Muslims are on the edge of patience
soon they will take alternative action -Naushad
(Lanka-e-News, May 15, 2008, 6.00 PM) Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) Digamadulla district MP A.M.M. Naushad says that the government s political campaign that divide the Sinhala, Tamil and Muslim people in the Eastern Province would result in as a serious ethnic conflict.
Addressing a press briefing held in the office of the Opposition Leader, he said that the Eastern Province that has a demographically distributed multitude of ethnicities was special and if the people s right to elect their representatives were suppressed, they would turn to other alternative paths.
Answering a question posed by Lanka-e-News, MP Naushad accused that the government had created an ethnic clash in selecting the Chief Minister. He said that not the Tamils but a section of the government were in the need of appointing Pillaiyan as the Chief Minister. They have already said that they could do what happened to Karuna to Pillaiyan as well. They have further said that the power granted to a Muslim could not be revoked.
MP Naushad said that the Muslims would turn to an alternative path if their right to elect their representatives were not respected.
When Lanka-e-News enquired if this alternative path was arming, Naushad said that it could mean a club too. He said that although the majority of the Eastern Muslims were farmers, now the number of educated youth had increased pointing out that there were 14 doctors in the village he lived.
He said that the Muslims were at the edge of their patience.
Edited By - Berty - 16 May 2008 01:39:18 GMT |