{"id":68269,"date":"2017-07-27T15:44:09","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T22:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=68269"},"modified":"2017-07-27T15:45:52","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T22:45:52","slug":"mk-stalin-welcomes-eu-lifting-ban-on-ltte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/07\/27\/mk-stalin-welcomes-eu-lifting-ban-on-ltte\/","title":{"rendered":"MK Stalin welcomes EU lifting ban on LTTE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The \u00a0Deccan Chronicle<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Chennai:<\/strong>\u00a0DMK Working President M K Stalin on Wednesday welcomed European Union lifting the ban on LTTE and asked the Sri Lankan Government to ensure meaningful share\u201d of power to Eelam Tamils.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Mr Stalin said it is a moment of elation as EU\u2019s highest court has removed LTTE from this list and that the DMK view the decision as an important turning point in the long struggle to secure the rights of Eelam Tamils.<\/p>\n<p>The Government of Sri Lanka which has systematically interfered and undermined investigations about the human rights abuses orchestrated by the Sri Lankan Army on Eelam Tamils, should understand the intent of EU\u2019s highest court act of lifting ban on LTTE and work towards ensuring meaningful share of power to Eelam Tamils, equal rights on par with Sinhala majority and create an ecosystem for Tamils to rebuild and live their life with self-respect,\u201d the Opposition Leader said.<\/p>\n<p>He also asked the Sri Lankan Government to expedite actions regarding identifying the Tamils who vanished during the war, to return the land parcels belonging to Tamils which are presently occupied by Sri Lankan Army and to cooperate with an independent, international investigation regarding the human rights abuses.<\/p>\n<p>He also asked the Union Government to exert enough pressure\u201d on the Government of Sri Lanka to safeguard and deliver the rights demanded by Eelam Tamils, which they rightfully deserve.<\/p>\n<p>I urge the Central Government to initiate proactive actions towards structuring a political solution and emphasise the fact that India does have a role to play in ensuring the just treatment of Eelam Tamils in Sri Lanka,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>I urge the Central Government to initiate proactive actions towards structuring a political solution and emphasise the fact that India does have a role to play in ensuring the just treatment of Eelam Tamils in Sri Lanka,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The \u00a0Deccan Chronicle Chennai:\u00a0DMK Working President M K Stalin on Wednesday welcomed European Union lifting the ban on LTTE and asked the Sri Lankan Government to ensure meaningful share\u201d of power to Eelam Tamils. In a statement, Mr Stalin said it is a moment of elation as EU\u2019s highest court has removed LTTE from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68269","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=68269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}