An international conspiracy to get LTTE leaders including Prabakaran and all their families political asylum in a foreign country by surrendering to a third party is being revealed. The plan is to get them to surrender to a third party through ICRC, the only international organization to be active in the ‘no-war-zone.’
The ICRC is involved in treating injured IPDs and transferring them to hospitals in the area using the ship ‘Green Ocean’ which is anchored about 7 km away from the ‘no-war-zone’ and south to Mulaithivu. About 11000 IDPs have been brought to the Army controlled areas with the help of this ship since February this year. Before the Indian Army hospital at Pulmoddai was established the patients were taken by ship to Trincomalee Hospital. However, no patients are being taken to Troncomalee after the Indian Army hospital was established.
According to reports the government of Sri Lanka does not get any information regarding patients brought to the Indian Army hospital. As such there is suspicion that ICRC brings injured tiger terrorist cadres on the pretext of bringing IDPs. The government in September, 2008 ordered all NGOs and INGOs to leave the un-cleared areas and only ICRC remains in the area. Hence, LTTE has paid its attention to get ICRC help to flee the area.
Meanwhile, US State Department’s acting Deputy Assistant Secretary Mike Owens has said the LTTE should surrender through a third party. Their plan is to get leaders of the LTTE to surrender through a third party and take them instantly to a foreign country and get them political asylum. If the tiger leaders surrender to government forces they will be tried on terrorist charges. What is being planned is not only to save their lives but also to get them an amnesty. Mike Owens in his interview says, “I think one of the big questions is what to do about the leadership, and that’s certainly not easy to answer. This is a very complex and very difficult sort of thing to orchestrate. There are many problems, and we are running out of time. We really, literally, have a matter of a couple of days maybe in which we can try to get this finalized.” This indicates these forces are doing their best to save the leadership of the LTTE.
Mike Owens has further said both parties – the SL government and the LTTE - would be pressurized to go in for a political solution. He says the devolution needs to go beyond the 13th Amendment and says: “I think it’s important that Sri Lanka move toward really a democratic — a strong democratic governance in a multiethnic society in which all groups have a voice in that society. So the devolution of power to the provinces, as envisioned in the 13th Amendment, that’s something that we feel is very important as the first step, but it needs to go beyond that.”
Meanwhile, Erik Solheim, Norwegian Minister for International Development speaking to ‘Al Jazeera’has said the only solution for the Sri Lankan conflict is a federal constitution. It is obvious that international forces as well pro-LTTE organizations are striving to save the lives of terrorist leaders and pressurize SL government for a political solution that goes beyond the 13th amendment.
The ICRC is involved in treating injured IPDs and transferring them to hospitals in the area using the ship ‘Green Ocean’ which is anchored about 7 km away from the ‘no-war-zone’ and south to Mulaithivu. About 11000 IDPs have been brought to the Army controlled areas with the help of this ship since February this year. Before the Indian Army hospital at Pulmoddai was established the patients were taken by ship to Trincomalee Hospital. However, no patients are being taken to Troncomalee after the Indian Army hospital was established.
According to reports the government of Sri Lanka does not get any information regarding patients brought to the Indian Army hospital. As such there is suspicion that ICRC brings injured tiger terrorist cadres on the pretext of bringing IDPs. The government in September, 2008 ordered all NGOs and INGOs to leave the un-cleared areas and only ICRC remains in the area. Hence, LTTE has paid its attention to get ICRC help to flee the area.
Meanwhile, US State Department’s acting Deputy Assistant Secretary Mike Owens has said the LTTE should surrender through a third party. Their plan is to get leaders of the LTTE to surrender through a third party and take them instantly to a foreign country and get them political asylum. If the tiger leaders surrender to government forces they will be tried on terrorist charges. What is being planned is not only to save their lives but also to get them an amnesty. Mike Owens in his interview says, “I think one of the big questions is what to do about the leadership, and that’s certainly not easy to answer. This is a very complex and very difficult sort of thing to orchestrate. There are many problems, and we are running out of time. We really, literally, have a matter of a couple of days maybe in which we can try to get this finalized.” This indicates these forces are doing their best to save the leadership of the LTTE.
Mike Owens has further said both parties – the SL government and the LTTE - would be pressurized to go in for a political solution. He says the devolution needs to go beyond the 13th Amendment and says: “I think it’s important that Sri Lanka move toward really a democratic — a strong democratic governance in a multiethnic society in which all groups have a voice in that society. So the devolution of power to the provinces, as envisioned in the 13th Amendment, that’s something that we feel is very important as the first step, but it needs to go beyond that.”
Meanwhile, Erik Solheim, Norwegian Minister for International Development speaking to ‘Al Jazeera’has said the only solution for the Sri Lankan conflict is a federal constitution. It is obvious that international forces as well pro-LTTE organizations are striving to save the lives of terrorist leaders and pressurize SL government for a political solution that goes beyond the 13th amendment.
