Colombo targets NPC member Ananthi for witnessing against Sri Lanka
[TamilNet, Thursday, 16 January 2014, 07:59 GMT]
“
I am fully prepared to confront the Sri Lankan Ministry of Defence,
which has leaked a news threatening to put me through their so-called
military rehabilitation,” said Ananthi Sasitharan, the only woman
candidate of the Northern Provincial Council (NPC), who also polled
largest number of preferential votes next to the chief minister
candidate of the NPC. Ms Ananthi Sasistharan was one of the public
witnesses at the recent hearings by the Permanent Peoples Tribunal held
in Bremen. She also met the US Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes
Issues, who visited Jaffna recently and explained to him that what went
on in Vanni in 2009 was a genocidal onslaught and that a programme of
structural genocide was being stepped up against Eezham Tamils.
The
SL Ministry of Defence (MoD) was considering to arrest Ms Ananthi
Sasitharan and put her through a so-called rehabilitation programme,
reported Shamindra Fedinando, a ‘journalist’ of The Island paper.
Ananthi
wouldn’t have adopted such a hostile stance towards the SL government
and its military had she undergone the rehabilitation, the paper said
citing an unnamed ‘senior source’ of the SL MoD.
Responding, Ms Ananthi Sasitharan said that Colombo was trying to curb the struggle for missing persons. This struggle will continue despite the threats coming from Colombo and its military Establishment, she said.
46-year-old
Ananthi Sasitharan is the wife of Ezhilan, the former Trincomalee
Political Head of the LTTE and a mother of three girls. She personally
witnessed Sri Lanka military taking away her husband at the end the
Vanni War in May 2009.
The SL State is still refusing to reveal
the fate of those who were filtered away from the civilians and taken
into buses to undisclosed detention camps.
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