SLMC says it will never support MR because of Digana incidents
The Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) says it will never support newly appointed Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa because of the violence which took place in Digana when he was President.
SLMC leader Rauff Hakeem said that Rajapaksa is feared by the minorities.
“Under no circumstances will we allow the return of the Rajapaksa regime which was inherently corrupt and intrinsically evil. Feared much by the minorities’ they remind us of the horrors of the past. We all know who were behind the Digana incidents and how they have got released,” he said.
Hakeem tweeted saying when the Government, with Ranil Wickremesinghe as Prime Minister, was in office, steps were taken to ensure justice to those affected by the Digana incidents
“There were several briefings summoned by PM and Law and Order Minister both relating to Ampara and Kandy incidents. More than 150 arrests were made; substantial number of them against whom sufficient credible evidence was available were remanded under the ICCPR Act,” Hakeem tweeted.
He said that special CID and TID teams were also deployed to conduct thorough investigations.
“Never before did any Government go this far to uncover the sinister depraved racist plots that had been put into place,” he said.
Hakeem noted that some controversial attempts have been made to interfere and release some well known suspects after October 26th when Rajapaksa was made Prime Minister, and this is an indication of their political masters desperation to show their patronage.
(Colombo Gazette)
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selfish peoples…
Politically the sri lanka eastern coastla regions are designed to alienate the a monopoly of the muslims traditionally supported the UNP. The department of census and statistic has yet to come up with a reliable census and statistic and along with the demographic distribution this is vital to develop a meaning policy to move forward and any plan would be nothing more than a pipe dream.
The digana incident is not an isolated incident and was politically motivated and designed to alienate the voters. Generally the sinhala vote is divided between the UNP and the SLFP and about 5 percent of the muslim vote determines as to who wins. In areas where there is sinhala solidarity the minority vote (muslim) has little influence on the outcome.
Now that Sajith seeks UNP leadership and ultimate declare his candidacy for the presidency then he ought to declare his policy a policy that he plans to implement for the electorate to vote for. In the past these policy declarations were put forward as a manifest that were never implemented. In this context this policy ought to receive the consensus of the party that he plan to lead to guarantee continuity.
there are sinhalese , who are still assist for mahindas toilet bucket.