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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 10762926" data-attributes="member: 92282">The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) has demanded equal rights for  Tamils and slammed a comment by a government minister who they say made  derogatory comments against the Tamil population.“We will not allow the government or anyone else to treat the Tamils  as a minority anymore. If the Sri Lankan government thinks the Sinhalese  are the majority and the Tamils are the minority, then they are  mistaken,” TNA MP Suresh Premachandran told The Sunday Leader.Government Minister Champika Ranawaka had on Tuesday July 26, said,  “Just because they won a few councils they must not demand police and  land powers. They need to take note of the fact that 56 per cent of the  voters had voted to retain the unitary character of the country,” he  said. He accused the TNA of trying to use the USA to try and intervene in  order to win Tamil demands. “We the Sinhalese will not kneel down before  the US or any other power. As long as the power of the saffron robe of  the Buddhist monks remained they will not be able to achieve what they  aim for,” Ranawaka added.Premachandran said that by making controversial remarks against the  Tamil population in Sri Lanka, the government was only creating another  rift between the two communities in the country. “Government ministers  should be mindful of the remarks they make against the Tamil community.  The Tamils will not allow or accept any foolish remarks made by certain  Sinhalese government ministers,” Premachandran said.Sri Lanka is only just recovering from a brutal war which lasted  nearly three decades in which the LTTE was demanding a separate state  for the minority Tamil community. Following the defeat of the LTTE in  2009 the Tamil National Alliance, which had once accepted the policies  of the rebels, began talks with the Sri Lankan government to find a  solution to Tamil concerns. During recent local council elections the  Tamil National Alliance won majority support in the Tamil dominated  north of the country while the government won the polls in the Sinhalese  dominated south.sundayleader</blockquote>

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