Sri Lanka Tamil party calls to stop violence directed at Tamils with government support

Sri Lanka's major Tamil political party, the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) has called for a stop to violence directed at the Tamil people. TNA Leader R. Sampanthan has told parliament that attacks on Tamil people in the North are allegedly carried out with the active support, sanction and collusion of the government. He has said that starting with the mob attack on the office of TNA parliamentarian S. Sritharan on March 30 where several TNA parliamentarians were holding a meeting, there have been several other attacks including one on the Uthayan newspaper office in Kilinochchi. "A common feature of all these attacks is that they have been carried out by or with the connivance of the security forces and the police and even though the assailants have been identifiable, no arrests have even made," Sampanthan has alleged. Responding to Sampanthan's statement, Prime Minister D.M. Jayaratne has said that the allegations that the Police and members of the security forces are involved in such attacks are unfounded.