LTTE total defeat imminent - Muralitharan

Rohan Mathes

Parliamentarian Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan asserted that the fascist and autocratic attitude and rule of Velupillai Prabhakaran, was pushing the LTTE to its 'Waterloo' soon.

Addressing the ceremony organised by the Land Reforms Commission (LRC) in collaboration with the Presidential Secretariat, to hand over the 'Ranbima Deeds' to its beneficiaries at Temple Trees yesterday, Muralitharan categorically stated that the total defeat the LTTE and its leadership, was now imminent and irreversible.

The renegade LTTE Eastern Commander who has denounced LTTE violence and now entered the democratic process as a Government Parliamentarian, claimed that albeit Prabhakaran on numerous occasions had the opportunity of talking peace and negotiating with the Government to reach a political solution to the ethnic crisis, he had absconded and rejected all successive proposals offered to him.

"I deserted the LTTE and its leader Prabhakaran, because he could not to be persuaded to agree to a federal or a confederal form of Government, in an era where all global trends indicated that seeking a 'separate state', was almost impossible, if not remote.

So when Prabhakaran accused me of being a traitor to the Tamil cause, I rightfully defended myself by making him aware of the unwarranted sufferings the Tamil community underwent. And I vouched with strong resolve to put an end to this", Muralitharan claimed.

Muralitharan assured that only the astute leadership of President Mahinda Rajapaksa, would unify the country and bring all the communities together under one banner. Presiding at the ceremony Prime Minister Rathnsiri Wickramanayaka said that the time had emerged for the Government to use all means at its disposal, to put an end to the grabbing of land in all its manifestations.

He said that as clearly depicted by our history, our civilisation did not permit anybody to own fragmented land in the past.

Land was shared on a collective basis instead. Nevertheless, with the invasion of our country by alien forces, a new system of 'Deeds' came into existence. This system helped them in their administration. However, he pointed out that the process had led to a massive 'Land Grab' amounting to over thousands of hectares of land by several forces, on the basis of the 'Fallow Land' policy and in other mysterious ways.