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Collect data on army activity, Wigneswaran to Tamil youth
Sep 09, 201410:44 AM
Northern Province Chief Minister, C V Wigneswaran, has urged Tamil youth to collect information on the deployment and activities of the Sri Lankan armed forces in the province, even as he told the Tamils, as a whole, to eschew separatism and militancy as these have proved to be counterproductive.
Speaking at the convention of the Ilankai Tamil Arasu Katchi (ITAK), at Vavuniya on Sunday, Wigneswaran said that the Lankan army is collecting all kinds of data on the people of the province, including a person’s “body language”, with the help of Israeli technology. “We should be aware that the army here is not eating grass,” he said, using a Tamil expression.
Wigneswaran urged party youth to collect information on the deployment of the army in the North, their numbers, location, the amount of land they occupy, and the kind of activities they are involved in. Merely making platform speeches won’t do, he said.
He also called for utilising women power, and efforts to rehabilitate and put to use former women cadre of the LTTE in the ITAK’s democratic movement.
However, Wigneswaran cautioned against reviving separatism and violence as these are not suited to the emerging conditions in the world and had failed to deliver the goods in the past, New Indian Express reports.
