WITHOUT UTILIZING THE LTTE DIVISION FAVORABLY FOR THE NATIONAL INTERESTS, RANIL AND SLMM TRYING TO SERVE PRABHAKARAN , CHARGES THE PNM
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles
March 09, 10.45 AM:Without making use of the latest division in the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) favorably for the national interests of Sri Lanka to restore peace in the island nation, the country’s Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and Norway were more interested in mending fences between the two divided factions charged the Patriotic National Movement (PNM) in a statement issued to the press.
The statement signed by Venerable Elle Gunawansa, Venerable Dr. Dambara Amila, Dr. Gunadasa Amerasekara, Piyal Parakrama and Dr. Chandana Abeyratne for the PNM said that the division between the two factions should have been favorably utilized by any statesman for the benefit of the nation. Instead , what was now happening was the country’s Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and the Norwegian Ceasefire Monitors were doing their best to make peace between the two divided factions completely forgetting the national interests of the country.
The statement said due to the division Prabhakaran had fired Karuna as the Commander of the Eastern Province and replaced him with another taking into custody some Karuna Loyalists. Meanwhile Karuna had also rejected the Prabhakaran leadership and had arrested some Prabhakaran loyalists.
The PNM reminded the Norway managed Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) that it did not have any mandate to mend fences between the two quarrelling factions of the rebel LTTE and they wondered how that function became part of their duties. The PNM questioned the SLMM under what section of the Ceasefire Agreement making peace between quarrelling factions of the LTTE became the duty of the SLMM. Charging that the SLMM had been even in the past had attempted to interfere in matters out of bounds for them the PNM charged, by voluntarily making themselves available to broker peace in the factional clash of the LTTE it had unfortunately once again exhibited its partiality.
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe making use of the Norwegians of the SLMM was trying to help Tamil Tigers mend their fences. By their actions both the Norwegians and the Prime Minister had exhibited that they were none other than facilitators of Prabhakaran. Therefore, the urgent need of today was to defeat Ranil Wickremesinghe and the Norwegian agents.
The conflict in the LTTE should have been managed in a manner that the best interests of the nation were served. But both the SLMM and the Prime Minister were trying to manage it in a manner that the best interests of Prabhakaran were served. The time had arrived to push both parties out of the task of seeking solutions to the national problem of Sri Lanka, the PNM concluded
