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| 5000 killed and 15,000 injured in Vanni; 500 died due to lack of medicine says TNA MP Sri Kantha |
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(Lanka-e-News, 29.March.2009, 9.30PM) Tamil National Alliance (TNA) MP N. Sri Kantha says that 5000 people killed and 15,000 people were injured in Vanni. He further said that 500 of the deaths were caused by lack of medicine.
He said that shelling and bombing in Vanni should be stopped before talks that his party had unanimously decided to have with the President could be started with a conscience.
Commenting on solving the ethnic problem, he says, "War should be stopped first of all. Then solution should be granted to the ethnic problem. Then we all can unite to reconstruct Sri Lanka as a new nation. All think individually as Sinhala, Tamil and Muslim. We have to join hands as the children of Sri Lanka. We have that trust. We trust the general Sinhalese. We love them."
"The government ill-treated the civilians that crossed over to the state controlled areas. Those Tamils are detained in 13 camps. Schools are closed in Vavuniya and they are turned to IDP camps. Families are scattered there. The public officials are facing the same situation. LTTE is holding civilians in one side whilst the government does the same. In one point of view both sides can be said correct since the government also does the same the LTTE does to Tamil people."
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"We ask the journalists be allowed in those areas and the truth should be uncovered. Then we can deny LTTE. Wrong is wrong despite who commits it."
"The government split all parties like UNP and JVP. They could not do it to us. We challenge the government to take at least one person to their side." |
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