Ban on LTTE fronts: several years’ effort

April 2, 2014, 10:35 pm 

by Madura Ranwala

Military spokesman Brigadier Ruwan Wanigasooriya yesterday said banning of 16 pro-LTTE fronts by the External Affairs Ministry wasn’t an overnight affair but an outcome of a three to four years work.

He stressed that it had been done according to the United Nations Security Council resolution 1373 adopted at its 4385th meeting on September 28, 2001 following the terrorist attacks which took place in New York, Washington D.C. and Pennsylvania on September 11 the same year.

He rejected the allegation that it was a reaction to the Geneva resolution adopted against Sri Lanka at the 25th Session of HRC in Geneva.

Meanwhile, he said Secretary Defence and Urban Development, Gotabhaya Rajapaksa would visit Mullaitivu today (03 April) and inaugurate several projects. 

 Among them are handing over 100 houses to the resettled families in Keppapilavu under the second stage of the three stage project of providing houses to those resettled in that area, the handing over of close to 100 acres of paddy land from the air force camp premises for farming, and handing over several houses renovated by the Army to the owners.

He also said that the Secretary, on his way back in the evening would declare open a solar power pilot project to generate 20KW, at the 2nd Engineer Services Regiment Army camp at Anuradhapura.

"There are two other sites of the same project with similar capacities at Medawachchiya Navy base, Punewa and Palavi Air Force base that will be inaugurated simultaneously," he said.