Arrest TNA MPs - Weerawansa

National Freedom Front Leader Wimal Weerawansa MP, yesterday requested the Government to arrest Parliamentarians Mano Ganeshan, R. Sambandan and TNA MPs who had supported the cause of Eelam when they addressed the last Mahaveer Day celebrations of the LTTE held in the Vanni.

He also requested the Defence Ministry to closely monitor the activities of the Red Cross alleging that this organisation was trying to throw a life line to the LTTE leadership cornered by the Security Forces and breathing their last.

Weerawansa made this request addressing a press conference held at the party headquarters in Battaramulla yesterday.

Weerawansa said when India and other countries had implemented their laws and sent people who supported LTTE terrorists cause to jail there is no reason why Sri Lanka should not act against their own politician who supported terrorism and separatism.

True peace cannot be ushered by merely defeating Prabhakaran and the LTTE unless those who supported separatism were also defeated. Weerawansa said the large number of vehicles and other assets of the Red Cross found in the Vanni led to suspicions about the genuiness of its activities in the Vanni.

He said the LTTE had today come to the end of its tether due to the correct decision taken by the people in 2005.

He said the US Ambassador who requested for a further extension of the humanitarian pause in the battlefront had withdrawn his request after seeing the recent exodus of nearly 100,000 civilians from the clutches of LTTE in the safe zone.

He said people should now rally round to help the innocent civilians who had escaped from LTTE tyranny in large numbers.