EU pressuring Sri Lanka to relent on campaign against LTTE
Sri Lanka’s ongoing military campaign against the LTTE faces stronger objections from the European Union (EU), rather than India, though both are being heavily lobbied by elements sympathetic to the Tamil Tiger rebels, says a top official in the Sri Lankan foreign ministry.
“India is too big a power to yield to pressures from a small terrorist group, but the European Union is seeing the Tamils as underdogs persecuted by the Sinhalese majority. There are statements from EU governments and groups calling for talks and an end to the military operations,” the official told this website’s newspaper on condition of anonymity.
“The EU is overlooking the fact that a majority of the Tamils in the island (54 percent) are living in south Sri Lanka, in perfect harmony with the Sinhalese, instead of fleeing to their so-called homeland in the north and east,” he said here on Saturday.
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“India is too big a power to yield to pressures from a small terrorist group, but the European Union is seeing the Tamils as underdogs persecuted by the Sinhalese majority. There are statements from EU governments and groups calling for talks and an end to the military operations,” the official told this website’s newspaper on condition of anonymity.
“The EU is overlooking the fact that a majority of the Tamils in the island (54 percent) are living in south Sri Lanka, in perfect harmony with the Sinhalese, instead of fleeing to their so-called homeland in the north and east,” he said here on Saturday.
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