Speaking to The Island, the GTF spokesperson, Suren Surendiran and the president of NCET, Panchakulasingam Kandiah, reiterated the absurdity of the government's claims of dialogue with the diaspora, and warned the government 'not to engage in futile propaganda exercises to deceive the international community ahead of the forthcoming UPR'.
Kandiah said it was a 'deceptive move timed for UPR process on Nov 1 in Geneva and four months before the UNHRC was due to review progress on the US sponsored resolution that was passed last March targeting Sri Lanka'.
Surendiran said that the government had 'no option but to engage in a genuine dialogue with the Tamil National Alliance (TNA)', and stressed that the diaspora 'wouldn’t quit their ongoing campaign for war crimes inquiry in return for resumption of political negotiations or some sort of understanding with the GoSL [government of Sri Lanka]'.
See full interview here.
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