MPs condemn protesters

by Mohammed NAALIR

Nuwara-Eliya District Parliamentarian P. Digambaram and Colombo District Parliamentarian Prabha Ganeshan yesterday severely condemned the demonstration carried out by a few LTTE sympathisers in London recently during President Mahinda Rajapaksa's visit to the United Kingdom.

Addressing a media briefing held at Nippon Hotel Colombo, Digambaram said that such demonstration will completely destroy the relationship between Tamils and Sinhala people.

He said that no international community will come forward to help the victimised Tamil people who are operating behind such demonstrations.

It is high time to focus attention towards developing the North and East which were devastated by terrorism without merely engaging in such demonstrations.

Digambaram also said that the Government is engaged in the process of reconstructing and redeveloping the North and East amidst strident criticism.

Ganeshan said that those who engaged in such demonstration, if they are really willing to take part to console the grievances of Tamil people may come and take part in the reconstruction activities implemented in the North. They can help to rebuild the destroyed schools.

"Today our problems can be solved only by President Mahinda Rajapaksa. The foreign forces will never help us. The Tamil National Alliance have also realised the fact that the solution to the problem or development could be achieved only through discussion, he added.