TNA MP Sridharan not permitted to visit Colombo: Ravana Balaya [ Friday, 18 October 2013, 02:49.56 AM GMT +05:30 ] The Ravana Balaya, said yesterday, if Tamil National Alliance (TNA) MP, S. Sridharan, is demanding that the Sinhala people should leave Jaffna, then the TNA MP should not be allowed to visit Colombo to attend Parliament. “It is a historical fact that the Sinhala people had been resident in Jaffna and therefore Sridharan making Jaffna his birth place and trying to expel the Sinhalese from Jaffna is most reprehensible,” Ven. Iththekande Saddhatissa Thera, Secretary of the Ravana Balaya, said.The Thera made these comments, when he recently met the Sinhalese families residing in Nawakkuli, Jaffna, in response to an announcement made by Sridharan. The Thera also said his organization will not permit Sridharan to come to Colombo after making such shameless enunciations, and his organization will take action against anyone who seeks to destroy the ethnic harmony in the country. “If Wigneswaran respects peace and harmony, he should take action against such individuals, who make statements kindling communal animosity,” he added. Wigneswaran is dangerous personality: Champika [ Friday, 27 September 2013, 04:21.12 AM GMT +05:30 ] The Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU) claims the Tamils in the North did not vote out of their own free will at the provincial council elections. JHU MP and government minister Champika Ranawaka said that the perception the Tamils did not get misled and voted democratically is misleading. He claims the Tamils in the North who were once directed by the gun of LTTE leader Vellupillai Prabakaran had now been led by telephone calls they received from LTTE supporters overseas. “We know the Tamil community is not democratic. Tamils do not vote freely. There is no ideology among the Tamil community. They vote based on the telephone calls they get from Toronto or Paris,” he said. Separatism Can Mean Beheading: Army Commander October 16, 2013 Army Commander Daya Ratnayake issued a strong warning to groups with separatist agendas, saying the world had already seen how Sri Lanka answers separatism. “As long as people are within a democratic framework we can all live happily. But if anyone becomes extremists or tries to divide the country, it is not the country that will be divided but their heads that will be severed from their bodies,” he said. The Army Chief made these remarks while on a tour of the former conflict zones of the Wanni recently.