Jan 03, Jaffna: The Tamil struggle was not over yet although the LTTE leadership was decimated with the help of India and other foreign forces, Sri Lanka's Common Left candidate at the upcoming presidential elections said addressing the voters in Jaffna.
Dr. Vickramabahu Karunaratna was touring Jaffna after twenty years. He was accompanied by the Tamil presidential candidate and parliamentarian M. K. Sivajilingam.
Dr. Karunaratna and MP Sivajilingam addressed the people in Jaffna on Saturday (02) in Nallur, Achchuveli, Nelliady, Chunnakam and Uduppiddy.
"We will continue with the Tamil national struggle in the political arena for autonomy and self determination," said Dr. Karunaratna.
He further said that even after the Tamil militancy was defeated in an ocean of blood and tears, the rulers who had a song and dance about it could not live happily. He said that those who crushed the Tamils will have to pay for the blood and tears shed by the Tamils.
"The workers' struggles that sprang up in the south saying that they cannot bear the burden of the war, forced the government to call an election before time," the presidential candidate said.
Tamil Presidential Candidate MK Sivajilingam called upon the Tamils not to give a single vote for either of the two main candidates who are trying to claim the spoils of the war.
He said that they should vote for either him or Dr. Karunaratna in order to stop getting either the present President or the former army commander getting 50 percent of votes in the presidential elections.
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