Saturday, March 31st, 2007
Courtesy: Asian Tribune
Sat, 2007-03-31 13:43
London, 31 March, (Asiantribune.com): V.Anandasangaree, leader of the Tamil United Liberation Front, told the Asian Tribune that the unitary system of Government that has prevailed since 1948 — the year of independence — has failed to bring about unity and national integration in the country.V.Anandasangaree defined that a true “Patriot” as a person who loves the country and its people and, not the one who loves his country and his people. (more…)
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Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
Courtesy: Asiantribune.com
London 21 March 2007: A packed audience comprising Members of the British and European Parliaments and a large gathering of Sri Lankans of all communities as well as British academics and media representatives attended the Parliamentary seminar on the theme “A way forward to peace and reconciliation in Sri Lanka” organized by the London based Campaign for Peace & Unity in Sri Lanka (CPUSL). The seminar was held on Monday 19 March at the House of Commons.
While the parliamentary seminar was going on in one of the Committee rooms of the main block of the British Parliament, a group of LTTE supporters, nearly two dozens of them, led by Harrow Labour councillor Thaya Idaikadar, demonstrated outside the parliament holding banners that said: “We want peace with honour in Sri Lanka.”
Among the key speakers in the Parliamentary seminar were TULF Leader V Anandasangaree, M H Sulaiman of the Sri Lanka Muslim Council, Douglas Wickremaratne of the Sinhala Association in the UK and British Parliamentarians Barry Gardiner, Andrew Love, Andrew Pelling, Colin Breed, John Austin, Brian Binley as well as Mr Geoffrey Van Orden MEP, Vice Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament. The Rt Hon Lord Naseby of Sandy, Co-Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Sri Lanka presided. (more…)
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Friday, March 2nd, 2007
Courtesy: BBC
A veteran Sri Lankan Tamil leader has urged Tamil Nadu government to help solve Sri Lanka’s national question.
Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) leader V Anandasangaree has sought Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi’s help to urge Indian government’s assistance in finding a solution for Sri Lanka.
Anandasangaree said he suggested Sri Lanka propose a similar model to Indian constitution to solve the long running ethnic conflict.
‘Power’ of Tamil Nadu
“I urged Karunanidhi to use his power to suggest to the central government an Indian-style devolution,” he told BBC Sandeshaya from his hotel room in Chennai.
“Tamils in both Sri Lanka and India support Indian-style devolution”.
Annadasangaree is the first anti-LTTE Tamil politician from Sri Lanka to meet CM Karunanidhi in recent times.
Parliamentarians from Tamil National Alliance (TNA) has held several meetings with the chief minister.
Anandasangaree says TNA does not represent Tamils in Sri Lanka.
LTTE and TNA
“TNA represents Tamil Tigers not the Tamil people”.
The Tamil Tigers, according to Anandasangaree, is only foghting for a separate state and will not accept a federal-style devolution of power.
“If the government can suggest a fair solution, then the LTTE will be marginalised”.
He expressed dissatisfaction over the All Party Conference (APC) called by President Mahinda Rajapaksa to find a solution.
The government should come out, he said, with a solution and produce it before the APC instead.
“If Tamil Nadu supports that proposal India will not turn it away,” he told bbcsinhala.com.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sinhala/news/story/2007/03/070302_sangaree_tn.shtml
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Friday, March 2nd, 2007
Courtesy: IndiaEnews.com
From correspondents in Delhi, India, 02:03 PM IST
Sri Lanka’s top moderate Tamil leader and a strong critic of the Tamil Tigers Friday met Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi and pressed him to advocate devolution of powers to the island’s provinces on the lines of Indian states so as to end the ethnic conflict.
V. Anandasangaree, head of the Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF), called on Karunanidhi at his residence in Chennai and informed him during a 30-minute discussion that there was a ray of hope in Sri Lanka. (more…)
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