Sri Lanka is working to make a political solution for Tamils irrelevant by breaking the linguistic and cultural contiguity in the North-East by militarisation and resettlement of Sinhalese families, the leader of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) told Indian press on Wednesday.
“Their objective is also to change the composition and change the cultural and linguistic identity of Tamil regions. The most urgent need is that this should end. It is their hope that if they continue with this, a political solution for Tamils will be irrelevant, a solution would become redundant and they can have their own way,” said R Sampanthan.
Sampanthan’s comments come after the TNA delegation travelled to India to hold talks with Prime Minister Modi regarding the plight of Tamils in Sri Lanka.
"Modi has told us exactly what the government's position is and he has also told President Rajapaksa that commitments made to Tamils must be fulfilled," Sampanthan said speaking on the meetings.
Sampanthan further added that Sri Lanka was preventing the North and East from merging, reports BBC Tamil.
The TNA press brief came after the delegation met representatives of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Chennai including the BJP Tamil Nadu Head of State Tamilisai Soundararajan and other senior leaders.
Tamils in Sri Lanka must enjoy 'equality, dignity, justice and self-respect' says India (22 August 2014)
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