{"id":109718,"date":"2020-12-14T16:47:29","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T23:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=109718"},"modified":"2020-12-14T16:47:29","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T23:47:29","slug":"the-continued-actions-of-the-tna-probably-justifies-proscription","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/12\/14\/the-continued-actions-of-the-tna-probably-justifies-proscription\/","title":{"rendered":"THE CONTINUED ACTIONS OF THE TNA PROBABLY JUSTIFIES PROSCRIPTION"},"content":{"rendered":"

Insight By Sunil Kumar For Lanka Web<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

Dec. 15th. 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While it seems far fetched  that Tamil National Alliance (TNA) Leader,\nMember of Parliament R. Sampanthan has informed a group of journalists in the\nNorthern Province, according to a media report, that since his Party was not\naffiliated to the proscribed terror group, the LTTE, no one could either\nintimidate or ban them locally. -This seems \nsomewhat far fetched as it was a well known fact that at the time of the\ninternal armed insurrection of the Tamil Tigers the TNS were openly supportive\nof the LTTE and had no qualms about maintaining their support, at times quite\narrogantly, which they deny today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was why many law abiding citizens were somewhat.\nsurprised that the TNA were permitted to run for office and eventually  entered parliament.They have always been\nsuspected of their agenda towards resurrecting the LTTE through their\nsurreptitious actions and rhetoric and today when they deny this it seems\nunacceptable as they could still pose a threat to National Security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The TNA Leader made these remarks in response to comments\nby Minister, Retired Rear Admiral Sarath Weerasekera, who had called for the\nproscription of the former\u2019s Party with valid reason given their track record\nand past actions relative to their support of the LTTE.The Minister quite obviously\nknew his facts and why he made these comment with justification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MP Sampanthan added, his Party having entered the\ndemocratic political mainstream had not only elected people\u2019s representatives\nto Parliament but also had elected members to the NPC and other local political\nbodies.But this argument holds no water as being elected  to Parliament by the wrong people for all the\nwrong reasons has been a distinct possibility where they should have been\nprevented from contesting in the first place once again citing their past track\nrecord which they now attempt to sweep under the carpet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sampanthan has stated that quote ,”the TNA had also\nbuilt relations with several nations overseas and stressed no one has the right\nto proscribe such a political party” end quote. As for this statement it\nis a matter of conjecture as the so called supporters are mostly sympathizers\nfrom Tamil Nadu and the global Tamil diaspora who have not given up hope of\neventually resurrecting the LTTE. where there is evidence of this even within\nSri Lanka today through certain actions carefully monitored by the Government\nin predominantly Tamil areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is also noteworthy that the Governmant of India has\nalso called for the continuation of the ban on the LTTE as  terror group. Case in Point !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Insight By Sunil Kumar For Lanka Web Dec. 15th. 2020 While it seems far fetched  that Tamil National Alliance (TNA) Leader, Member of Parliament R. Sampanthan has informed a group of journalists in the Northern Province, according to a media report, that since his Party was not affiliated to the proscribed terror group, the LTTE, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sunil-kumar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}