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REPORT SAYS RANIL WANTS “FEDARALISM” AS A SOLUTION FOR THE SEPARAIST WAR BUT THE TIGERS HAD REJECTED IT
A Sri Lanka Army military analysis said that although the United National Party candidate Ranil Wickremesinghe spoke of Oslo Declaration and Tokyo Declaration as providing a framework for a lasting political solution for the country’s separatist war it did not take the country anywhere since the Liberation Tigers of Tamil had totally rejected them.
United National Party election manifesto entitled People’s Agenda does not mention the word “federal” in the entirety of the 55 page booklet but the Oslo Declaration and Tokyo declaration had asked for a federal solution.
Oslo and Tokyo declarations were issued at the end of the unsuccessful peace talks between the LTTE and the Sri Lanka government during the regime of United National Party candidate Ranil Wickremesinghe and the LTTE. The LTTE attended the Oslo meeting and boycotted the Tokyo meeting.
Sources close to United People’s Freedom Alliance candidate, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa said that the alliance would disregard party chief Chandrika Kumaratunga’s policy of a federal solution. Alliance partners, the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna(JVP), the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna (MEP) and Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU) are totally opposed to a federal system of government. There is also no unanimity on the issue among the rank and file of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party . Majority of the Sinhala voters had voted against the issue in the past elections.
The pro-Ranil Wickremesinghe Sunday Leader in its lead story said UNP leader and out going President Chandrika Kumaratunga would discuss, October 24, about this federal system of government as a solution to the separatist war.
The military analysis said Velupillai Prabhakaran during his Annual Heroes Day speech Nov 27 2004 had made it very clear that he was not interested in a federal solution. He further said, “If our demand for regional self rule based on the right to internal self determination is rejected we have no alternative other than to break away and form an independent state.”
LTTE theoretician Anton Balasingham calls into question the Oslo Declaration in his new book, War and Peace. Balasingham points out that there was no specific proclamation entitled the “Oslo Declaration” on which many claims of the Tigers unconditional abandonment of the right to secession are based.
The military report further said, “So it is very clear that the LTTE is not for a Federal form of government as claimed by the UNP leader.”
Australian held over Kadirgamar's assassination
An Australian person of Sri Lankan origin has been arrested in connection with the assassination of Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar, police said on Monday.
Charles Gnanakone, a Sri Lankan Tamil businessman who now holds an Australian passport, was arrested last week under emergency regulations, they said.
Gnanakone, 60, was held in the wake of media reports that he had assured Kadirgamar that he wouldn't be killed as long as he remained foreign minister. Kadirgamar, also a Tamil, was known to Gnanakone.
The government has also tried to link Gnanakone to the main opposition United National Party in an apparent bid to discredit the opposition ahead of the November 17 presidential elections.
The Australian High Commission in Colombo said they were extending consular assistance to Gnanakone whose arrest had been informed to them officially.
A Sri Lanka Army military analysis said that although the United National Party candidate Ranil Wickremesinghe spoke of Oslo Declaration and Tokyo Declaration as providing a framework for a lasting political solution for the country’s separatist war it did not take the country anywhere since the Liberation Tigers of Tamil had totally rejected them.
United National Party election manifesto entitled People’s Agenda does not mention the word “federal” in the entirety of the 55 page booklet but the Oslo Declaration and Tokyo declaration had asked for a federal solution.
Oslo and Tokyo declarations were issued at the end of the unsuccessful peace talks between the LTTE and the Sri Lanka government during the regime of United National Party candidate Ranil Wickremesinghe and the LTTE. The LTTE attended the Oslo meeting and boycotted the Tokyo meeting.
Sources close to United People’s Freedom Alliance candidate, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa said that the alliance would disregard party chief Chandrika Kumaratunga’s policy of a federal solution. Alliance partners, the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna(JVP), the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna (MEP) and Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU) are totally opposed to a federal system of government. There is also no unanimity on the issue among the rank and file of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party . Majority of the Sinhala voters had voted against the issue in the past elections.
The pro-Ranil Wickremesinghe Sunday Leader in its lead story said UNP leader and out going President Chandrika Kumaratunga would discuss, October 24, about this federal system of government as a solution to the separatist war.
The military analysis said Velupillai Prabhakaran during his Annual Heroes Day speech Nov 27 2004 had made it very clear that he was not interested in a federal solution. He further said, “If our demand for regional self rule based on the right to internal self determination is rejected we have no alternative other than to break away and form an independent state.”
LTTE theoretician Anton Balasingham calls into question the Oslo Declaration in his new book, War and Peace. Balasingham points out that there was no specific proclamation entitled the “Oslo Declaration” on which many claims of the Tigers unconditional abandonment of the right to secession are based.
The military report further said, “So it is very clear that the LTTE is not for a Federal form of government as claimed by the UNP leader.”
Australian held over Kadirgamar's assassination
An Australian person of Sri Lankan origin has been arrested in connection with the assassination of Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar, police said on Monday.
Charles Gnanakone, a Sri Lankan Tamil businessman who now holds an Australian passport, was arrested last week under emergency regulations, they said.
Gnanakone, 60, was held in the wake of media reports that he had assured Kadirgamar that he wouldn't be killed as long as he remained foreign minister. Kadirgamar, also a Tamil, was known to Gnanakone.
The government has also tried to link Gnanakone to the main opposition United National Party in an apparent bid to discredit the opposition ahead of the November 17 presidential elections.
The Australian High Commission in Colombo said they were extending consular assistance to Gnanakone whose arrest had been informed to them officially.