SLMC LEADER WRITES TO PRESIDENT ON POTTUVIL ISSUE

Sunday, 24 September 2006

SLMC Leader Rauff Hakeem wrote an official letter to President Mahinda Rajapakse in order to clarify the position of the SLMC on the sinister campaign carried forward by some newspapers backing the sinhala extremist groups and some members of the security forces that the SLMC is anti STF and the Muslims are the dead enemies of the STF. The SLMC reiterated its position that the STF is the only security hope for the Muslim Community living in the North Eastern province and they had valiantly fought the LTTE to safeguard the Muslim villages whenever there were atrocities unleashed against the Muslim Community by the LTTE in the past. SLMC is pointing its accusing finger to those anti social and communally behaving bad elements infiltrated in the security forces which had been the main cause for the frequent communal clashes seen in Pottuvil area in the past two to three years. Some responsible Ministers are also making serious statements to set the STF against the Muslims and the SLMC without any basis and refusing to listen to all the explanations put out by the SLMC.