War Criminal Army not wanted here: Fumes the CM, NPC

“ It is not acceptable to allow the Army which had committed  war crimes to rule here. No body nowhere requested the Army to provide security for us. If somebody had asked like that, he must be some collaborator or one who is afraid of the Army or a spy of the Government”, said the Chief Minister, Northern Provincial Council PC, Justice C.V.Wigneswaran.

He was speaking in the 150 the jubilee celebrations of  and the opening ceremony of the opening of a new building of the Inuvil Hindu College, Jaffna.

Elaborating further, he said “ The  army should get out from here. Our resources are being robbed and smuggled to other provinces. The presence of Army here is drastically affecting the mental peace of our students. However much the Army tried to win the hearts and minds of the people, they could not be accepted within a democratic structure. The Army and the Navy are planted by force among us even after 6 years from the end of the war.

“The heinous crimes happening now are unheard of here prior to 2009. These are planned distractions to ensure that our youth should not evolve with freedom related aspirations, they should not transform into hard working people and we have to suspect that somebody is trying deliberately to mis-direct them into wrong paths.

“No Sinhalese government is ready to say before the Sinhalese masses, that they should do some good to Tamils. Poison had been fed into minds of Sinhala people to that extent.

“The Police and Army are not the same. Police do not depend exclusively on weapons. They had to work with the welfare of the people in their minds. The Army does not have a duty like that.

“ Some people think that they can do thing  covertly.  …no .. there should be transparency about things we are doing.

´It is utter foolishness to think that Ranil will give this….Maithri  will give that and Chandrika will give that. The Tamil leaders should say overtly that , we want this. The Sinhala leaders should say that  they will give this. What I say is that things should be overt.”, said he.