NFF condemns British support to pro-LTTE movement

Suraj A. Bandara

The National Freedom Front (NFF) yesterday vehemently condemned the British Government's support to a pro-LTTE separatist movement active in western countries working to divide the country.

Under the theme 'What is the provision for a separate country within Sri Lanka', British Foreign Minister David Miliband had delivered a lecture as a special invitee to the conference.

What has David Miliband done to the country by participating this conference? Nothing but irreparable damage to the country's sovereignty and territorial integrity, a NFF media release stated.

It is evident that the Sri Lankan Government's effort to vanquish the three decade LTTE terrorism and set up a unitary State has been undermined and a conspiracy is under way by western imperialism to push the country towards LTTE terrorism again, the release stated.

The release added: "After being freed from colonial slavery, many attempts have been made by western imperialists to bring back the country under their yoke. The main strategy they revised to carry out this sinister plan was to put the country under slavery and create antagonism among the communities and push the country towards separatism. "But by now, we as a nation have come forward and defeated these separatist agendas and annihilated the hired guns of the LTTE forever. It is worthy to note that they are now incensed with the initiative of the government to ignore their voice and destroyed all their agents.

They are now struggling to resurrect the dying LTTE movement and to take its mission forward in the guise of democracy, good governance and human rights. It is clear that those forces were active in the last Presidential election. But the patriotic forces prevented all these efforts in the teeth of many pressure.

The time has again come for the patriotic and intelligent people to defeat attempts being undertaken to fulfill the dream of the separatists with British Foreign Minister taking steps to revive the separatist dream."