Govt.’s delay to resettle IDPs politically motivated – Mano

The President of Parliamentarians For Human Rights, Mano Ganeshan yesterday said that the secret behind the Government not resettling the IDPs was to make use of their 175,000 or more votes to the Governments advantage at any forthcoming Presidential or Parliamentary elections.

The Leader of the Democratic Peoples Front (DPF) made this assertion at a briefing of local and foreign media on the "Other side of the story of Internally Displaced Persons in Sri Lanka", at Hotel Nippon in Colombo yesterday.

"The IDP camps in the North are symbols of shame and a disgrace to our proud Sri Lankan history". Nowhere in the world could one witness or hear of internally displaced people being put behind barbed wire in camps. This does not happen in Gaza, Palestine, Afghanistan or Iraq, but only in the country where major religions as Islam, Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism are followed and preached. Read more ...