“For example; the discussions we had with Indian mediation as a result President J.R. Jayewardene and Indian Prime minister Rajiv Gandhi signed an agreement in introducing the provincial councils saying the power would be decentralized. In implementing this, the Sri Lankan government insisted that we surrender our weapons and we did it too though we did not agree with the provincial council system.
“Instead of this the Indian Peace Keeping Force was brought in and destroyed us and this was ordered by the Indian Government. Although we were a small group at the time, we grew in strength in facing the regional super power. Now we are ready to face any one, for the freedom of our people and for our motherland. Milinda Moragoda a close friend of Ranil, participated in the past discussions. He made a statement just before the election that "we took the Tigers for talks to show the international community and later gave them nothing. We have put them into the net of troubles, and a person from that movement was ejected from their group and he has created another movement now". You can understand whom he is talking about.
“But this is what actually happened? Ranil's government took us for the discussions thinking we may easily be deceived and return to normalcy.
“I presided at the negotiations in Thailand, and especially I and Mr. Peiris were involved arguments about federalism. While the rest of the boys were with me this particular person walked away for shopping and got entangled in sexual activities. This is how he got separated from us.
“Before the election, Mr. Moragoda said "we have allured the Tigers by taking them to foreign countries and one of their Majors has departed from them". But even though we clearly understood their cunning mentalities, we got involved in peace negotiations talks. We had Indian pressure as well as International pressures on our 30-year revolutionary war. But our Leader says that the latest discussion has continued for four years.
In December 2001, our leader declared a unilateral ceasefire, which was to strengthen our position. What was our power? We have captured the entire Wanni region by destroying the main Elephant Pass military base and our leader extended friendly hands to the government.
“These negotiations were prolonged for the past four years and we had six rounds of talks with Ranil and I was also present at them. After Ranil's period, we continued the talks with Chandrika. But the decisions, finalisations, and the agreements did not materialise.
“Meanwhile we have to explain to the international community the cunningness of the Sinhala community. They invited countries like America, Britain, Japan and the European Union to these talks and asked them to apply pressure to dilute some of our demands. “Our vision is that our people should find solutions for our problems and not the foreign countries.
“The world pressurized us to abide with the decision we accepted in rounds of peace talks with the policy of a united Sri Lanka. There was international pressure to remove all our weapons too. This was also initiated by Ranil Wickremesinghe and he was the person who trapped us into such a net.
“We can't compel our people to be in darkness and our leader says he is not willing to continue such pointless talks anymore." - Dr. Balasingham
“Instead of this the Indian Peace Keeping Force was brought in and destroyed us and this was ordered by the Indian Government. Although we were a small group at the time, we grew in strength in facing the regional super power. Now we are ready to face any one, for the freedom of our people and for our motherland. Milinda Moragoda a close friend of Ranil, participated in the past discussions. He made a statement just before the election that "we took the Tigers for talks to show the international community and later gave them nothing. We have put them into the net of troubles, and a person from that movement was ejected from their group and he has created another movement now". You can understand whom he is talking about.
“But this is what actually happened? Ranil's government took us for the discussions thinking we may easily be deceived and return to normalcy.
“I presided at the negotiations in Thailand, and especially I and Mr. Peiris were involved arguments about federalism. While the rest of the boys were with me this particular person walked away for shopping and got entangled in sexual activities. This is how he got separated from us.
“Before the election, Mr. Moragoda said "we have allured the Tigers by taking them to foreign countries and one of their Majors has departed from them". But even though we clearly understood their cunning mentalities, we got involved in peace negotiations talks. We had Indian pressure as well as International pressures on our 30-year revolutionary war. But our Leader says that the latest discussion has continued for four years.
In December 2001, our leader declared a unilateral ceasefire, which was to strengthen our position. What was our power? We have captured the entire Wanni region by destroying the main Elephant Pass military base and our leader extended friendly hands to the government.
“These negotiations were prolonged for the past four years and we had six rounds of talks with Ranil and I was also present at them. After Ranil's period, we continued the talks with Chandrika. But the decisions, finalisations, and the agreements did not materialise.
“Meanwhile we have to explain to the international community the cunningness of the Sinhala community. They invited countries like America, Britain, Japan and the European Union to these talks and asked them to apply pressure to dilute some of our demands. “Our vision is that our people should find solutions for our problems and not the foreign countries.
“The world pressurized us to abide with the decision we accepted in rounds of peace talks with the policy of a united Sri Lanka. There was international pressure to remove all our weapons too. This was also initiated by Ranil Wickremesinghe and he was the person who trapped us into such a net.
“We can't compel our people to be in darkness and our leader says he is not willing to continue such pointless talks anymore." - Dr. Balasingham
කොහොම හරි කමක් නැහැ මහින්ද රාජපක්ශ යුද්දේ ඉවර කරන්න දෙශපාලනමය නායකත්වය දුන්නා
Respect Late Kadiragama
