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Denial Of Muslim Requests To Revise the Peace Process And MoU Also A Threat To The Sinhala Nation.

The Ranil Wickremesinghe Administration has chosen to dishonor one of its foremost election pledges to look after the interests of all minorities in denying a request by the Muslim Community to restructure the Peace Accord as it does not provide for their safety. This denial is an inadvisable risk hardly worth taking as the stand taken by the UNF Administration to ignore the entreaties by Muslim leaders to review the MoU and interim Peace Accord in their present formats does not augur well towards their claims to be firm upholders of the Principles of Democracy and the protectors of the rights of minorities. All Muslim leaders are unanimous in voicing their concerns based on the recent attrocities committed by the LTTE in the North and Nort East against minority Muslims which sparked off severe communal disturbances between Muslim and Tamil Communities in these areas.

In having blatantly denied the requests of the Muslim Community, confirmed by Minister G.L Peiris in an address to the Sinhala Broadcast of the BBC that the Government would not reconsider reviewing the Peace Process, it's growing unpopularity with the Muslim Community is becoming very apparent. The distinct possibility of the Government losing a proportion of its Parliamentary Majority now looms on the horizon and should there be a concerted pullout of Muslim MPs and their allies who form a part of the UNF Coalition it would then leave it floundering on a rather sticky wicket without too many options.

Presently all Muslim leaders are united in their stand, being disillusioned and perturbed by the recent communal disturbances in the East and North East between Pro LTTE Tamil and Muslim factions and a simple Faux Pas such as the contemptuous ignoring of requests by the Administration for restitution by the Muslims could easily bring about a chaotic end to its manipulative existence and a directional change which would hardly be to its liking.

There is little doubt about the arrogance with which the LTTE presently conduct their affairs in these areas and be it ignorance or reprehensible arrogance the local populations of Muslims and Sinhalese alike are beginning to feel their impact where the hauling in of forced illegal LTTE Taxes, the call for recruits to an Eelam Police Force, child abductions and intimidations of every imaginable form display the fearless nature of LTTE mentality who have started using the Peace Process as a cover for resuming their covert activities giving rise to the concerns of the minorities who live there wondering by the day whether the Government has already incorporated the LTTE into their rank and file and where it will all end?

Speculation by the analysts now suggest a new found ally for the Government in the form of the pro LTTE Tamil Parliamentarians expected to cover the deficit in the event of the withdrawal of Muslim support and the scenario this would project short of being a comedy of errors would further encourage the LTTE to cash in on their idealogies towards secession which they have never really discontinued as being their ultimate goal as their modus operandi suggests and seems to have hoodwinked at least partially if not completely the Wickremasinghe Psyche which coasted home in the last election helped by a gullible voting public despite the cautions carried by PA Election Platforms about this very reality and might just prove to be their Deja Vue in the near future.

The Muslim demands of the Administration to reconsider the Peace Process and the MoU are not only in their best interests but also in the best interests of the Sinhala Nation whose insecurities have multiplied greatly as the Nation's Security is being alarmingly compromised through the concessions being granted to the LTTE which are projecting them through subtle proliferation of their presence Nationwide towards their push towards secession with a helping hand from their UNF Buddies!

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