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Northern Province Chief Minister C.V. Wigneswaran has suggested the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) to make the release of the Tamil prisoners detained under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) a condition for the party's support for the next year's national budget.

He expressed these views to the media after a meeting with the representatives of the Northern Provincial Council and the civil society organisations on Saturday.

He argued that those former top-level leaders of the LTTE such as Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan alias Karuna Amman who gave orders to the ordinary LTTE cadres were at large while those youth implemented their orders were languishing in prisons for nearly 20 years. "We must take this point to the people" he stated.

We have decided during the discussion today to suggest the TNA to make the political prisoners' issue a condition to vote in support of the national budget, Wigneswaran said.

The National Convenor of the Movement for the Release of Political Prisoners, Fr. M. Shakthivel and Leader of the Peoples' Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam (PLOTE) and Parliamentarian Dharmalingam Siddharthan also participated in the discussion. (Romesh Madushanka)


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  • Peace Sunday, 14 October 2018 04:36 PM

    CV is absolutely right. The terrorist government who carried out atrocities on Tamil speaking people since 1958,1977,1983 and 40,000 deaths of men,women and children,the rape of Tamil speaking men by armed forces have not been punished.

    Ruwan Sunday, 14 October 2018 06:44 PM

    What I never understood about the Tamils is they never talk about the thousands of Tamil civilians murdered by the Indian Army.

    DN Sunday, 14 October 2018 05:25 PM

    Yea..Let votes against the budget

    Sri Lankan Tamil Sunday, 14 October 2018 05:52 PM

    Was it not Viggy who sent some of the LTTE members to prison when he was a Judge? Why change of heart now? Viggy has no right to ask anything as he is a surrogate of LTTE remnants. Sampanthan knows what should be done and he will do it at the correct time. What has Viggy done for the people in the North, nothing absolutely nothing. Its time he retires and lives with Vasudeva the rest of his life.

    das Sunday, 14 October 2018 06:09 PM

    How can terrorists be released? They should be kept locked up forever.

    Dalu abanda Sunday, 14 October 2018 06:11 PM

    What about those terrorist who killed Laxman Kadiragarmar and Neelen Theruchelwam?

    Ruwan Sunday, 14 October 2018 06:53 PM

    Former judge into blackmailing

    rajitha7 Sunday, 14 October 2018 08:11 PM

    Come election time the only room left for an average Tamil to react and vote positively is ethnic rabble-rousing. That is because the average Tamil politician has done next to nothing other than heating their chair all day long since elected last.

    meshlk Sunday, 14 October 2018 08:50 PM

    please let us not breed hatred again! it will only destroy lives of generations to come, one's who promote hatred live their own lives in grace but the blind majorities that follow suffer!


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