Public should be vigilant of pro-LTTE elements - Minister

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Public should be vigilant of pro-LTTE elements - Minister
Nadira GUNATILLEKE
The Sri Lankan public should continue to be vigilant because the same elements which tried their best to save the LTTE and destroy Sri Lanka are still active and working towards achieving their evil targets, National Freedom Front (NFF) Leader Minister Wimal Weerawansa said.
Minister Weerawansa
He was addressing a press briefing at the NFF Head Office, Battaramulla yesterday.
Minister Weerawansa said that the very same local and foreign elements which tried their best to save the LTTE, promote separatism in Sri Lanka and prevent the country from achieving peace and economic development are still active, exist under different faces and are working to achieve their goals.
Accordingly both UK and US worry about the 18th Amendment passed by the Sri Lankan Parliament with a two thirds majority. The 18th amendment closed all loopholes which weakened the State. Those are the same elements which supported the LTTE in every way during the humanitarian operation.
The Golden opportunity received by Sri Lanka to end terrorism and achieve economic development will be in vain if the Sri Lankan public let those foreign elements raise their heads and interfere with the country’s sovereignty. The JVP and the UNP are now preaching the ideas of those elements and try their best to mislead the Sri Lankan public. Recently some members of a foreign spy team which planned to meet at Viharamahadevi Park were caught by the Sri Lankan authorities. This type of news should be given wide publicity to enlighten the Sri Lankan public on foreign threats.
The UK gave independence to Sri Lanka in 1948 not because they wanted to do so. The UK was forced to free Sri Lanka. The British Parliament still thinks that Sri Lanka is a British colony and interferes with Sri Lanka’s internal affairs. The evil elements are now trying to prevent Sri Lanka from achieving economic development and becoming an economically independent State. Those elements are using everything available to them to achieve their target.
Colombo city should come under an authority to develop it to international standards and to stop poor people and poverty getting exploited by politicians. Otherwise the poverty and the anti social activities now dominating the Colombo city will remain and poor people will suffer in poverty.
The Municipal Council administrated the Colombo city for five decades and all can see what is left in Colombo after fifty years.
There are shanties, poverty and anti social activities. Colombo is free from deadly bombs after 30 years and there are no more garbage mountains because Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa intervened. But there should be a proper mechanism to continue this.