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When Sinhala, Tamil and Muslim groups hail the moves by the British government, how come these eleven Tamil parties have forgotten the recent history where fifty well known Tamil politicians including their own leader Amirthalingam was slain by the LTTE, questioned Sihala Urumaya Member of Parliament (MP) Tilak Karunaratne in a meeting in Kandy on Thursday last week. The meeting was held to mark the third year of the LTTE bomb blast at the Dalada Maligawa at the D.S. Senanayake Public Library auditorium. Mr. Karunaratane said that eleven Tamil parties were against the banning of the LTTE in Britain. Meanwhile, he praised the stand taken by the PA government on the issue and in particular the role of Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar. "We can be happy about the manner the PA government is now proceeding with the war in the north. Until recently the security forces could not wage the war properly. Much politics went into the war. Some officials of the Defence Ministry and certain officers of the security forces were responsible," he said. Welcoming the recent announcement by the Prime Minister with regard o the recruitment to the army, he said that there seems to be some enthusiasm now on the part of the government to fight the war and defeat the LTTE. Reefring to the United National party (UNP) and the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), Mr. Karunaratne said that these two parties seem to have selfish motives. "The JVP appears to have not given up its inherited ways and is trying to pretend. The JVP pretends that it has entered the democratic stream. But in reality their conduct does not differ from that of the old terror group. When the government attempts to counter some of the JVP's moves in public the JVP will naturally blame the government. They will tell the people that they tried to get into the democratic process but the government took oppressive measures that they could not proceed in the democratic path any longer. They will then take to arms and finally destroy the lives of the youth and even members of the Sangha, as they did earlier," Mr. Karunaratane said. The national organiser of the Sihala Urimaya Pataly Champika Ranawaka warned the government not to close down the army camps in the hill country plantation areas due to pressures by Sellasamys, Chandrasekarans and Sathasivams. "If the government closes down the camps the Sihala Urumaya will take to the roads with the masses. The Sinhala people in the plantation areas are safe as long as the security forces are alert in those areas," he said.
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