Tamil Sydney - Sri Lanka Crisis under war savvy Mahinda - Intervention by foreign Governments is urgently needed

Sri Lanka Crisis under war savvy Mahinda - Intervention by foreign Governments is urgently needed

Excerpts from the communiqué:

Intervention by foreign Governments is urgently needed to find a solution to the ethnic crisis, since a permanent justifiable solution cannot be excepted from a government controlled by Sinhala majority. The American Government should exert pressure upon the Government of Sri Lanka (GOSL) to take necessary action to enable power sharing with Tamils and Muslims for them live under a Federal structure in the traditional home land of Tamils in the merged North and East. The minorities must be made to feel that they are citizens having equal rights and should be given the right of self-determination.

Ambassador Boucher receives a petition from Ms Ranganathan Visaladchy Ammai, whose son Ranjan disappeared in February this year.

Today you have met a number of delegations and learnt of the human rights violations, travel and economic hardships, shortage of food, threats made to the media and other difficulties faced by Jaffna residents. However, we wish to state something quite different.

The main reason for the failure to implement the decisions and resolutions reached during the series of peace talks held within the past five years was due the inability of the Co-Chairs denied of executive powers to take any constructive action,” the communiqué concluded.

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