said the true ground situation was
that LTTE was not ready even to make a promise not to raise their guns
if negotiations were started. He said the LTTE would never give up
military aggression as a means of winning their separate state and
whatever negotiations with them would turn ultimately into a
meaningless effort, given those circumstances. Speaking on behalf of
the JHU, its parliamentary leader Venerable Atureliye Ratana Thero
said, the main problem in Sri Lanka's peace process is the
facilitator Norway. He said as a Buddhist party it was always for
negotiations rather than for war to solve the country's problems. But
according to past experiences there were two main problems arising out
of Norway becoming the facilitator of the process: (1) He said Norway
was part of the problem since it was involved in the training of the
LTTE terrorists (2) It has been revealed that Norway was involved in
supplying weapons and equipment to the LTTE terrorists even while peace
negotiations were going on in the past. He said the JHU was ready to
raise these matters in the parliament and bring the role of Norway into
public discussion and continue to bring pressure on the government. He
said not only Norway there had been several white people who
contributed to the LTTE terrorism in the country and without them the
problem would have been solved long time ago. He said a wrong image had
been built in the country to the effect that the LTTE could not be
touched, or that they were an invincible force because they were
militarily superior and if they were touched the whole of Colombo could
go up in flames and our country could not afford to go to war with
them. Venerable Rathana said all those myths were shattered, thanks to
our heroic forces, during a very brief period. (EOM) Meanwhile Nadaraja
Raviraj, member of the Tamil national Alliance, the proxy party of the
LTTE said peace negotiations was the correct path to take. He said the
political leader of the LTTE S. P. Thamilchelvan has said that they
were ready for peace talks but the government should stop its military
operations. But the LTTE was not imposing any pre-conditions .