Sunday, September 20, 2015
The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) has fired a strong salvo at the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) after the OHCHR report accused them of committing war crimes.
The TNA called upon the Tamil people to “use this moment of introspection into our own community’s failures and the unspeakable crimes committed in our name.” It said that the alliance would “accept and undertake to carry out our responsibility to lead the Tamil people in reflecting on the past” and “to create an enabling culture and atmosphere in which we could live with dignity and self-respect, as equal citizens of Sri Lanka.
The statement came as most of the hardline polity of the Tamil community were absent at the UNHRC sessions in Geneva which began Monday. That included even the TNA firebrand Ananthi Sasheetharan, wife of slain LTTE Trincomalee political wing leader.
