Sri Lanka Refuses To Keep Army Inside The Camps During Elections In Tamil Areas

Wed, Jul 17th, 2013

Sri Lankan Defence Secretary who is accused of organising the Tamil killings , Gottabaya Rajapaksa brother of President Rajapaksa, refused the Tamil Coalition TNA’s request to keep Sri Lankan military inside the camps during the elections of Northern Tamil Province. Tamil Coalition’s requested Rajapaksa to respect the democratic rights of ethnic Tamils by keeping the military inside the bases and release the Tamil political prisoners, and both requests were refused by Gottabaya.

Gottabaya said he will not listened or negotiate with anybody regarding Sri Lankan military’s heavy presence in north which is equivalent to one Sinhala soldier per five Tamil civilians. Gottabaya also said there are 858 Tamil Tiger rebels who will never be released as they could cause danger to national security. Tamil campaigners says there are thousands of other youth kept in secret camps who are raped and killed in systematic manner since their capture in May 2009.

Tamil coalition which is solely representing the Tamil community is been threatened and intimidated by Sri lankan military as local candidates and politicians try to run surgeries. Local meetings of TNA is been threatened by military men taking pictures of people attending the surgeries. Sri Lankan military is also a mandatory member in civil service meetings.

Britain , Australia and other countries ignored the ongoing persecution of Tamils and refused to boycott the Sri Lankan summit of Commonwealth.