http://www.dailynews.lk/2012/04/04/news11.asp

Reconciliation on track - Minister Anura Yapa

The reconciliation programme is implemented by the government. Many problems
they raised were issues that have been changed. This situation prevailed even
during the UNP regime, Environment Minister Anura Priyadarshana Yapa told
Parliament yesterday in course of the two day debate on the issues stemming from
the US- sponsored anti- Lanka vote in Geneva.
The minister said: One is the Tamil Language. The Tamil Language is a
national language. There is a Chief Minister in the East. That is power
devolution.
The LTTE is not an innocent organization. The LTTE killed their own great
leader Neelam Thivuchelvam. They violated their right to expression and human
rights. LTTE killed Rajiv Ghandi.
However the UNP has no back bone even today to say that the LTTE is a
terrorist organization.
There is no organization that violated the rights of Tamil people other than
LTTE. You are talking today against great Tamil politicians like Ponnambalam
Arunachalam and Ponnambalam Ramanathan.
If the government does not put a fullstop to the problems of the Tamil
people, their problems would become more grave in the future.
You only talk of the few days of the last stage of the war. You don't
consider the entire career of LTTE.
Our government has developed the North and East in many ways. Roads, were
developed.
LTTE cardres rehabilitated, resettled and united with families.
The TNA and UNP never speak a word about them. The LTTE never established to
bring liberation to Tamils.
Heaven can be created within the country. No outsider has a genuine need to
create a heaven for us.