TNA rubbishes govt allegations on US resolution Says state should take the blame for not solving ethnic question

April 6, 2012, 9:13 pm 
By Ravi Ladduwahetty

The Tamil National Alliance yesterday rejected the recent claim made by the government that it (the TNA) instigated the United States Government to bring in the resolution against Sri Lanka on war crimes and other human rights violations at the just concluded United Nations Human Rights Commission deliberations last month."It is foolish on the part of the government to make frivolous allegations against the TNA that we instigated the US government to bring in the resolution against Sri Lanka for alleged human rights violations when it is very well aware of what it has done," TNA Spokesman and Jaffna District MP Suresh Premachandran told The Island last night.

He also said that that the government should take full responsibility for the US resolution which, he said, was its own doing and implored the government to solve the ethnic question at its earliest.

Premachandran stressed that the government would be continuing to attract the attention of the international community so long as it refused to bring in solutions to the ethnic questions.

The state would not have been in this mess had it listed to the TNA and did all what we wanted to solve the issues at hand, he said.

Premachandran also said that three years had passed since the LTTE was annihilated but the government did nothing to solve the ethnic issue. "The government thought that the war was over and therefore, everything was over which was not the case," he said.