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Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) Batticaloa - Amparai political wing leader Karikalan told Netherland's Ambassador in Colombo that his group would not give up its demand for a sovereign state called Eelam, carved out of Sri Lanka, reported the LTTE controlled website Eelamnation. The only way of giving up the demand is to offer by the Ranil Wickremesinghe administration of an alternative and acceptable system of government to that, he said. The Netherlands's Ambassador in Colombo, Susan Balnkhart and a team of her embassy officials were visiting the rebel controlled Kokadicholai of Batticaloa during a three day Eastern Province tour and the discussion with the LTTE took place at a meeting in a Tamil Tiger office, the website reported. Karikalan told the visiting ambassador of the Netherlands's that his country should help rebuild what he called the "the Tamil Homeland", a name they also use to identify the exclusively Tamil putative state. The Tamil leader reiterated that the Tamil fighters had dedicated their precious lives for the security and freedom of the Tamil people for the last twenty years and their elected representatives "were bought" with ministerial berths to "drown" the voice of the Tamil people in the parliament. The colonization of previously inhabited areas of the Sinhalese and the uninhabited areas by any particular ethnic group in the history was refereed by Karikalan as 'state aided swallow up of Tamil villages by Sinhala colonization'. He said standardization deprived Tamils of higher education. Speaking in strong separatist terms he said Tamils should be allowed to carve out their own state so that they could conduct their own affairs to reach their destiny without any interference from Sri Lanka. All those issues would have to be considered before reaching final solution to the what he called the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka. The LTTE leader said the Netherlands should give aid to reconstruct the war ravaged area as soon as possible. He especially singled out the Sri Lanka navy for what he charged of non-corporation to implement the Ranil Wickremesinghe administration's peace process. The Sri Lanka Navy was constantly targeting what were described as LTTE sea craft carrying arms and ammunition from Thailand in to the country during the still ongoing ceasefire with the rebel group. The ceasefire does not cover sea battles. The LTTE website said the meeting took place June 24 (EOM) (26/06/02 go2lanka.com) |