WHITE WASHERS OF THE TIGERS WHO ASK THEM WHETHER THEY WOULD RETURN TO WAR SHOULD ASK THAT QUESTION FROM THE LTTE SAYS JVP
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles
June 27.10.15 PM: When a BBC’s Sinhala program interviewer asked JVP’s parliamentary group leader and the party’s information secretary Wimal Weerawansa whether the proposed SLFP-JVP coalition would return the country to war he retorted and said that the gentlemen who tried to white wash the Tamil Tigers should ask that question from the LTTE. “Why don’t you ask them and tell me,” he said.
When the JVP information secretary subtly implicated the Sandeshaya as mollycoddling the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) the interviewer stopped asking questions on the subject.
Continuing his reply Weerawansa said, JVP had better things to do and help solve a national problem than deliver on a platter sixty percent of the country’s coast line and two thirds of the country’s land mass to a pro-colonial, fundamentalist, Fascist and pro-Western terrorist group planning to divide the country on a racist ideology. The patriotic national front that would be born out of a JVP-SLFP coalition would negotiate on the basis of the nation’s territorial integrity, independence, national security and sovereignty without betraying any one of those concepts. If the LTTE wanted to negotiate on a different basis then the new coalition would be compelled to act accordingly, Weerawansa warned.
Weerawansa earlier told the Sandeshaya interviewer that the discussions between President Chandrika Kumaratunga and the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna would today reach crucial decisions about the future of the country. The JVP would discuss their relations with the other political parties later.
Weerawansa said Ranil Wickremesinghe wanted to share power in an interim government with a terrorist group that was committing murders and openly flouting the law even today. While the they were committing the murders the so called Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission safeguarding the terrorists and claiming the LTTE was not responsible for the murders were simply doing nothing. It was to such a murderous clique Ranil Wickremesinghe was getting ready to hand over the full administration of the Northern and Eastern provinces of the country.
Calling the policy a national disaster and going against the supreme law of the country Weerawansa warned all opposition parties would be compelled to take a very rigorous action to quell such illegal measures of Ranil Wickremesinghe.
Asked by the interviewer whether not even President Chandrika Kumaratunga was in the past ready to grant an interim government Weerawansa said it was a complete misinterpretation of what actually took place. He said the President once proposed an interim government not giving dictatorial powers to the LTTE but to share power with all other Tamil parties as a measure for a transitory period if the group agreed to a final solution and if the country gave its consent to it. The President did not offer the Northern and Eastern provinces on a platter to the dictatorial LTTE, as the first step Weerawansa said.
