By Ananda-USA
June 11, 2011
I applaud the Government of Sri Lanka for refusing to grant police and land powers to the Provincial Councils of the Northern and Eastern Provinces of Sri Lanka, despite pressure applied by Tamil Separatists at home and abroad, and by the Indian Government pandering to its own Tamil citizens at Sri Lanka's expense.
Provincial Councils should not be accorded police and land powers in any part of Sri Lanka, for that is a prescription for the creation of communal fiefdoms in the country that will deny all citizens of the country an equal right to settle in, and enjoy all resources, in all parts of their motherland. It will also immeasurably weaken the authority of the central government to defend the integrity of the nation and the lives of her people, and utilize its resources for the common good of all of her citizens. Without a doubt, devolution of Police and Land powers to the provinces is a perfect recipe for the eventual disintegration of Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka recently emerged from a devastating ethnic conflict waged by Tamil separatists who sought to create a separate state for the exclusive use of their own community. They ethnically cleansed all other communities from the Northern and Eastern provinces which they claimed solely for themselves, even as the great majority of Tamils lived among the Sinhala majority in the rest of the country secure from the murder and mayhem inflicted upon them by their self-proclaimed saviours. The loss of power to police the Northern and Eastern provinces during LTTE control, made it impossible for the Government to protect its Tamil, Sinhala and Muslim citizens of those provinces. The first duty of a government is to ensure the safety of its people. That duty must never be abandoned again.
Over a period spanning nearly 30 years, the LTTE separatists had de-facto control of police and land powers in the Northern and Eastern provinces. They exercised arbitrary dictatorial power over the population, most of whom either fled their grasp to live in the South in security among the demonized Sinhala majority, or were manipulated into becoming refugees and were illegally transported to other countries to form a tax base for funding their terrorism in Sri Lanka. Those illegal refugees, who now form the bulk of the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora, are still dominated and controlled by the global LTTE terrorist mafia network which wages a global propaganda war to undermine Sri Lanka.
If police and land powers are granted to the Northern and Eastern Provinces, the Tamil majority Provincial Governments of those provinces, controlled by the Tamil National Alliance that was the political arm of the now defunct LTTE military, will enact racist discriminatory policies to further solidify the results of the ethnic cleansing operations of the LTTE that eradicated the Sinhala and Moslem communities in those areas. They will implement policies ... both overt and covert ... to prevent the emergence of a truly multi-ethnic society as in the rest of the country. Furthermore, with police power in their hands, the extensive coastal border of the North and the East will again revert to the large scale illegal smuggling of arms, drugs, people and terrorists, as when the LTTE had controlled it, posing a grave threat to the national security of Sri Lanka. We recall that it was with great sacrifice of lives and treasure, that Sri Lanka developed the naval capability and the skills to defeat the Sea Tiger naval force of the LTTE. Sri Lanka must never lose control of its coastal border again to its enemies.
Given these undeniable facts, it would be completely unreasonable and foolish, for Sri Lanka to accede to these demands for police and land powers, by the very same separatists who yearn to win in peace the separatist goals they failed win by 30 years of unremitting terrorism, and open warfare.
India, attempting to placate its incurably racist and communal Tamil citizens at Sri Lanka's expense, continues along the same foolish path they pursued in the past, promoting Police and Land powers for the North and the East of Sri Lanka. The old objective of the LTTE to gain unfettered access to Tamil Nadu, and foreign supplies of weapons and recruits across an unguarded coast, would be attained by granting these powers. The historical separatist tendencies in Tamil Nadu coupled to the palpable animosity of Indian Tamils towards the non-Tamil Indians of North India, will guarantee the growth of a violent separatist movement in Tamil Nadu if a militant Tamil mini-state wedded to a Pan-Tamil agenda is again resurrected in Sri Lanka's North and East as a consequence of devolving police and land powers. Therefore, the Indian Government would be very shortsighted if it advocates the devolution of police and pand powers that would weaken the control of the lawful Government of Sri Lanka over its provinces: it is inimical to the integrity and national security of India itself.
The 13th Amendment in the Sri Lanka's Constitution, was ILLEGALLY forced upon Sri Lanka by India after it invaded and occupied parts of Sri Lanka. Under national and international law, agreements imposed by force upon victims are INVALID; they are declared null and void as soon as conditions permit it. For example, all international agreements imposed by Hitler's Nazi Germany upon neighboring nations under the threat of war, were repudiated upon the defeat of Nazi Germany.
The 13th Amendment imposed upon sovereign Sri Lanka by India is no different from the infamous Munich Agreement that delivered Czechoslovakia bound hand and foot to Nazi Germany on the eve of World War II; it should be repudiated and expunged in its entirety from Sri Lanka's Constitution as fundamentally inimical to the integrity and long term survival of Sri Lanka. Instead, India should offer Sri Lanka an abject apology for this criminal act against an innocent sovereign nation. This is not the way for India to win friends among neighboring countries; peaceful co-existence with neighboring nations requires non-interference in their internal affairs. India should control and discipline of India's own citizens and groups who attempt to undermine and spawn terrorism in Sri Lanka. Just as India deplores terrorism by Pakistani groups within India, Sri Lanka deplores interference by Indian groups, and the Indian Government, in Sri Lanka's internal matters.
National Integration of all people of Sri Lanka, without regard to race, religion, language, sex, caste or wealth into ONE PEOPLE of ONE NATION with ONE DESTINY should be the path foward for Sri Lanka.
National Disintegration into a collection of ethnic bantustans that separate people from each other, and wall them off in non-viable communal mini-states, will only guarantee economic stagnation, multiplication of bureaucracies, internecine competition for limited resources, and continued strife between communities.
One vote for each person to elect his/her representative to the national parliament is sufficient franchise for all citizens; no administrative units or individual rights that are based on communal attributes should be allowed in the name of ensuring a FALSE community "diversity". Diversity will thrive in the private sphere within families and community organizations where it rightfully belongs under in our democratic system of government. Communal labels should have no place in the public sphere, or for granting special privileges to some citizens that are unavailable to others. Let us INTEGRATE our people into ONE SRI LANKAN PEOPLE without differentiating between them in law, or in governance, by community.
The Sovereign People of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka are completely capable of deciding what serves their own interests, and of formulating their own policies and laws to govern themselves. Foreign nations should not arrogate to themselves that inalienable right of our sovereign people.
REPEAL the 13th AMENDMENT that India imposed by force upon Sri Lanka, NOW!
DISSOLVE and ELIMINATE Provincial Councils as Unnecessary Bureaucracies that SEPARATES the people from their National Government, NOW!
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No police, land powers to PCs
President conveys decision to Indian officials, collision course feared
By Our Diplomatic Editor
SundayTimes.lk
June 11, 2011
President Mahinda Rajapaksa told a high-powered Indian delegation yesterday his government was not able to concede land and police powers to provincial councils in accordance with the 13th Amendment to the Constitution.
The move, the Sunday Times learns, follows strong opposition from constituent partners of the United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA). On Friday, President Rajapaksa drove to the parliamentary complex in Sri Jayawardhanapura-Kotte for a meeting with the leaders of political parties that constitute the UPFA. They are said to have expressed strong objections.
One of the primary purposes of the visit to Colombo by a three-member Indian delegation was to urge the government to fully enforce the 13th Amendment to the Constitution. The fact that India urged that such a step be taken by the government was reported exclusively in the Sunday Times of May 15.
The Indian delegation comprised National Security Advisor Shiv Shanker Menon, Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao and Defence Secretary Pradeep Kumar. India’s High Commissioner Ashok Kanth was also associated with yesterday’s talks.
The government’s tough stance in not giving land and police powers to provincial councils is expected to pitch Colombo and New Delhi on a collision course diplomatically. This is particularly in the light of talks in the Indian capital between Indian External Affairs Minister S.M.Krishna and his Sri Lankan counterpart G.L. Peiris when he visited India.
Dr. Peiris had agreed that a “devolution package, building upon the 13th Amendment, would contribute towards creating the necessary conditions for such reconciliation”. The move, Indian officials argue, was the latest commitment given by a Sri Lanka Minister and was thus incorporated in an official joint statement.
However, President Rajapaksa is learnt to have told the Indian delegation that his government would concede many other subjects that are incorporated in the Concurrent List that accompanies the 13th Amendment to the Constitution. He has also told the Indian delegation that his government will withdraw Emergency Regulations with regard to terrorist activities in the North and East since there was no more war in these two regions.
The issue of both Indian and Sri Lankan fishermen poaching in each other's waters also figured extensively during yesterday's talks.
With regard to actions against fishermen who poached within Sri Lanka's territorial waters, the government side explained that they were enforcing the law without the use of any undue force on Indian fishermen.
The Indian side was to point out that poaching by Sri Lankan fishermen in Indian waters did not cover only their southern seas. They claimed there were instances where Sri Lankan fishermen were found poaching in the waters off the states of Orissa and Andhra Pradesh.
Tensions in the high seas between both sides have eased in the past weeks due to the spawning season. However, this season ended last week and fishermen were due to resume fishing activity.
Meanwhile the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) is expected to issue a statement saying it is not happy with the progress made in the dialogue with the Government on how to address grievances of the Tamil people.
Mr. Menon told Colombo-based Indian journalists yesterday that India had conveyed to Sri Lanka that it was left to Sri Lanka’s government to change the 13th Amendment to bring in a suitable political resolution that would enable all communities in the country to live together.
“If they think, they want to do better than the 13th Amendment as many of them do including the government (which) also speaks of 13th Amendment-plus …they want to do different…whatever…that’s for them but they all must feel comfortable,’’ Mr. Menon said.He said the goal was a political arrangement under which all communities in Sri Lanka would be comfortable. “We naturally feel (that) the quicker they themselves come to a political arrangement within which all communities are comfortable, works for all of them, the better. We will do whatever we can to help,’’ he said.
Mr. Menon said that the Indo-Lanka Accord of 1987 had provided an enabling environment for the Amendment. “It was their amendment, not our amendment by the way,” he said.
Sunday, June 12, 2011
No police, land powers to PCs
By Ananda-USA
June 11, 2011
I applaud the Government of Sri Lanka for courageously resisting pressure from the Tamil separatists in Sri Lanka and abroad, and from the Indian Government attempting to placate India's Tamil citizens at Sri Lanka's expense, to grant Police and Land powers to the Provincial Councils of the Nothern and Eastern Provinces of Sri Lanka identified ethnic bases.
Provincial Councils should not be accorded Police and Land powers in any part of Sri Lanka, for that is a prescription for the creation of ethnic, religious and provincials fiefdoms in the country that will deny the rights of all citizens of the country to an equal right to settle in and enjoy the resources of any and all parts of their motherland in equal measure. It is a recipe for the eventual disintegration of Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka recently emerged from a devastating ethnic conflict waged by Tamil separatists who sought to create a separate nation exclusively for their own community, by ethnically cleansing all other communities from the Northern and Eastern provinces that they claimed solely for themselves, even as the great majority of Tamils lived among the Sinhala majority in a bid to escape the murder and mayhem inflicted upon them by their self-proclaimed saviours.
During a period spanning nearly 30 years, the LTTE separatist terrorists in fact exercised de-facto control of police and land powers in the Northern and Eastern provinces. They exercised dictatorial control over the population, most of whom either fled their grasp to live among the demonized Sinhala majority, or were manipulated into becoming refugees and transported in other countries illegally to form their tax base for funding their terrorist separatist activities in Sri Lanka. Those illegal refugees, who now form the bulk of the Sri Lankan Tamil Diaspora controlled by the LTTE terrorist mafia network, continues to undermine and wage war against Sri Lanka internationally.
If Police and Land powers are granted to the Northern and Eastern Provinces, racist policies will be enacted by the Tamil majority Provincial Government ... dominated by the Tamil National Alliance that was the political arm of the LTTE ... to solidify the results of the ethnic cleansing operations of the LTTE that eradicated the Sinhala and Moslem communities in those areas. They will implement policies ... both overt and covert ... to prevent the emergence of a truly multi-ethnic society in that part of the country. With Police power in their hands, the extensive coastal border of that part of the country will again revert to large scale smuggling of arms, drugs, and trained terrorists from abroad that was commonplace during LTTE's control of the area. Expecting the fox to mind the henhouse is foolish in the extreme.
Given these undeniable facts, it would be completely unreasonable and foolish, for Sri Lanka to accede to these demands, by those very same separatists hoping to win by subterfuge in peace the same separatist goals they failed win through 30 years of unremitting terrorism and open warfare.
India, attempting to placate its incurably racist and communal Tamil citizens at Sri Lanka's expense, continues along the same foolish path they pursued in the past in promoting provincial Police and Land powers for the North and the East of Sri Lanka. Clearly, the old objectives of the LTTE in gaining uninhibited access to Tamil Nadu and foreign suppliers of arms, would reemerge by granting these powers. Given the separatist tendencies, and racial demonization of non-Tamils that persist to this day in Tamil Nadu, that would guarantee the growth of a violent separatist movement in Tamil Nadu. This is something that no Indian Government should promote if they care about the integrity and national security of India.
The 13th Amendment in the Sri Lanka's Constitution, was an amendment that India ILLEGALLY forced upon Sri Lanka at the point of a gun. In international law, as well as in national laws, agreements enforced through blackmail are INVALID, and are usually repudiated as soon as the aggressive parties are defeated. For example, all international agreements imposed by Hitler's Nazi Germany upon neighboring nations, such as the annexation of the Sudentenland and the partition of Poland, were repudiated upon the defeat of Nazi Germany.
The 13th Amendment imposed upon sovereign Sri Lanka by India is no different: it should be declared an ILLEGAL ACT and be repudiated in its entirety as fundamentally inimical to the integrity and long term survival of Sri Lanka.
Instead, India should offer Sri Lanka an abject apology for this criminal act against an innocent sovereign nation. This is not the way to win friends among neighboring countries; peaceful co-existence among neighboring nations demands non-inteference in their internal affairs.
Ethnic Integration of the people of Sri Lanka, devoid of barriers based upon race, religion, language, sex, caste or wealth, is the
The sovereign People of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka are completely capable of deciding what serves their own interest, and of formulating their own policies and laws to govern themselves.
.............
No police, land powers to PCs
President conveys decision to Indian officials, collision course feared
By Our Diplomatic Editor
President Mahinda Rajapaksa told a high-powered Indian delegation yesterday his government was not able to concede land and police powers to provincial councils in accordance with the 13th Amendment to the Constitution.
The move, the Sunday Times learns, follows strong opposition from constituent partners of the United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA). On Friday, President Rajapaksa drove to the parliamentary complex in Sri Jayawardhanapura-Kotte for a meeting with the leaders of political parties that constitute the UPFA. They are said to have expressed strong objections.
One of the primary purposes of the visit to Colombo by a three-member Indian delegation was to urge the government to fully enforce the 13th Amendment to the Constitution. The fact that India urged that such a step be taken by the government was reported exclusively in the Sunday Times of May 15.
The Indian delegation comprised National Security Advisor Shiv Shanker Menon, Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao and Defence Secretary Pradeep Kumar. India’s High Commissioner Ashok Kanth was also associated with yesterday’s talks.
The government’s tough stance in not giving land and police powers to provincial councils is expected to pitch Colombo and New Delhi on a collision course diplomatically. This is particularly in the light of talks in the Indian capital between Indian External Affairs Minister S.M.Krishna and his Sri Lankan counterpart G.L. Peiris when he visited India.
Dr. Peiris had agreed that a “devolution package, building upon the 13th Amendment, would contribute towards creating the necessary conditions for such reconciliation”. The move, Indian officials argue, was the latest commitment given by a Sri Lanka Minister and was thus incorporated in an official joint statement.
However, President Rajapaksa is learnt to have told the Indian delegation that his government would concede many other subjects that are incorporated in the Concurrent List that accompanies the 13th Amendment to the Constitution. He has also told the Indian delegation that his government will withdraw Emergency Regulations with regard to terrorist activities in the North and East since there was no more war in these two regions.
The issue of both Indian and Sri Lankan fishermen poaching in each other's waters also figured extensively during yesterday's talks.
With regard to actions against fishermen who poached within Sri Lanka's territorial waters, the government side explained that they were enforcing the law without the use of any undue force on Indian fishermen.
The Indian side was to point out that poaching by Sri Lankan fishermen in Indian waters did not cover only their southern seas. They claimed there were instances where Sri Lankan fishermen were found poaching in the waters off the states of Orissa and Andhra Pradesh.
Tensions in the high seas between both sides have eased in the past weeks due to the spawning season. However, this season ended last week and fishermen were due to resume fishing activity.
Meanwhile the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) is expected to issue a statement saying it is not happy with the progress made in the dialogue with the Government on how to address grievances of the Tamil people.
Mr. Menon told Colombo-based Indian journalists yesterday that India had conveyed to Sri Lanka that it was left to Sri Lanka’s government to change the 13th Amendment to bring in a suitable political resolution that would enable all communities in the country to live together.
“If they think, they want to do better than the 13th Amendment as many of them do including the government (which) also speaks of 13th Amendment-plus …they want to do different…whatever…that’s for them but they all must feel comfortable,’’ Mr. Menon said.He said the goal was a political arrangement under which all communities in Sri Lanka would be comfortable. “We naturally feel (that) the quicker they themselves come to a political arrangement within which all communities are comfortable, works for all of them, the better. We will do whatever we can to help,’’ he said.
Mr. Menon said that the Indo-Lanka Accord of 1987 had provided an enabling environment for the Amendment. “It was their amendment, not our amendment by the way,” he said.
June 11, 2011
I applaud the Government of Sri Lanka for courageously resisting pressure from the Tamil separatists in Sri Lanka and abroad, and from the Indian Government attempting to placate India's Tamil citizens at Sri Lanka's expense, to grant Police and Land powers to the Provincial Councils of the Nothern and Eastern Provinces of Sri Lanka identified ethnic bases.
Provincial Councils should not be accorded Police and Land powers in any part of Sri Lanka, for that is a prescription for the creation of ethnic, religious and provincials fiefdoms in the country that will deny the rights of all citizens of the country to an equal right to settle in and enjoy the resources of any and all parts of their motherland in equal measure. It is a recipe for the eventual disintegration of Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka recently emerged from a devastating ethnic conflict waged by Tamil separatists who sought to create a separate nation exclusively for their own community, by ethnically cleansing all other communities from the Northern and Eastern provinces that they claimed solely for themselves, even as the great majority of Tamils lived among the Sinhala majority in a bid to escape the murder and mayhem inflicted upon them by their self-proclaimed saviours.
During a period spanning nearly 30 years, the LTTE separatist terrorists in fact exercised de-facto control of police and land powers in the Northern and Eastern provinces. They exercised dictatorial control over the population, most of whom either fled their grasp to live among the demonized Sinhala majority, or were manipulated into becoming refugees and transported in other countries illegally to form their tax base for funding their terrorist separatist activities in Sri Lanka. Those illegal refugees, who now form the bulk of the Sri Lankan Tamil Diaspora controlled by the LTTE terrorist mafia network, continues to undermine and wage war against Sri Lanka internationally.
If Police and Land powers are granted to the Northern and Eastern Provinces, racist policies will be enacted by the Tamil majority Provincial Government ... dominated by the Tamil National Alliance that was the political arm of the LTTE ... to solidify the results of the ethnic cleansing operations of the LTTE that eradicated the Sinhala and Moslem communities in those areas. They will implement policies ... both overt and covert ... to prevent the emergence of a truly multi-ethnic society in that part of the country. With Police power in their hands, the extensive coastal border of that part of the country will again revert to large scale smuggling of arms, drugs, and trained terrorists from abroad that was commonplace during LTTE's control of the area. Expecting the fox to mind the henhouse is foolish in the extreme.
Given these undeniable facts, it would be completely unreasonable and foolish, for Sri Lanka to accede to these demands, by those very same separatists hoping to win by subterfuge in peace the same separatist goals they failed win through 30 years of unremitting terrorism and open warfare.
India, attempting to placate its incurably racist and communal Tamil citizens at Sri Lanka's expense, continues along the same foolish path they pursued in the past in promoting provincial Police and Land powers for the North and the East of Sri Lanka. Clearly, the old objectives of the LTTE in gaining uninhibited access to Tamil Nadu and foreign suppliers of arms, would reemerge by granting these powers. Given the separatist tendencies, and racial demonization of non-Tamils that persist to this day in Tamil Nadu, that would guarantee the growth of a violent separatist movement in Tamil Nadu. This is something that no Indian Government should promote if they care about the integrity and national security of India.
The 13th Amendment in the Sri Lanka's Constitution, was an amendment that India ILLEGALLY forced upon Sri Lanka at the point of a gun. In international law, as well as in national laws, agreements enforced through blackmail are INVALID, and are usually repudiated as soon as the aggressive parties are defeated. For example, all international agreements imposed by Hitler's Nazi Germany upon neighboring nations, such as the annexation of the Sudentenland and the partition of Poland, were repudiated upon the defeat of Nazi Germany.
The 13th Amendment imposed upon sovereign Sri Lanka by India is no different: it should be declared an ILLEGAL ACT and be repudiated in its entirety as fundamentally inimical to the integrity and long term survival of Sri Lanka.
Instead, India should offer Sri Lanka an abject apology for this criminal act against an innocent sovereign nation. This is not the way to win friends among neighboring countries; peaceful co-existence among neighboring nations demands non-inteference in their internal affairs.
Ethnic Integration of the people of Sri Lanka, devoid of barriers based upon race, religion, language, sex, caste or wealth, is the
The sovereign People of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka are completely capable of deciding what serves their own interest, and of formulating their own policies and laws to govern themselves.
.............
No police, land powers to PCs
President conveys decision to Indian officials, collision course feared
By Our Diplomatic Editor
President Mahinda Rajapaksa told a high-powered Indian delegation yesterday his government was not able to concede land and police powers to provincial councils in accordance with the 13th Amendment to the Constitution.
The move, the Sunday Times learns, follows strong opposition from constituent partners of the United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA). On Friday, President Rajapaksa drove to the parliamentary complex in Sri Jayawardhanapura-Kotte for a meeting with the leaders of political parties that constitute the UPFA. They are said to have expressed strong objections.
One of the primary purposes of the visit to Colombo by a three-member Indian delegation was to urge the government to fully enforce the 13th Amendment to the Constitution. The fact that India urged that such a step be taken by the government was reported exclusively in the Sunday Times of May 15.
The Indian delegation comprised National Security Advisor Shiv Shanker Menon, Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao and Defence Secretary Pradeep Kumar. India’s High Commissioner Ashok Kanth was also associated with yesterday’s talks.
The government’s tough stance in not giving land and police powers to provincial councils is expected to pitch Colombo and New Delhi on a collision course diplomatically. This is particularly in the light of talks in the Indian capital between Indian External Affairs Minister S.M.Krishna and his Sri Lankan counterpart G.L. Peiris when he visited India.
Dr. Peiris had agreed that a “devolution package, building upon the 13th Amendment, would contribute towards creating the necessary conditions for such reconciliation”. The move, Indian officials argue, was the latest commitment given by a Sri Lanka Minister and was thus incorporated in an official joint statement.
However, President Rajapaksa is learnt to have told the Indian delegation that his government would concede many other subjects that are incorporated in the Concurrent List that accompanies the 13th Amendment to the Constitution. He has also told the Indian delegation that his government will withdraw Emergency Regulations with regard to terrorist activities in the North and East since there was no more war in these two regions.
The issue of both Indian and Sri Lankan fishermen poaching in each other's waters also figured extensively during yesterday's talks.
With regard to actions against fishermen who poached within Sri Lanka's territorial waters, the government side explained that they were enforcing the law without the use of any undue force on Indian fishermen.
The Indian side was to point out that poaching by Sri Lankan fishermen in Indian waters did not cover only their southern seas. They claimed there were instances where Sri Lankan fishermen were found poaching in the waters off the states of Orissa and Andhra Pradesh.
Tensions in the high seas between both sides have eased in the past weeks due to the spawning season. However, this season ended last week and fishermen were due to resume fishing activity.
Meanwhile the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) is expected to issue a statement saying it is not happy with the progress made in the dialogue with the Government on how to address grievances of the Tamil people.
Mr. Menon told Colombo-based Indian journalists yesterday that India had conveyed to Sri Lanka that it was left to Sri Lanka’s government to change the 13th Amendment to bring in a suitable political resolution that would enable all communities in the country to live together.
“If they think, they want to do better than the 13th Amendment as many of them do including the government (which) also speaks of 13th Amendment-plus …they want to do different…whatever…that’s for them but they all must feel comfortable,’’ Mr. Menon said.He said the goal was a political arrangement under which all communities in Sri Lanka would be comfortable. “We naturally feel (that) the quicker they themselves come to a political arrangement within which all communities are comfortable, works for all of them, the better. We will do whatever we can to help,’’ he said.
Mr. Menon said that the Indo-Lanka Accord of 1987 had provided an enabling environment for the Amendment. “It was their amendment, not our amendment by the way,” he said.
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