Full text of the statement released by the Canadian Democratic League.
(September 28, Toronto, Sri Lanka Guardian) The Canadian Democratic League strongly denounces and censures the observation made by the Major General Sarath Fonseka, entrusted with the task of liberating regions held by the LTTE that Sri Lanka is the land of the majority Sinhala people only.
While this is an extremely outlandish and racially insensitive statement, an officer serving a government has no right to express such a view even if that be true; and it is not true at all.
Such a statement amounts to nothing but mischief especially at a time when large numbers of the civilian population mostly all of them Tamils living in areas under the control of the LTTE.
It was only the other day President Mahinda Rajapaksa addressing the Annual General Assembly Sessions of the United Nations acknowledged the legitimacy of the Tamils in Sri Lanka and even spoke in both Sinhala and Tamil languages.
Major General Sarath Fonseka’s statement has challenged the credibility of President Rajapaksa’s government; in fact he has insulted the government and the people especially the Tamil speaking Minority Communities.
He has exposed the government to a situation where it must not only apologize to the Minority communities and assure that no such offense is committed by any army personnel but Major General Sarath Fonseka must be relieved of his command immediately.
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