Indian delegation should meet Tamils without mediators - TNA
April 14, 2012 08:49 am
A Sri Lankan MP has demanded that an Indian
MPs’ delegation, scheduled to visit the island nation for a week from April 16
to assess the resettlement and political process in war-torn areas, meet and
talk to Tamils without any mediators.
Speaking at a
meeting convened by Madurai Bar Association here yesterday, S Shritharan (Tamil
National Alliance), wanted the delegation also to inspect places like
Mullivaikal, where final phase of the war against LTTE took place.
Though India had
given assistance to construct 50,000 houses for Tamils, only 1000 had been
built, he alleged. “Nearly 40,000 Tamils in the island nation were still living
in refugee camps without basic amenities, including water and food”, he said.
A refugee camp at
Chettikulam was still fenced and refugees at Mullivaikkal had not yet been
rehabilitated in their land, he alleged.
“The government was
moving Sinhalese into the Tamil areas to change the ethnic ratio in the Tamil
region”, he alleged and wondered whether the Sri Lankan Government would
implement the UNHRC resolution seeking to demilitarise Tamil area, formulating
a lasting political solution to the Tamils issue and an inquiry into the crimes
committed during the final phase of the war, PTI reports.
