A Musilm businessman yesterday filed an intervening petition challenging the fundamental rights violation application filed by Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) against the eviction of Tamil civilians from Colombo.
Citing CPA and its executive director Dr. Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu as respondents, the petitioner Dr. Mohammed Suleiman Zurfick claimed that the Inspector General of Police’s direction to send back the Tamil civilians who are in Colombo lodges without a valid reason was a security measure to protect the metropolitan from LTTE attack. He stated that this sending back of lodgers was interpreted by the western media as ethnic cleansing in Sri Lanka.
Mr. Zurfic stated that the majority in Colombo are Tamil and Muslim nationals and the minority is Sinhalese. On the orders of IGP the lodgers who were sent from Colombo on June 7 was around 300 to 400 and this was a very small number compared to the large number of Tamils living in Colombo. Colombo city has been under attack by the LTTE for so many times and there is a threat to the lives of the public in the city. The courts order against removing of lodgers from Colombo is against the combating of terrorist by the army.
The petitioner asked court to grant him permission to intervene as a party in the fundamental rights petition filed by CPA.
(http://www.dailymirror.lk/2007/06/22/news/07.asp)
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