Sri Lanka's future peace depends on the ability to sort politics - Ranil
Fri, May 22, 2009, 08:10 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.
May 23, Colombo: Sri Lanka main opposition leader Ranil Wickremasinghe says the peace in Sri Lanka will depend on the ability to sort out the politics for the sake of the Tamils and the Sinhalese and this has to be done soon.
Speaking to a group at the Civic Centre in Dusseldorf Way in UK, the former Premier said "My policy is to put politics before military, but their was military and then politics, this is why now the war is over but we have to think about the politics."
"All efforts have focused on the military objectives so far. The Tamil Tigers were effectively incapable of military action as long ago as January but the army has been dealing with the population left in the region, many of whom were held as human shields."
"There were more people than they thought. This has been one of the problems but the government could have been more prepared," the opposition leader criticized.
"They knew there would be a need for refugee camps and they should have been built and developed before. We now have an immediate situation where we have a humanitarian crisis and that needs to be dealt with now," Wickremasinghe said.
Fri, May 22, 2009, 08:10 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.
May 23, Colombo: Sri Lanka main opposition leader Ranil Wickremasinghe says the peace in Sri Lanka will depend on the ability to sort out the politics for the sake of the Tamils and the Sinhalese and this has to be done soon.
Speaking to a group at the Civic Centre in Dusseldorf Way in UK, the former Premier said "My policy is to put politics before military, but their was military and then politics, this is why now the war is over but we have to think about the politics."
"All efforts have focused on the military objectives so far. The Tamil Tigers were effectively incapable of military action as long ago as January but the army has been dealing with the population left in the region, many of whom were held as human shields."
"There were more people than they thought. This has been one of the problems but the government could have been more prepared," the opposition leader criticized.
"They knew there would be a need for refugee camps and they should have been built and developed before. We now have an immediate situation where we have a humanitarian crisis and that needs to be dealt with now," Wickremasinghe said.
