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Video and Full Text of remarks by Tamil national Alliance Parliamentarian M.A. Sumanthiran at a recent Panel Discussion on “Religion, Reconciliation and Future”: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

M<\/strong>embers of the Panel, Hon. Karu Jayasuriya, your Excellency and my friends, <\/p>\n

F<\/strong>ive minutes is all I have, so I’m going to say a few things in a very disjointed way \u2013 Before that there was reference made a couple of times to \u2013 four great religions of the world being present in this country and whenever that fact is mentioned I always remember, something that Judge Weeramantry wrote about the laws of this country, you know that the laws in this country, we have many laws, we have the Roman \u2013 Dutch law, we have the English law, we have Thesavalamai, we have the Kandyan Law, we have the Muslim law, we have the Mukuwa law \u2013 and he said the \u201cSri Lankan law is embarrassed by the richness of its source, rather than the lack of it.\u201d
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\nThe same might for religions, and if I might stretch it a little further \u2013 despite that rich sources of law, we don\u2019t see law and order maintained in this country. <\/p>\n

Perhaps, that maybe one reason why we have all these religious conflagrations as well. <\/p>\n

I am going to deviate from what most people have said.<\/p>\n

It has been said here that, its generally the minorities within a particular group that go on a rampage and the majority of those people, that the group that they belong – cannot be held responsible for \u2013 that I don\u2019t agree.<\/p>\n

When the Muslims were evicted from the North, it\u2019s easy to put the blame on the LTTE, but every Tamil bear\u2019s responsibility for that, to our eternal shame, that no Tamil ever stood up in the North and prevented that from happening. <\/p>\n

If the people had done that, it would not have been possible for the LTTE to evict the Muslims from the North.<\/p>\n