“Colombo International Book Fair 2009”

19-09-2009

The annually awaited “Colombo International Book Fair 2009” will commence and be open to the public from tomorrow at the BMICH premises. The picture shows final preparations been made for the opening tomorrow. Pix by Indaratna Balasuriya.

25 வயது பிரித்தானியத் தமிழ்வாணியின் ஈழத்தமிழ் அநுபவம்

குறிப்பு: காணொளியைக் காண உருவப்படத்தில் இரு இடதழுத்தம் செய்க

How India secretly helped Lanka to destroy the LTTE

By the end of November 2008, the script was no longer in LTTE chief Vellupillai Prabhakaran's hands.
It was being written by the Sri Lankan forces tacitly supported by India and openly assisted by China and Pakistan.
How exactly did Prabhakaran meet his end?
In the last two days, the Sri Lankan army had intelligence that all the top LTTE leaders were in a narrow lagoon. They knew this from people who were coming out, and also one of his bodyguards who was captured.
The LTTE had tried to break through that lagoon. They launched waves of attacks, like they are known to do. The idea was to come out of the lagoon and get into the jungles of Mullaitheevu.
Prabhakaran's son Charles Anthony died in the first wave of attacks.
If the rest of the top leaders had managed to escape, the war would have been extended. But the army had deployed two defence lines and one of the reserve forces.
When they spotted some movement in the mangroves, they engaged in a gun battle and the top leaders were killed. When President Mahinda Rajapakse [ Images ] addressed the nation, he didn't mention anything about Prabhakaran.
Then Colonel Karuna was flown in to identify the body. It took three hours for a positive identification, as they call it.(Read More)

சிவத்தம்பி தலைமையில் "சிரத்தையுள்ள சிறீலங்காத் தமிழர்கள்" குழு

இலங்கையில் மோதல்கள் முடிவடைந்து நான்கு மாதங்கள் ஓடிவிட்டபோதும் நாட்டில் இனங்கள் இடையே கருத்து இணக்கத்தை ஏற்படுத்துவதற்கான குறிப்பிடத்தகுந்த நடவடிக்கைகள் எதுவும் எடுக்கப்படவில்லை என்று 'சிறிலங்காவின் துன்பப்படும் தமிழர்கள்' அமைப்பு அதிருப்தி தெரிவித்துள்ளது.-செய்தி புதினம் (முழுமை அறிய)

Tamilvany's UK Guardian Interview

'As the shells fell, we tried to save lives with no blood or medicine'

Damilvany Gnanakumar witnessed Sri Lanka's bloody conflict from a Tamil hospital - then spent months detained in a camp. She tells Gethin Chamberlain her story.
Gethin Chamberlain guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 15 September 2009 21.58

"The mother couldn't bring the dead body and she doesn't want to leave it as well. She was standing … holding the baby. She didn't know what to do … At the end, because of the shell bombing and people rushing – there were thousands and thousands of people, they were rushing in and pushing everyone – she just had to leave the baby at the side of the road, she had to leave the body there and come, she had no choice. And I was thinking in my mind 'What have the people done wrong? Why are they going through this, why is the international government not speaking up for them? I'm still asking."

தமிழ்வாணி >> (முழுமை அறிய)

ஒரு தேசத்தை அடக்கி ஆளும் எந்தத்தேசமும் தான் சுதந்திரமாக வாழமுடியாது: கார்ல் மார்க்ஸ்

இலங்கையில் அச்சமான சூழல்; கேரளாவில் சந்திரிகா கவலை
2009-09-16 02:35:06
இலங்கையில் அச்சமும் சுதந்திரமில்லாத சூழலும் கலந்து காணப்படு கின்றன என்று முன்னாள் ஜனாதிபதி சந்திரிகா குமாரதுங்க தெரிவித்துள்ளார். இந்தியாவின் கேரள மாநிலத்திற்கு விஜயம் செய்துள்ள அவர் அங்கு செய்தியாளர்களிடம் கருத்துத் தெரிவித்தபோதே இதனைத் தெரிவித்தார்.
மேலும் அவர் கூறியவை வருமாறு,
நானே எனது உயிர் குறித்து அஞ்சுகிறேன். எனது கட்சி ஆட்சியில் உள்ள போதிலும் எனக்கு ஆபத்து இருக்கிறது.இலங்கையில் ஒட்டுமொத்த சுதந்திரமின்மையும் அச்சமும் காணப்படுகின்றன.அடிப்படை மனித உரிமையும் ஊடக சுதந்திரமும் மீறப்பட்டுள்ளன என்றார் சந்திரிகா.

எதிர்க்கட்சித் தலைவர் நாட்டுக்கு எதிராக செயற்படுவதாக ஜனாதிபதி குற்றச்சாட்டு

2009-09-16 02:49:46

நம் நாட்டுத் தலைவர்கள் சிலர் சர் வதேசநாடுகளுக்குச் சென்று நாட்டை விற்பனை செய்யும் முயற்சியில் ஈடுபடுகின்றனர். இதில் எதிர்க்கட்சித் தலைவர் ஒருவர் இருக்கின்றார். அவர் எதிர்க்கட்சிகளுக்கு தலைமைத்துவம் வழங்குவதில்லை. மாறாக நாட்டின் எதிர்க்கட்சித் தலைவராக இருக்கின்றார். நாடாளுமன்றத்தில் மக்களுக்கு எதிராக மேற்கொள்ளப்படுகின்ற
விடயங்களை எதிர்ப்பதற்கே எதிர்க்கட்சி தலைவர் இருக்க வேண்டும். நாட்டுக்கு எதிராகச் செயற்படக்கூடாது.இவ்வாறு ஜனாதிபதி மஹிந்த ராஜ பக்ஷ தெரிவித்தார்.அலரி மாளிகையில் நேற்று செவ்வாய்க் கிழமை அம்பாந்தோட்டை மாவட்டத்தின் ஸ்ரீலங்கா சுதந்திர கட்சி செயற்பாட்டாளர் களை சந்தித்த நிகழ்விலேயே ஜனாதிபதி மேற்கண்டவாறு
குறிப்பிட்டார்.நாட்டுக்கு உதவிகள் கிடைப்பதற்கு இடமளிப்பதில்லை. உதவிகளை வழங்கவேண்டாம் என்று கூறப்படுகின்றது. நாட்டின் தொழிலாளர் வர்க்கத்தை வீதியில் இழுத்துப் ÷பாடுவதற்கும் நாட்டின்
நற்பெயருக்கு களங்கம் ஏற்படுத்தவும் முயற்சிக்கப்படுகின்றது இவ்வாறான எதிர்க்கட்சித் தலைவர் நாட்டுக்குத் தேவையில்லை. வேறு நாடுகளில் என்றால் இவ்வாறான சந்தர்ப்பங்களில் அரசியலை மறந்துவிடுவார்கள் என்றும் ஜனாதிபதி கூறினார்.

SRI LANKA: Brief Comments on Happenings – Update No. 180
Col R Hariharan
Battling Channel 4:
It appears Sri Lanka is not in a mood to allow the ‘Channel 4 execution video’ controversy to die down. An official briefing was organised for diplomats to prove the video was a doctored one with malefide intentions. The diplomatic briefing was carried in the www.defence.lk official website of the defence ministry with the ominous caption “Rebut or Regret.” While the government was said to be thinking of suing Channel 4, the TV channel also appeared to be in no mood to relent. On September 7 it screen on yet another video allegedly taken by mobile phone camera showing the appalling conditions in which the displaced Tamils are living in the temporary camps in Vanni. The video said to have been taken by a group calling itself War Without Witness is likely to further heat up the confrontation.
Moreover, this confrontation could add fuel to the continuing polemical relations between Sri Lanka and UK. The deteriorating state of relations was evident when the media reported that Dr Palitha Kohona, Foreign Secretary, was not issued a visa by the British High Commission in Colombo for reasons not known. According to the report, the British wanted the Foreign Secretary to come in person to collect the visa!
International ripples on Tissanayagam conviction
As expected the conviction of Tissanayagam has continued to cause adverse international reaction particularly in India and the western world. The pressmen in Chennai had protested against the conviction and wanted him released. Guardian and the Boston Globe have written about it; the UN has also made noises about it. Arrest and subsequent release of three journalists of the pro-JVP ‘Lanka’ on bail has further focused on the perilous state of media men. They also face possible terrorism charges.
However, no change is visible in the mood of the government and the Tissanayagam story is likely to be kept alive. And Sri Lanka appears to be in no mood to change its hostile attitude towards free press.
This has also highlighted the continued use of draconian provisions of Prevention of Terrorism Act against media men although the war is over.
Parliamentary elections (amendment) Bill:
The Supreme Court has ruled that some clauses in the Parliamentary elections (amendment) Bill would require to be passed by parliament with a two thirds majority. The opposition UNP, TNA, and the SLMC had challenged the Bill which, proposes to outlaw parties signifying religious or communal identity, in the Supreme Court. The court had held that sub section 7(5) (6) and the words that signify ‘any religion or community’ in sub section 7 (6) and 9 (3) of the Bill in their present form were inconsistent with the Constitution.
After the end of 20 years of shooting war, ethnic reconciliation process is yet to start. In this environment the proposed enactment is likely to face two problems. Increase in the feeling of insecurity of minorities, who want structural changes in the constitution not implemented so far; The provisions of new bill are likely to affect parties with large minority following than large national parties which also have an ethnic veneer under the skin. Secondly, the ruling UPFA coalition does not enjoy two thirds majority and opposition parties are unlikely to extend their support to see the bill through. So the UPFA coalition has the option of keeping it in suspended animation to pass the bill in its present form when it musters adequate support in a new house or amend the bill as directed by the Supreme Court.

Continuing stand off with UN
Sri Lanka revoked the visa of .James Elder, spokesman for UNICEF in Sri Lanka and expelled him for what the Foreign Secretary Palitha Kohona termed as spreading Tamil Tiger propaganda. UNICEF promptly denied the allegations. During the final stages of the war, Elder was accused of spreading news of exaggerated casualties among people trapped in the war zone due to Sri Lankan artillery shelling.
Ban Ki Moon, UN secretary-general strongly regretted the decision of Sri Lanka to expel Elder. According to U.N. spokesman Ban would raise the issue with Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the earliest opportunity. This is only the latest episode in the on going stand off between UN agencies in Sri Lanka and the government. It came about due to the UN agencies’ strong criticism of Sri Lanka’s handling of human rights and humanitarian issues during the last few years.
Death of Prabhakaran & Pottu Amman:
Sri Lanka has not yet issued the death certificates of Prabhakaran and Pottu Amman to India which had requested for them. The two were indicted in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case and the death certificates would enable the removal of their names from the list of absconding accused.
In this context it is significant that on September 9 the Colombo High Court has allowed the dropping of the names of Prabhakaran and Pottu Amman from the indictment in the Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar assassination case.
(Col. R Hariharan, a retired Military Intelligence specialist on South Asia, served as the head of intelligence of the Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka 1987-90.He is associated with the South Asia Analysis Group and the Chennai Centre for China Studies. Blog: www.colhariharan.org E-mail: colhari@yahoo.com )

காஸாவில் யுத்தக் குற்றங்கள் 575 பக்க ஐ.நா.அறிக்கை

உன் வீரம் வீண் போகவில்லை மகளே!

குறிப்பு: அறிக்கையைப் பெற உருவப்படத்தில் இருதடவை இடதழுத்தம் செய்க.

EXTRA >> Hamas: UN Gaza report 'convicts' Israel of war crimes
Posted : Wed, 16 Sep 2009 09:26:18 GMT
Gaza - Hamas' de-facto Prime Minister Ismail Haniya on Wednesday welcomed a United Nations report on Israel's winter 22-day offensive in the Gaza Strip, saying it convicted Israel of war crimes. "The report has presented a clear conviction against Tel Aviv for committing war crimes against civilians in the Gaza Strip," the radical Palestinian Islamic movement official said.
"Israel had used half of its weapons and practiced mass killings during 22 days of war," Haniya added.
The UN report, issued Tuesday, also criticized as a "war crime" Hamas' indiscriminate rocket fire at southern Israel, which Israel had cited as the reason its offensive.
"It is unreasonable to compare the primitive and small arms the Palestinian resistance had to defend its people and the big Israeli power of arms that was used to carry out a large-scale aggression on innocent civilians," Haniya said in a statement.
The 547-page report compiled by a UN investigative commission concluded that Israel and Palestinian militant groups likely committed war crimes and possibly crimes against humanity.
It said the Israeli military operation, launched on December 27, had been "directed at the people of Gaza as a whole" to "punish" the population and that the army failed to investigate alleged violations properly.
The report also said that Palestinian rocket fire into southern Israel, constituted "war crimes and may amount to crimes against humanity" as the militants failed to distinguish between civilians and soldiers.
"Our government facilitated the work of the committee in Gaza in order to help to get to full truth," Haniya said, adding that it was the responsibility of the UN "to follow up the crimes of occupation."
Israel, which questioned the objectivity of the mandate given to the commission, did not cooperate with the probe.

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US healthcare shame

US healthcare shame

by Serge Halimi Paris

A Republican Congress and President Bill Clinton abolished a welfare programme in 1996 under the (largely fallacious) pretext that it bred fraud, waste and abuse. Thirteen years on, the reforms that Barack Obama is proposing will not fundamentally change the United States’ abysmal healthcare system because those who profit from it have been able to buy protection from the lawmakers. The welfare programme ditched in 1996 absorbed about 1% of the US budget; today’s well-ensconced private insurance companies swallow most of the 17% of the budget set aside for healthcare.
Paradoxically, the US president is one of the most spirited prosecutors of the system he has chosen to retain. Day after day he recounts how “we are held hostage by health insurance companies that deny coverage, or drop coverage, or charge fees that people can’t afford for care they desperately need… We have a healthcare system that too often works better for the insurance industry than it does for the American people” (1).
Obama’s project initially set out with two important objectives. It proposed compulsory health cover for the 46 million Americans outside the system while funding the poorest amongst them. It also suggested the creation of a public insurance system with less prohibitive tariffs than private companies (2), which commit huge resources to finding legal loopholes (“pre-existing conditions”) allowing them not to pay out when their insured clients fall ill.
What is it that so alarms the right? Bobby Jindal, the Republican governor of Louisiana, claims that “any government plan will benefit from taxpayer subsidies and be able to operate at a financial loss, competing unfairly in the marketplace until private plans are driven out of business” (3). Other more telling tales of distress might have concerned him, particularly in Louisiana, one of the poorest US states.
American politics is so poisoned by money flowing from industrial and financial lobbies that the only proposals ensured a smooth ride through Congress are those that cut taxes. Banks, insurance companies and the pharmaceutical industry have almost nothing to fear. Max Baucus, the Democrat chairman of the Senate finance committee, whose approval is needed for reforms to be adopted, is also the lawmaker who receives the most money from private hospitals, insurance companies and doctors. However, his largest donors are hardly worried about the problems of Montana, the small rural state he represents,
since 90% of their contributions come from elsewhere in the country, in a perfectly legal and accountable way. Will anyone be surprised to hear that Baucus opposes a complete overhaul of the current medical system?
A year after the crash of neoliberalism, the (small-scale) panic that gripped the ruling classes has vanished. The political system remains locked in their favour. From time to time, a more corrupt or unlucky operator goes to jail; the mantra – morals, ethics, regulation, G20 – is chanted; then it all starts again. Questioned recently about the huge bonuses awarded to traders at BNP-Paribas, Christine Lagarde, France’s economy minister and a former Chicago business lawyer, had only this to say: “If we say no more bonuses, the best trader teams will simply move elsewhere.”
Cradled in a political system that protects them (and which they in turn protect) and profiting from the public’s widespread cynicism and all-round despair, traders and medical insurance companies can only pursue their parasitic ways. “Abuse” is not some aberration in their practice, it’s their essence. So a “reform” they could agree to will not do: what we need is their disappearance.

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(1) Town hall meeting in Montana, 14 August 2009.
(2) In 15 of the 50 states, more than half of the “market” is held by one private healthcare company. See “The Tight Grip of Health Insurers,” Business Week, 3 August 2009.
(3) Bobby Jindal, “How to Make Health-Care Reform Bipartisan”, The Wall Street Journal, 22 July 2009.

''தொப்பி பிரட்டும்'' தமிழ்த் தேசியக் கூட்டமைப்பு

TNA changes policy, plays politics of peace with President
By Satarupa Bhattacharjya
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* 2004 election manifesto, the TNA had said that it would “accept the LTTE’s leadership of the Tamil people and the LTTE as the sole and authentic representative of the Tamil people.”
* The TNA has already accepted that different situations call for different responses.
* “We are working on a proposal which will argue for adequate autonomy for the Tamil people within the framework of a united Sri Lanka,” Sampanthan . Till three months ago, the TNA used to endorse the LTTE’s idea of an interim self -governing authority.
* A diplomatic source in the Indian high commission in Colombo said that New Delhi would be willing to take the TNA more seriously than it presently does “only if the alliance brings clarity to its political vision.”
* TNA is forced to engage with the Rajapaksa government. This is probably the only option that the alliance has if it wants to stay in active politics.
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The coffee was warm, the hoppers fresh. At the end of three hours, very few picked up what was on offer. Seven members of Parliament of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) had walked into temple trees on September 7 with sheaves of papers in their hands and thoughts of uneasy reconciliations. The TNA’s embryonic past with the LTTE and its political future with the Mahinda Rajapaksa administration were playing on their minds.
“The main objective of our meeting with the President was to urge the government to send the internally displaced persons (IDPs) of the north back to their homes from camps in Vavuniya before the onset of the monsoon,” Suresh Kandaiah Premachandran of the Eelam People’s Revolutionary Liberation Front (EPRLF), told the Sunday Times.
The TNA delegation meeting the President Premachandran who had attended the meeting as a TNA delegate was referring to the north-east monsoon which is likely to hit the country in about two weeks. The TNA is concerned about the well being of the 280,000 IDPs housed in the Menik Farm camps in Vavuniya as the monsoon would affect the northern and eastern districts. “How will people in the camps cope with the flooding of those areas? How will
they get clean drinking water?” the EPRLF parliamentarian from the Jaffna district said he had asked government representatives present at the meeting.
It was the first official meeting between the two sides since the military defeat of the Tamil Tigers in May. TNA leaders said that they had informal exchanges with President Rajapaksa at a conference of all major political parties on July 2 when they had made a formal request for a meeting with him. A source in the President’s media unit said that the TNA had been invited for talks with the government on seven earlier occasions but had turned down the requests. Two ministers and a group of important officials had accompanied President Rajapaksa to the meeting. The President’s brother and political advisor Basil Rajapaksa who is chairperson of the government task force on rehabilitation and resettlement of the IDPs was also present. The TNA’s demand of resettling the war displaced people in their original homes
within the next two weeks was rejected by the Presidential side, Premachandran said.
President Rajapaksa and his colleagues told the TNA delegation, the “practical difficulties,” in addressing its demand. “On this particular matter the talks were not fruitful,” Premachandran said. Basil Rajapaksa, according to Nallathamby Srikantha, mentioned that there needed to be a “pragmatic approach” to the issue of resettling the IDPs. “It is unlikely that the government will be able to complete resettlement of the IDPs in the next four months,” Srikantha told the Sunday Times. He is another TNA parliamentarian from Jaffna who was present at the meeting.
Srikantha added that government representatives present at the meeting insisted that between 60 and 80 per cent of the war displaced would be sent to their homes by year-end or early next year. Almost the entire population of the Wanni region had been displaced in the long bloody war that ended in May this year. Close to 300,000 people had started living inside temporary shelters in Menik Farm in Vavuniya.
At the end of May, the government had promised to relocate the displaced back to their homes within six months. Only a few thousands have so far been moved out.
The Rajapaksa regime has maintained that people could not be hurried back to their homes from camps because the northern districts are densely sown with anti-personnel claymore mines and other explosive devices that had been buried by the Tamil rebels. The TNA MPs were given a lengthy and detailed presentation on current demining activities being undertaken by 600 personnel of the Sri Lankan Army assisted by a handful of Indian and other demining NGOs. The presentation on demining is said to have taken up most of the time in the 180-minutes-long meeting.
According to the 77-year-old leader of the TNA parliamentary group, Rajavarothiam Sampanthan, the alliance presented the government with a list of areas in the north where demining would either not be needed or be necessary only minimally. “While discussing the modalities of demining, we gave them names of places where mines might not be located,” Sampanthan told the Sunday Times. The veteran Trincomalee politician said that the TNA wanted the government to settle people in their homes in such areas soon.
TNA leaders, however, continue to raise questions over the government’s mine action project. Premachandran for instance asked: “Why is demining progressing slowly in Mullaitivu or Kilinochchi?” “Why are only parts of Mannar and Vavuniya being taken up for demining?”
The Rajapaksa regime appears keen on handling security concerns first. In a statement released after the meeting, the President’s office said that President Rajapaksa had informed the TNA representatives that the demining process would be “expedited” and that “emphasis had been given in government policy on the need to ensure security and welfare of the people.” The Tamil parties have sought more transparency in the government’s process of screening the displaced persons. “We asked the government for names and personal details of all the people who have been taken and kept in detention centres.”
Sampanthan said. Although estimates from people within the government’s legal affairs establishment suggest that there could be more than 20,000 people detained on grounds of suspicion across different safe houses in the island, the police are yet to formalise a comprehensive list. “The government cannot lose sight of the humanitarian problem in the camps for IDPs,” Srikantha said.
“Many of the detainees are not LTTE operatives. They are non-combatant Tamil civilians who are finding it difficult to go through the screening process,” Sampanthan added.. The TNA MPs say that their electorates often tell them of “mysterious disappearances” of young men and women from the camps.
It has been over three months since LTTE leader Prabhakaran died. The island nation’s new political reality has changed the game for the TNA, forever. In its 2004 election manifesto, the TNA had said that it would “accept the LTTE’s leadership of the Tamil people and the LTTE as the sole and authentic representative of the Tamil people.”
The TNA has already accepted that different situations call for different responses. “We are working on a proposal which will argue for adequate autonomy for the Tamil people within the framework of a united Sri Lanka,” Sampanthan told the Sunday Times. Till three months ago, the TNA used to endorse the LTTE’s idea of an interim self -governing authority. A diplomatic source in the Indian high commission in Colombo said that New Delhi would be willing to take the TNA more seriously than it presently does “only if the alliance brings clarity to its political vision.”
Today, the TNA is forced to engage with the Rajapaksa government. This is probably the only option that the alliance has if it wants to stay in active politics.
The dialogue table is possibly the only place where it can bargain for a better life of the battered Tamil population. It is hoped that thousands who have become destitutes in their own country will benefit from the politics of peace.

ஆக ஈழச்சிறைமுகாம் நடப்பது ஐ.நா.நிதியில்

காலவரையறை இன்றி முகாம் பராமரிப்புக்கு தொடர்ந்து நிதி உதவி அளிக்க முடியாது: ஐ.நா.
புதினம் [வெள்ளிக்கிழமை, 11 செப்ரெம்பர் 2009, 09:29 பி.ப ஈழம்] [பி.தெய்வேந்திரன்]
சுமார் 3 லட்சம் தமிழ் மக்களை சிறிலங்கா அரசு அடைத்து வைத்துள்ள தடுப்பு முகாம்களுக்கு காலவரையறையற்று தொடர்ந்தும் நிதி வழங்கிக்கொண்டிருக்க முடியாது என ஐக்கிய நாடுகள் சபை தெரிவித்துள்ளது.
முகாம்களில் உள்ள பொதுமக்கள் எவ்வளவு முடியுமோ அவ்வளவு விரைவாக விடுவிக்கப்பட வேண்டும் என்றும் ஐ.நா. கூறுகின்றது.
ஆனால், பொதுமக்களுடன் தங்கியுள்ள விடுதலைப் புலிகளைக் கண்டறிந்து வேறாக்கிய பின்னரே அவர்களை வெளியில் விட முடியும் என்று அரசு தொடர்ந்து கூறிவருகின்றது.
இந்நிலையில் முகாம்களின் செயற்பாடுகளுக்கு நிதி உட்பட உதவிகளை வழங்கிவரும் ஐ.நா.வின் பொறுமை எல்லை கடப்பதாக பிபிசி தெரிவித்துள்ளது.
"உண்மையிலேயே இதற்கு சிறந்த தீர்வு பெரும்பாலான மக்களை முடிந்த வரையில் விரைவாக வெளியே விடுவதுதான்" என்று தெரிவித்தார் ஐ.நா.வின் சிறிலங்காவுக்கான நிரந்தர ஒருங்கிணைப்பாளர் நீல் புனே. செல்வதற்கு இருப்பிடம் இல்லாத மக்கள் வசதியான வேறு இடங்களுக்கு மாற்றப்படலாம் எனவும் அவர் கூறினார்.
விடுதலைப் புலிச் சந்தேக நபர்கள் எனக் கூறி அரசு தடுத்து வைத்துள்ள சுமார் 10 ஆயிரம் பேரை அனைத்துலக செஞ்சிலுவைச் சங்கம் சென்று பார்வையிடுவதற்கு சிறிலங்கா அரசு அனுமதி மறுத்திருப்பதையும் புனே கடுமையாக விமர்சனம் செய்தார்.
இடம்பெயர்ந்தவர்களில் எத்தனை பேருக்கு எதிராக சட்ட நடவடிக்கைகள் மேற்கொள்வது என்பதைத் தீர்மானிப்பதற்கு ஆறு மாதங்கள் முதல் ஒரு வருட காலம் செல்லும் என அண்மையில் அரச தலைவர் மகிந்த ராஜபக்ச தெரிவித்திருந்தார்.
இதற்கிடையே, சிறிலங்காப் படையினரால் கைது செய்யப்பட்ட ஐக்கிய நாடுகள் சபையின் அலுவலர்கள் இருவரின் நிலை பற்றி ஐ.நா. தலைமையகம் ஆழ்ந்த கவனம் செலுத்தி வருவதாக நியூயோர்க்கில் உள்ள ஐ.நா. பேச்சாளர் தெரிவித்தார். அந்த இரு அலுவலர்களும் கடந்த ஜூன் மாதம் முகாம்களுக்கு அருகில் வைத்து கைது செய்யப்பட்டனர். தொடர்ந்தும் அவர்கள் தடுத்து வைக்கப்பட்டுள்ளனர்.
அரச அதிகாரிகளினால் அவர்கள் மோசமாக நடத்தபடுகிறார்கள் என்ற குற்றச்சாட்டுக்கள் வந்துள்ளன எனவும் ஐ.நா. பேச்சாளர் கூறினார். அவர்கள் மீதான குற்றச்சாட்டுக்கள் என்னவென தெரிவிக்கவில்லையாயின் தமது பணியாளர்களை சிறிலங்கா அரசு விடுவிக்க வேண்டும் எனவும் அவர் கேட்டுக்கொண்டார்.