Sri Lankan government has said this would only help the rebels recover from the effects of the conflict and will prolong the 25-year-old war.
"It is unfortunate that some in the international community have fallen straight into the well-laid trap of the LTTE and are calling for a ceasefire... which would only help the terrorists to recover and drag this war for another twenty five years," Foreign Secretary Palitha Kohona said here.
"It is unfortunate that some in the international community have fallen straight into the well-laid trap of the LTTE and are calling for a ceasefire... which would only help the terrorists to recover and drag this war for another twenty five years," Foreign Secretary Palitha Kohona said here.Kohona said the Tigers have consistently ignored the government's appeals for letting the Tamil civilians trapped in the war zone leave for safer areas, thereby demonstrating "again and again the utter and callous disregard paid by LTTE to the very people they claim to represent".
"As the LTTE's delusion fades into history, the government is calling on Tamils living overseas to return to the warm embrace of mother Lanka and seek a common future with all her other children, whether they be Tamils, Muslims, Sinhalese, Malays, Burghers," he told representatives of the Tamil diaspora.
Kohana said the Sri Lankan government wishes to build a partnership with the Tamil diaspora and said they should consider funding the education of children from the areas which were until recently under the LTTE control.
"These children represent the future of Sri Lanka and have the potential to be our leaders in the future. They are Sri Lanka's future," he said.
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