The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) assured the new prime minister, Ranil Wickremasinghe, that it would not allow "LTTE activities of protests against the army in the North", reports Colombo Gazette.
According to the news site, Wickremasinghe said "he had also spoken to the TNA and the TNA was also against the LTTE flag being raised in the north and also want all issues resolved within a united Sri Lanka."
On Friday, Sri Lanka's military spokesperson Brigadier Ruwan Wanigasooriya rejected reports of army camps being stoned and the Tamil Eelam flag being raised in Jaffna following the presidential win of Maithripala Sirisena, and stressed that there was no threat to the military in the North.
Related article: No threat to military in North says military (10 Jan 2015)
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