Rajiva Wijesinha

“ Sri Lanka has made it clear that security considerations, and the fear that the LTTE would have sent in potential suicide bombers amongst the displaced, mean that thorough screening is required. These precautions are understood, and Sri Lanka will not give in to hysteria on the part of either Prof Boyle, or the Inner City Press, and put the lives of its citizens in danger. ”

“ Such misrepresentations allow the LTTE to continue to hold onto its hostages, and conscript and kill them, knowing that their agents and supporters can use any careless pronouncement to denigrate the Sri Lankan government, and postpone the freedom, and the full incorporation into a democratic pluralistic Sri Lanka, of the small proportion of the Tamil people still held in LTTE thrall. ”