Sri Lanka's presidential election does not address Tamil concerns, the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) spokesperson Suresh Premachandran said on Sunday, stating that neither Mahinda Rajapaksa nor the common opposition candidate, Maithripala Sirisena were seeking to find solutions to problems faced by the Tamil people.
“We know that there is corruption, we know there is a family rule. We know those things must be removed. But at the same time Tamils are facing different issues,”
Premachandran told a press conference in Vavuniya at the weekend, the Sunday Leader reports.
"Tamils are facing various issues. There are hundreds of people who still can't go back to their own lands because Army is occupying them," the Deccan Chronicle quoted him as saying.
"There are hundreds of political prisoners. Even after 5 years (of the end of war), people are still in camps".
"The opposition is saying we are not for a federal solution, they won't accept the UN enquiry, we will destroy all LTTErs who are living abroad," he said, pointing out that the joint opposition had not stated how they would address Tamil concerns.
"We are citizens of this country we want to live as equals".
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