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The Tamil people of this country are our
people; they are our brothers and our
sisters; they must live among us. I don’t
think that there is a problem that the
Sinhalese have with the Tamils. They do have
a problem with the Tamil Tigers; the
terrorists, who you have to remember are
proscribed in most of the democratic
countries of the world as a terrorist
organization, said Foreign Secretary, Dr.
Palitha Kohona in a discussion with American
singing star MIA, a Tamil from Sri Lanka, on
PBS.
MIA is a great artiste and we wish her well.
But I’m sorry I think she is misinformed,
and it is best she stay at what is she good
at, which is music, not politics, he said
There is whole complex situation on the
ground in Sri Lanka. There is a group of
terrorists, the Tamil Tigers, challenging
the government for a long time for they
controlled territory .They even had basic
Air facilities and Naval facilities. Now
over the last two years the government has
rolled them back, and now they are limited
to very small area in the North-East of the
country. As you heard before they are
limited to an area as little as 100 Sq.Km.
which is roughly about 30 sq.m, Dr. Palitha
Kohona added.
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