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Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
Courtesy: The Island
TULF leader V Anandasangaree said the TNA leaders cannot claim credit for the votes received in the North and East by opposition candidate Sarath Fonseka.
The veteran Tamil politician said the people in those areas had expressed their protest against armed paramilitary groups by voting against the ruling party candidate.
He pointed out that President Mahinda Rajapaksa might have received a higher number of votes if the government had acted to disarm the paramilitary groups in the North and East, too, with the elimination of the LTTE in May last year. (more…)
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Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
Courtesy: Daily Mirror
“It is utterly foolish to think that these problems of the minorities can be solved merely by developing the areas”. - Anandasangaree
Leader of the Tamil United Liberation Front speaks to Hard Talk about the aspirations of the Tamil people towards a political solution, the duplicity within the Tamil political scenario and the futility of announcing a Provincial Transnational Government (PTG) of Tamil Eelam by the Tamil Diaspora. (more…)
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Monday, June 1st, 2009
Courtesy: BBC
(Photo: Huge numbers of civilians fled from the final battles)
A senior Sri Lankan Tamil political leader has urged the government to resettle civilians back to their homes as early as possible.
V Anandasangaree described conditions in camps for civilians displaced by the country’s war as “horrible”.
The head of the Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) said hundreds of thousands faced misery and hardship. (more…)
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Sunday, February 1st, 2009
Courtesy: Sunday Leader
Interview with Veerasingham Anandasangaree
Former parliamentarian and TULF President Veerasingham Anandasangaree claims that government troops are poised for the final victory after which a new breed of Tamil politicians should be allowed to emerge in the north.
The veteran politician who counts over half a century in active politics condemns the LTTE for committing innocent youth into a bloody war and for other LTTE proxies for maintaining a deafening silence at a time when the civilian population needs all possible support to reach government controlled areas for their safety.
Anandasangaree also noted that post war, the government should offer an amnesty to LTTE cadres willing to surrender.
He also called for the capture of Velupillai Pirapaharan and for him to be first tried in Sri Lanka for crimes against humanity and next be handed over to India in connection with the Rajiv Gandhi murder. He called for an urgent political solution in the wake of military victories to prevent the breeding of terrorism once again. Excerpts:
By Dilrukshi Handunnetti
Q: In your view, has the government vanquished the LTTE or will the LTTE still thrive, given that it does give expression to deeply rooted political aspirations of a community, though through violent means?
A: I never accepted the LTTE as the sole representative of the Tamil people. I never will. (more…)
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Sunday, January 25th, 2009
Interview with LAKBIMA NEWS
Former parliamentarian and leader of the Tamil United Liberation Front V. Anandasangaree in an interview with LAKBIMAnEWS staffer Thava Sajitharan, says he may not contest the northern provincial council polls as he is “thoroughly disgusted with the manner in which the Jaffna people are treated by the government”. Excerpts:
The Sri Lankan military has achieved formidable victories in the battlefields of the north. How do you see the present situation in terms of the political future of the minority communities in general and Tamils in perticular?
I am happy that the army has liberated Kilinochchi and other areas. I hope they will very soon liberate the entire country from the LTTE. But merely liberating the country from the LTTE will not solve the problem that we have been having for the last fifty years. Militants fighting against the government with weapons are a subsequent development.
But we had a problem initially. Various solutions had been suggested. So, while saving the country from a group of terrorists who were not fair by our people - at the earlier stages they were alright, but subsequently they became atrocious - the government or anybody else should not think that the problem is now solved and we can go ahead.
No one can go ahead without finding a political solution to the problem. It will only give room for guerrilla warfare. That will be worse than this. When we are all sleeping, one fine day we might see the Colombo city burning. We can’t wait till something happens. What we should do is to discover out the problem and solve it.
So you do share the fear that the LTTE will resort to guerrilla warfare in the future and that it will be worse? (more…)
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Sunday, January 18th, 2009
Courtesy: The Nation
Meet The Nation - Interview
Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) President and Secretary General of the newly established Democratic Tamil National Alliance (DTNA) V. Anandasangaree is an advocate of the Indian model as a panacea for the Sri Lankan ethnic conflict. He says since the people of Sri Lanka are allergic to the term ‘federal’, the Indian model could be the ideal one to find an ultimate solution. Anangasangaree met the visiting Indian foreign secretary Shiv Shankar Menon on Friday and told him that India should mount pressure on the Sri Lankan Government to find a proper political package acceptable to the Tamils soon. He told The Nation in an interview that crushing the LTTE is not the only answer to the ethnic question and that the government must now seriously consider evolving a political package. Anandasangaree is the winner of 2006 UNESCO Madanjeet Singh award for the promotion of tolerance and non violence. He has been in active politics in the country for the past fifty years. He started his political career by contesting against V.A. Sugathadasa at the CMC election in 1959. Prior to this, he was attached to the LSSP. He now leads the new DTNA – an alliance formed by Peoples Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam (PLOTE) led by D. Sidharthan and the Eelam Peoples Revolutionary Liberation Front (EPRLF) led by Varadaraja Perumal.
Following are excerpts
Q: How do you view the on-going military conflict?
A: We can’t blame the government. The suffering of the people was so much that the people themselves wanted a break at any cost. So I myself have made several requests from the government to help the people living in the LTTE areas. I appealed to the UN secretary general too, telling him that people of Kilinochchi are willing to receive a friendly army. So people are happy that they are liberated. Of course there has been harassment by the government forces earlier in Chemmani and in some other places. But compared to the good old days, it is nothing now. Take the casualties for instance. I saw a statement from TNA leader Sampanthan saying that at the height of the war, only eight had died within two weeks. Even if we take the entire casualty figure it may be around 200. I am not justifying even this figure, but people must be liberated. So in that respect, I support the present war against the LTTE. (more…)
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Sunday, January 11th, 2009
Courtesy: Sunday Observer
by Ananth PALAKIDNAR
Tamil United Liberation Front leader Veerasingam Anandasangaree represented Kilinochchi for more than a decade in Parliament since 1970. It was during his period in 1977 Kilinochchi was established as a separate district. He described that LTTE’s `jungle law’ prevailed since 1995 in Kilinochchi with its police and courts until the region was liberated by the Security Forces with the dawn of 2009.
The TULF leader while praising the gallant soldiers liberating Kilinochchi, recollects his days in the region which he calls the `region of reservoirs’. Here the excerpts of the interview with V. Anandasangaree: (more…)
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Sunday, January 4th, 2009
அரசு உடனடியாக அரசியல் தீர்வு திட்டத்தை முன்வைக்கவேண்டும் என்றும் தமிழர் விடுதலை கூட்டணி தலைவரும் தமிழ் தேசிய ஜனநாயக கூட்டணியின் (TDNF) பொது செயலருமான ஆனந்தசங்கரி கூறியுள்ளார். கிளிநொச்சி நகரை கைப்பற்றியாகிவிட்டது அரசு அடுத்து என்ன மேற்கொள்ளவேண்டும் என்று கருதுகின்றீர்கள் என்று அவரிடம் கேட்டபோதே அவர் இவ்வாறு தெரிவித்துள்ளார்.
யுத்தத்தை முடிவுக்கு கொண்டுவந்த பின்னர் தீர்வு திட்டத்தை முன்வைப்போம் என்று தெரிவிப்பது நடக்ககூடியதாக தெரியவில்லை என்று தெரிவித்துள்ள ஆனந்தசங்கரி அவர்கள், அரசு உடனும் தீர்வு திட்டத்தை முன்வைக்க வேண்டும் இதன் மூலமே தமிழ்மக்களின் மனங்களை வெல்லமுடியும் அப்போதுதான் தமிழ் மக்களும் சிங்கள மக்களும் அமைதியாக வாழமுடியும் இதற்கு இந்தியா முழுமையான ஒத்துழைப்பு நல்கவேண்டும் என்றும் ஆனந்தசங்கரி அவர்கள் தெரிவித்துள்ளார்.
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Sunday, January 4th, 2009
இலங்கையின் வடக்கேயுள்ள கிளிநொச்சி நகரை இம்மாதம் இரண்டாம் தேதி கைப்பற்றியதாக இலங்கை இராணுவம் அறிவித்த பிறகு இது தொடர்பில் இலங்கையிலும், இந்தியாவிலும் பல்வகையான கருத்துக்கள் வெளியாகியுள்ளன.
பல ஆண்டுகள் கிளிநொச்சி மாவட்ட நாடாளுமன்ற உறுப்பினராக இருந்தவரும் தமிழர் விடுதலைக் கூட்டணியின் தலைவருமான ஆனந்த சங்கரி, கிளிநொச்சியை கைப்பற்றும் நடவடிக்கை இன்னமும் பல ஆண்டுகள் முன்னரே நடைபெற்றிருக்க வேண்டும் என்று BBC தமிழோசையிடம் தெரிவித்தார்.
கிளிநொச்சியை அரசு கைப்பற்றி விட்டாலும், நாட்டில் இனப்பிரச்சினைக்கு தீர்வு காணும் முகமாக இன்னமும் அரசியல் தீர்வை முன்வைக்காதது ஏமாற்றம் அளிப்பதாக இருக்கிறது என்றும் கூறினார். (more…)
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Saturday, August 23rd, 2008
Sri Lanka had been a peaceful country for generations, in which the Sinhalese, Tamils, Muslims, Burghers, Malays and people of other ethnic groups, lived in peace and harmony. During the late seventies and eighties there had been a few upheavals, due to the violation of human rights, injustice, discrimination, exploitation and intolerance. The victims were mainly Tamils and Muslims. Various Tamil groups cropped up as saviors, of the Tamils and the Muslims. Their fire-power could not stand against one group called the LTTE which gradually either eradicated the other groups or silenced them with their fire-power and emerged as a single group committed to dictatorship. (more…)
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