Work towards representing the Tamil community would not stop until there are international guarantees that the root causes of the conflict in Sri Lanka were addressed, concluded the spokesman of the Global Tamil Forum in a statement to The Island.
“We believe only when justice is served and root causes for the military conflict are addressed permanently with international guarantees can the affected begin to consider moving on and a sustainable peace for all the island can be achieved,” he concluded.
Surendiran added that there should be no reason for the government not to cooperate with the United Nations investigation into war crimes in Sri Lanka.
Recalling the Sri Lankan government’s claim of having nothing to hide and underestimation of civilian numbers in the No Fire Zone, the spokesperson Suren Surendiran, said,
“The UN probe will establish why, what or whether this under estimation had any international law implications and whether this was deliberate. How this underestimation might have impacted in the claim that the government was sending ‘enough’ food, medical and milk powder (for children) supplies to the warzone during the war.”
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