Sri Lankan troops will stay in the Tamil-dominated former war zone of North and look after the minority community, a senior army officer has said, virtually rejecting Northern Province Chief Minister CV Wigneswaran’s demand of withdrawal of military.
“We are here to look after you, we will attend to all your needs,” military chief in the north Mahesh Senanayake said.
He said that his job as the security forces commander in the north is to prevent a recurrence of conflict by looking after the Tamil community, he told reporters in Jaffna.
Senanayake said that there will never ever be a separatist war in Sri Lanka’s north.
His comments came as Wigneswaran last week demanded the withdrawal of the military from the north.
“Even after seven years of ending the war, the military is remaining here. We want the police to do the job and not the military,” Wigneswaran said.
-PTI
-Agencies
