The Sri Lankan government's actions and policies only make Tamils want to secede said the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) MP Suresh Premachandran.
"The government’s every activity only encourages Tamils to live separately: exclusive pass system to the Northern Province, denying powers for the NPC, economic measures not being implemented properly in North, military occupation, sexual assaults by the military," Premachandran said during the budget debate in parliament, reports Uthayan.
"All of these things show that it is government oppression that triggers Tamils' desire to secede."
"The government’s every activity only encourages Tamils to live separately: exclusive pass system to the Northern Province, denying powers for the NPC, economic measures not being implemented properly in North, military occupation, sexual assaults by the military," Premachandran said during the budget debate in parliament, reports Uthayan.
"All of these things show that it is government oppression that triggers Tamils' desire to secede."