The Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) yesterday announced that the LTTE request to base the P-TOMS Regional Secretariat in Trincomalee was turned down by President Chandrika Kumaratunga and that it was the President who insisted that the Secretariat should be based in Kilinochchi.
This information had been provided by the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) to the SLMC.
The SLMC maintains that the Deputy Head of Mission of Norway Oddvir Lagereid had also confirmed this position.
The statement says that the proposal to include a Muslim member in the high level committee came from the LTTE and never by the government.
The government’s initial plan was to have only a Sinhalese and a Tamil on the committee. The SLMC observes that it is shocked by these revelations and that it holds the President and also the Muslim parliamentarians for this betrayal of the Muslim community.
The party also attributes the continuous refusal by the President to show the draft of the P-TOMS to the Muslim parliamentarians because of her plans to discriminate the Muslims.
The Supreme Court in its interim order issued recently recommended that the Secretariat of the Regional Committee of the P-TOMS should be shifted from Kilinochchi to a more central location.
(http://www.dailymirror.lk/2005/07/27/news/6.asp)
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