‘Europe, UN want division among SL communities’

“European countries and the United Nations want to see division among the Sinhala, Muslim and Tamil communities who have been coexisting for centuries in Sri Lanka,” said Resettlement Deputy Minister Vinayagamurthi Muralitharan.

He was speaking at the foundation stone laying ceremony of a building at Murukkan Hindu College in the Kilinochchi district.

Hambantota district parliamentarian and Tharunyata Hetak Organization chairman Namal Rajapaksa MP was the chief guest.

The deputy minister noted that the Tamil Diaspora has not spent a single cent for Northern province development which had been battered by the war.

He said the government is committed to taking every effort to ensure that people in the North will never face misery and agony as they faced during the last three decades. The deputy minister recollected how he was involved in politics while he was schooling. Muralitharan added that he participated in political rallies and listened to politicians’ speeches.

“They were our heroes and we took arms on their orders,” he added.

Deputy minister Muralitharan said that he was among the youth who became combatants, fighting the government, while the children of such politicians were studying overseas. He noted that these politicians became puppets when the youth combatants including him, understood the reality.

Muralitharan added that the entire Eastern province is being developed and more development projects are to be implemented in the Northern province. The government has allocated over Rs 38 billion for the development activities in the Northern province. Resettlement Minister Gunarathna Weerakoon and Engineering Services, Housing and Common Amenities Minister Wimal Weerawanasa were present.