To deliver the Tamil votes the LTTE to strike another deal with the UNP to help lift the EU ban and to implement the ISGA?
November 8, 2005“According to Tamil sources, the LTTE may well be waiting for the emergence of a clear picture of the election scene in Sinhala-dominated South Sri Lanka. In case the gap between Wickremesinghe and Rajapaksa narrows, and the support of the Sri Lankan Tamils of the Northeast becomes critical for one or both of them, the LTTE may try and strike a deal. Votes could be traded for crucial concessions.
As one Tamil politician said, the LTTE may try to extract a promise that efforts will be made to get the European Union’s travel ban on it lifted. A promise to discuss its controversial proposal for an Interim Self Governing Authority (ISGA) may also be pressed for.
But given the present delicate political situation, in which Sinhala nationalistic feelings are running high, neither Wickremesinghe nor Rajapaksa will dare to enter into any deal with the LTTE.”
P.K. Balachandran, Hindustan Times
