LSSP, cp stocking fires of racism - Dilan

Oct 23, 2015

State Minister of Highways and Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) media spokesman Dilan Perera yesterday accused "certain opposition elements including the leader of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP) Tissa Vitarana and the leader of the Communist Party D.E.W. Gunasekera of misinterpreting the Geneva resolutions in order to incite racism."

Addressing a press briefing yesterday at the SLFP Headquarters the minister said "We must commend the JVP for their informed and reasonable stance on the Geneva resolutions. In the past they were known to be a group which incited racism but are today a long shot away from that identity."

While commending the JVP, Minister Perera said the recent conference organized by nine political parties including the Pivithuru Hela Urumaya (PHU), National Freedom Front (NFF) and the LSSP and Communist Party at the Viharamahadevi amphitheatre against the Geneva resolution was a poor attempt to gain short-term political mileage by inciting racism.

"The Geneva resolution is based on the Geneva reports. A study of the reports makes it obvious that the antagonism against Sri Lanka evinced at UN decisions relating to Sri Lanka at the beginning has been gradually diluted and watered down. This must not be looked at through tinted glasses. Certain elements state that the Geneva resolutions names individuals who must be penalised, adding that unjust allegations were brought against key persons. That is not the case and these individuals are interpreting the Geneva resolutions out of context. They have not read the resolution properly."

Perera further stated that this was a time in which all political parties must stand against racism, adding that even the media must report on issues involving racism in a manner that it helps douse the flames of racism and not vice versa.
- Ceylontoday -