TNA Demands – Government lifts travel ban on foreigners to North

The new government Friday announced lifting a ban on foreign nationals visiting to the island’s former war zones of Northern Province and scrapped an economic embargo.  Agreeing to one of the pre-Presidential election demands made by the pro-LTTE Tamil terrorists political party TNA, President Maithripala Sirisena, just a week after taking his office, removed the travel ban introduced by his predecessor three months ago, the defence ministry said.

The travel restrictions were imposed following information that foreigners are trying to cause discord among ethnic communities and trying to revive the LTTE Tamil terrorist group again. Once three pro-LTTE Tamil diaspora members secretly entered to the country and travelled to Northern Province and worked on reviving of LTTE Terrorist group. Sri Lankan security forces with a massive man hunt operation destroy the new group.  

“When there’s a tremendous threat like that to our national security, we can’t just wait. We have to take action,” Army spokesman said. The restrictions applied to foreign journalists too as many of them are working for ant-Sri Lankan and pro-LTTE propaganda for which LTTE paid for.

Defence Ministry had also accused Colombo-based diplomatic missions, pro-LTTE Tamil terrorists NGOs as well as foreigners of trying to collect testimony from Tamil to support allegations of rights abuses by security forces during the civil war which ended in May 2009.

Rajapakse government had refused to cooperate with a probe ordered by the UN Human Rights Council and had insisted that he will not allow foreign investigators to probe allegations fabricated by US and EU with India due to geopolitics  scenario stating that up to 40,000 Tamil civilians were killed by his troops in the final months of fighting.

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