Which camp did the LTTE actually
support at the last presidential election?
Dilrook Kannangara
The winner of the 2005 presidential election is alleged to have a secret
pact with the terrorists. The basis of the allegation is that the UPFA
had bribed the LTTE to abstain the people in the North and the East
from voting.
Overall voters’ turnout in the North and the East was 37% in 1994,
37% in 1999 and 36% in 2005. It was 40% in 1988 and was more than 60%
in 1982. In the 2005 presidential election 689,633 voted from the NE
out of 1,906,260 registered voters. These figures were 657,908 and 1,768,054
in 1999. There is a clear increase of 31,725 votes in 2005. This is
in spite of a reduction of 42,538 in registered voters from 292,924
in 1999 to 250,386 in 2005 in Wanni. What was the LTTE doing if they
were given the contract to disrupt the election? They had voted more
and more for Ranil.
In fact, voters’ turnout in Wanni has increased by a staggering
57% over 1999! (It was 21.91% in 1999, 34.30% in 2005). This is an all
island all time record! Whom did they vote for? Given that Wanni is
Parabakaran’s empire and hideout, they overwhelmingly voted for
Ranil! Whatever the stories are, Paraba hasn’t let down Ranil,
again.
In doing so, the LTTE has betrayed their sole-representative position.
If LTTE is the sole representative of the Tamil people, why on earth
did the Tamils vote for Sinhala candidates? More than 95% of the 689,633
votes cast were for Sinhala candidates as all the candidates were Sinhala
this time! (The remaining 5% were rejected votes.)
Mud slinging at a winner is the way of the loser. It is absurd that
this loser who cannot win his own electorate was trying to win the Northern
voters. They vote for politicians who save them from terror not for
those who betray them for terror.
Wake up all those who are waiting for Ranil to become the president
and Mangala the PM; it will not happen.
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