The Sri Lankan government is “duty-bound” to celebrate the “war victory” on May 18, the National Movement for the Protection of Liberated Land (NMPLL) said, according to the Daily Mirror.
The movement’s Bengamuwe Nalaka, a Buddhist monk, said the government had allowed the TNA to commemorate the memory of “LTTE terrorists”.
“LTTE activities have not stopped completely even today. While the LTTE is banned internationally, the government has allowed the TNA to commemorate the memory of dead LTTE terrorists. The TNA considers LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran as its hero,” he said, adding that his organisation would commemorate “war heroes” alongside some opposition parties at Independence Square in Colombo on May 18.
The monk further said the government was only catering to the needs of western countries, the Tamil diaspora and India, and not towards the betterment of Sri Lanka.
“What western countries and India want is to foster terrorism,” he said.
