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by The impact of the civil war in Sri Lanka still imprint. In fact, the Sri Lankan military forces managed to crush the Tamil Tigers separatist group in May 2009. However, as the AP and AFP on Wednesday (14/09/2011), the relationship between the majority ethnic Sinhalese Sri Lanka of the Tamil minority still has not been harmonious.
In fact, the Sri Lankan government claimed to have put a lot of programs to reunite the two groups of people that. One is surveillance former conflict zones innorthern Sri Lanka.
However, problems occur. According to Robert Blake, Assistant Secretary of State, at the end of the three-day visit in Sri Lanka, Tamil residents in the formerregion to feel intimidated by the presence of government troops and police, mostly ethnic Sinhalese.
So from that, Blake urged the government of Sri Lanka’s Tamil deploy morepolice. The cops will be on duty in the former conflict zones. ”This is to help healthe wounds of war,” said Blake.
“Tamil police needed to improve public order. Thus, the military no longer need toperform that function,” added Blake.
Blake also asked the government of Sri Lanka to disarm weapons of paramilitarygroups who support the Tamil-speaking ethnic Sinhalese. The group, according to Blake, terrorizing the local Tamil population.
Meanwhile, in his meeting with President Mahinda Rajapaksa and senior government officials, Blake stressed the importance of addressing citizencomplaints of the Tamil conflict 37 years.
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