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TNA urges India not to provide warship to Sri Lanka
Thursday, 1 March 2007 - 5:06 AM SL Time
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The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) has urged the Government of India to desist from providing lethal military assistance to Sri Lanka. Referring to recent media reports that the Indian Government is to either grant or lease a large warship to the Sri Lanka Navy (SLN), the Parliamentary group of the TNA in a press release issued Wednesday observed that these reports have come against the backdrop of repeated assurances given by the Indian leadership, including the Indian Premier Dr. Manmohan Singh, that the India, as a matter of policy, will not provide any lethal weapons to Sri Lanka.
SLN has a `long history of violence against Tamil civilians both at sea and on shore,` the statement noted.
Full text of the press release issued by the TNA Parliamentary Group follows:
The Tamil National Alliance notes with much concern recent media reports suggesting that the Indian Government is to either grant or lease a large warship to the Sri Lankan Government`s Navy.
The Vikram class vessel, formerly of the Indian Coast Guard, is said to be presently serving with the Sri Lanka Navy as a temporary replacement for a similar ship provided by India in 2000, the reports say. The latter vessel, Sri Lanka`s flagship, is being refurbished by the Indian government, reportedly at no cost to Sri Lanka.
These media reports come against the backdrop of repeated assurances given by the Indian leadership, including the Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh himself, that the Indian Government, as a matter of policy, will not provide any lethal weapons to the Sri Lankan Armed Forces.
These reports come at a time when the Indian Government has also been stressing to the Sri Lankan government that the Tamil National question must be solved by negotiations and not through a military option.
They also come at a time when the Sri Lankan Government, in the name of fighting `terrorism,` is openly waging a war against the Tamil people with genocidal effect.
Sri Lanka`s navy has a long history of violence against Tamil civilians both at sea and on shore. Since the early days of the conflict shelling by naval gunboats have destroyed coastal villages while navy personnel have massacred Tamil passengers on civilian ferries and been responsible for numerous human rights violations against Tamil civilians.
Under the guise of fighting the LTTE, the Navy routinely attacks and sinks Tamil fishing boats. Numerous Tamil fishermen from both sides of the Palk Straits are regularly killed in these attacks, which have been well documented.
The TNA urges the Government of India and all other foreign governments to desist from providing military assistance to the Sri Lankan Government as it will inevitably be used against the Tamil people.
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sathyaji
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1 Mar 2007 08:05:37 GMT Report for Abuse
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| TNA , Vp pets try to bark to get attention, nice try! has some one heard their try? only lienet. |
BABA
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1 Mar 2007 08:26:27 GMT Report for Abuse
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| TNA are the paid barkers for LTTE.If they dont do the job,they get killed. |
gore
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1 Mar 2007 11:35:11 GMT Report for Abuse
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For those who don't know the back ground of the TNA - here goes:
Sri Lanka became an independent nation in 1948. The majority Sinhalese began a program of making the island nation a Sinhala Buddhist State.
The Sinhala Only Act of 1956, which made Sinhala the sole official language, restricted many government jobs to Sinhala speakers, and made changes in university admissions policies based on race.
The government also began re-settlement programs on Sinhalese villagers from the south to the east.
In the decades after independence, Tamils politicians pushed for a federal system through the Tamil Federal Party. The concept of a separate nation, Tamil Eelam, was proposed by the Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) in 1976.
TULF was a coalition of parties who went on to campaign in the 1977 elections for an independent state for Tamils in Sri Lanka. The TULF won an overwhelming mandate from the Tamil people for a separate state.
Frustrated by the lack of progress through politics and non-violent protest, Tamil youth started to form militant groups.
In July 1983 after a deadly attack on a Sri Lankan military patrol in northern Sri Lankan by the LTTE, 3000 Tamils were killed in by Sinhalese mobs in 2 weeks of rioting.
In October 1983, all the TULF legislators, numbering sixteen at the time, forfeited their seats in Parliament for refusing to swear an oath unconditionally renouncing support for a separate state in accordance with the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution of Sri Lanka. |
BABA
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1 Mar 2007 18:21:59 GMT Report for Abuse
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| TNA doesn't wont see any more Maweeras.Its a fair thought on their part. |
Joseph
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1 Mar 2007 20:15:27 GMT Report for Abuse
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TNA being a 'democratic' party- did they tell India to
- Stop arms flowing to the terrorists in SL
-Stop all suicide missions originating in India
-stop terrorist trying to manipulate Indian stock exchange
-Ask them to arrest all in tamilnadu arm suppiers to terrorists
-Remind India that LTTE used TAMILS as human shields
-Tell that LTTE have killed more than 900 tamil political opponents since CFA
-remind India that LTTE allows tamils only to open mouth to eat
-remind India that citizens in LTTE area have no human rights at all
-Ask India to save TAMIL kids from LTTE who are being sent amid screeming patents to get killed
DID they ask India to prevent LTTE anhiliating tamils ???? |
Gaja
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1 Mar 2007 20:49:18 GMT Report for Abuse
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India,
Take note. Gandhi is speaking through TNA
Gaja Lakshmi Paramasivam from Australia |
Imperator
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2 Mar 2007 03:46:13 GMT Report for Abuse
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I can just imagine the TNA MP's begging India:
'Oh please please please don't give them any more ships! We're getting thrashed enough by the SLDF! PLEASE! We'll be your slaves!'
Pathetic. |
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