{"id":7920,"date":"2020-01-09T03:25:11","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T03:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=7920"},"modified":"2020-01-09T03:41:28","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T03:41:28","slug":"tna-says-india-helped-sri-lanka-defeat-the-ltte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/tna-says-india-helped-sri-lanka-defeat-the-ltte\/","title":{"rendered":"TNA says India helped Sri Lanka defeat the LTTE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) today noted that the military defeat of the LTTE was possible as a result of the assistance provided by India and the international community.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The TNA said both India and Sri Lanka saw the LTTE as an impediment to reaching a negotiated, reasonable political solution in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">TNA leader R. Sampanthan, speaking in Parliament yesterday, said that the military defeat of the LTTE in 2009 was seen as a precursor to a reasonable political solution.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He said that the Government at the time had given commitments to India and the international community on a political solution for the Tamils, but those commitments were not met.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cThose commitments must be honored. They cannot be reneged upon,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Sampanthan said that failure to honor the commitments would mean the then Sri Lankan Government used the international community to defeat the LTTE.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The TNA leader called on the current Government to ensure a political solution for the Tamils within a united and undivided Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He said that if President Gotabaya Rajapaksa works towards that goal he will have the support of the TNA.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) today noted that the military defeat of the LTTE&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-srilankan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}