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Women's Alliance for Peace and democracy commends ceasefire agreement

The Womens Alliance for Peace and Democracy has commended Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran for entering a historic Ceasefire Agreement and called upon President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga to desist from trying to use her executive powers to sabotage it for the sake of the womenfolk in this country.

The Alliance in a press release issued under the hand of its convenor Ms. Nimalka Fernando states that the Ceasefire Agreement which starts the peace process for ending the ethnic war which had created nearly 50,000 to 60,000 widows is a great sense of relief to the womenfolk in particular. Mothers in this country had always lived in fear and uncertainty thanking they would hear some news of a catastrophe any moment.

Widows as well as Tamil and Muslim women living in refugee camps are in total poverty. Their only solace is the relief items doled out to them.

The ceasefire has also brought relief to Sinhala families displaced by war. The majority of people who have fallen destitute owing to the war are farmers who indulged in subsistence agriculture.

While calling upon the two parties to continue adhering to the Cease fire Agreement without any flaw the alliance wished to emphasise the importance of rallying the support of women towards the peace process.

The alliance has also called upon the country's woman President to desist from using her executive powers to sabotage the ceasefire agreement by misleading youth and political activities. Requesting the President to utilise her motherly instincts and feminine values to propagate the political values of co-existence the alliance has reiterated that any failure on the part of her to shelve political expediency and act for the common benefit of the Nation would be most unacceptable to the women generation in this country.

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