We will continue the struggle of Tamil people - Bahu

Tamil struggle is not over although the LTTE leadership was decimated with the help of India and other foreign forces, said Dr Vickramabahu Karunaratne, Common Left Presidential Candidate, addressing the voters in Jaffna.

In Jaffna Dr Karunaratne was accompanied by Tamil Presidential Candidate M K Shivajilingam MP. Touring Jaffna they addressed meetings in Nallur, Achchuveli, Nelliady, Chunnakam and Uduppiddy.

Dr Karunaratne in Jaffna further said that they will continue the Tamil national struggle in the political arena for autonomy and self determination.

He 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 as planned.
He said that those who crushed the Tamils will have to pay for the blood and tears that has been shed.

Referring to the struggles in the South, Dr Karunaratne said that the workers struggles that sprang up in the south because the workers could not bear the burden of the war and therefore, forced the government to call an election before time.

Mr Shivajilingam called upon 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 people should vote for either him or Dr Vickramabahu in order to stop getting either the present president or the former army commander getting 50% of votes in the presidential elections.

Ajith Surendra Rupasinghe, Ceylon Communist Party (Maoist) and V Thirunavukkarasu, Left Front also spoke.

- Asian Tribune -