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True Story of LTTE Conflict Not Highlighted Properly:
LankaTue, Mar 6, 2012, 12:59 am SL Time,
ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.
Mar 05 (OL) Claiming that the population of Sinhalese and Muslims in the
Tamil-dominated Northern Province has dwindled due to LTTE's terror tactics, Sri
Lanka today faulted the international community for not highlighting the "true
story" of the 30-year-old conflict.
Patali Champika Ranawaka, the minister of power and energy and a senior
member of the Sinhala majority nationalist heritage party, JHU (Jathika Hela
Urumaya) said LTTE's terror tactics in their separatist campaign had caused the
reduction of the Sinhala and Muslim communities in the north.
"There are only 884 Sinhalese in Jaffna and Kilinochchi from over 20,000 in
1981. The Muslim population has dropped to over 2600 from over 10300."
He said that the census had shown that it was the majority Sinhalese who had
suffered most by the LTTE's 30 year campaign for a separatist Tamil homeland.
"This is the true story of the so called ethnic conflict," Ranawaka stressed.
Ranawaka faulted the international community for not highlighting the plight
of the Sinhalese and Muslims affected by the conflict.
He also claimed that a total of 7934 people died during the last phase of the
war with LTTE and not "tens of thousands" as reported by a UN panel which probed
the allegations of war crimes by Lankan forces.
The census has shown that the total of 7934 deaths were recorded while the
last battle with the LTTE was on, he said.
"This figure includes the number of suicides, those who died due to
accidents, those killed by the LTTE and members of the LTTE," Ranawaka said.
"This has exposed the web of lies against Sri Lanka that tens of thousands of
people were killed during the war", he said, adding that UN secretary general's
special panel report on Sri Lanka had wrongly accused the country of excessive
number of civilian deaths during the last stages of the conflict.
The panel report released in April last year called for investigation into
alleged 40,000 deaths during the final phase of the war.
Late last month the department of census and statistics issued the release of
a census conducted in the former battle zone district in the north and east.