West should not be misled by false propaganda - Health Minister

Health Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva told UN Secretary General, Ban Ki Moon, that the Tamil community living in Europe enjoying maximum benefits and facilities as political refugees, was carrying out demonstrations to lobby western media and other communities to escape returning to Sri Lanka.

The Minister met with the Secretary General (SG) at his Geneva Office on Tuesday (19). He informed the SG that opinion makers and leaders of the west should not be misled by the propaganda. 54 percent of the Tamil people live outside the North and East in harmony with Sinhalese and other communities.

De Silva said health care centres had been set up for the internally displaced persons (IDPs) living in welfare camps in the Wanni. More than two hundred medical officers and five hundred nurses and a large number of paramedics were caring for the sick and injured. The Ministries of Nation Building, Resettlement, Disaster Management and Human Rights in collaboration with many international organisations were providing the IDPs with humanitarian assistance. Read more ...