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Efforts of groups under rump LTTE bound to fail

The groups working under the aegis of the rump LTTE is plotting again at the UN Human Rights Council sessions to destabilise Sri Lanka but their efforts will not succeed as it had failed during more difficult times earlier, said Plantations Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe who led the Sri Lankan delegation to Geneva. Notorious local NGOs pump money Three notorious local NGOs had pumped money to the tune of Rs. 600 million from 2008 - 2010 to work against the country and the Government. Their terms of conditions to become beneficiaries included working towards a regime change, authoritative sources said. The funding had been channelled from overseas sources. Moreover, the same NGOs had received a staggering Rs. 400 million from unaccounted sources during this period. The sources said that their main objective is to discredit the government and paint a distorted picture of the situation in Sri Lanka.
Notorious local NGOs pump money
Three notorious local NGOs had pumped money to the tune of Rs. 600 million from 2008 - 2010 to work against the country and the Government. Their terms of conditions to become beneficiaries included working towards a regime change, authoritative sources said. The funding had been channelled from overseas sources. Moreover, the same NGOs had received a staggering Rs. 400 million from unaccounted sources during this period. The sources said that their main objective is to discredit the government and paint a distorted picture of the situation in Sri Lanka.
Minister Samarasinghe who returned to the country last week after attending the inaugural sessions said, "There are the usual negative constituencies which represent the NGOs.
They continue to harp on war crimes charges and strive to paint a distorted human rights picture of Sri Lanka." There is much progress that could be put on record. No one could, in that kind of background question the commitment of the Government in forging greater unity among the different ethnicities."
He said their efforts are bound to fail as the international community has been made aware of Sri Lanka's progress since the defeat of the LTTE and the end of terrorism in May 2009.
"I cannot see the disinformation campaign against Sri Lanka ever succeeding. If they could not achieve it during the height of the war against terrorism, how could they do it when all these development activities are taking place," the Minister said.
He said that the international movement of the LTTE has not given up their separatist ideology and their vigourous disinformation campaign targets the UNHRC session each year. "Their target is to destabilise the country." "Those things will not disappear any time soon. We have to intervene at the right time and put the record straight," the Minister said.
The UNHRC sessions that hear representations from government members and non state players such as international NGOs will continue till March 25.
Courtesy : Sunday observer