Monday, July 04, 2005
HSZ and security camps not excluded in P-TOMS agreement : Sobitha Thera
Saturday, July 02, 2005
Jatika Hela Urumaya General Secretary, Ven. Omalpe Sobitha Thera said the Post Tsunami Operational Management Structure (P-TOMS) agreement had not excluded security camps and high security zones in the North and East from its purview as claimed by the statement issued by the Presidential Secretariat.
Ven. Thera pointed out that the P-TOMS agreement, which was presented to Parliament, does not include any regulation excluding security camps and high security zones of the Sri Lankan Army and Navy from the authority of the P-TOMS central committee or regional committees.
According to Ven. Sobitha Thera, the second article of the P-TOMS agreement does not deal with the security establishments in the two provinces.
“The particular article, as claimed by the President, had not differentiated these establishments from the rest of the tsunami struck area thus bringing them under the P-TOMS committees,” he said.
Ven. Thera questioned as to what action the President could take to stop the LTTE establishing LTTE camps around and within the High Security Zones and Defence camps under the pretext of resettlement of tsunami victims.
“The President as the Minister of Defence and Commander-in-Chief of forces cannot act if the LTTE was to build another air strip in the Eastern beach as in Iranamaduwa and Thoppur,” he said adding that she herself had handed over that power to the LTTE through the P-TOMS agreement.
The JHU also questioned as to what action the President would take over the killing of two Army intelligence officers by LTTE last Thursday and challenged her to prove the nation the LTTE’s flexibility as claimed by the President at the donor conference. (DTH)
Jatika Hela Urumaya General Secretary, Ven. Omalpe Sobitha Thera said the Post Tsunami Operational Management Structure (P-TOMS) agreement had not excluded security camps and high security zones in the North and East from its purview as claimed by the statement issued by the Presidential Secretariat.
Ven. Thera pointed out that the P-TOMS agreement, which was presented to Parliament, does not include any regulation excluding security camps and high security zones of the Sri Lankan Army and Navy from the authority of the P-TOMS central committee or regional committees.
According to Ven. Sobitha Thera, the second article of the P-TOMS agreement does not deal with the security establishments in the two provinces.
“The particular article, as claimed by the President, had not differentiated these establishments from the rest of the tsunami struck area thus bringing them under the P-TOMS committees,” he said.
Ven. Thera questioned as to what action the President could take to stop the LTTE establishing LTTE camps around and within the High Security Zones and Defence camps under the pretext of resettlement of tsunami victims.
“The President as the Minister of Defence and Commander-in-Chief of forces cannot act if the LTTE was to build another air strip in the Eastern beach as in Iranamaduwa and Thoppur,” he said adding that she herself had handed over that power to the LTTE through the P-TOMS agreement.
The JHU also questioned as to what action the President would take over the killing of two Army intelligence officers by LTTE last Thursday and challenged her to prove the nation the LTTE’s flexibility as claimed by the President at the donor conference. (DTH)
