JVP BLASTS DUAL POSITION OF GOVERNMENTINGENEVA

The JVP yesterday asserted that they did not approve of the international community meddling in the internal affairs of Sri Lanka in the least. Addressing a press conference, JVP leader Somawansa Amarasinghe said that the government had not been able to solve any economic or political problems affecting the people. He said that despite the government’s claims about its achievement in development the ordinary citizen was yet to feel the fruits of development.

His statement reads-: “There seem to be contradictions as reported in the newspapers in the speech delivered by Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe at the UNHRC sessions in Geneva and the statements made by the government. According to the minister the government had intimated to the Attorney General about the government’s recommendations on violations of International Humanitarian Law and relevant allegations contained in the report of the commission which is now being studied by the AG. He also told the sessions that a military court had already commenced investigations into certain incidents. From this statement it was becoming clear about the double standards of the government in relation to what they say to the people of the country and what is revealed outside.

The government’s inability to establish democracy for the people in the North and release the lands acquired during the war period to their rightful owners has made opportunities for imperialists to meddle in the internal problems of the country.