EXCLUSIVE: Ready to accept KP into politics - Douglas Devananda

EXCLUSIVE: Ready to accept KP into politics - Douglas Devananda

February 5, 2011   01:03 pm

If the former LTTE international Wing Leader and Chief Arms Procurer Kumaran Pathmanathan (KP) seeks to get involved in politics we are ready to accept him, Minister Douglas Devananda told Ada Derana.

 

He state that if a person seeks to get onto a democratic path after being involved in terrorist activities it is a something good while adding that even when Karuna Amman gave up his arms and sought a political path he was accepted.

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