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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 11732689" data-attributes="member: 92282"><img src="http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSESJJBC1gB08ZPERwRLcx3zIqqXDIH9S2jddjbeoJjbrv7I2o7Zg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Brushing aside the criticism that he is nowhere near delivering a  political solution even 30 months after ending the Eelam War, Sri Lankan  President Mahinda Rajapaksa has blamed Tamils, within the country and  outside, for the delay by refusing to participate in the consultative  process authored by him. “The parliamentary select committee [PSC] is a good approach to what has  been a vexed problem. Its members are legislators and their proposals  could find wider acceptance,” he said in an interview at his Temple  Trees residence in Colombo. “It is important that the TNA (Tamil National Alliance) participates in  the PSC with an honest intention of finding a political solution, but  they are not nominating members. Sampanthan (TNA leader) seems scared of  somebody. Now they are going to America complaining we are not doing  this or that,” Mr Rajapaksa said. He said the TNA was steered by the LTTE in the Prabhakaran era and now  by the Diaspora, which mostly comprised second and third generation  Tamils. They were worried that if a political solution emerged in Sri Lanka,  their host countries would send them back home, he said, adding, “There  is no point blaming me, it’s the Tamil parties that are delaying the  solution.” Asked if he was not leaning a bit too much toward China for India’s  comfort, Mr. Rajapaksa said all the mega infrastructure projects, such  as the Hambantota Port and the Colombo Port extension, were first  offered to India but Delhi did not respond. Promising action on the report of the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation  Commission (LLRC) recently presented to Parliament, he said the LLRC had  concluded that the security forces did not deliberately target  civilians in the final phase of the war.DM/The Asian Age</blockquote>

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